Does Evil Exist? Part II

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Several years ago I had a visionary experience. I was in a beautiful green valley on a perfect summer day. On top of the green hill before me was a beautiful white house, elegant, stately.

A 'voice' beside me said that the house was filled with "evil" and asked that I go inside to experience it. I surprised myself by agreeing, though with some obvious hesitation, but always knowing that I was safe.

I entered the house and the door closed behind me -- and instantly I was overwhelmed by a force of energy that almost knocked me off my feet and which I could only describe to myself at the time as "evil."

But just as instantly, I realized that wasn't accurate. In a way that is impossible to fully describe here, in words, I felt a dozen, a hundred, perhaps even a thousand emotions all at ounce. I felt sadness and loss and neglect and fear and hate and rejection and ignorance and guilt and shame and abandonment and weakness and humiliation and abuse and need and lack and want and cruelty and on and on and on -- all at once, all in an instant.

And then I found myself back outside, and the 'voice' asked me if there was such a thing as "evil." And I realized that there was not.

That what we call "evil" is really only the combination of any number of the energies that I felt.

I understood that when we call something, or someone, "evil" we are letting ourselves off the hook. We are forsaking our responsibility for the condition of the world and for our fellow beings on this planet.

We call someone "evil" and lock them away, or kill them, and continue on with our lives, as if we have done away with some monster from another planet. And we sleep better at night.

We tell ourselves those we call "evil" are an aberration, a distortion of life. A freak of nature.

But they aren't. They are any one of us placed in their shoes for a long enough period of time. "That child with the gun in the school yard is evil." No. That child has suffered neglect at home and abuse in the school hallway. "That genocidal general is evil." No. That general was also at one time a child and at some point was not listened to, not taken seriously, not, quite simply, loved.

And now I hear the voices out there saying: 'That's so typical of bleeding hearts. Everything that's wrong with the world is just bad parenting. Blame the parents, the society, the world, but not the monster."

No. The "monster" must take responsibility for its actions. Many people have had horrific childhoods and gone on to become powerful healers and contributors to the common good. And society has every right to protect itself from the walking wounded, who left unnoticed, can bring about horror on a global scale.

I'm just offering that if we continue to think of certain wounded people as "evil" and not like us in many, many ways -- given the right circumstances -- then we merely push the problem into the shadows and guarantee that another 'monster' will soon walk among us.

As many have written before me: There are two, and only two, emotions/energies that rule this planet: Love & fear.

"Evil" is the inevitable outcome of fear left unacknowledged and unattended.

There is no "evil."

There is only the absence of love.

love ii

(photo courtesy tuonela)



Let me make for you a painting.
Let me paint for you a hand.
Weathered like rock. Brown as the soil. Powerful when clenched, gentle when open. Skin like worn leather. Fingers red from strong tobacco. If there was a color for the smell of sweat, the painting of this hand would dazzle. Thick veins, blue as the poorest ear of corn entangle it. Let me shadow this hand with motion -- a hawk, an eagle, a dove. Let me reveal to you the cracked and dirty nails, a laborer's fingers. Let me show to you the scar from a fight, from a hundred fights, from a lifetime of fighting. I will paint for you this scar with pride. Black for the ash, yellow for the sulfur within the ash across the palm. And now you see it as a factory hand. From the hand extends the arm into the shadows of the man...I cannot paint the rest clearly for who can say what a man looks like? But the hand. The hand is enough. With each final brush stroke it breathes. It speaks. Of tribal legends. Of magic. Of glorious dreams. Of the sadness of life beyond the dreams. Betrayals -- Of the mountain peaks. The sun. The water -- Of the factory whistle. The smokestack. The dying blackness...A sad hand, grasping.
Let me make for you a painting.
Let me paint for you a hand.

A Practice For Healing Anger

(photo courtesy sonny)

Create a sacred space.

Move into a meditative state.

Call in as witnesses any and all angels, guides, spiritual Masters, deities, etc. with whom you have a connection or simply admire; they will be there for you. Have them encircle you.

From the Light, call forth any person from your past or present who is a source of anger in your life, from family members to office workers to political figures; anyone, everyone.

Under the guidance and protection of your Higher Self and I AM PRESENCE -- and their Higher Self and I AM PRESENCE -- place each person, one at a time, before you, within your circle.

Address them (or their Higher Self) in appreciation for their assistance in your healing.

Proceed to detail any and all transgressions or events or emotional states that you feel -- rightly or wrongly -- the person before you is responsible for. It can be as simple as: "I am angry at your for..." Feel free to relate how you felt in the situation, and any harmful repercussions on your later life. This is the time to tell your story fully, in a way the world seldom, if at all, allows. It does not matter if your perception of the hurt is true or not; this is about the healing of what you are feeling, for have felt.

This practice is not about who is right and who is wrong; it is about transforming energy.

Also know that you are in no way creating negative karma for yourself with this practice by the expression of your anger: This practice is one of healing the self, and in turn, those others in your life circle. All participants benefit from this practice. The Universe honors this intent.

As this practice is, first and foremost, about your healing, the person you are addressing can in no way whatsoever defend, explain, or rationalize their actions.

They can not leave until you are finished. They are not allowed to speak. They are here to witness your story.

If you do not feel safe in the presence of this person, you can have them positioned between you and your guardian angels.

When you are finished, you then inform them that they must now apologize to you -- without explanation or defense or rationalization, unless you so choose. They must apologize for each and every event as you deem necessary. They must say: "I am sorry that I..." When you have decided that they are finished, then you must work to accept their apology.

This is a practice that will have to be repeated until you are comfortable in accepting their apology. When you are comfortable with their apology and feel that you have truly been heard, then you may find yourself apologizing to them for parts you may have played in the events, deliberately or inadvertently. However, this is not a requirement of this practice.

When you have finished, thank the person, or their Higher Self, for this healing and release their energy back into the Light.

Practice this as often as you need, until you are unable to call the person forth, because their energy no longer has a hold on you.

Be open to expressing your anger at God, or Whomever you seek comfort from on the other side of the veil, should you in any way feel spiritually abandoned or betrayed. Ask God to apologize to you. And S/HE will in a way that will surprise and delight and comfort you. Then, you may feel compelled to apologize to God, though this is by no means required.

And finally, you may find it necessary to call forth yourself; to express your anger at yourself for not having lived up to your expectations or for letting you down. Ask yourself to apologize to you. Then, you may feel compelled to apologize to yourself as well. In any case, release yourself back into the Light.

Thank your circle of angels and guides and Masters for their assistance and the witnessing of your healing. Feel their embrace of Love. Honor what you have just done.

We thank you for your desire to heal, for in your healing the world is healed, and the Universe.

We Are One.

So It Is.

a message

You have all come through a very difficult few years, harsh energies manifesting in stronger and stronger ways, especially over the last few months. You have witnessed these manifestations as personal and planetary hurricanes, earthquakes and social/political upheaval, all of which are extensions of your divine consciousness.

These are truly cleansings and they are occurring at every level of your physical and energetic bodies. They are also rippling through all your multitudes of lifetimes in other dimensions and on other planets, as all your lifetimes are simultaneous. Earth has become a focal point for the universal transformation that is occurring.

