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Index of Articles: Grounding Your Miraculous Nature The Light Switch, I Know It's Here Somewhere! Having Your Own Experience of the One BECOMING A GOLDEN BEING FOR A GOLDEN AGE BREAKING THE TRANCE OF PHYSICAL REALITY On Feeling Overwhelmed The Changing Of Mankind How to Be Grateful During a Spiritual Famine Meaningful Coincidences Energy Nutrition Chameleon Reality  How You can Tap into the Magic of Synchronicity By Jill Wellington While I was a television news reporter for eighteen years, running down stories about everything from government scandals to house fires, I had coincidences so remarkable, my co-workers dubbed it Wellington Luck. I had it almost every day, and totally relied on it. One cold winter day I was assigned a story about a little boy with cancer who needed money for a bone marrow transplant. Despite a predicted snow storm, the photographer and I set out to find the child’s rural home several hours away. Soon the streets were sodden with the new fallen snow, and after hours of driving we felt hopelessly lost. We could not find the boy’s street. Several times, the photographer suggested we return to the station, but I had to help this child’s family. Suddenly our news van plowed into a snow bank and was instantly wedged. The photographer gunned the motor, but the vehicle would not budge. “This is it,” he bellowed as he opened the car door. “When I get us out of this snow, we’re going back.” “No!” I grabbed the cell phone and called the boy’s father. Imagine our shock when the man walked out of the house three doors down from the snow bank and waved to us. How lucky the snow stopped us in the perfect place! I never took the time to figure out why I had this magic in my life. It wasn’t until I was forty years old and introduced to my spirit guide during a guided meditation that I realized the enormous behind-the-scenes guidance we all receive. I was open to the concept of spirit guides since I grew up with a psychic mother who studied this stuff. But once I met “Fred”, my own guide, my life changed dramatically. I began to journal with him every morning. He set me on a wider course of meaningful coincidences that he called synchronicity. My mother Edna Mae Holm, was experiencing the same phenomenon, and we compared notes daily. She was led to find an earring she lost years earlier. My schedule was changed at work, and I amazingly met a woman on the late shift that taught me how to journal with Fred my spirit guide. We delighted in the many amazing stories of synchronicity and realized they happen to everyone…all the time, but we rarely take the time to notice. Mom and I studied the concept for six years. Actually our spirit guides forced us to live it by arranging all kinds of synchronicity. It took us awhile to realize they wanted us to pay closer attention to the guidance. Sure, Mom and I read many books on the topic, but rarely did we really tap into it ourselves. We learned how synchronicity works first hand by living it. Fred told me many times to simply ask a question, and expect an answer, then let it go for him to work on it. That’s the easy part, it’s also the most difficult thing in the world to do. My mind was always spinning with possible outcomes, and I felt angry and frustrated when my own little scenario did not work out. The turning point for me came when I took a trip to Sure enough, our plane landed close to “Mom, what if your bag didn’t make the connection?” my daughter Lindsay asked. “That would be perfect! I won’t have to haul it. They’ll bring it to the hotel.” I was not going to cave into my usual fear. Eventually, most of the passengers claimed their bags, and scurried out to hail a taxi. As the area emptied, I finally saw my suitcase, the last one to round the conveyor belt. We were the only people left in baggage claim, and when we walked outside, the line for a taxi was down the street. We were dead last in that line. My daughter gave me a frantic look, and I immediately said, “Isn’t this perfect? We’re last in line. This is the perfect place to be!” For the first time in my life, I was totally trusting, and not looking at the appearance of things. Almost immediately a man clad in a spiffy tuxedo popped up and said, “I will take you in my stretch limousine to your hotel.” He quoted a nominal fee. I was flabbergasted, but immediately accepted. Once settled inside the sumptuous limo, the driver revealed he was a tour
guide and proceeded to point out the remarkable sites of It’s time to let go of the silent rage and frustration. When things look bleak, we need to say, “Isn’t this perfect?” Remember, you may have to be last in line to catch the limo ride. Mom and I wrote a mystery novel together during this time, and soon Fred told us we must include a spirit guide in our next novel showing the concept of synchronicity in action. The book is titled Fireworks and plunks a crusty detective named Webb Hannis into the middle of a murder mystery. Hannis suffers a head injury at the Fireworks Festival, and when he awakens, he can see his spirit guide Samuel. Hannis balks at Samuel who tries to get the detective to follow synchronicity to solve the mystery. “Through this book, the reader can begin to see what is happening on the spirit side to create meaningful coincidences,” Edna Mae says. “With this insight, people can tap into synchronicity all the time and bring joy and tranquility to their lives.” Since we launched Fireworks in the Suddenly she remembered our message of synchronicity and rushed to the shop anyway. She found the worker at the front door fumbling with a key in the lock. Turns out the woman had been standing there for a half hour trying to get the key to lock the door. Once Tammy received the uniform, the door locked with ease! You don’t have to be psychic, or gifted to utilize synchronicity. It is simply paying attention to your innate intuition. Mom and I hope to spread this simple, yet extraordinary magic throughout the world. ((You can put the following info into a box) How to tap into synchronicity 1. Pay close attention to people you run into by accident. Listen to what
