Living a Kairos Life in a Chronos World

Everything we do is marked by the steady march of time. Seconds lead to minutes to hours to days to weeks to years to decades to centuries. The problem for each of us is that the clock is always running in the wrong direction, and we simply cannot stop its precipitous crawl toward the next tick. We lose moments to the past with regret, out of our reach, never to be regained. Where did all the years go? Did I miss out on my chance to make a difference?

The Greek language has a couple of words that mean "time." The first is essentially clock time - chronos. It means the chronology of days, governed by the carefully calculated sweep of the earth around the sun. It is linear and sequential, and a good foundation for our egos to hold onto. Then there is kairos time, which is sacred time – non-linear, aligned with the higher part of ourselves. It is the soul's timing and works naturally, without force or contrivance.

When we stand back to assess our lives and evaluate how far we have come and what we have achieved, we do so with respect to chronos time. Each of us can judge that we hit certain milestones and missed others. Some of the things we expected did not come to pass, so maybe there are disappointments and regrets and the weight of baggage that we seem destined to bear to the end. If one could only unload this baggage and be free of the mistakes and shortcomings of the past, it would all be so much easier.

What shifts the weight of our baggage is simply acknowledging it. Owning the baggage of a particular event or crisis that our soul needed to live through allows us to claim it. And only by claiming it can we then let it go.

Only by letting go of many of the stories that have been defining us and confining us can we align our identity with our deeper truth – the soul story that lies beneath the surface drama of who we are according to our ego. There are always things we think we could have done differently, done better. Dive right into them to catch a glimpse of the underlying story our soul is living out. When we listen to our soul story we can release the idea that life is something happening to us. We can reclaim the power to steer a better course through the high seas of life.

In order to change the perception of just what is possible, we must claim what it is that has weighed us down and just what excuses we have been relying upon to keep us closed and unworthy of love. The baggage that we all hide from is, in effect, our own personal soul story, one that is unfolding perfectly in sacred time. If life has not turned out precisely as you expected, free yourself from the burden of regret by acknowledging that you are exactly where you need to be.

It doesn't mean that life might not be painful or frustrating, but what you need to take from this is that you have the power, no matter at what point in life that you are – you have the power to change your life instantly – now – simply by changing your perspective.

All those excuses used as reasons not to love yourself are but lessons to challenge, refine, and even polish your soul. Those stories that are hard to let go of – acknowledge them, then let them go. Love yourself when you look in the mirror, enough to see that you deserve much more than to dwell on them and punish yourself with regret. You own the stories that have kept you in hiding. These are the narrative of your soul's journey.

It is time to clean out your inner closets. Dig through the piles and lay the contents of your life at your feet. This is everything that makes you what you are and what you will be able to do and become.

Consider perhaps the most important question you have ever asked yourself: If you didn't have baggage – if you didn't have dark stories that give you shame and regret – how would you ever practice the power of love??? What if every traumatic event we have endured, every regretful choice we have made, is actually an opportunity for the soul to spread its wings and fly high???

We lift the weight of whatever it is that has held us down by CHOOSING to believe that everything in our lives has happened for the development and growth of our soul. Everything that has happened – the good, the bad, and the ugly – has happened for a reason at the exact time it needed to happen in our lives. Everything.

In the end, there is really only one thing of importance in life – cultivating the capacity to love. If your bag is full of regrets and heartaches and what-ifs, maybe it is time to empty it out and fill it with love. That's all you can take with you when you leave this life, so that is all you really need to travel through it. Unload all that you do not need. Travel light!

Divine Rite of Kings

Last August, President Trump made overt moves to acquire Greenland, a large land mass settled by Vikings only a thousand years ago. Why, one might ask? For the president, it would be the real estate deal of a lifetime, one that would secure a land mass a quarter the size of the United States and cement his place in history alongside President Andrew Johnson, who bought Alaska from Russia in 1867, and Thomas Jefferson, who secured Louisiana from the French in 1803. But there must be something more to it. The late politically progressive American investigative journalist, writer, and author, I.F. Stone, admonished us to always know the history of families when viewing such things as this.

