The Spherical We

The secret life of plants

2012-01-12T20:49:00.000-08:00

TEDxSF - Louie Schwartzberg - Gratitude

2012-01-12T20:48:00.000-08:00

2012 - A Message of Hope

2012-01-04T18:27:00.000-08:00

sacred space

2011-12-08T16:45:00.000-08:00

What makes a public space sacred? In the case of Occupy Wall Street, it is human aspiration—members from almost every strata of society striving to improve the collective status quo—combined with an overt generosity of spirit.

This sacred-ness is quite palpable. Various faith-based groups have heeded its pull. Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Native Americans, and Christians alike have been inspired to collectively observe and demonstrate their religious convictions within the political and very public context of Occupy Wall Street.

A few weeks ago a number of Manhattan churches allied with ousted protesters and offered them a safe place to sleep. Previously, two protesters of Muslim faith at Occupy Wall Street met while trying to carve out a quiet space to pray in Zuccotti Park. Soon thereafter, they decided to get married in a traditional Muslim ceremony amidst their new family of protesters.

One day in late October, a group of over 100 Muslims gathered for a Friday prayer rally. Through this sacred act and the vulnerability of performing it in such an exposed setting, this group proved their dedication to social justice and Occupy Wall Street. Seated on knees on a large floor covering, the group evoked solidarity with one another but also with a multi-dimensional and diverse movement.
An hour later, a Jewish group of similar size celebrated Simchas Torah, a lesser known Jewish holiday that culminates a three-week period of atonement and recognition of the New Year—and a day in which the Torah or holy Jewish scrolls are the main attraction. The plan was to unfurl the Torah scroll from both ends simultaneously until they met again on the opposite side. Participants delicately handling the parchment paper soon formed a huge circle, defined by the precise length of the scroll. They began to run around the inside of the circle as spiritual leader, Amichai Lau-Lavie, read from the Torah’s text, relaying highlights chronologically. Often, he couched his paraphrases in a social justice context, creating connections between the Jew’s biblical history and the political movement on whose symbolic ground they stood. Eventually, they rolled up the scroll and danced with it.

We infuse spaces to be sacred and then those spaces give us the strength to aim higher.

Jill Slater is a native New Yorker. Formerly a city planner for the City of San Francisco, Jill now lives and writes in her hometown.
photo by Liz Nord; thank you

NOCTURNE, a play in two acts. c.2008

2011-10-18T21:07:00.000-07:00

Characters:
       BENJAMIN ROBERTS, journalist; mid 30's.
       KATIE DONAHUE, history professor; mid 30's.
       RED DANIELS, mercenary living in exile; late 40's.
       ROY ABRAHAMS, talent agent; late 50's.
       ANNA CHRISTIENSEN ROBERTS, concert pianist; late 50's.
       EDDIE ROBERTS, photojournalist; late 50's.

Time: The events in "Nocturne" are told in flashback and take place in three main time frames during the year of 1989: Beginning in January 18 of the new year as Benjamin attends his mother's piano concert at the Arcadian Concert Hall; September 12 through September 15 of 1989 as Benjamin prepares for his interview with Red Daniels; and September 17, 1989, as Benjamin interviews Red Daniels in Africa.

Benjamin's memories of his father are recalled from various moments in the past, from 1970 to 1988.

Place: The Arcadian Concert Hall, Eastern Europe.
Benjamin's apartment, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
Red Daniels' compound, Umballa, Central Africa. A cemetery near Washington, D.C. A hotel room in East Germany. A forest in East Germany.

ACT I.
Southern Africa. September, 1989.
A single light within darkness comes up on an exhausted Benjamin, dressed for hot weather.
The faint music of a concert piano is heard playing the Chopin "Nocturne no.19 in E".
BENJAMIN
I can hear the muffled coughing, the seats creaking, programs rustling, hushed conversations. I can see the standing ovations. The bouquets of roses tossed onto the stage. I watch you come onto the stage, into that light, trying to hide your nervousness, even after all those years, and then that applause comes.
A separate light comes up and ANNA enters, dressed in an evening gown. She enters a light and addresses the 'audience.'
ANNA
Mr. Premier and your family, ladies and gentlemen. Friends. It's good to be back in the Arcadian. If there has been any direction to my life, any path, then returning here tonight has brought it full circle. It's good to be home.
She bows slightly and walks to a light coming up an a grand piano. She sits.
BENJAMIN
I can see you sitting at the piano in that pool of light and you say that prayer you always say to yourself before you play and you pause for that one moment and then you touch your fingers to those keys.
The music increases in volume. The music stops.
BENJAMIN (cont'd)
But then it happens, the roar that isn't applause, the white light that isn't stage light.
Anna stands and exits as KATIE steps into a light.
KATIE
Do you believe in evil?
ROY enters another light, addressing Benjamin.
ROY
It's just an interview, Ben. Do you hear me?
DANIELS enters a light, also addressing Benjamin.
DANIELS
You were scared, Ben. We were all scared.
Anna re-enters, stepping into a light, speaking to Benjamin.
ANNA
Like the soul, it won't be lied to.
KATIE
There are threads out there and they do connect.
ROY
He's going to put all the pieces together.
ANNA
To touch one person is to touch the world.
DANIELS
You can measure yourself, against man, against nature, against yourself. Against God.
Lights fade out on everyone but Benjamin. EDDIE enters a light.
EDDIE
Cover your bases, son. Take that picture from every angle. Start wide and focus in, and if what you've got in front of you isn't true, shoot it again. Start over from the beginning and get it right. You may never get another chance.
Light fades out on Eddie.
A short burst of sporadic gunfire is heard in the distance. Silence returns.
Lights fades out on Benjamin.
Georgetown. One week earlier. September. 1989.
Lights come up on Benjamin's elegant apartment, Katie entering, putting her keys in her purse. She drops a briefcase on a table and begins sorting through a stack of mail.
KATIE
Ben?
BENJAMIN
(from Offstage)
You're home.
KATIE
The university didn't call for me, did they? I told Erma not to call me here; this is not my home, Erma, I have a home, a very nice home. It has a telephone. It even has an answering machine.
Benjamin enters.
BENJAMIN
No calls.
KATIE
She calls here just trying to catch me, the horny old sow, hopefully mid-coitus, so she can wink at me in the morning and say things like: "My, don't we look cheery this morning,' and 'Aren't we full of color today?" The correct term, dear Erma, would be well-laid. I look well-laid, thank you.
(beat)
You're back.
BENJAMIN
Last night. Late. You didn't stay here.
KATIE
I have a home. It has a bed. You didn't call.
BENJAMIN
Sorry. I just got involved. You could have called me.
KATIE
Nope. That's man's job. But I'm currently open to compromise.
She goes to him and they kiss.
BENJAMIN
Roy's coming by.
KATIE
I missed you. All day in class I kept remembering the hotel room in Richmond.
BENJAMIN
How come I didn't have teachers like you back when I was in college?
KATIE
The kind that sleep over?
BENJAMIN
The kind that teach and do.
KATIE
You'd have never graduated. I promised myself this wouldn't happen.
BENJAMIN
Us?
KATIE
Us. This. Everything.
(beat)
How was New York?
BENJAMIN
Same.
KATIE
And the movie?
BENJAMIN
They're going to buy the article.
KATIE
Congratulations!
BENJAMIN
Only they want Melissa McBride to play Lucinda, Noriega's "mysterious voodoo torturer."
KATIE
The extremely Anglo-Saxon Melissa McBride? But the real Lucinda was Haitian?
BENJAMIN
They don't seem to think it'll be a problem. And they'll pay me a lot of money.
KATIE
Then screw whether she's Haitian. And the lawyers?
BENJAMIN
Short of giving me a deadline, they made it clear that they need mother's papers by the dedication.
KATIE
Day after tomorrow? Ben, I think that qualifies as a deadline. You know I'm perfectly willing to help.
BENJAMIN
I'll get them together. And then the publishers keep calling about Dad's memoirs, which they wanted a week ago, as if they can't just come down here themselves and get them;
(pointing down a hallway)
Christ, they're all boxed-up back there; just come and get them. Mom's lawyers, Dad's publishers, the damn library wing dedication where I have to think up something solemn and effective and sentimental -- yet not too maudlin -- to say on my beloved parent's behalf. When exactly did I become the curator of the Robert's Memorial Museum?
(beat)
So, Roy flew up and we got drunk.
KATIE
And the Big Secret you two've been sneaking around about all week?
BENJAMIN
I didn't want to say anything because I know how you get.
KATIE
"How I get"?
BENJAMIN
You're not going to like this one.
KATIE
I thought I handled Lucinda rather well.
BENJAMIN
It's Red Daniels. It probably won't happen; I'm almost sure it won't.
KATIE
And how on earth do you know an ape like Red Daniels?
BENJAMIN
I knew him. I mean, I'd met him. When I'd just gotten out of high school. I started as a stringer for Dad's paper; we're talking '71. I went over with Dad, to Vietnam, to cover Daniels' court martial. I was just this stupid, nobody out of high school, but, we got along, I mean we got to talk, I got to interview him myself once. I even snuck in a bottle of scotch to him -- in the stockade. Then he escaped and turned up in Africa as Campu's right hand man. Roy got hold of him through some go-betweens. Like I said, I'm sure it won't even happen.
KATIE
Hollywood should go crazy.
BENJAMIN
I am a journalist; it's what I do.
KATIE
I know.
BENJAMIN
And you're angry.
KATIE
No. Really, I'm not. It is what you do. I just get carried away sometimes. Comes from lecturing to blank-faced students all day long.
BENJAMIN
I've interviewed murderers, kooks and crackpots; no one's ever bitten me before.
KATIE
Long as everyone gets their fifteen minutes.
BENJAMIN
If it were to go through, it could put me on top. No more hustling for stories. Or I can just stay home and write that novel every journalist is supposed to be working on.
KATIE
I just want you to be careful.
Katie goes to him.
KATIE (cont'd)
When did you say Roy'd be here?
She begins unbuttoning her blouse.
BENJAMIN
Soon?
KATIE
He has keys, right? We'll be quiet.
And she disappears down the hall.
BENJAMIN
Not too quiet; I need all the encouragement I can get.
And he starts after her. Lights fade out.
Southern Africa. September, 1989.
Lights up on Red Daniels' compound in Africa. Blazing sunlight pours through windows illuminating an attractively furnished home decorated in native artwork.
Daniels is a physically intimidating man. He is dressed comfortably and fashionably for the weather. He glances about like an anxious host. Benjamin is also dressed for the heat, a leather satchel slung over his shoulder. Daniels goes to Benjamin with his hand extended.
DANIELS
Ben! Long time.
They shake hands.
BENJAMIN
Mr. Daniels.
DANIELS
Call me Red or Roger. Red'll probably look better in print; you know: "Bloody 'Red' Daniels", something like that.
Daniels walks to a nearby bar.
DANIELS (cont'd)
Sit. Sit.
Benjamin drops his satchel on a chair. Daniels pours water from a pitcher into a glass and hands it to Benjamin. Automatic rifle fire is heard in the distance, then stopping.
BENJAMIN
Fighting had broken out near the southern border.
DANIELS
Hey, welcome to Africa: if it's Thursday, it must be a civil war.
BENJAMIN
Are people leaving?
DANIELS
Nervous?
BENJAMIN
Should I be?
DANIELS
Hellova long time, Ben. My God. 'Nam. '71 or '2? Jesus. You, just a kid.
Daniels gestures widely around him.
DANIELS (cont'd)
What do you think? Not bad, eh? Pretty comfortable I'd say, for an old s.o.b. like me. Sit, sit. Get comfortable. You need more water? That ride's a bitch.
Benjamin sits, Daniels sitting in a chair opposite.
BENJAMIN
I was surprised to actually hear from you.
DANIELS
You sent a pretty interesting letter. And what's his name? That agent of yours? Roy? He's good; kept on my agent's ass over in London.
BENJAMIN
What exactly are you doing with an agent?
DANIELS
I been doing a little writing myself, some movie ideas based on my exploits; they're even thinking up this comic book based on me; super hero shit.
BENJAMIN
Then why agree? Write your own story.
DANIELS
Agent figures a little legitimacy will help things, you know, let you jump all over my ass, get the facts straight from an unbiased source. I got nothing to apologize for -- make sure you get that in the interview. And then, of course, there's the money.
(beat)
You look about the same.
BENJAMIN
You look prosperous.
DANIELS
What were you expecting? Jungle fatigues? Pictures of "Playboy" pin-ups on the walls? Beer cans in the corner?
BENJAMIN
Something like that.
DANIELS
Ben, image is everything; it's almost 1990, for crissakes. Get with the picture. How about a drink?
Daniels goes to the bar, holding up a new bottle of scotch.
DANIELS (cont'd)
Scotch? The smuggled-in variety, if I remember correctly?
Daniels begins making the drinks.
DANIELS (cont'd)
Did you have any trouble at the compound gate?
BENJAMIN
They wouldn't let my driver and guard into the compound.
DANIELS
Not exactly Georgetown during the Cherry Blossom Festival. Did the guards ask you any questions?
BENJAMIN
No.
DANIELS
I told them you were one of my lawyers, easier that way.
Daniels hands one drink to Benjamin then sits. He lifts his glass.
DANIELS (cont'd)
To the good old days!
BENJAMIN
To the truth.
DANIELS
The truth, a very rare and expensive commodity. So Ben's in the big time now. I keep up on the larger issues of the world; recognized your name. Read you wrote some movies too?
Benjamin picks up his satchel and opens it, taking out notepads, pens, cassettes and a tape recorder.
BENJAMIN
I just sold some ideas.
DANIELS
Sleeping with starlets, Ben? While you impress them with your journalistic 'credentials'? You son-ofa-bitch. We're a pair, Ben. A long way from Vietnam. You were a rosy-cheeked babe in the woods and scared shitless.
BENJAMIN
And you were my guide on my brief journey into the heart of darkness.
DANIELS
I was your very own personal Marlon Brando.
Benjamin moves to the edge of his chair, placing the recorder on a nearby table.
BENJAMIN
Do you want to do the interview here?
DANIELS
Sure.
BENJAMIN
We should get started; we don't have that much time.
DANIELS
Let's just make sure we got the ground rules straight: I get a copy of everything, notes included. I okay everything beyond the initial magazine article. You tell me first about any other offers, I don't trust my lawyers. And all checks have got to clear.
BENJAMIN
It's all in the contract.
DANIELS
Then shoot.
Benjamin tests the recorder:
BENJAMIN
September seventeenth, nineteen-eighty-nine. Interview with Mr. Roger "Red" Daniels.
Benjamin plays the recording back and re-sets the tape. He takes up his notepad and a pen; he sits back in the chair glancing at his questions.
DANIELS
So they let you in through Algeria? I was wondering who'd be your 'escort.'
BENJAMIN
I was surprised to find security around you so lax. Do you feel safe here?
DANIELS
One place is as safe as the next, but then everybody's got enemies.
BENJAMIN
Is that why you're in hiding?
DANIELS
Who says I'm in hiding?
BENJAMIN
Aren't you? You can't go back to the States; there's requests for your extradition in several countries. And rumor out in the world is that General Campu --
DANIELS
President. President Campu.
BENJAMIN
The rumor is that he may be making a bid for some kind of legitimacy. He sent that letter to the U.N. and he's had two of his more notorious lieutenants disappeared; that is the right word, isn't it?
DANIELS
I'm happy here in Africa. I have no intention of leaving. Campu regularly cleans house; that's not news. I wouldn't believe every rumor you hear. And "disappeared" is as good a word as any. I'm pretty good at this. You think I could get a gig with Ted Koppel?
BENJAMIN
Then if you're not in hiding, let's say you're an extremely difficult man to locate.
DANIELS
Let's say that.
BENJAMIN
Are you free to move around?
DANIELS
Yes. I do try and stay away from the windows, but then I recommend that in New York and L.A.
BENJAMIN
You stay here with the consent of the government?
DANIELS
I live here. This is my home. I love it here. Great weather. Nice people. Nobody bothers me. Let me tell you, Ben, you'd like it here too. You can breathe out here.
BENJAMIN
What about your other home?
DANIELS
In Argentina or Paraguay?
BENJAMIN
Chicago.
DANIELS
This is background, right? Color? Hell. It was a nice enough place to grow up. Then. Gone down hill now.
BENJAMIN
Tell me something about it.
DANIELS
So the psychologists can figure out what makes a guy like me tick?
BENJAMIN
"A guy like you?"
DANIELS
The Bogeyman.
BENJAMIN
That's how you think of yourself?
DANIELS
Hey, I'm an action kind a guy, you know: you fuck me up, I fuck you up. Tough guys. Nice enough neighborhood. Not much money around. Lots of wiseguys. Girls named Angela.
Benjamin makes a note of the name.
DANIELS (cont'd)
Souped-up cars, drinking beer, talking sports. Hustling. Everybody was always hustling: guys for jobs, guys for chicks, chicks for husbands. Mothers and Priests hustling for God. Old folks hustling for a few more days before they kick.
BENJAMIN
Would you like to go back?
DANIELS
Maybe. Tough place. Might get arrested.
BENJAMIN
Meaning the indictment against you in New York?
DANIELS
I haven't read it.
Benjamin takes up a photocopy and reads:
BENJAMIN
Charges you with smuggling semi-automatic weapons and ammunitions out of the country and into the African Republic of Umballa. It also charges that illegally shipped extremely lethal poisons to Campu's regime.
DANIELS
Chemicals and pesticides and compounds, Ben. Top corporations ship the same things. No one can control how they're used.
BENJAMIN
What about Tetrazine-90, a "pesticide" used during the Vietnam war which induces instant paralysis, weakens capillary walls and causes massive internal bleeding.
DANIELS
Sounds like a hellova bug spray to me.
BENJAMIN
A witness says he saw you test it on a young fisherman in Brazil. He says you and three others administered it by force and stood by watching as it took effect.
DANIELS
A "witness." Look, Ben. Let me give you a little tip on human nature. There are those that do and those that get done to -- if you know what I mean; and if you've been done to, you try very hard to bring down those that do -- get my meaning? Now I may be wrong about this, but I doubt it. Human nature, Ben. I could tell you stories.
Lights fade out.
Lights come up on Eddie. A separate light comes up on Benjamin.
EDDIE
So, Benj, you think maybe you'd like to be a journalist? Well, that certainly sounds good to these ears. You always hope there'll be someone to "pass the torch" onto. It's a good job; work you can be proud of. But nobody's kidding anybody if you think it's easy. Oh hell, it's not the photographing that's hard, any plebe can learn that; the hard part is tack: which angle to choose so the wind catches that sail just right. Even then, maybe the hardest thing is just getting home from it all. What I mean is, you see, when you're out there on the front line, living by your wits, your instincts take over and it's smooth sailing. But when you get home, with those pictures spread out there in front of you, there comes that moment when you realize it's over, and all that's left are those two dimensional images. It's over and done and can't be changed, not that you'd want to, of course. It's kind of like memory, Benj; once it's been recorded it becomes a part of history, and can't be wished away.
Light fades out on Eddie and Benjamin.
East Germany. January, 1989.
Lights come up the stage area of the Arcadian concert hall in East Berlin, in mid-rehearsal. A grand piano sets Center. Anna, dressed in rehearsal clothes enters from Offstage, sheet music in hand and calling commandingly into the audience area:
ANNA
Mr. Dubrovsky! You will have something done about those lights, won't you? And for the last time, that program note must be taken out. I will not have my music associated with his demagoguery! Thank you, Mr. Dubrovsky!
She shields her eyes against the stagelight as she looks out into the audience.
ANNA (cont'd)
Who is that out there?
Benjamin enters into the light from the audience.
BENJAMIN
It's me. I didn't mean to interrupt.
ANNA
What are you doing here?
BENJAMIN
I wanted to surprise you.
ANNA
I'm right in the middle of rehearsal. I thought I'd made it clear we'd meet in London?
BENJAMIN
I'm sorry. I know. But I just wanted to be here for the concert.
ANNA
You should have called me -- I'm not prepared -- I wasn't expecting --
BENJAMIN
I already got my own hotel room.
Anna steps forward calling out into the auditorium.
ANNA
We will break for half an hour! Thank you!
BENJAMIN
I didn't mean to come at a bad time.
ANNA
I had everything arranged. The last concert in London and then the week together in Normandy.
BENJAMIN
I can still meet you in London.
ANNA
Yes, of course you can, but that's hardly the point.
BENJAMIN
I'm leaving. I just wanted to say --
ANNA
Benjamin.
Anna takes a deep breath, briefly closes her eyes and calms down.
BENJAMIN
Have you taken your deep breath and closed your eyes?
ANNA
Yes. It's all right now. I'm sorry, Benjamin.
BENJAMIN
No, I'm sorry. I should have known better.
ANNA
Then we're both sorry. I'm happy you're here.
She walks to the piano and sits on the bench placing the sheet music down.
ANNA (cont'd)
It's just that I'm afraid it won't be very pleasant for you. I'm really quite fragmented. You wouldn't believe how they've let the hall run down. I've asked them to do something about the bloody drafts onstage, but before I can speak to the stagehands I have to speak to the Party thugs who act like they don't understand English. So I speak to them in French, which really upsets them. I'd speak to them in Russian but I won't give them the satisfaction!
BENJAMIN
Hello, Mother?
ANNA
Yes, yes. I know. I know.
BENJAMIN
So this is the Arcadian?
ANNA
La belle dame sans mercy. The beautiful lady without mercy; that's how she's known on the circuit. What hotel are you in?
BENJAMIN
The International.
ANNA
I'll have them move you into mine. In Germany they said I'd put on weight. Do you think so?
BENJAMIN
No, Mother. You look wonderful. Will the Premier be here tonight?
ANNA
Yes. And his family. It's too bad I can't choose my fans. He's not interested in music. That fat little man is only interested in public relations, the kind he thinks I can give him. But I'm not here to be his little circus act.
BENJAMIN
Mother, I don't want you getting into trouble like you did in South Africa.
ANNA
Is that why you're here? To keep an eye on me?
BENJAMIN
The government is making an effort to open up here -- your even being allowed to play here again proves that.
Anna returns to the piano and opens her sheet music, going over it.
ANNA
Tell that to anyone who lived through the Prague Spring or Tiennamen Square.
She lifts the cover over the piano keys, running her hand over them.
BENJAMIN
I think I got a deal with "Rolling Stone" for a two-part article which would be really great.
ANNA
Yes?
BENJAMIN
This woman on Death Row in Texas and her custody battle, which may end up in the Supreme Court.
ANNA
I suppose I'm happy for you.
BENJAMIN
Thanks.
ANNA
You can do so much better.
BENJAMIN
I'm doing fine. I shouldn't have brought it up.
ANNA
Let's not fight.
BENJAMIN
We don't fight.
ANNA
No, we don't.
Benjamin looks up toward the ceiling and reads the inscription:
BENJAMIN
"Monumentum aerae prenneum"...
ANNA
"A monument more lasting than bronze."
BENJAMIN
The hall?
ANNA
The music.
BENJAMIN
How does it feel to be back here?
"The triumphal return of Anna Christiensen to the concert hall which began her illustrious career."
ANNA
No doubt from one of Roy's purple press releases.
BENJAMIN
He sends his love.
ANNA
And red roses. Three dozen at last count.
BENJAMIN
He still can't get away, but he's going to try and get here for your last performance, Saturday.
ANNA
Is he all right?
BENJAMIN
Drinking a little more than usual.
ANNA
It's been hard on him, losing Eddie.
If you could have seen them after the war, Roy and Eddie, dressed like something out of a Fred Astaire movie. They were two of the handsomest men in Europe. When they were on a role, they could light up whole cities. They could certainly light up this gray city.
BENJAMIN
I guess now he just lights up bars.
ANNA
Is that a joke?
BENJAMIN
No.
ANNA
He's been a great friend to this family.
BENJAMIN
I'd better go.
ANNA
I am a little harried.
BENJAMIN
I can understand.
ANNA
I doubt that.
Benjamin starts off.
ANNA (cont'd)
Benjamin.
He stops.
ANNA (cont'd)
I grew up listening to concerts here; my mother and father and my sister, all of us together. I was little and this place seemed like magic to me, a magical place. I'm not sure why but I always felt safe here, protected. The thick stonework, I guess; the warmth, the radiators always gently hissing steam. It's survived. War after war after war and the place was always rebuilt, usually before any other building in the city. The city needed this place. And when I was little, sitting out there and listening to the music, I knew nothing could go wrong; that the music was holding the dark, the nightmares far away. When I started playing, I dreamed of playing here. One day I did. Now I'm back again. If only my mother and father and sister and Eddie could be here. I do miss him. Hard-headed. But the most courageous man.
BENJAMIN
He said the same thing about you once.
ANNA
Then he confused arrogance with courage.
BENJAMIN
You've always stood up for your beliefs, refused to play, donated money from concerts. In South Africa, you backed down an entire government.
ANNA
Arrogance. Better arrogance than indifference, I suppose. You should try and do what you can with what you have. I've come full circle. Playing here again. Full circle. It seems balanced. Somehow appropriate. And I've always admired symmetry.
BENJAMIN
Symmetry?
ANNA
Symmetry. Balance. Harmony. Grace. I'm playing well now, maybe as well as I ever will. There's a balance now. They call this hall the beautiful lady without mercy because you can't simply play in it; you have to play to it. You have to fill it with everything you are as a musician and as an artist, as a person. You have to fill it with your music or it will drown you in your noise. Like the soul, it won't be lied to.
Lights fade out, a single light remaining on Benjamin.
Georgetown. September, 1989.
Light comes up on Benjamin's apartment. Roy enters with a newspaper under his arm which he tosses onto a chair. He appears a little disheveled.
ROY
Hey, Ben? Anybody home? I let myself in. Before you ask: no, I haven't been to bed; yes, I've had a toddy, or two or three; and no, the cat didn't drag me in, I ambled in on something resembling my own power.
Benjamin enters and picks up the paper, reading.
BENJAMIN
Morning.
ROY
I've got Ellen down at the office in case any calls come in. Time zones, you know.
BENJAMIN
You do know what time it is, in this time zone?
Roy checks his watch.
ROY
Five after eight.
