Addendum to the Meditation Focus #197

Being the Light of This World


Hi!

The following material is sent to you as an addendum to the current Meditation Focus #197: Being the Light of This World archived at http://www.EarthRainbowNetwork.com/FocusArchives/MeditationFocus197.htm

Your networking assistance is welcomed.

Jean Hudon
Focus Group Facilitator
http://www.earthrainbownetwork.com/FocusArchives/home.htm
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator
http://www.EarthRainbowNetwork.com

This addendum is archived at http://www.EarthRainbowNetwork.com/FocusArchives/Adddendum197.htm





THE QUOTES

"I have a dream - and my dream is not mine alone - we are many who share this dream for a long, very long time. We share the dream of a better and gentler world - a world where we become our brother's keeper, a world where we work for love and peace instead of hatred and war; a world where we all shall learn how to help and to heal each other, to share both our knowledge and our resources with love and wisdom; a world where we honor the memory we carry within, of who we truly are, and what we came here to do.We are the Legions of Light - awakening from the long night of darkness, fear and ignorance. Our common destiny is to make our dream come through and manifest it in every possible way, so that we just not only know that we are the instruments of Light but that we act and start bringing forth another world, another reality and another awareness in humanity, for such IS the DIVINE PLAN for the loving little planet we call EARTH, the planet where all universes and realities are merging."

- Lou Bognon - Taken from HERE


"I feel the fear amongst us and the pain and suffering of so many beings. In step with this growing global awareness of our pain, fear and oppression is a rising wave of care and commitment to create a better reality. There is a great blossoming of ideas and solutions coming from all countries. The Internet is a great blessing in this awakening of humankind. I am imagining wonderful surprises for the days to be. When I get overwhelmed with the darkness and pain, I focus on all that I love and imagine the wonderful feeling of anticipation I had as a child on Christmas eve and project that for my tomorrow."

- Rishael Sisler (are1@aceweb.com)


"We are definitely in alignment on this. It seems obvious that there is no reason to use money or anything like it. To eliminate it would free us up from the lower level concerns of survival and imply that we then would be recognizing that we have better things to do here on Earth than sweat the bills and fear the neighbors. I often explain to people I have this spiritual conversation with that, as we are now, we cannot think right. We are ensconced in lizard brain thinking, conditioned thinking, and we cannot see the truth of the big picture. As we move further into the present and remember what we are our whole way of thinking will change to something that doesn't even look like thinking to us now. Unity consciousness provides solutions while thinking provides problems to solve. The most powerful thing we can do is to alchemize ourselves and embody the change so that we are it in the field. This changes the frequency of the field and raises things/others around us. But you know this..."

- Alexander Alexis (staralexisone@copper.net) commenting on my intro comment to item #3 in my last compilation, which was: "Doing entirely away with money and all top-down control economic institutions as well as all current national governments and armies and replacing greed and fear-based means of exchange such as money with trust and love-based means of living together and helping each other, with no salary paid to anyone for anything and everything free and produced locally, with fulfilling all the basic human needs and providing a healthy life-nurturing environment to everyone and every living being as the sole goal, just as nature has done for millions of years before we fell from Divine Grace and thought we could do better than God/Creator Source, is the only long term goal that should be discussed and sought, along with fostering global spiritual awakening and a true compassionate, spiritually based lifestyle. All the rest will only compound the problems and ultimately fail!" Make sure to read Alexander's most excellent article below, "Awakening and the New Permaculture Economy" P.S. NOTE: Alexander also recommended the Webspirit community system (based in Ashland, Oregon) created 5 years ago by Sharon Miranda who is also inventing a local currency. He mentioned that several world class experts in the local currency field told her last year that "what she had in mind was the best version they had ever seen." Sharon plans on expanding her system out into the world and believes strongly that people can do business consciously, with genuine intention, honesty and openness, harnessing Internet technology to create a strong, vibrant, supportive community. Find out more through this LINK. Check also their OurNexChange Community Exchange system.





CONTENTS

1. Awakening and the New Permaculture Economy
2. The Co-Creator's Handbook
3. Kundalini Experiences and Spiritual Openings
4. World March for Peace and Nonviolence Oct. 2, 2009 to Jan. 02, 2010 - A Call for Global Unity
5. Global Worming
6. The Shift Has Hit the Fan: Welcome to the Sane Asylum
7. The crumbling has started in earnest

Also recommended...

Global Peace Meditation and Prayer Day WORLD SHIFT DAY May 17, 2009
http://www.globalpeacemeditationprayerday.org/
Next Timely Transformation Event Leading up to 2012 - Commune as ONE LIFE, ONE MIND, ONE SPIRIT - A Call to unite our hearts as one in prayer and meditation. More details HERE - World Shift Day will launch a 24 hour meditation and prayer marathon to encircle the globe starting with the Mt. Fuji event where over ten thousand people will gather in a ceremony for peace and the awakening of all humanity. Link simultaneously with Mt. Fuji to launch World Shift Day or organize a meditation and prayer event to amplify the energies throughout the day.

Sydney to San Fran: Lights dim in Earth Hour - THIS WAS A RESOUNDING SUCCESS!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29900742/
From an Antarctic research base and the Great Pyramids of Egypt to the Empire State Building in New York, illuminated patches of the globe went dark Saturday for Earth Hour, a campaign to highlight the threat of climate change.Time zone by time zone, nearly 4,000 cities and towns in 88 countries joined the event sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund to dim nonessential lights from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The campaign began in Australia in 2007 and last year grew to 400 cities worldwide.Organizers initially worried enthusiasm this year would wane with the world focused on the global economic crisis, said Earth Hour executive director Andy Ridley. But he said it apparently had the opposite effect. CLIP

Earth Hour 2009 Movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjWD8pbK5t8



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Date: 22 Mar 2009
From: Alexander Alexis (staralexisone@copper.net)
Subject: Submitting a Positive Article

Dear Jean,

Two friends who subscribed to your network recently suggested to me that I offer this article to you. They said it would be appreciated on your venue. I wrote and published it last December here in Ashland, OR, on a local and much used networking website called Webspirit Community where it was widely read and very positively supported. Please let me know if you want it.

Blessings,
Alexander Alexis

NOTE from Jean: You can review through http://forum.healingdao.com/general/search/users/471/pos/0/length/30/
some of the feedbacks Alexander received (376 Messages posted by Alexander Alexis)

Here is how he introduced his article last December 18, 2008 when he posted it at http://forum.healingdao.com/general/message/17559/

Dear Friends,

Aloha after a long time :-)

Recently, I posted an article I wrote on a very friendly and much used, networking and resource website here in Ashland, Oregon, called Webspirit (http://www.webspiritcommunity.com). Michael has asked me to make the article available to the forum. There is a short intro to the piece which explains everything.

I just want to make a note here that I have used a certain definition of the idea of "ego" in this article which I feel is the most widely used and easy to understand for the purposes of what I wanted to convey. It is not necessarily the only workable definition of the term, and, actually, is not the one I have used in the past on this forum. Don't get stuck on it.

Also, the term "God" is not meant to convey a masculine deity who lives in the sky and does things to us. The words Source, Spirit, Oneness, Presence, Dao,...are all the same in my mind. I'm just looking for truth here. We know what we are talking about.