Trump has been pilloried and mocked for even thinking about buying Greenland, as well as his being castigated in 2018 for his saying “We should have more people from Norway” — but when you look at “families” as I.F. Stone suggested, it makes sense what Trump is doing when viewed in light of his being a direct descendant of King Haakon V of Norway, a Viking-age king who reigned from 1299 to 1319 - as well as Trump being related to most Icelanders and Danish and Norwegian Royalty — whom themselves are all blood descendants of Vikings. According to Icelandic genealogist Oddur F. Helgason, Mr. Trump is related to Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Icelandic President Guðni Th. Johannesson, and essentially all Icelanders.

Knowing that President Trump is essentially a “Son of Norway”, it’s important that we recall a particular time period in Norway’s history that occurred in the early 1800s - beginning in 1807 when Norway was attacked by the British Empire at the Battle of Copenhagen, which led to dire conditions and mass starvation in Norway by 1812 — the ultimate result of which saw Norway in 1814, declaring its independence and adopting a constitution based upon the American model.

The constitution adopted by Norway was essentially created by the American Founding Father James Madison — known as the “Father of the American Constitution”, who himself was a direct descendant of the European Royal Families.  Like President Trump’s ancestors in Norway, who were under siege by the British Empire in the early 1800s, so too was then President James Madison, who watched in horror in 1814 while British Empire military forces rampaged through Washington D.C. burning down the White House, the U.S. Capitol, and every other building they could.

As I.F. Stone meticulously documented, and the reason why he was so reviled by many in the American government, the absolute worst decision ever made by the British Empire was their ransacking and burning down of Washington D.C. — because it caused the United States to embark upon nearly a century-and-a-half of specifically engineered wars that by the time they were done, the British Empire was nothing but a hollow shell of what it once was — and once destroyed, watched helplessly as the United States replaced its influence on the rest of the world through war and commerce.

Though hated by the privileged elites in the American government for exposing who they really are and their nefarious agendas, I.F. Stone, nevertheless, and rightfully so, was called “Washington's Conscience”. In his seminal work Polemics and Prophecies, he discussed the lunacy of America’s expanding nuclear arsenal and the charade of US-Soviet disarmament talks from Kennedy to Nixon, and the interlock between the government and military contractors. He cryptically opined in his work that if the United States was ever to be saved: “A new family of Viking Kings would have to arise” — a conjecture some have interpreted to mean he was referring to a group of people having Viking strength and tenacity — but many others have always believed I.F. Stone was referring to a literal king of Viking family descent — which exactly describes President Donald Trump.

The Unnecessary War

 
Below is a provocative review of David Irving's three-book series: Churchill's War: The Real History of World War II. On the book jackets of Irving’s books, the question is asked: What is real history? The answer is that real history is history that travels straight from history-maker to the history-maker’s documents and from the document archives to the historian’s book without politicalization and free of academic and patriotic prejudice. Irving tracked down and unearthed many documents that permit a better understanding of the war. Many official papers are still under lock and key, even after 75 years, and many have been destroyed... or we might understand even more of the real history.

It is history that cannot be bought. Irving goes against the grain of recording history and gives us the unvarnished truth: “All truth-tellers are denounced, and most end up destroyed. Truth seldom serves the agendas of powerful interests.” The fake history that most of us are familiar with is a self-protective device for those with something to hide. Remember, secrecy is used to hide crimes. It is reputations that are protected, not national security.

People in the Western world have been indoctrinated for 75 years into a white hat/black hat story of World War II that exonerates the “allies” and demonizes Hitler and Germany. To tell people, especially elderly ones whose memory of the war was formed by war propaganda, that the “allies” were as bad or worse war criminals than the Germans brings fire and brimstone down on one’s head. It nevertheless needs to be done, because our view of ourselves reflects the make-believe story of the war with which we are inculcated. In the false history comes strength for the opinion that we Americans and our country are exceptional and indispensable and that these traits justify Washington’s hegemony over the world.

