Spirituality
The Seasons of Self
The Seasons of Self
April: Awakening to the Miraculous
by Lynn Woodland
The Spring Equinox, the official beginning of spring, happened in the third month of March, marking the point where, for the first time in six months, light and darkness are equal. We’ve entered the season where light is on the rise, growing stronger every day, and it can’t help but touch us all and get our energy moving, even if we don’t consider ourselves terribly attuned to nature, even if we never garden, even if it’s still Minnesota-cold out (as it is where I live). When light is rising, we know it in our bones. At the very least, we find we don’t need our Seasonal Affective Disorder lamps as often and notice our houseplants going wild. Every year this time, the presence of light awakens us in any number of obvious as well as deep, primal ways.
Of course, the true rebirth of light happened at the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year. Yet, winter light is a quiet power, both dormant and pregnant, like the time after conception but before birth. Spring, on the other hand, is for “hatching.” Easter brings with it a riot of candy eggs, baby animals, and Jesus rising from the dead, as Christian symbolism blends with earlier, earth-based, traditions of the solar sun being on the rise.
This energy of birth and beginnings is exciting, fresh, and a bit fragile. There’s an openness and child-like innocence to it; a sense of the world being new and that anything is possible. What better time to consciously cultivate this energy of excitement, fresh perspective, and willing suspension of disbelief, not as a naive first step on the way to a painful crash, but as a creative force? What better time to open ourselves to miracles?
If the pure presence of spring isn’t enough to open your jaded mind to the possibility of miracles, try wading into some of the mind-boggling findings of relativity theory and quantum physics over the last century. Science is now showing us a remarkable new definition of reality in which time and space aren’t fixed, matter isn’t solid and the very nature of matter changes according to the expectations of those observing it. We’re seeing that consciousness in and of itself has the power to affect the physical realm and that minds are joined beyond the limits of time and space. To quote one of the pioneers of quantum physics, Erwin Schrodinger, on the nature of consciousness, “the overall number of minds is just one.” (A good starter book on new science is Taking the Quantum Leap, by Fred Alan Wolf.)
But this article isn’t just about the mysteries of time, space and matter. It’s an opportunity to explore and experience these mysteries first hand. It’s an invitation to suspend disbelief, allow your mind to be boggled and take a leap out of the box of what you think you know because what follows is an exercise in miracle-making.
Going back to Erwin Schrodinger’s idea of “One Mind” and combining that with mounting evidence of the mind’s power to affect matter (on this, check out physicist Helmut Schmidt’s research with random events generators, for starters), and then throwing in what we’re beginning to know about the fluidity of time and space (thank you, Einstein), take a little leap of imagination and consider that, simply through your intention to do so, you could connect with every other mind who has read, is reading, or will read this article. Imagine that, beyond the illusionary limitations of time and space, together we could (perhaps have already?) form a powerful, synergistic force of Mind capable of moving proverbial mountains of matter. (Why not? It’s been documented that prayer said anonymously, sight unseen, on another’s behalf has a statistically relevant, positive impact on physical health. Check out the book, Healing Words, by Larry Dossey, M.D. for more on this.)
So, if you’re still with me, stop for a moment and really imagine this. Envision your mind joining with the minds of all who have read, are reading and will read this article. Imagine us joining in a common intent that every reader now experiences something miraculous this month. (What’s “miraculous?” I think of it as something better than we expected, perhaps didn’t believe to be possible, always win/win, and often showing up through serendipity rather than effort.) As your mind follows along here, already you’ve become more than a passive reader—you’ve entered the process and begun to reshape matter, starting a healing ripple for yourself and countless others you will never know.
Picture this joined consciousness as clear, beautiful, and only positive—an ocean of pure potential having the power to do great good and incapable of doing harm. Imagine that beyond time and space we’ve formed a synergistic, only-for-good, creative force, ready to be directed. You can add your own mind power to this in any way your imagination might suggest: aim a beam of light from your heart to this collective pool and see it grow brighter; hold a heart-felt intention that these many others who you’ll never know now receive whatever highest good best serves them; or simply think and say this to yourself. Imagine you believe this is true even if you don’t. The power of our consciousness magnifies whatever we give consistent attention to so simply holding in mind an imagined reality is akin to planting a seed. Bringing it to mind repeatedly provides the sun and water that nurture its growth.
Now, all that’s left is to have faith. Faith means expecting success and seeing signs of it everywhere and in everything. It’s not a matter of hoping and wishing, which keeps our attention focused on something that isn’t here yet. “Faith” is when we’re so certain the future will unfold perfectly, we feel no need to be attached to it at all. Consequently, faith keeps us very present and at peace in the moment. Once we’ve stopped trying to worry the future into being, the miraculous present happens, with grace and serendipity.
So, instead of looking for signs of your success, which is tinged with an attitude of prove-it-to-me doubt, this month practice finding signs of success. It’s a little like being on an Easter egg hunt. You know without any doubt the eggs are out there. Some may be so obvious you’ll practically step on them, while some you might have to peek behind bushes and rocks to uncover. Play lightly with the possibility of miracles this month and see what shows up when you least expect it!
Lynn Woodland is creator of The Miracles Course, and author of Making Miracles—Create New Realities for Your Life and Our World, from Namaste Publishing, and the. Email her at lynn@lynnwoodland.com with your comments and to receive a free video download on the New Prosperity. More at www.LynnWoodland.com.
Are you using knowledge, or is knowledge using you?
BOOK EXCERPT
Are you using knowledge, or is knowledge using you?
by don Miguel Ruiz Jr.
I began my apprenticeship into my family’s tradition in San Diego, California, when I was fourteen years old. My seventy-nine-year-old grandmother, Madre Sarita, was my teacher and the spiritual head of our family. She was a curandera, a faith healer who helped people in her small temple in Barrio Logan, a neighborhood in San Diego, with the power of her faith in God and love. Since my father was a medical doctor, the juxtaposition of the two forms of healing allowed me to see our tradition through different points of view.
Though she spoke no English, my grandmother gave sermons and lectures across the country. My apprenticeship began with translating my grandmother’s lectures from Spanish to English. For many years, I awkwardly stumbled over her words, and my grandmother would just look at me and laugh.
One day, she asked me if I knew why I stumbled. I had all sorts of answers: you are speaking too quickly, you don’t give me a chance to catch up, some words don’t have a direct translation. . . . She just looked at me silently for a few moments and then asked, “Are you using knowledge, or is knowledge using you?”
I looked at her blankly. She continued, “When you translate, you try to express my words through what you already know, what you think is true. You do not hear me; you hear yourself. Imagine doing the same thing every single moment in life. If you are looking through life and translating it as it goes along, you will miss out on living it. But if you learn to listen to life, you will always be able to express the words as they come. Your knowledge has to become a tool that you will use to guide you through life but that can also be put aside,. Do not let knowledge translate everything you experience.”
I nodded in response, but it didn’t dawn on me until many years later what my grandmother was truly talking about. Throughout life, we constantly narrate, or commentate on, everything we do, say, see, touch, smell, taste, and hear. As natural storytellers, we continuously keep the plot moving forward, sometimes missing millions of subplots that are developing on their own. It is like taking a sip of wine and saying, “It’s a bit dry; it has definitely aged well, but I can taste the bark. I’ve had better.” Instead of simply experiencing the joy and flavors of the wine, we are analyzing the flavor, trying to break it down and fit it into a context and language we already know. In doing this, we miss out on much of the actual experience.