Oh, one more thing. There is the idea of "awakening" (or "enlightenment") and I often refer to that as "remembering". Now, while there has been raging controversy between camps Daoist and Zen/Non-dual about whether the right destiny is to become "One" or to become "immortal", I, myself, now see them as exactly the same thing. To return to the source and become immortal is to awaken to what we are. When the little self dissolves into the Big Self it is really just the Oneness waking up to itself through a human form - no loss of individuality at all, quite the opposite. ("Then, Face gazes upon face." Kabala)

The piece comes from a heart-felt desire to see humanity rest in the arms of God and enjoy Peace on Earth, and contains what I know will be our final solution-in-action.

May You Be Blessed and Prospered in the Coming New Year.

Most Happy and Peaceful Solstice Time to You All,

Alexander

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Awakening and the New Permaculture Economy

I have written this article in response to the view offered in an economic posting I read recently on Webspirit. It is meant to be a helpful and inspiring alternative to the view you may not want to have anymore about the future- a negative, closed-minded, widely circulated view which we seem to have a lot of trouble disengaging from and which I, personally, am particularly tired of hearing. It is also a reminder of what's real- the premise that divine presence is awakening in us now, and that it literally is replacing thinking, strategizing and doing, and all that goes with it, as a way of life. Finally, it presents the only true, practical, and inevitable, solution to our current economic "problem".

Here is the excerpt:

It is said that our conventional monetary system will not last long. This prediction is shared by almost every economist today: debt-based and interest-based money is an unstable system that is condemned to die...No one knows precisely when the big collapse is to be expected, but everyone agrees it will happen sooner than later. The current world wide monetary crisis, as well as the effects of monetary concentration, are one of those historic social alerts announcing the big crunch.

- http://livingmandalas.ning.com/video/the-future-of-money

There’s a lot out there lately about our proposed gloomy future and how we will have to save ourselves. Propaganda buzzwords like "collapse" and "crunch" excite the lizard brain into survival mode. We haven't yet seen through this fantasizing about what has to happen as nothing more than the assertion of the human ego, each fantasy a somewhat different version of the same story in disguise as a "solution". Why are these fantasies? Because "the future" does not exist. "The future" is a fabrication of the mind. I can show you the present but I cannot show you the future. Only the present is real. If we let ourselves leave the now to "plan" the future, we are fantasizing. If we are worrying, we are hallucinating.

The truth is: no one knows what will happen next (and no one needs to), except that we will do something completely different from now on.

Another truth is that the life force, God, has power over everything, all of us, and our changing time, and it is in control of the whole thing, not us. And its agenda is to wake up through us. That is what really is making this change happen. If it weren't for that, we would continue on forever in our glorified and dysfunctional feudal system.

If there is any question about how significant change can happen if we don't (a) make it happen, and, (b) if "others" are against change how do we convince them to change, please understand that this is happening from the inside out, not the other way around.

When I say we are waking up, I mean that divine consciousness is becoming present within us now and taking the place of our limited sense of self and our beliefs. (We do not need beliefs to operate in reality.) Our subsequent behaviors will follow this new consciousness. But our old consciousness cannot understand this. To the mind this can sound like a new age fairy tale. It is in fact simply the natural movement of the evolution of spirit. We are spirit and are growing out of our egos which may be considered to have been a developmental tool.
    
Said another way, this change is not about rearranging the outside world to get things to fit the picture of how we think they should be. It is about remembering what we are, Presence, and allowing Presence to move into and through us so that It orchestrates things holistically and spontaneously. Housing this new consciousness means being it, thus acting in new ways - a complete departure from the old, not a new version of it.

Most of us are still using our old-fashioned, conditioned, thinking minds to try to predict what will happen based upon memories of the past and then trying to figure out how to make things work from that. (This is where most economic information comes from.) This is a bad habit, it is crazy, and it is dysfunctional, since things worked just fine before we started interfering with them. Also, it is unnatural, since this is not how anything new actually gets born. New things are born out of an "empty space" that has no reference to past or future, a space in which the divine can enter -and the ego is terrified of empty space.

But most importantly, approaching life through thinking is arrogant and implies that we believe that everything would just go crazy if we did not control it. We distrust the divine, which unfathomably created and brilliantly handles the everyday business of the entire Universe, let alone our simple, little mudball, the Earth, completely sans thinking. How are the planets doing in their orbits? Are we controlling them okay? How about gravity? Ha!

The memory of God can dawn only in a mind that chooses to remember and has relinquished the insane desire to control reality. You who cannot even control yourself could hardly conspire to control the universe....You believe that without the ego all would be chaos. Yet I assure you that without the ego all would be love.

- A Course In Miracles

No one knows what will happen next. And it is just too scary for most of us to go there. Yet, going there is exactly what we are called to do. We have no alternative left but to jump into the not-knowing and trust because deep inside we know that we have exhausted every single ego-devised avenue possible and they have all failed. Planning and controlling will now be replaced by following (guidance) and flowing. And this will actually work.

But where could knowledge capable of helping us live life without a plan actually come from?

Life is a lot simpler than what most of us expect it to be because we still listen to what our egos tell us, and the ego thrives on suffering and self-importance because the ego is a reflection of our limited understanding of ourselves. To exist, the ego needs problems, not peace. It needs differences to perceive and challenges to overcome. It needs to be either hero or victim, two different sides of the same face. We used this mind to make up the world we have now and that is why it is ending. Our entire civilization has been spawned from the idea that we are people. This is what "the fall" of humanity actually was. Let us be grateful that it is now dissolving.

It is important that we understand that we believe that we are our ego identities and that the mind, the ego's tool, is trustworthy and infallible. These are fallacies.

The device of the ego is to flash frighteningly negative pictures about what might happen to convince us not to trust openness and love. It exerts all the force it can, including "adrenalin-izing" us, to drag us out of the moment (where there is almost never anything actually going wrong) and make us believe we have to hurry up and do something before something really bad happens. (OY!)

The result of believing this insanity is the made-up experience of separation from others and God, therefore a feeling of endangerment and lack. It is actually a state of psychosis. That is why the world often is referred to as an illusion -we cast it upon ourselves. This is our current experience.

Spiritual teacher, Eckhart Tolle:

The ego is a voice in your head which pretends to be you and never stops speaking.

It is a voice that speaks only from what it remembers of the past, what it is programmed to say and therefore wants to project into the future, and whose agenda is to keep things going the way they have been. It is the voice of shock. Is this the kind of voice we really want to continue listening to?

A different voice comes from a deeper place which is divinely guided and utterly loving. This place would never fantasize a negative scenario or "come to a decision" about what needs to be done. It does not use fear or even recognize its existence. It operates solely on the Unity principle and Its nature and ours is love. It is the voice of peace. Its "What for?" is always the same one thing- the highest good of all. This place is the silence within, the Oneness, the Presence.

Its kind of "problem solving" is beyond the abilities of the ego and anything experts can come up with. This kind of thinking is strictly divine, and it works because the Oneness sees nothing as being outside of Itself and therefore dangerous. (That is an ego assumption and it rules this world.) It recognizes no lack. (Another assumption derived from duality.) We are capable of hearing Its Voice when we ignore the ego chatter and enter the silence from which all things are created and sustained.