The destruction in whole or part, before Trump, of seven countries in the 21st century, our withdrawal from arms limitation agreements, our dangerous demonization of militarily powerful countries such as Russia and China all rest in our self-righteous view of ourselves. Of course, not all Americans share these self-righteous views, but the views are the basis for both Republican and Democrat foreign policy. Even the left-wing, or whatever remains of it, believes in war in order to overthrow dictators and “bring democracy and human rights.”

Hitler did not start World War II. England and France launched World War II with a declaration of war against Germany. Hitler did not want a war with Britain and France and tried to avoid it and then end it with a peace agreement very favorable to Britain and France. Hitler regarded the British Empire as essential to the survival of European dominance. He promised Churchill in exchange for an end of hostilities that Germany would defend the British Empire with the German military anywhere in the world that it was in jeopardy. Hitler left a large part of France and French North Africa unoccupied. He left the French fleet in French hands.

Hitler’s aim was to restore the integrity of the German nation which had been torn apart and distributed to Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, and France by the Versailles Treaty which had been forced on Germany after World War I by a policy of starvation. Germans in the territories turned over to Czechoslovakia and Poland were being persecuted and murdered. Hitler had no choice but to do something about it. He recovered German territory from France, Czechoslovakia, and Denmark without war.

The same outcome was likely in Poland except the British interfered. The British gave the Polish military dictatorship a “guarantee” to come to Poland’s aid if Poland refused Hitler’s demands. Consequently, the Polish dictatorship broke off negotiations with Germany. Germany and the Soviet Union then split Poland between them.

The guarantee compelled “British honor” to declare war on Germany—but not on the Soviet Union—and the hapless French were pulled along.

The British relied on the “powerful French military” and sent an expeditionary force which was promptly trapped at Dunkirk where Hitler let them go, thinking that an act of magnanimity and his refusal to humiliate the British would bring an end to the conflict. However, Churchill kept Hitler’s overly generous peace terms from the British people and from Parliament. Churchill had wanted war and had worked hard for one and now that he had power and a chance to repeat the military leadership of his great ancestor, the Duke of Marlborough, he was determined to keep his war.

With Hitler in control of Europe, Churchill began working harder to get the US into the war. All along the way President Roosevelt had given Churchill war encouragement but without promising any definite course of action from America. Roosevelt wanted Britain at war. He knew it would bankrupt the British and place them economically in Washington’s hands, which would permit the US to break up the British system of trade preferences that allowed Britain to control world trade, destroy the British Empire, dethrone the British pound and replace it with the dollar. Roosevelt was an enemy of empire except America’s own. From FDR’s standpoint, World War II was an attack by the US on British trade preferences that were the backbone of the British Empire.

So Churchill got his war which cost Britain her empire, and Roosevelt replaced the British Empire with an American one. FDR paid a cheap price—about 300,000 US combat deaths. In her defeat of Germany, Russia lost about 9,000,000 soldiers in combat deaths and 26 million people altogether,

After the Russians stopped the German offensive, the war could have ended, but FDR and Churchill had established a policy of unconditional surrender, which shackled allied wartime foreign policy to two more years of death and destruction.

Churchill used secrecy to protect his war crime of ordering the bombing of civilian residential areas of German cities with his emphasis on bombing the homes of the working class as they were closer together which helped the conflagration to spread. Churchill would first have the civilian areas firebombed, and then when firemen and rescue workers were engaged the British would drop high explosives. Churchill ignored military targets, preferring instead to break the morale of the German population by bombing civilian areas. He tried to get the British Air Force to include poison gas when dropping incendiary and high explosive bombs on civilian residential areas.

