Confessions of an internet addict

I'm back

2011-12-05T06:52:00.000-08:00

Facebook had me for two years now. I have been posting there because there are more friends and family who read my posts..Peace to all...

I've fixed the leak..Maybe I'll head to Martha's vineyard for r&r

2010-05-27T10:11:00.000-07:00

Communists 4 Obama: Billboard On I-75 In Florida: America's Coming For You Liberals

2010-03-02T01:11:00.000-08:00

Communists 4 Obama: Billboard On I-75 In Florida: America's Coming For You Liberals

Happy New Year

2010-01-05T09:02:00.000-08:00

It's a fresh year,so I will try to be more positive than I was last year..The stock market is up..claps for 1 small bonus for somebody.Gov't is taking over the housing market completely..booo..More expensive healthcare insurance should pass soon that isn't constitutional...Booo...You fixed nothing and exposed congress for what it really is nowadays..Worthless and out of date and out of touch with reality..We need to send every one of them packing,both sides of the isle..At least the former administrations hid the vote buying a bit better..except when they sold pardons at the end of their reign.And after spending billions of dollars on National security,we are no closer to being safer than ever.Double booooooooooo..Train better people to ask better questions and the whole issue would be solved..Covered up hunchbacks from the middle eastern countries should be searched,even their hump,in my humble opinion..

All that is

2009-11-24T09:26:00.000-08:00

As a part of all that is,we exist as individual sources of light,each here to experience physical life as an extension of this all knowing force.We are so close to our source, that when we smell a rose,God smells it too.Somehow we exist as vibrational tone and color,each with a unique pitch and hue,waiting patiently for our chance to rejoin the collective orchestra back where we all started.We live in a giant holigram,created by vibrational tones that we try and recreate here on the physical plane by making music and art..To remind of of what is yet to come..And has been,forever since the very first "I am"

45 Lessons

2009-11-08T05:58:00.000-08:00

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. So stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now.. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
25. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ''In five years, will this matter?".
26. Always choose life.
27. Forgive everyone everything.
28. What other people think of you is none of your business..
29. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
30. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
31. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
32. Believe in miracles.
33. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
34. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
35.. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
36. Your children get only one childhood.
37. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
38. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere..
39. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd
grab ours back.
40. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
41. The best is yet to come.
42. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
43. Yield.
44. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

O what a tangled web we weave

2009-11-02T06:15:00.001-08:00

Jim Hill's letter

2009-09-08T08:12:00.001-07:00

Many saw Barbara Boxer as she admonished a brigadier general because he addressed her as "ma'am" and not "Senator" before a Senate hearing. This letter is from a National Guard aviator and Captain for Alaska Airlines. I wonder what he would have said if he was really angry.

Dear Senator Boxer:

You were so right on when you scolded the general on TV for using the term, "ma'am," instead of "Senator". After all, in the military, "ma'am" is a term of respect when addressing a female of superior rank or position. The general was totally wrong. You are not a person of superior rank or position. You are a member of one of the world's most corrupt organizations, the U.S. Senate, equalled only by the US . House of Representatives.

Congress is a cesspool of liars, thieves, inside traders, traitors, drunks (one who killed a staffer, yet is still revered), criminals, and other low level swine who, as individuals (not all, but many), will do anything to enhance their lives, fortunes and power, all at the expense of the People of the United States and its Constitution, in order to be continually re-elected. Many democrats even want American troops killed by releasing photographs. How many of you could honestly say, "We pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor"? None? One? Two?

Your reaction to the general shows several things. First is your abysmal ignorance of all things military. Your treatment of the general shows you to be an elitist of the worst kind. When the general entered the military (as most of us who served) he wrote the government a blank check, offering his life to protect your derriere, now safely and comfortably ensconced in a 20 thousand dollar leather chair, paid for by the general's taxes. You repaid him for this by humiliating him in front of millions.

Second is your puerile character, lack of sophistication, and arrogance which borders on the hubristic. This display of brattish behavior shows you to be a virago, termagant, harridan, nag, scold or shrew, unfit for your position, regardless of the support of the unwashed, uneducated masses who have made California into the laughing stock of the nation.

What I am writing, Senator, are the same thoughts countless millions of Americans have toward Congress, but who lack the energy, ability or time to convey them. Under the democrats, some don't even have the 44 cents to buy the stamp. Regardless of their thoughts, most realize that politicians are pretty much the same, and will vote for the one who will bring home the most bacon, even if they do consider how corrupt that person is. Lord Acton (1834 - 1902) so aptly charged, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Unbeknownst to you and your colleagues, "Mr. Power" has had his way with all of you, and we are all the worse for it.

Finally Senator, I, too, have a title. It is "Right Wing Extremist Potential Terrorist Threat." It is not of my choosing, but was given to me by your Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano. And you were offended by "ma'am"?

Have a fine day. Cheers!

Jim Hill

16808 - 103rd Avenue Court East

South Hill, WA 98374

Please circulate this to remind every voter that the "cesspools" MUST be pumped out when we go to the polls in November, 2010. Honoring and respecting the voters is a thing of the past for many of those in our congress and senate.We need to vote their arrogant, self serving folks out of office if America is to get on the long road back from the devastation that these self serving cowards have brought upon us!

2009-08-20T16:21:00.001-07:00

Democrats, realizing the success of the President's "Cash for Clunkers" rebate program, have revamped a major portion of their National Health Care Plan.

President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Sen. Reed are expected to make this major announcement at a joint news conference later this week. I have obtained an advanced copy of the proposal which is named....

"CASH FOR CODGERS" and it works like this... Couples wishing to access health care funds in order to pay for the delivery of a child will be required to turn in one old person. The amount the government grants them will be fixed according to a sliding scale. Older and more prescription dependent codgers will garner the highest amounts.

Special "Bonuses" will be paid for those submitting codgers in targeted groups, such as smokers, alcohol drinkers, persons 10 pounds over their government prescribed weight, and any member of the Republican Party.

Smaller bonuses will be given for codgers who consume beef, soda, fried foods, potato chips, lattes, whole milk, dairy products, bacon, Brussels sprouts, or Girl Scout Cookies.

All codgers will be rendered totally useless via toxic injection.. This will insure that they are not secretly resold or their body parts harvested to keep other codgers in repair.

My grandaughter and me

2009-07-26T08:25:00.000-07:00

Dragonflies

2009-06-10T23:07:00.001-07:00

today started off pretty special for me.I walked into the kitchen and near the sink hovering overhead was a small blueish dragonfly.He looked like he was trying to find his way out so I told my girlfriend to watch as I told the dragonfly I would help him,not to worry,and come on over and land on my finger.I stuck the finger up in the air,and this little dragonfly must have understood and came right over and landed on my fingertip,and stayed there for a while as I walked him outside into the fresh air and sky.He didnt take off so i put on my reading glasses and looked closer at him as my girlfriend came over.He looked back at me,buzzed his wings twice as if to say thanks,and flew off.Crockadile dundee aint got nuthin on me.lol...

spirit energy

2009-04-29T20:44:00.000-07:00

Scribbles 90 from Lytske.
A series of messages from mostly unknown Teachers – June 2, 1999.

Child, allow the free flow of Spirit energy flow through you, so you will learn to discern some answers in your mind. I say some, because most answers await your future unfoldment in eternity.

Remember that you are already living in eternity, but only in a tiny segment called time. The door to the beyond, from mortality to immortality, is through the material dissolution of the mortal habiliment.

For spirit, once given life in a mortal, does not and cannot die, for it is eternal. As it is from Me and of Me, My Spirit is growing your soul by gently nudging you.

My Being in you is Higher than the energy you speak of, but it is part of Me, for it is of God, through Whom everything is created, by the method of evolution in space and time.

Energy is the vehicle and the means for you to move in and unfold. I nudge you gently into a greater awareness in this unfolding.

I notice that this insight is new for you, for this thought of having so much assistance never occurred to you. I am a Spark of the eternal Creator God, which is bestowed on every normal thinking mortal, when the first moral decision arises in the human mind, usually between the ages of five and seven years.

You very early made that decision, as you will remember, and you felt that great feeling of comfort shortly thereafter, and also the thought of having no fear of thunderstorms, because somehow you knew that you were protected.

Let us grow together child, you in Me and I in you -- A partnership for all eternity.

Take Love

2009-04-29T06:40:00.000-07:00

“Today’s lesson is on love. There is much to say about love, for it is the very essence of all things, and it truly could not be described in its entirety in words, songs, or the arts, yet it is the one thing that inspires truth, beauty, and goodness. Love is as infinite as the Creator himself -- it is the only real thing of value, the very construct of all reality and relationships between personalities. Love is all that truly matters, for everything else will pass away.

“What is it that we are truly searching for today my beloved? What is it that we busy our selves with, going to and fro, here and there, learning, working, playing, creating, building our careers? We do all these things day in and day out, and the years pass by very quickly, but then do we stop for a moment and take inventory of our past? For when we do, what things boil up to the surface -- the things of love in our life? They are those precious moments that we cherish -- your first kiss; those intimate relationships with individuals that touched you on a deep and profound level; the kindness of strangers that helped you when you were in need; holding your newborn child for the first time; on and on goes the mind as it recalls the memory of the highest value meanings and feelings in your life.

“These are the things of love that will survive eternity -- these are survival value soul building moments and they become a part of your morontia self. Everything else will pass away. So you see how important these things are and yet they make up a very small amount of your living moments in life. The illusion of the material world and the pursuit of material things distract us from the most important things in life -- the pursuit of love; the giving and the receiving of love; to make a connection with someone on a soul level; to link hearts with your brothers and sisters in unconditional love.

“Step outside of yourself right now and take inventory of the important things of love in your life. Think about how you can make a difference and become one of those cherished memories in the life of one of your brothers or sisters. How beautiful it is to be apart of the soul memory of another human being and live forever in their eternal memory! Reach out and touch someone today, my beloved. This is the very meaning of what the master meant when he said, ‘Save your treasures in heaven, for there also will be your heart.’

“Good day,
“The Circle of Seven.”

The 11:11 Progress Group.

545 People

2009-04-27T07:46:00.000-07:00

545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don' t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don' t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes..

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red .

If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ, it's because they want them in IRAQ .

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of theOrlando Sentinel Newspaper.

The Way

2009-04-18T08:23:00.001-07:00

The believing mind

Excerpt from Inscribed on the Believing Mind:

The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no
preferences.
When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear
and undisguised.
Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth
are set infinitely apart.
If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinions for or
against anything.
To set up what you like against what you dislike is the
disease of the mind.
When the deep meaning of things is not understood the mind's
essential peace is disturbed to no avail.
The Way is perfect like vast space when nothing is lacking
and nothing is in excess.
Indeed, it is due to our choosing to accept or reject that
we do not see the true nature of things.
Live neither in the entanglements of outer things nor in
inner feelings of emptiness.
Be serene in the oneness of things and such erroneous views
will disappear by themselves.

The Void

2009-03-15T07:53:00.000-07:00

What mystics call the Void is not a void. It is so full of energy, a
different kind of energy that has created everything that we are.
Everything since the Big Bang is vibration, from the first Word, which
is the first vibration. The biblical “I AM” really has a question mark
after it. “I AM—What am I?” So creation is God exploring God’s Self
through every way imaginable, in an on-going, infinite exploration
through every one of us. I began to see during my near-death
experience that everything that is, is the Self, literally your Self,
my Self. Everything is the great Self. That is why God knows even when
a leaf falls. That is possible because wherever you are is the center
of the Universe. Wherever any atom is, that is the center of the
Universe. There is God in that, and God in the Void.
http://utopiaradio.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-life-after-death-journey

Prepare

2009-03-05T07:13:00.000-08:00

THE DAYS TO COME . . . .

We are now seeing much of the changing times. There are even more turbulent times ahead, however don't lose heart. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. Remember that change and destruction has to take place in order for new constructions to appear.

I was told in early 1996:

We welcome you on this your New Year Day in your concept of time. We do not have time as you do, as everything exists in the now.

There are indeed changes happening in your world which have greater ramifications. The weather is a sign of these changes. Mankind is being made aware of these changes through the pattern of your weather. The earth herself is being altered and man's conception of his home planet is about to change. There is naught to fear. All change is for a wider purpose. Be prepared to change self as these changes happen around you. All is in accord with Divine Law. The seasons are only one sign of the great shift which is to occur. Be prepared to accept whatever comes in each new day. The time for taking anything for granted is over. Each new moment has a different thing to offer you. Be prepared to accept each change as it occurs. There is nothing frightening or fearful in this - it is just different from what you may have anticipated in times past. You must realise that you cannot live in your past any more.

Only by going within and accepting what is in your now time will you find peace. Past and future will no longer have the hold over you that they once did. Live in the moment and be joy-filled. There is naught to fear. Be happy . . .

The more enlightened we are about our future and what to expect, the more we will be able to be in harmony as these things happen. We are children of the one Creator and as such we have opportunities to witness one of the greatest changes this planet has seen. Remember we are eternal. Nothing can harm us. If we do leave our physical bodies we only make the transition, we do not die. Love is eternal. Only love can be taken with us. We can never lose that which we never had in the first place. We are literally "embodiments of love". If we become enlightened through understanding and compassion, before we make this transition, we have served our life's purpose. We will have begun to see the changes which will herald our new world!

Many of us, like my husband, for example are afraid to look into the future for fear of what they will see. When I asked Divine Guidance about this the answer was as follows:

Your man is afraid to look to the future. He has much fear still within him. The years will unfold in their own good time. If each moment is made to count, the outcome will not be important, for you will be living in your higher consciousness and time as you know it, will cease to be the same. One day you will emerge from your bed of sleep and say: "Has two years of time really passed? It seems like only yesterday!"

When you are fully immersed in your now moment there is no past or present. All is at that moment - and that, my child is how life was always meant to be. Your good man will see the future as a time for him to rest, but indeed he will not rest. His fear of the future will push him on to further activities and he will not get his chance to look back to the times past and say "Where has the time gone?" for indeed he will be living his past, present, and future in the one moment.

Life is an ongoing cycle and nothing that exists is permanent, yet at the same time, no lesson learned is ever lost. You will see self in the future and wonder if you ever were the being you see now. Your concept of time is changing so fast even those upon your plane called scientists, are indeed investigating this, your concept of time.

Live in the present moment and be joyful. The future will unfold as it is meant to be.

All of our reactions are caused by our past connection to something. If we live in the present, there is no guilt of the past, no fear for the future, there is just now! That is how this world will be in the days to come. We are coming into an Age when all will be now. So many people these days have 'instant amnesia'. They can't remember what they were going to do or say. They forget things that they did yesterday. The effect is throughout all generations. It is not just the old or middle-aged people who are having this problem. Even my young daughter is forgetting things that she never once would have forgotten. Our earth is moving into another dimension - literally! We are finding ourselves more and more, living only in the present. The past is slipping away, as memories are fading. We will have no need to carry extra baggage into the new Age. Our memories will be transmuted through love and will become part of our now. Because of the changes happening to us, we will be more open psychically to contacting those we have loved and lost through physical death. We will have moved our consciousness into a higher dimension.

