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Friday, April 29, 2011

My favorite take away from the Royal Wedding....the sermon...

Saint Catherine of Siena

"If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire!"
-St. Catherine


Well, that and the crazy hats...
 

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Illuminated mind.net by Jonathan Mead...repost


How to Create Your Own Private Cartel

Illuminated mind.net by Jonathan Mead...repost

 You see it all the time. The same big names promoting each other; from the outside it looks like a conspiracy or coalition designed to support a mutual interest.
Maybe you thought it was arrogant or elitist. Or… maybe you secretly wanted a cartel of your own

A group of diehard comrades that have your back in all settings — whenever you release a project, they show up without hesitation to ensure its success.
If you need trusted feedback on a new idea, they’re there to listen and give you a candid response. When you’re down and questioning yourself, they’re by your side giving you words of encouragement.
Starting to sound not so bad, isn’t it?
Creating your own cartel is simple, but it takes careful planning and scrupulousness. These are a few guidelines I’ve found useful to follow:
  1. Find strategic partners (in crime). You want the people in your cartel to have a similar vision and values as you do. But you also don’t want to surround yourself with virtual clones. While five incredible marketers in your circle would make for an impressive powerhouse, it doesn’t make for much variety (and it’s not very strategic). Try to find people that excel in areas that you don’t. This way you bring a unique value to the table, and create an advisory board of people with skill sets that complement your own.
  2. Choose your cohorts wisely. In many ways, you are the sum of the closest five people around you. Do they represent the type of person you want to be like? Being deliberate about who you bring close to you sets you up for positive reinforcement.
  3. Be a resource, and a lighthouse. What unique talents and resources do you bring to those you want to partner with? What can you contribute that no one (or only a few) can? Show up offering your help — look for ways you can tactfully offer assistance and you’ll go far. Be someone encouraging; a lighthouse that illuminates the way and inspires others to shine more brightly. The more uplifting and inspired, the more others will naturally gravitate toward you and want to orbit around your field of awesomeness.
  4. Go big deep. We want our cartel to be tight knit and unwavering. It’s hard to accomplish that when you have a large force to mobilize. Keeping our circle small, we stay agile. And that way we’re able to give our best selves to the others in the group. It’s hard to be there for 20 people in a really meaningful way. Five, however, is a more manageable number. How many people do you want in your crew? How can you make the connections deep and keep camaraderie high?
  5. A cartel is different than a tribe. You may be sitting here thinking that you want more than five people in your tribe. As you should. Your tribe is a larger group of people that congregate around similar interests and values. It may be large or relatively small, and your level of connection will vary with the people in your tribe. Your cartel, however, is something you keep intentionally small for maximum effect.
  6. Share your evil plans. How can your cartel know how to best help you unless you share your plans with them? If we want to create a strong brother and sisterhood, we need to not expect help, but be willing to ask for it. This also means regularly checking in with your circle to ask what you can do to help. What’s most important or urgent for them right now? You may also consider creating a shared calendar for your group to see when your people are launching or holding events, so you can all be coordinated and ready to help.
  7. Pool your resources. “We’re stronger together than apart.” A wise adage I’ve found true on my path. Within your cartel you always want to be thinking about how you can augment each other’s strengths to create something better than you could apart. Whenever you’re formulating a plan or releasing a project into the world, think about how you can involve your council members to help you create something more powerful than you could on your own.
Do you know any rising stars you can invite to join your private cartel? Who can complement and enhance your unique genius?
The purpose of creating your own inner circle is to create a trusted group of allies that help each other succeed. But have as much fun with this as you’d like. Should each member have their own secret superpower? Are you the Fantastic Four, or the Three Stooges?
Also, remember that while your cartel should be going for depth, it shouldn’t be high-seated or overly exclusive. You can leverage your network to help others and build community. And while building a tight social network can build you up, it can also be pretty damn boring if you never connect beyond it.

An invitation to join my cartel

I’m always looking for new peers and rising stars to bring into my trusted network (you can join my small community of trailblazers here).
So I’d like to offer you an invitation. Is there anything I can help you with? Is there an epic plan you need feedback on? Is there a highly valuable resource you’ve created that needs to be shared? My talents are marketing, coaching and going deep (to get to the heart of what matters, of course).
Leave a comment and let me know how I can help, or send me an email at jonathan@illuminatedmind.net. Maybe I’ll share your next big thing right here.
photo courtesy of frankdouwes

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Spring Equinox/Ostara


The spring or Vernal Equinox is the time of year when the sun crosses the plane of the Earth’s equator, and day and night are of equal length across the entire planet. Now there’s increasing evidence that the season that was begun on February 1 is blooming much more fully. Since winter is clearly over, now crops can be sown without reservation. Mother Earth is pregnant, and plants and animals are being born everywhere. A belief amongst some Native American peoples is that during this time one must walk very carefully on the Earth because she is swollen and pregnant.