Despite what you may believe as you look around your world, Gaia -- with your unprecedented help -- has raised her vibration sufficiently to become like a shinning star within the physical and non-physical universe, in turn raising the vibrations of everything in your physical and non-physical solar system, which is, in turn, raising the vibration of your galaxy, which is raising the vibration of your constellation, which is raising the vibration of your known universe.

As a result, the vibration of your individual, multidimensional lives are also raising, as lower energies are transformed into higher energies. Those aspects of yourself that no longer serve you are being gradually 'consumed' in the furnace of your I AM Presence. This process is now happening automatically. And it is happening everywhere.

All is coming together, fragments of consciousness which split off at the very beginning of this cycle of creation to journey down individual paths of separation are being reunited and healed, being made whole once again. This is the time of the Great Reunion, when the self once again reclaims The One.

You have navigated hazardous waters and are now seeking safe havens. But do not seek them, for the search only places it farther away. Know that you have already found them. Even if you find your life in turmoil, do not despair, in the center of every hurricane is the calm eye, the all-knowing, all-seeing Eye, the Silent Witness that understands all is perfect, that all is as it should be.

If you are feeling lost and abandoned, know that this is appropriate, because, quite literally, a part of you -- as you have known it for eons -- no longer exists . A good friend seems to have left you comfortless, when in fact, that good friend has merely risen to prepare the way for you to rejoin, once again, with Yourself. You are feeling the first pangs of the void between worlds, between dimensions, between your lower and higher selves. This too shall pass. Breathe deeply in this time of transformation. Please be gentle with yourselves, please forgive yourselves and others; let it all go.

You who are now reading this have already achieved your highest goals for this life incarnation. If that does not yet seem to be the case in your material world, then know that no one shall leave this planet, or the "ring-pass-not" of your solar system unfulfilled. You are grand creators and your hearts will be filled.

Simply put, in order to create at the Grand Level, one must able to look back on their path and truly say, "I have been there, I have done that. I now know. I can now create fully, completely, without judgment of my creations, for I now know that it is all good." The end is near, sisters and brothers, of this magnificent exploration of time and matter. I say this not to create fear, but to prepare you for the unimaginable joys soon to come.

The Call has gone out from the very center of the Universe and it is echoing throughout all creation. Your hearts are beginning to feel the first vibrations of this coming event. Honor all you are one day at a time. Honor your sisters and brothers, even if you do not agree with them, even if you perceive them doing a great harm. You are not being asked to be saints and certainly not martyrs, but merely to be present, to be the neutral witness. This does not mean to be inactive.

Give all that you can. If you can give of your time or money to help another, do so. If not, give your Light. Give your compassion. The intent is all, not the form. Be in the world, not of it. Be a Light unto the darkness, cursing the darkness not. Try to relax. Try to simply smile more. A warm smile is more powerful that you can imagine.

Do not fall into fear, do not let fear into your homes nor your hearts. Sleep deeply and love passionately. Sing your songs and dream your greatest dreams because you are, this instant, giving birth to a new world made up of those songs, those passions, those dreams.

Claim your birthright -- and responsibility -- as God Made Manifest. Hold the Light, dear ones, for you are that Light. Look to the Water Carrier. Look to the water within and without for it is the carrier of the Christ Consciousness through your world of dense matter.

You have been the way-showers and explorers of matter. By immersing yourself in dense matter and illusion, you have brought Light to it, and it is good. You are lifting up entire worlds that have been trapped in density for eons. Words cannot speak to the gratitude.

The time of Light is here. Be that Light.

So it is.

My beloveds.

Ho’o pono pono

(photo courtesy criswatk)


Joe Vitale tells the story of the absolutely amazing Huna practice of Ho’o pono pono of Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len. We are powerful agents of change as we learn to utilize the energy of true love and forgiveness.

"Two years ago, I heard about a therapist in Hawaii who cured a complete ward of criminally insane patients--without ever seeing any of them. The psychologist would study an inmate's chart and then look within himself to see how he created that person's illness. As he improved himself, the patient improved.

"When I first heard this story, I thought it was an urban legend. How could anyone heal anyone else by healing himself? How could even the best self-improvement master cure the criminally insane? It didn't make any sense. It wasn't logical, so I dismissed the story.

"However, I heard it again a year later. I heard that the therapist had used a Hawaiian healing process called ho 'o pono pono. I had never heard of it, yet I couldn't let it leave my mind. If the story was at all true, I had to know more. I had always understood "total responsibility" to mean that I am responsible for what I think and do. Beyond that, it's out of my hands. I think that most people think of total responsibility that way. We're responsible for what we do, not what anyone else does--but that's wrong.

"The Hawaiian therapist who healed those mentally ill people would teach me an advanced new perspective about total responsibility. His name is Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len. We probably spent an hour talking on our first phone call. I asked him to tell me the complete story of his work as a therapist.

He explained that he worked at Hawaii State Hospital for four years. That ward where they kept the criminally insane was dangerous. Psychologists quit on a monthly basis. The staff called in sick a lot or simply quit. People would walk through that ward with their backs against the wall, afraid of being attacked by patients. It was not a pleasant place to live, work, or visit.

"Dr. Len told me that he never saw patients. He agreed to have an office and to review their files. While he looked at those files, he would work on himself. As he worked on himself, patients began to heal.

"'After a few months, patients that had to be shackled were being allowed to walk freely,' he told me. 'Others who had to be heavily medicated were getting off their medications. And those who had no chance of ever being released were being freed.' I was in awe. 'Not only that,' he went on, 'but the staff began to enjoy coming to work.

Absenteeism and turnover disappeared. We ended up with more staff than we needed because patients were being released, and all the staff was showing up to work. Today, that ward is closed.'

"This is where I had to ask the million dollar question: 'What were you doing within yourself that caused those people to change?'

"'I was simply healing the part of me that created them,' he said. I didn't understand. Dr. Len explained that total responsibility for your life means that everything in your life- simply because it is in your life--is your responsibility. In a literal sense the entire world is your creation.

"Whew. This is tough to swallow. Being responsible for what I say or do is one thing. Being responsible for what everyone in my life says or does is quite another. Yet, the truth is this: if you take complete responsibility for your life, then everything you see, hear, taste, touch, or in any way experience is your responsibility because it is in your life. This means that terrorist activity, the president, the economy or anything you experience and don't like--is up for you to heal. They don't exist, in a manner of speaking, except as projections from inside you. The problem isn't with them, it's with you, and to change them, you have to change you.

"I know this is tough to grasp, let alone accept or actually live. Blame is far easier than total responsibility, but as I spoke with Dr. Len, I began to realize that healing for him and in ho 'o pono pono means loving yourself.

"If you want to improve your life, you have to heal your life. If you want to cure anyone, even a mentally ill criminal, you do it by healing you.

"I asked Dr. Len how he went about healing himself. What was he doing, exactly, when he looked at those patients' files?

"'I just kept saying, 'I'm sorry' and 'I love you' over and over again,' he explained.

"That's it?

"That's it.

"Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, you improve your world.