Some of the changes are already happening. The earth herself is rebelling against the mistreatment over the last few centuries of abuse and rape by mankind. She is cracking as her belly is opened and earthquakes tremble, to rid her of the poisons mankind has treated her with. She is spewing forth her volcanoes, raging her seas and sending her winds to parch the earth and her rains to flood the plains, causing mudslides and creating much havoc.

We will see an increase in the fall of the economic markets world-wide. The banks will fall as will the stock market and the larger insurance companies. Many will be trying to survive as more and more people become jobless. It will be crucial times which will call for much strength from our inner sources. People who are not balanced will become further imbalanced as they begin to turn to crime in order to survive. Mechanical equipment will start to fail and there will be numerous accidents, both in the air and on the ground.

The earth, which has suffered so much abuse, will release some of the radioactive waste buried deep within her bowels. These leaks have already began to happen and worse could be waiting, if mankind does not wake up to the hurt he is causing from his nuclear wastes and weapons.

Our brothers from space will land among us and converse with many. They will be the saving grace for many, as people begin to become disheartened and angry with the governments, and question their long kept secrets, and their own religions. These beings will assist us by showing us how we can overcome our difficulties through brotherly love to each other. More people will find their psychic powers opened as they become more attuned with their higher sources.

Again I was advised to live in the moment:

Live in the now moment and do not let thoughts of past worry you. You are a multidimensional being, and the thoughts you have are not yours alone, but belong to the many who are also part of you. Your multidimensional selves are coming to the point where freedom is in sight for them all. You are about to embark on a wonderful journey to freedom. Be happy. This time is not far off. Let each day bring you more joy. Live in that joy and let not past worries intervene. There is much light about you. Let it shine for the world needs it now more than ever. Those things which are brought to the light are brought to be healed. Have no fear that harm will come to any. These things are necessary for healing of situations. Simply allow all things to come to the light. Be steady in your thoughts.

Send your loving thoughts to everyone you feel has need of them, for we can affect their arrival. Thoughts are REAL. Do not be deceived that they are not. Your loving thoughts WILL find their target. Pray often. There is hope for every situation. Believe that all is possible through the love of the Creator. These thoughts we leave with you. . .

The coming days, once the worst is over, will be a time of rejoicing. We will literally see the great prophecies fulfilled, as the "lamb lays down with the lion". Cattle will not be afraid of losing their lives any longer, as the new day dawns. Animals of all species will commune in families and live in peace again, as it was in the beginning. There will be a greater consciousness among mankind and man will be enlightened by the growing light within.

We are advised to face our ailments with understanding and acceptance as these changes occur.

Many are finding ailments today. Be of good cheer. Happier times are ahead. We know you are going through some trialing times at the moment but they won't last. Learn your lesson well and these times will pass more quickly. I Am your guiding light. Fear not.

These times are for your growth. Learn well and these lessons will become lessons of joy. Let not your heart be troubled. Take all things in your stride and one day they will be looked upon as the greatest treasures life could give you. These things are in themselves unpolished jewels to be transformed into the most dazzling beauty you could ever imagine. These lights of beauty are just waiting to be revealed to you. The promises of the future go with you.

Walk in light and be glad . . . We love you.

We, as mankind, are becoming fully consciousness beings, and will be able to communicate with others in higher dimensions. There will be no barriers to what we can do. We will learn to use antigravity as a means to transport ourselves. We will have laws but they will be good laws. They will be in alignment with the Higher Will.

Once we become aware enough of ourselves as Divine beings, and treat everyone else as if they were Divine also, we will find crime and greed disappear. There will be no need for insecurities and fears. The last vestiges of these are being played out in our world right now. Their time is short dear reader. Be hopeful and joyful. Our promised thousand years of peace IS coming! Our days will be longer upon this planet as peace envelopes the whole of humanity and lower life forms as well. We will raise our vibrations to a higher dimension and will live to see this transition of our beautiful planet within our lifetimes!

Take heart all who read. Peace is just around the corner. Those who are aware enough to understand these words will be the ones to be the leaders and the councillors in the days to come. Know that YOU are Divine Essence. You are LOVE. You are as much a part of God as anyone else. All have equal claim to that right.

Enlightenment comes through understanding. Enlightenment comes through non-judgement and unconditional Love. Enlightenment comes through "feeling the daily daggers of relentless steel and keeping on living". Enlightenment is raising our consciousness towards our Higher Self, or Greater Light. Enlightenment is reaching our arms out to our fellowman in compassion and concern. Enlightenment is expressing the living truth in each moment we walk the path of Light, in whatever our jobs are, or whatever course our lives take.

The promises for our future are embodied in the following song. It was sung to the tune of Amazing Grace by Silarra, one of the extraterrestrial walk-ins who have come to help our planet:

Amazing grace, compassion and truth
Aqua star - ship of blue light.
We have come to Earth to live its dream:
A heaven of pure delight!

We share our forces here with you
Of inside wisdom and love.
We live here upon this plane
As we do in the ships above.

There are more than twelve thousand groups of twelve
We have gathered from afar.
We have come to fill the Earth with light,
To fulfill her birth as a star.

We speak to you of Heaven on Earth;
It's within if you'll just allow.
Don't hesitate, your Spirit calls -
Wake up - the time is now!

Being here and wanting to be there

2009-02-27T09:24:00.000-08:00

Every single person on the planet and every single Consciousness in the Universe has the same experience of being here and having a desire to be there. In other words, it is the promise of this eternal Universe… You’re always, always, always going to be on your way to something more—always. And when you relax and accept that, and stop beating up on yourself for not being someplace that you’re not, and instead, start embracing where you are while you keep your eye on where you’re going—now life becomes really, really, really fun.

Excerpted from the workshop in Asheville, NC on Saturday, October 25th, 2003

Our Love,
Jerry and Esther

Pray for patience

2009-02-14T19:28:00.001-08:00

Prayer: Thank you, Jesus, for pointing out to me the importance of the words we speak to others. Help me to become more mindful, to become gentler in my speech, to become more understanding towards others, and to look beyond the surface of appearance. I pray for patience most of all, to be more thoughtful towards others. Thank You.

Dear child, honor the Father’s Gift within. Follow Her guidance. Seek Her in the Silence more often with greater concentration. Her fragrance will penetrate you from the inside out, once you open yourself willingly to receive.

Be ever vigilant and alert how you speak with others. Mindful thoughtfulness is the path.

Each day anew consecrate yourself in sincere honesty to be in service to the Master, for the greater good of all. The effect is in the being and not in the doing.

Pause and consider these things, hold them in your heart, mind and soul. Strengthen your daily resolve to follow the Master Jesus and do His Bidding.

The feelings of richness will grow. When in doubt, go within for Guidance.

The Master

2009-01-24T08:26:00.000-08:00

The Master stands for all humanity and in fact all life, without the interfering biases of a given belief system, which is implicitly narrowing and limiting. [this means the Master is beyond ALL religions, rituals, specific philosophies, governments, ethnic backgrounds, and traditions of all kinds, in favor of the direct perception of truth, and subsequent right action based upon it.]

5) The Master advocates spiritual attainment and values based upon the universal. They do not seek followers, but spiritual partners, (as equals) who will one day gain an even higher level of spiritual practice and realization, than they themselves have gained. Never does a true Master say, "I am the ONLY way", but instead speaks of the undying truth whereby, through a number of approaches, practitioners may find their own self evolving enlightenment. The Master is not interested in hierarchical structures for social or spiritual organization. Again, they seek the self realization of all persons, as cosmic equals, (souls/centers of consciousness).

To Know Love

2009-01-09T05:03:00.000-08:00

Is there really the desire to know love, or to know the experience of someone having an emotion over self? Is it a desire to be itself expended in doing that which may be helpful or constructive? This can be done, but it will require the losing of self, as has been indicated, in service for others.
. . . But arise to that consciousness that if ye would have life, if ye would have friends, if ye would have love, these things ye must expend. For only that ye give away do ye possess.

Edgar Cayce Reading 1786-2

Peace is the Way

2008-12-27T09:48:00.000-08:00

Peace is the Way
Ten Steps to Peace Consciousness
(taken from Peace is the Way, by Deepak Chopra)

1. Change doesn't start on the surface. It's generated from consciousness. This has been true throughout history. If both Buddhism and Christianity could begin with one person, let us not think in terms of numbers and odds. It may sound grandiose to compare ourselves to great spiritual guides, but we act collectively, as an alliance. Our strength comes from critical mass.

2. We aren't here to make the world evolve. We are here to evolve as individuals and then to spread that influence. In the wisdom tradition of Vedanta, the stream of evolution is known in Sanskrit as Dharma, from a root verb that means 'to uphold.' This gives us a clue how to live: the easiest way for us to grow is to align ourselves with Dharma. We don't have to struggle to grow--that would be unproductive, in fact. The Dharma has always favored non-violence. If we can bring ourselves to a state of non-violence, and connect with others who are doing the same thing, we have done a huge thing to reinforce Dharma.

3. Societies get into the grip of their own self-created story. It's helpful to realize that we can choose not to participate in that story. Realize that national and tribal stories are limited, self-serving, based on the past, reinforced by orthodoxy, and therefore opposed to real change. Stories are incredibly persuasive. Wars are fueled by victimization that runs deep, for example. So let us not try to change anyone's story. Let us only notice and observe ourselves when we buy into it and then let us back away from participating in it.

4. Let us not demand of ourselves that we alone must be the agent of change. In a fire brigade everyone passes along a bucket, but only the last person puts out the fire. None of us know where we stand in line. We may be here simply to pass a bucket; we may be called on to play a major role. In either case, all we can do is think, act, and say. Let us direct our thoughts, words, and actions to peace. That is all we can do. Let the results be what they will be.

5. Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite—the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in conflict, obsessiveness, anxiety over the future, and feelings of guilt and inadequacy. Keep in mind that we are pioneers into the unknown, and uncertainty is our ally. When our minds want closure, certainty, and finality, let us remind ourselves that these are fictions. Our joyous moments will come from riding the wave, not asking to get off at the next station.

6. Since most misery is born of failed expectations let us learn to minimize expectations so
that we will feel far less guilt and disappointment.

7. We aren't here to be good or perfect. We are here as the antennas for signals from the future. We are here to be midwives to something that wants to be born. Good people have preceded us. They solved some problems and created others. As one wise teacher said, "You aren't here to be as good as possible. You are here to be as real as possible."

8. I know this sounds difficult, but let us try to be tolerant of intolerance. This is a hard one at times, but if you try the opposite—showing a hard heart against those with hard hearts of their own—all we've done is expand the problem. It's helpful (but often difficult) to remember that everyone is doing the best they can form their own level of consciousness. Trying to talk a terrorist out of his
beliefs is like trying to persuade a lion to be a vegetarian. All we can realistically do is seek openings for higher awareness.

9. Let us resist the lure of dualities. These include us versus them, civilized versus barbarians, good versus evil. The good, civilized people of Europe managed to kill millions of themselves, along with millions of "them." In reality we are all in the same boat of human conflict and confusion. Sometimes it helps to admit that the doctor is not far from being a patient.

10. Let's create an atmosphere of peace around ourselves. Imagine that we are like a mother whose children come home crying about fights at school. Would it be her job to soothe their wounds or to arm them for fighting back tomorrow? Simplistic as it may sound, the male principle of aggression can only be healed by the feminine principle of nurturing and love.

Love,
Deepak

Accept Yourself just the way you are

2008-12-07T06:41:00.000-08:00

Dear one, in order to love another without reservation or conditions, it is necessary that you learn to truly love and accept yourself just the way you are.

Forgive yourself for all past mistakes, and for all present and future failings. Accept yourself as the God-given personality you are; hardly perfect, but knowing perfection is the ultimate destiny in eternal life.

In this earth life you are waking up and becoming more aware of the true purpose of life; to be the best you can be under all circumstances.

Life teaches you lessons through which to learn mastery over self; be it over greed, jealousy, gluttony, or addictions of any kind—anything that holds you from the greatest good and attainment, and this is to be achieved without using any dishonest means, or using another person to attain your goals in life, unless such help is freely given.

You are learning to travel with Me, your Guide within. This is what Jesus mastered when He walked the earth as a Man among men.

Remember the most important lessons He taught, and lived, were to love God first, and to learn to love and accept yourself as God loves and accepts you, to love your neighbor as yourself, and to forgive each and everyone who wrongs you.

You all live in a love and mercy-oriented Universe, as your Ruler, Michael, so lovingly and eloquently displayed in His life here as Yoshua ben Joseph, Jesus of Nazareth.

His life was, and still is, a triumph that all humans can aspire to in their short but intense lives in the flesh as they are lived here on this planet.

Jesus, even as a young boy, often sought the Still Small Voice within when He chose to be away from others to better commune with His Father in Heaven.

So, too, can you follow His example and practice this as often as needed, for I am always with you.

© The 11:11 Progress Group.

A New Dream

2008-10-28T13:12:00.000-07:00

The Problem with Society

2008-10-27T06:14:00.000-07:00

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The Major Problems With Society

1) Egotism-

The assumption among the older generation(s), (40-60+ years) is that by virtue of age, some implicit respect and special consideration is due. This attitude seems to be a leftover from a long-faded age of human history, one that originated the phrase, “respect your elders”. In times past, our “elders” were in fact those people in the tribe or community which held the most wisdom. “Elders” were usually composed of the elderly, and the elderly were a repository for a lifestyle that reflected the practical and profound wisdom of nature, (right living). In today’s world there is no such thing as an “elder” for the most part. There is only a great deal of “do as I say, but not as I do”. Instead of growing wiser, the majority of today’s elderly simply grow weaker, embittered and more deluded. In evaluating the current condition of the world, and the mental and physical state of this generation, no such respect or special consideration is due. Respect is not automatic it is earned, and the youth of today give all the respect to the older generations which they have earned, (which is for the most part, none whatsoever). A destroyed world that is the inheritance of the youth of today is not respectable. Neither is the hypocrisy and arrogance of those currently in charge of the status quo, who have destroyed it. Greed and arrogance are the legacy left today by the older generations. It is they who, in their ignorance and a “selling out” of what the soul knows to be correct, have worked for the obtaining of material wealth over all other things, including health, happiness, wisdom and right living.

2) Examining the cause of the world problem-

The cause of crime, is not the supposed lack of disciplinary measures inflicted by the legal system upon criminals and youth. Crime does not occur because society has a supposed lack of police officers, prisons, “boot camps”, judges and youth, (slave) labor facilities. The cause of crime is society itself, as provoked by the corruption and insanity of government, the court system, politics, the educational system, the medical, (AMA) paradigm and the primitive egotism of a primitive humanity. It is not youth that is at fault, nor is it minorities or other specific classes of persons who are responsible for rising violent crime. Rising violent crime is a symptom of the disease of decadent materialism, with which humanity is terminally infected. It is a symptom of the decay of society, in the inner and outer destruction of what is wholesome and natural.