Another name for this seasonal quarter-day is Ostara, also called Oestre or Eostar. An ancient image of Ostara was of a Goddess standing amid the flowers of Spring, holding an egg in one hand, with birds flying all about her and a rabbit hopping around her feet. All of these images appear today during the seasonal festivities as symbols of newborn life. Ostara is also a Northern European name for Astarte, which means “womb,” and is another name for Venus, the Goddess of love, passion, and creativity. It was also known as “Lady Day,” or Eostre, which took place on the first full moon after the Vernal equinox.
Easter, named after this festival, is one of the Christian Church’s “moveable feasts.” It falls near this time, and is calculated by a combination of celestial events and the Gregorian calendar. It occurs on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the equinox, and is the celebration of Jesus Christ’s resurrection, his triumph over death. Prior to this holiday, members of the Catholic Church prepare with a period of meditation and sacrifice, known as Lent. In its archetypal form, the festival of Ostara is the resurrection of the Light, the triumph of the Sun over winter. 

So this festival is the time of renewal and rebirth, of saying a clear and definite farewell to the hibernation that was a central theme of winter and welcoming the increasing light. We notice the obvious signs on the face of the Earth, and as well feel them inside us. Often we start to feel a familiar feeling of restlessness, which sometimes has been called “Spring fever,” especially if your work requires you to be inside for long periods of time. It’s nature’s call to be outside, to renew, to be active and creatively expressive. You’ll find you want to sleep less and feel the urge to get up at dawn to enjoy the day.

Commemorating Spring EquinoxGet outdoors! That’s the simplest and best way to honor this season. Do so as often as you can. Decorate your altar and your home with flowers, colored eggs, and anything else that reminds you of spring.
Planting now, more than at any other time, becomes a way to connect with the earth and with the season. Again, although we think of this time as the beginning of spring, it really is mid-spring. Create a ceremony around the planting. Pray, meditate, and communicate with the earth spirits (or if you prefer, the faeries and plant devas), and ask their help in growing your flowers or your vegetables. Plant a tree, whether in your own back yard or somewhere in the woods. Toss the seeds from any fruit or vegetables you eat, along the roadside, in your backyard, or anywhere this would be appropriate and environmentally compatible.

Letting go of the old and unwanted is also a theme, also known as “spring housecleaning.” Ideally, if you can find an old oak tree near a stream, act out a ceremony of release and renewal. At this season, this is clearly representational of what Mother Nature is doing. She has cleared out winter, and is now birthing anew. Create the ceremony around this theme. Use a biodegradable symbol of the old, and bury it. Find a symbol, something from the natural world, which represents what is showing the buds of manifestation at this time. Visualize what is growing within you and write it out in your journal.


Physician, heal thyself...


There was a gal I knew in college -- let's call her Lola -- who delighted in sleeping with the boyfriends of other girls. Lola would get friendly with the couple, the unsuspecting gal would start to trust Lola, and wham! Lola would seduce her guy. Lola got whatever Lola wanted, and you got an energetic knife in the back. As the saying goes, with friends like these, who needs enemies?
One minute you're red-hot furious at Lola; you'd like to poke out her eyes and drop-kick her across town. The next minute you're wondering what you did wrong. How come you didn't see this coming? Aren't you sexy enough for him? Too fat? Too flat-chested? Too bossy?
You may start to feel like you've got a constant cold, your immune system is shot, you're gaining weight from drowning your sorrows in ice cream, you've let yourself go, and you're just so tired all the time. Where has your energy, your passion for life, gone? Other than going after Lola with a pitchfork, what can you do to put this experience behind you?
You can remove the energetic connection you have with Lola or, for that matter, with anyone who has stuck a proverbial knife in your back. Maybe it was placed there by a jealous co-worker, relative or ex; energetically, they all work the same. Indigenous peoples knew that energy was real, even though it couldn't be seen. They knew how to remove virtual knives. I've learned one of their techniques that works well and I can pass it on to you.
Here are five simple steps to remove a virtual knife from your back :
  1. Sit with your eyes closed.
  2. Picture your Lola in front of you. Visualize her in as much detail as possible, including her surroundings.
  3. Breathe in as you turn your head from the center to the left; breathe out as you turn your head over to the right. Breathe in, head to left, breathe out, head to right. Keep picturing your Lola as she comes more sharply into focus.
  4. As you continue the breathing pattern, recall the events that happened until there is nothing left to process emotionally. This may take 10 or 15 minutes, and you may want to repeat it several days in a row, until you feel very little emotion during the process.
  5. Disconnect each time you do the exercise by doing three sweeping motions with the head -- right, left, right -- but with no breath. Let your head come to rest in the center.
The shamans of ancient Mexico teach that the breath in this exercise retrieves your energy from the scene and disconnects you from the negativity sent your way. By breathing in from right to left while remembering a feeling, your breath picks up your spent energy, and it's the expenditure of your own energy that is so aging. The exhalation from left to right gets rid of any unwanted energy left in your own energy field. I teach shamanic techniques like this one in my new book, "Be Your Own Shaman."
Chances are, you'll feel more vital and alive after the exercise. And you know you're much, much wiser now about whom you'll choose to befriend next time.

Friday, April 22, 2011

A Hathor Planetary Message Through Tom Kenyon

Transition States of Consciousness

Definitions

Chaotic Nodes are clusters of chaotic events.  According to the Hathors, Earth has entered a Chaotic Node and, as a result, we can expect ever-increasing levels of chaos—including but not limited to earthquakes, volcanic activity, aberrant weather patterns, ecological distress, as well as economic, social and political turmoil.

