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Tantric Buddhist empowerments and retreats ( San Francisco area ) by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche ( January - June 2010 )

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:28:22 GMT

Tantric Buddhist empowerments and retreats ( San Francisco area ) by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche ( January - June 2010 )

Keywords: tantric empowerment, yoga sadhana, Mahayana, Buddhist yogic teaching retreat, Tibetan Buddhism / Nyingma lineage, Guru Padmasambhava as Wealth Lord Padmasambhava / Orgyen Khandro Norlha, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, Orgyen Dorje Den Alameda CA, Vajrayana Foundation Corralitos CA, Heart Teachings audio video resources for tantric Buddhist practice.

Tharchin Rinpoche's coming to town!
Tharchin Rinpoche's coming to town!
Tharchin Rinpoche's commminnnng to towwwn!

. . . And he is giving a large cycle of tantric transmissions and retreats this January through June, in San Francisco East Bay and at his home center in Watsonville ( down the coast from San Francisco ).
Tantra means magic and yoga, in this case in the definite context of Buddhist ethics and practice. ( I provide context and substantial information on these below. )

These tantric practices are mainly focused on the lineage of Guru Padmasambhava i.e. the Nyingma school, and lead towards or incorporate the central Awareness Yoga known as Dzogchen, the Great Perfection. To do any of these practices, personal initiation is required. That is why the teacher is of central importance.

For more background on the Great Perfection and Dzogchen, see the book
"The Crystal and the Way of Light", by Namkhai Norbu
also
"Dakini Teachings", by Padmasambhava
and view the extensive materials at
http://keithdowman.net/dzogchen/index.htm

For background on Guru Padmsambhava see
http://www.rangjung.com/authors/padmasambhava.htm
"Padmasambhava : A Short Biography by Jamgon Kongtrul the First"

The home center for Lama Tharchin is
The Vajrayana Foundation
web site
www.vajrayana.org
contact info:
Phone: (831) 761-6266
Email: office@vajrayana.org
Address: 2013 Eureka Canyon Rd., Watsonville,CA 95076

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche is a teacher of Buddhist tantra, extremely gentle and open, yet also profound and powerful. I first began taking teachings and transmissions from him in the early 1980s. This is one of my most favorite people on the entire planet. Just to see him brings real gladness to one's heart, just to remember him is greatly comforting. Please note that I do not represent him in any official sense.

I use texts and practices from his fellowship, the Vajrayana Foundation, which principally focuses on the lineage transmissions of HH Dudjom Rinpoche. HH Dujom Rinpoche was a profound Nyingma lineage holder whose efforts were of central importance in saving major parts of the Buddhist tantra during the destruction of Buddhist Tibet by the Chinese. HH Dudjom Rinpoche trained and authorized Lama Tharchin as a vajra master. Lama Tharchin can train westerners to become full fledged tantric Buddhist gurus - on a basic but functional level - in the Nyingma lineage of Guru Padmasambhava.

KT

See also
http://heartteachings.com/index.html

"Heart Teachings by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche"

"The Friends of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche have put together this site for Lama Tharchin Rinpoche's video series. The video series is the main vehicle Rinpoche uses to disseminate his vast knowledge of Buddhist teachings. Each month Rinpoche records a 1-2 hour long video.

"Anyone interested can purchase any of the past Series as an individual set, or subscribe to the Series in progress on an ongoing basis. There are also a few teachings offered as individual DVDs or DVD sets."

Note - many of these recordings require specific authorization, i.e. empowerment.

From the above site
"Turning the Three Wheels of Buddhadharma: Learning, Practice, and Teaching
Lama Tharchin Rinpoche is a Dzogchen (Great Perfection) master of Vajrayana Buddhism. He is the tenth lineage holder of the Repkong Ngakpas. This is a family lineage of yogis, or householders, and was the largest community of non-monastic practitioners in Tibet. Rinpoche was trained in His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche's monastery, engaged in five years of solitary retreat and then completed the three year retreat with three others under Dudjom Rinpoche.

"In addition to Dudjom Rinpoche, his main teachers have been Chatral Rinpoche, Lama Sherab Dorje Rinpoche, and Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche. Rinpoche left Tibet by foot with his family in 1960.

"Many of the early years of Rinpoche's life were dedicated to intensive study, practice and retreat. Mastering the many traditions of his lineage under the guidance of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche benefited countless beings through the purity of his heart and his compassionate dedication to all beings. Through many years of practice and retreat, Rinpoche developed the skills and qualities most needed to bring maximum benefit to beings in this lifetime.

"Fulfilling the request of his teacher, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche came to the West with the intention to protect the holy Buddhadharma and to plant authentic seeds of dharma in the West. With an incredible flurry of enlightened activity, Rinpoche's blessings and accomplishments have flowed like rich wisdom nectar. Founder of the Vajrayana Foundation, Rinpoche has established the College of Tibetan Buddhist Studies (Shedra), and the three-year retreat program (Drupta). He has directed study and practice retreats, given us bountiful empowerments and pure Dzogchen teachings, and he has shown us the true nature of our own minds."

From the home page of
www.vajrayana.org
with some notes and commentary

•Orgyen Khandro Norlha Wealth Empowerment and Teaching: January 23rd
Orgyen Dorje Den, Alameda,CA

Orgyen Dorje Den
2244 Santa Clara Ave
Alameda, CA 94501
www.orgyendorjeden.org

"Lama Tharchin Rinpoche has offered to give the empowerment and teachings on the Orgyen Khandro Norlha wealth practice at Orgyen Dorje Den in Alameda as a benefit for the Vajrayana Foundation. “I not only want to benefit Pema Osel Ling,” he said, “but to share this with all the sangha with my love, care and aspiration for positive results for all of us. As the whole world, and I am thinking especially of our country and sangha, are having a difficult time financially, so I would like to share Guru Rinpoche’s wisdom and compassion solution to remove obstacles; how to get success not only for short term material results but long term enlightenment."

•Namchak Putri (Vajrakilaya) Gutor and Losar Retreat: February 5 – 14
2013 Eureka Canyon Rd., Watsonville,CA 95076

Note - this is an ultimate wrathful Vajrasattva practice, commonly practiced to clear away negativity and obstacles in preparation for the Tibetan New Year, 14 February 2010.

•Spring Retreat: April 2 - 4
2013 Eureka Canyon Rd., Watsonville,CA 95076

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche to teach on Shabkar's Flight of the Garuda
Note - this is a primary dzogchen text. See part of the text online at
http://keithdowman.net/books/fg.htm

'Dzokchen, the Great Perfection, is the quintessence of the tantric paths to Buddhahood. This book contains the translation of four Dzokchen texts belonging to the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. These sacred revealed texts, never before freely available, provide inspiration and instruction for the Dzokchen aspirant. The Flight of the Garuda, which gives the collection its title, written by Shabkar Lama in the nineteenth century, comprises a series of twenty-three songs designed to inspire and instruct the yogin practising Dzokchen trekcho meditation. Secret Instruction in a Garland of Vision is one of three texts said to have been written by Padma Sambhava, Tibet's great Guru, himself, who visited Tibet in the eighth century. It belongs to the lam rim genre, a stage--by--stage description of the path to Buddhahood. An extract from Emptying the Depths of Hell, revealed by Guru Chowong in the thirteenth century, provides a Dzokchen confessional liturgy, and The Wish-Granting Prayer of Kuntu Zangpo, revealed by Rikdzin Godemchan in the fourteenth century as part of an extensive Dzokchen tantra, is a prayer for attainment of the Dzokchen goal.'

This collection includes four shiningly clear and starkly beautiful Dzogchen texts. Their common denominator is the soaring freedom of the Dzogchen viewpoint as symbolised by the Garuda -- the divine eagle that is said to fly as soon as it breaks free of its egg.' Robin Cooke in The Mirror.

•Summer Retreat: May 22- June 21
2013 Eureka Canyon Rd., Watsonville,CA 95076

Dorje Drolod: May 22 – 30
Note- this is wrathful Padmasambhava guru yoga

Throma Nagmo: June 1 – 9
Note - this is a profound and comprehensive great goddess cycle of the Buddhist Kali

Shitro Nakso: June 11– 12
Collection of Seven Treasures Drupchen: June 13 – 21

Note - This is a comprehensive cycle of Great Perfection teachings, but I cannot comment on it. The drubchen means intensive ( day and night ) practice.

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. . . And from Orgyen Dorje Den, more upcoming events

MARK YOUR CALENDARS: Gutor & Losar coming soon, February 11th-14th, 2010

On February 11, 12 & 13, we will practice Vajrasattva at the request of Ven. Gyatrul Rinpoche. (Just like Vajrakilaya can be done to remove negativity from the past year, so can Vajrasattva be done to purify our negativity & obscurations from the last year. Same result.)

Ven. Lingtrul Rinpoche will preside as the Vajramaster and we will practice the sadhana of Dorsem Lama Chodpa from the Dudjom Tersar tradition.
There will be 3 sessions per day and all are welcome to join.

February 14th is Losar, the New Year, according to the Lunar & Tibetan calendar.
On this day we will also practice Vajrasattva, although we will use a more concise sadhana.

Ven. Gyatrul Rinpoche may join us and offer a Vajrasattva empowerment if he is available, in other words, if we have the merit!

Orgyen Dorje Den
2244 Santa Clara Ave
Alameda, CA 94501
www.orgyendorjeden.org

Dedication:

Sarva mangalam!
Siddhi rastu!

May this be greatly beneficial to all!
May the lineage of the Dudjom Tersar and of Lama Tharchin long endure!

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are our brainwaves connected?

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:17:32 GMT

a neurosurgeon friend once told me that there is an expanding branch of neurology which studies/ hypothesizes that all of our brains are connected. Each of our brains gives off waves. These waves are like radio station frequencies and that certain people can tap into the same station as another, or in toher words that person 1 can tap into person 2's brain if person 1 is on the same brainwave as person 1, provided that they are on the same "radio station". does anyone know much aout this? thanks.

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ormus studied and shown to balance the two hemispheres of the brain!

ORMEs — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:15:07 GMT

ormus studied and shown to balance the two hemispheres of the brain and increase alpha brain wave production.
this condition improves learning ability, increases creativity and reduces stress.

some ormus sites:
http://zptech.eu
http://mfkzt.eu
http://the-philosophers-stone.tk/

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Your Experience of the Eightfold Path

Aron — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:37:09 GMT

Hello.

What have your experiences with the eightfold path been?
What do they mean to you?

The Right View,
The Right Intentions,
The Right Speech,
The Right Action,
The Right Livelihood,
The Right Effort,
The Right Mindfulness,
The Right Concentration.

You are experiencing. What is that?

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Are you living an engaged life?

aschleigh — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:36:32 GMT

I ask myself, am I living an engaged life?
I am exercising several days a week. I go to school to use my mind. I have people in my life who care about me and I care about. I have a career I am working on that is meaningful and ever evolving. I love my life. I love being physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually healthy. I don't take it for granted as I spent my 20's feeling numb, depressed, shut down. My energy is way up because I got it flowing. I learned that I needed to express my anger, sexuality, joy, goodness, etc... With like minded folks. I put myself in places that I could and continue to do that. I have gifts that not everyone has. I am very empathetic and I care about the health of everyone. I can work in situations where I use those gifts. A small thing but it's huge actually, people don't know how to eat. A lot of people eat to survive but they are not eating for healthy and optimal functioning. I can help with that. As a society we are not even eating with sanity yet. I can teach people how to eat. We also don't move enough, I can teach people how to move.

Are you living an engaged life?
My engaged life includes: relationships that are a joy to be in. Where we are kind and funny and good to each other for a long time. This world is one where I have meaningful work that benefits humanity. This world is an engaged world, where I am and fully present with all that I encounter.
What does your engaged life look like?

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Legalize Hemp and Cannabis in California

Fully — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:32:42 GMT

Hi Family,

We are all interconnected. So let's treat each other right. No more honest Cannabis people trapped in cages!

Right now there are two competing signature drives to put Cannabis legalization initiatives on the ballot in California in November 2010.

One is found at www.taxcannabis2010.org

The other is found at www.CaliforniaCannabisInitiative.org

Please look carefully at the text of both laws (the text of each is finalized) and make up your own mind which one you support.

I am supporting www.CaliforniaCannabisInitiative.org because our law will protect Cannabis users from discrimination in

healthcare, employment, and housing. It is a full legalization measure for industrial hemp and recreational cannabis which will restore full human rights to Hemp farmers and Cannabis users all across California. Of course supplying Cannabis to children will remain illegal just as it is today. Driving vehicles under the influence will remain illegal just as it is today. Cannabis users will still be fired from their jobs if they show up to work impaired.

There are two parts to our plan. The first part is to publicly post and personally distribute our "Freedom Lover's Call to Arms" in order to recruit volunteers. This document is available here-

www.imgur.com/dbU83

The second part of our plan is to ask everyone who volunteers to make a pledge for how many signatures they can collect in

the next 30 days or so. 15-30 signatures is a good number. If enough volunteers show this level of commitment we can succeed. You can probably get that number from your family members, friends, co-workers, and neighbors without having to solicit in public too much. This is an "out of the closet" movement. We will have to proudly advocate human rights for responsible, honest, hard-working Cannabis smokers in order to convince legitimate people to support us. I can supply stickers equivalent to each persons pledge number. These stickers can be used to generate interest and be given to voters who sign the petition. Here is the sticker design-

www.imgur.com/2cjvb

Feel free to distribute and use these images. Just don't copyright them.

We have 145 days in order to get the number of signatures that we need. Our petition is hot off the press on 9/11 and we

have started collecting the first signatures yesterday 9/12.

We are polling 56% public support for Cannabis legalization in California which menas that this is an initiative which is not doomed. Its time has finally arrived; we are at the tipping point right now. Now is the time to do this and to do it right. We may only get one chance. If a law which is not exactly what we want is implemented then we may lose our critical mass and our ability to set it right.

I believe that less adults will smoke cannabis after it is legal. This is the case in the Netherlands where it has been

available over-the-counter for 30 years yet only half as many citizens (percentage-wise) smoke as do citizens here. My economics professor has taught for years that prohibition has not succeeded in decreasing usage by increasing penalties. Instead it has destroyed lives and families without substantial benefit to society. After legalization hard-drug usage will decrease due to a "separation of the markets," a decline in the price of Cannabis relative to hard-drugs, and the restoration of honesty and common sense in drug education. Violence, thievery, and the incarceration of honest people will decrease as well. I also believe that a well regulated market will decrease the availability and appeal of cannabis to children. In fact teenage Cannabis use in California has fallen steadily since the passage of Proposition 215. Furthermore the adults who smoke Cannabis after legalization will be better able appreciate the majesty of nature in peace and unity without learning to fear and disrespect authority figures. This will be better for their spirits and better for society. Finally the human rights of legitimate medical Cannabis patients will be better protected than they are today. Legalizing Cannabis will create a safer, healthier, and more humane California for us all to live in.

If you want to help us in any way please contact the CCI campaign at www.CaliforniaCannabisInitiative.org or write me at
deep_space_underground@yahoo.com I give you my encouragement to modify this message if necessary and distribute it to anyone who might help on any forum or by any mechanism.

Love,
-Fully Committed

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Sept 20th and 21st: global community peace building event: United Nations International Day of Peace, Peacebuilding & Global Mala Yoga For Peace Project

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:51:28 GMT

Title:
Sept 20th global community peace building event: United Nations International Day of Peace, Peacebuilding & Global Mala Yoga For Peace Project

Keywords : Event notice, United Nations International Day of Peace, "Peacebuilding", GLOBAL MALA YOGA FOR PEACE PROJECT, Community Building, International Green Movement and Rio Earth Summit Greens, Mahayana, generalized humanitarian and spiritual co-operation.

Summary: Here is a basic introduction to two related efforts. The first is the United Nations International Day of Peace, an annual September event. The second is The Global Mala Yoga for Peace Project, a worldwide set of spiritual cultural events directly supporting the UN Day of Peace through yoga sadhana.

“We need more light about each other.
Light creates understanding.
Understanding creates love.
Love creates patience, and patience creates unity.”
Malcolm X

“When I give thanks, I give thanks for everything. When I pray, I pray for all that live.”
Chief Dan George

“We are all connected through the human spirit.”
HH the Dalai Lama

“Love builds inner strength.”
HH the Dalai Lama

http://www.internationaldayofpeace.org/

All Our Relations . . . .

JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE

The United Nations' International Day of Peace - marked every year on September 21 - is a global holiday when individuals, communities, nations and governments highlight efforts to end conflict and promote peace.
Established by U.N. resolution in 1982, "Peace Day" has grown to include millions of people around the world who participate in all kinds of events, large and small.

For 2009, this new Web site makes it easy to find and promote Peace Day events anywhere in the world. Just click on "Participate!" to locate an event or post information. And explore the rest of the site to learn more about Peace Day and how to get involved.
May Peace Prevail On Earth!

http://internationaldayofpeace.org/about/background.html

About International Day of Peace, September 21

The International Day of Peace ("Peace Day") provides an opportunity for individuals, organizations and nations to create practical acts of peace on a shared date. It was established by a United Nations resolution in 1981 to coincide with the opening of the General Assembly. The first Peace Day was celebrated in September 1982.
In 2002 the General Assembly officially declared September 21 as the permanent date for the International Day of Peace.

By creating the International Day of Peace, the UN devoted itself to worldwide peace and encouraged all of mankind to work in cooperation for this goal. During the discussion of the U.N. Resolution that established the International Day of Peace, it was suggested that:
"Peace Day should be devoted to commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace both within and among all nations and peoples…This day will serve as a reminder to all peoples that our organization, with all its limitations, is a living instrument in the service of peace and should serve all of us here within the organization as a constantly pealing bell reminding us that our permanent commitment, above all interests or differences of any kind, is to peace."

Since its inception, Peace Day has marked our personal and planetary progress toward peace. It has grown to include millions of people in all parts of the world, and each year events are organized to commemorate and celebrate this day. Events range in scale from private gatherings to public concerts and forums where hundreds of thousands of people participate.

Anyone, anywhere can celebrate Peace Day. It can be as simple as lighting a candle at noon, or just sitting in silent meditation. Or it can involve getting your co-workers, organization, community or government engaged in a large event. The impact if millions of people in all parts of the world, coming together for one day of peace, is immense.

International Day of Peace is also a Day of Ceasefire – personal or political. Take this opportunity to make peace in your own relationships as well as impact the larger conflicts of our time. Imagine what a whole Day of Ceasefire would mean to humankind.

http://internationaldayofpeace.org/participate/events_calendar.html

http://internationaldayofpeace.org/your_peace_day.html

Plan a Peace Day Event!

Each year, events take place all around the world for the International Day of Peace. Every Peace Day event provides an opportunity to inspire individuals and empower communities to celebrate victories for peace that have been won throughout the year, and to rededicate our commitment to work for a more peaceful, just and sustainable world all year long.

A Peace Day event can be as simple as lighting a candle or meditate on Peace on September 21. It can be as complex as organizing a Peace Concert for thousands of people. In between, there is a whole scale of events on different levels that might fit your family, group, class, or community.

Be seen. Be visible. Let the world know you care about peace.

http://internationaldayofpeace.org/peacebuilding_101.html

Peacebuilding 101

Peacebuilding is different from "peacemaking" and "peacekeeping" in that it focuses on creating a long-term culture of peace, rather than solving existing conflicts or preventing old ones from re-occurring. Peacebuilding activities aim at building understanding and tolerance between individuals, communities and societies and establishing new structures of cooperation. Peacebuilding activities range in scale from personal acts of kindness toward others to global inter-governmental programs.

Definitions of Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding is the construction of new environments and new cultures which transform deficient structures and capabilities which unite the strengths of emerging innovations in all pathways of our local-global planetary life. Peacebuilding creates and maintains beneficial conditions for sustainable (life-enhancing) social, economic, political and spiritual development of all peoples.
(Adapted from speech given at UN by PTP and "An Agenda for Peace", a UN Report of the Secretary-General, 1992)

Unlike peace-making and peace-keeping, which are related to warfare and settlement of conflicts, "...the concept of peace-building (is) the construction of a new environment --- the transformation of deficient national structures and capabilities, and --- the strengthening of new democratic institutions."
(Excerpted from "An Agenda for Peace", a UN Report of the Secretary-General in January 1992, which globally and officially recognized the emerging field of peacebuilding.)

"We need to build not only geographical but spiritual bridges between people and strengthen the intellectual, cultural and communication linkages between our societies. (Let us) stand ready to participate in the effort to promote social integration and create a culture of peace."
(From UNESCO PRESS Report at World Summit for Social Development by Director-General UNESCO, Frederico Mayor)

"Where there is peace, there is culture; where there is culture, there is peace."
(Nicholas Roerich)

"Positive creativeness is the fundamental quality of the human spirit. Let us welcome all those who, surmounting personal difficulties, --- propel their spirits to the task of peaceBuilding, thus ensuring a radiant future."
(Nicholas Roerich)

The UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC)

The Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) is a new intergovernmental advisory body of the United Nations that supports peace efforts in countries emerging from conflict, and is a key addition to the capacity of the international community in the broad peace agenda.

The Peacebuilding Commission plays a unique role in
1. bringing together all of the relevant actors, including international donors, the international financial institutions, national governments, troop contributing countries;
2. marshalling resources and
3. advising on and proposing integrated strategies for post-conflict peacebuilding and recovery and where appropriate, highlighting any gaps that threaten to undermine peace.
The concurrent General Assembly and Security Council resolutions establishing the Peacebuilding Commission also provided for the establishment of a Peacebuilding Fund and Peacebuilding Support Office, which together form the United Nations peacebuilding architecture.

The PBC is mandated to: "marshal resources and to advise on and propose integrated strategies for post-conflict peacebuilding and recovery." The PBC focuses attention on reconstruction, institution-building and sustainable development, in countries emerging from conflict. It is specifically mandated to:
• Propose integrated strategies for post-conflict peacebuilding and recovery;
• Help to ensure predictable financing for early recovery activities and sustained financial investment over the medium- to longer-term;
• Extend the period of attention the international community gives to post-conflict recovery;
• Develop best practices on issues that require extensive collaboration among political, security, humanitarian and development actors.

For more information about the UN Peacebuilding Commission, please visit:
http://www.un.org/peace/peacebuilding/index.shtml

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http://www.globalmala.org/pressrelease2009.php

GLOBAL MALA YOGA FOR PEACE PROJECT UNITES YOGA COMMUNITY IN SUPPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE

Yogis Throughout the World Cross the Borders of their Mats to Raise Consciousness and Funds for Important Causes.

LOS ANGELES — (March 17, 2009) — On September 19 and 20, the Global Mala Yoga for Peace Project, whose purpose is to unite the global yoga community, will implement events throughout the world in honor of the United Nations International Day of Peace. Forming a “mala around the earth” through collective practices based upon the sacred cycle of 108, the mission of the Global Mala Project is to raise both funds and consciousness for some of the most pressing issues facing the world today. Global Mala Yoga for Peace is a featured event during National Yoga Month 09.2009.

Thousands of yogis will practice 108 sun salutations at hundreds of event across the nation. Taking its name from the sacred prayer beads called “mala” used in India and Tibet as meditation guides, the Global Mala Project will benefit the Yoga Health Foundation and numerous other charities and projects being supported by local community leaders. Composed of 108 beads, the mala is symbolic of the prayer for peace, hope and charity the Global Mala Project will be sending to the world.

“With the rising threat of Global Warming, the illusion of separateness is dissolving around the world,” said Shiva Rea, world renowned Yoga teacher and catalyst for the Global Mala Project. “Yoga is one of the few common denominators for millions of people around the world; together we are creating a circle around the earth and dedicating our energy to peace.”
Global Mala Yoga Project in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, San Francisco and many other cities worldwide will include 108 sun salutations, live music, and fellowship with likeminded yogis interested in creating the peace they wish to experience in the world.

For more information, please visit www.globalmala.org or www.yogamonth.org.

From
http://www.globalmala.org/about.php

The Global Mala Yoga for Peace Project: Uniting Yoga, Seva and Collective Consciousness
Namaskaram!

This site and the Global Mala Project belongs to the global yoga community. This is a seed of a world-wide experiment into the power of meditation in action.
The purpose of the Global Mala is to unite the global yoga community from every continent, school or approach to form a "mala around the earth" through collective practices based upon the sacred cycle of 108 on Sept. 19th or 20th, Fall Equinox as the yoga world's offering to further the UN International Peace Day.

Each center offers their form of a Yoga Mala according to their yoga tradition and inspiration:
• 108 Sun Salutations (or variations of 27, 56)
• 108 rounds of mantra such as the Gayatri or Maha Mrityanjaya
• 108 rounds of a kriya
• 108 minutes of meditation, kirtan or movement meditation

Each Global Mala event can be dedicated to practice or to practice and seva - service by integrating local action, and raising funds for the organization of their choice.
Global Mala Yoga for Peace are featured events during Yoga Month 09.2009. Coordinators please signup here or learn more about the Yoga Month-Global Mala Yoga for Peace partnership and support.

May all beings experience the blessing of unconditional happiness!

Om Shanti,

Johannes R. Fisslinger
Shiva Rea
Michael Spitzer
Jacqueline Stolte

http://www.globalmala.org/support.php

Global Mala Yoga for Peace 2009 - Support Materials

Supportive materials, brochures, posters and graphics for Global Mala Yoga for Peace 2009 and National Yoga Month are available inside the coordinators login area. 2009 Coordinators signup here or login.

After you have logged in, please ADD YOUR EVENT in our global directory and use brochure, poster templates and other support materials (see links after you have logged in).

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Peace Quotes
"On this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace." — U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

"Simply the absence of war is not peace" — Anam Prem, India

"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal." — Martin Luther King Jr.

"Peace is not a thing to be achieved or a commodity to be stored." — Anam Prem, India

"Peace is not the absence of war; it is respecting and accepting each other and promoting human rights." — Miss Nida Ashfaq, International Young Catholic Students (IYCS), Pakistan

"I feel peaceful when I'm on the rollercoaster." — Anonymous child, Marin Peace Projects, USA

"…all religions of the world teach us to respect man, regardless of color, race, gender and faith." — Jahangir Piara, Organization for Peace and Development, Pakistan

"Peace is possible; when there is Peace is each of us." — Mr. Kamran, MARS Organization, Pakistan

"Peace is one of humanity's most precious needs. It is also the United Nation's highest calling." — U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

"Peace begins with a smile." — Mother Teresa

"There is no such thing as a good war and there is no such thing as a bad peace." — Benjamin Franklin

"Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man." — Mahatma Gandhi

"Peace is its own reward." — Mahatma Gandhi

"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace." — Buddha

"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit." — Napoleon Bonaparte

Dedication: this outreach effort is dedicated to the broader work of Mohandas Gandhi, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, and Aung San Suu Kyi, the International Green Movement, and All Our Relations.

Sarva mangalam. May All Beings Benefit. Om shanti shanti shanti.

In partial fulfillment of various community and teaching responsibilities,

KT

N.B. : KT is not formally associated with these organizations and does not formally represent them. Some of the above items are copyright, and provided here as a combined set through what is called "fair use", with some original content.

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Let's trade spiritual Web addies

Tanemon — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:51:14 GMT

Things have slowed down so much on Tribe.net... way fewer posts.

Here's a good discussion site, people serious about personal development, spiritual things, psychic stuff, achieving goals, being healthy:
www.stevepavlina.com/forums/

Please post some other web addresses. And can you say a little about what's the scope, and why the site is good?

Blessings on your path...

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JahaRa — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:03:14 GMT

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Lama Mingyur Rinpoche: tantric Buddhist teaching and empowerment tour June - August 2009

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:54:24 GMT

Lama Mingyur Rinpoche: tantric Buddhist teaching and empowerment tour June - August 2009

Keywords : meditation practice ( tantra devayoga sadhana ), Mahayana Buddhist transmission, mantra yoga, Heart Sutra, Karma Kagyu lineage of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, 2009 Tour, Portland, deity of "Liberating Compassion" Avalokitesvara empowerment ( a.k.a. Kuan Yin, Kannon, Chenresig etc. ).

Summary: His Eminence Yongey Mingyur will be giving a tantric Buddhist empowerment ( highest yoga tantra ) for Avalokitesvara in Portland this June 19, and later, other cities as well. This major tantric guru of the Karma Kagyu lineage is on international tour through August. Background references and a key book reference are provided.

" If we try too hard, meditation becomes difficult. But it is so easy... Meditation is resting in our own natural awareness. "
His Eminence Yongey Mingyur Dorje Rinpoche

His Eminence Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a younger yet also major teacher in the Indo-Tibetan tradition of vajrayana and tantra, specifically as a retreat master in the Karma Kagyu lineage. He is the son of the great Nyingma master Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, and his main residence is Sherab Ling, the seat of His Holiness Khentin Tai Situpa, a principal Kagyu guru.
http://www.mingyur.org/biography/index.html

Although quite young, HE Yongey Mingyur is an accomplished master of both the Great Seal ( Mahamudra ) and Great Perfection ( Dzogchen ) traditions of pure awareness yoga. I have received from His Eminence both the Tsik Sum Ne Dek ( Great Perfection Breakthrough ) and Karma Pakshi Great Seal guru yoga empowerments some years back, and both transmissions were quite powerful.

His Eminence is also establishing fellowships in North America ( e.g. San Jose CA and Phoenix AZ ) and participating in western scientific studies on mind science. He is the author of two well received books on meditation, including the recently released "Joyful Wisdom - Embracing Change and Finding Freedom".

This young teacher is clearly one of the most important of the new generation of tantric Buddhist gurus teaching in the West, in terms of the quality and quantity of his teaching work, and the deep and broad impact he is beginning to have. ( See "Yongey Foundation Links" at http://www.mingyur.org/links.html ).

This year he teaches coast to coast and also in Brazil. For information on the North American Tour continuing through August, see
http://www.mingyur.org/schedule.html

The main event of the Portland visit is a major empowerment for the meditation deity Avalokitesvara. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalokitesvara

and many book titles and other resources from Snow Lion Publications. See
http://www.snowlionpub.com/

and the Kagyu bookstore for the Karma Kagyu lineage seat in North America at Woodstock New York:
http://www.namsebangdzo.com/

Avalokitesvara is a primary and pre-eminent deity and practice for Buddhists worldwide. Avalokitesvara is the renowned deity of "Liberating Compassion", known in many parts of the Far East as Kuan Yin ( China ), Kwannon ( Japan ), Kwan Seeum ( Korea ), Kwan Theum Botat ( Viet Nam ), etc. This is a major practice for both general Mahayana ( Great Way ) Buddhists and also for esoteric / yogic ( tantric ) Buddhists, and thus unites and helps all schools of Buddhist practice in many different cultural contexts, both Asian and Western.

This is a most well known and quite universally practised pagan / polytheistic deity yoga of Sanskrit origin, Hindu or Buddhist. For example, it has become incorporated into some Hindu practice lineages, such as that of Swami Nikhilesvarananda. It is very similar to or overlaps the practice of Blue Throated Siva, as shown in one of the mantras for Blue Throated Avalokitesvara.

The influence of Avalokitesvara is vast throughout the world, and in different Buddhist lineages. Several of my teachers are considered to be emanations of Avalokitesvara including ( the late ) HE Deshung Tulku Rinpoche ( Sakya ), HH the Seventeenth Karmapa Urgyen Trinley Dorje and the Karmapa lineage, HH the Dalai Lama and the Dalai Lama lineage, and so forth.

His Eminence Dzongsar Rinpoche ( Sakya and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism ), who teaches worldwide, has stated that Avalokitesvara is the most broadly and most commonly practised of all Buddhist mantras worldwide. This is consistent with my experience in Japanese, Chinese, Tibetan, and Vietnamese traditions. Apparently there is a book on Avalokita practice in the Sri Lankan traditions, which are mostly Theravadin Buddhist.

The esoteric yoga traditions of Buddhist tantra are based on ritual empowerment and the practice of self-empowerment, and these include placing points of light at the Brow Cakra ( White Light ), Throat Cakra ( Red Light ), and Heart Cakra ( Blue Light ). Some forms of Avalokitesvara practice include a full kundalini yoga / psychic heat method, known in the Buddhist tradition as Completion Stage Yoga.

Avalokitesvara is without doubt the most well known Buddhist ( or other ) esoteric spiritual practice in the West ( either as "OM MANI PADME HUM" or as the "Heart Sutra" or as other variants, see below ).
Many tens of millions of Buddhists recite daily either a Sanksrit formula for Avalokitesvara or a meditation text associated with this deity, as in (1) and (2) following.

1) One of the root mantras ( esoteric invocations or evocations ) of Avalokitesvara is
"OM MANI PADMA HUM", which is discussed at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om_mani_padme_hum

2) Avalokitesvara is the source of the primary Buddhist text Prajna Paramita Hrdaya, the Heart or Essence of Transcendent Wisdom, which is recited daily in many Buddhist countries, such as in the Chinese and Japanese Zen traditions. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_sutra
This is a primary and central and definitive text for many of the Mahayana Buddhist schools, both outer and inner.

A good source of teaching on Avalokitesvara in the East Asian tradition is
"Bodhisattva of Compassion: The Mystical Tradition of Kuan Yin"
by John Blofeld.

There is also
"The Origins of Om Manipadme Hum: A Study of the Karandavyuha Sutra"
by Alexander Studholme, Ph.D.

An example of a deeper and essentialized practice focused on Avalokitesvara is given in the book
"The Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen"
by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
ISBN 962-7341-13-9
Rangjung Yeshe Publications

This is a commentary on "The Direct Instructions of the Compassionate One" originally given by Karma Chagmey Rinpoche the First.
See
http://www.snowlionpub.com/html/product_6174.html
THE UNION OF MAHAMUDRA AND DZOGCHEN
by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
240 pp.
# UNMADZ - $ 18.00

"Teachings on the complete path to enlightenment in 8 songs by the 17th century yogi/poet Karma Chagmey explicated with Rinpoche's trademark brilliance and humor.
'This advice spoken through personal experience embodies the quintessence of the Dharma.'--Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche"

Please note that I do not formally represent this teacher nor the fellowship hosting him in Portland.

Sarva mangalam! May it be beneficial!
Siddhi rastu! May there be accomplishment!

KT

Hosted by Portland Dharma Group
www.portlanddharmagroup.org
503.341.7776

From
http://www.portlanddharmagroup.org/Mingyur2009/Mingyur.html

schedule

16 June
7:30 pm
Book signing at Powell's Books for
"Joyful Wisdom - Embracing Change and Finding Freedom"
http://www.mingyur.org/book/joyful_wisdom.html

17 June - 18 June
Public talks 7 - 8:30 pm
First Congregational Church
1126 SW Park Ave, Portland OR

19 June
7pm
Avalokitesvara [ Chenrezig ] empowerment
First Congregational Church
1126 SW Park Ave, Portland OR

[ end listing / article ]

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Courage, Synchronicity, and the Technology of Magic

tonyvigorito — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:58:17 GMT

Hi all. Here's an essay forthcoming on the web magazine Reality Sandwich. You can read the whole story below or link to an easier-to-read version here: www.tonyvigorito.com/blog/courage

En-joy!

Courage, Synchronicity, and the Technology of Magic

I have often been staggered by the forces of the ordinary that cajole the human experience into cowardice. Relentless mass-mediated daydreams croon lullabies to nightmare; meathook economic rackets hijack freedom with student loans, predatory credit, and eternal mortgages; narratives of responsibility harass the mind with financial planning, time-management, highly-effective habits; and illusions of security, insurance, and retirement prod us into proper place. Lurching through life in the midst of such clamor, is it any wonder that so many trade the tremendous for the trivial, that the ecstatic fantastic wow of existence dims into murk and shadow, flickering into fluorescence like some stepped-on plastic geranium?

But this is not to be some hand-wringing howl of quiet desperation. The walls are high, yes, the challenges are great, but today I’d like to invite an exploration of what it is that happens when this drear occasionally clears, when we see something, something that matters, something possessed not merely of meaning, but of magic? In a previous essay entitled Chaos, Collapse, and Synchronicity, I explored how synchronicity is likely to emerge during and after ego-shattering experiences. Because the ego demarcates the presumably phantasmic boundary between your consciousness and the rest of the universe, the experience of synchronicity can be understood to be the face of the perception of undivided unity. Here, I would like to venture beyond mild-mannered explanation and into wild-eyed exploration. In other words, if synchronicity is the perception of undivided unity, what is the technology of this magic?

