Thank you 2011, 2012... bring it on.

2011... almost gone.  2011 the year of illumination has been an important year for me.  I am almost sorry to see it go.  11 is my number.... birthdate, names, and it shows up in so many places for me.  I look at the clock and there is 11:11, 111, 211, 311, even 911 there it is, signs, license plates...  11 pops up in the strangest places.   and 2011 was the year of illumination for me.  I have learned a lot about myself and have answers or at least the beginning of answers to many of my life's questions.   I will miss seeing all of the 11s but who knows, maybe I will continue to see them, just not so much on the calendars.   And I don't think my illumination is over.  There is much to learn and I intend to learn it.  So thank you 2011, 2012... bring it on. 

Myself to Feel Renewed....

After the shower you smell so clean and fresh
You need no underarm deodorant
or eau de cologne
After the shower there are rainbows in your eyes
and I'm sure you feel renewed
And now after your shower
I come in from my walk upon you earth mother
and step into my own shower
Myself to feel renewed

2011 cont. What webs we weave...

This continues the events of 2011 from July thru present date.  I was impressed with what all had happened in the first part of the year but was truly amazed when I looked at the rest of it.  The first half of the year showed a lot of violent protesting and government opposition and while that continued there was also already some very positive changes taking place.   For example:
South Sudan Becomes a Nation (July 9)
Palestinians Officially Request United Nations Membership (Sept. 23) (It was granted later on Oct 31)
Saudi Arabia Grants Women the Right to Vote (Sept. 25)  I can't believe how big this one is.
Prisoner Swap Between Israel and Hamas Begins (Oct. 18)
Tunisia Votes in First Ever Free Election (Oct. 24)
Herman Cain Pulls Out of Presidential Race (Dec. 3) After numerous women come forth with allegations of sexual charges.
These are amazing things that happened.

Here are the remaining events of 2011:
South Sudan Becomes a Nation (July 9)
Scandal Brings End to The News of the World (July 11
Two Related Terrorist Attacks Shock Norway (July 22):
Crackdown Continues in Syria (Aug. 1):
Violent Riots Spread Throughout Britain (Aug. 6)
East Africa Hit with Worst Drought in 60 Years (Aug. 11)
Hurricane Irene Hits the East Coast (Aug. 27)
Protesters Attack Israeli Embassy in Cairo (Sept. 9)
Texas Experiences Record Breaking Wildfires (Sept. 9
Palestinians Officially Request United Nations Membership (Sept. 23
Saudi Arabia Grants Women the Right to Vote (Sept. 25)
US Born Al-Qaeda Leader Is Killed in Yemen (Sept. 30)
Month-long Occupy Wall Street Movement Continues to Grow (Oct. 17
Prisoner Swap Between Israel and Hamas Begins (Oct. 18
Two-day Strike In Greece Pushes Riots to New Level (Oct. 19
European Leaders Agree on How to Resolve Euro Crisis (Oct. 26)
Qaddafi Is Captured and Killed (Oct. 20)
A 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Turkey (Oct. 23)
Tunisia Votes in First Ever Free Election (Oct. 24)
Palestine Becomes Member of UNESCO (Oct. 31)
Greek Leader Calls off Referendum, Agrees to Resign (Nov. 3)
Italy Passes More Austerity Measures, Berlusconi Steps Down (Nov. 11)
Occupy Wall Street Protests Continue (Nov. 3)
Sex Abuse Scandal Shakes Up Penn State (Nov. 5
More Women Come Forward With Allegations Against Herman Cain (Nov. 7
Parliamentary Elections Spark Massive Protests in Russia (Dec. 4
Herman Cain Pulls Out of Presidential Race (Dec. 3)
Penn State Child Molestation Scandal Continues (Dec. 7)
Kim Jong-il died of a heart attack on 17 December
2011 has been quite a year.  2011 the year of illumination.   Just compiling and reading this list was illuminating to me.   The potentials for a world of peace, goodwill, creativity are there right in front of us.  Keep being positive.  Keep supporting the positive in the world.  Paraphrasing what Ghandi said, You must be the change you wish to see.    What webs we weave......What webs we weave...

2011 Death to tyranny and birth to possibilities.

I have proposed potentials and possibilities in these writings and I am going to review them.  
2011 is the year of illumination and as I look back at all that has happened this year It looks to me as though this has indeed brought a lot of illumination to the planet.  Would there have been so many revolutions had not so many people 'seen the light'.
The second possibility is that the changes taking place now are making way for a time of peace on earth.   I am told by mothers that birth is accompanied by pain.   The changes taking place on the planet both among the people and on the planet itself are the birthpangs of a new world.  This new world is the prophesied New Jerusalem, the New Earth, the earth of peace, harmony and creativity.
I am listing the evolutionary events that have happened in just the first half of 2011.  The list is quite amazing when you see it all in one place:

Jan. 2 2011  7.1 earthquake southern Chile
Jan 8 2011 attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords
Jan. 14
In an unprecedented popular uprising, Tunisian protesters enraged over soaring unemployment and corruption drive President Zine El Abdine Ben Ali
Jan. 27
Tens of thousands of Yemenis demand that their president step down.
Jan/Feb 2011  Egyptian protests
Feb/Mar 2011 Libyan protests
Feb. 7
Southern Sudan is slated to become the world's newest country. Final referendum results show 98.8 percent of ballots cast were for secession from Sudan's north.
Feb 11, 2011  Egyptian president Mubarak resigns
Feb. 21 2011   6.1 earthquake in New Zealand
Mar 11, 2011  9.0 Earthquake/tsunami Japan 
March 21
Syrians chanting "No more fear!" hold a defiant march after a deadly government crackdown failed to quash three days of mass protests in the southern city of Deraa.
March 26  2011More than 250,000 people take to London's streets to protest the toughest spending cuts since World War II
April 23
Yemen's president agrees to step down
April 27 2011  Tornadoes in Southwest USA
May 2, 2011  Osama Bin Laden killed 
 May 17
Queen Elizabeth II becomes first British monarch to visit the Republic of Ireland.
May 22
Joplin, Mo., tornado causes more than 160 deaths; the monstrous storm, with winds up to 250 mph, damages or destroys about 8,000 homes and businesses.
May 26
Gen. Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general suspected of leading the bloody massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Europe's worst massacre since World War II, is arrested after a 16-year manhunt.
June 18
Afghan President Hamid Karzai acknowledges his government and the U.S. have held talks with Taliban emissaries in a bid to end the nation's nearly 10-year war.
June 22
James "Whitey" Bulger, the longtime fugitive Boston crime boss and fixture on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, is arrested in Santa Monica, C
June 22
Obama announces he is bringing home 33,000 troops from Afghanistan by next summer, withdrawing the "surge" of forces he had sent to rescue a flailing effort.
June 24
New York becomes the largest state to legalize same-sex marriage.
June 27
International judges order the arrest of Libya's Gadhafi for murdering civilians.
The rest of the list will be in subsequent writings but I think you might agree 2011 has been an amazing year.   Death to tyranny and birth to possibilities.    

Peace on Earth is happening now.... believe

I used to be depressed and resentful that each year, once a year, we sang the song and made our wishes to each other, "peace on earth, goodwill toward man".  As far as I could tell we have always been in war of some sort here on the planet.  And every year during the time that the merchants rely on to make their profit, we smile and repeat those words... "peace on earth". 
This year I truly believe it has begun.  It will be a long time before we see a laying down of all arms but this is a birth that is happening.  People are finally getting tired of being ruled by despots and wealthy entrepreneurs and some are doing something about it.   Change is taking place and has come a long way even in this, 2011, the year of illumination.   The last week of December I will list many of these changes.  I think you will be as amazed as I was how many and the depth these changes on the planet have taken.   For now, allow the peace to begin where it has to, inside yourself.  For now... I wish you peace.

just a little light...

Earlier this evening I attended a solstice celebration.  I had never been to this place before and had not been to a celebration of this type before so I did not know what to expect.  I found my way along a path outlined with luminarias and at specific places along this path were bonfires.   People at the bonfires were reading poetry.   As I entered the building a choir sat at one end and I heard the most heavenly music I have ever heard.   I couldn't tell if it was a recording or was being sung by the choir and so I took a seat fairly close to the choir to see if they were singing.  As far as I could tell they were not.   The celebration was simple:  music, some spoken words, a ceremony where a woman and a child lighted a communal fire in the center of the group of people.  At the end of the ceremony if we wanted to participate we lit our own candle from the communal fire and take it with us as we left.  This was a wonderful metaphor for taking our light out into the world.   It reminded me how in the darkness all we need to do is light a match, flick a switch, or a modern take on turning on the light... simply open or turn on our cell phone.  Interesting isn't it... using our communication device to light our way.  I certainly have at times.   In the darkness all it takes is turning on a light, however that is done and the darkness goes away.   That is how easy it is to make the darkness go away.  Darkness on its own has no power.  Darkness cannot come into a lighted room and chase away the light.  But any little light, a match, a candle, even a cell phone, chases the darkness away.   Allow your light... the beautiful light that is in you, all of you, to chase away the darkness.  You can't imagine how much light that puts into the world, each of us... just a little light...

My Wishes To All...

My wishes to all and my gratitude to all who have read this blog.  

Thank you.....

The tree of life.....

The tree is a powerful symbol.  The tree of life is a symbol in many religions and has many meanings.  For us the tree provides, shade, fruit, wood, the leaves absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, life.
Look at your Christmas tree, look at the trees in your yard, on your street.  Think about what your trees have done and what they represent to you.   "I think that I shall never see, a poem lovely as a tree."   TREES by Joyce Kilmer.

Birth Peace on Earth...