Transition States of Consciousness are what the Hathors call the in-between places when a major loss has occurred and we find ourselves temporarily poised between an old reality that has passed away and a new reality that has not yet fully formed.

Perceptual markers are a term the Hathors use to describe how we make sense of our world and navigate through our lives using our five senses.
 
The Message

By their very nature Chaotic Nodes tend to generate transition states of consciousness. Transition states of consciousness emerge when perceptual markers disappear. And when this occurs you enter a null zone in which your old reality no longer exists, or has changed radically, while your new reality has not yet come into existence. 

Due to the fact that you have entered an even more intense phase of the Chaotic Node, we wish to share with you our views regarding transition states, in the hopes that you will be able to utilize this knowledge for your own benefit.

For our purposes we can divide transition states into three primary categories: 1) personal transition states, 2) collective transition states and 3) physical death.

Personal Transition States

Let us turn our attention to personal transition states first, for your personal perception is the pivotal point around which your perceived reality operates. 

Your perception of reality is fundamentally a personal creation. It is influenced by the collective perception of your culture, time, place and circumstance, but fundamentally your perception of what is real and not real is a creation—your creation. 

Your perception of reality depends upon habits of perception, if you are like most persons. You are used to experiencing certain realities in your life and these tell you where you are, so to speak. You wake up in the morning and you look to the clock and the collective perception of time is immediately before you. Your choice to engage this illusion, or not, is a personal one. Indeed, one of the signs of spiritual mastery is the ability to navigate cultural illusions successfully while clearly understanding their nature. 

When a situation in your personal life shifts dramatically there is a tendency for the perceptual markers to disappear or re-organize themselves.

Let us present one possible scenario. If you have worked at the same job for many years you have built your life around the demands of this position. You eat lunch at a certain time. You return home at a certain time. You interact with others in specific ways, tailored to fit the demands of your job. 

If that job were suddenly removed, unexpectedly, those perceptual markers would disappear. There would be no need to get up at a certain time, eat at a certain time, return home at a certain time, and the people you interacted with for the bulk of your waking hours would no longer be available to you.  

This situation is inherently disorienting for most people. Again, the perceptual markers have disappeared. 

The same phenomenon occurs when any radical shift in your personal life takes place. If a relationship that is important to you suddenly ends the perceptual markers of that relationship disappear, and you enter the transition state of consciousness. 

If you have a health crisis and your physical life is affected in radical ways the perceptual markers disappear, and this can be disorienting. You have entered a transition state of consciousness.

As the Chaotic Node increases in its intensity more and more persons will experience the shock waves of their old reality crumbling before them. What was certain in their lives is now uncertain. What was solid ground is seen to be no longer solid. We mean this both figuratively and literally. 

There is another wave of transition states that is emerging from this Chaotic Node. It is already affecting many persons, but its affects will spread out in consciousness much like a tsunami. 

This particular transition state has to do with the collapse of the collective lies of your culture. Increasingly more and more of you will see behind the shadow play; you will sense the puppet masters, and although their identities may elude you, you will see with increasing reality that aspects of your culture are a manipulation, a limitation, and in many cases, downright lies. 

The lie that we are speaking to here is not the lie of economics, the lie of wars, or the lie of confining religions, but the lie of your identity—a lie that ensures your imprisonment. This lie is the belief and cultural assertion that you are nothing more than a physical human being and that there are, in fact, no other realms of being beyond your earthy experience. 

The recognition of this lie is a harbinger of personal freedom, but in its beginning stages it can be quite disorienting. This is because multidimensional experiences are so different from your earthly day-to-day experiences.  If you find yourself marooned between your earthly and multidimensional life, you have entered a transition state of consciousness. 

Our purpose in sharing this information is to suggest a practical course of action during transition states of consciousness.

When you personally enter a powerful transition state you might, like many human beings, remain stuck in overwhelm. Many individuals find the shock of realizing that their perceptual markers have disappeared, along with the reality that they assumed to be real, deeply disturbing.  


Due to the fact that time is accelerating—and by this we mean more events taking place in less time—remaining in a state of shock or overwhelm is a psychological indulgence which you cannot afford. The essential point we wish to convey here is that regardless of the nature of the transition state, whether it is personal in nature having to do with changes in your personal life, or due to recognizing your cultural manipulation—you are the creator of your reality. 
 
You may have stories to explain why suddenly your life is bereft, but these are just stories. You may blame other persons, situations, or institutions for your problem, but this is misplaced responsibility. Your stories may be true and there may be other persons, situations or institutions to blame, but when you have entered a transition state of consciousness, you are at the central vortex of a powerful creative process. There is no reason or need to cry over “spilt milk” as one of your folk sayings goes. What is lost is lost. What is gone is gone. 
 
Now the central question becomes, “What will you do?”
 
Will you remain stunned, in shock, in overwhelm, anger and sadness? Or will you step into your identity as a creator of your life?
 
To those of you who choose to remain in lower states of consciousness, we have no comment. 
 
Our comments are for those of you courageous enough and bold enough to step into your identity as creators. If you are one of these, here is what we suggest.
 