BENJAMIN
In the morning.
ROY
No wonder I feel like flambe'd horseshit.
Roy goes to the bar, opening the refrigerator.
ROY (cont'd)
You got any olives, or those little pickles? I need my fiber.
He takes a bottle of Bloody Mary mix out and opens it, pouring it into a glass.
ROY (cont'd)
After I left here last night I went down to the Brass Ring, and guess who was there?
He drinks, cringing at the barren taste.
ROY (cont'd)
Our favorite studio executive, Malcolm, that Cockney s.o.b. Pulled me over, bought me a few drinks, told of few of his raunchy jokes, asked about your health and my health and then said he'd heard about the Red Daniels' deal.
Roy drinks and cringes again.
ROY (cont'd)
If I was a drinking man, I'd say this red stuff needs some vodka.
BENJAMIN
What happened?
ROY
He wanted to know that the price of admission was -- between friends. I told him a few of my raunchy jokes and told him to go to hell -- between friends.
If our deviant little friend Malcolm's interested, the other studios are interested, and if they're interested, Abby at Doubleday will pay triple to publish first, on top of the "Newsweek" excerpt.
BENJAMIN
We're set? The deal's in place?
ROY
There's a few things to work out yet, but it looks like the goose has laid its golden egg right in our palm. Contracts are in the pipeline. Daniels has got a lawyer in London, a good one. He's no slouch, but neither am I. Daniels knows there's interest, but we've got the right figures, and he remembers you. Said something about owing you a bottle of scotch.
BENJAMIN
I'll have to get started on the research. The set-up. Where are we meeting? When? Who'll set it up? The go-betweens?
ROY
His lawyer's going to set everything up. We'll go through Algeria. I'll get this man I know there who's with the U.N. agricultural mission; he'll check on all of Daniels' sources. I'll take care of your guard and driver. The rest is up to you.
BENJAMIN
Why'd he say yes?
ROY
He needs us. The timing is perfect. He knows he's got a public relations problem. Campu's overtures to the U.N. had to have made Daniels very nervous about his future.
BENJAMIN
Sounds a little subtle for Daniels.
ROY
Then how about cash? The one force of nature Newton left out. And, he figures you'll give him a fair hearing.
BENJAMIN
No. No, he figures I'll screw-up and let him off the hook.
ROY
Then there's the other question: Why are you doing it? Annie's dead. You'll just bring it all up again and it won't change anything. It's just an interview, Ben; you hear me? Maybe all I'm saying is that Daniels is not a nice guy; he's not the quaint little ax murderer you're used to interviewing, from behind prison bars, I might add. He's the big time. He's a big time bad guy. To quote Eddie: get that picture, sure, but bring it home. Eddie knew that. And, as Eddie found out, some pictures may not be worth it.
(beat)
You alone?
BENJAMIN
She had an early class.
ROY
Sorry for staying so long last night. I hope I didn't interrupt...she's terrific.
BENJAMIN
I like her.
ROY
"Like?"
BENJAMIN
It's only been a few months.
ROY
Hell, sometimes a few hours is enough, not that I'd know, you understand. But you two look good together. She's smart.
BENJAMIN
Everything's fine just the way it is.
ROY
Same old Ben. Just like Eddie. But you never know, Annie roped him. Time passes, people change.
BENJAMIN
Do they?
ROY
God bless 'em.
BENJAMIN
Who needs the headache.
ROY
If you've found someone special, then my advice is to work at it.
BENJAMIN
Following your example?
ROY
Do as I say, not as I do, or don't. I know it sounds hokey, Ben, but don't put off love. Don't put off happiness. You may not get a second chance.
BENJAMIN
Why not you, Roy? You've been around.
ROY
Hell, they'd never put up with me. 'Sides, Eddie got the best one.
Roy finds himself looking in a mirror, he brushes some ashes from his jacket lapel.
ROY (cont'd)
I'm a mess.
BENJAMIN
Why don't you use my shower and clean up?
ROY
Yeah, maybe I will.
BENJAMIN
You didn't go home at all last night, did you?
ROY
Nah.
BENJAMIN
You're going to kill yourself, you know that, don't you?
ROY
Ben. Don't start fucking-paying attention to me now. Let me get some coffee first, then the shower.
(beat)
Ben. There's still time to back out of this.
Lights fade out.
Lights come up on Eddie with a copy of "Hustler" twisted-up in his hand. A separate light comes up on Benjamin facing to one side.
EDDIE
It's crap, Ben! All of it! This skin magazine! Your writing! This whole situation! Full of crap! It's not just your name and reputation here, it's mine too! I pulled a lot of strings to get you that field assignment. You think every stringer out of high school gets to work on a story like Roger Daniels?! Do you?! Hell, I told them sure he's young and he has no field experience, but he's my boy and he'll do the job. You made a liar out of your old man. But I've been called a liar before and I'll come through it again. It'll all be forgotten. But this!
Eddie throws the magazine away.
EDDIE (cont'd)
You sold yourself short, Ben. Sold yourself short and fast!
Lights fade out on Eddie.
BENJAMIN
Your father is quoted as calling you an animal. How do you respond to that?
Southern Africa. September, 1989.
Lights come up on Daniels' compound, Benjamin entering the light.
DANIELS
My father's a real comedian. Don't take the guy too seriously. The whole 'Marine Drill Sergeant' routine of his; I assume he's still pulling that con? Bullshit. It's like those teeny-tiny dogs that have the biggest damn bark you ever heard. You can always tell a loser by the amount of whining.
BENJAMIN
Didn't he put you in the hospital when you were twelve with two broken shoulders?
DANIELS
Christ. That was a football injury.
BENJAMIN
Being a military man, he must have been pretty upset by your court martial.
DANIELS
I was never officially court-martialled. So I didn't grow up to be a jerk like him. I'm guilty.
BENJAMIN
Your mother --
DANIELS
Is dying.
BENJAMIN
Do you --
DANIELS
Just drop it.
BENJAMIN
But --
DANIELS
I said drop it! We agreed to an interview, not some bullshit analysis by you!
BENJAMIN
This is not bullshit. You're going to have to give me something other than the public record or we don't have an interview here, we don't have anything marketable, do you understand? I won't jerk you around, you don't jerk me around.
DANIELS
Little Benny's all grown up.
BENJAMIN
You call yourself a soldier, at least you used to call yourself that. You like the military life?
DANIELS
Teaches you to survive in the real world. And you get a great deal on stereo equipment.
BENJAMIN
Yet you were brought up on charges of murder.
DANIELS
You known as well as I do what your basic Illinois farmboy is capable of when it gets down to it. All it takes is time.
BENJAMIN
Is that what happened? Too much time in the jungle?
DANIELS
Like I told that court martial committee. I'll be happy to face those charges the day they charge every soldier who killed an enemy soldier in that war.
BENJAMIN
They were the enemy?
DANIELS
Yes.
BENJAMIN
I believed you then.
DANIELS
The facts haven't changed.
Benjamin walks to his shoulder bag and takes out a piece of paper, handing it to Daniels who takes it and reads.
BENJAMIN
Certain new information came out after your escape. The prisoners you captured were Viet Cong, right?
DANIELS
Yes.
BENJAMIN
And they were shot in the back?
DANIELS
They tried to escape.
BENJAMIN
You lost your watch, did you know that?
DANIELS
It was eighteen damned years ago.
BENJAMIN
And your lighter and your engraved pocket knife.
DANIELS
Gee, we were in the middle of a war zone; it happens, so what?
BENJAMIN
They were found in the pockets of the victims.
DANIELS
I dropped them, they picked them up.
BENJAMIN
While they were under capture?
DANIELS
What are you getting at?
BENJAMIN
That you gave them to them as gifts because they were friendlies and not Viet Cong.
DANIELS
Sorry.
BENJAMIN
And that you gave them gifts to entice them into your company and then you shot them and that would be the difference between an enemy action and murder.
DANIELS
That was very neat.
BENJAMIN
Wrong?
DANIELS
Next question.
BENJAMIN
Before they got around to actually court-martialling you, you were shipped to Fort Bragg.
DANIELS
Where I went AWOL.
BENJAMIN
How did you manage it?
DANIELS
Ran like hell!
BENJAMIN
And you managed to hook up with Campu?
DANIELS
He set me up in the construction business through some friends of his in Eastern Europe.
Benjamin jots down a note.
DANIELS (cont'd)
Under a different name, of course, as I was still "absent from the army without leave." Ben. Campu's got investments everywhere. You wouldn't believe some of them! He put me in charge of rebuilding here. We put in a hellova road system and some schools.
BENJAMIN
I guess the semi-automatic weapons found in your cargo were part of your infrastructure rebuilding program?
DANIELS
There's a revolution going; you've got to protect your workers.
BENJAMIN
Would you describe yourself as a businessman?
DANIELS
I like to think of myself as an entrepreneur.
BENJAMIN
You and Campu first met in Iran?
DANIELS
In seventy-seven. I was coming back from Hong Kong when I got word he was assembling a military force.
BENJAMIN
He knew you from the people in Eastern Europe?
DANIELS
Right. He gave me a call.
BENJAMIN
Were you an advisor or was your role more specific?
DANIELS
His men needed training. I'm proficient in all weapons. I have experience in all types of operations. They had the faith, I gave them the means.
BENJAMIN
Where did that first meeting with Campu take place?
DANIELS
In a single's bar. He was drinking Brandy Alexanders. Loosen up, Ben! You're too serious! How about another drink?
Daniels goes to the bar, making one for himself and one for Benjamin.
DANIELS (cont'd)
Ah, come on! We're helping each other out here, right? Two businessmen having a power meeting. Quid pro quo, right? Hell, every time you ask a question, I can see you figuring out the opening shot of the movie, after the exclusive magazine article and book buy-out.
He takes Benjamin's drink to him.
DANIELS (cont'd)
I read your interview with Carrie Louise in "Penthouse". I love her tits! Did you get any of that?! Hell, I know; it's the quiet ones you've got to look out for.
BENJAMIN
What are you in this for? Just the money?
DANIELS
I want to see Robert Redford play me in the movie of my life story.
BENJAMIN
Or are you testing the waters? See how things stand for you out in the world, just in case?
DANIELS
Just in case of what?
BENJAMIN
Just in case you should need another option if things were to go sour here.
DANIELS
God, I love it here. Ever been to Africa before? Oldest country on earth, they say. They say we came from out there, in those desert valleys. Beautiful country. The air and the land out there vibrates in the heat; you can hear it; the whole place pulled tight, like a bow string. And clean, bone clean. It works out there. Survival of the fittest. And a hellova system of justice: you lie, out comes your tongue; you steal, there goes the hand. Keeps the courts low. Does make for a rather weird-looking population though. You can measure yourself out there, against nature, against man, against yourself. Against God.
BENJAMIN
Do you believe in God?
DANIELS
The question is, does He believe in me?
BENJAMIN
The question is, do you believe in Campu?
DANIELS
Like I said, it works here. I didn't see it before. Campu made it clear to me. He's a great man.
BENJAMIN
In any other country he'd be locked away and the key melted.
DANIELS
Is that your objective journalistic opinion?
BENJAMIN
Your popping up suddenly; agreeing to this interview; one could get the impression that you're trying to distance yourself from Campu.
DANIELS
The man's a hero. There is not one thing I would not do for that man. Do you understand that? Can you understand that?
Has anything ever meant so much to you that you'd put your life on the line for it? Because until you can say that, nothing you ever do will ever have any meaning. You're just going through the fucking motions of being alive.
BENJAMIN
And he paid you, of course?
DANIELS
Not as much as for this interview. Hardly seems fair, he go a whole country. What are you getting, Ben?
Lights fade to half-light, a separate half-light coming up on Benjamin.
A light comes up on Eddie dressed in a tuxedo from the late 1940's, standing before a podium, a plaque in his hands.
EDDIE
Ladies and gentlemen. I find it very difficult to accept this award. Any photographer or filmmaker or journalist can find himself suddenly in that perfect moment of time when subject and object come together, or at that exact moment when a single, captured event speaks to all time. That is when history is made, when it is held, when it is framed, when it is understood. But these are not the moments the photographer or filmmaker or journalist creates. They are the gifts, if you will, of time itself. Or, if your prefer: luck. And so, ladies and gentlemen, I find it difficult to accept this award simply because I was lucky enough to at the right place at the right time. But, I accept it nonetheless because I did all the developing myself.
He smiles and waves to the 'audience' and exits the podium as the lights fade out, a separate half-light coming up and Eddie walking into it, his bow tie undone and his hair mussed. He's drunk. He flops into a chair, staring at the plaque in his hand as lights come back up on Daniels' compound.
DANIELS
It wasn't all image. It wasn't all public relations bullshit. I was there. I listened to him talk about his people, what he wanted for them. He called them his children.
BENJAMIN
His own people tend to view him as the barbarous leader of a bloody regime, not   as a benign father figure.
DANIELS
You see what you want to see.
BENJAMIN
What about the thousands of bodies found in the rivers and on the back roads?
DANIELS
He was a military leader. He had enemies. It was a war, there were casualties.
BENJAMIN
What about the priests and the sisters of the Catholic church?
DANIELS
Don't think for a moment that a priest or a nun doesn't know how to shoot a gun.
BENJAMIN
The question isn't whether they knew how, but whether they did.
DANIELS
They incite people.
BENJAMIN
But he was their father.
DANIELS
Get to the point!
BENJAMIN
You can't deny the killing of his own countrymen and not just rebels but people who stood by him at the beginning.
DANIELS
So?
BENJAMIN
So what's to stop him from doing the same to you?
DANIELS
I gave him his damned country!
BENJAMIN
Have you seen each other lately?
DANIELS
No, he missed tea yesterday. He's a busy man.
BENJAMIN
So are you.
DANIELS
Yeah!
BENJAMIN
So why don't you leave your house here?
DANIELS
Who says I don't!?
BENJAMIN
They say you never leave this place; all your food is sent in. Even women.
DANIELS
It's none of your fucking business what I do!
BENJAMIN
What are you afraid of?
DANIELS
I'm not "afraid" of anybody!
Half-light comes up to full on Eddie.
EDDIE
Your old man isn't afraid of nothin', Benj!
BENJAMIN
Of course you're not.
DANIELS
Damn straight!
EDDIE
Long as I got my camera, I'm Superman!
DANIELS
If Campu pulled anything, I'd kill him.
EDDIE
This here award says I ain't afraid of no thing!
BENJAMIN
What if Campu thought you were up to something?
EDDIE
Stop staring at me like some damned-assed monkey!
DANIELS
We're in this together; always have been.
EDDIE
I don't need nobody; I am one lucky man.
BENJAMIN
Then you feel safe?
DANIELS/EDDIE
Yes I do.
DANIELS
(to Benjamin)
Do you?
Lights fade out on Daniels, Benjamin and Eddie.
Eat Germany. January, 1989.
A single light comes up on Anna seated on the piano bench.
ANNA
I remember exactly where I was, Benjamin, when I heard they were going to erect a wall to divide Germany. I remember because I had to laugh at how ironic it all was. I was acting as goodwill ambassador for the Red Cross, visiting China, and I would be touring the Great Wall the next day. Standing on the Wall, looking out over the countryside, I felt the wind blow past me. Birds flew overhead. Vines grew up and over the stonework. Tiny lizards scurried past. The idea that we can keep out the world. That we can fence-off our dark nightmares from our dreams. That we can somehow protect us from ourselves.
Lights fade out.
Georgetown. September, 1989.
Lights come up on Benjamin's apartment. Katie is seated on the couch surrounded by exam papers she is grading. Anna's piano music is playing on the stereo. Benjamin enters carrying a handful of research materials on Red Daniels.
KATIE
This student has just spent several dozen pages rationalizing French collaboration with the Nazis by saying that they were in fact working in the best interest of France by saving the country from total German domination. Have they become so removed from the horror that they just don't believe it, or are they just bored? The worst they've probably had to go through in their lives is a crummy marriage and mommy getting the condo. Yesterday we talked about that old chestnut: what would you do if Hitler and the Mona Lisa were in a burning house? Based on their responses, I fear for humanity. And art.
(beat)
Let's get out of here. Let's go up the coast, find a bed and breakfast and lock the bedroom door.
BENJAMIN
I have exactly eight days to get this research down and the questions ready and that's about seven days too soon. Magazine articles, outstanding lawsuits, court martial transcripts, the World Court hearings on terrorism.
KATIE
How nice to be wanted.
BENJAMIN
And then I've still got the library wing dedication tomorrow to deal with.
KATIE
Break time.
She goes to him.
BENJAMIN
You're bad for my concentration.
KATIE
Good. Tell me, Benjamin, is sex all we have?
BENJAMIN
I've got that new Bose stereo system and you've got the new B.M.W.
She listens to the music.
KATIE
When I heard her perform at Wolf Trap five or six years ago, I remember thinking what an extraordinary woman she must be. The kind of woman I wanted to be. Not ordinary. Not average. But I became a teacher and we all know what they say about teachers. What was she like?
BENJAMIN
Strong. Passionate. Intelligent. Intimidating. Powerful. Frightening.
KATIE
Frightening?
BENJAMIN
Her up there on that stage, all those people listening to her, watching her, applauding her. I'd watch her and think: I don't really know who that person is.
KATIE
But what about when she wasn't performing? When you were on picnics, or just sitting at home?
BENJAMIN
Picnics? Eddie Roberts and Anna Christiensen Roberts didn't sit at home. Presidents came over for diner. Broadway stars and Nobel Prize-winning writers stopped by for coffee.
KATIE
How horrible for you. Well, my mother left when I was fifteen, met some guy from the forest service who offered her freedom and wool shirts, and my dad still sends me something at Christmas; no return address. No Presidents came for tea.
BENJAMIN
Let's fuck.
KATIE
I thought you were under siege?
BENJAMIN
I'm a professional.
KATIE
Tell me something about yourself.
BENJAMIN
Like what?
KATIE
Something you've never told anyone else.
BENJAMIN
I don't know.
KATIE
I want to know something about what you think about.
BENJAMIN
Vulnerability, Professor? Is that tonight's assignment?
KATIE
Our problem is that we're both too smart for our own good. As my dear old dad was so fond of saying: "You're all smarts but no faith." Of course, he said that to me through the business side of a mesh screen in the county jail where he was in residence for mail fraud. He was something else, my dad, a free spirit: one rolling party of candy and jokes, bad impersonations and cheap gifts. What a very sad man he was. He didn't think anyone cared. And he was wrong. It probably wouldn't have made any difference if he had known. Probably wouldn't have changed anything if I'd told him. Then again, maybe if we'd all tried a little harder instead of taking the easy ways out.
(beat)
Everywhere I turn around this place I'm looking at Red Daniels. Any day I expect to see "Big Red's Breakfast Cereal, Breakfast Of Maniacs." I can't imagine why he hasn't been on "Oprah" yet exchanging fashion tips for the psychopathic. Tell me, Benjamin, as a journalist, what it is I need to know about an infantile loser? Perhaps that he's really a little like us? Why gosh, that's not news.
BENJAMIN
Here we go.
KATIE
Do you believe in evil?
BENJAMIN
Are you serious?
KATIE
Do you?
BENJAMIN
I believe in people; you're the history teacher, do you think it's that easy: good and evil?
KATIE
There are threads out there and they do connect and you cut one and somehow, somewhere, sometime down the line the seam will split; maybe tomorrow, maybe in a generation, but sometime. Karma, baby. It all balances. It all makes sense eventually.
BENJAMIN
You want a black and white world, Katie. When my mother died, it wasn't black and white; nothing simple, nothing logical. When my dad died there was no neatly explaining it, cosmically or otherwise.
KATIE
I am gradually coming to the conclusion that we make the world more subtle than it actually is.
BENJAMIN
When exactly did you start this deep self-examination of the world's morality? Is there some new biblical cappuccino bar that just opened that I'm unaware of?!
KATIE
Actually, dear Benjamin, I'm really just tired of all the glossed-over, pre-packaged, Madison Avenue-hyped, shallow, hollow, soul-numbing shit.
BENJAMIN
Just what does any of this have to do with Red Daniels?
KATIE
It doesn't have a thing to do with Red Daniels.
BENJAMIN
You don't know anything about me and I highly suggest that you keep your sanctimonious opinions to yourself.
KATIE
Did it again. Debating good and evil. That's a first. Usually I argue the more obscure points of social Darwinism, or the philosophy of economic brinksmanship, and not just to anyone; oh no, my little diatribes are reserved only for those I sleep with, have slept with, or don't want to sleep with any more. Tests. Exams. Laying one's own minefield.
BENJAMIN
What do you want me to say?
KATIE
Nothing. No. No. What I really want is for this fourth month to be over and I would like a fifth for once, and a sixth, and a year or two maybe. Well now. I have successfully navigated from the pompous to the pathetic.
BENJAMIN
Stop it.
KATIE
You think I'm some sort of neurotic Joan of Arc and I don't know what your favorite dessert is or your favorite color. Now just how fucking stupid is that? And I don't know if we even love each other or if that even matters anymore.
BENJAMIN
Hitler and the Mona Lisa in a burning house? Let the house burn. Save yourself.
Benjamin exits, leaving Katie alone as the lights fade out.
Georgetown. September, 1989.
A dappled late summer light comes up on a grassy cemetery on top of a hill in Maryland. Roy, a bouquet of flowers in hand, enters and goes toward two graves. He lays the bouquet at one. Benjamin, dressed in a suit, enters.
ROY
Just thought I'd come up here for a bit.
You can see the library wing from here. Annie and Eddie would like that. I thought the dedication went well.
(beat)
Where's Katie?
BENJAMIN
In the car.
(beat)
Fresh flowers every week, Roy; that's nice of you.
ROY
I remember when we were in Paris once, Eddie and me. At the hotel. He was putting together the first collection of his war photographs, all of those pictures laid out there across the couch and tables and floor. All of a sudden he stops, and he says: "Roy, my boy Ben's going to make it work. He's going to put all the pieces together. He's better than all of us." And I looked up at him and he was crying. It was the second time I'd ever seen him cry. The first was in London, at the Albert Hall, when he heard Annie playing at the Queen's Birthday Concert. He loved you, Ben. They both loved you. They were the very best at what they did, but at some things, God help them, they were down right lousy.
BENJAMIN
Let's go, Roy.
ROY
We both had some press buddies stationed off the coast of Hiroshima. They were too close. All of them killed. All of them. Cameras welded into their hands. Eddie was hard as nails, damned hard as nails; nothing seemed to bother him. How do you get like that?
BENJAMIN
Roy.
ROY
He told me to forget about what happened to our buddies, that it wasn't anybody's fault, just bad luck and I thought you son-ofa-bitch, you can say that because things don't get to you, you can turn any horror into a picture and get an award for it but some of us get sick, Eddie, some of us get goddamned sick.
BENJAMIN
Let's go.
ROY
Don't do this interview, Ben. Don't, Ben. I've already lost Eddie and Annie.
BENJAMIN
We'll take you home.
ROY
I'm scared, Ben; I don't know why, but --
BENJAMIN
Roy. I can take care of it from here on in; you've done your job.
ROY
My job? Jesus. We're talking about Eddie and Annie here.
BENJAMIN
No. You are talking about my mother and my father. I am talking about an interview.
ROY
I read the government's report on the Arcadian bombing. Campu's name is in it and if Campu's involved then it's not unlikely that Red Daniels is involved.
BENJAMIN
I was there, Roy. The woman sitting next to me had my mother's blood on her face. I heard it. I felt it. I saw it all. I can still smell it so don't you tell me what to do what not to do.
Benjamin exits, leaving Roy alone. Light fades out.
The Chopin "Nocturne in E" is heard playing softly as a light comes up on Benjamin standing by himself. A light comes up on Anna seated on a piano bench.
ANNA
I returned here that first time, Benjamin, just after the war, before they closed the borders in 1947.
A third light comes up on Eddie.
EDDIE
It was 1945. Forty-five years ago, Benj, when we dropped the bomb. They wouldn't let us go in at first; it was too hot after the blast. We shot film from the plane then got ground transport into the city.
ANNA
It was a time of rebuilding and celebrating. The Arcadian was still standing. It had become a symbol of hope.
EDDIE
People were running around -- no, let me get it right: they were walking around, dazed, confused.
ANNA
I knew they were out there, those faces I'd known as a child.
EDDIE
It was quiet.
ANNA
They were hungry to hear music again.
EDDIE
Smouldering ash, spitting steam, old women crying.
ANNA
I curtsied, terrified to walk to that piano.
EDDIE
Then, the next day, Benj-boy, the very next day...
ANNA
I sat on that cold bench.
EDDIE
Flowers, everywhere.
ANNA
Staring at those dead keys.
EDDIE
Waves of them, all colors, covering everything like a blanket...
ANNA
Then I saw the music sheet.
EDDIE
Then that man came up to me...
BENJAMIN
Mother, he's dying.
ANNA
I recognized the notes.
EDDIE
He was Japanese and very small and thin...
BENJAMIN
...He's turning over in the hospital bed, Mother...
ANNA
I knew how the notes came together in my head.
EDDIE
He had no clothes on and he was covered in dirt and ash and dark blood...
ANNA
I heard it inside me -- the music. The fear left.
BENJAMIN
He's reaching out to me, Mother...
EDDIE
The man's embarrassed and he tries to clean the blood off but the skin comes off instead --
BENJAMIN
NO!
ANNA
When the concert was over, I found myself standing --
She stands, applauding.
ANNA (cont'd)
-- and applauding them and the hall, and the music.
BENJAMIN
(extending his hand)
He's taking my hand...
EDDIE
(extending his hand)
I grab his hand in mine --
ANNA/EDDIE/BEN
-- My God --
EDDIE/BENJAMIN
Forgive me, he says.
The music stops.
EDDIE
And the blood, Benj; the blood from his hand still won't come off.
ANNA
I can still hear the music.
BENJAMIN
And the cold from his touch still won't come off.
ANNA
I can hear the music still.
Lights slowly fade out on all three. Automatic rifle-fire is heard in the distance.