The root of all of modern man's problems is the fact that he is incapable of sitting alone in a room in silence.

- Blaise Paschal, scientist/philosopher, 1600s

Now that we have come to the end of the competitive, materialistically-based era, we are rapidly awakening to the fact that we all are part of this Oneness and that there is nothing to be afraid of.

We are actually just one all-encompassing Being that is expressing Itself as the Human Family. As we remember the truth of what we are (rather than focusing on the "who" each of us is in this dream of separation) we will act in the only way a functional family can act. All our concerns about "the economy", an ego-generated device, will disappear and we simply will start sharing everything.

Why not?

When we started using money it was because we had forgotten what we are. We went crazy with anxiety and made up the story that somehow we were no longer connected with our Source. (This is what all our myths are about.) We freaked out and invented a lot of unhappy dreams. (Modern "science" is one of them.) The use of money is an outstanding symptom of this insanity. Using money, using any medium of "exchange", is completely unnecessary. What the use of money is actually saying is that we believe in our separation from the Source and that we have to prove that we have the right to exist. So now we have to earn a living. This is the myth of Adam and Eve being expelled from the Garden of Paradise.

The truth is that there is more than enough of everything right now and that hoarding resources and making people prove their worthiness before they can eat is insane. We deserve to be here.

All this will fall aside as we remember what we are again. As sanity (love) returns, no one will be working for money in order to survive, and no one will be making millions from things which are mostly ugly, unhealthy or unnecessary, just for money. Crime will cease as people find they have ten times more than they need of everything important (including time and peace) because life, by its very nature, is superabundant and pure and self-replenishing. We will finally and truly relax and enjoy ourselves. Knowing the truth of ourselves, we will be free.

This will be the beginning of Heaven on Earth.

This is the true, self-sustaining permaculture of "natural economy" - a way based on trusting in our innate connection with the Source which put us here in the first place and not trying to make things happen ourselves. It will have nothing to do with anything mundane stemming from the old paradigm. It will only have to do with living as a Divine Family and the fact of having remembered.

When we stop listening to what our minds tell us we will have no more desire to figure anything out, have meetings to make decisions or make rules to control other people's behavior because we fear what might happen if we don't. The right "decisions" for everything will become obvious. The life force, Itself, will provide all the solutions the ego mind has determined it must in its attempt to be God. And all those solutions will be perfect because they will be created with everything in mind and with no agenda other than Love. And we will finally receive those solutions because we will have turned our backs on the voice of the ego and embraced the voice of truth. What a relief!

Now, let's take a deep breath and imagine a world in which:

- we are worry-free about when the next bill is due or what would happen if we don't get something done "on time". (Yes!)

- we have power that is perfectly clean, quiet and free. (Yay!)

- a minimal amount of working together provides all the simple, friendly and fulfilling necessities of our lives. (Aaahhhh!)

- most of our time is spent in play, communing, creating or resting. (Yum!)

All this is already possible now and has been in suspended animation because of the inner agreements we have kept as a group. This becomes our current reality as we let go of our attachments to our ideas about how things have to be and who we are. Since it is more valuable to be happy and free than to be right and in control, resistance is supplanted by love!

Please don't think about how this can happen - it already is, and it's not under our control. The divine force expanding now on Earth is far greater than ever and its irresistible agenda is to coax us to relax, to let go, to remember and to trust. The only true control we have is to be willing to go with what is already happening, to say Yes.

And if you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe cosmic comic, Swami Beyondananda:

So those of you spiritual folks who've long envisioned a moneyless society, your patience is paying off. We're almost there!

Fortunately, money isn't wealth. In and of itself, it is worthless. If you doubt that, try this simple experiment. Eat your money. While high in fiber, paper money has little nutritional value. And here is something even more amazing. A hundred dollar bill has no more nutritional content than a dollar bill.

So here's the real good news. As surely as the sun comes up every morning, we have more abundant wealth than we know what to do with. Wealth is energy, and how that energy is used. Not only have we been given solar energy to grow our food and power our lives, we've been given soul energy as well - to use and magnify our resources wisely. With the collapse of the house of credit cards economy, we can finally get real. We can use the two most underdeveloped resources on the planet, love and imagination, to re-grow our Garden and have a heaven of a time doing it.

And with regard to the new local currencies and other things being invented now to help along or to take the place of the old system- those must be fashioned and used only in the spirit of the new age, the spirit of play (play money!), as steppingstones needed by the personality in its transition from proving, hoarding, accounting for everything out of fear for the future to unity consciousness, love, sharing and trusting ourselves. For if we were to employ the new methods in the old spirit of !seriousness and urgency! about our survival we will do nothing more than recreate the problems we have now in another form.

Nothing outside of us, not a new president, a new economy nor a new gizmo will save us- we do not need to be saved. That is the voice of the ego that is calling for crisis intervention because it is dying along with the old civilization it fostered. Don't listen to it! We are coming into the knowing and living of what we really are - divine, perfect, innocent, safe and loved eternal beings that are here to be just that. We are not our ego identities nor our beliefs any more than we are our cars or our clothing. We are One Being and we are God. Think with this mind of peace.

So I suggest that we welcome the next steps of our global awakening and keep these truths in mind, and that we take the advice awakened beings always have given us: Stay In The Moment. Refuse to get caught in reactions or strategizings. Don't believe what you know. Be comfortable in the not-knowing and especially invite the spirit of life to flow through you and breathe. Start to share in new, unheard of ways with innocent, gleeful abandon, and expect that we will be supported for being what we are.

Love, peace and blessings will find us as we leave behind who we learned to be for what we came here to be.

Oneness,

Alexander Alexis

"When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that's wisdom.
When I look outside and see that I am everything, that's love.
And between these two, my life turns."

- Nisargadatta

Please feel free to circulate this in its entirety. -AA



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From: http://globalresonance.net/passage.cfm?psg=100140

The Co-Creator's Handbook

by Carolyn Anderson with Katharine Roske

This is an invitation to participate in perhaps the greatest adventure of all time... birthing a new world... a co-creative society.

Just as many of our ancestors often traveled great distances to be able to fully express their beliefs, ideals, and thirst for freedom, we, the social pioneers of our time, are being called from within to manifest a new culture that reflects and embodies the expanded awareness that we are experiencing in our lives.

The old forms, structures, and institutions no longer serve our collective needs as we step across the threshold into a new millennium. At this auspicious time in our evolution, there stirs within the hearts of a growing body of humanity the yearning to discover and model new social forms, which honor unity and diversity and call forth each individual's full creative potential.

As our consciousness shifts from separation and fear to unity and love, we desire to join with others in co-creative endeavors that embody the values and virtues or trust, respect, equality, cooperation, equanimity, generosity and compassion.

This is a new horizon... a journey into uncharted territory. Many have come before who have pointed the way, responded at moments when the cry from the confused masses echoed around the world. The great masters, saints, and prophets have exemplified what is possible. Most have walked a solitary path, being misunderstood and sometimes even persecuted.

