Vimala's Closet

"No Worry, Bro..."

2010-07-15T00:39:00.002-04:00

A YouTube I think about and often!
Use your discernment as always.
Take what works and leave the rest.
Vim

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"We are moving toward the most profound event a planetary ecology can encounter. We are about to witness the freeing of life from the chrysalis of matter. This is what our privilege and our destiny is... is to be the final generation of people with one foot in the material realm of the battered primate and one foot on the ladder to godhead.

Cf. birth...Matter and the human body is the placenta of the soul and it is certainly true the earth is the cradle of the human race but no infant remains in the cradle forever..."
--Terence McKenna

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Me and Black Beauty... OK... He's Brown! No Matter...

2010-02-15T14:28:00.004-05:00

"The reason Black Beauty is a classic is because everyone can identity with him. Who HASN'T been treated like Tony the Pony at one time or another and yet inside he just KNOWS that he is something great! At least he USED to be. And what about the sense of relief at being re-discovered by the stable hand who remembers your glory years. Put me to pasture under THOSE conditions if to pasture I must go. Or better yet, restore me to my former greatness. Dress me up and take me out on the town, head held high and proud." - Vim

You are looking at a rescued horse. This guy and I had a long, long talk the day we met. Soul to soul we bonded. That being said he got pretty miffed when the blind grey came over and stole my attention for a bit. But we worked it out. He's in a safe and caring place now, but oh what he's been through...
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Impermanence...

2009-05-03T13:55:00.002-04:00

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THE KALACHAKRA MANDALA

Susan Boyle: When The Light Shown Through...

2009-04-22T20:43:00.003-04:00

I know this is a well-worn topic... well not really, but I want to throw my two cents in.

WATCH HERE

First of all... a quote from someone who was moved by the performance:

To Susan Boyle: "Where are you, where are you? How did you touch me like this?

A big tough guy saying this. And that's what happened... we all got touched. Somewhere that had never been touched before or at least in a long long time. Maybe a place we never knew we had. Maybe a place we had forgotten about. But d*mn if she didn't find it! and she touched it oh so gently and not to be resisted. That's what she did.

Some people voices are a vortex... You know who they are. And when they open their mouths, something comes in from beyond this illusive world. Something real comes in. But it doesn't always hit its mark. Darkness interferes.

Here's a profound observation along that line:

"I have (looked) at all the comments and looked at this amazing moment and the one other thing I noticed is: The dark has been twisting the light messages to feed back into the darkness forever it seems. This time the darkness or the shadow in the audience and in the judges got flipped into the light by surprise by the golden light pouring out of the women's voice. Her voice is connected to her heart and spirit and is pure. She walked off the stage for she was complete. Only when she confusedly came back to the stage to hear the "judges", did she enter her smaller self and her eyes reflected the pain of hearing how everyone perceived her before her performance. Behind stage she was confused by the praise and was wrestling with many mixed emotions." -xxx at NES forum

This time something slipped through, some energy, some great reminder of who we all are. And whatever got through continues to get through every time we listen... even now, as we fade back into our iron lives. Some day, the light won't switch off. It will stay on and we will be there always. That's why we cried. Because we remembered... and KNEW that THAT's who we really are.

I'll end by saying this. What an amazing destiny for her, to publicly symbolize this "Mystery"... once concealed but now revealed. I think of that phrase:

"The kingdom of heaven is spread abroad upon the earth and men see it not."

For just that moment we DID see it. We all saw it. And what next? What else are we not seeing, but will NOW finally see!

The Water Paradox

2009-01-30T01:30:00.003-05:00

Water is front and center all of a sudden, at least for me. The Teacher says that he who worships water as Brahman will have all of his desires fulfilled. A dying friend expressed how her life had taught her to sail around the obstacles in the way. And now I find this quote which takes it even further:

Water is soft, fluid and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. ~Lao Tsu

I guess sand is the same way, loose and giving way, and yet it is used to polish precious stones and minerals. No more comment. I'm just pondering this whole idea and wanted to share it with you.

Whattaya Know...

2009-01-29T13:16:00.001-05:00

Whose thoughts are you thinking?
Are they there by choice or default?
What would your thoughts be if you were all there is?

Whose beliefs do you believe?
Do you believe them by choice or default?
What would your beliefs be if your were all there is?

Whose lifestyle do you live?
Do you live it by choice or default?
What lifestyle would you live if you were all there is?

"Know thyself... and so shalt thou know God... and the universe."

"The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV..."

2009-01-19T13:13:00.001-05:00

Today is Martin Luther King Day. The media will spend a great deal of time presenting a watered down version of what this man was all about. Most of the important parts will be left out... conveniently. The man continues to be a threat to the PTB. Why? What did he say that they don't want you to know. Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon paint an enlightening portrait of a great man who did great things for ALL of us...

Here are an excerpt and the link...

Vim

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THE MARTIN LUTHER KING YOU DON'T SEE ON TV
Media Beat (1/4/95)
By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

It's become a TV ritual: Every year in mid-January, around the time of Martin Luther King's birthday, we get perfunctory network news reports about "the slain civil rights leader." The remarkable thing about this annual review of King's life is that several years — his last years — are totally missing, as if flushed down a memory hole.

[snip]

An alert viewer might notice that the chronology jumps from 1965 to 1968. Yet King didn't take a sabbatical near the end of his life. In fact, he was speaking and organizing as diligently as ever. Almost all of those speeches were filmed or taped. But they're not shown today on TV.

Why?

It's because national news media have never come to terms with what Martin Luther King Jr. stood for during his final years... [more at link]

The MLK You Don't See on TV

Navagraha Chant

2008-10-17T16:29:00.004-04:00

As the astrology gets a bit dicey in the coming months, this ancient Sanskrit chant calls the planets by name and honors them. His Holiness Sri Ganapati Sachchidananda Swamiji has advised us to do this chant to ward off the negative effects of the planets. I am sharing this in hope for our well-being in the coming months.

Namassuryaaya Chandraaya Mangalaaya Budhaaya Cha
Guru Shukra Shanibhyascha Raahave Kaetave Namaha

Jaya Guru Datta
Vim

Sri Swamiji
photo by Vimala
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A Take on the World Economic System, and a Possible Future... After the Fall...

2008-10-15T16:21:00.000-04:00

Don't know if you saw the first film, but the Addendum explains the present monetary system and why it HAS to fall in order for us to evolve freely. I am putting it out to you as an FYI.

The effect this film had on me was to SEE a new kind of life superimposed over this old one. I guess it is about awareness. Krishnamurti said that to understand is to transform that which IS. We can do that within ourselves. A world without money, where all have access to all and all express freely the gifts that are given IS a possibility.

One of the AHA's I gained through this film is a possible reason why lightworkers have had such a hard time charging $ for their services. Perhaps this would be another topic altogether. But in MY heart I KNOW that my gifts are just that... GIFTS. The fact that our lives are tied to the Monetary System, puts a cramp in my style. But what if that system were no longer in place. It worked in the Tribal pardigm! Our Native American ancestors lived quite well without it. Just a thought.

The last scene before the credits is an amazing portrayal ofvAwareness becoming Aware. It is worth seeing in and of itself.

Anyways, here is the link: http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

Use your discernment.

Take what works and leave the rest.

Vimala

DISCLAIMER: I don't endorse anything except awareness. If this contributes to that, so be it. If not, awareness comes by another form. It's all the same. We carry on, V

Turtle Woman's Latest Auto-Writings - 08/18/08

2008-08-30T23:11:00.001-04:00

Am passing this on as an FYI.
As always, take what works and leave the rest.
We carry on,
Vim

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Note: I had no intention to send this out, as sending out the automatic writings is no longer part of my 'mission', they have returned to being for myself as directed by Creator, however, after the week I've personally experienced, it became clear that this particular autowriting needs to go out. Take the key words (falls, drama, deaths, water, the past, those that do and don't belong with you, etc.) literally. I'm just wondering now what the fire from below is going to be in my personal life - a friggin volcano forming right below my feet? (That's a joke God - I take that out of the law [of manifestation]!) As always, for your discernment.... share as you see fit.

Love and Light,

T.W.

Turtle Woman's Auto Writing

Monday, 11:16 p.m.

August 18, 2008

Sorry. Time's up. Forgive and move on. There is no more yesterday. Never look back from this point on. The past is gone and much is gone with it. Only Now. Never more. Sing Sing. Sing a song for all the tomorrows you've been waiting for. Open the door and step through. All has arrived Now. All you have to do is embrace it and hold on tight. Your Light shines and will guide you home.

Say "come" and it will come. "Come all that is truly mine". "Come all that belongs with me"."Come in like heart and mind". "Come soul beings of my own". "Come". It is time to summons from above the beauty that belongs below. And it is time to rise to full height and be all that you truly are, according to Free Will and the Highest Good of All.

Stand firm as that which no longer belongs with you falls away. That which sits in darkness remains so. Hold firm as that which falls away will be great and many - surprisingly so - but do not despair as it does not belong to you. Shock! Shock! Oh! Oh! You wonder when the insanity will end - for you it already has. The drama is not yours. Others play out their own. Yours is a calm flow forward and up beyond the flood of tears that are soon to follow. Your change is for the better. Some, many, wallow in the mire. What have you need for their chosen drama? None.

Set your sights on the stars and the heavens and don't look back or down. Set your sights. You will not be touched by the fire that consumes from below. No more pain and misery for the children of the Light. You have chosen well. The Beauty Way opens the doors of it's path - your universe of being is fine.

Know that the power of the Golden Light is yours to use at all times. Know that the power of the Christ Enlightened is yours to use at all times for the Highest Good. Know that you are the power, have the power, and that you manifest it Now.

Death comes to many, in mass, Now. Your country will be shook to it's foundation. Many to die before the year is out. Cold, much cold. You will need to move south soon. Cold before the water. Move south for two years. Then into the hills of crystals before the water inundates. Prepare to move as quickly as you can. The Shift comes soon. Many going soon.

Look to the skies. You'll see them there. Go when you are called. Do not hesitate. Nothing to hold you here. Nothing. Leave with joy. All awaits you in love and reunion. The true tie that binds is waiting above. Only chains are holding you here below.

Move now as quickly as you can. There is no time to spare. The doors are opening. Be ready to step through. In love follow The Beauty Way. Let go.

Aho!

Standing in the Golden Light,

All My Relations In Love and Light,

Turtle Woman, Oma

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This Is Life...

2008-08-19T15:33:00.001-04:00

this is life
today
right here where I am
not some distant time
not some distant place
but here now
this is my art
this moment is my painting
my creation
not some distant scenario
not some distant circumstance
but this
right here in my hand
this moment
I will not arrive ‘someday’
I will not become ‘eventually’
I am
already
now
this moment
with all of its drama
with all of its uncertainties
with all of its adventure
there is no waiting
there is no wondering
divine will is now
to breathe
to observe
to drink it all in
to be
here
alive in this mortal flesh
alive in this mortal moment
this is life
this is purpose
to be

Tucson: The Community...sort of!

2008-04-30T13:36:00.000-04:00

I have been here a week and have had the good fortune to fall in with a bunch of old Hippies with stories to tell of their encounters with the icons of the era. Last night, a Ginsberg film debut by two of them and a Q & A afterward that produced an actual post card written by Ginsberg to a friend of the card's keeper. At the event, I also met someone who worked on the Hubble telescope and invented a technology for smelling TV... something that seemed possible and a logical next step in the evolution of entertainment to me as a kid. I got to visit a communal housing setting that makes total sense. Share a bath and the kitchen and have one room that is your private space. Economic and practical. I'm impressed.

No one goes by his given name, which is good as it seems there are only one or two given names among them. Everyone has a second or third name that comes with a fascinating story behind it's selection. Makes me feel less odd with my second name. No one is from here. I have yet to meet a native Tucsonian[?]. Kind of like the land of misfit toys, only one feels less misfitted in the company of so many others of similar nature. An interesting mix of interesting people.

Dear Everyone... I'm Going on Walkabout...

2008-04-21T00:21:00.003-04:00

Greetings!
At the behest of my guides I'm off to Tucson and points SW.
Vision questing!
Hoping to hook up with the tribe and get activated.
Feels like my "unit" is being called up for active duty.
If I find the time and an internet connection, will post some of my findings.
All is well, ya know!
We carry on,
Vim

TURTLE WOMAN'S AUTO-WRITINGS - 01/26/08

2008-01-28T14:00:00.001-05:00

This is Turtle Woman's latest auto-writing as I received it.
I am posting it here for your information and enlightenment.
As always, use your discernment.
We carry on,
Vimala

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Saturday, 2:05 p.m.

January 26, 2008

Trepidation. Climax. The not-so-holy making another huge power play. Relentless in their pursuit of false power. Much confusion within and on the rise without. The emotional imbalance in the mass consciousness becoming greater and more prevalent. So many crises in so many directions. People totally overwhelmed, freaking out, acting out, breaking down, and literally losing it. The level of going berserk continues to increase. So many simply going insane. No where near its apex. Crisis, crisis, crisis. Be very careful, and keep observant to what is going on around you at all times. Use the Golden Light in conjunction with the Violet Ray to protect yourselves. The earth is about to rumble from all the negative impacts and the stress of it all. The body will revolt.

So many still asleep. Most of them will remain that way. Those who have recently awakened are feeling as though they have just emerged from a fog. They are amazed that they could not see through the obvious and outrageous antics of the dark ones who claim false power. Disaster will pile upon disaster and the deaf, blind, and dumb will still refuse to wake up. Stubborn resistance against the Creator of All That Is. There are only so many times that Creator will knock on your door before walking away when the door is not answered.

Not many roses to be smelled this year. Hard times for many with much loss – life, limb, and external security. The floor will literally drop out from below for those who persist in not awakening. It is their soul choice. Send them Light and move on. No time to waste on grieving over those who refused Creator’s repeated call.

One by one, those of the Vanguard are withdrawing. It is their time to turn their attention inward. It is a time of inner powering up. This is where the attention needs to be. For those who have done their spiritual work and have followed Creator’s directives to implant the Light and bring the teachings of the Great Masters into the daily life of the masses, it is time to attend to Self. Inward and upward is the call being heard now. That which is outside is no longer calling. Their mission is rapidly coming to a close. It’s time for those who are meant to take the Vanguard’s place to step up to the plate of Truth. Your higher initiations are almost complete.

Those of the Vanguard who are not yet heeding the call will soon find the pull so strong they can no longer return their attention to the outside world. What appears to be an attitude of “I’m sorry, you have me confused with someone who cares” is not what it seems… it is simply those of the Vanguard now giving full attention to the Source’s call.

It is necessary you to prepare yourself for your next step... fully empowering yourself again with Creator and Self so that you may finally go to your real home, where your true loved ones await for you. For many of you, your soul mates did not incarnate with you, in order to be a life line on the other side to give you strength, encouragement, and guidance during this difficult journey. It is reunion time. Look forward to it with great joy.

All the love, attention, compassion, assistance, and selfless giving you have contributed in this long, difficult journey now needs to be directed to disconnecting from that which is without and focusing it on that which is within. This is not selfish, callow, or cold, but simply a normal stage of stepping up and stepping away from that which no longer belongs with you. The time to move forward and prepare for moving home has come. The time is passing to be in the center of the storm, but to rise above it. It’s time for a huge moving sale and the few boxes of what needs to be taken are being packed. You will, however, be traveling light… and you will be traveling Light.

Do not mourn what is being left behind… it’s suppose to be left behind. You cannot move up until you release what is holding you down. You cannot advance if you have the brakes on. Hesitation to take automatic right action can have dire results. You can not go forward unless you leave behind that which holds you back… attachments to this, the lowest, densest realm in creation, will result in eons of being stuck in terrible lower creations.

You cannot go home if you insist on clinging to the place that is not your home. And a period of detachment is required to let go without further pain and suffering. Those who do not do what is required to let go will experience what the Masters refer to as “the stings of a thousand scorpion”. There truly is a “ Scorpion King”. Being ripped out of this level of Creation when there is attachment to it is painful indeed. One must be able to let go with speed, joy, ease, comfort, and love, according to Free Will and for the Highest Good.

Looking backward, holding back, will trap you in a hell of your own making beyond imagination – the lesson of Lot’s wife. You don’t hang on to the stage of being a baby when you are becoming a child. You don’t cling to your diaper stage when you’ve become potty trained. Every stage of evolution requires a letting go, a necessary leaving behind. While each soul’s desire determines their destination, the Vanguard’s time to go home is drawing nigh. Not to a “new earth”, but home, true home. It is the next stage for you. And you must leave behind what is not yours to be able to return to your own. To everything there is a season. It is time to change the guard.

“Gee but it’s great to be back home!
Home is where I want to be!
I’ve been on the road so long my friend,
And if you come along
I know you couldn’t disagree
It’s the same old story
Everywhere I go.
I’ve been slandered,
Libeled,
I hear words
I’ve never heard in the bible.
And I’m one step away from a shoe shine.
Two steps away from the county line…..”

Paul Simon 1969

…. the “county line”, the line of demarcation between here and home. Get your traveling shoes shined… you’re two steps away from home… sweet home.

Those souls, however, who need to follow The Mother from this earth to her new home – her new body – the “new earth”, are beginning to leave and follow her now. Those who refuse to acknowledge that her soul departure from this earth has already transpired will soon understand. The “new earth” they have been waiting for cannot be ready for other’s arrival until the Mother’s soul occupies it. How could it? Did you not understand the process? As above so below. The laws of creation, which so many woo-woo new-agers ignore, are always in force. It is misleading, false information which negates the laws and rules of existence within every level of Creation.

As above, so below. Just because we are in a time of great change and we are evolving into a higher being does not mean the basic laws of transmigration have been suspended. It is only a fool that swallows hook line and sinker the myth that the laws of creation have been suspended or are no longer in effect. And if you believe the deliberate misinformation planted by those of dark intent, a sinker it will be for you. Woe be to those who don’t use discernment.

Discernment is only possible through Truth and seeking the Path of the Masters, the metaphysics of the science of the soul. That is where spirit and science meet as One in Universal Truth. That and the journey within through attending to meditation is what gives the ability to discern the Truth from all the hogwash that is sloshing around. Seek and ye shall find.

The Mother’s soul had to leave “here” first before she could be ‘there”, otherwise the “new earth” would simply be an empty shell with no life-force – there would be nothing capable of sustaining the life trying to enter it. The “new earth” can not be alive and ready for its children until the soul of the Mother occupies it. It is she who gives the “new earth” life, not the other way around. The birthing process of a planet is the same as a baby… a soul must enter it before it can live.

The birthing mother’s body must have a soul occupying it first before the baby’s soul can come through. And if there is no soul in the body of the planet, nothing will “birth” onto that planet. As above, so below… so why would that be negated when moving back up?

Something else is taking place “here” in what has become an empty shell.
An illusion of life. But then it always has been, simply with souls trapped in a bad dream. It is only an illusion continuing, a dream continuing from a thought form. Energy moving forward, like a radio wave endlessly moving through space through the eternity of this universe of consciousness. Actually, none of us are here at all. Why are you hanging on to it?

