Should this work endure...

When my brother died of AIDS on this day in 1992, I didn't realize that his death would bring me Life beyond all my imaginings. I just felt lost. I didn't want him to come back, I wanted to go with him, wherever that was. But it didn't happen. Instead, I stayed here and began to Live. His gift, I guess. And unexpected. So, I salute him today, wherever he is and whatever it is that he's doing. You are the BEST, Billy. I love you...Cle.

This is the Forward to the book I wrote about Billy and me and the whole adventure. It is entitled Safely Through the Fire: A Story of Love, Loss, and Rebirth.:

"Should this work endure into an age when understanding, acceptance and compassion are the rule of the day, I want the reader to know that there was a time in the history of mankind when it was not so. Against the dark social backdrop of fear, superstition, and intolerance, some souls shown as brilliant stars, reminding us that there was indeed a better way. My brother was such a Star. Within these pages, I have offered the reader an opportunity to gaze upon the night sky of the disease called AIDS, and to discover that contrary to public opinion, it is ablaze with the welcoming light of love, peace, and hope."

Read and enjoy! ---Vim

Humane Community Formed at SuperDome

We were led to believe that our human family at the SuperDome [Correction: these events took place at the Convention Center, rather than the SuperDome] devolved into nothing more than animals, looters, and ignorants. But this first hand account from a reluctant participant in the SuperDome drama, paints a picture of humanity, care, and compassion that re-enforces my faith in our fellow man. In dire circumstances, we are capable of great things. We know we are the world. We know we are each other.
Vim

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SURVIVING IN NEW ORLEANS

by Peter Berkowitz

Peter Berkowitz is a staff attorney at a Massachusetts prison. He was traveling in New Orleans with his wife Bruni & son Ernesto when the hurricane hit. They were there because Ernesto was planning to start his freshman year at Loyola of New Orleans. What follows is his letter to his 80-something mother. It was forwarded to the PEACE-LIST at Syracuse University by Carole Resnick on Wednesday, September 14, 2005.

9\5\05

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"Our community on the walkway was interesting. One day a reporter came by and asked me if we had a "mayor" ... we didn't. Everyone worked. Everyone joined in. Everyone did the job that made them most comfortable. And everything functioned. And as people joined us, they automatically joined in the work. There were differences, but everyone worked.

When there was talk about leaving or looking for ways out, it was discussed collectively. There was always a sense of staying together and getting out as a group. There was also nastiness, and racism, and comments about "the people down there" in the Convention Center. We intervened with a lot with people in our group who were blaming all the "people down there" for the violence. We intervened when reporters started to come and were told that "the people down there" were looting and killing. We told them that they were doing just what we were doing -- doing what was necessary to survive in desperate circumstances.

[VIM: after several days of false alarms, the buses finally came to take them out of the city...]

"The National Guard told us we had to vacate the walkway and go down onto the street to await the buses. Of course we refused. We told them we had a community here that was self-sufficient. There was no need for us to be on the street and in the sun for nothing. That here, we were supplying food, medical services, etc to ourselves and to anyone who had a need. By this time, we had about five or six elderly and incapacitated people in our group. They had been left behind by a hospital when they evacuated. They were with a nurse who had been abandoned with them.

We pointed out that our sick could not go down. We had another nurse in our group who was very well spoken, and helped convince the National Guard that we had to stay for reasons of the health of the children and the elderly. So we stuck together and stayed on the walkway. Nobody left until we finally saw the buses, and were assured that everyone would get out. And then we marched out together as a group, with much of the group still intact."

---MORE AT SIGN OF THE TIMES---

In The Midst of Emotional Tsunamis, What Do We Do?

This piece was written by Susan Letourneau and was posted at SpritWind's blog on the 13th of Septemeber. I am reposting it here because I found it to be both timely and helpful. Again, use your own discernment... take what works and leave the rest.---Vimala

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In The Midst of Emotional Tsunamis What Do We Do?
by Susan Letourneau

As North America reels in the chaotic wake of Katrina, those of us accustomed to the comfort of American culture are reminded of the vulnerability we share with every other human on Earth. We are all, literally, in the same boat.