In one of his most potent remarks, Arthur C. Clarke asserted that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Taking him at his word, then, the prickling astonishment that follows the experience of synchronicity—the sensation that something magical has just occurred—this is but an artifact of our limited technology of mind. Synchronicity is only astounding, in other words, when we persist in the delusion that we are distinct from the all and everything. Expanding consciousness beyond the limited point of view of oneself and into the unlimited point of view of undivided unity, this—as if it were so simple—this is the technology of magic.

And in case disclaimers need to be stated, I certainly have not mastered this magic. Very contrary, my daily failings would be the envy of any hypocrite. But I like to live out loud, and this full blast introspection is simply that. So now I want to tell you a story:

I was at a festival a year ago, and as festivals have long functioned as temporary autonomous zones where everyday boundaries are suspended, it should surprise no one to discover that synchronicity was pandemic at this festival. The festival in this case was Flipside, and I made it my business to blast around offering one-card tarot reflections to people that I met, just for fun and synchronicity. Late in the evening of the last night, I met a woman, and we talked for a few hours, and as we parted I offered her a one-card reading. She drew the Courage card, displaying a picture of a flower growing through a crack in a rock. As she was recently coming though a break-up of her own, this had a particularly poignant meaning for her, so much so, in fact, that I had an unprecedented impulse to tell her to keep the card, which she did—though upon reflection I must admit that I was single at the time and so was probably also just being a cheesedick trying to charm another meeting with a beautiful woman. But in any event, I never saw her again, and since I open my tarot deck nearly every day, I inadvertently compelled myself to contemplate the absence of courage not only from my deck, but also from my very own life.

But first, immediately after we bid each other good night, I walked toward the main road and happened across a friend of mine who was in his car leaving. The backstory is that he’d spent the night before with a woman and she’d sparked his heart and he’d hoped they’d hang out again but it was a festival after all and it just didn’t flow that way. It’s a common enough story, isn’t it? Despite the shallow exhortations of our beer-fisted and bikini-clad media, sexual intimacy is often a tremulous endeavor with potential both for enormous healing and enormous pain. In any event, I saw him leaving and I wished him safe travels and asked him how his night went. He responded with a shake of his head, dismay and defeat palloring his expression, issues of childhood abandonment clearly having been triggered. Myself, I was in a roaring good mood, so I slapped the hood of his car and told him to go park it and walk with me, which he did, parking about fifty yards up the road. As it turned out, however, by the time he had walked back toward me the woman whose encounter had sparked his healing crisis was wandering toward me as well from the other direction. I didn’t have to do anything but step out of the way as they met where I was standing, for life is not just about me, and here I was mere servant to their synchronicity.

Then, at a book signing a couple of weeks later during which I read from my second novel, Nine Kinds of Naked—which revolves around the theme of synchronicity—a young college student who happened to be in the store and hear my talk approached me afterwards and told me she had never heard of synchronicity and wanted to learn more about it. I was meeting friends for dinner, but I promised her I’d permit her to interrogate me over tea sometime, and we met for tea a few days later. It was a full and stimulating conversation, her wanting me to specify the precise metaphysical mechanism by which synchronicity occurs, and me explaining about non-duality and the illusion of separateness and how we’re all dreams in the mind of God and yes maybe so but maybe also mealy mysticism and ultimately what really matters is that there’s a correspondence between the inner world and the outer world and if it has meaning for an individual and clarifies their confusion and lights their path then it doesn’t really matter if we’re all temporarily stable matrices of energetic probabilities, knots in a doily, or concentrations of consciousness in an infinite field of experience. What matters is that the co-incidence had meaning for the individual, carrying a potential psychological breakthrough. Tarot, I say, is essentially intentional synchronicity, seeking a window into one’s psyche to focus a particular issue. I then proceeded to tell her about the woman I met at Flipside who pulled the Courage card and who I let have the card and how the co-incidence of the card served her—and me—so profoundly.

“Here,” I say, cavalier as I pull out my tarot deck. “Lemme show you how synchronicity works.”

“Hey,” she interrupts. “I have that deck.”

“You do?” I reply, surprised that someone who’s never heard of synchronicity would have a tarot deck.

“Well not really,” she concedes. “I received it as a Christmas present from my mom a couple of years ago. I actually cut the whole deck up and made a collage out of it.” She pauses. “Well not the whole deck,” she admits. “I kept my favorite card.”

“Which card?”

“The Growth card.”

“The Growth card,” I repeat, pausing as I scan my recollection of the deck. “I don’t think I know the Growth card. What’s on it?”

“Umm, it’s a picture of a flower growing through a crack in a rock.”

I cock my head incredulous. “That’s not the Growth card,” I say. “That’s the Courage card I was just telling you about, the card I gave away.”

She’s skeptical, and says she’s pretty sure it was the Growth card, and so I pull out the little book that accompanies the deck, demonstrating that it was indeed the Courage card that she kept, and also demonstrating that there is no such card as the Growth card. She’s amazed, as am I, and ultimately she was so impressed by the synchronicity that she went home, located her Courage card, and gifted it to me a few days later. It’s all shiny and new and really stands out in my beat-up old deck, and every time the card emerges I am reminded of this sequence of events and the contemplations that followed. Did you know, for example, that courage comes from the Latin root, cor, meaning heart? Courage is locating oneself in the heart rather than the head, and the expansiveness of the heart—in contrast to the constriction of the ego—this is love, and this is the space we truly share in common. Hammered out of boundaries and convinced it is alone, the ego can only blink stupidly at the grace, the immensity, and the magic of the heart’s experience.

Love, by the way, is not all hugs and backrubs. Primarily, I think, love is a prank. To borrow a theme I’m developing in my third novel: Love is a prank played on the ego by the spirit to teach the ego the one thing that it does not want to learn. In my own life, I’ve been scalded by love, and I’ve even been so tough boots as to believe that I needed to protect my heart. But as a result of my accidental contemplation of courage, I realized—or I remembered—that the heart is made of love, and love is indestructible, and only the cowardice of ego would presume that it requires protection. Actually, love is the only force capable of overcoming the ego, and so the ego would naturally like to avoid this prank, never having to learn to give up control. Courage is simply allowing this vulnerability, embracing the uncertainty, accepting that we may be hurt, yes, that it won’t always be easy, and that not only can we take it, but that we actually have no idea how much we can take. In this “Age of Uncertainty,” courage necessarily means being true to one’s heart, stepping towards a future uncertain rather than securing oneself to a predictable past. Courage is without caution, it is passion, it is a flee from security and into synchronicity. A flower growing through a crack in a rock, courage abandons the familiar and secure shell which protects us—and limits us—and dares us to emerge, to grow, and to trust that life will nurture us despite its challenges.

This expansion of consciousness is necessarily the reduction of ego, and is there anything more expansive than the feeling of love? It is not uncommon for lovers to recount the synchronicities of their meeting, to recognize a strangely inevitable magic in their rendezvous, and such magic is only the beginning, a dim glimmer of a spectacular sunrise, patient as we find our courage, tender as we surrender, daring us to give, to forgive, to reside more fully in our heart, to remember that we are never alone, and ultimately to realize that we are nothing if we are not servants to one another. It is love that erodes our ramparts, that relieves us of our armor, that tames the teeth protecting our trauma, and it is love that will heal us all the moment we have the courage to face the magic.

This is what I believe more than anything, and this is what gives me hope.

May you be ever overwhelmed by how many people you love~

Tony Vigorito
www.tonyvigorito.com
© 2009 Tony Vigorito... feel free to forward as far as you see fit...

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Article (by me) on Awakening your Power to Manifest Abundance

yvettesoler — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:22:32 GMT

The London College of Spirituality just sent out the latest issue of their e-mail, Voyager Growth, with an article I wrote about Awakening your Power to Manifest Abundance. Hope you enjoy!!!
http://www.londoncollegeofspirituality.co.uk/emag%20yvette1.html

Blessings!
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Here comes the Sun. Sanskrit mantras for Sun ( Surya ) and Moon ( Chandra )

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:54:19 GMT

Here comes the Sun.

Sanskrit mantras for Sun ( Surya ) and Moon ( Chandra ) from the Vedic traditions of Sanatana Dharma ( Hindu culture ), and a related mantra from Vedacarya David Frawley. Plus some George Harrison.

Sun and moon worship are very ancient and universal pagan practices. I personally have really missed the sun for many months due to a winter that extended through early April.

We all share the same sun over the same earth. Let's celebrate the healing strength of the natural elements. All Our Relations.

May the Circle Be Open And Unbroken!

Acarya KT, inner medical tantrika and dharmapala-guru

http://www.mailerindia.com/slokas/mantras/index.php SakamGayatri

9. Surya Gayatri: Worship with this mantra is very beneficial for curing grievous diseases.

Om Bhaskaraya Vidmahe
Divakaraya Dhimahi
Tanno Suryah Prachodayat

10. Chandra Gayatri: For the removal of suffering and to get peace from dejection and worries, this mantra has been used for the worship of this Divine Shakti.

Om Shirputraya Vidmahe
Amrit Tatvaya Dhimahi
Tanno Chandrah Prachodayat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surya

Surya Namaskara, or the "Sun salutation"

A well-known Hindu mode of worship of the devotional movements of Surya is done at the rising of the Sun, known as Surya namaskara (Sun Salutation). Ten yogic postures are assumed in successive flowing movements to complete one namaskar. Twelve sacred Hindu mantras uttered and for each mantra one complete namaskar is done. Ancient practice is to do 108 namaskaras a day. It is considered most auspicious by Hindus to do this.

The 12 mantras for surya namaskara:

1. aum mitraya namah
2. aum ravayé namah
3. aum suryaya namah
4. aum bhanavé namah
5. aum khagaya namah
6. aum pushné namah
7. aum hiranyagarbhaya namah
8. aum marichayé namah
9. aum adityaya namah
10. aum savitré namah
11. aum arkaya namah
12. aum bhaskaraya namah

http://www.yoga-training-you.com/surya-mantra.html
A great astrologer said:
"To transcend the stars we must become the stars."

The Planetary Mantras

I've given several examples of powerful mantras for each planet. Choose one or more mantras from each planet and put it to practice.

Surya Mantra -- Sun Mantras

Om suryaya namaha

Om savitri namah

Om adityaya namaha

Om ravaye namaha

These four separate mantras can be repeated at least 108 times a week. Best on Sunday, the day of The Sun, during the day.

Chandra Mantra -- Moon Mantras

Om somaya namaha

Om chandraya namaha

Should be repeated on a Monday, the day of The Moon, or in the evening, particularly around the Full Moon.

also . . .

The Mantra to the Supreme Light
By David Frawley
From Americna Institute of Vedic Studies
http://www.vedanet.com/

Above is the Mantra to the Supreme Light, Param Jyoti Mantra, which is a famous Vedic, Vedantic and Tantric Mantra. We could also spell it phonetically as OM HREEM HAMSA SO HAM SWAHA! This mantra brings us into the Divine or inner light and causes it to resonate in our body, breath, speech and mind.

The Mantra for the Supreme Light is the main mantra for the American Institute of Vedic Studies. We recommend all our friends and students to chant it regularly. We initiate individuals into this mantra and its many variants. It is the core form of an entire set of mantras of which there are several dozen versions that can be used for many different purposes. We also use this mantra along with other important mantras like the famous Tantric Panchadashi Mantra to Tripura Sundari.

This Mantra to the Supreme Light is first a Vedantic mantra. Om is the Supreme Brahman. Hrim is the mantra of the spiritual heart. Hamsah is the mantra of the liberated soul. So'ham means "I am He", meaning the Supreme Being. Swaha indicates consecration into the light. The mantra can be used along with meditation to realize the Self within.

The Mantra to the Supreme Light is a Tantric mantra. Om is the Supreme Shiva. Hrim is the the Supreme Shakti. Hamsa So'ham is the unification of Shiva and Shakti in our breath and consciousness. Swaha indicates consecration into the light. This mantra can be used along with the worship of the Goddess to bring her presence into our hearts.

The Mantra to the Supreme Light is a Yoga mantra. Om is the supreme guru. Hrim is the light of the awakened Kundalini. Hamsa So'ham is the balancing of the Sun and Moon, or solar and lunar forces, the Ida and Pingala Nadis. Swaha indicates consecration into the light. The mantra can be used along with pranayama to empower the breath and open the chakras.

The Mantra to the Supreme Light is an Ayurvedic mantra. Om is the cosmic prana. Hrim is the health giving power of the spirit heart. Hamsa So'ham is the power of the breath to give vitality and promote rejuvenation. Swaha indicates consecration into the light. The mantra can be used to bring the cosmic prana into us for healing purposes.

The Mantra to the Supreme Light is an astrological mantra. Om is the mantra of the cosmic light. Hrim is a mantra for the Sun. Hamsa So'ham is the energy of the Sun as the power of life and consciousness. Swaha indicates consecration into the light. The mantra can be used to propitiate weak planets in the Vedic birth chart, starting with the Sun.

The Mantra to the Supreme Light is an important mantra for usage at the winter solstice, the equinoxes and summer solstices for the worship of the Sun. With the mantra Shrim (Shreem) instead of Hrim, it can be used at the new, half and full Moons, for the worship of the Moon and the Goddess.

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And here is a Buddhist Sun Goddess mantra, from the oral ( lineage holder ) tradition, which I received in 1983:

OM MARICIYE SVAHA

From George Harrison
( copyright retained )

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

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Self-love .............

aschleigh — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:54:08 GMT

You can know as much of yourself as you are willing to love."

"You can love as much of another person as you love of yourself. "

What do you think of these quotes, do they ring true for you?

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A SPIRITUAL C * NSP * R* CY

windwaterclear — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:22:31 GMT

A SPIRITUAL C * NSP * R* CY

We think this is so harmonically tuned to the spirit of Tribe and all of the mankind who are working towards a more peaceful, abundant, natural and consciously emerging planet. We trust you will feel the sentiment of it and pass it on...

with love and blessings

in the spirit of cooperation, family and global community

Sunny and Pierre Soleil

A SPIRITUAL C * NSP * R* CY

On the surface of the world right now there is
war and violence and things seem dark.
But calmly and quietly, at the same time,

something else is happening deep down.

An inner emergence is taking place

and certain individuals are being called to a higher light.
It is a silent awakening.
From the inside out. From the ground up.

This is a Global operation.
A Spiritual C * nsp * r * cy.
There are 'sleepers' awakening in every nation on the planet.

You won’t see us on the T.V .
You won’t read about us in the newspaper
You won’t hear about us on the radio

We don’t seek any glory
We don’t wear any uniform
We come in all shapes and sizes, colors and styles

Some of us work anonymously
We are quietly working behind the scenes

in every country and culture of the world;
in cities big and small, mountains and valleys;

in farms and villages, tribes and remote islands.

You could pass by one of us on the street
and not even notice

We go undercover
We insinuate into the system

from behind the scenes
It is of no concern to us who takes the final credit
But simply that the work gets done

During the day some of us pretend we have normal jobs
But behind the false storefront and at any hour
is where the real work takes a place

Some might call us the Conscious Warriors
Rainbow Warriors of Light, Spiritual Activists,
Lightworkers, Shamans, Helians [healing beings]

However we know ourselves as,
we are slowly creating a new world

with the power of our minds and hearts
We follow, with passion and joy

Our orders come from from the Central Spiritual Intelligence or The Celestial Concourse Administration...
Whether it's the CSI or the CSA or our own deepest access to global consciousness
We are all dropping soft, secret love b *m b s when no one is looking

Poems * Hugs * Music * Photography * Movies * Gifting * Kind words * Smiles * Inspiration * Meditation & prayer * Compassion * Workshops * Community Gatherings * Dance * Social alternatives * Websites * Blogs * Random acts of kindness and outgoing concern for the whole before self

We each express ourselves in our own unique ways
with our own unique gifts and talents

Be the change you want to see in the world
That is the motto that fills our hearts.

We know it is the only way real transformation takes place
We know that quietly and humbly we have the
power of all the oceans combined.

Our work is slow and meticulous
Like the formation of mountains
It is not even visible at first glance
And yet with it entire tectonic plates
shall be moved ....

Love is the new religion of the 21st century
You don’t have to be a highly educated person
Or have any exceptional knowledge to understand it

It comes from the intelligence of the heart
Embedded in the timeless evolutionary pulse of all human beings..

Be the change you want to see in the world
Nobody else can do it for you

We are now recruiting
Perhaps you will join us
Or already have.

All are welcome
The door is open

author unknown

Welcome H.E.R.E. We love you

SunWaterClear & WindWaterClear

Harmonic Emergence - Return to Earth H.E.R.E.

http://harmonicemergence.org/ - our foundation site
http://www.panoramio.com/user/2861230 A photographic tribute to the hallowed forests we roam
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/justcamping/ Small informal forest gatherings. More than just camping
http://www.everytrail.com/
http://tribes.tribe.net/harmonicemergence Join us on Tribe.net

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Hi, I'de like to meet you!

CLMTYKD — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:10:39 GMT

I have come here to help in building a stronger online community. Through building a community electronically via the internet, we are one step closer to uniting the world. My hope is that this is a big step in the right direction, one toward peace and understanding among the people of the world. Let us build bridges of understanding together! I firmly believe it is up to all the people of Earth to create a better world, not corporations, politicians, and other demagogues. Now we have the means to do so and make no mistake this is truly the dawning of a new age!

So visit my profile if you like, say hello, add me to your friends, and just communicate in general. I am also contributing to a blog if your interested; www.riseupforthenewday.net. Remember there can be no community without communication!

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Find out how to use your voice to save your life

KailashBruder — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:59:07 GMT

What if you had a device that would reliably produce peace of mind, elevate your mood, and support your growth into who you most wish to be?
Good news: you have just such a device. It's your voice!
The ancients understood that our voice is the steering wheel of our thoughts and feelings. When you focus your attention on the sound of your own voice while repeating time-tested mantras ("mind-protectors"), you lead your mind and heart in an Ultimately True, Beautiful, and Healthful direction. And because we all live in the atmosphere of our thoughts, your quality of life will be dramatically improved.
Kailash (Kurt Bruder, Ph.D., M.Ed.) provides you with the tools you need to take up or deepen a life-saving practice of devotional chanting in his groundbreaking book & CD set, Following Sound into Silence: Chanting Your Way Beyond Ego into Bliss (Hay House).
To discover what several leading figures in sacred sound and spirituality have to say about this extraordinary resource, please use this URL link:

http://OmKailash.com/fsis_testimonials.html

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HUGE QI / CHI /ENERGY SEMINAR EVENT - Orlando - April 25th - 28th

Michael — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:33:48 GMT

In celebration of World Qigong / Tai Chi Day (April 25th), when millions of people around the world will practice Qigong & Tai Chi, the Supreme Science Qigong Foundation will host the Largest Qigong Gathering in US History!

For 4 days, 5000 people will come together, in one room, in Orlando, to learn and practice Qigong! Imagine, being one of 5000 people breathing together and moving together! The group energy will be AMAZING!

Qigong (pronounced "Chee Gong") is the ancient Chinese art of directing Qi energy. All matter, including the air around us, is composed of energy. In Qigong, we cultivate internal and external Qi, through deep abdominal breathing techniques, specific movements, and mental focus. You will literally FEEL the magnetic energy in the air, between your hands, and coursing through your body!

For just $99, in just 4 days, you will learn Level-1, and Level-2 standing Qigong forms, a beautiful, freestyle Qigong dance called Wu Ji, Pranayama Breath Empowerment and 9-Breath Method breathing exercises, powerful meditations, Taoist stretching, Food Based Healing, and Qi Healing. You will meet many beautiful, open people, overflowing with peace and love, and make new friends. There will be live music, huge TV screens so everyone can see, and advanced computer animations & more than 100 instructors to help you learn.

If you are a Massage Therapist or RN, this is worth 32 Continuing Education Credit Hours.

You can't find a better deal than this anywhere! This is an experience you will never forget! You will thank yourself for coming!

To REGISTER & GET MORE INFO, click or copy and paste this link: http://www.kqzyfj.com/click-3417718-10649567

I hope to see you there!

Blessed be,
:) Michael Raphael
www.QigongDallas.com

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consciousness expansion

dominic — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:09:39 GMT

Take a look at my book Consciousness is king.......for consciousness expansion and th e keys to sound healing
lol

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/consciousness-is-king/6475318

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Energy cords?

aschleigh — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:56:29 GMT

The level that most people are not aware of, and that is important for the focus of this column, is energetically. When we give power away to other people because our relationship with self is dysfunctional, we actually allow cords of energy to tie us to those people. These cords (ribbons, cables, tethers, threads, strands) of energy exist on the Etheric plane - which is where the Life Force energy runs through the chakra system."
I got this from a co-dependency web site.
What are energy cords? How do they work? Can you cut them? Is it wise to cut these cords or work with them? Please explain.

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ot' happy Ostara

Sizzle — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:45:06 GMT

and happy late Imbolc, if you are connected into it...
hope all enjoy this ostara-egg i saved for you...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k54cn1gbIyI

blessed / blissed be

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Evolution of the NEO-Human

Sizzle — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:24:09 GMT

what do we think of this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC1X9yPLWwg

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Merging, poison, relationships....

aschleigh — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:30:45 GMT

I had this thought recently. When I am discovering that I love someone I have this strong desire to merge with them, physcially, emotionally, spiritually. I also am noticing in my self and others how much we poison ourselves in this culture with alcohol, food, negativity, dishonesty. We gum up the works internally with lies , secrets , undisgested emotionals, food ,etc..
And merging with someone who is not aware or poisoning themselves in these ways is not safe or healthy for me. It's as simple as not being able to kiss a smoker or as copmplicated as not being able to merge with a man who still has unresolved mother issues that are likely to come out in any relationship with maternal energy ( I.E. me) I also have some unresolved father issues , so I may be able to work with that one a bit. Regardless awareness is key. I feel "cleaner" or lighter than I have felt in a long time and that's why I feel the poison or negativity around me so acutely I think.
What do you think? Is merging and then individuating a pattern that is always there in relationships? Has anyone had this expereince where they were really sensitive ( even more than usual) to people who were exhiniting self-destructive behavior, to the point if felt gross to be around them ?

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We need seed angels!

orlandooffthedeepend — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:10:08 GMT

We have a couple projects going that don't need funding - just participants!

The first is hyperlocavore.com. Hyperlocavore is a yardsharing community - built to support people in the practice of creating 'yardsharing' arrangements to grow food together.

Many people want to grow food but they lack one or two of these four things:
-time
-space
-skills
- physical strength

Forming a yardsharing group with your friends, neighbors, family or with your religious communities is easy - and free! You can set up a 'seeking yardshare' group for your area (like Chicago, South Side) or a private group for your own yardshare "Grandma's Backyard Garden"

CSAs are filling up fast. Community gardens have waiting lists. Food is getting more and more expensive.
Find some people and start growing together!

The other project we've started is The Great Let's Get Growing Seed Share.
We are asking experienced gardeners to become 'seed angels,' to adopt a newbie gardener and send them some garden seeds! I have sent four newbie gardeners enough seed that each of them will have huge beautiful edible gardens this summer. It's easy - it cost me less than 4 dollars to get four gardens going!

If you are an experienced gardener we need you to become a seed angel!
If you are a newbie food grower - sign up!

It's FREE
http://hyperlocavore.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/the-great-lets-get-growing-seed-share/

If you think these are good ideas please help us get the word out to your communities! Blog it, tweet it, share it!

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Chaos, Collapse, and Synchronicity

tonyvigorito — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:22:10 GMT

Hi folks... here's an article I just published on www.RealitySandwich.com... Enjoy!

Chaos, Collapse, and Synchronicity

From imploding economies to hurricanes and tsunamis, from astounding corruption to war and terrorism, from catastrophic climate change to thermonuclear weapons in the Middle East, the clichés of doom that lately populate the course of human events is more than enough to tilt a sane citizen into apocalyptic anxiety. I am certain that I paint too broad a stroke on it, but I’m nonetheless going to venture to say that worrying about civilizational collapse is like worrying about whether or not one’s relationship will end in a painful breakup. I don’t mind admitting that I’ve spent some time worrying about both of these things—indeed, one of them even came to pass—and I can testify that no amount of worry could have prepared me for the agony—and the ecstasy—that eventually came of it.

As it happened, I was in the midst of writing my second novel, Nine Kinds of Naked, a novel which presumed to explore the theme of synchronicity. I really don’t remember how or why, but I had dared myself to write Nine Kinds of Naked without a plan and only according to the synchronicity of my daily experience. This turned out to be a terrifying endeavor, and one that I was entirely unprepared to meet. I remember complaining aloud one day, voicing my frustration that this wasn’t working, that I was *trying* to write about synchronicity rather than allowing the story to simply proceed by its own design. I had read every book on the topic, taking careful notes the way my graduate training had habituated me to do, and there I was writing the book as an exhausted intellectual rather than as an inspired artist. I found myself writing about a phenomenon that I only dimly recalled from years earlier in my life, not something that I was experiencing in the present moment. I felt like I was failing my project.

Then my relationship of eleven years abruptly ended.

I only mention this very personal detail of my life at all because of what happened to me afterwards: I was propelled into a six-month period of unparalleled and nearly nonstop synchronicity that continued to reverberate for another full year and upon which I’m still surfing the shockwave. I’m not speaking here about the typical tripe: seeing your former lover’s initials on a license plate or hearing another lovesick pop song every time you click on the radio. Cripes and jeezus gawd, there was plenty of that, but if those wan synchronicities are supposed to be the thumbprints of Providence in the margins of my life, then Providence has grown much too tame. I’m speaking here of the truly uncanny, the highly improbable, the perpetual co-incidence of my life intersecting perfectly with the lives of everyone around me. Shortly after my split, suffering with grief one summer day on my porch, a rare car passed my house, windows open, broadcasting the gaudy voice of a radio commercial advertising I know not what: “It’s a big change,” the radio yapped in passing. “Heal naturally.” And that’s the most insignificant example I can remember.

In my research on synchronicity, I had learned that it is most likely to emerge during and after ego-shattering experiences. These include near-death experiences, the death of loved ones, the end (or the beginning) of love relationships, shamanic / visionary experiences, travel, and so forth. Psychology typically deems this a form of dissociation in response to psychological trauma, and this is probably correct. After all, when I measure it against my own experience—in which the entire world and my very presence within it seemed indistinguishable from a dream—that defines dissociation, certainly. And yet, this explanation by itself left me feeling deeply dissatisfied, implying as it did a dismissal of my experience. And the experience of synchronicity is profoundly personal. It relies upon your subjectivity and the meanings you bring to your life. Because of this, it is irrelevant to debate whether or not it’s real in the sense of what we might vainly refer to as objective reality. There’s an unavoidable arrogance in presuming to evaluate not merely the truth of someone else’s experience, but actually the truth of *the meaning* of someone else’s experience. In the latter case, it has absolutely nothing to do with anyone but the person involved.

In any event, my understanding eventually relented to a view in which synchronicity is the face of a deeper level of interconnectivity. This dovetails with Eastern notions of non-duality, the mystical perception that unity is the underlying reality, that individual consciousness is actually the necessary illusion of distinction, the dark side of the Tao, so to speak, that which hears the tree falling in the woods. In this view, then, whenever the structures of one’s mind are shaken, the mind opens into a wider perception of reality that is hallmarked by synchronicity, understood here as a dissolution of the boundary between the interior and the exterior worlds. Fundamentally, the ego is the illusion that you exist separate from everything else, it is that which walls you off from the flow of undivided unity. Whenever these walls collapse, the flow of undivided unity rushes into your life, and synchronicity is the face of this perception.

So, dear and patient readers, my quodlibet is this: Although my breakup catalyzed what an external observer may at first grunt judge to be a breakdown, from my point of view the only breakdown was the delusion that I was in control of my life. All the walls—of identity, ambition, and security, of any illusion that I knew who I was, or where I was, or that I had any clue at all what was happening in life—all of this collapsed like an obsolete civilization and permitted eternity to course through me as never before. Insofar as apocalypse derives from the Greek "apokalyptein," meaning “to unveil,” this was some version of my personal apocalypse, and since apocalypse is the etymological antonym of hell, which derives from the Latin "helan," meaning “to veil,” the only thing to mourn was the liberation from my own illusions. In a similar fashion, this is what we’re facing when we worry about the collapse of our social structures. Despite our roads and skylines, despite our bridges and our borders, despite our military-industrial complexes and hyper-corrupt transnational corporations, society does not actually exist anywhere but the human mind. As a mental construct, society provides us with a shared illusion of meaning, purpose, and order, and it stabilizes our existence thereby, but paraphrasing Terence McKenna, society is not our friend. At best it is what Aldous Huxley referred to as a reducing valve to our perception, and at worst it is what Robert Anton Wilson called “the devil’s masquerade,” a Luciferian diversion from the truth of existence.

And the truth, or something resembling it, is that if you walk outside right now, hold your hand up to the sky, and pinch a millimeter of heaven between your thumb and forefinger, the truth is that if you were to focus the Hubble space telescope on that random sector of sky between your thumb and forefinger, that one dot on the overwhelming vault of heaven, you would discover *billions* of *galaxies*. This is the cathedral of eternity in which we find ourselves, and this magnificent insignificance is what we do not see when we imagine that we are—or that we could ever be—in control of this juggernaut that is barreling down the shuddering tracks of history.

As McKenna also intones on one of my favorite Shpongle tracks: "Nothing is wrong, everything is on track." And indeed it was, for as it turned out, my matrimonial cataclysm was just the apocalyptic knock I needed to inspire the novel some part of me had dared myself to fathom. I gave up, I surrendered, and it was only then that Nine Kinds of Naked could proceed according its own synchronicity. There was a tremendous relief in this giving up of control, in surrendering to some chaotic process infinitely larger than myself, in realizing not only that I am not in control of my life, but also that I don’t *have* to be.

So here we yawn at millennium’s dawn: Bugles are blasting and the walls of civilization are crumbling, chaos is seeping through the cracks and crawling out of the shadows, survivalist monkeys are buying guns and the ice caps are melting besides as chaos gazes unfazed at the clamor of humanity sounding for all the universe like the echo of a distant wind chime. That which we thought was stable, safe, and secure is not, that which we sacrificed so much for is failing, that which told us who we are is collapsing like a psychedelic kaleidoscope. And as our social structures collapse, humanity—barbaric, beautiful humanity—humanity will rediscover the awesome divinity that inhabits the core of our consciousness as one by one we give up control because society may not be our friend but chaos is our mother and our mother is an order unfathomable, a layer of complexity much deeper than the dim and flimsy arrogance of ego can admit to itself. Welcome our selves to the cathedral of eternity, the dimension in which we step out of that steaming pile of ego which passes for human consciousness and at last surrender into a higher order of experience in which our interconnectivity one to another becomes blindingly obvious, and we see, and we know, and we remember, that there is so much more happening in life than we have ever been led to believe.

Synchronicity on the sultry soothe of your day~

Tony Vigorito
www.tonyvigorito.com
© 2009 Tony Vigorito... feel free to forward as far as you see fit...

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we are interconnected .. here on tribe we share

waveyoga — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:46:41 GMT

many of same tribes.

Some of my friends contribute on several tribes with me.

Thank you.

I finally met 2 people form tribe in one week.

I will be visiting on ein another country soon.

We are more connected, I think, when we read others' blogs and make helpful comment son them, when we pray together adn when we accept change to gether.

I came back to this tribe to write a bit about this.

It is an early Seattle grey morning and my habit of reaching out to connect with my tribe friends remains, tho things have changed a bit.

have a lovely day my friends.

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Ephemeral mists

mysticalfairy — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:16:10 GMT

Ephemeral Mists is the newest side project by composer Brett Branning (The synthetic dream foundation & Abandoned Toys). The debut album, "Moon Ritual" is out now on Mythical records.

The sound of the project is best described as downtempo ambient electronics mixed with ethnic world musics in the vein of "Karma" era Delerium, Amethystium, and Dead Can Dance. Its really a very intoxicatingly beautiful creation and I highly recommend it to anyone into ambient music styles.

http://www.ephemeralmists.com/

http://www.mythicalrecords.com/

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Relationship between adverse childhood experience and adult health

aschleigh — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:46:26 GMT

The Relation Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Health: Turning Gold into Lead
By Vincent J Felitti, MD

Background

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study is a major research study that compares current adult health status to childhood experiences decades earlier. With the cooperation of 17,421 adult Health Plan members and with the ongoing collaboration of Dr Robert Anda at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the study is being carried out in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Kaiser Permanente (KP) San Diego--where for many years we conducted detailed biomedical, psychological, and social (biopsychosocial) evaluations of more than 50,000 adult Kaiser Foundation Health Plan members per year.

The findings are important medically, socially, and economically: They provide remarkable insight into how we become what we are as individuals and as a nation. The ACE Study reveals a powerful relation between our emotional experiences as children and our adult emotional health, physical health, and major causes of mortality in the United States. Moreover, the time factors in the study make it clear that time does not heal some of the adverse experiences we found so common in the childhoods of a large population of middle-aged, middle-class Americans. One doesn't "just get over" some things.

Study Design

The ACE Study was triggered by observations we made in the mid 1980s in an obesity program at the KP San Diego Department of Preventive Medicine. This program then had a high dropout rate. The first of many counterintuitive discoveries was that the great majority of the dropouts actually were successfully losing weight. Detailed life interviews of almost 200 such individuals unexpectedly revealed that childhood abuse was remarkably common and antedated the onset of their obesity. Many patients spoke openly of an association between the two. The counterintuitive aspect was that, for many people, obesity was not their problem; it was their protective solution to problems that previously had never been discussed with anyone. An early insight was the memorable remark of a woman who was raped at age twenty-three and gained 105 pounds in the subsequent year: "Overweight is overlooked, and that's the way I need to be." The contrast was striking between this statement and her desire to lose weight. Similarly, two men who were guards at the State Penitentiary became anxious after losing more than 100 pounds each. They made it clear that they felt much safer going to work looking "big as a refrigerator" instead of normal size. Overall, we found the simultaneous presence of opposing forces to be common; many of our weight program patients were driving with one foot on the brakes and one on the gas, wanting to lose weight but fearful of change.

In 1990 in Atlanta, I presented information about the frequent relation between obesity and abusive childhood experiences to a largely skeptical audience at the North American Association for the Study of Obesity. Unexpectedly, this presentation led to contacts with researchers at the CDC, who recognized the importance of what had been reported. They proposed a large epidemiologic study to provide definitive evidence of our clinical observations. This was the beginning of the ACE Study at KP San Diego, where, each year, we could easily ask more than 26,000 consecutive adults seen in the Department of Preventive Medicine if they would be interested in helping us understand how childhood events might affect adult health status. Sixty-eight percent of this population agreed to participate and understood that the information they provided about their childhood would never be included in their medical records.

The ACE Study compared current adult health status of these participants with eight categories of adverse childhood experience that we had frequently identified in the weight program. Three categories pertained to personal abuse: recurrent physical abuse, recurrent emotional abuse, and sexual abuse. Four categories pertained to growing up in a dysfunctional household--ie, with an alcoholic person or a drug user; where someone was in prison; where someone was chronically depressed, mentally ill, or suicidal; where the mother was treated violently; and where the parents were separated, divorced, or in some way lost to the patient during childhood. In addition, we decided to monitor this large cohort for at least five years to compare childhood experiences prospectively against adult pharmacy costs, doctor office visits, emergency department use, hospitalization, and death. An ACE score was constructed to analyze the huge mass of information we gathered. A person exposed to none of the studied categories had an ACE Score of 0; an individual exposed to any four had an ACE Score of 4, etc.

Because the average study participant was 57 years old, we actually were measuring the effect of childhood experiences on adult health status a half-century later. Dr Anda, my coprincipal investigator at CDC, designed the data management and retrospective and prospective components of the Study with great skill. Here, I will only touch upon some highlights of our findings; details may be sought in the anchor article of a series of publications deriving from the ACE Study. The initial article was published in May 1998 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, v 14: 245-258;1 full text is at their Web site: www.meddevel.com/site.mash?left=/library.exe&m1=4&m2=1&right= /library.exe&action=search_form&search.mode= simple&site=AJPM&jcode=AMEPRE.

