'Pilgrim’
might be the word that most accurately describes us - someone passing
through very quickly, someone here but on their way to somewhere
else, someone never quite knowing what is most important, the path or
the destination or the person walking along it and to it, and someone
all along who is never quite sure from whence or from where their
next bite of bread will come. We are travelers, a conversation
between here and there, who each need visible and invisible help
along the way to survive. Most fearfully, a pilgrim is, by
definition, someone abroad in a world of impending revelation where
something is just about to happen, including, and just around the
corner, and as a part of their eventual arrival, their own
disappearance.
The
great measure of human maturation is the increasing understanding
that we move through life in the blink of an eye; that we are not
long with the privilege of having eyes to see, ears to hear, a voice
with which to speak and arms to put round a loved one; that we are
simply passing through. We are creatures made real through contact,
meeting and then moving on; creatures who, strangely, never get to
choose one above the other. Human life is a contact and a getting to
know, and a moving beyond which is forever changing, from the
transformations that enlarge and strengthen us to the ones that turn
us from consuming to being consumed, from seeing to being semi-blind,
from speaking in one voice to hearing in another.
Always,
underneath everything, we sense that all at once, we are the journey
along the way, the one who makes it and the one who has already
arrived. We live in parallel and cohabiting contexts: we are still
running around the house packing our bags and we have already gone
and come back, we are alone in the journey and we are just about to
meet the people we have known for years.
But if
we are all movement, exchange and getting to know, where a refusal to
move on makes us unreal, we are also journeymen and journeywomen,
with an unstoppable need to bring our skills and experience, our
voice and our presence to good use in the eternal now we visit along
the way. We want to belong as we travel.
The
way we give ourselves to that pilgrim path as an ultimate initiation
into vulnerability and arrival, is a form of faith, never fully
knowing what lies on the other side of the destination, or if we will
survive it in any recognizable form. Strangely, our arrival at that
last transition along the way is exactly where we have the
perspective to understand who has been traveling all along.
In
that perspective it might be that faith, reliability, responsibility
and being true to something unspeakable are possible even if we are
travelers, and that we are made better, more faithful companions, and
indeed pilgrims on this never to be repeated journey by combining the
precious memory of the 'then', with the astonishing, but taken for
granted experience of 'the now', and both with the unbelievable, and
hardly possible 'just about to happen.'
British
scientist Rupert Sheldrake has been speaking about the cutting edge
of the new cell biology since 1981, when he published his
groundbreaking book, A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of
Formative Causation. Despite hostile, ad hominem attacks of his
ideas that cell growth is directed by more than mere genetic coding,
Sheldrake’s critics have produced neither valid arguments nor
evidence that counters his laboratory observations and theories.
Sheldrake
proposes that ‘memory’ is inherent in cells, and that life
exhibits “evolutionary habits,” a quality that Darwin also noted.
“Cells come from other cells and inherit fields of organization”
and that morphogenesis innately depends on organizing those fields,
which he refers to as morphic fields.
For
instance, since the genetic basis of cell reproduction is so similar,
it is the morphogenetic field of a specific organism that causes the
development of a specific shape — a pink flower with five petals as
opposed to an Orca Killer Whale or a Colorado Spruce. The fundamental
materialistic views still held by the majority of biologists resist
the implications of such a hypothesis, despite experimental evidence.
But
his credentials are impeccable: He is a former Research Fellow of the
Royal Society, obtained degrees from both Cambridge and Harvard, and
held research directorships and fellowships with prestigious
organizations around the world, including California’s Institute of
Noetic Sciences. Additionally, he has published over eighty
scientific papers, ten books, appears on television shows
internationally, and writes for newspapers and magazines regularly.
An
Interview with Rupert Sheldrake
Q:
Please explain morphic resonance?
SHELDRAKE:
Morphic resonance is the way that things tune into each other. It
works on the basis of similarity, the same principle as ordinary
resonance. For instance, if you push down the loud pedal of a piano
and while holding it down you chant “ooh” into the piano strings,
when you stop singing, the piano will go, “ooh,” back. If you
sing a specific pitch, let’s say an “E,” into the strings they
will vibrate back that same “E.” That’s resonance.
Many
modern technologies work on resonance; radio and television are both
resonant technologies. For instance, radio works because we tune into
the specific frequency of a particular radio station, say 99.8 on
your FM receiver. However, the room that you are currently standing
in is filled with countless frequencies, including radio, television,
and mobile phone transmissions. The reason we do not become
overwhelmed is because we are not specifically tuned into their
specific frequencies.
Q:
You’ve extended the concept of morphic resonance into the
biological science of plant and animal development.
SHELDRAKE:
Yes. For example, a chrysanthemum plant, as it develops, it tunes in
to past chrysanthemums, and a giraffe, as it develops, tunes in to
past giraffes. The DNA or the genetic material enables each living
form to manufacture the correct proteins which are a part of their
specific tuning system, just like each radio or television station
transmits on their specific frequency. For these electronics to be
effective, they require both the correct electronic components as
well as the specific tuning between them. This resonance is also true
for the inheritance of form and the instincts in animals.
Q: If
plants and animals develop in accordance with an invisible,
interconnected, and underlying environmental system of information
and frequency, that would mean that their growth is not exclusive to
genetic information.
SHELDRAKE:
Exactly. The conventional view tries to cram all the inherited
information into the genes, but DNA is grossly overrated. They simply
don’t do most of the things attributed to them. What we know they
do for sure is to code for the structure of protein molecules.
Q: Is
this a living field of information?
SHELDRAKE:
It’s a kind of collective memory. Every member of a species draws
upon the collective memory of that species, and in turn, contributes
to it. You could say it’s like a collective consciousness, but
actually it’s more like the collective unconscious. We’re always
tuning into it and contributing to it, so it’s a bit like the idea
of the collective unconscious put forward by the psychologist C.G.
Jung.
I’m
suggesting that, for example, if somebody learns a new skill, say
windsurfing, then the more people that learn it, the easier it
becomes for everyone else because of morphic resonance. However, if
you train rats to learn a new trick in one place, like Los Angeles,
then rats all over the world should be able to learn the trick more
quickly because the first group of rats learned it.