So much shock in the near future. Step above it. Move out of being the center of the storm into being totally above it. More mind-boggling events. Rise above it.

The people cry out in protest from all quarters. Much shifting. Terrible deceptions. Look within and away from the outside projection. Don’t let it entangle you. Send the Light with objective detachment, not on your knees sobbing. There is no less love involved in it, just a lot less strain from over wrought emotion. Remove yourself to your Self and bask in the connection with Source. Otherwise what is coming will shatter your heart many times and render you vulnerable to entrapment by the dark ones.

Those of dark intent want to keep you trapped in the dream with staged events they orchestrate from behind the scenes. Their scriptwriters are not on strike. By removing yourself to the Self, you become the real script writer for All That Is. It is from being here on this level, in the body while accessing the higher realms, that true change for the better is made. Use this – the only real tool you have.

It is the one the Lord of your soul, the Creator of All That Is, gave to you. Those of dark intent are trying to create and stage events which seem to come from the ‘enemy’ but are in fact being orchestrated by themselves behind the curtains. They want to develop and execute strong emotions from horror to develop a “cause” to expand the war and continue their agenda.

Recent events at sea were staged to provoke war by the very government crying “foul!”. Those of dark intent are trying hard to set the stage for more war before elections in the hope that they will feed more fear into the sleeping masses and thereby stay in false power. They are banking on it. Don’t buy into the destructive agenda of the-powers-that-aren’t. Those of dark intent who steal the power of others are desperately trying to hold their position and are involved in much more deception, plotting, and fear-mongering to fool the masses than they ever have before. As they ramp things up again, they are frantically scrambling to cover their tracks and reek more havoc.

And yes, they personally, literally reek, as lies do carry a bad smell which is equal to the level of bad energy. The smell of liars is awful. The more you move up on the evolutionary ladder, the more you are able to See, Know…. and Smell… and you can smell a rat.

Although the dark ones have succeeded in the past, they can only continue to succeed if you give them permission. Know these false provocations for more war are simply staged – self-made threats to achieve the plans that they already had on the table since the beginning. Me thinks they protest too much… such hollow voices blowing wind.

These power mongers of dark intent will kill as many of their own and others as they need to in order to justify an orchestrated “cause” to expand war. Require accountability and fool-proof evidence from those who are trying to entrap you in fear. Their fear mongering is hollow. Give it no value by calling them out in Truth. Will you silently stand by and give those of dark intent the carte blanch they are counting on?

Elections will be stolen. Much corruption in votes. Dirty tricks abound. Freedom will be bought and sold behind the scenes. Nasty surprises in store.

Public outrage. A bright light in danger of being snuffed out. Much Light needs to be sent to those who walk in Truth with courage. But remain free from the drama. Players shifting in the play and the soap opera takes a new turn. There is hope still, but a sacrificial lamb may be laid on the alter. A serious turning of events.

Earth is revolting. Dying throes. Massive shudders. Is a planetary walk-in waiting in the wings? Something lurks nearby. Rising and falling. Splitting apart. Magma flows freely. Smoking and puffing. Lava in an unexpected place. Major shifts. Many changes. Much sorrow and grief. Gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair. Woe, woe. Rise from the center of the storm to above it. Go within. Sit in mediation and prepare your journey Now.

Lightworkers struggle with the impact of these dark energies. For those who see and feel from a heightened perspective, the darkness of the energy is even more difficult. A very materialistic energy is coming in. It will last for a long time, promoting more greed, especially from governments. Mass consciousness in danger of severe backsliding. Ugh. Much progress in mankind can be reversed. A strong energy of governmental backward thinking, oppression of women-minorities- education-freedom. Danger of martial law in many places. Camps. Orwell. Big Brother. Fascist governmental energies. Riots. A turning away from enlightenment. A backward influence for a time to come. Darkness from the past coming forward. Reversal of fortunes and the ramping up of new ones.

The Light is needed more than ever. Intensify the Light, the beautiful Golden Light, without by expanding it within. Now. Without anymore slacking. Go within and do the work needed there. Sit in mediation. Make the time. It’s important. And nothing on this earth feels better than time spent in meditation, so seek your greater field of happiness. Why do you not?

Those who are going through disconnection will hold their own during this extreme new influence, but the many who have neglected their spiritual development will be crushed and broken under this new time. It is so unnecessary. Prepare through your meditation and get two birds with one stone – protection here while completing the journey home. Why deny and delay your greatest desire of your heart and soul – complete bliss, total joy, Oneness again.

Many, many souls leaving during this time. A nuclear holocaust looms heavy on the horizon. The smallest mis-step can be disastrous. Walking a fine line. Will you allow it? The Mother decided not to be a part of this. Thus the timing of her departure. She prepares the new home - a safe, beautiful haven - for those who have chosen to follow her and who are not yet ready to go all the way home. She is “there”, Now, welcoming her children as they begin to arrive.

Do you feel a hollowness? Look and truly see. The trees have lost their aura. The hollowness you feel is this empty projection. You are no longer here. Wake up. You will love where you really are when you wake up. Life is a dream. . . dream. . . dream. Wake up. This dream is not yours.

The tree you see with your physical eyes is growing, but the life force is dissipated. The tree is “there”, but it no longer vibrates with vigorous life force. To the physical eye, it doesn’t look different, but for those who have “the eyes to see”, it might as well be made out of cardboard for the amount of life force it carries now. In Truth, what is keeping this planet going and preventing it from flying apart is the life force emanating from less than a handful of living genuine Masters in combination with the Lightworkers who implant the life giving power Creator’s Golden Light on a daily basis.

Many Blessings. Stand in and use the Golden Light of the Creator’s Christ Power.

All My Relations in Love and Light,

Turtle Woman, Oma

Warning, warning! Be aware. A killer running loose. Driving an older, small 4 door sedan. Dodge? Grayish shade of light blue paint that is “pearlized” or slightly metallic. Tall man…. six foot two to six foot four, attractive devil in disguise. Well built, athletic, brown hair in a short executive-type cut, conservative dress, polite, charming, quiet, almost shy, 30’s. On second or third date takes a drive out to the country and wants to have a “surprise” picnic or walk in the woods. Danger, danger! White bedspread in trunk or back seat. Serial killer. Beware pretty 20’s females with medium length dark hair and five foot four. Nice countryside, where there are a variety of trees, rolling hills, flat lush meadows and fields. Area where there are more overcast days in the weather. Beware. Beware! Don’t walk in the country with someone new – young women keep a friend with you and go out in pairs!

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THE NOBLE SURRENDER

2007-12-09T12:40:00.000-05:00

I posted this piece a couple of years ago, but it has been on my mind again lately. We seem to be masters of avoiding, at all cost, looking at ourselves in the mirror and seeing, not our faults, but our own glory... our power... our birthright of happiness.

Our essential nature is happiness. What if the "salvation of the world" lay in us simply allowing ourselves to be just that... happy?

What if the apparent insanity of this 3D world is really a tool we are using to pry our own fingers off of The Dream and realize who we truly are. And the abrasive mind-beatings we are taking lately are simply polishing the doors of our own perception.

"When the doors of our perception are cleansed, man will see all things as they truly are... INFINITE!" --William Blake

The re-post follows.
Enjoy!
Vim

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Let us take time to revisit a great author, Richard Bach, creator of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. This excerpt is from his book Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. The piece begins with an astonished crowd's reaction to their Master who has just said:

"I quit..."

For a moment the multitude was stricken dumb with astonishment.

And he said unto them, "If a man told God that he wanted most of all to help the suffering world, no matter the price to himself, and God answered and told him what he must do, should the man do as he is told?"

"Of course, Master!" cried the many. "It should be pleasure for him to suffer the tortures of hell itself, should God ask it!"

"No matter what those tortures nor how difficult the task?"

"Honor to be hanged, glory to be nailed to a tree and burned, if so be that God has asked," said they.

"And what would you do," the Master said unto the multitude, "if God spoke directly to your face and said, "I COMMAND THAT YOU BE HAPPY IN THE WORLD, AS LONG AS YOU LIVE!" What would you do then?"

And the Multitude was silent, not a voice, not a sound was heard upon the hillsides, across the valleys where they stood.

And the Master said unto the silence, "In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime. So it is that I have learned this day, and choose to leave you now to walk your own path, as you please."

And he went his way through the crowds and left them, and he returned to the everyday world of men and machines.

COMET HOLMES IN PEGASUS: THE MYTHOLOGICAL & PROPHETIC SIGNIFICANCE

2007-11-25T21:20:00.000-05:00

Greetings.

Our ancestors would have considered more than the science of the celestial appearance of Comet Holmes. They would have called it a sign and considered its location and the significance of that location. Comet Holmes appears in the constellation of Pegasus. I have gathered some pertinent ideas regarding Pegasus in mythology and prophecy.

I will draw no specific conclusions except to say that there is a lot of indication in mythology and prophecy that the appearance of Comet Holmes in this particular constellation, is not a random thing. It is significant. These are times of the rising of the new feminine energies, the rebalancing of the masculine and feminine, a time of new consciousness or Christ consciousness coming to us, a time of the return of inspiration and the poets and our release from karma and the necessity of reincarnation.

The appearance of this sign in this particular constellation, mirrors a corresponding arrival within ourselves. As without so within. The skies are talking to us!

Some things to think about.
Vim

--------- IN MYTHOLOGY, Pegasus was/is:

* Name means “Springs of Ocean”

*Emissary between heaven and earth

*The Winged horse

*Appears upside down in the sky, rising from the ocean with half still submerged

*Symbol of the sacred king's or hero's journey to heaven

*An image of death and apotheosis [deification/exaltation]

*Born of feminine energies, of matriarchal origins

*Born of the blood of medusa mixed with sea water

*Offspring of the moon-goddess embodiment of female wisdom

*Represents divine inspiration and was the muse of poets

*The four stars make up the Square of Pegasus which was considered the gate to paradise for souls who escaped the necessity of reincarnation.

*Was ridden by Bellerophon when he slew the Chimaera [the modern word means “illusory fancy”], but did not allow Bellerophon to approach the gods of Olympus.

*Thereafter he received his permanent place in the heavens… a white feather fell to earth when he was placed there.

*Became the “Thundering Horse of Jove”, carrier of the Divine Lightning.

*Represented the Sun in Aryan tradition.

SOURCES: http://www.pegasusproducts.com/myth.html http://www.magicstables.com/ThePegasusMyth.html

---------THE WINGED HORSE IN PROPHECY:

*In prophecy, Pegasus is an ancient sign of the new consciousness which will arrive on a white horse.

*The ancient Christians made a connection between Pegasus constellation (winged horse) with the Apocalypse White Horse which carries the Word of God Who begins to cut down His enemies with His sword.

*The ancient sign of the new millennium and new consciousness.

*Pegasus is a symbol of the time of new consciousness which will bring forth a whole new civilization.

---------OF RELATED INTEREST:

PEGASUS, ZEUS AND JESUS

We have shown the connection between Pegasus and the human brain and also between Pegasus and the practice of meditation. The Muses were born of a union between Zeus, and Mnemosyne. Mnemosyne is the Goddess of Memory.

Zeus would ride on the back of Pegasus and hurl lightening bolts across the skies. This of course simply means that enlightenment comes from God or Zeus.

The white horse of the heavens is Pegasus and the Book of Revelation tells us that Jesus will return on a white horse. Thus both Zeus and Jesus ride on Pegasus.

And Pegasus the white horse is the hippocampus of the brain or the place of memory which allows us to understand the 2nd coming of Jesus as a renewal of the mind , a new consciousness.
Not only does the Bible say that Jesus returns on the white horse (which is Pegasus, the horse of Zeus) but it also quotes Jesus as saying that the return of the Son of Man would be as "lightening from east to west Enlightenment from the right hemisphere to the left.

Jesus and Zeus are one and the same, both creations of the Greek mind of mythology to bring us to an, understanding of ourselves and the cosmos in which we live.

SOURCE: http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/pegasus.html

---------MODERN IDEAS OF PEGASUS:

*Carl Jung talks of Pegasus: "At the end of this cosmic age Vishnu will change into a white horse and create a new world. This refers to Pegasus, who ushers in the Aquarian Age." [Letters, Vol. II, p. 607]

*Symbolizes life energy

*Aquarius, whose energies rule the New Age, falls under the constellation of Pegasus

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"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." - Carl G. Jung

"There is no light without shadow and no psychic wholeness without imperfection." - Carl G. Jung Psychological Reflections, 281

“The kingdom of heaven is within.” -St. Luke 17:21

So Where Did I Go???

2007-09-23T22:16:00.000-04:00

I am always amused to wander around the bloggersphere and find so many abandoned blogs. Where does everybody go? And here I am guilty of the the same thing.

I'm still online but have been spending my time over at Flickr.com. I've been taking pictures and they seem to be satisfying the need of speech. I often feel that everything that could possibly be said has been said already. Maybe the players are wearing different costumes but it's all the same, same, same... I've heard that at some point in our evolution, we will cease speaking and just KNOW each other through some hidden part of ourselves. It's already happening in many ways.

Anyways, I am letting my photos speak for me for the moment, and so I will fix you up with the link here:

This link will put you at my front page:
VIMSPLACE: Flickr HOME

And this one will link you to the sets:
VIMSPLACE: Flickr SETS

The sets page is probably the best way to see all of what I am up to. All of my photos are for sale. If something strikes your fancy, please let me know and we'll work out some sort of exchange.

I hope you are all doing well in these crazy times. They are crazy for a reason. We are using the craze to show us that we are more than all the craziness combined. We've been looking for us and are soon to be found.

Take care,
Vim

Holding the World
photo by Vimala

NO ESCAPE and NOTHING TO ESCAPE FROM...

2007-06-17T19:19:00.000-04:00

There is no way that you can position yourself in life and not still be 'in life.'
Sadness is limitation...this life.
Happiness is still this life.
It is ALL still this life.
Limitation.
Nothing lasts.
You can position yourself in happiness but you are still here...human...maya.
It's all still NOT us as we truly are...limitless...eternal
We've got to figure this out.
And when we DO figure this out, we'll still be here in all our restricted human 'glory.'
For some reason we've chosen this way.
I guess divinity is insane!
Nothing will help.
Learn this and be free.
How does knowing we're 'trapped for the duration' help us or free us.
Because we know our efforts to get out are pointless.
So we stop trying to get out and enjoy our captivity.
Is this it?
Is this the key?
Sisyphus?
Rolling his stupid rock up the stupid hill over and over again?
What a fool!
I always say, get the heck off the hill.
Let the rock roll.
Leave it there.
Go do something real which is nothing.
---Vimala

Alphabet of Thoughts II

2007-06-05T22:34:00.000-04:00

As soon as I can.

Bet on the blue horse.

Come and get it.

Don't sweat the thunderstorms.

Even the old die young.

Forever young.

Go to the river.

Help is still on the way.

Is anybody out there?

Just a minute.

Knock Knock

Let me in.

Make it up.

Nobody knows.

Often is good enough.

Polish the silver.

Quarrymen rock.

Resonate.

Suffocate.

Toothache.

Underhanded.

Verily, verily, I say unto you.

West is best.

Xhonorated.

Yammer, yammer.

Zen.

Alphabet of Thoughts I

2007-06-05T22:25:00.000-04:00

Attachment causes all the problems.

Belief is a limitation.

Cancer is a disease of the soul.

Don't do what I do.

Everybody hurts.

For God's sake, breathe.

God IS one of us.

Help is on the way.

Is there a doctor in the house.

Just a few more minutes.

Keep believing... what?

Let's begin.

Make money.

Not on my watch you won't.

Open the door.

Point me in the right direction.

Question everything.

Right is wrong.

So what!

That's what I said.

Under and over.

Very good.

Wrong is right.

Xactly.

Yes.

Z end.

TURTLE WOMAN's AUTO-WRITINGS...

2007-05-23T23:39:00.000-04:00

FYI!

Use your discernment and by all means....

ENJOY!

Vim

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Turtle Woman’s Automatic Writings

Monday, 6:36 a.m.

February 19, 2007

Such good is flowing in. The doors are finally opening and that which we have awaited is finally manifesting. Joy inside. Lovely joy just springs up at the most unexpected times.

The Vanguard has done their work. It is time for them to step back and breathe fresh air. What they have come to do has mostly been done with only residuals to be completed. It is their time for rest. The seeds were planted long ago. What was planted has matured and is about to come to fruition.

The paths widen between those who made their choices to live in the Light or be in darkness. You can not change the path for another. Each individual’s Free Will has sealed their fate. Those who have chosen to awaken and move into the Light will keep progressing upwards with greater speed as the doors open. It will become easier and easier for those who have matched the higher vibrations. The doors will slam shut and lock against those who have refused to awaken or who have abused power or chosen the paths of darkness. Their lives will continue to unravel and they will be miffed.

The dark ones are panicking as the doors start to slam shut in their faces. They slander, lash out against, and attack those who walk in Truth and the Light. They continue to use lies and side-long maneuvering to try to destroy those who stand in Truth and the Light. They disempower themselves through spite and viciousness. They give away their own power simply by not standing in Truth. They do not see they are not walking in beauty as long as they are in service to self. They hide behind arrogance. They are afraid now, as their misuse of power breaks apart their very foundations. The fall from being in service to self is long and hard. They scream and moan in the Light. They are in dire need of the healing of Grace.

The situation for those who walk in the Light will only continue to improve, no matter how much the dark ones launch offensives against them. The power of the Light is greater than that of the dark, and the dark can never win the battles it launches… it can only make the Light work more and for the Lightworkers to come together more to stand as One with Creator. The more the dark ones launch attacks, the more unified the Light becomes. We give them thanks for this!

The on going improvement in the well being and lives of the Lightworkers, the Tribe of 12 x 12, does not mean that challenges and problems will disappear. It means that they will simply pass through and beyond these things quickly. The solutions come quicker and faster. The negative situations will be more intense but will not “stick”. The Lightworkers have become Teflon. Nothing hard, negative, or permanently burnt sticks – everything washes clean easily. The doors to solutions are wide open. Old stuff is clearing out rapidly. That which is dark does not settle, but simply glances off, for it is ricocheting off the Creator’s Golden Light.

Those who have walked their talk in Truth are fully protected. The dark simply can not touch them, although it is trying hard. Those who walk in Truth with Creator and stand in the Light have become “bullet proof” from any real harm from the dark side. The dark ones are attacking more and more, yet those who walk in the Light with Creator simply can no longer be harmed. The protection is fully activated, above and below. This is not by chance but the result of the years of hard work put into raising the vibrations, within and without. If you have done your spiritual work, you are fully protected, no matter what the circumstances that present themselves.

Our friends in higher places are literally placing themselves between us and all threats. They still need to be invited to assist, so call on them several times a day. Give them carte blanche to work on your behalf for the Highest Good and according to Free Will. They will then be able to take care of situations instantaneously. That which needs to come to you now for your Highest Good is coming in full force. This time of intense challenge is short in duration and will turn around quickly in the not so distant future. Blessings from on high indeed. Walk in Knowing your path of Truth and Light is true and safe. Empower yourself, your Self and your Golden Light family above by giving them permission to act positively on your behalf, benefit, and Highest Good at all times.