A list of published peer reviewed publications from the ACE Study is provided at the end of this article.2-11

Findings

A striking finding was that adverse childhood experiences are vastly more common than recognized or acknowledged. Of equal importance was our observation that they had a powerful correlation to adult health a half-century later. It is this combination that makes them so important. Slightly more than half of our middle-class population of Health Plan members experienced one or more of the categories we studied. One in four was exposed to two categories of abusive experience, one in 16 to four categories. Given an exposure to one category, there is 80% likelihood of exposure to another. All this, of course, is well shielded by social taboos against obtaining this information. Further, one may "miss the forest for the trees" if one studies these issues individually. They do not occur in isolation; for instance, a child does not grow up with an alcoholic person or with domestic violence in an otherwise well-functioning household. The question to ask is: How will these childhood experiences play out decades later in a doctor's office? How does one perform reverse alchemy, going from a normal newborn with almost unlimited potential to a diseased, depressed adult? How does one turn gold into lead?

Smoking is a useful starting example to illustrate what we found; moreover, it allows us to start with a minimally threatening topic. In California, there are now profound social pressures against smoking; persistent smoking in the face of these is often attributed to "addiction." But did you know that current smoking has a high degree of association with what happened decades ago in childhood? Figure 1 is a graphic illustration of how the ACE Score has a graded, dose-response effect on the probability of current smoking. The higher the ACE Score, the greater the likelihood of current smoking. This graded, dose-response effect is present for all the associations we found, although I will only present three. All the relations have a p value of .001 or better. Further details of the ACE Study findings are published in a series of articles exploring our findings from the retrospective and prospective arms of the Study.
Figure1. Graph shows relation between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Score and smoking status.

Lest one doubt the significance of smoking, we found that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has a strong relationship to the ACE Score. A person with a midrange ACE score of 4 is 390% more likely to have COPD than is a person with an ACE Score of 0. What does this do to the conventional concept of smoking that attributes addiction to characteristics that are intrinsic within nicotine? We instead found "addiction" attributable to characteristics that are intrinsic in early life experiences. If early emotional stress predicts COPD, is COPD properly understood as a psychosomatic condition? Are certain common, chronic, adult diseases the result of attempts at self-treatment of concealed problems that occurred in childhood?

When we looked at self-defined current depression, we found that a person with ACE score >4 was 460% more likely to be depressed than a person with ACE score of 0. Confirming the reliability of this conclusion, we found a 1220% historical increase in attempted suicide between these two groups. For groups with higher ACE scores, incidence of attempted suicide increases thirtyfold to fifty-one fold! Using the analytic technique of population attributable risk, we found that more than two thirds of suicide attempts could be attributed to adverse childhood experiences.
Figure 2. Graph shows relation between longtime smoking, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and ACE Score.
Figure 3. Graph shows relation between ACE Score and illicit use of injected drugs.

Intravenous drug use is a major public health problem. In spite of massive efforts to curtail it, little progress has been made. We found that IV drug use may properly be viewed as a personal solution to problems that are well concealed by social niceties and convention. For example, a male child with an ACE score of 6 has a 4600% increase in the likelihood of later using intravenous drugs. This relation to adverse childhood experiences is powerful and is graded at every step; it provides a perfect dose-response curve; and epidemiologically, these outcomes are nearly unique in magnitude. Because no one shoots heroin to get endocarditis or AIDS, might heroin then be used for relief of profound anguish dating back to childhood experiences? Might it be the best coping device a person can find? If so, is this phenomenon a public health problem or a personal solution? How often are public health problems personal solutions? Is drug abuse self-destructive, or is it a desperate attempt at self-healing, albeit at a significant future risk? This point is important because primary prevention is far more difficult than anticipated--possibly because incomplete understanding of the benefits of so-called health risk behaviors causes these behaviors to be viewed as irrational acts that have only negative consequences. Does this incomplete view of drug abuse leave us mouthing cautionary platitudes instead of understanding the cause of our intractable public health problems?

Beyond these few illustrations, we found many other measures of adult health to have a strong, graded relation to what happened in childhood: hepatitis, heart disease, fractures, diabetes, obesity, alcoholism, occupational health, and job performance. These findings are detailed in the original and subsequent articles and will further be reported in publications of the yet-to-be-analyzed prospective arm of the ACE Study.

Discussion

What do these findings mean for medical practice and for society? Clearly, we have shown that adverse childhood experiences are both common and destructive. This combination makes them one of the most important, if not the most important, determinants of the health and well-being of the nation. Unfortunately, these problems are both painful to recognize and difficult to cope with. Most physicians would far rather deal with traditional organic disease. Certainly, it is easier to do so, but that approach also leads to troubling treatment failure and to the frustration of expensive diagnostic quandaries where everything is ruled out but nothing is ruled in.

Our usual approach to many common adult chronic diseases reminds one of the relation between smoke and fire. A person unfamiliar with fires would initially be tempted to treat the smoke--ie, the most visible aspect of the problem. What we have learned in the ACE Study represents the underlying fire. Fortunately, fire departments learned to distinguish cause from effect long ago; if they had not, they would use fans instead of water hoses.

If the treatment implications of what we found in the ACE Study are far-reaching, the prevention aspects are positively daunting. The very nature of the material is such as to make one uncomfortable. Why would one want to leave the relative comfort of traditional organic disease and enter this area of threatening uncertainty that none of us has been trained to deal with? And yet, as I write these words, I am interrupted to consult on a 70-year-old woman who is diabetic and hypertensive. The initial description given to me omitted the fact that she is morbidly obese (one doesn't go out of one's way to identify what one can't handle). Review of her chart shows her to be chronically depressed, never married, and, because we ask the question of 57,000 adults a year, to have been raped by her elder brother six decades ago when she was ten. The same brother also molested her sister, who also is said to be leading a troubled life.

We found that 22% of our Health Plan members were sexually abused as children. How does that affect a person later in life? What does it mean that early sexual abuse is never spoken of? We find it useful routinely to ask all patients acknowledging this experience, "How did that affect you later in life?"

What, then, is this woman's diagnosis? Is she just another hypertensive, diabetic old woman, or is there more to the practice of medicine? Here is the way we conceptualized her problems:

Childhood sexual abuse

Chronic depression

Morbid obesity

Diabetes mellitus

Hypertension

Hyperlipidemia

Coronary artery disease

Macular degeneration

Psoriasis

This is not a comfortable diagnostic formulation; it points out that our attention is comfortably focused on tertiary consequences far downstream. The diagnosis shows that the primary issues are well protected by social convention and taboo and points out that we have limited ourselves to the smallest part of the problem: the part where we are comfortable as mere prescribers of medication. Which diagnostic choice shall we make? Who shall make it? And if not now, when?

This article, with minor change, was originally published in The Family Violence Prevention Fund's "Health Alert," Volume 8, No. 1. Adapted and reproduced with permission of the publisher, Peter Sawires.

Acknowledgments

The original study was funded by the US Department of Health & Human Services; the CDC Foundation; and the Kaiser Permanente Garfield Memorial Fund.

Selected ACE Study Publications

1. Felitti VJ, Anda RF, Nordenberg D, et al. Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading causes of death in adults. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study. Am J Prev Med 1998 May;14(4):245-58.
2. Foege WH. Adverse childhood experiences: A public health perspective. Am J Prev Med 1998 May;14(4):354-5.
3. Weiss MJ, Wagner SH. What explains the negative consequences of adverse childhood experiences on adult health? Insights from cognitive and neuroscience research. Am J Prev Med 1998 May;14(4):356-60.
4. Anda RF, Croft JB, Felitti VJ, et al. Adverse childhood experiences and smoking during adolescence and adulthood. JAMA 1999 Nov 3;282(17):1652-8.
5. Dietz PM, Spitz AM, Anda RF, et al. Unintended pregnancy among adult women exposed to abuse or household dysfunction during their childhood. JAMA 1999 Oct 13;282(14):1359-64. Hillis SD, Anda RF, Felitti VJ, et al. Adverse childhood experiences and sexually transmitted diseases in men and women: a retrospective study. Pediatrics 2000 Jul;106(1):E11.
6. Edwards VJ, Anda RF, Nordenberg DF, et al. Bias assessment for child abuse survey: factors affecting probability of response to a survey about childhood abuse. Child Abuse Negl 2001 Feb;25(2):307-12.
7. Edwards VJ, Fivush R, Anda RF, et al. Autobiographical memory disturbances in childhood abuse survivors. In: Freyd JJ, DePrince AP, editors. Trauma and cognitive science: a meeting of minds, science, and human experience. Binghamton (NY): Haworth Press; 2001. Published simultaneously as a single-topic issue of J Aggression Maltreatment Trauma Vol 4(2), No. 8.
8. Anda RF, Felitti VJ, Chapman DP, et al. Abused boys, battered mothers, and male involvement in teen pregnancy. Pediatrics 2001 Feb;107(2):E19.
9. Dube SR, Anda RF, Felitti VJ, et al. Adverse childhood experiences and personal alcohol abuse as an adult. Addict Behav. In press 2002.
10. Dube SR, Anda RF, Felitti VJ, et al. Exposure to abuse, neglect and household dysfunction among adults who witnessed intimate partner violence as children: implications for integrated health and social services. Violence Vict. In press 2002.
11. Dube SR, Anda RF, Felitti VJ, et al. Childhood Abuse, Household dysfunction, and the risk of attempted suicide throughout the life span. Findings from the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study. JAMA 2001;286:3089-3096.

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Ganesh ( Ganapati ) the Hindu Buddhist Deity : practices references and transmission

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:50:33 GMT

Ganesh ( Ganapati ) the Hindu Buddhist Deity : practices references and transmission

Keywords : Ganapati / Ganesh the Elephant Headed God of Classical India, Mantra and Praise of Ganapati, Deity yoga, Tantric empowerment, Overlapping Hindu / Buddhist mantra culture, Vedacarya Thomas Ashley-Farrand, Sakya Lineage and Sakya Monastery, Seattle Washington.

“To those for whom these village fires still have meaning:
Oh, may your own most beautiful Animal of Light come safely to you!”
from the Last Whole Earth Catalog

On 13 July in Seattle Washington a Ganapati empowerment will be offered at Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism. The guru bestowing this empowerment is the tantric master of Sakya Monastery, His Holiness Jigdal Dagchen Sakya Rinbochay. See www.sakya.org for more information.

For this reason it is timely and appropriate to provide some basic teaching and perspective on Ganapati, and in particular an esoteric Hindu Ganapati mantra and also a Sanskrit Buddhist praise of Ganapati. Many diverse teachings on this deity in Hindu form are available on the internet ( under both Ganapati and Ganesh ).

An excellent introductory summary for Ganapati / Ganesh is available online at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesha

The Buddhist Ganapati is also referenced in the Tibetan Buddhist traditions of the Nyingma ( e.g. Longchen Nyingtik ) and Gelugpa lineages ( see practice texts for www.fpmt.org ). There is also Buddhist practice of Ganapati in the esoteric Buddhist Japanese tradition known as Shingon, which came East via China and not Tibet.

Briefly, Ganapati means Lord of the Troop, and Ganesh basically means Elephant Headed One. Ganapati is known by the title “Remover of Obstacles” or “Lord of Obstacles”. He carries or represents the enormous power of the Elephant. He is often accompanied by two female consorts Riddhi and Siddhi ( Magical Accomplishment and Spiritual Accomplishment ).

Ganapati is very prominent and even central in Hindu practice and is often evoked at the beginning of important engagements or projects, such as making a journey or starting employment, or beginning a meditation practice session. I have seen dance evocation of Ganapati at the beginning of a Hindu temple dance concert. Ganapati is one of the main practices of Hindu business people for success in their commercial ventures.

Ganapati is strongly associated with the “national spirit” or Mother India as well as her earliest roots. In the distant past elephants were used throughout India to clear land for agriculture, and also as war elephants. More recently, public Hindu celebrations were banned by the occupying British and the outlawed Ganapati ceremonies were brought forth, successfully, to rally India against foreign rule.

It is said that the long “History of India” was transcribed by the deity Ganapati as given by Rishi Visvamitra. Many of the key texts of Sanatana Dharma ( Hinduism ) were written down by Ganapati. So, this practice is a primary connection to Vedic Culture. Due to this, Ganapati is also practiced by students to help with their secular school exams.

Ganapati has a very ambivalent status in Buddhist tantra, the esoteric form of Buddhist meditation which relies on yoga, deity recitations and mystic practices in general. On the one hand, Ganapati is often considered unfriendly towards Buddhist practitioners in general, and propitiated or banished or subjugated so as to not cause problems. Thus, a subjugated Ganapati serves as the throne for the deity Mahakala in his Six Armed form. This reflects the fact that some but not all Hindu practice / culture affirms Buddhist teachings.

On the other hand, there are specifically Buddhist practices for Ganapati, as for other Hindu deities such as Shiva, Sarasvati and so forth. The Sakya lineage carries Buddhist deity yogas for the Hindu deities Uma Devi / Parvati and Garuda, as well as Ganapati. ( In Southern Buddhism, such as in Sri Lanka Theravada monasteries, it is common to propitiate the Hindu deity Visnu for outer or worldly benefits. )

More broadly, many Buddhist schools share with the Sanatana Dharma ( i.e. Hindu practice and culture ) a significant focus on Ayurveda, or spiritual medicine. The Buddhist deity Bhaisajyaguru, or Medicine Buddha, is a deity of Buddhist spiritual medicine and Ayurveda in both Hindu and Buddhist forms is more or less identical in practice, not just similar.

In the classical Sakya tradition, this Twelve Arm Ganapati is actually an emanation of Avalokitesvara, the beloved and universal Buddhist deity of liberating compassion. Thus, it is reasonable to view this empowerment as being a definite connection to Avalokitesvara and the general practices of Avalokitesvara.

It is also very important to note that with this ( or any ) tantric Buddhist empowerment comes the general set of universal Buddhist vows, such as the Ten Precepts ( rejection of harmfulness, theft, dishonesty, ill-will and so forth ), and the Bodhisattva vows. The Bodhisattva vows focus on active humanitarian service in the most broad and deep and long term ways, starting with rejection of limiting ideas such as racism, sexism, tribalism, and all cultural divisiveness.

For some basic teachings on Buddhist theory and practice, see the following at Asian Classics:
http://www.asianclassics.org/research_site/webdata/education.html

The Principal Teachings of Buddhism
Buddhist Refuge
The Vows of the Bodhisattva

For an excellent general introduction to Buddhist practice, with a focus on Buddhist tantra, see the following book by Kalu Rinpoche:
The Dharma: That Illuminates All Beings Like the Light of the Sun and the Moon, State University of New York Press, 1986, ISBN 0-88706-157-5

http://www.amazon.com/Dharma-Illuminates-Beings-Impartially-Light/dp/0887061575

This book is short, direct, accessible, classical and effective. It should be. It was transcribed as spoken directly to westerners by one of the greatest Buddhist masters of the last century.

To take the tantric Buddhist empowerment of Ganapati or any other is to take Mahayana Buddhist vows, as well as to become authorized to do magical kinds of practice, such as mantra recitation to develop the power of the deity. The point is that in this case, the Hindu/ Buddhist deity Ganapati is practiced within a classical Buddhist context, not otherwise. Thus the above mentioned Buddhist references are of central importance in this transmission and practice.

As a brilliant red deity aspect, Twelve Armed Ganapati is not only a remover of obstacles and disharmonious circumstances, but also a magnetizing deity, i.e. a deity that “warms up” social situations, and develops strongly positive interpersonal engagement.

On a yogic level, this deity ( in Buddhist deity yoga ) develops strength and power at the level of the navel point of the psychic energy body ( svadhisthana cakra ), although I cannot say more without transgressing tantric vows of secrecy. Note that the Hindu Ganapati is girded by snakes, representing kundalini energy, and is similarly associated with the energy at the base of the spinal column. All tantric transmissions are private, and their contents not to be discussed following initiation.

This is one of many specifically obstacle-removing diety yogas in Buddhist tantra. There are many others, but this one is definitely recommended for those who have a more Hindu-oriented background in culture and/ or personal karma. And as noted earlier, it is a connection to Avalokitesvara practice specifically, and to the outer Mahayana practices in general.

This can also be viewed ( speaking very unofficially ) as a connection to Hindu transmissions. ) For this reason I will now provide a specifically Hindu mantra for Ganapati, which has been confirmed. It is quite reasonable to say that on obtaining a Twelve Arm Ganapati empowerment, one may practice the following Hindu mantra as well.

Maha Ganapati Mantra
"Aum shrim hrim klim glaum gam
ganapataye vara varada sarva
janamme vashamanaya svaha"

Vedacarya Thomas Ashley-Farrand, from whom I have Laxmi transmission, has many introductory and also detailed teachings on Hindu mantra practice. See his website at
http://www.sanskritmantra.com/

The following is not an official representation, but I do have the Sakya lineage Ganapati transmission some twenty years back from HE Luding Khen Rinbochay. This Sakya initiation is for a Twelve Arm Red Ganapati, equivalent in many respects to the Hindu deity Ganesh or Ganapati. Many diverse teachings on this deity in Hindu form are available on the internet ( under both Ganapati and Ganesh ). The Buddhist Ganapati is also referenced in the Tibetan Buddhist traditions of the Nyingma and Gelugpa lineages.

From www.sakya.org :

07/13/2008
GANAPATI INITIATION
Offered by H. H. Jigdal Dagchen Sakya
Sunday, July 13
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Shrine Room
Suggested Donation: $30 Public, $25 Members
Translator: Dr. Jeff Schoening
Ganapati made the commitment to help all beings to uphold the 3 trainings—moral behavior, meditation, wisdom— and, in particular, to provide the necessary materials and provisions for practitioners.
He protects one from obstacles at the beginning of any enterprise and also helps to increase wealth and power for the benefit of the Dharma.
His Holiness Jigdal Dagchen Sakya, head lama of Sakya Monastery, was born in Tibet in 1929. He continues the great Sakya lineage which began with Khon Konchok Gyalpo (1034—1102). He received teachings of the unbroken Khon lineage, the Sakya Vajrakilaya, the Hevajra and the complete Lamdre Tsogshe, from his father, H.H. Trichen Ngawang Thutop Wangchul, the last Sakya throne holder in Tibet. He also studied with many other great Buddhist teachers, including Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi and Dingo Khyentse Robsal Dawa.
In 1960, H.H. J.D. Sakya was invited to work on a University of Washington research project on Tibetan civilization which was sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. At the request of students, he co-founded with H.E. Dezhung Rinpoche Sakya Tegchen Choling, a center for the study of Tibetan Buddhism and culture. In 1984, the center became the Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism.

The following is copyrighted material from The Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon, at
http://www.uwest.edu/sanskritcanon/index.html
specifically
http://www.uwest.edu/sanskritcanon/Stotra/Roman/stotra30.html

The source text is “ Source: Pandey, Janardan Shastri ed. Bauddha strotra Samgrah. Varanasi : Motilal Banarsidass, 1994”.

This is provided as a necessary and specific demonstration that classical Indian Buddhist culture incorporated Ganapati deity yoga as a tantric practice, and not for other purposes.
Ganesastotram

kharvam sthulataram gajendravadanam lambodaram sundaram
vidhnesam madhugandhalubdhamadhupavyalolagandasthalam|
dantodghatavidaritahitajanam sindurasobhakaram
vande sailasutasutam ganapatim siddhipradam kamadam|| 1||

herambah paramo devah karyasiddhividhayakah|
saibhagyarupasampannam dehi me sukhasampadam|| 2||

ekadantam mahakayam lambodaram gajananam|
sarvasiddhipradataram gangaputram namamyaham|| 3||

vande tam gananathamaryamanagham daridrayadavanalam
sundaadandavidhuyamanasamalam samsarasindhostarim|
yam natva surakoyayah prabhuvaram siddhim labhante param
sindurarunavigraham paripataddanambudharahrtam|| 4||

uccairbrahmandakhandadvitayasahacaram kumbhayugmam dadhanah
presannagaripaksapratibhatavikatasrotratalabhiramah |
devah sambhorapatyam bhujagapatitanusparddhivardhisnuhasta-
strailokyascaryamurtirjayati trijagatamisvarah kuñjarasyah|| 5||

ganapatisca herambo vidhnarajo vinayakah |
deviputro mahateja mahabalaparakramah || 6||

mahodaro mahakayascaikadanto gajananah|
svetavastro mahadiptastrinetro gananayakah || 7||

aksamalam ca dantam ca grhnan vai daksine kare|
parasum modakapatram ca vamahaste vidharayan|| 8||

nanapusparato devo nanagandhanulepanah |
nagayajñopavitango nanavidhnavinasanah || 9||

devasuramanusyanam siddhagandharvavanditam|
trailokyavidhnahartaramakhvarudham namamyaham|| 10||

sumukhascaikadantasca kapilo gajakarnakah |
lambodarasca vikato vidhnarajo vinayakah || 11||

dhumraketurganadhyakso bhalacandro gajananah |
vakratundah surpakarno herambah skandapurvajah || 12||

sodasaitani namani yah pathecchunuyadapi|
vidyarambhe vivahe ca pravese nirgame tatha|| 13||

samgrame samkate caiva vidhnastasya na jayate|
vidhnavallikutharaya ganadhipataye namah || 14||

sriganesastotram samaptam|

Sarva mangalam! Siddhi rastu!

In partial fulfillment of vajrayana teaching responsibilities,

KT

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THE ENERGY BEHIND ENLIGHTENMENT

Tom Zatar — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:13:00 GMT

Most people use ten percent or less of the Brain. Through the awakening of Kundalina energy the brain can organically evolve to a higher performance. No time has been spent investigating perhaps the most powerful energy of nature. Religious experience and its root.

Kundalini is the evolutionary potency in all humans. A fundamental bioenergy. It comes from an Indian word meaning “to join the soul with the cosmic soul,” In the ancient Indian language Sanskrit it is a term referring to a coiled force or energy originating at the base of the spine, and seated near the sex organs a coiled up sleeping snake. Implies latent energy or potential to expand. Serpent Power when activated travels up the seven chakras which are the nerve centers along the spinal cord and enlightens the mind. Expanding consciousness the nirvana of Buddha. It is responsible for human evolution and all-psychic abilities genius and spiritual illumination. Kundalini is the biological way to expand the mind.

Kundalini is the “secret” behind yoga and all other esoteric psychology’s and genuine occult mysteries. A scientifically measurable biochemical essence Kundalini is the substance that is the nourishment of consciousness. It penetrates the nervous system and influences the nerves to become the instrument of higher consciousness. This subtle substance is a snake-like force that fuels the mind in order to sustain a more active state, producing an awakened Kundalini individual, Note: snakes have two hemi penises and the power to hypnotize.

Such inner power is represented by the two snakes on King Tut’s headdress and the feathered serpent of Mexico and South America, The serpent in the Garden of Eden. The upward flow of Kundalini nectar (prana force, bioplasmic stream) is concentrated in the reproductive fluids of both men and women. When Kundalini is activated a reverse action takes place, feeding the center of the brain. “cavity of Brahma” in the brain’s ventricular cavity. Kundalini is the power that controls it. All great saints’’ mystics’ poets and people of genius, as well as the insane were influenced in this way.

If an experiment were performed it would prove the existence of the Kundalini force and show its physiological effects on the body. It could bridge the gap between science and mysticism and show the essential truth of religious experience and tradition. Religion has always been a companion of humanity. Religion came to guide humanity. No scientist could doubt the reality of this phenomenon once it has been observed and measured.. Such an experiment would uncover the vale of darkness and delusion under which humanity has been living. This evolutionary force needs publicity and actual proof would provide it. The results will speak for themselves. It will be a discovery more important than anything that has preceded it.

It is only from an awakened perspective that such observation can be made and this potential lies within everyone. As humanity evolved from cave men to the United Nations it becomes inevitable that this discovery will come to light and that there is indeed a purpose. A planned creation to our being. God protects our blue-green planet earth from the inferno of intergalactic space. Why? Because humanity has to attain to other states of consciousness for which all these recourses are needed to do this. We have been granted an intelligence to make the best use of it.

Life’s purpose and evolution’s power lead to cosmic laws, which must be obeyed for nature’s divine grace within us all to come to light. These laws as spoken of in all religions occult and mystical beliefs describe a path to enlightenment. As great empires have come and gone, so too must humanity’s faiths change.

My teacher, the late Pundit Gopi Krishna, an Indian Yogi-scientist and world renowned expert of Kundalini who has written over twenty books on the subject states, “We all know what happened whenever a political system became despotic and oppressive, a social system exacting and corrupt, and a religious system excessively authoritarian and dogmatic. There arose a demand for revision and reform. Political revolutionaries, reformers and prophets appeared on the scene, The old system was overthrown often with dreadful bloodshed, suffering and pain and a new one installed in its place. We have to cooperate with inner evolution.”

What is needed for a more positive harmonic peaceful and prosperous existence is a fuller understanding of humanity’s need for god. As society accelerates the brain must work increasingly beyond the point of balance. We are giants of intellect and dwarfs of the spiritual. We give no time to the spirit. Bringing on grave consequences. Gopi Krishna says. “ We have given too much emphasis to the material side of life at the cost of the spiritual side.” Time must be set aside for prayer, meditation, yoga or some other spiritual act in order to keep life’s evolutionary needs in balance and maintain inner sanity. Yoga meditation provides a channel for the opening of a powerful energy (inspiration) which can enable anyone to blossom into a genius, an artist, a poet, a mystic.

If this force awakens in an impure or out of balance form it can result in evil genius fanaticism delusions of grandeur, or mental illness (like manic depression and schizophrenia). There is a lot that is not understood that kundalini research will explain.

The brain is subject to the influence of countless factors connected with the life environment and the family history of an individual. When even slightly tainted or stained do to the pressure of reality or various causes such as wrong mode of life, unhealthy environment, faulty heredity, shock, frustration, repression, tension and numerous other factors. If the mind is abnormal the brain too must be a shareholder in the abnormality. There are subtle changes in some neuronic structures in the cranium. The real root of the abnormality is an impure or toxic condition of the prana. If you do not live a disciplined life then the awakening of this center can be unhealthy. A distorted vision of the same power. It means that the system is not pure and that the energy is not working in a healthy way.

There is a positive spiritual energy force within us all. Which has a physical counterpart in the human body that feeds a certain portion of the brain cavity of Brahma. This is a living electricity or intelligent energy that is needed to open the brain. The macrobiological changes and its effect can be observable and scientifically verified. Elevations of consciousness can only occur through the transformation brought by kundalini and by no other agency.

Nature shows compassion to humanity in order to help guide us safely through transgressions. God to me is a universal god that is not tied to any one organized religion. It gives us chance after chance. But when we digress off the path unhealthy results occur. We can not blame nature but ourselves. We have intelligence, we have reason, and we have learning. But if by having everything we ignore it then of course nature has no alternative except to teach us by suffering. Heaven is always merciful and all compassionate.

Great prophets, mystics, inventors, sages and people of genius have come to guide our race towards evolution’s goal. The study of the past will show the common thread within these great men and woman. Study is needed in order to educate us about how life should be led to be more in harmony with the forces of nature, which govern our life. A life of humility – love – purity - truth - moderation and compassion.

But how can we prove kundalini’s effect on the body? We can perform an experiment in a controlled environment. This experiment would take on hundred individuals with a healthy average intellect - normal typical people all with a great urge to awaken with a deep passion for spiritual matters and who are prepared to mold their lives in consort with the spiritual laws. Men and women aged twenty to thirty five. They would be put in a peaceful environment and subjected to various tests over a period of five years or more.

Scientists can observe them as the subjects try to awaken their kundalini. They will awaken to differing degrees. Tests will document the physiological changes that occur and will provide the empirical proof of what happens to the body as the kundalini force is awakened. I hypothesis that there are definitive biological differences in the blood, the cerebrospinal fluid and the composition of the brain matter in its subtle layers. Research on brain mapping. EEG ceg ces and the electricity in the body may show the kundalini force. The brain activity will be increased and its effect will be found all over the body. There will be metabolic processes, which can be measured. There will be physiological changes, which can be measured. This will convince the biologist that this change of the mind of the brain has physiological counter part. The result will start humanity towards a greater understanding of this evolutionary mechanism.

Once it is proved that the potential to awaken lies within everyone and is the most valuable asset we have, people will strive for it. The result on humanity will be comparable to the splitting of the spiritual atom. Instead of releasing a nuclear holocaust it will unleash the beginning of a utopian age, our cosmic destiny that can transform a mortal into an immortal and eternal source of happiness.

The awakening of these energies produces genius in mortal man or woman. Creativity, love and compassion emerge and pathways are opened to a future, awakened humanity. We will become the trailblazers of our own inevitable destiny. A utopian age of peace and harmony will follow. All political and spiritual processes will be developed for the highest good. Individuals will develop their “inner Sun” to the fullest during their lifetime. Kundalini research is part of an evolutionary force that compels us to look for enlightenment as an experience accessible to all. To awaken is the goal nature has set for us.

The time is right for we can use state of the art technology to study the phenomenon. We can study the common thread that lies at the root of all religion mysticism which is to guide humankind’s understanding of evolutionary change The understanding of kundalini is now becoming provable for the first time.

Sigmund Freud in fact understood that the libido is directly responsible for mental imbalances. At some point in time we will discover that all we know can be reduced to the bio-chemical. This center of the brain cavity of Brahma is still undiscovered but could be called the “third eye” or the “philosopher’s stone”. Kundalini will for the first time reveal how energy is supplied to the brain and that it is superintelligent. Freud’s concept about libido is of a psychic energy drawn from the libidinous tendencies in human beings. Which is to say the reproductive energy but only from a psychic point of view. He does not say that it has organic roots. This is what famed psychologist Wilhelm Reich emphasizes that this libido must have roots deep in the biochemical structure of the body.

The sex organs in a state of awakened kundalini produces a vast amount of fluid to feed the newly activated part of the brain. Sexual energy may well be directly connected to a mechanism that is affected by evolutionary advancement. Kundalini is the fundamental bioenergy stored primarily in the sex organs. This basic life force is normally associated with the genitals for simple continuance of the species by providing a sex drive. The tie in to the human sex drive and higher consciousness must be explored. Why do men have ejaculation while asleep or wake up with erect penises. There is a force of nature that needs physical release to be sane.

It is called the “goddess Kundalini” or “Mother Nature” because a mother’s love is similar to the bliss of higher consciousness. Woman have more feelings! Life is part of them - menstruation each month reminds them of that. Soulmates, man-woman have intercourse to prolong the race (children). Plus experience the love, kundalini evolutionary force of completion, happiness and bliss that keeps growing.

Sexual or relaxation exercises may release inner pressure of an over-taxed libido. An evolutionary super-nectar, extraordinary life force feeds the mind, a kissing food of unlimited bliss. The sublimation raising up of sex energy is the basic lever of all spiritual disciplines. But the all-inclusive nature of sex energy is a misnomer. Reproduction is but one of the aspects of the life energy of which the other theater of activity is the brain.

Humanity’s basic needs are for sex, god and a need for prayer to control our environment i.e.. hope within everyone lies the ability to awaken. Humanity needs love to balance our own unbalanced state and give us time to meditate, to control our over-taxed brain. Humanity’s sex drive may well be the only time some people relax from their hectic lifestyles. There is a need to just kick back and enjoy. Sex could be a form of deep meditation and experience between two soul mates. Loves deep blissful passion, kundalini’s purest expression an active prayer one of the most powerful forces in the universe. A positive experience that ends in an explosion of uncontrollable bliss. However for the average person, sex is not a deep meditation but is merely a physical release, a small slice of love’s true potential.

What is needed is that deep magnetism of love - a yin/yang of a universal constant. First came the big bang theory for the creation of the universe, now the love theory of creation states that the universe is a constant - always was here. That pure love magnetism, that yin/yang. Example. Trees love earth. Earth love the sky the sky loves the stars space… Love is consciousness … The universe is male and female and in love with both forces.

Suppression of sexuality out of contempt or hatred of our lower nature is an act of ignorance leading only to atrophy of the sexual system. Celibacy is contrary to nature. Since enlightenment is an evolutionary process with heredity playing an important role stamping the genera of the enlightened so that their biological gains through spiritual disciplines can be passed to their progeny. DNA research will eventually discover the consciousness gene.

Sexual energy has been represented in ancient art and statues by an erect organ. Showing the upward streaming of the reproductive essence that effects the transformation of consciousness.

In order to discover the factual evidence behind consciousness, one must first study kundalini energy and its effects. Scientific proof will free humanity to accept the fact that within everyone lies the temple of god leading to a clear realization of our own divine nature. Man’s incomprehensible inner bliss and oneness with divinity and a way of life that overpowers doing wrong or any other action that goes against this cosmic evolutionary force. The misunderstanding of kundalini has led to environmental decline that seems rooted to ultimate destruction of Planet Earth i.e. ozone layer, burning of rain forests, religious wars and terrorism, rape and murder….

It is one relationship not just to their own kundalini but also towards each other. It is the combination of the two that will lead not only to harmony but also to sharing and ultimately to progress. The appeal especially in these times is kundalini which offers hope promise. There is negative energy (i.e. ours) that can be transformed into positive communal conscience which will try to eradicate feelings of helplessness, negativity, pain and the burden of feeling isolated.

Why are people so selfish? Due to not having an understanding of kundalini. Just desperation, helplessness and power struggles which lead to hurting others and ourselves or apathy both of which have a profound effect on our history and the mood of the energy.

Our goal and objective is to create a paradise on earth. A peaceful co-existence, long lives, greater achievements and more freedom. A utopian society living by the laws uncovered by the experiment. A union with the divine is a sum total of the physical laws of the universe. We are in the process of taking the next evolutionary leap. The new century is here.

The study of what lifestyle would be best to advance ones inner potential is a task that may take eons to complete. With the help of divine grace may we free the veil that covers the eyes of the blind masses. We who have been chosen for this colossal task are the humble instruments of this evolutionary force. We will do our part to understand this unfathomable awareness of our eternal souls. The universe is ruled by an intelligent power! Consciousness does not change in birth or death it is bigger than our individual soul. Consciousness is an eternal om...

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Lupin Lover's Day Eve Lock and Key Party

Cindy — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:05:24 GMT

Lupin Lover's Day Eve Lock and Key Party
Check out this recently posted event.
http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/event/Lupins-Lovers-Day-Eve-Lock-and-Key-Party/san-francisco-ca/c65e95ee-cefd-4589-9389-f1937b338108

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Dear Interconnected - PLEASE HELP - 2009 Maya Calendar

Stacy — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:51:43 GMT

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I humbly ask for your patience & willingness to read this message in full!

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As you can imagine the writing of this novel is a great undertaking that requires 100% focused attention and free-time to complete. To support the completion of this vision I have invested all my resources and creativity into the creation and printing of 1000 copies of a Mayan/Gregorian calendar for 2009. These calendars feature photographs of Mayan ruins taken by me and each calendar is humbly equipped with the ancient Tzolkin 13:20 time sequence, and the Gregorian calendar. I have incorporated the Tzolkin with the Gregorian calendar as a gentle reminder to mend our unconscious conflict as products of the Greece and Roman Empires, and our role as invaders of the Americas. http://www.2012mayancalendar.org

Purchase of any number of Calendars and give them to yourself, to your family and friends as a reminder that we ALL have the power within us to divert our minds into the harmony and peace available to us at all times. I know many of you will feel challenged by my request, by the fear of lack in your lives. This is another opportunity to face your fear and use this purchase as a conscious catalyst for renewed, or augmented prosperity and a sense of wealth in your own life. People are all each others true wealth and abundance! http://www.2012mayancalendar.org

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My Personal Perspective on the New Age in Human Consiousness

Baker — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:10:35 GMT

Hello All.
Here is a short video I did for Baker The Brand, this is a project I'm working at with currently. The video below is a young Filipino-American's perspective on The New Age in Human Consciousness.
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. Thank you guys, I appreciate the support!

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBs6mr8Eko0

+Baker

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MYTHICAL RECORDS

mysticalfairy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:56:00 GMT

Mythical records is now taking pre-orders for their new compilation "Odyssey of Rapture" vol. 1. The album includes beautiful new age and neo-classical compositions by Abandoned Toys, Library Tapes, The synthetic dream foundation, Hannah Fury, Samantha Bouquin, and many more great composers/artists. The official release date is Dec. 10th 2008. The full track list includes:

1. David Reyes "The magic woods"
2. Library Tapes "The rivers turned to cobblestone"
3. Abandoned Toys "An expanding tremble"
4. Ephemeral Mists "A pale slumber"
5. Phanatos "Voyage (quest for the shores of aphrodite)"
6. Aranis "Vala"
7. The new pollutants "Kidnap theme"
8. Hana (Jeff Greinke & Anisa Romero) "Hide"
9. Michel Avannier "La rencontre"
10. The synthetic dream foundation w/ Hannah Fury "Trapeze"
11. MePhI "Crystal night"
12. Aonua "Spirit of the deep"
13. Fiona Joy Hawkins "Contemplating"
14. Samantha Bouquin "Tale for a sunken moon"
15. Scythelence "Transparent eyelids"
16. Enigma de Ultratumba "To my unrest"
17. Samanta Ray & Pete Ardron "Interuterion 3"

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advice if u can....

tiffany — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:35:26 GMT

just wondering if anyone can shed some light on josh hill and if i might hear from him? thanks very much

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basic breath practice and basic mantra practice : nadi shodhana pranayam and White Tara mantra

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:04:15 GMT

Re: what to engage in yoga - breath practices and mantra

Re Jennifer on tribe tantra
"What is a good form of yoga to get into for beginners? "

Hi Jennifer.
A simple and profound practice is "pranayama", or breath modulation.
It is used by yoga practitioners at all levels.
It requires no specific religious philosophy.