That’s
what I’m saying morphic resonance does. It’s the kind of
interconnection between all similar organisms across space and time.
It works from the past and connects like a kind of collective memory,
and it interconnects all the members of a species.
Q: For
the past thirty years, you have received quite of bit of resistance
from the general scientific community. How significantly would the
field of science change if your ideas about morphic resonance were to
become fully accepted by the scientific as well as general audiences?
SHELDRAKE:
First of all, at the scientific level, the main reason for the
resistance is that most scientists are still locked into the
materialist paradigm, the doctrine that the only reality is matter.
What my observations indicate is that there’s more to nature than
matter. There are also fields, resonant fields within the material
systems, and that the so-called laws of nature are not fixed, they’re
more like habits.
These
ideas would require a tremendous shift in thinking within science.
Perhaps those ideas would not affect most people that much because
they probably don’t spend much time thinking about the laws of
nature. But it would be a big shift at the foundations of science and
that’s why it’s so controversial.
Q:
Once the shift in fundamental perception occurs, wouldn’t it impact
the morphic field of most people in addition to scientists?
SHELDRAKE:
Oh yes. It would affect our entire culture and the way we think of
nature. We would begin to think of nature as alive and organic rather
than mechanical. Science’s present view of nature is based on the
perception that nature is a machine and acts mechanically, whereas
I’m saying nature is an organism, alive, and possesses a kind of
memory.
Q:
Once science evolves to accept the evidence of the morphic field,
will it become easier for science to integrate a more comprehensive
understanding of biological matter as energy, and that fluctuations
in energy affect the materiality of life?
SHELDRAKE:
What we now understand in science is that activity in nature depends
on energy, but energy can take any form. It’s a bit like what the
Hindus call Shakti; it’s a kind of undifferentiated push that makes
things happen. The same energy can power a computer, a TV, a
hairdryer, or an electric toaster. It has no form of its own.
I
suggest that the form the energy takes is determined, bound with, and
organized by the fields. For instance, we know in modern physics that
quantum fields organize quantum particles. We also know there are
gravitational fields, electromagnetic fields, and in addition to
those fields, there are also morphic fields — fields that organize
the form and the behavior of animals and plants.
Q: So
you are suggesting then that morphic fields are separate?
SHELDRAKE:
Yes, it’s a separate field. The gravitational field is separate
from the electromagnetic field. It does different things, and quantum
fields are different from gravitational fields and electromagnetic
fields. We’ve already got quite a few fields in physics and one of
the great challenges since the time of Einstein has been to find a
unified field theory that would show how they’re all related to
each other. However, physics is primarily concerned with electrons
and stars and galaxies, and there’s not a lot of attention put into
the fields that govern living organisms, plants, ecosystems, etc.
Q: Is
that because science perceives that it already understands biological
processes?
SHELDRAKE:
Yes, they think they do, but the point is they don’t. Biologists
think that they can reduce living processes to physics.
Physicists,
on the other hand, do not claim that they understand the human mind,
for example. Even within biology no one understands how minds work.
And consciousness continues to be one of the greatest unsolved
problems in science. It’s not as if there is a perfectly good
theory of consciousness that’s not being accepted. There isn’t a
good theory at all within physics.
I’m
pushing forward a view that the mind is a system of fields. The
fields are in the brain but they extend beyond the brain, just like
the field of a magnet is inside the magnet and extends around it. And
the field of your cell phone is inside your cell phone, but it
extends far beyond its circuits, invisibly. I suggest that the mind
is totally detached from matter and time and space.
Q: And
you see mind as a field as well?
SHELDRAKE:
Yes, it’s a field. Our minds extend into space and interconnect us
with the environment around us. One important aspect of it is that
we’re interconnected with other members of social groups. Social
groups also have morphic fields, for example a flock of birds, or a
school of fish, or an ant colony. The individuals within the larger
social groups and the larger social groups themselves have their own
morphic fields, their own organizing patterns. The same is true of
humans.
People
form all sorts of social groups within modern society, such as a
football team, for example. Each player in the team is working as
part of a larger whole — the team — and the team works together
to score goals. The connections between members of social groups link
them together through the morphic field. They’re interconnected
through this field and the field is an invisible interconnection that
links them. It continues to do so even when they’re far away.
The
next time you are far away from somebody you know well, think about
them and form the intention to telephone them. They may just pick up
on that thought and start thinking about you. Then all of a sudden
the phone rings and it’s that person. I call that telephone
telepathy, and it is the most common kind of telepathy in the modern
world. It’s just another way in which we are all interconnected.
Imagine
the entire Universe as a giant fractal. Each component within the
fractal is a pattern that constantly flows and becomes more than it
is as it continues to touch the original pattern while eternally
morphing into something different and new.
It is
important to recapitulate the historical patterns that have been
handed down to us from generation to generation. Many people allow
these patterns and associated thought forms to serve as the
foundation of their reality without ever attempting to question or
become aware of their own true nature free of these patterns.
In
order for us to hold a pattern in our minds, we must push away the
rest of the fractal. When we do, we are no longer fluid; we become
fixated. If you define someone with a word, you negate them. By
giving someone a label, you eliminate all of the other things that
they could be. At the same time, you are creating them to fulfill
that definition because you have defined it to exist. You have
defined them as a single pattern within the fractal.
We
have to go beyond the mold. The mold is merely a stage, a stopover
that brings temporary peace and serenity to those who journey into
the unknown, but it is sterile, static. It is at the same time a
flat reflected image in a mirror and the mirror itself. And the image
is man’s image.
We are
each taught to live our lives based upon the myths that have been
passed down through centuries. There are thousands upon thousands of
myths and their primary function is to provide us with a model that
helps us to activate our unconscious. When this occurs, we can then
integrate the unconscious into our consciousness. When we connect
with our unconscious, we move beyond the patterns that we have upheld
throughout our lives and our unconscious allows us to realize the
unlimited potential that lies within each of us.
There
is much complaining about the state of our country, our world, the
earth, ourselves. We fight and fight to attempt to bring about
change. But we are human beings, not human doings.
Gandhi said BE the change you want to see in the world - not DO the
change you want to see in the world.
Buckminster
Fuller said: “You never change things by fighting the existing
reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete.”