Just as we did when the tsunami struck, we can send money, food and prayers to New Orleans, but what do we do with the overwhelming emotions we feel as we watch the massive scope of this disaster unfold?

What do we do with our shock at the death and suffering we witness? With our grief over children’s loss of parents, and parents' loss of children? Beloved pets stranded and abandoned? Fear of more such storms in the future? Despair over the years of rebuilding ahead? What do we do with these overwhelming emotions, both our own and those of the people directly affected?

An answer to this question may lie in the Buddhist practice of “tonglen”, which is a way of using our bodies to transmute the energy of personal and global suffering through the simple act of breathing in distress and breathing out relief.

The effects of this practice are many. Buddhists believe that through this inch by inch process we can gradually reduce the level of suffering in the world while dramatically diminishing our own. The technique has the effect of penetrating the armor which imprisons the softness of our hearts. The insightful quote: “A man in armor is his armor’s slave”, reflects the dilemma we find ourselves in when we recognize that the defenses we have so carefully built up over a lifetime of unconsciousness are now holding us hostage. To the degree we are defended, we are not available to life. To the degree we are not available to life, we are deadened and numb.

The practice of tonglen can facilitate the reawakening of our childlike softness and along with it – our joy. You may wonder if this is a good thing -don’t we need all those defenses to survive in this world? A Course in Miracles would agree with the Buddhist viewpoint when it says: “My defense lies in my defenselessness.” The background to this point of view is the subject of another article, but suffice here to say that if you understand and subscribe to that viewpoint, tonglen is a way for you to begin to move into the softness of your own heart, while helping those suffering, not only in New Orleans, but everywhere in the world.

If you would like to experiment with this practice, follow these four steps:

1. Begin by intending to be in a state of openness and stillness.

2. Imagine you are breathing in dense heaviness and breathing out lightness. Imagine your whole body is breathing through all of your pores.

3. Identify a painful situation in the life of someone you care for which you would like to change. Begin to imagine breathing it into your own body, and breathing out relief in whatever form might be useful to them. Often this step will bring up feelings of fear or inadequacy in the practitioner. If this happens, breathe in these emotions for the benefit of yourself and all others who may be having similar feelings of fear. Then breathe out confidence or relief or whatever you think might help. Do this until you have a sense of balance between your in breath and out breath.

4. Expand the scope. Imagine you are doing this process for more than one person, more than for a small group - expand it to larger and larger groups. Do this practice at your own pace and as often as feels right to you. In so doing, you will feel your heart open wider and your compassion expand, and from under that compassion will begin to spring joy.

By participating in tonglen, you will give a great gift to yourself, your fellow man, and to the planet.

Susan Letourneau is a spiritual counsellor who since 1986 has been assisting others to access their inner resources.

Calling Capt. Scott Burke: I want to see who you are!

Dear Captain Burke,

You are a true hero!
We needed you badly and you came through for us.
It is beyond me why no one has bothered to interview you,
or take your photograph.
I want to see the man that lifted our spirits and that nose wheel until the very last minute.

Here's my email: vimala_111@yahoo.com
Write me!
I want to say thanks to you.
I want to make sure you know what it meant to a brow-beaten country to watch you land that plane.
We ALL want to thank you.

Perhaps you have been asked and declined the interview.
Perhaps you told them "no pictures."
But you don't need to do it for the media.
Just do it for us.
We are just people who prayed you home safely.
We wished and WILLED you home in one piece.

But YOU...
YOU did the real work.
You brought the magic.
You made the miracle.
And I'd like to see you face to face.
OK???
OK...

With all respect and honor,
Vimala

Don't ya hate it when they let the good ones get away...;-)

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ADDENDUM, Monday, September 26, 2005:
Here he is!
"He's a pretty laid back, nice guy" they say.
Many thanks for the inspiration!
...And here's to a safe landing for everyone!
Vim

Check out article "JetBlue Pilot from Raleigh"

Reader: True Energy or An Alternative Approach

With the world in the apparent condition it is in, it can't hurt to consider alternative ideas. What we've done so far hasn't worked. Major shifts in how we think and approach life are in order if we are going to get out of the proverbial rut.