This is a simple example of how we narrate life—explaining it, but, more importantly, justifying and judging it. Instead of taking an experience for what it is, we create a story to make it fit our beliefs. During Madre Sarita’s talks, I had to completely shut down my thoughts, because if my mind’s commentary got in the way, I would miss out on her message. With this simple process, my grandmother showed me that if we only see the world through the filters of our preconceptions, we are going to miss out on actually living. After much practice, I eventually learned to close my eyes, shut out the world that existed outside my head, and translate every single word she said accurately.
Seeing beyond our filters—our accumulated knowledge and beliefs—does not always come naturally. We have spent years growing attached to them in various degrees, and they feel safe. Whatever we become attached to can begin to shape our future experiences and limit our perception of what exists outside our vocabulary. Like blinders on a horse, our attached beliefs limit our vision, and this in turn limits our perceived direction in life. The stronger our level of attachment, the less we can see.
Think about your set of attached beliefs as a unique melody repeating itself in your mind. In a way, we are constantly trying to force our melody—the one we have become accustomed to hearing—onto other melodies, without realizing that often the melody is not our own, and perhaps it’s not even the one we want to be playing. If we continue playing only what we know, never opening ourselves to listen to the other songs flowing around us, we are letting our attachment to our particular melody control us. Instead, choose to listen to other melodies playing. Perhaps you will contribute to them, adding a harmony or a bass line and just seeing where the music takes you. By letting go of your attachment to what you think the melody should be, you open yourself to the potential to create a unique and beautiful song of your own composition or a collaboration that can be shared with others.
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Excerpted from The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for a Modern World by don Miguel Ruiz , Jr. © 2013 Hierophant Publishing, distributed by Red Wheel/Weiser.
don Miguel Ruiz, Jr., is a Nagual, or a Toltec Master of Transformation. He is a direct descendant of the Toltecs of the Eagle Night lineage, and is the son of don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements. He lives in Sacramento, California with his wife and two children.
Children of the Fifth World excerpts
Chapter 10
A Different Brain
Born this way. –Lady Gaga
“Thirty thousand years ago, we were wandering around in small groups and not thinking much about the future,” noted Robert Gifford, an environmental psychologist at the University of Victoria in Canada. “Everything that was important was within a few kilometers or so. And that is the brain we still have.”
Correction: once had. Giant leaps in brain development have already occurred in the twenty-first century, and more are coming. Demands and pressures are accelerating at rates so rapid that brain structure and function are forced to alter. The brain is being reshaped by the digital world and by a barrage of chemicals. The result? Quirky kids and pooped parents. The entertainer Lady Gaga is hot not just because she’s bold and brash but because of what the reporter Ramin Setoodeh noted in an article he wrote about her: “She’s become an evangelist of self-acceptance, preaching to an audience of outcasts.”
The new kids think differently, communicate differently, and respond to different cues. It has been said that they are the dumbest generation ever and have been stupefied by twittering and texting to the point that they no longer maintain a memory of things “past.” Really?
Okay, so multitasking is harder on IQ than pot smoking, and without rest and simple “time-outs” like staring into space or watching clouds drift by (flow states), the brain is unable to organize itself and process what it has learned. But a biggie we’re overlooking are kids who play dumb because they’re bored, don’t fit in, or are just plain uncomfortable in their own skin.
The Greatest Advancements
The greatest talent of the new children is the ability to abstract and function from the conceptual level. These children are not concrete thinkers. They are adept at the art of conceptualizing, dealing with broad ideas and notions. Forget thinking “outside the box.” For them, the box was never there to begin with. They can tie facts and figures and ideas together and rapidly produce solutions that fit, without having to go through conventional routines. Their minds leap instead of think. That’s why they buckle under “tried and true” methods that demand rote discipline. Kids who abstract get from here to there as if by magic; not because they are wise but because they do not recognize limits.
A two-year-old child was in a conversation with her mother. She stopped midway, impatiently stomped her feet, and yelled: “I don’t know the word for that yet!” Stop for a moment. How does a child of two know she doesn’t know the word she wants to use at the precise moment she wants to use it? We mistakenly think the new children are wise old souls. This isn’t wisdom at work here–it is the amazing, almost unbelievable ability to abstract knowledge, to know things without knowing. These children are conceptualizers, made to order for the Conceptual Age.
The greatest advancement of all advancements in our brain is the prefrontal lobes (both left and right). The prefrontals operate as the seat of judgment, morals, empathy, compassion, and well-being; they moderate social behaviors, decision making, and personality expression. The prefrontals developed late in the evolution of humankind, becoming a signature feature for distinguishing higher brain development. There are many scientists and educators studying the prefrontals. The best is Joseph Chilton Pearce; read his book The Biology of Transcendence.
What people like Pearce tell us is that the mother’s state while carrying her child determines the brain her child will have. Everything hinges on her perception of safety. If she feels threatened or if her environment is stressful, fearful, angry, her child will be more apt to develop the lower or reptilian brain (fight, survival). If she feels comfortable, safe, it’s as if the fetus gets an “all-clear” signal to go ahead and develop the prefrontals, the higher brain. The first three years are the most important for the “flowering” of the prefrontals. The second most important time is puberty. The brain does not fully mature until we are around the age of 25.
The study of prefrontal development in children will become a priority in the decades to come.
The Greatest Challenges
Brain disorders/learning disorders seem to be the “curse” of being a new kid. The stats are worth repeating: two out of every five children in our country has a learning disorder; one out of ten are mentally ill; cases of ADHD are up 600 percent since the early 1990s; autism spectrum is now so pervasive it is considered an epidemic.
Known causal factors for brain/learning disorders include:
- Metal toxicity, organic toxins, lead paint–especially in toys
- Pesticide exposure (including pre-birth exposure)
- Artificial food coloring, chemical food additives, hormones and antibiotics used in meat production
- Smart meters, cell phone towers, WiFi, and electronic grids
- Some vaccinations; multidosages in one shot; too high a dosage
Action can be taken to reduce these factors. You can insist that vaccinations be given in a series of shots instead of all at once. Question what’s in them. Also, check on what chemicals are in your food; switch to organic milk. Have paint and metals tested. Investigation pays off.
New research is showing that it is possible for many children to recover from autism, dyslexia, ADD, ADHD, and other brain/learning disorders. The brain is malleable. It is capable of healing and recovery: sometimes partially, sometimes all the way.
Nonverbal autistic people are responding to keyboarding on a computer in ways that are shocking scientists. It’s as if they “wake up” once they discover this way out. Sue Rubin, a film writer with autism, is one who made that leap once she began listening to the news and reading the newspaper thanks to her newfound keyboarding skills. Today she’s a history major in her junior year at Whittier College and lives semi-independently a few blocks from campus. “Tell everyone,” she types, “that nonverbal autistic people are intelligent!”