Embrace this beautiful, challenging time we have entered. The darkness may have stepped up their activity, throwing everything they have at the Light, but they only waste their time and energy. This difficult vamping up and revving up of intense energy means your power in the Light for success for the Highest Good according to Free Will has vamped and revved up too.

This time of the greatest yin/yang means success is at your doorstep and the door is open. Invite it in. It means the time of reaping and harvest has come and that which each and every soul has set their mind to is manifesting. The gulf between those who reap great rewards and those who fall into their own pit are great indeed. Each soul will now start manifesting exactly what they have devoted their energies to. Your best dreams are finally arriving at your door.

Take this time and fully utilize it for your Greatest Good. Let the universe, the world, the life you’ve always wanted come into full manifestation. Give permission for your heart’s desires to be fully realized for Now on. The past, the darkness is vanishing from you from this point on as you continue to rise with the vibrations and become again the fully realized Light Being that you are.

The veil is so thin between you and your Self now. The surges of pure joy you are beginning to experience are your full connections to Self with no barriers. As these surges of joy increase in time and duration, you will suddenly come to the point where you will realize you’ve been standing at One in Self and Creator all along. You need never look back again. The veils will be fully gone. You will suddenly be home again in a nano second. And you will suddenly realize you’ve never actually been gone. It will be like suddenly awakening from a bad dream - because that is exactly what it is. You are not really here. You are “there” – and you always have been…

And until the moment you are fully aware that you are “there”, that you are home again, your journey from this point on will simply, exponentially, get better and better. You will manifest exactly what you want – not someone else’s version of what they have told you it will be – improving your life with each step forward and upward.

It is time to turn it all over to those loved ones above who remained at home as our lifelines. It is time to give them permission to act on our behalf, for our Highest Good and according to Free Will. It is time to give them permission to reel us in and help bring us home. And as long as we walk in beauty, which is in Truth and the Creator’s Golden Light, the journey will only get better and better, the vibrations rising higher and higher, the manifestations easier and purer. And, viola!, we will be suddenly home in the loving embrace of our heart’s and soul’s desires. Give our loved ones above permission now to help us in these final times in the Highest Good.

The Mother has already, like Elvis, “left the building”. She moved up and beyond into higher vibration. She has left 3D earth behind. She’s been gone since this past summer. Many have not realized it yet, as her “time” and our “time” do not reside in the same “time”. Slowly, the evidence of her soul departure will become quite evident. She has moved on into her higher vibrational Light body. For many months, some of the Vanguard have felt this “hollowness”. Some have felt the deep silence within the planet in her absence. The Mother had been silent for many months in preparation for her departure and now she is gone. The oceans of this world have started to die and the decay will continue to accelerate and spread more rapidly. The trees are losing their auras. There will be more mass animal die offs. The time has come to follow Mother’s example and rise with the vibrations with no resistance to hanging on to anything of the past.

Make each new nano second of your Now the next step up, manifesting each joy, each heart’s desire of the Highest Good, each deep soul longing as you go. All you have, all you’ve ever had is the very moment you are in. Now. Make that moment your very best. Your Now. Embrace it in the Golden Light of the Creator. Your Self, Creator, and home are here Now.

Reap your reward for service well done – for service to others instead of service to self. It is time for the second wave of Lightworkers to take over.

Thank you Vanguard for bringing higher consciousness into the mainstream, for standing in the Light for the Highest Good of All. Thank you for raising the vibrations by being the lightning rod for the Creator’s Light by both maintaining your connection with Self and Creator through meditation and by implanting the Light. Thank you for being the Voice and providing the physical vocal cords to make the call to Awaken and Be! Thank you for the honor you have bestowed on the Mother Earth and All Her Relations. Thank you, Vanguard, for the great sacrifice you have made to be here Now, to suffer through the lower vibrations for this great mission of upliftment and quantum advancement for All of Creation. Thank you for giving freely of yourself without violating Universal Law by having a hand out for payment or monetary reward for your work. Your time has come to rest and to reap the true rewards you have earned on high from Creator. It is time for all your dreams to come true. Bless you one and all. Home is so very near. The veil is so very thin. The rest is now out of our hands. Each will manifest their own.

Good job. Godspeed. Our personal joy begins. Blessings one and all!

Standing in the Golden Light of the Christ Power and the Violet Ray,

All My Relations in Love and Light,

Turtle Woman, Oma

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The FUTURE: And The Beat Goes On...

2007-01-01T01:00:00.000-05:00

I have been re-reading predictions made for years past and am not too amazed to find that many did not come true as predicted, while predictions that general trends would continue DID. It is tricky business to predict the future. Even wise astrologers remind us that "we are more than our stars." We have choice and good sense to guide us through the times. That being said, I will jump into the predictive fray here with my take on the coming year:

#1 Birth-Life-Death will go on as before, but SOME of us will quit fighting it.

#2 Love will keep happening, though some of us will find it in new and unusual places.

#3 Likewise, many of us will find happiness in new and unusual places, by giving up on our old definitions.

#4 Some of us will take Nemesis' advice and see more of our life's happenings with gratitude.

#5 As a result our lives will smooth out from within.

#6 Old and useless aspects of our lives will continue to fall away.

#7 We will let some friends go, but we will find new ones that are better suited to who we are becoming.

#8 Some of us will finally travel while others will finally get to stay home.

#9 The grass will continue to grow and we will continue to mow ;-)

#10 Some of the well will get sick, some of the sick will get well.

#11 Angels or a facsimile of such will continue to watch over us.

#12 Renovation of the world will continue and we'll quit fighting THAT too.

#13 Many will upgrade and be happy about it.

#14 Many will downsize and be equally happy about it.

#15 Ideas and thoughts will flourish but some of us will take them less to heart as we continue to learn to think for ourselves.

#16 Healthy dis-ILLUSION-ment will continue as we rely less and less on what we BELIEVE and rely instead on what we KNOW.

#17 Many will FIND themselves, unless, of course they LOSE themselves.

#18 We will continue to beat loudly on the doors of our own souls in an effort to wake ourselves up and some of us will succeed.

#19 Some will quit looking for the answers where they AREN'T.

#20 Many will FIND The Answer where it IS.

All in all, I think we're gonna be OK. And we will meet back here again in a year and compare notes and find that we are making it through the changes as well as can be expected. Some of us will even thrive. So HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone and may your year bring you all good things for the BEST kind of world we can construct.
Everything's OK.
The Beat Goes On...
Vim

"To All of You That Know What's Happening..."

2006-12-13T11:03:00.000-05:00

"MAINTAIN!"

--Micky Dolenz, 1967

WHITE BUFFALO CALF KILLED BY LIGHTNING...

2006-11-30T00:12:00.000-05:00

I have just learned of the death of Miracle's Second Chance, the white buffalo calf born recently in Janesville, WI. My gut feeling is that this tragic death is somehow related to the beginnings of the purifications mentioned in my previous post.

The calf was born during a severe lightning storm and has gone out the same way. Lightning denotes purification in the Native American tradition. It is more an uprighting of the upside down than anything. Correcting, yet disorienting.

Listen with your hearts and all will be well.

All blessings to you on this harrowing, yet fascinating journey,
Vimala

LINK to the story: http://www.gazetteextra.com/whitebuffalo112706.asp

THE FIFTH DAY OF THE GALACTIC UNDERWORLD BEGINS...

2006-11-30T00:09:00.000-05:00

I am a little late posting this but the period of the Mayan calendar referred to here will last for 360 days, so it is still relative. Though the external world may fall apart, we will finally get our inner sh*t together which is no small thing. Congratulations ahead of time! Ride the wind, Vimala

"The 5th Day is a period of “Light.” In fact the brightest period of “light in the entire cycle. In a plants life this is when new chemicals are produced that carry the message to form buds. In human history, it was this section when Art was invented, the message of Jesus moved over the earth, Mr. Einstein discovered the theory of relativity and America with the victory of WWI rose to world power." --Ian Xel Lungold

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ARTICLE:
We are currently approaching the beginning of the Fifth day of the Galactic Underworld, November 24, 2006 and most people have experienced how things have heated up since the midpoint of the current night, May 27, 2006. In fact, the evolution of consciousness is fundamentally driven by the Light of future Heavens and Underworlds and so we are already now being influenced by it both in the form of world events and personal experiences.

In each of the Underworlds the Fifth day is the era of the breakthrough of the phenomena of that particular Underworld and from this we may have certain expectations of what is to come. The overall purpose of the current Galactic Underworld is to bring a balance between East and West as well as between the left rational and the right intuitive brain hemispheres.

In short, as it will mean a significant downfall of western dominance in the world it will allow for the coming together of the cultures of the East and the West. Very likely, it will generate a downfall of the American dollar and ensuing altered economic relationships in the world.

It also seems as if the days are the periods that bring the most earth changes and natural catastrophes and this will very likely also mark the coming day, November 24, 2006 – November 19, 2007. It simply seems as if when human beings are regaining their inner wholeness their control of the external world as a consequence is lost and the Fifth day is exactly such a period, which will create the conditions for such inner unity and wholeness.

Part of the development of this inner wholeness will come from a major step forward in the development of our intuition which essentially is mediated by the right brain half that is now about to be strengthened. In fact, without the development of this intuition we will not be able to use the increasingly shorter windows of opportunity that in different ways will be presented to us.

What there is to do is to fully accept and embrace the very significant energy shift that is now brought by the beginning of the Fifth day and I recommend people everywhere to celebrate on November 23-24 the arrival of the energy of Quetzalcoatl as part of the Breakthrough Celebration (www.breakthroughcelebration.com).

The Fifth day energy of the Galactic Underworld means that its manifestations will truly break through into the world and after this it will become apparent to everyone that we will never again return to the stable materialist mind set of the lower Planetary Underworld. We must welcome the shift that is now taking place in the global energy field and the opportunity it gives us to create balance between East and West, rationality and intuition and man and woman.

For most people the Breakthrough Energy of the Fifth day will be the most powerful transformative energy that they experienced as part of the divine plan. Let us celebrate and prepare together and above all be conscious of the changes that we may now expect based on the Mayan calendar.

Carl Johan Calleman, 11 Chicchan, 7.16.5 of the Galactic Underworld (October 19, 2006) Lelystad, Netherlands cjcalleman@swipnet.se

FACING OUR FEARS...

2006-11-02T09:46:00.000-05:00

This post is in response to the No-Eyes Prophecies published by Mary Summer Rain [see excerpt below].
It is basically a list of events that are occurring in the world, mostly political upheaval and earth changes.
The list concludes with an abrupt resolution of the turbulent conditions we see around us.
I wonder about it's cause...

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The thing I wonder about it the LEAP that must occur between the last two stages listed.
What happens to shift everything.
I know that the Controllers/Masters of the present system... their power rests squarely on the backs of the people.
And that our ignorance and oppression keeps us in our place.

Something must happen within the psyche's of the people for this leap to take place.
I think it may have something to do with Fear and our rising above Fear.

Much of what we do and accept, we do and accept out of fear of consequences.
Some of the bravest people I know are ones who have gotten to the point where they say "what more can they do to me?" or "I've got nothing to lose..." people who no longer resist the fates but go at it full bore...people who look their fears in the face and then move past them.

This is happening.
In our daily lives and in the greater world.
Things are being unmasked.
We are more Knowing about in the workings of the inner and outer worlds.
Our heart rates are slowing down and we are more sure of ourselves.

There is a Native tribe that teaches its children that when they are having a nightmare... like being pursued in a dream... if they will turn around and go INTO the thing that is pursing them, the thing will disappear and where it was, they would find a treasure.

The treasure of that last stage... Phoenix flying free... may hinge on just that sort of process.
If we will look at the whole thing, our fears within and the fears without... if we will stop and face them with all openness and perhaps even innocence, then just perhaps, we will find the peace on earth that so many of us anticipate.

Just some thoughts,
Vim

“Crouching/Massive Revolts & Government Turnaround -- Taxation refusals, war resistance, policy disagreements within government body, major upheavals within governments.

“Flying Free/Rise of the Age of Peace --- Total equality among people, discontinuance of all meat ingestion, construction reforms, cessation of most severe natural disasters, pollution-free energy innovations by way of the Earth’s magnetic field, rise of the Indian nation through widespread adaptation of its Ways of natural living and deep human philosophy.”

R.I.P. Jimi Hendrix

2006-09-18T11:04:00.000-04:00

The following tribute to fallen rock icon Jimi Hendrix, was written Al Aronowitz, the Blacklisted Journalist on the 26th anniversary of Jimi's death. It remains a poignant tribute to one of the greatest rock guitarists and spiritual transmitters of our time. It is posted here in it's entirety ten years later on this memorable day. To see the original click here...

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REMEMBERING JIMI: FADED FLOWERS

[In my opinion, Jimi Hendrix was the greatest guitar innovator the world has ever known. Too bad he pushed himself with drugs too far too soon. Jimi Hendrix was a friend of mine and I first wrote FADED FLOWERS in the mournful months following Jimi's funeral. I offer FADED FLOWERS here once again to memorialize Jimi on the occasion of the 26th anniversary of Jimi's death on September 18, 1970.]

I had to talk Miles into going to Jimi's funeral with me. What the hell, I told him, it was only a few days before he had to be out on the Coast anyway and besides, there'd be a lot of press there and the exposure would be good for him.

"I don't like funerals," he rasped. "Sheet! I didn't even go to my mother's funeral."

In the end, he made the plane, Miles, with his hairdresser, Vinnie, and Jacki, a beautiful fox he had picked up out of the crowd at LaGuardia Airport one day.

"She had just come off a plane getting into the city," he explained when he introduced her to me, "and I was catching a plane to fly out on a gig. I saw her on the other side of the lobby and I called her over and told her to get on the plane with me, and she did."

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They buried Jimi Hendrix in the bright afternoon in a hilltop cemetery amid the sobs of people who hadn't really known him for years or who had never known him. It was a cloudless day. Several hundred kids watched from behind the ropes. Seattle had never understood Jimi, and now it had to open its earth for him...

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Miles and Jimi hadn't known each other too long, but in the short time they did they had gotten pretty tight. Jimi was one of those kids who had grown up worshipping Miles as Miles kept getting younger. Which black kid who loved music had never heard of Miles Davis? For as long as Jimi could remember, Miles had been a legend to him, and it was only when he felt secure enough as a legend himself that he came to sit at Miles' feet and ask Miles to record an album with him. Miles said shit, he'd be happy to do the album but he wanted $50,000 for it. For that much of his soul, he wanted that much money. Like when Sidney Poitier tried to hype Miles into doing the sound track for some movie, he told Miles not to worry about the money because the movie would make Miles famous.

"Man," Miles answered, "I'm already famous!

Miles was a big influence on Jimi. Miles is a teacher, but Miles learned something from Jimi, too. Miles learned something about rhythms and something about phrasing and something about the rock and roll lifestyle. It was Jimi who became the final inspiration to move Miles to renounce the classical forms of jazz, many of them created by Miles himself, and to start playing the rock halls. Miles knew how to stay as young as any kid. What Miles wanted to find out was how come a kid like Jimi could make fifty thousand dollars in one night when Miles still couldn't make ten thousand.

* * *

It had been nine years since Jimi left the vast green valleys that had sent him off in search of a home he could not find and now his remains were back amid the airplane factories, the strip mine quarries, the salmon canneries, the steel mills and the breweries that had tried to trap him and keep him...

* * *

Steve Paul was on the plane, Steve, the underground entrepreneur who had once run the Scene at 46th Street and Eighth Avenue, New York's most outrageous cellar rock club. Steve, host to the stars, had become a friend and confidant of Jimi's through the long, hangout nights at the club, where Jimi used to get so drunk and drugged, he couldn't stand up any more, and still he'd get onstage and jam till dawn. Steve was on the plane with guitar star Johnny Winter, the Albino Whisper, a tender, quiet, bashful sweetheart until he starts picking those Texas roadhouse blues. Steve and Johnny were married in the music business sense. Steve was Johnny's manager, guiding him to the big-time, Mr. Yokel and Mr. Brash.

And then there was John Hammond Jr., who had hired Jimi to play in his band in the Village way back when. It was while Jimi was playing with Johnny Hammond in the Cafe Au Go Go, that Chas Chandler and Michael Jeffrey first laid eyes on the spectacle of Jimi wasting a guitar. Chas was a big star then, one of the Animals. Mike was the Animals' manager. It was from Johnny Hammond's band that they lured Jimi away to England to become the Worlds' Next Superact.

* * *

Jimi had become one of the greatest stars ever to make music, one of the sweetest poets ever to make the language dance. But back in Seattle all they could bury was the memory of a little black kid who used to play on his father's two-stringed ukulele...

* * *

On the plane it was like a party. It was a party. We were all Jimi's invited guests, flying First Class according to his wishes as expressed by Mike Jeffrey, Jimi's manager, in collaboration with Mike Goldstein, Jimi's press agent. We seat-hopped all the way to Seattle, with the two Johnnies getting off on getting to know about each other and me tap-dancing between Steve and Miles, the Black Prince, who was holding court at the table past the airliner's galley. I guess the real reason I talked Miles into coming was because I loved him, too. I wanted his companionship. When we got to Seattle, Steve, the two Johnnies and I went to the Hilton Inn at the airport, a motel, where Jimi was paying for our rooms. Miles grabbed a limo to the Washington Plaza, the brand new glass, steel and granite showpiece in the center of town, where he checked Vinnie, Jacki and himself into a luxury suite. He said he'd pay for his own rooms.

* * *

At the Dunlap Baptist Church on broad Rainier Avenue in south Seattle, Mrs. Freddie Mae Gautier, a woman Jimi knew well enough to call Mom, presided at the services. She read from Jimi's liner notes on the Buddy Miles album, "Expressway to Your Skull":

"The express had made the bend, he is coming on down the tracks, shaking steady, shaking funk, shaking feelings, shaking life...the conductor says as they climb aboard, small we are going to the electric church, the express took them away and they lived and heard happily and funkily ever after and---uh---excuse me but I think I hear my train coming." ...

* * *

At the motel, our party from the New York plane was amalgamated into a bigger party. There had been other planes from L.A. and London and even Barry Fay, Jimi's promoter in Denver, had jetted in for the mourning. All of Jimi's sidemen were there, all the roadies and managers who had ridden his express, all the little people along the way, like myself, who had given Jimi whatever breaks they could, the flagmen of his career. Even Nancy, Mike Jeffrey's ex old lady, who loved to draw. Jimi hadn't passed her by either. In the end, he wrote her letters. His first album after he died had her drawing of him on the cover.

* * *

In the pews were rock stars Johnny Winter, John Hammond Jr. There were also Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding, both of whom had played with Jimi in the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Drummer Buddy Miles, who also had played with Jimi, collapsed at the coffin when it was opened for the invited guests to pay their last respects. Inside the coffin, Jimi looked waxen and unreal...