I received this note today and deemed it worthy to throw into the mix. It is a short article introducing a phenomenon called Solar Healing. I am posting it here as a FWIW. As always, use your own discernment, i.e., take what works and leave the rest. At the very least, I hope this will serve to get some of us 'out of the box', so to speak, and into the realm of new possibilities.

A lot of attention has been devoted of late to energy so I thought I would present something of interest. Since I believe we are in a planetary cycle of transmutation that may or may not revolve around 2012-17 (it could be sooner) and I also believe that there is a way out from all of this (graduation? ascension?) So many souls on the earth waiting for something to happen...also the Big Boy planet Pluto (major transformation/regeneration/death/rebirth) is transiting the Galactic Core (gateway/cosmic chakra center/portal to other planes of consciousness, Source Point)

next part...

What is a true paradigm shift? This is when we are introduced to an idea that changes our way of being that is outside of any prior patterns of existence, that we implement and that affects millions of others too. I believe that the passing of Pluto over the GC will introduce us to the paradigm shift and that the process has begun and that we are on the cusp of the changes now. If we could move out of conflict in the mind and exist in a state of peace within our own selves and get to a point of free energy this would certainly constitute a paradigm shift. Yes individuals have attained these states (Yogananda, Babaji) but the masses have not followed suit so no paradigm shift is in effect.

I believe a part of the puzzle towards the shift is being implemented in a quiet revolution that is sweeping the earth but hasn't reached the larger masses as yet. This next step can be attained through solar gazing. Hira Ratan Manek (HRM) has attained a state of spiritual sovereignty through staring at the sun [VIM: FIND OUTHOW AND WHAT THIS MEANS BEFORE YOU DO IT!] and charging the software of his brain. As a result he has not taken any solid food for ten years.

Just think about millions of people no longer slaughtering animals for food or spraying pesticides that contaminate the land air and water. No more scenes of starvation or fears of famine. No more political or economic manipulation based on food supply. The time that would be freed up because we no longer need to stop for food consumption, food shopping, washing dishes, no need for sewerage systems etc. This is a paradigm shift in the true meaning of the word because it challenges the fundamental assumption that energy needs to be derived from food. Food is a secondary source of sunlight. Food traps the sun's energy, which is what we actually seek.

A mind in conflict is one of the primary drains of the brains energy. Once the brain and body are charged by the sun's photons we also eliminate the need for a medical establishment, drugs, counseling, diseases. We are in a natural state of peace.

This is a paradigm shift the world has never known. The Internet can make it possible and this is why I have contacted you. Thanks for your website, truly a pleasure.

Here is the link ... SOLAR HEALING

Peace,

Sparkfx

My thanks to Sparkfx for this info. ---Vim

New Post at the Gallery...

I have just posted a new, actually a FIRST piece at my Gallery blog. Go on over and check it out. It offers a strange twist on a familiar painting. Hope you enjoy... THE STARRY NIGHT.

VIMALA's GALLERY

Gamma Ray Bursts, Earth Changes, and Our Cosmic Evolution...

I have been debating on posting something I found that may add some light to the phenomenon of Gamma Ray Bursts. [Check them out here.] Have decided to go for it. There is still debate about their cause and source. They are thought to be energies released at the explosion and collapse of distant stars. A theory. Members have been observing their effects at various earth changes boards [e.g. EarthWatchers, SyzygyJOB].