they tell you, or say what pops into your mind. You may have a message for them! 2. The more you notice meaningful coincidences, the more they multiply. 3. If you are having a particular problem, decide to turn it over to synchronicity. That means letting it go completely. 4. Always trust even when outward appearances seem bleak. That’s when the good stuff is happening behind the scenes! 5. Anger and frustration stops synchronicity. You must TRUST! Jill Wellington and her mother Edna Mae Holm are the authors of Fireworks, a mystery novel that teaches the concept of synchronicity. You can read more about them and order Fireworks by visiting their website at www.stargatepress.com . Fireworks is also available on Amazon.com. Energy Nutrition
by Silvia Hartmann It is common knowledge by now that we are not just made of flesh, bone and blood but that we also have an "energy body" - a total system of complex organs, pathways, lines of communication and exchange which is essential to our well being. For at least 6000 years, healers in every community around the World have been making changes to the energy body which results in healing to the physical body. One of the most widely known methods to do this is acupuncture which has even been accepted by the Western scientific establishments as having incontrovertible benefits. The fields of Energy Psychology and Meridian Energy Therapies have been developing other and more user friendly approaches to stimulating, repairing and re-balancing the energy body, resulting in wonderful improvements for mind, body and spirit. So, there we have an "energy body" which can be damaged by circumstance and trauma, re-aligned by the practice of Chi Kung and Yoga, healed with Reiki and Acupuncture. Now, we must ask a very important question, namely: "What does this Energy Body NEED in order to function fully, function successfully, to have a fully active immune system which it needs to have just as well as the physical body?" And the first answer to this central question which goes beyond healing and into prevention is: The Energy Body needs a balanced flow of *Energy Nutrients* throughout all its many systems as the first requirement to be able to support us at all. What Is Energy Nutrition? There are all manners of energies coming in to the energy body at all times. We live in a veritable "Ocean of Energy" which is generated by literally *everything* - from the ground beneath to the radiation from the sun, the moon and the stars; every living being exudes vast quantities of energies all the time on a very wide bandwidth and this includes people, animals, plants, insects. Human beings are probably the only species on this planet who have the ability to actively and consciously "shield" themselves from certain types of energy and actually are able to reject energies that exist, and may very well be most beneficial to them. This is specifically achieved by the mechanism of "thought" or "intention". Intention & Energy A very common saying is, "Where intention goes, energy flows." Although we cannot move a rock by staring at it, we can indeed influence energetic realities with intention. This is because intention and thought and energy are *of the same realm* and structurally designed to work with one another. This process is natural and in action all the time; humans sometimes turn deliberately to trying to shape energetic realities with their intention, for example in the act of prayer, spell casting, making a wish, or the more modern versions of affirmations, goal setting, visualisation and so forth. What has been forgotten and this is proving to be perhaps one of the most major causes for ill health and unhappiness amidst a well fed, well sheltered and well supported population in the This is entirely unconscious; "energy awareness" is restricted to the few in our societies who make an effort to find out more about energy healing, come into contact with the powers of the energy system because of ill health or because they are studying martial arts perhaps. Energy Reversals or "Saying NO To Healing" In Energy Therapies there exists the concept of a "reversal". Simply put, it means that a part of the energy system has gone into reverse and works *against* the rest of the system, much like an engine that has been switched over to run backwards instead of forwards. Most often, this becomes apparent when there was a major trauma which caused such an occurrence. On the simplest level, it could be said that any time we say, "No!" to something, this is a command - a direct command! - to a part of the energy system to stop and go into reverse. These reversals in the energy system express themselves always in something seemingly being stuck and unmovable - an injury that simply will not heal, no matter how much ointment and bandages are applied; a psychological reaction that simply won't recede, no matter how much therapy and healing is given. The Energy Therapists talk about "specific" and "massive" reversals, for indeed there are people who show in their bodies that they have said, "No." to healing. Many more people show in their behaviors, their bodies, their real lives absolute evidence that they must have said, "No." to prosperity, to happiness, to success, to loosing weight, to living without an addictive substance - these are the people who endlessly and desperately try *everything* to overcome their problems but their problems remain, no matter what the treatment, no matter if it is successful with everyone else who has undergone it, no matter how precarious or even life threatening their situation is becoming. The power of intention and decision over the behavior and activities in the Energy Body is simply extraordinary. A simple decision, once it has occurred as a by-product of trauma or experience, will remain untouchable and out of view for an entire lifetime, causing endless suffering and misery - in the Quantum spaces of energy, time is no healer at all and something that happened perhaps 75 years ago is as red raw and as "now" as it ever was. However, in the Quantum spaces of energy, there also resides the possibility of even the most extensive trauma being healed right now, in an instant, but for the asking. Please note that this does not mean instant healing on the *physical* because we are talking about the Energy Body here; yet it is clear that when the Energy Body functions as it should, the physical body will be supported in its own self healing endeavors from the ground up and true healing has a chance to take place. Particularly the "reversals" are