* * *

Jimi wouldn't have loved the party so much as the idea of it, hosting a bacchanal on is own grave. I mean there was plenty of feasting, drinking, smoking, rapping, snorting and picking, with most of the musicians sitting in with the local rock group in the night club downstairs. But none of the girls took off any clothes in public and even the craziest of the English contingent kept their manners zipped up. Steve Paul and I had a good time day-dreaming about Miles and Johnny Winter touring together. Otherwise, we were less than the pirates we would have been if Jimi had been there, Jimi, the eternal swashbuckling buccaneer, with his plumed hats and ferocious presence, and I sometimes could even imagine a sword hanging from his wide leather belt. Not that the party was lame; but what was missing was Jimi. The biggest excitement came out of a rumor spread by Press Agent Goldstein to the effect that Paul McCartney was going to show up, due any second. The rumor turned out to be so effectively planted that the next day one of the wire service reporters sent a story out to the world saying that Beatle Paul did indeed attend the funeral.

* * *

Outside the church there was a crowd of 200, including reporters, photographers, and TV crews. A half dozen police cars were parked across the street. A dozen police motorcycles were waiting around the corner. Twenty-four limousines lined the curb...

* * *

In Jimi's absence, Mike Jeffrey played host. For Mike, this consisted mainly of sitting in a booth in the coffee shop so people who recognized his power could come over and pay their respects. Of course, aside from his power there was very little to recognize in Mike. I mean he certainly didn't stand out in a crowd, and, unless he was trying to hustle you, you'd have trouble detecting any personal dynamism from his direction. People who talk about him say geniality did not come easily to Mike except for profit. Me, I found Mike easy enough. His problem was that he suffered from an occupational hazard among music business managers known as eclipse. When you're managing a star, the bigger your star grows, the bigger the shadow he casts over you. The Mike I knew constantly seemed surprised by his success, except when he was safely within his own small circle of hand-picked friends. Mike learned early that when you're a star, nothing you say is wrong. Mike, on the other hand, would rather say nothing than say something wrong. If this made him a cold fish, it also made him a better shark. Being invisible helped Mike become a hit manager. But what he wanted most was to be recognized. At the Hilton coffee shop, everybody took a turn coming over to his booth. The party was for Jimi but it was Mike's party. Still suffering from eclipse, he presided over the festivities without ever getting in the way of them. Even beaming, he dimmed his light with the cloak in which he was most comfortable: anonymity. To turn Jimi's funeral into a circus was to Mike's advantage because he had a legend to maintain for profit. Jimi still had an album or two in the can and maybe a movie. Jimi was dead but he was still product. I never doubted Mike knew what he was doing. For him the party at the Hilton may have been his finest moment. A year or so later he went down in an airliner that fell into the sea off the coast of Spain.

* * *

Alongside the coffin were a dozen floral sprays, including one six-foot white and lavender guitar made up with velvet strings. The family had chosen Dunlap Baptist Church because Jimi's nine-year old stepsister, Janie, was a parishioner there. Janie, in fact, was the only member of Jimi's family who went to church...

* * *

In the morning I took a cab into the center of the city to meet Miles in his suite at the Washington Plaza. Miles always travels First Class. He had sent Vinnie on ahead to the Hendrix house in south Seattle to fix up the family's hair-dos for the funeral. Miles will give you his last buck, too, if he cares for you. We sat and had breakfast and then Miles dawdled as he dressed. He was almost ready by the time the chauffeur got back from taking Vinnie to the Hendrix house. On the ride there, we talked about how Seattle runs at a pace 20 years behind New York; it felt as if we were back in the '50s, maybe even the '40s. It was a comfortable town, but you could see where it could get boring. At Jimi's father's house, a small, gray, one-family home in a mixed residential district, I couldn't keep track of all the members of the family I was introduced to. Jimi's father looked just like Jimi. And Devon was there. Devon, one of the most gorgeous women I had ever seen. Devon was one of Jimi's girl friends. dressed in black with a black veil over her face.

"Are you playing the merry widow already?" Miles asked her.

* * *

James Marshall Hendrix was born in Seattle on November 27, 1942, to James Allen and Lucille Jetter Hendrix. Mrs. Gautier read from the church podium: "His mother preceded him in death...Jimi, as he later became known to all his fans, felt that his hometown did not afford him the outlet to express himself with his musical ability....

* * *

Devon was the closest thing Jimi had to an old lady. He left her a widow's pension in his will. She was one of the most beautiful and sensuous of the groupies and one of the most successful, too. I first met her in the '60s when she was hanging out with I forget which superstar, but whenever a rock hero came to New York, the chances were you'd find Devon in his hotel room. They used to recommend her to one another. Her sex was overwhelming. Somebody once told me she was a teacher and I used to wonder of what. In all the times Devon and I talked to each other, we never really got to know what either one of us was all about. We would just gossip. It got to be amazing how her relationship with Jimi survived. She could never totally belong to anybody, just as Jimi couldn't, but somehow they came to depend on each other. I saw her a few times after Jimi died. She had so spectacular a face and body that she could have charged money just for people to look at her. She was hard not to notice and not to love. I was writing my POP SCENE column for the New York Post in those days and she kept asking me, "When are you going to write a column about me?" And I kept saying to her, "When are you going to do something?" I think it was in March of 1972 that she took an OD and died.

* * *

On the podium Mrs. Gautier read from a poem sent anonymously by a student at Garfield High School, where Jimi had been kicked out for sassing a teacher who had become annoyed because he was holding hands with a white girl. "So long, our Jimi," Mrs. Gautier recited. "You answered the questions we never dared to ask, painted them in colorful circles and threw them at the world...they never touched the ground but soared up to the clouds..."

* * *

After Jimi's funeral, I went to Monterey for the pop festival and then spent some time with Miles in San Francisco, where he was working in a club. I was backstage at Winterland with the Grateful Dead and the Jefferson Airplane when word came that Janis had been discovered dead in her motel room in L.A. I didn't know what it all meant then and I still don't know, but even as I write this there's a moth beating itself to death on the electric bulb of my lamp. And in a little plastic cup on my desk near my typewriter there are two dried out flowers, faded blue, from Jimi Hendrix's graveside. ##

MIRACLE's SECOND CHANCE: New White Buffalo Calf Born in Janesville, Wisconsin...

2006-09-12T20:44:00.000-04:00

This is pretty cool.
Thought I'd share the joyous news!
We are blessed and not forgotten!
Vimala
FYI: GALLERY BLOG LINK TO LAST YEAR's JUNE 2005 BIRTH... LIGHTNING!

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MIRACLES's SECOND CHANCE: New White Buffalo Calf Born in Janesville, Wisconsin

By Stephanie M. Schwartz, Freelance Writer Member, Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) September 10, 2006 Brighton, Colorado Stephanie M. Schwartz

To see pictures, visit http://www.whitebuffalomiracle2.homestead.com

Miracle, the female Sacred White Buffalo Calf, was born on the small familyfarm of Dave, Valerie, and Corey Heider near Janesville, Wisconsin during the morning of August 20, 1994. Not an albino, she wasconsidered to be the first white buffalo calf born since 1933. An incredibly rare event.

See Miracle's Website: http://www.whitebuffalomiracle.homestead.com
Furthermore, she was perceived as an extremely sacred traditional symbol to many American Indian and Canadian First Nations tribes across the continent. The Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Nations (known collectively as the Sioux) were considered Miracle's primary spiritual guardians and she played a pivotal role in the fulfillment of their most revered prophecies.

Tragically, and unexpectedly, Miracle died of natural causes on September 19, 2004.
However, on August 25, 2006, another extraordinary miracle occurred on the Heider family farm. During or shortly after a severe lightning storm, another white buffalo calf, this time a male, was born in the early morning hours to the Heider herd. Like Miracle, he is not an albino.

Named by Valerie Heider, "Miracle's Second Chance" is a lively, captivating, confident calf who seems to be fully aware of its special role. Mrs. Heider says she picked this name because the calf exhibits so many of the same behaviors that the original Miracle did as a calf and also because, "He looks a lot like her, too."

Even further, the herd clearly is aware of the calf's unique similarity. The Heiders relate that the herd treats Miracle's Second Chance exactly like it did Miracle by keeping him in the center of the herd, the most protected position. Additionally, the other mother buffalos step in and keep their own calves from being too rough with him.

Amazingly, Miracle's Second Chance is not from any genetic line connected to the original Miracle. He was born to a Grand Champion buffalo mother purchased in Missouri by the Heiders not long ago to strengthen and diversify their herd. The sire, an unruly and dangerous 10 month old bull, was sent to slaughter before the calf was born. There are two other buffalo on the Heider farm which are currently pregnant by this bull.

The original Miracle turned four colors by the time she was six months old (white, black, yellow, red) before finally settling into a red and brown coloration as an adult. She had begun to lighten again but her death interrupted any further color changes. No one will ever know if she would have gone back to her original white.
Will Miracle's Second Chance turn colors or stay white? No one knows. Only time will tell.

Surprisingly, since Miracle's birth in 1994, a number of white buffalo calves have been born across the country. Some were albino (not considered a true "white buffalo" per the traditional stories) and many of these did not survive. Others were not pure buffalo, reportedly a crossed-mix of buffalo and Charolais cattle or yak or other bovine. There still remain a few legitimate white buffalo calves alive today and now this new calf can be added to that list.

Although not American Indian, the Heider family came to view Miracle as a special gift which belonged to the hearts of all people. Furthermore, the land on which their farm sits has always been considered highly sacred by the region's Native American Nations, a fact respected by the Heider family.

Commercialization of Miracle was never allowed. At large financial and personal cost to themselves, the Heiders opened their Wisconsin farm to thousands of visitors, free of charge, seven days a week so that people could visit Miracle at the pasture fence. To a vast number of people of all races around the world, she came to symbolize hope and renewal for humanity and for harmony between all cultures. And while the number of visitors to the Heider farm had slowed drastically since her death, people still came to pay their respects at Miracle's grave, to honor her life and message.

Now, many will come to the Heider Farm again, to see this new white buffalo calf, Miracle's Second Chance. Even though being male means he doesn't literally fulfill the Lakota prophecies, his sex does not diminish his sacredness to the indigenous Nations. From all cultures, some people will come in reverence and prayer; others will come to do traditional ceremony while still others will come simply out of respectful curiosity. But whatever the motivation, it is quite certain they will come.

Visitors bring logistical difficulties for the Heider family. Since Miracle's death, they have plowed the parking area and turned it into a corn field. Additionally, with the passing of Mrs. Heider's parents and some of their volunteers moving away, no one may be available to open the littlemuseum/farm product shop or to accompany visitors to the pasture. Valerie spends most days at the local farmers' market selling their farm products and buffalo meat while her husband works for the Rock County Highway Department. All in all, this means the farm is no longer open all the time, at least right now.

Furthermore, after dedicating 10 years to Miracle and her visitors, the Heiders had hoped to resume some kind of normalcy to their lives and family. The shock of this birth has brought them understandably mixed emotions ranging from envisioning their lives evaporating again to a solid awe and respect at the incredible miracle and responsibility of it all.

As the difficulties sort themselves out, as they most certainly will with time, little Miracle's Second Chance remains a strong, healthy, obviously happy and rambunctious calf who delights in cavorting around the pasture and trying to play with the older calves. Oblivious to the issues surrounding him, he simply lives in the moment and brings smiles and memories to everyone who sees him. And awe. Miracle's Second Chance.

To see pictures of Miracle's Second Chance on the internet, visit http://www.whitebuffalomiracle2.homestead.com
To visit Miracle's Second Chance in Janesville Wisconsin, call Valerie and David Heider at (608) 752-2224
Stephanie M. Schwartz, Freelance Writer, may be reached at SilvrDrach@gmail.com

The Wisdom of Giving Up...

2006-08-09T12:34:00.000-04:00

Life is absurd, when one truly thinks about it. I'm not sure on this, but maybe this is why people will often get WELL once they have given up and allowed themselves to die. When they realize they are dying and there is no choice and they resign themselves to it/accept it/allow it in, even welcome the inevitable, then the body sometimes spontaneously heals.

Death is the last enemy, they say. It is conquered, perhaps, by no longer being afraid of it. I like this. Maybe death is the symbolic representation of the opposites we experience all the time. Life and death. We are choosing always to live. All of survival is about staying alive. We are obsessed by it.

But what if we consider the alternative to life… or Death… and make friends with it. Admit to ourselves that death is sure to come and may come in an hour or so. Then we are truly free to live. Because rather than surviving and trying to survive, we are able to act in true harmony with ourselves. Our energies are freed up to put into other things. Let death be our companion. Our friend. MY friend. Merge with it and be fearless. Merge with it and be FREE.

AUGUST BLUES

2006-08-01T06:22:00.000-04:00

I wanted to post this yesterday but couldn't get online.
But here it is in honor of August and the blues she brings.
It was written by a New York POST writer who brought the sixties to life for the man on the street.
He is also author of the best-selling memoir of his life with "BOB DYLAN AND THE BEATLES."
His name was Al, and he was my friend...
Vim

ENJOY!

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AUGUST BLUES

by

Al Aronowitz
…who passed away on August 1, 2005
at 6:22 in the morning…
Ya made it Al!!!

* * *

August is the month when wars start. It is when the water dries up and the spirit begins to wither. Insomniacs pull down their shades and lock themselves in their rooms in August. Lifelong friends have fistfights. People feel like they're going to burst. Sometimes they do.

World War I started in August, or just about. The Austro-Hungarian Army began bombarding Belgrade on July 29, 1914, not quite August, but then August sometimes begins early. World War II didn't quite start in August either. A German pocket battleship anchored alongside the harbor fortifications while on a good will call to the Polish port of Gdynia let loose with a broadside at dawn of Sept.1, 1939, but then August sometimes lasts for weeks after you've ripped it off the calendar. It drags on and on like some kind of insanity that can only be snapped away by the first crisp shock of autumn.

The sailing ships used to get becalmed in August. August is when dogs go mad. American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell was assassinated by one of his own subordinates in August. This is the month when the sale of tranquilizers goes up. Corporate executives get their heads chopped off. Groups break up. Organizations fizzle out. August is when you start seeing things. The stars fall in August. You wake to days with the feeling you've already lived through them. People pass out in the street and on airplanes. The moon talks to you. August is the month of visions.

My father died in August. It was years ago. We were all standing around him when he gasped his last breath, emaciated on a bed of cancer. My three sisters and I each kissed him on the face and cried. I do not mean to say that August has cornered the market on tragedy. You can have fun in August; people die all year around. Shall I tell you about the other night in Central Park, the sky lit by a sliver of moon, the weather air-conditioned by the first cool, abortive breath of the fall? August may end early this year.

On the park drive, bikers stood around in knots, talking about good times, holding onto their handlebars like nannies gossiping while little kids tugged at their hands. It was a better place to meet than at some bar. Outside the Schaefer Music Festival at the Wolfman Rink, couples were stretched out on the grass, some on blankets. Others walked hand-in-hand. Bootleggers hawked albums like dealers selling drugs at some pop festival. There were pretzel pushcarts and ices pushcarts and a quiet carnival feeling of the kind of romance you see in pictures of some park in Paris on a gay, colorful night.

Inside the rink, the dusk darkened slowly while Carly Simon sang her hits in her skyscraper voice, as big and strong as her New York City. Backstage, promoter Don Delsener was all dressed up for a Friar's Club meeting. Ron had been hit early by August. The last week in July, one of his security men had been stabbed to death at Ron's Who concert at Forest Hills. A day or so later, one of the backstage crew at Madison Square Garden had fallen to his death while hanging rigging for Ron's Steve Stills show. Ron himself had fallen sick the night of the show, put to bed by an inner ear infection. August is when unexplainable fevers come. Nagging aches and mysterious pains visit your body. August has to be suffered.

The night was gentle. There was no strain. I laughed out loud when David Steinberg told about how God put a fly in Jezebel's head to buzz as a punishment every time she lusted after a man. Jezebel liked the buzzing. The first girl I ever made it with was born in August. We used to break up just in time for her birthday every year. August is when the ocean dizzies you. August is when you find yourself drowning in your own head.

I went broke and lost my house in August some five years ago. It was almost August when Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the University of Texas tower and shot down forty-nine people, killing seventeen, sniping at random through the ramparts. August is when Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii. The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August. August is when Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Women turn into witches in August. I remember once I refused to buy a flower from an old lady selling them in the Nite Owl on Third Street. I was managing a group called The Myddle Class then, and they were on stage. The old lady gave me dirty look and our sound system immediately went dead.

I suppose it has to do with the sun and the heat and the planets and the stars. Brian Epstein died in August. So did Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, although their August stretched through an Indian summer. It's no accident the Jewish new year begins then. August sometimes lasts until the sound of the ram's horn. People move in September. School starts. Somehow the pulse revives. People begin to think about lighting the fires for winter. Finally, August lets go like the leaves from the trees.
And the weirdness ends.

END

-AL ARONOWITZ*

Krishnamurti on WAR:

2006-07-16T23:11:00.000-04:00

War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday life, is it not? War is merely an outward expression of our inward state, an enlargement of our daily action. It is more spectacular, more bloody, more destructive, but it is the collective result of our individual activities. Therefore, you and I are responsible for war and what can we do to stop it?

Obviously the ever-impending war cannot be stopped by you and me, because it is already in movement; it is already taking place, though at present chiefly on the psychological level. As it is already in movement, it cannot be stopped - the issues are too many, too great, and are already committed.

But you and I, seeing that the house is on fire, can understand the causes of that fire, can go away from it and build in a new place with different materials that are not combustible, that will not produce other wars. That is all that we can do. You and I can see what creates wars, and if we are interested in stopping wars, then we can begin to transform ourselves, who are the causes of war.

An American lady came to see me a couple of years ago, during the war. She said she had lost her son in Italy and that she had another son aged sixteen whom she wanted to save; so we talked the thing over. I suggested to her that to save her son she had to cease to be an American; she had to cease to be greedy, cease piling up wealth, seeking power, domination, and be morally simple - not merely simple in clothes, in outward things, but simple in her thoughts and feelings, in her relationships.

She said, "That is too much. You are asking far too much. I cannot do it, because circumstances are too powerful for me to alter". Therefore she was responsible for the destruction of her son.

Circumstances can be controlled by us, because we have created the circumstances. Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes; merely to rely on legislation, on compulsion, for the transformation of outward society, while remaining inwardly corrupt, while continuing inwardly to seek power, position, domination, is to destroy the outward, however carefully and scientifically built.

That which is inward is always overcoming the outward. What causes war - religious, political or economic? Obviously belief, either in nationalism, in an ideology, or in a particular dogma. If we had no belief but goodwill, love and consideration between us, then there would be no wars.

But we are fed on beliefs, ideas and dogmas and therefore we breed discontent. The present crisis is of an exceptional nature and we as human beings must either pursue the path of constant conflict and continuous wars, which are the result of our everyday action, or else see the causes of war and turn our back upon them.

Obviously what causes war is the desire for power, position, prestige, money; also the disease called nationalism, the worship of a flag; and the disease of organized religion, the worship of a dogma. All these are the causes of war; if you as an individual belong to any of the organized religions, if you are greedy for power, if you are envious, you are bound to produce a society which will result in destruction.

So again it depends upon you and not on the leaders - not on so-called statesmen and all the rest of them. It depends upon you and me but we do not seem to realize that. If once we really felt the responsibility of our own actions, how quickly we could bring to an end all these wars, this appalling misery!