As the British people did not know Churchill was bombing civilians, Churchill hoped Hitler would be provoked into replying in kind. Hitler refused for three months to take the bait, but finally his military insisted that unless he bombed the British they would keep on bombing German civilian areas. Hitler gave in but initially insisted that only British industrial targets be bombed. Once a few bombs went astray, Churchill had his rallying cry that the Nazi barbarians were bombing civilians. He got away with this, but officials in the know worried that the British Air Force, especially “Butcher” Harris, would face war crimes trials when the war was over. British generals and admirals disagreed with Churchill’s bombing policy. They regarded it as unprofessional and unprincipled. They complained that it harmed the war effort by denying the army and navy needed air support.

In November 1942 British Air Chief Portal compared the German bombing of Britain with the British bombing of Germany. The Germans had dropped 55,000 tons of bombs, killing 41,000 British and destroying 350,000 homes. The British had dropped 1,250,000 tons of bombs, killing 900,000 German civilians, maiming one million more, and destroying 6,000,000 German homes. The UK/US firebombing of Dresden at the end of the war stands as one of the worst war crimes in history. It killed as many or more civilians as the atomic bombs Washington dropped on the two Japanese cities, also at war end.

Churchill was determined to bomb Rome, but was resisted by the British Air Force. In contrast, Hitler ordered the German military not to risk the destruction of Rome by defending it.

Churchill ordered the bombing of the French fleet, which Hitler had left in the hands of Vichy France, killing around 3,000 French sailors. Churchill together with FDR and Eisenhower invaded French Northwest Africa which was in the hands of Vichy France. Vichy France Admiral Darlan used his influence to persuade the French not to resist the invasion, thus minimizing British and American casualties. Darlan cooperated in every way. His reward was to be assassinated in a plot organized by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, later one of Britain’s disastrous prime ministers. The assassin protested that he was promised immunity by the British, but was quickly executed to silence him. Eden, whose ambition was larger than his intelligence, was in DeGaulle’s pocket, and DeGaulle wanted Darlan out of his way to power.

The military schemes that Churchill imposed on the British military, such as his invasion of neutral Norway, always came to a bad end, but he rescued himself with masterful speeches in Parliament.

The British had a poor opinion of Eisenhower, and FDR had a poor opinion of Eden. There was so much conflict between the British and the Americans that it is amazing they were able to agree to any plan of action. The American people disliked the British for drawing them into “their war.” The British disliked the Americans for the Negro troops sent to England where they were believed to be responsible for rapes and a crime wave. A lot of propaganda was necessary to focus the hate on the Germans.

The British did not want to sacrifice Arab interests to Zionists but usually did because Zionists had the money. Churchill himself was indebted to a multimillionaire Jew who bailed him out when he faced bankruptcy. Zionists attempted to use their leverage over Churchill to force his approval of both more Jewish immigration to Palestine and for the formation of a “Jewish fighting force,” allegedly to fight the Germans but in reality to drive Palestinians out of Palestine. Zionists promised Churchill that if he would agree to their demands, they would bring the US into the war against Germany. Such was their power.

The British saw Zionists interests as detrimental to their hold on their Arab colonies. When deportations of Jews and their mistreatment began leaking out, the British Foreign Office saw the reports as the work of the international Zionist campaign to create sympathy and to use the sympathy in behalf of their Palestinian purpose. When 700 Jews found incapable of work were shot in a work camp, the Foreign Office responded, “Information from Jewish refugees is generally colored and frequently unreliable.” Eisenhower was pleased with Darlan and was unaware of Eden’s plot against him. An American newsman told Eisenhower’s staff that the agitation against Admiral Darlan came from “Jews of press and radio who wish to make certain we were fighting a war to make the world safe for Jews.” The Jews cried wolf so often that when he actually showed up they were not believed.

Much information emerges in the second volume about Churchill’s character, personal habits, excessive drinking—he was dependent on alcohol—and autocratic ways. He could turn people against him and then with a speech or by taking special notice of them put them back in his pocket. Churchill had flaws and the ability to survive them. Irving does not excoriate Churchill. He merely shows us what he was like. There are things to admire and things to disapprove.