It is used for many purposes, such as psychological balance, energy balancing, mind-body co-ordination, physical workout warm-ups and warm-downs, kundalini yoga, and as a key practice in Buddhist yogas of primordial pure awareness, such as Great Perfection and Great Seal.

There are also Buddhist kung fu breath modulation practices for martial arts which are sophisticated and powerful.

There are many excellent books available on pranayama.
A basic and most useful pranayama practice is alternate nostril breathing, which is taught in many variations, among the Hindus, Sikhs, and Buddhists. In Sanskrit this is known as nadi shodhana pranayam.

As with most yoga practices, be careful regarding sensitive times such as pregnancy or illness and do not practice when the stomach is full.

A major source of teaching on pranayama is the 3H0 Sikhs and Yogi Bhajan, who brought a tremendous amount of this material to the West. Do a google search for "kundalini yoga" + pranayam + "yogi bhajan". You can get 3H0 books on kundalini yoga from Ravi Singh and Guru Rattan Khaur Khalsa.

I have and use many texts on tantra and yoga as practitioner and as guru, and pranayama is always of enormous importance in the different lineages, and in my own practice. I began doing pranayam in 1980, and on at least one occasion it has saved my life.

Another major and most useful kind of practice is Sanskrit recitation, or mantrayana.
You can find a basic description of the Vajrasattva mantra at my tribe home, under the picture for "Hundred Syllable Mantra".

The primary source for transmissions of this kind of yoga is the esoteric Buddhist tantra, known to the public under the name "Tibetan Buddhism."

I have completed ten thousand hours of mantra.

A most basic and openly available mantra for healing and developing inner spiritual connections is the Buddhist goddess mantra for Tara:

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE MA ME AYU PUNYA JNANA PUSTIM KURU SVAHA

This is for wisdom ( jnana ), long life ( ayu ), noble qualities ( punya ), and spiritual energy ( pustim ). This is a good mantra for protection, for removing obstacles, and cleansing the magnetic field.

A basic practice would be to recite this 100,000 times, and it works better with visualization, pure intention and so forth.

There are many Buddhist books and practice texts for Tara, for example from Snow Lion Publications, at
http://www.snowlionpub.com/

See the book
"Skillful Grace: Tara Practice for Our Time"

at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Skillful-Grace-Tara-Practice-Time/dp/9627341614

If you can do some effective pranayama and some effective mantra then you are a functional yoga practitioner.
If you lack both pranayama and mantra, your practice will remain very very very limited.

Best,

Acarya KT

Sarva mangalam! Siddhi rastu!

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A Victim Treats His Mugger Right

cpr — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:12:11 GMT

I read this earlier today, and really wanted to share it.. I hope you guys find it 'on topic' for this tribe.. :)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89164759

peace
-cpr

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HH Phakchok Rinpoche and the Chokling Tersar Lineage of the Great Perfection : An Introduction and 2008 Tour Notes

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:37:48 GMT

HH Phakchok Rinpoche and the Chokling Tersar Lineage of the Great Perfection : An Introduction and 2008 Tour Notes

Keywords: Esoteric Buddhist yoga ( buddhatantra ), Great Perfection / AtiYoga / dzogchen i.e. primordial awareness yoga, tantric Buddhist empowerment, non-sectarian tantric Buddhist practice ( Rimay ), HH Phakchok Rinpoche Tendzin Jigmey Drakpa, Orgyen Dorje Den Center ( San Francisco ), Chokling Tersar lineage ( Nyingma / Ancient School transmission of Indo-Tibetan vajrayana ).

NAMO GURU SRI PADMAKARAYE
Homage to Guru Padmasambhava.

This summer ( 2008 ) His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche, a primary tantric Buddhist lineage holder, is on a major tour ( see below for events ), giving tantric Buddhist transmissions and teachings in the USA, Canada, and Europe. He is a younger major teacher in the Chokling Tersar tradition of Nyingma and Dzogchen ( see below ).

This lineage derives directly from Guru Padmasambhava, a most extraordinary Indian guru and a principal cofounder of the Buddhist tradition in Tibet. Today six million or more people practice teaching deriving from from Guru Padmasambhava, in for example the Tibetan traditions such as Sakya, Kagyu and Nyingma, including some millions of East Asians ( Chinese Buddhists of esoteric Buddhist lineage ).

This is a very magical, very powerful, and very yogic style of transmission, especially in terms of the inner practices. It is well supported by many independent practice lineages, of which the Chokling Tersar Foundation is an important example both in the USA and Europe. It is well established in California and Denmark, and several major teachers of this tradition give teaching tours.

This sangha ( spiritual fellowship ) is of major importance because Chokling Tersar Foundation has a translation / publishing organization called Rangjung Yeshe. This is one of the main sources worldwide for core Nyingma and dzogchen publications. I have and use quite a few Rangjung Yeshe practice and teaching texts. They are highest quality and indispensible for all Nyingma and dzogchen practitioners in particular, and broadly useful.

One of the most important books ever published for tantric Buddhists is
"Dakini Teachings", by Padmasambhava, and this is from Rangjung Yeshe.
Another key example, from the same source, is
"Light of Wisdom", by Padmasambhava and Jamgon Kongtrul.

For a general background on dzogchen, or "primordial awareness yoga", it is well worthwhile to obtain the book
"The Crystal and the Way of Light: Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen", written by another important master of a parallel Nyingma lineage, Chogyal Namkhai Norbu. This is about the best place to start for a book introduction to the inner teachings, which is descriptive only, and not practice per se.

Esoteric Buddhist yoga ( buddhatantra ) and Great Perfection ( dzogchen awareness yoga ) depend fundamentally on transmission, and so it is necessary to see a real teacher. Without a major transmission from an authentic guru, much or most of the teaching - and all of the yoga sadhana - does not work. Therefore I take this opportunity to make an important introduction.

( Please note that I DO NOT have any authority to represent Chokling Tersar Foundation, HH Phakchok Rinpoche, or any activity associated with this line of transmission. I am simple conveying what I know in a clear and definite way, to support this lineage and those who may benefit from it. I cannot make any promises that any of what is said here, or this kind of transmission, will solve any particular problem or give any particular result. The results are very personal and individualized. )

HH Phakchok Rinpoche Tendzin Jigmey Drakpa is not yet well known to the public, but is already having a great influence in transmitting key innermost teachings of tantra and dzogchen. Therefore it is auspicious and appropriate to make known this teacher and the availability of these teachings.

The qualifications of HH Phakchok Rinpoche are vast and profound ( see below for his autobiography ). He has highest-level authorization to give primary transmissions in both the Nyingma and Kagyu lineages, and is one of the few people who has a complete cycle of Sakya School tantric empowerments.

Two years ago I received a major dzogchen empowerment from this teacher, from within the Chokling Tersar, and personally confirm that his transmission is powerful and effective, not only as a tantric blessing / psychic cleansing, but also as a functional teaching and transmission. He is very direct and engaging and extraordinarily generous in his teaching. He is here to teach core precepts, not just bestow blessings. That means actual, whole person practice.

HH Phakchok Rinpoche gave me his card at the one time I was able to attend his transmission, so he is willing to personally engage students in a longer term sense. At that time he did lay on those present the general but significant requirement to Do A Daily Tantric Buddhist Practice, which is in fact the requirement of Guru Padmasambhava.

A daily practice typically means mantra recitation, as well as upholding ethical precepts of the Mahayana and Tantra. ( See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva_vows or better yet, the above book "Dakini Teachings" for teaching on outer and inner Buddhist ethics. ) A primary example of mantra discipline is Vajrasattva deity yoga, for which a short teaching is given at my tribe.net home under the Sanskrit picture for Hundred Syllable mantra.

A specific event listing for the Yangdak Heruka transmission and teaching to be given August 16, 17 & 18 follows. Orgyen Dorje Den can host at least 200 participants. This is a remarkably important group, and a "home fellowship" for me, though I have not seen them in many years. Their center teacher, Ven. Gyaltrul Rinpoche, is a great gift to the West. I have and use and recommend his books.

Basically, it is from the Eight Herukas Cycle which is associated with the Guhyagarbha Tantra, which was propagated as one of the primary practices of Guru Padmasambhava. This fully confers Vajrasattva, a key basic and continung practice, and *may* fully confer Great Perfection / Breakthrough as well ( no guarantee ).

Significant mantra teaching on the Eight Herukas is given in the remarkable book
"The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Paperback)", Publisher: Penguin Classics; Deluxe edition (January 30, 2007 ),# ISBN-10: 0143104942.

This is written in partial fulfillment of mahayana and tantric Buddhist teaching responsibilities, in support of His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche, Orgyen Dorje Den and Ven. Gyaltrul Rinpoche, the Chokling Tersar lineage, and the benefit of as many people as possible.

Sarva mangalam! Siddhi rastu!

Acarya KT

http://www.phakchokrinpoche.org/events.htm
Events
H.H. Phakchok Rinpoche's 2008 Teaching Calendar
For more information on any of the below programs, please e-mail us at office@phakchokrinpoche.org.

San Francisco, California: Aug 15-19
Empowerments: Yangdak Heruka & Sangtik Korsum (Teaching and Advice)
Teachings: Advice and teaching on general Development Stage
Meditation Training - at Orgyen Dorje Den, Directions to Orgyen Dorje Den
Public Talks: The Great “I” (Berkeley Shambhala Center)
Great Longchenpa
E-mail: office@phakchokrinpoche.org

Toronto: August 27-Sept 1 – with H.E. Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche
Empowerment: Sangye Won
Teachings: Jewel Ornament of Liberation
Taklung Thangpa
Public Talk: The Great “I”

H.E. Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche
Empowerments: Vajrakilaya & Tara
Prosperity Vase Blessing & Tsok
Visit: Riwoche Society, riwoche.com
E-mail: pema@riwoche.com

Vancouver: September 5-7
Teaching: VajraYogini Program [ this is restricted to those who have the empowerment ]
Public Talks: The Great “I”
Meditation and Happiness
E-mail: Mara Shnay, mshnay@telus.net

Salt Springs Island: September 7-9
Empowerment: Medicine Buddha
Meditation Retreat
E-mail: Matthew, matthewphyllis@telus.net

Europe: Poland & Germany

Hamburg, Germany: Sept 20-21
Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo (Light of Wisdom)
E-mail: Arne Schelling, arne.schellingatgmx.de

Menz, Germany: Sept 22
Public Talk on The Great “I”
E-mail: Arne Schelling, arne.schellingatgmx.de

Berlin, Germany: Sept 23-24
Life Stories of Yeshe Tsogyal and Machig Labdron
The Aspiration Prayer of Samantabhadra
E-mail: Anne Siml, annesiml@yahoo.de

Greifswald, Germany: Sept 25-27
Public Talk on Compassion
Mind Training
E-mail: Anne Siml, annesiml@yahoo.de

Rangjung Yeshe Gomde – Denmark: Sept 29-30
Lotus Essence Tantra
Heart Sutra
Questions and Answers for Meditators
Website: www.gomde.dk
E-mail: Erik Pema Kunsang, erik@gomde.dk

Warsaw, Poland: October 2-5
Kunzang Thuktig Preliminary Practice
Mind Training
E-mail: Julia E. Wahl, karmayeshetsomo@gmail.com
Mobile: +48 608 079 909

The following events will be at:
Orgyen Dorje Den
2244 Santa Clara Ave
Alameda, CA 94501
http://www.orgyendorjeden.org/
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Coming this weekend, August 16, 17 & 18:
H.H. Phakchok Rinpoche, head of the Taklung Kagyu lineage and son of H.E. Chokling Rinpoche, nephew of H.E. Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, and grandson of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, is coming to the San Francisco Bay Area from August 15-19 to give teachings and empowerments. Please plan to attend and spread the word regarding these precious teachings.
See phakchokrinpoche.org.
And for biographical info: http://phakchokrinpoche.org/lineage.htm
http://phakchokrinpoche.org/historyofpresentPK.htm

HH Phakchok Rinpoche will be giving the following empowerments and teachings at ODD.
Yangdak Heruka empowerment and teachings.
August 16 from 10 am to 12 pm and 2 to 4 pm.
When asked for some brief info about Yangdak Heruka, Rinpoche, translating from a text, replied the following in a phone call:
"Yangdak Heruka is the secret heart essence practice of Mahapandita Vimalamitra & Guru Padmasambhava. As a method to repair mistakes, purify broken samaya and reverse bad karma it is greater than even Vajrasattva. According to Ratna Lingpa, it is a supreme method for yogis to fulfill the root & branch samaya of vinaya, mahayana & vajrayana precepts & it will enable the practitioner to receive the 2 siddhis and have a long life. It requires accumulated merit from past lives to meet with these teachings and through practice you will see how fast the siddhis will be received. This terma is a revelation of Chogyur Lingpa--it is a short lineage--he revealed it on Guru Rinpoche Day from a Big Boulder. It is part of the Sangtik Korsum, which is a cycle of practice which also includes Vajrasattva & Vajrakilaya." This is the first time Rinpoche is giving the Yangdak Heruka empowerment in the USA.

Teachings on Sangtik Korsum cycle of empowerments, instruction on general development stage, and meditation training:
August 17 from 10 am to 12 pm and 2 to 4 pm
August 18 from 10 am to 12 pm and 2 to 4 pm
These teachings will relate to the specific cycle, Sangtik Korsum, but will also be applicable to whatever sadhana practice one is engaging.

The suggested donation is $100 for the three days, $35/ day & $20 per session.
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Orgyen Dorje Den
2244 Santa Clara Ave
Alameda, CA 94501
www.orgyendorjeden.org

From
http://www.riwoche.com/phakchok_rinpoche.html

Phakchok Rinpoche's emanation-basis is the Lord of Secrets Dharmevajra, the compiler of the teachings of the Great Secrets (Vajrayana) of all buddhas; the arhat Ananda, the foremost disciple of our teacher (Buddha Shakyamuni); Lhalung Palgyi Dorje, the direct disciple of the Second Buddha of Uddiyana (Padmasambhava); (Rechung) Dorje Drakpa, the lord of siddhas; and many others.
. . .
The reincarnation of this sublime master was the seventh Phakchok Rinpoche, Tendzin Jigmey Drakpa, born in the Year of the Iron Bird, 1981, of the seventeenth year cycle. The family he was born into is, among the six original clans, the Nangchen Tsangsar of the Khepaga line which were chiefly holders of the Barom Kagyü Dharma lineage, a family line who maintained an unbroken tradition of combining Kagyü and Nyingma.
. . .

Due to his outstanding brightness and inherent qualities from former training, he comprehended reading and writing, and when he later studied the topics of knowledge with Kungo Kalzang, Karma Urgyen Rinpoche's younger brother, he gained effortless understanding by simply hearing what was said.

Here is a description of the ripening empowerments and liberating instructions Phakchok Rinpoche has received from masters of the Sarma and Nyingma schools of all traditions:

From Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche he has received longevity empowerments, the Six Volumes of Jatsön Nyingpo, Gyachen Kadzö (of Jamgön Kongtrül).

From Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche he has received the empowerments of longevity.

From Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche he has received the empowerments for the Rinchen Terdzö, the complete empowerments and reading trans-missions for the Chokling Tersar, the Dzogchen Desum, the empowerments, reading transmissions and instructions for the Kunzang Tuktig, the empowerment of awareness-display and mind-instruction for Dzogchen, the complete empowerments and reading transmissions for the Root Volumes of Nyingtig, the Hundred Chö Empowerments, and the Namkha Gojey.

From Kyabje Taklung Shabdrung Rinpoche he has received the complete empowerments and reading transmissions of the Taklung Kagyü, and the complete empowerments and reading transmissions for the collected works and terma teachings of Jedrung Rinpoche.

From Kyabje Chobgye Trichen Rinpoche he has received the empowerments and reading transmissions for the Gyüdey Kündü.

From Sakya Dagtri Drölma Podrang he has received the complete Drubtab Kündü.

From his father, Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche, he has received the complete empowerments and reading transmissions for the Chokling Tersar.

From Dzongsar Khenchen Kunga Wangchuk he has received the reading transmission for the collected works of the Five Sakya Forefathers, the Prajñamula, Madhyamikavatara, and the 400 Verses, Sakya Pandita's Tsema Rigter, Tsema Namdrel, the Higher and Lower Abhidharma and other works.

From Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche he has received the reading transmission for the Tenngyur, the Great Collection of the Translated Treatises.

From Kyabje Penor Rinpoche he has received the complete empowerments for the Rinchen Terdzö.

From Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche he has received the complete reading transmissions for the Rinchen Terdzö.

From Arik Khenchen Petse Rinpoche he has received explanation to the Guhyagarbha Tantra and the Manjushri Nama Sangirti, as well as mind-instruction.

From Kyabje Trülshik Rinpoche he has received the complete empowerments for the Collected Works of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.

From Kyabje Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche he has received the Tögal Cycle of Khenpo Ngakchung's Hearing Lineage, as well as mind-instruction.

. . .

This was translated by Erik Pema Kunsang, at Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery, February, 2000.

www.choklingtersar.org

http://www.rangjung.com/gl/Chokling_Tersar.htm
Chokling Tersar, the New Treasures of Chokgyur Lingpa ( copyrighted )
During the ninth century, Buddhism was introduced from India into Tibet and its literature and culture has since been preserved in a way that has been unique in accuracy and truthfulness to tradition. Four decades ago, the occupation of Tibet by Communist China began an era of repression and systematic destruction of this thousand year old Buddhist culture. Shreds of this tradition reached the countries on the southern slopes of the Himalaya ranges - India, Nepal and Bhutan - in the hands of the few refugees who managed to escape alive. During the following years these areas have been the meeting-point and a forum of exchange between a large number of people from all countries of the world.

In response to the heart-wish of Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, the Chokling Tersar Foundation was established. It is in the spirit of wishing to protect and preserve one of the important contributions to the world's cultural heritage, as well as responding to a growing demand within North America, that the members of Chokling Tersar Foundation support the foundation through donations of effort, money and prayers.

Chokling Tersar literally means the 'new treasures of Chokgyur Lingpa' and owes it name to the great Tibetan Buddhist master of the 19th century. Chokgyur Lingpa lived from (1829-1870) and was regarded by the most reputable living masters of his time as one of the major tertons (revealer of hidden treasures) in Tibetan history. His teachings are widely practiced by both the Kagyu and Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

The collection of treasures revealed by Chokgyur Lingpa together with its connected teachings are contained in the Chokling Tersar, a body of literature filling more than forty large volumes. In English translation each of these volumes would be between seven and eight hundred pages and the total would amount to approximately 30,000 pages. The connected teachings included in these forty volumes were written over the last 150 years, chiefly by his contemporaries Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Jamgon Kongtrul, as well as by the subsequent upholders of the lineage down until today.

Kangyur - the TripitakaThe Chokling Tersar literature is meant to be studied and practiced as an addition to the traditional canonical scriptures of Tibetan Buddhism. These traditional scriptures are found in the Kangyur and Tengyur, the written words of Buddha Shakyamuni and their commentaries by learned Indian Masters. These two collections occupy respectively 104 and 273 large volumes.

In these scriptures are found detailed instructions on how to take full advantage of and imbue human life with its fullest meaning. These revealed scriptures were concealed by the 9th century Buddhist saint Padmasambhava with the expressed wish to be uncovered at specific times in the future. Many of them contain predictions for those times and which particular spiritual practices would be most beneficial for the people of those times.

Centers practicing the New Treasures of Chokgyur Lingpa:

Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling monastery, Boudha, Nepal.
Lamas: Tsikey Chokling, Gyurme Dewey Dorje; Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche; Phakchok Rinpoche

Pema Ewam Chogar in Bir, Himachal Pradesh, India.
Lamas: Neten Chokling and Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche.

Tsikey Gompa in East Tibet.
Lamas: Chokling of Tsikey, Tsang-Yang Gyamtso; Tersey Tulku

Chokling Tersar Foundation, USA.

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Beginnings: Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Questions!

chaz — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:55:12 GMT

"God is consciousness and the fusion into action and manifestation, the potential for all that is, out of ....itself -
i.e. dIVINE masterbastion into Love" -Dog Star

"From Pisces to Aries and then all over again, round and round" -Dog Star

KMT Ontology and Cosmogenesis
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/541348c7-3a51-45bc-abcb-30c2b523ce1b

The Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question! (Consciousness is that–which–creates–itself."
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/b1242955-f8b0-49dd-9bc5-0d1229ae82a0

Beginnings (Pic of Nwn -dIVINE orgasm)
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/3988f8b7-a6c8-4358-abc1-e0edf4bf9c6a

KMT

It is written that this part of the cosmos that we know of, this universe, this galaxy, this solar system, and this sun structured itself over 21 billion years ago. Billions and billions of years of jet blackness, dark black matter, dark black energy, and black holes then came light and life.

There was a time when only blackness prevailed in everything and in all things. In the beginning all was black. There was no universe but there was dark black energy, the immortal unity and struggle of female/male matter and spirit, pure energy and impulse, that created itself out of itself. Blackness and darkness led to light---not the other way around.

In a majestic struggle between matter and anti-matter bonded energy eventually formed elementary particles, elements-stars-planets-solar systems-galaxies-complete universes. These solar organisms bonded together with gravitational forces which formed solar systems and clusters of galaxies. This gravitational soup became the cosmic webbing of the infant universe which continually expanded-changed-developed.

From this universe came our galaxy, then our solar system. Within this solar system formed a sun-nine planets-moons-asteroids-comets with all being electro-magnetically held together by precisely balanced gravitational attraction and repulsion. Constantly in motion, having no days off, moving at colossal speeds stars are suns with their own rings of planets revolve on their axis and turn with the entire galaxy as it turns on its own axis.

Each star---its own universe on fire---is a blazing fiery solar hurricane. Its entire surface is in a state of bubbling, erupting, burning, hot agitation with colossal fiery heat waves passing over the turbulent stars burning hot surface. Galactic fire streams shot out as gigantic streams of internal heat, pulsating, throbbing, illuminating, pouring forth into space in the form of radiation---giving live to planets and their moons. Physical gravitational fields connect the particles allowing them to interact and thus exist.

Without this nothing would connect the stars in the galaxies or the substance itself within the starts and planets. There would be no solar systems, stars, or planets, without electromagnetic fields. Nothing would connect electrons and protons in atoms into molecules and molecules into tissue. From elementary particles to nucleus from nuclei and electrons there came atoms from atoms came molecules from molecules and their aggregates gaseous-liquid-solid bodies formed bodies that make up stars and their satellites, the planets and their satellites.

Twenty-one billion years of matter and antimatter flowing down the majestic cosmic ladder from universes to super clusters, galaxy clusters, galaxies, star clusters, quasars, pulsars, stars, solar systems, planets, other celestial bodies to molecular complexes, crystals, molecules, atoms, elementary nuclear particles, photons, force fields, quantum levels, to sub-quantum elements. These solar organisms bonded together with gravitational forces, which formed solar systems and clusters of galaxies.

This gravitational soup became the cosmic webbing of the infant universe, which continually expanded, changed, developed. This process resulted from explosions of anti-matter and matter which produced the bonded energy which eventually formed elements, stars, planets, solar systems, galaxies, and complete universes. The materials of these solar organism such as stars, gas, energy particles, cosmic debris, planets, asteroids, comets, nebulae, black holes, etc., are bonded together by gravitational forces which form solar systems and clusters of galaxies which are continually expanding, moving, changing.

In sum, from this universe came our galaxy. Then our solar system. Within this solar system formed a sun, nine planets-moons-asteroids-comets with all being electro-magnetically held together by precisely balanced gravitational attraction and repulsion. This system was and is constantly in motion, having no days off. It moves at colossal speeds.

click on blog to see the totality
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/3988f8b7-a6c8-4358-abc1-e0edf4bf9c6a

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A Multidimensional Experience of Reality

Roger "Pete" — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:23:29 GMT

THE “SUCKFACE” INCIDENT (Part I)

In the late seventies I worked part time delivering desserts to hotels and restaurants from South San Francisco to San Jose for a San Francisco bakery. Since I was also editing and publishing Coordinate Point, a magazine that explored the nature of consciousness and being, I often talked about dreams and psychic phenomena with the people I met in my travels. Catherine seemed as interested as any. She was a new friend and business customer from South San Francisco. During an animated discussion about dreams and intuitive experiences late in 1979, I asked her if she had ever participated in a Guided Imagery Exercise (GIE). She didn’t know what Guided Imagery was so I described the process to her and shared one of my favorite experiences with her. When I finished, she asked me to conduct a Guided Imagery Exercise for her and some friends. I agreed, and we set up a time for the following week.

Here’s the guided imagery experience I shared with Catherine. I call it Healing by Fire.

In guided imagery one person acts as the storyteller or guide while the other participants lie down, relax, and close their eyes. Once the participants are fully relaxed, usually through a series of relaxation exercises, the storyteller constructs an imaginary scene and offers suggestions to focus, guide, and stimulate the participants’ creative abilities, just like thoughts and emotions stimulate our creative abilities in dreams and imagination. The results depend on each person’s ability to relax and get out of the way of his or her consciousness, so it can flesh out the story line and allow the story to take on a life of its own!

Healing by Fire
The first Guided Imagery Exercises I participated in involved the spirits of earth, fire, wind (air), and water. We met once a week and each week, for a month, we used one of these basic elements to build a story around. My favorite was the fire exercise.

After conducting a relaxation exercise, the storyteller described a scene with trees, green grass, and wild flowers. He encouraged us to enter the scene. The scenic elements were so pleasant and non-threatening, I found it easy to enter into the scene. Encouraging us to explore our surroundings, I tumbled in the grass, smelled the flowers and floated up into the trees for a closer look. After several minutes, the storyteller told us to “see” the path winding through the trees. He instructs us to follow it. He suggested we could walk, run, float, roll, tumble, or fly, whatever suited our fancy. I chose to float, and after some initial difficulty, did so quite successfully. Guided to an open field, we were told to see a fire burning off to one side of the path. Again, several alternatives were suggested. One suggestion is a roaring bonfire and the other is a burning house. Once we see our fire of choice, we’re told to go to it and enter it. For my experience, I chose a burning house.

It’s a short distance off the path to my left and nearly burned to the ground. There’s still some debris burning around the edges and in the middle of the house. My fear of being burned grows as I step into the flames. I remind myself I’m not in my physical body therefore, the flames can’t hurt me. Surprisingly, the flames feel cool and breezy as they lap against my legs. Enjoying these new sensation, I walked to the center of the house where the tallest flames were. Slowly, a large column of flame rose up in front of me and seemed to huddle against my chest. As I looked at it, an arm-like extension of flame reached out from the right side of its body and penetrated the left side of my chest. Before I could react, I felt something like a hand wrap around my heart and begin to knead it gently and lovingly.

Somehow, in this alternate reality a doorway for healing had been opened. For many years I sensed a growing hardness in my heart from being so angry at the world for not being what I thought it should be. The continued kneading of my heart by the Fire Being, or Spirit, released strong feelings of love and compassion in me. With a complete sigh of relief, I completely relaxed into the experience.

The Storyteller spoke again and gently suggested it was time to bring our experience to an end. As his suggestion slowly filtered through my mind, the Flame Spirit withdrew its fiery hand from inside my chest. Growing an new appendage from the left side of its body, it reached up over my right shoulder and around the back of my neck for support. Then it leaned back and looked into my face. With the fiery hand it had used to massage my heart, it reached up and gently brushed the left side of my face, like a mother expressing love and sadness before parting. After one final hug, it slowly let go of me and sank back down into the flames still burning around my legs. With sadness, I turned and walked out of the burning house and back to the pathway. As I retraced my steps, I mentally relived my experience with the Fire Being and marveled at the magic and wonder of it all. It had been a profound, maybe even life-saving healing experience for me!

When I arrived at Catherine’s house in South San Francisco she was home alone but expecting two friends. When they arrived it became clear neither one them knew what Guided Imagery was. They asked me if it was a form of hypnotism or subliminal suggestion. They were concerned about giving control of themselves over to someone they didn’t know and trust. I understood their fears and tried to reassure them by telling them it was a form of storytelling that allowed them to role-play. I went on to say Guided Imagery is essentially a waking dream, one that the dreamer has control over. I don’t know whether it was their skepticism, my poor explanation, or a lack of experience on their part, but after the exercise only Catherine said she “thought” she saw something when I suggested they see a scene of trees, green grass, and flowers in their minds. The other two participants echoed each other with, “All I could see was the back side of my eyelids.” Maybe imaginations need exercise too, like muscles.

Despite the poor results Catherine and her friends experienced, the longer I spent conducting the Guided Imagery Exercise, the more relaxed and intuitive I had become, unknowingly setting the stage for what was to come. When I left Catherine’s house for the drive north up highway 101, to my home in San Francisco, I felt very playful and alive. I could feel my body virtually tingling with spiritual energy!

THE “SUCKFACE” INCIDENT

The late night traffic on the five-lane Bayshore Freeway (Hwy. 101) was light, so I settled into the middle lane and drove at the speed limit, 55mph. Highway 101, between South San Francisco and San Francisco, is five lanes wide to accommodate the extra traffic generated by the presence of San Francisco International Airport and Candlestick (later, 3 Com, now Monster) Park. Less than a minute after I settled into a comfortable groove (middle lane, 55mph), two rough looking guys on a Harley Davidson slowly passed me on the right, in lane number 2. As I watched them move by, their “look” triggered a torrent of playful observations and judgments, like: Wow, these guys really look rough! I wonder how many years they’ve spent in places like San Quentin knocking out license plates with dirty acronyms? (a personal joke here because I often spend time turning the letters on license plates into sexually explicit statements to amuse myself as I drive.) And look at those identical Mackinaw coats they’re wearing - they look brand new! I wonder which warehouse they stole them from? (Mackinaw coats are short winter coats, made of a thick, woolen, commonly plaid material. They were once popular in the northern and western United States, worn by many Indians and lumbermen)

As amusing as these thoughts are, I can’t help but notice how I’m slicing and dicing my two new road companions into pieces (categorizing and stereotyping them). In a moment’s glance, I have these two guys accused, judged, and hung. To salve a faint twinge of guilt, I remind myself that I’m only playing with surface issues, that deep down, I know we’re all one and basically good. This makes the situation even more fun because, now, I think, as long as I don’t take my thoughts too seriously, I can be as playful and outrageous as I please. Not!

As soon as he passes my front bumper the motorcycle driver turns to enter my lane without signaling. Observing this rude and dangerous move, the passenger quickly sticks his left arm out to apologize and signal the turn. Adding fuel to the fire of my imagination, the motorcycle driver reaches back with his left arm and starts pounding his friend’s arm as hard as he can, to make him put it down. What was that all about, I wonder? Damn, are these guys really thieves? Did they really break into a warehouse and steal their Mackinaw coats? How many did they steal? Where were they hiding them? Who are they selling them to, and, jokingly, how much money are they going to make from the deal? After this wild flurry of questions my thoughts settle down, and once the driver of the motorcycle establishes a steady and safe distance between us, my thoughts turn in new directions, until I see the two men take the same freeway interchange I have to take to get home. Suddenly my full attention is back on them with growing irritation and concern.

As we approach the Fell Street Off-Ramp, the exit closest to my home, I find myself holding my breath and “willing” the pair on to the next exit, but to no avail. As fate, or magic, would have it, we are meant to continue our private little drama until it reaches some undisclosed and, hopefully, meaningful conclusion. So once again I watch as the motorcycle passenger signals their turn and the driver reaches back to pound on his arm, even more viciously than he did before. Why is this guy so goddamned contemptuous and angry, I wonder? And, why isn’t the red light at the foot of the off-ramp turning green for Christ sake, there’s no traffic around? So here we are, at the foot of the Fell Street off-ramp, which splits into five lanes, waiting for the light to change. The two men on the motorcycle are in the middle lane, waiting to ride up Fell Street Hill, and I’m in the far right lane, waiting to turn right onto Laguna Street. The stop line angles back for the turn onto Laguna Street, so I’m stopped several feet behind the motorcycle. Feeling safe from this vantage point, I carefully scrutinize my two new “friends” while waiting for the light to change, which seems to take forever! As I study them, I think, Where did the driver get the money to buy such a nice motorcycle? With his temper, I don’t see how he can hold a regular job. Also, I wonder, What circumstances brought these two guys together and what kind of relationship do they have? The passenger seems to be pretty well meaning.

Suddenly, my mind and body are on full alert! Sheer panic or “inner” knowing takes control of my body and forces me to shift my eyes slightly forward of the driver’s position and up at a Victorian house on the hill, a block or so beyond him. As my eyes come to a rest on the Victorian, the motorcycle driver whips around and screams at me, “What are you looking at, Suckface?” Before the words finish leaving his mouth he realizes, with a look of shock, that I’m not looking at him but at something beyond him. He whips around to the front as fast as he had turned on me. Even though the energy of his words is reverberating through my mind, I keep a look of innocence on my face, as if to say, Are you talking to me?, as I slowly bring my eyes back to rest on him. His emotional outburst was so graphic and powerful, the image of a man’s face with the mouth area sucked in, in a lurid reference to male homosexuality, appears in my mind. When my eyes focus on him again, he’s staring straight ahead with a look of utter desperation on his face, a look that says, “Come on light, change - let me out of here!”

Still shaken from the violence of his outburst, I continue to study the driver, his passenger, and the motorcycle, until a strange movement at the top of the driver’s head attracts my attention. Curious and somewhat apprehensive, I watch as another head begins to emerge through the top of his. This new head, bald and bodiless, is soon floating free in the air above the driver’s head. Mask-like and real at the same time, it slowly turns to face me, locking its hypnotic, shiny black eyes onto mine. With grinning arrogance and a look of hungry anticipation on its face, it starts to move toward me, sizing me up as it comes. As the gap closes between us, I suspect that this “thing” is a living manifestation, a psychic projection of quasi-matter, given birth by the sheer intensity of the driver’s thoughts and emotions. Somehow, I’m perceiving inner reality and outer reality simultaneously, and I can shift between the two at will.

As the bodiless head moves closer, it cunningly rises to a position above my head to stay beyond my reach, and begins to change before my eyes. I watch in amazement as it transforms into a circular stone wheel with two flat sides. The side facing me has lines etched into the surface to form eyes, ears, and a nose. Below the hint of a nose is a large gaping mouth hole that goes completely through the stone. As the stone face hovers over my head, I’m reminded of a primitive Sun God. The large eyes are closed and deep grooves radiate out from them like rays of the sun. I wonder, did my fear stop it, or did it stop on its own. Suspecting the latter, I wonder what will happen next. What kind of disturbed energy did the motorcycle driver unleash when he turned and yelled at me so violently? Suddenly, the face springs to life! The stony eyelids fly open while the very stone itself reverts back to its original human shape and flesh tone. The head’s shiny black eyes once again lock onto mine, and with a look of maniacal glee, it swoops down, open-neck first, to force its way down over my head. Fearing it wants to possess me mind, body and soul, I quickly reach up to defend myself.

I force my thumbs up inside the opening of the mask’s skin-like rubbery neck before it can completely slip down over my head, and clamp my fingers down tightly on the flesh at both sides. This gives me control over the mask as it alternately struggles to force itself down over my head and free itself from my grasp. As we struggle, thoughts race through my mind about what will happen to me if this disturbed personality wins the battle. Frightened by this possibility, I strengthen my resolve to fight it off.