When everything disappears, meaning the perceptual markers of your former reality, understand that you have entered into a void point
 
A void point is a critical transition between an old reality and a new one. That which was, has ended. Instead of regretting the loss, you accept the void. This is, for many persons, a challenging undertaking, because in the void point there is nothing that can be done. You must simply be a witness to it, and to yourself, for in this no-man’s land there are no perceptual markers.

Be careful what new markers you put into place, for these ideas and beliefs will be the stars in the new sky of your mind, and you shall navigate your way into these new times by the stars (thoughts and beliefs) that you have placed in the heavens of your own consciousness. So be wise when you go about creating new stars, our fellow navigators of the Mystery.

Collective Transition States of Consciousness

The human collective, from our perspective, is currently like an immense cosmic serpent shedding its old skin, writhing and twisting, scraping off old encumbrances. Some of these take the form of economic turmoil. Some of them are political in nature. Some of them are the collapse and transformation of cultural institutions. And some of these writhings and twistings are related to earthquake and volcanic activity, as well as aberrant weather patterns. 
 
As natural and manmade disasters increase, more and more of you will find yourselves entering transition states of consciousness. Obviously those who experience an earthquake, volcano or destructive weather directly are the most prone to enter transition states, but those of you who are empathic in nature can experience the brunt of a natural or manmade disaster as if you were physically present. 
 
Indeed as the veil that separates human consciousnesses from one another dissolves, more and more of you will experience the changes taking place in the world at a visceral level. 
 
We now wish to address the question of a new creation for those of you who may find yourself in the aftermath of a natural or manmade disaster, such as an earthquake, a volcanic eruption, or destructive weather patterns. 
 
If the destructive force is strong enough, the perceptual markers of your former reality may no longer exist. Your home or place of business may no longer be there. You may find yourself dealing with shortages of food and water, and there are any number of variables that can come together to create a state of shock and overwhelm.
 
We wish to be very clear in what we are about to say. Shock and overwhelm in the face of disasters are a natural mammalian response, and if you are to transcend and transform the moment you must reach upward to higher dimensions of your own existence, your own being, to those realms of consciousness that are beyond time and space. 
 
To the extent that you are able to incorporate the transcendent aspects of your being as part of the equation for your survival, you will be able to mitigate the shock and overwhelm. 
 
The central feature that needs to be identified in the midst of chaos, any form of chaos, is the portal of opportunity
 
This opportunity for survival or for a new life may present itself in ways you do not expect. This is because the perceptual markers are no longer in place and your consciousness may not recognize an opportunity when it presents itself. 
 
There is a deep-seated human habit, or tendency, that wishes to conform new realities to those of the past. This would be an unfortunate habit to engage in these situations.
 
There is much we could say about the hyper-dimensional realities involved in choice making during chaotic events, but we wish to “cut to the chase” and give that which will be most practical. Perhaps some other time we can share with you our philosophical musings about your infinite nature and the infinite possibilities that reside within you. However, for now, let us be a little simplistic and give you a formula to recognize and create opportunities for new life and a new destiny when they present themselves to you. 
 
Assuming that you have entered a transition state of consciousness and that you have befriended the void point and are more or less comfortable with the great uncertainty of your situation, this is what we suggest.
 
Be curious and expect miracles. 
 
By entering a state of curiosity you engage an aspect of your mind that is free to move unfettered by expectation. It becomes very much like the mind of a child, and it is this innocence—which is not the same as childishness—that allows you to enter a vibratory state of consciousness, which greatly benefits you. 
 
By holding the expectation of miracles you release the power of creation within you, and to the extent that you accomplish this you will find increasing incidences of serendipity, coincidences of benefit and unexpected treasures, whether they be physical in nature or mental and emotional. 
 
This combination of curiosity about what will happen next joined with an expectation of miracles will move you rapidly from the void point to a new life, a new creation, regardless of what might be happening for those around you. 
 
During collective transition states of consciousness it is helpful to remember that each person is the creator of his or her own reality, and in the midst of chaos people will make different choices and enter different personal realities. 
 
Do not be swayed by those who enter lower vibratory realms. You cannot save them from themselves. Look upward and live upward with curiosity and an expectation of miracles, and even in the gravest of situations miracles can, and will, occur for you. 
 
Physical Death
 
One of the greatest difficulties for embodied beings is the transition state of consciousness you call death. This is due to the fact that all perceptual markers, including the five senses, disappear. If a person identifies solely with his/her material existence, he or she will find this transition state to be most difficult. This is because what she or he identified with no longer exists. 
 
Although the physical world continues on, there is no input into consciousness from the five senses. It is as if the world has vanished and the body along with it. The great I Am, the central feature of transcendent consciousness, no longer receives information from the body, the five senses, or the external world. This can be deeply disturbing and disorienting for someone who has not directly experienced the other realms of his or her being.
 
Metaphorically speaking, you are like a vast tree, a Tree of Life, with many branches and many, many leaves and blossoms, and your current physical existence is just one of these leaves and one of these blossoms.
 
When a person passes through the transition state of consciousness you call death there are several options. If you are in a spiritual tradition the central figure of which is a guru, avatar or savior, you can follow the path of this being into the vibratory realm of his/her consciousness. In some religions this is known as heaven. 
 