At this time of the Great Turning, we move beyond the path of crucifixion into resurrection. No longer must the pioneers of our age walk alone. As Thich Nhat Hahn so eloquently expressed, "The next Buddha may not be an individual, but an enlightened community."

Millions of courageous individuals in towns and villages throughout the world are opening to a greater reality, by responding to a cry in their hearts to take the inward journey to "know thyself." This creative minority is now sufficient in number to shift the tide.

Emerging from an early wave of social pioneers, The Co-Creator's Handbook is a response to a need for a transformed society. This Guidebook offers processes, tools, experiential exercises and understanding necessary for awakening individuals to their full potential and birthing a co-creative culture. It is the evolutionary imperative of our time to join in teams, create and maintain a field of love, align collectively with Spirit, and bring into manifestation the new social forms that embody an awakened consciousness.
This invitation goes out to all pioneering souls who are awakening to their spiritual nature, all who are responding to an inner call, all concerned with the absolute well-being of life. It is a call to collaborate in birthing a co-creative society in service to the highest good of all.

On behalf of all life and future generations to come, let us embark on this transforming journey together.

Related webpages:

The Core Group Process
Accessing Our Collective Wisdom
Circles of Co-Creation


The Co-Creator's Agreements

Be Mindful
My Intent is to be myself, to be authentic, and to be fully present.

Realize our Potential
My commitment is to realize my full potential and support others in doing the same.

Follow my Guidance
I agree to attune with Spirit and follow the calling of my soul on behalf of the well-being of the whole.

Communicate with Integrity
I agree to tell my truth with compassion for myself and others and to honor confidentiality whenever appropriate.

Act with Integrity
I agree to keep my agreements and will do my best to follow my heart in making commitments.

Honor One Another
I agree to honor each person's process, acknowledging that everyone, including myself, is making the best possible choice or decision we are capable of in that moment.

Appreciate our Contributions
I agree to take responsibility for asking for and receiving acknowledgements and for acknowledging others.

Honor our Differences
I agree to come from a sense of cooperation and caring in my interactions with others, and from an understanding that objectives are often the same even though methods for achieving them may differ. I honor the diversity of all life.

Take Responsibility
I agree to take responsibility for my creations, my reactions, my experience and my relationships.

Maintain Resonance
I agree to take the time to establish rapport and then to re-connect with anyone with whom I feel out of harmony as soon as it may be appropriate.

Resolve Problems Constructively
I agree to take problems, complaints and upsets to the person(s) with whom I can resolve them, at the earliest opportunity. I agree not to criticize or complain to someone who cannot do something about my complaint, and I will redirect others to do the same.

Go for Excellence
I agree to support others and to be supported in participating at the highest level of excellence.

Learn from Experience
I agree to do my best to learn from my experiences.

Accept Imperfections
I intend to embrace and accept the imperfections of myself and others.

Be a Leader
I agree to foster an environment of genuine collaboration in which all people, including myself, feel empowered to express our individual and collective potential.

Service to Others
I am willing to open my heart, still my mind, and by in compassionate service to all life.

Re-evaluate my Commitment
I agree to chose and re-choose to participate in this Core Group. It is my choice.

Lighten UP!
I agree to create joy in my relationships, my work, and my life.


The Co-Creator's Handbook is available from http://www.shop.globalfamily.net/product/co-creators-handbook

Visit also http://www.globalfamily.net


"We are continually articulating the intelligence of the planet, which has grown up through all the species. The whole earth lives within us, and in every moment, we are both its creators and discoverers. We only need to reawaken all these early memories."

- Valerie Andrews -- taken from A Passion for This Earth, Exploring a New Partnership of Man, Woman & Nature - (Other quotes from this book)

"The broad sympathies and discerning insight needed for the healing of earthly woes cannot flow from a mere intellectual consideration of human diversities, but from knowledge of men's deepest unity – kinship with God."

- Paramahansa Yogananda -- Taken from Autobiography of a Yogi - (Other quotes from this book)

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From: http://www.globalfamily.net/handbook_excerpt.html

AN INVITATION TO CO-CREATION

AN EXCERPT FROM THE CO-CREATOR'S HANDBOOK

BY CAROLYN ANDERSON AND KATHARINE ROSKE

Have you had a sense of knowing for many years that society is in the midst of a radical transformation and that you have a part to play in this?

Are you feeling within you a powerful longing for greater meaning in your life?

Are you experiencing a spontaneous surge of creativity greater than can be contained in your current work?

Are you tired of trying to go it alone?

Do you sense that out of the life-threatening crises of our age—environmental destruction, terrorism, and social inequities—a new way of life is crying out to be born?

If so, you are being lifted up from within by an energy as powerful as the drive for self-preservation or self-reproduction. It is the third great force: the longing for Self-realization and Self-actualization. It is this alignment as our Co-creative Selves, linking with others who share our vision and passion for the possible, that creates positive change in the world.

We call it the urge of co-creation. It is the uprising of human creativity, an evolutionary force that can transform the world. As we collectively move into this new territory, we are finding our way together. There are no maps and few mentors; the only true guides reside within us. We are discovering the process together, following our intuition, and learning as we go.

We are at the threshold of a global renaissance that has only been dimly dreamed of by the visionaries of the human race. Each of us is awakening to our true nature, as our Essential Self, discovering our soul’s purpose, and working together to birth a co-creative culture!

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“As our consciousness shifts from separation and fear to unity and love we join together in co-creative endeavors that embody the values and virtues of trust, respect, equality, cooperation, equanimity, generosity, integrity and compassion.”

- The Call

See also:

The Hummingbird Community
http://www.hummingbirdcommunity.org/community/our-essence
The Hummingbird Community calls to those who desire to serve humanity's collective awakening while realizing their own true nature. We view all of our daily activities exchanges with nature, relationships, and inward focus as a spiritual practice.

Global Resonance Network
http://www.globalresonance.net/
The Global Resonance Network envisions bringing all of culture and civilization into attunement with a divine harmonic, and - through this convergence - giving birth to a new world civilization. On their website they provide a shared collaborative space that includes a "Wiki" listing over 5,500 quotations on seminal spiritual subjects.

THE INTERSPIRIT FOUNDATION
http://interspirit.net/foundation/foundation.cfm
Interspirit is a global network system that supports the activity of many groups working in interfaith and new spirituality. We are currently linked to about 30,000 people around the world.
Note from Jean: This network has been created by Bruce Schuman - who has participated in 1997 to the founding meeting of the Earth Rainbow Network at La Casa De Maria in Santa Barbara, California. He has since been involved in many leading edge visionary groups worth exploring through this LINK



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From: http://kaia.ca/Articles_Kundalini.php

Kundalini Experiences and Spiritual Openings

It could be an ordinary day, sitting to meditate or doing dishes, when you feel unusual energy rushes moving up your spine. The energy might build in intensity, pushing its way up your back, finally moving through the crown of your head. You may feel great blissfulness, quite some fear, or both. You may be feeling strange, wondering if there is anything medically wrong. Part of you may want to let the energy open you into eternity, part of you holds back, clinging to your known world.

