Wed. Nite Topics
Below are postings of the past topics of our Wednesday night meditations.
Comments
Comment from Michael
Time: March 20, 2008, 8:55 pm
Ego / awakening
In spiritual circles (even on Oprah these days) we hear much talk about awakening or enlightenment.
What is awakening?
Consider deeply the answer found in the introduction to Stephan Bodian’s book titled: “Wake Up Now”.
“But the awakening I’m talking about in this book is deeper, more essential, and more transformative — it’s a fundamental recognition of the inherent insubstantiality or emptiness of the person you take yourself to be and a radical shift in your identity from being the suffering separate self to being the eternal witness, the limitless space or ground, in which all experiences arise.”
Given this definition of awakening, what kind of spiritual practice is going to lead you to the recognition that you are not your story?
Ego
A few thoughts about the notion of ‘ego’ which in spiritual circles is talked about often but rarely understood. This misunderstanding is a barrier to deep practice.
What is ego?
The most important thing to know about the ego is that you are making it up yourself. In other words, the ego is only an idea not a fact.
There seem to two kinds of searchers:
? those who seek to make their ego something other than it is,
o i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish),
? those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego, by realising its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being.
Re-member You are just one thought away from enlightenment, your absence is the Divine’s presence.
Meditation is that conscious act of releasing everything personal thus standing smack in the center of the innocence found in this present moment. Without the taint of our personal view of the world it becomes One: fresh, forgiven, and totally lovable.
Comment from Michael
Time: March 20, 2008, 8:56 pm
Sacred Heart –
comments from Love that never ends – Glenda Green
? What does the term “Sacred Heart” mean to you? Can you define the term?
The Sacred Heart is a Holy Chamber. This is the place where true prayer takes place. Being there with your Father is the prayer, and entering the Holy Chamber is a sacred act.
? How do you know if you have entered your sacred heart?
you can know when you have entered it by the complete stillness therein. Within it, there is sacredness and purity like a blanket of new fallen snow.
? How do you bridge the gap between science and spirituality? (role of the observer)
No matter how far we advance our technology, unless we have love, we have nothing.
…it was explained that in the presence of love, there is an exchange of adamantine particles… which account for one’s ability to have a positive effect upon life. These tiny particles are under the command of love, and are the building blocks for all complex forms in the universe. Understanding of them and conscious utilization of them belong to a higher paradigm. From the viewpoint of Love, you can redirect the inevitable changes to the betterment of yourself and others. However, you can only do that when you have made structure your servant.
? How do you define “Life”?
Life is love in action. Adamantine particles are commanded by love-only by love. Only the true heart can sense the vital flow and exchange of particle energy. This is why you are more intuitive in the areas of your greater devotion. When the Sacred Heart comes to life again and its fire lights up, you will begin to magnetize a fresh supply of adamantine particles that can be drawn to you. These can be used for empowering your life, healing it, and lifting it to a much higher state of performance. P 115
When your life has been lived with a very clear purpose and when your love had been directed to principles and thoughts which carry your love to higher planes of consciousness, then the treasures of your life will be stored more safely.
All that is asked of you is that you fervently seek the restoration of wholeness whenever it has been lost. It is my hope that you find it through a reconnection with your Source, who will cancel your debt by the greater power of love, grace and synchronicity. ….. It is my central purpose to raise souls to a higher sense of responsibility, one empowered by the Sacred Heart and by the grace of God, thereby ending that bitter cycle.
What is heaven?
Heaven draws its power from the basic goodness in all existence and the willingness of life to obey the commands of love. Heaven is anywhere that love prevails in the manifesting existence. Let it begin in your heart. Heaven can exist in your heart at this moment if you let it. Then, with equal grace you can extend it outwardly into your life. Eventually, as the universe moves outward toward its fulfillment, Heaven will be everywhere. Hell, on the other hand, is the torment of the soul at war with itself, with God, and with existence.
Comment from Michael
Time: March 20, 2008, 8:57 pm
Patience – process
How many of you feel like you are “waiting” for something? (transformation, new job, etc.)
What’s up on Planet Earth
In the old 3D reality, we attracted others into our spaces who balanced out our energies. If we were go-getters, we usually attracted a more laid back personality who stood back and waited. These balancing and role reversal scenarios can manifest in a variety and multitude of ways
In the higher realms, there are no extreme postures. Our gifts and talents are utilized when they are needed. We need only be “on” when our area of expertise is needed. The remainder of the time we can simply enjoy ourselves as we unite with our brothers and sisters in fun and laughter on equal terms. No more leaders now as well in this new world of unity and equality
Unity energy is a must in the higher realms, and this role reversal many of us are experiencing is simply a manifestation of living in a higher realms reality. We are thus quite naturally now morphing into beings who then match a higher vibrating reality
Why so much suffering this past year or so, and why so much suffering and pain appearing to manifest in the world of late?
The suffering exists for a few reasons. We suffer when we need to go deep and make a change. As 3D human beings, change occurred much more frequently through suffering than through joy. When we are seemingly happy and contented, we are not as motivated to change what needs to change in order to continue evolving spiritually. Suffering is the old way, but being that many were still in old energy, it was decided that suffering would be the catalyst and the vehicle into the higher realms. Many more would be captured this way and thus a massive relocation of beings into the new world would be more assured and would happen more quickly.
As we evolve higher and higher, we begin to hold more higher vibrating energy within us. This energy needs a certain amount of density to house it. Phil and I have found through visiting many ancient sites, that the ancients in this area usually chose to build around massive amounts of stone. Stone carries a great amount of density, and thus could house their higher vibrating secrets and ways.
How do you experience higher vibrating energies?
What is your experience with faith in the recent days? How have you handled it?
How successful are you in imagining your intentions? What tools do you use?
What tools do you employ when you know that you are learning the lesson of patience?
Summary
As always, follow your heart, follow what feels best even if it does not make sense and you cannot see how it will work, and know that you are always being guided and protected. Be good to yourself and give yourself what you need and the universe will follow your lead.
Comment from Michael
Time: March 20, 2008, 8:58 pm
Sight & Gathering of the “Ways”
2-27-08 Candace Pert Molecules of Emotion - + ACIM
What percentage of Human DNA is the same as a chimpanzee?
? Our DNA is 99.4% the same as a chimpanzee
What is the difference that the .6% makes?
? .. must have a lot to do with frontal cortex development, and its this part of the brain that makes us human
Can anyone explain how sight works?
Rays of light hitting the eye from outside are united to form one image through light refracting part of the eye. Light rays are converted to nervous stimuli, which travel to the optic nerve, and enter conscious thought as an image.