Sensing the growing strength of my rejection, the mask redoubles its efforts to alternately force its way down over my head and break free of my grasp. My arms are beginning to feel like dead weights but I refuse to let go. As our violent struggle continues, I become another me standing on some grass next to a wooden fence in the residential area of a large city. Nighttime lights illuminate the street as I hold the almost lifeless mask in my hands. Every once in a while it flutters weakly, letting me know it’s still alive. In a fleeting moment of sympathy, before it completely dies, I release it, half expecting it to fall to the ground. Instead, it floats up into the air. Much to my regret, it quickly takes on new life and starts to move out over the darkened city with a look of renewed hope and determination. Using my inner senses, I follow the mask at a discreet distance as it combs the city streets and buildings looking for a new victim, one more willing than I. Invisible to him, I watch as he feels out potential victims. Finally he settles on a depressed looking young man sitting on a park bench. I’m amazed at how fast he subdues his new victim. The young man almost gratefully accepts the “Suckface” personality, as the mask easily slips down over his head. Using a kind of psychic shorthand to skip forward in time and space, I watch as a total biological and psychological transformation of the young man takes place. The human body that once belonged to him now belongs to “Suckface”, the personality forged from the anger and contempt of the motorcycle driver, still impatiently sitting beside me at the foot of Fell Street Hill.

Next, an all white room swims into focus. “Suckface” is standing in the middle of the room naked, except for a small loincloth and wide, studded leather belts. One belt is wrapped around his waist while the other one, attached at the right side of his waist, runs up his chest and down over his left shoulder, attaching to the waist belt in the back, like a bandoleer. Holding a leather Cat-O-Nine-Tail whip in his right hand, he uses it to both sexually stimulate and punish the naked, submissive man crawling on the floor in front of him. A quick flashback shows Suckface picking him up on the street earlier with the promise of food, wine, and wild, uninhibited sex. Watching this scene from a point in the air between the two men, I know the man on the floor will get his night of wild, uninhibited sex, but he’s also going to get something he doesn’t suspect. At the end of this long night of sexual abandon and sadistic pleasure, he’ll be killed and, like others before him, his body parts will be dismembered, wrapped in plastic, and distributed throughout the city for the police to find.

The contempt and loathing Suckface feels for himself and the other homosexual men he meets has grown in proportion to his homosexual activity and the public’s condemnation of it. Unable to resolve these two strongly opposing forces, he has become self-destructive. While outwardly seething with contempt for those who condemn him and his behavior, unconsciously he accepts their condemnation as the condemnation of his father, the motorcycle driver. Unconsciously, he looks for ways to appease this energy. Ironically, he chooses to destroy those who give him the most love and pleasure in life, his male sexual partners. In this way he’s able to express his contempt for society and punish himself at the same time. Deep down he knows that playing this gruesome game of cat-and-mouse with the police will eventually lead to his own destruction but, outwardly, he denies the possibility.

I watch from an invisible point in the air as Suckface moves through the city streets, hiding the bloody body parts of his latest victim. He’s offering up a sacrifice to the limitation and fear that condemns his behavior, “one more dead “queer” for those who hate queers”, he thinks. Unable to resist the urge to pay the ultimate price, he taunts the detective in charge of investigating his murder victims through a series of cryptic letters. He laughs at the detective for not being able to find him and put a stop to the reign of terror he’s inflicting on the city’s homosexual community. Knowing the police are closing in on him in this alternate reality, I return to the present and renew my grip on the struggling mask.

With these terrible thoughts fresh in my mind, I decide my course of action. The Suckface personality, forged from the negative thoughts and emotions of the motorcycle driver, will not gain its freedom today! Enough anger and contempt is loose within the world already. As my resolve solidifies, I return my attention to the mask. Staring down at me the look on its face changes; where once it wore a look of arrogance, strength and superiority, now it wears a look of fear and exhaustion. Strengthening my grip on the mask, I project my astral or energy body through the car window, like Plastic Man from the comic books, and try to jamb it down over the motorcycle driver’s head, more than ten feet away. Although my move catches him off guard, he reacts quickly and forces me all the way back into my car. Again and again, we drive one another’s energy bodies back and forth in a pitched battle, neither one of us willing to accept final possession of the mask.

As the motorcycle driver and I grimly fight on, both refusing to accept ownership of the mask, a look of apprehension and fear grows on the mask’s face. Finally, with a look of utter shock and dismay, it gives up, letting the glow of life that once strongly animated its features, drain from its being. Surprisingly, I feel a touch of sadness. The motorcycle driver and I are now battling over a limp, lifeless rubber mask. Still determined not to keep it, I reach over and attempt to stuff it into the right hand pocket of the driver’s Mackinaw coat. Still unwilling to accept responsibility for it, he again rejects my attempt to put the mask in his pocket and angrily pushes my hand back at me with the mask still in it.

Finally, the traffic light turns green and we both have to shift our attention back to the outside world long enough to get our vehicles moving. As the motorcycle driver and his passenger head up Fell Street Hill, I turn right onto Laguna Street. I still don’t want to keep the dead mask so I reach back again to stuff it into his coat pocket but to no avail. He still refuses to accept it. After several more fruitless attempts, I arrive home two blocks away to park my car, clean up, and go to bed.

Lying in bed next to my sleeping wife, I find myself unable, or unwilling, to let the Suckface incident go unresolved. Doggedly, I start rerunning the image of the motorcycle driver heading up Fell St. Hill. In each sequence, I put the mask in his pocket but every time I remove my hand the mask comes with it, as if it was glued to my fingers.

Before sleep can claim me, I start an internal dialogue with the motorcycle driver. I admit to him that, As we drove north from South San Francisco together, I was amazed and amused by your look and behavior. I apologize for making fun of him and, in an attempt at humor, I add, But it did look strange to see you beat your buddy’s arm so violently just for signaling turns! He kind of laughs and I volunteer that, I had no right to pick on you. I’m sorry. With this admission a sense of brotherhood and understanding blossoms between us and I use this moment to remind him that, When you did turn around to yell at me, I wasn’t looking at you, and that alone should be reason enough for you to take responsibility for disposing of this mask. With my appeal to his sense of fairness, he reaches down and opens his coat pocket, giving me permission to place the dead mask inside, which I do. My final view of him is his back as he drives up Fell St. Hill and disappears over the top, taking the mask with him and out of my life forever. With this delightful image still in my mind, I role over onto my left side and fall fast asleep, in peace.

Copyright 2007, Roger A. “Pete” Peterson

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A Challenge to Be More Kind....

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:32:04 GMT

Two videos I want to share with Jeff Brown, author of "SoulShaping, Adventures in Creation"

I like what he is doing, because it's almost a 'barter system', a way for the homeless to share their talents and energy, aside from asking for handouts. I think it's empowering. Basically, he's employing Slim...very cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOlmIOcc0NA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp40jzSzvv4

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Abandoned Toys

mysticalfairy — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:00:01 GMT

I just recently came across this album "The witch's garden" by Abandoned Toys and it is one of the most exquisitely beautiful, new age music albums I have come across in recent years. If you don't already own a copy, I highly recommend picking up one. I think they have clips at their website here:

http://www.abandonedtoys.com/store.htm

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Check out Devotional chant dance fusion..awsome

Chris — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:37:53 GMT

Just discovered a cool new chanting group, who fuse dance music, english lyrics and sanskrit chants. Amazingly uplifting....

Anyone heard them play live ?

www.maha-ra.com

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20 Astral Keys to Gates of Universal Consciousness

DarkMother — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:41:57 GMT

Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist who developed the field of analytical psychology and introduced the concept of archetypes of consciousness being "innate universal psychic dispositions that form the substrate from which the basic themes of human life emerge. Being universal and innate, their influence can be detected in the form of myths, symbols, rituals and instincts of human beings. Archetypes are components of the collective unconscious and serve to organize, direct and inform human thought and behaviour. ...archetypes heavily influence the human life cycle, propelling a neurologically hard-wired sequence which he called the stages of life. Each stage is mediated through a new set of archetypal imperatives which seek fulfillment in action."[1]

Centuries before Jung, the Maya introduced the very similar concept of Archetypes of Divine Consciousness. (According to the Maya, there are 20 of them.) Likewise, these Archetypes form the substrate from which individual Divine Consciousness emerges. Also being components of the collective unconscious, the Maya-identified Archetypes organize, direct and engender Divine thought and behavior in the human experience, in stages, over the course of days, months, years, ...millennia. Hard wired into the binary code of DNA and the human brain, these Archetypes are mediated through the permutations of an universal, binary, object oriented Code evident in and galactically broadcast by harmonic star cycles. The Maya perceived the astral Nature of the Code and embodied It in a "lunar calendar." Regarded as their Sacred Calendar, they call it the "Tzolkin." The Tzolkin enables them to track the cycles, the individual stages of the cycles [i.e. days] and the progressive effects of those intermeshed stages in order to further enable them to live in conscious alignment and synchronicity with the 20 Archetypes. According to the Maya, living in such alignment and synchronicity activates the inherent Divine Consciousness latent within the individual consciousness. Thus activated, the Divine Unconscious within can be consciously harnessed and channeled for communlal and personal well being.

Being both harmonic and binary in Nature, the Tzolkin's Code has been digitized and expressed in sound. As the stuff of our bodies comes from starlight, the acoustic expressions (of the Code's objects relative to the individual Archetypes) directly facilitate an exclusively positive rewiring of the brain, aligning and synchronizing its synapses with the dynamics of the respective Archetypes, and having a sympathetic effect advancing the activation of analogous higher functions of DNA. (Rather than needing to track the individual harmonic stages of the Archetypes as they naturally occur staggered over the course of months and larger spans of Time, as Maya clerics have done for centuries, the Archetypes' entire harmonic sequences can be heard in seconds.) Each of the Archetypes has been individually recorded (in great for meditation lengths) and embodied in "The Mayan Book of Wisdom" (a cognitive/consciousness enhancement software product from DarkMother.com).

On this Summer Solstice weekend, in the interest of fostering the planetary increase of Light, you can download an abridged version of The Mayan Book of Wisdom containing 3:00.00 excerpts of the full length (13:00.00) expressions of the 20 Archetypes. They're for you - Download them, experience them, use them; enjoy them.

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For more information on the harmonic nature of the Tzolkin, visit and peruse DarkMother.com. (These Archetypes are fundamental components of all the complex Tzolkin acoustic translations embodied in company's "Ascension" series.)

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CHOOSING LOVE INSTEAD OF FEAR (the only reason we're here!)

Wed, 21 May 2008 18:04:16 GMT

The only reason we incarnate is to learn how to choose love instead of fear. It does not matter what you do for a living, where you live, or who you marry, etc. The only purose you have is to extend love to everyone you come into contact with, including yourself. This is how you BECOME what you already ARE: LOVE. The only way to restore perfect inner peace that is stable and unwavering is to choose to be willing to extend love to everyone you come into contact with, including yourself.

By "love" I mean unconditional acceptance. And by "unconditional acceptance" I mean God. By "you" I mean me. And by "me" I mean you. We are all ONE and we are all LOVE. And by "we" I mean GOD. And by "God" I mean LOVE...You get the picture!

The most amazing miracle has transpired in my life over the last 24 hours as a result of my own sincere willingness to be a vessell for love, to be a vessell for that which I AM, which is God. I wanted to share...

I put a profile on My Space about a month ago. I saw a woman on there named Joni Ellen Jenkins. This is my name. I almost asked her to join my friend list but hesitated and then did nothing. I had a very stressful custody hearing scheduled with my son's father yesterday. When I got home from the courthouse yesterday there was an e-mail from Joni Ellen Jenkins who lives in Pennsylvania. Her e-mail address is jonijenks@gmail.com and mine is jonijenkins@gmail.com. She had suspected that her insurance company had sent e-mails meant for her to me. Sure enough I had the e-mails in my box that day. We started to breifly chat and make small talk through e-mails. She invited me to join her friend list on My Space. One thing led to another and she told me she had cancer and is only a 40 year old mom. I am a 39 year old mom. I started writing to her from a spiritual perspective, and then suddenly I realized what was going on!

Here is the last e-mail I sent to her; this is incredilbe!!

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Dear Joni Ellen Jenkins,

Oh my God, I think that meeting you has been the greatest gift God has ever given me!

I have been trying to release all my own walls to self love, with perfect inner peace being the goal. I have made much progress but there was still a little bit of work left.

I went through a traumatizing custody trial with my son's father yesterday, but won. However the experience made me more aware of my own walls to love. When I came home from the courthouse I got your e-mails.

I know why I hesitated when I first saw the My Space profile. There was a timing issue. I was meant to make contact with you right after court when my own fears were so triggered and my walls to love were easy to see.

When you told me about the cancer my heart was flooded with so much love and compassion for you. It is always easier to see someone else's perfection and divinity than your own. It is always easier to see someone else's wall to self love than it is to see your own. As I was loving you and contemplating that we have the exact same name, Joni Ellen Jenkins, the reality that we (all of humanity) really are ONE permeated my consciousness. I had the profound realization that by deeply loving and forgiving you (Joni Ellen Jenkins) I was deeply loving and forgiving myself (Joni Ellen Jenkins).

The truth is that you are love, you are God, and you are soooooooooo powerful and perfect. All you need do is forgive yourself for forgetting the truth. That is always easier said than done. And all I need do is forgive myself for forgetting the truth. By loving you so deeply I have let down yet another wall to self-love and that is the greatest gift I have ever received. When I love you I love myself becasue we are, in truth, ONE. The fact that we have the same name is just a coincidence, but has aided me in dramatically shifting and healing my perception.

You truly are God--you knew exactly when the right time was to contact me so that the highest form of healing would take place for both of us.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU MY DEAR SISTER OF LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

XOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Joni Ellen Jenkins

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I hope that Joni Ellen Jenkins inspired you as much as she has inspired Joni Ellen Jenkins. I hope that LOVE inspired you to remember that you are LOVE. I hope that God is willing to allow God to remind God that God cannot be anything but God.

I LOVE YOU.

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The Mayan Sacred Calendar and Solar Wind

DarkMother — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:10:46 GMT

The Mayan Sacred Calendar (the Tzolkin) is said to be a graphic representation of a Logic transmitted by star harmonics that unlock doors of Universal Consciousness and interdimensional reality. If so, it ought to sound something like solar wind, right. Having translated the Tzolkin into sound, we offer you a comparison between that and actual NASA recorded solar wind.

When the Tzolkin's harmonic Logic is sequenced in the sonic register and played back at high speed, it sounds very much like solar wind recorded by the Voyager spacecraft, also played back at high speed. The primary dif being the Tzolkin is composed of only 13 harmonics and the solar wind has them all.

Check it out:
http://www.darkmother.com/SolarwindTzolkinComparison

Enjoy! ;)

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spiritual Music video -- "all is ONE day"

Gatewhey — Sun, 18 May 2008 20:07:06 GMT

just came on Tribes &
wanted to share our newest music video (w spiritual teachings).

go to the new Gatewhey home page, http://gatewhey.com/

or on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/user/Gatewhey

feel free to comment.
peace to all.
Gatewhey

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2012

elo_celtic_moore — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:05:04 GMT

I'm sure many of you are aware of things like the end of the Mayan calander in 2012, that the sun and earth line up with the centre of our galaxey for the first time in 26,0000 years, that many are talking about great collective changes at this time, some feel dark, some feel postive, some both. Terrance MacKenna developed an interesting theory on accelarating changes climaxing in a dramtic shift in collective conciousness and even time -

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu6WFr61I-g&feature=related

thought it would be interesting in this tribe to ask people what is there personal intutive feeling this might mean, especialy after browsing around what some of the proffesional pundits are say, take it back to your personal self, and what does your soul say about this ?

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Infinite Eureka - my new website & social network

neekos — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:20:15 GMT

Hi All,

I just posted this as a listing in this tribe and then realised that most people (including myself) don't even see the listings, haha..
So here it is again:

I have just finished a micro site to support my first book which I am currently putting together and you are cordially invited to have a look, create a profile and get involved. The general purpose of my book is to provide the tools/ideas necessary to catalyse a shift in perspective on a global level, such that we can literally create heaven.

Sounds pretentious right? Impossible? Not to me.

The web address for the informational site is http://www.infiniteeureka.com and the social network is at http://infiniteeureka.ning.com .

I look forward to reading your comments, criticisms, ideas and whatever else you want to write. Feel free to say whatever you like, that's the whole point!

Still here? What are you waiting for? hehe..

8)

Peacefully and with love to all,

Nick

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Operation Un-Slump

Slacker-HA — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:35:06 GMT

Do you remember the riddles of the Great Dr. Suess,---(Moroni X)
His mes-sage-s warning us of an ever tight-ning noose?---(Mormon 9)
“Save the trees”, he exhorted as the “Oncler” did chop.!
Speak up for yourselves was exclaimed with a “Yopp”!!!
When “yertle the turtle” gets higher that he should,
Wood many of us burping do us some good ???

“Yessssss”, I Christian Kenny Heap-Peace Maker #246 exclaim, “Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes!!!”
JUST focus on positive intent-ions and prepare to manifest.
You see HE/SHE/IT(the Creators) taught us how to imagine and how to create;
“Un-slump” yourselves today...what the hell is your wait???

Manifesting is easy...we've been tricked into doing it in reverse.
Have wee not created our worst fears right down to the exact verse?

Who’s writing the headlines of tomorrows fear, war, and problems?
And why do you keep paying them for their feeble attempt to solve them?
And how can you say “we’re addicted to oil” and grin?
Killing is killing and killing is a sin…!!!---(Ten commandments)
You’ve paid to exterminate over 500,000 Iraq children and women;
And millions of others including your own selves’ future are grim.
NO war is of God if it takes killing to win.
You’re being misled by conspiring men.!---(D&C 89:4)
Physicist at BYU uncorked the truth of the 9-11 towers;
Back this brave man and please cease to whimper and cower.

YOU…only YOU hold the secret to world peace,
Either get on your feet or get down on your knees,
Just do something right now, fire your shot at the beast.!
Don’t wait till they cut down the last of the trees,
Or poison the last of the birds and the bees,
Or develop yet another world-wide dis-ease,

BREAK THE PATTERN

BREAK THE PATTERN

NRETTAP EHT KAERB

Authors suggestion

S.T.O.P/P.

SIT--- out of the madness, support the killing machine no more. Fast for 3 days from the poisonous food in your fridge.

THINK--- about things like why is there poison in my child’s food, water, and air?

OBSERVE---the difference between hunger pains and drug withdrawals during your 3 day fast. Visualize and empower the fall of oppression.

PLAN/PRAY---I’ll leave this one open so I don’t get caught in a prickly perch.

Get out of the rut...Break the old mold/mould.
"Free your mind", says Bob Marley and step out-ta the cold.---(3 Nephi 23:5)

Pleaze share your bread and wealth, with a plain-bellied “sneetch”.---(D&C 42)
We can all happily live and dance on the BEAC)(-:
Focus on laughter, light, hope, love and peace;
While brushing your toilet or scrubbing your teeth.

Most of you are waiting for a savior to knock at your door.
Someone to clean up the mess you allowed too accumulate on the floor.
Awaken…You are the ones you’ve been waiting for.
Quit procrastinating and wishing and hitting the snore.

You are the kids that were given the seeds.---(Ether 8-24-26)
You are now very aware of the “onclers” evil greed.---(Mormon 1:18-19)
Let's help those that are hopelessly buying “thneads”;
That everyone, everyone, just thinks that they needs.
To the sounds of the chopping of the “truffala trees”.---(1 Nephi 8)

STOP---(Sit-Think-Observe-Plan/Pray)

Listen

PLeazzzzzzzzeee

Then you too will hear the “who's” and their faint cry for help;---(Moses 7:48)
Legalized slavery to put more poisonous junk on your shelves;
The last of the wise-men/women in far off Tibet;
Being massacred each day by the “onclers” guns, poisons and nets;
All funded by those that purchase daily from the *Made in China* collection of Death!!!

You too are the Who's...can't you hear your own cries;
As the “onclers” adds poison blatantly to your food, water, mind, and skies?
You sit there, just sit there and keep funding the killing system;
And when someone like me talks you freakin’ refuse to listen.

It’s…not really your fault…that's what my research implies.
The illumanati/nazi/elite/secret society/gadiantum have practiced for centuries on hypnosis and lies.
All you have to do is control yourself for 5 minutes and open your sedated eyes.

The same rising sun seen on the flags in communist China
Are here on the Chevrons advertising the newly arrived dine-ers.
Three 5 pointed stars insinuate a RE-public has been formed
Washington DC is no different than the norm
When the public gets away the queens guns show up and RE-form.---(treaty of 1783)
You have been a United citizen for all of your life
That's why it is pointless to send a senator your gripes
This trickery has been done by chickenshits without spines
Hell...george washington wasn't even a cooperate president until 1789
13 whole years after 13 businesses challenged the United Kings
The 1776 declaration was a bankruptcy statement among other things
If you don’t believe me then please recite this programming with me

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America;
AND to the RE-public for which it stands.
II different organizations operating as a freaky, window peeking, uncle sam;
Collecting taxes for the United VI-KINGs from this so called free land.
The district of coulmbia was formed in 1871;
When the kings men showed up with poisons, bribes, and guns.
A thorn in our side and a pain in our bums,
The back of your dollar sends messages in Roman
A mere 300 ruling families will be easy to shun.

Pleaze

Realize that the problems and solutions that you think you see on TV;
Are nothing but a matador’s means of mushroom trickery.
He waves the red, white and blue flag as he blatantly tells you more lies;
With a freshly sharpened sword hid behind from your eyes.
And Who is this man behind the curtain of Oz that wee fear?
STOP buying his bullcrap, potato chips, tampons, and beer.!

It's happening.

It is.---(D&C 133)

Keep you eye on the ball...just who are your friends?
Do you invest daily in a lifestyle that is no doubt our end?

I listen to the Budd-ha when he says don’t fund makers of poison.---(The Dharmapada)
If you listen really hard this is also supported by some of the Mormons.---(D&C 98)
The Rasta, the Hindu, the Muslim, the Jew,
So many of them holding the same messages as you.
No matter what language, religion, or sect;
I believe in your books...together they erect;
An unbelievable wealth of knowledge and power;

For the good of man kind...THIS IS YOUR TOWNS GREATEST HOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pleazzze…---…

Forget about stars and those that have none.
Pleaze share your bread with a person that is short a long bun.
I believe all your books, I fully understand the anointed;

"The Point is so much more important than the Pointers", Cool maintenance Tec next door.

What does all this mean, all these riddles and rhymes?
Why does slacker keep researching and talking all the time?
Why does most of this come as a suprize?
The secret combinations have effectively placed a veil over your eyes.!
The script-ures tell us to protect against conspiring men;--- (D&C 89)
While "the church"(copy written and property of vatican city) leaders command you to keep paying in;
To keep making money at the cost of death and disease;
While they spend GODS money in places you can't see;
I testify that the Creator despises wealth, classes, money, and greed.
Open the church house and see who's operating inside secretly.

It’s Ground Hog Day!!!

The same problems created by the same people in the times of Jesus Christ;
A vigilantly hero that spoke out against the roman based illusionists day and night;
An occultist crusader of truth, love, hope and light.
Until “they” caught him with illegal herbal medicine in his pockets;---(Genesis)
Resulting in him being tortured till his eyes bled from the sockets.
The herbal Holy Oil of Moses that HE used in that day;---(Recipe found in Exodus 30:23-mis-translation dis/un-cover-ed in 1934 by Sula Bennet)
Was an alchemist’s recipe that showed many "The Way"---(…lead me, guide me, walk be side me, help me find “The Way”…)
JC cleaned all the toxins and drugs from their bodies and minds;
Then lead them to the desert, leaving the camouflaged pyramids behind.
Once away from the then, invisible frequencies they did find;
A life now worth living, harmoniously in nature with the divine.

It’s Ground Hog Day!!!

If you add up the poisons in the food, water and air;
Mix it up with the govern-mental bullcrap that you know is in there;
Then add it to the his-story made fact-ual by men whose skin is called fair;
It’s word for word, picture perfect to the last illuma-nazi snare;
Where more disappeared in the United states than were ever killed over there.---(Germany)
And “the bomb”(Japan)…don’t forget what Martin Luther exclaimed before “they” shot him too
Everything they are doing is legal because “they” are twisting the truth.
Brainwashing the masses quite early in their youth,
Cost JFK his life as well…He also was too good of a sleuth.!

Am I next on their list?…It’s really up to YOU.
Will you deny all the facts, histories and buckets of truth;
And allow them to take out one of the last cowboys riding the fences for you.---(Chris Ledeux)

I’m simply reporting as it’s unfolding, and if you plug your ears much longer you too will see;
The brutal attempt of the united kings to bring the slaves again to their knees;
As yet another holocaust is spiraling from Salt Lake City.

Who is doing this?

The same group that gave by family the surname of Heap
As they piled us and millions more up during europes witch burning heat
The same group that shot at my Great Grandfather Thomas Green
Right after “they” corrupted the mormon religion from with-in...Unseen
The same group that still likes to put pillow cases over their heads.---(1972 olympics, Iraq)
The same group that killed 12 outta 13 mormans while many were resting in bed.---(D&C 123)
The same group that legally killed 38 million natives whose skin was colored red.
The same group that have filled countless Jews and blacks with poisons and lead.
The same group that attempted to erase the calendars and other books,
Of the Maya, Nemenhah, and other flocks of Christ, because of their knowledge’s and looks.

Today 4-30-2008, Planetary 27, Kin 72.

I stand beside my Great Great Grandfather William Henry Harrison Heap.
WHHH left a shining example for us all as he left england with a leap.
We should always base our decisions on the effects over the next 7 generations,
Using the full stories of the past mixed with real live modern day reveal-ations.
I oppose the same group that rounded up everyone that could make alcohol into medicine.
That came to Star Valley looking for my Great Grandfather Marion Heap during the last prohibition.---(current prohibition cloaked as fda CAM guidance)
I haven't a doubt that my relative Martin Harris saw the obvious corruption,
And took those 116 pages away from the hands of evil destruction,
Craftily short-sheeting the illuminati of the rest of the instructions.

The worst thing that I feel I could do in this life;
Would be to forget my families sacrifices, and to “get back in line”.---(Bugs life)
Long before statehood WHHH homesteaded the park now called Zion.
Wee that are seeking freedom need others with the spirit of a Lion
Are you a bull with some nuts or a steer that is just trying?
To band with us now, before the events unfold and masses are crying
You be the judge, am I truthful, up in the night, or lying?

Once upon a time one of the inmates must-a picked up the phone and said, “hello”
Put the monsters back in the cages, is it not time for them to go?---(Revelations)
Who the hell gave these jack-asses authority to run the show?
I’ve searched under every rock on 4 continents and can find no one that knows.
All we can do is to judges their actions and see that their bloody tactics blow.
Evil, and dirty, from their head to the stench of death emanating from their toes

Yesterday according to the so-called powers that be
Only two groups were allowed to exist in the land of the free
george bush said you’re either a terrorist or support cronies like me
Bull shit I say…You’re a proven liar, murderer and thief
You’re actions mr. president are plagued with un-precidented deceit
Your grandpa, mr. president was caught red handed in bed with the nazi’s
You’re nothing but pond scum, a cancer, a puppet of the illuminati.

A third group has formed of other true peace makers like me.
Believe it or not, the Creators will bring you all to your knees.
I’m calling you out mr president, high noon on the street.
A tickling contest… loser is the first one to pee.
I carry a cross of peace, love, and safety.
Just please leave everyone alone and let the indigenous tribes be.
I’ll see you by the statue of the Native American Chief.
Next to the SLC court house…precisely on May 3;
I triple dog dare you mr. president to come and face little me!!!
As I pull the masks off the villains and other powers that be
And begin the biggest snowball ever…ending in world peace;
As weapons of truth, love and light break the back of the beast;
And millions of innocent herb users are pardoned, paid severance, and released
It’s on the schedule of events, given by the real powers that be
Check out the 13 moon calendar if you don’t believe me
The Spectral Moon Cycle empowers us to Dissolve, Liberate, and Release.

Move over bacon, your time has come,
To get out of the way, 4-3-2-1 FREEDOM

“Let go of past attachments and patterns that you serve,
To receive the transformation, and salvation you deserve…”, Luzia

IN my mind

There is nothing found in me that’s not found in the plants and trees;
Unless you’re from some other planet there is nothing separating you from me;
We are all relations and will soon live together peacefully.

The Ministry of Alchemy will prove Weazer and others right this month.
“We are all on drugs”, was much, much more than just a silly hunch;
Methamphetamines have been detected in govern-mental subsidized school lunch.
“Everyone’s addicted to the same nicotine”, yells Michael the dreadlocked Rasta;
He’s correct says MOA- pesticide/nicotine has been detected in everyone apples, water, and pasta.
And the Rage...oh the Rage, Against The evil Machine
Will no doubt make yet another appearance…you’ll see what I mean.!
We’d love to hear, your messages clear, over a cup of tea
The Ministry of Alchemy invites, those with sound gripes, to Salt Lake City
To discuss the solutions, and activate the master plan, and kick off the big Party

To anyone who takes offense to things written here,
Please ask of the spirit to make your mind clear,
And if praying just isn't quite your cup of tea,
I’m cool with that too, you’re supposed to think free.
Please use common sense, it's close to the same thing.

History shows that there is nothing but circles caused by a revolution.
Get out-ta the way onclers family, it’s time for the evolution.

Prepare yourselves quickly; please study this wit,--- (D&C 88)
Many blessings II U...Peace love and all that $#@!...Slacker

Christian Kenny Heap
Ministry of Alchemy
Peace Maker #246
Tribe 31-13 transformer

Words in “_____” intended to credit Dr. Suess for his creations and to credit him as a modern day revelator, teacher, and sage. Reading The Sneetches, Yertle the Turtle, The Lorax, and other Suess stories will help unlock some of the riddles above.

HI

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THE GREATEST VISION EVER SEEN ~ FREEDOM

truthgathering — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:21:45 GMT

I thought you might like to see the Rainbow Dream Vision of Freedom and Hope.

If you like this vision, please send it to friends.

You can get a fresh copy here to paste into emails:
http://worldgathering.net/rdvplain.html

Thanks ~~ Michael Irving ~~ Scotland UK
The Big World Gathering ~ http://worldgathering.net

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The Rainbow Dream Vision of Freedom ~ 1993-2012
http://worldgathering.net/vision.html

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope
Intertribal Medicine Societies of Turtle Island
The Twenty Count: 1993-2012

Make copies of the Rainbow prophecy, and give or send them to people anywhere on the planet. Then let them be guided by their hearts to do the same until all planetary citizens are brought to life in the Rainbow dream, so that we may dream and work together for true peace. Love, Thunder Woman

Introduction by Aleran
Throughout the ages humanity has sought out the prophecies of the spiritually gifted to instil a clear hope and vision into life. During this time many prophecies come to us trying to lead us in many different directions.
Some prophecy points to disaster, hopelessness and the annihilation of mankind. But other prophecies create a vision of joyful transformation through quantum leaps into love and light.
As things stand now, the human race is dreaming a hell.
But as individuals and as a collective humanity it is our potential to dream of paradise and to create the kingdom of heaven on our Mother Earth.
Could it be that the pain in our hearts caused by the hell we have created will spur us on into visions and creations of a world formed in love?
It is my prayer and dream, along with a multitude of others who have taught me to dream the Rainbow dream, that each and every one of you learn to dream both while awake and sleeping, the dream of unity and love through divine transformation.
This prophecy is a dream and vision that is a potential reality for mankind. It is not an ultimatum. But it is ours to behold and to create if we only dare to dream it together.

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Turtle Island
Prophecies of The Native Americans
1993-2012

PART ONE ~
The distribution and giving back to humanity of the Twenty Count.
In the Turtle Island lore we say it is the time of finding one’s path with heart.
The time of seeking perfection, growth and development.
Most importantly the time of trust and innocence, when mythologies of the world are revealing secrets.

PART TWO ~
The critical time. The time of the animal. The time of Tuwalananie, the dark force.
The reason for this is that seeds of light have been planted and we are starting to grow and the teachings are starting to come out and all those ones who have taught partial truths, who have taught deliberate lies in history, are going to be threatened by the awakening of the Rainbow people because the Rainbow people exist in every country, in every nation, in every land.
The Dark Forces will be threatened and they will use their power and their power exists in technology. We are going to see new technology appearing which will be a tremendous threat to the survival of humanity.
We must exert our influence by gathering together and sharing our ideas and plans for alternative power and for world peace. If we put a double amount of energy with what we are for, we can change it. We can change it.

PART THREE ~
The time of human to human communication.
The time the human family finally starts to become human.
There will be more information brought out into open format than has ever been seen on this planet.
We will re-establish contact in a very knowledgeable way with our ancestors from the stars.
So mark that down because it will happen. The first contact will be with the Pleiades and will be totally acknowledged and will be known to all the world powers. The second contact will be with Sirius.

PART FOUR ~
When truth seekers begin to open the veil of the crack between the worlds, we will see our memory circles.
Many of the leaders who are trying to keep us locked in the past, will not function today, will fall.
Many teachers and wise people will be seen for who they are and they will be the farmers, the labourers and the gas station attendants because the tagashala will be fully awakened.
People will begin to link up with other people in gathering together circles.
Many of these will be the so-called 'common people' and not the teachers you see up there now.

PART FIVE ~
The various winged serpent wheels will begin to turn, to dance once again and when they do the rainbow lights will be seen in dreams all over the world and these rainbow light dreams will help awaken the rest of humanity.
We will sit in a new circle of law.
All civil and social laws will have to be in conformity with natural laws or the people will not accept them and they will have the enlightenment necessary to reject those laws.
Science will once again become metaphysics. They will discover four laws that will help them jump to universal law and transcend the time-space continuum which is the limitation of the age and once again we will begin to take our power and to work with rules and laws that are cosmic laws.

PART SIX ~
We will once again see the way to continue a new dream.
We will be given the road map back to the stars and we will see the star people come out of the illusion of their two-legged form and into their actual great sleeper-dreamer form.
A powerful time approaches humanity and its really hard for me to talk about it.
I am a great dreamer but I don’t know if I dream that large.
We will see a real shift in planetary consciousness.
Many of the enemies of the humans will begin to drop away.
We will totally gain the light of the great light wheel.
There will be one humanity, one planet composed of all the different ways of dancing in complete harmony in the great gathering together circle.
All the seeds will be planted.
The Earth will have its true reality formed.
It will join the sisterhood of planets, the daughters of Copperwoman and it will create within itself all forms of all things in harmony with the everything.
We will see a whole new way of perfection.
There will be plants on this grandmother earth that will give life and sustenance as never before seen.
Starvation on the earth, all those things will be gone. There will be total balance and harmony.

PART SEVEN ~
The new race of humans will begin to design their new reality of life on this planet as they intended it to be when they first came here from the stars.
We will begin to establish this planet and use the collective consciousness to hold the power of this space in harmony with the Great Circle of Twelve and all the planets. There is a whole lot I don’t even know. There is more that I am not supposed to talk about yet.
The dream will be actualised and this planet will hold its space in the great council of planets and become a part of the universal enlightened sisterhood and brotherhood of humanity and keepers of the light circles. It's happened on many planets and it's expected to happen on a lot of other planets.
There will be a moment when the population will be 'the' Population, and something great will happen.
This planet will have its design of energy movement guided by all of humanity living here.

The Great Spirit will leave its seed and the egg of everything here on this planet and it will create itself 20 times over at the speed of light and this prophecy ends as I have been given it by the Grandmothers that I share with you now.

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Put a double amount of energy with what we are for. We can change it.

Make copies of the Rainbow prophecy, and give or send them to people anywhere on the planet. Then let them be guided by their hearts to do the same until all planetary citizens are brought to life in the Rainbow dream, so that we may dream and work together for true peace. Love, Thunder Woman

http://worldgathering.net/vision.html

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Background information ~ The Greatest Vision Ever Seen

~ The Greatest Vision Ever Seen ~
~ The Rainbow Dream of Freedom ~

http://worldgathering.net/greatest.html

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Freedom ~ 1993-2012
Intertribal Medicine Societies of Turtle Island
http://worldgathering.net/vision.html

~ A powerful time approaches humanity and its really hard for me to talk about it. ~ We will see a real shift in planetary consciousness. ~ The Earth will have its true reality formed. ~ We will see a whole new way of perfection. ~ Starvation on the earth, all those things will be gone. ~

~ VISION of FREEDOM ~

I hope many people will send the Vision of Freedom to friends.

I have been involved with the Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope and Freedom since 1984. In that year, three musicians came into my one-man printing and publishing office, and said, "You really must look at this." They seemed a little (funny how life is at times) like the three wise people bringing gifts. Two days later I was distributing copies at a conference, and like me, people were amazed and astonished.