These unusual experiences are very much part of the process of personal transformation. No doubt they are more commonly experienced in those who pray, practice meditation and yoga, or who are engaged in personal growth, but they can come to anyone at anytime.

All dimensions of consciousness already exist within us, including many subtle levels of existence and the source of being itself. In unexpected moments, the veil that keeps us from seeing these aspects dissolves. In these moment we can touch into a way of being that is vastly expanded, powerful, and all encompassing. We may see subtle realms that pervade all these material realms that we don't usually see, and realize that our real nature is not this body-mind, but unlimited consciousness and beingness.

For many people, this is a wonderful confirmation of all they have read and heard spiritually, a sense of coming home, being truly themselves for the first time. For others the fear of the unknown, the fear of losing their cherished individuality in this expanded, eternal consciousness overrides the sense of wonder.

Some people experience being flooded with inner light, or come in contact with angelic presences. Some have out of body experiences, or find themselves able to see energy fields, read minds, or be able to heal.

As increasing numbers of people explore meditation and yoga, these kinds of experiences become ever more common. Yet they are rarely discussed perhaps due to the pervading fear in our society of being thought to be strange. Those who experience these wonderful but unusual states of consciousness are often thirsty for someone who can relate to these experiences and who can help them understand what is happening. Recently two people drove many hours to Ottawa just for this reason. Others surf the kundalini websites looking for information, or scan through bookshops for something that would make sense of their experiences. A great reassurance comes from knowing that many have had these experiences, and that the experiences are all part of a wonderful process of transformation.

The experiences are in fact only the beginning of the story. What follows in their wake is often a powerful process of transformation. Memories that have been tucked away into the subconscious often emerge for clearing. Lifestyles that are not conducive to the newly found inner awareness need overhauling. Sometimes people wake up to the fact that their entire life is not in tune with their inner being - their job, relationship, leisure activities, and diet all need to change in order to be true to themselves. Your whole life can turn inside out.

Energies are changing quickly these days. If these experiences are happening to you, know that you are not alone, many have gone before you. It's a time for inner listening. Find others who understand. Trust your spirit. Honour the consciousness that is unfolding within you and be assured that beautiful possibilities are in the pipeline.

Written by Kaia Nightingale (contact@kaia.ca)



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A WONDERFUL PEACE INITIATIVE WE ALL NEED TO FULLY GET BEHIND!

Date: 21 Mar 2009
From: Meria (meria@globalstrategyofnonviolence.org)
Subject: World March for Peace and Nonviolence Oct. 2, 2009 to Jan. 02, 2010 - A Call for Global Unity

ANNOUNCING – An incredible opportunity for world unity! 

A new initiative was announced in December, 2008, called the WORLD MARCH for Peace and Nonviolence (WM), by World Without Wars. The WM is much more than a march. It is an illustration of Global Unity and the whole world is participating! This is a request for an endorsement of the WM.

The WM is a three month global initiative designed to bring awareness of the desire for nonviolence and to renounce war, disarm, de-nuke, and stop violence. The WM states that the people in each country will exert “continuous pressure” to influence their own governments to change their ways and lay down the sword. Please see the links below.

The WM is much more than just a march. The WM is:

- A Movement illustrating “Unity”
- A People Movement - A Reaching Out with the OLIVE BRANCH
- A Method of Attaining “Critical Mass” and Creating “Political Clout.”

The world has an incredible opportunity. President Obama has taken an extraordinary step of diplomacy that can be utilized by the world, given the right circumstances. On January 27th, President Obama announced to the Islamic countries that “Americans are not your enemy.” What a beautiful reaching out with the Olive Branch. This is a wonderful step, however, President Obama cannot change the world alone. He needs the people. The path the WM is paving could be “extraordinary.” It will need a lot of support and a strong follow-up! This is a perfect time for “people” to stand up, speak out, and reach out to others with the OLIVE BRANCH. The key is “education” and illustration of nonviolence, “For the Children.”

Please send me notification of your participation. I look forward to hearing from you. Please tell your constituencies!

Peace and Love,
Meria Heller, Meria@GlobalStrategyofNonviolence.org
meria@meria.net
http://www.GSofNV.org

“If a person with black hair sees a person with red hair, he or she sees someone different, but, if a person with black hair sees a child with red hair, he or she sees a child.”

- Adil Najam, Boston University, International Relations.

PROMO VIDEO (in Spanish with English subtitles) (*excellent)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT1G7KWIOKo

LAUNCH of WM VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vshv3K9D--0

U.S. site
http://www.worldmarchusa.net/World_March_USA/Welcome.html

Canada site
http://www.worldmarch.ca/

French site
http://www.worldmarch.info

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Note from Jean: Look at this impressive list of selected American individual endorsements of the World March for Peace & Nonviolence
http://www.worldmarchusa.net/World_March_USA/US_Endorsements.html

If you and/or your organization wish to also endorse this World March, please email Meria meria@globalstrategyofnonviolence.org"> or Dennis Redmond info@worldmarchusa.net"> and ask for their Endorsement Form. I've endorsed it on behalf of the Earth Rainbow Network.

Many individuals and organizations are helping to promote this vital initiative. Here is how it was presented in the quarterly newsletter called “Many to Many” published by Operation Peace Through Unity and whose current issue is available HERE.

World march for Peace and Nonviolence - 2 October 2009 to 2 January 2010

The World March for Peace and Nonviolence will journey through countries and territories of the Oceania and East Asia, Continental Asia, Europe, Africa, America, and Antarctica. The March will be officially launched in Wellington, New Zealand, on the 2nd of October 2009, the anniversary of Gandhi's birthday, which was declared by the UN as “The International Day of Non-Violence”.* From there it will be traveling for three month, passing through 'all climates and seasons, from the hot summer of the tropics and the deserts, to the winter of Siberia', and conclude in the Andes on the 2nd of January 2010 - the last year of the decade, dedicated to a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World.

The March was initiated by the international organization “World Without War”, which explains that eliminating wars and violence will mean “leaving human pre-history behind and taking a giant step forward in the evolution of our species”. The World March will be created and shaped by every participant, and is open to any person, organization, collective group, political party, business etc. that share the same vision and aspiration.

Every city that the March visits will be preparing forums, meetings, festivals, conferences and events, and in New Zealand different towns and townships outside Wellington are already planning and preparing their particular contributions to the international launch, which will also be their response to the World Without War's clarion call: “Join a multitude of others in sending a clear signal, and your voice will have to be heard!”

For further details and information on how you can participate see http://www.marchamundial.org/

* The International Day of Non-Violence was established in accordance with GA resolution A/RES/61/271, 15 June 2007, as an occasion to 'disseminate the message of non-violence, including through education and public awareness'. The resolution reaffirms 'the universal relevance of the principle of non-violence' and the desire 'to secure a culture of peace, tolerance, understanding and non-violence'. http://www.un.org/events/nonviolence/2008/

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Related initiatives:

Global Zero

The Global Zero initiative, launched in Paris in December 2008 by 100 political, military, business, faith and civic leaders from across political lines, is in the process of developing a step by step policy plan to reach the aim of zero nuclear weapons. Among the key steps in this policy are:

- deep reductions to Russian-U.S arsenals, which comprise 96 per cent of the world's 27,000 nuclear weapons;

- Russia and the United States, joined by other nuclear weapons states, cutting arsenals to zero is phased and verified reductions;

- Establishing verification systems and international management of the fuel cycle to prevent future development of nuclear weapons.