Our
true crisis in this world is the inability to experience
consciousness.
We
must let go of the patterns within the fractal, and free the fractal
of which we are each a part, so we may continue to flow, change, and
create ourselves into becoming the most of what we are capable of
truly being. We must rise to the task of being the true creator
beings that we are each meant to be.
Adapted
from the blog of Lorraine Voss, femalewarrior.net, February 20, 2018
The
outlines of a better world are emerging. Once the government's
ability to sustain its enforcement with money created out of thin air
vanishes, the entire order vanishes along with it.
The
era of waste, greed, fraud, and living on borrowed money is dying,
and those who've known no other way of living are mourning its
passing. Its passing was inevitable, for any society that
squanders its resources is unsustainable. Any society that makes
private greed the primary motivator and priority is unsustainable.
Any society that rewards fraud above all else is unsustainable. Any
society which lives on money borrowed from the future and other forms
of phantom capital is unsustainable.
We
know this in our bones, but we fear the future because we know no
other arrangement other than the unsustainable present. And so
we hear the faint echo of the cries of alarm filling the streets of
ancient Rome when the Bread and Circuses stopped: what do we do
now?
When
the free bread and entertainments disappeared, people found new
arrangements. They left Rome. The greatest private fortunes in
history vanished as Rome unraveled. All the land, the palaces,
the gold and all the other treasures were no protection against the
collapse of the system that institutionalized corruption as the
ultimate protector of concentrated wealth.
The
most zealously guarded power of government is the creation of
money, for without money the government cannot pay the soldiers,
police, courts and administrators needed to enforce its rule. Western
Rome created money by controlling silver mines; in the current era,
governments create money (currency) out of thin air.
Once
the government's money loses purchasing power, the system
collapses. And so in the final stages of Rome's decline,
Imperial orders still flowed to distant legions, but the legions no
longer existed; they were only phantom entries on Imperial ledgers.
Our
"money" is also nothing but phantom entries on digital
ledgers, and so its complete loss of purchasing power is inevitable.
Without "money," the government can no longer enforce the
will of its self-serving elites: orders will still flow in a
furious flood to every corner of the land, but the legions to enforce
the institutional corruption will be nothing but phantom entries on
Imperial ledgers.
Once
the government's ability to sustain its enforcement with money
created out of thin air vanishes, the entire order vanishes along
with it. The destruction of the value of central bank-created
"money" is already ordained, for there is no limit on human
greed and the desire to maintain control, and so governments will
create their "money" in ever-increasing amounts until the
value has been completely leached from the phantom digital entries.
The
outlines of a better world are emerging, an arrangement that
prioritizes something more than maximizing private gain and
institutionalizing the corruption needed to protect those gains. We
will relearn to live within our means, and relearn how to
institutionalize opportunity rather than corruption designed to
protect elites.
We
will come to a new understanding of the teleology of centralized
power, that centralized power only knows how to extend its power and
so the only possible outcome is collapse. We will come to understand
technology need not serve only monopolies, cartels and the state,
that it could serve a sustainable, decentralized economy that does
more with less.
The
Federal Reserve will fail, just as the Roman gods failed to sustain
the corrupt and bankrupt Roman elites. A host of decentralized,
transparently priced non-state currencies will compete on the open
market, just like goods, services and commodities. The Fed's
essential role - serving the few at the expense of the many, under
the cover of creating currency out of thin air - will be repudiated
by the implosion of the economy as all the Fed's phantom "wealth"
evaporates.
By
Charles Hugh Smith, May 07, 2020, ofTwoMinds.com
Given
that everything is here and now, there is essentially no ascension to
another level. We're already programmed for all levels and don't know
it. We are already experiencing all levels, so there are no levels
to attain to; none higher or lower; none greater or lesser. These
are but linear concepts in a universe that is at once simultaneous
and fused. We merely think of ourselves from the point of view of
one particular level, or aspect – in our case, as physical beings
in a third dimensional dense physical reality.
We are
each, however, living within what could be called a personality
construct. We have a body comprised of mental, emotional, and
physical layers that are constantly in flux, ever changing. But our
true essence is a vast spirit, a soulful presence with a
consciousness that is eternal and infinitely expanding. No matter
what form we take on, our consciousness goes with us and is ever
evolving.
From
our point of view, we have chosen to vibrate as a human aspect, but
we can also simultaneously choose to vibrate as a soul aspect, as a
group aspect, as a solar aspect, as a galactic aspect, or as a
universal aspect, among unlimited identifying forms of expression.
The totality of each of us is actually having many experiences on
many different levels and dimensions at this moment.
Regardless
of our perspective, we can always draw upon all that we need and
require in the Earth dimension from every other level and expression
of our existence. At the human level, we receive information from
other levels of vibration in variable amounts, at different moments,
as needed. It is our Greater Self that serves as an intermediary,
distilling information from the spiritual realms in a way that we can
understand and apply. There is much more influencing and interaction
going on behind the scenes than we recognize, however. At no time do
we have available to us anything less than an optimal level of
spiritual support. All we need to do is remain open and stay tuned.
Ascension
is then a matter of tuning. We may always make the choice to vibrate
at a different “level” to express as a different aspect of the
vastness of our being. The difference between our expression and
that of a different “level” is only a matter of our rate of
vibration. Like changing the frequency of a radio by moving the
programming dial, we can entirely change the music at any time when
we are ready. The radio will still be the same radio; the time will
still be now; but we shall be dancing to an entirely different tune.
I have
been a traveler since I was three weeks of age. Most weekends of my
early years, my siblings and I would pile into the car after midnight
on Friday night, when our father got home from work, to ride one
hundred miles with our parents from our home in the city to
“the country”. The destination was always the same – the
little town of Sigel, where my father was raised as a boy, where I
continue to live to this day.
During
the first ten years of my life, we visited Uncle Dave Henderson at
his farm on Spring Creek Road, where my father spent much of his
formative years. Uncle Dave lived alone in a drafty old wood frame
farm house, confined to a wheel chair because of an affliction he
suffered earlier in life. He and his brother had been raftsmen
during their early years in the late 1800's when timber was the main
industry in this part of Pennsylvania. Dave and Bill would float the
cut logs on the Clarion River down to the Allegheny River and on to
the Ohio River in Pittsburgh, from where they likely walked or rode
wagons the hundred miles to get back home. The forests in these
parts provided the lumber needed to build our great nation late in
the 19th
century, some of which no doubt floated down the Mississippi River
and frontiers beyond.