That's when my life started to be 'larger than life'.
And, in 1987, I went to visit the Hopi in Arizona, North America.

As I drove in from the west, an older man sitting by the roadside waved down my car... later, it felt to me that I was expected. He took me to meet Qwa David Monongye, and in the evening I was taken to a ceremony in the kiva. A dozen or more men descended from a ladder in the roof, and formed up in an arc of a circle.

They faced one direction, towards one of the ends of the arc, and started a slow foot-shuffling dance. Then fairly suddenly, domino-effect, turned one-by-one 180 degrees to face the other end of the arc. At that point I very nearly fell off my chair ... something had hit me. A year or more later, thinking about it, the realisation seemed to be: 'We can change the direction the world is going in. It is possible.'

I drove off, eastwards, along the Hopi mesas to find somewhere to park up, and sleep the night. In the morning I got out of the car, and was surprised to see the face of the large rock only feet from the car had a carving on it. This was the Hopi's 'Prophecy Stone', and it shows people moving in a direction, and the path splitting into two. One path goes nowhere, it fades out. But the other path goes on, and corn symbols by the path indicate that this route leads to life and prosperity.

Many other unusual and significant things occurred out there in this ancient place where it feels like time had stopped. Indeed, after visiting the oldest township on the Hopi mesas ~ a tall, sharp-ended mesa, rather like a ship of the desert ~ my watch stopped, and never worked again. There is much more that happened.

In 1986 ~ the year before my first visit to the Hopi ~ I was within sixty feet of three disc craft, for around 25 minutes. This too, was like events were coming together to inform me of something significant, something much bigger than myself. In 1993, with friends, we were very close to craft in the area of the crop patterns of mid southern England on several occasions.

Since 1993, on most days when I first step out of doors I frequently see one or more flashes in the sky, seemingly from a source fairly close, and at a lowish elevation. I have always taken the flashes to indicate the locations of disc craft which are 'parked up' and are stationary. In 2007, possibly because I was loaned a camera with an unusual infra-red setting, many craft and aerial objects started to appear in my general scenic photographs. Most images are archived here: http://worldgathering.net/scotland

(A) The Rainbow Dream Vision says: "We can change it (the direction the world is going). If we put a DOUBLE amount of effort into what we are for."

(B) The Hopi Nation has a prophecy stone which predicts the world will come to a time of choice. And if we choose the good direction, we can go on into a good life.

(C) The craft appearing all over the world, seem to be waiting and watching. To see if we can figure things out. To see if we can: 'Seize The Day'.

The writing is on the wall, and it says: 'We can change direction.'

Please send the Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope and Freedom to your friends. And let's make a stand for what we really believe in. Put a DOUBLE amount of effort and energy into what you believe is important.

Don't feel disheartened. It looks like there are some unexpected, good moves to happen yet: "There is a whole lot I don’t even know. There is more that I am not supposed to talk about yet."

Text of The Rainbow Dream Vision of Freedom:
http://worldgathering.net/vision.html

Michael Irving
World-Action and The Big World Gathering
Scotland, United Kingdom ~ http://worldgathering.net

http://worldgathering.net/greatest.html

~~~~~~~~~
If you like this vision, please copy it and send to friends. Thanks.

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Small-step websites that could have a BIG impact!

SerpentScribe — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:30:48 GMT

I know we can all feel overwhelmed by how many problems there are in the world and how we can best work to help on our busy schedules, but here's three websites that you can help without leaving your computer or sending any money to ever-questionable charities. I encourage everyone to check these out and spread the word. It may not be an end, as they say, but it's a huge start!

1. Blackle!
As the huge Google corporation is counting on, most of you may not be aware how much electricity and browser space is used up needlessly on internet searches every minute. I just recently became aware that it takes an enormous amount of excess energy to power a white screen than a black one, and in the case of Google, every frivilous little term that is searched has to go through their mega-servers which are set up in addition to average internet routes. Heap Media has finally constructed an alternate site that uses the same custom search while alleviating both those unnecessary problems. Don't keep Googling, start Blackling! {www.blackle.com}

2. The Hunger Site
This is actually almost like five sites in one: the Hunger Site, the Breast Cancer Site, the Pet Rescue Site, the Child Literacy Site, and the Rainforest Site. All of these sites are completely free and funded by artistic and humanitarian advertisers. All you have to do is click once a day (they'll allow you to repeat it again, but only one click per IP address will be counted until the next midnight) on their big button and their advertisers will sponsor almost two cups of food (or .6 bowls of food for rescue pets, or 11.6 square feet of rainforest, etc). It takes about 20 seconds to go through all five and you'll know you made a big difference. You can also always see the previous day's results to make sure.
{www.thehungersite.com}

3. Free Rice
This fun site is funded by advertisers and carried out by the UN Food Program. You can build up vocab while donating rice to starving families around the world. For every word correctly defined, the Food Program allows 20 more grains of rice into their collection to donate. There's no penalty for wrong words and you can keep playing as long as you want, easily donating upwards of 500 grains of rice or so per hour. As their FAQ's point out, it's beneficial for both you in learning new words and for the families for food relief. The rice is really rationed out, not stockpiled, so your correct answers really do increase dramatically the amount of rice sent out and you can see a the representation of bowl filling up as you go. {www.freerice.com}

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Imagine

Wales — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:29:27 GMT

That reincarnation does exist; that entities , Atlantean in origin are being born to key families all around the World; that each of those entities has a Key purpose on this Earth and a Key role in this phase of the World moving smoothly into the next. Now, imagine that this phase is the one where human beings reach spiritual perfection; that this is the phase where the real magic happens.
On February 20th, 2008 I viewed the lunar eclipse. Just before full eclipse I saw a flash of light to the South of the Moon. It was plasmatic in nature and I almost felt as if it entered me through my eye. Since that moment I have been innately drawn to truths of our World.
Read all you can about Rudolf Steiner, I beg you. Garner as much knowledge as you can while communication lines are still up. Peace on Earth is your mission if you are drawn to this. Let's head the Call!!!

Peace and Love,

Wales

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The Human Enlightenment Project

Jaimee — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:42:14 GMT

~~~ A Tale of Awakening ~~~
The Veil is being lifted at http://wWw.POMOWORLD.com

The Human Enlightenment Project is an infant social network, launched just in September, that is connecting free minds towards the new era of total truth, love, and acceptance. Join us in the movement and enjoy all the mind-expanding media and information you will come across at PomoWorld!

Our mission is to fully represent, connect, and enlighten all kinds of people, while simultaneously working to break down the labels with which society defines and divides them.

The Human Enlightenment Project: A Tale of Awakening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trr96yKnu8Q

It All Begins With Choice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFGlfCm85Ho

The Veil is Being Lifted
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MPYlQG_XLM

Pomosexuality and the Death of the Label
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXxODfmU_iU

Join the Movement!
http://wWw.POMOWORLD.com
Free your mind, and the rest will follow.

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my friend was murdered...

Parvati — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:31:47 GMT

I had a beautiful fairy friend....
She was a shining spirit - full of life and creativity....
But most of all - she was the embodiment of Pure, Unconditional Love....
She loved everybody - always smiling - always saying "hello Love", "goodbye Love"...
Always singing "Love, Love, Love"....
Her life was a work of art and her being was pure inspiration and joy....
I loved her - everyone she ever met loved her....

Then I found out she was brutally murdered....
She was in Asia - home alone - someone tried to rob her - she fought back and was stabbed to death....
Grief, shock and disbelief overcame me....

I could not get my head around it - I could not believe that this could happen to one of the most wonderful people on this earth....
she did not deserve to go like this....
I could not imagine the fear and terror she must have felt with her last breath....
the thought of it made me physically ill....

I understand that we all must die....
and yes, it's tragic that she had to pass - her time had come - etc....
But NOT like this - how could someone so peaceful and full of unconditional love and light suffer her last day of life like this....
This can not be the way - this is just not fair - this can't be the way the universe works - it just can't.....

A week had passed after I heard the news...
I couldn't come to terms with it....
I was listening to a Pema Chodron discourse on audio....
I was deep in a meditative state...
Then Pema Chodron said "whatever you choose to be aware of - the universe will serve up the opposite to help you become more aware...
if you want to practice patience - the universe will give you irritating situations so you can become aware of your impatience....
if you want to practice mindfulness - the universe will give you mind-less situations so you can become more aware...."

At that moment I received a download from the universe....
My friend was murdered because she believed in unconditional love.... she WAS the embodiment of Unconditional Love...
so she was killed in the worst way in order for her soul to practice and forgive and unconditionally love her killer....
This was her soul lesson...
If she did - her soul would not come back to this earth plane as a human - but ascend to the next realm of Angels and Muses....
The universe always unfolds for our greatest good - to bring our souls closer to source....
The universe only gives you what you can handle.... and her soul must have been so close to pure that she could handle it....
otherwise it wouldn't have been so....

This was the message I received....
and at that moment I felt like I understood....
and an awesome presence of peace came over me....
"she can do it" - I thought... she can transcend....!
I wholeheartedly believed this message - I truly believed that she was liberated from the mortal bondage of death and re-birth and that she has now gone to somewhere higher - where her love and light could do so much more profound work than on this human realm...

Today they found her killer....
he sold the things he had stolen from her home for $300...
that was all her life was worth... 300 dollars....
And instantly, that peace I had felt before vanished....
Instead I heard a voice in my head telling me that what I had realized before - what I thought was a download from the universe - was just my mind's way of rationalizing this heinous crime.... because I could not emotionally handle her death....
The voice said that there is no justice in this universe....
and that my friends death was just a cold, cruel, accident - it could happen to anybody - it just happened to be one of the most precious creatures on the planet....

If this is true - if there really is no rhyme or reason - if it just happened to be wrong place - wrong time - then I am not sure I can go on...
Then this whole world is pointless.... and everything is just random....
and there is no use to try to love - to try to help - to try to heal....
if this could just "happen" - then there is no karma - no wrong or right....

I want to believe that what my insight from the universe revealed was real - that there is some sort of order to this universe - some sort of soul evolution - some sort of kind universally all-loving spirit that guides us for our highest and greatest good....
but my mind is telling me that it's just a big rationalization and that the universe just exists - it is indifferent - and doesn't really care one way or the other...
it just goes on....

I don't know which one is real anymore...
I don't know what is real anymore...
I don't know what the point of this existence is....

I am feeling confused, cynical and a bit schizophrenic by all of this....
any insights from this tribe will be a great help in helping me to sort this tragedy out and come to some sort of terms....
Thank you for just letting me blurt this all out...

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URGENT! PLEASE HELP TIBET! SIGN THIS PETITION!

JuBaL — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:03:34 GMT

URGENT! PLEASE HELP TIBET! SIGN THIS PETITION!
PLEASE REPOST!

> Dear friends,
>
> After decades of repression under Chinese rule,
> the Tibetan people’s frustrations have burst
> onto the streets in protests and riots. With the
> spotlight of the upcoming Olympic Games now on
> China, Tibetans are crying out to the world for
> change.
>
> The Chinese government has said that the
> protesters who have not yet surrendered "
> will be punished". Its leaders are right
> now considering a crucial choice between
> escalating brutality or dialogue that could
> determine the future of Tibet, and China.
>
> We can affect this historic choice--China does
> care about its international reputation. China’s
> President Hu Jintao needs to hear that the ’Made
> in China’ brand and the upcoming Olympics in
> Beijing can succeed only if he makes the right
> choice. But it will take an avalanche of global
> people power to get his attention--and we need
> it in the next 48 hours.
>
> The Tibetan Nobel peace prize winner and
> spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama has called for
> restraint and dialogue: he needs the world’s
> people to support him. Click below now to sign
> the petition--and tell absolutely everyone you
> can right away--our goal is 1 million voices
> united for Tibet:
>
::: SIGN THE PETITION! :::
http://www.avaaz.org/en/tibet_end_the_violence/6.php
>
> China’s economy is totally dependent on "
> Made in China" exports that we all buy, and
> the government is keen to make the Olympics in
> Beijing this summer a celebration of a new
> China, respected as a leading world power. China
> is also a very diverse country with a brutal
> past and has reason to be concerned about its
> stability -- some of Tibet’s rioters killed
> innocent people. But President Hu must recognize
> that the greatest danger to Chinese stability
> and development comes from hardliners who
> advocate escalating repression, not from
> Tibetans who seek dialogue and reform.
>
> We will deliver our petition directly to Chinese
> officials in London, New York, and Beijing, but
> it must be a massive number before we deliver
> the petition. Please forward this email to your
> address book with a note explaining to your
> friends why this is important, or use our tell-a-
> friend tool to email your address book--it will
> come up after you sign the petition.
>
> The Tibetan people have suffered quietly for
> decades. It is finally their moment to speak--we
> must help them be heard.
>
> With hope and respect,
>
> Ricken, Iain, Graziela, Paul, Galit, Pascal,
> Milena, Ben and the whole Avaaz team
>
> PS - It has been suggested that the Chinese
> government may block the Avaaz website as a
> result of this email, and thousands of Avaaz
> members in China will no longer be able to
> participate in our community. A poll of Avaaz
> members over the weekend showed that over 80% of
> us believed it was still important to act on
> Tibet despite this terrible potential loss to
> our community, if we thought we could make a
> difference. If we are blocked, Avaaz will help
> maintain the campaign for internet freedom for
> all Chinese people, so that our members in China
> can one day rejoin our community.
>
> Here are some links with more information on the
> Tibetan protests and the Chinese response:
>
> BBC News: UN Calls for Restraint in Tibet
> http://news. bbc. co. uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7301912.
> stm
>
> Human Rights Watch: China Restrain from
> Violently Attacking Protesters
> http://hrw.
> org/english/docs/2008/03/15/china18291.htm
>
> Associated Press: Tibet Unrest Sparks Global
> Reaction
> http://ap. google.
> com/article/ALeqM5gSSpPcDOPMoAiRLhPUyezuCRiXBQD8VFDD680
>
> New York Times: China Takes Steps to Thwart
> Reporting on Tibet Protests
> http://www. nytimes.
> com/2008/03/18/world/asia/18access.html?ref=world
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> ABOUT AVAAZ
> Avaaz. org is an independent, not-for-profit
> global campaigning organization that works to
> ensure that the views and values of the world’s
> people inform global decision-making. (Avaaz
> means "voice" in many languages.)
> Avaaz receives no money from governments or
> corporations, and is staffed by a global team
> based in London, Rio de Janeiro, New York,
> Paris, Washington DC, and Geneva.

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Conspiracy History compilation DVDs torrents

History — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:03:16 GMT

**************************************************

Greetings to all my relations.

This is the last step of our project History Watch. If History is
defined and known by the texts, we can now add to this definition the
recorded events of the filmed archives. Animated images are harder to
deny than printed words. Our objective is to spread out freely some of
the little broadcast, even hidden informations about our collective
History.

We put online a collection of 391 documentaries and other selected and
recut videos, to offer to a wide public the best of the infos
available on the net in english and in french. If you are interested,
you have the time, the right equipment and connection, all you have to
do is open the joint document and decompress it if needed (but normaly
your system should do it automaticaly). You'll find therein nine links
that will open the torrents for the nine DVDs we compiled (around 4.6
Gig each, for a total of a little over 41 G, being over 100 hours of
videos).

Otherwise, you can go directly to btjunkie.com and search for these titles.

11 Septembre 2001 - 9-11
Bush family & friends
Capitalist & Communist regimes
Capitalist conspiracy
Mind Kontrol - Secret Programs
New World Order - Secret Societies
Secret services - cover up - covert ops
Secret weapons - UFO
Terrorism Theories propaganda

Torrents are a system of peer to peer data transfer. The more people
download a torrent, the faster it spreads and the longer it stays on
the net. If you don't have a bittorrent software, we suggest that you
download uTorrent on utorrent.com. If you want to participate in
facilitating the diffusion of these infos about our collective
History, download these torrents on as many computers as possible,
whether it is in cybercafes. It takes one or two minutes to open up
the links and the downloading will keep proceeding on its own.

Please spread this out, take part in this action for social education
on a planetary scale. Thanks.

For more info: watch.history@gmail.com History Watch

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Collective Meditation Nurturing Mother Earth

Mario (RaShu) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:15:48 GMT

Namaste.
Just reminding you about the collective meditation tongiht at 808pm Est (details on my profile), Ive asked the ladies to take special focus on Loving Gaia and Creation and empowering the divine feminine while the men connect and achknowledge/honor/praise their own faminine side.. This should help balance the female/male split. Love and Light,.,AUM.

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Mind Power Course

Nelly — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:45:33 GMT

Dear Tribe Member,
After a GREAT SUCCESS of "MIND Your Intellect"- A Mind Power Self Study Course from Golden Inspirations. Now we are happy to launch Digital Version of the Mind Power Course with INSTANT PAY & INSTANT DOWNLOAD Feature. Now you can improve your mind power at the comfort of your home.

We all know how important our Mind is, whatever we are and whatever we do good or bad is created by our own Mind. But very few people know that you can get whatever you want, a better job? Better relationships? Peaceful & Problem free life? Etc. Just by improving your mind power.

"This course will change the way you look towards yourself. This course is especially designed to help you understand how your mind works, and how you can unleash the hidden potential of your mind."

Course Includes:-
1.An Excellent book on Unleashing Mind Power.
2.Two Audio CDs with 10 different scientifically designed Meditations & Relaxation Exercises to help you make your mind more efficient.

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Regards,
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Polar bears face certain extinction and yet...

Jabberwocky — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:44:28 GMT

the federal administration saw fit to auction off an enormous tract of Alaskan territory to big name oil companies for oil drilling (www.adn.com/front/story/307588.html).

If the malignant greed of the government ignores the many voices of protest and disregards the imminent peril of wildlife, what can be done? As polar ice-caps diminish, bear cubs drown. More drilling for oil in their habitat greatly increases potential for hazardous oil spills, no guarantees to protect wildlife and the rapid demise of one of the world's fierce and majestic animals.

I wonder what parents will tell their children a few years hence when asked, "What did you do to help the polar bears?" Will we be able to say we resolved to drive our cars less, we used public transport, we actively worked to advance more eco-friendly fuel options, we refused to buy from environmental terrorists?

Our failure to be respectful stewards of this most precious and beautiful earth will not be easily forgiven by our offspring. And if they indeed survive, they inherit a desolate, ravaged planet, testimony only to our arrogance and self-absorption.

Doing nothing is criminal and complicit in the mindless voraciousness and disrespect for the sanctity of life that characterizes the current U.S. leadership.

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my fellow strivers.....

Frank — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:28:40 GMT

I'm trying to achieve salvation for the world & myself in the best way I know. Please let me know what you think of my new blog at http://mountain2stars.blogspot.com Don't know how to send it over to Tribe......

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an urgent message for my interconnected friends

daughter_of_morgaine — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:33:01 GMT

and also to all my friends and associates in the spiritual community

As a shaman and a warrior I have now chosen to represent the interests of great many people who are becoming homeless now here in one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
This is to be a great battle against evil men of wealth and greed who would profit from pushing desperate families against the wall and using their plight to strip them of the last of their assets, through manipulation and trickery.
I have recently found that their numbers are legion and millions of families will suffer unless we can find a way to change the present system.
I will now stake my very life on my ability to create an enormous shape-change transforming a time of despair into a time of love peace prosperity and abundance. Creating a time in which people in high places begin to act from their higher natures and extra efforts are compassionately made to create solutions for all families in crises and people who are in need.

If we of the spiritual community focus our mental, spiritual and community power on creating a resolution, together we can win this battle.
I understand that the spiritual materialists will turn a blind eye. We all understand that sometimes enlightenment is only a gown that is worn easily cast aside when it becomes inconvenient.

Spiritually and emotionally I believe that the universe will only bring to us the adversity that we can benefit from profit from and learn from.
This is why I remain calm although on the surface many families face a situation that seems quite devastating.
My personal processes of prophesy and divination tells me we are all traveling this path for a reason.
(For my personal story see Save Kokopelli Community Workshop)
Please refer any people you know whose homes are close to or even already in foreclosure to our foreclosure advice link.

Also tell them to look over all the changes we have recently made to information offered at this link;
Lending Law &
Mortgage Fraud Information

And refer any victims of predatory lending to our
Predatory lending resources link:
Did the vampire bite you?
Here are some steps you can take;

At Communiversity Magazine we are striving to continually upgrade the quality of our resources so please also send any additional information regarding any available help resources and information to: cibarra@communiversitymagazine.org

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Eckhart Tolle: Allowing for the New Earth to emerge..

zigo — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:50:31 GMT

wonderful video..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx526pO9UV0

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to all my interconected friends

daughter_of_morgaine — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:34:33 GMT

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Dedication

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:24:04 GMT

Dedications

The Sangha of Pagoda Phat Hue would like to help you or a loved one by sharing the power of the mantras and recitations we perform during our daily ceremony.

If you wish for this help for yourself or another, whether the person is living or has passed away, is ill or is tormented with problems, we will ask for healing energy to be sent to them.

We chant the Medicine Buddha mantra every day, and through this mantra implore for the healing of illness and the resolution of illusion. We direct our energy to the Medicine Buddha because he represents the ability to overcome physical suffering and spiritual obstacles created by ill-will, greed, or ignorance.

To request a dedication, please email us at widmung@phathue.de Include the first and last names of the person.

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I and You became Us, real tantra

alyx — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:23:34 GMT

The second time I imbibed the mushroom sacrament was just after I graduated highschool, a friend and I were sitting in the park, blissfully enjoying each others conscious company, letting the mushrooms kick in as we basked in the amazement of each others awareness and playfully trying to cross our eyes in a manner that lets us visualize each others third eye. Our conversation became more of a completion of each others thoughts, that click and understanding, until there came a moment where we both felt the same thing, we were conscious of the Us consciousness, I and You melted away. The first click was a brief with a moment of confusion, sort of like 'What was that?' 'There is no 'Was', and We became I again. To keep up our connection it felt as if I would push us further along the spiral and he would pull with the energy of what hed learned, teaching my consciousness something to digest so i could in turn power level us deeper. The whole night our internal and external enviroment was a conscious syncronicity, we felt this is exactly what we should be doing, this is what we pine for, this satisfies every metaneed. The clearest thing that was communicated was him telling me that hed never truly experienced love and was abused as a child, and I could feel exactly how bad it was and cried with direct empathy. The timeless hours had worn out our energy by sunlight, throughout the night to continue stimulating the connection it had degraded a bit because we needed physical manipulation of each other for serotonin drive, still clothed, a pure form of bodywork, pure tantra, occasionally needing an affectionate touch on bare skin.

Id love to hear from others whove felt this bond!

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Techniques Of Ecstacy

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:54:38 GMT

Hey everybody,

I have started a new tribe: "Sharing techniques of ecstacy"
And i hope you will all join to share your knowledge.
I have been on Tribe for a little while now and am amazed by all the wisdom that circles around.

The idea is that this will become a tribe where sharing of knowledge is a central point.
Knowledge in ways of connecting to the supernatural.
Think of mind traveling, breathing techniques, techniques of the body, techniques of the mind.
Techniques of worship and prayer.
But also knowledge of potions and plants.

Let it be as practical as possible, but also let there be sharing of visions from the other side.
How does one gain visions and knowledge.
How does one get insight in the eternal.
How does one keep in control.
How does one lose controle.
How does one start a tribe like this...

I will start by posting some of my earlier posts i wrote on different tribes.
I hope it will be a nice tribe.

Please join and enlighten each other with knowledge and beautiful stories

http://tribes.tribe.net/sharingtechniquesofecstacy

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MORE THAN A RESOLUTION

everlutionary — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:53:08 GMT

More Than A Resolution

Must we resolve what we are already doing? To resolve means we haven't reached our intention, or, that we are creating a new intention; it means we are striving to meet and reach an ideal.

The ideal we hold is why we resolve to change our actions, thoughts, and hence current situation; this is accomplished through an accumulated force of will meant to propel us in a new direction. Today propel onto a new path and internalize the resolution; doing so means it fuses with your every waking and sleeping moment.

Resolve only until it becomes a part of your nature then drop the resolution.

More than a resolution,
the intention must be to change the very nature of our being, therefore, making us congruent with whom we strive to be.

Be.

Resolve to accept yourself for who you are. Remember: no one is ever perfect. Accept the dynamism of change. Experience a growth which cannot be calculated. Situations do not remain the same and as the environment around us shifts, we must open to transform the resolutions once needed… for even they shall one day become obsolete or counter-productive.

Resolve to not be disappointed, overly critical or difficult upon what you do and have done.
If we fix upon a goal and don't reach it we lead ourselves to disappointment.

Dynamic resolutions assist in preventing this occurrence.
Static resolutions do not.

Accept all the good and the bad... accept that which you cherish and that which you despise. Move into a space of acceptance; release from self-judgment. Guilt is not healthy, instead embrace change and create alternatives. Move past the limiting idea of failure. Move into a constant state of embracing every moment... and then become open... to all experiences... open to all that arises and passes.

Look at yourself. Discover your fears. Understand your faults. Reach for the zenith and don't be afraid to fall. Fall down. Stand back up. Embrace falling, it is necessary to learn walking.

Challenge even your resolutions, hence reaching awareness of self.

Avoid causing the self pain by sticking to a resolution that may no longer be relevant. As the conscious intention penetrates into your being, resolve to not blindly cling to resolutions without understanding their meaning; instead, embrace your true nature through awareness of who you are... the change sought is dependent on self-realization.

The change is dependent upon acceptance,
internalizing it so that it becomes more than just a resolution.

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Transmission from the Ministry of Alchemy

Slacker-HA — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:58:45 GMT

The MInistry seer stone is receiving messages so fast we are amazed. We would like to predict an event on winter soltice of this year, the year of the 7,7,7. Earths polar opposite will enter the space between the earth and the sun on the 22 of December. Leading up to t his event earthquakes and floods will continue to increase as the earth vibrates due to the close encounter with this other celestial body sometimes refered to as Niburu. As earth has a postitive chage this celestial body that we are encountering will have a negative charge, and it will absorb the sun light for the space of 3 days. On the morning of December 25 the sun will reappear and all will know know that the sequence has begun. Polar shifts, continental shifts, all in the forcast, causing land mass to change s we know it. Safe spots found throughout history to avoid peril are Israiel, Irac, Hymilayas, Rocky mountains, and Andeas mountains, just to list a few.

Please visit our tribe for other information, predictions, and resources.

Peace, love, and all that $#@!

Christian Kenny Heap 3-2-1974
Ministry of Alchemy

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Jesus‏

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:57:28 GMT

JESUS CHRIST+JESU KRISTE+YESHUA HAMASHIACH+JESUS CHRISTUS+JESU KRISTU+ISOUS HRISTOS

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophesy and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near. REVELATION 1:3

And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth." REVELATION 11:3

He who testifies to these things says, " Surely I am coming quickly." Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus! The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. REVELATION 22:20-21

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Everyone, has the responsibility to find the truth for themselves. What is stated below, must be researched and verified, so that every individual can then decide to accept, or discard it as myth. The only truth is God the Father, the Son our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Read the Bible, pray to the Holy Spirit for guidance and our Lord Jesus Christ will not abandon you, but will place the truth in your heart.

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We must not try to copy the world, but be different to it, as the example set by our Teacher, our Lord Jesus Christ. Being the same as the world, sharing its base values, being part of the fashion trends, is all part of Satan's system (Sex changes that are taking place ever more frequently and therefore not knowing anymore who is a man or a woman). The Pope of Rome is one of Satan's instruments (the Papists have immense power and wealth, our Lord Jesus Christ was humble and owned nothing). Talmudists/Zionists want to rebuild Solomon's Temple and proclaim their own false king of the world (there is only one King of the Jews and Orthodox Christians and that is our Lord Jesus Christ). Their power base is the U.S.A (Superpower of the world). They contol many governments, banks, newspapers, television stations (the media in general), etc. We must not forget the very elusive and cunning Masonic Lodges which form part of Satan's means to spread anti-Christian and heretic information. Television and video has been one of the most powerful tools of Satan, which has ruined the ethics which sustained our youth and the family unit. With pornography in all its forms, men have been misled and subsequently their women, a whole generation of our youth and their families have been devoured by Satan. We have forgotten about God, the Bible and prayer and have allowed ourselves to go down the road to hell and have fallen into Satan's trap (in other words we are slaves to flesh and our desires). Hedonism is the aim of humanity.

The group that is attempting to rule the world, consists of three member countries, U.S.A, Europe and Japan (3 presidents). Their central control, consists of 32 members (of the 29, 8 are Americans; 9 from Japan; 12 from the European Union (contolled from Belgium/Luxembourg). Head of the 3 member group is Rockefeller (his head quaters is in Rhodes, Greece; his specific influence is in the U.S.A and E.U). Whoever does not obey the orders of this group are murdered. Death is the penalty for disobedience. Another Satanic "club" is called, Bildeberg. They can destroy any government and put a new one together again. They can make a country vanish and create a new one too. 200 members, which include intelligence agencies (CIA; BIA; BND (Ger.); SIB (Ital.); SPELA (Fra.)). There are members who are involved with NATO and hold important positions in the US administration, etc. They hold an extremely harsh stance against the East, especially with Russia because of its Christian Orthodox heritage. They exterminate/demolish any opposition.

An enemy going back thousands of years is head quatered in China (the Himalayas/Tibet). The Seljuks come from that region, who are the ancestors of the Turks, who attacked and oppressed Christian Orthodoxy in Asia Minor and Greece. The Turks/Jews have tried many times to wipe out the Greeks and Christian Orthodoxy. They call the Greeks and Christian Orthodoxy, the people of the "Blue Trigramaton" (which is refering to the Holy Light that emenates from our Lord Jesus Christ's tomb). The roots of martial arts is that region spoken of above. Martial arts are Satanic and anti-Christian and yet has our youth spellbound under the innocent guise of sport/fitness. In the Himalayas there is a glass pyramid (Sambala), it has many entrances. This is where the White Brotherhood is based. It's aim is to destroy all the world's religions except its own. It has more power than the U.S.A. It has more resources at its disposal than all the governments in the world. It has infiltrated and controls many governments and religions (Roman Catholics, Protestants and Judaism). The First and Second World Wars were masterminded by them. They are going to start the Third World War too. The White Brotherhood works with the Bildeberg club and all the others. They are assisted by the Zionists. They created Hitler and introduced the Swastika (broken cross, that is what it means). Hirohito of Japan was responsible for a massive bloodbath, but he was not punished like the others, after the Second World War because he was a member of the world ruling 3 member group mentioned above. Grey Wolves (Turkish Muslims), are connected to the White Brotherhood. Only Grey Wolves members may rule Turkey. They must always mantain a harsh stance against Greece/Christian Orthodoxy (Turgut Ozal, was exterminated for his softer stance).

The White Brotherhood want to destroy the followers of Jesus Christ. They call His followers, bipods or two-legged ones. Their methods are many: thirst, hunger on a worldwide scale. All plants and forests must be destroyed. Wars, so as to ensure maximum slaughter. They refer to humanity as a chicken breeding farm. They destroy humanity with drugs; they have contaminated our drinking water (it has been doctored with medication); our food is also contaminated and our clothes too from the fancy washing powders that we use (that is why everyone is getting ill and they don't know why). Thirst on a worldwide scale, for eg.. Euphrates to be dried up because of Turkey, which will lead to a confrontation with Iran/Syria. Hunger, for eg., Russia was the world's wheat provider, even the U.S.A relied on her. The White Brotherhood ensured that Russia would starve. In Moscow young women give themselves for a plate of food. Homosexuality, the U.S.A being its banner. One can go on and on, but there will be no end then. It is devestating. But do not despair, if you are a follower of our Lord Jesus Christ because He has defeated Satan and the world.

(This is a summarized version and a translation of a tape recording in Greek, from a Greek Orthodox perspective ofcourse, given to me by a Monk at Calvary/Golgotha in Jerusalem, Christmas, 2001. I cannot divulge any names, nor my own because this is a very dangerous subject. You will have to verify the truthfullness of the matter yourself. Please excuse my errors of spelling or other. May God forgive me if I am wrong about any of this, but I do it with honest intentions. God bless you. From a humble follower of our Lord Jesus Christ.)

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"These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." JOHN 16:33

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"LORD JESUS CHRIST, HAVE MERCY ON ME."

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Soul union - Tantra and mushrooms

alyx — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:25:16 GMT

I've had a few lifechanging experiences with psilocybe cubensis, my first two provoked what I can only describe as tantra. The first time I've eaten godflesh was my 18th birthday, late at night with a blissful family of friends. A bit after people went to thier bedrooms I still couldn't sleep and decided to bunk on the mattress with a single guy. He and I began copulating in an amazingly slow manner while our trip continued to escalate. Our bodies flowed like every particle of our beings was meant to mesh together. Initially, my mind was full of 'OH, God, this is perfect sex! This is what they mean!' We continued to breathe and operate on the godjuice, perfectly in sync with each other and gravity. Gradually my mind filled with what seems like every thought and emotion ive experienced, until they became realized as One, then there was only the moment, oxygen, the sun that would never rise; I felt I'd experienced a satori. On a side note a ,week after that enlightening experience, I was listening to Tool's 'Lateralus' and contemplating Alex Grey paintings; and I felt, energetically, like Id understood what the paintings were portraying, followed by my head lolling back and what felt like a 'full body orgasm' taking over, which I found out was a kundalini uprising. The second time I imbibed the mushroom sacrament was just after I graduated highschool, a friend and I were sitting in the park, blissfully enjoying each others conscious company, letting the mushrooms kick in as we basked in the amazement of each others awareness and playfully trying to cross our eyes in a manner that lets us visualize each others third eye. Our conversation became more of a completion of each others thoughts, that click and understanding, until there came a moment where we both felt the same thing, we were conscious of the Us consciousness, I and You melted away. The first click was a brief with a moment of confusion, sort of like 'What was that?' 'There is no 'Was', and We became I again. To keep up our connection it felt as if I would push us further along the spiral and he would pull with the energy of what hed learned, teaching my consciousness something to digest so i could in turn power level us deeper. The whole night our internal and external enviroment was a conscious syncronicity, we felt this is exactly what we should be doing, this is what we pine for, this satisfies every metaneed. The clearest thing that was communicated was him telling me that hed never truly experienced love and was abused as a child, and I could feel exactly how bad it was and cried with direct empathy. The timeless hours had worn out our energy by sunlight, throughout the night to continue stimulating the connection it had degraded a bit because we needed physical manipulation of each other for serotonin drive, still clothed, a pure form of bodywork, pure tantra, occasionally needing an affectionate touch on bare skin. In the moments when the connection was weak it was because we would admit to desire, usually 'lets smoke', but we both knew it was a stoners neurotic impulse and continued to grace the Us until we didnt have enough energy at all, barely enough to force ourselves to find his glasses. At one of those weak moments, his eyes were shut and I could see that his Third eye was open. We have grown apart a bit as friends since then. I took mushrooms with him again the day before yesterday, and massaging his back I still felt I knew his energy, I knew his body and the tensions that formed his muscles. I got really into the massage and it sunk us into a mild trance. The mushrooms as usual were very cathartic, so at one point I broke down sobbing on him because of the pining I felt for the connection to another conscious being again. Today I had a few syncronicities and broke through my depression with the acknowledment that God is conscious and satisfies every need one could have if I let go of desire, and the realization that someday I'll lose the feeling of separateness either through physical or ego death.

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Educational video

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:27:40 GMT

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

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Once Upon a Mossy Oak: A Faerie Tale

tonyvigorito — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:46:48 GMT

***copied from my latest blog entry***

Once Upon a Mossy Oak: A Faerie Tale

I have already revealed that my forthcoming second novel, "Nine Kinds of Naked," is about sex, synchronicity, and tornadoes. I trust it will not severely violate anyone’s sense of expectation when I also reveal that there are gnomes in "Nine Kinds of Naked." And nymphs. And dryads. And wild boars.

I bring this up because when I was researching elemental creatures some time ago, I happened across a marvelous essay online. It impressed me, and I forwarded it to a few friends only to soon discover that it was actually written by a very good friend of mine, Mat, writing under the pseudonym, Buck Young. Since I was writing a novel themed with synchronicity, it couldn’t be any other way, of course, and I invite you to read his essay, "An Historical Overview of the Whereabouts of Gnomes and Elves, Fauns and Faeries, Goblins, Ogres, Trolls and Bogies, Nymphs, Sprites and Dryads, Past and Present." I've provided a link to it at the end of this post.

