‘Get ready’ is quite an ambiguous term as it is perfectly vague and urgent at the same time. However, in this communique it is appropriate. What we are getting ready for we neither can clearly identify en masse nor on an individual level. The events that are now unfolding seem to be specifically focused in creating some level of perceived chaos from mild disruption to complete destruction, depending on the growth our Soul has asked for. The final outcome we cannot see because we are all co-creating it every day. The power of our consciousness as humans is yet to be discovered.
Most people are aware that there is something referred to as the alternative media that basically encompasses every voice speaking up & out except the media moguls who own and decide what is disseminated to the commonwealth via the majour television and radio networks. As the commonwealth is made up of you and me, we have grown to realise that the media moguls (mainstream media) offer us very limited and often biased information. Consequently, we naturally have sought alternative sources to educate ourselves on the issues in our world that concern us most.
Nearly everybody paying attention to alternative or mainstream media sources has become aware of increasing weather anomalies, an escalation of violence, and the steady decrease in the solvency of the debtor economy. Even those who may consider themselves ‘high on the hill’ cannot escape the unrest that the Earth herself changing is creating inside each and every one of us.
As somebody who questions all the answers as a matter of course, I have found that the alternative media has the same potential to be co-opted to serve an agenda based on their own personal gain without respect or concern for the truth or the human race they purport to serve.
To address this fact, it is essential to develop ones own intuition. Our intuition can serve as our truth filter. Each of us resonates with information in a unique relationship to our Soul path and the current storyline we are fulfilling. This is, simply stated, why the heart as the home of intuition, can be the only voice of truth for each of us according to our own perceived realities and needs.
While we have spent a lot of energy arguing over who is right, the times we are entering invite us to offer each other the respect to experience their own truth, even if we don’t agree.
In the past few days two interviews were introduced to the internet with a very similar theme. They both introduce the arrival of a global governance emerging. In the Benjamin Fulford, Alexander Romanov, and Chodoin Daikaku interview, Putin is offered as the likely man for the job. In the David Wilcock interviewing alias ‘Drake’ , an unnamed group of humanitarians united in the cause of justice are now preparing to use military and police forces armed with Common Law to go into American cities and perform Mass Arrests of the ‘bad guys’ who are the ‘real’ perpetrators of all things evil and corrupt that are choking America.
There are much in these interviews that deserve question that I will leave to the readers to discern for themselves. However, the overall message of these interviews offer a powerful suggestion for all of us to ponder…Are we ready to live in a world of peace and justice for all life here on planet Earth?
These interviews require a substantive context to be introduced in a responsible way. Both of them being quite sensational by their mere suggestions deserve to be grounded in an exopolitical composite to allow the commonwealth to engage its intelligence when considering these ideas.
These predictions are right on time. How much can we benefit from dreaming of true justice taking place in our world right now? Where else can it start if not inside the heart of each and every one of us? Humans are divine all powerful beings, and here on planet Earth the human has endured circumstances beyond most of our intellectual comprehension at this time. Do we really know our story here? It is time to raise the bar and ask who the puppet masters really are and just what is their intention for humanity and for all life here on this sacred Earth? And most importantly, find in ourselves the courage to ask if this plan or idea for us is what we want to see for ourselves and our children?
To plant seeds in our consciousness of the bad guys being removed in the old world paradigm of separation is useful. What will ultimately free humanity is humanity falling in love with itself. Humanity is still operating predominantly in the slave paradigm and needs to hear these sort of ‘we’ll take care of it’ predictions so it can go on doing what it is told, while maintaining the false belief of its impotency to take care of itself.
In the world we are in the process of birthing, we are Sovereign Beings grounded in Common Law as ordained throughout the multiverse itself. We take full responsibility for ourselves and our lives with joy and gratitude for this precious gift of life … A Sovereign Being knows and lives by the very profound understanding that we are all one, and what we do to another we do to ourselves.
Things are never what they seem and they are never as bad as they seem unless they are much worse. Now perhaps it’s time to reverse that and say that things are never as good as they seem unless they are ultimately much better!
Fidel Castro ‘s latest reflections hints to the danger of a looming US Iran war. Fidel Castro warns that a war with Iran war would be the worst mistake in US history.
This Reflection could be written today, tomorrow or any other day without the risk of being mistaken. Our species faces new problems. When 20 years ago I stated at the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro that a species was in danger of extinction, I had fewer reasons than today for warning about a danger that I was seeing perhaps 100 years away. At that time, a handful of leaders of the most powerful countries were in charge of the world. They applauded my words as a matter of mere courtesy and placidly continued to dig for the burial of our species.
It seemed that on our planet, common sense and order reigned. For a while, economic development, backed by technology and science appeared to be the Alpha and Omega of human society.
Today, everything is much clearer. Profound truths have been surfacing. Almost 200 States, supposedly independent, constitute the political organization which in theory has the job of governing the destiny of the world.
25, 000 nuclear weapons needed to defend the changing order ?
Approximately 25,000 nuclear weapons in the hands of allied or enemy forces ready to defend the changing World order, by interest or necessity, virtually reduce to zero the rights of billions of people.
I shall not commit the naïveté of assigning the blame to Russia or China for the development of that kind of weaponry, after the monstrous massacre at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ordered by Truman in August 1945 after Roosevelt’s death [April 1945].
Nor shall I fall prey to the error of denying the Holocaust that signified the deaths of millions of children and adults, men or women, mainly Jews, gypsies, Russians or other nationalities, who were victims of Nazism. For that reason the odious policy of those who deny the Palestinian people their right to exist is repugnant.
Does anyone by chance think that the United States will be capable of acting with the independence that will keep it from the inevitable disaster awaiting it?
In a few weeks, the 40 million dollars President Obama promised to collect for his electoral campaign will only serve to show that the currency of his country has lost its value, and that the US, with its unusual growing public debt drawing close to 20 quadrillion, is living on the money it prints up and not on the money it produces. The rest of the world pays for what they waste.
Nor does anyone believe that the Democratic candidate would be any better or worse than his Republican foes: whether they are called Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum. Light years separate these three characters from Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King.
It is really unheard-of to observe such a technologically powerful nation and a government so bereft of both ideas and moral values.
Iran has no nuclear weapons. It is being accused of producing enriched uranium that serves as fuel energy or components for medical uses. Whatever one can say, its possession or production is not equivalent to the production of nuclear weapons. Dozens of countries use enriched uranium as an energy source, but this cannot be used in the manufacture of a nuclear weapon without a prior complicated purification process.
However, Israel, with the aid and cooperation of the United States, has manufactured nuclear weaponry without informing or accounting for their actions to anybody. Not admitting their possession of these weapons, they have hundreds of them. To prevent the development of research in neighbouring Arab countries, they attacked and destroyed reactors in Iraq and Syria. They have also declared their objective of attacking and destroying the production centres for nuclear fuel in Iran.
International politics have been revolving around that crucial topic in that complex and dangerous part of the world, where most of the fuel that moves the world economy is produced and supplied.
The selective elimination of Iran’s most eminent scientists by Israel and their NATO allies has become a practice that motivates hatred and feelings of revenge.
The Israeli government has openly stated its objective to attack the plant manufacturing Iran’s enriched uranium, and the government of the United States has invested billions of dollars to manufacture a bomb for that purpose.
“Such an eloquent comment on the massive killer-artefact took place in the same week that President Barack Obama appeared to warn against ‘easy words’ on the Persian Gulf War.”