What we witness at the turning of the millennium, are the beginning days of the extinction of mankind, with the possible exception of those few who recognize, that the human species has gone mad en masse, and who have the dedication to truth that is evidenced above all other priorities.

3) The changing of the system-

Our corrupt society cannot and will not be changed through political reform or social reformation. An insane public will always generate an insane governing body, regardless of the economic philosophy used, or the name of the political party which organizes it. Our crisis is a matter of inner strife, unnaturalness and division, which is reflected by the outer world. Our malady is found in the diseased state of individual and world consciousness, and it cannot be cured through the institution of outer forms. To do so is comparable to placing a bandage over a wound that comes from within. At best this is only a temporary and misguided measure, one that does not address the cause of the injury. Only an inner revolution can sustain an outer transformation of society. Corruption cannot cure corruption. Only the face of corruption changes, not its essential intention. Political or social reform is only a matter of agenda change, and such change, so long as materialism exists, can only be had in terms defined by lies and deceptions. Hypocrisy is rampant in the modern world, because the values of society are either lies or based upon lies. The greatest lie ever told by our age, is the assertion by the average person that they are doing good, spiritual works for the sake of Earth and humanity, while still worshipping the egotistical dollar and all the facades it can buy. Lifestyle is the surest and most honest testimony to the reality behind public action.

The public lifestyle we witness is a matter of sheer self-indulgence, mental and physical disease, and a progressively deadened environment for the sake of so-called, “conveniences” and “luxuries”. This is not the information age, it is the Age of Denial, the darkest period of human history ever known. We are not evolving or “progressing”, we are devolving into a state of entropy and stupidity so profound, that it will eventually wipe out all advanced life on Earth, if it continues unchecked. Public action is hypocritical because it is based upon the secreted guilt of a deceitful, artificialized, spoiled-rotted child known as Homo Sapiens. Conveniences and luxuries are the emotional mainstay of a plastic coated, indulgent public, and their social contribution to the world is motivated primarily for the sake of alleviating that nagging guilt within, while in reality ensuring that indulgence and comforts are maintained at all costs. Our citizens placate their own deep-seated feelings of wrongdoing in the name of “success”, through various trite and ultimately inconsequential acts. This they call “doing their part”. The $50 contribution to the Audubon Society, the recycling of a few glass containers and newspapers, and a few letters written to the editor of a local newspaper, and all daily sins are thereby absolved, or at least so the story goes. Yet lifestyle continues to destroy all. Public speeches are given, and individuals assert to themselves that good is being done, when in fact they are not truly interested in what is actually good and worthwhile. They are not willing to spend the time or energy in gaining self-knowledge, nor knowledge of the natural laws which they break every day. The public cares only for what is personally pleasurable and comfortable, as defined by a society which considers the dollar God. For the majority of people today, their wrong-doings and greed will only cease when environmental conditions force them to reevaluate their style of living.

4) Very low expectations;

It is commonly expected and assumed, that the human condition is miserable by nature. It is thought that there is ultimately nothing that can be done about this, other than following governmental or institutional orders. The concept that daily life is not and can never be perfect, or even truly happy, is the norm to which we are expected to apply in every life decision. We are told that “you can’t change the world overnight”, (“overnight” is a term that can mean either 24 hours or 24 decades interchangeably) or that “the system, (ignorance) can’t be changed, except through ‘due process’”, or “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” etc. Such thinking is the intent through which society justifies its own lack of responsibility, for itself, today. As a world community we have therefore set our sights on a very low mark, calling this “realism”, while our efforts for global reform reflect nothing but pessimism, contained within placating political speeches. These low standards are to a very large extent what is directly responsible for continuing global destruction. The “business as usual”, “I was only doing what I was told”, and “We’re doing it this way because that’s the way it has always been done”, are the politically correct excuses made by persons who really don’t care after all. Our species no longer has the luxury of spending another 100-500 years in debating the inadequacies of the human condition, because our planet has almost been destroyed, now, this day. We will be lucky in fact, to last another 50 years, without major upheavals and mass death, spread like an apocalyptic plague upon every continent and city of the world.

We the people, must take every measure necessary to empower ourselves, starting from within and working outwards. If this ultimately includes armed revolution and well-coordinated anarchy, to throw down the machine of death and the governments and corporations which support it, then so be it. We must insist upon the reestablishment of just self government. Regardless of what we are told by the corporate owned media, the people do not need, nor do they truly desire to be programmed by an insane educational system. Nor can the public continue to afford to live by the false concept of “success”, that has brought us to the brink of extinction. Modern life does not reflect success, it reflects agony and death on a mass scale. Anyone who says otherwise is either a coward or a naïve fool. Those who willingly continue to participate in the materialistic death machine, while knowing full well of the consequences, are a cancer and plague upon all that is natural and naturally good.

5) Responsibility for our monuments to greed-

Our lavish, and for the most part physically unnecessary homes, businesses, amusement parks, supermarkets, new automobiles, yachts, jetliners, weapons of war, armies and governments, are but monuments to greed and insanity. We do not build so much for the sake of need or practical value, but for the sake of unquenchable, unreasoning, egotistical, murdering greed. In our madness we like to “show off”, personally and collectively. We murder each other and the Earth to build such monuments, calling this, “protecting our interests”. Through these structures and institutions we demonstrate our unsatisfactory lack of wisdom, and thus our lack of fitness for continued survival. In essence, we have not understood the spiritual purpose of life. We have lived by materialism and we shall die by materialism, as a payment for our crimes against God and Nature. Taking personal responsibility for these facts, implies the unavoidable need for the outright and total rejection, of the values and norms of society. It also implies the outright and total acceptance of spiritual purposes and natural laws as demonstrated in daily affairs. Only by returning to God and Nature, can any person realistically expect true redemption from the extremely negative karma, accumulated thus far by humanity. This is true regardless of professed beliefs or organized religious practices. Truth alone must remain our highest focus, seven days a week, throughout every facet of life.

Comments on this article should be directed to;

Matthew Webb visionquest@eoni.com

The World Mind Society http://www.eoni.com/~visionquest

Does this Path have heart?

2008-10-20T13:58:00.000-07:00

Before you embark on any path ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path. The trouble is nobody asks the question; and when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart, the path is ready to kill him. At that point very few men can stop to deliberate, and leave the path. A path without a heart is never enjoyable. You have to work hard even to take it. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it.
I have told you that to choose a path you must be free from fear and ambition. The desire to learn is not ambition. It is our lot as men to want to know.
The path without a heart will turn against men and destroy them. It does not take much to die, and to seek death is to seek nothing.

For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have a heart, on any path that may have a heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge for me is to traverse its full length. And there I travel--looking, looking, breathlessly.

The teachings of don Juan

You are the Master

2008-10-07T16:43:00.001-07:00

The greatest Scam

The greatest scam was the love that you denied yourself when you forgot who you are. You travelled through your life believing you were alone. You prayed for deliverance from your own persecution. You attached worth and meaning to that which is transitory. You mistreated the Earth when the Earth didn’t mistreat you. Your powers were depleted because your awareness was stuck in limbo. You thought you had to work hard for your money when your money didn’t work hard for you.
You were lost....and now your found?
Now you take due care of where and who you give your energy to. Now you know your last name is Love and your first name is One. Now you realise your true possibilities. Now you reunite with old friends and will remember the memories. Your timing is to perfection. Your judgment resides in your heart, your heart connects you to creator, creator connects you to all. You shine because you are free, you are free because you shined. You followed the master down to the shore he told you... “YOU are the master!” and to follow no more. Now that you have your wings, do you still find yourself in a flap? or maybe you defied science and left the 3D trap. Many gifts now descend and have arrived at your feet. Your need will be to ground them, then you may taste their treats. Unified in consciousness as we always were. Unified in Love is how we’ll change the world. Your true hand is about to show. The world will know you for the good you do, not the good you could/would or should do. So this ‘scam’ it was a good one....it caused us all to think, it told us we were separate as a way to make us link. Now I see that you remember as you love yourself to death, the scam is now but over....congratulations, you passed the test.

Chant of Metta

2008-10-06T23:10:00.000-07:00

Metta is a Pali word meaning loving-kindness. Metta chanting is the radiation of loving-kindness towards all beings: May they all be happy and peaceful. Imee Ooi chants the Pali beautifully. Metta chanting is soothing, uplifting, joyful and a great healing for the world - pervading it with waves of love. Truly, may all beings be happy. May they live always in peace and harmony. You can find this chant sung by imee ooi at www.buddhanet.com

The Chant of Metta Text

Aham avero homi
May I be free from enmity and danger

abyapajjho homi
May I be free from mental suffering

anigha homi
May I be free from physical suffering

sukhi - attanam pariharami
May I take care of myself happily

Mama matapitu
May my parents

acariya ca natimitta ca
teacher relatives and friends

sabrahma - carino ca
fellow Dhamma farers

avera hontu
be free from enmity and danger

abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering

anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering

sukhi - attanam pariharantu
may they take care of themselves happily

Imasmim arame sabbe yogino
May all meditators in this compound

avera hontu
be free from enmity and danger

abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering

anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering

sukhi - attanam pariharantu
May they take care of themselves happily

Imasmim arame sabbe bhikkhu
May all monks in this compound

samanera ca
novice monks

upasaka - upasikaya ca
laymen and laywomen disciples

avera hontu
be free from enmity and danger

abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering

anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering

sukhi - attanam pariharantu
May they take care of themselves happily

Amhakam catupaccaya - dayaka
May our donors of the four supports: clothing, food, medicine and lodging

avera hontu
be free from enmity and danger

abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering

anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering

sukhi - attanam pariharantu
May they take care of themselves happily

Amhakam arakkha devata
May our guardian devas

Ismasmim vihare
in this monastery

Ismasmim avase
in this dwelling

Ismasmim arame
in this compound

arakkha devata
May the guardian devas

avera hontu
be free from enmity and danger

abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering

anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering

sukhi - attanam pariharantu
may they take care of themselves happily

Sabbe satta
May all beings

sabbe pana
all breathing things

sabbe bhutta
all creatures

sabbe puggala
all individuals (all beings)

sabbe attabhava - pariyapanna
all personalities (all beings with mind and body)

sabbe itthoyo
may all females

sabbe purisa
all males

sabbe ariya
all noble ones (saints)

sabbe anariya
all worldlings (those yet to attain sainthood)

sabbe deva
all devas (deities)

sabbe manussa
all humans

sabbe vinipatika
all those in the four woeful planes

avera hontu
be free from enmity and dangers

abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering

anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering
sukhi - attanam pariharantu
may they take care of themselves happily

Dukkha muccantu
May all being be free from suffering

Yattha-laddha-sampattito mavigacchantu
May whatever they have gained not be lost

Kammassaka
All beings are owners of their own Kamma

Purathimaya disaya
in the eastern direction

pacchimaya disaya
in the western direction

uttara disaya
in the northern direction

dakkhinaya disaya
in the southern direction

purathimaya anudisaya
in the southeast direction

pacchimaya anudisaya
in the northwest direction

uttara anudisaya
in the northeast direction

dakkhinaya anudisaya
in the southwest direction

hetthimaya disaya
in the direction below

uparimaya disaya
in the direction above

Sabbe satta
May all beings

sabbe pana
all breathing things

sabbe bhutta
all creatures

sabbe puggala
all individuals (all beings)

sabbe attabhava - pariyapanna
all personalities (all beings with mind and body)

sabbe itthoyo
may all females

sabbe purisa
all males

sabbe ariya
all noble ones (saints)

sabbe anariya
(those yet to attain sainthood)

sabbe deva
all devas (deities)

sabbe manussa
all humans

sabbe vinipatika
all those in the 4 woeful planes

avera hontu
be free from enmity and dangers

abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering

anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering

sukhi - attanam pariharantu
may they take care of themselves happily

Dukkha muccantu
May all beings be free from suffering

Yattha-laddha-sampattito mavigacchantu
May whatever they have gained not be lost

Kammassaka
All beings are owners of their own kamma

Uddham yava bhavagga ca
As far as the highest plane of existence

adho yava aviccito
to as far down as the lowest plane

samanta cakkavalesu
in the entire universe

ye satta pathavicara
whatever beings that move on earth

abyapajjha nivera ca
may they are free of mental suffering and enmity

nidukkha ca nupaddava
and from physical suffering and danger

Uddham yava bhavagga ca
As far as the highest plane of existence

adho yava aviccito
to as far down as the lowest plane

samanta cakkavalesu
in the entire universe

ye satta udakecara
whatever beings that move on water

abyapajjha nivera ca
may they are free of mental suffering and enmity

nidukkha ca nupaddava
and from physical suffering and danger

Uddham yava bhavagga ca
As far as the highest plane of existence

adho yava aviccito
to as far down as the lowest plane

samanta cakkavalesu
in the entire universe

ye satta akasecara
whatever beings that move in air

abyapajjha nivera ca
may they are free of mental suffering and enmity

nidukkha ca nupaddava
and from physical suffering and danger.

Pearls of Perfection

2008-09-19T21:23:00.000-07:00

Moments, miniscule moments, can be and often are, pearls of perfection.

These secret, joyful, worshiping moments of the joy of eternal life are the wonders that are unfolding. The moments of deep peace and contentment are all building-blocks to perfection.

The ‘being’ perfect is the secret, not the ‘doing’ of perfect things. The outer always is the reflection of the inner.

God speaks in the inner silence. Allow Him to speak more often, and your heart will start to sing, and then the throat will open. It is a wonderful journey. Take time to commune with the Father.

Stilling the mind in meditation allows the mind to be prepared, so the Father may be heard. So often when He wishes to speak, there is no one at home, or the mind is cluttered with other thoughts so there is no room left.

Abolish al manner of negative thinking. Dwell upon the goodness, the truth and beauty of life. Focus and intent will discipline your thoughts.

Continue on your path with renewed inspiration.

Swimming in an ocean of energy

2008-09-13T07:18:00.000-07:00

You have now begun to sharpen your ‘instrument’ in service to the Master. He has imparted to you that you have always been preparing for the work you have been doing, are doing now, and will continue doing -- helping others the way you know how, and according to your light. Now you are realizing a greater light. Actually, you realize that this light extends to the throne of God; the Eternal Presence, the First Source and Center, from which everything goes forth, and to which everything returns.

You are becoming conscious of the fact that you are ‘swimming’ in an ocean of energy, that you are a part of this energy, and that everything is connected in oneness. It only appears fragmented because of all the different belief systems. Energy is just that – energy – and although it takes on different shapes and forms, it still retains its connection to Source. Even now you are becoming more aware of its flow.

Study it, realize it, work with it, understand it, cooperate with it, and so use it to the greater benefit, first for yourself, and then for the highest good of all others. Clear your perceived blocks, and in doing so you are helping others, which truly represents the upliftment of the planet. Just a word of caution here, everyone is on their personal path, and each and everyone can only clear within themselves to the degree they are ready. The watchword here is unconditionally.

It is the free will of the human that decides if and when he or she is ready to let go of their core beliefs.