And now I want to tell you something:

I once napped atop the trunk of a fallen and mossy oak in a mighty forest misting with mystery and I dreamed I discovered how to soar through the treetops not flying but vaulting and it was merely a matter of trusting and believing and only fear could make me fall and when I drifted awake I blinked open my eyes and there in the sky above the wall of the gorge were dozens maybe a hundred vultures soaring and circling descending for of course I must have looked exactly like a fresh corpse to avian eyes and I considered hollering “I’m not dead yet!” for indeed it was true I was actually alive but I was fascinated with the meditative hush of their flight and I resolved to commune that I was fully alive and without moving muscle nor making sound I expanded my soul my spirit my spark and their every next circle was wider and higher as I watched the entire flock disperse and I breathed at last tremendous and my eyes caught the sparkle of a shimmering pulsing bead of water dripping from the top of the gorge, a crystal ball hurling toward me and I could hear it cut the air as it plummeted and as it drew close I saw the forest entire including myself contained within its surface before it shattered upon my forehead into a thousand chiming beads of water each still containing a universe their own, anointing me with waters most holy and I heard myself exclaim that I can’t believe how beautiful but that’s not true because I do believe yes I believe that beauty has no superlative and that the only gratitude we can ever offer is our joy and our thrill as the sun kisses our face and the breeze cools our skin and we really have no idea how deeply we are immersed in miracle how thoroughly we are saturated in relentless unpremeditated overflowing fountains of wild beautitude and I want you know that your dreams are all true, satyrs and nymphs cavort in midsummer, elves are vaulting through the highest peaks of moss, faeries are cleaning their wings under showers of godbegotten rainbows, and there is nothing else to do anywhere ever but perpetuate the pleasures of eternity.

With compliments to the muse,

Tony Vigorito
www.tonyvigorito.com
© 2007 Tony Vigorito... feel free to forward as far as you see fit...

PS: Here's Mat's essay: www.southerncrossreview.org/34/gnomes.htm .

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calling all mystics!

dominic — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:56:43 GMT

COMMONALITY AMONGST THE WORLD'S MYSTICS:

If you study the life of past mystics you'll find they share several things in common:

First, they all speak of an induction – or of a need to learn/realize a new level of understanding. They all speak of a fundamental shift in consciousness (be it called awakening, realization, divination, or being born again).

Second they all tell of making a journey into and through a despair process of being “undone” as the precursor to this fundamental shift in consciousness -- be it through experiencing 40 days and nights in the wilderness, starving under the boddhi tree, facing the dark night of the soul, or the hero’s journey. There is a Journey of metamorphosis that all mystics have undergone in some way.

Third, it is an inner journey that must be taken up and navigated alone. This is a hallmark of the mystic’s realization: The reason the journey must be alone is because that which must be faced, seen, and surrendered in order that something new can emerge, is only possible through sustaining the fear and despair process of being alone and meeting the ultimate and fundamental fear of “non-being” and annihilation.

Fourth, they all seem to realize the frustration of being misunderstood by those who have not yet been through the awakening journey -- “those who have ears to hear, let him hear.” A great deal of the mystical writings are devoted almost exclusively to the fact that fundamental spiritual truth cannot be understood by the intellect nor correctly put into words. Forever, the great spiritual teachers have tried through the insufficiency of words to point toward that which can ever and only be experienced and known on a level that is before and beyond the mind. This is something unfathomable to those who have not yet had this breakthrough revelation - and particularly so in our contemporary culture that has become so overly reliant and blinded by the limiting paradigm of the scientific method that forever reduces our understanding of intelligence to that which is sensory, measurable and linear in nature. (...Life isn't (only or always) linear .. In fact it rarely is, except in man-made constructions and habituated uses of the mind.)We are uniting all Mystics

Please join us at this forum
http://groups.msn.com/TheInternationalMysticalOrderofKnightTemplars/_whatsnew.msnw

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Wailing on the inside

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:20:23 GMT

One minute, I'm numb the next minute I'm deeply disappointed and discouraged. I know I am not my thoughts but I can't disregard how I'm feeling. I feel unsettled, unhappy and yet I know this feeling is a good one because it is causing me to grow. Growing pains hurt for sure.

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Traveling the Multidimensionality of our Relationships

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:43:22 GMT

Have you ever realized an instant familiarity with someone on your first encounter? Were you unable to deny the bond between the two of you, even though acknowledgement seemed it might disrupt your life or, at least, the view of the world that you currently held and were comfortable with?

Samhain nears, the time the veil between worlds is its most sheer. Sacred Vow is a story of parallel universes and the multidimensional nature of our loves and our relationships. We are coming to the season of the year where we traditionally enjoy many of our celebrations of giving, of love, and of communion--Thanksgiving, Chanukah, The Hajj, Christmas, Kwanzaa. The rift in the Collective Consciousness that is so central in Sacred Vow is occurring because people in the worlds of the characters are dissociating from one another, from the world they live, from other life forms, and from the effect their own thoughts have on their reality. Our world is in much the same state.

In honor of the upcoming period of time so energetically significant to our culture and our psyche, Dragon’s Beard Publishing has been inspired to offer anyone interested a full length FREE PDF copy of his visionary novel, Sacred Vow. Go to www.cgwalters.com/spirit_story.htm click the link to send an email request.

Ian Sarin encounters such a familiar, except she is not of his world. Without his understanding, he is drawn into her world and into various other lives they are sharing even before he was aware of her. Much to Ian’s amazement, he finds out that the bond between them is a key element needed to heal a growing disintegration in the Collective Consciousness that makes up all reality—a breach that threatens us all. As Ian learns the part he and Katerina are destined to play and the vast ties they have, he and those around him come to realize that life and the world before them was never as one dimensional or isolated as they had imagined.

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Eyes of a Blue Dog: A Tale of Triple Synchronicity

tonyvigorito — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:06:14 GMT

This is not a story about the wow and holy cow of seeing your initials on someone’s license plate, or hearing a word you just learned on the radio, or running into a friend at the grocery store. Without offending the marvel of others, these do not entirely impress me, and seem more like artifacts of attention than bona fide synchronicities. (Although, it did give me pause when one reader wrote me amazed to report that when she was reading "Just a Couple of Days," just as the main character looked at his watch and saw that it was 5:55 and wished for peace on Earth, she glanced at her bedside alarm clock and saw that it was, yes indeed, 5:55. So perhaps it counts if peace on Earth is at stake…)

In any event, along with sex and tornadoes, "Nine Kinds of Naked" (my second novel to be released next year) is about synchronicity. What follows is the story of an evening that precipitated an ongoing cascade of synchronicity in my life that I remain helpless to fathom, save humming one of my favorite lines from the Beatles’ "I Am the Walrus:"

"Don’t you think the Joker laughs at you?
Ho Ho Ho Hee Hee Hee Ha Ha Ha..."

So, it was the evening of November 4, 2004, a Thursday, just a couple of days after George W. Bush was apparently reelected president, and a great gloom had settled over the land. It was an accidental gathering of friends at my house, everyone stopping by uninvited, and soon there were six of us, men and women alike, and someone had brought wine, and another a guitar, and cupboards were opened and more wine was seized and the refrigerator was ransacked and a great and nourishing feast was prepared by three as another played guitar and I harped my harmonica and another found a rhythm atop some stray pots and pans. And dishes were washed and a fire was built and we gathered around the fireplace on an old Oriental rug and ate, drank, and made merry as if there was nothing else to do in life.

A bookshelf stood sentry next to the fireplace, and throughout the evening various volumes were pulled out, random passages read aloud, always bearing insight on whatever was at hand, and at one point a friend of mine, a phenomenal visual artist in her own right, pulled a book out of her bag entitled, "Blue Dog Man." It was the collected artwork of George Rodrigue, whose signature motif is the inclusion of a blue dog in all of his pieces, a terribly cute terrier/spaniel with eyes yearning for love and approval, apparently inspired by his deceased dog, Tiffany. The Blue Dog book was passed around and soon all of us were taking turns attempting to emulate Tiffany’s sad and hopeful eyes, though even the most determined among us were unable to hold the expression for more than a few seconds before succumbing once again to smiles and ha ha.

And the evening wore on and the men fetched more logs for the fire and conversation grew more trusting as wine and fire warmed our hearts, songs were shared and massages were traded and cuddles were puddled and the heartbreaking political landscape of late America became distant and forgotten, for life is where you are and who you are with, and on this evening neither corruption nor deceit could distract these souls from the obvious joy of existence.

At some point late in the evening I wandered over to my computer. Skimming through my inbox, the subject line of one email—sent a couple of hours ago, right around the time the six of us were making Tiffany’s blue dog eyes at one another—caught my attention. It read, very simply,

*Eyes of a Blue Dog.*

Intrigued, I open the e-mail and it’s from a reader in Toronto and there’s not a breath of explanation anywhere as to why she chose the phrase as her subject line. That’s curious, I’m thinking, but then I scroll down and notice that the name of the woman who sent the email is the same as Rodrigue’s dog,

*Tiffany.*

My credulity stretched, I call out to the others hey come look at this I’m serious. And everyone gathers around my computer as I show them the Eyes of a Blue Dog subject line and that the sender’s name is also Tiffany and we are impressed and even astonished by this curiouser and curiouser turn of events, but then someone else notices the signature line of her email, which read, in inexplicable summation of our evening,

*good atmosphere, good friends, good conversation,
good wine, good books, and the space between.*

If there was astonishment before there was now a bedlam of whoa dude and what the fuck amazement. I was charged with replying to her email immediately to demand an explanation, which I did, sharing a more pebbled version of the above story and the next day I find out that she’s never heard of George Rodrigue or his dog Tiffany, but she had recently read the short story, "Eyes of a Blue Dog," by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and was likening it to the phrase, "Just a Couple of Days." Moreover—and this may make this a quadruple synchronicity—she had only learned of the concept of synchronicity a month before in one of her psychology courses, and had yesterday arrived at her parents’ house to find the word SYNCHRONICITY written in all-caps across the dry-erase board in her parents’ kitchen. Her father, it seems, had heard about it on a radio show and wanted to remind himself to read more about it.

So what does this all mean? I originally intended this closing paragraph to be a philosophic summation of what synchronicity implies, but I deleted it. The prose was stilted anyway, and as I sat here writing the summary in my favorite coffeehouse, should it really surprise anyone that "I Am the Walrus" came on the stereo?

"Don’t you think the Joker laughs at you?
Ho Ho Ho Hee Hee Hee Ha Ha Ha..."

Synchronicity on the sultry soothe of your day,

Tony Vigorito
www.tonyvigorito.com

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CREATION OF THE COMPASSION PEACE MANDALA OCT 20 MARIN RETREAT & EMPOWERMENT

aquamarinedreamqueen — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:07:54 GMT

CREATION OF THE COMPASSION PEACE MANDALA
A Special Workshop and Empowerment With
Lama Pema Tendzin

CREATION OF THE COMPASSION PEACE MANDALA
A Benefit Workshop with Bhutanese Thangka Artist Lama Pema Tendzin

This is a beautiful and rare opportunity to learn the ancient art of traditional sacred thangka painting from a master artist and lineage holder. Lama Pema Tendzin has paintings in permanent and private collections throughout the United States including the San Francisco Asian art museum. Additionally he has had the honor of creating beautiful ceremonial thankas for the Dalai Lama.

Lama Pema Tendzin began studying the sacred art of thangka under the tutelage of his teacher Buli Tulku Rinpoche since he was six years old. More than paintings, thangkas are potent tools for meditation, contemplation and transformation.

For this special workshop, Lama Pema Tendzin will be leading us in the creation of the Compassion Peace Mandala. The day opens with meditation, mantra and prayers.

We will then draw and paint the mandalas together under this master artist's tutelage. When the painting is completed Lama Pema and Tsewong Sitar Rimpoche will lead us in a mantra, prayer and blessing to activate the mandala. This workshop gives participants active creative time with these very special beings in the creation of a potent piece of art that will Benefit all Beings.

A SPECIAL BENEFIT:

All proceeds from this event will go towards a special painting of Guru Rimpoche Padmasambhva. This painting measuring 30 feet high by 25 feet high will be placed on the mountainside next to the Sangye Tang monastery in Bhutan.

Guru Rimpoche Padmasambhava is recognized as the principle teacher to bring Buddhism to Tibet in the 8th Century. The painting, which will be completed in February of 2008, was revealed in a vision to Lama Pema's brother Tsewong Sitar Rinpoche. Tsewong Sitar Rimpoche is the head of Sangye Tang monastery in Eastern Bhutan. Founded in the late 1500's, this monastery is in view of one of Padmasambhava's sacred pilgrimage sites. The painting will promote blessings, peace and rejuvenation.

Details:

Cost: $60.00 (Payment can be made in advance by check or by check or cash at the door).

Date: October 20th, 2007

Time: 10am-5pm

Contact-Registration: phone: 415.686.1516 email:h2olotustemple@yahoo.com

Additional Details:

Himalayan tea and delicacies will be served. There will be a lunch break and you may bring lunch at your discretion. This special event will be held at a beautiful Marin private home and directions will be given upon registration.

LAMA PEMA TENDZIN

Links:
www.sangngak.com

www.vajrayanaarts.org

A Rare Exhibition of Lama Pema's Thangkas: October 27, 2007
A rare exhbition of Lama Pema's thankas will be showcased on the evening of 10.27.2007 at Cobalt Sun Gallary (www.cobaltsun.net) in Sausalito, California. The evening will include a special mantra empowerment. Select paintings will be available for sale.

For information call: 415.383.1741

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Petition to support the nuns and monks in Myanmar (Burma)...

Jabberwocky — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:07:59 GMT

please sign the petition and place a lit candle in your window each evening this week. The military junta is threatening a crackdown to silence the protests and will no doubt resort to the kind of violence that killed thousands in 1988.

The world is watching - free Burma.

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=70,4945,0,0,1,0

thanks, blessings,
sean

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Human Holography

AtherialNow — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:50:40 GMT

Holographic living has been a recent repeating concept in my meditations. I’ve been exploring what it means to live holographically. What I’ve gathered is just a fraction of the information yet to come. Nevertheless, here is where I start.

Remember those 3-D Magic Eye books you spent hours looking at when you were younger? Remember that sometimes it revealed itself in seconds, and other times you couldn’t see it no matter how long you looked. This concept sparked a pivotal question for me—am I functioning with holographic information? And more importantly, am I being holographic? Let me back up one second and say that even though I was the one asking the questions, I didn’t necessarily understand the questions I was asking. Often I don’t until I get the answer; and sometimes not even then. But that has no bearing on my ability to integrate the information and evolve.

My first meditation on holography (did I make that term up? Maybe.) was quite revealing to me. I set my intention to work on healing some root chakra pictures. I used my version of AP to access information at Mary’s Garden—a wonderfully nurturing place if you’ve never been there. Once there, Mary led me by the hand to sit next to a waterfall. There she gave me a handful of dirt and told me to hold some earth while my root opened to heal. I could feel layers of pictures fading away as patterns around my relationships illuminated, then disappeared. Next, she handed me a crystal ball. This crystal ball was actually one I’d been playing with the week prior. It was not clear, but full of crystalline architecture that appeared in different formations depending on how it was positioned to reflect the light. I held this ball, and Mary said, “Do you see how the insides, although full of depth and myriad formations, only reveal that which is reflective? At each turn you see a different snapshot of what’s inside, but never do you get to experience the full depth. This is how you live; this is how most people live—reflecting only snapshots of themselves in the different situations that make up their lives.” I understood this very well. I’ve spent a lifetime compartmentalizing and rationing pieces of myself that fit this situation or that. Mary then went on to say, “In order to live holographically you must learn how to dance between the spaces of action and reaction. Then you will bring all of your depth to the moment.”

Here’s the dichotomy I’ve often faced in enigmatic situations like these; do I try to congnitively make sense of her words and label them, or do I just let them go and potentially miss the learning? I’ve realized lately that to run them through my cognitive realm is to dampen the learning, and sometimes actually prevent it. In this case, I set my intention to “integrate” and bypass the label piece. I came out of the meditation sure I had learned something magical about how to embrace my human holography, but unsure of what that would look like. It was the next day that I received my validation.

I was driving with my daughter who was quite upset and crying. I felt myself reflecting her cries back at her. I understand the concept of yielding, but I was unable to put it into practice in the moment. Then I heard Mary’s voice remind me to dance in the spaces of action and reaction. In that moment I became all of my depth so that her cries were no longer interacting with “Mommy”, but also with the many other facets of me. Her cries had the opportunity to experience my wholeness, and she instantly stopped. There was no conscious map I followed, no prescribed technique. I just went with the knowledge that my meditation prepared me with abilities I didn’t have before. I am eager to bring my holography into more of my life, and curious to see how it impacts my world. This journey has just begun for me, but is tapping information I’ve gathered and stored for eternity. God, I love those dichotomies!
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The Looking Glass

AtherialNow — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:03:43 GMT

My life has been rich with lessons of grace and pain, reflections of beauty and ugliness, and milestone events that have shaped, and have yet to shape my journey. As I evolve in my ability to move through life with neutrality, I am able to recognize the milestones with clarity, and watch the cosmic puzzle pieces slide together to form the most amazing excerpts of a picture yet to be revealed. Just recently one such milestone locked its image into place.

I’ve had a re-occurring dream from the age of 3 – 10. This dream was and is one of the most vivid experiences I can recall, complete with all physical and emotional sensations. The dream always ended at the same point, and has perplexed me my entire life. What was its significance, and why can I relive it at a moment’s notice?

In a recent astral travel I stepped into the last scene of my long ago dream, and the remainder played out before me. I was overwhelmed by the magic of pulling back the curtain and seeing what was behind it the entire time. The dream opened my heart and filled it with unconditional love, all the while my daughter’s face acting as the conduit for the message.
I’ve stepped out of that experience with answers to lifelong questions, and the culmination of a lifelong quest.

Neutrality has blessed me with the ability to walk into the unknown spaces without expectation, and given me new eyes to see all that is before me. Each moment reveals a looking glass that is, was, and always shall be there to speak its truth to each of us.

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Cheney Orders Media To Sell Attack On Iran

Walker — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:01:00 GMT

Fox News, Wall Street Journal instructed to launch PR blitz for upcoming military strike

Prison Planet | September 4, 2007
Paul Joseph Watson

Dick Cheney has ordered top Neo-Con media outlets, including Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, to unleash a PR blitz to sell a war with Iran from today, according to Barnett Rubin, the highly respected Afghanistan expert at New York University.

The New Yorker magazine reports that Rubin had a conversation with a member of a top neoconservative institution in Washington, who told him that "instructions" had been passed on from the Office of the Vice-President to roll out a campaign for war with Iran in the week after Labor Day.

"It will be coordinated with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and the usual suspects, writes Rubin, "It will be heavy sustained assault on the airwaves, designed to knock public sentiment into a position from which a war can be maintained. Evidently they don't think they'll ever get majority support for this�they want something like 35-40 percent support, which in their book is �plenty.�
Rubin subsequently confirmed with a second source that the propaganda coup had been launched and the individual, another top Neo-Con at a major think tank, had this to say about it: �I am a Republican. I am a conservative. But I'm not a raging lunatic. This is lunatic.�

An organized mass media campaign to propagandize for a military strike on Iran mirrors exactly what happened in late 2002 in preparation for the invasion of Iraq and would be seen as par for the course in anticipation of an attack that presidential candidate Ron Paul amongst other expert observers fear will take place within 12 months .

The issuance of orders for Neo-Con mass media arms to push for an assault on Iran also puts the U.S. on red alert for a terror attack, whether real or manufactured, which Dick Cheney has already promised will immediately be blamed on Iran no matter who the real culprits are.

On August 1st, 2005 the American Conservative reported that Cheney had tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan involved a massive air strike on Iran which included the use of nuclear weapons.

The publication reported that, "The response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States," meaning that any such attack will immediately be blamed on Iran and any evidence to the contrary will be buried.

The London Times reported on Sunday that the Pentagon had finalized plans for a 3 day blitz designed to annihilate 1,200 targets in Iran and destroy the country's military capability.

Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for �pinprick strikes� against Iran's nuclear facilities. �They're about taking out the entire Iranian military,� he said.

Debat was speaking at a meeting organised by The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal. He told The Sunday Times that the US military had concluded: �Whether you go for pinprick strikes or all-out military action, the reaction from the Iranians will be the same.� It was, he added, a �very legitimate strategic calculus�.

Rhetoric regarding a potential military attack on Iran has heated again over the past week, with President Bush having warned of the risk of a "nuclear holocaust" if the country was allowed to acquire nuclear capability.

In a speech last Monday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that a diplomatic push by the world's powers to rein in Tehran's nuclear program was the only alternative to "an Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran."

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad subsequently stated that a U.S. attack on Iran was "impossible" due to U.S. troops being tied down in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yesterday, he claimed to have proof that the U.S. were not planning to attack, bizarrely citing his mathematical skills as an engineer and faith in God.

A January poll by Ipsos found that 40% of Americans thought it likely that Iran would be attacked by the end of the year. The U.S. has stationed three aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, the Nimitz, a nuclear-powered carrier, John C. Stennis Strike Group, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, a relief carrier.

The U.S. government is openly funding and supporting the activities of Jundullah , a Sunni Al-Qaeda terrorist group formerly headed by the alleged mastermind of 9/11, to carry out bombings in Iran and destabilize Ahmadinejad's power base.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard military was recently declared to be a terrorist organization by the White House, another ominous sign that an attack is being readied.

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More evidence that a false flag operation is soon to come?

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Thoughts on learning from the Astral

AtherialNow — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:02:05 GMT

This is a rich subject about which I can only share my truth. Trust your own information on this topic and take from this only what serves you. It’s been a life-long journey of mine to visit the astral and experience all the magical and otherworldly treasures is has to offer. At a certain point that enticing space began to present the question, “So now you know how to get here, what are you taking back with you?” I did not know.
What are my lessons? And how does this information integrate into my bodyworld? Ultimately that is my highest purpose on this planet—to evolve as a being in this body until the end, when my body is no more.
When I began to cognitively evaluate the astral information I was gleening, I became frustrated, stuck, and needing answers. This overlayed an atmosphere of expectation around my astral journeys and my intuitive information gathering. It is difficult to be open to all that’s before me when I’m in a picture of expectation. In those moments I am only able to see that which I expect. This begged the question, “How much do I miss this way?”
Where I’ve landed at present is that to analyze my higher knowledge information is to try to sift it through a strainer that’s too small—it only allows the smallest of insights to seep through. A technique that has helped me immensely is to say an affirmation or set an intention before and after my astral journeys that goes something like this: “I am collecting valuable information for my highest good. It integrates in my body, mind and soul without effort or analyzation. I evolve towards my highest good with ease and grace.”
I’ve found recently that I do not need to label and cognitively understand a lesson in order to learn and grow from it. Often, I don’t even know I’ve integrated it until I find myself acting differently, or no longer re-acting the same way. . .in other words, being differently. I sometimes even start my journeys with a lesson I’d like to learn in mind. For instance, I may say I’d like to learn about unconditional love. Then I’ll go into my meditation and on to the astral or into my intuitive information. When I’m done I speak my affirmation and simply allow myself to notice how I “am” in life. Sometimes the difference is immediate, and at other times it’s gradual. But as long as I stay open to integration and outside of expectation, I am presented with unlimited lessons, teachers and healings.
Choose and affirmation for yourself that rings true, or use the one I’ve presented. Either way, take comfort in the knowledge that the lessons don’t have to be learned through analysis, pain and punishment, but can be imbued and digested with ease and grace.

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Sharing a life experience in holding my space

AtherialNow — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:56:02 GMT

We’ve all been in situations where we find ourselves behaving in ways we know is either contrary to the good of the moment, or not in line with what would be most healing. In these moments our egos are in the driver’s seat. We are driven by our ego’s need for validation and instant gratification. To act outside of our egos is one way in which we can hold our own space. This is often an unfamiliar and difficult task. I have been blessed to have had a recent intense lesson in holding my space.

I’ve had quite an amazing connection with a beautiful and magical man for many years, albeit sporadic. I haven’t seen him in years and he was coming through town with his partner. My task was to be sensitive to his relationship, and not call upon any of our past connection. I knew I’d see this man, but was not sure what form it would take. I was in fear most of the month, preparing for the encounter, or non-encounter that would ensue.

The weekend came. I and some friends attended two concerts this man and his partner put on. There was no drama, and for most of the two nights I was simply happy to be listening to his beautiful music.
There was also a very contrived and rigid lack of recognition. He would not look at me, nor talk to me. This is as I expected.

It wasn’t until the last moment of the final concert night that I got my biggest test. I had held my space well up until that point, not allowing my ego to search for and validate our past connection. The last song brought in some of his amazing magic, and my heart opened in such a beautiful and painful way. Here was magic, magic I had been the recipient of at one point – a magic I was no longer able to touch. I watched my ego go through a small death as I realized this once amazing connection was not for me, not for now. I so desperately wanted simply some eye contact to validate my ego’s belief that I had been special. But there was none of that.

So I watched as this sadness engulfed me, then moved out. Holding my space in that moment, not allowing my ego to receive its validation, offered me a release. In that release I gained more room for myself, and my open heart began to fill with compassion instead of sadness.
I was able to hold some non-judgmental room for the process this man needed to go through for the sake of his current relationship.

My friends were some of my greatest teachers that weekend; grounding me when necessary, role-modeling loving compassion, and offering me unconditional support. I’m grateful to them, and thankful for my lessons.

I used my energetic tools constantly during that experience to help the fear remain fluid and not stick. My tools enabled me to watch and experience my little ego death. And it’s quite ironic that with each of those moments comes more of our own divinity.

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New Tribe....Religious and Spiritual Art (Apparitions

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:29:34 GMT

Apparitions, Holly relics, Inspired artists, Anomalies, ETC.
http://tribes.tribe.net/eb5f7908-cda1-40f9-9648-e8b00b84292f#
Most of the threads in this tribe will be presented in the photo gallery as supported evedence
So don't forget to turn off you topics only option..and and view all

Religion has been the most inspiring theme for artest's throughout the ages
Featured here will be statues, paintings, scupltures,scetches, ETC.

!!!!!!!!All religions welcome!!!!!!!!
(Even those who seek only a skeptical view....Even you can serve as a control ..and disclaimer)

Let’s bring enlightened art visions here and create a database that we can all share and be proud of
Photo’s photo's photos

Your own Art is also Welcome and encouraged here

FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY
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Religious and Spiritual Art (Apparitions

http://tribes.tribe.net/eb5f7908-cda1-40f9-9648-e8b00b84292f?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5Beb5f7908-cda1-40f9-9648-e8b00b84292f%5D

Famous Quotes and Short Stories tribe
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BIRDMAN - tribe.net:

http://tribes.tribe.net/25a1f4a7-b777-4adf-8c62-1f418aaf0d64?current=tribeallposts&set=y#tabs

Subliminal Messages and Propaganda - tribe.net:
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PROPHETS and VISSIONARIES... WE ARE... - tribe.net:
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The Prophecy of Magog - tribe.net:
http://tribes.tribe.net/d64e82b0-72ef-4c72-b5e7-299383c1d4e0

WARTIME
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Thoughts on Grounding

AtherialNow — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:16:23 GMT

Ok, so let me preface this post with some logistics. This is basic information for this tribe because the original audience for this article was those new to meditation, but the information is still information I'd like to bounce off those in this tribe.

So what exactly is grounding?

As we interact with each other we exchange pieces of ourselves in the form of energy, moods, opinions and behaviors. These pieces float around our space and often begin to cloud our perceptions and actions. A good example is when you interact with someone who’s in a terrible mood. In just a few minutes you could find yourself in a terrible mood as well, even though the circumstances of your day have not changed at all. This is because you are picking up someone else’s “stuff” and holding onto it. You begin to function through those elements as though they were your own.
Grounding creates an exit hatch for foreign elements, and the old patterns that no longer serve you. You can view it this way; ungrounded electricity is potentially fatal, while grounded electricity serves many of our daily needs. The ability to harness and direct raw power is a cornerstone of our evolution. So now the task is applying that same skill to our own lives.

When we find ourselves frenetic, or behaving in old patterns even though we know better, it’s likely we are not grounded. In other words, we are not directing that raw energy towards a healthy channel.

The more we practice grounding, the more clearly we are able to discern our own dynamic from that of others. We start functioning from our own truth instead of expectations others place on us.

How many of us pursued careers our parents pushed us towards? How many of us are raising our children the way our parents raised us? How many of us respond the exact same way in our current relationships as we did five, ten or twenty years ago? These are all ways in which we could be functioning through other’s elements, or even our own antiquated patterns. Grounding helps clear that space. We can then have an authentic reaction to the moment or situation, rather than a prescribed response.

It’s a process that releases much unnecessary clutter, and reveals a cleaner representation of yourself. As you start grounding be prepared to look in the mirror and begin noticing facets of you that may not have been evident before.

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Why meditate?

AtherialNow — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:34:55 GMT

A question that often comes up when I teach meditation is “Why should we meditate?” Most of us are aware of the basic benefits related to stress management, relaxation, and improving the overall quality of life. There are a vast amount of meditation practices, philosophies and techniques. But the commonality is that each one leads to the expansion of our spirit by way of neutrality.

Neutrality is a way to live life in present time without the static of fear or judgment. The path to neutrality involves finding tools that bring us out of past experiences and into the present moment. Being in the present gives us the clarity to make choices instead of being stuck in our patterns and belief systems. It also enables us to move through fear with ease, and step out of judgment and into self-love. When we do this we expand our comfort zone and destroy our limits. Once we do this we are free to act from our true potential.

Meditation permits us to look inward at our true selves. For some of us meditation is the only mode that allows self reflection. Through meditation we begin to look at ourselves in neutrality and then see what is limiting us in life. I find that my limits are self-imposed. When I experience fear or function in judgment I am limiting my spirit, life, and self. The more I look at my judgments of others the more I realize I am actually criticizing myself and stunting my growth.

My goal is to be aware of when I am not in the present moment, when I am stuck in fear, and when I am in judgment. If I am aware of these things I can change my behavior pattern and destroy the self-made stifling obstacles. The result is personal growth, which has endless possibilities.
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inter-- connected

iallfree — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:38:09 GMT

... inter-- connected-netted inter-net- connect- me fast to all that you can, circles go round and round, look who I found..
we're everywhere, everyone, omnipresent in everything...

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Messages from the Divine In Love

chaz — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:06:50 GMT

My Blog (see all the other messages as well)
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/3467fcd8-7c41-4fd5-a193-d320de12af32

"I ask you to place all your trust in your heart. In Love. And in the experiences that you begin to have - experiences of the joyous communion that is the All of Life. I promise you that it is real -- that life is a fluid joyous whole of living dancing molten Love. It is the illusion of the mind that isn't real.

As you claim the Love you are in Me, every moment will be filled with wonder; every day a glorious communion with the unity of life. Your days will be filled with grace, your moments overflowing with an abundance never dreamed, an abundance of the ecstasy of life where every second is a universal treasure."

"I Am here. I come to claim you.

You know that once a person is open, absolutely everything becomes a sentence in the message of My Love. Everywhere you look, you will find the perfect message. The very particles of light around you now deliver My truth. When you are here, directly, heart within greater heart, there is no limitation in the perspective, no intermediary for the message. Then, pure light by pure light, I pour upon you the awakening -- cell to cell to cell to greater cell. I Am your everything."

"It is in giving that you receive. Oh, you have no idea yet of the great and glorious truth of this statement. If only people knew this - that one gift given truly, from the heart brings more good to the one giving than a million searches for the spirit - everyone would stand and serve! Because there is no place in the universe where giving fills such need! No place, not anywhere, where the gift of Love, of hearts in service, fulfills such a longing in Me. No place where every gift holds with it the freedom of My Children and, thus, where the giver's hands are so blessed."

"Only when your heart is truly filled with longing for the freedom of every precious Child of God - AND NOTHING ELSE - will you be a giver. A giver of life in God. What this means is that every contact, every moment, every potential for an interaction is filled with only this passionate question: 'How can I give God to them?'"

"You are My agents on Earth (as you are in all Creation). Your entire purpose everywhere is to deliver My Love. Period. And this desire to give will become your only desire, your greatest pleasure and the greatest ecstasy that you can share with your SoulMate."

-From the Circle of Light

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Kuthumi Channeled 2007-07-31 Message

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:19:06 GMT

The following message was channeled through me, Michelle Eloff on 2007/7/31. I was given strict instructions that the transcript was to be ready within 24 hours. So here you go and I trust you will get out of it what is needed. To find out more about Michelle & The Lightweaver please visit www.thelightweaver.co.za

Transcribed by Samantha Gilbert & Michelle Eloff

Much love, Michelle

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Ascended Master Kuthumi

The 12 Pathways Of Destiny & Accelerated Planetary Emotional Body Matrix Clearing

Channelled through Michelle Eloff ©

Johannesburg, South Africa

31 July 2007

Please note that reading this information will have an effect on you. You will energetically be linked with the Channeling being and a similar process facilitated with you. It is not exactly the same as being in the presence of the channeling Master, however the effects are just as powerful. Do not concern yourself too much regarding time lines given to the participants in the channeling. You will be taken through a similar one in accordance with your Divine Plan, Timing & Purpose.

I am Kuthumi and I come forward upon the rays of Love and Wisdom to greet each of you at this time and to bring unto you the blessings of transmutation, synchronicity, truth and peace. Greetings Beloved Ones.

And it is with great joy and pleasure in our hearts that we may gather with each of you upon this day as we hold you firmly within the heart of Christ and securely upon the hands of God. Beloved Ones today’s journey is one that will bring you into the deeper understanding of how empowering or disempowering your choices are. In understanding the twelve pathways of destiny you begin to understand how choice influences the quality of your life and the duration of each cycle, and the re-manifestation of those new bodies of light that are held within the realms of truth which you bring into the physical realms.

Now each pathway that you are presented with is an opportunity to grow, and basically that is the vast part of what the life choice is about. Each time you embark upon something new you are choosing a pathway of growth. Throughout your lifetime you are faced with choices. Each of those choices result in a specific pathway. Prior to your incarnation the twelve pathways are set down before you, each of these pathways work in perfect harmony with the twelve houses of Astrology, the twelve strands of DNA, the twelve master numbers of your universe and the twelve divine aspects of the complete Almighty I AM presence (six being the divine feminine and six being the divine masculine).

When you incarnate you come in on the first journey or the first ray of those twelve, which make up primarily the first seven years of your life during which time you are tuning into the twelve pathways of destiny that your parents have chosen, those pathways impact on your first pathway and determine the pathways you will choose from that point forward. Imagine these pathways working together like grids stacked upon one another, each grid which is a group of twelve pathways interlinking harmoniously as each of those sections or sectors of the grid activate one another. Each activation triggers a series of events which attract to you those people whom you are destined to meet, destined to be with, to make a life with or to have an encounter with which influence, once more, the quality of your life.

Each of those meetings present you with opportunities, opportunities to make choices. It is vital that you understand that these are not limited to your present lifeline, as you know it, there are other lines of life being expressed simultaneously in what is known as parallel and alternative realities. Each of those realities are being influenced by your choices and vice versa. An example could be that perhaps you meet a very important person, imagine it to be a potential partner, a potential relationship that offers you an incredible opportunity of growth, an opportunity to experience love and other aspects of life. Your connection is profound and everything inside of the both of you is pulling you together, however, maybe one of you is not free in the human sense to be with that partner and as a result choose not to embark upon a journey with that person. What happens then is an alternate reality is created where energetically the connection between the two of you plays itself through. However there will come another time if not in this particular lifeline or cycle then in another one, in another timeline which is often referred to as parallel lives where you will be presented with the same opportunity again. Many times when one is faced with such a deep connection it is usually the soul or the higher self’s call to honor the fact that a new life path/pathway of destiny is presenting itself to you. The difference now is that you are being called to respond NOW and not leave it until the next cycle comes about. By doing this you are dragging the process out. One of the reasons why so much is happening at once, and why meeting multiple partners in this timeline is so rife is because you are tying up all the loose ends of the past time lines so you can meet up with THE ONE, so to speak and get on with the really important stuff! 2007 - 2009 will be filled with ending the old and beginning the new. Some of you may even find you have no real, tangible reason to leave a partner, job, city ect. All you have is the inner knowing that it must be done, regardless. We beseech you to follow this calling!