“…Herbert Carlisle, deputy chief of staff for US Air Force operations […] added that probably the bomb would be used in any attack on Iran ordered by Washington.
“The MOP, also referred to as ‘The Mother of All Bombs’, is designed to drill through 60 metres of concrete before it detonates its massive bomb. It is believed to be the largest conventional weapon, non-nuclear, in the US arsenal.”
“The Pentagon is planning a process of wide destruction of Iran’s infrastructure and massive civilian victims through the combined use of tactical nuclear bombs and monstrous conventional bombs with mushroom-shaped clouds, including the MOABs and the larger GBU-57A/B or Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) that exceeds the MOAB in destructive capacity.
“The MOP is described as ‘a powerful new bomb that aims straight at subterranean Iranian and North Korean nuclear facilities. The giant bomb –longer than 11 persons shoulder to shoulder, or more than 6 metres from end to end’.”
The Mother of all Bombs (MOAB)
I ask the reader to excuse me for this complicated military jargon.
As one can see, such calculations arise from the hypothesis that the Iranian combatants, numbering millions of men and women well-known for their religious zeal and their fighting traditions, surrender without firing a shot.
In recent days, the Iranians have seen how US soldiers occupying Afghanistan, in just three weeks, urinated on the corpses of killed Afghans, burned copies of the Koran and murdered more than 15 defenceless citizens.
Let us imagine US forces launching monstrous bombs on industrial institutions, capable of penetrating through 60 metres of concrete. Never has such an undertaking ever been conceived [and carried out].
Not one word more is needed to understand the gravity of such a policy. In that way, our species will be inexorably led towards disaster.
If we do not learn how to understand, we shall never learn how to survive.
As for me, I harbour not the slightest doubt that the United States is about to commit and lead the world towards the greatest mistake in its history.
U.S. corporations that reap billions from making nuclear weapons have “a direct voice” as to “their use and deployment,” according to professor Michel Chossudovsky in a recently released book.
What’s more, he says, if nuclear weapons are integrated with conventional armaments, a decision to use nuclear weapons could be made by battlefield generals.
On August 6, 2003, on Hiroshima Day, (August 6 1945), a secret meeting was held at U.S. Strategic Command headquarters at the Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, Neb., that brought together more than 150 “senior executives from the nuclear industry and military-industrial complex,” writes Michel Chossudovsky, Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) in Montreal.
“This mingling of defense contractors, scientists and policy-makers was not intended to commemorate Hiroshima”. According to a leaked draft of the agenda, the secret session included discussions on “mini-nukes” and “bunker-buster” bombs with nuclear warheads “for possible use against rogue states,” Chossudovsky writes in his new book, “Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War,” (Global Research, 2012)
The meeting was intended to set the stage for the creation of a new generation of “smaller,” “safer,” and “more usable” nukes for use, in America’s 21st Century “in-theater nuclear wars”, Chossudovsky writes. No members of Congress representing the public were in attendance.
Barely a week prior to this meeting, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) disbanded the advisory committee that had “independent oversight” over the U.S. nuclear arsenal, including the testing and/or use of new nuclear devices.
The nuclear industry — which makes both nuclear devices and their missile delivery systems — Chossudovsky writes, is controlled by a handful of defense contractors, led by Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, BAE Systems Inc, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and Boeing. The sales of these six largest US defense contractors (including the UK-US conglomerate BAE Systems Inc) was in 2010 of the order of 242.6 billion dollars, with recorded profits of $16.4 billion.
Meanwhile, “the Pentagon has unleashed a major propaganda and public relations campaign with a view to upholding the use of nuclear weapons for the ‘defense of the American homeland’,” Chossudovsky writes. He points out:
“In an utterly twisted logic, nuclear weapons are presented as a means to building peace and preventing ‘collateral damage.’ The Pentagon had intimated that the ‘mini-nukes’ with a yield of less than 5,000 tons are harmless to civilians because the explosions ‘take place under ground.’ Each of these ‘mini-nukes,’ nonetheless, constitutes — in terms of explosion and potential radioactive fallout — between one-third and six times the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.”
Based on the twisted notion that the “mini-nukes” are “not dangerous for civilians,” the U.S. Congress in 2003 gave the Pentagon the “green light” to use tactical nuclear weapons in “conventional war theaters” (such as the Middle East and Central Asia) alongside conventional weapons, Chossudovsky writes.
This new nuclear doctrine, he goes on to say, turns reality upside down not only by denying the horrific impact of nuclear weapons but by asserting “in no uncertain terms that nuclear weapons are ‘safe’ and their use in the battlefield will ensure ‘minimal collateral damage’ and reduce the probability of escalation.” Chossudovsky notes, “The issue of radioactive fallout is not even acknowledged with regard to tactical nuclear weapons; neither is the issue of ‘Nuclear Winter’.”
To justify pre-emptive military actions, U.S. National Security Doctrine (NSD) requires the fabrication of a terrorist, or “outside enemy,” threat, the author writes. As well, the doctrine needs to tie said terrorist threats to “state sponsorship” by so-called rogue states. Here, the Global War on Terror (GWOT) directed against Al Qaeda fits right in as essential building blocks in the Pentagon’s GWOT campaign.
Under the latest nuclear doctrine, the Pentagon discards the policy of fighting in “self-defense” in favor of “anticipatory action.” This war would allow the use of nuclear weapons against a “rogue enemy” who is alleged to plan to develop WMD at some undefined future date, Chossudovsky writes.
“Nukes would serve to prevent a non-existent WMD program (e.g Iran) prior to its development,” the author explains. “This twisted formulation goes far beyond the premises of the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review and NPSD 17, which state that the U.S. can retaliate with nuclear weapons if attacked with WMD.”
And by integrating nuclear with conventional armaments on the battlefield, “there is the risk that tactical nuclear weapons could be used without requesting… presidential approval,” Chossudovsky writes. He asserts, “combat commanders would be in charge of Theater Nuclear Operations (TNO), with a mandate not only to implement but also to formulate command decisions pertaining to nuclear weapons.”
Moreover, because these “smaller” tactical nuclear weapons have been reclassified by the Pentagon as “safe for the surrounding civilian population,” thereby allegedly “minimizing the risk of collateral damage,” there are no overriding, built-in restrictions to prevent their use, Chossudovsky writes. Stockpiled tactical nuclear weapons, he concludes, are now considered to be an integral part of the battlefield arsenal, “part of the tool box,” so to speak, used in conventional war theaters.
Yusuf Islam, formerly known by his stage name Cat Stevens (born Steven Demetre Georgiou on 21 July 1948 in London, UK), is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist and prominent convert to Islam.
As “Cat Stevens,” Islam has sold over 60 million albums around the world since the late 1960s. His albums Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat were both certified by the RIAA as having achieved Triple Platinum status in the United States (three million sales each); his album Catch Bull at Four sold half a million copies in the first two weeks of release and was Billboard’s number-one LP for three consecutive weeks. His songwriting has also earned him two ASCAP songwriting awards (for “The First Cut Is the Deepest,” which has been a hit single for four different artists.)
Stevens converted to Islam at the height of his fame in 1977. The following year, he adopted his Islamic name Yusuf Islam and left his music career to devote himself to educational and philanthropic causes in the Muslim community. In 2006, he returned to pop music, with his first album of new pop songs in 28 years, entitled An Other Cup.