"Let me give you a quick example of how this works: one day, someone sent me an email that upset me. In the past I would have handled it by working on my emotional hot buttons or by trying to reason with the person who sent the nasty message.

"This time, I decided to try Dr. Len's method. I kept silently saying, 'I'm sorry' and 'I love you,' I didn't say it to anyone in particular. I was simply evoking the spirit of love to heal within me what was creating the outer circumstance.

"Within an hour I got an e-mail from the same person. He apologized for his previous message. Keep in mind that I didn't take any outward action to get that apology. I didn't even write him back. Yet, by saying 'I love you,' I somehow healed within me what was creating him.

"I later attended a ho'o ponopono workshop run by Dr. Len. He's now 70 years old, considered a grandfatherly shaman, and is somewhat reclusive.

He praised my book, The Attractor Factor. He told me that as I improve myself, my book's vibration will raise, and everyone will feel it when they read it. In short, as I improve, my readers will improve.

"'What about the books that are already sold and out there?' I asked.

"'They aren't out there,' he explained, once again blowing my mind with his mystic wisdom. 'They are still in you.' In short, there is no out there. It would take a whole book to explain this advanced technique with the depth it deserves.

"Suffice It to say that whenever you want to improve anything in your life, there's only one place to look: inside you. When you look, do it with love."

Joe Vitale

Ho'o ponopono mantra:

I love you
I'm sorry
Please forgive me
Thank you.

2012

(photo courtesy NASA)

Greetings from Home

You know deep in your heart that you have come here with something to do. We wish to tell you what is directly ahead. We wish to speak to you of something we have not spoken of much before. We will begin by telling you a little bit about the magic of 2012, because the potential that is coming to Earth and humanity are becoming unbelievable as you evolve.

Your evolution is way ahead of the game. We have spoken before of 2012. Yes, it is a magical date. Yes, it is a shift in dimension. Yes, it is all of the things you have imagined it to be. Why? Because you are the creators and when you set your mind that something is going to happen, it happens. All along, there has been a division between the old and the new energy. There are many different divisions and segments along the way that could be demarcation points, where you could say that this is the old and that is the new. 2012 is a much anticipated landmark; it is an interdimensional junction point. Let us give you another illustration.

Intersecting Time Lines

You are absolutely fascinated by the stories of Camelot and King Arthur, yet you do not actually know whether these stories are true or made up. You have found the grave of King Arthur and you have even found the pieces that you believe to be of old Camelot, but are they really? Is this real history or a myth? Of course, the word “real” has a lot of different meanings, so you must understand that if you expect something to happen, you will find the evidence that it has happened. You will create what you need in order to understand it.

Let us explain another concept of this, for it has happened many times on your planet. It happened when Buddha walked the Earth and in the days of Christ. It has happened many times when stories came into your world that never changed. If we tell someone in the front of the room only five words and ask them to pass them to the person next to them, by the time the words got to the back of the room only two of the original words would be correct.

Then why is it that a tale of such proportions as Camelot is passed down through generations without ever changing? That is because they became permanent imprints on the timeline. Imagine 11 timelines running concurrently side by side. There are 11 experiences of your own soul happening at the same time. You are a multidimensional being living in 11 different experiences of the soul and one point of perception. Each of those experiences are occurring in different timelines. You think of a timeline as being here and now. But there was one timeline of King Arthur which was a magical event, and at that point the timeline crossed your own. It took a right turn and then crossed other timelines. When that happened, it left a permanent imprint in both timelines.

These are the magical stories you heard as a child that influence you the rest of your life. They come along to encourage humanity at just the right time and place to give you what you need. 2012 is an intersection of 12 different timelines. It will leave an imprint on humanity in all dimensions of time and space. You can see the potential magic that is going to happen here. Add the fact that everyone is expecting something magical to happen, so of course it will.

What Will Happen in 2012?

Now what about all the predictions of things that are going to happen in 2012? First of all, most of the things that were originally going to happen in 2012 have already happened. Because you have pulled them forward by evolving faster than you planned, you do not need to go to that date. You are living firmly in the fifth dimension and you are even starting to learn how to use that in your daily life. You are pushing the boundaries. You are learning new ways to interact with your world, to love and connect to different pieces of the soul.

That is why now it is such a magical time. Many people are expecting an entire day in 2012 to be especially magical. You, as creators, have not even decided which day it is going to be yet, so you humans better hurry up and get busy so we can get going! When you decide which day in 2012 it is going to be, you will create miracles. Let us explain why that can happen.

What are the potentials? What are the miracles? What is going to happen on that day? We tell you that the day will be very magical whenever you decide it to be. You will have a party. Many of you will go up into the mountains in the power spots and you will feel the energy flowing and you will love it. You will build big bonfires and sing songs. When it is all over and the fires are out, you will walk down the mountain and go to work the next day just as any other. You will realize that a lot of what you have created has already been here. Please understand that is not a disappointment in our eyes because it is still a very magical day. Here is what is happening.

Time Critical Missions

Many of you are souls who have been on this planet lifetime after lifetime. You came in to bring something from Home that you were going to share with all of humanity, to help the souls here that are pretending to be human to be spirits, and how to use that. Each one of you came in with a part that you would carry. If, and only IF, everything opened at just the right time then you would be here with this piece. We call that a time-critical mission and many of you are on time-critical missions.

Many of you have found what you love to do and think you are already moving along your path. Some of you will take a 90-degree turn with no warning and you will love every minute of it, because it will push you right into your passion. To where your higher self re-members you are going and where your higher self has been trying to steer you since you were born. That turn will put you into this position where your time-critical mission can be enacted and where you can be of serv ice. You will find yourself in that place where you can finally share the piece you carry, so that we can build Home on this planet.

You are in the process of working to create Heaven on Earth. You have the opportunity in 2012, more than ever before, to set that fully into motion. Each one of you has the opportunity to change that on the magical day you choose or in any moment, if you wish to. Many people will be changing their lives on that day just because of the magic of it. Everyone will be lifted and changed by the imprints left, as all 12 timelines cross for a magical time signaling the opening of a new era. When many people gather expecting a miracle, they create one. This miracle will be multidimensional.

Those of you who have time-critical missions will be enacted and you will not know what hit you. We will give you a couple of examples to show you what this looks like.

Tom

There is a gentleman, we will call him Tom. Tom is a medical doctor who loves healing and has always known he was a healer. He does not like every part of his job, but he has invested a lot of energy, time and money to create this for himself and has reconciled that this is the best course for him at the moment.

He also has a family to support, so he makes the best of it every day and enjoys the interaction he has with his clients. He enjoys being of service in any way he can. Quietly though, he has dreams of being different than he was. Then when no one was looking something happens and suddenly, Dr. Tom changes. It may be a book he reads, a seminar he attends or a broadcast he watches. Whatever it is, it opens him up and he starts seeing things from a different perspective. His whole life changes. It can be difficult when this happens, especially in relationships and families, because two people never grow at exactly the same rate.