Different senses have pathways with varying degrees of filtering information. Vision is highly refined, traveling six synapses from the time light first strikes your retina, travels to the occipital lobe at the back of your brain, and hits four more way stations before reaching consciousness in the frontal cortex.
By way of contrast, sense of smell only hits one synapse before it hits deep within the amygdale, and then relayed to the higher brain.
…remember that those molecules along the sensory stopping points are storage points for memory – (recollections of every perception that you have ever had) — from bliss of the mothers breast to the emotional upset you had after a fight with your boss.
In other words, information coming into the body is filtered through your memories, giving your experience a little added meaning.
What implications does this concept have on your opinion of your physical sight?
Is what I see the same as what you see?
How does physical sense of sight relate to spirituality?
Is it our role to help others to become spiritual?
The Gathering of the ways…
? I see a lot of “ways”
? Ways that look and feel a lot different than my “way”
? All things are spiritual.
God is the light in which I see.
I cannot see in darkness. God is the only light. Therefore, if I am to see, it must be through Him. I have tried to define what seeing is, and I have been wrong. Now it is given me to understand that God is the light in which I see. Let me welcome vision and the happy world it will show me.
Comment from Michael
Time: March 20, 2008, 8:59 pm
Separation
The “Garden of Eden” the pre-separation condition, was a state of mind in which nothing was needed.
The bible says… “a deep sleep fell upon Adam, and nowhere is there reference to his waking up.
…since the separation, defenses have been used almost entirely to defend against the At-One-Ment, and thus, maintain the separation
exercise
Look around the room.
* As you do so, notice the other individuals here in this space.
* Note your impressions. (he looks scared, she looks confident, he appears tired)
* Note how you feel when you look at others?
? How did you feel about yourself when looking around the room?
? Did you notice characteristics in others?
? How does what you noticed in others, apply to you, in what you are experiencing in your life right now?
? What defenses, if any, did you notice within yourself, preventing you from connecting with the others?
As you perceive the holy companions who travel with you, you will realize that there is no journey, but only an awakening.
Discussion — Intellectual understanding of unity
What can you do to affirm that you are not separate from others?
What can you do to affirm that you are not separate from God?
238 - When you have accepted the At-One-Ment for yourself, you will realize that there is no guilt in God’s Son. And only as you look upon him as guiltless can you understand his one-ness.
Comment from Michael
Time: March 20, 2008, 8:59 pm
Falling in love
What does it mean to “Fall in Love”?
– (depending on time) Is there such a thing as Love at first sight?
Scott Peck
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult—once we truly understand and accept it—then life is no longer difficult.
Of all the misconceptions about love the most powerful and pervasive is the belief that “falling in love” is love or at least one of the manifestations of love.
? 1st problem – the experience of falling in love is specifically a sex-linked erotic experience.
? 2nd problem is that “falling in love is invariably temporary.
? 3rd We cannot be a source of strength unless we nurture our own strength. We cannot forsake self-discipline and at the same time be disciplined in our care of another. “not only does self love and love of another go hand in hand, but ultimately, they are indistinguishable.
? 4th when we love someone, our love becomes demonstrable, only through our exertion. Love is not effortless.
? 5th Love is, as love does (distinction between I want to go swimming, and I will go swimming) We do not have to love. We choose to love.
What can you do differently, starting now, to demonstrate love of yourself?
What does a life of total dedication to the truth mean? Scott Peck (The Road less Traveled)
? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never ending stringent self-examination
? We know the world, only through our relationship to it. Therefore, to know the world, we must not only examine it but we must simultaneously examine the examiner.
By their openness, people dedicated to truth live in the open, and through the exercise of their courage to live in the open, they become free from fear.
Love Defined
Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means for human spiritual evolution.
Love is a strangely circular process. The act of loving is an act of self evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else’s growth. It is through reaching toward evolution that we evolve. Love includes self love along with the love for another. Since I am human, you are human, to love humans means to love myself as well as you. To be dedicated to spiritual development means we are dedicated to the race which we are a part..
? Does anyone know what Hu- in Human means?
Hu – ancient word for God
Hu-man – man becoming… god….
I am hu-man becoming. Help me to become
The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all encompassing can have no opposite.
The Paradox Of Our Time. – 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 it 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, but 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 too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, 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 the new neighbor. We’ve 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 split 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 have less communication.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships.
These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.
These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes.
These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom; a time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can just hit delete.
George Carlin
Comment from Michael
Time: March 20, 2008, 9:00 pm
Harmony
How is harmony manifest?
How do you notice if you are in harmony with your environment?
How do you notice when you are not in harmony?
Nature is Creation expressing harmony with itself
Man did not create nature
Scientists are busy altering nature in your time. Ever bother to find out how long the hybrid distortions can be held in form? They cannot replicate themselves in perfection. The genes bust be recombined, and often that does not happen according to past successes.
“Harmonious replication” can only happen when the intent is in harmony with Nature as in producing flowers of greater beauty and different colors. But the intent is to glorify, not exploit the process of nature. Most often, those who love the plant, work within the plant processes to accomplish successful changes.
Purpose of this conversation:
The intent of the group desires to cooperate with Creation as they focus on the framework of the new paradigm.
It is suggested that they consider nature as their ideal, this might give them a starting point.
Video
How could humanity live in harmony with nature, rather than attempt to have dominion (power) over it? How could you better live in harmony with nature?
Goal: Imagine a “future would involve cooperating with nature within the Laws of the Universe”
? Law of Attraction – like “thoughts” attract like – as a man thinketh, so is he
? Law of Deliberate intent – purposefully withdraw fear and fascination for the evil situation (once you are aware of it). You cannot do this by attempting to stop thinking of it. It is only possible to do this by sublimitating another thought on a completely different subject
Comment from Michael
Time: March 20, 2008, 9:01 pm
Transformation vs. change
Check in—
Zeitgeist - clips 1:05:44 to 1:08:00
Kennedy — 1:09:19 to 1:11:05
What feeling state comes up when you see something like this?
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There is a point in the evolution of the planet that brings to the forefront of each individual’s thoughts the question of why me, and why now, and what is really going on in the reality that is right now in the time we are experiencing. What really is going on behind the senses we are aware of through the five senses?
? Who is pulling the strings?
The truth is that there is multiple levels of activity behind what appears to be a play of incredible magnitude.
? Who is writing the script?
Would you be surprised to learn that you are writing the lines, and until you can figure out the point of the script, …. There is none (no script). If this is true, which individual on the planet can figure this out??
We are here to invoke aid of highest sources.
? Can we transform the world by exposing the evil?
? By fighting it?
Goal — stretch conscious awareness & conceive a new way of experiencing manifested universe.