He has been given several awards for his work in promoting peace in the world, including the 2004 Man for Peace award and the 2007 Mediterranean Prize for Peace. He lives with his wife, Fauzia Mubarak Ali, and five children in Brondesbury Park, London, and spends part of each year in Dubai.
This is a powerful documentary about an extraordinary woman. At age 44, Mildred Norman left her life circumstances and became Peace Pilgrim — walking coast to coast for peace for nearly 30 years, living on faith and sharing her wisdom and exhuberance generously with people across the land. This 60-minute documentary is a poetic and musical exploration of her life and message, which is as relevant today as ever. Also included are interviews with Dalai Lama, Maya Angelou, John Robbins, Elizabeth Kubler Ross, and many of Peace Pilgrim’s friends, admirers, and relatives, along with newsreel footage from the 1950′s, 1960′s, and 1970′s, when Peace was on her walk for peace. The video is narrated by Reverend Michael Beckwith.
This video was scripted and edited by Sharon Janis (Kumuda) of Night Lotus Productions, using materials that had been filmed and gathered over two decades.
You can order a copy of this video or Peace Pilgrim’s books or audio materials from Friends of Peace Pilgrim Foundation at http://www.peacepilgrim.org . In accordance with Peace Pilgrim’s belief that spiritual teachings should be given rather than sold, all of her materials are offered without charge (although donations to continue their work are welcome)
More videos by Sharon Janis are available to view online as part of the Night Lotus Website of free multimedia spiritual resources at http://www.nightlotus.com .
The development of a Human being is a feat of engineering brilliance which goes beyond the comprehension of the average person. The blueprint for this understated and yet stunning design begins to unfold when 23 chromosomes containing DNA information carried by Male sperm unites with 23 chromosomes contained in the Female egg – it is this combination of 46 chromosomes that will prompt the primitive heart (which consists of just two basic tubes at this stage) to form in the new embryo no less than 18 days after conception, incredibly, just four days later, around day 22, this primitive heart is animated by an ‘electric’ spark and begins beating.
Even though this primitive heart is the first organ to develop in the body it doesn’t resemble a heart in appearance as you can see by looking at the picture above, personally, I have to wonder if the left & right endocardial tubes materialize because (sub)atomic particles are attracted to and then structure themselves around two electric currents already in existence, likewise, is the moment the heart begins beating the moment a prototype ‘consciousness’ emerges and the proto-body becomes a living but not yet (consciously aware) intelligent being that has the potential to evolve into something quite extraordinary.
At the beginning and center of this brilliance is the heart. The heart develops before the brain. Furthermore, the institutionalized belief that the Heart is merely a pump has been shown to be wrong, in fact, it can be shown to be a twin opposing vortex which embodies the physical capacity to be considered a mini-brain and it communicates with the brain and body in four ways, these are through neurological communication (nervous system), biophysical communications (pulse wave), biochemical communication (hormones) and energetic communication through the interaction of electromagnetic fields.
It is no longer viable to argue the brain is the driving seat of consciousness or that communication between the heart and brain is a one-way process… the belief that the brain speaks and the heart does as its told has been thrown out the window.
After extensive research, one of the early pioneers in neurocardiology, Dr. J. Andrew Armour, introduced the concept of a functional “heart brain” in 1991. His work revealed that the heart has a complex intrinsic nervous system that is sufficiently sophisticated to qualify as a “little brain” in its own right. The heart’s brain is an intricate network of several types of neurons, neurotransmitters, proteins and support cells like those found in the brain proper. Its elaborate circuitry enables it to act independently of the cranial brain – to learn, remember, and even feel and sense. The recent book Neurocardiology, edited by Dr. Armour and Dr. Jeffrey Ardell, provides a comprehensive overview of the function of the heart’s intrinsic nervous system and the role of central and peripheral autonomic neurons in the regulation of cardiac function.
Although we may not have the capacity as a developing embryo or foetus or baby to understand much of anything (at least that we can remember) every single cell in our body is being enveloped by an electric (informational) field which is emanating from the Mothers heart. This field oscillates with emotions, in other words, it can change frequencies and these changes can influence those coming into contact with it. Furthermore, others that comes into close proximity with the Mothers field will generate an interaction where information can be transferred energetically. Without even realizing we are an integral part of our Mothers conscious experiences… both good and bad. The same principle applies to adults.
Something else to consider as well is the phenomenon of water memory. When you consider we are water-based right down to the molecular level one has to ponder how much of an influence thoughts and feelings of the Mother and those that interact with the Mothers heart field have on cellular development. If words or emotions projected in anger distorts water at a molecular level what kind of distortion is being manifest to water-based (sub)atomic structures?
Sound frequencies are information in that they either carry or are instructions to organize matter – we can see this in Cymatics. Different frequencies structure matter into different shapes. We decode these frequencies and hear a noise that is the frequency – we basically tune in. Frequencies are energy/force information. Beethoven’s 9th symphony for example is harmonic frequencies or oscillating energies/force. Thoughts and emotions, which define human experience contain all kinds of information depending on what we are thinking and how we are feeling. This information or knowledge is intangible even though its coherent, organized, intelligent. Love and Hate will have unique frequencies and an entire spectrum of frequencies can manifest from Love and Hate when you consider the kind of feelings we can “will” into experience.
Thoughts and feelings are not only chemical-based but they are (electrical) energy or frequency based as well.
The final two studies in this section are concerned with energetic communication by the heart, which we also refer to as cardio-electromagnetic communication. The heart is the most powerful generator of electromagnetic energy in the human body, producing the largest rhythmic electromagnetic field of any of the body’s organs. The heart’s electrical field is about 60 times greater in amplitude than the electrical activity generated by the brain. This field, measured in the form of an electrocardiogram (ECG), can be detected anywhere on the surface of the body. Furthermore, the magnetic field produced by the heart is more than 5,000 times greater in strength than the field generated by the brain, and can be detected a number of feet away from the body, in all directions, using SQUID-based magnetometers. Prompted by our findings that the cardiac field is modulated by different emotional states (described in the previous section), we performed several studies to investigate the possibility that the electromagnetic field generated by the heart may transmit information that can be received by others.
Everything that is tangible in nature has dimension. This is an inescapable fact. The length of something reveals how long that something is. This is information. The width of something determines how wide that particular something is. This is information. Likewise the depth of some-thing establishes the height of an object – all of these tangible qualities define three dimensional information.
But what dimension(s) do thoughts and emotions have if they are transmitted energetically… do thoughts and feelings have dimension in that they are imprinted on/in/around indivisible (sub)atomic particles or are they attached to or are they an integral part of the energy associated with brain waves and electric fields.
Thus, the last two studies summarized in this section explore interactions that take place between one person’s heart and anothers brain when two people touch or are in proximity. This research elucidates the intriguing finding that the electromagnetic signals generated by the heart have the capacity to affect others around us. Our data indicate that one person’s heart signal can affect anothers brainwaves, and that heart-brain synchronization can occur between two people when they interact. Finally, it appears that as individuals increase psychophysiological coherence, they become more sensitive to the subtle electromagnetic signals communicated by those around them. Taken together, these results suggest that cardioelectromagnetic communication may be a little-known source of information exchange between people, and that this exchange is influenced by our emotions.