of prime importance in Energy Nutrition, because it is in the simple act of saying, "No." to an incoming energy, a barrier is created to that energy which keeps it out of the system - a malnutrition situation cannot help but ensue. All You Need Is Love ... It has been said by every great prophet, every great religious leader, across time and space of humanity, that love is the greatest healer and that the energy of love creates healing miracles. There are, indeed, hundreds if not thousands of scientific studies conducted all around the First World to the effect of human attention - which is a precursor for human love - on healing, well being, symptom alleviation. One of the most famous of these had nursing staff withholding attention from newborn babies in an orphanage in the 1950s, yet giving these babies all the physical caretaking and food they could only require. The babies began to fade and when they began to die, the experiment was abandoned as the staff refused to go on any further. Attention energy relieves measurably the symptoms of every disease, every illness. It "makes people more intelligent", calmer, more sociable, more resourceful. It helps them live longer, even if this attention energy is provided by non-human species such as dogs, cats and monkeys, even birds as studies conducted with the effects of having pet animals in old people's homes and geriatric wards attest to. Attention energy is an *essential nutrient* for the energy body and when people don't get this energy, they fade away, go mad and they may even die. With the population density of the The answer is simple and profoundly sad. This energy is NOT in short supply; rather the problem lies in the fact that individual humans do not receive and process it correctly. Indeed, the ability to receive and process attention energy from other humans is probably the most likely and directly related factor that decides on any given person's health and happiness throughout their lifetimes. Shields To Joy & Ecstasy When a man goes up to a woman in a bar, looks her in the eye and says, "You are very beautiful.", what kind of response on the energetic level would you expect to see if energy exchanges could be made visible by a special video camera? Would this energy travel across to the woman, be openly received, taken into her many systems, moving through these systems as the energetic equivalent of a digestion takes place, powering and re-charging all manner of sub-systems in it's travel, and then smoothly flow out to leave the lady in question vibrant, happy and glowing? Clearly, the answer to this is a resounding NO. Indeed, the lady in the bar may have put her shields up before the man even got close enough to send his message to her. Her reaction to the energetic wave traveling towards her would most likely be more shields still, as she thinks, "He only wants X from me, he doesn't know me, he's lying, I don't like him, he looks ugly, etc." ... and many more thoughts of the same kind, all of which create an impenetrable barrier to what could otherwise have been a highly nourishing energy exchange. This strong example was chosen to illustrate a basic point about energy exchanges in humans. It also brings up the most common objections to "taking energies into the system" - would this not be a disaster? Would the lady in the bar not end with AIDs *if* she didn't have all her shields to keep these energies at bay? The answer to this is that such considerations are clearly coming from a very different place and NOT from considering the Energy Body and it's requirements. Allowing the energy from the compliment to pass into her system, through and out and as a result, feeling better, more nourished, more powerful, more *energized* does NOT lead to our lady in the bar becoming stupid all of a sudden - quite in the contrary. Someone with a balanced, energized system tends to experience great mental clarity, not to mention *emotional stability* which clearly, is a good place to make decisions about what courses of action might be for the best. Human & Other Energies One of the reasons that people in the But of course, there are other energies that are not received, to which we have said, "NO!" at some point and which are no longer available for the essential nutrition and widely varied energy diets our Energy Bodies require for full functioning. Weather is a good example of this. Storms, rainy weather and cold weathers are *tremendous* energy providers - if one would open up to this. Current group consensus in the The very act of saying "NO!" to "bad weather" in and of itself reverses and disables parts of the energy system and this leads to people who hold these views to becoming more acutely affected by cold or rainy weather in return - with mental depression or psychosomatic flare-ups, for example. There are many other naturally existing energies that are blocked by individuals. Many people have strong colour preferences - someone might say, " Thus instructed, the energy body deflects that particular vibration and we are very literally, in scurvy conditions. It is important to note that the processes which have been described in this article are not an addition or a new invention, but simply represent an observation about naturally occurring exchanges in reality. It is impossible to repair a person's self esteem, for example, who hold it to be the truth that they are worthless, with counter-examples or by sending them (telling them, showing them, demonstrating to them) that this is a false decision IF this person is INCAPABLE of receiving the energies associated with this sentiment. Thus it is possible that the most beautiful model on Earth is in tears because she is convinced that she is ugly; the most beloved person who has innumerable family members and friends who all care deeply about them is entirely convinced that "No-body loves me."; and the most talented and gifted people can state with absolute conviction that, "I am worthless." It needs to be clearly understood that it is not the *meanings* of such words or phrases which will heal and put a great many things to rights, but the *energies* these words and phrases contain and carry. These energies go to the Energy Body and there, fulfill tasks of repair, of healing, of renewal. In doing so, they correct at the underlying energetic level what is wrong which then