Bio: P. M. H. Atwater, L.H.D., is a distinguished researcher of near-death experiences, prayer chaplain, spiritual counselor, and visionary. She is the author of seven books including Coming Back to Life, Future Memory, We Live Forever, The New Children and Near-Death Experiences, and Beyond the Indigo Children. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
A quote for the holiday season by Sri Daya Mata
“Doesn’t almost everyone feel aglow with happiness at Christmas time? There is a deep spiritual reason. It isn’t just the pleasure of exchanging gifts and loving messages, and doing for others. [Paramahansa Yogananda] said that on the birthdays of great ones such as Jesus, there is tremendous rejoicing in heaven. Vibrations of that celestial joy permeate the atmosphere. Those who have open and loving hearts are stirred by it, and those who strive for deeper atunement through devotion and meditation fully participate in that sublime celebration. The degree to which we are in tune with heaven’s joyous recognition of Jesus’ birth depends upon the effort we make to commune with Christ — not just in the outward spiritual festivities in his honor, but in the inner temple of deep meditation.”
- Sri Daya Mata (from Self-Realization Magazine, Winter 2006; Self-Realization Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA. All rights reserved).
Is 2012 the End of the World?
Is 2012 the End of the World?
By Christan Hummel
Yes. According to Mayan, Hopi, Nostradamus, and many others, 2012 is the end of the world! But this is the part that often gets left out…. “as we know it.”
The Mayan were experts at reading time pulsations and converting them into linear language via the infamous Mayan Calandar. These “pulsations’ were not the normal solar calendar revolutions, but waves that were interpreted by the “time decoders” and translated into a 3-dimensional, linear timeline. Our current calendar system is one that revolves around the sun. It is a system that is admittedly patriarchal, and a conversion from the lunar calendars of the last 30,000+ years, which were tied to the feminine cycles and those of the Earth.
However, the Mayan calendars did not use either lunar or solar revolutions. Instead they interpreted “pulsations” — waves of time if you will, and converted them into the language of lunar revolutions.
All this may sound like splitting hairs when answering a question of whether or not December Solstice, 2012 represents the end of the world. Well, again, yes, if you look at the “world” that the Mayan calendar was designed for: a 3-dimensional world of linear time. That “world’ was about to come to an end.
What does that mean?? Well, quantum physics has a vastly different notion of time than most of us are used to. For most of us, time is that separation of a day and week and year into segments that keep us all from bumping into one another! It keeps us all on a “track” so that we sync with each other in harmonious ways. Some of which are artificial, like daylight savings time, and other syncing is a natural rhythm such as that of the moon cycles, day and night, seasonal changes etc.
Whichever rhythm you choose, manmade or nature based, it is an agreed upon, and linear based time line. Well, what if time isn’t really that way? What if it doesn’t start at A and end at Z? What if it can start at P and end at F and loop back in on itself endlessly?? What does that do to your bus schedule??
Imagine for instance, that you are asleep. While sleeping, you have a dream. In the dream, you have a life and people and activities. They take place within a sequence, but time within the dream state is not the same as in your waking state. It exists in its own way, but it is a kind of dream time. It can feel like years have passed and according to your clock on your nightstand, it was only minutes. It is a kind of experiential time. Not a linear based time. It is “real” in the world in which it exists, but it is a different world than you are used to in your waking state. Time in that dream state is more fluid, more flexible, and intention produces instant action! A world of instantaneous manifestation, based on deep core desires and subconscious thoughts, without a mediating influence of time.
This is very similar to the way things operate in the 4th dimension, and time, as we know it, does not exist in that dimension. It exists, and a ‘world” exists, but not as we know it. It is more fluid. It is in the quantum state of instantaneous manifestation from within a limitless sea of possibilities. Just like in your dream world. Anything can happen, anything can “exist” if your consciousness abides in that possibility. To be with something in that state makes it instantly real for you.
The Mayan Time Elders knew this potential for time as it exists in the quantum state. This is how they perceived time. Yet, to convey their understanding to the rest of us dullards, they had to devise a simpler system that would fit in our day timer, and could be something that fit with our 3rd dimensional existence, hence, the invention of the calendar.
Essentially, a calendar represents a way to segment the infinite, like artificially drawing lines in the ocean. Time is a vast ocean. It has waves (or pulsations as the Mayan perceived it.) But to describe that ocean to a world driven by linear thinking, grid maps, segments, and divisions, something artificial had to be devised to translate the waves of time into units that had some sort of meaning to those of us living in linear-time-based reality.
So what if this linear-time-based reality, our reference point for thousands of years, were to shift? What if the Earth were able to take a quantum leap so to speak into a new dimension in which time as we know it did not exist? That is in fact what the Mayan Calendar and prophesies state. Not that the calendar ends, but that time as we know it would no longer exist. It could not be calculated in linear segments after a certain point.
Could there be something so potent that it could dissolve our polarized, linear- time-based reality into the quantum sea of wave based reality??
The Mayan thought so. The now well known alignment of the earth and solar system with the Galactic Center (from which their time pulsations originated, not from the revolutions of the sun) was an event of such magnitude that it posed the possibility of jettisoning the baseline reference point of our “reality” from a 3rd dimensional timeline to a 4th dimensional reference point. WOW!! What does that mean?
Simply, that the world as we know it, would no longer exist! Like taking the thread out of a string of pearls. What happens to the necklace? The pearls still exist, but what has organized them is now changed. Time is the spine of our 3-D world “organizing” our reality. If our sense of time changes, so does the organization of our entire matrix of existence. The “world” as we know it no longer exists.
For some, this is a welcome blessing – a liberation from the shackles of a reality which had long ago outlived its usefulness. For others, the shift is a fearful event as the world as they know it begins to crumble beneath their feet. I think we can choose which one it will be for each of us as we embrace the impending pulsations coming from our Galactic core – source of origin of all that we know, and ride the wave to the next reality matrix.
ABOUT CHRISTAN: Christan Hummel is an international author, seminar leader and “ley” line and earth grids “re-balancer.” She is the author of the best-selling book, Do- It-Yourself Space Clearing Kit that reveals techniques for shifting the vibrational template of any space.
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She has led sacred ceremonies and workshops around the world teaching how to use sound, sacred geometry and the devic realms to energetically attune the space and the earth to its original blueprint and highest potential.
Jesus, King of Edessa
Jesus, King of Edessa
by Ralph Ellis
This is it. This is the book that will end Christianity as we know it. Sorry about that, but every deceit eventually unravels and comes to an inglorious end, and the deceit known as Christianity is no exception to this rule. And it is merely fortuitous that this is all happening in the run-up to the 2,000th anniversary of Jesus’ true birth-date in AD 14.
In fact, this book not only proves that the Catholic Church deliberately set out to deceive its followers, it also proves that they were simultaneously mocking and laughing at their own gullible followers, for not realising that they were being duped. In short, this gargantuan cover-up just has to be the work of Saul-Josephus, the quicksilver-quilled historian who wrote most of the secular and the spiritual accounts of 1st century Judaea. Therefore this will be a very challenging book to many readers, not simply because of the sometimes complex evidence that will be explored, but also because this book really does overturn all our preconceived ideas about the New Testament and the history it was trying to tell (or indeed, sell).