Global Zero is preparing for a World Summit in early 2010 through a series of meetings and events, and is also inviting citizens and leaders around the world, who are endorsing the goal of Global Zero, to sign a Declaration with the following text:

“WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, believe that to protect our children, our grandchildren and our civilization from the threat of nuclear catastrophe, we must eliminate all nuclear weapons globally. We therefore commit to working for a legally binding verifiable agreement, including all nations, to eliminate nuclear weapons by a date certain.”

Please sign this declaration at http://www.globalzero.org/en/sign-declaration

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The Asia-Pacific Freeze Campaign

A Call for a Safer, Greener Future

The aim of this campaign is to freeze and then reduce the military spending of the United States, Japan, China, Russia, South Korea, and North Korea. Accounting for more than 65 per cent of the global military spending, these countries are also contributing to the escalation in global military spending, which has increased by 45 per cent over the last decade. The world's precious resources are being wasted in preparing for war as the world is facing unprecedented social, economic and climate crises. But without public pressure governments are not likely to change their ways. The Asia-Pacific Freeze would not only play an essential role in defusing tensions on the Korean peninsula; by cooperating on reducing military spending, these six countries could help turn Northeast Asia into a model of peace and sustainable development.

The campaign, coordinated by the Institute for Policy Studies (founded in Washington 1963) on behalf of peace activists and scholars in the above mentioned countries, is calling on people and groups to sign their Call to Action, saying that “As individual countries and as an international community, we have a choice. We can continue on a dangerous path seeking ever-elusive “security” through military might. Or we can choose to address the pressing problems facing us all - global economic crisis, climate change, nuclear proliferation - by no longer wasting our precious resources on preparations for war”.

The Call to Action and further information can be read at: http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5852



5.

Global Worming

It has recently been diagnosed that the current socio-economic chaos stems from a planetary parasitic infestation. We have a case of global worms.

Having once divested myself of some uninvited inner critters which accidentally died of starvation whilst I was fasting, I feel myself to be in a unique position - a gastric vantage point if you like - from where I can clearly see the 'Federal' Reserve, the World Bank, the IMF, Halliburton, The Carlyle Group, GE, OPEC, to name but a few, as a bunch of ginormous worms whose sole purpose is to drain the life force, the nutrients and vitality out of one country after another, while the bodies of the parasites grow more and more bloated.

These 'powersites' are controlling the world currently. They are devouring everything that is good and true and beautiful and excreting toxic waste. The upper bodies of these critters take on the characteristics of smooth talking humans which mask the lurching, lumbering, ghastly, ever-fattening corporate worms from our limited perception.

It is a horror movie too disgusting to contemplate. Aesthetically I wish I had not thought of it. But, life having offered me such a tasteful metaphor, I feel morally obliged to share how I rid myself of those critters foolish enough to have taken up residence inside me.

How did they die? Well...without becoming grotesquely graphic...let's say I employed cataclysmic cleansings... It was the abominable abdominal apocalypse. With Kali as my inspiration, by the time they emerged on the crest of a coffee enema wave, they were barely carcasses…in fact they looked rather like pathetically small, limp condoms.

Hey wait a moment – isn’t that what recent past presidents and barely present popes have been denying the people of Africa? Now we know why! David Icke says that the hidden world leaders are mostly all reptiles. I say they’re just a can of worms. Tough skinned invertebrates for whom perhaps the sight of a condom poses something of a personal threat.

Fasting teaches one that illumination and elimination are almost the same thing. Enlightenment is our birthright, just eliminate the obstacles. These 'powersites' need to be flushed from the world's intestines. But to stage this non-violent revolution is going to take guts. We must economically starve them. Governments must quit feeding them our taxes. Legally require the bailed out institutions to bailout the people or return our money. This is the fasting phase. It won't last. Hunger doesn't hurt when it is temporary, it heals.

Global worming starts here! Cut out the junk food - tax luxuries and inessentials sky high and give bonuses to those who provide real necessities. Take plentiful doses of any truth that busts our belief in this elitist stranglehold over the collective wealth of the planet. And finally I recommend a series of corporate colonics to flush the entire economic system down the toilet... Hey - it's already happening!

Cleansed of all that old ca-ca, we can build a new economic system upon a foundation of respect for life on earth as a whole. A system which shares our global abundance appropriately. We are guests of the land, not owners. On a healthy planet as in a healthy organism, flora, fauna, water, oxygen and minerals - each aspect is part of an interconnected web where all parts work harmoniously together. Biologically, personally or planetarily speaking, a healthy immune system is a prerequisite for peace.

So, not so honorable powersites, your hosts are evicting you. If you can extract yourselves from your corporate wormholes, we can probably find something useful for you to do at the local food bank or soup kitchen - for a fair and decent wage of course.

A new world order indeed.

Jaiia Earthschild
jaiia_earthschild@yahoo.com - March 25, 2009

Our Story is a love Song
http://www.earthschild.com/rockopera.html

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Related article:

New Green Deal or Not: Industrial Capitalism Is Assured Death (March 21, 2009)
http://www.newearthrising.org/2009/03/continued-industrial-capitalism-is-assured-death.asp
A New Green Deal must do more than provide continued employment in the speculative, industrial growth machine that is consuming the Earth's ecosystems -- Global ecological sustainability is imminently threatened by a massive ecological bubble. Global terrestrial, atmospheric, aquatic and marine ecosystems are no longer adequately intact to maintain conditions for life. The mark of progress and an equitable, sustainable economy is not how fast the economy grows at the expense of destroying these ecosystems. It is whether the basic needs and more of all Gaia's people and creatures are being met, while maintaining forever the ecological sustainability of their shared ecosystem habitats.Many including US President Barrack Obama, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and former US Vice-President Al Gore see it differently. They and many others are calling on the world to use coordinated economic stimulus, deemed necessary to bailout the existing growth obsessed economic system, to achieve "green growth" through development of new technologies that provide "green jobs". The web and hallways of power are abuzz with the promise of green technologies to fix the financial system, solve climate change, all while providing jobs. Who can be against green jobs? It has become as American as baseball and apple pie. Yet in this single-minded pursuit of the holy grail of green growth, we are putting all our money and efforts into reforming an economic system whose dysfunction -- equating growth based upon ecosystem destruction with progress -- is precisely why we find ourselves in twin crises of growing poverty for the formerly affluent, and collapsing global ecosystems. (...) Paltry expenditures of less than 1% of GDP upon relatively ecologically sustainable economic activities, while allowing the other 99% of industrial activity to continue unreformed, will keep the emphasis for economic well-being on unsustainable growth. It will not even make a piddling contribution to stopping the habitat loss, ocean impoverishment, fouling of water, and collapsing atmosphere upon which all life depends.Indeed, by allowing the technocrats to steal our green rhetoric, the truly ecologically sufficient policies necessary -- returning to the land to protect and restore ecosystems, to save being while making an honest living from our hands and minds and surplus natural capital -- are put off until after it is almost certainly too late. Doing not enough, diverting from what must be done, is worse than doing nothing.Plans for green jobs and green stimulus, to simultaneously lift us from economic recession while pursuing climate change and other ecological policies, are doomed to failure if they are not accompanied by some additional fundamental transformations of the social and economic order. We know we must reduce human population and inequitable consumption. There is no future for logging old forests, burning coal or industrial agriculture including biofuels and biochar. And energy efficiency, conservation and renewables -- while we immediately end the use of fossil fuels and industrial biofuels -- are the only road to keeping the lights on, within a habitable Earth. We can pursue these sufficient ecological policies with a revolutionary spirit of action, or we can roll over and die. We still have the power and time to stop the ecological bubble, but just barely. CLIP



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From: http://www.wakeuplaughing.com/news.html

Swami’s 2009 State of the Universe

The Shift Has Hit the Fan: Welcome to the Sane Asylum

By Swami Beyondananda (Steve Bhaerman. www.wakeuplaughing.com)

The shift has hit the fan!