I
absolutely loved to visit Uncle Dave all of those weekends as a little
boy, so much that I would dream about the day when I could come stay
with him and help him around the farm. Though he passed away before
I reached the age of ten, many fond memories still bounce around in
my head from those early times. Even though we arrived late at night, sometimes Dave would still be waiting
up for us. We'd be sleepy little kids, for sure, but fought droopy eyes to stay
awake and hear Uncle Dave tell stories while we nestled between our loving parents on the comforters stretched across the couch in front of the
giant stove in the living room that kept the house toasty.
There
were stories of wild wolves that howled at night close by, and
stories of children who went into the woods and were never seen
again. How could you sleep with tales like that! The extent of his
stories knew no ending as he had lived a full life before becoming an
invalid – lots of woodsy stories and adventures moving logs down
the river as a young man.
My
younger brother Donald and I didn't go into the woods alone (just in
case there might still be some of those wolves around), but we did
spend a lot of time exploring the barn – climbing in the rafters,
shinnying up the big rope that hung from the rafters, jumping into piles of oats, looking in upon horses
kept below in their stalls, and building intricate castles out of hay bales.
We would dig for red worms for fishing, always abundant in the rich
soil behind the old chicken coop where Don and I swatted wasps and
collected their nests.
It was
there that I learned how to look for spiders under the seat in the
outhouse, there where I got to sit behind the steering wheel of an
old Model T Ford in the garage, and there that I learned to love to climb
apple trees. Dave was a good cook, so I got to experience some genuine old
timey recipes that you never hear about anymore - like ponhaws and
blood pudding. Any time we missed a weekend, Dave would write me a
letter on his old typewriter and I would respond in my childish
handwriting on some little note cards. After a lifetime of lots of
my own memories, and moving around a fair amount, I still treasure
some of those old keepsakes. The habit of regular correspondence has
seemed to have stuck as well!
I've
always had older people in my life that I admired and loved and
sought to be more like. There is always something rich to be
harvested when peering into the hollow ancient eyes of those who have
lived long lives of struggle and joy. It is still important to me to
stop and take the time to say “hello in there”, whether to a
frail stranger or an old acquaintance or a fading relative.
So
today is my 68th
birthday. By the standard of many of my peers, I have reached old
age, but when I look in the mirror I still see a dancing spirit ready
to engage the world in adventure. While I have a pile of tales of my
own to tell, I'm not yet ready to hang up my dreams and start talking
'bout the goodle days. I hope that I have learned a lot from the
stream of elders that have come before and inspired me, and I hope I
have listened closely enough and applied their generous wisdom to
create a better version of what an old person should be – at least
the best version of who I can be.
I
know myself to be a vast, multidimensional being who creates
experience moment to moment into timeless realities on many levels of
vibration. Whether awake, dreaming, or lost in my own imagination, I
recognize all to be a part of the world I create. Everything that is
happening on all levels is happening within my own consciousness
within the singularity of the here and now. The eternal creative
moment is all there is, all there ever has been, and all there ever
will be, so the only time I need to be aware of is 'right now'; the
only place I need to focus upon is here; there is no there. It is
the only experiential reality in which I actually exist. I am
grounded in this awareness and presence here in the moment, calm and
centered, prepared to receive any divine impression that comes my
way.
Striking
a patriotic note on Memorial Day weekend, country music star
Clint Black on Newsmax TV we need to "back away from the
hate" as Americans, unveiling his new song "America (Still
in Love With You)."
"This
is kind of my hashtag 'back away from the hate' movement here," Black
told "Saturday Report." "We need to remember how lucky
we are, how many things we have in common, how few differences we
really have."
The
lyrics of his sure-to-be-a-hit single have patriotic and political
undertones:
"We
had a rocky start never certain it would last We nearly came apart
but now that's all in the past We've stood the test of time and
though it doesn't seem that long We've toed the line for years now
and we're still going strong You've gotta know you're not alone
I'm
still in love with you in spite of all our ups and downs We've
gone our separate ways but we've come back around And even when we
fight just a little or a lot When it comes to friends you're the
best one that I've got And I'm still in love with you America
I'll
still stand beside you when we don't see eye to eye And I'll help
to guide you when you can't see the light And if fate again should
find you with your back against the wall Just let history remind
you who'll be answering the call You've gotta know you're not
alone
I'm
still in love with you even when you lose your way There's nothing
I won't do to bring you better days In everything you are and
anything you're not When it comes to friends you're the best one
that I've got And I'm still in love with you America
We
may seem too proud, get too loud That's just what we do Americans
of every stripe We're all red, white and blue
And
I'm still in love with you with all our ups and downs We've gone
our separate ways but we've come back around And even when we
fight just a little or a lot When it comes to friends you're the
best one that I've got And I'm still in love with you America"
"Our country's been through
a lot," Black told host Grant Stinchfield. "It's made a lot
of mistakes, but I believe as a whole we continually try to right the
ship, and we need to appreciate that part of America.
"Let the politicians duke it
out and let's be kinder to each other."
Ask whether it was disappointing
this song needed to be written, Black said the lows help us all savor
the highs of being Americans.
"I have two minds on that:
If it never rained, you might not appreciate the sunshine,"
Black said. "We have to continually be reminded there are those
out there who seek to do us harm, who hope for our failings, and we
have to continually remind ourselves we have a lot to be proud of,
even with our flaws."
I have
never found much peace or solace by going to a church service. It
doesn't matter what denomination. Yet, when I have been alone in a
church or sanctuary, alone to meditate or pray, I have often felt a
deep sense of love and communion with my Creator. There is a
powerful energy that dwells in many of these halls of prayer, if one
is able to quiet the mind and listen. My quandary with being a
faithful church-goer has been in not being able to find communion
with the congregation at large, nor very often with the pastor or
priest leading the service. When I used to go, it would be to seek
the holy presence within my own body, with a whole bunch of other
bodies. I needed to listen when I wished to commune with my Maker;
in church, someone was always talking or the congregation would have
to sing these solemn dirges in a key my voice couldn't reach. It was
all too distracting from my higher purpose.