Readers of Ralph’s previous works will understand that Saul (St Paul) was actually Josephus Flavius, the 1st century Jewish historian. This was proposed some 15 years ago in Jesus, Last of the Pharaohs, but since there was so much opposition to this amalgamation of characters this claim was eventually re-explored and proven many years later in the book King Jesus. But this radical conflation of characters is not merely an interesting aside, it is central to understanding who Jesus really was; for perhaps the most important result of this new identification was the troubling fact that all of the gospel accounts actually occurred in the AD 50s and 60s – some 20 or 30 years later than the orthodox chronology would suggest. This dramatic reevaluation of biblical chronology has been vigorously challenged, by a diverse array of both orthodox and freethinking critics, but time after time the ancient texts have backed up this claim – including the Vulgate Cycle of Arthurian legend. When writing the history of Joseph of Arimathaea, the author(s) of this vast Arthurian tome came across an insurmountable chronological problem, for Joseph also needed to be active during the siege of Jerusalem, and so the laughable literary solution to this conundrum was to make Joseph go to sleep for three days and yet wake up forty years later. Such are the many problems that the orthodox biblical chronology imposes on the true history of this region.
Then we had the illumination provided by the book Cleopatra to Christ, which proposed that Jesus was a descendent of Cleopatra of Egypt. More radically, it would appear that he was a direct descendent of Queen Thea Muse Ourania, who had been given to King Phraates IV of Parthia (Persia) as a diplomatic bride by Emperor Octavian. But Queen Ourania was exiled from Parthia in AD 4 and made her way with 200 courtiers and 600 cavalry to Syria. And they did so just as the Star Prophesy gained popularity in Rome – the prophesy that claimed a new king would be born under an eastern star, an eastern monarch who would rule the whole Empire. So in AD 4 we do indeed have a royal family who were on a journey and living in a state of poverty, perhaps in a stable, whose new infant son was born under the Eastern Star and would have been visited by the Magi. Remember that the Magi were the Parthian priesthood and king-makers, and so they would only be interested in an infant who had an element of Parthian royal blood. And when tracking the history of that same infant within the many chronicles of Saul-Josephus, it was apparent that he grew up to become Jesus of Gamala, who is also called King Izas of the Adiabene. And so we at last knew who Jesus was – he was Jesus-Izas, a minor prince of a land called Adiabene.
However, although these identifications were hugely radical and thoughtprovoking, eliciting a great deal of debate in conferences and within the blogsphere, there was nothing tangible to really challenge the traditionalist believer here, because you could not put a historical finger on any of these characters. Jesus of Gamala and King Izas had no city, no palace, no mosaic images, no records, and not even a contemporary coin to their name. And where was this mythical land called Adiabene? It certainly did not sound like the location in Iraq, to which it was ascribed. Thus Jesus of Gamala and King Izas were merely phantoms of literature from the not entirely reliable quicksilver-quill of Saul-Josephus, and as such they could be dismissed by the Christian faithful as literary apparitions created by Saul-Josephus for his own nefarious purposes.
However, Jesus, King of Edessa, Ralph’s new book out in October, is a radically different prospect for both the theist and the secular rationalist alike, and so readers will have to brace themselves for the secrets that lie within the many pages of this new book. Just imagine being able to visit the city that Jesus governed; to stand on his citadel; to look at contemporary images of Jesus himself and of his direct descendants. Impossible? Not at all. One just needs to have the key to unlock this historical vista, and that key was provided for us many centuries ago by an unknown author who wrote the haunting hymn ‘O Come, O Come, Emmanuel’. This hymn calls Jesus ‘Emmanuel’, a little-used name for Jesus that is only mentioned once within the gospel accounts, in Matthew 1:23.
The Emmanuel key
But why did Jesus have a name that he never used? A name that was shoehorned into the gospel accounts in a most unsatisfactory manner? Was this simply a scribal error or oversight, or was this a deliberate ploy – a secret code or key that would conceal the true identity of Jesus from all but the truly enlightened and initiated? That, is the central mystery that we need to explore and explain. But that key would not have been of any great use without the lubricant provided by the mournful melodies of Enya, who brought this key to life. Thus in the introduction to this book, it is Enya who provides us with the beauty and wonder that this enigmatic key deserves.
But if the hymn ‘Emmanuel’ was the key to unlock the secrets of the gospels, then the new chronology that the previous books in this series provided was the locking mechanism itself – for there is absolutely no point in having a key if one is trying to unbolt the wrong lock. Readers could use the ‘Emmanuel key’ for an entire lifetime on the classical AD 30s date for the gospels, and find absolutely nothing. It is only when we try to rotate this key in the AD 60s lock that the mechanism will slide open, and the new golden-rayed vista of the historical Jesus-Emmanuel will become apparent. And so the identification of Jesus in the historical record that will take place in this new book is utterly dependent on this late AD 60s date for the gospel events, that has been painstakingly explored and explained in the previous books in this great series.
King Abgar of Edessa
So who was Jesus? Well, without giving too much away, and so detracting from the exciting historical treasure-hunt in the new book, perhaps we can explore and explain who this Jesus character really was. In short, the previous books in this series were perfectly correct, and so this new book represents a rather satisfying confirmation that all of the previous research was based upon solid foundations. So yes, Jesus was indeed descended from Queen Thea Muse Ourania; and this Egypto-Parthian queen did indeed get exiled from Parthia in AD 4; and her husband-son was indeed the semi-mythical monarch called King Monobazus-Izas of Adiabene. The crucial difference, however, is the new evidence that the lands of Adiabene were not in Iraq, where Saul-Josephus appeared to be pointing. In fact, Saul-Josephus was being ingeniously duplicitous here, as he was in all his other works, in concealing the true location for his semi-mythical land called Adiabene. In reality Saul-Josephus’ character called King Monobazus-Izas of Adiabene was a delightful but incredibly deceitful hypocorism or nickname for King Abgarus of Edessa.
Abgar who? – readers might exclaim. Precisely. Readers are probably unaware, but King Abgarus of Edessa was a central character within 1st century Syrio-Judaean history and within the biblical accounts, and so they must ask themselves why they have never heard of this king or this city. Why is this so? Because both Saul-Josephus and the Catholic Church did not want anyone to know anything about King Abgar, and so he has been deleted from history. Saul-Josephus, for instance, writes an entire history of 1st century Judaeo-Syria, but never once mentions King Abgar or the powerful and influential city of Edessa – a city that became the first and the greatest center of early Nazarene Christianity. But how can this be? It is inconceivable that Saul-Josephus did not know of Abgar and the exploits of his famous wife and sons, and their many connections to the biblical story, so how it is possible that he does not mention them? Well he does mention them, on numerous occasions, but he calls this Edessan monarch King Monobazus-Izas of Adiabene. Why? Because the true history of King Abgar was deeply troubling for the new fairy-story that Saul-Josephus was peddling to the gullible faithful: the disingenuous and mendacious fable that we now call the New Testament.
Crown of Thorns
And how do we know that these Edessan monarchs were connected with the biblical family and with Jesus himself? In fact, readers of this new book will find that the evidence is both comprehensive and overwhelming, for once we start making this comparison a veritable Niagara of information pours forth from that region to confirm this connection. Ralph had no idea, before starting this investigation, how prolific and authoritative the Armenian and Syriac Christian chroniclers were. Forget the PC claims that Islam maintained the enlightenment through the Dark Ages, in reality the science, astronomy and philosophy of Greece was maintained by the Syriac intellectuals who lived as dhimmi serfs under their Muslim overlords. And so this identification for Jesus is not merely an interesting possibility, this will be an incontrovertible proof that Jesus was a son of King Abgar – a prince of Edessa.
But this radical new identification gives us so much more information about the biblical Jesus, including contemporary coins and even a contemporary statue that show exactly what he looked like. And one of the interesting aspects of this new pictorial evidence, is the astonishing fact that the Edessan monarchs always wore a ceremonial Crown of Thorns.