It seems that there is a correlation between the bursts and increased solar activity. Secondarily this increased solar activity seems to affect the frequency and magnitude of earthquakes, plus weather related phenomena. It also has notable human effects. These may be random, but lately it seems the GRBs themselves may to be the culprit. I have read with interest the writings of a man who spoke of such similar light bursts or “light bullets” back in 1935. He predicted a day would come when these could be measured. With the era of the Swift Satellite upon us, I am wondering if GRBs may be what he was referring to. This is all conjecture and a for-what-its-worth idea. But I thought I’d post this for others to at least consider. The upshot is that in observing the GRB phenomenon we may in actuality be in the process of observing ourselves creating something new. It’s just a thought…

Excerpt is taken from Volume 3 of Baird T. Spaulding’s Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, first published in 1935:

Now we can see creation going on all the time, as creation is caused by the radiation of cosmic light vibrations generated in the great Cosmos: and this radiation is the great universal life or light energy that sustains all and is called the Father of radiation or vibration. It is the Father of radiation because its radiation will shatter any other radiation or vibration. In reality it only sets them aside in order that other forms may take their place.

When our body vibrates in tune with Spirit vibrations, we are light vibrations, the greatest of all vibrations, God the Father of all vibrations.

It will soon be proved that these cosmic rays constitute such a terrific bombardment that they are destructive to so-called matter. These rays are from the source of all energy, the Father of all elements, the source from which all elements come. This is not destruction, this is transmutation from so-called matter to spirit form.

It will soon be known that these cosmic rays have such tremendous penetrating power that they penetrate through all mass, shattering as it were, the very heart or nucleus of a so-called atom, transmuting it into atoms of other substance and thereby creating other elements of higher order; and in this way, creation advances into a higher emanation of pure light or life itself.

These radiations, which have such tremendous penetrating power, are readily distinguished from all radiations coming from the earth or sun galaxy and have complete control over all these radiations or vibrations. It will soon be known that these radiations come from a universal source, unseen, and that the earth is continuously subjected to a terrific bombardment of these rays that are so potent they change or transmute atoms of one element into the Infinite particles of another element. It will also be found that when this cosmic ray strikes the nucleus of an atom, it does shatter it. It separates this atom into the minute particles of another substance, causing transmutation from a lower to a higher element. Thus, these radiations do not destroy matter; they transmute it from a lower to a higher element – from the material to spiritual.

This higher element is as man dictates; it is higher as he names and uses it for a higher purpose. When man stands forth in spiritual vibrations, he can fully determine and regulate these rays and their mode of action.

Thus to man, standing in spiritual vibrations, transmutations is going on all the time all about him. Transmutation is but creation in the higher sense. Thus all are created where they stand. Creation never ceases; it is continuous, never ending. [taken from pages 131-132]

There is also this “which came first the chicken or the egg” idea. Some say that the outer disturbances are an outer manifestation of our inner selves. If we are re-arranging ourselves in the inner worlds, it is bound to show up in the outer. Not to worry. This is not disintegration of life, but transmutation. We are remodeling our world. “Out with the old” is part of it. “In with the new (and better and improved)” is guaranteed.

R.I.P. Jimi Hendrix...

...

Jim Hendrix

"Forever In Our Hearts"

November 27, 1942 - September 18, 1970

Rock In Peace

New Orleans: Can We Ever Really "Go Back"

News sources are reporting that the French Quarter will re-open soon. A new beginning. The Great Return. It has come a little sooner than most thought. It has surprised many that it is happening at all. But it is happening. And so we walk back in. We clean the streets. We open the shops. We pour the beer and don the re-strung beads. But can we ever really 'go back.' You see, there is a new dance partner waiting on the floor. And a new type of ale being poured with each shot. Something that wasn't there before. And it is ground into the very molecules that make up The Big Easy. It has a name...

Awareness.

Awareness of what? Awareness of ourselves, our vulnerabilities, our significance, our insignificance. Awareness of our capabilities, our failures, our inequities, ...our connection. Strangers used to pass with our indifference. But now we know one another. Not by name... but by heart. We each know what the other has endured. We know what the other has survived. And that is a knowing that may fade in time, but it will never disappear.

The very ground itself for all of its apparent toxicity, is now sacred. Something of great significance has happened here. Compare it to the great battlefields of the world. Or Hiroshima. Nagasaki. We may even find one day that this was the payback. Pre-planned and manipulated. All the more reason to sit back and re-think the life that we have lived here. All the more reason to face ourselves, to see ourselves as we really are. We have the opportunity. Katrina has put the proverbial sand in our shoes. We may put them back on. But they will never feel as comfortable as they once did.