There
is no judgment of those who fill the pews on holy days; it is just
that their approach to celebrating a relationship with God is foreign
to me. When I look around (while I am supposed to have my eyes
closed in prayer) I can spot others who are both faithful to the
ritual service and still personally attuned to the larger picture.
There have been a few priests and preachers along the way that have
held me spellbound with their heartfelt messages and metaphoric
anecdotes, but they were exceptions. You can tell when someone lives
from the heart, and when someone lives from their ego. Perhaps my
discomfort at church stems from my perception that most church-goers
and a large number of church leaders are lost in their own righteous
ritual and dogma.
I
believe most people appear as helpless, fearful sheep because that is
what they have been taught to be. They are well-intentioned, but
lost in fear and ignorance. We are not taught to listen to our
hearts. And we are not taught to trust what we are hearing from
within. No one in church or at school or at home has shown us how to
look deeply within, to turn inward and hear the voice of God speaking
to us at any time we need providence.
The
presence within us is a gift, but we forget that something eternal
lives within for as long as we draw breath. We forget that we are
both male and female, light and dark, conscious and unconscious,
human and angel, divine and animal. We forget that that which has
created us is always a part of us, and that all we ever need do is to
listen deeply to communicate directly with our Source.
History
has been unkind to those who have trusted the voice within and heeded
its call. These are my brothers and sisters; these are the ones
across time that I find communion with. Joan of Arc began to hear
the voices of Saints Michael, Catherine, and Margaret speaking to her
within at age 13. She was but a little peasant girl in rural France
in the early 15th century, probably never intending to do
anything more than spin wool, marry, and raise children. By 17,
those voices urged her to become involved in the struggle for the
contested French throne in the Hundred Years War. She convinced
Charles the Dauphin to allow her to command an army, which she led to
spectacular victory in Orleans, paving the way for Charles to be
crowned king. Joan was later wounded in battle and captured, sold to
the English, and put on trial by the Inquisition. Tried as a witch
and a heretic, convicted of the serious charge of cross-dressing, she
was burned at the stake at age 19.
Joan
is a personal hero of mine, and I hold her example high as something
to aspire to. At her trial she said, “I die for speaking the
language of the angels.” She wasn't on trial because of treason or
war crimes charged against her. She was on trial because she had
listened to a voice inside her, a voice that transcended the role she
was supposed to follow. She listened closely and believed it enough
to let it guide her. Twenty-five years later, her mother demanded a
re-trial in which her daughter was declared innocent. Pope Benedict
thereafter canonized her as a saint in 1920.
One
can only guess what the language of the angels sounded like to Saint
Joan, but it is a certainty that what she heard coming from her heart
was to be not afraid. She demonstrated remarkable courage in her
time to stand up with unbending conviction for what she knew to be
true in her heart. The voice she heard freed her from any
expectation projected onto her in the world she was born into. That
voice connected her to her own inner world.
I was
created in the image of the Creator, therefore I am of sacred
essence. The Divine Mind flows through my being. I am within God,
and God is within me, experiencing Itself through me. The voice that
speaks to me can be nothing other than divinely inspired. Each of us
has an inspiring voice within that is there to offer support, love,
and guidance. It is the responsibility of each of us to listen to
this voice, to validate it, and to act appropriately. This is the
source of our true worth. It is our highest truth. Many in
authority attempt to deny the validity of the God within that speaks
to our every need if we listen. I am worthy enough to hear the words
of God directly. I do not need a holy manuscript or any religious
authority to intermediate or interpret my communication with my
Creator within. I shall be God's champion and always follow the
direction of my heart.
Life
is what we do with this journey. The way it turns out is really up
to us. What we are facing in the world today is really just wrong
behavior, and our tolerance of it. The world often doesn't seem to
have much of a heart. How do we get away from all the wrong behavior?
The answer is by taking the right path. But so many paths are being
offered to us. Which path should we choose?
There
are so many different movements that come into play – different
ideas, different concepts, different systems. If you don't like the
way things are, what's your idea of the way it should be? What's
better about what you believe?
Ultimately,
there is nothing wrong with the system. We could make it work. All
we really need to change is what's inside of each of us. If you can
change what is inside, you change what is outside. It is not a
matter of sitting down and meditating on the way you want things to
be, awakening and finding the world is a much better place. It
doesn't work that way. We each need to take the changes within and
apply them to the outside world. That's why we signed up for
this physical reality – so that we could participate! You exist – do
something and make a difference.
If you
apply your heart to every situation you find yourself in, you find
you can effect change. It is our tolerance to wrong behavior that
allows all of this to happen. It allows the system to do what it
does. When we finally decide to look for a way out of this, we too
often forget the main principle behind making change happen. There
are lots of really great ideas, but if people don't change what is in
their heart then it doesn't matter. We just end up back in the same
spot.
If we
change what is in our heart and change the way we interact with those
around us, treat every person we come into contact with as we wish to
be treated, then we change the world. We don't have to change
anything else. The system has to change around us – if we choose
the right path – and it has got to be a path of the heart.
A
coronal mass ejection (CME) is a significant release of plasma and
accompanying magnetic field from the corona of the sun. CME's often
follow solar flares and are normally present during a solar
prominence eruption. Do they hit earth? Sure – one most recently
in 1859. What would happen if a CME strikes again?
The
solar storm of 1859 (also known as the Carrington Event) was a
powerful geomagnetic storm during Solar Cycle 10 (1855–1867). A
solar coronal mass ejection hit Earth's magnetosphere and induced the
largest geomagnetic storm ever recorded on September 1–2, 1859. The
storm caused strong auroral displays and wrought havoc with telegraph
systems, essentially frying all the lines. A solar storm of this
magnitude occurring today would cause unimaginably widespread
electrical disruptions, blackouts and damage due to extended outages
of the electrical grid.