Moreover, it is not only Churchill who was ambitious. All were. It is a mystery that organization survived ambition. Somehow officers were able to devote time to war against the Germans from the time they spent warring against one another for commands and promotions. The same with cabinet ministers. The same for the military services fighting one another for resources. And the same for the Germans. The Italian and German generals were so jealous of Rommel’s initial successes in North Africa that they worked to undermine him.

And German efficiency also bites the dust. German intelligence never caught on that the British were reading their codes and knew precisely every shipment to resupply Rommel which the British seldom failed to send to the bottom of the Mediterranean. One would think that after nothing gets through time and again that a light would come on.

Churchill was frustrated by his inability to come to Stalin’s aid. He tried to compensate by sending supply convoys. The convoys lost half of more of the ships along with escorting Royal Navy warships. British admirals resisted these death convoys, but Churchill, perhaps afraid that WW I would repeat with a Russian separate peace, leaving Britain to face Germany alone, insisted. He continually sent reassuring messages to Stalin, who was not reassured.

Stalin must have despaired of the fighting capability of his British and American allies. All the British could do was to sic an entire fleet on a single German warship and bomb French and German civilians. In North Africa the British failed to push out the outnumbered Germans and called in the Americans. Eisenhower was far from a good field commander. After Rommel smashed through the Kasserine Pass, delivering to the American army “one of the most resounding defeats ever inflicted on the Americans in war,” Rommel reported to Berlin that despite being outnumbered and without supplies, he could again take the offensive. He attributed success in part to “the low fighting value of the enemy.” Eisenhower’s aide Harry Butcher recorded, “We sent out some 120 tanks and 112 didn’t come back.” Churchill shared Rommel’s dismissal of the American fighting man. “After Kasserine Churchill made little attempt to conceal his contempt for the American forces and their fighting value.”

The Germans, of course, were vastly overextended. In addition to a 1,000-mile Russian front and being bombed at night by the cowardly British who attacked unprotected civilian residential areas, Hitler had to occupy Europe and to rescue his Italian ally by sending troops to Greece and North Africa. The Germans might have had the will, but they did not have the resources to fight most of the world in a war of attrition.

Germany lost 4 million soldiers on the Russian front. On the Western front, which did not materialize until the Soviets had the war won, Germany lost a few hundred thousand. The Americans and the British never faced an intact German army. They faced understaffed divisions of an army exhausted and worn down by three years of fighting the Red Army. Hitler had 80% of his remaining forces on the Russian front. To oppose the Normandy invasion in June 1944 Germany had divisions of less than full strength with no reserves and little fuel. Despite the weakness of German forces, it took the Americans six and one-half months to reach the Ardennes, where the invasion was halted for 6 weeks by a German counterattack. Despite these facts, in recent celebrations of the Normandy Invasion the Americans in a show of extreme pettiness prevented the participation of Russia. The Americans and British persist in pretending that they all by themselves won the war.

This may be the kind of history that only gets written once in a century. Irving is clearly the master of historical documentation. When you disagree with Irving, most likely you are disagreeing with the documented historical record. It is noteworthy that if you would like to read Irving's works on Churchill and Hitler you will pay an exorbitant price to buy his books. Those who do not want the reading public to know the truth make sure that lower-priced volumes are not available, further substantiating Irving's claims of credibility. Again, real history proves that “All truth-tellers are denounced, and most end up destroyed. Truth seldom serves the agendas of powerful interests.”

Happy Anniversary

Happy Twentieth Anniversary to my best friend and beautiful wife Annie.

Thank you for loving me.