As the days count down to the Winter Solstice and we begin to reflect on the year passed we have the opportunity to add our positive thoughts about what it all means.   It has been a year of unrest with many changes but if we choose to look at them as positive changes I think we can help bring about those positive changes that we all so want to see.   So bless all of the life that has been lost, the impact of violence, and know that this is what needs to be in order to birth "peace on earth goodwill toward humankind."

What will you leave?

Since we are eternal and the life we live leaves an eternal impression on the earth, what will be the impression you leave?

The Meaning Of Love...

Have you ever questioned the meaning of love
What is it really
Do you have it or not
Do you look to the world
And doubt that it exists
How can there be love
When you see only hatred
And violence seem to persist
Touch your heart is it cold and hard
Touch your heart is it warm inside
When you see beauty, art and creativity
A child’s face, and lovers embrace
Have you ever questioned the meaning of love

Spirit is our True Nature....

Have you ever noticed that organized religion never mentions where we came from?   I believe they teach that we are eternal souls or at least that we have eternal souls and eternal means always and forever so why is where we came from never addressed?  One of the reasons that being on earth can be so difficult is because we are so used to having the freedom of being a spirit.  Being born with a body of flesh and forgetting who and what we really are is a shock to the system.   And this amnesia of Home happens every time we incarnate.   No matter how many times we have incarnated as human we have been spirit longer, forever.   Spirit is our true nature and always will be.   

The other side of Compassion...

The American news satire organization called THE ONION in its review of the year has the headline,
"Deaths of 20,000 Japanese Afford Planet Solid 15 minutes In which everyone acts like a Human Being."  Now the Onion can very satirical, very caustic in its commentary on the human condition but it would appear that in this case they may have made a very important point.   The great tragedies do that for us and in the new energy the feelings of empathy brought about by great tragedies stay with the planet.  We humans have a tendency to get over things rather quickly that do not effect us directly but when there is that scale of emotion it stays with the earth.   and that scale of empathy can help turn the tide.   There have been a lot of these kinds of events:  9/11, Haiti, Katrina, tsunami, earthquakes, and volcanoes and each one of them has brought about an outpouring of compassion and empathy.    While these are terrible terrible tragedies they do have an effect on the planet, negative as well as positive.     

And change the earth....

In a world of duality
life can be easy or not
some days are up and some are down
we have the chance to turn the tide
on the side of the light
stay positive
light your match and hold it high
your life will take on a new quality
and change the earth. 

you are a part of the Creator

It does a great deal for the self esteem to find out you are a part of the Creator
Individual but not separate.
Like stick men unable to see the artist who drew them
We imagine a stickman god because that is all we know.
But now we are getting a picture of our artist
a hint
bits and pieces
slips of color
glimpses of sound
And it is more than we can ever imagine.
Try to imagine being a part of All That Is.
OH and by the way.....
Full moon AND Lunar eclipse tomorrow December 10......   There is a lot of the Creator in those... 

... a sort of treasure hunt

I have mentioned previously the work of Ken Carey, visionary, author of VISION, STARSEED TRANSMISSIONS, THE RETURN OF THE BIRD TRIBES and more.  This year he started blogging about the changes that are taking place centered around 2011 and 2012.  In a most recent one he referred to a "mental polarity shift" in human consciousness.  And then he wrote this: 
"Simply put, the pole reversal will start consciously moving us to a mental state where we think about God more than ourselves, a state where we find ourselves looking around the natural world, wondering who the heck thought all this stuff up, who created it, and why.  Especially if we meditate and refuse to let fear automatically make our decisions, we soon find ourselves caught up in a sort of treasure hunt so intriguing and fascinating that it actually becomes hard not to think about it."  The link to the entire blog entry is below.  
The reason this struck me and that I mention it, is simply this is more or less what I have been doing all of my life and even more so now.  It is hard for me to think about anything else at times.   And perhaps this is what 2011 has meant to me, that it is the time that I have come the farthest in the shortest amount of time.  I especially like his calling it a "treasure hunt".    

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Find Some Music to take you Home...

Earth is a place of black and white.
Music reminds me of Home.
Home is where I come from
Earth is where I roam.
The Masters and Prophets came to teach us
To remind us of how to live
Journey and work till you are tired
Then find some music to take you home.  

The God Qualities....

We bring into each life the God qualities of Love, music, art, creativity and the desire for home.  It is the desire for home that drives our search for God in whatever form that takes.  What happens with the other qualities depends on what we do with them and how they are nurtured by our parents and caretakers early in our lives.   Note there is nothing in that list that says anything about war, greed, control, and treating others badly.  Perhaps those are human qualities?
Look for the qualities of art, music, creativity and love in others and you will be looking at God.  Look for them in yourself and you will find home, you will find God. 

Your song is not forever gone....