The highlighted section of energetic communication is the most fascinating and intriguing aspect of this research. This explores (energy) information being transferred between electric fields. We experience these types of interactions when we walk into a room and are able to “sense” something is wrong. We can’t quite put our finger on it. We feel bad vibes but we don’t know why and more often than not we will dismiss the vibes even though we know we were probably the topic of conversation moments before or that a heated exchange has just taken place between two people who are now sitting with fake smiles on flustered faces. It’s easier to tow the line of ignorance and dismiss the phenomenon despite the obvious static or electrical fluctuations lingering in the air.
The concept of intelligent energy gets even fuzzier because energy is defined through the conservation of energy.
“Energy can neither be created nor destroyed it can only be transformed from one state to another”
Think about the above for a moment. If thoughts, memories and emotions which can be measured via ‘brain-waves’ and electric fields, then these electric projections can only exist as part of something that cannot be created or destroyed.
Does the fact that the Heart field is massively more powerful than the brain field confirm which organ has the influence on the body. Does the presence of electric fields confirm the presence of at least two electric currents “pinched” at points we can call nodes. The nodes being the brain and heart. Let’s not forget the human body is designed as a near-perfect conductor of electricity because it is very much water-based… it is the perfect medium (entity) for facilitating this mysterious force.
When the heart stops beating or the brain ceases to function the Human body becomes inanimate or dead. What has happened… the body is no longer being animated and electricity (and consciousness) are no longer present in the flesh. Matter becomes lifeless, there is no magnetic field, the body cannot function when the electrical forces have departed. Where does this life-giving force or Fohat go if it cannot be created or destroyed. Some suggest the events (memories) that constitute to your life becomes part of the Akashic records or the eternal library.
Thoughts manifest within an ethereal part of our-self that we call the Mind. Memories, like thoughts, are energy-based and are “seen” in the Mind and not before our eyes. They are intangible. Where does this “information” disappear too, the brain is flesh and blood, it is tissue that consists of molecules, which are atoms fused together… they are indivisible particles… pieces of matter.
There are no flesh and blood filing cabinets hidden away in that drab grey organ we call a brain.
This is a message from my Heart space to yours. No knowing is true, if it does not come from YOU! All the answers already lie within You, all You have to do is surrender and allow Life to show You the Way back to your Source Self.
I AM here only to help guide and assist, I can never give advice to anyone. I cannot prove answers or save anyone. Everyone has their own path and Source connection through their Soul.
Join Sonja, as she shares about the Spring Equinox (March 20th), the upcoming New Moon in 2 degrees of Aries (March 22nd at 10:37am EDT) and the balance between masculine and feminine.
What did you come here to do? Where are you heading? Can you truly be happy without going after your passions, visions, desires? How do you impact others around you, when you are not sharing your unique gifts?
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New experiences of course, since it’s the beginning of Spring, and the days will be longer than the nights for 6 months to come in the Northern Hemisphere. The Sun is about to enter Aries, promising renewal of energy and activity, even as we find opportunity and protection in bringing other things to their natural end.
The Vernal Equinox of 2012 happens at 10:15 pm PDT on March 19th, 1:15 am EDT, 5:15 am Greenwich March 20th. Today is the last day of Winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the last day of Summer in the Southern. This is an excellent time for looking at what has ended, what is emerging, and step out of the ocean on to dry land. Just keep following through on the future you have dreamed of, since every day is good for making a better future real.
The Vernal Equinox chart is said to indicate what we can expect over the next 90 days in the way of weather, both actual and symbolic. After many years of being an important factor in the Solstice and Equinox charts, Pluto has begun to recede in importance since it is no longer in a close hard aspect to the Sun in these charts, but Uranus has become increasingly important in these “seasonal” charts, since it occupies early Aries and thus conjuncts, squares, or opposes the Sun in the Equinox and Solstice charts.
When Pluto transited very early Capricorn 2008-2011, it was squared by the Sun at the Spring and Autumn Equinoctal points, and opposed by the Sun at the Summer Solstice point. These were very dynamic aspects that released a lot of energy, either blocking or propelling events.
Although the Sun is no longer in close conjunction, square, or opposition to Pluto during these changes of season, we reached a point in 2011 where Uranus entered Aries and became a major player in these seasonal charts. Add that is has begun its years-long square to Pluto, and we can expect to see even greater Plutonic energies to be cut loose for years to come!
Before now, we only experienced Uranus square Pluto energy at the 2010 Summer Solstice. I believe that the events of July, August, and September 2010 cut loose the seeds of transformation and revolution, and are directly related to the constant tensions set into motion at the Spring Equinox of 2011 and the period since then.
Squares tend to put the brakes on some things, while indicating a “turning of a corner” in other things. Squares to Pluto often show things going out of control or something extreme happening that results in either a favorable purification or a grinding toxicity. Given that Pluto is one of the anchors of The Grand Irrationality, when squared it releases a lot of energy precipitating situations that move people to make choices that propel them into their destiny.
Pluto is the ultimate transformer. It figured prominently in Equinox and Solstice charts in 2007, 2008, and 2009 due to it going back and forth over 29-30 Sag and 1-3 Capricorn. 2011 continued the pattern, though that Vernal Equinox chart saw the widest orb between the Sun, Uranus, and Pluto except for the 2011 Winter Solstice chart impacting the past 3 months. With this Equinox chart, we begin many years of Equinox and Solstice charts where Uranus is in close square to Pluto. Get ready for a very wild ride!!!
This chart, like many others done for celestial occurrences at this time, show the planets lined up in a “See Saw” Jones pattern, with elements of the “Locomotive” pattern. Since it is so close to the New Moon at 3 Aries coming on March 22, 7:37 am PDT, 2:37 pm Greenwich, many elements of that chart will be the same as in this one.
The larger occupied span ranges from Pluto at 10 Capricorn through Venus at 16 Taurus, and the other side of the See Saw offers Mars RX at 8 Virgo and Saturn RX at 29 Libra. This See Saw is very potent due to the Moon and Neptune in Pisces opposed Mars. All See Saws require that we find a balanced view of opposing trends, or find the center to avoid getting lost on the periphery.
On the one hand, we will all move with the seeds of what’s coming requiring us to accept new responsibilities and new roles we can relax into, overcoming fear as we see the inadequacy of referencing past knowledge while trying to confirm new life conditions. These will be balanced by looking back to see how we’ve been training to demonstrate a potential mastery, as well as balancing responsibilities so that we can continue to join with others to create a more “civilized” way of life. This will help us to the next step of a “philosophical completion” that was set into motion February 2012.
As I mentioned, there are also elements of the “Locomotive” Jones patterns, since all the planets occupy 2/3 of the signs (Virgo through Taurus) with the open void between Venus and Mars. Locomotive patterns lack balance, but generate power, especially when we find the “balance weight” and apply it to the empty third. That would imply that we need late Taurus energies, along with Gemini, Cancer, Leo, and first decan Virgo energies to compensate for what’s lacking in the general atmosphere.
On this Equinox, the Sun in Aries and its worldly ruler Mars is retrograde in Virgo while its spiritual ruler, Pluto, is in Capricorn. That should make for a very practical and efficient Spring, even though the exact Earth Trines are past.
It also shows that as Mars speeds up, it will again trine Pluto, though by the time it catches up to the trine to Jupiter, it will be in Libra and we’ll all be under the influence of the Summer Solstice chart. As it stands, Mars will be in Virgo through the entire Spring season, and trine Pluto through mid-May. Efficiency rules!!