becomes reflected in psychological and physiological changes too. In the case of psychological changes, as a person "takes readings" of their internal energetic landscapes, this translates directly into self concept understandings and realities. The Essential Flow Of Energies If we go back to the example of the lady in the bar, who was told, "You are beautiful." we will remember also the resistance to let such energies into ones system for fear that they might be believed and thus, become a reality. Many of the human energy exchanges suffer from this false understanding, namely that if one was to open oneself and accept such incoming energy or information, one would necessarily *become* that in turn. This is the fear and misunderstanding about energy exchanges of the "You are beautiful" kind just as well as about energy exchanges of the "You are ugly" kind - either way, it must not be "believed" because that would be a very bad thing. It is of the essence to really understand that energy exchanges have absolutely nothing to do with believing something, thinking one is something or another as a result. Indeed, a catastrophe for many people is that at one point, someone might have said something positive which on that occasion actually *did* enter the energy system. It felt so good that they attempted to *hold on* to the energy involved to keep feeling like that for longer. This causes the most severe forms of disturbances in the Energy Body as it instantly blocks the channels designed to transport this kind of information - no further energy can come in from other sources in the future. Also, as the energy is not passing through the system as it should, behind the blockage lie veritable wastelands of empty channels and the energy organs they were meant to supply, causing severe disturbances which will firstly manifest in emotions and if they go on for long enough, physiological sensations, pain and then actual illness. This process is also in action with forms of energy that were stopped halfway through the system as they were being perceived as damaging, and energies that never get to enter the system at all because they are being blocked off before they get into the central Energy Body at all. Re-Learning To Process Energy Correctly We are indeed, energy beings in an All we find in the Universe, all life on Earth and that includes human beings is *structurally designed* to process the flow of energies and to take part in the vast, vast cycles of life. Energy needs to flow to be naturally correct and doing as it is designed to do. What we need to do in order to move closer to what is called The Even Flow of natural balance, is not learn something new, but to re-learn to correctly use the systems we were given. We all have the ability to block energy and we have used this to our own disadvantage as a species for many thousands of years at least. By definition, we all also have the ability to remove these blockages that were simply a side effect of living in a culture that seems blind to the Oceans of Energy. We all have Energy Bodies, and within these Energy Bodies the channels and systems exist to truly feast in the Oceans of Energy. What it takes to make this happen successfully, and easily, is firstly and fore mostly to pay attention to how energy exchanges work and manifest "in the real World". Energy manifestations are simply everywhere and once one starts to open ones awareness of such straightforward examples as energy exchanges which exist between humans, and between a single human and their environment, a great many things become very clear and obvious that never made any sense at all. Energy nutrition, i.e. the understanding and realisation that our energy bodies have absolutely nutritional needs, is one of the aspects of this. Further, even a base insight into this extraordinary realm will very quickly reveal which kinds of energies are missing, sorely needed, in desperately short supply in a person's body. It is simply amazing how many previously insoluble problems become not only understood as to how they structurally function, but also how easy it is to find "energetic solutions" to what were in essence, always "energetic problems" in the first place - and thus could not be solved from other places and with physical/mental approaches at all. Addictions, weight problems, identity problems and replacement activities of all kinds begin to make sense at last when viewed from the Energy perspective - here are people trying to use physical means to compensate for an injury, deficiency, disturbance in their energy systems which is absolutely and structurally doomed to failure. In Conclusion A wider understanding and experientially based exploration of the human energy body is of the essence if we wish to solve human mind/body problems that have been out of reach entirely for as many as 2000 years or more. It is not suggested that caring for the energy body take precedence over care for the physical body. What is suggested, however, is that there are many aspects of human health and well being that simply cannot be solved AT ALL from any other place or using any other means. The human energy body exists. It is real and many hold it to be the very foundation of *all* physiological functioning in the long term. The topic of "Energy Nutrition" is one of the most exciting avenues of exploration to make true, lasting changes in any individual's health, happiness and levels of satisfaction and achievement in their lifetime, that has been discovered in many years. We might just find that, after all, we really do live in a Universe of total abundance that really does supply everything we need and more beside, and that's it there for everyone - simply for the taking. Silvia Hartmann PhD Creator, EmoTranceTM  Chameleon Reality: Or "Don't Let the Quantum Weirdness Bite You" By Michael Lamas, Starbuilders.org Every religious, philosophical, or political belief system attempts to define reality. It tells us what is real. On a larger scale, society embodies and synthesizes a multitude of these beliefs. This creates a culture, which provides a common understanding or "common sense" of How It Is (for that group). A country's form of government usually influences the homogeneity of beliefs within a culture: the more restrictive the government, the stronger the demand for a single, dogmatic picture