And You Can Choose...

Who are you?
Where did you get who you are?
How did you become you?
What do you love?
What do you fear?
What do you choose?

You have to know who you are.
You have to know how you got there.
You know who you love but do you love you?
Anxiety and Worry are Fear.
Depression and Anger are fear.
Know yourself and who you are
And you can choose. 

What Would you Say...

     He stood in front of me, tall, commanding, yet emanating a feeling of warmth and calm.  “I have come from a star system close to yours.   I have been sent to evaluate whether your people are ready to join the galactic council.   But I have been sorely disappointed.” 
“We are in the midst of a lot of change.”  I felt like I was pleading with him.  Like I was trying to justify humanity. 
“When I first arrived on your planet military forces from many countries tried to take me into custody.  They even stopped fighting one of their many wars to try to capture of kill me. 
And speaking of wars, your people seem to thrive on killing each other.  Also there are those on your planet who are so poor that they are starving and dying of disease and yet a small percentage of humans have so much more of your money that they cannot possibly use it all in one lifetime.   In addition your planet cries out to the universe over what you have done to her, let alone what you have done to each other on her.”
I bowed my head.  “Why did you come to me?  There is nothing I can add to what you already know.  I’m sure you can complete your report.”
“I sensed something different from you.   There are others like you.  I wanted to hear what you had to say about your people before I made my report.”
“There is little more that I can tell you.”  I told him, raising my head to look him in the eye.  “There are changes taking place.  There are many people who are tired of war.  They can no longer deal with the sadness of death and violence, the hunger and homelessness.  Can you see that?  There are changes taking place.  It may take a generation or more but things are changing.  And the number of us is growing.   I can make no excuse for my people.  I too am tired of the violence and the poverty.  I am tired of the pain we cause each other and the destruction we do to our planet.  Humans are stubborn but many are learning.  It will happen.  The changes are happening.”
“That is why I wanted to talk to you.” He said gently”,  The galactic council will continue to monitor this small primitive planet.  In time we will return.   It is time that I leave now.” 
He turned and walked away.  But then turned, with one last admonishment.  “Your people will never be allowed to go out in space until they can be peaceful and trustworthy.”  He turned and continued walking away and a few meters from me he stepped into an energy vortex, like a tornado, and disappeared. 

Listen to your heart and Open your eyes...

There is an old song by the Sandpipers called “Come Saturday Morning”.
It has these words:
“Come Saturday morning, I'm goin' away with my friend We'll Saturday-spend till the end of the day, just I and my friend We'll travel for miles in our Saturday smiles and then we'll move on But we will remember long after Saturday's gone.”
I have a friend like that.  And our Saturdays (and Sundays) are turning out to be a lesson for me in trust, intuition, synchronicity, and stepping out of the box.   My friend was trying to decide betweens several places for us to go on Saturday and finally decided on one after expressing how much he would like to go to one of the other places.   We went with our cameras looking to find birds to identify and photograph.  We found few birds but we had a wonderful, safe encounter (from a safe distance) with a momma black bear and two cubs.  What a wonderful sight, and we took some nice images with our long lenses.   I’m glad he went with his intuition and we went there.    Then Sunday, the same thing.  Where to go?  He decided on a place and we went.  I was objecting to one trail because a family with rather noisy children were going that way.  So we went out on a low tide sandbar and there had wonderful encounters, as in flying right over us, with several Ospreys, the beautiful bird of prey known as the fish eagle or sea eagle.  We got more pictures and felt so good out in nature with these beautiful birds who dive in the water to get fish for food.  He then suggested that we walk along the sandbar close to the shore and I was reluctant because it didn’t look like an easy walk.  We went.   I suddenly called to him to stop and look.  I had seen under some over hanging brush against the shore a beautiful deer, a doe, lying there in the shade just keeping cool in the warmth of the day.  She did not try to run away and we took some great pictures.   We walked on not wanting to disturb her further.   Two perfect days, fun and full.   He followed his intuition about where to go.  He stepped out his comfort zone just a little to watch the bears.  We followed his intuition to go out on the sandbar to see what we could see.  I stepped out of my comfort zone and walked with him along the shoreline.    Keep following your intuition, my friend.  I will keep pushing back the walls of my comfort zone. 
Be aware of the decisions you make and what happens when you make them.  Be aware of your surroundings.  You can learn to live a fuller, happier life.  And who knows how many deer and bears you have been missing. 
“Come Saturday morning, I’m going away with my friend.” 