Also of note at this Equinox is that Mercury is retrograde, conjunct the Sun, and in Mutual Reception with Mars. That makes Mercury especially important for the next 90 days. I would think that with both Mercury and Mars RX, this Spring will be “back to the future,” where things from the past will be undone and/or re-done, and there will be returns, reviews, research and rehearsals before things actually get finalized.
As Mercury triseptiles Saturn, it re-invokes the very important Saturn triseptile Uranus that dominated decisions beginning last November and continues to the present time. This important “fork in the road” in the relationship between two major powerhouses has thrown all of us into shifts in our destiny and life directions.
Mercury is closely separating from a triseptile to Mars, while Mars is in close forming septile to Saturn. This makes the entire 13 week period very important, as we have three points of a Great Septile, or 7 pointed Star, activated. Degree spans most affected over the next 90 days will include 27-30 Libra, 18-21 Sagittarius, 10-13 Aquarius, 1-4 Aries, 23-26 Taurus, 14-17 Cancer, and 5-8 Virgo.
Thus we’re all going to confront major forks in the road of our lives wherever we have early Aries, early Virgo, and late Libra in our charts, since these areas are occupied by Mercury, Mars, and Saturn, thus affecting 6 signs, 6 houses, and any planets we may have in Aries, Gemini, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Aquarius. If you have a planet or Ascendant in any of the 7 zones mentioned in the previous paragraph, then expect significant developments in the house where that planet is, as well as the houses that planet rules in your chart.
Since this chart governs the next 13 weeks, any transit to any of the 7 zones will activate the patterns. Of course that means the Moon will trigger it 21 times. Mercury will re-trigger it April 16-21, May 19-22, and June 14-17. Other triggers include the Sun activating the pattern over the next few days, as well as May 11-17, Venus during the last week of March (esp. 26, 30, and 31), Mars keeping it active from now through the first week of May, Jupiter all of May, and Saturn through the first three weeks of April.
Any time there’s a conjunction, septile, biseptile, or triseptile any of these planets during their activation period there will be some dramatic developments! Pay especial attention during May 11-22 since the Sun and Mercury do a tag team conjunction with Jupiter in the Taurus span. Lunar triggers will occur May 11, 15-16, and 19-20 (Solar Eclipse alert!)
This Spring chart shows 4 planets in Earth signs, 3 in Fire, 2 in Water, and 1 in Air. All in all, it should be a season of practical inspiration, or inspired works. After reviewing the plan and the understanding, set new individual and unique energy into motion so that you can “back into” a larger life and purpose. With only Saturn in Libra bringing Air into the chart, try to stay balanced in how you do what you do as persistent twists and turns present themselves. Above all, this Spring stay flexible!
The Moon is at 3 Pisces in the chart, indicating a Balsamic Moon phase, making the next 90 days completely future oriented where visions of what’s possible will be released. Many things will be closed out during the next 13 weeks, so show compassion and forgiveness as you release the ghosts of the past. We can experience “indestructible elements” in our personalities and lives, and with the Moon quintile Venus, some very unique blessings and rewards should come forth, once we let go of old understandings.
Besides Moon quintile Venus and the septile-driven aspects between Mercury, Mars, and Saturn referenced above, major forming aspects in this chart feature the Sun conjunct Mercury retrograde at 3 Aries and Uranus at 5 Aries, showing this to be a season where major upheavals and revolutions are in the air! There may be a review or replay of something from the past, or a new way of understanding and/or coordinating revolutionary developments from 2011. Other significant forming aspects are Moon opposed Mars and sextile Pluto, Mercury semi-square Venus and novile Jupiter, Jupiter quintile Neptune, Saturn quintile Pluto, and Uranus square Pluto.
The Lunar aspects indicate the need not to get aggravated by excessive drifting, needless worry or obsessive attention to detail, and keep your eye on what’s really needed for efficient tasking. It also shows that when we’re dealing with a problem that we shouldn’t get distracted by a lack of clarity. Old internal crises involving relationships and conflicting values may come back, though with Jupiter quintile Neptune and Saturn quintile Pluto we should be able to cultivate some intuitive gifts that can help us to move into our “garden of life, mind, and personality” with ease and foresight, as well as find unique ways to structure things in perfect balance or proportion.
Jupiter-Neptune gifts will be most evident for those with planets around 11-14 Taurus, 23-26 Cancer, 5-8 Libra, 17-20 Sagittarius, and 29 Aquarius- 2 Pisces. Saturn-Pluto gifts will be most evident for those with planets around 27-30 Libra, 9-12 Capricorn, 21-24 Pisces, 3-6 Gemini, and 15-18 Leo. Obviously, transits to these points over the next 90 days will trigger these highly specialized gifts, conditions, and circumstances.
This Spring stay alert to growth opportunities by taking note of inner changes that are like “new metals forming deep in the Earth” of your being. It will be a revolutionary time, where many will glimpse new dimensions of selfhood that mobilize their creativity or genius. A time to overcome fear while still getting the protection we need, many will heal through saying goodbye to old people, places, and ways of living. We’ll more or less pick back up where we left off last August, and though the old knowledge will prove inadequate, we’ll also see the unique indestructible elements of our selfhood.
Be practical, do your homework, research, rehearsals, and renewals in perspective, and do whatever tasks you must do to prove you can initiate your own movement, demonstrating something you’ve been training for since 2008. Use the power of synthesis to see a larger, wider dimension to your life, and stay focused as you say goodbye to many things in what promises to be a very weird, obsessive, compulsive, non-rational time in history. And if you think this is strange, wait until the Summer Solstice on June 20, 4:09 pm PDT, 7:09 EDT (June 21 at 9 minutes after midnight Greenwich), which features a very tight Uranus square Pluto and Jupiter square Neptune!!
There are no squares in this chart, so while the awareness and/or polarization is indicated by the Virgo-Pisces oppositions, with so many quintiles there will be highly specialized gifts and rewards as we stand between the endings of the Moon in Pisces and the new beginnings shown by the Sun conjunct Uranus. Those with planets in early or mid-Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Pisces, as well as in the quintile zones mentioned 3 paragraphs up, will do very well this spring.
So with only two oppositions and no squares, overall this should be a relatively-stress free spring, except for the larger Uranus square Pluto influence. That doesn’t mean there won’t be some extremely important events and decisions to be made, or some pretty crazy turns of events, thanks to the activated 3 points of the Great Septile. It’s just that there is a heavy concentration in Pisces, Aries, and Taurus, with only three other signs active. It’ll be a concentrated time in some ways, a very unique and critical time in other ways, and gifts all over the place!
We’ve begun to fulfill a more holistic understanding thanks to long wave karmic echoes of Saturn showing us ground we first crossed in December 2011 and January 2012. Everything going on the next 13 weeks has to be seen as helping us come to a more complete realization of what needs reconstruction from the past, and assisting us to a more holistic view of our lives within a larger context.
The next few weeks will continue to bring us rewards to the degree we’ve let go of obsolete things in our life, and we should continue to demonstrate deep compassion and/or understanding, allowing ourselves to be attracted to people and situations that show us our Spiritual group work. There are great rewards and protections to be found in getting clear about the garden we want to cultivate, letting go of old views and understandings, and seeing why we’re making decisions about the past we’re leaving behind, and the future we began to embrace Spring of 2011.