There is a song within your soul
That sings of God and Home
When you are born upon this earth you soon begin to lose your song. 
Yet sometimes we catch glimpses, hear bits and pieces on the wind. 
When we love someone we can hear it
When we love our pet and see it looking back at us with love in its eyes
When we see the beauty of a sunrise or sunset
Or hear the waves crashing upon the shore
Sometimes in the flash of a lightning storm
Or the paining hanging on the wall.
Fear not my beloved ones
Your song is not forever gone.
Is it there, in you, around you,
Waiting for you to recognize the God in your soul.
Then it plays for you again.  

And the Master Said...

And the master said, "Do not think like a human, my child". 
"But master", I replied, "I am human". 
And the master replied, "You are human but you are more than human.  You carry a spark of the Creator within.  When I tell you to not think like a human I am encouraging you to acknowledge that Creator within.  When you do that it is like you are feeding and watering a tiny plant that with your intent and your love will grow into the beautiful flower of God of that you are.   This is why I tell you, my child, do not think like a human." 

Our Eternal Soul Lives On....

Life is a series of rhythms and cycles.   Sometimes you are up and sometimes you are down.  The key to maintaining harmony is not letting the down cycles get to you.  And how do you do that?  Know that they are part of a cycle and that cycles are circles.   Recognize that you are in a down cycle and not allow fear or worry to take over.   Don't allow depression and feelings of worthlessness to take over during these times because these times pass.   If you have to,  just take a deep breath and know that things will be different in an hour, a day, a week.   They will change and you will be at the top of the cycle again.   Long ago I had a sign on a piece of wood hanging above my door.  "This Too Shall Pass".  We are eternal souls.   Things of this material world will pass but our eternal soul lives on and always has.   Interesting thought, isn't it? 

Can you hear it.....

Can you hear it?
Music!
The sweet sound of music resounding through the universe.
Music that reminds us of home,
Our connection to the source.
On the side of Spirit there is always music
Music that we can only hear at times when we wear the body.
Listen!
Can you hear it?
It is the music of the spheres
The music of the universe
The music of the Source of all things
Music that never ends.
Listen!

Heal Yourself...

I see two steps to healing the world and bringing about peace on earth.  They are simply treat others the way you wish to be treated and heal yourself.   

You heal the other by treating them as you would be treated.

You heal the world by healing yourself. 

You heal yourself by finding the Source within.

A Circle that Never Ends...

I'm beginning to remember from where I came, the place of forever, where the rainbow begins.  
All praise to the source, the God that I know.  Love almost forgotten in the midst of life spins.
The forgetting is worth it when the remembering starts.   Finding God in our minds and in our hearts.
I'm beginning to remember from where I came
The place of forever
Where the rainbow begins
I'm beginning to remember
The rainbow is a circle
That never ends...

They are here.....

It has been said that there are children coming now that remember who they are and what they have attained from other expressions (past lives).   That is an explanation given for children that sing, play a musical instrument, create magnificent art pieces, are very electronic savvy, and more, that ‘hit the deck a running’ so to speak.  As wee ones they know what they are doing and their creations are something that most people would take a lifetime of work and practice to even come close to.  To some these are known as indigo children, crystal children, and even simply prodigies.   I was introduced to the work of one of these children today and I want to share it with you.   These are the children that will soon be telling us how stupid we are for engaging in war.   These are the children that will take our hands and lead us to the dawn of a new and beautiful age of beauty.   Their art and creation will be too important to them and to us to allow us to waste our time.   And their compassion will show us how important it is to feed and clothe and house others rather than taking their land or killing them off.   The name of this young lady is Jackie Evancho and she brings to us the music of the heavens with her voice of an angel.   Watch for others like her.    They are here already making their way, making waves.   Below is a link to a youtube video of Jackie singing a song her uncle composed entitled "TO BELIEVE".   There are more youtube videos of her music and she has a website Jackieevancho.com and her music is on Itunes.   
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hx9Acrv1H4

You thank you...

Gratitude is often said to be of high spiritual importance.  And we often verbalize our sighs of relief with "thank god".   I am going to ask you to look in a mirror or just look at yourself in your mind's eye and say thank you to yourself.  Thank yourself for being the beautiful person that you are.   This is an aspect of gratitude I think we often forget or feel that it would be wrong to do.    I thank you for being the beautiful person that you are.   You thank you also.    

It is happening, even now.

One does not have to choose mastery.  One only needs to make the intent to live their lives from a higher perspective and to do it for themselves.   Learning to heal your life, recognize and move on from drama and seeking the place inside yourself where there is harmony will change your world and make it the world we really do desire for future generations.   We don't have to say 'I can't do it because it has never been done' or 'we have always had war and conflict that will never change'.  Changing the planet, making it safe, making it sustainable, healing our own lives is something we want to do for ourselves.   and it can happen.   I say it is happening, even now.    