At times I just don't know
How you could be anything but beautiful
I think that I was made for you
And you were made for me

And I know that I won't ever change
'Cause we've been friends
Through rain or shine
For such a long, long time

Laughing eyes and smiling face
It seems so lucky just to have the right
Of telling you with all my might
You're beautiful tonight

And I know that you will never stray
'Cause you've been that way
From day to day
For such a long, long time

And when you hold me tight
How could life be anything but beautiful
I think that I was made for you
And you were made for me

And I know that I won't ever change
'Cause we've been friends
Through rain or shine
For such a long, long time

And I must say it means so much to me
To be the one who's telling you
I'm telling you
That you're beautiful

lyrics by Gordon Lightfoot

The Great Bell Chant

Read by Thich Naht Hanh, chanted by brother Phap Niem. The creators of this audio track were Gary Malkin, the composer/arranger, producer, and collaborator Michael Stillwater. The work came from a CD/book called Graceful Passages: A Companion for Living and Dying, and it could be purchased by going to wisdomoftheworld.com.

Running Free Forever

Running down that long lonesome highway
Bound for the mountains and the plains
Sure ain't nothing here gonna tie me
And I've got some friends I'd like to see again
One of these days I'm gonna hang up my shoes
But till I do I won't be singing the blues
Running down that long endless white line
Gonna live life my way

Thoth's Prophecy for our Times

We live at a crossroads today. There is no doubt about it. We all feel it. We all know it. But it is not the first time that humankind has stood at such a crossroad. The situation we face today has been anticipated and written about in many ancient traditions. Among those writings are the Hermetic texts of Greece and Egypt, written in the second century or earlier by the teacher Hermes Trismegistus, who was the Greek version of the ancient Egyptian god Thoth. In the Hermetica are many dialogues between Thoth/Hermes and many pupils of his. In one dialogue with Asclepius, a certain lament is presented. It is a prophecy in which Egypt seems to serve as a metaphor for the entire world. It is a prophecy that very much speaks to the world we live in today.

Speaking to Asclepius, to paraphrase Thoth, the dialogue goes something like this: Do you know, Asclepius, that Egypt (the world) is an image of heaven? Or more precisely, all the operations and powers that rule and work in heaven are present on the earth below. Yet, since it is fitting that wise men should have knowledge of all events before they come to pass, you must not be left in ignorance of what I now must tell you.

There will come a time when it will have been in vain that the Egyptians have honored the godhead with heartfelt piety and service. And all our holy worship will be fruitless and ineffectual. The gods will return from earth to heaven. Egypt will be forsaken. And the land that once was the home of religion will be left desolate, bereft of the presence of its deities.

Oh Egypt, Egypt, of thy religion, nothing will remain but an empty tale which thine own children in a times to come will not believe. Nothing will be left but graven words. Only the stones will tell of thy piety.

In that day, men will be weary of life. They will cease to think the universe worthy of wonder and worship. They will no longer love this world around us – this incomparable work of God – this glorious structure which He has built – this sum of good made up of many diverse forms – this instrument whereby the will of God operates in that which He has made, ungrudgingly, favoring man's welfare – this combination and accumulation of all of the manifold things that call forth the veneration, praise, and love of the beholder. Darkness will be preferred to light. And death will be thought more profitable than life. No one will raise his eyes to heaven. The pious will be deemed insane, the impious wise. The madman will be thought a brave man, and the wicked will be esteemed as good.

As for the soul and the belief that it is immortal by nature or may hope to attain to immortality, all this they will mock, and even persuade themselves that it is false. No word of reverence or piety, no utterance worthy of heaven will be heard or believed. And so the gods will depart from mankind, and only evil angels will remain to mingle with men and drive the poor wretches into all manner of reckless crime – into wars and robbery, and frauds, and all things hostile to the nature of the soul.

Then will the earth tremble, and the sea bear no ships. Heaven will not support the stars in their orbits. All voices of the gods will be forced into silence. The fruits of the earth will rot. The soil will turn barren. And the very air will sicken with stagnation. All things will be disordered and awry. All good will disappear.