Thus the famous crucifixion scene for Jesus was not a simple mockery of a carpenter who claimed to be a king, it was actually a mockery of an Edessan monarch who had lost a battle with Rome. And to emphasize who was right and who was wrong in this dispute, the Romans dressed Jesus up as a defeated Edessan monarch, complete with his rather peculiar-looking Crown of Thorns – a crown that is central to the true theology and beliefs of this Edesso-biblical family, and is intimately linked to the Scottish Stone of Scone. This is why this crown was being denigrated in this fashion, it was not simply because it looked strange, it was because it was symbolic of an ancient belief system that had emerged from Egypt thousands of years ago and had matured in Greece for hundreds more years. This was a creed that was envied and feared in equal measure, and has left its mark on lands as remote as Ireland and Scotland.
As we can see, the gospels were not wrong in what they recorded. In fact, the revised history of this region demonstrates that they are almost entirely correct – it is simply our perception of these events that is wrong. In reality, all of the gospel events happened in the turbulent AD 60s, and not during the comparative tranquil of the AD 30s. More importantly, Jesus was not a pauper-carpenter he was a king, for that is what the titles ‘christ’ and ‘messiah’ mean: they refer to an anointed king of Israel, which is why this great leader was called the King of the Jews. In reality, Jesus was an Edessan prince who was taking advantage of turmoil within the Roman Empire, to advance his claim to rule the world.
The Star Prophesy
In AD 65 Nero had kicked his wife Poppaea to death, and so from that time on he was a dead man walking and everyone knew it; and so many influential and powerful Romans began jostling for power and for the Throne of Rome. One of those contenders for the imperial throne was Jesus-Izas, the prince of Edessa. How do we know this? Because the great oracle that was being spread in the corridors of power in Rome at that time was the Star Prophesy, which foretold that a star from the east would become the Emperor of Rome. The Roman chroniclers report this oracle rather more soberly, and the following is a conflation of the reports by Suetonius and Tacitus.
In most (Jews) there was a firm persuasion, that in the ancient records of their priests was contained a prediction of how at this very time the East was to grow powerful, and rulers coming from Judaea were to acquire a universal empire. This prediction referred to a Roman Emperor, as events showed, but the Jews applying it to themselves broke out into rebellion. (Tacitus, The Histories, 5:13) (Suetonius, The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Vespasian IV)
The rebellion mentioned here is the great Jewish Revolt of the late AD 60s, the revolt that was led by both Jesus of Gamala and by King Izas of Adiabene-Edessa (who were, in reality, the same person). And the ‘universal empire’ that this quote refers to, is the vast pan-national empire that Jesus wanted to establish. Remember that this princely Jesus-Izas was directly related to the royal lines of Egypt, Rome and Parthia, and could potentially have united the entire known world into one vast empire. And who would be the leader of this great empire? Well, in Judaic traditions this same prophesy was known as the Star Prophesy of the East; but who was born under the Eastern Star at this very time? The gospels say of these same events:
There came Magi from Parthia to Jerusalem, saying: “Where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.” Math 2:1-2
The unmistakable conclusion to this ground-breaking book will be that Jesus was a king of Edessa in the AD 60s, who very nearly became the emperor of Rome.
Roman propaganda
But this historical truth undermines everything the Church has been trying to peddle over the last 2,000 years, about their pauper prince of peace. In reality, Jesus-Izas was was warrior prince of great wealth and even greater ambitions. And so the New Testament’s distorted version of Judaean history was not simply a parody of the true history of this region, devised for literary amusement, it was also Roman propaganda. Rome was exasperated with Judaeo-Nazarene agitation in its eastern provinces, and having comprehensively wiped Judaea off the map it decided to give the surviving populations in that region a political double-punch – courtesy of Emperor Vespasian’s quicksilver-quilled wordsmith, Saul-Josephus (the biblical Saul, or St Paul).
In a triumph of mendacity over honesty, Saul-Josephus produced the Jewish War; a secular history of Judaea which basically said that Rome was grievously provoked and was therefore just in destroying Judaea. But there were also the divisive creeds of Orthodox and Nazarene Judaism to tame and quell. Thus Saul-Josephus also wrote and edited a religio-spiritual history of 1st century Judaea, which eventually became Judaism Lite or Simple Judaism – a new Rome-friendly version of Judaism that any Roman Gentile could join, which is now known as Christianity. And who could Saul-Josephus employ as the hero figure of Judaism Lite? Well, this just had to be the infamous hero-villain of the Jewish Revolt, who we know from the historical record was called King Jesus-Izas and who we now know was an ambitious king of Edessa.
But to counter any further thoughts of revolution, Saul-Josephus ensured that this spiritual hero-villain had been deliberately detached from his homeland and emasculated from his imperious role. The true history of a warrior king had become a fallacious cult of a prince of peace, and Emperor Vespasian must have laughed heartily at the many gullible adherents who believed the propaganda that Saul-Josephus had so expertly crafted.
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The cover image for Jesus, King of Edessa. This is an image of the biblical Jesus, taken from contemporary coins and a contemporary statue. Jesus, King of Edessa, by Ralph Ellis Available on iPad and Kindle Publishing date 1st October © Ralph Ellis
Interview with Rachael Jayne Groover
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The Art of Feminine Presence™
Interview with Rachael Jayne Groover
Founder of The Yin Project and Author of Powerful and Feminine
Sedona Conscious Magazine: The Art of Feminine Presence – For those that aren’t familiar with your work, Rachael, can you please give us an overview of how this work started?
Rachael Jayne: As far as the presence piece goes, I’ve always been fascinated with why some people could walk into a room and have a magnetic presence and others don’t. Why some dancers’ performances popped and some didn’t… What I found out is that the same practices one performs to work their on outer presence is that same work they do for their inner presence.
SCM: Why do you think some people’s inner work doesn’t translate?
RJ:vIt’s a whole different journey to have your actual work transforming into your outer expression: your gestures, your voice, your heart energy etc. For those that only focus on the inner work without working on the embodiment, their outer expression is never going to match.
SCM: So how do you increase this outer expression?
RJ: Take up dance, or singing – this will force you to express yourself in a big way and force you to face your inner work. I want this journey for myself, to keep embodying my inner work so that it’s palpable in my outer expression for all the women around me.
Beginning with the feminine work- I was going along in my life with a lot of good things happening, but the pain of this question kept recurring, “Where are the good men?” I went on the quest to find out what was going on in me and found that I was not connected with my feminine. When I was able to turn that around, this work led me to meet my husband Datta and even found that I had less competition from other men and women around me, and I was able to really embrace that feminine essence.
These two pieces were what came together: feminine + presence. It’s about how to feel centered, confident and in-the-moment. I created 44 practices that are about how to get women into their body.
SCM: How could you apply this to a competitive environment? This is really prevalent in the dance community, so how could this alleviate it?
RJ: My main practice is to get women to come from their center. Not the muscle group, but by paying attention to your inner core. When you are here, self-consciousness or performer-consciousness cannot exist. When you are in this mode, you are not in your feminine presence. There is a sensual joy that bubbles up when you are in this center. This is why we love dancing so much, because the dancer is in-the-moment. When we see a woman who is in her center, we are in awe.