11 meets the 22

We have reached the midpoint of the great cycle and the earth is receiving an influx of new higher vibration energy.  This and the work that a few humans have done is making it possible for the birth of a new human, the fully realized human.  However we have to make it through this period of death and rebirth of the planet and the people.   It is a time of great upheaval both in our lives and our world.   I give you three ways to help get you through these times......... 1)  Don't be afraid.   2)  Learn to think on a higher level.  and 3) Expand your definition of God and start seeing God in everyone and everything.  Today the 11 of enlightenment and illumination meets the 22 of the master builder.   Let us use the energy of these master numbers to build this fully realized human and to create the new earth.   

Create Peace in Your Life....

There are times when something is said so well and says so much that I want to share it. 
"As you solve the puzzles of duality, create peace in your life, and claim the power of the creator inside, DNA knows it and this layer is used to increase the power to your cellular structure to live longer, think in a balanced way, conquer fear, heal itself, and move into an entirely new paradigm."  Kryon Book 12

Ecstasy of Mystics...

When one has searched as long as I have for information on God that makes sense and answers so many questions, there comes an Ah Ha moment that is so filled with Joy and knowing that there is no denying that I have, indeed, found something.  Is this the ecstasy that Mystics have long written about?  It doesn't really matter.   The knowing is such that it was worth the long search.    It is a feeling that anyone can experience.  And once you have felt it, it will never permanently go away again.   

Lessons to Learn...

There are lessons to learn in this life and if we can learn them we learn them forever.   Learning to love  wasn't as difficult as learning to love myself.  It's easier for me to learn to listen than for me to learn to receive.   What does it mean to be able to love oneself and what does it mean to learn to receive?  I guess that is what I need to learn.  

God’s Disclaimer...

Humans and other living things:
I wish to make it perfectly clear that I God am not responsible for the images that humans and other living things make of me.  The particular one of the really old man with a really long beard is not of my making and is quite offensive to me and other old things.  Also I am not responsible for the image of me as a mother or a woman.  People, I am not human.  I am God.  I AM THAT I AM. 
PostScript:  I am also not responsible for this disclaimer being only in English.  I am God, I know all languages.   The human that wrote this disclaimer, however, doesn’t know all the languages. 

That is why we come to earth....

Life on earth is all about duality.  Which is why there are potentials for such extremes of experience.  
The place we come from considers earth a hard place to be and yet the place where we can learn the most.  It's difficult to overcome some of the obstacles that are placed, that we place, in our paths.   We make the choice to come here knowing how difficult it can be.   The earth, the duality, living here, making choices, attempting to overcome obstacles and we still come.  Over and over again. 
“You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!”
― Eckhart Tolle
That is why we come to earth... over and over again....

The world is changing...

War has never made sense to me.  And then when it is a war of religions it makes even less sense.  A poster from the 60's was a picture of a flower and the caption in large letters, "War is not healthy for children and other living things."  Well, Duh......
With versions in every major religion and philosophy the idea of treating someone the way you would like to be treated is common sense but it is so rarely followed that we had to give it a special name.  THE GOLDEN RULE
The world is the way it is because up until recently that is the way we were to learn.  How can we know about love unless we know the absence of it?  How can we know courage unless we know fear?  Things are changing.  We can learn from the past.  We can know about God.  We will learn how useless war is and how it makes sense to treat someone the way you would like to be treated.   The world is changing. 

It gets better than better....

There is a set of videos out called "It gets better" that has celebrities and people like you and me talking to gay and lesbian youth letting them know that life gets better beyond the bullying and the self doubt.  Sometimes it is still not easy but it does get better.   I would like to put my thumbs up on that project and add that it is the same with life in general and one's spiritual journey.  The truth about God and the part of life that we cannot see is awe inspiring and wondrous beyond anything we can imagine  but we will not know or feel it  unless we get out of fear, recognize the God within us, expect good things and look for the synchronicities that will bring them to us.  It is also difficult to ferret out the fear and to let go of the drama.  We get so used to it.  When the going gets tough, the tough look within.  It not only gets better, it gets better than better.    

The beginning of a new paradigm....

As a people we have become so enculturated by religion that we do not think it is possible to know about spirit life.  We are in the beginning of a new paradigm, however, and we are able to get some glimpses of what is beyond this life.   We are able to get an idea of how and why we incarnate on this planet and that will go far toward helping us solve personal or planetary problems.  Being born in an amnesiac state had its purpose but the time has come for us to let go of our karmic attachments and turn the planet into a place of peace and unity.   It will take some time but it will happen.   To start working on why you are here take a long close look at those things in your life that keep popping up, that are irritants.   Take a look at the things that make you afraid or even nervous.   What we see in ourselves and what we heal in ourselves we heal in the world.  