But you see, we are indifferent. We have three meals a day, we have our jobs, we have our bank accounts, big or little, and we say, "For God's sake, don't disturb us, leave us alone". The higher up we are, the more we want security, permanency, tranquillity, the more we want to be left alone, to maintain things fixed as they are; but they cannot be maintained as they are, because there is nothing to maintain. Everything is disintegrating. We do not want to face these things, we do not want to face the fact that you and I are responsible for wars.

You and I may talk about peace, have conferences, sit round a table and discuss, but inwardly, psychologically, we want power, posit1on, we are motivated by greed. We intrigue, we are nationalistic, we are bound by beliefs, by dogmas, for which we are willing to die and destroy each other. Do you think such men, you and I, can have peace in the world?

To have peace, we must be peaceful; to live peacefully means not to create antagonism. Peace is not an ideal. To me, an ideal is merely an escape, an avoidance of what is, a contradiction of what is. An ideal prevents direct action upon what is.

To have peace, we will have to love, we will have to begin not to live an ideal life but to see things as they are and act upon them, transform them. As long as each one of us is seeking psychological security, the physiological security we need - food, clothing and shelter - is destroyed. We are seeking psychological security, which does not exist; and we seek it, if we can, through power, through position, through titles, names - all of which is destroying physical security. This is an obvious fact, if you look at it.

To bring about peace in the world, to stop all wars, there must be a revolution in the individual, in you and me. Economic revolution without this inward revolution is meaningless, for hunger is the result of the maladjustment of economic conditions produced by our psychological states - greed, envy, ill will and possessiveness.

To put an end to sorrow, to hunger, to war, there must be a psychological revolution and few of us are willing to face that. We will discuss peace, plan legislation, create new leagues, the United Nations and so on and on; but we will not win peace because we will not give up our position, our authority, our money, our properties, our stupid lives.

To rely on others is utterly futile; others cannot bring us peace. No leader is going to give us peace, no government, no army, no country. What will bring peace is inward transformation which will lead to outward action. Inward transformation is not isolation, is not a withdrawal from outward action. On the contrary, there can be right action only when there is right thinking and there is no right thinking when there is no self-knowledge. Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.

To put an end to outward war, you must begin to put an end to war in yourself. Some of you will nod your heads and say, "I agree", and go outside and do exactly the same as you have been doing for the last ten or twenty years. Your agreement is merely verbal and has no significance, for the world's miseries and wars are not going to be stopped by your casual assent.

They will be stopped only when you realize the danger, when you realize your responsibility, when you do not leave it to somebody else. If you realize the suffering, if you see the urgency of immediate action and do not postpone, then you will transform yourself; peace will come only when you yourself are peaceful, when you yourself are at peace with your neighbour.

Taken from:
THE FIRST AND LAST FREEDOM
by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Discussing / Debating / Arguing Ourselves to Extinction?

2006-07-07T22:10:00.000-04:00

Something to "think" about [or should I say, something to make all the gardening go easier!]...
Happy Summer!
Vim

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"There is too much discussion in modern society.
Discussion is not solving our problems – discussion itself has become a problem – a gigantic problem.

A society that does mental work will discuss itself to destruction [extinction]

A society that does mental work will argue itself to destruction [extinction]

A society that does mental work will debate itself to destruction [extinction]

A society that does mental work can never stop discussions / debates / arguments – it is impossible.
It will discuss / debate / argue till the last moment of it’s existence.

Discussions / Debates / Arguments – these are creations of a society that has switched-over from physical work to mental work.

Discussions / Debates / Arguments – these are diseases of a society that has switched-over from physical work to mental work.

Discussions / debates / arguments can end only in agriculture-based societies that do physical work.

We cannot do physical-work and mental-work simultaneously.

There is an inverse relationship between physical-work and mental-work.
If one is high [more] the other has got to be low [less]

If we want to do physical work we have to reduce mental activity by the same proportion.
If we want to do mental work we have to reduce physical activity by the same proportion.

There is very little discussion / debate / argument in societies that do physical work - ie, agriculture-based societies - And this is the reason why they are millions of times saner than industrial societies."

SOURCE CLICK HERE

Things are not always what they seem...

2006-06-17T15:33:00.000-04:00

SOURCE

Photos by Pekka Parviainen

FYI: Leonard Peltier Freedom Walkway

2006-06-12T13:11:00.000-04:00

Also check out:
Leonard Peltier's Website
and
CD: My Life Is My Sundance

"If you've come here to help me, you're wasting your time.
But if you've come because your liberation is bound up with mine,

then let us work together."

--Australian Aboriginal Elder Lilla Watson

Harvey Arden

Life in the Holodeck...

2006-05-17T21:10:00.000-04:00

I have observed that things only have meaning when I give them meaning. There is no inherent meaning in anything. There is no task. No duty. No goal. Everything just is. I play with it however I choose to play. I can play victim… or victimizer… or victim-free. Saved... lost... or salvation-free. It is a pathless land. No authorities except those I choose to create. No walls. No bars. No chains. Just movement. Freedom.

The dark things like murder exist because the awareness of that freedom is dimmed. People fight to get out of holes they think they are in but are not. Nothing is around us except what we focus on or choose to see. We can play our lives however we choose to. We can make ourselves miserable. We can surround ourselves with disappointments… with pain… with sufferings. We might even find a way to soar.

When we get overwhelmed it pays to step back and observe the whole circus that lies before us and within us. All the constructs and mental gymnastics we go through to manipulate the outcomes. All the situations we drawn to ourselves. All the patterns and cycles we run through and refuse to SEE, let alone release. We are master puppeteers. All of us. Our refusal to look and see this about ourselves is perhaps the greatest trick of all.

Make a list of all the little tricks we play. You will notice the absurdity of much of it, but stay free of judgment. This is life in the Holodeck. Nothing is real. Not even the games we play. It CAN be quite entertaining once the real reality sets in. It can free up a lot of our overly-serious energy and make life a whole lot easier… Thank-you, Gipetto.

The Word of the Hour...

2006-05-09T23:22:00.000-04:00

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May Day Gamma Ray Burst: Message from Cygnus...

2006-05-01T04:44:00.000-04:00

SWIFT detected a Gamma Ray Burst this morning at 4:44a.m.EST.
Here is the link for the basic information:
Today's Gamma Ray Burst

The points of origin of these bursts always fascinates me, especially the mythic origins. Nothing happens randomly. We have many ways of getting our own attention. So I stop to ponder and here's what I see.

GRB060501A originated within the constellation Cygnus. Cygnus is the Swan. It is also referred to as the Northern Cross. Basic info on Cygnus is at this link among others:
Cygnus

The most fascinating connection I'm making regards lyrics of two songs/epics by the band Rush.

Here's a summary:

In the constellation of Cygnus lies a mysterious black hole that is simply titled "Cygnus X-1". An explorer aboard the ship "Rocinante" is curious about the black hole as it draws him in ("The x-ray is her siren song..."). Eventually, the pull of gravity is too great, and the explorer is sucked into a mysterious land.The traveler finds himself in a world caught up in the struggle between Heart and Mind. The logical thinkers are led by Apollo and the emotional people are ruled by Dionysus. Apollo has his people build cities and explore the depths of science and knowledge, but Dionysus lures many of them into the "forests" and provides love, which many felt that Apollo's society was missing.

Civil war breaks out as the two different ways of life clash. This leads up to the point where the Rocinante spins through the black hole of Cygnus X-1 and into this mysterious land. When the explorer (now referred to as a "God") enters the land, he notices the fighting and becomes upset. At this point, the explorer has become invisible with no physical mass at all. Troubled by all the fighting, the "spirit" of the lost hero lets out a silent scream, which is felt by the warriors. This causes the people to cease their struggle and unite together. The explorer is regarded as a hero, and is deemed "Cygnus, the God of Balance" for his arrival that brought the two sides together.

Although the storyline revolves around this science fiction world, it uses Greek mythology to explain the double meaning. Cygnus X-1 is primarily about the discovery of two conflicting ways of life, and two vastly different ways in which the human mind thinks (logic and emotion are separated into separate sides, or hemispheres, of the brain). The balance point (Cygnus) allows the mind to think with some logic and emotion at the same time, allowing people to be analytical, but not unemotional.
SOURCE

Here are the finale lyrics:

"I have memory and awareness,
But I have no shape or form.
As a disembodied spirit,
I am dead and yet unborn.
I have passed into Olympus
As was told in tales of old,
To the city of Immortals,
Marble white and purest gold.

I see the gods in battle rage on high,
Thunderbolts across the sky.
I cannot move, I cannot hide,
I feel a silent scream begin inside.
Then all at once the chaos ceased.
A stillness fell, of sound and peace.
The warriors felt my silent cry
And stayed their struggle, mystified.

Apollo was atonished;
Dionysus thought me mad.
But they heard my story further,
And they wondered, and were sad.
Looking down from Olympus
On a world of doubt and fear,
Its surface splintered
Into sorry Hemispheres.

They sat a while in silence,
Then they turned at last to me.
"We will call you Cygnus,
The god of Balance you shall be."
---RUSH

My conclusions are always morphing, but it seems that the "God of Balance" has sent a message of sorts. May Day is traditionally a day of conflict between established forces and the common man, kings and peasants, clergy and parishoner, newcomers and native populations...Mind and Heart. Today isn't much different. Perhaps the Swan's energy calls us to awake, to reconsider, to seek the balance. Even the time of the burst begs consideration... 4:44am. I don't really know... you will have to decide these things as we all do.

Just wanted to put this out as it came to me...Would also like to hear your thoughts...
Vim

METAPHYSICS OF GRB'S

Forget Being An American... It'll Help...

2006-04-30T15:11:00.000-04:00

"Through nationalism you can never come to human unity, to world unity. By your beliefs, ideals, prejudices, the unity of man is ever being broken up. There must be organized planning for the well being of man, and that can be brought about only when nationalism and class distinction, with their exploitation, no longer exist. If you really felt for the whole of mankind, you would then see the immense necessity for a complete human action, which can come about only when you cease to talk in terms of nationalities, of classes, of religions."
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

LEONARD PELTIER: LET HIS SPIRIT FLY FREE...

2006-04-28T20:08:00.000-04:00

THE GRAND FORKS HERALD reports that Leonard Peltier has lost yet another appeal in his murder case of two Federal agents at Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975...

No surprises here. Would you set someone up and then let them off the hook? I know... all stories have many sides. Maybe he DID do it, but probably not... Do the facts matter? Somehow, I hope there is a parallel universe where people like Leonard Peltier are free and offering the gifts of wisdom their situations have given them. In that parallel universe, every sneaky history re-write from Pearl Harbor to Waco to 911 is out and obvious to all... and with the awareness of those stories, some sort of bizarre grace sets in, so that revenge never crosses anyone's mind. In that universe, folks UNDERSTAND TheDesperate and why they do what they do... they understand AND they say "enough". It is a place of the WideAwake... and everything's OK. Hey I can dream can't I...???
Vim

---QUOTE---

BISMARCK, N.D. - The government had the right to prosecute American Indian activist Leonard Peltier for crimes that occurred on a South Dakota reservation, a federal appeals court has ruled.

Peltier is serving two consecutive life sentences for the deaths of two FBI agents during a 1975 standoff near Oglala, S.D., on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He has filed numerous appeals since he was convicted by a jury in Fargo in 1977.

In the latest appeal, Peltier and his lawyers argued that federal courts have no jurisdiction over Indian land.

The Immigration Psy-Op... FWIW...

2006-04-27T21:11:00.000-04:00

This is in response to the post by mailbag at RMN entitled: EMAIL FROM AMERICAN WHO LIVED & WORKED IN MEXICO-UNBELIEVABLE

Are you suggesting that you approve of this kind of scrutiny and the bribery and the jumping through hoops necessary just to make a living across an artificial "border?" Or is this sour grapes... I have to suffer, let "them" suffer too...

I am wondering if in the long run, all of this is pointless. If indeed this whole immigration "problem" is merely thrown out as a distraction from what is happening in Iran, etc., then every ounce of breath we give it contributes to "their" successful distraction attempts...

How much of what we THINK is important, actually IS important? How many of the thoughts we think are OUR thoughts, OUR concerns? Why didn't we fuss over immigration a year ago??? When did we get so hooked on it? How many of us are all of a sudden screaming "spic" at the TV news broadcasts... I know some are, for I have heard it...

This is all very sad...

Our "loyalties" may be our greatest addiction and the biggest hindrance to the solutions we claim to seek...

Perhaps we ARE our own worst enemies...

Some things I think I think,
Vim

Some Thoughts on the Immigration Thing...

2006-04-27T13:28:00.000-04:00

This is in response to the post by mailbag at RMN entitled: EMAIL FROM AMERICAN WHO LIVED & WORKED IN MEXICO-UNBELIEVABLE
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Are you suggesting that you approve of this kind of scrutiny and the bribery and the jumping through hoops necessary just to make a living across an artificial "border?" Or is this sour grapes... I have to suffer, let "them" suffer too...

I am wondering if in the long run, all of this is pointless. If indeed this whole immigration "problem" is merely thrown out as a distraction from what is happening in Iran, etc., then every ounce of breath we give it contributes to "their" successful distraction attempts...

How much of what we THINK is important, actually IS important? How many of the thoughts we think are OUR thoughts, OUR concerns? Why didn't we fuss over immigration a year ago??? When did we get so hooked on it? How many of us are all of a sudden screaming "spic" at the TV news broadcasts... I know some are, for I have heard it...

This is all very sad...

Our "loyalties" may be our greatest addiction and the biggest hindrance to the solutions we claim to seek...

Perhaps we ARE our own worst enemies...

Some things I think I think,
Vim

Ode to a TV News Anchor...

2006-04-18T14:22:00.000-04:00

I'll apologize for this before I even get started. I wrote this awhile back after watching David Johnson anchor the evening news on a Pittsburgh TV station. It made me wonder how a person ends up reporting news. It also made me realize that all news IS bad news. Doesn't he get tired of all the blood and gore and the dark side of humanity? The underbelly of the city? Are news anchors born with a rush that must be maintained?

This is partly auto-biographical too, because my earliest memory ofthe 11 o'clock news show was on Friday nights that I stayed overnight with my grandmother. She's the one who gave me Johnny Carson, too. Three cheers for comic relief. I don't watch news shows anymore. There's enough fear and adrenaline for the predators without my contribution. Anyways, this is what it is. Take what you will from it... And remember... Good news DOES happen, even if ya have to look for it...

Vim

ODE TO A TV NEWS ANCHOR
Johnny was a baby
Not so long ago
Babblin’ and smilin’
Grabbin’ at his toes
In total isolation
Wallowing in bliss
Never realizing
The news he daily missed
No one thought to tell him who was
Killed and arrested
Killed and arrested
There ain't any good news anymore

Johnny’s world got bigger
At Grandma’s Friday nights
News show at 11
Faces big as life
His little heart a pounding
As sirens pierced the night
And Grandma’s snowy TV screen
Brought the world to life
Listen
And they’ll tell you who was
Killed and arrested
Killed and arrested
There ain’t any good news anymore

Now he’s off to college
Pencil on his ear
Tablet in his pocket
He’s got a new career
Suzie won the contest
Panthers won the game
None of that for Johnny
Borders on insane
Listen
And he’ll tell you who was
Killed and arrested
Killed and arrested
There ain’t any good news anymore

Now he’s hit the big time
Wears a suit and tie
Sitting oh so pretty makes me wanna cry
Shuffling his papers
Ever in the know
Cuz Johnny’s now the Anchor
On his own TV news show
Listen
And he’ll tell you who was
Killed and arrested
Killed and arrested
There ain’t any good news anymore

Our Two Most Important Investments...

2006-04-10T23:11:00.000-04:00

I cannot remember who wrote this or said this. It has been many, many years since I heard it. But when asked what the most important investments are that a person can make in light of the coming changes and economic instability, the answer that was given was this:

The two most important investments a person can make are:

1.) KNOWLEDGE

2.) TOOLS

Learn how to DO things. And buy the tools you need to do them. Not everyone can buy silver. Not everyone has cash on hand for gold. But when plumbing goes bad, the man or woman who can fix a leak will be the millionaire. We will be bartering for services some day... probably sooner than later. But if we KNOW things, like how to grow medicine, bake bread from scratch or how to fix a car engine, then we will have something valuable to trade.

It isn't only about precious metals, although by all means, go that route if you can... But it is also about learning a new way of functioning in smaller networks. Make a list of everything you know how to do. Make a list of the tools you have to do it with. Buy what you need while you can. And then be willing and ready to offer what you have to the people around you.

And above all, don't panic. All the elements are present. They will rearrange a bit and then proceed. We are all important cogs in the new wheel... remember that!

Yours,
Vim

Read It Here! Gospel of Judas...

2006-04-07T14:22:00.000-04:00

I grew up in a religious tradition that insisted the Bible to be totally inspired and complete. I often doubted it. And asked of those supposedly 'in the know,' "but what if more scriptures are discovered, and they say something different?" I was assured it would never happen... all that being said with the Nag Hammadi lying around being translated/published as we spoke. And now the Gospel of Judas surfaces. I'm delighted! I'm sure my professor is mortified... Oh well. Bring on the gospels.

For a full treatment of the Gospel of Judas with some great links, check out Michael St.Clair's post over at RumorMillNews... Here's the link...
SPIRITUAL THRILLER: TRUE JUDAS GOSPEL PUBLISHED
To read the text of the gospel, click the link below. Here's how it all begins...
Enjoy... or not.
You choose,
Vim

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THE GOSPEL OF JUDAS

Translated by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst, in collaboration with François Gaudard

From The Gospel of Judas

Edited by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst
Published in book form complete with commentary by The National Geographic Society.

Copyright (c) 2006 by The National Geographic Society.
All rights reserved. No part of this translation may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, without permission in writing from the National Geographic Society.

INTRODUCTION: INCIPIT

The secret account of the revelation that Jesus spoke in conversation with Judas Iscariot during a week three days before he celebrated Passover.

THE EARTHLY MINISTRY OF JESUS

When Jesus appeared on earth, he performed miracles and great wonders for the salvation of humanity. And since some [walked] in the way of righteousness while others walked in their transgressions, the twelve disciples were called.

He began to speak with them about the mysteries beyond the world and what would take place at the end. Often he did not appear to his disciples as himself, but he was found among them as a child.

SCENE 1: Jesus dialogues with his disciples: The prayer of thanksgiving or the eucharist

One day he was with his disciples in Judea, and he found them gathered together and seated in pious observance. When he [approached] his disciples, [34] gathered together and seated and offering a prayer of thanksgiving over the bread, [he] laughed.

The disciples said to [him], “Master, why are you laughing at [our] prayer of thanksgiving? We have done what is right.”

He answered and said to them, “I am not laughing at you. are not doing this because of your own will but because it is through this that your god [will be] praised.”

They said, “Master, you are […] the son of our god.”

Jesus said to them, “How do you know me? Truly [I] say to you, no generation of the people that are among you will know me.”

FULL TEXT: GOSPEL OF JUDAS

Thoughts on "The Enemy"...