End of ACT I.

ACT II.
A half-light comes up on Benjamin. A separate light comes up on Eddie.
EDDIE
I wish Anna were here and not off playing somewhere. Your old man wins the Pulitzer and I can't even get her on the phone.
See that picture, Benj? Your mother and me, in front of the Arcadian, just after the war, last time she was allowed to play there before the Communists took over. Back in forty-six. They were putting Europe back together and she was knocking audience's off their seats. Hell, before Anna the only music I knew was Benny Goodman, but there I was listening to List, Chopin, Debussey. I remember her dressing room had this tile stove in it for heat, and we'd sit around it after a performance and I'd try to get her drunk. I'd sit on the floor leaning back against the wall and tell her stories, some of which were true. We'd talk about the world and big ideas and just before I'd pass out, she'd tell me how she was going to change things through her music bring that damn Wall down. Your old man's a jackass, Benj, but your mother, she's the most courageous person I know.
Light fades out on Eddie.
Southern Africa. September, 1989.
A light comes up on Benjamin. A separate light comes up on Daniels.
DANIELS
It wasn't my fight, Ben. That jungle wasn't my war. You know the background; so I'm a son-ofa-bitch all my life. Big deal. People may think I'm crazy but let me tell you that riding around in stolen cars in high school in Chicago isn't the same thing as being ordered to
castrate Viet Cong out in the boonies just to show that G.I.'s can be as crazy as gooks. I'm not making excuses. I'm saying when the odds are against you long enough, and you're scared enough, and you do a little smack to forget and laugh a little as the tracer fire Fourth-of-July's the whole fucking place you are suddenly awakened. You say to yourself: my friend, you are never going to be scared again; you are never going to let anyone call you a loser again. You are going to take back control, my friend. You are going to see the world clearly. And as I'm sure my dear old dad would say: You are going to look the Buddha in the belly and say, fuck it. So, Ben, does that make me the bad guy?
Light fades out on Daniels and Benjamin.
East Berlin. January, 1989.
Lights come up on an old, elegant hotel room. Anna enters in a rush, pulling off a coat.
ANNA
It's unbelievable!
Benjamin enters with a book in his hand, checking his watch.
BENJAMIN
Mother?
ANNA
Bloody security checks! They were supposed to take care of that yesterday but these petty, self-important bureaucrats have to keep coming up with ways, no matter how childish, to remind you of who's in charge!
BENJAMIN
They won't let you rehearse?
ANNA
They're doing another complete search! It seems there's been another threat of some kind against the Premiere and believe me, I have nothing against that man meeting his Maker at the earliest possible convenience; I just wish it wouldn't interfere with my much-needed rehearsals.
BENJAMIN
They wouldn't cancel, would they?
ANNA
Don't even think that! I'd never get up the courage to play here again.
BENJAMIN
Is there anything I can do?
ANNA
Yes. Get me a glass of water with some lemon, it's in the refrigerator.
He goes to the small kitchenette, making the drink.
ANNA (cont'd)
I thought you were going sight-seeing?
BENJAMIN
I saw it.
He takes the glass to her.
ANNA
This was such a pretty country.
BENJAMIN
It reminds me a little of Vienna, the old part; the architecture.
ANNA
Maybe. A little. This concert's going to be a disaster. I know it. I can feel it.
BENJAMIN
You love pressure; brings out the best in your music.
ANNA
Don't believe everything I tell you.
(beat)
I so want to do good by these people; for all they've been through. Wars, Depressions, the Allied bombing, the annexation, then that damned Wall. It's become a cold, dark place filled with gray people.
BENJAMIN
I tried to find your old house, but I got lost.
ANNA
It's not there anymore.
BENJAMIN
What happened to it?
ANNA
Tore it down, I suppose.
BENJAMIN
But you still have friends here, don't you?
ANNA
Yes, some. Most died during the war. Most of the rest will be at the concert tonight.
BENJAMIN
Relatives?
ANNA
Cousins I don't really know. My father's brother, the ex-Nazi. He's now a florist. He sent flowers.
BENJAMIN
That's a change.
ANNA
Hardly, you should have seen the arrangement. Don't be naive, Benjamin, about what's going on here; about what's gone on here.
BENJAMIN
I'm not naive.
ANNA
My mother and father were pacifists during the war and it cost them their lives. And my sister's. It is ironic though, that a culture that produced a Hitler also produced a Mozart. And there is symmetry in that. Balance. Like a Nazi florist.
BENJAMIN
When will you know about the concert?
ANNA
They'll call.
(beat)
I haven't even asked how long you'll be able to stay?
BENJAMIN
I have a meeting Tuesday with some editors about my death row article. Texas criminal law; very, very exciting stuff. It pays the rent.
ANNA
You should take more pride in your work.
BENJAMIN
I happen to be very proud of my work. Despite what you think of it.
ANNA
And your father.
BENJAMIN
Well, we can't all be Eddie Roberts and we can't all be concert pianists.
ANNA
I did suggest that you not come.
BENJAMIN
No, you didn't. You just assumed I somehow, telepathically, understood because you're too busy to actually tell me or ask me anything.
He starts to exit.
ANNA
You always start something and never finish it.
BENJAMIN
I'm sorry?!
ANNA
You really should just stop pouting all the time.
BENJAMIN
How about when you stop feeling sorry for yourself!
ANNA
Benjamin!
BENJAMIN
I'm really sorry you've had such a horrible life; I really am, but what do you expect me to do about it? I listen to your soapbox, isn't that enough?
ANNA
Yes. Well. That was a rather ugly remark. Really, Benjamin, you know nothing about me.
BENJAMIN
Which is a rather odd statement considering you're my mother.
ANNA
I'm not very good at a lot of things, that's obvious. In the hall, you asked me what it feels like to be back here. I didn't answer you. Tonight I'll have to face the faces of those who stayed behind, through it all, while I was free to play in Rio, London, New York.
BENJAMIN
Do you think they hold it against you for the war?
ANNA
You'll never understand.
BENJAMIN
Try me! Mother! Talk to me! Help me understand! If it's so painful then don't do it -- just go!
ANNA
I have to give back something! You can not keep running away. I have to face this place that terrifies me so much. I have to understand, somehow, who I am and what my life has meant.
BENJAMIN
I just want to help.
ANNA
You can't.
BENJAMIN
I'll see you tonight. Good luck with the concert.
He turns to go.
ANNA
Benjamin. I want to take you somewhere. Now. Maybe it'll help you understand.
The lights fade out.
Georgetown. September, 1989.
Lights come up on Benjamin's apartment. Katie is seated at a desk looking over some papers. Roy enters putting his key in his pocket.
ROY
Ben? You here?
He sees Katie.
KATIE
Roy.
ROY
Hi, Katie. Sorry for barging in. I knocked on the door but no one --
KATIE
I didn't hear you.
ROY
Sometimes Ben doesn't hear either. Sorry if I interrupted --
KATIE
I was getting ready to head off to the library. Ben had to leave early. Said he'd be back around three.
Roy pulls tickets from his jacket pocket.
ROY
His tickets and visas came through.
KATIE
I'll give them to him, if you like?
ROY
Sure. Sure.
KATIE
Or stay. You'll have the place to yourself.
ROY
Nah, I should be going. Ellen had to take the day off and I hate answering the phone.
KATIE
Whatever. I'll be out of your way in a second. I just have to leave a note for Ben.
ROY
Can I fix you a quick drink?
KATIE
No. But please, go for it.
ROY
Nah. It's all right. Guess I'm just a little nervous.
KATIE
Nervous about the interview?
ROY
Nah. Not really. Just the mother hen in me.
KATIE
Would you tell me something?
ROY
If I can.
KATIE
Did Benjamin get along with his mother and father?
ROY
Sure. I mean, it wasn't easy, them always gone. They took Ben when they could. It sure could have been worse; they didn't beat him, if that's what you mean?
KATIE
It's none of my business.
ROY
Sure it is, if you love him. You didn't expect me to say something like that, did you?
KATIE
It's just not a word you hear much any more.
ROY
Or say.
KATIE
Or say.
ROY
And mean it. He likes you. For whatever it's worth, I hope it works out for the two of you.
KATIE
You've known the family since before the War?
ROY
I met Eddie in London at the start. We were both in the press unit. I'd done some managing. He gave me a call after and we started working together, and then I started working with Annie too. One night he calls me and says he wants me to meet this piano player he'd just met, that's how he described her. I expected some guy in a boater hat, smoking a cigar, wearing gartered sleeves. Instead I met Annie.
KATIE
She must have been so beautiful back then?
ROY
She was not what I'd expected. And I could tell they were in love. Hell, if Eddie hadn't grabbed her, I would have.
KATIE
It must have been horrible, Benjamin being there when she was killed. He won't talk about it.
ROY
I had tickets to her final concert, then we were all going to meet in London.
KATIE
And his father dying in the same year.
ROY
Eddie'd been sick for awhile. Cancer. Hard to see him so weak like that. It was for the best.
KATIE
It must have been hard on you too?
ROY
I should be going. Here are the tickets and visas.
He places them on a table.
KATIE
Why's he doing this interview?
ROY
What do you mean?
KATIE
There's something about him that's different. I tell myself I just don't know him very well, but something doesn't feel right. We can't talk about it. He won't tell me.
ROY
It'd be a real coup for him. I think he sees it as his bid for legitimacy.
KATIE
To compete with his father?
ROY
I'm not a psychologist.
KATIE
But you're still worried?
ROY
I think you can go too far trying to prove something. You talk to him, Katie. If you're scared, talk to him. Tell him. He doesn't want to hear it from me. But you've got to tell him how you feel. Don't wait. Too many people wait. Too much is lost. And then you're just left alone. And that's Hell, truly. I'll stop by before he leaves. You tell him.
He starts to go.
KATIE
Roy. Thank you.
He exits as the lights fade out.
Southern Africa. September, 1989.
Lights come up on Daniels' compound. Automatic weapons fire is heard in the distance.
DANIELS
Remember how you snuck that bottle of scotch into the stockade for me? No one would ever suspect some sweet little cub reporter would do something like that, especially not the son of such a big shot photographer. So how come you don't take pictures like your old man?
BENJAMIN
I'm the one doing the interview, remember?
DANIELS
Hit a nerve, did I? Shit. Fathers and sons; what a pain in the ass.
DANIELS (cont'd)
Are you like your old man: "get the story at all costs?"
BENJAMIN
What is the story, Red?
DANIELS
You tell me.
BENJAMIN
You've called yourself an entrepreneur, and a soldier; are you also a terrorist?
DANIELS
It's not a word I'd use.
BENJAMIN
What do you think a terrorist is?
DANIELS
I think the name's pretty self-explanatory.
BENJAMIN
What's the purpose of terrorism, as you see it?
DANIELS
Well gee, let me guess: Terror? Chaos? Disturb the status quo? Upset the balance? Raise hell?
BENJAMIN
Indiscriminately?
DANIELS
If it helps make the point.
BENJAMIN
Is there such a thing as an innocent bystander?
DANIELS
Life's a crap shoot. People like to think that life's some kind of safe refuge, if you're a good person or if you read the Bible or if you go to church on Sundays. And that lulls them into inaction. It makes them vulnerable. Me? I say life is the absence of safety. It's all risk. Kids die young and sometimes the bad guys win.
BENJAMIN
So what's the point?
DANIELS
Of what?
BENJAMIN
Trying to live a good life?
DANIELS
Ben! What kind of questions are you asking me? This shit doesn't translate into movies very well, if you know what I mean?
BENJAMIN
Who's Elliot Donnenberg?
DANIELS
Got me.
BENJAMIN
He was a neighbor of yours, back in high school.
DANIELS
If you say so.
BENJAMIN
What about Angela Donnenberg, his sister?
DANIELS
They died in a gas explosion; sure I remember it.
BENJAMIN
What were you in the state reformatory for?
DANIELS
Kid's stuff. Joy riding; hell raising. I was part of a gang like everybody else.
BENJAMIN
That raped Angela Donnenberg --
DANIELS
-- I had nothing to do with that! I wasn't even there! I told them to knock it off!
BENJAMIN
The gas explosion was a suicide. They killed themselves.
DANIELS
What do you want me to say?! I'm sorry?! Yeah, I'm sorry! It was a lousy thing!
BENJAMIN
What's a rat pot?
DANIELS
Oh come on! Give me a break here! This is Africa, Ben!
Benjamin takes up a note and reads.
BENJAMIN
An ex-partner of yours, Rayford Carter --
DANIELS
-- He's a liar!
BENJAMIN
He says you used it several times --
DANIELS
-- He's lying!
BENJAMIN
He says he was in the interrogation room with you and Campu --
DANIELS
-- And maybe he used it! Did you ever think of that?! Hell, Ben, give me a screwdriver and I can make a guy talk!
BENJAMIN
Would you describe what it is?
DANIELS
No! And don't you pull this liberal, mealy-mouthed morality on me! It was a fucking war! There were no rules! You use what you have to, when are people finally going to learn that?!
Benjamin picks up another piece of paper.
BENJAMIN
Including a metal pot like you cook in, you turn it over on a man's stomach with a live rat underneath, heat up the pot with a fire or torch and the rat goes crazy and chews its way out?
DANIELS
Don't get self-righteous on me, Ben.
BENJAMIN
You never used one?
DANIELS
You get in your jeep and you have your driver take you down to the depot, not the new one where all the hot shots come through; the old one. It's become a make-shift refugee center from the fighting and the famine. There's about a three hundred thousand starving Africans there, give or take a hundred thousand. Now the politics of this situation are none of my business, but I don't see the point in a country letting its whole fucking population die off rather than let a few Red Cross trucks cross its border. But no one wants to talk about that, not about starving Africans, men, women, children, whole families dead on the road. No, no one wants to talk about that. They'd much rather think about Red Daniels and Campu and rat pots and then they can turn the fucking page. You and your readers need guys like me and Campu because you can just write us off, or shoot us; no problem. Out there at the old depot, that's the real issue; that's what the world is coming to, and there aren't enough bullets to stop it. That's the future, Ben. Out there, Ben; that's your story.
Lights fade out, a half-light remaining on Benjamin as a separate light comes up on Eddie.
EDDIE
I was on leave once in New York and stopped in a movie house and saw my news footage of some shelling Rommel's tanks were taking in the North African desert. White sand, white sky, white sun, black tanks, black soldiers, black shells, gray smoke. Something was wrong; I realized -- for the first time, I realized -- I'd been filming behind some British tanks that had been hit. I heard the sucking sound and felt it in my boots, then looked down and I was standing in a pool of blood, ruby red blood. The camera was still on and it passed over several other pools nearby; there they were, up there on the screen, only they were black, only they looked like oil stains in the desert. For the first time I realized that in all the film I'd shot of World War Two, all the dead and the dying, not one person in one movie house in America knew they were looking at human blood. It wasn't a black and white war, Benj; it was in living and rotting color and I hadn't shown it.
Lights fade out on Eddie and Benjamin.
Georgetown. September, 1989.
Lights come up on Benjamin's apartment. Benjamin is lying on the couch surrounded by research material. Roy enters wiping his hands on a hand towel.
ROY
Questions organized?
BENJAMIN
Most. I'll work out the rest on the plane.
ROY
Let's go over it one more time: Your driver will pick you up at the airport: check his i.d.
BENJAMIN
Yes, Roy.
ROY
Now they're going to inspect all your bags and you, so don't try anything stupid.
BENJAMIN
Like a gun? Knife? Poison dart?
ROY
This isn't a game. You're in there under the very good graces of our Algerian ambassador who's doing this because he was a great friend of Eddie's; he's not doing it for you and he's not doing it for me. He also reminded me in no uncertain terms that there is a revolution going on next door and that the borders could be overrun at any time. They won't take responsibility if anything should happen to you. You're in there for just five and half hours and that's it. Your driver and guard will wait only until dusk and then they're gone, understand? It's just an interview, Ben; do you hear me? We can't help you if anyone should change their mind. You shouldn't be there at all.
BENJAMIN
I can handle it, Roy.
Roy notices a box on the floor.
ROY
What's in the box?
BENJAMIN
Some of Mother's papers: letters, fan mail, love letters from anonymous admirers. The lawyers are on my back to get it all together.
ROY
Why don't you let me take them? You shouldn't have to deal with that.
BENJAMIN
I'll get drunk and go through them first.
ROY
Here. Let me take them to the office. I'll have Ellen list everything. We can deal with it later.
BENJAMIN
Leave it alone, Roy; I'll deal with it.
(beat)
What were they like when they were together, away from here? What did they talk about?
ROY
Same things they talked about here, I guess.
BENJAMIN
Did they talk about me?
ROY
Of course.
BENJAMIN
They scared me. I was always scared around them. I feel guilt sometimes and I don't know why, being there when they both died. It's strange, but it's like I inherited something and that scares me because I don't know what it is but I know it's there, I can feel it, like a weight inside my chest. I feel like someday I'm going to have to pay for it.
ROY
Let the priests, hookers and philosophers deal with sin; all we have to do in life is try to not make the same mistakes twice. They were great people, but they weren't perfect.
Katie enters, briefcase in hand.
ROY (cont'd)
Hi, Katie.
BENJAMIN
You okay?
KATIE
Wonderful.
BENJAMIN
Rough class?
ROY
Can I get you something?
KATIE
So. Everything set?
ROY
Just waiting for a phone call from the Algerian government.
KATIE
I'm sure this isn't an issue, but is all this legal?
ROY
Everybody knows where Daniels is, they just can't get him out. Beside, we're the MEDIA.
KATIE
Is that what we are?
ROY
Where would the terrorists of the world be without the media?
KATIE
Stealing hubcaps?
ROY
(to Benjamin)
I like this girl.
BENJAMIN
Maybe you should go to bed, you look tired?
KATIE
When do you leave? I don't think you told me?
BENJAMIN
Tomorrow.
KATIE
Tomorrow? It's a good thing I asked. What time?
BENJAMIN
Six. Katie, I'm sorry, I --
KATIE
Morning or evening? Morning or evening?
ROY
Evening.
KATIE
Thank you.
ROY
How about some coffee?
KATIE
So. How much, for the interview? You do pay for all your interviews, don't you, Ben?
ROY
Of course not. But Ben is freelance, sometimes there has to be some incentive.
KATIE
How much incentive?
ROY
Katie --
BENJAMIN
Three hundred thousand.
ROY
Of course, that's for everything: film --
BENJAMIN
You're tired, Katie --
KATIE
What's your angle for the interview? How about the nature of evil? Yes. I like that. Roy, what do you think evil is? Do you think Ben will find it out there in the desert? You see, I know what evil is, but I'm not telling.
ROY
It's past my bedtime, I'll just --
KATIE
Tell me, Roy, was our earlier conversation just another angle for you to work? Soften up the sad, naive schoolteacher so Ben can get laid?
BENJAMIN
Katie!
ROY
Leave her alone, Ben.
KATIE
Benjamin's father dies in some hospital room and you collect your per centage; his mother dies in a bomb blast and you collect your per centage; Benjamin may die out there in the desert and you'll still collect your per centage. We should all be agents.
BENJAMIN
If you've got some argument with me then you talk to me about it.
ROY
Ben.
KATIE
You really should be more careful with your notes laying around the apartment, Benjamin. Red Daniels may have been involved in your mother's murder.
(to Ben)
How dare you not tell me.
BENJAMIN
Katie.
KATIE
(to Roy)
And how dare you just arrange it all.
She pushes past Benjamin and exits.
BENJAMIN
Sorry.
ROY
She's right. She's right about all of it.
Roy grabs up his jacket and exits.
Lights fade in on Benjamin as a separate light comes up on Eddie, who is listening to a recording of Anna playing.
EDDIE
Listen to her. She's out there holding up candles in thunderstorms. She went through hell as a kid but you'd never know it to hear her play. I think sometimes, somewhere, a link snaps and then it happens: like night follows day the bodies pile up. Somehow, somewhere, she found it: the way you put that link back together.
Light fades out on Eddie and Benjamin.
East Germany. January, 1989.
A dappled winter light comes up on a cleared section of forest. Anna enters, dressed warmly. Benjamin enters a few steps behind her.
ANNA
Look there -- a deer! Through those trees you can just make out the city. And the Arcadian is just over there, over that ridge. Beyond the horizon there you'd be able to see the Wall.
BENJAMIN
What used to be here?
ANNA
My home. Down there was the library; there was the kitchen; and there was the sitting room with an enormous fireplace. The bedrooms were upstairs. And just here was the music room. It was a beautiful room with polished oak floors and Italian tapestries on the walls and a bay window overlooking these woods. I can almost smell the cinnamon apples baking. My mother played the piano; my father the violin. She was very good. He was enthusiastic. My father would get home from the university, we'd eat and then go into the music room where we'd all play. My sister, Marie, would sing like an angel. She'd be having a birthday soon. Bach was a favorite of my mother and, of course, his concertos were the only music I could never get right, at least not in her mind. Over and over I'd play the same mistakes, maybe just to provoke her. Afterall, eventually I realized that it didn't matter what I did, the music would never be perfect to her ears.
(beat)
I don't know what's worse, Benjamin, that I expected so little from you or that your father expected so much. In either case, I'm sorry. I'm afraid that sometimes the simple fact is that you and your father were never as important to me as my music. We were both selfish people.
(beat)
This was my home. It was burned down by Nazi collaborators. My mother, father, and sister were inside, asleep. My father taught philosophy at the university. They both understood what was happening here and sent me to London to study, where they would join me later. But Marie became ill and they couldn't get out.
BENJAMIN
Mother. You said they were killed in a bombing raid, that their shelter had been hit.
ANNA
Only your father knew. And Roy. Only myself and a very few friends and relatives knew who started the fire, and why. Public records were destroyed during the war. We promised each other to never speak of it.
BENJAMIN
But why?
ANNA
Because it was ours. Their memories weren't for public consumption or trivial sympathies. Music seemed a silly hobby during the war. It didn't change anything; it only passed time between the slaughter. I was angry at the world. Then I realized that I was angry at myself for not being here with them in this house. That guilt has never left. And maybe that's why I never told you the truth. But what else could I do but play? It was my only weapon to fight back with. What I came to understand though, Benjamin, is not whether people even ever heard my music, but that I always played the very best that I could, for me, for Eddie and you, for my family, for everyone I love. To save one person is to save the world; I believe that now; to touch one person, is to touch the world.
BENJAMIN
How can you forgive so much?
ANNA
My father's favorite philosopher was Spinoza. There's a quote he taught me: "I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them." It was beautiful here. It still is. The sun is starting to set. We should go back.
She stops and holds out her hand. There is a moment, then he takes her hand in his.
Georgetown. September, 1989.
Lights come up on Benjamin's apartment. The box of his mother's papers is opened on a table, its contents scattered about. Roy enters.
ROY
Ben? Why the phone call? You've got a plane to catch in a few hours.
Roy notices the opened box as Benjamin enters from the hallway. Benjamin stares at Roy then goes to the table and takes up several opened letters.
BENJAMIN
I've been going through my mother's papers.
He opens one letter and reads:
BENJAMIN (cont'd)
"Dear Annie, I'll try and keep this short and not too embarrassing for either of us. But I had to explain what I said last night..." You know the rest.
ROY
What do you want me to say? She never answered it. Never answered any of them. But she knew it was best that way. And she was right. I guess I always used Eddie and Annie as some kind of standard for everybody else, including me...Hell, the first time Eddie introduced me to Annie I said to myself, what's the use? He got her.
BENJAMIN
Why didn't you come with me to pick up the body? I had to identify her, what was left of her.
ROY
My god, Ben.
BENJAMIN
You just sat back, arranged it all, made a few phone calls and had a drink.
ROY
Is that what you believe?
Benjamin goes to the table and takes up several telegrams, extending them to Roy.
BENJAMIN
You knew. Didn't you? All of these. Warnings from tour officials about threats against the Premier and his family and my mother's concert. Bomb threats. These were sent to you.
Benjamin throws them at Roy.
BENJAMIN (cont'd)
You knew!
ROY
And she knew. Copies were sent to her. But the concert was too important to her; you were there; you know what it meant to her.
BENJAMIN
Why didn't you tell me about the threats?!
ROY
She wouldn't let me! She told me to never tell you! She'd played all over the world, threats, protests; she'd been through the same thing a hundred times.
BENJAMIN
If you loved her why didn't you do something?!
ROY
Because I couldn't.
BENJAMIN
Get out.
ROY
Damn you, Ben. Look at me. I'm here, Ben. Here. I'm not the family joke and I'm not some used car salesman. I loved all of you; you and Eddie and Annie. You were all my life; you all were everything.
Don't you know what people like you and Eddie and Annie mean to people like me? You make things seems possible. The two hardest things I've ever had to do in my life was burying Eddie and then Annie. But I have to let them go. You've got to let them go, Ben. You've got to, finally, once and for all, let them both go.
Roy exits. The lights fade in on Benjamin as another light comes up on Eddie, who now appears quite frail. He is dressed in a hospital robe.
EDDIE
Leukemia, Benj. They think it's from Hiroshima; just took this long to show up. Everybody figured after the bomb fell, that was the end of it. I've been lucky in my life, Benj. We've all been lucky. The whole world's been lucky. But I think sometimes the luck runs out.
Light fades out.
Georgetown. September, 1989.
Lights come up. Katie enters, dressed in an overcoat. Benjamin is putting on a sport coat, a suitcase and shoulder bag at his feet.
KATIE
I came for my things.
BENJAMIN
I was just on my way to the plane.
KATIE
I'll leave the keys on the bar.
BENJAMIN
We can't do this now. I've got to go. Can't we talk about this when I get back?
KATIE
I don't think so.
BENJAMIN
Then why'd you come now? You knew what time my plane was leaving.
KATIE
Maybe I was hoping you'd changed your mind.
BENJAMIN
What is your problem? What do you care about any of this?
KATIE
The "problem," Ben, is that I do care about this. I do care about things. As hard as that may be to swallow, I still need to believe in things.
BENJAMIN
Why can't you accept that I'm not doing this to hurt you?
KATIE
I'm scared, Ben; scared you might not come back and that I'll never know who you were or what you meant to me.
(beat)
The world's not safe. It never was. It never will be. Sooner or later you have to accept the risks and just live life, day by day, moment by moment.
BENJAMIN
I found out last night that Roy was in love with my mother. Love letters. All these years. No mention of her ever returning one. Good ol' Roy, drink in hand, smiling a little, arranging everything, never saying a word, dying a little. It all changed forty years ago. Dad knew it when that bomb fell; my mother knew it in that concert hall; Roy knows it; Red Daniels knows it. It's all dead and dying.
(to Katie)
Do you love me?
KATIE
I want to.
BENJAMIN
But you also dislike me?
KATIE
I just don't understand.
BENJAMIN
You teach history, Katie; you can see it all out there before you; you can see how it all fits, the connections, the symmetry, the balance and you can understand it. People like me we're stuck in the middle, not sure which way to go: If I move there will the world be a better place? If I move here will I be a better person? If I don't move at all, will it make any difference? I grew up with the horrible: there was no taste, no smell. It was the past and the past couldn't hurt you. When my dad died in the hospital, they said there'd be more time and Mother'd gone off to sign something and I suddenly knew it was happening. I could feel him dying, and I suddenly wanted, needed, to say everything, but couldn't. He turned over in the bed and reached up his hand to me, and for a second I thought it was me lying there, looking up at him, needing something from his eyes. Then he grabbed my hand and he asked me to forgive him, the warmth left, his eyes shut, he seemed to vanish. He asked me to forgive him. Why did he do that to me? I was so close to connecting with my mother when that bomb went off so close to understanding so much -- if that piano had been just five feet farther away.
KATIE
Benjamin.
Katie goes to him. Benjamin pulls away.
BENJAMIN
No. I'm sorry. No.
Benjamin picks up his shoulder bag and suitcase.
KATIE
Ben. Please.
BENJAMIN
No. I can't. I'm sorry. I've got to go. I've got to go.
KATIE
My God, Benjamin. Don't, Ben. Please. Don't do this.
BENJAMIN
No. I'm sorry. I've got to go.
Benjamin exits the light, the light fading out on Katie.
Southern Africa. September, 1989.
Lights come up on Daniels' compound. Gun fire is now quite close. Daniels is looking out the window.
DANIELS
Your driver's looking a little nervous. Fighting's getting closer. Better hurry up so we can get you out of here. You're my ticket to Hollywood.
BENJAMIN
After the coup you lived at Campu's headquarters.
DANIELS
Sometimes.
BENJAMIN
Could you hear them?
DANIELS
Hear who?
BENJAMIN
In the interrogation rooms?
DANIELS
Which were in the police headquarters --
BENJAMIN
Which were a part of the compound.
DANIELS
So what?
BENJAMIN
Did you ever go there?
DANIELS
It's where they kept the prisoners.
BENJAMIN
Including women and children?
DANIELS
We've been all over this before; it makes no difference --
BENJAMIN
Could you hear them at night? The screams?
DANIELS
What are you trying to do here!?
BENJAMIN
At the hospital where your mother is, they said they'd received an envelope with twenty thousand dollars in cash to pay for her bills.
DANIELS
What's the question?!
BENJAMIN
Does it bother you that you can't go back to the States to see her?
DANIELS
We don't get along!
BENJAMIN
When your father sent the money back, he's quoted as saying --
DANIELS
What the hell are you talking about?! No money was sent back!
BENJAMIN
You never got it? You never knew?
DANIELS
Makes no difference one way or the other!
BENJAMIN
Campu had a large financial deal set up with your 'business associates' in Eastern Europe. Including the Premiere. He'd get a large sum of cash from them in exchange for mineral rights from here; cash Campu very much needed.
DANIELS
Yeah, so?!
Benjamin pushes another news article toward Daniels.
BENJAMIN
Evidently, at the last minute, the Premier and his associates backed out.
DANIELS
Jesus, Ben, get to the point! We're running outta time here.
BENJAMIN
Campu tried to have the Premiere assassinated, at the concert hall, didn't he?
DANIELS
What concert hall?!
BENJAMIN
The Arcadian concert hall bombing. You knew everyone involved at one time or another. You're an expert with explosives. If I were Campu, I'd have hired you for the job.
DANIELS
What the fuck are you talking about?!
BENJAMIN
Does the name Anna Christiensen mean anything to you?! That was her stage name. She was the pianist killed in the bombing. Her full name was Anna Christiensen Roberts. She was my mother.
DANIELS
So that's what this has all been about?
BENJAMIN
It was you, at the Arcadian, wasn't it?
DANIELS
Ben, I've had this idea. Now hear me out on this. You sell the interview, and when the movie deal comes through we'll film it right here. It would be great! I'd be the advisor; you'd write the screenplay, right here where it all happened. You could stay here. Shit, there's more than enough room. Ben, I haven't told you half the funny shit that goes on here, you wouldn't believe some of it! Or, or we could go to this great beach house in Uruguay I got picked out. Shit! Ben! You and me, we could set the whole fucking world on its head!
BENJAMIN
Even the bribe to your parents, at the hospital, couldn't stop the guilt.
Daniels moves toward the recorder.
DANIELS
Shut that thing off! Shut it off!
BENJAMIN
You've really got nothing. This is it. All of it. Isn't it? You're really trapped here, aren't you?
DANIELS
Get the fuck out!
BENJAMIN
Campu's left you here to the wolves. They're coming down the main road as we speak, aren't they? You've really got nothing.
DANIELS
I said get out!
Benjamin picks up his shoulder bang and opens it.
BENJAMIN
Remember how I snuck that bottle of scotch into you, hidden in that false bottom of my shoulder bag, to get past the guards?
He pulls out an automatic handgun, holding it in his hand non-threateningly.
BENJAMIN (cont'd)
I came here to kill you. The world would certainly be a better place without you. At first I thought I couldn't do it. Then I knew I could. Now I know it doesn't matter.
Benjamin places the gun on the table between them.
DANIELS
You're a fucking coward. Hell, all I have to do is find another screenwriter with a hard-on.
Benjamin packs up the bag. He takes the cassette from the recorder, and rips out the tape.
BENJAMIN
We have an exclusive contract. I own your story. And I promise you'll never live to see your story told. Just business.
Ben exits into a separate light coming up.
DANIELS
Ben. Take me with you, Ben. I'll turn myself in; take me with you. Ben!
Daniels as he slowly sinks into a chair.
DANIELS (cont'd)
We could have had something here, you and me, Ben. We had something going here. Back in 'Nam, we were all scared, but we kept right on laughing. I gave you things, Ben, pieces of me, because I thought you understood. I thought we were friends.
Four separate lights come up on Katie, Roy, Eddie, and finally Anna, each held in time, staring out.
Chopin's "Nocturne no. 19 in E" is heard softly playing.
BENJAMIN
The Arcadian is being rebuilt, Mother. Once more. Again. It'll hear music again. And again, and again; I think forever.
ROY
At approximately eleven-fifteen, Eastern Standard Time, November Ninth, Nineteen-Eighty-Nine, the Berlin Wall came down.
BENJAMIN
I wish my mother could have seen that.
The music raises in volume, then fades with the light to:
BLACKOUT.

two healing practices

2011-10-17T10:18:00.000-07:00

The Atonement (at-one-ment):

- hands open, fingertips touching heart center; alternate tapping heart center with fingertips as the hands are moved across the chest towards shoulders, expanding the heart center. Say: "My Heart Of Light is fully awakened" 3x.
- place hands at heart center in prayer pose. Say: "I accept all that I am" 3x.
- place middle and ring finger of left hand at pubic bone, middle and ring finger of right hand at tailbone. feel for an energetic connection. breathe consciously for a few moments. Say: "I forgive myself for everything I have ever done; I forgive everyone who has ever done anything to me. I am at one." 3x.

So It Is.

Release of karma:

Say: "I accept full responsibility for all my creations. I recall any and all negative energy, negative thoughtforms and negative intent to my Highest Self (God-Self, Christ/Buddha-Self; I AM Presence -- whatever feels right to you), to be healed, blessed and transmuted back into Light. I retain the wisdom of the experience, while transmuting the energy of the experience and the experience itself back into Light." So It Is.

interview with Inelia Benz

2011-09-30T16:47:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feZqzZUV19w&feature=player_embedded

faster than light travel discovered (finally)

2011-09-23T10:21:00.000-07:00

(Reuters) - An international team of scientists said on Thursday they had recorded sub-atomic particles traveling faster than light -- a finding that could overturn one of Einstein's long-accepted fundamental laws of the universe.
Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the researchers, told Reuters that measurements taken over three years showed neutrinos pumped from CERN near Geneva to Gran Sasso in Italy had arrived 60 nanoseconds quicker than light would have done.
"We have high confidence in our results. We have checked and rechecked for anything that could have distorted our measurements but we found nothing," he said. "We now want colleagues to check them independently."
If confirmed, the discovery would undermine Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity, which says that the speed of light is a "cosmic constant" and that nothing in the universe can travel faster.
That assertion, which has withstood over a century of testing, is one of the key elements of the so-called Standard Model of physics, which attempts to describe the way the universe and everything in it works.
The totally unexpected finding emerged from research by a physicists working on an experiment dubbed OPERA run jointly by the CERN particle research center near Geneva and the Gran Sasso Laboratory in central Italy.
A total of 15,000 beams of neutrinos -- tiny particles that pervade the cosmos -- were fired over a period of 3 years from CERN toward Gran Sasso 730 (500 miles) km away, where they were picked up by giant detectors.
Light would have covered the distance in around 2.4 thousandths of a second, but the neutrinos took 60 nanoseconds -- or 60 billionths of a second -- less than light beams would have taken.
"It is a tiny difference," said Ereditato, who also works at Berne University in Switzerland, "but conceptually it is incredibly important. The finding is so startling that, for the moment, everybody should be very prudent."
Ereditato declined to speculate on what it might mean if other physicists, who will be officially informed of the discovery at a meeting in CERN on Friday, found that OPERA's measurements were correct.
"I just don't want to think of the implications," he told Reuters. "We are scientists and work with what we know."
Much science-fiction literature is based on the idea that, if the light-speed barrier can be overcome, time travel might theoretically become possible.
The existence of the neutrino, an elementary sub-atomic particle with a tiny amount of mass created in radioactive decay or in nuclear reactions such as those in the Sun, was first confirmed in 1934, but it still mystifies researchers.
It can pass through most matter undetected, even over long distances, and without being affected. Millions pass through the human body every day, scientists say.
To reach Gran Sasso, the neutrinos pushed out from a special installation at CERN -- also home to the Large Hadron Collider probing the origins of the universe -- have to pass through water, air and rock.
The underground Italian laboratory, some 120 km (75 miles) to the south of Rome, is the largest of its type in the world for particle physics and cosmic research.
Around 750 scientists from 22 different countries work there, attracted by the possibility of staging experiments in its three massive halls, protected from cosmic rays by some 1,400 metres (4,200 feet) of rock overhead.

The Lords Prayer, from the original Aramaic Translation by Neil Douglas-Klotz in Prayers of the Cosmos

2011-08-24T20:26:00.000-07:00

O Birther! Father- Mother of the Cosmos

...Focus your light within us - make it useful.

Create your reign of unity now-

through our fiery hearts and willing hands

Help us love beyond our ideals

and sprout acts of compassion for all creatures.

Animate the earth within us: we then

feel the Wisdom underneath supporting all.

Untangle the knots within

so that we can mend our hearts' simple ties to each other.

Don't let surface things delude us,

But free us from what holds us back from our true purpose.

Out of you, the astonishing fire,

Returning light and sound to the cosmos.

Amen.

food for thought...

2011-08-24T18:02:00.000-07:00

As with anything in life, the minute one groups seeks to impose a philosophy or way of life on another, it is dangerous. Even the Universe won't interfere with our free will to choose.

Certainly, make your argument and state your facts, and then move on. The only life and choices we're ultimately responsible for are ours.

I write this in the context of certain vocal vegetarians and vegans.

I have been a vegetarian. I have been a meat eater. I am evolving and always trying to go deeper below the surface of what we claim as Truths.

And certainly, what was once appropriate in the Grand Scheme Of Things, might no longer be appropriate in our present and future lives.

But before a vegetarian or vegan declares someone else to be a monster, they might read "The Secret Life Of Plants", by Peter Tompkins, or any of Rupert Sheldrake's books. Or speak to a tribal shaman. Or hang out in a garden for more than a few hours.

And whether we agree with it or not, there is a metaphysical concept of transmutation, which suggests that in some cases, an animal's spiritual energy, like a plant's, actually raises its 'soul' vibration by passing through the body of a human -- an evolved human, one who blesses the food and the animal's life and the Divine animating force behind that life.

Certainly cruelty is unacceptable under any circumstances and we humans have a far way to go before we can claim to be truly humane beings.

We're all food for something, even the bacteria feeding on us.

Though I may not agree with vegans, I do my best to honor their lives in a complicated world. Though I may not agree with meat eaters, I also do my best to honor their lives and choices in a challenging world.

Whatever we eat -- when done in a sacred manner -- serves the Highest Good.

All life is sacred and so is transformation.

Divine life is never as simple as we'd like it to be.

match bearers -- kryon

2011-08-24T13:19:00.000-07:00

Greetings, dear ones, I am Kryon of Magnetic Service. A group of old souls sits in front of me as they often do. Each one has his own attributes that are spiritual as well as that of the earth. It's a duality that is present with appropriateness and that literally speaks of the year you're in, which is 2011.

If you examine the numbers of 2011 as we have discussed with you before, you get the energy of the two and the 11. The two represents your duality; the 11 is illumination. You might say 2011 is "the illumination of duality." When you add them together, you get a four, which is structure and Gaia. So this is the year where great lessons occur. Lessons are occurring in groups as well as individuals.

The entire reason for the lessons is to develop compassion. If the earth becomes more compassionate in any way at all, the actual spiritual vibration of the planet increases, and that is the goal. So the old souls in the room have a goal for their being here at all. It's not just to exist, and it's not just to solve problems while they are here. That's what I'm going to talk about.

Potentials

I'm going to talk about a metaphor that we have given so often before, but that takes on special meaning as we give it yet again. I have a title for this message, which we don't often give. Usually I let my partner do that later. This time I'm going to give it. It's "The Attributes of the Match Bearer." These are the ones who sit in front of me right now and who are reading this message.

There are two areas of concern that you come in with [arrive on the planet]. There are two sets of questions you carry as you sit in the chairs. The first set of questions are all about yourself, as they should be. You ask, "How I can get from A to B and become better at what I'm here for? How I can live longer?" You might ask, "How I can eliminate drama in my life? How I can be healthier?" The second part is, "What am I doing for the planet?" These questions aren't really something that come in pairs. The second one requires a confluence of energy for old souls who want to know how they can stay longer and do the work that they came for. If you would interview everyone here in the chairs, they would have a different answer for what their work is about. But they wouldn't be here if they had not asked the second question.

So we're going to be quite generic and yet fairly specific. We're going to give you concepts that you haven't thought of - the reason you are here, old soul. Right now, especially now, the reason you are here is to hold light in dark places. You're not here to try to evangelize or change any other Human Being to what you believe, for belief is not the issue. The vibration of the planet is the issue. It can only be changed with a consciousness that is pure. It's not just in what you believe. It is in the being and not the doing. It is being light, for as you walk around with illumination, you change that which is dark.

You might say that you take the new energy where the old energy used to be, and that changes everything around you. That is your entire purpose. So we're going to be specific here in a moment. We're going from the big to the little, and the first is this metaphor, even before I start the teaching. Again, dear ones, for the ones in the room and for the ones specifically who are reading this message right now, I see you.

One of the attributes of God is that there is no time. If you are listening at this moment to this recording, or reading this message anywhere, it's the now. That is how time is for me. It is not just for the souls in front of me, for those old souls in front of me here are in a three-dimensional state on a linear track of time. It's critical for them to live their lives in a succinct way. But not me. So the potential of your ears hearing this was known to me as something you might do. I know you're here. I know you're listening and reading. This may be hard for you to understand, since you might say, "If God cannot tell the future," you might say, "then Kryon, how did you know I would be listening or reading?" That answer is easy because the potential of your doing so was so strong, I knew you'd do it.

I sit in front of a group of approximately 100 souls. Now, I knew when they made their decision to come. I knew the potentials of them finding out about the meeting. I knew even those who found out yesterday. I knew. For the potentials of this energy is what is in the quantum soup that I have spoken about so often. Not the future, but the potentials. This allows us to bring forward an entourage that is then complimentary of those who sit in the chairs, of the old souls and their lives, of their lessons. It even drives the subject of the channels. We wait for you to come and sit before us, dear ones, way before we really know what we're going to say and what we're going to do. So I know you and I thank you for being here. This is your time on the planet.

The Light and Dark Metaphor

Let us begin the teaching. The metaphor has been given over and over. Imagine that there is a room full of entities called humanity who walk around in darkness. So the metaphor here is spiritual darkness. The Humans don't know who they are or why they are. They have no concept that they are part of the creative energy of God. They follow whatever is given to them and whatever doctrines they learn about when they are young. They find God in whatever corner they can. Some find God profoundly, and some do not. Many go through the motions and never understand any more than the motions.

Seemingly in the dark, they often bump into one another. Some of them bump into another and become angry… a war starts. That's what happens in the dark when you can't really see what's going on apart from what you know about yourself. Therefore, what is always going on is apart from you and is always a mystery. Therefore, there is drama. Therefore, there is conspiracy and mistrust. Being in the dark creates war. Being in the dark creates separation and hatred. Being in the dark creates fear and anxiety.

But now, as the metaphor continues, there is one in the darkness who knows who they are. You might say that the attribute of this person is our Match Bearer. This person bears with them the ability to create light. Small as it might be, this person has a match. In a fully darkened room, one lit match is interesting, for it creates light enough to see dimly for everyone, so that one Match Bearer in that darkened room, on their own, decides to light it. The reason? It's to study their own spirituality, their own self-worth, to light their match to see themselves better.

So they light it for themselves so that they can take the hand of the Higher-Self and discover who they are. Therefore, they light their match. And in the process of lighting that match, they illuminate (very dimly) the rest of the room. Suddenly, Humans can see one another and they like it! They see family! Fear starts to go away. Understanding what is next to you creates understanding and peacefulness. There's less distrust. Some actually look for where the light has come from. Many don't.

The attribute of the light of the Match Bearer is similar to the lighthouse that stands by the sea, which we have given you before. The lighthouse stands alone, all by itself. It shines a light that others may or may not see, that steers them into safe harbors by their own choice, since they have the rudder of choice on their own ship of life. The Match Bearer is sitting with the match, has illuminated it for themselves, yet it affects all around them in a positive way.

The Match Bearer says nothing. Those around this person may not know his/her name. They may not even know she has lit a match! All they know is they can now see! Some of them start looking for the match in themselves and they begin to slowly light their own matches, and the room becomes brighter. The brighter the room becomes, the more is seen and is not a mystery, and the further a Human Being can see past themselves and their immediate family, the more understanding there is, the more peace there is. This is the attribute of the planet as we see it right now.

We have made the statement over and over that less than one half of one percent of the planet must strike the match for there to be peace on Earth. Now you know the reasoning behind that. It means that there could be Human Beings all over the planet who never strike a match, who don't believe anything that you believe, yet they still participate. They participate in your light.

This is difficult, perhaps, for you to grasp - how one small match would make a difference. But it does. So in this room and listening to me now and reading these words are Match Bearers. How do I know that? Because I know you. Oh, human being. There are warriors in this room; there are stories that would make your hair stand on end. There are heroic actions and joy. There is sorrow beyond belief; there is gratitude. Everything that you can imagine has ever happened to a Human on the planet is here right now. Some of the greatest dramas ever presented on Earth, you participated in. Some of the most heroic actions any Human Being can do for another, you've done. Some of the suffering that never should have occurred on the planet, you've experienced. Some of the greatest celebrations that the planet has ever seen were about you.

The Variety of the Old Soul Energy

There are men here who have given birth! This is because their gender is different today than it was then. There are women who have worn the battle armor because their gender was different when they wore it. Old souls take turns, you know? Here is something I'm going to tell you now, and I want you to listen because this is a concept you don't think of often. Humans tend to stay in family groups for a very, very long time through many incarnations. They stay in cultures for a very, very long time as well. Oh, you may move around once you're born, but you can't change your blood, can you? You can't change where you came from no matter where you move to, can you? You may sit in a chair today in America but it can't change where you're born. So what I want to talk about is outside the purview of three dimensions. This means it's outside of your understanding of the way things work, or how you think about your ancestors, relatives, and ancestry in general. It's different than you perceive how things work. So now we're going to talk about your parents, your grandparents, and their parents. We'll go back 100 years or more.

The Timing of the Shift

My partner spoke today of fractal time. He gave you examples of how time is actually in a circle that makes no sense in three dimensions as you perceive it. But it is the way of things in a multidimensional world [using the word quantum to mean that]. Your own science is starting to understand and participate in the belief that time may very well be in a circle and may have what they would call fractals or a predictable cycle of potential influence that occurs on a regular path as you transverse the circle of time. These potentials can be computed, and so they sit there even without those to give them an esoteric prediction, those who have the calendars of old. The calendars reflect the cycle of time.

We have discussed with you that the Mayans had a system in their observatories besides pure astronomy. Like many of the ancients, they used their intuition to develop systems around the calendar that were the esoterics [spiritual] of the study of time fractals and predictions of potentials used even today. We told you that you are in a 36-year window representing the precession of the equinoxes, the center of that time window, which is 2012. We told you this 36-year event is what you have called the 2012 Galactic Alignment energy, and also what you have called The Great Shift. If this is so, this means it was predictable - and many predicted it. Also, if this is so, it means it was expected, and the potentials of the expectations are upon you now.