If you follow the path of a guru, avatar or savior understand that you are entering into his/her heaven, her/his vibratory attainment, and by necessity you enter also into his/her limitations in consciousness. 
 
From our perspective the universe is infinite in nature, and by this we refer not to external space but to the interdimensional realities of your universe, and there is no single being in existence, from our experience, who understands and embraces all that is. 
 
If, however, you wish to join your guru/avatar/savior in the death realms we have a few suggestions. One is to mentally call upon his/her name. This is an ancient understanding encapsulated in the Egyptian term Ren, meaning name. When you call upon the name of a spiritual being an aspect of him/her is compelled to move toward you. 
 
If, in that moment of encountering your guru/avatar/savior, he or she deems you worthy, you will be taken by him/her into his/her heavenly realm. 
 
For those of you in eastern spiritual traditions there are mantras connected with specified deities. Chanting these mantras mentally during death, or in the death realms, has the same effect.
 
For those of you who are not part of a spiritual tradition that follows a guru, avatar or savior, then the transition state of consciousness called death offers other possibilities.  
 
As with the other two transition states of consciousness, the death realm has a void point, and its dominant features are stillness (silence) and darkness. All possibilities exist within the Void, but no actuality is in existence. It is like the acorn of an oak tree. The oak, the giant tree itself, is potentially within the acorn, but it does not yet exist.  
 
So when you find yourself in the Void, which you will recognize by the fact that you are utterly alone in darkness and utter stillness, know that you are in the central nexus of your creative powers. 
 
What you choose to create next will determine the course of your destiny and what worlds you will inhabit or realms of existence you will reside in. This is a critical juncture. 
 
Many persons frightened by the darkness move to the light prematurely. And what they do not realize is that in their yearning they create the light. A portal opens before them, like a tunnel, and they can move into this tunnel of light, encountering those they have known before, thereby entering back into embodiment or other vibratory realms of existence without having fully understood the consequences. This is certainly one option open to you, and one that is often taken.
 
Another option, however, is to remain at the void point, residing in the Void itself, becoming aware of your Self as pure consciousness—transcendent to all phenomena. 
 
If you reside in this state of awareness long enough without the need to create something, you will discover your identity as the great I Am. And from this point of awareness you can choose the circumstances of your embodiment. You can choose the worlds you will inhabit or the realms of consciousness where you will reside. 
 
This latter method gives you the greatest opportunities, though it is the most difficult for most people. And the reason for this difficulty has to do with the fact that most humans find it uncomfortable to not have a body. The yearning for a body and the experience of the material world often draws a person from the Void prematurely. 
 
In summation, due to the intensifying phases of the Chaotic Node many of you will find yourselves in transitional states of consciousness. Regardless of what level you find yourself engaged in, whether it be your personal life, the collective experience, or the transition state you call death, know that you are the creator of your reality. 
 
The Hathors
April 20, 2011




Tom's Thoughts and Observations
 
I personally find this message to be stunningly eloquent and a vast storehouse of information. I have read and re-read this message several times, and each time I discover something new. There is, indeed, much to be read between the lines in this communication.
 
I especially liked the Hathors’ statement…
 
“Be careful what new (perceptual) markers you put into place, for these ideas and beliefs will be the stars in the new sky of your mind, and you shall navigate your way into these new times by the stars (thoughts and beliefs) that you have placed in the heavens of your own consciousness. So be wise when you go about creating new stars, our fellow navigators of the mystery.”
 
At the level of our collective mind, I think our mythic realities are changing. The old stars, those thoughts, beliefs and presuppositions about reality that have guided us as a culture for millennia seem now to be dimming, not to mention that they have led us in directions many of us no longer wish to go. 
 
The collective ship of our culture seems to be plying through the waters of the Great Mystery with little regard for the sacredness of this planet or life upon it. But even as our collective vessel sails through the Great Mystery, seemingly without awareness, it (the ship) and we owe our very existence to the Mystery itself. This very odd duality seems, to me, either amusing or tragic, depending upon what mood I am in, and how connected I am or disconnected I have become from the Mystery itself. 
 
One of the ironies of our situation is that the crew of this vessel, those who make it sail, through an investment of their life-force, creativity and, in some cases, blood sweat and tears, are no less than you and me, and all the other nearly seven billion humans alive on this exquisite planet. We are—all of us—crewing this vessel, regardless of our personal situation, our life station or our beliefs. 
 
There are those in the New Age community who say, and have been saying for years now, that we are near Unity, and that the Golden Age is just around the corner. I do not share this perception. 
 
We are all in the same boat together, whether we like it or not, and it seems to me that our crew is polarized. There are many who insist that the paradigms of greed, arrogance and usurpation are the true reference points for our sextants.   
 
Others of us, however, are sensing that we are headed in the wrong direction—that we can no longer ravage this planet and its life (both human and other-than-human). For us, there are new stars in the sky of our minds. And we are setting our sextants clearly upon these cosmic beacons. 
 
How it will all turn out is anybody’s guess. But I am encouraged by a silent mutiny I see happening all around me. 
 
Many of us crew members, and I suspect that if you have read this far you may be one of them, are silently taking action to turn our collective vessel (i.e. our cultural madness) around or at least slow it down.  
 