of reality. If we compare the beliefs of either groups or individuals, we find that each defines reality differently and some may have little in common. Even the basics such as physical existence are questionable. For Buddhists and Hindus alike, the material world is an illusion. This contrasts sharply with the materialist's view that the physical world is the only reality. Each has distinct personal and social implications. By studying belief systems, you find that each accepts some ideas as real and rejects the rest. This process of accepting and rejecting produces attitudes and courses of action (or inaction) that believers consider normal behavior. Take materialistic cultures for example. Speaking non-judgmentally, normal behavior consists of strictly ego-based pursuits: gratifying the senses, being entertained, seeking positions of power, enhancing the ego, and, of course, shopping. Not seeking them is abnormal. Spiritual pursuits are suspect: those who believe in spirits or souls are at best superstitious; at worst, they could be insane or threats to the State. Religions use the same process but have different content. Zen Buddhists say, "It is what it is." They treat whatever is happening in the Now as reality: idealism and ideologies implode. This produces an uncomfortable emptiness at first. In exchange for this existential angst, the practitioner receives three benefits. First, he becomes aware of how the physical body is reacting to the current situation. Second, the stillness of the Moment becomes apparent. And third, he inherits that ever-changing, universal constant, The Now. So, what does all this mean? Society instills most of our beliefs when we are young. Although we may question some of them, eventually we accept many as How It Is. And like many human actions, by repeating those thought patterns they become habits. Some of these mental habits, though, may cause unnecessary suffering. This is a good reason for examining them. We can weed out beliefs that work against us!  The problem is that our brains are wired to believe whatever "makes sense": if it makes sense, then it's real. So, if society has done its job and programmed us properly-they presented their story logically and with emotional reinforcement-moving beyond those etheric, mental structures becomes difficult. Usually, it's easier just to stay plugged into the cultural matrix. For example, a cult of Catholics in the Philippines scourges themselves with metal-tipped whips, drawing blood from their backs and legs. Some would call this unnecessary suffering. Believers, though, claim that they are gaining favor with God. If believers could see beyond the reality "God wants you to whip yourself," then they would stop torturing themselves. The problem is that they believe God likes it. (If He does like it, then it makes sense to behave like that.) Another example is a culture that sees itself as superior to another. The culture may believe this for many reasons: maybe God said so; maybe it maintains a superior military or economic force; or maybe it believes that it possesses the best political system or ideology. This is cultural ego and its attitudes can produce mass suffering and death (wars). TOO MUCH  It's doubtful that we can know reality fully, at least intellectually. The human brain is a biological, information-processing organ that assesses reality by making comparisons. This makes it dualistic. It takes the information that our senses gather and processes it into a mental picture. The picture shines 3D-life-like inside our head, and we assume that it represents true-to-life reality. Creatures, though, that use different sensing mechanisms may have wildly different mental pictures of the world. Insects like the fly have compound eyes. Who knows how the world looks to them or how they interpret it? However bizarre the fly's images and interpretations may appear to us, they represent reality for that creature. Try to convince it otherwise! In any event, whatever picture appears in any creature's mind is only a symbolic representation of what it is looking at. The images are at least one step displaced from whatever is being observed. Objects are detected by the senses and then that electromagnetic/chemical information rushes to the brain. Finally, the brain develops a picture inside our head.  Our environment provides several forms of information: electromagnetic vibrations for sight (that emanate from some light source); longitudinal pressure waves for hearing; chemicals for taste and smell; and pressure, texture, and temperature for feeling. As scientists have discovered, though, invisible quantum aspects-that behave like energy-particles from Bizzaro World-permeate everything. This underlying weirdness provides the building blocks for Normal World. Everything, including our brains, is made of this weirdness. Is the quantum world any less real than the world of "solid objects"? No, and this leads to an interesting question: If all living creatures (and all else) are composed of this elusive stuff, is quantum material in some sense alive? Additionally, because of the micro-world's inherent paradoxes, we can't fully grasp how it works or what it is. We can't even see it directly using our most powerful scientific instruments. So, whatever picture our brain presents isn't what's actually there-even it weren't symbolic because of the environment/senses/brain process mentioned above. Besides, most people know that even in Normal Every Day reality, "solid objects" are composed mostly of space. Then how is it possible in this quantum wonderland that we can understand anything? To survive, we need a coherent idea about what is real, and that's what the brain does: organizes incomprehensible "universe stuff" into, say, a "lunging saber tooth tiger" or whatever we focus on and mentally define. For best results, our definitions should accurately reflect the nature of the Wonderland elements, how they work, and how they relate with other elements. Ideally, it should include what's best for us and for others-not always an easy balance. All this is dealing only with the material world. Imagine the complications when dealing with the spiritual! Some say that spiritual reality is easier to understand than the material; maybe it is. However, even if we had a direct, conscious contact with that esoteric realm, once we