But when all of this has befallen, Asclepius, then God the Creator of all things will look upon that which has come to pass and will stop the disorder of the counterforce of this world. He will call back to the right path those who have gone astray. He will cleanse the world of evil, washing it away with floods, burning it out with the fiercest fires, expelling it from wars and pestilence. And thus He will bring back his world to its former aspect so that the cosmos once more shall be deemed worthy of worship and reverence. And God the maker and maintainer of the mighty fabric will be adored by the men of that day with continuous songs of praise and blessing. Such is the new birth of the cosmos. It is a making again of all things good – the holy and all-inspiring restoration of all nature and it is wrought inside the process of time by the eternal will of the Creator.

The world seems on the brink – of something. We do not know! No one knows whether some terrible global catastrophe awaits us or not. I certainly hope not. I hope it will not come down to a world of misery, suffering, and horror. There is already enough of that. We must never lose sight of the fact that there is not a tale of destruction from antiquity that does not implicate humanity somewhere in the story. Our own behavior and what we do is part of what we are bringing down on the world right now. What we are manifesting in the world is what is coming toward us. We are the authors of this thing, but we can change the story if we choose to do so. I firmly believe that.

Are we looking at a story of the world we live in with this tale from Hermes? Have we forgotten who we really are and lost our connection to a better way of being? If we have forgotten the mystery of who we really are, does this explain why we are so lost, so troubled today – haunted by the sense of something missing that we need to know about ourselves.

For the ancient Egyptians the essential mystery of human existence concerned our spiritual essence. They believed we are participating in this theater of experience that we call life in the world in an immense endeavor aimed at the perfection of the soul. If we think about what is the overriding problem, we must conclude that somewhere along the way we have severed our connection with spirit. And if we are ever going to move forward and progress along a continued successful path of evolution we are going to have to restore that connection.

There is no other way to get there from here. This may be the most fundamental task that all of us now face - not these exterior trappings of power that have brought such horror and misery to the world. This is the crossroad whereupon we stand.

None of us can make changes on the macro level. But we can make changes on the micro level – in our own lives and in our immediate surroundings – changes for the better – changes driven by love. The idea of global destruction is overwhelming and unbearable. Not a one of us can stop that, however. But each of us can stop doing whatever it is that we may contribute to it. If we all do what we can, or at least enough of us do, then I believe a huge change in consciousness can yet occur, and we can look forward to a wonderful future where things are better. We can bring this bright, beautiful jewel garden of a planet back to the way it was meant to be.

Every soul is like a raindrop that falls from the sky
 into one vast ocean of consciousness.

Most raindrops hit the surface 
and make a small ripple that fades away...

but some ripples become waves.

Adapted from the Hermetica and the work of Graham Hancock

Doubting Intuition

one who doubts is like the surf of the sea,

driven and tossed by the wind

James 1:6

To live one's life in fear and doubt, or with faith and trust – perhaps I am naive, but I choose the latter. I understand the universal principle that you get what you focus on; whatever you put out there always come back to you. I see absolutely no sense in being miserable because I cannot reach a point of confidence and decide that what I encounter in the world is true or not. That's where my instincts and intuition come into play. I trust them. I have faith that the deeper wisdom within me – the divine wisdom - is reading the world accurately.

Both fear and doubt are negative emotions, and neither has a place in my inventory of reactions. Doubt laden with fear is a killer of dreams, and there is absolutely no room in my expansive life for baseless caution.

Doubt is a counterproductive habit that may be learned as a child or it may be picked up throughout life from fear-mongering family, friends, or media. If we have a dubious nature we may either be unnecessarily suspicious or just plain lacking in confidence to draw any conclusion. Doubters are forever plagued with apprehension, worry, and over concern, wasting their valuable time and energy on nay-saying. Their biggest problem is that when they doubt, they project that doubt into the universal creative field. Whatever we send out comes back in the form of an identical reflection in physical reality. The reflection always affirms their doubt. It is perhaps the most sabotaging emotion one can have on the spiritual path to wisdom. It is counter-intuitive and holds the doubter back from happiness and growth. The doubter never has his or her feet firmly planted on solid ground, but may be moved this way or that by any passing circumstance.