New Orleans may try to become what it used to be. We may set up shop and attempt to carry on as if nothing is new here ...as if nothing has changed. But can we ever really 'go back'? Maybe. Maybe we can. But I hope we never do.

Turtle crossed my path today...

Mother Earth

We Are All of It...

I cringe at the news lately. I don't want to look. I am appalled by what we are capable of. I am also humbled by our greatness. Such a grand mix. I see what I love about me. I see what I refuse to forgive. Dark cats of the inner night stalking me. Huge shadows. I run. I avoid. I attack. I process. Still, the darkness remains. Exhaustion. I give up. So now I sit upon the earth. The beast crawls silently into my lap. I allow it. It settles in. Curled up and gone to sleep. I stroke it's furry head. She purrs. And a rainbow tear escapes my eye. It is all me. ---Vim

"When there is a division between the observer and the observed there is conflict but when the observer is the observed there is no control, no suppression. The self comes to an end. Duality comes to an end. Conflict comes to an end.

"This is the greatest meditation to come upon this extraordinary thing for the mind to discover for itself the observer is the observed."

---Jiddu Krishnamurti, 2nd Public Dialogue, Brockwood Park, England, 6th Sept. 1973

Shall I Tell You What I Find Beautiful About You?

OK, here's another movie.
There are some great lines in cinema.
This time it's Starman, by John Carpenter.
The film is about our haunting flirtation with a cosmic brother.
We invite him.
He comes.
And takes on the form of a dead housepainter in Wisconsin,
chamingly portrayed by Jeff Bridges.

But "we don't like what we don't understand.
In fact it scares us."
[That's a Beauty and the Beast line from Disney.]
Officials chase him all over the countryside,
while he tries to reach a rendevous point in the desert.
With the help of the housepainters widow and one fearless scientist he makes it.
But not before the ET has observed the human species in
it the most extreme conditions.

And just before he leaves our strange world,
the Starman says:
"Shall I tell you what I find beautiful about you?"
Of course!
We want to know!
That you find ANYthing beautiful in the hell we've put you through...
Chasing you hither and yon.
Drooling over the possibility of dissecting you.
After all.
You are an unusual specimin.
An experiment.
OUR experiment.
Trying and failing to 'get it right.'
What could you possibly find beautiful about US???

"Shall I tell you what I find beautiful about you?
You are at your very best when things are worst."
Our best???
I think of this lately.
Humanity is presently on display in all of its varied colors.
Victims, survivors, saviors, evangels, angels, and demons.
All here.
All colors.
And things are definitely pretty bad.
Probably at their worst in a long time.
But still there is beauty.
Still the varied stars that we are, shine.
We are finding inner resources we didn't know we had.
We are finally seeing things that have long been in front of our faces.
We are contemplating, moving, doing.
We are inwardly and outwardly ... 're-arranged.'

And slighly airborn and off kilter something beautiful shines through.
We are at our best...
I hope he's right.
"Shall I tell you what I find beautiful about you?..."

Will We Ever Arrive?

We have already arrived. Our present experience is just us, in the process of remembering how we got there. We have accomplished what we came to do. Now we are observing how we did it.

I hope we are taking notes.

Katrina: Washing Away the Piscean Age

My thanks to Namaskar for the following piece.

First let me emphasize that our sincerest prayers are with disaster victims-- always and everywhere.

All week I have been brewing on the broad esoteric implications of what is happening. The Illuminati are not the only ones to understand ritual and symbolism. But they use these precisely, with often exruciating results....

Someone (Jasmine?) called Lousiana the "root chakra" of our country. As such it is the center for energy that is focused on fear, survival and supply of basic needs. It is the center that responds to the 3rd chakra's alert for "fight or flight" and is thus activated--or imobilized-- by FEAR. In last week's disaster we saw both "flight" and (remain and) "fight" in individuals' responses.

I cannot escape the enormous symbolism of our nation's root chakra being "baptized"--not by fire, but by water---ocean water--Piscean water.