A Quantum Meeting of Your Own Ancestors

Let me take you to the other side of the veil where there is no time. Remember, we are not in linear 3D on my side. We are in a multidimensional state, which we often call a quantum state, using still another metaphor of real physics that means, "outside of 3D." On the other side of the veil, I want to tell you about meetings that have taken place and are still taking place. When there is no time, there are only potentials. When there are only potentials, even the past, present, and the now are blurred to you. They are blurred because you have a 3D filter. The future is not known, but the potentials of what you might do are and the strength of the potentials are generated by your consciousness and what happens today, yesterday, and tomorrow.

Come with me to the meeting of your parents and grandparents, for they represent souls just like yours. Like you, they are a piece of the God Creator. Even if they never awakened to examine that fact while on Earth, they are NOT on Earth for this meeting. Let's go to this meeting where they are, even now, right now.

"Wait a minute, Kryon! My parents are still alive. They can't be in a meeting on the other side of the veil." For us, they're still in that meeting, because part of your soul energy is on the other side of the veil all the time, dear one. What do you think your Higher-Self is? It is the energy of your own personal, angelic form. The metaphor we like to give is that one foot is on the other side of the veil all the time, and one foot is in 3D. The entire duality issue and the test of your life is to open the door and see that, and to take the hand of that which is your Higher-Self. Your Higher-Self has been the same Higher-Self every single time you've been on Earth, the same one occupying the different Human bodies of your many incarnations. There is a commonality through the ages. Do you see it now? No matter how many past lives you've had, no matter what you've done, no matter where you've been, the same Higher-Self is there. It's your core. Now, do you start to understand why you would want to connect with it?

Birth of the Match Bearer

Come to this meeting with me, metaphorically, and watch. Your grandparents are there, too. They are looking at everything with the mind of God, which is theirs while they are in the meeting. They're not in 3D; they're in that perfect place, which the Creator energy represents beyond anything you can imagine. Although there is no individuality or singularity with the parts of God, and although these in the meeting are part of a collective quantum group, the essence of the potential of who they've been and who they will be are still represented there. I don't ask you to understand this. I just ask you to see it with me. All their past lives are there with them.

Now, in what you call your past, I'm going to tell you what they said:

"We're coming into the planet. We're going to be there in a lower energy, and we will try to shine as much light as we can, but it may not be much. We might never awaken," they're saying. "Because it's not time," they're saying. "But we see the potential of the Galactic Alignment looming. We see the 36-year window is coming. We may not even be alive." they say. But they are planning on coming anyway. They are old souls and have something to do: Plant seeds.

"So, why are they coming to the planet while there is an old energy?" you might ask. Here is the answer: They're coming to the planet - your grandparents, all four of them - so they can give birth to your mom and dad. Now, your mom and dad are also in the meeting as well - and by the way, so are you! So are your children. Do you understand this? You are all part of the collective and parts of you never leave it, even though you are here, walking on Earth. Within that quantum meeting, there is no linear time, only potentials of time. This is tough for a linear thinker to grasp.

Listen: Your grandparents, parents, and you are agreeing as your ancestors speak: "We are going to go through this so the timing is proper that our children will be born in the shift." They know what the potentials are and they need to make certain that it is YOU who arrived during this time. I could go back even further than your grandparents.

If it's true that the timing of the shift is known in advance, since it is part of Gaia, and also the cycles of the earth, then it's a system and not random. This means the planning of the potentials of the souls who occupy your ancestors, as well as you and your children, line up perfectly so that your cellular structure has the bloodline it does and the Akashic records it has. Did you ever think of this? You might even start to realize that you may actually be "old soul specialists," here at the perfect time.

Let's again talk of your parents, as we have done before. They may say, "We're going to come to the planet, meet each other, and give birth to this soul, an old soul [many incarnations on the earth], one of the oldest souls possible, even older souls than our ourselves. We may never awaken. But this is our chore to go into the planet. We can't hold much light. We may even criticize those we birth. We may even throw them out of the family! We may even abuse them. The old energy may completely hide all of this current divine intent from us, but that's why we're going, so that our children will be the ones with the wisdom of the potential of an awakening. They will be The Match Bearers."

Now, we stop to remind you that there is no predestination. So again, this is a planning meeting of potentials, not contracts. However, Human Beings incarnate into karmic groups, so the attraction and synchronicity often plays out to enhance the overwhelming chances that they will indeed meet each other and come together to birth you.

The Match Bearers, as in the metaphor above, are the ones born in this time who can metaphorically light a match in the old energy darkness and illuminate the planet. Did you ever think of that? Your parents came together on purpose. Oh, I know you're going to say, "Wait a minute, Kryon, you don't know my parents. I don't think they have that consciousness in them." Maybe not on this side of the veil, dear ones, but do you understand what I'm saying? With the mind of God, they came in saying, "We probably won't wake up. We won't remember this planning session or even believe it was possible. The old energy will keep us from seeing. But we're going to have a child that's a Match Bearer, a very old incarnate soul on this planet. That's why we're here."

That's why your grandparents came in and their grandparents came in as they did. The lineage is there for you to see. The potentials are there to see, and you sit in the chair today listening to this channelling because it all worked together, and here you are, Match Bearer.

Attributes of the Match Bearer

Let's talk about the match that you hold, dear one. I'm speaking to the match bearers who are here, who are reading. Wherever you create light, in any situation through your own individual actions, the energy you create changes the energy of Gaia where you walk. It changes that which is quantum around you. The whole earth knows you. If you awaken, the whole earth knows you have done so. Gaia knows you. You walk into the forest alone with the trees, they know you. The animals know you. God knows you. I know you. It's why you came. It's what you're feeling now that brings you here. It's why you sit in the chairs, and why you came today.

You might say, "What is different about me? What am I feeling in this lifetime? Why is there a feeling that I have to do something?" Well, wake up, Match Bearer, because this is your destiny. With free choice, you will illuminate your life to the point where all around you know who you are, or at least feel your light.

So let me ask you about your family. I'm going to ask you about your immediate family, your blood family. How are you treating them? There are some who will say, "Well, let's not bring them into this, because I don't like them very much." That's why the drama circles all the time, dear one. You continue, "I do my best, but I don't like them very much. But I sure am stellar when I go to New Age meetings. I love everybody there, every one of them." [Laugher] Yes, but I didn't ask you that. It's easy to get along with others like you. It's because you all have a light! No, I'm talking about you alone in the dark, by yourself. I want to know how you're treating your family.

Let me tell you how the Match Bearer sees family, immediate family. They look past the abuse; they look past the drama; they look and see what has been done for them. They may even say to Spirit, "Mom and Dad, thank you for giving me life and for knowing on the other side of the veil that I can change the planet. Thank you for what you've done in that planning session. No matter what the words have been or the slings and arrows and the abuse and the names I've been called, I honor you." Now, is that you?

You come into relationships; you grow; the relationships sometimes change; you stay in them for a long time; they change again. Now, let's say there's drama in that relationship. Remember, this is not a blood relative; it's an elective. Do you think there is a possibility they were in another meeting? This becomes a bit ponderous to think about, doesn't it? So how do you see these in this relationship? No matter what the words have been, no matter what the actions were, no matter what the betrayals were, no matter what goes on today, the Match Bearer looks at them and says, "This is a creature of God designed to give me lessons and to push me out of the nest. Maybe the lesson is even to give me a kick in the pants so I can have compassion for the rest of humanity. Thank you, God, for them." That's what the Match Bearer says. Can you do that?

The Match Bearer has the light of God, and you may say, "Well, you're just describing Mother Teresa! I'm not sure I can do any of those things. This is a hard call, Kryon, because you really don't know what happened in my life... what has gone on with those around me and my family." Oh, yes, I do. You see, I was there. And by the way, so were all the seeming angels you carry around with you. Why didn't you take their hands when they had them outstretched? I know who's here! You always want to do it alone, don't you? You'd better be listening, my partner, because this is for you, too. You always want to do it alone - all that help that's around you, yet you always want to do it alone. We know who did what to whom. We were there at every step.

The attributes of the pure Match Bearer are to push love. They have tolerance for every single Human Being who they come into contact with. They assume love is present in every situation. They create light.

I want to tell you about dark and light, yet again. If you've got a light lit, darkness cannot invade you. How can darkness, which has no energy at all, be around and invade you when you're holding the light? Darkness, as defined, is the absence of light. Some Lightworkers have a strange 3D concept that says, "I don't want to go there because the darkness may get me. I'm very careful where I go. I don't want to go around these people because they have dark energy." Why don't you go there and shine your light in their lives, oh courageous one? Are you only going where there is other light? Do doctors go to work and only see doctors?

How do you treat your family? When you go to work, what goes on there? I can hear the verbiage now: "I've got the worst boss in the world. This is one who delights in torturing us with tasks that make no sense at all just to make work for us. This boss doesn't like the New Age because he happens to believe differently, so he makes fun of it." You don't think we know this, dear one? Remember, those in charge don't always have the wisdom to be in charge. Sometimes they're egomaniacs. Don't you think we know this? That's how they got where they are. So, how do you treat them? Do they continue to push your buttons? Do they do things just to irritate you? Or perhaps you just have one who is always depressed? Therefore, you have to walk in the dark energy all the time at work - or is it lighter because of you?

I want to give you the truth, Match Bearer. If you're holding light, no darkness or dark energy is going to affect you. You're going to walk into that place, open the door, and do your work. And while you're there, you are saying: "Thank you, God, I have a job. Thank you, it's here for now, because wherever I go, I'm going to make a difference." Some say it's impossible to make a difference at work. They again say, "You don't know my work." Oh, how 3D of you! You don't know that the light you carry creates tolerance, appreciation, and love? It creates the ability to share and listen with care. It changes the planet. Some of those around you may eventually come to you with their issues and their problems. You might sit and ask, "I wonder why they want to share it with me?" Perhaps it's because they intuitively see your light; maybe because they see your tolerance; maybe you're the only one who will listen to them, and in the process, you share love. In the process of them being next to you, you love them. And maybe it's the only love they're going to get that day or that week or that month or even that year, dear Match Bearer.

That's what you do. It's one Human at a time with another. The earth changes one Human at a time, and that's why you came. That's why your parents saw the potentials of it. Everywhere you walk, every situation you're in, you have a chance to strike the match. The greater your light, the greater the planet's light. So now, are you still wondering why you came to the planet?

"Kryon, I'm not a healer, nor an author. I'm not a channeller either. I just go to work, come home, do errands, make the beds, then go to work again. What kind of a life is this?" I'll tell you, dear one, it's a Match Bearer's life! Your lineage asked for you to come and for you to walk on the planet and strike the match, go to work, make the beds, do the errands, and come back home again. That's why you're here! I don't want you to diminish that for a moment, since everywhere you go there is more light because of you.

How do you handle fear and anxiety? What pushes your buttons? What makes you worry? Isn't it about time to conquer that? What's happening in your body that's tested you lately? I don't just talk to those in the chairs. I talk to my partner. I talk to him all the time. He's just like you. He walks through life just like you. He has some of the same questions you do, yet he's the channeller! So I talk to all. I am Kryon. I've never been a Human Being. I'm always seemingly standing on the outside. I am in charge, if you want to say, of the information that comes through your guides, which comes through your Higher-Self for the energy of the planet. I was not even allowed here until this shift began, because the planet's energy was not commensurate with the energy of the information that I now teach. I'll be here a long time, because the potentials are for the energy to stay and grow and be - all because of the Match Bearers.

What irritates you the most? What buttons get pressed the easiest in you? When you watch the news, when you see politics, when you see certain kinds of attitudes, do you get angry? Think of what makes you the angriest. Now, let me ask you, can you see it in tolerance? Well, that's what the Match Bearer learns to do.

"I hate war," you might say, "I don't want anything to do with it. I hate the sorrow that it creates, the heartbreak that it creates. It seems to perpetuate itself." I'm not asking you to love war. I'm asking you to love the Humans who created it. They're pieces of God, just like you. Can you look at these things with tolerance and see the parts of them who are loved by God? If you can do that, then you shine light in their life. It doesn't matter where they are, and they never may know who you are. It's just like the lighthouse on the rock. How many ships and the captains of the ships have gone to lunch with a lighthouse keeper? The answer is very few of them. But they look for the lighthouse, don't they? Well, humanity looks for you! It's intuitive, and even the darkest energy knows about light.

There are Match Bearers everywhere. Everywhere my partner goes, there are auditoriums filled with Match Bearers. That's why they're there. They may not know the particulars, but they feel it inside. These are old souls coming together to participate in an event called, "Planting the Seeds of Peace on Earth." When this 36-year window [The Galactic Alignment] is over, they will have been planted securely and permanently. The potential will unravel itself and unfold itself and there will be more wild-cards for you to see. Wild-card is the term we use to describe actions that are not expected, and that change things on the planet. It is often expressed as countries who have unexpected turns, or dictators who unexpectedly fall. A wild-card is a scenario where humanity starts to put things together instead of tearing them apart.

This is the potential we saw 22 years ago and it is the potential we continue to see today. You're still on track. Nothing has derailed it and you still have free choice. It's not a given, and it's not a set future. Instead, it is the strongest potential that we see in this quantum soup of many potentials - yet we still see it. It is building upon itself, and there is evidence that is manifesting everywhere, and the Match Bearers continue to light their matches.

When we opened this seminar this morning with a short channel, we invited those who would build a wall between me and them through self-doubt, and through skepticism, to let me in for a little while. Now I give you the opportunity to put the wall back. If you came here and you don't want any part of this metaphysical talk and you're not ready, then it is your safety net to put the wall back. I know that and I say to you, "Put it back," because you're not ready. We are not here to force anything upon you. We don't want you to leave with an energy you don't want. This message is for those Match Bearers who feel it is appropriate and timely. But I want to give you a fact: You will never forget what you heard today. There is no "delete" button in the Human brain.

The match doesn't go away, either. The old soul carries it as long as they need to. Your children will carry it as well. So this is the truth of it, and it is a beautiful plan. Again, less than one half of one percent of this Human population must light the match for all this to take place, and it's slowly happening. That's not that many of you. So let the matches be lit this day in whatever degree. Some day you'll realize that to have a fully lit match, there must be many lit in many places, not just one. That's why there are so many Lightworkers all around the earth. You'll never meet them, but you all know each other in a quantum way.

So that is the message of this day for you. For the listener and reader, it is the message of Kryon. It always has been and always will be. It becomes more succinct and clearer as the energy increases and allows for these things to be said and mentioned and taught.

Grateful, I am, as Kryon, to have come this distance to meet the Match Bearers that I always knew would be here. And so it is.

Kryon
KRYON

the post about money

2011-08-06T20:36:00.001-07:00

This is the post that always upsets the most people. It seems we can question politics and culture and religion -- even God -- but don't mess with money. As if, like gravity, money is somehow a part of nature itself and can't be touched.

I find that people, in many cases especially spiritual people, become agitated when discussing the subject of money.

Perhaps all of us, men and women, having been monks in so many pasts lives, taking vows of poverty, while watching those in political and religious power rule over us in lavish lifestyles and each of us deeply resenting it -- that when we finally get to have money AND serve God -- we don't want to give that up.

So we come up with the belief that you can be spiritual and have money and write a book like "The Secret" that codifies that belief.

The only problem with "The Secret," as many millions soon found out, the Law Of Attraction was not created for the sole purpose of bringing more stuff into our lives, but experiences for spiritual growth. Not everyone got the house and the Porsche.

Yes, through sheer will power we can manipulate the Law Of Attraction to bring us cash and pools and third homes, but sooner or later, this lifetime or the next, they will still fall away. Because we must all learn that happiness doesn't come from having material possessions (comfort does) -- unless we can be equally happy without any material possessions.

I'm not suggesting for one moment that we should go back to living in poverty in order to be spiritual, because that is poverty consciousness and poverty consciousness often has very little to do with money. It is a state of mind that says: "I am not worthy of having a nice, comfortable, even luxurious life."

The opposite of poverty consciousness is abundance consciousness, which says: "I am absolutely worthy of millions of dollars and dozens of cars and multiple homes and nice clothes and expensive vacations -- but I don't need them to be happy."

Some might say, "But I'm not asking for all that, just a nice, comfortable, enjoyable life."

Which is absolutely in accordance with abundance consciousness -- and natural harmony and balance. We all deserve that -- everyone on the planet deserves that. Right now (as there has always been) there is more than enough on this planet to feed, clothe and house in dignity every living human being on Earth.

But remember, true abundance consciousness isn't about how much we have, but how little we need.

The Universe wants us to be happy and comfortable and in joy and passion, because then our personal relationships are happy and then our neighbors are happy and co-workers and employers and the world around us. The world is a healthy place when everyone has what they need.

But what keeps some of us -- most of us -- from even that simple, dignified life? money, and the lack of. Or should I instead write: the control of the flow of money by a very few on this planet.

Did God create money to use as a teaching tool in the Earth school?

No, we did.

Do we control money, or does it control us?

How many times a day do we think about money vs how many times we think about The Divine? What then do we truly worship?

Another common spiritual belief about money: That it is a neutral energy and like any energy can be used for harm or good.

True. But cocaine and nicotine, oil and gas and coal and nuclear power can all be used for good or ill, and yet we as a society have decided that the harm of these energies far outweighs the good, and that it is time to look at alternatives.

Just think of all the blood on this planet that money has spilled, through crime and war and poverty.

The fact is money is a system of our own creation, which is obviously effected by the Law Of Attraction, but it is also a limitation on Universal energy.

If we allow money to be the sole measure of exchange, then true, infinite abundance can't flow in. We have said: "I'm God/Goddess and create everything in my life, but not when it comes to money, for that I need a job and paycheck and bank and loan officer and credit and a mortgage and interest and debt...."

We say: "I need car insurance." The Universe says: "All right, then you'll need car insurance, but I was planning on you never having an accident." (Have you ever seen flocks of hundreds of sparrows or starlings moving like a living cloud, flowing effortlessly, not once crashing into each other? Nature can do that, but not prevent us from a car accident on a freeway?)

We say: "I need health insurance." The Universe says: "All right, then you'll need health insurance, but I was planning on your never getting sick."

We say: "I need money." The Universe says: "Okay. You have free will. You want money and all that comes with it, pro and con, so be it. But wouldn't you rather be able to manifest everything you need instantly, free of middle-men, interest and debt (which are all deeply destructive forces in our culture)? Never needing a bank and locks and police?

I don't charge for my work, because it comes through the Divine, and I value it above any price. (ALL work comes from the Divine, whether you're a plumber, trash collector or insect exterminator. All work is valuable and as far as the Universe is concerned, a plumber is exactly and absolutely equal in value to the President of the United States or a Nobel Prize-winning poet. In the New Earth, all is service.)

The minute I charge for service, I cut off the flow of abundance into my life. (I had someone say that some day I would value my work enough to charge for it [talk about buying into the illusion!] My reply: "My work is invaluable, and that's why I don't charge for it."

"Then just ask for donations." But that's just asking for money through the back door, shifting the responsibility to the client with the added energy of guilt on the client's part for, perhaps, not donating enough.

I also understand why some spiritual people charge for their services according to the power of numerology: "I feel a little uncomfortable about charging for healing work, but if I ask for $111.00 or $222.00 or $333.00, then I'm actually aligning with the Universe." True, but then why not charge $2.00 or $33.00 or $1.00? Alignment is alignment, regardless of the price.

"But I have to be able to pay my rent and buy food and gas..." Yes, of course we do. Right now. I'm not suggesting throwing away our money today -- not yet -- until we have really come to terms -- as spiritual beings -- with what we truly believe: Are we gods/goddesses or not? Is our power limited by material forces or not? Do we create our reality or not?

The minute we as a species began to charge and expect payment in kind, we cut off the flow of the miraculous into our lives.

The minute we decided to charge interest and make a profit, we doomed the world to ultimate collapse, because interest and profit by their very nature unbalance the natural flow of the energy of give and take: too much is taken, not enough given.

If we keep perpetuating this myth of the neutrality of money as an energy, we will continue to have a world of have's and have-nots and a planet being pillaged by those who truly control money, and government and our lives.

The money brokers want us enslaved to debt and credit and interest so they can control us, make us buy what we don't need, always in fear of being homeless and begging on the streets for food. But we know better. Or should. There is a Higher Power active in our lives, and contrary to what some believe, it is not a Republican Universe: Heaven helps those who help themselves! Pick yourself up by your bootstraps!

We know, or should, that we live in a Loving Universe and only wants the best for us and that we are the ones who have created this world of poverty and disease and violence -- not God.

But what the power brokers know -- and fear -- and we have forgotten -- is that we ARE Goddess/God, and don't need them, don't need money.

The most powerful yogis and shamans on the planet know the secret of the quantum nature of the Universe: "I am the Cause AND the Effect. I don't need a 'middle-person' to facilitate my manifesting power. I and the Universe are One."

Which is not to say that the Universe won't in turn use a third party to bring our manifestation into material reality. We may create money out of thin air (the Universe is not intimidated by the National Treasury), or we can find it at out feet, or a perfect job opportunity may come our way, or a stranger might just walk up and knock on our door and say: "I have some money to give you." (Yes, that has actually happened to me and others I know.)

The Internet is an example of an evolving 'gift economy'. Most of the information and even many products on the Internet are free, primarily because it doesn't cost anything to the donor.

When all human material needs are met -- when we come to the awareness that every human born on this planet has as much right to the Earth's abundance as everyone else -- we will all become 'donors' .

Loans will become gifts, and debt will be erased, because what helps you, helps me. Because the Universe is infinite.

Because we don't own anything. It's all on loan to us.

And because everything we are and have accomplished is through the help of hundreds and thousands of others we'll never meet, like plumbers and trash collectors and teachers and on and on. Even the homeless and drug addicts and criminals, in a way that is difficult to understand, have contributed to our lives in a positive way.

I've learned that having money is only a very small part of being wealthy.

Do we really want to create a New Earth, while still using the same destructive energy of the old Earth? It doesn't matter if those controlling money are no longer politicians or corporations, but now guru's and spiritual leaders; someone is still controlling the Universal flow. (And as a reminder, which I am sure we have all experienced, being "spiritual" doesn't mean one is enlightened.)

And in the New Earth, food, clothing, dignified housing, education and safety will be human birthrights. And with these necessities removed, we can create for the joy of creating and share for the joy of sharing.

We are each of us at the very center of the universe, and the universe adapts perfectly to our individual needs. If we let it.

We are now being offered an opportunity that only comes around every 120,000 years or so to completely change our consciousness and the way we live.

The world we live in, is the world we believe in.

We dreamed this world into reality.

We can dream a new world into a new reality.

As Jesus said: 'I don't need to make a living.

I AM a living.'

channeling

2011-08-05T09:44:00.000-07:00

About six years ago I wrote a new version of the life of Yeshua ben Joseph (Jesus), called "Son." I get many questions asking, "Is it channeled?" and the answer is: why does it matter?

What is channelling ultimately but connecting with a higher aspect of ourselves and aren't Yeshua, Buddha and all others also aspects of our higher selves?

Did Yeshua speak to me? Yes. Is the material also drawn from other sources and 'my Self'? Yes. Are they one in the same? Yes.

The spiritual world, just like the material world, is so enamored of celebrity in all forms, metaphysical name-dropping.

The question Yesuha would ask -- because it is the question he did ask 2,000 years ago -- is why does it matter? It is the message that is important, not the messenger.

Do we connect with a message, but then give it less power because it doesn't have an autograph at the end? I know that FB messages are as important as Yeshua's, as The Creator's, because they are one in the same.

A challenge of this new age, this new maturity, is for us to move beyond the celebrity aspect of spirituality -- that you have to have sold 100,000 books, or charge $2500.00 for a seminar, or hang out with Wayne Dwyer, Deepak Chopra and Oprah -- all powerful messengers --

But so is the homeless person on the beach.

As Yeshua -- and I -- write: "Is this the truth? Yes. Is it your truth? Maybe, maybe not. Whatever helps you move through the murky waters towards love is your truth. And that is as it should be."

www.sonthecompletetext.blogspot.com

facing challenges...

2011-07-26T14:21:00.001-07:00

"It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson." -- Emmet Fox

a manifesting practice

2011-07-22T18:39:00.000-07:00

thanks to DattaReyaSivaBaba for the inspiration.

   Use your own intuition, of course, but I would suggest the following:

    -- approach this as a sacred act; set a time and create a place.

    -- envision a circle of light that you will be entering. ask that it be sanctified (you can sage the area). have the intention to let go of the outside world when you enter, leaving the ego, all fear and desire outside as well. turn off the mind. state that you enter for your healing and to be of service.

    -- enter the circle.

   -- imagine yourself connected to the earth and then to the sun, balanced at your heart center.

   -- imagine a ball of light twelve inches above your head. connect to it (it's your I AM Presence/Higher Self)

   -- connect to your heart center; touch it or imagine breathing through it.

   -- bring up feelings/memories of love and gratitude in your life and allow them to expand into the heart. you should be almost near tears with this energy of love & gratitude. it doesn't have to be for 'big stuff' but also 'small stuff' like cinnamon and sage and wet grass and kittens, etc.

   -- imagine the sun inside your heart chakra.

   -- imagine the full moon outside the sun but still inside the chakra

   -- watch as the moon moves into the sun until it disappears into the sun.

   -- in that moment imagine what you choose to create in your life, either at the heart center or third eye. feel it, taste it, touch it, smell it, walk around in it. you MUST get to a place where you move beyond the sensory aspects of the creation, to the FEELINGS it generates in your life: joy, fun, play, relaxation, passion, etc. you must also be near tears with these feelings expanding in your heart center. imagine it as if you're in it RIGHT NOW, not in the future.

    -- reconnect with the feelings of gratitude that your creation HAS ALREADY HAPPENED.

    -- repeat the ceremony three times.

    -- then release the creation/s back to the Universe to handle the details. let it go completely. do not have any thoughts of how it's possible, or what you'll need to make it come true. you can imagine placing your creation into a giant hand, which takes it away. this is WHITE MAGIK we're using, not logic.

    -- give thanks to the Universe for making your creation happen for your highest good and the highest good of all.

    -- exit the circle and dissolve it back into light.

    AGAIN: the key to all this is not to create something out of fear or need or feelings of lack of self-love and self-respect -- not from the ego or your past expectations and experiences. It stops the process. You must create for the joy of creating and sharing with others.

peace.

a saging practice

2011-07-21T10:04:00.000-07:00

-- wash your hands.

   -- clap your hands as you walk about the home to 'awaken' the energy.

   -- find what feels like the center or 'heart' of the home, stand there with the sage, fire source and a container to catch ashes (I use a sea shell, though it's not necessary, to include earth (sage), fire, air (smoke) water (shell).

    -- offer the sage and anything else you're using, in a spirit of humility and gratitude, to the spirits of the four directions, starting with East and going clockwise.

    -- sage yourself first by blowing the smoke over your body with your hand, or a feather (which can also represent air). pass smoke over and under the arms, down the legs. you can allow smoke to flow behind your back, or allow smoke to rise in front of you and step into it. pay special attention to the solar plexus, heart, throat, third eye and crown, with the intention that you become a clear channel for healing and cleansing and protective energy.

   -- with the sage in your hand, start with the northeastern-most corner of the room (I like starting with the front door) and move clockwise through the house passing the smoke with your hand or feather as you go with the intention the cleanse, heal, sanctify and protect the home and all who enter it. you can say words to this effect, if you want. you can also have the intention that all old, stuck, dark energy leave the home NOW (it will). have the intention of bringing in light.

-- when you come to each window and doorway and all doors, pass the sage around the circumference of the windows and doorways and doors.

-- when you reach the place you began, pass the sage in the pattern of a equi-distant cross to seal in the clearing.

   -- return to the center. express thanks for the clearing and protection.

   -- put out the sage respectfully in water or earth. you're done.

I like to light some incense afterwards and let it burn.

peace.

"You Don't Know How the Frog Jumps"

2011-07-14T10:12:00.001-07:00

This live channelling was Given in Tucson, Arizona
January 22, 2011

To help the reader, this channelling has been revisited [by Lee and Kryon] to
provide even clearer understanding. Often what happens live has implied energy
within it, which carries a kind of communication that the printed page does not.
So enjoy this enhanced message given in Tucson in January of 2011.

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Greetings, dear ones, I am Kryon of Magnetic Service. I am in the place you
would call Tucson, and I say this for the listener and for the reader. For I see
their ears and their eyes in a quantum state with me now and that's what I want
to speak to you about - the quantumness of God, a puzzle of spiritual logic. For
what has happened in this city recently may remain unexplainable to most [the
shootings at the political rally in Tucson two weeks earlier].

Humans want answers, and there are so many answers from so many places that
don't satisfy, and this might even be one of them. The reasoning of God escapes
all of you because there are no linear reasons for things you experience. It is
not pre-planned, since there is no predestination. There was no certainty that
on that day on the eighth of January that these things would take place. There
are, instead, only potentials.

So if you had the mind of God, you would have a layer of what we would call
quantum logic, which is far larger than anything than you can conceive of. It's
nothing that any Human will ever be able to understand for it is the mind of
God. Yet Humans carry in them the seeds of God and also that which is the
Creator energy. So sometimes, just sometimes, we can make explanations that may
not fit the logic puzzle of your reality, but you still understand at some level
the appropriateness of all things even though you don't have the mind of God.
There is a part missing from what you understand and what you know. It even goes
beyond your intuition of what you could possibly think about. To us, your
reality as we see it in a quantum state is a series of potentials that are all
together, happening all at once. The lines that connect them are free choice,
and these are not known, but only are layers of potentials.

So therefore, even as we speak, we know of the potentials that may occur that
are both positive and negative in what you would call a future time. To us it is
not the future, but simply a soup of potentials in a circle. So sometimes when
we see a Human Being with free will and free choice who is going to create
something that you would call a tragedy, it is to us a potential on that which
you might call the canvas of what could happen. There's no guarantee that it
will. Are you starting to see the catalyst here? It's Human free choice.

Yet the layers of the logic of Spirit often create something positive out of
what you might see as negative. There are often offsetting energies that would
be positive and good for the planet and this is the puzzle before you, because
it looks like God is involved in these things, even though God did not create
them. Therefore, many would say, "God is involved in the tragedy. How could this
happen? Why would God let this happen?" We get this question constantly, with
Humans on their knees in sorrow with tears. "If you're really God, you would not
have let this happen." But the puzzle before you that is outside of your logic
is this: The potentials are known by God, but there is no predestination. Humans
can walk right into whatever they create. However, since we see the potentials
of this, Spirit also can create something around it.

Spirit is in a quantum state where time does not proceed like it does for you.
Even the date was unknown to God - when the Human would decide to pick up that
gun and go to that place for whatever reason and accomplish that potential. Free
choice is the axiom of the rules of Spirit and the Human. So it is that that
which you would call the creative energy or God works with humanity and free
choice together. It is the test of the planet. It always has been. It is the
crux of the energy that was developed right here in Tucson. But you still don't
know how it works, so you come into judgment outside of the purview of all the
knowledge you need to make a decision like that. You only look at the 3D, the
energy of the tragedy.

I know this is complex for you and much of what I have said is not
understandable. So let's just say that the logic of God is beyond your
understanding, since it does not fit with what you think are the way things
work.

The Logic of the Jumping Frog

I'll give you an example. Here is a classic story that is given in your logic
classes even in your schools today. It is given to reveal how humanity often
reasons when they don't have all the information or even the concepts needed to
come to judgment.

This is a parable. There was a championship frog. And this championship frog was
taught to jump when the owner of the frog yelled, "Jump!" The cause and effect
was established. The frog jumped every single time the owner yelled, "Jump!"

An experiment was done and the question was asked, "What would happen if you
removed the legs of the frog?" And so they did. The master yelled, "Jump!", but
the frog did nothing. He just sat there. No legs.

Therefore, all of the scientific journals of the day wrote up the experiment and
said it proved conclusively that, "removing the legs of a frog makes him deaf."
End of parable.

Now, perhaps this is silly to you, but Humans might actually do that if they
really didn't know how a frog jumps. And you'd accept that and over time you'd
move on with that notion. As silly as it is to you, it exemplifies that you
don't know what you don't know. And therefore, your logic is not the logic of
God. You don't have the mind of God, but you do have the love of God. You're
learning, for the love of God is a great teacher.

Now, I sit in a place of advanced souls and the things I may tell you, you
already know. You've already dealt with this tragedy and you're already working
on it with spiritual logic. You already understand part of the puzzle before you
and you're way ahead of me. But there are those listening and reading who need
to hear this so they can put themselves where you are and take that which would
seem to be a sorrowful and abhorrent event and instead turn it into
compassionate energy that will help this planet in positive ways.

There's an energy going on in this planet right now that is different than any
before it. Things are starting to happen here. If you've been alert and astute
and taking notes, you'll have noticed these things. Events such as this, whether
they are positive or negative, seem to wind up on an international stage where
everybody can see them. That's for a reason. There are reasons for things and
this is one of them - so that you can see the effect of compassion.