Many people do in fact respond to the higher self’s call to embark upon a new journey, while others remain within their current state of living because they believe certain choices have been made that need to be adhered to as a result of man-made laws. Now beloved ones, one thing you need to understand in the new paradigm is that man-made laws are going to disintegrate. These laws do not hold ground any more simply because of the basis upon which they were founded. The laws are changing, the universal laws are replacing man-made laws, therefore laws that have been instilled in terms of what you can do regarding life choices such as choosing whom you want to spend your life with, or whom you want to spend a period of time with is your choice to make, not a choice to be inhibited by a man-made law that holds you in any kind of state of guilt or fear because a promise has been made which at the time in all truth you could not make because you do not have the ability as yet to see the future. You are in a constant state of change, growing all the time therefore long term promises can in fact not be made and I am speaking not just of a promise to a lover, I speak of a promise to anyone. It is vital that you commit to the moment that you are in if that is what you feel you can uphold, beyond that you run the risk of disappointing people because you do not know what you future holds. You do not know when the next pathway of destiny will present itself to you and where that is taking you. So now humanity must accept the fact that change is inevitable and by sticking to empty promises, we will call it this because they are empty in a sense, they do not hold the visions of the future within them because it does not exist in terms of what the conscious consciousness is aware of, will bring misery and pain. It is false promises and this is where karma is created when you bind yourself to a situation that you did not have the power to do in the first place, so what this does now is begin creating a whole lot of alternate and parallel realities where different aspects of you must play out those unfulfilled experiences. Now you might say "but then what is the problem, I am experiencing it?", no, the problem is that you begin fragmenting yourself in order to experience all of those realities as opposed to re-collecting all those aspects, living in the moment of the here and now and experiencing it in its fullness. As time accelerates in its linear form you are experiencing the integration of all those fragmented aspects of yourself. However when you are faced with a choice and you choose not to embark upon that pathway of destiny for the so called wrong reasons, you fragment yourself again, and the person whom you encountered that you were destined to be with experiences a fragmentation as well, and so called Karma is created because that pathway of destiny was set in place, you came together, you met but you chose not to follow that instinctive need to be with one another, to experience one another. That instinctive need, the fire, the passion, the connection is all the elements that you set in place when you created that pathway to be the trigger, to be the flag saying "here we go this is the person, this is the situation that is going to be my message, my alert system that a new pathway has come to meet me". But, oh no people get caught up in all sorts of ego games that they cannot make a choice because promises have been made, because they have tied themselves, bound themselves to a situation, to a person, to a so called contract.

Many contracts have been cleared and in truth, let us put it this way, the only contracts you have that need to be honoured are the contracts you have with your children who are what is termed in a minor state and that is for the first twelve years of their life, where you are responsible for guiding them through those first twelve years which links them to setting in place the twelve pathways of destiny and all the other levels of the frequency of twelve. In an ideal world, I suppose you can call it that, every soul was supposed to be fully prepared to deal with life by the age of twelve. By the age of twelve every soul if honouring the journey of life will know exactly what to do with their life, what action to take in terms of living out their purpose and be able to apply the universal laws. This does not mean to say that at that stage the pre-teen would be ousted from their home space, no, what then happened was that this soul then became an active participant in the creation of home space in terms of decision making, contributing to the co-creative process in terms of establishing community, the common unity within the establishment of life. During that time the soul was already in a position to attract those beings who were creating the more advanced spiral awareness and intelligence in terms of preparing themselves between the age of twelve and eighteen for the next level of their life which would then perhaps become, if they so choose, the childbearing years and during that time they would be still guided and assisted by their elders during which time their ability to co-create expands even further, but no soul is bound by any law to remain with any person, any group or any situation if the soul no longer chooses it to be so. The soul will choose it not to be so because that cycle is complete, that pathway has been fulfilled, nothing more to be done and when that is not honoured that is when the problems set in. The heart chakra fragments immensely as well and this is what causes many heart wounds which influence ones ability to integrate the full power of love.

Let us remain on the subject of romance. Why not, it is such a delicious one anyway and we know how much humanity is intrigued by romance. For instance you meet up with a person and you blow one another’s socks off and when you are in each other’s company the energy that flows between the two of you is noticeable to everyone else. The chemical systems in your bodies are communicating with one another and begin preparing for your new pathway of destiny.,because your blueprint and the frequencies inside of you were encoded to respond or to react in that manner because that is what it’s purpose is ; to respond to those reactions. However, perhaps one of you or both of you are involved with someone else and you decide "oh my goodness no, this is forbidden we cannot do this!" but you have forgotten about those pathways of destiny, so your heart chakra’s break and aspects of that split off and a parallel or alternate reality is created. Usually alternate realities, which then can fragment even further and become what will then be deemed as a past life where one day in the future you go into regression and there you have a past life memory of meeting your masculine or feminine counterpart and because you were involved with someone els..... what a sad case, you could not be together, but that wound, that cellular imprint of separation, of deprivation and loss is something that influences you for the rest of your days, and that pathway of destiny is then put on hold because the pathways of destiny are meant to be experienced in their final stage with the souls unified. The six masculine and the six feminine united and experienced as one collective twelve pathways of destiny. Six masculine, six feminine.

With the age where it is, the fragmenting process can no longer be tolerated in a manner of speaking because the more you continue to fragment and the more you delay the process, it becomes a drawn out process and when your higher aspects witness this delay they need to start ensuring that you catch up. There comes a point however, where you pass the point of no return, this means there isn’t enough time for you to catch up, what happens then is the soul is presented with a life/death opportunity where the person can choose to leave their body and reincarnate at a later stage and take off from where they left off, but would have to hang around so to speak waiting for their other aspect to make choices. Or, you are offered an opportunity to cram everything thing in at an accelerated rate where both you and your counterpart are faced with perhaps very intensive situations which would eventually lead to you finding one another again which could take a while, but if honoured in the first place you eliminate all the in between nonsense and you find eavh other quicker. So, cut out the drama of denying yourselves the new pathway of destiny. Listen to the language of your body which connects you to that person, if it is a romantic encounter. Or, perhaps even a geographic location, and I am sure some of you have experienced it. You go to a place on the planet and your entire being opens and it is vibrating with such ecstasy that you do not know quite how to comprehend it. But your body has found an aspect of it's spirit within the being of that geographic location. And by being where you are, you are absorbing those aspects, and if you feel the calling to geographically relocate, then that is what is meant to be. What happens is you deny it, you ignore it, all sorts of excuses are made up as to why you cannot be there. Why? because modern life has become so complicated, the days of the nomad have been forgotten, which is why simplicity is such an essential quality of life. Simplicity allows you the freedom to follow your destiny, to experience those pathways, and in so doing experiencing the full joy of life. The earth was never meant to be owned by anyone. Can you see how the need to attach oneself to material objects has limited your ability to experience life? And even more so, inhibited your ability to truly experience the pathways of destiny. What are some the excuses people utilize as to why a pathway of destiny cannot be followed? Your attachments! an attachment to a person, to an empty promise, to a job, to a piece of property, to a whole lot of other things, all of them being the excuse as to why you should remain within a frozen state of animation. Look at the wheel of Astrology. What does a wheel do? It moves! The wheel of life turns!, but humanity has chosen one spoke of that wheel and hangs on for dear life, come hell or high water. That is not experienceing the pathways of destiny, or experiencing life. It is having a taste of just one slice of one pie for the duration of your life. Imagine only tasting one piece of perhaps strawberry shortcake, yet never tasting chocolate cake, or cheesecake, or carrot cake, or ginger cake! should we continue? what about not ever tasting honey or any other delectable indulgence in your life? And precious ones, that is what the 12 pathways of destiny are about. They are delectable encounters! Why do you think a so called adulterous experience is called "forbidden fruit"? It's sweet, yes?! (laughter), of course it is!, because the fruit of life is the sweetest bite of all. So, bite into that "forbidden fruit" and allow yourself to experience that pathway. The two of you have created it for a purpose. You have drawn that person, that experience, that geographic location into your plan for a reason. So, why deny yourself that exquisite experience, by believing a ridiculous belief that you do not deserve it, that you are not allowed to be with that person, or to experience that exotic location as your permanent residence or for as long as need be until the next pathway comes along? For goodness sake Lightworkers, wake up and smell the fruit! You deserve that sweetness! Get over the old paradigms' ridiculous, limiting, inhibiting structures that deprive you of your 12 exquisite pathways of destiny.

In the first 7 years of life you experience that first pathway. During which time you experience spontaneity, your are considered "the fool", even up until the age of perhaps 18 years old, you are forgiven your foolishness, your impulsiveness, your spontaneity, hopping from one job to the next , one relationship to the next, and whatever else it is, because it is considered acceptable because you are a young, free spirit. But why should that ever end? Why must you sacrifice your spontaneity, your impulsiveness, your free spirit, just because you are getting older in society's terms, having to take on more responsibility in society's terms, and are not allowed to experience that sweetness of life anymore. You become serious, you become a stuck up old fart (laughter), and you refuse to move out of your comfort zone! Now is that worth living your life for? Is remaining within the same block on the street worth it if you know that one choice can change your life? Is it worth hanging onto a piece of property, some bricks and mortar just because you signed a contract? Is it worth holding onto a relationship that perhaps doesn't fully meet all your needs, and yes, you tolerate one another, and you have you have to make the best of things because you signed a contract together, or you made a promise? Do you know that when you make a promise to someone in all truth it cannot really last anything longer than 12 months, because every 12 months that vibration changes. Your entire body regenerates cellularly every 9 - 12 months, so if your physical body undergoes a whole new change, for goodness sake what do you think is happening emotionally, mentally and spiritually? Everything is changing! You cannot bind yourself to anything or anyone ever again in truth, because life changes! Energy is moving. You are constantly co-creating. Imagine every single river on your planet freezing right now. Everything that is in a state of animation stopping right now. What do you think will happen? All life will cease to exist, not so? because nothing is moving. It becomes frozen in time. The same thing happens to you when you stop moving, you stop growing, you stop following the voice of your heart; the responses inside of you. All of those responses are your voice, those are the triggers that you set in place prior to this incarnation that would be the flag up to you saying "Howdy do it is time to move on!" But you turn your back, why? because you have bought into the ridiculous belief systems of society. Now, I would have forgiven you that a few years ago, but not any more (giggles). You are now living quantum intelligence, so sorry sweethearts, no more excuses! This does not mean to say that you are going to leave your life partner if you are happy, or that you are going to drop your job tomorrow and move to an exotic island within the next week. But of course that is all possible! If that is what your being responds to! If you are in a relationship with someone and you meet another person and sparks fly, and you find yourself thinking about that person more than you would think of a friend or anyone else whom you meet, then there is something to consider, there is a deeper connection and more to be experienced together. If you are finding yourself miserable in your job, constantly thinking about something else you need to do, then all of this is your cue for change, to call that new pathway of destiny into your life and follow it without buying into any of the usual excuses that talk you out of making that choice. Rather, indulge in every possibility of what would be different if you followed that truth. That pathway of destiny will not present itself to only you without the people involved having a new pathway of destiny being presented to them. That's why I said, every layer of the grids work together simultaneously. When a gear changes in your grid, gears change in everyone else's grid that are affected, or influenced, or a part of the pathway of destiny you are following.

How do you experience the levels of growth of life? By allowing the 144 aspects of each pathway of destiny to be experienced. Aha! you weren't expecting that! (giggles) "Oh my goodness" you say "what are the 144 aspects of those 12?" beloved ones the 144 aspects of one pathway is the quality of the experiences going on within that particular one pathway. Those 144 aspects could be experienced in a few days, months, or years, depending on what you have chosen in terms of each of those 144 aspects. By this I mean, let us go back to romance! you meet the man or woman of your dreams for that moment in time of course, and you embark upon a journey together. That journey presents you with the opportunity to complete those 144 aspects. Now, it may not be possible for you to pick them out one by one, but you will experience them and complete them in terms of perhaps children you have together, places you may travel to together, opportunities you present one another in the form of life lessons, the buttons you press for one another, every thing that you learn together, that you help one another move through and the children you bear together makes up those 144 aspects. When that is completed, that journey is completed, and again I reiterate, you will know when it is complete by what happens within that relationship, you will feel when the cycle is complete, but many people continue beating a dead horse because number 1, they do not know what to listen for, number two, do not know how to listen to what is there, and three, when they are hearing the voice they are to damned terrified to even acknowledge what is coming to them, and their fear paralyzes them and remains frozen in the old paradigm, and their fragmentation takes place, and they deny the delectable fruit; the sweetness of life!.

These 12 pathways are made up of a combination of many opportunities to grow. These are physically, emotionally, mentally, intellectually, spiritually and creatively. When any part of that is stifled it inhibits the 12 pathways forward. It becomes a festering aspect within the 144 aspects of that pathway of the 12. Each of the aspects draw in the aspects of the house of which ever part of the wheel of astrology you find yourself in, and which ever numerological vibration you find yourself in, which is why you have cycles numerologically. Each of those cycles are contributing to the pathway of destiny, to the 144 aspects. The vibrations within the DNA contributes to it, so everything is an exquisite composition of dynamics that orchestrate the most incredible scene of life that anyone could imagine, and could be the most exquisitely beautiful, extraordinarily delicious and empowering experience of any life time ever experienced, if you will do just one thing, surrender to life. Honour the call of your being, respond to the language that is spoken by your body, the language that was encoded into your body. Fright, fight and flight was encoded into your body as safety mechanisms. In order to preserve your life when you are faced with a danger the flight mechanism kicks in and automatically you run to protect yourself, that preserves you. Another situation may trigger the "fight" inside of you. What are you doing pushing aside your natural instincts and then sitting in a quandary praying to God, crying out to the universe to show you what to do, what your pathway is when you have just kicked it in the pants. Confusing huh? So think about it beloved ones.

The integration of these 12 pathways is not just about saying to yourself "I now integrate my 12 pathways of destiny" NO, it is far deeper than that. The first step is to make the promise to yourself in this moment that in this moment you are going to address everything in your life that does not serve the pathway you are choosing to manifest. And every day make a new commitment to yourself to honour the language of your body, your mind and your spirit and to respond accordingly. Very recently I delivered a message to a group of people, telling them that the next 18 weeks are going to be some of the most life transforming of your life time. This is linked to the Androgyny Templates work we are conducting through this channel including the grids we are currently anchoring and activating. These grids are speeding up time more than you are already seeing, and it is reshuffling all the grids of humanity on an individual and collective scale. Which is why you are seeing relationships all around you falling apart. Structures in government, in business, in families, in education and in medicine are all falling apart because the foundations upon which they are built is not the foundation of truth. It might have been a little while ago, but it is no longer. This is your signal that there is no more time to waste, there is absolutely no more space for excuses, for doubt, or for procrastination of any kind. Now is the moment to act! No thinking before you act! Take that leap of faith and trust that there is a greater force holding you as there always is. This is the time of truly integrating and living the quantum leap, the quantum life, and quantum intelligence. You are mastering the knowledge and the ability of the quantum world to feel something, generally your truth that is, and with quantum faith you step into that truth and you do what is needed trusting that the divine course of your life will manifest in that instant, because you pathway of destiny will take you in the direction you need to go. Therefore every person, every support system and everything else you need will automatically be in place, it has to, scientifically it has to be there, it cannot be any other way because the moment you choose, everything is intended in that moment and everything manifests in that moment. It cannot be any other way, it is the Law of the Universe, it is the Law of Quantum Science. In fact the fear that you will not be supported by following your truth is a complete and utter hoax, it distracts you from your truth!. It is scientifically, quantumly impossible for you to not be supported when you follow your truth. It is universally, cosmically impossible for you not to experience the fullness of life when you choose the next active pathway of destiny. This is why sometimes you are taken along a pathway kicking and screaming, and it feels as if your life is falling apart, it's because you don't listen and your higher self, your future self , needs to take control, overriding the ego, overriding your fears and yanking you in that new direction. But you don't need to experience it like that any longer. You can experience harmonious steps from one pathway to the next. Your body works with biorhythms, you have rest periods and active periods, everything is constantly moving, turning, changing, transforming, and it is no different when it comes to your life. So, any person who chooses to entertain the idea that now is the time to settle down nicely with someone for the next 25 years, in a comfortable job for the next 25 years, in their lovely little house with a white picket fence and little children running around for the next 25 years, I have news for you, big news for you (chuckles) that might have been the case in the old paradigm, but certainly not now. This also does not mean that you will not spend 25 years or more with a chosen partner, what it means is that you can only commit to your partner in truth for a year at a time, and then see how you grow together, the choices you make together, how you co-create together, and, it has been done and it will be done if you are growing together, it is quite manageable, but make sure you are not betting the wrong horse before you make your choice.

Beloved ones let us now introduce you to the Lords and Ladies of Destiny who'll begin the energy work aligning you with the next pathway of destiny, bringing into play all those new vibrations. Please close your eyes now if you have not already. Take a deep breath in your though your nose exhaling through your mouth and allowing your body to relax. With each in breath just acknowledge to yourself that you are ready to relax and to receive new energy into you physiology, your anatomy, your psychology and every other aspect of your being. While your energy relaxes, we connect you with all of you parallel and alternate realities (pause), all those parts of you who are staggered through the time lines which are considered past lives, future lives and alternate lives. Each of those realities containing a part of you. However the part of you that is here and now is the one drawing all the other aspects of your self in to the Golden Age. (pause) The part of you here and now is THE ONE opening the avenues of illumination to all those aspects of self that have as yet not achieved the level of consciousness you have. While this is being done your higher self, your future self who has mastered this manifests within your energy field merging with your magnetic grid of the here and the now. (pause) This now activates all the magnetic frequencies within you here and now, and extends these magnetic messages out to those aspects and you begin drawing all the incomplete aspects into the here and now. (pause) What this does is begin creating the manifestation of your most empowering pathway of destiny to date. A journey that you will experience in which you will meet the power of the light, the power of the love, and the power of the truth within life that exists within you, reflected back at you within someone else and every other part of that journey. This journey entails meeting your God or Goddess self. This energy was prepared on a planetary level very recently. These grids were anchored by the Divine Mother and were drawn through the Star Gate Chi-Sor by altering the grids around the heart chakra of humanity bringing about this most extraordinary change of events.

As more and more souls who are awake to the truth consciously choose this new empowering pathway of destiny, so the course of humanity's future will be completely altered. This is what will lead humanity away from the so-called perceptions of Armageddon, and into that Golden state of Golden consciousness, where people are no longer fighting to survive, or battling any other kind of force, but rather co-creating the dynamics within the chosen realities that become life. The life you experience which dovetails with everyone else's pathway of destiny whom you are destined to be with, to meet, to interact with, to befriend, to work with, to play with or anything else with. (pause)

We ask you now to stretch your energy field as wide open as you can (pause) and breathing in through your chakras to imagine this vast energy called The New Pathway of Destiny making it's way towards you, and as you consciously pull in this new pathway of destiny you begin to release all the magnetic attachments to your energy field that bind you to old pathways, all contracts, all promises, absolutely anything that has bound you through false perceptions to the pathway you are complete with which is now released, and for the next 18 weeks (ending 01 Dec 07) you will continue the process of releasing and anchoring yourself firmly within the new pathway, releasing you from the old and rooting you in the new. (pause)

During this time line beloved ones it is vital that you listen and respond to the language of your body, the language of your emotions, your intuition; the language of your heart. This is now where the Lords and Ladies of Destiny step in. They begin to activate an accelerated clearing of the emotional body matrix, this clearing filters out all false emotion which are fear based, i.e. fear motivated. (pause) all of those emotions that are triggered by the old paradigm i.e. old pathway belief systems, attitudes, contracts and promises that you cannot fulfil because there is no energy to fulfil it with, it is empty, obsolete, complete. (pause) Feel the presence of the Lords and Ladies of Destiny projecting an exquisite ray of energy into your emotional body in any colour you choose to imagine it to be (pause), and this colour fills up every fibre of your emotional body and very, very cleverly isolates every illusionary belief system, attitude, contract or binding agreement that traps you in the old pathway (pause) Just imagine that energy dismantling it (pause). As this is done it begins to release those aspects of you in parallel and alternate realities that due to old binding systems have not been able to be fully integrated by you here and now; the you who is ascending the old paradigm, and stepping into the complete new world of co-creation, the world that many of you are unfamiliar with, a world that many of you have thought not possible, only a dream, a fantasy. This is a world where you can be with the one you wish to, to be with the people you choose to, doing what you love most, experiencing the exquisiteness of nature, of life, of love, of truth and creativity. This is your chance now to make that a reality. And if your heart calls to you to make that choice then do so now. Choose to take a step into that magnetic field of your new pathway of destiny and feel it's electrical currents merge with you, pulsating into every cell of your body, vibrating into your DNA, and the molecules and atoms of your body, and this now anchoring you within the sacred template of your newest and most divine pathway of destiny. And it is upon this pathway that you will experience the 144 aspects that give you the opportunity to exercise your free will, to make choices that will help you experience the fullness of that pathway, to experience the fullness of that life and to release yourself from an illusionary attachment to the belief system that you are not free, that you have to be bound by earthly possessions, therefore, manifesting a sense of entrapment, inhibiting your ability to freely roam the earth and experience the joy it has to share with you.

To freely roam the earth may not necessarily mean that you must travel to the other side of the earth, for some it is to be able to freely roam the earth within one's heart, to roam the paradise of self that seeks expression, that seeks fulfilment and completion. Being in a human body does not mean that you will not ever experience completion or wholeness, being in a human body does mean you are doomed to live in a state of fragmentation and separation for the rest of your days on earth, and that you can only experience wholeness once you return to the other realms, no so! That has all changed. Now you are becoming accustomed to the new ways of living the Universal Laws that override every single man-made law that inhibits a soul's freedom to explore life and express that creativity and co-create within the dynamism of this new world.

Now amplify the energy in your energy field and in so doing calling into you all those free aspects, every single authentic grid of your self that aligns with this new pathway of destiny. (pause) Open your energy field to bring in every person, every place, every inspiration and every expression that will ensure the full manifestation and experience of that pathway. (pause) The pathway where you will witness first hand your power as a co-creator living in a free world of free expression, free to love, free to roam, free to journey, and free to live in accordance with the Divine Truth of what you as a soul have chosen with the person and people whom you love most, who compliment your journey, and who are a part of that pathway. Bring it in now and root it firmly in your entire system (pause), and as you do this the Lords and Ladies of Destiny increase the amplification of the colour ray that now floods through the planetary emotional body matrix (pause), and it too continues to dismantle all the fear-based motivations that become the attitudes and belief systems of a fear-full world, a world frozen in time (pause), a world you are no longer a part of (pause).

Continue to breathe in deeply exhaling fully as your higher self, your future self weaves your energy system into this pathway grid aligning it with every single time line, energy frequency, creative thread and dynamic of light that will ensure that everything and everyone that you are destined to be with, meet and experience will come to you, or you will now merge with, if you have already connected with it, under grace in perfect, harmonious and miraculous ways. And some of you who might listen to these words in the future, or read them, some of you may have already met a person, or people, or had an experience that is a part of your future pathway and it is this encounter that is calling you to take action. It's calling you to let go and move forward. I assure you it is safe to listen and to act. (pause)

While all these energies are being recalibrated within your system beloved ones, all the energy within the 12 strands of your DNA is being taken to another octave of vibration, as is the energies of every planet within every house of your sign of astrology, every numerological vibration, every hour of every day that you are aligned with is now being taken to a higher octave of expression in exactly the same manner you are. (pause) . Each of your 12 pathways of destiny must be completed in one lifetime so as to achieve the ascension as it has been called. And it is this particular time line that is presenting you with that opportunity to complete them. You have completed a number of them already, in general you have approximately between 4 and 6 still left to complete. How long this takes is based on the choices you make, or the choices you don't make. It is all in your hands beloved ones, and your higher self; your future self with your permission will ensure that you make it, as long as you are prepared to step out of false pride, out of guilt, false sense of obligation, or any kind of fear and follow that truth. THE truth, The authentic journey that moves you into the next level of your life experience, which brings together all the grids of everybody experiencing the journey simultaneously. (pause)

And so the accelerated spirals of destiny are born on a planetary level, and as these spirals interlink, merge, move through and around each other, so the planetary pathways of destiny leading to the Golden Age can become fully active, and this is what is being completed over the next 36 months. The final foundations are to be laid within the next 18 weeks, and you are a part of it. The Lords and Ladies of Destiny will continue to work through your energy field ensuring that every connection is made to every person who is a part of that pathway, and that they too are assisted in responding to the call that you have now heeded, and that everything falls into place, allowing for these encounters, these destined meetings and journeys together to manifest. (pause)

Give thanks now for this opportunity to open your energy field to draw this energy in as you have (pause). Visualize a golden cloak settling over your energy field serving as a mantle of protection, a mantle that will insist in you fully integrating the energies of your new life path (pause), and from this moment forth it is now an active part of your energy field. Some of you have already been tapping into this new pathway, drawing the people and experiences into your energy field, and for some of you this may have began as long as a year ago. But you are ready now, you have heard the voice of truth speak. Never hesitate to follow it.

Give thanks to your higher self, your future self and all those divine beings of the light who are assisting you in bringing this pathway into full manifestation. (pause) Give to thanks to yourself for having made this choice today (pause) . Begin drawing your consciousness back into your physical body. Take a deep breath in and as you breathe out root yourself to earth, feeling all the systems of energy you need to function properly in your physical world back in your body. Take another deep breath in as your stretch your legs and rotate your ankles, stretch your arms, rotate your wrists, rotate your shoulders and your neck allowing the energy to flow freely through the joints and anchoring you properly. (pause)

Beloved ones it is vital that you accept this pathway as a new part of you, not something else to be feared. Absolutely no thing will be removed from your life if it is a part of your pathway. Because you are embarking upon a new pathway does not mean that everything must fall away. Remember, there are many who are making the transition at the same time as you, and we are asking you to honour those voices, those niggling aspects inside of you that are trying to catch your attention and to acknowledge that what no longer is comfortable is because it is not a part of you anymore. Because it is time to experience another level of you, another level of freedom. So, in fact by collecting together all those fragmented aspects of yourself, which are called your past lives, history is becoming one expression, all the layers are being integrated in a manner of speaking, which is why it is valuable at this time to be aware of what your choices are, because with the grids overlapping each other as they are now, we are setting the stage to merge all of the grids together, extracting from each level, from each parallel and alternate reality the qualities of light, and integrating them into one expression, one world which is the Golden Age. Therefore all of history will become one story, which will be come the new story. Think about this because you will experience the same process as all of your grids are drawn together, merged and all the mastered aspects extracted to make up one story. This is why it is so vital for you to get over your history, and clearing the emotional body matrix in this fashion is being done for that purpose, for history to be left behind, the old wounds to be released, to choose the new, to focus on what is here and now and how that will become the future, as opposed to harping on history. History is just that, history, an old story, one that you have learnt from, not one that you have to keep on repeating.

So, beloved ones, may the life of your new story fill your being, and may this new story bring healing and fill your history with the qualities it was originally meant to carry; the stories of wisdom, of lessons learnt, skills mastered i.e. the powerful intelligence to create something new having learnt from the past. Make that your mission and let that be the system that guides you into the future.

Continue to trust in the many invisible arms that hold you, knowing that there is never a moment that you are alone, a moment to fear, or a moment to doubt our love, or the love of our cosmic parents, for you, and in fact for every single one of us. May your journey of illumination be a story of de-light you would like to share in your future with those who come after you. I am Kuthumi, Chohan of the Golden Ray of Love & Wisdom, and I greet and bless you in love. Adonai.

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Anybody been to Agape live in Los angeles?

aschleigh — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:47:55 GMT

It's a church basically in culver city. www.agapelive.com
Anybody been there? What did you think?

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Gaialuz — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:46:24 GMT

"OM" is the cosmic vibration of the universe and represents communion with all things past, present and future.

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The Tzolkin: Music for positive planetary consciousness.

DarkMother — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:36:50 GMT

Positive planetary climate change requires positive planetary consciousness change. http://www.DarkMother.com

Twenty years ago, I was sitting in my little studio in Los Angeles, CA, sequencing and recording the first acoustic translations of the Mayan Sacred Calendar, the Tzolkin, and shifting into what was being called the "Harmonic Convergence." Throughout the convergence, the acoustic translations of the Tzolkin's 20 Sacred Signs were being broadcast through my house and yard via the only radio transmission system accessible to me at the time, an el cheapo walkie talkie. Lolol... Hey, gotta do what ya gotta do and, having "coincidentally" translated the Tzolkin into sound only months before, my intention was to insure that the planet's ethereal body received both the galactic radio transmission and a local radio transmission of the [concentrated] Tzolkin's currents, simultaneously. It was the least I could do for the planet and, although I had the least of the consumer broadcasting possibilities, I got the job done. (A little leaven leavens the whole loaf.) Since that auspicious transit, the world's consciousness has followed a predicted course toward collective enlightenment, on and relative to all levels of society. Now, here we are, 20 years later, poised on the precipice of (and rapidly accelerating into) the most profound shift in planetary consciousness the world has ever experienced. Fortunately, the ancient Maya priests who foresaw this time also perceived and left us the Tzolkin as a tool to help us transit this period successfully.

Here is the fundamental value of the Tzolkin; it is a Key unlocking the Archetypal Properties embodied in cycles of the 4th dimension, Time, that enable us to ascend into higher levels of Life and being human (in the Highest sense of the word). Time is about periodicity, frequency. Basically, Consciousness, the All in all, uses Time to effect change in the 3rd, 2nd and 1st dimensions. The Tzolkin is a map of how Consciousness does so relative to the expression of specific Aspects of Itself. The Tzolkin is a table of the Logic embodying specific, cyclic Patterns of Time facilitating the expression of those Aspects through all states of manifestation via electromagnetic radiation. When those Patterns are expressed in their purest Form, i.e. electromagnetic frequency, e.g. sound or light, that expression effects a psychoactive, ethereal bridge to the 4th dimension and the Consciousness that generates, progresses and sustains all that is.

At this time, the world understands the principals of using complimentary sounds to effect brain synchronization and cognitive enhancement. Now, we understand the validity of using tone to effect remarkable physiological and psychological shifts. Furthermore, we not only accept, we embrace the mathematical plausibility of a multidimensional universe beyond the accepted 4 dimensions; length, width, height/depth and time. Today, we understand the unity of these dimensions and of all things in such a way that we can comprehend how certain harmonic patterns transmitted in the 3D expression of Life may effect links to their concurrent Life expressions in the 4D, 5D and higher realms. We understand that sound can be used to effect vibrational states whereby higher levels of perception and informations are obtained. And now, as a result of the Tzolkin acoustic translations, we are capable of taking an ordinary CD and tangibly applying dynamics of the 4th dimension to radically and positively progress individual and communal consciousness, health and vitality.

Jesus (the Christ, not Martinez) said "They that have ears to hear, let them hear." He knew not everyone was prepared to hear the enlightening Truth that Consciousness was pouring through him, nevertheless, he spoke so those who could hear It would have the opportunity to do so. I'm sure there are many people reading this who are dismissing the above as New Age delusion, at best, and that does not negate the validity of what I'm sharing, nor of my experience and the experiences of many others who have used the Tzolkin acoustic translations. At one point, we lacked the instruments to confirm we live in an heliocentric planetary system, that information can be transmitted across open air without wires, that our cells are individual microcomputers. We may not have the instruments required to validate string theory or the practical linking of our 3D experience to the vital currents of the 4th and higher dimensions using sound and/or light, however we will. Those who do or may understand and are seeking the value of the easily applied tools for personal enhancement such as the Tzolkin translations (who share this online community) deserve to hear now, and they can.

The Live Earth concerts!! Wow, speaking of hearing, the sound quality was incredible. I was online through most of the event, jumping from country to country, continent to continent. I heard a lot of great music and I heard a consistent message. The message is that we are ready to drop our individual b.s. and start making the necessary shifts in consciousness and personal responsibility necessary for planetary survival and well being. It was a motivating experience. Being motivated to directly further the positive planetary consciousness shift, I have decided to offer my company's mp3CD versions of the 4 most fundamental and dynamic Tzolkin acoustic translations at 1/2 price for 260 days, beginning July 11, (2007). The Tzolkin is a 260-day Calendar; if we're gonna do a Tzolkin music sale for the sake of raising planetary consciousness, we might as well do it for a full Calendrical cycle. (Otherwise, it's just a sale, and that's not what this is about.) The translations are among the most powerful and effective cognitive and personal enhancement tools available -- more comprehensively and enduringly effective than Hemi-Sync, Holo-Sync and other similar products -- at a very low and reasonable price for such products. Nonetheless, it's a pivotal time, and I would have DMG/DarkMother.com assist in the process of planetary ascension by making the core of our product line "Ascension" available to millions more people by simply making it more affordable.

Positive planetary climate change begins with positive planetary consciousness change. "They that have ears to hear, let them hear." Come, hear and experience Ascension @ http://www.DarkMother.com

May you grow daily as Light and Love,

Rev. Michaele de Cygne
President
DMG/DarkMother.com
http://www.DarkMother.com

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Ideas for Contemorary Morality Story / Photo Shoot

archetypalimage — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:38:06 GMT

I need your help - your brainstormed ideas . . .

I am starting to organize a story that is a morality play or sorts for my 6 year old Godson, whom I coparent. It will include a yound man setting off in the world and encountering archetypal beings and situations that engage him and end up teaching him somthing essential about living a fulfilling life. the main character will be discussing these situations and beings with a wise person from time to time. I am an artist. You can see some of my work on my profile pics. I will be doing a photo shoot (B&W infrareds) for every chapter in the story. I will be compiling the story and images into a small, hand bound book. I'l make about 100 editions of the book.

What I need help on is the story:
* What do you think the most important things are to learn and integrate to live a fulfilling life?
* What are the best ways to deal with disapointment and loss, with death?
* What are the most essential archetypal situations that teach us the most about living a fulfilling life?
* What archetypal characters teach us the most about living a connected, passionate, and loving life?
* What situations would you create to teach the main Character the foundations of a connected, passionate, and loving life?

Any ideas will be most appreciated.

~ Daniel

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Please help us understand

Chelle — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:36:27 GMT

My friend and I have been having the same dreams. Some are of 2 men. We have found out that the 2 men are having the dreams , too. We have the same dreams on the same night at the same time. She has meet the man that in our dreams she will marry. He has never meet me, but new about me and could describe me down to even my children. It was scary. This is new to us. I have had dreams before that have come true, but not many. She has never had anything like this and is so scaried and confused. I dont know what to do. The men in the dreams I have never meet and they wont talk to her . They think if they ignore this it will go away, however is been 8 mths and both of us are still having are dreams.Including my spouse dying in a horrible car crash. Recently, I roll over at night and see him with a white blanket over him, what does this mean? Are these dreams going to become a realilty? I am scaried of this and confused, how do get to understand them more?

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Gaialuz — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:10:13 GMT

Out beyond ideas of
wrong-doing and right doing
there is a field.

I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
The word is too full to talk about.

Ideas, language, even the phrase,
Each other
Doesn’t make sense.

by Rumi. Translation by Coleman Barks.

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have blog, need comments

Somatic — Wed, 09 May 2007 13:47:07 GMT

Hi Everyone:

I am a writer on topics related to oneness, spirituality, energy flow, relationships and sexuality. I have written my first book and am in the process of creating a publishing platform to submit with my manuscript to prospective publishers/agents. One thing I need to do for my platform is demonstrate that there are enough people interested in my work that it would be low risk for a publisher to make an investment in my book.

One way to do this is to create a blog and have people who like what I write in the blog to post to the blog. I now have a blog connected to this profile. It has many articles and attunements that may be of interest and are "on topic" with this list, all based on oneness, which is the topic of my book. I hope you will visit my blog and if you enjoy what you find there and find it useful, that you will post on the blog and let me (and prospective publishers/agents) read all about it.

Peace,
Linda

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www.lightworkers.org a Co-Creative Magic Network

Adeon — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:09:46 GMT

When we unite in intent and action from our soul we can together become a powerful force to change the world. This is the essence expressing what lightworkers.org is about. We want unite Lightworkers all around the world so we can become one in our intent and we can work with different levels and methods to achieve this. The purpose with lightworkers.org is to provide a platform where people can connect in an environment that is light filled and loving. When we connect together in a unified thought we can create a new reality which we also can call ascension. So let us unify in intent! As a lightworker we simply mean a person who wants to create a peaceful and loving world, and there is a lot of us!. We want you to feel as home and among friends here and to feel that you are a part of a world group movement that wants to create positive changes for all. We are as one!

Join us for Equinox, Solstice, New and Full Moon co-creation magic within the heart of Gaia. Global Unity Meditation is here. http://www.lightworkers.org

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