Most RMN readers know that we are at the end of the Piscean Age. (No one has an exact date, as it involves a long period and overlaps with the next Age: Aquarius.) For those not conversant with astrology, an "earth age" is roughly 2160 years long, or 1/12th of the roughly 26,000 cycle called the "Platonic year" -so named because Plato described it following his studies in Egyptian mystery schools.

Jesus' symbol is the fish and as Lord of the Piscean Age he was/is the "fisher of men". Pisces rules the following aspects of earthly existence: martyrdom (!!) victimhood, chemicals, POISONS, DRUGS, OIL, sea travel, (with exploration and conquest), film, ILLUSION (magic), mysticism, rituals, institutions (schools, prisons, hospitals), the past, and most obviously water and the SEA. Pisces is ruled by the planet Neptune, Greek god of the Sea. The symbol for Pisces is two fish tied together in their middles, but straining to swim in opposite directions, pulling against each other. Duality: good and evil, dark and Light, always somehow balancing. Now do I have your attention? Does all this remind you of what is going on in our world at present?

Astrologers have noted that when one Earth Age phases out it might exacerbate all the negative characteristics of that particular sign.... sort of the last kick of the donkey as it finally leaves the stable. But negatives are always balanced by positives, so watch for the "gifts" that result from the current Gulf disaster. Just as with 9/11 and OKC we see Americans rushing to help with anything they can offer. Our individual and collective heart chakras were blasted open increasingly on each of these occasions, and never quite closed down to pre-disaster stages.That is a DIVINE GIFT! The "return of the Christ" is seen by many to mean awakening of heart energy, compassion and unconditional love. We have seen these qualities poured out worldwide by ordinary people.

As the Aquarian Age gradually takes over, let us look at some of the characteristics of that sign. First off, despite its misleading name, it is NOT a water sign, but an air sign. We are now coming to realize that the "water bearer" is actually pouring endless energy, not water, from his "water" jar. Tesla type endless energy. (Some might say he is ridding us of the "water sign"...) Aquarius also rules: electricity, sound and light frequencies (lasers and new healing tools), electronics, computers, air and space travel (exploration and conquest), sovereignty/self-rule, individual responsibility, group consciousness and cooperation. It is the opposite of a monarchical kingdom, tyranny or fascism. Communal cooperation is a hallmark, but early on got corrupted by the Marxists. Forerunners of the Aquarian Age, the French and American and Russian revolutions were all fought in the name of the "common man" against the excesses of monarchs and tyrants.

Because we still have dwindling Piscean influences fighting for dominance, we are living in "mixed" or chaotic times. The violent clash of the tornado air (Aquarius) with the ocean (Pisces) resulted in a disaster that in my opinion may have marked the actual crossover point of the Ages. (I hope it's the only one, and will not be repeated!) I'm sure Michael St. Clair will have some further input on this idea.

Have we finally washed away the Piscean Age and moved almost fully into the Aquarian Age? I personally feel that's what the "2012" is all about..the final "end of the Piscean world" and the start of our bright new Aquarian world of universal peace!

Let us continue to receive the Divine gift of Christ Consciousness as we willingly open our hearts and hands to our brothers and sisters in need.

Blessings to all beings~~ Namaskar

Article was posted at Rumor Mill News on 9/14/05. Here is the LINK.

Everybody's Gotta Win...

Everybody's GONNA win!!!

Gas Prices: 'Take a Stand' or 'Have a Seat'

Interesting perspective on gas prices by Daniel at The Reconnections. I let it speak for itself:

Ah yes, my friends.........emotions run high at this time. However, we may want to remember to enlist the Oneness Stance on this issue, as well as others. What is this reflection (high gas prices) bringing to ME, ABOUT ME......?

One thing to ponder: My SOUL SELF is MAKING ME PAY DEARLY for using OUTSIDE energy sources rather than my own, innate creative energy. If we frag out (project out) our creative power........and sense of RESOURCE..........(to doctors, lawyers, politicians, power vendors and such), to things OUTSIDE......the COST for doing that will keep getting dearer and dearer, until we create our own "source" for it.