Therefore, one person starts sprouting up and the other person does not, so you have to work to make this shift supportive for everyone. That gap is filled with extra communication and that is how you grow a relationship. Tom wakes one morning and in his heart he is no longer a doctor, but he still has to go to work. His body is starting to fight him, because he knows he is not on the right track. He knows there is something else to do.

Suddenly, all of the things he has worked for in many different areas do not work for him any more. He ends up teaching Reiki and loves every minute of it. He is still a healer but he is doing things in a different way now. Yes, he still creates very sacred space for people but he is on a time-critical mission because he wanted to be in place before the magical date of 2012.

Many of you have that same contract. Many of you will be enacting your time-critical missions and will actually start changing your lives very drastically as Dr. Tom did.. His whole life and focus changed at that point. His children did not know what was happening with him and his wife did not know how to deal with him; sometimes he would be very emotional and she was not used to him being emotional. He was not accustomed to feeling those emotions and letting them flow through him in that way. With no warning, his life simply started changing. Over a period of time, Dr. Tom turned out to be a wonderful teacher, but the transition was difficult in the beginning due to his attachment to his future. This can happen when you activate the time-critical mission.

Gertrude

Then there is Gertrude. Gertrude has been on this planet many, many times. She is an Aboriginal Healer. She typically comes in and plants seeds when nobody is listening. She speaks the words and even though they think she is crazy—a little nuts—she plants the seeds and still imparts the ideas that later grow into something. She is often made fun of and quite often feared.

There are many times when Gertrude has been put to death for her truth, her honesty, and for sharing what she brought from Home. She has been chastised and punished. She has been cast out often because humans are afraid of the unknown—especially when they see a very bright light. In all the many times Gertrude has been on the planet before, she has never been fully supported. She carries what we call the seed fear. The seed fear is very simple. When you step out of your body after you have been burned at the stake you say, “Gee, I hope I never do that again!” Then you come back in, do the same thing again and get burned at the stake a second time. Then you jump out of your body and say, “Okay. I am definitely not going to do the same thing again. Time to get serious now.” Then you take a part of yourself that we call the Guardian of the Gate.

You put the Guardian in front of you and you say, “I am going to ask you that if I ever step in this direction again, you come out of nowhere and scare the heck out of me. You put a deep fear in me that will keep me alive and keep me from experiencing these negative ways of dying that we have experienced so many times.” As you continue forward in the evolutionary cycle, the seed fear and the Guardian at the Gate saves your life many times and keeps you in check. And here you are.

Now Gertrude’s life is changing, and the clients in her practice seem to mysteriously be pulling back crimping what support she did have. Gertrude’s time-critical mission was activated. Her whole life changes almost overnight. Gertrude came in with something very special and unique that only she could bring to Earth from Home. Much of her life she felt like she was marking time. For what, she wondered.

Then suddenly, her life was not working the same way as it had before. She was into spirituality since early childhood; she had worked with energy and was a respected healer. She was on the path she wanted to be on, yet when everything changed it stopped working. When a time-critical mission is activated the higher self knows the way to your passion if you will let it lead you. Sometimes your higher self may lead you by opening doors in front of you, and other times by closing them.

Seed Fear

Gertrude then starts to move in the direction of her mission and she is blocked by the seed fear. The Guardian of the Gate comes out of nowhere and she gets confused, scared and wants to run and hide. The same fear has kept keeps her from interacting with the world until she reassigns the role of the Guardian is reconciled or reassigned. There are many Lightworkers who carry the seed fear which is about to surface. If you understand what it is, the seed fear becomes much easier to work with. You will find is that there are many techniques of working with the seed fear. When you find one that works with you, turn around and share it with someone else.

Time-critical missions are about to be activated and consequently the world is about to change. Humanity is taking a big step. Even though we seem to play down the importance of 2012, it will be magical beyond our imagination. And we are going to encourage you to make it magical—to do something, anything to change your lifestyle, to change your energy, to set yourself into your full passion so you can take whatever it is that you brought from Home and share it with the others. You will be supported to do your mission. The doors will open very magically for you, even though many of you have run into that same door time and time again.

Jane

Let us give you another example so you can see this from many angles. Jane has come in and worked on this planet many lifetimes as most of you have. She has worked in many areas. She has been a teacher over and over and over again. She knows she can work with this energy and be able to impart what she brought from Home. It has been very important for her to do this and yet in some ways, even though she is very much a teacher, she has not considered herself a teacher. When she is in a group and opens her mouth to speak, everyone else becomes quiet because she has a reflection that people want.

She is carrying a part of Home that she will reflect with your energy if you speak and share with her. So along comes this time-critical mission and suddenly she gets activated and starts drawing people to her. She still does not believe she is a teacher and says, “That is not something I do. Thank you very much. That is very kind, but that is not something I do. That does not stop the people from showing up. That does not stop the people from coming in and working with her energy and reflecting it upon themselves. So her life will also change. Suddenly the teacher now stands out with a very bright light because other people need that direction. Other people need that process, yet Jane had difficulty with that because she had a concept of what teaching was about.

Now you are stepping into the higher vibrations by stepping out of the first wave of empowerment of Follow the Leader, into the Second Wave of Empowerment of Follow Yourself.

It also changes the teacher paradigm. Instead of a leader standing on stage telling you, “This is how it works. Here is what you do. Here are the ABCs and if you do this, your whole life will be fine.” Instead, they reach out, take your hand and say, “Let us take this journey and see what we learn together.”

The teachers now walk along side their students in a different relationship, because it is not about trying to find the greatest knowledge. It is about discovering the road of life and experiencing this together. The adaptation of moving from one form of teaching into another is critical. Let us also share with you that Jane also had great trouble with her parents, mostly because they did not understand her.

She was certainly the black sheep in her family, very different from everyone else. She automatically thought differently from everyone in her family and it was because she was in a backup plan. When she was originally going to come the timing was not good, so she delayed her entry by one generation with a backup plan. The person who was to be her original mother was now her grandmother on her mother’s side. She came in through her mother, who was originally going to be her sister. She did so to make sure that the time-critical mission would be at the right time.

Dear ones, there are many of you—probably 20-30% of you—who are in backup plans for that very reason. Your timing on this planet was critical. Your timing on this planet was very important and you are about to be activated. “Yes. Now is the time.” You have time between now and 2012 to move into that direction. It is time, now, and humanity is now ready to hear it on all fronts.

It is with the greatest of honor that we gather together this family of light. You know who you are. On some level you re-member the piece you brought. Let it come out now. Let it be shared. Let it be a part of who you are every breath of every day. That will make the difference on planet Earth. 2012 will be magical beyond your wildest dreams and for that reason, we have started the countdown to ascension. It actually started eight years ago.

You are about to experience 08/08/08. You will then experience 09/09/09, 10/10/10, 11/11/11 and whatever day you decide to put the final one on. Enjoy making up your minds, dear ones. Enjoy playing the game.

It is the greatest of honor that we ask you to treat each other with respect. Nurture one another every opportunity you can. Know that it is a beautiful game you are playing. Play well together.