Once Mercury and Mars go direct, many things will pick up speed in a very short period of time. We’ll have more Grand Earth Trines at work the end of April (New Moon Grand Earth Trine!) and mid-May just before the Sun and Mercury fill in the Taurus points of the 7-pointed Star explained earlier. Overall, it should be a very rewarding period of steady growth, a lot to enjoy, and a lot to understand through taking a larger view of your life.
Aum and blessings as we stand on the threshold of a new season of life!
Note to my readers: This post contains a lot of geeky astrological lingo. If you find it overwhelming skip to the bottom where I’ve translated this into English for you.
Throughout the month of March a Grand Trine is in effect between Jupiter in Taurus, Pluto in Capricorn, and Mars in Virgo. Normally Mars moves quickly through the zodiac but because it has been retrograde and is moving slowly now before it changes direction, it is at a virtual standstill as part of this Grand Trine.
A Grand Trine is a triangular formation that consists of three separate trines. You may have noticed that Jupiter and Venus have been getting closer and closer to a conjunction in the sky and that formation peaked last night, and these two are conjunct the point in the sky known as the Black Moon Lilith. The Black Moon Lilith is not an actual body but is more like a void out of which comes the darkness of our deepest and most fearful emotions.
The trine aspect promotes ease and harmony, which you would think would be a good thing and it can be, but it also can create laziness and complacency. This Grand Trine is in the element of Earth which desires stability at all costs, yet we also have an opposition (stressful aspect) between the assertive energy of Mars and the raw emotional sensitivity of Chiron which forms what we call a Kite to the Grand Trine.
Kites add a layer of unresolved tension to a Grand Trine and yet the circular energy of the Trine makes it difficult to move through the tension towards resolution but also adds a dynamic quality to the stasis of the Grand Trine. This suggests that even though under the Grand Trine we seek comfort and security from the Earth element, there is enough underlying anxiety from the Mars/Chiron configuration to push us into greater inner activation.
The major players in the Grand Trine, Jupiter, Pluto and Mars, come together beautifully themselves to facilitate personal growth and empowerment. Jupiter brings confidence to the table, Mars provides the energy, and Pluto reveals the raw power that is required to create real transformation once our personal issues (Mars/Chiron) are resolved.
In this powerful alignment of the planet of ideology and good fortune (Jupiter) and the planet of focused strength (Pluto) there is the potential for powerful work towards the betterment of yourself and those around you. On a personal level this aspect can help us to transform our lives and the community around us; on a global level it can facilitate understanding and an acceptance of other viewpoints.
English translation
Throughout the month of March a Grand Trine is in effect between Jupiter in Taurus, Pluto in Capricorn, and Mars in Virgo.
A Grand Trine is a triangular formation that consists of three separate trines. You may have noticed that Jupiter and Venus have been getting closer and closer to a conjunction in the sky and that formation peaked last night, and these two are conjunct the point in the sky known as the Black Moon Lilith. The Black Moon Lilith is not an actual body but is more like a void out of which comes the darkness of our deepest and most fearful emotions.
The trine aspect promotes ease and harmony, which you would think would be a good thing and it can be, but it also can create laziness and complacency. This Grand Trine is in the element of Earth which desires stability at all costs, yet we also have some conflict between our instinct to assert ourselves and our raw emotional sensitivity.
Even though under the Grand Trine we seek comfort and security from the Earth element, there is enough underlying anxiety to push us into greater inner activation.
In this powerful alignment of the planet of ideology and good fortune (Jupiter) and the planet of focused strength (Pluto) there is the potential for powerful work towards the betterment of yourself and those around you. On a personal level this aspect can help us to transform our lives and the community around us; on a global level it can facilitate understanding and an acceptance of other viewpoints.
This broadcast is an inspiring dialog with Barbara sharing the empowerment and personal liberation that is available to us in coming to realise that we are not our thoughts. By learning to become and identify with the witness inside of us, and consequently identifying less with the stories we spin in our world of thought, we can learn to question and choose our experience in this life. She so rightly points out that ‘a thought just comes and goes, but we are still here!’
Here are a few excerpts from the interview:
“Our true nature is like the radiance of the sun, that [radiance] is our true nature. And these clouds are preventing us from experiencing the radiance of our true nature. And what are these clouds?
These clouds are all these thoughts we have that are blocking our experience of the divinity of what we are already. So, in a way you can say we don’t have to learn anything. We really have to unlearn all the stuff that’s blocking us from experiencing the presence of who we are right now.
If you really are present, you can ask what is preventing me from being happy right now, from fully experiencing the divinity–the radiance of Beingness which is what I am…
Whatever it is we are looking for we are already it. You are the happiness you seek. You don’t have to create it. You are already it.”
No matter how you look at it – the world situation, your personal situation… there is only one question and that is what are you going to do about it now?
You only have now and you only have here. Everything else is a thought. In this now moment, how are you going to deal with that? How are you going to raise your vibration as high as you can? How are you going to be the most loving, the most spacious, the most kind? How are you going to raise your vibration in this now moment.
That is the only question. What are you going to do now? To be present now, to be the love…how are we going to do that? The tools in this book will show you how you can take care of you in this now moment. The good news is that you can do it. You can get rid of the clouds that are blocking you from experiencing your radiance that is your true nature.”
Her new book, The Awakening Human Being: A Guide to the Power of Mind, is a fantastic tool for learning to work with our thoughts in a universal and accessible language that is very easy to understand. It also offers many suggestions and ideas for practicing and integrating these, perhaps new, concepts. The power of your own mind is available anytime you are ready to invest in the brilliance of you!
What happened at the Fukushima power plants was not a natural disaster. The danger of earthquakes and tsunamis in this area has been known for hundreds of years. Before the plant was built local citizens opposed it with lawsuits and protests. Their opposition was based on these exact concerns. Sooner or later it was bound to happen. This was a man-made disaster.
In the 15 years I was researching my book on Japanese people choosing a simpler, deeper way of life, I heard many of them trying to warn their neighbors and government officials about the perils of nuclear energy. Their critiques of nuclear power are both well researched and common sense.
One of them, Atsuko Watanabe, a mother and a local politician in her rural area said it this way: “Everyone has known for a long time that nuclear power is dangerous, and while we have known this, we’ve been choosing not to see it. But now we have to face it. The men in government knew that nuclear power was unsafe but they denied it, and now the disaster has come. They are still trying to minimize the danger.”
In fact, Japanese Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano stated at a news conference two days after the quake, “There is no risk to inhabitants of the area [Fukushima].”
So, with yet another spike in energy prices around the world, many of us might feel like we are in the crosshairs with no easy solutions.
In fact, that’s right. There are no easy solutions. But there are some possible ones.
The men and women I have written about: engineers and artists, university professors and farmers–all ordinary Japanese citizens–lead productive and meaningful lives, spending lots of slow time with their families and contributing to their communities. They have chosen a solution that many in the US are increasingly taking up: radically reducing their energy consumption and providing for themselves as much as possible. Because the seven billion of us on the planet do not have enough resources to continue to live the way we do.
But before we look more closely at the thinking behind this solution, let’s quickly dispatch the common arguments for nuclear power, since the nuclear industry’s PR machinery will soon be kicking into high gear on this anniversary of the Fukushima tragedy.