RJ: As a dancer, you want to fast-track your presence so that your dance is noticed even more. I have a friend who is a dancer and always has this amazing presence. She had an audition for Mission Impossible 2 and went up against Flamenco dancers who were really well-trained but it was her presence that got her the part.
SCM: On the other side of the equation, how can we apply this presence to a women’s business network? We all know that women operate differently than women in business and the paradigm for a long time was that women should act like men to get ahead. How can you expand upon this with regard to your own work?
RJ: Well, it comes down to the inner, conscious work that you do. A truly authentic woman in her authentic essence is in her feminine. It’s really about personal growth. A women in her personal power will be feminine and people will want to work with her. Most people can hold their center until they are asked, “What do you do?” And then they go into performance consciousness (and give their rehearsed answer) or they almost shut down and become quiet. So it’s important to be in your center, especially before a meeting. I do this all the time, before I open that door I ask myself “Am I home?” Then you need to pay attention to how you speak. You need to be the loudest in the room, the most confident. Not shouting, but solid. Because the person hiring you wants to know: 1- is she going to solve my problem? And 2- is she confident in solving my problem? If you can speak in a strong voice, that tells the person you can help them. Women are confident! Do it with enthusiasm and passion, be in your center, and don’t project your energy out by trying too hard. Those are my three main tips.
SCM: What is the quickest way for a woman to access her feminine energy?
RJ: I have three main activation points for this work:
1: Activate the womb space by coming in to your center. This will ground you.
2: Feel sensuality in your movement. Bellydancers move their hips in a way that activates feminine power/energy. But if you aren’t a dancer you can still move the hips and sway, moving the energy to get into the feminine juiciness.
3: Operate from your heart center. If we see a woman we want to work with or watch, we want to see her come from her heart. Otherwise she comes across as insincere or closed. If I come into the room with an open, vulnerable presence, people will be drawn to me. Be open in your center, feel the watery presence in your hips, and be open from your heart. These three together are a million-dollar energetic boost!
SCM: When being more open from the heart/vulnerable it can be a little unnerving at time.s How can we let our guard down?
RJ: Feel where your energy stops and where another’s begins. With any woman that is a leader, it is important that they create their outer field/light globe that creates a boundary but also lets the other person in enough so they feel your openness. Bellydancers are going to have people project ideas upon them regardless of what is true. The antidote is to respond with open heart energy. It’s taken me a long time to feel safe enough to open my heart in those instances, but the more I perform (as a singer) the more I notice people are looking to me, and they will look to dancers as an example of a woman in her feminine power. So I feel it’s important that I show them who I am so they can feel comfortable.
SCM: It often comes down to a balance of being strong and vulnerable at the same time. A lot of women struggle with that.
RJ: Yes! That is why I call my book Powerful and Feminine. That “and” portion amplifies the meaning because it makes your expressive range greater. When a dancer/singer can express a wide range, the more ability they have to express and wow their audience. It’s the same with women- the more range we can express: the vulnerable to the powerful, the better the response we will receive from others.
SCM: When you talk about people’s light globes, it’s almost like a person’s intimate little dance that is happening between two people. Here is Sedona we have a lot of hyper-sensitive people responding to others’ energies because they are clairvoyant etc.
RJ: We do pick up energies from the etheric realm but we also pick up a lot more accurate information the more I go inside. The boundary you put up will not lesson your intuitive ability, it will heighten it. But it will keep you from becoming drained by doing your work. I am heightened immensely when I do this work so if I don’t have my light globe up I am incredibly drained. And by doing so, I can hear them more. It’s also a good practice if you aren’t in-tune with other peoples energies at all. Be “home,” check in and see if there is a red flag. This can be helpful on a date!
SCM: We talk a lot about tapping in to our own source, but what are your ways to release energy?
RJ: Yes, any way to ground yourself. For me, it’s by going for a walk or doing something in nature. I just get out of the room/house and let Mother Earth do her job. If you can’t get outside, even for 5 minutes, do some sort of movement: dance or jumping jacks, or use an instrument that will get your energy moving.
SCM: How does working with feminine energy affect personal relationships?
RJ: Immensely! Which part do I share? {laughs} The masculine essence wants to pursue and the feminine essence wants to be pursued. We don’t want to have to call him all the time. When you are in your feminine presence, it’s going to drop you into more of a receptive mode and he’s going to feel it and want to pursue. You need to be in your joy and he needs to be in your joy. But he will feel it when you are in your feminine. It will inspire him into his masculinity. Or if he doesn’t, you will realize quickly that he’s not there and needs to do his work. But oftentimes a woman will step into the masculine role to compensate but that doesn’t help.
SCM: So this is a great tool for rekindling a relationship?
RJ: Absolutely. Opposites only attract in sexual essence but that is the only aspect. For a relationship you will want to complement. We always want to be mindful of creating that polarity. On the other hand, neutral environments can water down the feminine energy. So it’s important for independent, strong, women to keep this in mind. We need to do our work in our feminine to meet the masculine. (And men, vice-versa.)
SCM: What do you have coming up so that people can learn more about you and your work?
RJ: The book is the best place to start because there are 35 individual practices to help women get in touch with their feminine and empower their energetic presence.
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New Enlightenment with Paula Muran
An interview with Paula Muran
Q: You recently created A New Enlightenment tell us about what “new enlightenment” is?
A: A New Enlightenment is the accumulation of my 25 years of teaching and study, along with what I learned on my path to self-realization. It’s a contemporary awakening program using the principles of enlightenment.
Q: How is A New Enlightenment different than other programs?
A: I focus on “Know the Self.” I believe when we know our inner self we eventually feel comfortable enough to let down our guard, become less defensive and angry, and naturally the mind finds tranquility.
teach that to come to wholeness we must stop creating separation and personal judgment. I introduce people to an entirely new way to live their life.
Instead of perpetuating the ongoing attachment to the “negative,” separation and fear that is so abundant in our culture, I teach people to embrace their fears. Yes, to actually love fear.
To cease separation we must balance the energy of our experiences. For instance, if we dislike fear we must dislike love. If we love, love we must also love fear. Otherwise we keep creating separation.
It’s difficult for the ego mind not judge experiences. It loves to find fault in everything we encounter. When we take the judgment out of the equation the experience is just an experience and we can enjoy it. Once we use an adjective ( like frightening) to criticize an experience, we have made a judgment. This changes the energy around the experience (positive or negatively) and it affects us in some way.
Q: You talk about the importance of belief systems and emotional and mental patterning- how they impact our lives and impede our path to awakening. Tell us more?
A: Our lives are carved out by a series of mental thoughts and emotional feelings that create beliefs, perceptions and behaviors. Patterns get created from the repetitive nature of experience and learned behaviors from earlier life experiences.
These belief patterns affect every aspect of our lives: our relationships, who we are as a person, how we feel about ourselves, how we communicate. Many of the patterns formed by these experiences, including fears, unworthiness and doubt, block our true potential.
It’s difficult for us to see our own limitations – the ways our words and actions hold us back. I wrote in my book Codes of Light in 2005 that our beliefs camouflage our divine self.
Q: How do you help people access and release beliefs and patterns? How can people work on their belief systems and emotional healing?
A: I am blessed with profound intuition. I can see beyond the illusion and into soul records and I’m able to see a field of consciousness around everyone. I call this field a grid, and it’s also been called the matrix. When I’m in session or at events I can see into this field, it’s a vast database of information. Every thought, experience and belief sets up on this field of consciousness. I actually see a grid-like structure and can alter the grid field. This shifts a person’s conscious life.