We have told you that new energy is being imbued into this planet through the
Crystalline Grid of the ancients by those living now, by the decisions of the
Harmonic Convergence, and by the 2012 alignment - all giving the same messages.
Take a look at yourselves and do not accept these things whether they are good
or bad, negative or positive, but rather as simply things that always are. Look
at the things you like and the things you don't like, then decide what you're
going to do about them. Your reactions may be to sit in meditation or send
energy to the planet or send compassion even to the one who sits in jail, who is
also loved by God. But your actions give energy to the grid, instructing it what
you want and don't want. This is a quantum process, where your consciousness is
involved in actually writing to the grid what you believe is appropriate or not,
giving energy to that which you choose to create in the future.

You had something happen in October and you'll remember it for a very long time.
Thirty-three miners came out of the ground and for a few hours, the entire earth
celebrated 33 lives. Here is an example, dear Human Being, of something you've
only seen a few times before. The earth can generate compassion without Human
death. It's good news. It's compassionate news. It features reunited families
with beauty. And the number 33 occurred over and over: 33 letters in the
message, 33 hours to get them out, 33 men. And they ask what does the 33 mean?
What could it possibly mean? We told you many times that the numerological
aspect of 33 is the compassion of the Christ.

This was presented before you in such a graphic way so you could look at it.
It's not a mistake. It is a lesson, and the lesson is this: You can get just as
much attention and create just as much compassion with something that is
beautiful than with something that is tragic. And this is new for the planet.

There are several axioms to remind you of, which are new. The first one is that
these things will be spotlighted from now on. They haven't been in the past. In
the past, this actually could have remained local, but it didn't. It was for a
reason, and I'll show you that in a moment.

I'll give you some things to think about: The synchronicity of it all. Here's
another axiom. Compassion from a Lightworker has at least 10 times the energy of
helping the planet than compassion from one who is not an old soul. Therefore,
if you're going to have a compassionate action on the planet, let it happen
where there are a lot of Lightworkers. Understand? Now, Spirit did not create
this Tucson tragedy, but because Spirit knew of the potentials of it, there were
certain kinds of things synchronistically that would work for the planet. You
don't know how a frog jumps. It's going to sound like Spirit planned all this,
but we did not.

Let me tell you about the rules. Before we even speak of the event, let me speak
of the rules of God.

God loves all unconditionally - rule number one.

Number two, God does not punish humanity. This city did nothing wrong. The
people who were involved did nothing wrong. Yet Human Beings want to go to their
knees in guilt and say, "What is it that would have created such a thing in our
backyard, to our people, to the child, the religious leader?" And to the six who
are not here anymore, what would you say to them? "What did we do wrong and why
us?" That is always the question, is it not? And so you wring your hands and ask
for answers. Because we knew of the potentials of a Human Being with free choice
doing what he did, it was not that difficult for us to work with it. We could
not stop the Human Being, and we never will. We won't stop a Human any more than
we could have stopped those who boarded the airplanes and flew them into
buildings where 3,000 people died horrible deaths, crushed. It wounded the very
heart of the nation! And many cried out, "You could have stopped them. Oh, the
humanity," they say. "Spirit, you could have stopped them."

You don't know how the frog jumps.

This is what you should know. Human Being, free choice will always trump the
actions of God. But because we knew it might happen, synchronistically we had
those ready with cameras on that 9/11 day. Synchronistically, everybody caught
it. Synchronistically, the entire nation could participate in the compassion
that went right into the Crystalline Grid, which will never be the same. And the
3,000 knew it in New York and so did the six in Tucson.

Standing on the other side of the veil years ago in your time, we saw the
potential. We see the potentials of what even those unborn will do! They are
only potentials, but they are in the soup of our reality, our quantumness. You
don't know how the frog jumps, so you cannot fathom what this must look like.
It's not predestination. It is, instead, predisposition. You are predisposed to
follow a karmic path - for that energy that has you come to the earth with the
parents that you have, with an unbalance that might occur, with the actions that
may result, is that which propels Human choice. And we knew it. We knew it
before he was ever born.

What this means it that we knew at a level you cannot fathom, the ones who went
there that day to receive the bullets. They knew, too! Not consciously, but
quantumly. I spoke to them before they came in. Did you know that?

I said to them, "Here's the potential. See it? You're a piece of God right now,
about to become a Human Being and give away the power and all the knowledge that
you have. Yet you wish to go down there once again and serve this planet, almost
blind to the dimensions that you know so well here, working only in 3D, running
into walls thick with drama and misunderstanding and death. Look at the
potential! You might not last long." Spirit asked the nine year old, "My dear,
you may only have nine years, maybe a little more. Do you really want to risk
this?" And you know what she said to me? "If it will help the planet, that's
what I'll do."

[Pause]

And you wonder why we wash your feet? It's not up to God to stop these things,
but we could do everything that is within the purview of what we are allowed
around Human free choice to make the best of it - and so we did.

Why Tucson?

I want to make a statement so that you'll understand this, for one of the
questions is, "When can we really, truly, start the healing of Tucson? When can
we say we've turned the page and now we're healing? We've mourned enough and now
we're ready to heal these lands and these hearts and all - when will it start?"
I'll tell you and you're not going to understand. It started on January 8! This
was so that the earth would have compassion for what happens here on an
international stage, to the point that it would help peace on Earth come
quicker. And you wonder what the six departed want to tell you? I know, for they
are with me right now. They're on the other side right now, looking back at you
and they're saying to you, "We did our part. Make it worth it. Make it worth it.
We stepped right into it."

Why Tucson? Why here? Oh, dear ones, listen to the synchronicity of this and
understand. This is a healing place. It's a clean place. The indigenous made it
that way. It's a precious place. The ancestors knew of the potentials here and
the purity of the land itself, pristine. It could accept this tragedy and it
could go into it in a precious way without blocking anything and without it
tainting the land, for the land is already sacred.

In less than a week, you gather in an international way to honor the beauty of
gems [The Tucson Gem Show]. It's an artist colony here! It's where beautiful
things take place. It's the home of authors who have books of love. That's the
reason it happened in Tucson. Because it is taking place in the cauldron of
wisdom and the ancestors are here to validate and verify what I am saying.

You, as you sit there, dear Human Being, in this room, are part of the ancestor
energy. Some of you are your own ancestors as you sit here, and you know of what
I speak. There is wisdom in these words. If this tragedy was going to happen
anywhere, let it be here, for this is the energy of wisdom and this city will be
able to generate a compassion that no other place would understand but this one.
For those who deal in art and music and beauty and sound and light are wise old
souls and there's a lot of them here!

Now, let me give you something to think about and I'll just get right to the
elephant in the room. Was it political? It doesn't matter. You cannot assign
judgment or blame and Spirit will not, but here is an interesting fact. Because
of the target that he chose, and that which is political in this tragedy, the
attributes of it brought the president here. Then it was international, wasn't
it? Then for a moment, it became the compassion of the planet and not just the
compassion of Tucson, or even of the United States. Do you see what happened? We
couldn't control the shooter, nor would we ever. Free choice. But the
synchronicity around it, we helped with. You don't know how the frog jumps, and
some of you are still confused.

I want to take you back to 1999 to show you how unusual this is. In 1999, two
young men walked into a school in Colorado and they were loaded with weapons.
They proceeded to shoot their classmates and a lot more than six were killed.
Can you imagine being a parent that day? You send your child to school and you
expect them to come home. But they didn't. The grief was great and the
compassion was great and the tragedy was there to see, yet there was no
presidential visit. Are you starting to see this?

In 2006, a very unbalanced man walked into a precious place, an Amish
schoolhouse, and killed the children. There could be no greater dichotomy than
this. The Amish are already sacred, compassionate, gentle, and harmonious
people. In walked that which was pure evil to them, and the whole community
reeled with sorrow, yet the president did not visit.

So here's what I'm telling you: Politically, it took center stage. It did so for
one reason, so that what a Human Being did here in free choice would actually
create compassion for the planet. This will be something that creates an energy
that will be far greater than any tragedy that you might assign to it. And that
is the logic of God.

"But Kryon, if Spirit knew that, then they were part of all of this." You don't
know how a frog jumps. And all that phrase means is that there is so much here
hiding that you can't assimilate with Human logic, or even love. Quantum energy
is that way; it appears to be chaotic when it actually isn't at all. There is,
indeed, a system here.

The six who left you, you will mourn. The son of Patricia who left you, you will
mourn. And all will be back sooner than you think. [Kryon is honoring here the
son of Patricia Cota Robles, Tucson author, whose son died right before the
tragedy.]

As these souls return, as they grow up, they will grow up in an energy that they
helped create because of the compassion that was felt at their departure. That
is the logic of God and it's about the slow creation of peace on Earth. It's
about that which you are creating, which is changing the paradigm of your
reality. Compassion is the key. So, Human Being, what are you going to do with
that?

Last week, I gave you a message about the potentials of 2011. And there were
those in this room who attended. I'm going to repeat something I said there, for
you need to hear it and it has to do with politics. It would seem intuitive to
every single Human Being in the room that in order to accomplish what you do as
Americans in Congress, you must have at least two parties. For that is the way
it has always been - the red and the blue.

What if I told you that there will come a time when there will be no parties?
You might then say, "Well, that's impossible, Kryon, because you're not Human
and you don't know how funding works." You might say, "It has to be a party that
creates the power to raise money for the ones who cannot, and then the funding
is spread around and this is the way we work. If you didn't have parties, you'd
have no funding. Nobody could advertise, and no one could get elected."

Oh, really?

Are you aware right now, that you have a president who was elected on the
Internet? He figured it out. When everybody can talk to everyone, you have
plenty of funding. A few dollars here, a few dollars there. You talk to millions
at the same time, they talk to millions at the same time. It's a new paradigm of
communication. The young people know all about it, and you can't stop it. Watch
for more from this new paradigm.

It is worldwide communication, one person at a time. It doesn't matter how many
laws you pass, and it doesn't matter what you decide about who is in charge of
it, you can't stop it. It's out of the bag now, and the communities of the young
are going to be communicating. This is how the politicians are going to be
communicating to you, literally coming into your home in a holographic form
perhaps, explaining their position one by one, without a party. Then you will
elect them to your Congress without a party and they will sit in the chairs
without a division and there will be no such thing as the "other side of the
aisle."

And that, Human Being, is called unity and there is a paradigm that you cannot
even imagine. And it's in the works. And then you'll have a Congress that works
together and gets things done without the current duality.

Compassion and unity are the new keywords of the planet. Tucson is part of it. I
want to congratulate those in the room who already knew all this and who have
been working these puzzles since January 8, and who have been healing the land
and sending compassion to those who remain. There is love here. There is
appropriateness here. You're all working the same puzzle and there'll come a day
when you'll understand it all.

When I see you on the other side of the veil, briefly, before you return to the
planet, you know how the frog jumps. In that precious moment, we'll look at each
other and smile, and you'll go, "Send me back. I've got work to do." Did you
know that's why I'm here? Kryon exists to explain these things to old souls. I
give these things to you in pure love. There are no conditions here, whether you
believe me or not. Whether you believe this is real channelling or not, whether
you agree with me or not, I see God in you. And that's good enough for me.

That's good enough for me.

And so it is.KRYON

Comets Honda and Elenin.....

2011-07-03T07:57:00.000-07:00

Interesting info......This is by one of the persons who deciphered the Mayan Calendar. I'm open to everything, though I don't necessarily act on everything. Knowledge is power.

Fear not.

Comets Honda and Elenin fulfill Mayan, Hopi and Christian Prophesies as the Mayan calendar approaches its end on October 28, 2011

Many people have now heard about the upcoming entry to the inner solar system of the comet Elenin (http://elenin.org/

) and there is a whole range of ideas and speculations about what this might entail. Comet...s have always been seen as harbingers of auspicious or (more commonly) ominous tidings and this one certainly is no exception. Ideas have been suggested that it is in fact a brown dwarf star, a spaceship or causes earthquakes. Regardless, this upcoming fall two comets, Honda and Elenin, later to be followed by Levy, will arrive creating a sequence of celestial bodies in the skies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swhme7X7tWI

). The comet Elenin, which has received the greatest attention of these, is estimated to be at its shortest distance from Earth around October 16-20, 2011 close to the midpoint of the seventh day of the Ninth wave (or Universal Underworld). Especially since this is right before the true 13 Ahau culmination date of the Mayan calendar (October 28, 2011), this comet is, regardless of the specific nature and role that it may have, an end time phenomenon. These comets will then arrive against the background of deepening global political and economic chaos produced because the institutions of the world are not consistent with the incoming unity consciousness of the Ninth wave. This mandates a study of how this comet is related to end time prophecies from various sources.

In The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness (2004) I wrote:

“At least some minor earth changes may thus result from the high frequency change in consciousness that we are now undergoing. But the reversal of cause and effect to generate a doomsday view where such earth changes are presented as the very purpose of creation is untenable. Any possible physical effects should be seen only as by-products of the consciousness field, and most climatic change will still probably be caused by carbon dioxide emissions rather than some purported insidious divine plan for the destruction of the earth through geophysical changes.”

This then referred to the Galactic Underworld and it is probably true to say that it is only with the Universal Underworld (see figure below) that the frequency has become so high that the Earth changes can no longer be classified as minor. What also comes forth from this quote is that I have sought to distinguish my view from many who merely focus on Earth changes as such without providing a meaningful context for them. I have emphasized that the Mayan calendar is fundamentally about the evolution of consciousness and Earth changes are either serving this evolution or are spin-off effects of it. I have thus made the point that the current Ninth wave of the Mayan calendar shows an irreversible direction towards the unity consciousness that will culminate later this year.

Figure 1. The Ninth wave of the Mayan calendar leading up to its end date of October 28, 2011 with indications of: A/ Closest distance to comet Honda, B/ Comet Elenin between the earth and the sun and C/ Closest distance to comet Elenin. (For details about the Ninth wave please see www.mayanninthwave.com

).

Some have however also questioned how, despite its high frequency the Ninth wave of the Mayan calendar would be able to bring about this new consciousness in such a short period of time. Yet, its days are now being expressed in the world oneness revolution with its epicenter in North Africa and Southern Europe (Most recently, Saudi women are starting to drive). We should also be aware that the second half of a wave always manifests its phenomena much more strongly than the first half and that so the world oneness revolution will intensify. The date July 4 as the beginning date of the second half, may imply that the demands for true democracy that are currently being raised in southern Europe will then also spread to the USA. In addition, a monetary collapse seems very likely to come some time in the month of August considering the high level of indebtedness and other factors in key nations. The Universal Underworld will then increasingly call us to become citizens of the cosmos and shed our currently limiting national confines.

Moreover, in this high frequency of change the Earth changes are likely to intensify and what is of interest here is that sometimes celestial bodies are synchronized with the evolution of the cosmic plan in such a way that they create leaps forward. This may also come to do so in the near future through the approaching comets. After all, the Cosmic Tree of Life, which the Mayan calendar is based on, is the synchronizing factor behind all events in the universe and we know that celestial bodies have played an evolutionary role in the past. Moreover, if such fine-tuned celestial events originate in the divine plan it should also mean that they could sometimes be foretold by prophecies.

Before going into prophecies I will give two examples of celestial bodies that have played a supporting role for the evolution of life on our planet. The first is the impact by a Mars sized celestial body that by current science is believed to have given rise to the moon 4.5 billon years ago. The other such miraculous event in the history of the Earth is the meteor that 65 million years ago hit it and gave rise to the Chicxulub crater in Mexico and darkened the sky for a long time. This led to the extinction of all dinosaurs and plesiosaurs on our planet. The reason that this seemingly destructive meteor may be called miraculous is that without it having exactly the size that it did we would not be here to talk about it today. The dinosaurs might still have been roaming around eating all mammals that showed promise of further evolution. If, on the other hand, this meteor would have been twice its actual size all life on earth – including the mammals – would have gone extinct and we would not be here now either. Moreover, this impact was very precisely timed so that it paved the way for the higher mammals that emerged at the beginning of the Seventh day of the Mammalian Underworld. These events, the formation of the moon and the extinction of the dinosaurs thus clearly served the further evolution of the cosmic plan and its purpose, but how these celestial bodies could have such precision in size and orbit to bring about the continued evolution of life on Earth still seems incomprehensible to a human mind. When it comes to the series of comets that are now approaching the Earth I thus feel we should be open to the possibility that also this is engineered by divine intelligence and plays a specific role that will prepare the world for the culmination of time on October 28, 2011. It should be pointed out then that there is nothing to indicate that it would be part of this plan for all life on earth to come to an end, either at previous events or in the future. On the other hand, this is not the same thing as saying that there will be no casualties.

To discuss the physical interactions that the two comets may come to have with the Earth – if any – is however difficult to do at the current time. The data that have been provided by official astronomical sites point to them as being too insignificant both in terms of their sizes and their orbits to have any direct influence on our planet. (http://www.astrosociety.org/elenin/ab2011-72.pdf

). Yet, the estimates of these parameters have undergone change over time in a way that makes one wonder how certain they actually are and it may be that at this point no one can tell with certainty the exact values of these. Yet, unless some new data comes forth from credible astronomical sources I see no reason to doubt that they are but small chunks of ice. Regardless of this, these comets may still play significant roles in the “end time” scenario.

I thus feel that the synchronicity of Elenin with the end of the Mayan calendar is so compelling that it deserves to be explored how these comets may be related to certain ancient prophecies. Before we look into such prophecies we may note that some have read “Extinction Level Event Niburu Is Near” into the name ELENIN (from its Russian discoverer). A more appropriate reading given the dire outlook of the world’s monetary system in the second half of the Universal Underworld may however be El + Lenin (heralding God + anti-capitalist revolution). In the current discussions several suggestions have also been made that the comet Elenin is a manned spaceship and that the powers that be is involved in a conspiracy, building bunkers for themselves and keeping its upcoming approach secret to people at large. Be that as it may, because even if either one of them is true I do not think it changes much for us in the current situation.

The currently most popular idea regarding comet Elenin is that it is related to the proposed return of Nibiru, which is a hypothetical brown dwarf companion of our sun surrounded by a Planet X. The existence of Nibiru was initially proposed by Zecharia Sitchin based on his reading of Sumerian texts, but before he passed away last year he clearly stated that he did not believe it had anything to do with 2012 and it is indeed very hard to understand why it would. The idea that Nibiru would return in 2012 or more specifically on December 21, 2012 is not backed by any evidence whatsoever. Yet, Nibiru has appeared in video clips watched by millions on YouTube in a strange brew with Sitchin’s ideas and the wrong end date of the Mayan calendar. While the proponents of this idea talk widely about cover-ups and conspiracies keeping us in the dark about its existence there is in fact no evidence that Nibiru exists. Moreover, the Nibiru connection to 2012 is questionable already since no ancient Mayan prophecy implies its existence. The Nibiru connection to 2012 then becomes even more questionable when you realize that its proponents have replaced the Mayan calendar’s charting of evolution with proposed effects of this hypothetical planet to explain the course of human events. Personally, I see no reason to embrace an idea, which lacks foundation either in modern science or ancient prophecy. Yet, since it has gained such an enormous popularity, often in association with a proposed pole shift and reversal of the Earth’s spinning, it seems possible that it mimics a scenario that will indeed take place, but with another basis. Could it for instance be that this collectively shared vision is not true as such, but that it points to an approaching comet and that this coincides, not with an electromagnetic pole shift, but with a shift in the polarity of consciousness in a way that we know will happen from the Mayan calendar?

The Hopi prophecy provides another source to consider regarding Elenin (and possibly its predecessor Honda), since this comet may be the Blue Star Kachina – the Eye of God – which is one of its signs of the end of time.

“And this is the Ninth and Last Sign: You will hear of a dwelling-place in the heavens, above the earth, that shall fall with a great crash. It will appear as a blue star… These are the Signs that great destruction is coming. The world shall rock to and fro. The white man will battle against other people in other lands — with those who possessed the first light of wisdom. There will be many columns of smoke and fire such as White Feather has seen the white man make in the deserts not far from here. Only those which come will cause disease and a great dying. Many of my people, understanding the prophecies, shall be safe. Those who stay and live in the places of my people also shall be safe. Then there will be much to rebuild. And soon — very soon afterward — Pahana will return. He shall bring with him the dawn of the Fifth World. He shall plant the seeds of his wisdom in their hearts. Even now the seeds are being planted. These shall smooth the way to the Emergence into the Fifth World.”

My intuition tells me that Elenin indeed is the Blue Star, which according to the above seems to imply some kind of near impact. To be certain of this we will have to wait and see what color it has. It is however already noteworthy that the Ninth and last sign of the Hopi Prophecy corresponds to what is produced by the Ninth and highest wave of the Mayan calendar. Maybe this comet is in fact also a sign of the returning Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent, of Aztec/Toltec prophecy.

Thirdly, there are messages from Christian prophets from the past century (http://olrl.org/prophecy/daysdark.shtml

), who say that at the end of time there will be Three Days of Darkness. This provides an interesting parallel to those of Mayan elders and for this you may consult a video clip of Mayan elder Don Alejandro Oxlaj (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcaez8jn2Zg

). as part of the Shift of the Ages movie (http://www.shiftoftheages.com/

), where he talks about these coming Three Days of Darkness. I have previously been very skeptical of this idea, since it has seemed outside of what is physically possible, but since the same vision has come from other, quite independent, sources it becomes easier to accept. There may now also be a mechanism that could explain it. Thus, a few YouTube clips have suggested that as comet Elenin passes between the Earth and the sun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afhmhfzjiho

), which is expected to happen around September 25, 2011, there will be three days of darkness. I do not think that this prediction enjoys the support of professional astronomers, and yet, things may come to happen in a way that is currently difficult to understand. After all, as we come to October 28, 2011 Nine Underworlds, covering a total of 16 billion years of evolution, will be manifesting “in their full regalia” in accordance with the Tortuguero monument. Thus, I feel we have reason to expect that the Creator may have some surprises in store for us ultimately in order to turn this world into one of harmony.

The dramatic nature of this upcoming end scenario of the Mayan calendar is highlighted by the fact that there are two comets becoming visible in the second half of the Ninth wave. Before Elenin, the comet Honda will be at its closest distance (0.077 AU) from the Earth at the beginning of the fifth night on August 17, 2011. What makes this interesting is that there are several prophecies that talk about two comets that signal, and play unique roles at, the end of time. Helen Tzima Otto has written an important trilogy of books (the last one of which is called A Five Year Plan in the Divine Economy: The Timing of the Divinely-Ordained Events, The Verenikia Press, 2011) that may be indispensable for our understanding of the upcoming scenario. These are serious books that also add critical arguments against the pop culture end date of the Mayan calendar: December 21, 2012 (She points out that the strongest argument of its advocates seems to be that most people think that this is the end date). The trilogy discusses the relatively widespread end time prophecies from more recent Christian prophets describing the advent of a pair of comets. (Note; these prophets are not American televangelists, but people, often of humble origins, belonging to the Catholic or Greek Orthodox traditions. It then also deserves to be pointed out that these prophecies refer to comets and not to planets or brown dwarfs.)

To appreciate the importance of these prophecies we should note that Otto’s books were written without a knowledge or mention of the fact that the comet Elenin had even been discovered on December 10, 2010 or that the comet Honda would precede it. Thus, her extensive accounting of prophecies of two different comets was not written to explain the rather unusual situation we happen to be in right now just as the Mayan calendar is coming to an end. For two comets to appear in such close proximity to this end is of course a considerably more improbable phenomenon than for only one to do so. The message of these prophecies is that a pair of two comets will signal an urgency to surrender to and convert to the will of God before it is too late. Since I have previously argued that the purpose of the Ninth wave is to bring an altered relationship to God, unity consciousness, this comes as no surprise. According to these prophecies the first comet will be associated with the Illumination of Conscience as signs of a supernatural nature will begin to appear. At the flyby of the second comet, called the Comet of Chastisement, the Three Days of Darkness will occur. Given what we know about the Mayan calendar culminating on October 28, 2011 it seems obvious that the two comets Honda and Elenin are serious candidates to fulfill these prophecies.

In the abovementioned end time prophecies people are recommended to stay inside their homes with blessed candles and not look out the windows as these comets fly by. They insist on constant prayer for three days after contemplating how we may have offended God. This makes sense since if we are to become fully transparent and attain unity consciousness we will need to lit though all the dark compartments of our beings and all the actions of our past. It is then interesting to note that Mayan elder Don Alejandro Oxlaj in an interview I made with him five years ago recommended that the Three Days of Darkness should be devoted to contemplation and meditation. How much of these prophecies is metaphor is hard to tell, as well as what is meant by “days”, but mostly it comes through as a very literal physical scenario. We need to prepare ourselves spiritually for this by doing what we can to set things right, but according to various prophecies we also need to prepare ourselves in more practical ways.

If Elenin is this second comet it would imply that at the time of its closest distance from the earth many people will be afraid. In the same way as the Hopi talk about the Great Purification it is then said in these Christian prophecies that only those that are pure will survive this event by not succumbing to the fear. Several prophesies talk about some form of disturbance of the earth’s position and large earthquakes so that a large part of humanity will not live to inherit the Earth. Yet, we are also told that we are not supposed to fear these events and have faith that the world will continue. There are ample descriptions on the Internet that the reader may consult regarding such prophecies of three days of darkness and it will be up to each individual to decide how to look upon them. While this may sound dire enough, it can also be looked upon as an opportunity to clear out darkness from ourselves, something which is a necessity if a new world with people in harmony is going to be born out of the chaos that will now deepen further.

I see three different possibilities as to how three days of darkness could be generated in association with Elenin. The first is that the comet has such a large tail that it covers the sun (less likely). The second is that it comes so close that it destabilizes the Earth (also less likely). The third, which I consider the most likely, requires some additional background as to why there are geological earth changes to begin with: Earthquakes appear because of the continental drift on the surface of the earth, which originates in convection streams in its magma. A significant purpose of the continental drift is to create a global brain that the human beings need to be in resonance with in order to manifest the cosmic plan. In my books Solving the Greatest Mystery of Our Time (2001) and The Purposeful Universe (2009) I describe how the separation of the world into two continental blocks is correlated with shifts in the Mayan calendar (in the 2nd wave). We also know that certain waves, such as the Seventh and Ninth, were initiated by huge earthquakes (9.2) in Lisbon and Japan in 1755 and 2011, respectively. I believe that the latter earthquakes happened because at the activation of new waves with higher frequencies adjustments were effected in the core of the Earth to adapt to a new polarity of consciousness. It is thus clear that the continental drift and earthquakes in a very general sense follow the Mayan calendar. It is only that this does not help us to predict many small earthquakes or their precise locations.

Because of the need for such an adjustment for the transmission of unity consciousness I suspect that seismic activity will continue at an intense rate throughout the Ninth Wave. However, and this is the point, if several waves have seen major geological upheavals at their initiation should we then not expect major cataclysms also around the time when all the nine waves simultaneously come to fruition on October 28, 2011? This very culmination of the Mayan calendar could mean a need for quite a dramatic adjustment of the inner core of the earth and as a consequence massive seismic activity on the surface of the earth. The arrival of Elenin, possibly the Blue Star, would then simply “happen” to occur in synchrony with earthquakes, which in reality result from a fine-tuning of the global brain to create resonance with the new field of unity consciousness. The geological activity expected as the calendar comes to an end would then generate so many eruptions and gases that the sky would become dark for three days. The adjusted core of the Earth will then automatically favor those that have a highly developed resonance with the field of unity consciousness and are guided by it. In this scenario the appearance of the Blue Star is merely synchronized with the earthquake and serves as a messenger, but plays no causative role for it.

This model may be difficult to grasp for those that want more mechanical explanations to earth changes such as for instance Elenin, Nibiru, HAARP or just random events. Yet, evidence for the creation waves of the Mayan calendar is there for everyone to study in my books and there is a reason that the Maya call their calendar Sacred. This reason is that it describes a divine plan, which is developed through nine processes of Seven days and six nights. What we are witnessing now is the culmination of this divine plan, a culmination, which may be expected to be quite spectacular and it is for this reason that we may find important information relating to the Mayan calendar also in the Bible and the Quran. Ultimately the orchestrator is God, who very likely would not like to see this world end in disaster after 16 billion years of evolution. It is because the Mayan calendar describes a divinely orchestrated plan that I suspect that this end time scenario accomplishes exactly what it is meant to and this is not the end of life on earth. Without such an understanding that life on earth is the result of a divine plan the basis for faith in the future of humanity could however easily disappear.

It may be argued that it is not so important exactly what mechanism – comet, space ship, Nibiru or cosmic plan – that will trigger this end time scenario. What may be most important is how we relate to it and the transformation of the human mind that it implies. There is however a curious practical consequence of whether you believe in an impact from space or processes inherent in creation when it comes to how you may need to prepare yourself. If there will be a risk of an impact by a celestial body then the logical consequence is to seek shelter underground. If on the other hand there will be earthquakes because the evolutionary processes come to an end, which I have suggested, it is logical to seek refuge in the hills or out on sea. Those in resonance with the unity consciousness transmitted by the core of the Earth will know what to do.
As we come to October 28, 2011 the field of duality will on a cosmic level have been transcended and a transition to unity consciousness may well be a condition for the survival to the new world. The prophecies associated with the two comets seem to be in alignment with some of the conclusions that I have previously drawn regarding the Ninth wave; for instance that what we are to do now is to shift from serving our egos to serving the divine plan and that indeed we need to commit to do so for a harmonization of the world to take place. This is also the reason that over the years I have consistently emphasized the consciousness aspect of the Mayan calendar saying that it has an irreversible direction towards unity and light because if this, the most important aspect of the calendar, is ignored there would indeed be very little hope for the human race.

The prophetic meanings that I have here assigned to these comets are possibilities and not scientific certainties. Yet, I intuit that something important is going to happen related to these comets that no one may at the present moment be able to understand fully or have the factual basis to analyze. If we combine our knowledge of the evolutionary model of the Mayan calendar with various end time prophecies it however makes total sense that the two comets are the messengers of the transformation of the old and the birth of a new world. In this way we can see a perfect consistency between prophecies of a varied origin and the model of the Mayan calendar of Nine Underworlds and Thirteen Heavens culminating on the date October 28, 2011 (13 Ahau). Having this knowledge the question is essentially how we are to use it and this may need to be thoroughly discussed in the time ahead.

According to the Hopi Prophecy the Kachina shall stop its dance and take off its mask as the Blue star appears for the Great Purification. This I believe alludes to what for many years I consistently have been saying in all of my lectures namely that as the filters (the masks) disappear we will no longer be puppets (Kachinas) of the divine plan and free to be and create without being subordinated to the divine evolutionary processes described by the Mayan calendar. As a new world is born people will after October 28, 2011 live life moment by moment by moment being free to create reality in accordance with their newly gained unity consciousness. This is the birth of the new world of peace that is as much a part of these prophecies as the difficulties that will precede it.

Carl Johan Calleman
Seattle, June 23, 2011 (3 Ben)

How To I.D. Genetically Modified Food at the Supermarket

2011-06-05T13:59:00.000-07:00

from Spencer Cooper:

Not many consumers realize that the FDA does not require genetically modified food to be labeled. That’s because the FDA has decided that you, dear consumer, don’t care if the tomato you’re eating has been cross bred with frog genes to render the tomato more resistant to cold weather. Some consumers may not be concerned with eating Frankenfood, but for those who are, here’s how to determine if the fruits and vegetables you’re buying are (GM) genetically modified.
Hat tip to Marion Owen for her valuable information. Here’s how it works:
For conventionally grown fruit, (grown with chemicals inputs), the PLU code on the sticker consists of four numbers. Organically grown fruit has a five-numeral PLU prefaced by the number 9. Genetically engineered (GM) fruit has a five-numeral PLU prefaced by the number 8.
For example:
A conventionally grown banana would be: 4011
An organic banana would be: 94011
A genetically engineered (GE or GMO) banana would be: 84011
These tips are specially important now that over 80% of all processed foods in the US are genetically modified. Many countries in the European Union have been banning GM products and produce (including Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary and Luxembourg). We say “Eat healthy, buy or grow organic”.

An Obsolete Monetary System

2011-05-21T15:20:00.001-07:00

-- From the website: www.thevenusproject.com

The money-based system evolved centuries ago. All of the world's economic systems - socialism, communism, fascism, and even the vaunted free enterprise system - perpetuate social stratification, elitism, nationalism, and racism, primarily based on economic disparity. As long as a social system uses money or barter, people and nations will seek to maintain the economic competitive edge or, if they cannot do so by means of commerce they will by military intervention. We still utilize these same outmoded methods.

Our current monetary system is not capable of providing a high standard of living for everyone, nor can it ensure the protection of the environment because the major motive is profit. Strategies such as downsizing and toxic dumping increase the profit margin. With the advent of automation, cybernation, artificial intelligence and out sourcing, there will be an ever-increasing replacement of people by machines. As a result, fewer people will be able to purchase goods and services even though our capability to produce an abundance will continue to exist.