Your function will be to be the doorway through which they can glimpse a greater reality of themselves, just like you have been shown by others, whom the Master has placed upon your path, as He continues to place way-showers upon your path. Your responsibility lies in sharpening your instrument of understanding through practice and gathering knowledge in your chosen field of energy application.

So play and hear Heaven’s music in the Master’s orchestra, and focus with intend upon His baton.

© 11:11 Progress Group.

Message to the Free World

2008-08-16T09:30:00.000-07:00

The silence around the globe about Russia invading Georgia is deafening.I think this action needs to be defined,and discussed here as I feel it has worldwide ramafacations.Those on the left (liberal democrate)will say its no big deal and Georgia provoked this.I feel different.After watching countless news programs for the last week and reading everything I can find from every source over there,I think the world is about to be tested again.And I hope we dont fail..If we,the United States and all of our allies will not stand up and help this beginning democrocy,when will we stand up?I watched as Glen beck interviewed the president of Georgia for an hour,and the man would not shut up praising freedom and the west(he was schooled at Colombia University)and the host diddnt interupt him once..He just let him talk..And the man tried to explain how we got to this point,and what he felt we as their friend and ally needed to do.As his people were being crushed,and their freedom denied,we,the rest of the world are worried if Michael phelps wins his 8th gold medal.This is wrong,and I apoligze to the Georgians for this.I personally havent watched 1 olympic even as my own protest against China's brutality.Now we have the second regime pushing thir weight around,testing the west again,looking for any weaknesses.DID anyone else see that as the Russians invaded on land,they cyber attacked the Georgian presidents online sites and their ability to access them?First time in history that these attacks were co-ordinated.They were just practicing.As China has been practicing attacking our pentagon online daily.We cannot ignore these warnings anymore..The wars with the islamic extreamists have just been distractions all along to get our military out of position.The real war will be with China and Russia I fear,cause they still are our enemy and always have been out for our demise.You see,as we are winning the war on terror (yes,I still think this way orlee,no matter how much you cant admit it)the bad guys are running out of places to hide and fuck with us..And our enemies have thought ahead and decided they need to strike now before we get any more powerful than we already are.And that includes taking any and all assests that they feel will help them.Poland and the United states just signed a pact to put a missile defence shield in Poland,and Russia is gonna play its hand and see if we will stop them.The only thing Condolesa Rice didnt say in her speech yesterday to the russians was "please".I almost puked as she was all talk,and no action.I wonder how John McCain will act when he takes office.I hope like reagon and face down Russia.Cause the time for talk is over..ask the Georgians..They need our help to remain free.If we wont do this,whats the point of aligning themselves with us??????

Keep on trimming

2008-08-02T07:23:00.000-07:00

Havent posted in a month..sorry if anybody missed me..I doubt it..I'm just in a funk from this economy I think.Been painting the trim on my house .In fact,I should go paint some more.My dad used to purr when he painted his houses.I dont seem to have that ability.Course he cant sing or play 10 instruments badly either!But it makes my best friend smile so I will keep on singing silly songs.

ok its July

2008-07-03T15:04:00.000-07:00

Thats a hot month here in Seattle.I mean 2 weeks.Scurry around and get the yards all cut,and bushes trimmed..It was hotter in New Mexico last month.I missed the real heat.Hit 105 the weekend after I left.It was 85 while I was there and balmy.Check out the short tease of the Maid of Honor backing up when the vows blew over the wall,and me performing the Wedding.

The Crocheted Tablecloth

2008-05-13T16:27:00.000-07:00

The brand new pastor and his wife, newly assigned

to their first ministry, to reopen a church

in suburban Brooklyn , arrived in early October

excited about their opportunities When they saw

their church, it was very run down and needed

much work. They set a goal to have everything

done in time to have their first service

on Christmas Eve.

T hey worked hard, repairing pews, plastering walls,

painting, etc, and on December 18

were ahead of schedule and just about finished.

On December 19 a terrible tempest - a driving

rainstorm hit the area and lasted for two days.

O n the 21st, the pastor went over to the church.

His heart sank when he saw that the roof had

leaked, causing a large area of plaster about

20 feet by 8 feet to fall off the front wall of the

sanctuary just behind the pulpit, beginning about

head high.

T he pastor cleaned up the mess on the floor,

and not knowing what else to do but postpone

the Christmas Eve service, headed home.

On the way he noticed that a local business was

having a flea market type sale for charity so he

stopped in. One of the items was a beautiful,

handmade, ivory colored, crocheted tablecloth

with exquisite work, fine colors and a Cross

embroidered right in the center. It was just

the right size to cover up the hole in the front

wall. He bought it and headed back to the church.

By this time it had started to snow. An older

woman running from the opposite direction was

trying to catch the bus.. She missed it. The pastor

invited her to wait in the warm church for

the next bus 45 minutes later.

She sat in a pew and paid no attention to the pastor

while he got a ladder, hangers, etc., to put

up the tablecloth as a wall tapestry. The pastor

could hardly believe how beautiful it looked and

it covered up the entire problem area.

T hen he noticed the woman walking down the center

aisle. Her face was like a sheet.. 'Pastor,'

she asked, 'where did you get that tablecloth?'

The pastor explained. The woman asked him to check

the lower right corner to see if the initials, EBG were crocheted into

it there. They were. These were the initials of the woman, and she had

made this tablecloth 35 years before, in Austria

The woman could hardly believe it as the pastor

told how he had just gotten the Tablecloth. The

woman explained that before the war she and

her husband were well-to-do people in Austria

When the Nazis came, she was forced to leave.

Her husband was going to follow her the next week.

He was captured, sent to prison and never saw her

husband or her home again.

T he pastor wanted to give her the tablecloth;

but she made the pastor keep it for the church.

The pastor insisted on driving her home, that

was the least he could do.. She lived on the other

side of Staten Island and was only in Brooklyn

for the day for a housecleaning job.

What a wonderful service they had on Christmas

Eve. The church was almost full. The music and the

spirit were great. At the end of the service, the

pastor and his wife greeted everyone at the door

and many said that they would return.

One older man, whom the pastor recognized

from the neighborhood continued to sit in one of the

pews and stare, and the pastor wondered why he

wasn't leaving.

The man asked him where he got the tablecloth on

the front wall because it was identical to one

that his wife had made years ago when

they lived in Austria before the war and how

could there be two tablecloths so much alike.

H e told the pastor how the Nazis came, how he

forced his wife to flee for her safety and he was

supposed to follow her, but he was arrested and

put in a prison.. He never saw his wife or his home

again all the 35 years in between.

The pastor asked him if he would allow him to

take him for a little ride. They drove to Staten

Island and to the same house where the pastor

had taken the woman three days earlier.

H e helped the man climb the three flights of

stairs to the woman's apartment, knocked on

the door and he saw the greatest Christmas

reunion he could ever imagine.

True Story - submitted by Pastor Rob Reid

Ship of Mindfulness

2008-05-11T10:51:00.000-07:00

Our Path is a Waterway

Water is an element that we are all quite familiar with. Especially for us in the hot climate, it brings a thrill even when we touch it. When it comes in a pure form in nature, it’s even more exciting. This element has a strong similarity to the universal processes in Nature, in that it ‘flows’. In Nature, it flows from the future to the present and into the past. Each event is like a wave, and these waves can be strong. Whether we sink or swim will depend very much on a number of things. Beings who are infatuated and intoxicated by sensual pleasures are described as those swept away by floods. They may think how blissful it is at first but the wise, with far-sightedness, will think otherwise.

To remain afloat we must have mindfulness. It keeps our head above the waters and, with energy, works towards safer shores. If mindfulness is well developed, we are as if on a boat, riding along the waves to Nibbana, which is described as the Safe Island.

Insight Meditation is itself a process of processes. At first we try to keep ourselves afloat with strong continuous mindfulness. After that, the practice becomes a journey of discoveries. Every experience we come across undergoes minute scrutiny. Our mind is like a microscope of ever-increasing powers of magnification; we discover the secrets of existence which we have misunderstood for so long. With each realization we move closer and closer to where the waves break and cease altogether – that is, absolute reality, the utter end of all Suffering. Is that not the noblest aim for which man may live? Wonderful knowledge like this should not be postponed. Hop on board the Ship of Mindfulness!

Loren Eiseley

2008-04-27T10:00:00.000-07:00

The nature of literacy, the history of reading, the process by which books become sacred texts -- these are areas which we'll visit today. It is my hope that this will deepen our understanding of the need to expand the context within which we study the book if we are going to maximize our harvest of meanings and values.

It is the scorched shoulder blade of a hare

or a beaver;

the cracks made by the fire are like palm prints

over the surface of the bone

pointing the way to tomorrow's hunting;

a charred cluster of lines

marks a rockfall up country and a herd of caribou,

--things to be seen on the morrow

inscribed here by the fire.

This cosmos of a little band of hunting Indians

has meaning.

Every rock, every stream, every animal

is accounted for

and the deep underlying

rhythm of things

can inscribe the message of the forest

on the cracked bone of a hare.

It is true that instructions for getting one's food,

for hunting,

might seem the sole issue here;

but the shaman's reading

extrapolated

becomes mathematics and systems analysis

in the modern state.

I envy this man sitting by his fire.

His magic is not small, he is reading

something permanently bound into his universe

that he can decipher,

a code that can be read by the informed seer,

a voice from the universe reassuring for man,

hungry, enfeebled,

but knowing

there is a message to be read and one can find it

any time in the fire.

The world is held together

and man has his place:

that is the message; the food comes after and is acceptable.

Passing beyond the asteroids toward Saturn,

watched by radio telescopes and directed by the earth's great computers,

doomed to leave the solar system

and wander the far void of the galaxy,

our latest space probe whispers its messages among the stars.

A great triumph of the intellect, surely, but the whispers are only of our own devising.

They are lost

in infinitude and vanish

leaving us no equivalent of what the shaman

quietly accepts by the fire,

aiding himself, perhaps, in understanding

by a small song and the tapping of a skin drum.

He knows about the daily renewing of a pact with man;

we hear nothing

except the electrons beamed back to us

by our fragile probe.

Quite frankly, I do not know how to judge this matter,

sitting here in my study with my books and my computer,

but I believe I envy him,

the wrinkled old shaman

summoning his inner one for guidance,

with a little offering of tobacco leaves.

Keeping the motor idling

2008-04-13T08:40:00.000-07:00



__________

KEEPING THE MOTOR IDLING

I relate well to the comment made by Barbara Johnson: "Patience
is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping
your gears." I know that if I can keep the motor idling, it will
be ready to go when I need it.

A kindergarten teacher practiced keeping her motor idling. A
story has it that she was helping one of her students put his
snow boots on. He asked for help and she could see why. With her
pulling and him pushing, they finally succeeded and she had by
now worked up a sweat. She almost whimpered when the little boy
said, "They're on the wrong feet."

She looked and, sure enough, they were. It wasn't any easier
pulling the boots off, and then she had to wrestle the stubborn
boots on again.

Just as she finished lacing them he announced, "These aren't my
boots." She bit her tongue to keep from screaming, "Why didn't
you say so?"

Once again she struggled to pull off the ill-fitting boots. He
then calmly added, "They're my brother's boots. My mom made me
wear them." She began to realize how close she was to stripping
her gears as she struggled with the boots yet again.

When they were finally laced, she said, "Now, where are your
mittens?"

"I stuffed them in the toes of my boots," he said.

She may have been the same teacher who once commented about a
particularly difficult child in her class, "Not only is he my
worst behaved child this year, but he also has a perfect
attendance record.

A Dutch proverb observes, "A handful of patience is worth more
than a bushel of brains." I may never have to worry about having
a bushel of brains, but I can sometimes muster a handful of
patience. And that should be enough.

-- Steve Goodier

Fractal Art

2008-04-08T09:20:00.000-07:00

The land of me

2008-04-03T15:30:00.000-07:00

Long ago and far away, in a land that time forgot,
Before the days of Dylan, or the dawn of Camelot.
There lived a race of innocents, and they were you and me,

For Ike was in the White House in that land where we were born,
Where navels were for oranges, and Peyton Place was porn.

We learned to gut a muffler, we washed our hair at dawn,
We spread our crinolines to dry in circles on the lawn.

We longed for love and romance, and waited for our Prince,
And Eddie Fisher married Liz, and no one's seen him since.
;
We danced to 'Little Darlin,' and sang to 'Stagger Lee'
And cried for Buddy Holly in the Land That Made Me , Me.

Only girls wore earrings then, and 3 was one too many,
And only boys wore flat-top cuts, except for Jean McKinney.

And only in our wildest dreams did we expect to see
A boy named George with Lipstick, in the Land That Made Me , Me.

We fell for Frankie Avalon, Annette was oh, so nice,
And when they made a movie, they never made it twice.

We didn't have a Star Trek Five, or Psycho Two and Three,
Or Rocky-Rambo Twenty in the Land That Made Me , Me.

Miss Kitty had a heart of gold, and Chester had a limp,
And Reagan was a Democrat whose co-star was a chimp.

We had a Mr. Wizard, but not a Mr. T ,
And Oprah couldn't talk, yet, in the Land That Made Me , Me.

We had our share of heroes, we never thought they'd go,
At least not Bobby Darin, or Marilyn Monroe.

For youth was still eternal, and life was yet to be,
And Elvis was forever in the Land That Made Me , Me.

We'd never seen the rock band that was Grateful to be Dead,
And Airplanes weren't named Jefferson, and Zeppelins were not Led.

And Beatles lived in gardens then, and Monkees lived in trees,
Madonna was a virgin in the Land That Made Me , Me.

We'd never heard of microwaves, or telephones in cars,
And babies might be bottle-fed, but they weren't grown in jars.

And pumping iron got wrinkles out, and 'gay' meant fancy-free,
And dorms were never coed in the Land That Made Me , Me.

We hadn't seen enough of jets to talk about the lag,
And microchips were what was left at the bottom of the bag.

And Hardware was a box of nails, and bytes came from a flea,
And rocket ships were fiction in the Land That Made Me , Me.

Buicks came with portholes, and side shows came with freaks,
And bathing suits came big enough to cover both your cheeks.

And Coke came just in bottles, and skirts below the knee,
And Castro came to power near the Land That Made Me , Me.

We had no Crest with Fluoride, we had no Hill Street Blues,
We had no patterned pantyhose or Lipton herbal tea
Or prime-time ads for condoms in the Land That Made Me , Me.

There were no golden arches, no Perrier to chill,
And fish were not called Wanda, and cats were not called Bill.

And middle-aged was 35 and old was forty-three,
And ancient were our parents in the Land That Made Me , Me.

But all things have a season, or so we've heard them say,
And now instead of Maybelline we swear by Retin-A.

They send us invitations to join AARP,
We've come a long way, baby, from the Land That Made Me , Me.

So now we face a brave new world in slightly larger jeans,
And wonder why they're using smaller print in magazines.

And we tell our children's children of the way it used to be,
Long ago and far away in the Land That Made Me , Me.

For those of you too young to remember Bob Hope, ask your Grandparents!!! And thanks for the memories............