A
solar storm in 2012 was of similar magnitude, but it passed Earth's
orbit without striking the planet, missing us by nine days. If the
huge solar eruption in 2012 had hit the Earth, the effects would have
been so devastating that those of us remaining would still be
recovering from it. A huge CME or cloud of hot plasma erupted from
the sun on July 23, 2012. The CME did go through Earth's orbit, and
had it happened only nine days earlier, our planet would have been in
the way and faced severe technological consequences.
There
would have been three waves of damage associated with the extreme
solar storm. First, X-rays and ultraviolet radiation from the solar
flare would have produced radio blackouts and GPS navigational
errors. The second part would have seen satellites fried by energetic
particles like electrons and protons, arriving only minutes to hours
later. Finally, magnetized plasma from the CME would have struck our
planet within the next day. Power blackouts would have been
devastating, wiping out the power grid, making it difficult to even
flush the toilet because most urban areas use electric water pumps.
Earth and its inhabitants were incredibly fortunate that the 2012
eruption happened when it did.
Experts generally expect a bad solar
storm to reach Earth about once every century. Scientists drilling at
the poles and taking ice core samples see the evidence of large solar
flares hitting the Earth every 100-150 years. It seems we are
overdue. A solar storm of the same magnitude as 1859 and 2012
occurring today would cause widespread electrical disruptions,
blackouts and damage due to extended outages of the electrical grid.
Solar
Cycle 25 should begin between mid-2019 and late 2020 and should reach
its maximum between 2023 and 2026, when between 95 and 130 sunspots
are projected. What are the chances that we experience a CME in the
next decade? Probably good. It is all a roll of the dice, but there
is an absolute 100 percent certainty it will happen at some time in
the future.
How
many people could die due to a large flare? When scientists are
asked, their response is that should a large electromagnetic pulse
(EMP) or geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) event occur due to a CME, as
many as 9 out of 10 people in the United States could die.
Civilization as we know it would essentially end along with our
technological capabilities. But who knows? So, on that cheery note,
open another bottle and pour me a glass, and would you pass the
pretzels please?
I
first took the Myers-Briggs Personality Test in 1994 in an
interactive corporate management setting. Only two other members of
upper management shared the same personality description that I
tested out as. One was the founder and president of the company, who
came up to me at some point later and said that it was too bad the
two of us had not met sooner and built something great together. The
gesture was sincere and provocative. One can only imagine what Mark
and I could have dreamed up with the right timing and circumstances.
So
what does it all mean? The Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator
is a self-report test designed to identify a person's personality
type, strengths, and preferences. The questionnaire was developed by
Isabel Myers and her mother Katherine Briggs based on their work with
Carl Jung's theory of personality types. It is the standard used by
88 percent of Fortune 500 companies and with more than 70 years of
science-based, research-based insight, the MBTI assessment is a
robust tool for self-awareness and improvement. It provides positive
language for understanding and valuing individual differences. With
practical insight that’s easy to understand and implement, the MBTI
assessment has helped thousands of organizations and millions of
people around the world improve how they communicate, learn, and
work.
My
Type is I N F J, perhaps the rarest type of them all, shared by only
one percent of the population. In broad terms, the questionnaire
concluded that I am Introverted, iNtuitive, Feeling, and Judging,
which in turn means I am thought-oriented, reserved, reflective and
observant; I am imaginative, future-oriented, conceptual, and
abstract; I am empathetic, accepting, warm, and I value harmony; and
I am organized, systematic, achievement-oriented, and a definte
planner. Generally, it says I am warm and caring, organized and able
to juggle many responsibilities, highly intuitive, creative and
imaginative, and nuturing and patient.
Among
those in the one percent that I share this Type with are Carl Jung,
Mahatma Gandhi, Plato, Tolstoy, J.K. Rowling, Doestoevsky,
Solzhenitsyn, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ron Paul, Al Pacino, Michael Landon,
Daniel Day-Lewis, Sidney Poitier, Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Tom Selleck, Mel Gibson, Billy Crystal, Cate Blanchett, Taylor Swift,
George Harrison, Peter Townsend, Peter Gabriel, Roger Waters, Leonard
Cohen, and composer John Williams. Many of my favorite celebs,
interestingly.
Much
is written about each of the Types. We can dig down as far as we
like to better understand our strengths, proclivities, and potential.
What I read about the INFJ fits like a glove. In short, INFJ's are
dreamers whose genius, caring, and concern can be an inspiration to
many other people. In social situations of every stripe the INFJ's
quiet strength is very noticeable by others. An INFJ's driving force
is their iNtuition, which is directed inward (Introverted), generating
a never-ending stream of possibilities and ideas. The more and INFJ
introverts, the more life opens up, but the external world may have a
way of interrupting the flow of inspiration and creativity because
INFJ's feel called upon to render service to humanity (Feeling) in a
very orderly and demanding way (Judging). Spot On.
The photo above with the little Zeta Reticulan grey announces that
Alien Disclosure is Coming SOON. Even if you aren't in complete denial,
with your head in the sand and hands over your ears, this may still come as a shock. To wonder aloud if there is other life in the universe
or to think that we are alone in all of God's creation is simply
ignorant and naive. There are countless other extraterrestrial
beings and civilizations and even more planetary bodies with life
that has not advanced along the evolutionary path very far or that
does not resemble what we would describe as living. Not only is the
universe teeming with active life forms, many of them are much
further along the evolutionary path than we here on earth. Off-world
beings have interacted with the earth for longer than we have been
here; they have even been interacting with our government and others
since after World War II so that planet earth today has extensive
trade relationships with hundreds of other civilizations, not only in
our own solar system, but throughout our galaxy, and perhaps beyond.
If you don't already know this it is only because the powers that be
in the government of the people and beyond the government have chosen
not to share knowledge with you. But the world is changing, of
necessity. It is now becoming necessary that everyone on earth knows
about intergalactic relationships and the exchange activity that has
been going on.
Be
prepared to rethink much of what you believe to be true - about
EVERYTHING. “For your own good”, disclosure will proceed to
trickle out as a measured bleedout. The protocol will be gradual.
Full disclosure of the whole truth would send civilization into a
frightening tail spin. The whole truth is literally too much for
most to handle. So, expect society to be spoon-fed a little at a
time to make the medicine of such dramatic change easier to swallow.