Our present, outmoded political and economic systems are unable to apply the real benefits of today's innovative technology to achieve the greatest good for all people, and to overcome the inequities imposed upon so many. Our technology is racing forward yet our social designs have remained relatively static. In other words cultural change has not kept pace with technological change. We now have the means to produce goods and services in abundance for everyone.

Unfortunately, today science and technology have been diverted from achieving the greatest good for reasons of self-interest and monetary gain through planned obsolescence sometimes referred to as the conscious withdrawal of efficiency. For example, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, whose function is presumed to be conducting research into ways of achieving higher crop yields per acre, actually pays farmers not to produce at full-capacity. The monetary system tends to hold back the application of these methods that we know would best serve the interests of people and the environment.

In a monetary system purchasing power is not related to our capacity to produce goods and services. For example, during a depression, there are computers and DVD's on store shelves and automobiles in car lots, but most people do not have the purchasing power to buy them. The earth is still the same place; it is just the rules of the game that are obsolete and create strife, deprivation and unnecessary human suffering.

A monetary system developed years ago as a device to control human behavior in an environment with limited resources. Today money is used to regulate the economy not for the benefit of the general populace, but for those who control the financial wealth of nations.

Resource Based Economy

All social systems, regardless of political philosophy, religious beliefs, or social customs, ultimately depend upon natural resources, i.e. clean air and water, arable land and the necessary technology and personnel to maintain a high standard of living.

Simply stated, a resource-based economy utilizes existing resources rather than money and provides an equitable method of distributing these resources in the most efficient manner for the entire population. It is a system in which all goods and services are available without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.

Earth is abundant with plentiful resources; today our practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter productive to our survival. Modern society has access to highly advanced technologies and can make available food, clothing, housing, medical care, a relevant educational system, and develop a limitless supply of renewable, non-contaminating energy such as geothermal, solar, wind, tidal, etc. It is now possible to have everyone enjoy a very high standard of living with all of the amenities that a prosperous civilization can provide. This can be accomplished through the intelligent and humane application of science and technology.

To better understand the meaning of a resource-based economy consider this: if all the money in the world were destroyed, as long as topsoil, factories, and other resources were left intact, we could build anything we choose to build and fulfill any human need. It is not money that people need; rather, it is free access to the necessities of life. In a resource-based economy , money would be irrelevant. All that would be required are the resources and the manufacturing and distribution of the products.

When education and resources are made available to all people without a price tag, there would be no limit to the human potential. Although this is difficult to imagine, even the wealthiest person today would be far better off in a resource based society as proposed by The Venus Project. Today the middle classes live better than kings of times past. In a resource based economy everyone would live better than the wealthiest of today.

In such a society, the measure of success would be based on the fulfillment of one's individual pursuits rather than the acquisition of wealth, property and power.

The Choice Is Ours To Make

Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.

Today, much of the technology needed to bring about a global Resource-Based Economy exists. If we choose to conform to the limitations of our present monetary-based economy, then it is likely that we will continue to live with its inevitable results: war, poverty, hunger, deprivation, crime, ignorance, stress, fear, and inequity. On the other hand, if we embrace the concept of a global resource-based economy , learn more about it, and share our understanding with our friends, this will help humanity evolve out of its present state.

law of attraction

2011-04-27T09:34:00.000-07:00

"The Universe is not responding to your words. The Universe is responding to the vibration that is behind your words. You are vibrational beings and are always emitting a vibrational signal which is your point of attraction. What you put out you get back because Law of Attraction is responding to the vibration of your being." ~ Abraham-Hicks

the birthing

2011-04-18T10:45:00.000-07:00

mother earth and the universe are in the process of doing whatever they can, as gracefully as we will allow them, to reconnect us to ourselves, our neighbors, our communities, our natural world, and they will remove everything that is in the way, everything that separates. all symbolic and literal fences and barricades will come down. how gracefully is up to us.

I offer this not to create fear, but expectant excitement. What we place our focus on will become our reality. The universe will provide everything we need to make the transition. It always did, but we cut ourselves off from this 'safety net' through our fear and separation.

This is not a horrible process, but a birth process.

Which is not to say we don't send love and light and compassion to all those experiencing the storms of these times, we may all be among them soon enough. Those in fear will see this birth process as fearful. Hoarding only brings in the need for hoarding. The universe's abundance is infinite. Those in faith and love will see this process as beautiful and find themselves where they are supposed to be, totally protected, as we have always been.

I gently offer that we all try to stay away from any information which is fear-based or lack-based; they are quite destructive. celebrate our life and the beauty of each other and this earth now and we will bring in more of the same.

that's all we have to concern ourselves with.

Dr. Wayne Dyer & Dr. Bruce Lipton, Pt.1

2011-04-09T18:40:00.000-07:00

Dr. Wayne Dyer & Dr. Bruce Lipton, Pt.2

2011-04-09T18:39:00.000-07:00

'It's the journey, not the destination' - Peaceful warrior

2011-03-16T16:03:00.000-07:00

Dan Millman: Life has just three rules?
Socrates: And you already know them...
Dan: Paradox, humor, and change.
Socrates: Paradox...
Dan: Life is a mystery. Don't waste time trying to figure it out.
Socrates: Humor...
Dan: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure.
Socrates: Change...
Dan: Know that nothing stays the same.

TAKE OUT THE TRASH

2011-03-16T16:02:00.000-07:00

pineal gland awareness + awakening third eye

2011-03-08T20:04:00.000-08:00

2011-03-07T13:48:00.001-08:00

LIVE KRYON CHANNELLING
"2011 and Beyond"

This live channelling was Given in Boulder, Colorado
Sunday, January 16, 2011

To help the reader, this channelling has been revisited [by Lee and Kryon] to provide even clearer understanding. Often what happens live has implied energy within it, which carries a kind of communication that the printed page does not. So enjoy this enhanced message given in Boulder Colorado in January of 2011.

Greetings, dear ones, I am Kryon of Magnetic Service. This is the first recorded Kryon channelling of 2011. In these moments, I wish to give you an overview of the numerological aspects of the year just passed [2010], then of the one you're sitting in now [2011]. Then I'll go further than that to explain some of the anomalies you are seeing, and then review what I told you 22 years ago about all of it. Then I would like to give you the potentials that we see for the planet, both near and the far futures.

You have just come out of the year 2010. Sequentially, the numbers move forward in a linear fashion, but they also have energy around them. And so we ask you to look at that energy, which is numerologically germane to your situation. The numerology gives you an overview of the energy that is portrayed by the numbers in the year. It does not give you an absolute empirical energy that demands any action. Numerology was created to help Human Beings understand the energy that is directly with them at the moment. It is one of the oldest sciences on the planet, and I ask my partner to understand and teach it. It can be simple and it can be complex. It can even go so far as to be quantum numerology the numbers above the numbers.

Let us look at the year 2010 - two zero one zero. In the simplest of numerology, we do not look at the zeros as anything but placeholders and separators. In another kind of a numerological system, the zeros have energy themselves and they speak for themselves depending on where they are in the number. However, we will speak now only of the simplest numerology that is available - one through nine.

Originally developed by those in Tibet [the kind we are using], this particular, profound system has been with you for a long time. Twenty-ten [2010] is a three as you add up the numbers. The only time that you will not use the sum of those numbers is in the case where you end up with a master number as the total [11, 22, 33, 44, etc.]. Three is not a master number. Instead, it is a number that means "catalyst." The three is the energy around that which is the development of the DNA book that I asked my partner to write and finish in 2010. It is the 12th book of the Kryon Series. That is a three. It centers around that which is the 12 energies of DNA, which is a three. It was finished in 2010, which is also a three. When you take the three threes and put them together, you have a nine, which means completion.

So let us first look at the three, for three alone in the simplest form is a catalytic number - that which changes something else because of its presence. Therefore, we can say that that which was started in 2010 could be a catalyst for what is to follow in your life. Think about what took place in 2010, the ideas that you had, the actions that were created, and some of the things that may have happened to you. Think of them in this light: Perhaps these things gave an energy for you that was catalytic, for this was the year where things like that would have the most energy and mean the most to you. Now, perhaps you understand a little more about why things were only "started" in 2010. If you had known that at the beginning of the year, perhaps you would have relaxed a little more? It might have changed your reactions? This is what numerology is for - a helper that lets you have a more quantum perspective on seemingly linear things.

2011

Numbers stand alone, and they stand as a group. You have to look at both in numerology. You cannot ignore how they are placed. So we will look at 2011 singularly and together. SINGLE: Let us look at the number two, for it means duality. Duality is the description of the Human puzzle, the energy you deal with every day between the Human-Self and the sacred self, the emerging shift of the planet, and that which is 3D compared to that which is multidimensional. That is the duality represented by the number two. Compare that now with that which is the 11, a master number. Remember, we do not separate the ones yet, for they stand as twins, representing the first master number, 11. Eleven means illumination. Many of you continue to see 11:11 on the clock. It is meaningful, for it is, therefore, illumination-illumination - two master numbers that sit next to each other, separated only by the colon of the clock. This is always a wink from Spirit that says, "You are dearly loved." It's another wink from Spirit that says, "We're with you. We hold your hand. Keep on going." It's a wink of love every time you see it.

TOGETHER, BUT NOT ADDED: The two and the 11 together represent the illumination of duality. It's going to be an interesting year, 2011. So the actual numerological meaning of 2011 would be the illumination of duality. This is a message to you that says, "Your ship's journey continues into the light." That which represents the puzzle of duality is moving in a direction that is positive. If you could assign any information to what is potentially going to happen in this year, it would be more struggle and more challenging times before you, resulting eventually in a positive outcome.

Why would change be so difficult when things are moving to illumination? The answer is because Human nature resists that which is new. It will resist even those things that are better! Humanity tends to want to stay in the energy that it lays in and has always laid in, no matter how dark it might be or how old it is.

SUM OF THE YEAR: Now, the two and the one and the one added together are four, and four is the number of Gaia. Among other things, it's going to be a Gaia year. It's all about the earth and the shift of the earth, the movement of the earth and, of course, the weather.

So now we will review yet again, in a more succinct fashion than ever before, the changes that we began to speak of in 1989. The potential was always there that this current shift would bring tremendous weather anomalies to you. Yet, even if it looks odd, it's not. Instead, it's a returning cycle. However, what is anomalous is the fact that you have brought this cycle to the planet earlier than it was ever expected. There's a reason for that. The shift before you is a shift of Human consciousness. It coordinates with the Galactic Alignment, the precession of the wobble of the earth, bringing into alignment that which you see as your sun aligning with the center of the galaxy. This represents the profound prophecy from the ancients. Something is happening regarding the evolution of Human consciousness. If you were to assign an attribute to it, it would be that which is a speed-up of vibration. Your DNA is vibrating faster.

Let me ask you, Lightworker, can't you feel that which is time speeding up? Consistent time is a paradigm you have been used to since you were born, and the perceived change makes you nervous, doesn't it? In some cases, it wakes you up at three in the morning when the cells are saying, "What is it that's different?" The next time you're awakened and the cells are asking you what's wrong, I want you to talk to them, as the boss of your own DNA. Remind them of the time you planned for, for it has arrived. The shift is here.

Meanwhile, it just looks like bad weather to most of you. What did I tell you 22 years ago? Look at the words carefully, for what I described was about water. I described that some potential places on the earth that always grew your crops would become arid. I told you that other places on the planet that never had any water would have plenty of it - perhaps too much! What does it mean? It's about water and always has been.

So now we've refreshed that which we have said before, a review. You are in the middle of a cycle that will bring cooling to the planet. It is not a heat cycle, but rather a cooling cycle. But it always starts with a short heat cycle. It has been here before. It will come again. It is a long cycle - one generation plus five years. That's how long it's going to last. It starts with the melting of the ice caps, which is far more than any of you have seen in your lifetime or those of your ancestors. It is a cycle whose repetition is thousands of years long, but one that has not yet been recorded to the books of Human record. But it's definitely been recorded in the cores of the ice and in the rings of the trees.

Thousands of years old, it is, and it happens in a cyclical way. It's about water. It starts with that which is the melting of the ice caps to a particular degree, which has a profound effect on the planet in all ways. You can't have that happen without seeing life change as well as Gaia change and you've seeing it already. What happens when you take that which is heavy on the poles [ice] and you melt it? It then becomes cold water added to that which is a very, very gentle and finite balance of temperature in the seas of the planet (1). The first thing that happens is a redistribution of the weight of water on the thin crust of the earth from ice at the poles to new water in the seas. The results become earthquakes and volcanoes, and you're seeing them, aren't you? You are having earthquakes in places that are not supposed to have earthquakes. Volcanoes are coming to life in a way that you've not seen before on a regular basis. There will be more. Expect them.

Is it too much to ask of a Human Being that if you live by a volcano that you know might erupt, maybe you ought to move? Yet there will be those who say, "It hasn't erupted in my lifetime or my parents' lifetime or my grandparents' lifetime; therefore, it won't." You may have a surprise, for all things are changing. That is what is happening to Gaia.

Now we say it again. This is not punishment to humanity. The things that are happening on the planet today are not meant as the final step of Gaia in order to kill the civilization of humanity. I say this, for right now this message is on the lips of those who want to startle and scare you and give you fear, that is not what's happening. What is happening on this planet is a shift that will create a planet that's going to last a long time, allowing you what you need - more food in the ocean than you've ever seen before!

(2) The second thing the melting ice caps give you is about ecology. I'll give you this prediction in a moment. There is a Human 3D paradigm that says everything gets "used" and then goes away. But nature doesn't work that way, and our prediction is going to go against everything you have been told. I'm going to give you a parable and the prediction in a moment, but before that, I'm going to give you the explanation of the birds and the fish.

In the last few weeks, fish have been washing up dead in certain lakes by the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. Birds have been falling from the sky. I'm going to make a statement way in advance of what science is going to tell you. All of it can be traced to the water cycle - all of it. It's always about the weather, a cycle of weather you've not seen before. Do you remember a few years ago when whales were beaching themselves? Did you notice that this attribute stopped? But while they were beaching themselves every year, many Human Beings were in fear, saying, "It's the end of the world. They're committing suicide."

The whales beached themselves because the magnetics of the earth shifted so greatly that their navigational system [the magnetite in their biology, which is their migration compass] steered them right into the land. The land didn't move; the magnetics did. Therefore, you might say their internal inherited migration map was flawed. The reason it's not happening now is because the calves, the generation beyond the one that beached themselves, figured it out and rewrote the maps. Nature [Gaia] does this. So the next generation didn't repeat it. Instead, it realigned itself to the migratory lay lines and now whales don't beach themselves nearly as often.

The magnetics of the planet continue to shift and the birds are unaware. Like the whales, many of the birds have migrated themselves right into a high place in the atmosphere, which pummeled them to death by freezing rain and hail. Then they fall from the sky. It's the weather cycle. Will they continue to do this? Some will, for awhile, and then they will figure it out and recalibrate. That's what nature does.

You might say, "Well, nature's way is severe." It is not severe. It is a positive learning system that allows generations of birds to be around next time. The few deaths allow for the many to continue their life cycle and their lineage on the earth.

I want you to analyze the fish that have washed up. Let science reveal this as well. I want you to analyze the fish. They have something in common. They're all juveniles. And why is that? What do you know about the water cycle? What do you know about cold water and the life cycle of certain fish and their habits of reproduction? I will tell you the layers of water are changing in temperature and that is going to change the life cycle of the oceans and lakes. The juvenile fish are the most susceptible to death by becoming too cold, especially the ones of the kind that washed up dead. By the tens of thousands, the cold killed them. It is the water cycle. Will it continue? For awhile, until they acclimate, until they recalibrate for the cold - and they will. Nature does that.

The Parable of the Rainbow Room

I want to give you a parable, a metaphor of life, and it goes like this. There is a room we will call the Rainbow Room. In this room, all the colors of the rainbow present themselves linearly, one at a time, and they change every few thousand years. The room needs this to exist, and that's why it's called the Rainbow Room. For thousands of years, the room is yellow, then it turns into the blue and the red, the purples, the greens and slowly, the room goes through all the colors of the rainbow. The colors take their turn in the spectrum, one at a time.

In this room, I would like to introduce you to some creatures - smart, intelligent and sacred, all born during a time when the color in the room was red. Their parents were also born during the red cycle, and even their grandparents. In fact, as far back as they had recorded history, the room was always red. It's all they've ever known. Therefore, you might say they have a red consciousness and they expect red. Everywhere they go, they work with red. They are the red people.

Over time, the Rainbow Room starts to do what it always has done and slowly begins to move into its next color, purple. The room starts to become purple. What happens to those who have always known red? The first thing is fear. The red people say, "Here comes something odd and unusual, and it has never happened before! It's dark and somehow scary. We must have done it. We must be responsible. There is no other explanation! Therefore, we must find ways to stop the purple. It's supposed to be red. Purple is bad."

But even among the red people, there are a few who say, "We welcome the purple. We don't know why it's here, but we recognize that it's appropriate. Although we've always been red and we don't understand the purple, we're not afraid of it. Ancient esoteric prophesy told us that someday a shift in the red would come. God bless the purple." And that's the energy you sit in now, dear ones, for that which has been normal on this planet for all of these thousands of years is about to shift. When it does, it's going to present more anomalies than birds falling out of the sky or fish washing up on the shore or melting ice caps. I'll tell you what to look for.

The Prediction: The Renewal of the Life Cycle

When you change the temperature strata of the oceans of the earth, things start to change, for the life cycle of the food in the ocean depends upon that which is the smallest. The plankton of the planet survive in certain temperatures, and that's changing. Throw away what you think you know about how it's all supposed to work, and instead think "renewal" or "how did it begin." This will serve you to understand what is happening now. This cycle is built to replenish the ocean with life and not always by sustaining the kind that was there.

Let us just talk about the ocean for a moment. We won't even get to what's happening in the air and what mammals might experience. Let's just speak of the ocean. Have you heard about the salmon? What has your science warned you against? You're overfishing! The sea is dying. The coral is dying. The reefs are going away. You're not seeing the food chain that used to be there. You've overfished everything. Fishing quotas have been set up to help this. Oh, all those little people in the red room - they don't know about the purple. Red people only know about the red paradigm.

Did you hear about the salmon recently? There's too many of them! In the very place where quotas are in place so you won't overfish, they're jumping in the boats! Against all odds and any projections from environmentalists or biologists, they're overrunning the oceans in Alaska - way too many fish.

What does that tell you? Is it possible that Gaia takes care of itself? That's what it tells you! Perhaps this alignment is going to keep humanity fed. Did anybody think of this? What if Gaia is in alliance with you? What if the increase in consciousness that raised your DNA vibration has alerted Gaia to change the weather cycle and get ready to feed humanity? Are you looking at the ocean where the oil spill occurred? It's recovering in a way that was not predicted. What's happening?

The life cycle itself is being altered by the temperature change of the ocean and much of what you have believed is the paradigm of life in the sea is slowly changing. A new system of life is appearing, as it has before, and is upon you in your lifetime. It will compliment what you know and expose you to a new concept: Gaia regularly refreshes the life cycle on Earth.

Within this process, there will be the extinction of certain plants and animals, birds and fish. My advice to you, especially to those environmentalists, is to understand the cycle of life so that you may relax with what nature has always done. It puts life on the planet to serve the planet for a time. When certain life no longer serves the planet in the ways it used to, it takes it away. The extinction of life, especially through weather change, is normal for Gaia. It is honored, appropriate and normal, even if you don't think so. Don't try to save all the disappearing animals, fish and birds! Some are supposed to go away. And, dear ones, don't assign all this activity to something you did to cause it!

The red people are stressing. The purple is here, and they are trying to figure out what they did wrong. They don't know they are in the Rainbow Room. They think they are in the RED ROOM. This is what the Rainbow Room does; it changes colors. So as the room does what it has always done, the red people are sitting there in fear trying to figure out what it is that they did that possibly could have caused the purple to appear.

The Rainbow Room is beautiful. The color purple is significant. Going from red to purple has metaphysical significance within this parable, but I'll let you figure it out. For those who are into colors, there's a reason why I gave those two. The earth is becoming more sacred than it's ever been before. Gaia is with you in this. It's cooperating in ways you never thought it could, in the way biologists said it would not. You think you're killing it? Instead, it's giving birth to an altered ecological system.

Human Consciousness

Let me talk about Human consciousness and what is happening. If you've studied what I have said in these last months, I gave a channelling recently called, "The End of History." It's a metaphor that means the end of the way things used to be. Instead, it's a rebirth of the way things can be. So, what is changing? It's Human nature. What is it a Human will do intuitively that they never have done before?

History tells you that Humans separate. Have you ever looked at Europe and wondered how so many countries could be so close together and yet they have different languages and different cultures and in such a small area? Let me tell you how it happened. It's called Human nature. When some Humans don't like the others, they wall themselves off, and through hundreds of years, they develop unique languages and never unify with the others. In fact, they war with them. They conquer them. We've talked about this before. That's what Humans do. They separate and conquer. They pull things apart. They don't put much together.

Even that which is the most sacred to humanity became separated and organized spirituality. You put God into boxes, and when one person had another idea, you created another box. You separated yourselves from God. Pretty soon, you had hundreds of boxes representing the beliefs and teachings of one Creator. In the process, you pointed fingers at the other boxes and made them "evil." Then you even started conquering them. That's what Humans have done in the RED ROOM for eons. Well, I will tell you that that is changing.

I gave you some information before and I would like to mention it again. The last thing you'd ever expect to happen is for big money to change on the planet, yet it just did. You created your own recession by demanding a new way of banking. You're not done yet with banks or insurance, but you are beginning to create a system of integrity where the world can work together financially.

We told you there'd come a time on the planet when there'd be only five currencies because the continents would decide to put countries together, not separate them. Do you know who was the model? It's the United States. What an experiment you had! Imagine: Could you take many different states that were governed separately, yet didn't have any visible borders, and give them one currency? It worked. It has worked for well over 100 years. Against all odds, it worked.

Fifty years ago, with the end of the last world war, the Europeans saw what the USA did and emulated it. It has become the European Union. After the war, they postulated, "What if we took many of the countries of Europe, ones who have warred with each other since the beginning of recorded civilization, and we unified them? We will take away the borders and give them one currency." They were laughed at! Yet today, you're seeing it.

Today, their monetary system is more valuable than yours! Where am I going with this? Listen - here is an attribute, a postulate, an axiom of this new earth energy: Separatism kills. Unity is the survival of humanity. You will start putting things together and not taking them apart. And the more you put them together, the more you will unify. Then slowly you'll realize that the goal is to put things together, not tear them apart. What has the European Union created? I'll tell you. It isn't the Euro. It has created a group of countries that will never go to war with each other again! They can't. They trade with each other. Think about it. That's what we're talking about.

Don't be surprised if those many boxes of organized spirituality start to unify, because there's more strength if they do. They'll reach more people if they do. You're going to start seeing this eventually, or the individual boxes will fade away.

The New Politics

Now let me give you something for the far future, and something you won't believe or understand. It will be the end of the system of politics that you have now. When you start to understand the new attributes of energy on the planet, it no longer suits you to have opposition parties. Instead, what suits you is to have those who run for office to each have their own message apart from a party. And when you go to the polls, you will vote for their message, not their affiliation.

Instead of separating through affiliation, they will have unity through purpose. They will have ideas that are unique and beautiful, instead of those that are either in one box or the other. Someday, the two-party system will look as old to you as today's dictators on the earth strutting their stuff. They're going away, you know? Or did you notice that?

Some are saying, "Yes, but obviously, you don't know how Earth politics works, Kryon. The funding must be accomplished through party affiliations." Really? What if millions could all be informed at once, and only give $1 each? Does that need a party? Watch and see.

Let me tell you about an outrageous idea starting to happen in Brazil. Right now there is a committee saying, "What if we take all of the countries of South America and eliminate the borders, and eventually plan on one currency?" Sound familiar? That's eventually going to be one of the five currencies of the world.

Unification is going to create strength and peace on this planet, and in the process that elephant in the room that keeps it from happening, which you call terrorism, which you believe is the big problem in the Middle East, will take a twist that nobody, nobody can foretell. I've talked about it. Were you shocked when the Soviet Union fell over? Wasn't that the crux of why massive amounts of armaments were put together? Isn't that why the Pentagon is so big? It all fell over almost overnight. Did anybody expect that? It will be just as shocking. A problem that today is before you without a solution will become history, and unity can begin.

The Potentials Continue

Eventually this shift of unity will spread to Africa, which will represent a healed continent that won't have AIDS anymore. And a healed continent that has no major disease will not have dictators who take advantage of a sick population. This healed continent will be one of the most powerful economies on the planet, and it's going to beat China in the economy game. Why? Because Africa has no unified economic or doctrinal history. They'll start fresh in a new energy. While China still struggles with the old guard representing over 1,000 years of protocol, they won't be able to compete with a society with nothing to unlearn.

These are the potentials that are before me, which continue to be before me for the future of your planet. I sit before Lemurians and Sumerians. I sit before those who have lived before. I sit before Shamanic energy. You expected it, dear ones, and you knew it was coming. Now, here you are to change it.

Dear Human Being, 2011may be a challenging year because of the changes before you, because of Gaia that is responding to you. You have the energy of the ancients here and that of the ancestors, and they all sit in this room. Can't you feel it? They're all looking at you and saying, "Well done. You're going to get through it."

[Kryon pauses.]

Just let me sit with you for another minute.

[Long pause]

And so it is.

KRYON

the illusion of safety

2011-03-02T10:14:00.000-08:00

higher fences won't bring us safety. longer working hours won't bring us safety. bigger houses won't bring us safety. more expensive cars won't bring us safety.

that first hurricane or bank collapse or job loss or illness or death changes everything.

we build again, get a new job, begin chemo therapy, switch banks, until it all happens again.

more money, more insurance, more I.D. badges, more security won't bring us safety.

True safety, real safety resides in the knowing that we always were "safe".

Perhaps that first act of violence on the planet was in direct response to a sudden fear of being attacked. Perhaps when we buy insurance, we will suddenly need insurance. Perhaps when we build that first fence, we suddenly have an enemy to keep out.

Perhaps we always were "safe".

Perhaps we still are, and that the minute the fences come down, the insurance is let go, the police become surfers, doctors become gardeners and lawyers become painters, the natural balance of the universe will reassert itself.

and we will be "safe" as we once again surrender to the natural flow and transformation of life.

When we come to terms with the truth that nothing material lasts and that the universe is designed to change on a moment to moment basis.

in the meantime: not feeling safe?

breathe.

you are.

the multi-dimensional DNA

2011-02-28T20:03:00.000-08:00

Esoteric and spiritual teachers have known for ages that our body is programmable by language, words and thought. This has now been scientifically proven and explained.

The human DNA is a biological Internet and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. The latest Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques, unusual light/auras around people (namely spiritual masters), mind’s influence on weather patterns and much more.

In addition, there is evidence for a whole new type of medicine in which DNA can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies WITHOUT cutting out and replacing single genes. Only 10% of our DNA is being used for building proteins. It is this subset of DNA that is of interest to western researchers and is being examined and categorized. The other 90% are considered "junk DNA."

The Russian researchers, however, convinced that nature was not dumb, joined linguists and geneticists in a venture to explore that 90% of "junk DNA." Their results, findings and conclusions are simply revolutionary!

According to there findings, our DNA is not only responsible for the construction of our body but also serves as data storage and communication. The Russian linguists found that the genetic code —especially in the apparent "useless" 90%— follows the same rules as all our human languages.

To this end they compared the rules of syntax (the way in which words are put together to form phrases and sentences), semantics (the study of meaning in language forms) and the basic rules of grammar. They found that the alkalines of our DNA follow a regular grammar and do have set rules just like our languages. Therefore, human languages did not appear coincidentally but are a reflection of our inherent DNA.

The Russian biophysicist and molecular biologist Pjotr Garjajev and his colleagues also explored the vibrational behavior of DNA. In brief the bottom line was: "Living chromosomes function just like a holographic computer using endogenous DNA laser radiation." This means that they managed, for example, to modulate certain frequency patterns (sound) onto a laser-like ray which influenced DNA frequency and thus the genetic information itself.

Since the basic structure of DNA-alkaline pairs and of language (as explained earlier) is of the same structure, no DNA decoding is necessary. One can simply use words and sentences of the human language! This, too, was experimentally proven!

Living DNA substance (in living tissue, not in vitro) will always react to language-modulated laser rays and even to radio waves, if the proper frequencies (sound) are being used. This finally and scientifically explains why affirmations, hypnosis and the like can have such strong effects on humans and their bodies. It is entirely normal and natural for our DNA to react to language.

While western researchers cut single genes from DNA strands and insert them elsewhere, the Russians enthusiastically created devices that influence cellular metabolism through modulated radio and light frequencies, thus repairing genetic defects.

They even captured information patterns of a particular DNA and transmitted it onto another, thus reprogramming cells to another genome. So they successfully transformed, for example, frog embryos to salamander embryos simply by transmitting the DNA information patterns! This way the entire information was transmitted without any of the side effects or disharmonies encountered when cutting out and re-introducing single genes from the DNA.

This represents an unbelievable, world-transforming revolution and sensation: by simply applying vibration (sound frequencies) and language instead of the archaic cutting-out procedure!

This experiment points to the immense power of wave genetics, which obviously has a greater influence on the formation of organisms than the biochemical processes of alkaline sequences.

Esoteric and spiritual teachers have known for ages that our body is programmable by language, words and thought. This has now been scientifically proven and explained.

Of course the frequency has to be correct. And this is why not everybody is equally successful or can do it with always the same strength. The individual person must work on the inner processes and development in order to establish a conscious communication with the DNA.

The Russian researchers work on a method that is not dependent on these factors but will ALWAYS work, provided one uses the correct frequency. But the higher developed an individual's consciousness is, the less need is there for any type of device: one can achieve these results by oneself. Science will finally stop laughing at such ideas and will confirm and explain the results. And it doesn't end there.

The Russian scientists also found out that our DNA can cause disturbing patterns in a vacuum, thus producing magnetized wormholes! Wormholes are the microscopic equivalents of the so-called Einstein-Rosen bridges in the vicinity of black holes (left by burned-out stars).

These are tunnel connections between entirely different areas in the universe through which information can be transmitted outside of space and time. The DNA attracts these bits of information and passes them on to our consciousness. This process of hyper-communication (telepathy, channeling) is most effective in a state of relaxation.

Stress, worry or a hyperactive intellect prevent successful hyper-communication or the information will be totally distorted and useless. In nature, hyper-communication has been successfully applied for millions of years. The organized flow of life in insects proves this dramatically. Modern man knows it only on a much more subtle level as "intuition." But we, too, can regain full use of it.

As an example from nature, when a queen ant is separated from her colony, the remaining worker ants will continue building fervently according to plan. However, if the queen is killed, all work in the colony stops. No ant will know what to do. Apparently, the queen transmits the "building plans" even if far away —via the group consciousness with her subjects. She can be as far away as she wants, as long as she is alive.

In humans, hyper-communication is most often encountered when one suddenly gains access to information that is outside one's knowledge base. Such hyper-communication is then experienced as inspiration or intuition (also in trance channeling). The Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini, for instance, dreamt one night that a devil sat at his bedside playing the violin. The next morning Tartini was able to note down the piece exactly from memory. He called it the Devil's Trill Sonata.

For years, a 42-year old male nurse dreamt of a situation in which he was hooked up to a kind of knowledge CD-ROM. Verifiable knowledge from all imaginable fields was then transmitted to him that he was able to recall in the morning. There was such a flood of information that it seemed a whole encyclopedia was transmitted at night. The majorities of facts were outside his personal knowledge base and reached technical details of which he knew absolutely nothing. When hyper-communication occurs, one can observe in the DNA, as well as in the human, supernatural phenomena.

The Russian scientists irradiated DNA samples with laser light. On screen, a typical wave pattern was formed. When they removed the DNA sample, the wave pattern did not disappear, it remained. Many controlled experiments showed that the pattern continued to come from the removed sample, whose energy field apparently remained by itself. This effect is now called phantom DNA effect. It is surmised that energy from outside of space and time still flows through the activated wormholes after the DNA was removed. The side effects encountered most often in hyper-communication in humans are inexplicable electromagnetic fields in the vicinity of the persons concerned.

Electronic devices like CD players and the like can be irritated and cease to function for hours. When the electromagnetic field slowly dissipates, the devices function normally again. Many healers and psychics know this effect from their work: the better the atmosphere and energy, the more frustrating it can be for recording devices as they stop functioning at that exact moment. Often by next morning all is back to normal.

Perhaps this is reassuring to read for many, as it has nothing to do with them being technically inept; it means they are good at hyper-communication.

In their book Vernetzte Intelligenz, Grazyna Gosar and Franz Bludorf explain these connections precisely and clearly. The authors also quote sources presuming that in earlier times humanity had been just like the animals: very strongly connected to group consciousness and thereby acted as a group. In order to develop and experience individuality, however, we humans had to forget hyper-communication almost completely.

Now that we are fairly stable in our individual consciousness, we can create a new form of group consciousness —namely one in which we attain access to all information via our DNA without being forced or remotely controlled about what to do with that information. We now know that just as we use the internet, our DNA can feed proper data into the network, can retrieve data from the network, and can establish contact with other participants in the network. Remote healing, telepathy or "remote sensing" about the state of another can thus be explained. Some animals know from afar when their owners plan to return home. This can be freshly interpreted and explained via the concepts of group consciousness and hyper-communication.