2006-04-07T13:27:00.000-04:00

The average Joe Citizen believes Arabs are the enemy…we are fighting for freedom.

The enlightened citizen believes Bush/Cheney are the enemy…we are fighting for oil.

The really enlightened believe the reptilian ETs are the enemy… we are fighting for star gates.

The liberated know that they themselves are the enemy… and are no longer fighting at all.

Some Things I Wanna Know...

2006-04-05T13:23:00.000-04:00

When did God become a Republican?
When did the USA become the Kingdom of God?
When did a person's opinion of Bill Riley become the standard by which a person's love for God is measured?
When did God start hating Arabs?
When did they become "the devil?"
When did it become a just thing, to consider nuking Iraq and enslaving the Arab world.
When did Jesus's followers become so starved for blood?
How gallantly we "wave the banners of God while weilding the weapons of hell."
And WHY?
Why do we NEED to WIN?
Why are we so obsessed with exterior "purity?"
What do we hope to gain by obliterating our "enemies?"
Isn't the real enemy within? ...our own hatreds? ...our own fears? ...our own failures and insecurities?
We can kill off the entire population of the planet and still never come close to the truth of our pathetic selves...
We hold the key to peace in the palm of our hand...

...if we want it...

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God...

COUNTDOWN: Only Ten More Days...

2006-04-05T04:15:00.000-04:00

Only ten more days til one of the surest things in life...at least for the moment. Times change.
Sing it George...

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TAXMAN
by
George Harrison

Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman

Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.

Don't ask me what I want it for (ha ha Mr. Wilson)
If you don't want to pay some more (ha ha Mr. Heath)
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman

Now my advice for those who die
Declare the pennies on your eyes
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
And you're working for no one but me.

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Bits o' this 'n' that about Taxman:

--George Harrison wrote this. The music was inspired by the theme song for the popular 1960s TV series Batman. George loved the show. (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada)

--This is a bitter song about how much money The Beatles were paying in taxes. People with high earnings pay exorbitant taxes in England. Many successful entertainers leave the country so they can keep more of their money. As a result, The Beatles - as well as The Who and The Rolling Stones - spent a lot of time in America and other parts of Europe as "tax exiles."

--Harrison: "Taxman was when I first realized that even though we had started earning money, we were actually giving most of it away in taxes."

--"Mr. Wilson" and "Mr. Heath" are mentioned in the lyrics. They are British Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, who were being scorned in the song for contributing to English tax laws.

THOT: We feed the beast, we can starve it, eh?

TAXMAN

Bob Dylan & A Possible UFO Connection...

2006-04-03T23:11:00.000-04:00

OK...take it or leave it... There are some who read here who know what this article is talking about first-hand, either by experience or observation. Dylan himself says he does not know how some of these tunes/lyrics came to him. This article mentions "The Band" too. I have spent some time with their drummer Levon Helm and he is otherworldly for sure. Read and see what you think... anything's possible:

There have been innumerable attempts to see past the artistic guise of Bob Dylan's lyrics and poetry to what underlies his genius-what the actual creative process is that results in Dylan's lyrical outpouring and what the bedrock of inspiration is that he seems to have drawn on so effortlessly for more than 30 years.

I am here to suggest an explanation that has, to my knowledge, never been previously offered-UFO contact. I base this on a fairly rigorous study of UFO interaction with humans and a listener's fascination with Bob Dylan that I began as a 12-year-old in 1970.

Let me first give some background...

---MORE AT LINK---

BOB DYLAN & UFO CONNECTION

For the Odd and the Thwarted: You May Be "Indigo"

2006-03-30T11:44:00.000-05:00

There is light in this world. If you were born in the 60's - 80's [or slightly before or after], and feel like you've always been the oddball on the planet, you may be what is called "Indigo". Harships you have experienced may be part of a Dark Agenda to keep you de-activated. The website posted below offers a list of characteristics that you may be familiar with... I am posting this here as an exercise in empowerment. To know who and how we are, gives us focus and perhaps will serve to activate us into the best purpose/life we can offer in these changing times.
Vim

---EXCERPT---

These are some of the qualities and challenges that First Wave Indigos experience. Most Indigos can relate to at least 90% of this list:

~ Were born en masse between 1969 and 1987 (With stragglers before and after).

~ Highly intelligent in their "Own Way."

~ Are literally "wired differently" than other people.

~ Many have strong or unusual Psychic and Telekinetic abilities.

~ Have extraordinary levels of compassion.

~ Can relate well to children and or the elderly.

~ Many times get along better with animals and nature than people.

~ Have a bond/connection to the trees, and nature in general.

~ Creative, inventive, and very intuitive.

~ Involve themselves in human/animal rights efforts.

~ Have an innate sense of "oneness" and connectedness to all of creation. Get confused and disturbed when others don't share their reality of "at-one-ment."

~ High capacity for love, and therefore others may feel uncomfortable by their intensity.

~[LIST CONTINUES AT LINK]

~One trademark that a high % of First Wave Indigos have, is living through extreme hardships as children, teenagers, and young adults. Many were born into family situations that were physically, emotionally, spiritually and psychically abusive. These Indigos had to figure out how to balance and keep their inherent integrity levels, while being subjected to painful and life shattering experiences. A large % were inplanted in such horrendous situations as: organized crime, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and even ritual/cult abuse & mind control. It is also common for First Wave Indigos to have some kind of Alien encounters.

[There seems to be a Dark Agenda on this planet to keep Indigos from waking up and taking on the mantle of power they have inside. That is why so many Indigos have been sucked into such harsh and debilitating environments. The dichotomy is, that Indigos innately know that in order to transform the corruption, pollution, and dysfunction on this planet, you have to go inside to the core or mind of the system to know how it operates and thus how to change, alter and bust that system. Indigos came here to bring order and balance back to a planet in chaos…..and headed for distraction. I believe that Indigos are the 5th element that has come as part of "The Cosmic Clean-up Crew" to rid the planet of corrupted consciousness and physical/energetic diseases that are imprisoning, destroying and mutating all life forms here! ]

---MORE AT LINK---

FIRST WAVE INDIGOS

Normal

2006-03-27T22:40:00.000-05:00

how

can I write
about that
with which I have
no experience
elusive
fluctuating
I grasp
and you disappear
how I stare

with longing
at that box
into which
I will
never
fit

Death's Gate...

2006-03-27T22:35:00.000-05:00

No wonder I am fascinated by Death
It is the portal, the vortex, the stargate
The nearer I am to it
The closer I am to me
I came from there
Will I see anyone from home?
Just one glimpse of the soup from which I sprang?
Death – gate – bridge
Death angel – knows
Knows me
Knows mine
Brings me sights and sounds of home
May I pass through?
Must I still wait?
How can anyone be afraid of you?

The War We Can Do Something About, But Will We?

2006-03-22T17:05:00.000-05:00

Something to consider:

"All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

"As human beings living in this monstrously ugly world, let us ask ourselves, can this society, based on competition, brutality and fear, come to an end? Not as an intellectual conception, not as a hope, but as an actual fact, so that the mind is made fresh, new and innocent and can bring about a different world altogether?

"It can only happen, I think, if each one of us recognizes the central fact that we, as individuals, as human beings, in whatever part of the world we happen to live or whatever culture we happen to belong to, are totally responsible for the whole state of the world.

"We are each one of us responsible for every war because of the aggressiveness of our own lives, because of our nationalism, our selfishness, our gods, our prejudices, our ideals, all of which divide us.

"And only when we realize, not intellectually but actually, as actually as we would recognize that we are hungry or in pain, that you and I are responsible for all this existing chaos, for all the misery throughout the entire world because we have contributed to it in our daily lives and are part of this monstrous society with its wars, divisions, its ugliness, brutality and greed - only then will we act."

--Juddu Krishnamurti, FREEDOM FROM THE KNOWN

Iran and the Upcoming Solar Eclipse... March 29

2006-03-18T00:21:00.000-05:00

I received this email from my friend Sparkfx regarding the energies of the upcoming solar eclipse on March 29. I am posting it for your consideration. Be informed and be NOT afraid. These things must come to pass, but pass they will. As without, so within. We can use these times to observe ourselves and our thoughts and our own inner conflict/s. To see is to be free.
Vim

Iran could get hot this week...a friend of mine is an accomplished astrologer (vedic) I mentioned to him today I thought the upcoming eclipse could involve iran based on some of my own analysis and this is what he just sent back...

"Regarding the upcoming eclipse, it's a nasty one...besides the fact it falls on the day of the Vedic new year (meaning it'll set the tone for the whole year) the nakshatra it falls under is uttara bhadrapada, symbolized by the funeral cot. Of course this portends continued losses of life through war, famine, and natural disasters, and the negative effects of rainfall and agriculture in various parts of the world--and it's one of a set of nakshatras called “the scorching pair,” so I expect to see fire involved, too.

"And this eclipse falls at 14 degrees Pisces, which puts it in an exact conjunction with the Moon of Iran. So this likely brings Iran to centerstage in terms of world politics...could very well be the way you see it!"

From my view I see the Pluto/Galactic Core/Hades aspect but the eclipse could be quite a trigger especially conjoining Iran's moon!!!!! Wow

Take care, Sparkfx

My Kind of Test...

2006-03-15T16:44:00.000-05:00

Somebody play the theme from 'Twilight Zone' for me!

Just killin' time and dabbling in the mystical.

Check out their site...

if you DARE!;-)

Thoughts at a Lunar Eclipse...

2006-03-14T18:48:00.000-05:00

In this confusing world, perhaps the better question to ask is NOT 'what is the answer' or 'what is the solution' but rather, 'WHY do we NEED the answer/solution.' I say this because every once-in-awhile, I stop myself mid-search [take your pick on what it IS that a person could search for], and I look at myself in that searching process and it suddenly begins to look pure-silly!

Here I am, a goddess, a divine energy, royalty. And I'm here in the denser worlds rummaging around and trying things on for size and I get so engrossed [fascinating word] in this place that I momentarily FORGET who and what I am and actually believe myself to be 'lacking' in some thing or bit of information. And then I panic and go on the proverbial rampage, looking for this or that and just hoping something will fill in the gaps of whatever it is I think I've lost. I am momentarily consumed.

But then this little nudge happens and I stop for a moment and I LOOK at myself and the fog clears and I remember! The actual fact of the matter IS: We lack nothing, inCLUDing answers. Our questions are a diversion. Our research is a distraction. Our foray's into the jungle of problems and solutions and questions and information are all great things to keep us from the simplicity of who we really are.

To ask is to never know. To search is to never find. The answer comes in abandoning the search. For to SEARCH is to assume that something is lost. Right? I know it's a bit 'out there' but the whole idea is hitting me with the moon gone dark momentarily and all the energies gone to hiding at the same time. When she re-emerges, we'll see what comes to light with her.

WUOPE: The Lunar Eclipse

Taking Matters Into Our Own Hands...

2006-03-11T11:11:00.000-05:00

To the pseudo-governments of the world in any and all forms in which they appear:

You will never figure yourselves out.
You pull at us and prod and waste our time.
Always front and center.
You hog center stage with all of your wheelings and dealings and manipulations.
Nobody matters but you.
You are the big bad wolf huffing and puffing and blowing our houses down.
You count on us to watch you in horror and adoration.
You You YOU are all that matters.
But you're not.
I hope you don't mind if I walk out.
I got things to do.
All those things you "claim" concern about and power over.
All those things that never get done.
All those things you regulate and control and push us away from.
Well, that's where I'm heading.
That's what I'm gonna do.
Join me or stay outta my way.
We don't really need you.
Never did.
We can do it ourselves.
Always could.
The game is up
We’re taking matters into our own hands.
The private sector abounds.
And when you finally collapse in a heap and hopelessness, I'LL be here, I'LL care, WE'LL be helping YOU without the red tape and magic hoops to jump through.
Just stand back.
We’ll show you how it’s done.
Capiche?

Rant by Vim

Sorrow...

2006-03-05T13:11:00.000-05:00

“Everything is sorrow.” – the Buddha

I have tried my whole bag of tricks
Anything to make it not so
My highest joy and deepest grief
All experienced in this limitation
My joy is limited
By this body
By this life
This confinement
This sentence imposed upon my life
At the beginning of beginnings
And over and over again
Take thy God-ness
And wrap it up tight
Pretty packages
Dreadful packages
Evil and Good and Indifferent packages
And ne’er a ray of light be seen
Shining from within
Sealed off
Veiled over
Roped off am I
All is sorrow
Everything "trouble as the sparks fly upward"
Is the bag empty?
The few remaining tricks are tossed
I get it now
No need to continue
The experiment of limitation…
Designed to reveal limitation
Is a supreme success
NOW WHAT?

A Word Portrait for 6.5 Billion...

2006-02-25T19:16:00.000-05:00

The world's population is said to have surpassed the 6.5 billion mark today at 7:16pm EST [see article here]. Lest we get down on anyone, that's you and me that are part of that number. I heard that the planet has gotten crowded because everyone wants to be here for the big show. The transition. The end of time and life as we know it. Maybe so. If we all manage to hang on, there will be 7 billion of us by 2012. Will we get ourselves figured out by then. That remains to seen.

In honor of this great population milestone, I am posting this thoughtful poetic portrait of mankind, painted by one of my favorite writer-bloggers Gary J. Introne. Take the hand of your nearest fellow earthling and enjoy!

5. THAT SIMULACRUM OF LIVING I WITNESSED ANEW:

And just like that it was dark out and the cold winds were blowing and there was a white hoarfrost on everything and the entire scene was tinted by that white and the lame sun arose slowly like a too-heavy tomb of life encased in its own orb and the orange turned to yellow turned to white itself but a white too weak to prosper and the dead-seeming world lingered well past its prime as the depths of the day met the ice of the nights and soon enough everything was over and the entire length and breadth of creation had died and withered and rats scurried in early daylight seeking something anything new and the few birds left tried living as they’d done but found it hard and the shortness of days met the long lengths of night and the calendar itself - having drifted from joy - seemed staggered and sorry with its very own blight but along the reaches of the sour earth trailed mankind - tired and soiled and weary and done - and their souls as one all sought for the light and their souls as one tried reaching for that which they wanted (but had forgotten to ask for) and betrayed by emotions their tired heels wandered slowly amidst sorrow and danger and cold and deprivation and want - millions and hundreds of millions wandering between whatever seeking consort seeking comfort seeking all that once had made them glad but finding nothing instead but conflict and cant and the tiresome palaver of blemish and rant - FOR THESE ARE all mankind’s days and they are numbered and finished soon and as the death sinks into the earth so too do they themselves - like the shortness of days - wither and die before rebirthing again.

The Thanksgiving Story
blogged by
Gary J. Introne

Billion-Year-Old Carbon...

2006-02-23T15:33:00.000-05:00

There is something Mother Earth does that I didn't notice until today. She catches soldiers when they die. It isn't a bad thing. It's just that she is there. And when his life begins to end and his body sinks down, it is she who gathers him up. As if to say:

"There, now. I will hold you. I will take your blood into my Self and love it well. Lay on me and take your rest. I am not going anywhere. I will stay here 'til they come for you. I will release you only reluctantly, but when the ceremony is finished, I will hold you again in my arms. To them you were a soldier. To them you were enemy and hero. To me, you are flesh of ash and blood of dust, water and carbon, and that is all. That is enough for me. Whatever you have done, whatever has been done to you, it matters not at all. You are my child."

We walk on her day after day, and eat of her fruits. She gives us breath and protection regardless of our ideologies. We don't always notice her. But she - to the very end - notices us...

Vim

And What of the Tyranny Within...

2006-02-23T13:24:00.000-05:00

To be considered -- another timely thought by Krishnamurti...

. . . It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life.

-- J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known, p. 10

MORE WISDOM FROM KRISHNAMURTI

"Paedophile Panic: Alienation and Irrationality"

2006-02-22T13:23:00.000-05:00

I have had this article on file for a couple of years. It points out less considered facets of the child porn issue and calls for a rational approach to dealing with offenders. It is always easier to point the finger, grab a rope, and hang people out to dry than it is to LOOK at what these issues are actually telling us about ourselves and the society we have created. I am posting quotes from this article for your consideration. As always, use your own discernment. There is more at the link provided at the end of the article. All sane and reasonable comments are more than welcome.
Vim

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“…Society’s irrational age-of-consent laws… are not aimed at protecting children from genuine sexual abuse, but rather at strengthening the power of adults, particularly parents, over children - thereby strengthening the flawed and often oppressive institution of the family…

“…The authoritarian, bourgeois agenda that stands behind the promoters - including of course Blair and his cronies - of the present hysteria about alleged child abusers is really directed at expunging remaining elements of youth rebellion from popular culture…

“…The reality is that child abuse, including sexual abuse, is fundamentally a phenomenon of a society where adults exercise untrammelled power over children, most often within the confines of the family, but also in some places that act as a substitute - the scandals of abuse in children’s homes are well known….

"...Indeed, what the internet is doing is bringing a painful social dysfunction out into the open, a dysfunction that has lain until now largely hidden by precisely the semi-mythical figure of the man in the dirty mac.

“…Blanket age-of-consent laws, that do not prevent actual abuse but rather criminalise consensual relationships that defy an authoritarian social norm.

"...No matter how much ruling class reactionaries howl with rage against ‘paedophiles’, this is a problem endemic to an oppressive, alienating society that deforms and stunts the lives, including the sex lives, of large numbers of people.

"...Alienated, stunted and regimented personal lives, along with perhaps previous experience of being abused, lead a certain number of people to seek easy gratification with children over whom they often have too much power.

"...Those who are unfortunate enough to be afflicted with a sexual orientation to children incapable of effective consent are suffering from a dysfunction. And of course that dysfunction has different levels of seriousness. Those whose sexuality leads them to compulsively and actively seek sex with children are no different in principle from any other kind of mentally ill person who is a danger to themselves and others: compulsory treatment in hospitals should be used when necessary.

"...It would be a damn sight more rational to treat people who merely view such material as milder sufferers from a psycho-sexual dysfunction - best treated, while respecting their confidentiality, with a view to rehabilitation - than to destroy their lives with prison, the ‘sex-offenders register’, naming and shaming, etc, in cases where no actual physical crime against another person is alleged.

“…As Rod Liddle courageously wrote in The Guardian, ‘No matter how vile we may consider the sexual predilections of paedophiles, we should not be in the business of putting people in prison for simply looking at things’ (January 14, 2003). Liddle concludes: ‘The law should be above the blind, howling, rage of Rebekah Wade’s moronic vigilantes. But there is the whiff of Salem about it all.’”

There certainly is.
Ian Donovan

Paedophile Panic: Alienation and Irrationality

For Mother Earth

2006-02-20T23:11:00.000-05:00

Mother earth is safe
No one need rescue her
She is perfectly capable of her own release
From the fullness of who she is she moves, acts, sheds
From the integrity of her system, she purges herself
Fever, chills, sleep
Her body functioning perfectly in the circumstances that she finds herself.
Her lovers looking on
I am perfectly safe
I need no one to rescue me
I could save myself should the need arise
From the perfection of who I am I take my steps
I follow her lead
I shed what is no longer needed and cease useless functions
Sever and disconnect
I allow mother her down time
Resting and solitary
I accept my own discomfort
For her, anything
That which was upside down, rights itself
She can do no other
I right myself along with her
We don a new hat, a new role
Together, we become
I whisper my thanks to her and wish us both well

Krishnamurti on The Violence of Obedience...