Espavo

The Group

through Steven & Barbara Rother, www.lightworker.com

The "I AM" Prayer

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Hallowed is thy name I AM
I AM thy kingdom come
I AM thy will being done
I AM on earth even as I AM in heaven
I AM this day giving daily bread to all
I AM forgiving all life even as I AM all life forgiving me
I AM leading humanity from all temptation
I AM delivering humanity from every evil condition for
I AM the kingdom
I AM the power
I AM the glory of God in infinite and immortal manifestation. All this
I AM.

So It Is.

from "What Is Lightbody" by Tashira Tachi-ren

Manifestation

Everything that you think, that you feel, manifests the conditions in your life. It takes only a moment to envision happiness and your whole body will feel joyful. It takes but a moment to stop weeping and laugh with joy. It takes only a moment to stop judging and feel the beauty of all things.

You are precisely what you are thinking. If you ponder misery, you will have misery. If you ponder joy, you will have joy.

Every thought you embrace, every fantasy you have, is recorded within your soul. Every word you utter is creating your days to come. Thought is the true giver of life. Every attitude you have of yourself, you will become. You are what you think. The less beautiful you think you are, the less beautiful you will become. The more impoverished you think you are, the more wretched you become. Who is the Creator of your life -- you! You are God who possesses the ability to think, to create, to become whatever you want. You are the Lawgiver.

One desires a home that is beautiful, comfortable. This is an accoutrement of self-love. When self-love is truly acknowledged you will not deny yourself any of these things. Self-love will open your hands to receive as well as to give. And it certainly is not taking something away from someone else. Your universe is boundless. There is more than enough for everyone. When there is desire to taste the abundance of your world and receive it with love, you shall have it.
(source unknown)

our deepest fear...

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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” -- Marianne Williamson

Does Evil Exist? Part I

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A university professor challenged his students with this question.

“Did God create everything that exists?”

A student bravely replied,
“Yes, He did!”

"God created everything?" the professor asked.

“Yes, sir,” the student replied.

The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil, since evil exists. And according to the principal that our works define who we are, then God is evil."

The student became quiet before such an answer.
The professor was quite pleased with himself, and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the faith in God is a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question, professor?"

"Of course," replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"

"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?"

The students snickered at the young man's question.

The young man replied, "In fact, sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is, in reality, the absence of heat. Everybody or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy. Absolute zero (-460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat. All matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat."

The student continued. "Professor, does darkness exist?"

The professor responded, "Of course it does."

The student replied, "Once again you are wrong, sir. Darkness does not exist either. Darkness is, in reality, the absence of light. We can study light, but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wave lengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it.
How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."

Finally, the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?"

Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course, as I have already said. We see it everyday. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil."

To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold -- a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love, that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or the darkness that comes when there is no light."

The professor sat down. The young student's name -- Albert Einstein

Forgiveness

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I believe in forgiveness -- for our own healing.

But forgiveness is often not possible, nor effective, until the truth of the event needing forgiveness has been expressed and responsibility claimed and apologies expressed. Often, of course, the recipient of the abuse never gets the abuser to take responsibility, and few get an apology (which, realistically, is seldom enough to ease the pain).

Whether through a phone call, or message, or in person -- or simply through journaling -- one should express their anger and pain fully. And it is certainly not inappropriate to demand responsibility be taken for the abuse and, at the least, an apology offered.

Whether the abuser responds, or not, is not the most important factor; it is paramount that we honor our experience -- and ourself -- enough to express our feelings.

Though the feelings are understandable, vengeance in whatever form is never the correct response, as it will only put out a dark energy that will come back upon the person exacting the revenge. I do believe in 'telling your story' and being heard. I believe it is the first step to healing.

If we can somehow move on, or rise above the event, wonderful. But if we can't, trying to do so because it's somehow "spiritual" or enlightened to do so, doesn't honor the event. It doesn't honor our pain. Our experience. It says our anger is not worthy.

It's not valuable to wallow in anger or victimization, because there are no accidents in the universe, and all relationships are karmic in nature, in that like-energy attracts like-energy. It is important to honor our life and our feelings.

Once we have expressed ourself fully, in whichever way possible -- short of attack -- then we can try to sever the energy link between ourself and the abuser. As long as we're angry with the abuser, we are still bound to the abuser, even if we are at opposite ends of the planet. And quite truly, the abuser is still abusing us. It becomes an energetic 'closed-loop' repeating the emotional cycle over and over and over.

If we do sever this link, the abuser is left with a dark energy that can only return to them, as all energy seeks completion. The most powerful way to sever this link, is to send them Light. They will need it.

Before we attempt any contact or link severance, call in all our angels and guides and Higher Self -- and the abuser's as well. Make it clear that we understand that we are a spiritual adult and accept responsibility for whatever part, no matter how small, we may have played in the event (again, like-energy attracts like-energy, whether consciously or unconsciously).

Then make it clear that this action is about our healing, (and ultimately the abuser's). Make it clear that this is not about revenge, but about honoring ourself and our experience. Then ask for their help to sever the energy connection between ourself and the offending person.

All events in this 'classroom' called Earth are to bring us to a place of consciousness. Once consciousness has taken place, the event is no longer needed. Claiming our anger and then our healing is being conscious.

And as the past and future exist simultaneously, we can change also the past by changing the present. And we change the present by taking responsibility for the entirety of our experience, 'good' and 'bad'.

If we cannot make personal contact, we can envision the abuser in a meditative state, in a sacred space of our creation (after first surrounding ourself with Light and love) and express ourself fully in the vision: our anger, our hurt, our experience. We can 'force' (I use the word reluctantly) the abuser to listen to us. We can even 'force' them to accept responsibility and apologize -- being careful not to exact 'energetic' revenge -- This is NOT wish-fulfillment. This is working with real energy and real power and it will have real consequences.

Then with help from our guides and angels, we can sever our energetic connection (literally envision a beam of light or an electric blue sword cutting all threads or cords or chains binding the two of us).

Once we are able to do this fully -- and we may have to repeat this meditation many, many times -- we'll know the link has been broken because the abuser no longer exists for us -- literally -- and we will have no emotional response when we think of them.

None of this is easy. Healing never is. But that's the level of spiritual adulthood that is asked of us now.

Perhaps some of this is helpful. We are all equally wise and powerful and we'll know individually what is right for us.

In any case, know we are loved. And that we are not alone. Ask and we shall receive.

Peace, Bradley

love i

"Do not go gentle into that good night..*." Do not burn out like a candle. Cry out like the molten furnace. Lie beside the lover like the volcanic flow from Pele''s womb to the foaming sea. Then you breathe. Not shallow like the grave, but deep, deep within the bowels drawn up through fisted thighs trembling at the coming firestorm. For god's sake dying is easy. Living hard, wild and unstoppable is what you were made for. Hard bones, defiant muscles, surging blood wait like an army eager to ravish the world. Do not accept the half, the almost, the maybe. Fight, goddamn-it, fight life with a love that cracks open the shell of the universe and spills out the infinite lust of creation. You are the surge of the cataclysmic ocean swell. You are the weight of gravity spinning the planets. You are the cosmic gasp and rage and embrace. Light bends to your love. Life aches to be your lover. Thrust into the world, pour out your terrors, pray to the one you lay beside. Do not sleep through this life. Sleep is death. Hunt the back alleyways of passion and let the stars gaze down at you and cry out in ferocious envy: "They love!"