? This is a conceptual leap
Current systems
? Based on force
? Universal flow of attraction fields – thought released to act upon itself will return in manifestation and in a form more magnificent than the limited mind can imagine
Hooponono 2 ways to live life. From memories, or from inspiration
? Inspiration is from Divine
? Memory is a program in the collective unconscious of humankind.
You cannot be denied anything that is perfect, whole and complete, and right for you when you are your Self first. Being your Self first, you automatically experience the perfection in the way of Divine Thoughts, Words, Deeds, and Actions. Allowing your toxic thought to be first, you automatically experience imperfection in the way of disease, confusion, resentment, depression, judgment, and poverty. Dr. Ihaleakala Hen Len
Criteria for this simple and powerful tool
? Purity of intent to harmonize as the motive is primary prerequisite. … must be specific only in the intent of purpose.
? Then… releasing it in total trust and knowing in its accomplishment in … etheric levels which will manifest into recognizable reality using all available triggers for appropriate action
What feeling state comes up when you see something like this?
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There is a point in the evolution of the planet that brings to the forefront of each individual’s thoughts the question of why me, and why now, and what is really going on in the reality that is right now in the time we are experiencing. What really is going on behind the senses we are aware of through the five senses?
? Who is pulling the strings?
The truth is that there is multiple levels of activity behind what appears to be a play of incredible magnitude.
? Who is writing the script?
Would you be surprised to learn that you are writing the lines, and until you can figure out the point of the script, …. There is none (no script). If this is true, which individual on the planet can figure this out??
We are here to invoke aid of highest sources.
? Can we transform the world by exposing the evil?
? By fighting it?
Goal — stretch conscious awareness & conceive a new way of experiencing manifested universe.
? This is a conceptual leap
Current systems
? Based on force
? Universal flow of attraction fields – thought released to act upon itself will return in manifestation and in a form more magnificent than the limited mind can imagine
Hooponono 2 ways to live life. From memories, or from inspiration
? Inspiration is from Divine
? Memory is a program in the collective unconscious of humankind.
You cannot be denied anything that is perfect, whole and complete, and right for you when you are your Self first. Being your Self first, you automatically experience the perfection in the way of Divine Thoughts, Words, Deeds, and Actions. Allowing your toxic thought to be first, you automatically experience imperfection in the way of disease, confusion, resentment, depression, judgment, and poverty. Dr. Ihaleakala Hen Len
Criteria for this simple and powerful tool
? Purity of intent to harmonize as the motive is primary prerequisite. … must be specific only in the intent of purpose.
? Then… releasing it in total trust and knowing in its accomplishment in … etheric levels which will manifest into recognizable reality using all available triggers for appropriate action
Comment from Michael
Time: March 20, 2008, 9:02 pm
Physical Senses — Divine Senses
(Senses - Sight, Smell, Taste, Touch, Hearing)
The world is an illusion. The 5 physical senses are misleading re: Truth / Reality
P. 70 Science and Health “The testimony of the corporeal (physical body) senses cannot inform us of what is real, and what is delusive (misleading).
P 113 The Divine Plan - 2012 Cory – “……information being retrieved by physical brain (will) begin to utilize 3 different channels for communication. One leading to human or planetary circuits, another for universal circuitry and grids, and another for universal circuits. The main crossover point … is through the pineal gland…… The frequency waves’ distinction between the divine and human mind channels allows information to be transmitted from Source into galactic center, and in turn the planetary system in a flawless manner. Providing the individual in human form with clear recognition and discernment regarding the origin of info downloaded into brain circuits (human vs. divine)
Heaven is not a place nor a condition. It is merely an awareness of perfect Oneness, and the knowledge that there is nothing else; nothing outside this Oneness, and nothing else within. P 384 ACIM
Sooooooooooooo how does this all relate to being human???
Story:
? My youngest son got a F – I want to support his improvement
? Former wife felt I would get better response than her– I called teacher,
? Teacher called me back, but I was in Puerto Rico – great trip,
? Among many other things, had deep conversations re: illusion of material world.
? Got back Picked up dogs from former wife’s house
? She commented again re: me getting better response than her
? My mistake – I pointed out (in a gentle way) that she seemed to be limiting herself with the belief system that I could communicate better than her with my son’s teacher.
? She got angry, and brought up many new issues, including my dog’s urination on her carpet
? I responded clarifying my intentions to support her powerful communication.
? Although still bothered, I released the situation and went to store
? I intuitively heard a voice telling me to go a different road than I have been on before.
? I intuitively heard a voice telling me to go down a different parking lane than I had been on before.
? As I made the corner… I almost ran over my son’s teacher.
? In the store, I had conversation re: the issues and scheduling my son’s 4 way conference
Noticings:
? Stay aware, stay centered
? The world may be an illusion, but if I follow my heart guidance, I will get the feedback to match my intention (to support my son)
? Have lots of fun (LOL)
Questions
? How do you notice whether your senses are derived from the material world (sight, sense, smell, taste, touch) versus the “spiritual” world?
? How does the concept of “inspiration” or following your passion alter your view of the feedback from the physical senses?
? Do you think there is feedback loop?
? The intention / feeling state when observing the object of the senses – cup versus beauty
Comment from Michael
Time: March 20, 2008, 9:03 pm
Gratitude as it relates to our individual intuitive gifts
1-9-07
? The REAL flow of gratitude
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? Friends & clients on the spiritual path with different “gifts”
? Stuck, in a variety of ways
o Job – cannot use gifts because of career
o Relationship – energy of my partner prevents me from “connecting”
o Intuitive gifts – powerful insights in the past -
? been there done that –
?
Spiritualists propose that gratitude activates DNA in the pre-frontal cortex
A Sacred Geometry Experience
Introduction :Sacred Geometry is the blueprint of Creation and the genesis of all form. It is an ancient science that explores and explains the energy patterns that create and unify all things and reveals the precise way that the energy of Creation organizes itself. On every scale, every natural pattern of growth or movement conforms inevitably to one or more geometric shapes.
As you enter the world of Sacred Geometry you begin to see as never before the wonderfully patterned beauty of Creation. The molecules of our DNA, the cornea of our eye, snow flakes, pine cones, flower petals, diamond crystals, the branching of trees, a nautilus shell, the star we spin around, the galaxy we spiral within, the air we breathe, and all life forms as we know them emerge out of timeless geometric codes. Viewing and contemplating these codes allow us to gaze directly at the lines on the face of deep wisdom and offers up a glimpse into the inner workings of the Universal Mind and the Universe itself. The ancients believed that the experience of Sacred Geometry was essential to the education of the soul. They knew that these patterns and codes were symbolic of our own inner realm and the subtle structure of awareness. To them the “sacred” had particular significance involving consciousness and the profound mystery of awareness ….. the ultimate sacred wonder. Sacred Geometry takes on another whole level of significance when grounded in the experience of self awareness.