Humanity has shifted its karma into surpassing gear, and political climate change has come to America. Thanks to a grassroots up-wising, we the people huffed and puffed together in the same direction and the winds of change blew in a breath of fresh air. And we can all breathe easier.

The vote in November was more than a vote for a new President. It was a vote for a new precedent – to overgrow the “lowest common dominator” paradigm and take a step towards government of the people, by the people, for the people where the government does our bidding, not the bidding of the highest bidder -- and where the Golden Rule can finally overrule the rule of gold. In the short term, the up-wising has been successful, and the American Evolution has begun. The first big shots have been fired, and we are on the road to recovering from an eight-year bout with Mad Cowboy Disease and Electile Dysfunction.

But now, if we want to heal the body politic of conditions like Deficit Inattention Disorder, Truth Decay and the deadliest one of all, an unchecked Military Industrial Complex, we must elect ourselves. Spiritually, it’s time to quiet our barking dogmas and evolve past the Ten Commandments to an even greater realization – the One Suggestion: “We are all in it together.” Once a critical mass of us chooses to live by this credo, we can avoid the critical massacre called Armageddon, create Disarmageddon instead, and achieve fulfillment as a species -- Humanifest Destiny.

The End of the Age of Nefarious?

Every journey into the light is preceded by a dark passage, and our entry into the Age of Aquarius is no different. As predicted in the celebrated quatrain (“When the goon moves into Lincoln’s house, and stupider aligns with Mars, then greed will guide the planet and fear obscure the stars ...”), the Age of Nefarious delayed the start of the new millennium. But now the quatrain is heading down a new track, and soular power is shining a light on the endarkened corridors of soulless power.

Just as the eight-year journey that took us from Whitewater to Blackwater was coming to an end, some overzealous Bush-bashers hurled footwear to give the departing regime one final boot. That was understandable, but unnecessary. Better we should keep our shoes on, and use them to stand together at a time when healing wounds is more important than wounding heels. Besides, without Bush there could have been no Obama. His alarming actions awakened more people than Buddha, and a body politic in a fear-induced coma miraculously regained consciousness.

And now there is a new President: Barack Hussein Obama. After eight years of insanity, we can proclaim to the world, “America has a President Hussein!”

So now, we must face another awesome truth: We are living in a world gone sane.

Welcome to the sane asylum.

Trickle Down Goes Belly Up

It’s a good thing our political fates are on the upswing, as our economy has taken a sharp downturn. The house of credit cards economy based on trickle down has gone belly up, and we must face another, sadder truth. Individually and collectively, we’ve been suffering from Deficit Inattention Disorder, and since we were unable to do the math, we must now do the aftermath. It’s a buy-o-logical fact. You cannot spend more than you have. Nature knows this. We can use no more energy than what we have in reserve. We cannot charge energy on our Ascended Master Card and repay it next lifetime.

So yes, the casino economy coming down, but there is an upside to the meltdown. There is a great opportunity in the crisis. Consider this. When the dollar hits zero, we can pay off our entire $10 trillion national debt and hardly feel it!

Meanwhile, over the past eight years we have seen the fall of reptilian entities like Enronosaurus Wrecks, and most recently a character named Madoff made off with billions. Our entire economic system has been revealed as an extraordinary ponzi scheme where ordinary people are left holding the empty bag.

Unfortunately, this is nothing new. It’s the same old needy-greedy where our collective fear of not having enough -- “scare city” -- has empowered those privatizing privateers who are plundering our planet with their mining operations: that’s mine, that’s mine, that’s mine. This mining has overmined the planet and undermined humanity. Thus, the emergency we face right now.

So, what do we do? I am glad I asked that question. We must go beyond the fear-based state of emergency, to a state of emergent seeing. That is where we emerge and see the genuine wealth that is all around us: the virtually infinite energy from Father Sun, the prolific nourishment Mother Earth brings us every season, the love we generate from our hearts, and the inventiveness of our minds. With this realization, we have a one way ticket out of scare city .... and we enter a state of a-bun-dance. That is where we get up off our assets, move our buns, face the music and dance together. In using our resources to create good goods and greater goodness, we can weave a web of mass construction that will make us all interdependently wealthy.

Heartland Security and Purple People Power

So ... how do we do this? How do we go from our habitual “every cell for itself” consciousness that has caused our current “mining disaster”, to acting on the evolutionary truth that we are in reality “all cells in the body of humanity?” How do we shift from survival of the fittest to thrival of the fittingest?

First we must move from the fear-based Homeland Security to the love-based Heartland Security, and realize our one true security is in the land of the heart. While the beliefs in our head fool us all the time, the love in our heart is foolproof. When we face up to love, we can face down the fear.

What this means in practical reality is that we must step across the “red-blue” political divide that has kept us separate, and show our true colors as one purple people. Yes, we have all been wounded by polarizing politics, so let’s give ourselves a purple heart, and take the next courageous step to cohere around our shared “heart core” values and become ... we, the purple.

I have a dream ... that the rednecks shall lie down with the blue necks, and we tune out the polarizing mainstream media, which is sadly a brainwashing machine stuck on spin. More than ever, we need forums not againstums, dialogue instead of debate. When the body politic stops mass-debating and chooses to have healthy, pleasurable intercourse, we will finally create a healthy brainchild together.

This February, we celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s bicentennial, and our friend Richard Lederer (the anagram master known as Riddler Reacher), tells us that when we scramble the letters in “Barack Hussein Obama,” we get “Abraham is back: One U.S.”

You don’t have to be a Barack-backer to see that instead of relying on leaders from above, the next evolutionary step is for us to become the leaders we have been waiting for. I am Lincoln. You are Lincoln. We are Lincoln. And by linkin’ together, we free ourselves from slavery to the divisive beliefs in our minds, and form a more perfect union in the land of the heart.

Sure, these ideas may seem far-fetched, but we are nearer to fetching them than ever before. Remember, we are now living in a world gone sane. Change is ahead, change is afoot, and everything is changing from head to foot. Like it or not, we are destined to have heaven on earth. Might as well get used to it.



7.