* * *

Dreams of days of white linen lain out on deep, hot, green grass; spring breeze, ice cube-melted water running cool down the wrist. Life lain aside as well, the swords aside, the primal urges resting. There is wisdom in the nothingness: let someone else hold up the sky today. I choose to sleep among the stones and ants for a time. I choose irresponsibility. I revel in lazy. I put out all the candles, let the singing bowls still and wonder about dark and dirty things. Today, just now, I allow for it all, allow the crash and kiss of life to wash over me. I don't even care about God today. Which is just as God would have it.

Peace & love, Bradley

*Dylan Thomas

A Note On My Language Usage

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Within some of these messages, I will occasionally use language that many may find offensive, especially in the accepted context of spiritual material and on the same page as words drawn from the Yeshua energy.

I do it deliberately -- not to offend -- but to continue to try to break down barriers about what is spiritual and what isn't; how spirituality is supposed to show up in the world.

I am constantly aware of Yeshua's desire to have himself taken off the pedestal, and his message taken out of the mysterious books and away from the arcane rituals.

He will use whatever form and method necessary. Look for him everywhere: the movie title, the highway bulletin board, the Internet chat room, the sex blog, the corporate logo, the cursing onstage comedian.

It is time for his message to be the message from your best friend at the bar, your lover in the bedroom, your neighbor at the state fair, the inmate in the prison, the soldier on the battlefield.

It's time to relax a bit and just let the love flow without judgment.

God is Everywhere and Everything, and is not offended.

Peace, Bradley

A Practice Of Transformation

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This is one of the most powerful spiritual practices I have ever come across. Please don't be deceived by its simplicity. All the most powerful spiritual ideas are the simplest.

This practice is from Yeshua.

Place yourself in a meditative state. Ground yourself deeply to the center of Mother Earth (imagine a cord of Light from either your heart or tailbone area to the center of the earth; you'll feel a slight 'tug' at your tailbone when you've connected).

With both hands in the prayer position, thumbs touching the breastbone, speak (out loud or silently) a personal mantra to place yourself in a state of connection and reflection.

With both hands alternating (left hand finger tips, then right hand finger tips, left, right, left right, etc.), tap the breast area above the heart with all your finger tips and speak (out loud or silently) "I am awakening my Heart Of Light" at least three times and as many as feels right. Then:

Speak (out loud or silently) at least three times (and as many times as feels right): "I accept all that I am." Then:

Take the middle and ring fingers of your left hand and place them on the pubic bone. Take the middle and rings fingers of your right hand and place them on your tailbone. Now speak (out loud or silently): "I forgive myself for everything I have ever done. I forgive everyone who has ever done anything to me. I am AT ONE." Repeat at least three times and as many times as feels right.

Return to your meditative state. Reconnect with your physical body. Breathe deeply.

Prepare for your life to change.

Peace, Bradley

The Question Of Channeling

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I've been asked if my material about Yeshua is channeled and I deliberately say no.

Did I sit down with Yeshua and play poker on the 'other side' (and if you ever do, don't try to bluff!) and did we chat about all things big and small? No. Did he watch over me as I typed, correcting my spelling? No, again. Is he aware of, and part of, what I've written? Absolutely. How do I know? Because he and I are one.

And so are you.

I believe strongly that the time of 'channeling' as we know it is coming to an end. It may have even ended several years ago, and all those channels we read and listen to may simply, now, be accessing the Universal Mind, of which we are all a part.

My hesitation about saying anything is channeled is because I believe it adds a wall a separation between us and 'them'.

'Only certain gifted people can be channels.'

'I can't channel, because who am I to presume?'

'Why would Yeshua speak to me? I can't even get my checkbook balanced and I love to get face-down drunk and screw and I've told more than my fair share of lies.'

'I am unworthy.'

And on and on.

Bullshit.

Maybe there was a time when the vibration of the planet wasn't high enough to allow for everyone to channel, but that time is gone.

Another possible hesitation about being your own channel is the mistaken belief that these folks on the other side are 3-dimension folks like us. (Truly like us, they are multi-dimensional and can be everywhere at the same time.) Their time is not limited to chatting with a few select people. They have more than enough time for you as well.

And what is channeling anyway, but our high intuition attached to someone else's name?

And we only agree that some material is channeled because it resonates with us. It feels right. What is that feeling if not our own intuition?

'But some channels know exact dates and times and information about me.' Yes, they do. I'm not saying they don't have access to the Akashic Realm. I'm offering that now you have access to it as well. You now have just as much access to Yeshua and Buddha and Quan Yin -- the Mother/Father/God -- as any bestselling author.

How? Just relax. Let your self-judgments go. Open to the idea that you are worthy, that you are divine. Ask. Like anything, it takes a bit of practice to become fully open, so: practice.

And if you're not interested or don't have the time, then continue to listen to those channels you connect with.

It doesn't matter where the information comes from anymore, or who it comes from. As Yeshua said: All I have done, you shall do, and greater things than these.

Ultimately, all I'm suggesting is to try not to judge the message by the messenger (and where have we heard that before?). If the message resonates with you, it's supposed to. Period. If not, then move on to another.

And at the end of the day, be open to being your own messenger.

The time of turning our power -- even our intuitions -- over to another, is over.

As the saying goes: We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Peace, Bradley

The Pillow Case War by Bradley Rand Smith

This was in a dream.

Gaza, the West Bank. A wedding being planned between two young lovers, their families excited and exhausted as the great day drew closer. The joining of two lovers, the joining of two families.

But there was the ongoing war that seemed endless, smoking fires burning near where the wedding was to take place. Then the bomb, somewhere, close enough. Accusations. The usual. The bodies. The usual. The pain. And the curfew. No gatherings permitted. No one allowed outside. Always the men deciding. The wedding could not take place.

The exhausted mother of the bride tried to console the crying daughter. Consolation was not possible. Explanations and rationalizations were no longer possible. The mother had run out of a lifetime of acceptance. She was too tired. Enough was enough.

But still the mother had to go out to do the laundry, to wash the clothes, the sheets, the towels for the wedding guests. Laundry basket tucked under her large, strong arm, she was stopped by the soldier. They argued. He became angry. The mother became angry. His gun was aimed. Always the gun. She retreated. He had won.

But no. She had had enough. She returned with a bucket of soapy water and sat on her porch step and proceeded to do the laundry as mothers had always done. The exhausted mother of the groom ran up to her as the soldiers came. She also had a basket of laundry under her arm. She had lost two sons to the endless war. She too had had enough. She sat down beside the mother of the bride, and they began to wash their laundry.

The soldiers arrived with their guns and their shouts. But women, mothers, stuck their heads from the dozens of windows and shouted down at the soldiers "Enough! Enough!"

The nervous soldiers backed down, left for orders, for reinforcements against two women doing their laundry on a porch step.

They returned to find dozens of women doing their laundry in the street, dozens more hanging their clean laundry out their windows to dry, or suspending them across the streets like multi-colored flags. The soldiers halted, uncertain what to do. They were ordered to back-off, to let the women have their day.