Kathleen –my gratitude — masterfully guided me
I am able ready willing, deserve and allow myself to generate consistent cash flow
Comment from Michael
Time: March 20, 2008, 9:03 pm
Peace and the Alpha Mind
? How would you define peace of mind?
? Who has peace of mind?
? How is Peace of mind recognized as peace in your body?
? Approximately what % of your average day do you have peace of mind?
? How do you recognize when you lose your peace of mind?
? Can you have peace alone or is community required for peace?
What is the Alpha Mind?
? According to scientists, physiologically, it is the brain operating 7-14 cycles / second
ACIM
P 398 (The attainment of Peace)
…..when a situation has been dedicated wholly to truth, peace is inevitable. Its attainment is the criterion by which the wholeness of the dedication can be safely assumed. Yet we also said that peace without faith will never be attained, for what is dedicated to truth as its only goal is brought to truth by faith. This faith encompasses everyone involved, for only thus the situation is perceived as meaningful and as whole….
And everyone must be involved in it, or else your faith is limited and your dedication incomplete.
#1 Obstacles to peace is
? Your desire to get rid of (peace). For it cannot extend unless you keep it. You are the center from which it radiates outward, to call others in. You are its home; its tranquil dwelling place from which it gently reaches out, but never leaving you
o The attraction of guilt produces fear of love, for love would never look on guilt at all. It is the nature of love to look upon only the truth, for there it sees itself, with which it would unite in holy union and completion
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There is no peace except the peace of God. P 384
Seek you no further. You will not find peace except the peace of God. Accept this fact and save yourself the agony of yet more disappointments, bleak despair, and sense of icy hopelessness and doubt. There is nothing else for you to find except the peace of God, unless you seek for misery and pain.
2nd Corinthians 13: 11
….. be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of Love & Peace will be with you
Comment from Michael
Time: March 20, 2008, 9:04 pm
The Nine Insights of The Celestine Prophecy
1. Meaningful coincidences. We are at a point in the developmental history of human consciousness where development will accelerate. The major evidence for this is the increased number of meaningful coincidences people are noticing in their lives.
2. Historical perspective. This point in human history can best be understood by a revisioning of the past millennium. In the early part of the millennium, human consciousness was dominated by beliefs promulgated by the Catholic Church: one’s proper place in society, humanity at the center of the universe, and the battle between good and evil. These beliefs gave meaning to life. This domination was challenged during the Renaissance and Reformation. At that time, humanity established a grand project of exploring the world, using the tools of science, with the hope of getting a new answer to the meaning of life. While waiting for that answer to come in, attention turned to increasing material comfort. That project is now at an end–material comfort has been achieved, but we have lost touch with sources of meaning. Moreover, the answers we wanted are now appearing–not necessarily from institutional science, but from a variety of sources.
3. Subtle energy. There is an energy, previously undetected by science, that forms the basis of all things. Human perception of that energy starts with an increased awareness of beauty: people, animals, plants, ecosystems that have a high level of that energy appear particularly beautiful. By becoming aware of that energy, we become able to notice when and how we give and receive energy.
4. Competition for energy. A fundamental assumption underlies most human interactions: we must compete for this energy, drawing it from others and protecting ourselves from others’ attempts to draw it from us. This leads to some nasty interactions.
5. Energy abundance. In fact, competition is unnecessary because subtle energy exists in abundance. In particular, we can acquire more by eating plants which have high energy levels. (And we can ensure that the plants have high energy levels by paying attention to them, by giving them energy.) Being in a loving state not only connects our energy to the object of our love, but to a greater source of energy as well. This is the essence of mystical experience. The goal of mystical practice - and practice of the lessons of the Celestine Prophecy - is to get and remain connected with the energy. Moreover, a person’s energy is the source of the meaningful coincidences noticed in the First Insight. Each mystical experience stretches a person’s potential, causing them to exist “at a higher state of vibration”.
The best description of all this comes a little later in the book. Father Sanchez says, “Love is not an intellectual concept or a moral imperative or anything else. It is a background emotion that exists when one is connected to the energy available in the universe, which , of course, is the energy of God.” [page 153]
6. Getting clear. In order to be in a state of love with the world on a regular basis, we have to let go of patterns of behavior we developed to take energy from others.
? First, we have to become aware of our “control dramas” and break our controlling habits. There are four control patterns or ways of causing others to give us energy, two actively demanding energy, two passively creating conditions in which energy is sent. “Active” control dramas include intimidation and interrogation - asking questions and then picking apart the answers. “Passive” control dramas include aloofness - creating an air of mystery that entices others to send energy–and “poor me”–creating a sense that if others don’t provide energy, something awful will happen to the controller.
? Second, we have to “get clear” of our control dramas. We must understand our parents’ control dramas and how these shaped ours. Then we must learn what meaning our parents’ lives had for us, and how this determines our own developmental work. The things we would change about our parents - individually and together - are what we need to work on in our own lives.
7. Using intuition. When we are in touch with the energy, clear of our control dramas, and aware of the questions relevant to this moment, our intuition supplies the answers we need. Once we are aware of these answers, we need only watch for meaningful coincidences to show us how to act on them.
8. Relating to others. This insight comes in several pieces.
? Children can be raised without control dramas if they have constant, undivided access to an adult who can give them the energy they need.
? Development can be blocked by an “addiction to another person”. The subtle energy has a male and female side. If you can access one and someone else the other, then for a short time the couple can be filled with energy. But the focus on the other person eventually cuts each off from the universal energy. The two begin competing for energy, restarting control dramas. This is the falling-in-love/falling-out-of-love phenomenon.
? Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. We should give them energy and help them get clear so that they can accurately deliver the message.
? Other people’s control dramas will break down if we name them and refuse to play a role in them.
9. Conscious evolution. This insight is a vision of culture in the next millennium.
Humans consciously participate in their evolution by living according to their intuition, which guides them in such a way as to increase their energy.
The goal of this evolution is to achieve a level of vibration that makes us invisible to others, perhaps even immaterial. Jesus was the first to do this, and sporadic individuals continue to do so. (The main character’s mentor does so in the conclusion of the book.) The ultimate goal is for large groups to “cross over” together in a “general rapture”. The Mayans are alleged to have done this.
Comment from Michael
Time: March 20, 2008, 9:07 pm
Masks
mask is an artifact normally worn on the face, typically for protection, concealment, performance, or amusement. Masks have been used since antiquity for both ceremonial and practical purposes. They are usually, but not always, worn on the face, although they may also be positioned for effect elsewhere in relation to the wearer’s own head.