Some of us are pulling out our sextants and are pointing out new stars to those around us. We do this by living the change we wish to see. We do this by having the courage to live by a new Earth-reality that we sense is possible. We do this by extending kindness to each other. 
 
And when necessary, we do this by standing our ground. I am reminded in this of a grass roots movement in some of the world’s poorest countries to preserve the use of non-hybrid seeds—seeds that produce new seeds when crops are harvested—rather than succumb to international economic interests that would enslave the poorest of the Earth to buy new seeds whenever they wish to feed themselves and their families. 
 
As I write this, I am nearly weeping at their courage to stand up against the Titans that have set the course for our collective vessel through greed, arrogance and an utter disregard for the sanctity of life.
 
As difficult and as challenging as these times are both for individuals and the collective, I think there is hope in the uncertainty that we are facing. I say this because the human spirit has sometimes risen to heights when faced with dire uncertain times. 
 
If the Hathors are correct, all of us will face numerous transition states of consciousness before our time on Earth has ended. The perceptual markers of our old reality are being displaced. How we deal with the loss of our perceived reality and the old world will determine the next cycle of Earthly existence for humanity. 
 
And for us individually, what we choose to create in the transition states of our lives will determine the realms of consciousness that are opened to us. 
 
I wish you, my fellow crew members and those whom you love, safe passage through these turbulent times. But regardless of what happens, regardless of where and in what situations we find ourselves upon this perilous journey, let us remember that we are—above all else—creators of our own reality. 
 
There are new stars in the sky and new worlds to discover. Be bold. And have a good journey.




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Raja Yoga

"Every thought, feeling, perception, or memory you may have causes a modification, 
or ripple, in the mind. It distorts and colors the mental mirror. 
If you can restrain the mind from forming into modifications, 
there will be no distortion, and you will experience your true Self. 
- Swami Satchidananda"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja_yoga 
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"Here’s to the crazy ones. The rebels. The troublemakers. 
The ones who see things differently. While some may see them as the crazy ones, 
we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, 
are the ones who do."

Manifesting 101

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The 5 Levels of Manifesting

When the movie The Secret came out, it introduced the concept of manifesting to the masses. Suddenly people were walking about thinking, “positive thoughts, positive thoughts!”. However, The Secret is just the tip of the iceberg.Those who stopped at this level of manifesting never had a chance to discover their true potential in just how they could create their own universe. In this video, I’m going to share my experiences in discovering the different levels of manifesting that go beyond the Secret and mere “Positive Thinking”

What are the 5 Levels?

  1. Mild Awareness
  2. Specific Intent
  3. Release of Past Programming
  4. State of Allowing
  5. Personal Bubble of Reality
In this video, I’ll explain the 5 levels and how they relate to some of the most popular books and teachers in the mind-power genre.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Repost from Dumb Little Man - The World is your Oyster

How to Tackle Adversity Like an Oyster


A few days back while I was walking to school, I felt a piece of gravel or pebble that found its way into my shoe and prodded against my sole whenever I made a step forward.

As I walked on, I thought about how oysters produce pearls to alleviate the “discomfort” that trespassing particles assert on their soft tissues. According to HowStuffWorks.com, whenever a foreign substance finds its way between the oyster’s mantle and shell, the mantle will secrete layers of nacre to cover the irritant particle. As the layers of nacre consequently cover each other, a pearl is eventually formed.

It's funny. The world is full of little lessons and solutions. Most of us, however, are too busy or too lazy to notice. Take this as an example. From the story of the oyster and the pearl, we can draw 3 life lessons from them.
  • Even with a “shell”, no one is invulnerable
    Your “shell” can be defined as anything that offers you protection and a sense of security. For some, it could be their jobs and their paychecks, for others it could be their influence among their peers and the people around them, or even their dreams and ambitions.

    While oysters do possess shells which shield them from the threats in the external environment, foreign objects and particles can still seep through the gaps between the shells. Likewise, even though we may have a security blanket and even plans that take contingencies into consideration, these “shells” are still not bulletproof. Even with the best of plans, one will still experience adversity in life.
  • When adversity hits, it’s your response that matters
    When a foreign particle intrudes into the internal regions of the oyster, the oyster responds by secreting nacre onto it to prevent its sharp edges from abrading its soft tissue.

    In the same way, when adversity hits you, you have a choice. You can be ignorant and let it damage and bother you continuously, or you can embrace it and deal with it in a positive and constructive way. Learn from adversity, don't bottle it up.
  • Generate value out of adversity
    After the accumulation of consecutive layers of nacre, what was once a piece of intruding particle is now a valuable and sought-after pearl.

    It is one thing to face adversity and try to get it over and done with as quickly as possible. But it’s another to recognize and to seize the treasure within the adversity.

    Each hardship, failure, setback or resistance has the capacity to toughen and sharpen our character each time we encounter and embrace them. Furthermore, the valuable lessons we learn from these experiences not only help us in our future endeavors, but they can also serve to instruct and inspire others who are going through a similar journey.
All in all, the reality of adversities is that they can induce stress, trauma, discomfort or disappointment in all of us. But we do have a choice. We can allow adversity to pass us by without learning much from it, or we can deliberately choose to make the best use of adverse situations – embracing them, learning from them, and sharing those lessons with others. What’s your choice? What is your pearl?dumblittleman.com - how-to-tackle-adversity-like-oyster

Sunday, April 17, 2011

http://www.azizshamanism.com/

ULTIMATE HEALING COURSE by Peter Aziz, shamanic healer....