think about that experience, our brain-filter interprets it within the context of its pre-existing knowledge. It will translate it into something that will "make sense," causing our understanding to be one step removed from that reality. In short, reality is more awesome than we can imagine. Ironically, almost everyone thinks that they are aware of what their pictures of reality imply and that they are real. What most people are aware of, though, is the internal logic of their system: they understand the writing inside their mental envelope. Some people use drugs to sneak a peek outside their envelope, although this method has obvious drawbacks. Others use sensory deprivation, fasting, meditation, austerities, or IROOT:NOTics. Each has its benefits and deficiencies. We can change our view of what's real by simply changing our mind about reality. Chameleon reality, in response, looks back at us-in knowing and wonder-and changes its color to suit our vision. It then blends into the background and everything returns to normal. How we have determined what normal is, is all in our heads. It could be in the interest of all if we select a normal that suits our true self, although what our true self is, is another story altogether. For more information, visit: www.starbuilders.org Back To Top Grounding Your Miraculous Nature Creation was a miraculous event, the first miracle. Within that first point of light, everything existed as potential. Time unfolded and, sequentially (at least from a third-dimensional perspective), that potential began to manifest. Whatever we can experience, it exists because of that miracle; everything has "miraculous genes." If you look at the human condition existentially, then this proposition sounds absurd. The miraculous viewpoint, however, encompasses the existential position because, *even the worst aspects of the human condition are miraculous, just because they exist*! How can we ground this perspective? Simply tune into one of your senses and observe details. For example, notice different shades of color in your environment. Listen to the shifting sounds around you. Feel the sensations in your feet, hands, or chest. This practice pulls you from the thought-stream and centers you in the Now, which is the only time we have anyway. Then, add a twist. As you are tuning into reality, include the phrase, "And it is miraculous." "I hear the fan squeaking, and it is miraculous." Like this, we begin to appreciate the true nature of existence. Many Factors, One Source Yellow is not just a color. We need eyes to receive the light, a brain to interpret the vibrations, and a body to house these mechanisms. We also need the sun (or other light source) to carry the light into our eyes. And lastly, an object vibrating at the "yellow" frequency should be in view (unless we see the color in our mind's eye). Each of these requirements emerged from the creation event. Each is an expression--a form--of that first miracle. You can mentally follow the "genealogy" of any phenomena back to the Source. Say that you experience fear. Fear is a survival instinct. Nature developed it biologically over millions of years through various creature forms. The creatures, perhaps, evolved from inorganic material that, in turn, evolved from energy. This energy ultimately originated from the Big Bang--the creation miracle. If you do not believe in the Darwinian story, then use your own and trace the phenomenon back to its source. (If God created humans directly, then that would be a miracle as well.) The only way this exercise does not work is if we believe that creation was a random, materialistic event. How creation happened, however--whether it was a Divine act or a random one--is something that neither science nor religion can prove or disprove. Both disciplines must take their view on faith. The individual must decide which story works best for him or her. Ocean Universe Picture a vast ocean. Its surface represents the manifest expression of life, including inorganic forms. Beneath the surface lies the potential of all else. When we are born, we emerge from below and take form as a bubble on the surface. We float around for a while, having a this-or-that life and then, one day--pop!--we go back into the depths of blissful pre-form existence. We return to the miracle from where we came . . . not that we ever left. By training our minds to interpret phenomena in miraculous terms and by staying grounded in the now, we have a greater chance of enjoying our bubble life. We can reflect more of the rainbow colors of the sun and help our froth-brethren to live better because we treat them better. Happy bubbling! Evin O'Ryan http://www.starbuilders.org Back To Top ___________________ The Light Switch, I Know It's Here Somewhere! By Vanessa Ebner When you find yourself wondering around aimlessly throughout the day that is a good sign that somewhere along the way you have lost the zest for the moment. Is this ok? Well, sure it is but does it feel good? No, I would have to admit it doesn't at all! Is it possible to hang on to your get up and go amongst all the sludge we trudge through everyday? Think you can and you can! You have choices that will change this, found where the controls to your life are. Within! All you have to do is reset the control panel and zinggggg off you go again. The giddy up go is back! Sounds easy? Not when it is it too dark within to find the reset button! Now that is an interesting thought, isn't it? Got to have light or this is not going to be easy. You can't be a beacon if your light don't shine! So now before you can push the reset button you have to find the light switch that gives you that GE moment when it's needed most. The light switch, I know it's here somewhere! Ahhhhh there it is, ewwwww right behind this sludge build up! Where did all this gunk come from? Oh it's not hard to pick up in life, it's found just about anywhere you go. A few negative thoughts, some disappointing ventures, and you are well on the way to creating the thickest sludge imaginable. Man this stuff is hard to find anything in, no wonder your zing has zonged! So you ask yourself, how do you go through life without the sludge piling up that blocks the sublime? I guess you really can't is the most appropriate answer. It's everywhere and avoiding it is like forgetting to eat or sleep. That's not