11s, lots of 11s

Yesterday was my 111 blog posting.   I want to thank everyone that has followed my ramblings. 
Tomorrow is 11/10/11, a full moon.  And then Friday is 11/11/11.   The number 11 is all about illumination and I believe there is more light being poured into this sometimes dark world than ever before.   Pause tomorrow, Friday....absorb a little of that full moon energy.  Then Friday do the same.  Make an intention to become a little more enlightened and to add your own light.  If you are in a totally dark room all it takes is the light from a match or a cell phone to make that darkness go away.   If we all open our phones, light a match, light a candle we can disperse a lot of darkness.    

Self awareness, self healing.... healing the world...

We often feel like we should be doing more to make this world a better place.  And there are many who are doing much.   But there continues to be so much war and violence, the financial state of the world seems so precarious, there seems to be an increase of deadly diseases and chronic conditions.  And with the media focused on  the negativity we often do not learn of all of the good, positive things that are being done.   
So what can we do?  We can do the very thing that would solve the world problems.   We can work on our self.  
It is simple but would eventually solve all problems if we all were to take responsibility for ourselves and do what we can to improve ourselves.   Too much to ask of everyone, well probably,  too much to ask of myself... no,  I can do it...  Self awareness, self responsibility, self healing.... healing the world... 

The more I want to know...

There is change in the air, a new paradigm for an evolving planet in which the worst is over and the future full of promise and light.   One of the reasons I believe this is because of the availability of information.  Never before has this much and this kind of information been available before. Information on reincarnation, and not only that but specific information on how and why we choose to incarnate on this sometimes “mad world”is avaiable.   Information about God is available as never before.   I know that there are a lot of skeptics who question the validity of this information but the same information is coming from enough different sources and not only that but it is information that makes sense.  These are things I have been searching for and studying all my life and finally it is available.   A verse from the old christian bible had kept me searching, “you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free”.   The more I learn, the more I want to know.  

Before time I Am...

Before time I Am, and when time disappears I Am.  That which you call an incident, a happening, disaster or triumph, is but a nano now of eternity.   Celebrate your triumphs and remember your disasters but keep in mind that your memory and that of each human mind is biased by who you are.   Life goes on until it stops.  
And then it begins again all over again.   I Am always.  Ponder this. 

Anything but easy........

Incarnating on planet earth is anything but easy.   The key to a successful life on earth seems to be conquering the emotions.   There are a lot of things that confront us on earth but it is working through the feelings around all them that makes things work.   Usually the way to master the emotions is to feel them completely, let them run their course.  And we are certainly confronted by painful and uncomfortable things such as loss, death, violence/war, chronic pain, illness, mental disorders.   The list goes on.   If you are having a particularly hard time with something I would suggest looking at the feelings and emotions around them.  

Trial by fire or school of hard knocks...

I was going to call planet earth a trial by fire kinda place but as I think about it, it really is more like the "school of hard knocks".  I understand it is the only planet like it in the entire universe.   Now there are infinite multiverses so who knows how accurate that is but still it is unique.  Earth, the planet of polarity and free will.  One of the things that astounds me is that with all of the people on the planet so few of us seem to get it right and yet I think everyone comes in with good intentions.   Now some have very specific reasons for incarnating in certain places and certain times and we all know that some places are easier places to live on planet earth than others.  Too bad we can't remind certain people of the reason they came here in the first place.  But then that is between them and their spirit, isn't it?  If you ever ask yourself any of the questions brought up in this little musing and really want some answers, look inside, and ask for some help finding those answers.  You might be surprised.    

I wonder what Capt Kirk would say.......

On a radio talk show 80 year old consummate actor et al William Shatner was interviewed.  A man of many accomplishments one of the latest of which is another book that he has written about himself, he talked in the book and in the interview about how on his 80th birthday he was feeling fearful and anxious.   The reason was, he said, that he is fearful of death.   The older one gets the specter of death creeps closer and he reported that he does not have the faith or the belief that God or loved ones will be waiting for him on the other side.   But then he brought up hearing about the last words of Steve Jobs, “oh wow, oh wow, oh wow”.  Shatner wondered where that came from and what prompted Jobs to say those words.   Here is an interesting example of a man that has conquered his fear of life through all of his accomplishments but now is being faced with the fear of dying.   Funny the priorities we humans place on ourselves.  I see a time in the future when we will live much longer lives but when it is time to take off this physical shell we will just do so.   No fanfare, no fear.   I wonder what Captain Kirk would say about all of this. 

Imagine for a moment...

Imagine for a moment there is no hell.  At least no hell beyond what we make for ourselves right here on our little overpopulated planet.   Imagine that all the things we do to each other, killing and lesser sins, are the results of lots of someones making really bad decisions.  Imagine all of the evil in the world is human produced and humans start realizing that and take responsibility for themselves.    Imagine!   

You have made your choice...