This course is a combination of the most powerful healing systems, producing a synergy far greater than the sum of its parts. This produces an incredible tool for removing the blocks to anything you want, be it health, wealth, love, spiritual power etc. It draws upon several technologies: Body electronics, which is a point holding system that releases deep rooted emotions and beliefs from the DNA; Gtummo (Tibetan heat yoga), which raises the kundalini in a safe way. 

In Tibet, this is used to cure medical conditions; Sedona technique, which teaches one how to release all the difficult emotions which come up; Avatar, which puts you in the position of creator of your reality, Tenaga Dalam, a powerful Indonesian magickal healing system, and Tethatu, another powerful magickal healing system. The synergy of these systems can remove all inner causes of problems, and totally heal physical conditions. 

Function is restored to organs, tumours dissolve, and nerve pathways are restored to paralysed areas of the body. Furthermore, the inner transformation occurs at a very deep level, producing miraculous changes in the lives of participants.

In the 6 day intensive you will work in small groups, focussing on your transformation for several hours a day, clearing the glandular system, nervous system and spine of all its old conditioning. Nutritional preparation is vital, so please book in advance so that you can be sent the nutritional program.

This years course will be held at The Stone Barn on Dartmoor, where we have a quiet camping field, a marquis and a barn with wood burning stove, cooking facilities and showers all to ourselves. We are in quiet countryside near the river dart with beautiful woodland walks, undisturbed.

Dates: 11th – 16th July 2011.
Venue: The Stone Barn, Holne, Devon, TQ13 7LS.
Cost: £275

Cranial Course: Once the glandular system and spine are clear, the kundalini can rise into the head. A further 6 days are spent clearing the deepest layers of conditioning from the cranial bones. We no longer work through memories one by one, but by moving into direct alignment with our higher selves, are able to release all our stored memories at once.

Cranial work is therefore more powerful and intense. Once the cranial bones are restored to their perfect configuration, they act as an amplifier, amplifying ones power of thought projection up to 10,000 times. This also restructures the pterygoid hamulus, a tiny bone that is damaged in most people, that acts as a psychic antenna. This work therefore greatly accelerates psychic and spiritual growth. Because of the great power awakened, it can be dangerous to do this work on people who still harbour negative patterns, so the cranial course is only open to those who complete the first week.

Dates: 18th – 23rd July 2011.
Venue: The Stone Barn, Holne, Devon.
Cost : £275

Bookings: Peter Aziz, 20 Furlong Close, Buckfast, Devon.TQ11 0ER
 Tel: 01364 643127

More detailed information can be found on our website:
www.azizshamanism.com

Where you can download a free e-book.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

The Qabbalah

For a good introduction to Qabalah, kaballah, etc
Read
Dion Fortune, an initiate of Alpha et Omega, wrote the seminal book The Mystical Qabalah, widely considered one of the best general introductions to modern Hermetic Qabbalah.

further reading
Tree of Life

Hermetic Qabalah (From the Hebrew קַבָּלָ×” "reception", usually transliterated with a 'Q' rather than a 'K' or a 'C', to distinguish it from Jewish Kabbalah and Christian Cabbalah) is a Western esoteric and mystical tradition. It is the underlying philosophy and framework for magical societies such as the Golden Dawn, Thelemic orders, mystical societies such as the Builders of the Adytum and the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross, and is a precursor to the Neopagan, Wiccan and New Age movements.[1] The Hermetic Qabalah is the basis for Qliphothic Qabala as studied by left hand path orders, such as the Typhonian Order.
Hermetic Qabalah draws on a great many influences, most notably: Jewish Kabbalah, Western astrology, Alchemy, pagan religions, especially Egyptian and Greco-Roman (the latter being from which the term "Hermetic" is derived), neoplatonism, gnosticism, the Enochian system of angelic magic of John Dee and Edward Kelley, hermeticism, rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, tantra and the symbolism of the tarot. Hermetic Qabalah differs from the Jewish form in being a more admittedly syncretic system, however it shares many concepts with Jewish Kabbalah.
 
 
 
 
Internet Book of Shadows, (Various Authors), [1999], at sacred-texts.com 
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bos/bos073.htm 
Footprints in the Chamber - Towards a Quantum Qabbala by Fra.: +0- 
           
          The Qabbala has through the ages been used as a directory towards 
          the understanding of the universe and man`s relationship to it. 
          Since former Aeons of magick have had their perceptions rooted in 
          the observance of simple cause and effect relationships, the Qabbala 
          itself, having attained its nascence in the earlier traditions, was 
          unfortunately bogged down by this limited apprehension of the 
          universe. Here mathematics as used in a more or less Pythagorean 
          context provide a sort of key with which to approach the 
          unfathomable nature of human consciousness. 
           