The 5000-year-old Sumerian mask of Warka is believed to be the oldest surviving mask. Looted from the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad, it was recovered in 2003
Houses
One of the most common observations of the workings of manifestation is the concept of patterns of movement. These are usually cyclic and can work in both the macrocosmic and microcosmic worlds.
Examples include:
Yearly cycle of the seasons Daily cycle of night to day
Ebb and flow of tides Movement of the 5 elements
Planetary movements astrological movement -12 constellations
Mask in the Second House (Taurus)
Accumulation of Masks
In the second stage of life as an infant we start the process of adapting to the concepts of possession and separateness. (this is MY toy, this is MY mom – but she is separate from me). We also start to learn that in order to be given possessions, attention, and love, we need to behave in a certain way. This starts the parade of masks that become the coverings and modifications of the basic personality for form the “crippled ego”
Masks in the 12th house (Pisces)
Destroying the masks
This is the end of the cycle where the impetus for the individuation process occurs. Here we want to dissolve ourselves back into the womb. Associations (Individuation, Death of the false self)
The destruction of the masks and false identities becomes important here.
?????’s to ponder….
Can I see why I would accumulate masks?
What masks do you want to illuminate?
What does a “house”/astrological concepts have to do with my life?
Comment from Michael
Time: March 27, 2008, 3:13 am
Topic: Resistance
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Last week – ego & awakening tonight…. Infinite Way – Joel Goldsmith
“Those too busy with the pains and the pleasures of sense will not of course, reach the realm of Soul. Throughout the ages the invitation has been extended to mankind to drink of this fountain of living waters, and every generation has produced many men and women who have found eternal youth and peace within themselves. Every so often, one “master” arises who has drunk more deeply at the fountain of the Soul, and these seers have told of the kingdom within and of the life that may be lived through Grace when this consciousness is achieved.
On the other hand, many answer that they have great human duties which occupy all their time. Others require time for the sense pleasures, pastimes, recreation, & acquiring
More and more often people are beginning to realize that freedom from fear, insecurity, want and ill health is not to be found in the material realm. Wars will not end wars, investments will not ensure security from want. Medicines alleviate pain, but do not produce real health.” In other words, “My kingdom is not of this world”
? How many of you can accept this teaching as, at least partially true? Comments?
? Why are the vast majority of humans not seeking the kingdom within?
Perhaps one reason for the world’s lack of interest in this VAST subject is that that the great reservoir of power resident in the Soul cannot be used for selfish purposes. Herein lies the secret of why so few achieve Soul-consciousness.
We only become aware of the presence of the Soul after we have freed ourselves of selfish desires and in proportion to our desire to serve the interests of mankind do we individualize this infinite power within us.
? How can we relieve ourselves of selfish desires?
? What is the positive effect of resistance?
This ties to our conversation last week re: ego & awakening.
Exercise: (pair up)
? Why do you resist love?
o I resist love because________________
? Thank you
Break
Meditation contemplation
To go to God carrying some demand or some desire of this world must end fruitlessly. When we enter our sanctuary of Spirit, we must leave outside all worldly wishes, needs, and lacks. We must drop “this world” and go to God with but one idea – communion with God, union, or oneness, with God.
Comment from Michael
Time: April 16, 2008, 10:49 pm
The Pattern on the Trestleboard
This Is Truth About The Self
All the Power that ever was or will be is here now.
I am a center of expression for the Primal Will-to-Good which eternally creates and sustains the Universe.
Through me its unfailing Wisdom takes form in thought and word.
Filled with Understanding of its perfect law, I am guided, moment by moment, along the path of liberation.
From the exhaustless riches of its Limitless Substance, I draw all things needful, both spiritual and material.
I recognize the manifestation of the Undeviating Justice in all the circumstances of my life.
In all things, great and small, I see the Beauty of the Divine Expression.
Living from that Will, supported by its unfailing Wisdom and Understanding, mine is the Victorious Life.
I look forward with confidence to the perfect realization of the Eternal Splendor of the Limitless Light.
In thought and word and deed, I rest my life, from day to day, upon the sure Foundation of Eternal Being.
The Kingdom of Spirit is embodied in my flesh.
Comment from Michael
Time: April 23, 2008, 10:29 pm
discussion on 4-16-08 was about the pineal gland. We watched the youtube video from David Wilcock. (search for The 2012 Enigma by David Wilcock Pt. 03) or check out David Wilcock of www.DivineCosmos.com
Comment from Michael
Time: April 25, 2008, 11:28 am
4-22-08
We discussed 12 steps, and the connection to our path of awakening.
Twelve Steps of Recovery
1. We admitted we were powerless over ____________—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
The 9th Step Promises
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through.
We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.
No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.
That feeling of uselessness and self pity will disappear.
We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.
Self-seeking will slip away.
Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.
Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.
We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.
We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us—sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.
Comment from Michael
Time: May 1, 2008, 3:46 pm
Using Open Ended Questions for Awakening
Matrix Energetics – Richard Bartlett Learning to engage a solution set
You are what you think. Everything you have believed, accepted, experienced, and internalized comprise a vast matrix or grid that defines what I call your energetic signature. What you have learned forms the perceptual lens you use to subconsciously filter all of the information in your worldview. Your experience of your five senses makes up what you think of as your reality. IN order to change something in that perceived reality territory, you must alter or change the arrangement of your thoughts and feelings. Trying to fit new knowledge into what you already think you know is not the best way to make a paradigmatic shift
I always assume that I don’t really know anything which opens me to pay attention to what I might learn in the next moment.
I like to ask myself a few key questions as part of a ritual that sets the stage for my day.
?What haven’t I thought of yet?
?What can I discover that will serve to confuse as well as enlighten me a little more today?
?What am I not thinking or realizing, that if perceived could alter my perspective to the benefit of all concerned?
?(“What if” questions)
Conversation…
When you start to habitually ask open-ended questions of the universe, it starts to answer back, teaching you new things
When you change the way you observe and encode your reality, you are changing the conscious structure of what you choose to observe. You are becoming a co-creator in this new reality template that you have begun to experience. When you do this consistently, with a feeling of internal conviction and resolve, your experience of the so-called physical world… will morph and change.
Einstein said you cannot do things the same way and expect different results. You have to go outside the linear pattern of habitual thinking and have a new thought, which you then apply to your perception of reality, in order to get a different outcome. You have to paint outside the lines.
The question our group meditated on was:
What if we are all that I AM, together, NOW?