The screens light up, huge screens, lifelike screens.   You are alone in the auditorium although you can feel a presence or perhaps more than one.  
You are shown on the gigantic screens 2 or 3 people at different stages in their lives.  Child, middle age, old.     Each person that you are shown has physical and behavioral characteristics that you can learn from, that fit at least in some way with what you are looking for.  
Something catches your fancy about one of the people on one of the screen and you decide you want to try it out.  You are spirit, you are energy, you move into the screen into the body to see how it feels to be this person.   You don’t linger but you might try another body or you might try a different age.   You have all the time you want.  You have already talked about what you want and what you want to accomplish.  You make up your mind and telepathically tell the presence that this is the one you want.  You have made your choice.  You take a last look at this person on the screen that you will be and leave the screening room.  You are ready now to make the final preparations for your return to earth in your next incarnation.  

The Face of God as Many....

If I were an artist, specifically a cartoonist, I would draw a set of images and call them, "the changing face of God".  In the first one would be primitive humans praying to their nature gods,   Pantheism, everything outside of themselves, that they had no control over that became their gods.   Next would be an images of Abraham, of Old Testament fame, considered to be the father of monotheism.  Abraham is recognized by the three major organized religions as the beginning of the belief in one god, again however this is a god, created in a human image, male, old, and existing outside of the human existence.   This god spoke to Abraham and a few others directly.   The next image would be of the prophets, masters, great souls, who came to show us god and teach us how to live with each other.     Still one God but teachers, prophets, aware humans, who we often did and still do turn into gods.   There will undoubtedly be more of these frames but the last one I would do is simply this, an image of a human, looking at themselves in the mirror.  and this would I would depict as an adult looking into the mirror but seeing a baby reflecting back.   This is the new face of God, as we are all baby gods in the making.   There is still a Source, but that Source has placed a part of Itself in all of us.  And we are finding that part and integrating that Divinity into the human.  As our linear time becomes more focused in the now, humans will come to know themselves as the "I", the one, the many, part, but the totality of All That Is because All is the Source.   The great song of Creation, a harmonic chorus in Spirit, once only heard in Spirit, will come alive and be heard as the wind blows across this fair earth, and in the quiet stillness of a warm summer evening will we hear this choir of angels.  What began as the All will be the many as One.   The face of God as Many faces, humans, you and I.  

Advice for you and me.....

If I had but one bit of advice to give to you and me, it would be this:  Don't despair, get out of fear, don't let your emotions overwhelm you and love yourself.  There is a new world coming.   It can already be here for you.   Did you notice?  This advice to me also.  

It really is that simple...

Can you believe that we actually choose to come here, this planet of darkness and bright and beautiful light.  Planet earth, planet of polarity, light and dark, good and evil, love and fear, pain and joy.   We not only choose to come here but we keep coming back.   These ideas alone are worth the thought of trying to make ours, and others, stays here as pleasant as possible.   And yet human history is wrought with war and sorrow punctuated by moments of joy and beauty.  We are not beings stranded on a prison rock floating in space.  Again, don't you think that alone is worth the idea of trying our best to make our stay as pleasant as possible.  We chose to come here and we have choices here and now.  And yes, it really is that simple.    

Love is the Motive....

In order to fully step into the mantle of our personal spirituality and power we must first let go of what organized religion tells us about our relationship to God.   We have to allow ourselves the proposition that it is true and good that we have a personal connection to the Source and it is the right thing to do to use the power that we derive from that connection.  We have never been separate from our Source but it has only been in the energy of the current cycle that we have been able to fully know that.  We no longer need an intermediary.  We never did but we didn’t know that.   When we are fully in the core of our personal spirituality, our Higher Self, we can never commit the kinds of acts that have so often been done in the past.   The painful and destructive things that have been done in the past, and in some cases are still being done, in the name of God and religion, are acts committed by humans listening to the interpretations of other humans.   You will know when you are in the core of your being, surrounded by your Higher Self, when love is the motive and love of self is the motivator. 

Music helps us remember...

"The musician is very close to mysticism, far closer than the philosopher...because music is meaningful without any words; it is meaningful simply because it rings some bells in your heart..creates a synchronicity between you and itself, when your heart starts resonating in the same way, when you start pulsating in the same way."
Osho, Philosophia Ultima
We often hear about celestial music, the music of the spheres, it is an integral part of the other side.   Indeed, harmonic sound is part of creation itself.  This is why music touches us.  It is why music is a part of all society and ceremony.  And yet when we come into this life we no longer hear the music of the spheres, the celestial music, the angelic choirs.   Finding that music back is one more of the reasons  we search for God.   Music helps us remember...

"There are more things in heaven and earth......"

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." 
Yes now I am quoting Shakespeare.   HAMLET Act 1 Scene V to be exact.  
The more I learn the more I remember.   And other than wanting all my life to find out about God and things of a spiritual nature, is there a specific reason I am learning and remembering all of this?  It is said that if you fully embrace your God self in this lifetime when you come back the next time you will return with your memory intact.  I would like that.   But it is also my intent to live a very long life this time around.   There was a time when I insisted I did not want to come back again to this place of pain and sorrow, but I'm thinking I will most likely return to see through all that has begun in this lifetime.  And to be able to do so with my memory of home and who I am as an eternal being, now that might be quite an experience.    Yes, there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of.....  Knowing some of them doesn't necessarily take away feelings of pain and separation that life on earth can produce but they certainly make a lot more sense.....   