          To this very day there are groups which still adhere to and openly 
          practice the more traditional ramifications of Qabbalistic 
          principles which are still firmly rooted in the mire of Nineteenth 
          Century Newton-sewed-it-all-up-there-are-no-more-mysteries physics. 
          But of course, owing to the leaps and bounds acquired by a very 
          unpredictable but consistent quantum model of reality as observed in 
          our laboratories, this simplistic view is necessarily obsolete. We 
          no longer live, we have learned (if indeed we ever did) in a simple 
          cause and effect universe where the source can always be gleaned 
          from observable effect. For the same reasons, Newtonian-based magic 
          must give way to a more quantum model. Newton`s apple must now take 
          into consideration Heisenberg`s Uncertainty Principle. The secret 
          wisdom must follow suit towards quantumization. 
           
          Another unfortunate tendency of some modern practioners of Qabbala 
          is to continue to regard everything from the standpoint of the 
          Demiurge, Yahweh, which of course is the basis of the now obsolete 
          (and dangerous) Judeo-Christian foundation of religious thought 
          which has held western civilization in its thrall for about two 
          thousand years. Personally I find it amazing that modern 
          practioners, who despite no real Semitic disposition still practice 
          an unmistakably orthodox Jewish mysticism. It was Aleister Crowley, 
          that great Qabbalistic agent provocateur, who initiated the process 
          of liberating the Qabbala from its otherwise Judaic orientation. 
          (This is not anti-semitism but a necessary step towards individual 
          development. It must also be stated that a Qabbala had been in use 
          centuries earlier by the Egyptians. The Jews merely adopted it to 
          their own religious precepts. They didn`t invent it. The actual 
          origin most likely predates Egyptian history.) 
           
          Crowley emphasized that the enlightened magician must, after careful 
          study and application of his knowledge, develop his own Qabbalistic 
          framework. By virtue of this the magician has arrived at a more 
          chaotic paradigm in opposition to a purely empirical view. Crowley, 
          by adapting the Qabbala to a Thelemic context initiated that first 
          leap forward into the quantum age. Thus, the foundation for a more 
          quantum/chaotic system was lain. 
           

Friday, April 1, 2011

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Quantum Immortality...


Do We Actually Live Forever?

An Explanation of Quantum Immortality

From the dawn of mankind, the peoples of the world have questioned what happens after death. Although some feel that it is a permanent end, some religious beliefs such as those of the ancient Egyptians and the Christians, hold that there is an afterlife, and that when we die, we are transcended. Other religions, such as Hinduism and Jainism, hold that we are reincarnated as something else after our deaths. This article brings to light another possibility: that we cannot experience death.

Introduction to quantum immortality
I'm sure you're quite excited to see how it's possible we could technically live forever. But, before we begin discussing what quantum immortality is, let us preface this with some basic information about the physics of immortality. I am by no means a quantum physicist, and will thus only describe the basics of the highly complex world of quantum mechanics. As you may know, an atom, the basic building block of all things around us, is composed of a nucleus with electrons hurdling around it. Werner Heisenberg postulated that it was impossible to know both the direction and the position of an electron at any given time, and this has thus been coined as the uncertainty principle.

Heisenberg believed that everything in nature is in a wavefunction of possibilities, and, based on the uncertainty principle, particles' wavefunctions collapse upon being observed. That is, what a particle's position actually is is not determined until you observe it. This is known as the Copenhagen interpretation, and is the most popular interpretation of quantum mechanics.

However, a second interpretation known as the many-worlds interpretation states that, rather than the wavefunction collapsing, the outcome seen by the observer is relative, and the universe at that point splits, where another possible outcome or other outcomes occur in another universe not seen by the observer.

If the latter, many-worlds, interpretation is true, we can then derive the quantum suicide experiment.

Quantum suicide experiment
Let us suppose that a man is holding a gun to himself that is hooked up to a spinning particle. The gun will, at every moment, detect whether that particle is spinning clockwise or counterclockwise. When he pulls the trigger, if the particle spins clockwise, the gun will fire, and he will be dead. However, if the particle spins counterclockwise, the gun will not fire, and he will survive.

The many-worlds interpretation states that, each time the gun is fired, the universe splits into two, one where he dies, and the other where he survives. In the universes where he survives, the man will be unaware of his own death.


Quantum immortality
From the quantum suicide experiment, we can then derive how it would be possible to live forever. Assuming the many-worlds interpretation is the correct interpretation of quantum mechanics, there is always going to be a chance the gun will not fire. The argument for quantum immortality is that the observer will always be able to perceive at least one universe in which he is still alive, and thus that it is impossible for the observer to ever witness his own death.


Arguments against quantum immortality
However, some scientific critics argue that quantum immortality cannot feasibly be true. Max Tegmark, a professor at MIT who helped develop the quantum suicide experiment, argues that people have a conscious decline as they die that makes it impossible to create a smooth transition to immortality from an alternate universe in which the person would die.

David Lewis, a philosopher, takes a less scientific and more cautionary approach to disproving quantum immortality. He stated that an observer who lives forever will most likely find himself in horrible condition. Being unable to die while being horribly disfigured would be miserable, he says, and as such it's best to think that quantum immortality is not true.


Conclusion
Regardless of how "out-there" it is, there is now some scientific support for the idea of how to live forever. Although it may be bizarre and, as David Lewis would say, unfortunate, quantum immortality is certainly something to consider. 



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