I HOPE THIS WILL PUT A SMILE ON YOUR FACE

AND IN YOUR HEART.
Tribute to a man who DID make a difference:

May 29, 1903 - July 27, 2003

ON TURNING 70 "You still chase women, but only downhill".

ON TURNING 80 "That's the time of your life when even your birthday suit needs pressing."

ON TURNING 90 "You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."

ON TURNING 100 " I don't feel old. In fact I don't feel anything until noon . Then it's time for my nap."

ON GIVING UP HIS EARLY CAREER, BOXING "I ruined my hands in the ring ... the referee kept stepping on them."

ON NEVER WINNING AN OSCAR "Welcome to the Academy Awards or, as it's called at my home, 'Passover'."

ON GOLF "Golf is my profession. Show business is just to pay the green fees."

ON PRESIDENTS " I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six."

ON WHY HE CHOSE SHOWBIZ FOR HIS CAREER " When I was born, the doctor said to my mother, 'Congratulations. You have an eight-pound ham'."

ON RECEIVING THE CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL "I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it."

ON HIS FAMILY'S EARLY POVERTY "Four of us slept in the one bed. When it got cold, mother threw on another brother."

ON HIS SIX BROTHERS "That's how I learned to dance. Waiting for the bathroom."

ON HIS EARLY FAILURES " I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me."

ON GOING TO HEAVEN "I've done benefits for ALL religions. I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality."

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Give me a sense of humor. Lord,

Give me the grace to see a joke,

To get some humor out of life,

And pass it on to other folks.

A lesson on Worthiness

2008-03-30T06:08:00.000-07:00

Worthiness is at the core of being. It is not a feeling you are familiar with. All humans have problems feeling worthy at some time in their lives. With fear, it is the most common blight on this planet. This feeling of not being worthy can lead to depression and ultimately to a paralyzing fear and an incapability in the mortal to move forward in life, because of being afraid. It carries a feeling of not being accepted and of being a cosmic orphan. This alienation in the core of being can start at conception when a loving atmosphere and a certain maturity is not present between the young couple. Truly, one has to start at the source of this scourge which gives humans a mental block and which is hard to overcome. The infant experiences non-acceptance by one or both parents. It senses very early that it is not worthy of their love, although they may in their own way do their best to care for the child.

This has been carried on throughout untold generations, and especially the female of the human species has been made to feel unworthy. This is totally unacceptable in the sight of the Eternal Creator God, who created both male and female as equal and complimentary to each other. It is hoped that with increasing spiritual enlightenment and increasing understanding this blight of feeling unworthy will slowly be eradicated from the genes of humankind. It is the DNA, which will be altered with this increasing understanding that man and women are created equal, that each does bring their own God-given attributes, capabilities and potentials to a partnership, and both ought be honored as such.

Meanwhile, what to do with feelings of unworthiness? I advice you to fight this feeling of not being worthy with ‘tooth and nail.’ Remember whose child you are in truth and fact; a child of the most High God. In God’s eyes it matters not where you came from, it only matters where you are today, and today the best remedy is to seek counsel with the Fragment of God within, the richest source of unconditional love and acceptance. Allow these feelings of unworthiness to evaporate in Its healing Presence, for unworthiness shows a lack of faith and trust in the heavenly overcare, and is unbecoming for a child of God.

Flex your faith and trust muscles, and know that you are a most wanted and beloved child with as yet unawakened potentials. If you will but accept that God gives you eternal life to turn all these potentials into actuals, you will be thoroughly surprised at what you are capable of becoming. The feelings of unworthiness will then have receded into the distant past, never to be recalled.

© 11:11 Progress Group.

Forgivness and Love

2008-03-25T06:48:00.000-07:00

Now here is the work for the human, who finds him or herself not at ease. The greatest tools are forgiveness and love. To learn to forgive unconditionally with unconditional love is approaching the ideal state of being. These go to the root-cause, and free up the soul from these tenacious entanglements. You will see all past grief and hurts disappear into nothingness. The body is then freed up and can breathe easier as a big load is lifted off the mind, and the soul is finally free to sing. Always be ready to forgive and forget. Send unconditional love to its source as often as is needed to free up the imprisoned self.

Only in him

2008-03-22T19:49:00.001-07:00

Know that only in Him, who may bring peace and harmony by or through the contacts--the thoughts of self as in relationship to the whole, may there be brought about those better relationships.
To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather being constant in prayer--knowing and taking, knowing and understanding that he that is faithful is not given a burden beyond that he is able to bear, if he will put the burden upon Him that has given the promise, "I will be with thee; there shall not come that which shall harm thee, if thou will but put thy trust, thy faith in me."
. . . First make an analysis of self, of self's relationships, of the impelling influences that cause others to act in their manners in the present.
Do not condemn self, do not condemn another; but leave the activities that would bring about condemnation rather in His hands, who requireth at the hands of all that there be meted, "As ye would that should be done to thee, do ye even so to thy fellow man!"

Edgar Cayce Reading 290-1

Not of Material things

2008-03-20T16:44:00.001-07:00

Hence as has been given, know thyself, in whom thou believest! Not of earthly, not of material things, but mental and spiritual--and why! And by keeping a record of self--not as a diary, but thy purposes, what you have thought, what you have desired, the good that you have done--we will find this will bring physical and mental reactions that will be in keeping with the purposes for which each soul enters a material manifestation.

Edgar Cayce Reading 830-3

A Lesson on Forgivness

2008-03-11T21:09:00.001-07:00

A Lesson on Forgiveness.
A Thought Adjuster Transmission – September 10, 2004.

There cannot be enough said about forgiveness, as this is an ongoing issue, and or a problem for countless people, especially those who have been greatly wronged so their entire lives take different turns to what would divinely have been expected. Some people’s lives are warped because of this. Others are able to shrug off the occasions of wrong-doing, but there are the more sensitive ones, who, even though they think they have forgiven the wrongdoer, the event, or events, from time to time, still creep back into memory, and they relive those demeaning situations. This then becomes not only a matter of simple forgiveness but it needs something extra, which is unconditional forgiveness, so the matter or issue can be put to rest, and be totally forgotten. At least, the memory of it will have completely lost its sting and will disappear over time.

With unconditional forgiveness comes a new acceptance for the perpetrator, and a blossoming of a love, which was not there before. It is truly living the spiritual life in the manner of the Christed one, who could pray while hanging from a cross, saying, ‘Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.’ Often the perpetrator has no concept either of the far-reaching effects his or her words have on you. It becomes your choice and a soul-felt decision of the highest degree, to be able to forgive unconditionally, and to then forget the whole situation as if it never occurred. This becomes even more important when the visible results are always there, and the wound needs constant help to not result in a poisoning of the whole mental, emotional and spiritual systems, which can result in all manner of physical ailments.

This often turns the mortal to a higher Power, because he or she simply cannot do this on his or her own. It is an ongoing lesson, although the willingness to forgive is then already a foregone conclusion that this will occur for God, never mind how much time the human needs to accomplish this. This is one of the most important lessons to learn. The other lesson, which is a close companion, is forgiveness of self for past mistakes, and badly made choices that one has to live with for the rest of one’s life. Some get out of a bad situation, which might not always be the wisest thing to do. This is better done after all possible ways to improve matters have failed. Others ‘battle on’ courageously, and gain a far greater insight and perspective on life, which they would not have had, had they chosen to get out of the situation, and perhaps land in a worse situation.

These things tend to repeat themselves, unless the first situation got resolved and one has gained a semblance of wisdom, which is always the result of a greater understanding. Those, who do reach out to a higher Power, are the best equipped to bring this unfortunate life situation to a victorious completion, because they practice faith and trust as oars to row their little life-boat, whilst they have made contact with the Pilot of their little ship. Others need rescuing from an untenable situation as their self-esteem is constantly being eroded by the one who is supposed to love them. These are some of the reasons, why forgiveness, especially with the added quality of the word ‘unconditional,’ is essential in your lives, to live life and to be victorious at the end of your material existence.

© 11:11 Progress Group.

Feeling Forgotten

2008-03-05T17:49:00.000-08:00

A Lesson on Feeling Forgotten.
A Thought Adjuster Transmission – September 9, 2004.

There are so many lonely people on the planet, who really feel that they are forgotten. Somehow it feels like they have lost the ability to reach out and be heard by anyone. On the other hand there are those who are not willing to seek contact with others, and emanate an energy that they desire that they wish to be left alone. Yet, silently their souls cry out for help. There are those who have been shunned as social outcasts, due to their stations in life. Then there are those feeling unwanted and have carried these feelings with them since childbirth, and, actually, this often already began at conception, because these feelings are laid down at the cellular level.

That feeling of being unwanted, and of being an accident, can be so strong that it will influence the rest of a person’s life. He or she can grow up with very little self-esteem and feel themselves to be unworthy, and sometimes a social outcast, which is indeed very difficult to overcome. The result is that they begin to feel they are on the outskirts of life, never having experienced acceptance at soul-level from anyone, until some happening triggers something in them and awakens them to a higher reality. This then becomes a life-changing moment in their lives. These moments in time are actually moments in eternity as such a moment is forever ‘carved in their soul-self,’ and they can begin to help evolve their own soul by following their inner Guidance to a higher level of existing in live. They do then not just exist, but become active participants in whatever life has to offer them, because they have awakened to their true destiny as children of God.

The ones which need your prayers are the ones who continue to languish in their own way of unprogressive thinking, and are bound in chains of feeling unworthy, because they entertain the disabling thoughts that they are not worthy, and that nobody loves them, so they are caught in the mire of non-acceptance of themselves. This is a great waste of time. Acceptance of self is a pre-requisite of loving oneself, as this is key to loving all others. The word ‘unconditional’ will need to be added somewhere in the equation to know the reality that one is at peace with oneself, with total acceptance of the way one is. This is obtained by effort and struggle to be able to come to grips with oneself at the deep soul-level of existence through the cultivation of faith and trust in a Higher Being.

It is through living and experiencing life, and the discovery that there actually lives a Spark from God within, that the mortal becomes already immortal in the material phase of existence, as the soul is growing at a healthy pace due to the faith and trust being cultivated in such a one. This will have its repercussions in the outer life, as manifestations of the growth of the inner life. These two go hand in hand as one strives to become more sincere and honest in the dealings with oneself, and these will reflect outward to others in becoming more loving and understanding -- more tolerant and forgiving -- more willing to see the needs of others, rather than to be so self absorbed as to be blind to the needs of others. Therewith loneliness will be a thing of the past, as a connection to Something greater than oneself has been established.

© 11:11 Progress Group.
You lit a Flame, and it will become a Raging Fire—ABC-22.
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2008-02-29T07:12:00.000-08:00



Philosopher and economist Friedrich Engels said, "An ounce of action
is worth a ton of theory." Perhaps it is easier to talk about what to
do than to do it.

U.S. District court judge Woodrow Seal was active in a philanthropic
organization known as The Society of St. Stephen. It is an
internationally recognized organization with the sole purpose of
helping people in need.

One day a church invited Mr. Seal to speak to their congregation and
explain to them how they might begin a Society of St. Stephen. The
plan was for the him to speak on the various programs of the society,
then follow up with a time for discussion.

The people took their seat and the minister introduced the featured
speaker. The judge helped himself to cookies and poured a cup of
coffee. When the introduction was completed, Judge Seal walked over to
the piano, put his coffee cup on top of it, and began to fumble in his
coat pockets. Finally, he pulled out a wrinkled piece of paper and
from it read the name of a mother and her four children, including
their ages and clothing sizes.

He noted several other unmet needs of the family and mentioned that
their address was on the paper which he carefully laid on top of the
piano. The judge then said, "If you want to start a Society of St.
Stephen, then you should contact this woman by 11:30 tomorrow morning.
If you are not able to help her, don't worry, I'll be in contact with
her tomorrow and I'll get her help by mid-afternoon."

With that, the judge turned to leave. "Now, forgive me," he said, "but
I really must be going. Thank you for inviting me and for the coffee
and the cookies."

Before anyone could respond he walked out the door. It all took less
than five minutes.

Here was a group of people who thought they were going to spend an
hour listening to a program on how to help others in need, and maybe
discuss its merits for a while. Instead they spent an hour deciding
how to help one family - and the next day they did it.

Judge Seal wasn't content to sit around helplessly waiting for people
to make a decision. The problem for most of us is not lack of
knowledge but lack of action. When all is said and done...more will
have been said than done. But like the Chinese proverb teaches, "The
best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time
is now."

What are you trying to plant? The second best time to do it is now.

-- Steve Goodier
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The cosmic evolutionary purpose

2008-02-28T10:50:00.000-08:00

By engaging the Cosmic Evolutionary Purpose together, (so as to improve ourselves and each other at will) the course of history will be transformed for the better. In doing this we become active participants in Creation, not just creative persons. In such an undertaking, individual persons could be likened to atoms and communities to molecules, whereby the first cells, (cities) of a new human culture would find their highest expression. When our community is dedicated to the Cosmic Purpose, it then takes on much the same role as DNA does in the creation of new, fresh life for our kind, one which could replicate itself worldwide in a relatively short period of time. This truly revolutionary basis for living together could sweep real vision and wisdom into the stagnant pools of modern society. But to crystallize this ideal basis for community requires a great deal of intelligence, based upon knowledge of how the universe really is, not necessarily how we imagine or want it to be. To begin, we can use the principles of nature as a basic template. Then, through self realization of the consciousness we are, truly See how we can interact with each other as SOULS in a higher, superior way. This will be a way of interaction and understanding, that is far beyond what has ever before been known in the history of mankind. Let us keep ever in mind that there exists cosmic purposes far higher than those currently employed by mainstream society. It is to these we must strive, so as to create something truly great together. Through such a basic vision of ideal community as a starting point, this crystallization can then evolve further into a highly profound social movement the world over.
http://www.eoni.com/~visionquest/library/universalideal.html

Purity and Sincerity

2008-02-28T06:58:00.001-08:00

Purity and sincerity are ‘connected to each other,’ but are not the same. You have requested to have purity of thought, but as a mortal this is very difficult to obtain, because of the tendency to judge, to evaluate another, to minimize, to over-emphasize, to exaggerate, and much more. Purity of thought is a mastery over all negative impulses and tendencies. It has to become an unconscious habit of pure thinking in which sincerity comes first, and sincerity could therefore be seen as the fore-runner of purity, for when you are sincere, you are pure at heart, and the pure of heart shall see God.

1111 progress group

Little to Work For

2008-02-17T03:38:00.000-08:00

For he that contributes only to his own welfare soon finds little to work for. He that contributes only to the welfare of others soon finds too much of others and has lost the appreciation of self, or of its ideals.
. . . Know that the power or strength for any influence as related to the help of others must come from the universal source and not from self alone. For the individual may sow the seed, the Infinite must give the increase--it must do the multiplying. Man can detract, but he can add little to God's purpose in the earth save through the grace and mercy of God Himself.