But that day became another and another, the women, the mothers, the grandmothers, and great-grandmothers doing their laundry on the streets. Joined by others preparing meals for the women, food placed on tables brought onto the streets. The beds were pulled out and cots and chairs and the women slept outside as the soldiers watched, helpless. The women laughed and sang and danced as the men watched. The mothers would not go back in. Not again. Not anymore.

Then the news of these Palestinian women reached the Israeli mothers and sisters and wives who had suffered too long, long enough. And they started hanging pillow cases out their windows in support of the women of Gaza and Israel.

Like the mothers of the disappeared in Argentina. Like the mothers of the fallen children in Ireland.

And soon men, sons and brothers and husbands of goodwill joined it.

The newspapers called it The War Of Pillow Cases.

And the news spread, and soon thousands, then hundreds of thousands, then millions of women hung pillow cases out their windows in support of life, from the Middle East, to China, to Russia, to South America, to Europe, to the United States. And these women became a political and economic army. And soon they became a nation.

And soon the battles ended. Soon the walls came down. And the world had changed.

And soon a delayed wedding in Gaza was celebrated. And the whole world held a glass of wine in a toast.

That was the dream.

I am no saint.

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I have behaved badly and hurt people deliberately.
In seeking out love I have too often driven it away.
I am as flawed as you can get.
I am all too human.
But it is the divine in me that seeks to be just a little bit better, just a little more open, just a little more forgiving of myself and others, just a little more patient with myself and others.
It is the nature of the journey on this planet to make what we think of as mistakes; to hurt ourselves and others. To look for love in all the wrong places.
But how else do we grow? How else do we deepen our connection to ourselves, each other, and the divine?
Empathy and compassion and the power of forgiveness come only from having experienced the wound.
As Yeshua says, what better healer for the lost and wounded than those of us who have been lost and wounded. And who have inflicted those wounds as well.
It is a deepening of the human experience.
We cannot hear the cry in others if we have not cried out ourselves.
The journey to the Divine is through the human.
It is a hard, hard road.
It is pain within pain within pain. It is the road from the illusion of separation to the truth of connection.
We have not fallen from grace, but we have journeyed to those places where grace is often forgotten.
But love is never lost. It is never beyond reach. It is as close as the next breath. It is the next breath.
It is the next thought that offers that it takes great courage to accept our flaws, our wounds, our fears. And those of others.
And in that thought is forgiveness offered, is grace restored.
I am no saint.
I am not supposed to be.
I am supposed to be conscious.
I am supposed to be present.
I am supposed to open to the possibility that I am -- that we all are -- deeply loved and that we have just forgotten that.
That through our stumbling, we learn to walk.
In forgiving ourselves, we forgive the world.
In forgiving the world, we are restored.

Peace, Bradley

a mantra

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Say little

Love much

Give all

Judge not

Aspire to


-- Dwal Kul

12 Dances of the Universe

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Ian Xel Lungold said it best: 'There is only one Law of the Universe: What You Place Your Attention On, You Become Conscious Of. All other laws spring from that One.'

I prefer to call all the other 'laws' "dances", because I don't believe anything in the known -- and unknown -- omni-Universe is an absolute. There are, however, energies we must learn to 'dance' with. I find the term "dance" to be more creative and co-creative than "laws" and rules".

In the broadest terms there are twelve general "Dances" of energy in our universe:

The Dance Of Oneness (we are all One).

The Dance Of Transmutation (higher vibrations transmute lower vibrations).

The Dance Of Correspondence ("As above, so below; As within, so without").

The Dance Of Relativity (not to be confused with Einstein's Law; everything observed is relative to the observer).

The Dance Of Cause And Effect (for every cause there is an effect; for every effect there is a cause).

The Dance Of Vibration (everything in the universe vibrates, from atoms to galaxies).

The Dance Of Rhythm (for every swing of the pendulum there is a return).

The Dance Of Polarity (for every negative, there is a positive, and its sub-Law of Gender: for every male, there is a female, even within the same body).

The Dance Of Attraction (like-energy attracts like-energy).

The Dance Of Compensation ('negative' energy sent out returns in equal amounts, however 'positive' energy returns multiplied).

The Dance of The Now (Everything that exists exists right now; there is no past and future, only NOW).

The Dance Of Co-Creation (we must "show up" for our lives and participate with the Universe).

How do you work with these Dances? You don't really; they work for you. They are simply the 'dances' which allow energy to follow intent. All we have to know is that these energies exist and that they are there to assist us -- under the guidance of our Higher Selves and only for the Highest Good Of All.

It's really our Higher Selves, guides and guardians, angels and Archangels, Devas and elementals who use these energies to help manifest our intent. They are all there to assist us, and then through us, the creation of the New Earth Thoughtform. It is the 'safety net' which is built into the system. If we intend no harm, no harm is possible. As Yeshua offers, we must always look to that eagle soaring high above the forest who can see in all directions, to work with us, because without that guidance, we are simply too deep within the forest to understand all the possible repercussions of our intentions.

The old saying: "Be careful what you wish for..." is true -- but only if we try to manifest our desires without first seeking Higher Guidance and Protection.

Peace, Bradley

The Need to be Spiritual

Perhaps now it is also important to consider the need to be so "spiritual"; the spirituality that becomes yet one more thing to work at and get right, lest we somehow be 'punished' or 'left out' or 'left behind.'

Worrying so much about what the right thing to eat is; that our off-white, all-natural cotton socks are going to save a small piece of the planet.

When we pursue anything too forcefully -- even love -- we create an opposing force. And we are creating fear, fear of chemicals, fear of disease, fear of polyester. Fear of our world. Fear of our environment. Fear of our body. Fear of our health. Fear.

Metaphysically speaking, there are no toxins on the planet. There is only toxic thinking. There are only toxic beliefs (higher vibrations transmute lower vibrations; love transmutes toxicity).

One might say: "Try drinking a little Draino, if you think there are no toxins on the planet!"

Obviously, at the level of consciousness on the planet right now, we have to clean the planet, go organic, support environmental causes.

What I'm suggesting is that none of that would be necessary if a 'tipping point' in human consciousness had been reached long, long ago; if love was the order of the day, then all lower -- unbalanced -- frequency energies would have been transmuted. There would be no physical toxins on the planet because there would be no mental or emotional toxins within ourselves. And all physical toxins, like everything else on the planet, are outward manifestations of our inner toxins.

This Earth is a glorious creation. Honor it, of course. Live in balance, of course.

But the Earth as a conscious being is here to assist us in our spiritual growth. It was created once (by us [with some Help]) and we will recreate it again. Nothing dies. Nothing is destroyed that is not reborn. All the animals and plants that have gone are simply in another dimension, just as we are when we pass over. When the vibration of the planet raises -- through love, they will return.

The best thing we can do for the Earth --- and ourselves -- is to stop trying to be perfect, stop trying to be so loving, stop trying to relentlessly serve.

We serve by being fully alive.