Doubt is a really big obstacle to evolving as a human being. Our higher senses remain locked up as long as we doubt ourselves. If we doubt what we are hearing from that little voice within, we need to stop fearing and trust our intuition. The more we trust our intuition, the more it guides us where we need to be going and how we need to be thinking. It is a beacon that shines through all the fog in life. Have faith and trust where it leads.

Born Under a Waxing Crescent Moon

I was born under the ruling influence of a 9.6% Waxing Crescent moon. My lunar birth horoscope says I am assertive, adventurous and filled with curiosity about life. Happiest while pursuing a worthwhile mission, my drive for achievement is central to my success. A creative disposition inspires inquiry and an ability to see the world through fresh eyes. Because of this, visionaries like me are often torn between following conventional wisdom and risking all to break new ground. Facing and overcoming imbalance and chaos brings likely success early in life when ambition and productivity is especially high. Sounds about right!

Your Moon Phase at Birth

It is important to know which phase was ruling your parents during your gestation as well as which was ruling on the day of your birth. Most people are gestated when their mother is ruled by the full moon. As a result, they have a strong attachment to the material world, as well as to family and religion - which our society looks upon as normal. But I gestated under the waning moon of both my parents, though I was born under a waxing crescent moon.

Those gestated under the influence of a waning moon have artistic and spiritual inclinations. From an early age, I have known I was on a spiritual quest. I have always known there are no coincidences; my journey has been perfectly synchronized to allow me to meet the people I needed to help me fulfill my destiny. My life has been unfolding with every step, blossoming as I have grown in wisdom, following a path destined for enlightenment.  

New Age Dawning

For a very long time, those of us on a path of awakening have undergone preparations for being alive in the 2020s. Not a single one of us would be here now if we were not prepared. On a soul level, we each understand this. What is happening is not coming from the outside world as any form of punishment. It is a realignment from spirit and the natural world, however, and our higher selves are totally aware of the nature of the transition at hand.

We are like children being sent off to primary school by our parents to prepare for a world beyond our imagination. The degree of change that faces us at this juncture of evolution is that great. The world we will inhabit before the end of this decade cannot even be imagined by most people.

How does one prepare for going beyond the edge of everything known about the real world? How are we to deal with the unknown challenges that lie ahead?

The best any of us can do is to live in the moment. Live one day at a time. Take time each day to reflect upon or contemplate your spiritual side. No one is going to give you answers, because no one has all the answers. Steer clear of all fear and negativity, especially that which is generously spread by the media. Limit all exposure to highly-charged emotional reaction. Do not despair. It is a time for having faith in things unseen. It is a time to tell those you love that you love them. It is a time for taking a deep and thorough inventory of how you live, what you could do to be in more balance, what about life brings you joy, and how you use your special gifts and skills to make the world a better place.

Changes will not happen all at once, but will gradually appear, allowing time to adjust and evolve with earth changes. Do not be shocked by what is about to occur. Suspend disbelief and keep an open mind in all matters. Trust that you are resilient enough to survive and thrive under any circumstance.

Show Time

As the world has mostly ground to a halt during the immediate crisis, much is happening behind the scenes. The stage is set and all is nearly ready. Everyone is in their seats, the lights are dimming, and the curtain is about to be drawn on The Play of The Ages.

But not everyone knows what play they have chosen to see. For some the play will be exactly what they imagined, but that is for very few indeed; for most, they will wish they had never decided to come to the theater to see this show. For most people it will be like the lancing of a boil, the ripping off of the veneer that separated life from reality. It will overwhelm their emotional, mental, and nervous systems, but it WILL NOT overwhelm them spiritually. Each one of us here for the show was born knowing that this was the culmination of hundreds of lifetimes of work. Sit back, grab some popcorn, and enjoy the show. NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, DO NOT FEAR, for the ending is a happy one – more than most can possibly imagine.