Edgar Cayce Reading 3478-2

Lifelong habits

2008-02-04T13:18:00.000-08:00

Great lifelong habits are formed by making small, simple changes in three key areas: nutrition, fitness, and stress. The results move you toward the healthier, happier end where life is about the joys of living . . . younger.

www.realage.com

Character

2008-01-31T12:59:00.000-08:00

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden

2008-01-23T19:27:00.001-08:00

I AM THANKFUL:

FOR THE WIFE
WHO SAYS IT'S HOT DOGS TONIGHT,
BECAUSE SHE IS HOME WITH ME,
AND NOT OUT WITH SOMEONE ELSE.

FOR THE HUSBAND
WHO IS ON THE SOFA
BEING A COUCH POTATO,
BECAUSE HE IS HOME WITH ME
AND NOT OUT AT THE BARS.

FOR THE TEENAGER
WHO IS COMPLAINING ABOUT DOING DISHES
BECAUSE IT MEANS SHE IS AT HOME,
NOT ON THE STREETS.

FOR THE TAXES I PAY
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I AM EMPLOYED .

FOR THE MESS TO CLEAN AFTER A PARTY
BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE
BEEN SURROUNDED BY FRIENDS.

FOR THE CLOTHES THAT FIT A LITTLE TOO SNUG
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I HAVE ENOUGH TO EAT.

FOR MY SHADOW THAT WATCHES ME WORK
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I AM OUT IN THE SUNSHINE

FOR A LAWN THAT NEEDS MOWING,
WINDOWS THAT NEED CLEANING,
AND GUTTERS THAT NEED FIXING
BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE A HOME

FOR ALL THE COMPLAINING
I HEAR ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT
BECAUSE IT MEANS WE HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

FOR THE PARKING SPOT I FIND AT THE FAR END OF THE PARKING LOT
BECAUSE IT MEANS I AM CAPABLE OF WALKING
AND I HAVE BEEN BLESSED WITH TRANSPORTATION

FOR MY HUGE HEATING BILL
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I AM WARM.

FOR THE LADY BEHIND ME IN CHURCH
WHO SINGS OFF KEY
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I CAN HEAR.

FOR THE PILE OF
LAUNDRY AND IRONING
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I HAVE CLOTHES TO WEAR.

FOR WEARINESS AND ACHING MUSCLES
AT THE END OF THE DAY
BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE BEEN
CAPABLE OF WORKING HARD.

FOR THE ALARM THAT GOES OFF
IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS
BECAUSE IT MEANS I AM ALIVE.

AND FINALLY, FOR TOO MUCH E-MAIL
BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE FRIENDS WHO ARE THINKING OF ME.

To live love

2008-01-17T07:08:00.000-08:00

To live love is to be love. To be one with the Father is to be equal with the Father, and as the understanding of the entity is gained in the application of truths gained the consciousness of truth is apparent--for, as has been given, to love is to live love--not the answer of desire or of amorous affection, but is all in one--for love is law, law is love.

Edgar Cayce Reading 900-331

True Inner Peace

2008-01-12T06:41:00.000-08:00

The seeking and finding of true inner peace is an ongoing quest in the human soul. It is the insatiable hunger which drives humankind forward to find God, and to find Him in perfection. And so the quest for perfection begins. Of course this has often been equated with worthiness, but that is not so. God is no respecter of persons. He accepts each alike; man or woman, rich or poor, saint or sinner. All are equal in His eyes, and neither are races or creeds unequal in any way. Each is welcome at the ‘Master’s table.’

The only thing that determines the speed of spiritual development is the drive and search for inner peace. Those who attain this inner peace lose all fear of dying, for they have found something in themselves which is eternally alive, and that precious God-connection, which was always there, gets plugged into by the human and a deep realization dawns that he or she is one with the Creator, and that race, creed or color matter not. Only the relationship with the eternal Father matters. It then becomes of consuming interest to find out more about that divine connection, and more time will be spent in the Silence of the heart.
1111 progress group

Living Human Forces Within

2008-01-10T09:13:00.000-08:00

For within the human body--living, not dead--living human forces--we find every element, every gas, every mineral, every influence that is outside of the organism itself. For indeed it is one with the whole. For it is not only a portion of, and equal to, and able to overcome or meet every influence within, but there is not the ability in the third dimensional force or influence to even imagine anything that isn't a part of the activity of a physical living organism!

Edgar Cayce Reading 470-22

Happy New Year

2007-12-31T05:46:00.000-08:00

REMEMBER THE FACTS OF LIFE

The most destructive habit (Worry)
The greatest Joy (Giving)
The greatest loss (Loss of self-respect)
The most satisfying work (Helping others)
The ugliest personality trait (Selfishness)
The most endangered species (Dedicated leaders)
Our greatest natural resource (Our youth)
The greatest "shot in the arm (Encouragement)
The greatest problem to overcome (Fear)
The most effective sleeping pill (Peace of mind)
The most crippling failure disease (Excuses)
The most powerful force in life (Love)
The most dangerous pariah (A gossiper )
The world's most incredible computer (The brain)
The worst thing to be without (Hope)
The deadliest weapon (The tongue)
The two most power-filled words (I Can)
The greatest asset (Faith)
The most worthless emotion (Self-pity)
The most beautiful attire (A SMILE)
The most prized possession (Integrity)
The most contagious spirit (Enthusiasm)

AND ALSO REMEMBER:

THE TONGUE CAN BE YOUR WORST ENEMY!

Your words, your dreams, and your thoughts have
power to create conditions in your life.

What you speak about, you can bring about.
If you keep saying you can't stand your job,
you might lose your job.

If you keep saying you can't stand your body,
your body can become sick.

If you keep saying you can't stand your car,
your car could be stolen or just stop operating.

If you keep saying you're broke, guess what?
You'll always be broke.

If you keep saying you can't trust people,
you'll always have someone in your life to hurt
and betray you.

If you keep saying you can't find a job,
you will remain unemployed.

If you keep saying you can't find someone
to love you or believe in you,
you will attract more experiences to confirm
your beliefs.

If you keep talking about a divorce or breaking up
then you might just end up with it.

Turn your thoughts and conversations around
to be more positive and power packed with
faith, hope, love and action.

Don't be afraid to believe that you can have
what you want and deserve.

Watch your Thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your Habits, they become character.
Watch your Character, it becomes your Destiny.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve,
you get even less than you settle for.

1957

2007-12-30T08:35:00.000-08:00

The holly tree in my yard had grown as tall as the roof.Thats it to the left of the front door in the picture.I was 1 year old when this picture was taken.The additional 2 bedrooms were already added at this time in 1957.Take note,that the scruffiest tree is also the hardiest,and has outlasted almost all the bigger,harder trees.

To Bring Hope

2007-12-24T07:29:00.000-08:00

. . To bring hope, to bring cheer, to bring joy, yea to bring a smile again to those whose face and heart are bathed in tears and in woe, is but making that divine love shine--shine--in thy own soul.
Then smile, be joyous, be glad! For the day of the Lord is at hand.

Edgar Cayce Reading 987-4

Faults in Others

2007-12-20T07:21:00.000-08:00

Faults in others are first reflected in self. When such conditions arise in the experience of an entity, there should be first those considerations of that in self that has produced such a reflection, so that the God shining through any activity is lost sight of by self in the fellow man; especially one that is seeking for the spiritual activities in a material plane, and he that would gain the world and lose self's own soul has lost all.

Edgar Cayce Reading 452-3

Time Warp 1936

2007-12-18T17:54:00.000-08:00

This is my house in 1936
To the left of the stairs,just in front of the 2 stakes there is a foot tall holly bush.Today it is 75 years older,and stands proud as a member of my yard

Julie Andrews ovation

2007-12-07T07:12:00.000-08:00

To commemorate her 69th birthday on October 1, actress/vocalist, Julie Andrews made a special appearance at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall for the benefit of the AARP.
One of the musical numbers she performed was "My Favorite Things" from the legendary movie "Sound Of Music". Here are the lyrics she used:

Maalox and nose drops and needles for knitting,
Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings,
Bundles of magazines tied up in string,
These are a few of my favorite things.
Cadillacs and cataracts, hearing aids and glasses,
Polident and Fixodent and false teeth in glasses,
Pacemakers, golf carts and porches with swings,
These are a few of my favorite things.

When the pipes leak,
When the bones creak,
When the knees go bad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don't feel so bad.

Hot tea and crumpets and corn pads for bunions,
No spicy hot food or food cooked with onions,
Bathrobes and heating pads and hot meals they bring,
These are a few of my favorite things.
Back pains, confused brains, and no need for sinnin',
Thin bones and fractures and hair that is thinnin',
And we won't mention our short shrunken frames,
When we remember our favorite things.

When the joints ache,
When the hips break,
When the eyes grow dim,
I simply remember the great life I've had,
And then I don't feel so bad!

(Ms. Andrews received a standing ovation from the crowd that lasted over four minutes and repeated encores.)

George Carlin

2007-12-04T06:48:00.000-08:00

What a difference a sad event in someone's life makes.
GEORGE CARLIN (His wife recently died. ..)

Isn't it amazing that George Carlin - comedian of the 70's and 80's - could write something so very eloquent...and so very appropriate.

A Message by George Carlin:

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete...

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Wait Before Me in Silence

2007-11-19T14:40:00.000-08:00

A Lesson on Learning.
A Thought Adjuster Transmission – August 5, 2004.

Wait before Me in the Silence. Allow a holy hush to fall upon you. When your own thoughts intrude, let them go by without them diverting your attention. Let it flow, let it flow. Give Me your total intent and attention. In the holy hush is My Presence, and I Am without time. There is never a time limit with Me.

You have now begun a deeper training, although it has always been the same. This training is designed to lead you deeper into yourself, and closer to Me. Yes, I know this sounds a bit like a contradiction, because I am closer than your hands and feet and closer than your breath. I exist within you, in My secret place, and yet to you I seem miles away. This is the reason why we embark on this venture; for you to learn, not only with your mind but also with your whole heart, that I am here.

I need you to understand, that I am a Part of God, a Creator Fragment so to speak, and I carry attributes of God in Me, which I am willing to share with you as soon as you show a readiness therefore.

All this has to do with spiritual growth, which is just as necessary for a human being as physical, mental and emotional growth is necessary for a newborn baby. So are humans new-born in spirit, and it is up to the parents to teach a child right from wrong at the earliest possible age. Then, at the very moment when the child makes its first independent conscious decision between right and wrong, a Fragment of God, called a Thought Adjuster, comes to indwell that human mind as a Spirit Helper.

From that very important moment on, the human being is never alone, as his or her Thought Adjuster struggles within to help grow and nurture the human soul. Once clarity dawns, and the human realizes that it possesses this great Gift of God, he or she has the option of cooperating with this Gift. It is the opportunity of the ages.

Listen with your Heart

2007-11-15T06:48:00.000-08:00

Dear one, to develop your inner listening skills, your heart needs to be totally open and free of judgment.

Concentrate first and foremost on the hidden meaning of the words you hear in every conversation. The head always has the tendency to jump into the fray of a discussion, but it is far wiser to discern the hidden meanings. In doing so, you may well discover unspoken fears, grief and sorrows, for which you may offer a word of wisdom.

When spoken at the right moment, your words may cut through the outer veneer of bravado and loudness, and, perchance these words will lodge like little nuggets in the thirsting heart of another.

Always remember that the human heart is a very delicate instrument and easily wounded. Thoughtless words and actions can roll down the ages, to later manifest themselves as all sorts of mental, emotional, and physical illnesses.

As I told you before: “Thoughts held in mind, produce after their kind”, and “As above, so below”, as well as “What a man or woman sows, he or she also reaps”. This is the immutable Law of cause and effect. What goes up must come down.

This, My beloved, I desire for you to integrate, so you will grow more conscious and aware as to how you think, how you live, and how you speak.

You can only cultivate present-centered awareness through the practice of self-discipline, and by becoming more thoughtful about the feelings of others, even though their outward speech and actions tell you otherwise.

Each human heart is so delicate, and can so easily be broken. The world abounds with broken hearts, which can only be healed when Silence is cultivated, and the Peace and Rest of the Eternal God is experienced, as each heart discovers for itself, that, yes, it, too, is beloved of the Father in heaven.

Pray for more Love

2007-11-11T05:54:00.001-08:00

In Love Lies Abundant Healing.
A Thought Adjuster Speaks – 164 – January 6, 2004.

Dear one, no path is too difficult to walk when Love reigns in your heart. When anger, resentment and other harmful and poisonous thoughts reign, or when they creep back in, turn those out at once, for they perpetuate bad habits and clutter the heart with negativity.

I have told you before that the heart is the real mind of the body, and that the brain is merely the computer, albeit a very important piece of complicated machinery. Yet it only acts on the thoughts held in the heart/mind, which produce after their kind.

Furthermore, the heart is the main engine in the body and therefore a most elegant and delicate instrument, and anything that clutters this amazing life-giving force, which is ultimately powered by Spirit-Energy, is harmful.

It is very unkind and unjust to have less than positive and loving thoughts ‘greasing’ the heart, so to speak.

Love is the true Key, which feeds and heals the heart, and makes it beat at its greatest efficiency. See to it that you use self-discipline in controlling and perfecting your thoughts.

Yes, I know that many a heart has suffered and is suffering grief from either the loss of a loved one, or unkind and harsh words from others. A heart can feel demoralized through the actions of others. Also, the owner’s stubbornness, and negative thinking can harm the heart.

Dear one, remember that the heart does not attack, the owner does. Also, one needs to take the genetic make-up and lifestyle into consideration.

Remember always, that Love heals a heart faster than any chemical medicine. Emotions play a huge role, and need to be looked at and taken care of.

In Love lies abundant healing.

Pray for more love, for self and others.

Less than a Mote

2007-11-08T08:22:00.000-08:00

Think on This ...

For the entity, as each soul, is a portion of the whole. Thus, though a soul may be as but a speck upon the earth's environs, and the earth in turn much less than a mote in the universe, if the spirit of man is so attuned to the Infinite, the music of harmony becomes as the divine love that makes for the awareness in the experience of the Creative Forces working with self for the knowledge of the associations with same.

Edgar Cayce Reading 1469-1

2007-10-24T08:10:00.000-07:00

And To Delight A Little More.
A Thought Adjuster Speaks – 160 – January 2, 2004.

Dear one, open your heart and soul and mind for the warmth of the sunrays of the Creator. In the Spirit world we all work together as One, as the Will of the One is being manifested in the many. We are all expressions of this One Will.

And I, as your Indweller, entice you each day anew to do the Will of the One.

And learn each day to trust a little more, to love a little more, to hope a little more and to delight a little more.

This will increase your soul-peace, as each day you learn to reach out yet more to others, who might benefit by a smile, a word of encouragement, or a friendly gesture. Build yourself a service-oriented character, a willingness to help others, without thoughts of recompense.

The Eternal Creator sees all, knows all, and even sees the intent of the human heart before it even registers as a thought-action in the mind.

To do the Will of God is a road to self-fulfillment and happiness beyond your present imagination. The Will of God is the way of Love, with a purity and sincerity of heart.

The only requisite is that your will is freely and joyfully given to God, not grudgingly and out of fear of punishment.