Any collective consciousness cannot be sensibly used over any period of time without a distinctive individuality; otherwise we would revert to a primitive herd instinct that is easily manipulated. Hyper-communication in the new millennium means something quite different.

Researchers think that if humans with full individuality would regain group consciousness, they would have a god-like power to create, alter and shape things on Earth! AND humanity is collectively moving toward such a group consciousness of the new kind.

Fifty percent of children will become a problem as soon as they go to school, since the system lumps everyone together and demands adjustment. But the individuality of today's children is so strong that they refuse this adjustment and resist giving up their idiosyncrasies in the most diverse ways.

At the same time more and more clairvoyant children are born. Something in those children is striving more towards the group consciousness of the new kind, and it can no longer be suppressed.

As a rule, weather for example is rather difficult to influence by a single individual. But it may be influenced by group consciousness (nothing new about this to some indigenous tribes). Weather is strongly influenced by Earth resonance frequencies (Schumann frequencies). But those same frequencies are also produced in our brains, and when many people synchronize their thinking or when individuals (spiritual masters, for instance) focus their thoughts in a laser-like fashion, then it is not at all surprising that they can influence the weather.

A modern day civilization which develops group consciousness would have neither environmental problems nor scarcity of energy: for if it were to use such mental powers as a unified civilization, it would have control of the energies of its home planet as a natural consequence.

When a great number of people become unified with higher intention as in meditating on peace —potentials of violence also dissolve.

Apparently, DNA is also an organic superconductor that can work at normal body temperature, as opposed to artificial superconductors which require extremely low temperatures between -200 and -140°C to function. In addition, all superconductors are able to store light and thus information. This further explains how DNA can store information.

There is another phenomenon linked to DNA and wormholes. Normally, these super-small wormholes are highly unstable and are maintained only for the tiniest fractions of a second. Under certain conditions stable wormholes can organize themselves, which then form distinctive vacuum domains in which for example, gravity can transform into electricity. Vacuum domains are self-radiant balls of ionized gas that contain considerable amounts of energy. There are regions in Russia where such radiant balls appear very often.

Following the ensuing confusion the Russians started massive research programs leading finally to some of the discoveries mentioned above. Many people know vacuum domains as shiny balls in the sky. The attentive look at them in wonder and ask themselves, what they could be.

I thought once: "Hello up there. If you happen to be a UFO, fly in a triangle." And suddenly, the light balls moved in a triangle. Or they shot across the sky like ice hockey pucks: they accelerated from zero to crazy speeds while sliding silently across the sky. One is left gawking and I have, as many others, too, thought them to be UFOs. Friendly ones, apparently, as they flew in triangles just to please me.

Now, the Russians found —in the regions where vacuum domains often appear— that sometimes fly as balls of light from the ground upwards into the sky, and that these balls can be guided by thought. Since then it has been found that vacuum domains emit waves of low frequency that are also produced in our brains and because of this similarity of waves they are able to react to our thoughts. To run excitedly into one that is on ground level might not be such a great idea, because those balls of light can contain immense energies and are capable of mutating our genes.

Many spiritual teachers also produce such visible balls or columns of light in deep meditation or during energy work, which trigger decidedly pleasant feelings and do not cause any harm. Apparently this is also dependent on some inner order, quality and origin of the vacuum domain. There are some spiritual teachers, like the young Englishman Ananda, for example, with whom nothing is seen at first, but when one tries to take a photograph while they sit and speak or meditate in hyper-communication, one gets only a picture of a white cloud on a chair.

In certain Earth healing projects, such light effects also appear on photographs. Simply put, this phenomena has to do with gravity and anti-gravity forces that are ever more stable forms of wormholes and displays of hyper-communication with energies from outside our time and space structure. Earlier generations that experienced such hyper-communication and visible vacuum domains were convinced that an angel had appeared before them: and we cannot be too sure to what forms of consciousness we can get access when using hyper-communication.

Not having scientific proof for their actual existence, people having had such experiences do NOT all suffer from hallucinations. We have simply made another giant step towards understanding our reality. Official science also knows of gravity anomalies on Earth that contribute to the formation of vacuum domains. Recently gravity anomalies have been found in Rocca di Papa, south of Rome.

Joseph Campbell - Follow your bliss

2011-02-16T12:24:00.000-08:00

living without money (from UK Times article)

2011-02-16T11:44:00.000-08:00

Twenty-two years ago Heidemarie Schwermer, a middle-aged secondary school teacher just emerging from a difficult marriage, moved with her two children from the village of Lueneburg to the city of Dortmund, in the Ruhr area of Germany, whose homeless population, she immediately noticed, was above average and striking in its intransigent hopelessness.

Her immediate reaction was shock. “This isn’t right, this can’t go on,” she said to herself. After careful reflection she set up what in Germany is called a Tauschring — a sort of swap shop — a place where people can exchange their skills or possessions for other skills and possessions, a money-free zone where a haircut could be rendered in return for car maintenance; a still-functioning but never-used toaster be exchanged for a couple of second-hand cardigans. She called it Gib und Nimm, Give and Take.

It was always Schwermer’s belief that the homeless didn’t need money to re-enter society: instead they should be able to empower themselves by making themselves useful, despite debts, destitution or joblessness. “I’ve always believed that even if you have nothing, you are worth a lot. Everyone has a place in this world.”

But the homeless of Dortmund seemed not to take to Schwermer’s plan, few ever turned up to the Tauschring. Some, they told her angrily to her face, felt that a middle-class woman with some education would never be able to relate to the circumstances of the dispossessed. Instead it was mainly the unemployed and the retired who began, in snowballing numbers, to flock to the Tauschring, their arms full of things that had been lying around their homes unused for years, or skills that they possessed but no longer exercised: retired hairdressers volunteered to cut the hair of out-of-work electricians, who would wire their kitchens in return; retired English teachers gave language lessons in return for the services of a dog-walker. The point was, not a single pfennig changed hands.

The Tauschring grew exponentially, was written up glowingly in a couple of local papers and turned into something of a Dortmund phenomenon. Its success also prompted Schwermer to ask serious questions of herself and her way of life. “I began to realise that I lived with so many things I didn’t need. So I decided that I wouldn’t buy anything without giving something away. That’s how it started. Then I began to really think about what I needed, clothes for example, and noticed that I could easily get by with what I could hang on ten coathangers. Everything else I gave away. I had so much stuff in the house that was superfluous. Getting rid of it was a relief.”

After a while even her vast collection of books began to assume an excessive presence in her home and one day Schwermer marched to a second-hand shop with her entire library. “The woman in the shop was upset. But I felt that giving them away was a good thing. I love books but I knew I had to get rid of them. I didn’t miss them, which surprised me. I just wanted to pare things down to their essentials.”
What had, in part, led Schwermer to her conclusions about “stuff” was a year of psychotherapy after the breakdown of her marriage in the mid-1980s. It was a difficult year, she remembers: “I was in floods of tears nearly every session, but at the end of it I felt so happy and decided that I wanted to live more simply. I also wanted to pass on what I learnt in therapy to other people, and that’s when I began to train as a psychotherapist.”

Other things changed. She took up meditation and began to realise how dissatisfied she was in her job. “I was always ill with flu or had backache and never realised the connection between my physical symptoms and my unhappiness at work.”

In the wake of setting up her Tauschring, she began to experiment with other sorts of jobs on the side. “I was working in a kitchen for ten deutschmarks an hour and people were saying to me, ‘You went to university, you studied to do this?’ But I thought, well, every person has an intrinsic value, why should I be valued more for being a teacher or a therapist than for working in a kitchen?”

The more ascetically she lived, the happier she became. By 1995 she was deeply involved in the Tauschring, house-sitting for short periods in exchange for cleaning or light maintenance work. She was buying virtually nothing: “When I needed something, I found that it would just come into my life. My glasses, for example. There was an optician who was a member of the Tauschring and he gave them to me in return for some therapy sessions.”

It was in 1996 she realised that “I had to go farther” and took what would be the most radical decision of her life: to live without money. She gave up her apartment and teaching job and resolved to live nomadically, an “extreme lifestyle”, she admits, moving from house to house, in return for menial work. Her new way of life was intended as a short-lived thing: she had given herself 12 months. But she found herself enjoying it so much that it never really ended.

Thirteen years on, she continues to live according to the principles of Gib und Nimm. “Life became much more exciting. More beautiful. I had everything I needed and I knew I couldn’t go back to my old life. I didn’t have to do what I didn’t like, I had a more profound sense of joy, and physically I feel better than ever. Living without money was just the first step. I realised that I wanted to change the world and I wasn’t going to do that by looking after someone’s cat while they were on holiday.”
She still lives — a week at a time — in the spare rooms of members of the Tauschring, cleaning or working in return for accommodation. Only very occasionally has she had personality clashes with her hosts and she tries to resolve any tension within herself “by going for a walk”. She has emergency savings of €200 (£180) and any other money that comes to her she gives away. “I decided it was OK to collect my pension but I give most of it away, except for what I need to pay for train tickets.”

She has no health insurance because she didn’t want to be accused of scrounging off the state. Instead she relies on what she calls the “power of self-healing. When something hurts, I put my hand on it and say to myself I have the power to heal myself and the pain goes away.” What if she becomes really ill? “Cancer? Then I suppose I’ll die. I’ve already prepared myself for death several times — times when I thought, ‘This is it, it’s over’. But then I got up the next day and everything was fine.”

Her entire material world is now contained in a single black suitcase and a rucksack. No photographs because, she says, “I don’t need them”.

In the flesh Schwermer is charming and engaging as well as lively and youthful-looking with strong jutting teeth and eyesight that she says she has halfway managed to correct herself with exercises she has picked from the people she meets. She is well dressed, neat and tidy and, it may come as a surprise given her lifestyle, 67 years old. Her two children — now a music teacher and a therapist — support what their mother does although the family don’t spend Christmas together. Though single, she has relationships every now and again, but is adamant that any love affair will always come second to what she calls her ideological work with Gib und Nimm. “I can imagine having a serious relationship with someone who is spiritual and who believes in what I’m doing, but not one where I live in a nice big house. I can fall in love but I can’t imagine living with someone. ”

Given her constant roaming about the country, it is almost impossible pinning her down. We met in the Greenpeace offices in Münster, near Cologne, where she was to address a group of young people who had been inspired by her work to live without money for week (Schwermer spends much of her time giving lectures about her lifestyle). Accompanying her was an Italian/ Norwegian film crew and we watched as successive teenagers stumbled in and out of the office, having been given the task of bartering for food with the offer of work. “We already live in a barter economy. We go to work to get money. I want to go farther.”

What is farther and how far is far enough? Ideally, Schwermer would like to lead by example and give other people courage to change their attitudes towards money and how they live in and contribute to society. The pressure to buy and to own, she feels, has intensified in recent years. Consumerism is essentially about “an attempt to fill an empty space inside. And that emptiness, and the fear of loss, is manipulated by the media or big companies.” There is a fear, she says, that in not buying or owning an individual will fall out of society. The irony, she claims, is that material goods can never plug a spiritual hole and shopping and hoarding are more likely to isolate people than bring contentment. Does she intend to start a revolution?

“No, I think of myself as planting the seed,” she says. “Perhaps people come away from my lectures or seeing me being interviewed and decide to spend a little less. Others might start meditating. The point is that my living without money is to allow for the possibility of another kind of society. I want people to ask themselves, ‘What do I need? How do I really want to live?’ Every person needs to ask themselves who they really are and where they belong. That means getting to grips with oneself.”
Does she really think that she can convert other people to her life philosophy? “Yes, that’s our future. One day we will all live without money, because we don’t need it and because it is only a burden. We’re the way we are because it’s how the system allows us to be. We can buy everything we want but we need so much less than we realise. If you think that the capitalist system we live in now is the only system, well that’s just ridiculous.”

Though she no longer owns any of her own, she has written two books on her adventures (and has given away her royalties). The first, My Life without Money, turned her first into a minor hero in Germany in some quarters, the kind who, last week for example, was invited on to a late-night TV forum to discuss whether Money Can Make You Happy. Surrounded by dot-com millionaires and lottery winners, she spoke while the other guests peered at her, visibly disconcerted to meet a woman who had given up everything and who claimed to be happy. “I live completely normally, only without money,” she said. “There are people who do so in Siberia. And in Africa there are many people who survive only because they all help each other.”

Schwermer knows from experience that not everyone will take her seriously. When she began with her project, “I was attacked frequently by people telling me that I wasn’t living without money at all, that I was just being provocative or scrounging, which made me cry! But then I realised it isn’t just about giving and expecting something back, or about giving and allowing oneself to be taken advantage of, or becoming a victim. It is about the possibility of having another life, of letting go of the stuff around us and examining our deepest fears.”

She tells me about an episode three years ago when she became convinced that she was going to starve to death: “But I really asked myself what that was about and realised it was about my childhood, and it had no bearing on reality.” (Schwermer is the child of refugees who lost everything after the war). Her only real terror now is appearing in the media. “I hate being on TV because it makes me so nervous but I know I reach a lot of people that way.” The people she does get through to, judging by the demographics of the lecture halls she visits, tend to be women. Why? “Because women are more open to new ideas.”

Is Schwermer a lunatic? Certainly she has been called “naive” and “idealistic” by the author of an article in the right-wing Die Welt newspaper, who asked her whether she was pursuing a communist-lite agenda when communism has been proved to be a failure. “It’s true that communism didn’t work,” she says, “but human beings need to learn to be a little bit different before we can learn to share what we have. We are going to run out of oil in ten years. We don’t have infinite resources. That just isn’t sustainable.”

Is her own itinerant lifestyle sustainable? She thinks so. She feels young but, in the event of death, she has organised her own funeral. She’s “paid” for it by striking a deal with an enlightened clergyman, who agreed that she would cover the costs of the burial by offering counseling sessions for the bereaved. Such deals are a regular feature of her new existence: only the managers of the German rail network seem to be immune to her formidable powers of persuasion, hence the few euros she still needs at her disposable to travel long distances.

Schwermer often talks enthusiastically about “the new world” she is in the process of discovering. She is esoteric but not mad or prone to ranting. Most people find her to be engaging and likeable: there are now many members of her Tauschring. What about those who live without money but not through choice? What about the poor and the homeless? Has she ever converted a homeless person to her way of thinking?

“I haven’t managed to reach the homeless,” she says. “I did hold lectures for the homeless but only six or seven showed up. They didn’t want to hear it. One of the men there accused me of having ‘connections’, that I’d only been able to do what I have been able to do because I knew people. I do have contacts, that’s what this new world is all about, forging links and contacts. Otherwise it wouldn’t work.”

She never managed to convince her interlocutor and not long after their conversation he had resumed his place outside on the pavement begging for spare change.

video on power of thought to create reality

2011-02-08T11:45:00.001-08:00

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=176811095695366

the new body electrics, from lightworker.com

2011-01-27T17:57:00.000-08:00

Greetings from Home

This day ranks among the top, for many of you have changed your energy entirely. You have stopped the busy hustle of your own lives for just a moment to revel in the past and to re-member all the beauty you have experienced, then to turn around and raise your expectations for the future. These are the expectations that are creating your future right now. They are determining your path everywhere you go; they are setting aside opportunities for you to experience everything you wanted to in this physical bubble of biology.

Grounding Light

To just allow yourself to be we would like you to take a deep breath, an Earth breath into a physical body, for just a moment and simply allow yourself to be here in this moment right now. With all of the anticipation of what will be, it is very easy for humans to drop into their past or to project themselves into the future. Only one of those three—past, present and future¾is real. That is right now. Your memories of the past are very real, but you cannot live in them. Your expectations of the future are very real and important, but you cannot live in them either. You can live here, right now, and blend the three. We ask you to try not to live only in the present time, for that will become very challenging. Most of you actually create the path in front of you when you plan, expect, or create something. If you are busy enjoying this moment that does not happen as well, so we ask you to understand that it is a blend of these: past, present and future. It is not black and white, so you cannot choose only one; it is a union of the three. We will speak more of this as we go forward. First let us back up and tell you why it is changing, and why your perception of time as humans will be shifting very soon.

We wish to bring together several different pieces that we have spoken of before. Now it will be easier to understand, for much of it you are already familiar with. Even though you may not know exactly how this fits into your daily life, you have accepted much of what we have spoken as truth in your own lives which has created a foundation for a new human to evolve. It is happening all over the planet, because now is the time when humans can carry more of their own spirit in their physical body than they ever have before.

Physical Evolution

There are also several physical changes that are taking place to better accommodate this energy shift, and it is happening every to human being on the planet. Your physical body is beginning to change now, yet it will probably be several years before your medical community can quantify these changes; medical communities typically move very slowly on purpose. Much of what you have been expecting¾what you call ascension¾is possible so that you can bring this light into a physical body walking around on Earth.

Redistribution of Water

Yes, you will always have limitations. You are on this side of the veil, so you must be in the timeline. Although that timeline can be changed as you well know, for you have just changed the timeline of Earth which was to end around the year 2012. You have already shifted that, but yes you are still experiencing many of the things that were going to bring about the end. So many of the shifts and changes you are seeing on your planet, particularly having to do with the re-distribution of water and the re-balancing of the planet, are taking place on a daily basis right now. You are also establishing so many connections with the energy that we call water; yet you do not classify it as energy even though it fits all the classifications to what you know to be energy. Water exists on both sides of the veil as does all energy. You have been able to carry the spirit of your higher self in your physical body, largely due to the amount of water energy that you carry in your bodies. That is beginning to change, for this is one of the physical attributes that will be very easily quantified and measured as time goes forward for humans.

You have been comfortable with a certain amount of water in your body, but this water also brings you the grounding of physical Earth. Your emotional levels are actually attached to the physical water. It is how you have been processing emotions through your body, and how you receive emotions from other people through your body. Have you ever been in a theatre where you know perfectly well there are people sitting behind you but you pay no attention to them? Then all of a sudden you feel somebody turn around and look right in the eyes of someone who is staring at the back of your head, almost as if you saw them? That happens through the water. Now what is taking place is the physical body will begin to work with smaller percentages of water. You can literally change the amount of water by as much as 20% over the next 50 years. That is a huge change in humanity and will lead to a lot of different attributes, some of which we wish to talk about today.

The amount of water in your physical body will be reducing and, therefore, your overexposure to emotion will also be reducing. In the beginning, whenever humans change on any energy level there is a resistance to change; typically you grab hold and try to hang onto every part of you. Many of you now feel that your emotions are out of control. A lot of this has to do with these changes that are setting up throughout humanity. Many of you may feel that you are doing everything right: your life is right and your spirit is comfortable, yet you are angry, anxious or hurt all the time. Perhaps you are feeling things that you have never felt before. This is true, for it is part of the shifts that are happening.

Let us explain something else, too. We have said for a very long time that humans on this planet are becoming crystalline in nature. We have also said recently that the actual atomic structure of the element that you call carbon is about to change. This is all part of the same change that you will see in your physical bodies, for you are carbon-based creatures. Carbon and water changing at the same time will allow you to evolve to the new levels very, very quickly. It also causes challenges, obviously. It also feels that when you have found your stability, all of a sudden the rug moves. Alas, once you learn the rules of the game, the rules are changed. This is typical of how you grow. You wait, wait, wait…hold onto everything then suddenly jump forward. That jump forward has already begun for many of you. Let us speak first of what life will be like when you have less water in the physical body.

Crystallization of the Body

You are becoming crystalline in nature. At some point this will actually be discovered on a scientific level within the cell wall structures of your physical being. It has already shown up in Botany and in the insect world; it will be known in the animal world and the human world very soon. It will be verified, but what about crystals? What are some of the properties that crystals have that you have not had up until this point?

Crystal has the highest vibration of the mineral kingdom, and it is a part of you in the same way that the Earth is part of you. Since human beings are the highest vibration of the animal kingdom, you resonate quite often with crystalline structure¾crystals you consider to be minerals because they are also the highest vibration of what you call the mineral or Earth substance. This has created a connection and has extended your lives much further than you know. When you walk into a room there may be all kinds of trinkets, favorites trophies on the shelf for pictures on the wall for you to look at. Which ones are you drawn to? Generally you will be drawn to the ones with crystals first. If there is a crystal sitting there, you are most likely to walk over, pick it up and just hold it or stare at it for a second to see the shards of light as they bounce around. At that moment it means something to you and it is changing your structure; it is helping you alter yourself.

On this planet, women typically live longer than men. You can see it very clearly in your actuarial tables. We told you before, many of you have believed this is because of war on your planet; war took out many of the men so men wouldn’t live as long, but that is not true. What has led to women’s longevity is that they feel more comfortable with crystals close to their bodies than men do. Typically, a man will not wear a big diamond ring whereas a woman would love to wear one. Because of some of these cultural and societal differences, typically women will live longer than men; they will deal with stress longer than men.

What is happening now is that everyone is starting to become crystalline within their own physical bodies, so this creates a lot of changes. Number one, this is the return of the life expectancies that you have been watching. Many of you know that the human body is well designed to live past the 80, 90 or 100 years that have been typical for humans at this point. Nobody can quite figure out why some people living in a certain part of the world seem to live to age 130. We tell you that even in your lifetime in the physical body you have, it is going to be very possible for you to live 120 or 130 years. As this change starts to happen, it will bring about a natural longevity that will increase life expectancy of a physical body. This is one of the points you are looking for that will be triggered by your change in the actual amount of water or percentage of water that you will be holding in the body.

Also, there is another energy which has been harnessed and tamed and used regularly on your planet: electricity. You use it every time you pick up a phone, every time you walk through your daily life, over and over and over. Humans have become comfortable with electricity; they know where the boundaries are. They know they cannot stick their finger in a wall socket because it will bite back, and they learn to live in harmony with this. What is taking place now is that as you hold less percentages of water, as that process starts to happen to your physical body, you will have a different reaction to electricity and to electric instruments all around you.

Many have already started to discover this. Especially those of you who work with instruments or electronics on a regular basis will start to have these wonderful phantom problems as the Keeper calls it. He says, “There is nothing wrong with that machine. It is haunted.” In reality, the machine is reacting differently to his energy because he is the one who has changed. Let us explain a couple of things. The Keeper is going wild right now because we have just made sense of several things that have been happening to him. He will have to share it another time because we are talking now. We will tell you one of them since it is a very common one.

The Keeper just returned from a two-week trip and his house was completely closed up for two weeks. No one came in and no one went out, except for the guard cat. What took place is that when he returned and picked up the remote control to the TV set and turned it on¾nothing. He yells at his wife for putting it in the wrong place or perhaps she did something wrong; that is typical. He pushes the power button again and nothing. He changes the batteries and it sort of works. This time, one piece of equipment comes on but the other pieces do not work. He works with it a while longer and after messing with it for about a half hour, it is suddenly working fine. He goes into his office, reaches down, picks up the control and has exactly the same thing happen. He has changed so much in just the two weeks he was gone, that the relationship he already created with many of the electrical devices no longer worked. This is very common with what many will experience. It is much more than this; we are only giving you little pieces to look for to verify it in your own life.

Reduction of Water within the Body

One of the pieces you will all come to question and want to know more about is reducing the amount of water in your physical body. We caution you here because it sounds like we are telling you to drink less , but we tell you that the moment you try to control the amount of water in your body, it will take over and control you. It will even over flood you to make sure that you will not dry out; it has to do it on its own, and it will. This is not something we suggest you try to make happen, for it will occur on its own. What we will tell you is that right now all of you have ambient energy that is traveling through your body. It is microwaves, radio waves, and it is much of the invisible light spectrum that is traveling through your body with no problem whatsoever. There is even a radio transmitter on the Keeper’s belt which is transmitting his voice to the back of the room so that you can hear it.

You have not felt these energies up to this point. However, as you reduce the amount of water in your body you will start noticing that there is an accumulation of energy in your body occasionally that you do not know how it gets there. As you start to become crystalline, you will begin to send and receive radio frequencies. You actually have that capability right now, because many of you have already crystallized the pineal gland and it can be trained to send and receive. This is part of what we are calling deep contact. Often the deep contact that is made is done through the pineal gland of many humans right now. It is starting to take place in other forms, and when this happens humans will develop a new area to compensate for all this ambient energy that you will become aware of. It is still flowing through your bodies right now, but you are not aware of it.

As this happens, you can easily start to become aware of it and f be overwhelmed by it. What can happen will feel very much like a flu, but without all of the flu symptoms. The Keeper is jumping up and down again because he had this happen to him last night. He is starting to understand what is going on here and he has much to say but again, we will quiet him down for it is important for us to finish. What we tell you is that you will feel things differently. Your electrical charge—the energy from Home you have been carrying that up to this point that holds most of your spirit¾is water and it is changing. It will be electrical in nature as you go forward because the energy of Home, no matter what you call it, can come to you in many different ways.

New Body Electrics

The challenge comes because humans know how to ground themselves when dealing with the water; they know how to ground their energy. They know when they have too much or when they are getting too much emotional energy. But we tell you this will happen especially for those of you who stand in front of audiences, giving speeches, performing or working with people. Let us say that you work with people every week speaking publically with no problem. You learned to put this little boundary up and hold it at bay, talking to the wall if you need to in order to avoid all this incredible energy coming at you on stage. You will feel the energy now because those boundaries you have worked with before are no longer in place. Many of you will start to feel things you have never felt before; they are triggers to start working with this energy. As you become more and more crystalline, the light will enter your bodies in different ways besides the vibrations that water can carry.

Light Grounding

Now, you will be overwhelmed with light. We have mentioned this before only as a teaser, but now it is time to bring it in. Light grounding will be one of the keys that you will learn. Not only will you learn how to do it with your physical being, but you will learn how to do it with electrical equipment. You will learn how to do it with everything you use in order to harmonize your electronics and your physical being with the electronics. The Keeper had to replace four sets of batteries before he was finished that day. He thought someone went through his house and drained all the batteries, but it was actually him. Then he went into his room and started up his favorite computer, the one he uses all the time, and it would not boot. It simply would not work. He tried it three or four more times and finally it sort of came up, then finally the fifth or sixth time it came back completely unharmed. It is because it had to adjust to his new vibration. You are working with harmonics already and the sacred harmony is a very beautiful thing to learn. It is your place in the world, where you fit in, but you must also understand that where you are fitting in no longer holds your energy.

You are evolving at an incredible rate and from that overview of humanity this is happening in the blink of an eye. You are the ones leading the way, and you are the ones daring to take it to the next energy level.

We have one final piece to share as well. Because this is also triggering a re-anchoring of the physical body, the body must always anchor itself or what you call grounding to the Earth. The electrical connection itself in your own physical body has to have a place to go in order for it to run through the body. You call this grounding. It is also called grounding in electrical circuits, because it is a return of the current to the ground or to the final resting place. Literally, what is taking place is that your connection is changing; human vibrational patterns are changing daily. Your aura photos are going to change drastically and much of your connection to all of these things that have measured part of your energy field are going to shift drastically. As such, many of you will experience times when you are feeling emotions, or not feeling emotions where you thought you should.

Sexual Energy Wave

The final anchoring of the spirit in the physical body is what we have called sexual energy. We told you several years ago that there would be a new wave of sexual energy on this planet, one that would make your 1960s seem tame in comparison. At the time there was a huge wave that went through very quickly and activated everything; this activation is a revival of that. Now, as you move to this new level you will release your own energy templates. You will start letting your energy return to its normal state instead of trying to hold it within a physical being. As you learn to do all these things you will find a new joy in being alive, and that is the sexual energy.

You will find a new light in your smile and we ask you to please not be afraid of it. Embrace it. It is a part of humanity that is evolving on this planet at an incredible rate. We tell you that it is not just sex that we are talking about and certainly not just the act of sex, for that is only one small use of this energy. You have sexual energy every time someone sees your spirit in your physical body. Every time you smile, every time you can carry that light from Home. You are being re-wired, each and every one of you so that your physical body can hold more light while you walk around on this planet. It is your invention; this is not predestined. The destination of planet Earth is about to come up and you are all walking past it, celebrating, enjoying your lives.

You are becoming new humans very rapidly. We are so honored just to be here to watch, for this is what you have worked for your entire life. Many of you have to actually push your way into this particular lifetime, even having a set of parents that didn’t understand you or going through all kinds of difficulties growing up just so you could be here right now. We made it! Espavo. You made it! Enjoy these next steps. If you get scared, reach out and hold each other’s hands and help each other to the next step one heart at a time. This planet is turning into heaven on Earth.

We leave you with three simple, familiar reminders. Treat each other with the greatest respect for there are many gods on this planet. Nurture one another and clear the path for each other every chance you get. Know that it is a beautiful game and play well together. Espavo.

www.lightworker.com

research on benefits of meditation

2011-01-27T13:04:00.000-08:00

Participants in an 8 week mindfulness meditation class experienced structural brain changes including increased grey-matter density in the hippocampus, known to be important for learning and memory, and in structures associated with self-awareness, compassion and introspection.
This is the first research to document meditation-produced changes in the brain.

Previous research has identified differences in brain activity and structure between practiced meditators and non-meditators.

Researchers noted that long-term meditation alters brain-wave patterns, with greater activity in brain circuits involved in attention. They also found that brain regions associated with attention and sensory processing were thicker in meditators than in controls. The question was whether people with a thicker brain cortex in areas associated with awareness and sensory processing were more likely to meditate.
The current study is the first to document that these structural changes are in fact produced by meditation.

"This study demonstrates that changes in brain structure may underlie some of these reported improvements and that people are not just feeling better because they are spending time relaxing," said study author Sara Lazar, PhD, of the MGH Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program
During the study MR images of participants' brain structure were taken two weeks prior to and immediately following an eight week mindfulness based stress reduction programme. MR brain images were also taken of a control group over a similar time interval.

The meditation course consisted of weekly meetings including guided meditation and audio meditations to do at home on a daily basis. Analysis of MR images found increased grey-matter density in the hippocampus, known to be important for learning and memory, and in structures associated with self-awareness, compassion and introspection. Participant-reported reductions in stress also were correlated with decreased grey-matter density in the amygdala, which is known to play an important role in anxiety and stress.

"It is fascinating to see the brain's plasticity and that, by practicing meditation, we can play an active role in changing the brain and can increase our well-being and quality of life." says Britta Hölzel, PhD, first author of the paper and a research fellow at MGH and Giessen University in Germany.
The research will be published in the January 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging

Further health benefits of meditation

Several studies designed specifically to understand the beneficial effects of meditation have shown that meditation helps to prevent heart disease, reduce pain, reduce blood pressure, reduce cholesterol, decrease anxiety and help manage asthma².

Meditation has been shown to increase alpha waves (relaxed brain waves) and decrease production of the stress hormone cortisol. It appears that some of the positive physical changes associated with meditation have their roots in stress management.

Conditions benefitted by meditation

Pain: There is a body of research work indicating that meditation can reduce chronic pain³. One notable study conducted at the Texas Tech University found that meditation in conjunction with traditional medicine enhances the effectiveness of western medical treatment. In another study published in the Journal of Behavioural Medicine, patients suffering from backache, chronic migraine and tension headaches were able to significantly reduce pain medication⁴. Another study found that people who meditate regularly find pain less unpleasant.⁵
HIV: There is emerging evidence from other studies that shows that meditation and behavioral stress-management programs can buffer HIV declines in HIV-positive people⁶
High Cholesterol: In two prospective, random assignment studies, meditation reduced total cholesterol over a relatively short period (three months)⁷ as well as a long period (11 months)⁸.
Anxiety and Depression: Since the early sixties, scientists have speculated that meditation improves mental functioning. Meditation decreases oxygen consumption, heart rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure, and increases the intensity of alpha, theta, and delta brain waves, the opposite of the physiological changes that occur during the stress response.
Diabetes: Meditation also aids in controlling blood sugar levels. Researchers at the University of Virginia have shown that following meditation, reduced stress levels correlate with a decrease in blood glucose levels.⁹
Hypertension: Besides its role as a stress buster, meditation also reduces blood pressure¹⁰ and contributes to the overall reduction in risk of cardiovascular disease.

Meditation is more that just a way for us to get in touch with ourselves and calm a busy mind. It appears that meditation has a direct effect on the physical body, brain activity and underlying brain structure. So what are you waiting for?

system failure

2011-01-27T10:07:00.000-08:00

I am that which I place my attention on.

The world I inhabit is the world I believe in.

I now choose to change my beliefs and so change my reality.

Or as Bill Murray says in "Groundhog Day": "I'm not going to play by their rules anymore."

some quotes from Peaceful Warrior (Dan Millman)

2011-01-27T10:03:00.000-08:00

'there is no past. there is no future. there is only this moment.'

'sometimes you have to lose your mind to come to your senses.'

'Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.'

'There is no starting or stopping - only doing.'

'The ones who are hardest to love are usually the ones who need it the most.'

'there are no ordinary moments.'