I created a private healing session called Body of Light. The session addresses any limitation. Intuitively I see objects that represent ideas and behaviors from a person’s life that seek resolution and healing. Fears, unworthiness, and doubt, emotional and mental belief patterns, create heaviness in our energy fields.
I work on core issues—from the bottom out and locate the original patterning. This takes me deep into the field of consciousness and into past, parallel and sometimes into future lives.
I can intuitively see into the unconscious mind and neutralize or rewrite the belief patterns that have caused frustration, limitation and unhappiness.
The key to healing emotionally and mentally is to locate as close as possible the issue. Once that is acknowledged then the energy can shift. Sometimes the emotional pattern shifts by saying a positive statement. Other times by moving the body or looking in a certain direction, these actions cause the central nervous system to recalibrate energy.
Q: You have a special relationship with the spiritual deity, Sanat Kumara. How did this begin? And who is Sanat Kumara?
A: All my life I’ve talked to a father-like authoritative voice. As a child I had an imaginary friend that never left me. I grew up in Ohio in a typical mid-western Catholic family.
As a young adult I had a number of spiritual experiences. At one event in Manhattan a yogi said I would experience nirvana in this lifetime. In Los Angeles in the early 1980′s I became privy to channeling.
The voice I heard as child began to channel through me. One evening at a Bashar channeling, I felt a presence sit down next to me, and I wrote out on a pad, “you can now call me Sanat Kumara.” That evening changed my life forever.
I learned some things about Sanat Kumara in the Alice Bailey books. However, I learned the most about Sanat Kumara through Hinduism. Sanat Kumara is an elusive being. Not wanting to be worshipped, Sanat Kumara’s influence is felt in silence, during meditation.
Sanat Kumara is known in every religion, especially in Hinduism as the Son of Shiva and the brother of Ganesh (elephant god), as the Holy Ghost in Christianity, and as the Ancient of Days in the Bible and in Metaphysics as the planetary Logos. Sanat Kumara is not a man or woman, nor a he or she. Sanat Kumara is a force field of unconditional love that has embraced Earth for millions of years.
I learned I was chosen out of 100,000 souls to be the emissary to Sanat Kumara. I do not actually channel Sanat Kumara, I have a direct link and information simply comes to me in a form of innate wisdom. Over the years, we have become seamlessly merged. Now there is one voice. In person people have said they feel a profound loving energy around me.
Q: You have a new seminar called Sanat Kumara Intensive coming up in December. What can people expect from this intensive?
A: Yes, I’m very excited about the December Intensive. Sanat Kumara’s energy is most influential when people are in person with me.
All my life I have worked on the emotional and mental belief patterning. In the early 1990′s I created a product line of gem elixirs and emotional aromatherapy sprays. The gem elixirs go into the cellular energy and release stuck energy. Emotional Aromatherapy healing sprays do similar.
The whole premise of the ancient Veda texts is to “know the self.” How can we “know the self” if we don’t work on beliefs? To awaken or to live in expanded states of consciousness requires we detach from perceived limitation. Either we need to understand it or release from it. This allows the ego to relax its control.
The ancient yogi’s meditated because that is what they knew. Meditation is a powerful tool. Given what we know today, it’s not the only tool to self-realization, and what I offer people is another way to peel the layers and get to expanded states of consciousness. On one visit to India, I was standing at a temple during a ceremony and a little Indian woman stood in front of me, holding a pink lotus flower. As the priest chanted she began to peel the layers of the flower, one petal at a time. This is exactly what I do. I peel the layers to reveal the true Self.
These three days, December 7-9, 2012, is an immersion into YOU. I developed the Awakening Process to create breakthroughs in people’s belief’s and core patterning so they experience life beyond the illusion of their own personal limitation.
The weekend is experiential and a powerful way to jumpstart the changes that are necessary to bypass any belief roadblocks people experience.
Sanat Kumara Intensive begins Friday evening at 7:00 pm in Scottsdale and ends Sunday at 4:00 pm. My retreats encompass a variety of modalities, similar to these:
- Inner work & Inquiry
- Breathing techniques
- Movement to shift energy
- Powerful guided meditations and visualizations
People learn techniques they can use on themselves and with others to release emotional and mental patterns that keep them stuck.
The Sanat Kumara Intensive is a transformational experience to awaken to love and your true Self.
To learn more about Paula Muran visit www.paulamuran.com or email office@paulamuran.com.
Redefining the Peace Movement
Redefining the Peace Movement
By James O’Dea
We are witnessing a tidal shift in consciousness. Some see it as a great planetary awakening of awareness accompanied by an extended capacity for empathy and collaboration. The burgeoning networks of people who share these new values, along with the accelerating global communications environment, are creating an unprecedented planetary resonance. We are collectively beginning to shed the skin of humanity’s dysfunctional consciousness.
Here are key transformations defining the new peace movement:
We are moving from being locked into outrage at war and violence, or being defined as a protest movement, to creating a culture of peace from the ground up and from the inside out.
We are moving from the reactive condemnation of others arising out of a presumed superior moral position, to engaging in dialogue,listening, and drawing on nonviolent communication strategies.
We are moving from labeling those who disagree with us as the enemy to recognizing the inherent flaw in creating enmity as a peace strategy. In this way our work attempts to dissolve polarizing behaviors.
We are moving from a consciousness that is problem centered to one that is solution centered. This has a radical impact on how we organize. We are informed by our vision, and our approach is not always defined by the tactics or stance of the opposition.
We are moving from piecemeal, feel-good, quick-fix interventions, to whole-system maps and systemic transformation.
We are moving from a reliance on ideological frameworks to integral approaches that are embodied manifestations of peace at the individual and collective levels.
We are moving from activism that leads to burnout and relationship breakdowns to one in which working for the cause of peace requires self-care and time for quality relationships.
We are moving from the battleground of proving who is right and who is wrong to understanding worldview transformation and exploring who are wounded and how they can find healing.
We are moving from an obsession with punishment to the search for truth, reconciliation, and restorative justice.
We are moving from demanding rights to assuming our responsibility to create environments that promote rights and social justice.
We are moving from merely critiquing the absence of humanity in others to honing our own capacity for compassionate action, deep empathy, and authentic forgiveness.
This, then, is the sounding note from inside the heart of peace itself. It says, “Choose me. Cultivate my ways.”
Feel the pleasure of love, laughter, and service to others. Feel peace as the presence of conscious and compassionate awareness. Step boldly to incarnate your belief in the power of peace to transform indifference and hostility. Never allow meanness any foothold over you where instead there can be an ample generosity toward others.
Keep your conscience keenly attentive to the subtlest calls to live in attunement with your own evolving moral imagination. The world is full of moral dilemmas, so listen with confidence to the voice of your higher self, but always be willing to reconsider the validity of your position. Know that you have been asked to walk the path of essence, always drawing deeper from your own essential qualities and allowing them the freest expression—even when cold reason would suppress them. Work ceaselessly to connect the disconnected.
It is impossible to say whether you will be scorned or rejected or even if you will be cut down, but know that the winds of peace will carry your work into future generations and that you will be part of what turns humanity toward its true destiny.