Nuclear power is not carbon neutral. It takes petroleum to mine the nuclear fuel, to refine it, and to transport it. Uranium is often dug up in huge open pit mines in areas inhabited by, and thus endangering, Native Americans and Australian aboriginal peoples. It takes huge amounts of petroleum-based resources to build the nuclear power station and to transport the waste. By their very nature nuclear power stations are targets for terrorists, and it takes tremendous human and material resources to guard and protect them. Areas of the earth in Ukraine and now Fukushima are abandoned wastelands. And if the Japanese, who are rightly renowned for their advanced engineering and their attention to detail, cannot operate nuclear plants safely, no one can.
Furthermore, after 50 years of nuclear power, no one has yet discovered a solution to the problem of nuclear waste, waste that will have to be kept separate from all life forms for thousands of years. And although the nuclear industry is still asking for (and getting) huge subsidies from governments all over the world, Wall Street investors don’t want to touch nuclear power with a ten foot pole.
On a more personal level, here in California where I live, my friend E. went through her third round of chemo this week. Her bright red hair fell out in clumps She has already gone through two surgeries on her breasts. It is in the nature of cancer that no one can prove if her malignant tumors were caused by Chernobyl, whose fallout blanketed the West Coast in 1986, or by the Chevron oil refineries, which pump out measurable carcinogens over the Bay Area, or by the particular bad luck of her genetic code. Nonetheless the epidemiological evidence is clear. Nuclear radiation leaks increase rates of cancer and birth defects.
But even if we could disregard all these known problems with nuclear power, the fact is that for something to be a solution to climate change–the most serious environmental issue we have ever faced–that solution must be fast, and it must be cheap. Nuclear power is neither.
Yet I’d like to argue that our solution is not simply more alternative energy. I think we need to look deeper. Back in 1999 when I was interviewing anti-nuclear activist San Oizumi after the Tokaimura accident (several workers dead soon afterwards, hundreds of local people with high-level dosages) he said something initially puzzling to me. We were sitting inside of the nuclear fallout shelter he had built behind his house, which he had converted into an underground Japanese tea ceremony room.
“Nuclear power,” he said, “is inconsistent with the Way of Tea.” Perplexed, I asked him what he meant.
“The ideal behind nuclear power is a limitless amount of free electricity lighting up every part of the planet. The ideal behind the Way of Tea is one of humility and poetic sentiments.”
So, odd as it might seem, the solution I am suggesting is precisely that: “humility and poetic sentiments.” What does it mean to be truly humble about our presence here on the earth, to bring an artistry of simplicity to our daily lives? It doesn’t boil down to a simplification like “conservation.”
It does start, though, with a radical reduction in consumption. Consumption is what we do with the ignition key, the thermostat, the appliance, the one-click purchase, the light switch, and the part of our paychecks that disappears into something disposable.
Humility is a training of the soul, to achieve within your day-to-day life the rich abundance implied by Less. And to achieve this despite the distractions and attractions is a victory of your spirit against the setup of the world as it is.
It means each one of us, by the millions, has to stop living like energy is limitless. Do we really need a endless supply of free electricity lighting up every part of the planet, even if we could have it? How would we live if we had to generate electricity ourselves? For me, it means tolerating being hotter in the summer and colder in the winter. I remember, as a boy, watching Jimmy Carter almost get laughed out of office for suggesting we wear a sweater instead of turning up the heat–and this after his own encounter with a nuclear disaster.
The real answer is to slow down, enjoy the life we have, live (happily!) within our limits, and not contribute to the suffering of others and the destruction of the earth, our home. Have we heard this before? Yes. Is it a downer? Not at all.
Since I met these remarkable Japanese people who have been living for decades with much less money and material goods, with more time for themselves and a much richer interior life, I have tried to move in that direction too. Each step I’ve taken has made me a happier and more fulfilled person. You could do it too. It’s not that hard.
There are times when you feel like your life is going against your best intention or planning, and you are losing control. It’s easy to feel anxiety, fear, self-doubt, anger and other strong emotions. How do you find inner peace when many things seem to be out of your control? That’s the lesson I’ve been learning this past week – from an unexpected cold that felt like the flu, teenage driver and a school bomb threat.
Early last week, my daughter came home from school, sick as a dog. She is usually very healthy, so this was unusual for her. The weather has been very unstable recently, and colds and flu are going around. As a seasoned Dr. Mom, I immediately whipped out all my powerful healing tools, including Young Living Essential Oils and ZeroPoint bio-energetic lasers and intention stones to help her balance and reset her bio-energetic system, boost her immunity, and lesson her discomfort (I’ll share about these AMAZING healing tools with you in the near future). She fell asleep in the middle of the bio-energetic reset protocol, and after a few hours of deep sleep, woke up feeling MUCH better.
Meanwhile, I myself was feeling a little bit under the weather that day. After tending to my daughter, I started to go down the hill, FAST. Care-giving is very straining, physically and emotionally, as I had experienced and shared in my book Intensive Care for the Nurturer’s Soul. Still, I was fighting the cold with every ounce of my strength and will. I did NOT want to get sick at all. I did all the holistic and bio-energetic healing protocols that I used on my daughter, but, I was not feeling better.
I was dragging myself for about two days, trying to get things done in my business and around the house. I couldn’t control my body, which frustrated me big time. At the same time, I was beating myself up for getting sick and losing precious time. I got frustrated and angry that those healing tools did not work as effective this time. The worked wonders before. So, what’s wrong with ME? My “Evil Stepsister” chimed in: “What a disgrace! You’re an expert in self-care and mindful wellness. How can you get sick?! What will other people think when they find out?!” And my “Evil Stepmother” called me lazy, when I decided not to send out my e-zine last Friday. I was like, “WHOA, time out! I’m not lazy! I’m not feeling well and I deserve to rest.”
It finally dawned on me that I was resisting the reality, instead of being in the present moment and accepting “what is”. What you resist, persists. I was fighting with the reality that I had a bad cold and I needed (and deserved) to rest. In addition, the false belief that “I shouldn’t get sick at all” robbed my inner peace and created more stress in my physical and emotional body. No wonder none of those healing tools worked. No wonder I wasn’t getting better.
The reality is, I’m ill, and it’s OK to be ill from time to time. I’m only human, and this is part of the human experience. When I finally accepted what is without judgment, I told my Evil Stepmother and Stepsister to shut up, closed my office and allowed myself to rest as much as I could. My body responded and began to heal. It’s taken longer than I thought, and I’ve learned that you can’t rush healing. Everyone’s body is different. I’m learning to be more patient and kind to myself.
The second lesson came last weekend, when my daughter finished her 6-hour driving lessons and got her driving permit. I don’t know where “teenage driver” ranks on the top 10 stress and anxiety list, but I’m guessing it’s pretty high for any parent. She was over-the-moon excited and ready to get on the road, but, I was far from ready. My husband is braver than I am. He took her out driving around town the next day, and even let her drive him to school (only 2 blocks from home) on Monday. Both the driving instructor and my husband said that she did a great job, although I was still skeptical. In my mind, she is still my little baby girl. She only has 6 hours of lesson. Can she really drive on the road? Shouldn’t we be practicing in an empty parking lot (for a few months) first?