2006-02-15T13:11:00.000-05:00

I guess the quiet ones are not off the hook. There is something in passivity that may be as deadly as a more aggressive approach to life. I like this piece by Krishnamurti. Actually, I do NOT like it, because it is just one more bright light glaring upon one of my hidden places. Oh well, this is life... to see... to learn... to know oneself well. Read this and see what you think. And if it rings true, let me salute you in your attempts to understand and bring your life back into order. Wish ME luck, too. --Vim

Have you thought about violence? There is physical violence and there is the violence of obedience--are you obeying and therefore being violent? Do you understand what I mean? When I obey you and suppress what I think, that suppression will burst out one day. So there is physical violence and violence brought about through obedience, the violence of competitiveness, of conformity. When I conform to a pattern I am violent--you see the connection?
When I live a life of fragmentation--that is, when I think one thing and say another--that is fragmentation and that also breeds violence. I may be very quiet, gentle, do all the work I am asked to do, but I flare up: which indicates there has been suppression in me. So violence is not just physical violence, it is a very complex question. And if you have not thought about it, when you are faced with violence you will react most unintelligently.

Krishnamurti
Beginnings of Learning
p. 185

A Valentine Treat at the Gallery...

2006-02-14T14:15:00.000-05:00

In honor of Saint Valentine's Day, I have another gift for you at the Gallery. Stop on over and check out the artwork of abstract artist, friend and fellow Gemini, Antonio Puri. May you find love under every rock that your curiosity turns over. It's THERE!!!
Vim

THE ARTWORK OF ANTONIO PURI
VIMALA's GALLERY BLOG

Me and my shadow...

2006-02-01T20:37:00.000-05:00

Evil is only a shadow cast by a very bright light on the very real object that we are. It is verification of our own existence. It is evidence of our dimension and depth. Shaped by our substance. Nothing to be feared. It is proof of our own divinity. There is dark and light everywhere. And where in the physical world of experience has darkness ever taken down light? Even the tombs are only dark until they are re-opened. What star has burned out to the point that there is no more starlight? Who ever really dies?

photo by Gary J. Introne

FOX News in my Soul...

2006-01-31T13:22:00.000-05:00

We are surrounded by disinformation. Everything is re-written and presented in a way so as to control our responses. The great psychological operation continues. Everyone huffing and puffing about things that don’t really matter while things that DO matter roll along unhindered. Not that knowing the truth would matter much at all. The masters of deception must be having a field day.

‘Lies’ without reflect ‘lies’ within and that’s what bothers me. What lies? What are we buying that the ego wants us to believe but is not true? What response is it after in us? Are we giving the responses it wants? Are we falling for lies? Have I fallen for lies? Manipulation? Am I presently in a state of manipulated-ness? What is the truth? I am not sure of myself or anything about me. I am not sure I’m in the right place or right frame of mind. What if we are all satisfied FOX news watchers as far as our very Lives are concerned? That we’ve bought the psychological party line…hook, line, and sinker. And we are most miserably deceived. What do we perceive as OK when it’s really not?

Decay: The Common Destiny

2006-01-25T20:08:00.000-05:00

The Indian spiritual teacher who gave me my name Vimala was visiting the Nazca lines in Southern Peru a few years ago. He told the group with him that this had once been a thriving place but that the civilization had collapsed due to it disregard for animal life in the area.

"Today we have the same problem. Instead of animals we are killing people. Today the compassion levels have greatly decreased". When asked if there was a way to solve the present condition, Appaji replied, "No. It is His will," and pointed to the sky. "It is a cycle of creation and devastation. New creation will come and God will give us another chance again."

Similar words were given by Chief Seattle in 1853. The changes are here. They are part of life. We can witness and praise the process.
Vim

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“But why should I mourn at the untimely fate of my people?

Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea.

It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

Your time of decay may be distant, but it surely will come.

For even the white man, whose God talked with him as friend with friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny.

We may be brothers after all.

We shall see.”

– Chief Seattle, in December 1853

INSIGHT ON THE TIMES

"Year of the Dog" May Bite Mankind... Remedy

2006-01-25T15:33:00.000-05:00

My recommendation is to take all dogs to obedience school, treat them well, keep them clean and well-fed, let them sleep with you ['cause that's what dogs like] and in the end they will treat you well and you will breeze through the year with little problem. Above all, FEAR NOT.
Happy New Year,
Vim
VIMALA's RANTS BLOG

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"YEAR OF THE DOG" MAY BITE MANKIND
Jan. 24, 2006. 10:04 PM

HONG KONG
(AP) — The Year of the Dog is named after man's best friend, so it should be a better year for humanity, with fewer earthquakes, wars and other nastiness, right?

Probably not, said Chinese fortune tellers who are predicting the new Lunar Year, which begins Jan. 29, will bring more epidemics, terrorist attacks and a worsening of North Korea's nuclear crisis.

"In general, it doesn't look good. It will be just as bad" as last year, said Hong Kong soothsayer Alion Yeo.

The Lunar New Year is the biggest festival for Chinese — about one-fifth of the world's population. As they shop for new clothes and the freshest foods from the market in preparation for the festivities, many Chinese also snap up fortune tellers' guides to see what the Year of the Dog has in store for them.

"The Year of the Dog is a year of strong fire," Yeo said.

"That represents hill fires, for example, and military conflicts."

Japan and the Koreas, in particular, could be the source of military clashes and could see an aggravation of the nuclear crisis involving North Korea.

Famous dogs include pop stars Jennifer Lopez and Madonna, Hollywood director Steven Spielberg, tycoon Donald Trump, former U.S. president Bill Clinton and current President George W. Bush, along with his father.

---SEE LINK FOR THE WHOLE STORY---

It's OK to be Wrong...

2006-01-23T17:55:00.000-05:00

I am in the interesting position of being able to observe folks who are still hanging on to the party line and "official version" of life on planet earth. And in observing, it seems that the thing that stands in the way of there being any shift off of that view is this fear of being wrong.

It isn't easy to admit that. I guess it is part of the pre-conditioning we all received with the grading system in math class and the heaven-hell scenerio of Sunday school. There is a right and there is a wrong side to everything. A+ is preferred and sought after. Heaven seems "cooler" than hell;-). It's nice when God likes ya.

So people hold to their positions, no matter how off they may be shown to be because for them it has been the right and correct version. So that being said, it appears that in the case of beliefs, being WRONG has the greater valor. To be able to admit a wrong ALLOWS for a rearranging of beliefs or thoughts into something that may actually be better in the long run. To be able to replace beliefs, beloved as they are, with evidential knowledge is even better.

Ya gotta hold these things with an open hand -- not get too settled. As Truth goes, in personification, it seems that Real and Noble Truth will allow itself to be surpassed. Truth will allow itself to be changed. It will not insist. It will flow like the river. It will keep up with you. As our servant rather than our master. I may be a bit off on that, but the fact remains that until we are secure enough and clear enough to allow the possibility of Mistakeness into the realm of possibily, we are gonna remain stuck.

Oh... by the way, the great Riddle of God is that Everybody is Right. You do know that don't you? I know, so why am I saying this here and now? Hey, I can be WRONG, too can't I??? ;-)

Vim

Wearing George Harrison's Jacket...

2006-01-19T21:47:00.000-05:00

I had a dream last night that I was wearing George Harrison's jacket and holding his guitar and was getting ready for a show in which I was to be HIM. Not sure what it means. But I felt like I was up for it. The insane part about it is if ya look at my home page... well, look at it and you'll see what I mean [ click ]. See??? Now what do ya suppose I'm trying to tell myself with THAT one. I mean it for an allegory, but my dream seems to make it real. It's all mixed up like that anyway. What we wear is what we are and how we describe what we wear is really describing who we are. Can they be separated? Aren't they trying to come together? We sort and classify ourselves out of existence. This is this and that is that. But really, it all just IS and we move around in it and it in us. We'd be well-advised to make peace with all of it. It's all us. Nothing gets left behind. The flight will go smoother if we quit fighting...

MLK: "Beyond Vietnam," or Should We Say Iraq?

2006-01-16T13:10:00.000-05:00

"Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition." ---Dr. Martin Luther King

Today we call the opposition, "The Insurgency." When WE were doing this back in the 1700's, we called ourselves Patriots. Go FIGURE! I still think one of the best teaching tools on the planet is TO TRADE PLACES with whoever or whatever we think of as "other/enemy/those people." The question of the hour is, do we even CARE to understand our fellow inhabitants on this mudball called Earth?

To understand more about the 'Vietnam War's' of history, Dr. King's speech is a good place to start.

BEYOND VIETNAM: A TIME TO BREAK SILENCE

Titanic is Sinking... Let It!

2006-01-15T13:11:00.000-05:00

Here's some advice for a changing world... Read this when you find yourself screaming at the television set...

Lots of sh*t IS happening. An OLD system of life is on its way out. It is fighting for survival just like our own egos are fighting to stay on top as we morph into the next phase of our evolution. It is uncomfortable, but it isn't BAD. The ship is going down by some sort of collective agreement. The 'BAD guys' are only speeding the process for us.

So what to do when ya find yerself on a sinking ship? DO SOMETHING? Well, yes, but fighting for control of the ship is NOT one of them. They can HAVE their sinking ship. Best thing would be to find a suitable lifeboat and all things related. Gather up suitable companions for the Drifting Times, and pray for a quick rescue. We can be OK in the midst of all this upheaval. Shift happens. Let it.

Vim

Where to look...

2006-01-13T13:06:00.000-05:00

When we look outside ourselves, everything fragments.
When we look within, everything melds into one.
When we look at both simultaneously, we've got the secret to life.

Would you please stop bee-ing so hard on yourself...

2006-01-12T01:12:00.000-05:00

So if you turn off your life, if your turn off the Internet, the TV, and the radio, if you turn off your past and if you turn off your future, what’s left? That’s where it’s at. That’s where it all comes from. That is the seat of change and staying the same. That is the hub of creation. There is no God. He/she is ‘us.’ Each of us the center… each of us the manifestations. We are the figments of our own imagination. We are the first and the first-fruits.

If you doubt that or judge that or love that and celebrate that, that doubt/judgment/love/celebration is in there, too. It doesn’t matter. It is all the same. All valid. All real. All imaginary. It’s all colors of the rainbow. The bee can sting or it can feed you honey. All are equal choices; all are equal manifestations. None is more real than the others. The sun can burn or the sun can heal. OK? Which will it be? What would you like?

What happens “out there” tell you what’s going on “in here.” Be OK with it. We are good creators. Everything we do is OK. We paint good pictures. We are great creator-artists. We use all the colors. Dark, light, bright, dull, joyful, depressing and everything in-between. And we keep getting better and better at it. Love your paintings. Put them on display. Creators create creatively. Coloring within the lines is not required. Allow and be free.

The Most Important Question You Will Ever Ask...

2006-01-10T13:08:00.000-05:00

* * *

WHY?

* * *

And don't be satisfied until you get the answer!

"Chop Wood, Carry Water..."

2006-01-09T21:01:00.000-05:00

"The Master sees things as they are,

Without trying to control them.

He lets them go their own way,

And resides at the center of the circle.

He/She understands that the Universe

is forever out of control,

And that trying to dominate events

Goes against the current of the Tao.

Be content with what you have;

Rejoice in the way things are.

When you realize there is nothing lacking,

The whole world belongs to you.”

~ Tao Te Ching.

New Hearings for Andrea Yates...

2006-01-07T13:03:00.000-05:00

The story of Andrea Yates is the story of any of us who has been beaten down by life, driven to a point of desperation, and then 'finished off' by the forces that drove us to the edge in the first place. Her conviction may have BEEN 'justice' but 'justice' was not needed in her case.

What was needed was a very good long hard look at MOTHERhood and family and all that we as a society have heaped upon it. Throw in impossible standards, undeserved "praise," glaring judgmental eyes, insensitivity, a willingness to abandon the uncomfortable, and we end up with a soup pot, ready to boil over with similar cases.

Not enough can be said about this case. Thankfully, the tide seems to be turning for Andrea. She is fully pardoned in my book.
Vim

STORY

New Blog: A Ranting Place...

2006-01-06T19:40:00.000-05:00

I have birthed a new blog.
Lots of facets.
Lots of things I think I think.

We wear alot of chains, ya know.

Gotta take 'em off.

First gotta know they're there.

Blog to the rescue.

Not!
Check it out anyway!

"VIMALA'S RANTS" BLOG

2006: What will be???

2006-01-01T11:11:00.000-05:00

These are some of the better pre-views of 2006 that I have run across. Will add more as I find them so check back in here once in a while. All in all, we are more than our stars and any forecast should serve as a springboard for action. If we use our instincts, we can make the best of everything headed our way. Take care and may 2006 be a good one for ya.
Vim

2006: A PLANETARY PRESENTATION IN 12 ESSAYS

by St.Clair

2006: A KARMIC YEAR FOR THE U.S.

by Maya del Mar

2006: THE YEAR OF MANIFESTATION

by Karen Bishop of

What's Up On Planet Earth

THE SHIFTS HIT THE FANTASTIC

2006 HERE WE COME...

by Mark Krueger of

In2Light

scroll down to the fourth paragraph

for the yearly forecast

WELCOME to the QUANTUM SURF of 2006!

by Solara

The FUTURE: And the Beat Goes On...

2006-01-01T01:11:00.000-05:00

Have been re-reading predictions made for years past and am not too amazed to find that many did not come true as predicted, while predictions that general trends would continue DID. It is tricky business to predict the future. Even wise astrologers remind us that "we are more than our stars." We have choice and good sense to guide us through the times. That being said, I will jump into the predictive fray here with my take on the coming year:

#1 Birth-Life-Death will go on as before, but SOME of us will quit fighting it.

#2 Love will keep happening, though some of us will find it in new and unusual places.

#3 Likewise, many of us will find happiness in new and unusual places, by giving up on our old definitions.

#4 Some of us will take Nemesis' advice and see more of our life's happenings with gratitude.

#5 As a result our lives will smooth out from within.

#6 Old and useless aspects of our lives will continue to fall away.

#7 We will let some friends go, but we will find new ones that are better suited to who we are becoming.

#8 Some of us will finally travel while others will finally get to stay home.

#9 The grass will continue to grow and we will continue to mow ;-)

#10 Some of the well will get sick, some of the sick will get well.

#11 Angels or a facsimile of such will continue to watch over us.

#12 Renovation of the world will continue and we'll quit fighting THAT too.

#13 Many will upgrade and be happy about it.

#14 Many will downsize and be equally happy about it.

#15 Ideas and thoughts will flourish but many will take less of them in as we continue to learn how to think for ourselves.

#16 Healthy dis-ILLUSION-ment will continue as we rely less and less on what we BELIEVE and rely instead on what we KNOW.

#17 Many will FIND themselves, unless, of course they lose themselves.

#18 We will continue to beat loudly on the doors of our own souls in an effort to wake ourselves up and some of us will succeed.

#19 Some will quit looking for the answers where they AREN'T.

#20 Many will FIND The Answer where it IS.

HARM NONE: Is this possible or advisable?

2005-12-29T19:32:00.000-05:00

"First, do no harm" is part of the Hypocratic Oath. We are advised to do as we will, as long as we don't hurt anyone. Harm none.

But is this possible, probable or advisable.

Even a surgeon, in his effort to repair damaged organs, must first make an incision. This is harm. The body does not distinguish between a surgeon's knife or the knife of an attacker. It is a wound. It is 'harm' to the physical body.

"Do as you will as long as we don't hurt anyone." None of us will do this if we are being threatened, restricted or manipulated in any way by another.

Richard Bach, in his book Illusions, pointed this out. The messianic character conjured up a Dracula-type dude to make his point. The character wanted to drink the student-messiah's blood, in order to LIVE! The student said NO and threatened to deck the vampire if he came any closer... which would, of course, leave the vampire not only decked, but starving.

Ya see...? HARM.

If our desire for self-preservation, self-fulfillment, independence, whatEVER, requires us setting someone ELSE out of the way, then we will do it. Right? I can say this because I have spent alot of my energy TRYING to do no harm, and often to my own detriment. It is the tendency of many to try and please those deemed more powerful... to "take it", lest we hurt somebody.

HOWEVER, if someone steps on your toes and won't get off and you really want them off, you just might have to SHOVE them and SHOVING them might hurt them. The point being, if they are harmed in the process of the shoving, in essence they are harming themselves. I mean, they wouldn't get off your toes, now would they. "Harm none" can trap us if we aren't careful. Who else will be our champion if not we ourselves. Oh well...

Now if I can just figure out how all of this applies to life on planet earth, I'll let you know. In the meantime...

Do what you will... HARM if you HAVE to,

Vim

PS That being said, it is NEVER advisable to SHOOT ONESELF IN THE FOOT!!!

Christmas and Earth Changes... is there a connection?

2005-12-25T00:01:00.000-05:00

The following thread appeared before Christmas at the Earthboppin' EQ site. Seemed like a good one to share. It went something like this... [my thanks to Sandy and Sheila for their contributions to this thread]...

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SANDY: Looks like a Christmas tree all lit up... [referring to the high eq activity indicated on the IRIS seismic monitor on Dec. 23]

VIM: Just wondering... if the outer world reflects our inner world, do you suppose these holiday seasons have become just too 'disturbing' for most of us. Alot of emotion gets packed into these few weeks. Obligation. Family dysfunction. Loneliness. An emphasis on loved ones we've lost over time.

Could it be that the inner traumas people face at holiday time are mirrored out into the earth? And that is why so many earth events happen this time of year. This is metaphysics, I know, but I'm thinking it and thot I'd mention it.
BTW
PS Skip the season if ya want to. Your peace is the peace of the world.

SHEILA: seems that many things come into play this year that are worth processing. First, the juxtaposition between material and spiritual, the former shouts out to buy "things" while the soul yearns for spiritual transformation.

Also, within my own world, there is this great need to help others less fortunate rather than choosing to gratify the material wishes of loved ones who already have too much.

Early this am, I watched a very interesting roundtable discussion on moral, ethical values and how they play out in everyday situations. For instance, do you give a homeless person money that might be used for booze, or withhold that much needed money because you are afraid they won't spend it according to your values. One person said Christ would give unquestioningly. Others said, cure the root problem of homelessness in this country.

I just read that in my small city, on any given night, there are at least 2500 homeless people. Nationwide 2 million people have been homeless at some time during the year. How do I process the glad tidings of the season knowing these facts?

Indeed, alot of emotions surface this season and how Mother Earth processes this energy ..... how I wish any of us knew.

Earth changes have been happening long before this young species called homo sapiens peopled it's surface.

75,000 years ago, Toba volcano exploded with such force, it killed off all but about 12% of our species, along with many other lifeforms. Who knows what factors came into play back then. Who knows now.