Comment from Michael
Time: May 20, 2008, 6:26 pm
Giving & the Principle of ENOUGH
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Review of Principle of ENOUGH –
* Not about measures or judgments
* Who am I? What do I want?
* Feeling state – NOW
* I will be in a place of giving – or a place of receiving
* If in a giving mode – I identify my excess, and give it
* If in a receiving mode – I am responsible to identify my areas of receiving, in order to do/be me, 100%
Close your eyes – I will make a statement. I want you to notice, and remember your feelings about the statement I make. Then, I will be doing something. You remain with your eyes closed and follow the instructions.
OK… Breathe…
* I have a gift for you.
* Note your feelings
* Breathe
* I am going to present you with a gift. Please hold out your hand to receive the gift.
* Do not open your eyes
* Feedback – What were your feelings when I said I have a gift for you?
* How did you feel after you got the gift?
* What has been your experience with gifts during your life? When was the last time you had a cool experience giving or receiving a gift? How did it feel?
Examples of Giving from their overflow of ENOUGH
***
Close your eyes.
Meditation introduction…
I am entrusted with the gifts of God.
All things are given you. God’s trust in you is limitless. He gives without exception, holding nothing back that can contribute to your happiness. The gifts you have are not for you alone. What He has come to offer you, you now must learn to give. This is the lesson that Source’s giving holds, for He has saved you from the solitude you sought to make in which to hide from God. He has reminded you of all the gifts that God has given you. He speaks as well of what becomes your will when you accept these gifts, and recognize they are your own. The gifts are yours, entrusted to your care, to give to all who chose the lonely road you have escaped
* What are my gifts to give?
Comment from Michael
Time: June 3, 2008, 1:38 pm
Grace
* Check In
* What is grace? - open conversation
(Wikipedia definition)- In Christianity, divine grace refers to the sovereign favour of God for humankind — especially in regard to salvation — irrespective of actions (”deeds”), earned worth, or proven goodness.
Grace is enabling power sufficient for progression. Grace divine is an indispensable gift from God for development, improvement, and character expansion. Without God’s grace, there are certain limitations, weaknesses, flaws, impurities, and faults (i.e. carnality) humankind cannot overcome. Therefore, it is necessary to increase in God’s grace for added perfection, completeness, and flawlessness.
Put another way, humankind is unable to evolve or be saved without God’s grace; it is a prerequisite to salvation. Additionally, humans cannot exchange good deeds for it. It is a free gift from God. Thus, humankind is saved all by grace and not by some combination, mixture, or blending of good works and divine grace. Were it achieved by works, humans could take pride in their efforts towards holiness.
More broadly, divine grace refers to God’s gifts to humankind, including life, creation, and salvation. More narrowly but more commonly, grace describes the means by which humans are saved from original sin and granted salvation. This latter concept of grace is of central importance in the theology of Christianity, as well as one of the most contentious issues in Christian sectarianism.
Grace is often distinguished from mercy in that mercy is seen as not receiving punishment that one deserves to receive, whereas grace is receiving a positive benefit that one does not deserve to receive.
Conversation
* How do you feel about this definition?
* Can grace be increased?
* Can I do anything, or not do anything to notice grace?
* How do you know if you have received grace?
Close your eyes –
… Breathe…
Anoother perspective on Grace from A Course in Miracles:
Grace is given to me. I claim it now
If you but knew the meaning of Love, hope and despair would be impossible. For hope would be forever satisfied; despair of any kind unthinkable. Grace is the answer to all despair, for in grace lies remembrance of Love.
Grace is yours by your acknowledgement.
Today we ask for the gift … most carefully preserved within our hearts, waiting to be acknowledged
For in grace you see a light that covers all the world in love, and watch fear disappear from every face as hearts rise up and claim the light as theirs
Grace is given me. I claim it now.
meditation
Comment from Michael
Time: June 5, 2008, 6:38 pm
Our group decided to go through the Byron Katie exercises which can be found on the link below…
What is The Work?
http://www.thework.com/thework.asp#3
The Work is a simple yet powerful process of inquiry that teaches you to identify and question thoughts that cause all the suffering in the world. It’s a way to understand what’s hurting you, and to address your problems with clarity.
People who do The Work as an ongoing practice report life-changing results.
Alleviation of depression: Find resolution, and even happiness, in situations that were once debilitating.
Decreased stress: Learn how to live with less anxiety or fear.
Improved relationships: Experience deeper connection and intimacy with your partner, your parents, your children, your friends, and yourself.
Reduced anger: Understand what makes you angry and resentful, and become less reactive, less often, with less intensity.
Increased mental clarity: Live and work more intelligently and effectively, with integrity.
More energy: Experience a new sense of ongoing vigor and well-being.
More peace: Discover how to become “a lover of what is.”
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How to Do The Work
The simplest way to do The Work is outlined below:
1 Judge Your Neighbor
For thousands of years we’ve been told not to judge, but we still do it all the time—how our friends should act, whom our children should care about, what our parents should feel, do, or say. In The Work, rather than suppress these judgments, we use them as starting points for self-realization. By letting the judging mind have its life on paper, we discover through the mirror of those around us what we haven’t yet realized about ourselves.
Fill in a Judge-Your-Neighbor worksheet. You can download one here, or simply use this online version [below]:
The Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet - can be retrieved from the site above for free.
Comment from Michael Wolf
Time: June 17, 2008, 6:46 pm
Topic — The mind, the way, and the Sacred Heart
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The mind is an integrational facility of alternating functions which are electrically encoded in binary mathematics, much like a mechanical computer. Mental intelligence is a system of knowledge created by the environment which it serves.
If this is true, “What environment is your mind set up to serve?”
An environment may be as small as one’s daily life or as vast as the cosmos. The semblance of expansion in the mind comes from the simple fact that within the smallest systems are patterns which connect and eventually lead to larger ones. Nevertheless, it matters not what size the mind is. A mind is still a servant. Therefore it does not have the intelligence of mastery.
How do you feel about these statements?
It is imperative that man acknowledge the heart’s higher intelligence for the mind alone cannot tell him who he is, and genetic intelligence is a lethal weapon when combined with the technological potentials of the world today. By comparison to the mind, the heart is a function of intelligence based on the ultimate in simplicity and synchronicity. Its matrix is a synergistic center of awareness which perceives a unified relationship with all that is.
The levels of intelligence available to man could be summarized as Survival, Logic, Synchronicity, and Love. All four are present in the lives of each person, although a man will focus on the one which assists him the most. If he knows little about the heart’s intelligence or the greater intelligence of love, he will emphasize one of the other possibilities. Genetic intelligence is well equipped to sustain physical life and to interface emotionally with the environment. Mental intelligence can formulate reports and engineer rocket ships. Neither, however, is equipped to give meaning to life nor to establish a connection with Divinity. Attempts to apply them beyond their means has led to destructive misconceptions.