Intention works.....

It seems lately that I have been increasingly personalizing this message.  I'm not sure if that was my original intent or not.   I do know that my intention to awaken, to become more aware of things of spirit,  has been very fruitful.  It simply amazes me the clarity and knowledge that is coming to me.    So I guess that is the message for tonight.  Intention works.  

In Praise of Creation....

I watched again this morning as my little companion, the dog Manolo, pranced out in front of me, proud and skipping along.   He touches me with his sweetness and beauty.   The hawk that flies overhead, the deer that disappears off into the brush.   And even the trees and the grass.    Who came up with the idea for a little grey dog with a sweet personality, a black and white striped zebra, an eagle that soars with the breeze?  Thank you Creator of beauty.   

The God/human relationship is changing....

In the new vibration of the 21st century, the so called “age of Aquarius”, the God/Human relationship is changing.   It has changed from God the super human created by the human as a way of understanding Divinity to the God in Human which is the human finding and accepting the Creator energy that is a part of the body and went into the creation of human beings.

A vision of angels......

Tonight I return from a visit with former co workers who once shared with me the job of assisting people with mental illness.   Several of them still are doing that work.    I am going to repeat a quote from A Course in Miracles because it not only applies to our beautiful planet but to the beautiful dedicated angels on earth that assist us all in so many ways.   "There is no place for hell within a world whose loveliness can yet be so intense and so inclusive it is but a step from there to Heaven. To your tired eyes I bring a vision of a different world, so new and clean and fresh you will forget the pain and sorrow that you saw before."   There is no place for hell within a world whose people care so much for others.   Thank you my friends, thank you for restoring my faith in people and in myself.  

"Oh When I Get Where I'm Going......"

When I Get Where I'm Going is a song by Brad Paisley sang as a duet with Dolly Parton.  The Harmonies of the two singers is wonderful in itself but the more I learn and the more I listen to the song, it is a pretty good representation of afterlife.  There is a little country and western christianity thrown in but for the most part it is good.   Take these lines for example:  "...The first thing that I'm gonna do Is spread my wings and fly."  and "So much pain and so much darkness, in this world we stumble through.  All these questions, I can't answer, so much work to do." and probably most of all:  "Oh, when I get where I'm going,  there'll be only happy tears. Hallelujah! I will love and have no fear."  It is an ah ha moment when we see little glimpses of eternity in things like this.   

And so it is.....

There are those among us who sleepwalk through life.   It is then up to the awakened ones, those with some awareness, to be the lighthouse, the beacon by which they start to wake up to realize there is more than the life they live.    Our match lit in a world that is often so dark we cannot see our way, will light a beacon by which all can eventually find their way.    Find a quiet moment, speak to the God within.  Set your intention to increase your awareness.   Set your intent to live life more fully awake.   And so it is....

the only judgment.....

When this life is over there will be a review but the only judgement will come from ourselves.  I have a feeling we can be pretty hard on ourselves.  But we can work harder next time.    

Ask and you shall receive....

One's intention is the key to thought, creation, change.   It is important to make one's intention clear and not be involved with the method or the outcome.    Allow the universe to work out the method, just be open to do your part.   And don't worry about the outcome....   Ask and you shall receive....   The outcome may not be exactly how you envisioned it and in fact is usually better......

Take your place...

All our lives we have given away little bits, sometimes large amounts, of ourselves to get along in the world.   Our family, church, school, tell us do this, do that, don't do this, don't do that.   And so our life becomes a lot of what we hear and only a little of what we choose and feel.    It is okay to claim those little and big bits.   Its okay to claim our coping skills, our relationships, our love and our spirituality.  
Take your place,  look at all the places where you have given away your power, make your choices and stake your claim.   Stake your claim for what is already yours.    Espavo... I see you claiming that which is yours.  

It connects us all........

This full Moon in October has been called the harvest moon, the hunter's moon, the travel moon, the dying grass moon, and the blood moon.  There has been conflicting studies about the effect the moon has on the behavior of people and animals.   It is a time when the reflected energy of the sun is at its peak so that it makes an excellent time to reflect.... on who we are, where we are going.    Another cycle has been completed.  In addition to all of the folklore when it comes down to it, it is simply something of extreme beauty.    Wherever you are look up...  That is the same moon shining on you that shines on me....   It connects us all........

ONE.......

ONE... We are all made of the same stuff, all pieces of God trying to find our way home, remembering and once more experiencing that Oneness.  But perhaps when we have so much trouble tolerating, liking, loving the other it's because we are having trouble tolerating, liking and loving ourselves.     It is easy to say...."we are ONE"....  Is it easy to feel it... know it.... be it?   ONE...