Yet, there is this certain feeling now that things are changing quickly, that collectively, the human race needs to find a common ground of peace and goodwill. I strive to find inner serenity not only to cope but to add to this collective conscious awareness. If emotions can affect elements like water, then it must be that our thoughts, feelings and doings, will certainly have consequences in the natural.

All of that said, it might be time to not "skip" the season, but to metamorphose it into a higher purpose, one soul at a time.

If the Yogis are right, that cause and affect create this world of Illusion, Maya, and that each soul finds it's freedom through an individual journey to enlightenment then each step of the journey is the process itself, not just the destination.

Vimala, you brought up so many thoughtful questions, and I did try to post a reply on your board, but does one have to be a blogger to do this? Anyway, am thinking out loud here, trying to fathom what if any, affects we do have on these earthly events. It sort of looks like a cycle of action, reaction to me.

Earth happens, we react, she reacts, we act, etc.

Last night, I asked God if there were any planets out there that are more stable, more amenable to life than Earth....she answered "that's for me to know and you to find out"!

Hmmm, back to the journey, one step, one precious moment at a time.

EARTHBOPPIN' THREAD LINK

Matty: Is Life Really so HARD???

2005-12-23T13:50:00.000-05:00

This post is amazing in that it comes from Ian Xel Lungold's widow Matty [Mayan Majix]. If ever life should seem hard or fearful, it should be for her, and yet she has spoken volumes in these few lines. Enjoy the read and take it to heart... May we be aware of our fears, and banish them with knowledge and gratitude of heart. This IS our time, our hour.
Be fearless,
Be EASY:-)
Vim

The ethics committee is gaining momentum, those who continue to reside within that ‘power’ station are losing ground, when they don’t have ‘fear’ to feed on, they will perish. . . so, when ever you find yourself being frightened, notice it, then you can create newly what you want, rather than what you don’t want. . . This is our time to ‘speak’ straight, LISTEN to yourself as closely as you listen to others. . . what I hear the most is; how HARD it is, “it’s so hard to change” well, yes, if you say so. . . look at that statement, is it hard to change? Is it really? Why would you make it so hard, who’s in there? Who’s speaking?

From the Oxford American Dictionary
HARD:
1: Firm, not yielding to pressure, not easily cut. 2: difficult to do or understand or answer. 3: causing unhappiness, difficult to bear.

Is this the way you perceive yourself? I don’t think so. . .

So, drop that word, drop should, and why, drop ‘it can’t happen’, or 'it won’t happen', drop fear, get yourself a box, or a paper bag, write them down, say a prayer, give thanks for your life, and burn them, gather yourselves together; remember what the Hopi said, banish the word struggle from your attitude and vocabulary… this is our time, our time to gather our family, the fourth night is where the children step out and into the spot light, the bible said, “the children will lead us.”
The lessons are done, now, it’s for us to ‘remember’. . . knowing who you are, knowing, remembering that you are a spiritual being, having this human experience. . . we chose this time, we’ve chosen it because of the New World that we’re creating, you and me. . . remembering that LOVE is our foundation, the straight is so clear, whatever you’ve piled on top of the love, it’s time to peal it all off, polish it up, spit shine.

Make it so you can see your reflection, aah, the beautiful one is here, welcome back. . .

Winter Solstice: Here Comes the Sun...

2005-12-21T18:35:00.000-05:00

Solstice.
Sun standing still.
Turning point.
Optimism returns.
Here comes the sun.

Sing it George...

HERE COMES THE SUN
by
George Harrison

Here comes the sun, do do do do,
Here comes the sun, and I say,
it's all right

Little darling,
it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling,
it feels like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun, do do do do,
Here comes the sun, and I say,
it's all right

Little darling,
the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling,
it seems like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun, do do do do,
Here comes the sun, and I say,
it's all right

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes,
sun, sun, sun, here it comes,

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes,
sun, sun, sun, here it comes,

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes

Little darling,
I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling,
it seems like years since it's been clear

Here comes the sun, do do do do,
Here comes the sun,
and I say
It's all right,

Here comes the sun, do do do do,
Here comes the sun
It's all right, it's all right

copyright Northern Songs

Be...

2005-12-20T15:54:00.000-05:00

Be well
Be strong
Be powerful
For that is what you are.

Be real
See all
Be grateful
For that is WHY you are.

Peace within & without,
Vim

The Christmas that Wasn't...

2005-12-20T15:37:00.000-05:00

I remember reading posts early on this year, that this would be the 'Christmas that wasn't.' Just wondering how that is playing out for everybody. My sister did not decorate this year. After losing her father-in-law, her grandmother-in-law, and her best friend's husband unexpectedly in death, they just don't feel like 'doing the season' this year. I don't blame them.

My dad's friend sells crafts at Christmas time. This year he is barely covering expenses. Money is tight for alot of people. Heating bills and gasoline prices notwithstanding. Benefit cuts here and salary cuts there have to put a damper on things.

I can't imagine that New Orleans will be too cheerful this season. And families of NYC transit workers are probably not too sure about things, either. The season is becoming a regular nuisance.

Dis-Illusion-ment can be a good thing. We go through the motions with alot of life's events. Is it bad to finally get tired of it? Tired of the constant bad news? Tired of the rat race? Tired of cheap stuff and temporary thrills and all of the emotional roller-coastering that goes with it?

So maybe someone somewhere will take the signs he/she is giving him/herself and ask that greatest, most expansive question of all...WHY? And when they ask, maybe the still, small voice that has failed to get their attention until now, will be able to give them the Answer. And then maybe "the Christmas that wasn't" will become a new kind of season that will be, forever and ever, all that they ever imagined if could be.

Peace on Earth,
Peace in YOU...
Vim

Happy Birthday, Uli Jon Roth...

2005-12-18T16:44:00.000-05:00

Legendary Scorpions Guitarist

Who Chose His Dream over Mega-Fame
Creator of the Sky Guitar
Beautiful Music
and
Keeper of the Hendrix/Dannemann Spiritual Legacy...
All the Best to You, Uli!
ULI JON ROTH

On the Cycle of Good-bye...

2005-12-15T09:35:00.000-05:00

"Dont be
dismayed at good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before
you can meet
again.
And meeting
again, after moments or
lifetimes, is certain for
those who are
friends...

"The mark
of your ignorance is the depth
of your belief in injustice
and tragedy.
What the caterpillar
calls the end of the world,
the master calls a
butterfly."

--Messiahs Handbook
from Illusions: The Adventures of a
Reluctant Messiah
by Richard Bach

John Lennon...Dare to IMAGINE...

2005-12-08T23:15:00.000-05:00

John Lennon
October 9, 1940 - December 8, 1980

Dare to Imagine
Even if it Gets You Killed
Real Dreamers Never Die

Imagine

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no country,
It isn't hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.
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Written by: John Lennon
© Bag Productions, Inc.

Zen......Behold......OM

2005-12-05T16:44:00.000-05:00

SOURCE:

The ROCK BALANCING ART of BILL DAN

The Worst Winter in History... AND???

2005-12-04T13:11:00.000-05:00

Hostile weather forces people inside.
Where they have to deal with themselves.
This is what we have been neglecting.
So the weather is here to help.

Have heard from friends here and there
that things in their worlds are not going well.
What was going along ok is now a mess.
Seems like these personal/relationship storms
are producing a similar effect.
As without, so within.

So we go inside ourselves and look out
and look around and look under and in
and on and on.
Do you see what I mean?

This weather is reflecting the present condition
and dare I say, our DESIRE to be stopped in our tracks.

On some level we need to rest and reassess.
The whole social and meteorological thing IS at our command.
So we make the best of our down time.

Everything will be OK.
Just taking the steps, ya know?
Let is snow;-)

Vim

Inspired by the following article
SCHADENFREUD IS NO FUN
It's About To Hit The Fan
by Phil Brennan

Go and Be Happy, OK???

2005-12-04T11:11:00.000-05:00

For a moment the multitude was stricken dumb with astonishment.

And he said unto them, "If a man told God that he wanted most of all to help the suffering world, no matter the price to himself, and God answered and told him what he must do, should the man do as he is told?"

"Of course, Master!" cried the many. "It should be pleasure for him to suffer the tortures of hell itself, should God ask it!"

"No matter what those tortures nor how difficult the task?"

"Honor to be hanged, glory to be nailed to a tree and burned, if so be that God has asked," said they.

"And what would you do," the Master said unto the multitude, "if God spoke directly to your face and said, "I COMMAND THAT YOU BE HAPPY IN THE WORLD, AS LONG AS YOU LIVE!" What would you do then?"

And the Multitude was silent, not a voice, not a sound was heard upon the hillsides, across the valleys where they stood.

And the Master said unto the silence, "In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime. So it is that I have learned this day, and choose to leave you now to walk your own path, as you please."

And he went his way through the crowds and left them, and he returned to the everyday world of men and machines.

In Remembrance... World AIDS Day

2005-12-01T09:11:00.000-05:00

Today is World AIDS Day... again. A time to focus once again on a world tragedy and to remember those who have left us by this most courageous route. I like to think of the souls who left us in that first frightening decade as first-wave angels. Those who were lucky enough to go through it with eyes wide open, were able to face the molecular rearranging that the experience held. Many who lived superficial lives were given the opportunity to access a deeper part of themselves and come through with a very great gift indeed.

My friend George Coleman, who was a co-editor at Putnam for years before he passed on, spoke volumes when he told me, "Religion has take our Spirituality away from us. AIDS has given it back to us again." AIDS has give Spirtuality back to many of us...AIDS patients as well as loved ones looking on.

The whole experience has had the effect of a spiritual boot-camp in which many were trained to look at the world through new eyes. These are lessons that others are just now entering upon. When 9/11 happened, there was a sense in which many affected by AIDS had already "been there, done that." Not the event itself, but the dealing with the situation. The ground work had already been laid for coping with such things. We had been to hell and back and thus were not taken totally off guard to find ourselves at the doorway once more.

For this, I am greatful for the experience of front row, center seat to the AIDS drama. I did not carry AIDS in my physical body, but only in my spiritual body. Billy did the hands on work of surviving. I got to watch. We were in it together in some strange way. When he left the world in 1992, I got to stay here without him, but WITH the fortitude that the experience afforded. I doubt I am the only one. I also doubt that AIDS is the only means to this kind of fortitude... this kind of spiritual preparation that makes it possible to face the many challenges of these changing times.

So this is my salute to all of you...wherever you may find yourselves. First-wave angels and those who benefitted by their lives and deaths. You are not forgotten. Your gifts to us remain. We continue to live our lives with the strength you gave us... the strength we gave OURSELVES because of the dance you chose to dance. We love you and thank you and heed your very compelling challenge to..."Carry on."

SAFELY THROUGH THE FIRE
A Story of Love, Loss, and Rebirth

GALLERY: Happy Birthday, Jimi Hendrix...

2005-11-27T11:11:00.000-05:00

On this day in the year 1942, Jimi Hendrix was born into the world.
A timely visitor to our lonely planet.

He was our gift.
He is with us in spirit and song.
For a tribute to Jimi and his fiancee Artist Monika Dannemann,

CLICK HERE

K Thought: And What of the Tyranny Within...

2005-11-25T05:00:00.000-05:00

To be considered -- another timely thought by Krishnamurti...

. . . It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life.

-- J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known, p. 10

November 22, 1963...

2005-11-22T18:01:00.000-05:00

Ask why...

Then carry on anyway.

Camelot IS...

R.I.P. - JFK

Take a Walk...

2005-11-15T15:33:00.000-05:00

Take a walk.
Take everyone with you.
Your hopes... realized and dashed.
Your dreams... realistic and non...
Your emotions... violent, peaceful, and in between.
Judge none of them.
They are merely facets of who you are.
And you are GREAT.
Remember that.
Take you and your menagerie out into the air...
Breathe it in.
Let Mother Earth hug the lot.
Let her heal the wounds.
Let her give you strength for the tasks at hand.
Let all your passengers feel her love.
They will settle down.
They want to be loved too.
A good long walk will help.
You will be OK.
Vim

Tomorrow...

2005-11-09T23:11:00.000-05:00

'I am the Lizard King
I can do anything
I can make the earth stop in its tracks
I made the blue cars go away

For seven years I dwelt
In the loose palace of exile
Playing strange games
With the girls of the island

Now I have come again
To the land of the fair, and the strong, and the wise

Brothers and sisters of the pale forest
O Children of Night
Who among you will run with the hunt?

Now Night arrives with her purple legion
Retire now to your tents and to your dreams
Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth
I want to be ready'

An excerpt from Jim Morrison's
THE CELEBRATION OF THE LIZARD

Upside Down Trees With Something to Say...

2005-11-09T08:21:00.000-05:00

Well, a new trend in Christmas decor is upon us. And truthfully, I think they're ON to something. Upside-down Christmas trees are now available through Target online and ChristmasForMe.com among others. Nobody really knows why. But the symbology of it AND the timing are quite intriguing. For generations the triangular trees have reached to the skies, pointing to the heavens in celebration of an incarnation. Almost in anticipation... as if to say, 'when ya gonna GET here.' Or could we say, pointing up there, way off somewhere to something desired but apparently unreachable.

Now with this trend I can't help but see that we've gotten our answer. Whatever us UP THERE is finally reaching back, pointing downward as if to say 'I'm on my way.' And what do we get when these two triangular ideas merge...The White Eagle lodge describes this merging of triangles like this:

The six-pointed star is actually a very old symbol, and it's not linked to any particular religion in history. Different people have described it in different ways, but one of them is to think of it as composed of two triangles. One points upward, and symbolises all our hopes and aspirations. The other points downward, and symbolises the light that comes to us, like grace. The two completely joined with no divisions, symbolises perfect balance. It means balance between the gifts of life and our gift to life.

How appropriate the symbol for these strange and transformative times...
...as heaven now comes to earth.

A Message from Sydney Has-No-Horses...

2005-11-07T23:11:00.000-05:00

FROM VIMALA's MAILBAG:

Hi Vimala-Hope all is well with you. I am passing this on to you because I thought it was interesting and has an air of authenticity. This is rather fear based stuff which I don't recommend anyone subscribe to but is a good example of the death urge mentality on this planet which is pretty strong.

Maybe that's what we came here to heal...
Sparkfx
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A MESSAGE FROM SIDNEY HAS-NO-HORSES:

[from the transcript of the Regular October Session (October 4, 2005)of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Council Proceedings at Eagle Butte,South Dakota]

"ROBERT WALTERS: Mr. Chairman, thank you and Council, with us isSidney Has-No-Horses. He is a medicine man from Oglala and Mr.Chariman, he has a message that he's going to all the tribes, all thereservations with that came out of a ceremony and I feel it's a goodmessage. I visited Mr. Has-No-Horses and so at this time, I'd like toget the floor for him.

SIDNEY HAS-NO-HORSES: "Mitakuye Oyasin. All my relatives.

"I'd like to get in the middle if I could, I really don't like to use the mic.

"My name is Sidney Has-No-Horses. I'm from the Pine Ridge Reservation. You probably know my father, his name was Dawson Has-No-Horses. He was a yuwipi man, a powerful medicine man. My grandfather's name is Frank Fools Crow. He was also a powerful medicine man.

"Six months ago, we had a ceremony, in this ceremony, two angels came to me and they talked to me and they told us of the devastation that would happen to the islands and the Indian Ocean.

"They told us of the earthquakes that would hit Japan.

"They told us of the earthquakes that will hit South American and they also told us of the Tsunami that wiped out all the people and they told us of the hurricanes that came to Florida, the one that came to New Orleans and the one that went to Texas. There's one more hurricane coming to wipe out another city. Two weeks ago, we has a ceremony, Sitting Bull came in and he talked to me; Crazy Horse, he talked to me; Chief Big Foot talked to me and they asked me to go to the Seven Council Fires and to the Council People and to warn all of these Fires, within six months. There's going to be a tidal wave that's going to wipe out Los Angeles. Within six months, there 's going to be an eruption in the northwest with the volcanoes.

"Two eruptions within six months. They say from the eruptions of theses volcanoes, the ash is coming, the Missouri River will be destroyed. They say the water that we drink from the ground is going to be no longer drinkable. These hardships are coming because God is bringing this. Whether you believe in Christianity, Native American Church or the traditional way, if you read the Bible, we are going into the fourth seal. There's diseases coming that are going to wipeout our children and like this man said here, meth -methaphetamine on our rez is very bad too. If we don't stop that, it's going to destroy the next generation. Many vegetables are going to be born into our tribes. When I'm done here, I am going to Standing Rock [Reservation] and I am going to stand in front of them, their council and tell them the same thing I am telling you now. This winter is going to be very cold for a long time. Ranchers are going to lose their horses and cows because it is not going to warm up. The price of propane is going to skyrocket and sometimes they are not going to be able to deliver the propane to our families. This food issue in the Bible, it says one day there will be no food in the store's shelves. If you look at the hurricane, a lot of the stores, there's no food on the shelves.

"These people lost their homes. They can't drink the water and so I come because of the mighty chiefs that talked to me and because of who I am. They tell me, I need to warn the tribes.

"Today, I came here without announcement, but to see you all gathered like this, I know God is on my side to see you gathered. The Sisseton-Wahpeton tomorrow will be gathered at 10 o'clock and they will hear what I have to hear. The Flandreau people are going to be waiting for me tomorrow evening. I 'm going up to Fort Yates here, I'm going to talk to them even if it's after hours and so I thank you very much for letting me come in and I'm thankful that I got all of you together at the same time. I offer you all a handshake.

"My name is Sidney Has-No-Horses. I'm from Batesland, South Dakota. You might want to write this down. My phone number is (removed). We incorporated ourselves through the State of South Dakota to let you know that we are serious. Within six months, we are going to be living in hell of a world and these chiefs have talked to me, and my cousins. If you ever want a ceremony, you get ahold of us and we will bring you a ceremony to let you believe. But the chiefs tell me, some of you have good hearts. Some of you have good mind. Some of you have spirituality. You are the people that will take heed on the words I bring and there's alot of people that didn't believe us when everything we told them has happened and my President, Cecilia Fire Thunder, I talked to her yesterday and she supports because everything I told her would happen to our tribe has happened.

"The power of God, he knows what he's bringing to us and in three years, as the keepers of Mother Earth, if the Seven Fires do not come together, there's going to be a meteorite that will be coming and it's going to hit off of San Francisco and they told us that the Seven Council Fires, these Seven Fires never has hate and jealousy toward each other. I've been trying to get the medicine men of Oglala to be in unity, but they can't and now God asked me to come and get all the Tribal Councils together and all the tribes together.

"That's a very hard job that he's giving me. I'm very nervous as I stand here in front of you, but I tried to look you all in the eye to let you know that I'm for real and so at this time, there are food for thought, things you can think about in the next six month and this little time you have given me. I thank you. Now I'm going to Standing Rock. I will be going to every reservation.. '

"Maybe the tribal members will get together and at least thetribal presidents will have a ceremony for all you to hear and believein God. "All my relatives. Mitakuye Oyasin."

RETYPED TRANSCRIPT OF THE COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS HELD IN EAGLE BUTTE, SOUTH DAKOTA ON OCTOBER 4, 2005, REGULAR OCTOBER SESSION