Looking at your life let’s look at where you think you are, and where you want to be.
* Relationships – Survival, Logic, Synchronicity, and Love
* Career – Survival, Logic, Synchronicity, and Love
* Health – Survival, Logic, Synchronicity, and Love
* Family – Survival, Logic, Synchronicity, and Love
* Finances - Survival, Logic, Synchronicity, and Love
Love is both a way of being and also a pathway for becoming.
Love ignites life.
Love savors life and sustains faith and hope
Even though life often brings lessons in hard pachages, learning happens only when forgiveness has occurred and love is restored.
Only with love can learning occur
Comment from michael
Time: July 15, 2008, 6:26 pm
Monogamy, relationships,
Rita read her short story….
With my body I thee worship. That’s part of the Protestant wedding ceremony.
Sex as worship requires a total level of loving generosity and trust and sharing, and the only place it can happen is in a committed relationship. Monogamous, committed sex is the best, hottest, most exciting sex possible. Nothing else comes anywhere close - not stranger sex, threesomes, foursomes, group sex, drug sex, solo sex, or S & M. When you are wrapped around with the absolute certainty of being loved, when you love your partner so much that his or her happiness and welfare - outside of bed as well as in bed - is as important to you as your own happiness, and you trust that he or she values your happiness just as much, then you can be completely open, completely defenseless, completely vulnerable. You are nakeder than naked. You bare your souls to each other. You see, feel, touch…you worship the pure essence of another person, their naked soul. And you can be utterly transparent,
undisguised, sharing not just your body but your own soul. It is shattering. Intense. Two bodies, fused, two souls, touching. It is beyond a physical experience, even beyond an emotional experience. It is sex as worship. OK, so married, or committed sex is not always like that. Sadly, even relationships that call themselves committed don’t always have the necessary level of intimacy or trust, don’t always have a mutual commitment to the happiness and welfare of both partners. And even when the trust is present, kids and domesticity and bills can get in the way. Or sometimes you just want the simple release in a friendly cuddle or a jolly romp. But even though every sexual encounter is not necessarily a profound spiritual experience, committed sex is the ONLY kind where that level of intensity is even possible. Monogamy rocks!
Thoughts …. Feelings???
reading
Sin is defined as “lack of love”. Since love is all there is, sin in the sight of the Spirit is a mistake to be corrected, rather than an evil to be punished.
Our sense of inadequacy, weakness and incompletion comes from the strong investment in the “scarcity principle” that governs the whole world of illusions. From that point of view, we seek in others what we feel is wanting in ourselves. We “love” another in order to get something ourselves. That, in fact, is what passes for love in the dream world. There can be no greater mistake than that, for love is incapable of asking for anything.
Only minds can really join, and whom God has joined no man can put asunder. It is, however, only at the level of Christ Mind that true union is possible, and has, in fact, never been lost. The “little I” seeks to enhance itself by external approval, external possessions and external “love.” The Self That God created needs nothing. It is forever complete, safe, loved and loving. It seeks to share rather than to get; to extend rather than project. It has no needs and wants to join with others out of their mutual awareness of abundance.
The special relationships of the world are destructive, selfish and childishly egocentric. Yet, if given to Spirit, these relationships can become the holiest things on earth — the miracles that point the way to the return to Heaven. The material world uses its special relationships as a final weapon of exclusion and a demonstration of separateness. Spirit transforms them into perfect lessons in forgiveness and in awakening from the dream. Each one is an opportunity to let perceptions be healed and errors corrected. Each one is another chance to forgive oneself by forgiving the other. And each one becomes still another invitation to Spirit and to the remembrance of God.
Comment from Michael
Time: July 29, 2008, 8:00 pm
Time & the Mayan Calendar:
For cultures around the world, time is measured not by the ticking seconds of a clock or watch, but by seasons, rhythms and subtle shifts in nature that influence and enhance social interaction. People of the Andman Islands follow a “scent calendar,” while a “cattle clock” guides the Nuer in Sudan and myriad sounds and shadows in the forest tell the Karen tribe in northern Thailand when to do what. The compartmentalized, western division of infinity into infinitesimal decimal, digital units is at odds with thousands of different ideologies that consider time a sensual perception rather than a notation.Yet watch, clock and calendar are the global norm. And that, thinks Arguelles, is a huge problem.
Why are calendars so important?
What function do they serve in our lives?
The current world calendar:
* upholds a framework of standardized church, state, and global marketplace activities
* defines the schedule of holidays and traditional cultural practices
* coordinates the worldwide socio-economic program
In essence, a calendar produces the faculty by which we operate, and the lens through which we see…
What’s wrong with the calendar we have?
* The 12-month calendar is arbitrary and irregular, lacking any correspondence to actual cycles of nature. Put simply by physicist Mark Comings:”The 12 month calendar has a cycle that is contrary to and out of phase with the natural annual 13 fold gravitational wave created by the Moon’s orbit around the Earth.”
* This lack of harmony, though generally un-examined, has a profound effect on the way we relate to the Universe we live within. Movements of the Stars, Moons and Planets have eternally served mankind as reference points for relating to the Nature of Time.
The current world calendar divides the year as if it were a 2-D circle. 360 degrees of a flat circle are portioned into 12 subsections of 30 degrees each, giving us “30″ day months. This method of calendrics dates back to ancient Babylon and provides the template for the current 12-month calendar and 12-hour clock (doubling the calculation, we get 24 hours and 60 minutes). The 12-month model for measuring time fails for the 365-day year divided arbitrarily into 30-day months leaves 5 extra days!
How does Gregorian Calendar resolve this discrepancy?
Some of the months are 31 days, some 30, yet February gets 28 days, except for an extra day once every four years (but not on centuries, except those divisible by the number four).
Wonder why the months named September through December, which literally mean 7-10, are actually months 9-12? What’s in a name?
The system of 12 months and a corresponding 12 hour : 60-minute clock, is known as the 12:60 timing frequency, and has yet to be proven as a viable measure of time. This flat perception of time does not correlate to any actual cycles of time! It is an artificial model of reality. It is encoding humanity with a comprehension of the natural world as disharmonious and non-coherent!
The 13 moon calendar is an obvious and ancient way to structure the year. 13 cycles of 28 days describe the year perfectly, with one day of renewal before the new year.
The 12-month calendar hides the 13th moon. The number 13 is now surrounded by superstition and is considered taboo; unlucky; evil. This fear is reinforced by cultural antiquities like “friday the thirteenth.” Often buildings have no 13th floor, or avoid constructing a # 13 apt unit. Why?