happening! So the next best thing is remembering that you can rid your self of this drain clogging, light blocking sludge anytime of the day or night. The key to the clean up is envisioning the sun's golden rays forever shining within. I know you do this on cloudy days and it's very important to do it everyday from the inside out. It's hard for the gunk to stick to bright shiny sparkling walls of love and warmth. Keeping the love alive and flowing is a must in order to keep the drain from clogging. Incorporating thoughts that add zing to every possible moment makes each day worth remembering and gives you a renewed sense of energy when your giddy up go decides to gallop by the wayside. You are your thoughts! Keep them shining and sparkling! About the Author Vanessa Ebner is a Reiki Master Teacher, writer, and counselor. Thousands read her column Angel Readings for A Day every day. To subscribe to her daily angelic guidance send blank mail to: angelforadayreading-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Visit the Author's Website: http://www.hearangelswhisper.com Preview her book Hear the Angels Whisper at: http://www.1stbooks.com Back To Top _____________
_____________ On Feeling Overwhelmed by Linda Maupin There is so much going on right now. The energies are shifting, changing, coming in spurts. Everyone seems to sense change. This is a time to be especially soft and gentle with ourselves. Many people are finding that things they used to be able to do are now overwhelming! The simple every day tasks are about all one can handle. It is a time of crisis for many. Those not used to dealing with heavy emotions are finding themselves overwhelmed. This would be a good time to make a list of things floating around in your head. You can do it each morning. As you look at your list of things to do, there will be one or two that stand out as very necessary. This will be your focus for the day. Tell yourself you will be happy if you get these chores done and anything else you do will be icing on the cake! What you haven't done yet can always be brought over to the next day. Sometimes one chore will seem overwhelming. It is often helpful to break it down into more manageable chores. My friend was having trouble with his car. He needed a new battery. I suggested that one day he take the battery out. The next day he could buy a new one. The next day he could put it in. Many tasks can be broken down into easier, manageable chores so that they do not seem overwhelming. Also helpful is letting go of perfectionism. Perfectionists are often the worst procrastinaters. They don't want to do something unless it is perfect. My grandmother used to clean house with a "Lick and a Promise." She would hit it a "Lick" and "Promise to do better tomorrow." Hitting it a lick every day takes care of the problem. One time I felt overwhelmed with chores. Rich asked how he could help. I said I needed the kitchen floor washed. Minutes later I found him on his hands and knees with a bucket. "That is not how I clean the floors," I laughed. "I hit it quickly with a wet mop," I told him. Letting go of being the perfect housewife, mother, husband, employee, church member, dieter, etc. is so freeing. We usually do not expect such perfection from others... we can let up on ourselves also. It is helpful to watch our thoughts. We usually have about 50,000 thoughts a day. My friend calls those thoughts "The committee." If we begin to listen to the voices, we can hear our parents, old teachers, and other critics from the past. When we were small, we took what people said about us as the Gospel Truth. But today we have a chance to question thoughts about ourselves. We just need to be aware of what we are thinking. A good book on this topic is called What I Say When I Talk to Myself. It can be entertaining to give these voices a name. I used to have so much dialogue running through my head I named the voices, like "Worry Willie," "Sad Sarah," "Scared Steven," etc. When I was especially worried, I would ask Worry Willy what was on his mind. I would dialogue with him (some aspect of myself) by writing the things going through my head down. Giving it a personality such as Worry Willy seemed to create distance from my problems and a way to find humor. It is only when I ignored (or shoved down) the voices that they became persistent and disturbing. I learned this technique through a book called The New Diary by Tristine Ranier. The Russian mystic, Gurdgieff, spoke of the many "I's" inside of us and his ideas are written about by Maurice Nicoll in Psychological Studies. As the times are changing and the frequencies are higher, we are beginning to let go of things that do not fit us any more. A nice thing to let go of is internal dialogue that is negative to your own sense of well being. The best way I found was to notice how I was feeling at any given time of the day. When I was feeling anxious and uptight, I found I was putting some kind of undo pressure on myself. This was caused by voices in my head telling me a kind of "truth." Given the chance to think about it, though, I may not agree with this "truth." When we tag a voice, realizing it is an old tape, we can let these ideas go, thus the voices will become quieter. We can then consciously speak words to ourselves that are comforting, healing and gentle. In time we will know when we are feeling rushed, and overwhelmed. Then we can stop the chatter, finding our Essence. Our Essence is that place inside that does not change. It is the place that is aligned with our spirit. It will be your sanctuary, your place of refuge amongst chaos around you. We can choose to go there any time, aligning with peace, and stopping the chatter, if only for a moment. In those moments what is important in our lives will come to the forefront of our minds. When we think about what is really important, our Hearts open. Living from the Heart creates a sense of Timelessness. Living from this place of Timelessness puts in a natural Flow of Life. It helps us be gentle with ourselves and others. When we are In the Flow, we know naturally what to do at any given time. We receive a sense of peace and Intuition that steadies us as we plod along. We begin to feel surer of our decisions and what needs to be done next. This will help to create a true sense of Peace. The feeling of being overwhelmed will