We might consider stopping trying to find perfect love and glorious sex. It's all perfect now (though some us could use a bit more practice!). And consider stopping worrying about forgiving and being forgiven. There is nothing to forgive. -- Though it is important to accept responsibility for our choices.

We are God exploring Its creation. Explore it. All of it. The 'good' and the 'bad'.

Anything out of balance or in any way corrupted is healed and balanced only through our love and compassion and gratitude and non-judgment.

The universe doesn't care about our mantras or meditations or yoga practice or environmental commitments. It cares about our love. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE all of it. Every bit. Love the joy. Love the pain. Love the success. Love the mistakes.

Not possible? We are God. We are master creators. We created our bodies, our lives, our world -- OUT OF LOVE. Love is what we are. Love is who we are.

Let's consider getting out of the way of love by trying so hard to be a loving person. Be fully who we are, in the moment. If we LOVE eating raw food one day -- because we love it -- not because we fear not eating it -- then we should do so. But if the next day we choose to smoke a cigarette because we LOVE IT IN THAT MOMENT, then we should do that as well. One is not more spiritual than the other.

We should consider just relaxing.

Just breathe -- and not yogic breath or Egyptian breath or ascension breath -- JUST BREATHE. JUST BE. JUST RELAX and let the natural state of love flow through us. By trying so hard to be loving we stop the flow of love. By trying so hard to be healthy, we stop the flow of health. WE ARE HEALTH. WE ARE LOVE.

Let's let ourselves off the hook. Let's take ourselves off the cross.

The Secret & The Plan & A Hopi Prophesy

Speaking solely for myself, I have found that the whole 'the secret'/mantras of abundance energy has been an important contribution to enlightenment, but it has also been a bit of a disservice, because the rule of attraction is not the only rule at play right now. There is also a Divine Plan in place, of which each of us plays a specific and very important part. And which we agreed to before we incarnated. Our part in that Plan may be at direct odds with our personal desires.

What I'm suggesting is that each of us has to sit quietly and go as deeply into our hearts as we can and see what it is we truly love about our lives and what we are in conflict with. For twenty years I have been telling myself I loved screenwriting. Two weeks ago I realized I had been lying to myself and that I had believed I loved screenwriting to justify my life's choices. I don't love screenwriting. I love freedom more, and transformation and helping others on their path of freedom and transformation. The Universe knew I was lying and didn't support the energy. Now that I am clearer, the support can be clearer.

I had to get to the core energy of who I Am, beyond any ideas of success and material happiness in this world. It's as if I had said that I love love. Period. The mind and ego says that's great, but you can't make money at that; you have to be specific. You have to visualize. But the Universe (and our Higher Selves) at a much higher level says: you just love and we'll figure out how to support you materially.

We have to be truthful with ourselves. Do we love something because the culture says we should? Our families? Our friends? Our peers? Our selves, which we have convinced of something that is not true?

The vibration of the planet is very high right now and is only going to get higher. That vibration doesn't support illusion or self-deceit. It supports our truest heart.

We also have to be clear about what we're afraid of and that is the hardest part of all.

Manifesting and visualization are all well and good, but our actions effect billions of others. They have to be in concert with each other. The only way to allow that to happen is to also surrender, which of course, brings up more fears. I have them every day. But they don't control me. I try to dance with them.

another rule of the universe is, if the door isn't opening, stop pushing against it. that doesn't mean our dreams won't happen, just maybe not quite yet.

every alcoholic (and we are like material-world addicts) will tell you that when they hit their true bottom, it's from exhaustion and weariness of trying to hold up the world; of trying to keep the game going; the illusion. and they just say, fuck it. I'm too tired to care any more about anything, least of all my bullshit. and then the healing begins. then the empowerment begins.

something you might try, if you haven't already -- though it's not for the faint of heart -- is ask the universe to take away everything that doesn't serve you -- gracefully and beautifully -- and that you will surrender into whatever life path appears. Offer to let go of the prayers and manifestations and mantras (which can also become distractions from our true essence, especially if they are begun in response to fear, or perceived lack, or want, or need.) All prayers and mantras should be about gratitude for what we have right now, and it is that energy we then share with others to help them on their paths.

faith is never tested a mile from the cliff, but always as we take the first step off.

breathe.

let go.

breathe again.

trust you are safe.

Peace, Bradley

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I've added this Hopi Prophesy:

Hopi ELDERS SPEAK:

You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is The Hour.

There are things to be considered:

Where are you living?
What are you doing?

What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?

Where is your water?
Know your garden.

It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.

Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.

This could be a good time!

There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold on to the shore.

They will feel they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.
Know the river has its destination.

The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.

See who is there with you and celebrate.

At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally.
Least of all, ourselves.

For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over.

Gather yourselves!
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and vocabulary.

All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.

The Elders, Oraibi, Arizona
Hopi Nation

The Spherical We

(photo courtesy Imageafter)

Welcome to the new world.

The non-linear, multidimensional truth of who we are. No more straight ahead, with blinders on, looking over our shoulders to see where we've been. Time to see the way natures sees, the way the universe sees: spherically. Multi-dimensionally. All around, everywhere all at once.

How? Let go of limitations. Expectations. Pull out of the status quo, at least consciously. Pull out of the three dimensional world of black and white, up and down, past and future, right and wrong. For the time being we all still have to pay taxes, buy stuff, eat, and stay up late on the Internet hoping to meet that hot number we've been waiting for. Keep on keepin' on. But it's also time to open ourselves to the possibility that there is something more out there; that what see with our two eyes and believe with our mind might not be the only game in town.

We live in a stuck world where we're told what to believe and who to believe. Where we're educated and molded to think that there is only one answer, maybe two. That you have to grow up to be one thing. That you have to stay consistent, like a highway going nowhere. You can't say one thing and do something else. You can't be a contradiction. You can't be fully human, because that scares people, that throws them off their game. They can't sell you stuff if they don't know exactly who you are.

Walt Whitman said: "Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes." End of story. We are more than our education, more than our jobs, more than our families, more than our thoughts and beliefs. We are ALL OF IT. We are the right and the wrong, the good and the 'bad'. To be fully human is to be open to everything. To be fully connected to the universe is to exist comfortably within the very center of the paradox. We change. We evolve. We grow. We force rules and standards on each other so we don't have to accept personal responsibility.

I don't believe 'monsters' are born. I believe they are home grown. I believe we start out -- at worst -- neutral, a blank slate ready to be written on. Maybe if we were encouraged to think outside the box at first light, there would be no more boxes. Maybe if we were allowed to honor our sexuality, we wouldn't distort it and turn it violent. Maybe if we understood from first breath that everyone is unique and gifted with their own special gifts, that we only stand up by first falling down, that what was right yesterday might be wrong today: Maybe then we'd live in a world without judgment, stereotypes, prejudice, hatred.

Think like a sphere. See it all. Become aware of the complexity and contradiction and paradox in nature and within ourselves. Vive le difference! Celebrate the moment. Question everything. Don't assume what you think is 'real' is really real. Embrace the whole. Be absolutely who you are today because tomorrow you will be someone else all together different. Don't seek validation outside of yourself. You're already validated. You're alive! Be who you are.

And above all else: play nice with others.

Peace, Bradley