The ancient Maya had an entirely different relationship to the number 13, actually revering it at as the Key to Time itself. 13 is the Mayan galactic prime number; the Force of The Universal Movement of Creation.
Living under the guise of the 12-month calendar, we have come to view nature as irrelevant - wilderness without intelligence, sentience, or order. It is from this fundamentally flawed perception that humanity attempts to progress ‘beyond the limitations of nature.’ In fact, it is our model of nature that is flawed, not nature itself.
As a comprehensive reflection of nature, the 13-Moon Calendar is an organization of creational elements that serves as a holistic tool for ongoing participation in life’s cyclic processes. If humanity wish to produce harmony, we must use harmonic tools!
As a “galactic constant” the 260-day cycle does not correspond to any known astronomical period, yet the number 260 functions as a cosmic common denominator to synthesize the cycles of the Sun, Moon, Earth, Mars, Mercury, and Venus. In essence, it is the key factor of all the planetary periods. The 260-day cycle also corresponds to the human gestation period of approximately 9 months, perfectly expressing its power as a cycle governing the unfolding of creation! We also see 260 in macro-cycles such as the grand, 26,000-year precession of the equinoxes, which author John Major Jenkins points out is like a “collective, spiritual gestation for humankind.” Even eclipses relate by a number whose factor is 260! As Jenkins assures us in his insightful book “Tzolkin” - the 260-day cycle has “multiple meanings,” as it applies to “celestial, biological, agricultural, mythological, and chronological processes.” Everything, on some level, has been imparted by the same rhythm of unfolding and is therefore related by a form of synchronistic correspondence.” -Author John Major Jenkins
The harmonic numbers of the Tzolkin are as clear as our 20 fingers and toes - digits with which to measure the universe. Our body’s 13 major joints, or articulations, move us through the universe. Through movement and measure, we experience each other and ourselves as the universe.
13 - primary Joints
20 – fingers & toes
260 - gestation period
From a whole system perspective, time, humanity, and nature are inseparable. Our physical and emotional bodies are moved by the same lunar, solar and planetary forces. Where we appear separate in space, we are unified in time.
Meditation
Jani King – P’taah
Life is meant to be easy. Your life is meant to be of love and laughter, abundance and fulfillment. What keeps you from these things are your old beliefs about reality and your belief that you are not worthy.
Every time you find yourself in a struggle, you are in a place of fear. Each time you refuse to deal with an emotional issue in the NOW MOMENT, you are adding to your emotional baggage. If you will not examine your belief structures and fears and deal with your emotions, you limit yourself to a most confining little box.
Each NOW is another opportunity for you to choose how it may be for you.
Enlightenment is not about being good. It is about BEING.
Your soul has no gender. It is not even human. Allow yourself to contemplate this, in all its unlimitedness
Comment from Michael
Time: August 13, 2008, 6:52 pm
Internal Dialog and Open Ended Questions for Awakening (Part 2)
You are what you think. Everything you have believed, accepted, experienced, and internalized comprise a vast matrix or grid that defines what we might call your energetic signature. What you have learned forms the perceptual lens you use to subconsciously filter all of the information in your worldview. Your experience of your five senses makes up what you think of as your reality. IN order to change something in that perceived reality territory, you must alter or change the arrangement of your thoughts and feelings. Trying to fit new knowledge into what you already think you know is not the best way to make a paradigmatic shift
Conversation…
When you start to habitually ask open-ended questions of the universe, it starts to answer back, teaching you new things. When you change the way you observe and encode your reality, you are changing the conscious structure of what you choose to observe. You are becoming a co-creator in this new reality template that you have begun to experience. When you do this consistently, with a feeling of internal conviction and resolve, your experience of the so-called physical world… will morph and change.
Einstein said you cannot do things the same way and expect different results. You have to go outside the linear pattern of habitual thinking and have a new thought, which you then apply to your perception of reality, in order to get a different outcome. You have to paint outside the lines.
Our life experience is based on what we focus on. The following questions are designed to cause you to experience more happiness, excitement, pride, gratitude, joy, commitment and love every day of your life. Remember, quality questions create a quality life.
Come up with two or three answers to all of these questions and feel fully associated. If you have difficulty discovering an answer simply add the word “could”. Example: “What could I be most happy about in my life now?”
Current Feeling Flow (1= junky 10 = Nirvana)
What am I happy about in my life now?
? My health
What about that makes me happy? How does that make me feel?
? I do not need health insurance, my body guides me — I feel gratitude
What am I excited about in my life now?
? Excited about the prospects of my new business
What about that makes me excited? How does that make me feel?
? Brand new challenges, meeting new people —- makes me feel optimistic
What am I proud about in my life now?
? I am proud of my children
What about that makes me proud? How does that make me feel?
? They respect me.. makes me feel appreciated
What am I grateful about in my life now?
? Grateful for my partner relationship with Roxanne
What about that makes me grateful? How does that make me feel?
The support, the understanding, —- fortunate, giving
What am I enjoying in my life right now?
Community meetings on Wednesday night…
What about that do I enjoy? How does that make me feel?
The energy of the group is so loving — connected to source
What am I committed to in my life right now?
Following the will of God
What about that makes me committed? How does that make me feel?
It is the only thing that is real — I feel strength
Who do I love? Who loves me?
What about that makes me loving? How does that make me feel?
I am growing
What did I learn today?
How has today added to the quality of my life or how can I use today as an investment in my future?
Problem solving questions
What is great about this problem?
What is not perfect yet?
What am I willing to do to make it the way I want it?
What am I willing no longer to do in order to make it the way I want it?
How can I enjoy the process while I do what is necessary to make it the way I want it?
Comment from Michael
Time: August 14, 2008, 1:27 pm
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Cheryl – suggested this topic, thanks to her
Henry David Thoreau: Walden
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. If we refused, or rather used up, such paltry information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform us how this might be done.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary.
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to “glorify God and enjoy him forever.”
Message from the Hopi Elders
We have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour
And there are things to be considered.
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in the right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your truth
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.
This could be a good time!
There is a river flowing now very fast
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold onto the shore.
They will feel they are being torn apart and they will suffer greatly.
Know the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore, and push off and into the river,
Keep our eyes open, and our head above the water.
See who is in there with you and Celebrate.
At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally.
Least of all ourselves.
For the moment that we do,
Our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over, Gather yourselves!
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary.
All that you do now must be done in a sacred manner
And in celebration.
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for…”
The Elders, Hopi Nation, Oraibi, Arizona
Comment from Michael
Time: August 26, 2008, 6:23 pm
Nirvana in a nutshell
We read and meditated on several passages from this little book.
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