The crumbling has started in earnest

By Lou Bognon (lou@loubognon.com) - Taken from the Biophile Magazine

As 2009 progresses — we sense a slowing of the frenetic pace at which we have been travelling for the past few years, while witnessing, as if in slow motion, the crumbling of many systems around us.

In all TV news, local or international, the news readers themselves, are using the kind of terminology that reflects our own deepest fear and worry, and often ask the very same questions we all do to ourselves: When will all this end? How are we going to get out of this mess? How did we get here? How did this actually happen? How can giants in all sectors all of a sudden and out of the blue, be reduced to a position of mere midgets? How could some greedy people get away with it for so long?

In the two previous issues I shared with you the insights I have glimpsed as to where we are headed and, here hopefully I will take you a little further into the understanding of what really is happening, how we will survive these ongoing crises and what implications there are for us as individuals and as a collective of humanity.

By the time you read these words the budget deficits in some of the richest nations (not to mention most) will be reminiscent of a big black hole — we now acknowledge that we have consumed, spent, promised, pledged and invested more than we could afford and so the situation is now more than ever exposed for what it is — greed gone bust, the "cooked books" looking ever more like a concoction of figures no one really knows for sure whether they are real or imaginary. Some countries did not indulge in the greedy frenzy or the virtual financial banking reality and are thus weathering the storm in a far better shape. Still, all are affected.

Some governments will frenetically print paper money as if trees themselves were cloning each other every nanosecond and calling it by the euphemistic name of "quantitative easing" while the so called sound foundations of economics have all but vanished, disappeared, and moved into nothingness.

In short — and again to quote from the wisdom given in my third book, The Divine Laws* — the crumbling has started in earnest.

There is indeed no going back, no holding on to what and how it used to be; that is now vanishing right in front of our eyes:  the systemically destructive and unsustainable way of life we have lived for so long, with belief systems and structures of economic governance that serve the greed of the few against the needs of the many, have simply now shown us beyond what we needed to be shown, their absolute incapacity to fulfill the needs of all humanity.

We are witnessing the end of an era — the end times of all that has been divisive, from economics to religions and politics, as well as all and everything that has become unsustainable. In our taking without ever giving back, we have lived under the illusion that abundance was only for the chosen few, that the masses of humanity were just another tradable resource or commodity and now the masses of unemployed and the suffering are growing by the day inside the very nations that birthed these very beliefs, notions and economics of greedy unsustainability.

Time has come to play another game, to apply new ideas, birth new sustainable systems, but we have not yet grasped what is ahead nor what exactly we are to create, how to play the very game and rules we still have to invent, and, because most people are so lost, they cannot see, much less sense, the new possibilities. So, here is a peek at what is coming our way:

“As the old and obsolete gives way to the new inventions, all of them will be, not only user-friendly but also and most importantly, also friendly towards your environment and all the elements and kingdoms of your beloved planet.

When and as you learn to tap into the universal energy, you will move, communicate, travel and share all as one, for it will not cost anyone anything to do all these things that now still remain an impossible dream for the masses of humanity.

By then you will have taken your place among all the nations of the stars and you will travel there just as they have been travelling to yours since the beginning.” *

Good place to start - we have to just start imagining this. After all we all are now able to understand that our beloved Planet is perfectly able to provide for every man's need, but of course she cannot provide for every man's greed.

And one last word: let us never forget that each time we imagine something, it is the Creator-Source who really is imagining it through us.

*The Divine Laws, by Lou Bognon



From: http://www.astrology.com.au/News/NewsItem.asp?NewsID=824

AN IMPORTANT REMINDER

by Patricia Diane Cota-Robles (PattiCR@aol.com) - http://eraofpeace.org

You have the ability to make a positive difference in the world. This has been a roller-coaster time of miracles and challenges. It seems as though these extreme experiences are being used to wake Humanity up at warp speed. No matter how hard people may try, their I AM Presence is not allowing them to push the snooze button in order to go back to sleep. It is time for people everywhere to remember who they are and why they are on Earth during this auspicious moment. Important changes are taking place, and in spite of outer-world appearances, we are beginning to see evidence of people in every walk of life reaching out to make a positive difference.

It seems that everyday we are being flooded with fear-based information that reflects the dire possibilities of economic collapse, terrorist attacks, war, environmental disasters, governmental and corporate corruption, crime, violence and myriad other potential dangers. It is very easy to become so overwhelmed with concern that we just wring our hands and muddle through our days in a state of anxiety and desperation.

The majority of people feel helpless when it comes to changing their lives or making a significant difference in the world. Everyone wants things to get better, but most people don't truly believe they can effectively assist in the process. Well, fortunately, nothing could be further from the Truth. We are ALL cocreators. We are on Earth during this unprecedented time for the explicit purpose of uniting with our Father-Mother God and the Company of Heaven to cocreate the wonders of Heaven on Earth.

Whether we consciously remember it or not, each and every one of us has been preparing for a very long time to assist in this mission. We all have unique skills and abilities that no one else on the planet possesses in exactly the same way we do. We have volunteered to assist in helping to change the old, obsolete behavior patterns that are responsible for the pain and suffering Humanity is enduring. This is being brought to our attention by our I AM Presence because the time for us to begin fulfilling our Divine Missions is NOW! 

Traumatic experiences cause us to regroup and to reevaluate how we are living our lives. We have fallen into the pattern of using pain as our motivator. As long as we are not in pain, we will just plod along, day after day, without much thought. We halfheartedly go through the motions of doing what we need to do to survive. We go to our jobs to make money to put food on the table and a roof over our heads. We take care of our families‚ physical needs, and with the little bit of time that is left, we try to take care of ourselves.

When a tragedy happens, however, we are forced to put our lives into perspective. We stop for a moment and focus on what really matters to us. If we use the tragic event to change our mode of operation and to put more meaning in our lives, then something good will come out of even the most horrific experience.

The tragic events of September 11, 2001, Hurricane Katrina, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the housing debacle, the economic meltdown, and several other challenging events have transformed our lives forever. We have a choice as to whether we allow catastrophes to catapult us into lives of fear and dread or whether we use those experiences to motivate us into creating lives of fulfillment and joy. We have the ability to do both of those things; the path we choose is up to us.

The only reason we have not been cocreating lives of joy, happiness, prosperity, loving relationships, financially and creatively rewarding jobs, vibrant health, fulfillment, enlightenment and every other positive experience is because we have forgotten that we can.

Not only can we create the lives we dream of, this is our purpose and reason for being. We are Children of God, and we have been invested with the gift of free will. Our thoughts and feelings are creative. Whatever we focus our thoughts, words, actions, and feelings on, we bring into physical form. It is time for us to remember this Divine Truth and for us to consciously choose to create the lives we want instead of inadvertently manifesting, through our fears, the experiences we do not want.

It is time for us to reclaim our Divine Birthrights and to fulfill our Divine Potentials. As we take charge of our lives, we will be effective examples for our loved ones and friends. We will be positive catalysts, and the results of our efforts will be exponential. We are all One, and the Universal Law is „As I Am lifted up, ALL Life is lifted up with me.‰ We can each make a positive difference. As we change our lives, we will change the direction for Humanity and for all Life evolving on this planet. Never underestimate your ability to be a powerful force of good on this planet.

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