People are ready for some information, but the Department of Defense
and Military Intelligence has decided, based upon social and
psychological demographics, that a reduced amount of truthful
information would be more digestible to a larger portion of the
population than the whole truth all at once.
What
can the public expect? Disclosure may occur in one of two ways.
Either we have a “take me to your leader” event, or we have a
hoax invasion. There is a lot of discussion about what the better
plan is – which is more controllable and which has more loose ends.
We will all find out when it happens! What is known is that those
(earthlings) in charge of making this decision are ethically and
morally good people, as opposed to people with bad intent only
interested in their own bank accounts.
What
is also known is that the Secret Space Program (SSP) is the tip of
the spear regarding disclosure. The SSP stands to benefit the most
from public awareness of their programs. The main reason is
personnel shortfalls. The SSP needs more bodies in space –
millions more of us are needed to fill occupational roles already
established in space. It is all about jobs. Classified covert
recruitment, which has been the way they have largely been staffing
space operations, is not adequate to fulfill the needs in space that
are being projected for the next five to ten years. The only option
that will satisfy the need is open enlistment, and in order for open
enlistment to happen we are going to have to have disclosure.
It is
unlikely that everything about SSP operations will be disclosed to
the public, for much the same reason that the military maintains a
high degree of secrecy and classification of its projects and
activity. Recruitment will be targeted and selective, focusing on
specific job descriptions like military infantry, medical personnel,
engineers, IT, and computer tech – whatever the need is at the time
- bodies to fill boots to fill jobs so that we can continue to
progress with the plan to expand further and further into space.
The
SSP has an overriding objective to secure safety, security,
prosperity, and stability, both here on earth and in space. The only
way to guarantee that is by an expansion of territorial boundaries
within which we have military effect. The larger we can expand that
boundary, the more security we will have in this part of the galaxy.
Implicit within this is an understanding that there are “bad guys”
in space, just like here on earth, and that we as a species are very
good at military engagement. Humans are viewed as talented warriors
by other civilizations and so we fill a much needed defensive
security niche in this corner of the universe.
Much
of the high tech and AI that the SSP utilizes in space will be shared
with us on the home planet. The only question is how much and how
fast. Civilians have always benefited by advances made by the
military and NASA. Soon we will be exposed to unbelievable
technology developed in space, or secured in exchange from other
civilizations, that will benefit our well-being and prosperity –
medical tech, information tech, free energy, advanced aeronautical
and transportation tech, AI, and advanced weaponry and exo-bodysuits.
The
medical advancements that we have achieved in space, for instance,
will totally revolutionize health care on the planet. For instance,
the reason that casualty rates during military engagements in space
is so low is that if there is an injury or a loss of body parts they
already have the tech to quickly heal or grow back what was lost and
send the soldier right back onto the battlefield. Imagine crawling
into a tanning bed-like apparatus and being healed of all
degenerative diseases in one treatment or growing back a finger you
cut off or growing a new liver or growing back new teeth that have
been lost. Disease will be as easily treated as the doctor aboard
the Enterprise on Star Trek – Bones – waving his tri-corder and
quickly releasing you from sick bay. Truth is cooler than fiction.
The
protocol has essentially been gradual, gradual, gradual, gradual...
until it's not. Expect to see little leaks of information until we
have a major event. Once an event occurs there will be an
opportunity to accelerate the release of information to go from
gradual to big chunk. The nature of the event is not completely
agreed upon. It will not be random, but occur as the result of a
controlled plan. According to best sources, we should see something
that we have never seen before on a level that reaches most people on
the planet sometime within the next six to twenty-four months. It
should be a worldwide event that no one can deny or explain away.
A
certain amount of mayhem is probably unavoidable. A lot of people
are going to be angry that they have been lied to, not to mention
that people inherently fight change. The impact on the spiritual
community alone is going to be huge and unpredictable. Contingencies
are established to deal with a broad spectrum of anticipated public
reaction. If history is any guide, then most people will come to
accept a huge change such as this within the first ninety days. They
may not like it and complain, but their reaction is fairly
predictable. There is perhaps still fifteen percent of the
population that are a concern and unpredictable. The bottom line is
that we are not going to know how it all plays out until it happens.
After
ninety days, most people will become habituated and generally accept
the new way that things have become. Things will normalize. You
will go outside and look up into the sky and see space ships and not
give them a second glance. Time will sort out the rest.
The
inevitability of full disclosure, once everyone on earth acknowledges
that they have become citizens of the galaxy, is that the planet as a
whole will become more unified – with a single currency and a
single economic system. There will be some uncomfortable
adjustments, but we will become one global operating system – One
World – because it will be more efficient and stable, far more
productive, and less chaotic than under a system of a bunch of
sovereign nation-states. This is not the same as the globalization
agenda we see competing with capitalism in the world today. There
will be no place for leadership with selfish or bad intentions.
Resources will be abundantly available to all citizens and poverty
will come to an end worldwide, which in turn will reduce crime to
almost non-existent. Suffering will largely disappear and the level
of consciousness on the planet will naturally move up. By
eliminating the blocks to development, we will be able to
emotionally, spiritually, and socially evolve with more ease.
A huge
change is coming. There may very likely be a conflictive and/or
disruptive phase with all of this. But once we get past the bumps in
the road, humans are destined to become more accepting of one another
as we unify and are brought together with off-world beings. We are
all of one family ultimately.
One of
the things that will bring this about will be what is termed the
“Exchange Program”. There will first be a number of academic
extraterrestrials that will come here to freely share their
information and bring the planet up to speed with the rest of the
intergalactic community. But more importantly, millions upon
millions of earth citizens will be chosen to go on four to five year
trips to other worlds to learn about that culture, to learn about
their civilization, to learn about their technology, and then do the
equivalent of writing a Masters thesis or books on the subject, and
then come back to earth. Once the Exchange Program begins and
millions of terrestrial citizens return after five years away to
other worlds, with millions of stories, millions of books from other
worlds, and millions of research documents, there is no way to
calculate the influence that all of that will have. It will
certainly change consciousness on this planet in a way that we have
never experienced before. While one cannot specifically anticipate
the effects of such an exchange, one has to believe they will be more positive than negative.
So -
tick, tick, tick. Suspend disbelief and hold onto your seat.