Down the line, we will find that this will apply also to use of the Internet as well. That will be our true invocation to use of our INNER NET.......innate etheric communication. Deep remembering.......psychic internal connection. No muss, no fuss. Just go inside and VOILA!

This happened with sugar, coffee, alcohol, cigarettes, prescription drugs, even soda pop. It starts out cheap, so you learn to DEPEND on it. Once upon a time, gas was 29 cents per gallon, and three guys would check your oil, wash your windows, and fill up the air in the tires. When we forgot about other sources and ways of living, the price begins to soar.

It's not the fault of the people who gouge us. It's our own ALARM CLOCK, awakening us to REMEMBER..............I usually like to avoid using these boards as organization points for rebellion or political action........except that which would send us into our own inner process. However, this seems like a great time and place to explore this idea......

Blessings,
Daniel

We Will Save Ourselves...

Five days in to the events unfolding in New Orleans.
Five days of watching the apparent incompetence of the powers that be.
Five days without water.
Five days without food.
Fives days of watching ourselves fading away at the Superdome.
And that’s it.
Citizen rescuers have gotten off of their couches,
filled their trailers, vans, anything they can find with food and water.
Down the road they go.
If it’s going to get done we will do it.
A breakthrough.

We learned to defer early in our lives.
Our creative juices put aside for coloring between the lines.
Numbers and letters straight as an arrow.
No room for flare.
Mother knows best.
Teacher knows best.
Uncle Sam knows best.
‘God’ knows best.
“Do what we say.
Think what we think.
Give us your power and we will take good care of you.”
Reversing the creative flow.
‘Inward out’, becoming ‘outward in’.
And we defer.
Someone else will do it.
Someone else will take care of it.

Then we watch and we read and the Myth of Reward by Deferment becomes shattered.
The Cavalry does not arrive.
No one is listening.
No one is there.
But WE are there.
WE are listening.
We hear ourselves.
We hear our own cry.
And we answer.

“For as much as you have done it unto the least of these my brothers, you have done it unto me… And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.”---Jeshua ben Joseph



--inspired by word that private citizens are now bringing food and water to the souls stranded in a dying New Orleans

The Good Side of Evil OR The Great Cosmic Joke

We ARE powerful beings with COSMIC INFLUENCE. When our minds go in the same direction, we can accomplish much. I read the following recently which addresses this. MAYBE it is the purpose of all of the MESS of the world to get us all going in that same direction. We think things are out of control, when perhaps they are right on target. Is anybody really RIGHT or WRONG when the point is to turn ALL minds toward something NEW/DIFFERENT/BETTER... Something more suited to the great beings we ARE... So that we might actually bring it about? In that regard, we are all comrades. In that regard, we all agree. In that regard "evil" is doing us a great service. ---Vim

But at the higher levels all energy always goes in the same direction. We are always being supported at soul levels to achieve the grand plan for our best interests and everyone and everything is in on it with us.

This is why George W. Bush was re-elected as president of the United States once again. This beautiful soul is in it with us as he has agreed at a soul level to provide a very severe contrast so that as many as possible will choose to summon something different.

The more individuals that agree to summon something different, the better. This summoning then creates an energy of desire that co-mingles with the planetary alignments and integrates with the new higher vibrating human, and results in the change necessary and the initiation of the creation of the New World . Yes, there is always much support here to fulfill this divine plan of ours, as we needed to be assured of success. All was in alignment in every arena.

In the higher realms there is no polarity. It is accepted and widely known that at lower levels of reality, polarity (or what appears to be darkness) only exists to support us in summoning something different.

A common scenario that represents this concept is when one partner in a relationship has an affair or abruptly leaves another. Many times this occurs so that the “abandoned” partner will be forced to move forward and into the new territory that they were meant to inhabit. All souls deeply love each other, and always support each other if even in a world where conscious awareness is thwarted by a lower vibrating existence behind the veil.
---MORE at LINK

[I posted this at BemO on Monday, August 22, 2005 at 10:51 a.m. It just seemed like a good thing to re-post and re-member here on the other side of the river.]