Doing the Will of God, joyfully and thankfully, banishes all fear, and a freedom ensues, which I would have you experience while yet in the flesh. For this is the aim and secret of a God-led life: To live in Joy and the sure knowledge of Life everlasting.

This is My desire for you, that you get to know Me better and trust Me more, as I am your Companion along the way.

1111 progress group

No More Judging

2007-10-17T07:33:00.000-07:00

Dear one, be very gentle and loving with your self. Each time you enter the holy of holies inside your heart, you leave another aspect of your low self-esteem outside, to be replaced by My Peace and soul-rest. This is a subtle transformation.

I entice you towards greater progress, and leaving behind the worn out modes of thinking and of judgment about yourself and others. Let us be practical in this training for elevating your thought processes onto a more spiritually useful level.

The past has become redundant. Leave your mistakes and disappointments behind. Only retain the lessons you have learned from them, and the blessings you have experienced.

Count those blessings, and let them warm your heart on the rainy and windy days of troubles and disappointments, which will begin to lose their strength and importance the more often you come to Me, and feel My Comforting Presence within you.

From this calm Center, you shall go forth into your daily life to be a comforting presence to others, because you are learning to drink from the well of Living Waters, the Source that dwells within and yearns to become totally accessible to you.

Only you can block My positive stream through and by a negative attitude, falling back into the old redundant pattern of fault finding and judgment.

Become increasingly more aware of your thoughts, of how you think, and what you think, and even the simple reason why you think in certain ways.

Banish any and all negative thoughts at once, so there will be more room for positive thought. I teach you the way of conscious living.

So come. So rest. So learn.

The Way of the Universe

2007-10-15T08:26:00.000-07:00

Divine Mother: “Beautiful child! So young and tender. You are birthed in my womb of love—I am your home now. Settle into me and allow yourself to grow. You will have new things added to you as your focus your thoughts on Me. This is Nebadonia, your Mother, and you have heard the sound of my voice within calling to you.

“When you are awakened in spirit, you begin to recognize that you draw the ideas, people, and situations to you that give you insights. Use them to explore and create something that feels good to you. The power of love supports you in this direction. View within and create your internal visions as your Inner Spirit shares its desires with you. Relax and let go. Fully enjoy yourself in being a young child of Spirit exploring and adventuring in my universe.

“Your brothers and sisters are here to help you. Get to know them, for they are your guides, companions and friends. My heavenly helpers are here to take your hands and show you the way. The way of love, the way of peace, the way of hope, and the way of the universe. Come and learn, play and grow with us!”
1111 progress group

The gift

2007-10-10T15:20:00.000-07:00

There are lots of different names for the “Gift” that the Creator of All has bestowed upon the mortal races. Thought Adjuster is just one of them. Other names are Spirit Self, the Voice Within, and Pilot Light to name a few. Many people are unaware of these indefatigable Workers that are with us at all times, or certainly most of the time. Relatively few people understand Their function, and even fewer know where They hail from, and that They actually need some form of training to function well in the time/space realms. Countless individuals believe they may well have a soul, but they are unaware of the fact that their soul would not be able to progress in this life without that additional Gift from the Creator of All That Is.

1111

2007-10-10T10:21:00.000-07:00

The processes of channeling, and out-of-body experiences, requires for one to have an Advanced, or perhaps even a Supreme Adjuster, not a brand new, less experienced, or Virgin Adjuster. It is the Adjuster who “calls the shots” in communication. He or She (so addressed depending on the human gender, since he, or she, supplies the Personality, while the Adjuster supplies the Identity), needs to “disengage” in some way, to allow for Midwayers’ mind-to-mind communication to the human speech centers, located in the left cerebral hemisphere.

Therefore, it stands to reason that those who are regular recipients of the 11:11 time prompts do have Advanced, or even Supreme Adjusters.

That seems to be a logical deduction.

The Human Radio Review

2007-09-30T19:39:00.000-07:00

by Joseph Sadony

WHAT’S “IN THE AIR”, from June 1934’s The Whisper—Vancourier to the Voice

We all possess a “human radio” as part of the marvelous organic equipment with which we have been endowed by the Creator; we possess it whether we know it or not, and whether we believe it or not. All of us use it in some degree, knowingly or unknowingly. It is a tragedy that men who could most benefit the world by its use, throw a monkey-wrench into their own machinery and have throughout history made it as difficult as possible for the most highly developed human radios to function without being stoned to death or thrown into a madhouse.

Ordinary radios have their own territory of reception, and amplify, at the will of their owners, any program being broadcasted at the time within those limits. To know what’s “on the air,” one need but to consult the various radio reviews, or the radio section of the daily paper. These assist one in tuning in to programs which otherwise he would never know were on the air unless he spent his entire time at the radio manipulating it from one end of the dial to the other, hearing only fragments of each program. But inasmuch as these programs have been designed and are being executed knowingly by men, their intentions can be scheduled and announced.

With the human radio, however, man can only listen in to what he is able to catch. All of Nature broadcasts continuously and permanently, retaining all history in her memory, and man, though its crowning blossom on earth, and the hands by means of which she may serve herself, is after all but a part of the Whole. He is the divine child that sprang from the union of the Creative Spirit that we call God with the body of material things that we call Nature. In this cocoon of mortal flesh a human soul is born, and man, seeing only the flesh, thinks that the birth of the soul is the end of all when it casts off its chrysalis, the human body, whose only purpose is as the shroud of incubation that insulates and preserves the individualized spec of Life until its transformation from a worm to a butterfly is complete.

Until then its wings cannot be used, but they are developing though unseen. And what would be the result if the butterfly refused to develop its wings because it could find no use for them in its cocoon? And it is thus with unseen, neglected faculties of the human mind, without which we would be as helpless after death as a butterfly without wings—faculties which have puzzled science because of the little practical use for them in this life as we know it. There is little real use, it seems, in the toys of children, but it is the children who play as if the world depended upon it with toys, who later wield tools and weapons as masters of men.

So if one cannot put it to definite, practical use at once, still it would behoove him to “play” with the human radio, developing his Intuition, Imagination and Memory into the powerful wings of freedom for the human soul which they are destined to be. But instead of “playing” with it, the “Game of Life,” man suffers with it, accepting conditions and “programs” without any effort to change them or get something better.

The air is full of programs for the human radio who will only tune in to them. For years I tuned my “dial’ from end to end to run the gamut of its possibilities, accepting griefs and joys alike, but now I tune in to well-tested programs upon which long experience has taught me I can depend for normal thinking and stability at the Fulcrum of life.

There is something lacking in the newspapers of today, something which in small measure I have been quietly trying to supply: a “Human Radio Review,” as it were, broadcasting a few fragments of what I have found, and continue to find “in the air,” a willing entertainer, comforter, helper or tantalizer of man, according to the adjustment of this own mechanism. He can become a wise man or a fool, a madman or a genius; the intricacies of all knowledge are at his disposal, or the simplicity of Wisdom, just as he desires or thinks.

To help others develop, perfect, adjust and atune their human radios is one of the main objects of my life. And in this connection, as time passes, I shall develop a “service” which might fittingly be called “The Human Radio(P)review”—calling attention to what’s “in the air” for the human radio that cares to listen, and making suggestions to help the readers tune out of uncomfortable programs into more beneficial ones aligned with human progress.

You may rest assured that the air is not completely filled with “sermons.” There is plenty of humor and entertainment, plenty of music to lift the soul above material clouds, or plunge it into the primitive earth. There is the breathtaking panorama of History, not as it is written, but as it was, and still is, in Nature’s all-seeing Memory. And there are the whispers and shadows of a limitless future offering us our choice of what it and we shall be.

Affirmations of Abundant Supply

2007-09-19T14:04:00.000-07:00

Following are other power affirmations for abundant supply.
Choose the affirmations that feel appropriate to you --
those that resonate with you, or strike an emotional chord.
It is important that the words feel comfortable to you and
are in line with who you are. Feel free to create one for
your specific need by substituting other words that have
special meaning to you:

Affirmations of Abundant Supply:

* I am now open to receive.
* Life is easy, I have an abundance of whatever I need.
* I now have surplus, all my needs are being met.
* I have unlimited abundance.
* I now give and receive freely.
* This is a rich universe and there is plenty for all of us.
* I now live in a rich and loving universe.
* Money comes to me easily and effortlessly.
* I am always supplied with whatever I need.
* I move forward with an expectancy of my greatest good.
* I look for and receive a bountiful supply.
* My greatest good is coming to me NOW.

THE BELIEVING MIND

2007-09-16T18:03:00.000-07:00

learn to listen

2007-09-01T16:53:00.000-07:00

Think on This ...

Depend more upon the intuitive forces from within and not harken so much to that of outside influences--but learn to listen to that still small voice from within, remembering as the lesson as was given, not in the storm, the lightning, nor in any of the loud noises as are made to attract man, but rather in the still small voice from within does the impelling influence come to life in an individual that gives for that which must be the basis of human endeavor; for without the ability to constantly hold before self the ideal as is attempted to be accomplished, man becomes one as adrift, pulled hither and yon by the various calls and cries of those who would give of this world's pleasure in fame, fortune, or what not. Let these be the outcome of a life spent in listening to the divine from within, and not the purpose of the life.

Edgar Cayce Reading 239-1

Sunday Blessings

2007-08-26T09:04:00.000-07:00

May you have
Enough happiness to make you sweet,
Enough trials to make you strong,
Enough sorrow to keep you human,
Enough hope to make you happy.

Heat And Light

2007-08-18T08:28:00.000-07:00

It is interesting but unfortunate that light and heat are so mistaken.What we think is a knowing light is but a stifling heat.The friction of actionproduces a heat we take as accomplishmentAnd the more we accomplish the hotter we get.The heat is but the internal workings of image and obsession;the frantic pursuit of the goldwe dangle in front of our eyes.Why is it that when we burn outwe seek to renew the heatand never think to seek shade?There is another life waiting in the cool, listless shade.A life where accomplishment consists of nothing but staying cool.All that glitters is not gold.Much of it is the heat that we believe is light.Forget about regulating the heat;Life flows in the cool, clear pasture of solitude.

http://www.tatfoundation.org/forum.htm#4

Cloud of Illusion

2007-08-15T22:32:00.000-07:00

"We live in a cloud of illusions and rarely realize that we are spinning this web of fiction for all the hours and days of our lives, unless we are fortunate or unfortunate enough to die slowly. Perhaps slow death may be the only moments of reality for the total life of many earthlings. Because the dying person is forced to face the fact that he is about to become zero."

Love

2007-08-02T07:02:00.000-07:00

Love
Common love is an illusion,It wants us to possess that which gives us pleasure,It tells us to pursue the object of our desire,It does not see beyond itself.True love has no object, no goal:It is just love.The love where there is no "me"and "you" is the rest of humanity.Love that is not borne of selfTouches everything and yet nothing in particular.This all-encompassing loveFrees us from the confines of self.Once set free we can travel,Protected from the harshness of lifeCarried along on the wings of loveWe consume ourselves in its wondrous flame.
Larry Davis

http://www.tatfoundation.org/forum.htm#4

Cleaning House

2007-08-01T07:43:00.000-07:00

I asked the Lord to tell me Why my house is such a mess. He asked if I'd been 'computering', And I had to answer "yes." He told me to get off my fanny And tidy up the house. And so I started cleaning up... The smudges off my mouse. I wiped and shined the topside. That really did the trick... I was just admiring my work... I didn't mean to 'click.' But click, I did, and oops I found A real absorbing site That I got SO way into... I was into it all night.<> Nothing's changed except my mouse It's very, very shiny. I guess my house will stay a mess... While I sit here on my hiney.

Realize Truth

2007-07-29T08:24:00.000-07:00

For a seeker who really wants to realize Truth, it is important to develop will-power and have self-control. Self-control is considered to be the very core of the vedantic discipline. Without it no progress is possible in spiritual life, nor any success in meditation. According to Shankara, self-control means the development of will-power and also the strengthening of the buddhi, or the determinative faculty, which controls all the sense organs. This helps the seeker to direct his energy and time towards his goal. There will be more than plenty of times when doubts about your goal will arise and you'll want to give it all up in pursuit of immediate pleasure and happiness. One may find himself falling and rising again. Sometimes there is a danger of getting in the habit of falling. Each time you decide this will not happen again and yet when you get hit by these particular winds, you find yourself repeating the same pattern. Self-observation helps us to see through our patterns and gives us some distance. It also helps in understanding the nature of our obstacle and how to get to its source. When we get a real perspective on our obstacle, we can feel free to act in whichever way we want.
For a seeker on a path of Self-inquiry, any obstacle is an opportunity to get close to its source. Finally you may find that source of All is That.
Anima Pundeer
http://www.tatfoundation.org/forum.htm#4

The Little Man in Me

2007-07-28T09:24:00.000-07:00

The Little Man
by
Bob Fergeson
From early morning coffee
to late night herbal tea,
We lived for near forever,
the Little Man and me.
When first I came to travel
in this classroom wide and grand,
I knew nothing of the coming
of this lonely Little Man.
But parents, teachers, doctors,
the whole damn Helping Herd,
Soon created him inside me,
As their ancestors had insured.
He has no real existence,
None that I can see.
But could and should and would!
Screamed the Little Man in me.
Soon I hid myself in pride,
Found that fear blocked every door.
I was now what I despised!
Just as those that'd gone before.
The hypnosis worked it's magic,
No peace had I, no stand.
Just a mis-identification,
I became the Little Man.
I took him for a person,
Hell, I thought that he was me!
He sure could be convincing,
that Little Man in me.
Then one day it happened,
I know not really why,
I looked out there below me
From some Great Eternal Sky.
He didn't even notice,
So busy as a bee,
He just kept right on sleeping, but
that Little Man ain't me!
One day looking in the mirror,
From my bed as I did stand,
I receded back behind him,
that sleeping Little Man.
He didn't even notice,
Just a grain lost in the sand,
He can't look back and see me,
that lonely Little Man.
I watch him and his pattern,
How he blends right in so well,
That his life and his surroundings
are no different from himself.
He has no greater vision,
Desire and fear are all he sees.
An actor in the TV,
that Little Man in me.
It's a sad but true short story,
I cry a tear, and so does he,
He won't survive, he lives to die,
the Little Man in me.

The Throne of Power

2007-07-27T17:04:00.000-07:00

Its Fractal Friday
Art made by Muddnet copyrights reserved 2007

Is this real?Or an Imagination of where we really are?I cant say for sure...I can only hope something in this life is real.Click to enlarge this fabric of reality!