Disclosure and change are coming SOON.
Right
now we may be experiencing the greatest awakening of consciousness on
the planet since the days of Atlantis. Everyone is feeling it. No
one has escaped the current crisis. It is pretty incredible when you
think about the scale of it. Now is
the time that all of us have been waiting for, whether we know it or
not.
There
are three ways that people are responding to the significant changes
we are experiencing in the world at the moment. These three levels
of response are a good indicator of just how awake one is in their
awareness of the larger picture. One's level of response has a
correspondence with the variable dimensions currently being
experienced on the earth at this time – the 3rd
dimensional frequency,
the 4th dimensional
frequency, and the 5th
dimensional frequency.
The effect of one's vibrational response has an impact on one's
frequency level.
The
first level largely expresses in the third dimension. We all know
3D; that's where we live. It is a world of polarity – rich and
poor, good and bad, right and wrong, ugly and pretty; colored by
hate, fear, and attachment to the physical world. If you look around
in your quarantined space right now, this is it. We can't
necessarily get rid of the third dimension or we would literally not
be existing on this planet. If you don't understand that it is
really all just an illusion, and if you attach yourself too much to
what is going on in this matrix reality, then you can get sucked into
the anxiety and depression that lead to things that are not really in
your higher interest.
Individuals
who are stuck in the third dimensional frequency are generally the
ones who are freaking out right now during this coronavirus crisis.
If there is a silver lining to the epidemic it's that it is an event
that is helping purge the fears of a lot of people. The greatest
fear in all of this is the fear of dying. The crisis has had such a
huge impact because most people have this fear of dying from the
awful contagion.
Probably
90 percent of the human population is operating from this third
dimensional frequency. They are attached to their lifestyle. They
are also very attached to their personal identities, whether it is
that of being a mom, or having a job, or a sports fan, or whatever.
The big problem is that everything that those stuck in 3D have built
their lives around is collapsing all around them right now. Every
aspect of daily living has been disrupted and it creates this great
anxiety and fear. Level one people are seeing their identities
collapse along with the rest of the social fabric. It is really the
death of their ego, and it shocks most people when they come face to
face with it.
What
we are witnessing today is the worst case scenario for most people in
the world – the fear of losing everything, maybe even life. Many
people are so attached to their world that they are allowing
themselves to collapse with it; they can't handle the change; they
just want everything to go back to the way it was. But this isn't
the first time such a thing has happened. Throughout our lives we
are constantly creating a new identity and then attaching ourselves
to whatever it is that we are creating. Who you are now is likely
not who you were years ago. Your old ego may have died a thousand
deaths to reach where it is now.
When
whatever you are attaching to collapses, what do you do? How do end
the cycle?
The
more work you have done on detaching from this physical reality, the
easier it is going to be getting through this and moving on. If
you've done the work, this is not going to impact you as much because
you've learned to go with the flow.
The
second way of responding to a crisis like we are experiencing is to
first of all have compassion for those who are stuck in fear and
really have no idea what is going on. Second level people are
different in that they are not consuming so much media that does
little more than perpetuate the falsity of what's happening. They
are perceiving from a different perspective, call it the fourth
dimensional frequency. People of this perceptive level are
awakening, but they are not awakened yet.
Most
of the rest of the 10 percent operate from this level. We've
discovered that life is a journey of awakening that we seemingly will
always be on. This is a weird in-between phase of awareness.
Someone from this level doesn't necessarily agree with everything
they are being told about what is going on. They put very little
credibility in the mass media. They are not as attached to the
physical reality we call 3D and they are exist somewhat of a step
above all the fear. Things are still collapsing around them and life
may still suck in a lot of ways, but at the same time they sense that
something greater is going on. They feel it. This leads to
questions. Their gut is telling them that something just doesn't
figure anymore. Maybe it takes something like this mass event to
awaken that part of us that stops and pays attention to the voice
within.
When
you get yourself out of this fear trap, you can begin to ask why this
is all happening. What is happening is that more and more people who
have never questioned anything in their lives are starting to
question things. Second level people are the ones the media refers
to as “conspiracy theorists” - the ones who turn down drinking
the cool aid and suspect unseen agendas behind the curtain. These
are the black sheep that go against the flow of the sheeple in the
first level. These are the bah- bah- bad people, persecuted by the
elite and media for questioning the prevailing paradigm.
The
vibrational frequency of the planet is increasing, which is having a
resonant effect on every living creature calling earth its home.
Frequency varies from moment to moment. We all hold a certain level
of vibration based upon what we focus upon. Many of us shift all the
time between the third, fourth, and fifth vibrational dimensions. I
like to think I have spent most of my life at a frequency that
corresponds to the second level of questioning. But with the
vibration of the planet pulling all of us up, I know that I am
spending more and more time holding the higher vibration of fifth
dimensional frequency. Far from being enlightened, I am confidently
growing in that direction.
At the
third level of perceptual response – fifth dimensional frequency –
people are excited. Third level people know that all of this
suffering and pain needs to happen in order for this epic and
incredible awakening to take place. There are a lot of conspiracies
out there that may or may not be fact-based, but a third level person
doesn't perceive any of them as worth the energy to pass judgment on.
They are removing themselves from polarity consciousness; it no
longer matters whether something is right or wrong, good or bad, or
what have you. A third level person is just happy that all of this
is finally happening... after a long and patient wait.
Are
people fearful, questioning, or showing uncontained excitement for
what is happening right now? That is how you can quickly determine
their level of spiritual awareness at this juncture of earth's
ascentive process. I am excited and optimistic virtually all of the
time. What is going on is why I signed up to come to earth at this
time. Finally, the time has arrived, and I'm so excited to be a part
of it.
I am
generally maintain a state of great happiness, moment to moment,
relatively unaffected by all the collapse and anxiety around me. Not
very much is changed in my life. Life goes on as before as I mostly
focus on my own joy – which for me is trail running, writing,
playing guitar, reading, and watching old movies. Just being the
best me I can be is my mission. But I as I seek my joy, I am always
mindful of my responsibility to hold a fifth dimensional vibration
while standing in this third dimensional field. That is my job in
these days. That is my contribution to the great awakening and
ascentive process. Namaste!