Any action that begins in the core of your being is one that unites with the Source of All Being. Look for that igniting point midway between taking yourself too seriously and being too casual about your gifts; it is here that peace arises and asks you to dance with it. Whether your first gesture is to still the mind, pulse a drum, raise your voice, or cross the threshold of an old fear or enmity, celebrate your choice to leave passivity and disbelief behind.
Keep faith with your vision even if people scorn you for being an idealist. Make sure your vision is big enough for the time we live in and that your execution of thevision comes from a place of humility. Learn to celebrate your vision even in the midst of great suffering, for your vision is an answer to the suffering you see. Peace is the healer of wounds.
For as much as you cultivate peace in all of its dimensions, it will cultivate you beyond all recognition.
©2012 James O’Dea. Excerpted from Cultivating Peace: Becoming a 21st Century Peace Ambassador. (Shift Books) www.cultivatingpeace.net
James O’Dea is a renowned figure in international social healing who has conducted healing and reconciliation dialogues for twenty years and was director of Amnesty International’s Washington, DC, office for over ten years. His work as co-director of the Social Healing Project led him to Rwanda, Israel/Palestine, and Northern Ireland. The lead faculty of the popular Peace Ambassador Training hosted by the Shift Network, James is also on the extended faculty of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and he is its immediate past president. He is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Peace Alliance.
Angels – Messengers of Light
Interview of the Seer Almine by Sandra and Denise, Canada
Q. What can you tell us about the origins of angels?
A. To understand this, we have to understand time and space because the functions of angels is very closely associated with their formation. Time is entrapment; it keeps us on the circular page of the past, present and future. This is a treadmill that we must step off of, to remember once again our eternal self as the source of our unique expression of Infinite intent.
Identity forms from our accumulated story as we travel through time. Sages throughout the ages have stated that it is necessary to discard our identities and to remember that we are indescribable, eternal and indivisible. The body, soul and spirit keep us on this treadmill of time by creating karma that deliberately obscures our vision. Body, soul and spirit are kept in place even though they are the result of the identities we accumulate through time and therefore are illusional creations.
First of all, the fictitious belief in the Law of Compensation creates karma. The Law of Compensation can only exist if we believe in limitation. If we function from our true identity as an eternal being, similar to a current flowing through an ocean of the Infinite without any shores, then we will understand it is not possible to owe anything to anybody. Secondly, the use of our mind and limited, separative senses as a way of accessing perception, allows parts of existence to be obscured and we are more easily manipulated by them – often resulting in what we would call mistakes and thereby creating karma. Thirdly, by creating the three parts of linear time (past, present and future), we keep repeating the same cycles of existence.
We travel on this treadmill because firstly, we believe we always owe something and the resulting guilt creates what we refer to as karma. Karma is actually the opportunity for the resolving of issues. Secondly, the tools that we use to access reality are themselves flawed and thus we repeat the mistakes again, thus creating the karma. Thirdly, if we live in linear time in the past, the present and the future, it keeps us on a treadmill that makes repetitive cycles of existence so that we keep encountering the same issues over and over again.
Linear time is created by our attitudes in the following way. We strive for certain results in order to control outcome in physicality. This striving for results creates the future. We then have an equal and opposite reaction from our soul. It looks backwards by clinging to the past with either sentimental values or through self-pity. These two opposite movements within beingness, would create a vacuum as soul and body move in opposite directions. So spirit fills the gap, which is really what the moment is. The moment is the gap that is left when past and future are pulling in opposite directions. Spirit fills the moment by controlling the now. It does so through value judgements kept in place by belief systems. It is from this forward and backward movement that the reference point of the moment is formed. The reference point that tries to remain stationary, and the movement into what is to come, and what was, creates time. Where this movement and reference point take place, space is created.
Now that we understand how time and space are created and how this forms the disc of existence that goes around and around, having us repeat over and over the cycle of the past becoming the future, the future becoming the past, the moment traveling around and around as our point of awareness. This explains our personal lives, but we can now also understand the cosmos. The cosmos is but a being in all its vastness that has a physical body, a more etheric body we call soul, and an even more etheric body that you can divide into two sections (one that provides spirit and the other which is even more etheric).
Q. What specific role and function do angels have with humanity?
A. The cosmic disc goes around and around in its incarnations just the way our lives do. Angels play a crucial part in this circular movement of cyclical life. First of all, angels are dotted around this disc upon which life moves which is the cosmos moving through life cycles. They are dotted which means there are angles of the past and there are angels of the future – but, really there is no distinction because one becomes the other, and there are also angels of the now. These are the primary distinctions of the angels that are on this cosmic cyclical journey.
Q. What do the different orders of the angels represent?
A. We have angels of the past referred to as the angels of the black light. We have angels of the future; they are called angels of the white light. Then we have angels to help us gain the potential of the moment, and those angels are called guardian angels by some in their personal lives. The cosmos also has these angels. The angels of the now are found in the physical earth, in its spirit body. Many of the angels of the now (not all, but many), are in the spirit levels of life on earth. It is spirit that controls the now. Their task is to help us see through the obscurities that are deduced by belief systems. Belief systems make us see life in a slanted way; they are here to help us see behind these belief systems and appearances. Life does not like such cages and so it produces cataclysmic change and opposition to break them up. Our guardian angels are there as a counter measure to the control that spirit tries to exert on the moment in order to maintain the status-quo. Those angels change in function, but they don’t change in function enough that they have to be reabsorbed into the group soul of angelic presence, to emerge as a completely different angel. This however is the case for angels that are of the future and of the past, because the future becomes the past. They alternate roles.
Q. How would the role of any angel become obsolete?
A. As we go through the cycles of life (of which there have been eighteen, like the segments of a grapefruit that is cut through the middle), we encounter transitions as we pass from one cycle to next. At this time the angels are reabsorbed back into the group soul and they re-emerge with a new function.
Q. I am interested in the roles that angels play according to their particular frequency; similar to one being a gifted painter, musician or perhaps skilled with languages. Do angels have ‘strong suits’?
A. There are 300 angels of the future and their angelic orders. There are 300 angels of the past and their angelic orders. These angels hold the perceptions that we missed because physical, soul and spirit have deliberately kept from us the full picture of accessing our reality so that the resulting karma would call us back into their realm. Life is controlled by the physical, death is controlled by soul and ascension is controlled by spirit. No one of these stages is more valuable than another, but yet they vie and compete for attention. It empowers them. When one gets low on empowerment and resources it calls on us to come and pay the debt and so we empower it yet again. This “ring around the rosie” (a children’s game), has kept us on the treadmill.
The angels are assisting to give us the perceptions we have missed; to help change the frequencies that have become distorted because of that which has been missed. They are here to help us gain full perception through accessing the experience of existence, so life can be changed through grace rather than the forced change of cataclysmic events and opposition. These are the tasks of the 300 angels of light, called the Angels of Atlantis, and the 300 hundred angels of the dark light, which represent the past, called the Angels of Lemuria and the 144 Angels of Presence, who are the guardian angels of the moment of cosmic life.
The angels are here to beneficially assist. There are no dark angels. Those are demonic beings that we have mistakenly called by the name angels. Demonic beings have the opposite role: instead of embodying the perception, which is light, and the true frequency that we could have lived had we had full perception, they embody the chaos that takes place as forced change creates even more fear and anger and pain. The angels are, and always have been, a benevolent influence and friend of humanity. They are rightly revered for their purity and commitment to promoting benevolent life.
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