If Everyone Cared - Nickelback

2011-01-14T11:53:00.000-08:00

a near death experience by Mellen-Thomas Benedict

2011-01-13T09:37:00.000-08:00

A JOURNEY THROUGH THE LIGHT AND BACK

> Mellen-Thomas Benedict speaks:
>
> In 1982 I died from terminal cancer. The condition I had was inoperable,
> and any kind of chemotherapy they could give me would just have made me more
> of a vegetable. I was given six to eight months to live.
>
> I had been an information freak in the 1970s, and I had become increasingly
> despondent over the nuclear crisis, the ecology crisis, and so forth. So,
> since I did not have a spiritual basis, I began to believe that nature had
> made a mistake and that we were probably a cancerous organism on the ,,
> planet.
> I saw no way that we could get out from all the problems we had created
> for ourselves and the planet. I perceived all humans as cancer-and that is what
> I got.
>
> That is what killed me. Be careful what your world view is. It can feed
> back on you, especially if it is a negative world view. I had a seriously
> negative one. That is what led me into my death. I tried all sorts of
> alternative healing methods, but nothing helped.
>
> So I determined that this was really just between me and God. I had never
> really faced God before or even dealt with God. I was not into any kind of
> spirituality at the time, but I began a journey into learning about
> spirituality and alternative healing. I set out to do all the reading I
> could and bone up on the subject, because I did not want to be surprised
> on the other side. So I started reading on various religions and
> philosophies.
> They were all very interesting and gave hope that there was something on
> the other side. I ended up in hospice care.
>
> I remember waking up one morning at home about 4:30 AM, and I just knew
> that this was it.
>
> This was the day I was going to die. So I called a few friends and said
> goodbye. I woke up my hospice caretaker and told her. I had a private
> agreement with her that she would leave my dead body alone for six hours,
> since I had read that all kinds of interesting things happen when you die.
> I went back to sleep.
>
> The next thing I remember is the beginning of a typical near-death
> experience. Suddenly I was fully aware-and I was standing up but my body
> was in the bed. There was this darkness around me. Being out of my body was
> even more vivid than ordinary experience. It was so vivid that I could see
> every room in the house. I could see the top of the house, I could see around
> the house, I could see under the house.
>
> There was this Light shining. I turned toward the Light. The Light was
> very similar to what many other people have described in their near-death
> experiences. It was so magnificent. It is tangible; you can feel it. It is
> alluring; you want to go to it like you would want to go to your ideal
> mother's or father's arms.
>
> As I began to move toward the Light, I knew intuitively that if I went to
> the Light, I would be dead. So as I was moving toward the Light I said,
> "Please wait a minute; just hold on a second here. I want to think about
> this. I would like to talk to you before I go." To my surprise, the entire
> experience halted at that point. You are in control of your
> life-after-death experience. You are not on a roller coaster ride.
>
> So my request was honored, and I had some conversations with the Light.
> The Light kept changing into different figures, like Jesus, Buddha, Krishna,
> mandalas, archetypal images and signs. I asked the Light, "What is going
> on here? Please, Light, clarify yourself for me. I really want to know the
> reality of the situation." I cannot really say the exact words, because it
> was sort of telepathy.
>
> The Light responded. The information transferred to me was that during
> your life-after- death experience your beliefs shape the kind of feedback you
> are getting before the Light. If you were a Buddhist or Catholic or
> Fundamentalist, you get a feedback loop of your own stuff. You have a
> chance to look at it and examine it, but most people do not. As the Light
> revealed itself to me, I became aware that what I was really seeing was our Higher
> Self matrix.
>
> We all have a Higher Self, or an oversoul part of our being. It revealed
> itself to me in its truest energy form. The only way I can really describe
> it is that the Being of the Higher Self is more like a conduit. It did not
> look like that, but it is a direct connection to the Source that each and
> every one of us have. We are directly connected to the Source. So the
> Light was showing me the Higher Self matrix. I was not committed to one
> particular religion. So that is what was being fed back to me during my
> life-after-death experience.
>
> As I asked the Light to keep clearing for me, to keep explaining, I
> understood what the Higher Self matrix is. We have a grid around the
> planet where all the Higher Selves are connected.
>
> This is like a great company, a next subtle level of energy around us, the
> spirit level, you might say. Then, after a couple of minutes, I asked for
> more clarification. I really wanted to know what the Universe is about,
> and I was ready to go at that time. I said, "I am ready, take me."
>
> Then the Light turned into the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen:
> a mandala of human souls on this planet. Now I came to this with my negative
> view of what was happening on the planet. So as I asked the Light to keep
> clarifying for me, I saw in this magnificent mandala how beautiful we all
> are in our essence, our core. We are the most beautiful creations.
>
> The human soul, the human matrix that we all make together, is absolutely
> fantastic, elegant, exotic, everything. I just cannot say enough about how
> it changed my opinion of human Beings in that instant. I said, "Oh, God, I
> did not know how beautiful we are." At any level, high or low, in whatever
> shape you are in, you are the most beautiful creation.
>
> The revelations coming from the Light seemed to go on and on. Then I
> asked the Light, "Does this mean that Mankind will be saved?" Then, like a
> trumpet blast with a shower of spiraling lights, the Great Light spoke, saying,
> "Remember this and never forget; you save, redeem and heal yourself. You
> always have. You always will. You were created with the power to do so
> from before the beginning of the world."
>
> In that instant I realized even more. I realized that WE HAVE ALREADY BEEN
> SAVED, and we saved ourselves because we were designed to self- correct
> like the rest of God's Universe. This is what the second coming is about. I
> thanked the Light of God with all my heart. The best thing I could come up
> with was these simple words of total appreciation: "Oh dear God, dear
> Universe, dear Great Self, I Love My Life."
>
> The Light seemed to breathe me in even more deeply. It was as if the Light
> was completely absorbing me. The Love Light is, to this day,
> indescribable.
> I entered into another realm, more profound than the last and became aware
> of something more, much more. It was an enormous stream of Light, vast and
> full, deep in the Heart of Life. I asked what this was.
>
> The Light responded, "This is the RIVER OF LIFE. Drink of this manna water
> to your heart's content." So I did. I took one big drink and then another.
> To drink of Life Itself! I was in ecstasy.
>
> Then the Light said, "You have a desire." The Light knew all about me,
> everything past, present and future. "Yes!" I whispered.
>
> I asked to see the rest of the Universe, beyond our solar system, beyond
> all human illusion. The Light then told me that I could go with the Stream. I
> did, and was carried through the Light at the end of the tunnel. I felt
> and heard a series of very soft sonic booms. What a rush!
>
> Suddenly I seemed to be rocketing away from the planet on this stream of
> Life. I saw the Earth fly away. The solar system, in all its splendor,
> whizzed by and disappeared. At faster than light speed, I flew through the
> center of the Galaxy, absorbing more knowledge as I went. I learned that
> this Galaxy, and all of the Universe, is bursting with many different
> varieties of LIFE. I saw many worlds. The good news is that we are not
> alone in this Universe!
>
> As I rode this stream of consciousness through the center of the Galaxy,
> the stream was expanding in awesome fractal waves of energy. The super
> clusters of Galaxies with all their ancient wisdom flew by. At first I thought I
> was going somewhere, actually traveling. But then I realized that as the
> stream was expanding, my own consciousness was also expanding to take in
> everything in the Universe! All creation passed by me. It was an unimaginable wonder!
> I truly was a Wonder Child; a babe in Wonderland!

At this point, I found myself in a profound stillness, beyond all silence.
> I could see or perceive FOREVER, beyond Infinity.
> I was in the Void.
> I was in pre-creation, before the Big Bang. I had crossed over the
> beginning of time/the First Word/the First Vibration. I was in the Eye of Creation.
> I felt as if I was touching the Face of God. It was not a religious feeling.
> Simply, I was at one with Absolute Life and Consciousness.
>
> When I say that I could see or perceive forever, I mean that I could
> experience all of creation generating itself. It was without beginning and
> without end. That is a mind expanding thought, isn't it?
>
> Scientists perceive the Big Bang as a single event which created the
> Universe. I saw during my life-after- death experience that the Big Bang
> is only one of an infinite number of Big Bangs creating Universes endlessly
> and simultaneously. The only images that even come close in human terms would
> be> those created by super computers using fractal geometry equations.
>
> The ancients knew of this. They said God had periodically created new
> Universes by breathing out and recreated other Universes by breathing in.
> These epochs were called Yugas. Modern science called this the Big Bang. I
> was in absolute, pure consciousness. I could see or perceive all the Big
> Bangs or Yugas creating and recreating themselves. Instantly I entered
> into them all simultaneously. I saw that each and every little piece of
> creation has the power to create. It is very difficult to try to explain this. I am
> still speechless about this.
>
> It took me years after I returned from my near-death experience to
> assimilate any words at all for the Void experience. I can tell you this
> now: the Void is less than nothing, yet more than everything that is! The
> Void is absolute zero, chaos forming all possibilities. It is Absolute
> Consciousness, much more than even Universal Intelligence.
>
> The Void is the vacuum or nothingness between all physical manifestations.
> It is the SPACE between atoms and their components. Modern science has
> begun to study this space between everything. They call it Zero point. Whenever
> they try to measure it, their instruments go off the scale, or to
> infinity, so to speak. They have no way, as of yet, to measure infinity accurately.
> There is more of the zero space in your own body and the Universe than
> anything else!
>
> What mystics call the Void is not a void. It is so full of energy, a
> different kind of energy that has created everything that we are.
> Everything since the Big Bang is vibration, from the first Word, which is the first
> vibration. The biblical "I AM" really has a question mark after it. "I
> AM-What am I?" So creation is God exploring God's Self through every way
> imaginable, in an on-going, infinite exploration through every one of us.
> I began to see during my near-death experience that everything that is, is the
> Self, literally your Self, my Self. Everything is the great Self. That is
> why God knows even when a leaf falls. That is possible because wherever
> you are is the center of the Universe. Wherever any atom is, that is the
> center of the Universe. There is God in that, and God in the Void.
>
> As I was exploring the Void during my life-after- death experience and all
> the Yugas or creations, I was completely out of time and space as we know
> it. In this expanded state, I discovered that creation is about Absolute
> Pure Consciousness, or God, coming into the Experience of Life as we know
> it. The Void itself is devoid of experience. It is pre life, before the
> first vibration. Godhead is about more than Life and Death. Therefore
> there is even more than Life and Death to experience in the Universe!
>
> When I realized this, I was finished with the Void and wanted to return to
> this creation, or Yuga. It just seemed like the natural thing to do. Then
> I suddenly came back through the second Light, or the Big Bang, hearing
> several more velvet booms. I rode the stream of consciousness back through
> all of creation, and what a ride it was! The super clusters of Galaxies
> came through me with even more insights. I passed through the center of our
> Galaxy, which is a black hole. Black holes are the great processors or
> recyclers of the Universe.
>
> Do you know what is on the other side of a black hole? We are; our Galaxy,
> which has been reprocessed from another Universe. In its total energy
> configuration, the Galaxy looked like a fantastic city of lights.. All
> energy this side of the Big Bang is Light. Every sub atom, atom, star,
> planet, even consciousness itself is made of Light and has a frequency
> and/or particle. Light is living stuff. Everything is made of Light, even
> stones. So everything is alive. Everything is made from the Light of God;
> everything is very intelligent.
>
> As I rode the stream on and on, I could eventually see a huge Light
> coming.
> I knew it was the First Light; the Higher Self Light Matrix of our Solar
> System. Then the entire Solar System appeared in the Light, accompanied by
> one of those velvet booms.
>
> I could see all the energy that this Solar System generates, and it is an
> incredible Light show! I could hear the Music of the Spheres. Our Solar
> System, as do all celestial bodies, generates a unique matrix of light,
> sound and vibratory energies. Advanced civilizations from other star
> systems can spot Life as we know it in the Universe by the vibratory or energy
> matrix imprint. It is child's play. The Earth's wonder child (Human
> Beings) make an abundance of sound right now, like children playing in the
> backyard of the Universe.
>
> The Light explained to me that there is no death; we are immortal Beings.
> We have already been alive forever! I realized that we are part of a natural
> living system that recycles itself endlessly. I was never told that I had
> to come back. I just knew that I would. It was only natural, from what I had
> seen during my life-after-death experience.
>
> I don't know how long I was with the Light, in human time. But there came
> a moment when I realized that all my questions had been answered and my
> return was near. When I say that all my questions were answered on the other
> side,
> I mean to say just that. All my questions have been answered. Every human
> has a different life and set of questions to explore. Some of our
> questions are universal, but each of us is exploring this thing we call Life in our
> own unique way. So is every other form of life, from mountains to every
> leaf on every tree.
>
> That is very important to the rest of us in this Universe. Because it all
> contributes to the Big Picture, the fullness of Life. We are literally God
> exploring God's Self in an infinite Dance of Life. Your uniqueness
> enhances
> all of Life.
>
> As I began my return to the life cycle, it never crossed my mind, nor was
> I told, that I would return to the same body. It just did not matter. I had
> complete trust in the Light and the Life process. As the stream merged with
> the great Light, I asked never to forget the revelations and the feelings
> of what I had learned on the other side.
>
> There was a "Yes." It felt like a kiss to my soul.
>
> Then I was taken back through the Light into the vibratory realm again.
> The whole process reversed, with even more information being given to me. I
> came back home, and I was given lessons from my near-death experience on the
> mechanics of reincarnation. I was given answers to all those little
> questions I had: "How does this work? How does that work?" I knew that I
> would be reincarnated.
>
> The Earth is a great processor of energy, and individual consciousness
> evolves out of that into each one of us. I thought of myself as a human
> for the first time, and I was happy to be that. From what I have seen, I would
> be happy to be an atom in this Universe. An atom. So to be the human part
> of God-this is the most fantastic blessing. It is a blessing beyond our
> wildest estimation of what a blessing can be. For each and every one of us to be
> the human part of this experience is awesome and magnificent. Each and every
> one of us, no matter where we are, screwed up or not, is a blessing to the
> planet, right where we are.
>
> I went through the reincarnation process expecting to be a baby somewhere.
> But I was given a lesson on how individual identity and consciousness
> evolve. I was so surprised when I opened my eyes. I do not know why,
> because I understood it, but it was still such a surprise to be back in this body,
> back in my room with someone looking over me, crying her eyes out. It was
> my hospice caretaker. She had given up an hour and a half after finding me
> dead. My body was stiff and inflexible. She went into the other room. Then
> I awakened and saw the light outside. I tried to get up to go to it, but I
> fell out of the bed. She heard a loud "clunk," ran in and found me on the
> floor.
>
> When I recovered, I was very surprised and yet very awed about what had
> happened to me during my near-death experience. At first all the memory of
> the trip that I have now was not there. I kept slipping out of this world
> and kept asking, "Am I alive?" This world seemed more like a dream than
> that one. Within three days I was feeling normal again, clearer, yet different
> than I had ever felt in my life. My memory of my near-death experience
> came back later. I could see nothing wrong with any human Being I had ever
> seen.
> Before that I was really judgmental. I thought a lot of people were really
> screwed up. In fact, I thought that everybody was screwed up but me. But
> I got clear on all that.
>
> About three months later a friend said I should get tested, so I went and
> got the scans and so forth. I really felt good, so I was afraid of getting
> bad news. I remember the doctor at the clinic looking at the before and
> after scans, saying, "Well, there is nothing here now." I said, "Really,
> it must be a miracle"' He said "No, these things happen; they are called
> spontaneous remissions." He acted very unimpressed. But here was a
> miracle, and I was impressed, even if no one else was.
>
> During my near-death experience I had a descent into what you might call
> Hell, and it was very surprising. I did not see Satan or evil. My descent
> into Hell was a descent into each person's customized human misery,
> ignorance, and darkness of not knowing. It seemed like a miserable
> eternity.
> But each of the millions of souls around me had a little star of Light
> always available. But no one seemed to pay attention to it. They were so
> consumed with their own grief, trauma and misery. But, after what seemed
> an eternity, I started calling out to that Light, like a child calling to a
> parent for help.
>
> Then the Light opened up and formed a tunnel that came right to me and
> insulated me from all that fear and pain, That is what Hell really is. So
> what we are doing is learning to hold hands, to come together. The doors
> of Hell are open now. We are going to link up, hold hands and walk out of
> Hell together. The Light came to me and turned into a huge golden Angel. I
> said, "Are you the Angel of Death?" It expressed to me that it was my oversoul,
> my Higher Self matrix, a super ancient part of ourselves. Then I was taken to
> the Light.
>
> Soon our science will quantify spirit. Isn't that going to be wonderful?
> We are coming up with devices now that are sensitive to subtle energy or
> spirit energy. Physicists use these atomic colliders to smash atoms to see what
> they are made of. They have got it down to quarks and charm, and all that.
> Well, one day they are going to come down to the little thing that holds
> it all together, and they are going to have to call it...God. We are just
> beginning to understand that we are creating too, as we go along. As I saw
> forever, I came to a realm during my near-death experience in which there
> is a point where we pass all knowledge and begin creating the next fractal,
> the next level. We have that power to create as we explore. And that is God
> expanding itself through us.
>
> Since my return I have experienced the Light spontaneously, and I have
> learned how to get to that space almost any time in my meditation. Each
> one of you can do this. You do not have to die or have a near-death experience
> to do this. It is within your equipment; you are wired for it already. The
> body is the most magnificent Light Being there is. The body is a Universe
> of incredible Light. Spirit is not pushing us to dissolve this body. That is
> not what is happening. Stop trying to become God; God is becoming you.
> Here.
>
>
> I asked God: "What is the best religion on the planet? Which one is
> right?"
> And Godhead said, with great love: "I don't care." That was incredible
> grace. When Godhead said, "I don't care," I immediately understood that it
> is for us to care about. It is important, because we are the caring
> Beings.
>It matters to us and that is where it is important. What you have is the
> energy equation in spirituality. Ultimate Godhead does not care if you are
> Protestant, Buddhist or whatever. It is all a blooming facet of the whole.
> I wish that all religions would realize it and let each other be. It is not
> the end of each religion, but we are talking about the same God. Live and
> let live. Each has a different view. And it all adds up to the big
> picture;
> it is all important.
>
> I went over to the other side during my near-death experience with a lot
> of fears about toxic waste, nuclear missiles, the population explosion, the
> rainforest. I came back loving every single problem. I love nuclear waste.
> I love the mushroom cloud; this is the holiest mandala that we have
> manifested to date, as an archetype. It, more than any religion or philosophy on
> Earth, brought us together all of a sudden, to a new level of consciousness.
> Knowing that maybe we can blow up the planet fifty times, or 500 times, we
> finally realize that maybe we are all here together, now.
>
> For a period they had to keep setting off more bombs to get it in to us.
> Then we started saying, "we do not need this any more." Now we are
> actually in a safer world than we have ever been in, and it is going to get safer.
> So I came back from my near-death experience loving toxic waste because it
> brought us together. These things are so big. As Peter Russell might say,
> these problems are now "soul size." Do we have soul size answers" YES!
>
> The clearing of the rain forest will slow down, and in fifty years there
> will be more trees on the planet than in a long time. If you are into
> ecology, go for it; you are that part of the system that is becoming
> aware. Go for it with all your might, but do not be depressed. It is part of a
> larger thing.
>
> Earth is in the process of domesticating itself. It is never again going

be as wild a place as it once was. There will be great wild places,

reserves where nature thrives. Gardening and reserves will be the thing in the
> future. Population increase is getting very close to the optimal range of
> energy to cause a shift in consciousness. That shift in consciousness will
> change politics, money, energy.
>
> After dying, going through my near-death experience and coming back, I
> really respect life and death. In our DNA experiments we may have opened
> the door to a great secret. Soon we will be able to live as long as we want to
> live in this body.
>
> After living 150 years or so, there will be an intuitive soul sense that
> you will want to change channels. Living forever in one body is not as
> creative as reincarnation, as transferring energy in this fantastic vortex of
> energy that we are in. We are actually going to see the wisdom of Life and death,
> and enjoy it. As it is now, we have already been alive forever.
>
> This body, that you are in, has been alive forever. It comes from an
> unending Stream of Life, going back to the Big Bang and beyond.
>
> This body gives life to the next life, in dense and subtle energy.
>
> This body has been alive forever already.

POLESHIFT 2011 (from danialofdoriaa@youtube.com )

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MEGA ZOOM

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Cymatics

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the power of consciousness

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The Year Ahead, by Allison Rae

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http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2010/12/year-ahead.html

December 30, 2010

Life as we knew it is over. For 2011, 2012 and beyond, the game has definitely changed on Earth.

Economies, governments, businesses, education, social systems, the arts, sciences, technology and medicine all look radically different than they did just a few years ago.

Incoming cosmic frequencies are speeding up the changes. This has been going on for awhile now. In 2011, ramped-up evolutionary forces shift into overdrive. The reconfiguration is just beginning.

This week the sun sets on a year we'll never forget, and everyone's wondering what lies ahead.

The ancient and prophetic Mayan calendar is ending. The new year begins with an eclipse series, and four outer planets change signs in 2011. The writing's on the wall. The year is all about change.

Not that recent years haven't rocked our reality. In 2011, the energies are more complex. As the evolution of consciousness accelerates on Earth, we're able to download and integrate increasingly complex cosmic programs that further speed up the process. More and more quickly, we're learning to adapt.

In 2011, we go to the next level of complexity. Planetary energies will be highly focused, yet diffuse. It's a year of doing, and being, as we remember our powers of manifestation and begin to shape the next world age.

Within the grand cosmic drama of the Turning of the Ages, it's showtime.

Predictions about what exactly will happen are pointless. We're here to experience this auspicious moment and write history together.

Through sacred science we can forecast the natural energies the new year will bring. It's up to us to focus the evolutionary forces and craft the future of life on Earth.

The Forecast

(For my complete 2011 Astro Forecast, click here

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Energetically, 2011 will feel much different from 2010. Partly this is due to cosmological phenomena predicted by Mayan, Aztec, Hindu, Egyptian and other ancient timekeeping systems. Partly it's because the large celestial bodies closest to us - the planets of our solar system - will rearrange in ways that facilitate the transmission of specific frequencies to Earth. Another reason 2011 will feel different is that we're getting better at dealing with constant change.

The context of this speeded-up evolutionary process is the great cycle shift known as the Turning of the Ages. This is a rare astrological, astronomical, cosmological, geophysical phenomenon encoded in the sacred calendars of many spiritual traditions on Earth.

Vast cosmic cycles are ending and new cycles beginning over a transition period that lasts decades, perhaps hundreds or even thousands of years. We live in the twilight moment between the old and the new.

As we dive into the celestial waters of 2011, it's important to remember that any single year is part of a continuum of time that is cyclic and ever-expanding in nature. There's no specific day, month or year when everything will change.

Evolutionary energies are reaching a crescendo as we make our way through 2011, 2012 and beyond. There's a rumbling, a stirring of our very life force, as our codes are activated and the excitement builds. We breathe with anticipation and wonder where all the change is leading. Rather than watching passively, we're invited to step into our mastery, roll up our sleeves and contribute to shaping what happens next.

Themes and Highlights

The year 2011 features a complex tapestry made up of multicolored strands of energies. Looking more closely, we notice how the various strands are woven together to create a captivating overall design. Here are some themes and highlights that will emerge from this magical terrain.

I. Cosmic Initiation

Another wave of awakening will sweep the planet as the celestial and Earth energies peak several times during 2011.

The new year begins with two important eclipses that connect us with the creative force of the cosmos via the heart center of the Milky Way.

On December 21, the Sun, Earth and Moon aligned in a total lunar eclipse just hours before the Solstice, opening our hearts and minds to higher truth. In a rare cosmic convergence, the historic lunar event happened during the special period when our Sun aligns each year with the heart of the Milky Way, a galactic alignment related to the Mayan calendar and 2012. To experience the play of shadow and light as the Moon, Earth and Sun danced with the Galactic Core was a moment of pure grace.

The dawn of 2011 continues with a Solar Eclipse on the Capricorn New Moon on January 4. As the new year and a new lunar cycle begin, Jupiter and Uranus will be exactly conjunct in late Pisces. Together they square the Galactic Center, creating another moment of divine initiation, an awakening for humanity and the Earth.

Later in January, Jupiter enters Aries, sign of the warrior. Uranus will follow in March. We witnessed the celestial combustion when these two powerhouse planets met in early Aries during the summer months of 2010 (winter in the southern hemisphere). When Jupiter, the Guru, and Uranus, the Awakener, again journey into the cosmic fire of Aries, sparks of insight, ingenuity and innovation will fly.

As the first sign of the zodiac, Aries is associated with rebirth and new beginnings. In early 2011 both Jupiter and Uranus will complete their zodiacal journey in Pisces and begin a new cycle in Aries. The first degree of the first sign is an ultra-sensitive point in astrology. While Jupiter will zoom through Aries and into Taurus in 2011, Uranus moves more slowly and will hang around the initiation point for most of the year. The unpredictable nature of Uranus promises to surprise us both personally and collectively.

In February, the Universal Underworld of the Mayan Calendar begins, blowing open the walls of human perception and freeing us to experience our cosmic nature as divine co-creators. This initiation lasts through October 28, 2011, and signals another quantum acceleration of consciousness evolution. (Based on the work of Mayan scholar Carl Johan Calleman. See www.calleman.com/content/ppt_slides/slides.ppt

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Through the portal of 2011, an infusion of spiritual light will flood our world. Enlightenment is available to all in this unprecedented moment in cosmic time. As the kundalini fire of the cosmic serpent re-awakens on Earth, we're invited to the dance of creation.

II. Earth in Balance

We'll need the mass doses of Uranian inspiration and ingenuity coming our way, because we've got some enormous challenges to deal with on our home planet. Uranus is the problem-solver in astrology, the renegade, the "think-different" planet.

The Earth herself will be in the spotlight again in 2011. Earth changes will continue, with peaks likely in March through August, and again in late November through the end of the year.

Perhaps the most stirring memory of 2010, for ages to come, will be the Gulf Oil disaster, which began as the Sun crossed into Taurus, and Uranus and Jupiter hovered in late Pisces. The most important planetary configuration of 2010, the Grand Cardinal Cross, formed in the heavens two months later as oil leaked uncontrollably from the sea floor. The cross has formed several times since, and will again in 2011.

Both Chiron and Neptune will enter the water sign Pisces in 2011, and attention will again be focused on the waters of the Earth. In June, Jupiter crosses into Taurus, the first Earth sign of the zodiac, further emphasizing the importance of healing and harmonizing with our life-giving mother.

Today the oil from the spill continues to devastate sensitive ecosystems in the gulf and surrounding areas. Clean-up has barely begun. Beyond the immediate problem of the spill itself lie the long-term environmental issues that came to light as a result of the incident. We need to pay attention to the messages of this disaster. The day-to-day choices we each make have an impact on our environment and the planet's natural resources.

In 2011, Neptune will journey into the watery realms of Pisces, and Jupiter will venture into Taurus, the sign most associated with our Earth mother. Pluto continues his 16-year transit of Capricorn, reminding us, among other things, that governments, corporations, education and other institutions must be more focused on the environment.

Words and awareness are not enough. Workable solutions and widespread, radical change are needed to address the environmental crisis now, before the unthinkable happens again.

III. Revolution

A compelling feature of the great cycle shift is the collection of energy around a central, quantum tipping point. This energy trough exists in the in-between period as one set of cosmic cycles ends and the next set begins. In the cusp or crease period between world ages, we can tap into the quantum field and make enormous changes very quickly. That time is now.

There have been other moments like this in human history, including the Industrial Revolution that mechanized our world and changed life as we knew it. That was back in 1755, which coincided with the beginning of the Planetary Underworld in Calleman's version of the Mayan calendar. The next cycle, called the Galactic Underworld, began in 1999 and ushered in the Information Age. Again, for many, life on Earth would never be the same.

In 2011, as we enter the Universal Underworld, the rate of change accelerates again, to a head-spinning once every 20 days. Changes that used to take a year during the Galactic Underworld (or 20 years during the Planetary Underworld) will take only 20 days. The new phase begins in February 2011.

Not only is the acceleration of consciousness on our side as we attempt to heal our world and change the course of history, planetary titans Uranus and Pluto will weigh in to support the revolution. Astrologically these are powerful, destructive and creative energies, and we'll need to be vigilant in focusing the waves of momentum unleashed through the ongoing square between these two planets.

Pluto in Capricorn facilitates the destruction of institutions, structures and systems, especially at a societal level, that no longer serve our rapid evolution as a species. Uranian energy strikes unexpectedly, like lightning, obliterating the old to make way for the new. Uranian energies also spark flashes of genius that can be focused toward innovative solutions.

We've experienced plenty of destructive energy in our world in recent centuries and decades. While the demolition of the old paradigm will continue in the new year, there's a shift into a more powerfully creative mode that will help us make changes and solve problems quickly, efficiently and proactively. The building of a new paradigm begins as the old falls away.

IV. Individuated Oneness

Uranus is the modern ruler of Aquarius, the sign of the next astrological age. While there's no single date when the 2,000-year Age of Aquarius begins, Uranus' entry into Aries is undoubtedly a significant moment in this transition.

With his layers of meaning, shrewd complexity and belligerent yet effective approach, this is a planet for our times. Uranus is the rebel with a cause. For each of us, cycles of Uranus represent our process of individuation as we seek our unique identity within a vast sea of consciousness. Collectively, Uranus guides our evolution toward a more humanitarian, egalitarian and enlightened society where the needs of the many outweigh the desires of a few.

A vast societal reorganization will be needed to fully realize human evolutionary potential, and Uranus is just the planet to help us make this transition.

On an individual level, the process requires that we each take responsibility for ourselves and commit to fulfilling our divine purpose at this crucial time in Earth's history.

Uranus and his sign, Aquarius, embody unity consciousness, the intrinsic oneness that underlies all of creation, as well as individuated soul expression. The Aquarian Age calls for teamwork, cooperation and collaboration that honors the unique talents and gifts of each individual.

Personal and group intentions will manifest powerfully under the planetary configurations of 2011, especially those that balance the needs of the individual with the good of the collective, and vice versa. Together, we can turn the tide and create a brighter future for all.

Spiritual GPS

The truth of our being is love. As we travel the spiral, each year our hearts open more fully to this vast creative force of the cosmos. We are empowered to fulfill our destiny as souls embodied on Earth.

We can tune in as often as needed to our internal guidance system, the infinite wisdom deep in our hearts. Throughout all the changes, the acceleration and the exhilaration, the peace, the knowing, is in the center.

Access this wisdom in deep communion with the heart center of our galaxy, and the center of the local supergalactic cluster. This connection is especially strong on the Solstices and Equinoxes and during the moments when other planetary configurations line up with these points in deep space. To find out the dates of specific alignments in 2011, please visit

http://www.StarPriestess.com/AllisonRae2011AstroForecast.pdf

for my full 2011 Astro Forecast.

Astrology doesn't tell us what's going to happen. It allows us to forecast energetic conditions just as meteorologists forecast the weather. It's a heads-up that helps you to make decisions confidently, in alignment with the soul. Understanding how planetary transits and configurations relate to your personal astrology will help you align more fully with the energetic potential of 2011 and beyond.

Where do you fit in this continuously shifting planetary picture? What's your soul song? How are you contributing to individual and cultural transformation? Is your role changing?

How will you tap into the energies of the new year to create powerfully and benefit humanity and the Earth?

These are big questions. Please join me in prayer and contemplation as we prepare for the greatest leap yet in our lifetime journey through 2012 and beyond.

Om Mani Padme Hum

old world vs. New world, part 13

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One of the central energies that has held this world in such...heaviness, is our sense of possession.

The more we try to possess something (or someone) the harder and harder the energy becomes until it is almost inert.

Possession stops the flow of universal energy dead in its tracks. It's why we have a top-heavy world of 'haves" and 'have nots'.

It's why we have a world of fear-based governments and excessive laws and unresponsive politics and unfair economies and so much dis-ease, strife, poverty, violence.

In the New Earth, we will all realize that no one owns anything, that everything is on loan to us as vehicles to rediscover love, and that everything is to be shared, without a sense of who deserves what and how much.

"Yes, but I worked hard for what I have and so why should I share it with others, who haven't worked as hard?"

Because we just bought in to the Great Lie: that we did something all on our own. Without the help of parents and teachers and trash collectors and plumbers and friends and lovers and children and the kingdoms of earth and the Earth herself. Even homeless people and drug dealers have in some way added to the tapestry of all of our lives, whether we wish to acknowledge that fact or not.

There is only one of us here.

The Universe isn't particularly interested in what we've amassed in terms of material stuff, things, objects, homes, bank accounts. The Universe doesn't make judgments based on material things. It doesn't make judgments at all. We do. The Universe is only interested in the creation and flow of love, unimpeded. Period.

So if we'd all like to make the transition into the New Earth as graceful as possible, we all should become much more comfortable with the idea of sharing -- everything -- and letting go of our sense of possession.

And then we will have released the blocked-up Universal flow of Light & Love into all our lives, and then just watch the miracles happen.

Everything we need and desire will be manifested instantly.

For everyone.

2011

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This year will be looked-back on as the year when everything changed -- everything.

The collapse of the soviet union/eastern europe/berlin wall in '89: it took under nine months once begun. And seven political prisoners became heads-of-democratic states within the same year.

And everything is moving 100-times faster now.

Very exciting times.

enjoy the ride.

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