It's not Easy...

To bring about a shift in our lives and the world we live in we will need to change some attitudes and ideas.  The old way was based on what I can get out of you and the planet.   It was competition that becomes so extreme that it turns into exploitation.  I know a man that runs his dogs in a protected growth area.  It is a forest within the city that is protected to provide animal and bird habitat and plant life.  This is convenient for him so he either doesn’t realize what those large dogs can do to the area or he knows and doesn’t care.   This is the kind of thinking that has governed what the large corporations have done to our planet and the people.  If it is the easiest way to make money then they will not worry about the effect it has on people and the environment.   
Thankfully there are individuals now and some companies who are starting to realize that the old way of thinking is not sustainable and people are starting to see through what they are doing.   I think it is interesting that these programs of starting to think sustainably are called green.   I know that is the color of plants and trees, but it is also the color of the American dollar.   Thinking ahead, realizing ones true motivations, and trying to change the competitive exploitation of the past are the things we need to teach our children.    I’m afraid in some cases they will be teaching us before we can get a grasp on an economy of sharing and collaboration.    Until the ideas become so common and people start using common sense it will probably be as Kermit the frog has said:  ‘It’s not easy being green’.

Are you Curious...

We are so in love with our reality, the physical, three dimensional reality where our bodies and our wars reside.  It is part of coming here to planet earth that we forget who we really are and that there is something else besides planet earth.   We get so into the fun and games and pain living here that we don’t realize there really is more.  Infinity, spirit, even God are names we use to describe what else is there just beyond our sensitivity.   The stories our religions tell us have helped keep our attention on the third dimension and they have always discouraged asking questions but haven’t you ever wondered what else there is?  And now with the changes taking place on the planet information on the ‘rest of it’ is becoming more available.   We forget when we were born what the rest of eternity was like because we would have a lot of doubts about our choices to come here.  However, “nobody knows” is no longer an excuse.   If you want to know more about the universe you can.  Spread the word.  

A Gift from the Past...

I am encountering an interesting phenomena.  Books and information that I had never been able to read or understand or even want to read suddenly are becoming must reads for me.  And it usually is through a synchronicity that I become reacquainted with this information.  In the past few weeks I took up a book by Dr. Wayne Dyer on intention because my friend had seen one of his shows on PBS.  Then from Dyer I was reintroduced to Carlos Castaneda which at one time I was not able to get into at all.   I am now learning from both of them.   When another puts words in a certain order I can see a picture and gain an understanding.  From Castaneda’s book, THE ACTIVE SIDE OF INFINITY, Castaneda’s teacher Don Juan describes when they met:  “When we met in Arizona, both of us crossed a peculiar threshold, ‘he continued’. And this threshold was not decided by either one of us, but by infinity itself.  Infinity is everything that surrounds us..... The Sorcerers of my linage call it infinity, the spirit, the dark sea of awareness, and say that it is something that exists out there and rules our lives.” 
continuing Castaneda writes: 
....”He answered that his steps and mine were guided by infinity, and that circumstances that seemed to be ruled by chance were in essence ruled by the active side of infinity.  He called it intent.” 
 “... the active side of infinity.  He called it intent.”     This was truly a gift from the past to me.  Carlos Castaneda died in 1998.  

Are you searching for meaning....

Life can feel unbearable at times;  Too much heat, too much cold, too much tragedy, too much pain.  Sometimes we seem have a tendency to go through life as sleepwalkers, not being very aware of who and what we are.  Viktor E. Frankl, a Neurologist and psychiatrist, spent time as an inmate in Nazi concentration camps and from that came his book, “MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING.”  
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”
― Viktor E. Frankl
By taking responsibility for our lives we can find meaning but does it take life experiences like that of the holocaust and the concentration camps before we recognize the need for that meaning in our lives?  
Does your life have meaning?  Do you feel fulfilled with what you do and who you are?  What will it take for you to find meaning?