Encouragement Works

2007-07-26T09:11:00.000-07:00

ENCOURAGEMENT WORKS
At one point during a game, the coach said to one of his young
players, "Do you understand what cooperation is? What a team is?" The
little boy nodded yes.
"Do you understand that what matters is whether we win together as a
team?" The little boy nodded yes.
"So," the coach continued, "when a strike is called, or you are out at
first, you don't argue or curse or attack the umpire. Do you
understand all that?" Again, the boy nodded yes.
"Good," said the coach. "Now go over there and explain it to your
mother."
What the coach wanted the boy's mother to understand is that
encouragement is vital to success. Encouragement builds teams and also
builds esteem. Encouragement works. In fact, the right kind of
encouragement, at the right time, can change a life.
Author Ron Dunn tells the story of two altar boys. One was born in
1892 in Eastern Europe. The other was born just three years later in a
small town in Illinois (USA). Though their lives were quite different,
these two boys shared a similar experience.
Each altar boy assisted his parish priest in the celebration of Mass.
While handling the chalice during Holy Eucharist, they both
accidentally spilled some of the wine on the carpet.
But this is where their stories diverge. The priest in the Eastern
European church, seeing the purple stain, slapped the altar boy across
the face and shouted, "Clumsy oaf! Leave the altar." He did. The
little boy grew up to become the atheist and communist dictator of
Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito.
The priest in the church in Illinois, upon seeing the wine stain,
knelt down beside the boy and looked him tenderly in the eyes and
said, "It's all right, son. You'll do better next time. You'll be a
fine priest for God someday." That little boy grew up to become the
much loved Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.
We will never know how much a kind and encouraging word from the
priest, or the lack of one, influenced these boys' lives. But kindness
and instruction are always far more valuable than anger and criticism.
Encouragement works.
-- Steve Goodier

A little more patience

2007-07-16T19:05:00.000-07:00

As has been indicated, a little more patient, a little more tolerant, a little more humble. But . . .not a tolerance that becomes timid--this would make rebellion in self. Not a patience that is not positive. Not an humbleness that becomes morbid or lacking in beauty. For as orderliness is a part of thy being, so let consistency--as persistency--be a part of thy being.

Edgar Cayce Reading 1402-1

old folks

2007-06-27T17:47:00.000-07:00

Senior citizens are constantly being criticized for every conceivable deficiently of the modern world, or imaginary. We now take responsibility for all we have done and do not blame others. But, upon reflection, we “OLD FARTS” would like to point out that it was NOT the senior citizens who took the melody out of music. The pride out of appearance. The romance out of love. The commitment out of marriage. The responsibility out of parenthood. The togetherness out of the family. The learning out of education. The service out of patriotism. The religion out of school. The golden rule from the rulers. The nativity scene out of cities. The civility out of behavior. The refinement out of language. The dedication out of employment. The prudence out of spending. OR, the ambition out of achievement. AND certainly are NOT the ones who eliminated patience and tolerance from personal relationships and interactions with others. Does anyone under the age of forty know the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner? Just look at the Seniors with tears in their eyes and pride in their hearts as they stand at attention with their hand over their hearts! Then look at the young’uns chewing gum, looking around and acting as though their time is being wasted. REMEMBER….Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened to America!

Suprises

2007-05-28T17:25:00.000-07:00

Our lives are full of surprises and amazing coincidences, though we
may not always take notice. Whether or not we see the hand of
providence in coincidence, life teems with the remarkable.
Learn to notice what others do not see, and you can expect to be
surprised. Learn to notice what others do not see, and what you see
will amaze.
-- Steve Goodier

Intent,Awareness,and Energy

2007-05-20T17:33:00.000-07:00

The Intent of this intelligent universe in which we live, is to form the most evolutionary bodies, minds and souls. As we pursue greater personal enlightenment, we are also fulfilling universal goals. This means that the attainment of greater self mastery is more than just a personal practice. It is actually a global process, which has motivated evolution since before the beginnings of Earthly life. It is the Intent of God/Nature that evolution take place, in as many beings as possible, and to as high a degree as possible. Meditation reveals that the essence of evolution is found in the expansion of consciousness, and that we are all as cells within a greater body of Intent, Awareness and Energy. Self realization is in fact the realization of consciousness, which is in turn of benefit to all things in their inter-connectedness. Even That which is called God gains benefit from this process.

http://www.eoni.com/~visionquest/library/md6.html

2007-05-17T05:21:00.000-07:00

WOW, WHAT A WAKE UP!
Dear God:Why didn't you save the school children at ?. .
Moses Lake , Washington 2/2/96
Bethel , Alaska 2/19/97
Pearl , Mississippi 10/1/97
West Paducah , Kentucky 12/1/97
Stamp, Arkansas 12/15/97J
onesboro , Arkansas 3/24/98
Edinboro , Pennsylvania 4/24/98
Fayetteville , Tennessee 5/19/98
Springfield , Oregon 5/21/98
Richmond , Virginia 6/15/98
Littleton , Colorado 4/20/99
Taber , Alberta , Canada 5/28/99
Conyers , Georgia 5/20/99
Deming , New Mexico 11/19/99
Fort Gibson , Oklahoma 12/6/99
Santee , California 3/ 5/01 and
El Cajon , California 3/22/01

Pennsylvania 2006
Virginia Tech College 2007
Sincerely,Concerned Student-----------------------------------------------------
Reply:Dear Concerned Student:I am not allowed in schools.Sincerely,God------------ ----------------------------------------------
How did this get started?...-----------------
Let's see,I think it started when Madeline Murray O'Hare complainedshe didn't want any prayer in our schools. And we said, OK..------------------Then, someone said you better not read the Bible in school,the Bible that says "thou shalt not kill,thou shalt not steal,and love your neighbors as yourself,"And we said, OK... - -------------- --Dr. Benjamin Spock saidwe shouldn't spank our childrenwhen they misbehavedbecause their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem.And we said,an expert should know what he's talking aboutso we won't spank them anymore..------------------Then someone saidteachers and principals better notdiscipline our children when they misbehaveAnd the school administrators saidno faculty member in this schoolbetter touch a student when they misbehavebecause we don't want any bad publicity,and we surely don't want to be sued.And we accepted their reasoning...------------------Then some wise school board member said,since boys will be boys and they're going to do it anyway,let's give our sons all the condoms they want, so they can have all the fun they desire,and we won't have to tell their parents they got them at school. And we said, that's another great idea...------------------Then some of our top elected officials saidit doesn't matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs.And we said,it doesn't matter what anybody,including the President,does in private as long as we have jobs and the economy is good.... ------------------And someone else took that appreciation a step furtherand published pictures of nude childrenand then stepped further still bymaking them available on the Internet.And we said, everyone's entitled to free speech....------------------And the entertainment industry said,let's make TV shows and movies that promote profanity, violence and illicit sex...And let's record music that encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes...And we said,it's just entertainmentand it has no adverse effect and nobody takes it seriously anyway,so go right ahead.------------------Now we're asking ourselveswhy our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong,and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, classmates or even themselves.------------------Undoubtedly, if we thought about it long and hard enough,we could figure it out.I'm sure it has a great deal to do with..."WE REAP WHAT WE SOW,"

Your Foremost Resource

2007-05-07T22:29:00.000-07:00

Our first and foremost resource as human beings is not lumber, coal, stone, solar energy, liquid fuels, seeds or even land. Our foremost resource is ourselves. Any tool is only as useful as the hand or spirit that wields it. The first priority in life must therefore always be the refinement of the tool user, not the tools themselves. From our own inner capability do these materials find utility and fashioning for the sake of building community. This means that in order to successfully build an infrastructure, we must first refine ourselves. The capability of our minds is genius, the strength of our bodies is enduring and the potential wisdom of our souls, born of cosmic purpose, is limitless. It is from this soil well prepared, that the most progressive communities must sprout. These are the basic nutrients of community excellence, (not to mention the source of our survival as a species) whose fruits shall be the sweetest and most nutritious of all, for everyone concerned. These fruits spring from the rich soil of truth.

http://www.eoni.com/~visionquest/library/universalideal.html

Intent

2007-05-04T07:44:00.000-07:00

Intent is a body-wide consideration. When we coordinate the feeling/intent elements throughout the body as a harmonious whole, our personal power is greatly increased. Using these feelings as a guide or feedback device, intent can be shifted in any part of the body, both temporarily and permanently. For instance if there is chronic fear in the area of the heart of a person, this knowledge of intent allows them an opportunity to change this condition at will. To do this they would need to focus on the fear in the heart, and INTEND that feeling to be elevated, ultimately to one of love, for instance. Such a transformation is well within the power of any person to implement, and is a step along the way to the Mastery of Intent.

http://www.eoni.com/%7evisionquest/library/intdesc.html

The Awakening

2007-05-02T00:05:00.001-07:00

The Awakening A time comes in your life when you finally get it...when, in the midst of all your fears and insanity, you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out...ENOUGH! Enough fighting and crying and blaming and struggling to hold on. Then, like a child quieting down after a tantrum, you blink back your tears and begin to look at the world through new eyes. This is your awakening. You realize it's time to stop hoping and waiting for something to change, or for happiness, safety and security to magically appear over the next horizon. You realize that in the real world there aren't always fairy tale endings, and that any guarantee of "happily ever after" must begin with you... and in the process a sense of serenity is born of acceptance. You awaken to the fact that you are not perfect and that not everyone will always love, appreciate or approve of who or what you are... and that's OK. They are entitled to their own views and opinions. You learn the importance of loving and championing yourself... and in the process a sense of new found confidence is born of self-approval. You stop complaining and blaming other people for the things they did to you - or didn't do for you - and you learn that the only thing you can really count on is the unexpected. You learn that people don't always say what they mean or mean what they say and that not everyone will always be there for you and that everything isn't always about you. So, you learn to stand on your own and to take care of yourself... and in the process a sense of safety and security is born of self-reliance. You stop judging and pointing fingers and you begin to accept people as they are and to overlook their shortcomings and human frailties... and in the process a sense of peace and contentment is born of forgiveness. You learn to open up to new worlds and different points of view. You begin reassessing and redefining who you are and what you really stand for. You learn the difference between wanting and needing and you begin to discard the doctrines and values you've outgrown, or should never have bought into to begin with. ou learn that there is power and glory in creating and contributing and you stop maneuvering through life merely as a "consumer" looking for your next fix. You learn that principles such as honesty and integrity are not the outdated ideals of a bygone era, but the mortar that holds together the foundation upon which you must build a life. You learn that you don't know everything, it's not your job to save the world and that you can't teach a pig to sing. You learn that the only cross to bear is the one you choose to carry and that martyrs get burned at the stake. Then you learn about love. You learn to look at relationships as they really are and not as you would have them be. You learn that alone does not mean lonely. You stop trying to control people, situations and outcomes. You learn to distinguish between guilt and responsibility and the importance of setting boundaries and learning to say NO. You also stop working so hard at putting your feelings aside, smoothing things over and ignoring your needs. You learn that your body really is your temple. You begin to care for it and treat it with respect. You begin to eat a balanced diet, drink more water, and take more time to exercise. You learn that being tired fuels doubt, fear, and uncertainty and so you take more time to rest. And, just as food fuels the body, laughter fuels our soul. So you take more time to laugh and to play. You learn that, for the most part, you get in life what you believe you deserve, and that much of life truly is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You learn that anything worth achieving is worth working for and that wishing for something to happen is different than working toward making it happen. More importantly, you learn that in order to achieve success you need direction, discipline and perseverance. You also learn that no one can do it all alone, and that it's OK to risk asking for help. You learn the only thing you must truly fear is fear itself. You learn to step right into and through your fears because you know that whatever happens you can handle it and to give in to fear is to give away the right to live life on your own terms. You learn to fight for your life and not to squander it living under a cloud of impending doom. You learn that life isn't always fair, you don't always get what you think you deserve and that sometimes bad things happen to unsuspecting, good people... and you learn not to always take it personally. You learn that nobody's punishing you and everything isn't always somebody's fault. It's just life happening. You learn to admit when you are wrong and to build bridges instead of walls. You learn that negative feelings such as anger, envy and resentment must be understood and redirected or they will suffocate the life out of you and poison the universe that surrounds you. You learn to be thankful and to take comfort in many of the simple things we take for granted, things that millions of people upon the earth can only dream about: a full refrigerator, clean running water, a soft warm bed, a long hot shower. Then, you begin to take responsibility for yourself by yourself and you make yourself a promise to never betray yourself and to never, ever settle for less than your heart's desire. You make it a point to keep smiling, to keep trusting, and to stay open to every wonderful possibility. You hang a wind chime outside your window so you can listen to the wind. Finally, with courage in your heart, you take a stand, you take a deep breath, and you begin to design the life you want to live as best you can.

2007-04-30T11:23:00.000-07:00

Stone love

2007-04-28T08:37:00.000-07:00

Stone love -- she kneels before the grave
A brave son -- who gave his life to save the slogan
That hovers 'tween the headstone and her eyes
For they penetrate her grieving
New love -- a boy and girl are talking
New words -- that only they can share in
New words -- a love so strong it tears their hearts
To sleep -- through the fleeting hours of morning
Love is careless in its choosing -- sweeping over cross a baby
Love descends on those defenseless
Idiot love will spark the fusion
Inspirations have I none -- just to touch the flaming dove
All I have is my love of love -- and love is not loving
Soul love -- the priest that tastes the word and
Told of love -- and how my God on high is
All love -- though reaching up my loneliness evolves
By the blindness that surrounds him

David Bowie ' Soul love' from Ziggy Stardust

Cosmic Order

2007-04-26T19:20:00.000-07:00

The progressive understanding of cosmic order and one’s current relationship with that order, brings satisfaction for which there is no substitute. The embodiment of universal knowledge is so fulfilling that it causes those who achieve it to deliver the message of Truth to the world. Self knowledge brings about the realization that the world would be completely transformed by embracing consciousness as its guiding motivation. This the Master understands, and so must we in order to save our species from the brink of its own self-destruction.

http://www.eoni.com/%7evisionquest/library/md6.html

We are not seperate of Nature

2007-04-25T17:23:00.000-07:00

The source of natural wisdom from which we may draw, is from the same deep ocean that has carried the great Seers, visionaries, inventors and spiritual Masters of all time to their Earthly fruition. That source is none other than the consciousness itself which we already ARE, as well as the consciousness which the universe already IS. That wisdom tells those who would listen, that we are NOT separate from nature, we are a self-aware extension of it. It also tells us that there are no such thing as "separate issues" such as politics, social inequality, war or environmental issues that require "separate treatment". On the contrary, ALL ISSUES ARE SPIRITUAL CONCERNS, and it is upon this Cosmic Foundation that all other consideration are inherently built. We must address this foundation with competence, in order to address the human condition with any hope of success. We are consciousness raised up past a certain evolutionary degree, which can now KNOW ITSELF. In essence, we are matter that is animated by spirit, and not just a random collection of atoms. It is this human, evolutionary arrangement of matter, awareness, energy and intent, which accounts for our extraordinary abilities as Homo Sapiens. Having gone further than the animal not so much in form, but in the capacity for self awareness and self change, the human evolutionary course is ours to guide. Yet we cannot access our extraordinary and inherent abilities of genius and great wisdom, unless we realize that there is such a thing as Truth, and a purpose for life far beyond consumerism, militarism, nationalism and materialism.

http://www.eoni.com/~visionquest/library/universalideal.html

Spring

2007-04-24T23:24:00.000-07:00

I got a new camera..Bear with me as I learn to focus it manually.Spring means Purple and red flowers blooming on my porch.