happen less and less. Linda Maupin resides in Los Gatos, California. Her e-mail address is lindamaupin@webtv.net. She has a Web site at www.geocities.com/california_mermaid/ Back To Top _____________________ The Changing Of Mankind by Cianne Griffiths Spiritually, there is only One. You are one with everything you could ever imagine possible. From this point onwards cast away your negativity, bend the rules a little a read on with an open mind. Forget about the person you are now, the worries you have and the beliefs you have formed. Focus with in yourself and know that this is where all the answers to your questions lie. The time is now and the change starts within. Open up the unconditional love you have inside, for this is the energy behind Gods creations, the energy that connects every thing with every one. God is Love and this is all there is, every emotion is an act out of love. Love is the key to Heaven on Earth. In the Fourth Dimension - Heaven on Earth. There will be no, 'right and wrong', and God will have no judgment. There will be your own path; many life experiences that allowed you to experience being God. And it is your own path that has led you back to Oneness with God. Thus creating Heaven On Earth. You have experienced being God in all of your many life times, and have created everything you see before you. In this moment you are living in the illusion that you are separate from God and are fearful of God. But the true reality of it is, that you are God. The changing of Mankind is about the realization of Oneness with God. Looking past the illusions of separateness and into a dimension of total Oneness. Where our Mind, Body and Soul in a whole reconnect with the source of Love and Light. It will be the Perfect world. But right now we have to focus on our souls within. The feeling of lost ness and no direction is the start of your journey. A journey of which you have no limits and the outcome is what you intend for it to be. The highest authority lies with in you, you can create anything on this journey for you are God, remember? As you are becoming aware of the coincidences in your life at present, you are in fact realizing your own creations. It is important to remember through all of this change that Thought is our form of creation. Every thought ever thought of, sends out energies into the universe, the universe acknowledges the energy, either positive or negative, and the sends it back to you in your everyday life occurrences. So be aware about what you are creating for yourself when your thoughts are negative. Listen to your soul; it speaks the truth, in the language of love, and nothing else. Know that you are always in communication with your soul. Your soul is God; God is your inner strength. Search within yourself for you know that God is there. Follow your own truth, for its just a different way to the same place. Cianne Griffiths cianne_griffiths@hotmail.com Back To Top ________________________ Having Your Own Experience of the One But How? by Dhara Ishaya Recently, in Puerto Rico, I taught my first seven classes. It was incredible! I learned so much. One of the First Sphere weekend participants, Sarita, said to me, "Ascension is like a rocketship from where we are to where we want to be." That hit me. It's what we all want! To experience what it says in the Bible, in the Course in Miracles, in Conversations with God and in The Celestine Prophecy. But how do we do that? Let me share my experience... I remember being so frustrated that I couldn't "love my brother". Even worse than that, I couldn't love myself! I read book after book, tried as many things as I could find. Most of the time, I couldn't stick with one thing very long and ended up just hating myself even more for being "lazy and undisciplined". Ascension was the perfect answer for me. A) No belief required, B) effortless, C) stress reduction (who doesn't need that?) I was guaranteed that I would see results quickly, and it was all based on having my own personal experience! I remember when I first came to serve as an assistant at the Society for Ascension. People kept telling me, "Dhara, be gentle with yourself, love yourself." "How? How am I supposed to do that? Tell me and I'll do it! That's why I'm here!" I would scream (quite literally). The answer was always, "'Keep ascending" or "Say an Ascension Attitude." I'll tell you I got pretty fed up with that answer, and doubted Ascension altogether at times. But it was then that I would look to see if there were any changes in my life. My experience always beat out my mind's pounding judgement and doubt -- which were only thoughts, when it came right down to it. Somehow, here it is, a year later and I can honestly say I love myself. Sure, there's more to go. Being Infinite, we get to expand infinitely, forever! I am so thankful for Ascension. It's so fast! And I keep Ascending now because I want to, because I choose to, because of my own personal experience, not because I'm supposed to. That's saying a lot for me. Doing things from your own personal desire, rather than doing something because "that's what you're supposed to," or because "that's just how it's done," is so freeing. No matter where we are in life, where we live or have grown up, it's so apparent we all have the same basic desires -- to experience complete stability and total unconditional love. This became so real for me when I met people with such a sincere desire to know their "Oneness with God." Everyone called it different things, but we were all there for the same thing. I remember saying one weekend, "We'll never find that perfect stability and love in our outside world. No house or job, no car or lover will give it to us. If only this, that and the other would happen, then I would be happy." "Yeah, right!" We all laughed because all of us had thought that many times in our lives. It's funny how we are all so alike, and how our minds are doing everything possible to convince us otherwise. Even the way our mind works is the same! Dhara Ishaya is a teacher of the Ishayas' Ascension (the Art of Inner Exploration.) At ,http://www.ishaya.com/ discover how you can attain higher levels of human consciousness while totally freeing your nervous system from stress, quickly and easily. Please email vidya@firstsphere.net for more info. 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