The next day, I was going to pick up my son from school when she enthusiastically asked, “Mommy, can I drive?” My first reaction was, “You want to drive my minivan? Are you sure? It’s much bigger than daddy’s car.” I wanted to say no, but, knowing that it was my fear talking, I decided to say yes instead. How will she be able to learn and get good at driving, if I don’t give her a chance? Here’s an opportunity for me to check what she has learned and teach her what I know. So, we got on the road, as I tried as hard as I could to look calm and relaxed. The worst thing I could do was to make her nervous by being a nervous wreck myself. To my surprise, even though she was brand new to driving, she had a fairly stable handle on the steering wheel, and she was being very careful. I’ve seen some new drivers who are much more nervous and unstable than she is. We drove all the way to school, picked up my son, and to my surprise, I offered for her to drive all of us to the grocery store too, which is on the opposite side of the town.
When we got home safely from the grocery store, she happily exclaimed, “YAY! We are ALIVE!” and I replied “Hallelujah!!” and we all laughed. Apparently she needs a lot more practice on braking and gauging the distance for turning, changing lanes, etc. but she will get better with time and practice, and I can help her with that. As long as my husband or I stay in the car with her, I think she can do well and stay safe. Come September she will get her full drivers license, and she won’t need us to drive with her. The thought of her driving somewhere without us or any grownup supervision is still nerve-wrecking for me, but, I’m going to take it one step at a time. Right now, there’s still a lot I can do to help her get ready. So when that day comes, and she goes out without me, hopefully she will remember what I’ve taught her and know what to do to keep herself safe.
As if a teenage driver is not nerve-wrecking enough, my 3rd lesson came yesterday, when I got a voicemail from the superintendent of my son’s school district that my son’s middle school was in lockdown. Half an hour later, the 2nd voicemail came, saying the lockdown was over, police just left and the kids were going to lunch. There was no explanation of WHY the school was locked down and I was visiting a Buddhist/Taoist temple in New York City when this happened, which means it would’ve taken me a few hours before I could get to my son’s school. As it turned out, the school was locked down due to a bomb threat!! In fact, they received 2 bomb threats 2 days in a row. Talk about nerve-wrecking!! Fortunately, all is well, and the police will be monitoring the campus for the next couple of weeks.
As I shared this incident on Facebook, I found out from one of my co-stars in “The Keeper of the Keys” movie Laura Carpenter-Vobornik that her daughters go to Chardon High School where the shootings shocked the nation on February 27 (fortunately her daughters are safe). The severity of the bomb threat in my son’s school slowed sunk in. It was so surreal to think that something so terrible could happen in your child’s school, and yet, I realized that we are all vulnerable to random violence, accidents and unspeakable tragedies like the Chardon shootings. In my case, there were several blessings, though. First and foremost, the bomb threat was a false alarm. Second, I somehow didn’t hear the first call, so, I got both voicemail messages at the same time (after the lockdown was over). If I had gotten the first message right away, I would’ve freaked out!! Last but not least, because I was at the temple, I was able to pray to the Tao/Buddha and surrender my fears to him. That made a huge difference! Even though I didn’t know the details about the lockdown, I got the peace of mind knowing that he is safe and all is well.
The next morning after he went to school, I got that panic feeling again, worrying whether they will have another bomb threat or lockdown. Again, I had to spend extra time in meditation and surrender to the Divine.
This, I realized, is a process I’ll need to repeat, over and over.
So, how do you find peace when you feel out of control? I hope you take away a few lessons from my story:
1. Accept what is without judgment. It’s no use to argue, deny or reject the reality. Resisting it will only create more resistance, stress, anxiety, anger or destructive behaviors. Blaming yourself or others will not help, either.
2. You can’t rush things. Everything works on divine timing, not on your schedule. Sometimes despite your best efforts, you don’t seem to get anywhere. But, if you stick to it a little longer, you’ll have a breakthrough or another door will open. Learn to be patient and trust the process.
3. Do your best and surrender the rest. You can only do your best. When things are not going according to your plan, and you are feeling out of control, know that there is a higher purpose in everything. Learn to trust that everything is in divine order and things will work out for your highest good, even when it appears the opposite.
4. Be patient and kind to yourself. Beating yourself up does not help the situation. If you’re not feeling well, do whatever you need to heal yourself. By all means, take a nap if you need to. Take your time. Your health is the top priority for your own well-being and your long-term success. Remember, you are irreplaceable!
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About the Author:
Hueina Su is an internationally recognized expert in helping people find the missing PEACE and POWER in their stressful lives. She co-stars with Jack Canfield and Marci Shimoff in the ground-breaking personal development movie The Keeper of the Keys (Dec.11).
Hueina is a Mindful Wellness Expert, international keynote speaker, best-selling author of Intensive Care for the Nurturer’s Soul: 7 Keys to Nurture Yourself While Caring for Others, Founder & Master Coach of Beyond Horizon Coaching. What sets her apart from other experts is the 5,000 years of ancient Chinese culture and wisdom behind her. She started her first career as a RN, and has more than 23 years of experience in nursing, coaching, counseling, speaking, training, nonprofit management, sales, and small business. She is on a mission to empower one million women to nurture their true self, reclaim their Peaceful Power, and create a life of their CHOICE.
For more information about Hueina’s speaking, coaching and products, visit www.HueinaSu.com
Is this recent discovery by citizen scientists evidence of the energetic shift we’re experiencing? Is our sun just one of many in our galaxy that is experiencing this re-charging effect that is apparently permeating every sphere of our existence?
More than 5,000 space bubbles have been discovered in the disk of our Milky Way galaxy by a team of part-time citizen scientists.
These bubbles are blown by young, hot stars into the surrounding gas and dust, and indicate areas of brand-new star formation, scientists say.
“These findings make us suspect that the Milky Way is a much more active star-forming galaxy than previously thought,” Eli Bressert, an astrophysics doctoral student at the European Southern Observatory, said in a statement. “The Milky Way’s disk is like champagne with bubbles all over the place.”
About 35,000 volunteers sifted through data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope on the online Milky Way Project to make the discoveries. These citizen scientists have found about 10 times more bubbles than previous surveys. Source
That’s pretty remarkable. 5000 new suns seen forming just within the data they were given. The way we’ve all been taught the Universe is supposed to be expanding into obblivion as all the lights of the sky die off or turn into nasty black holes.
A whole different perspective when you see it as the wonderful continually creative never-ending source that it really is. And to think we’re an intrinsic interactive part of it, not just some cold, dying observer as crude science and limiting teachings would have you believe, is tremendously empowering.
Meanwhile, the sun is just finishing emitting the biggest solar storm to hit earth since 2004, and it still isn’t expected to reach its peak activity until in the middle of 2013. Pretty amazing times. With the axis shitfing, the magnetoshpere changing and volcanic activity already off the charts, we can expect a lot of changes to come.
Meet the Electric Universe
If you’re not familiar with this fascinating body of research in a far more enlightened perspective on our Universe, here’s a brief introduction to it.
“Today, nothing is more important to the future and credibility of science than liberation from the gravity-driven universe of prior theory. A mistaken supposition has not only prevented intelligent and sincere investigators from seeing what would otherwise be obvious, it has bred indifference to possibilities that could have inspired the sciences for decades.”
In the wake of recent discoveries, a new way of seeing the physical universe is emerging. The new vantage point emphasizes the role of electricity in space and shows the negligible contribution of gravity in cosmic events.
Images returned by high-powered telescopes and recent space probes have challenged astronomers’ long-standing assumptions about galaxies and their constituent stars, about the evolution of our solar system, and about the nature and history of Earth.
The new discoveries also suggest that our early ancestors may have witnessed awe inspiring electrical events in the heavens—the source of myths and symbols around the world.
Cosmology
Today, we are seeing things in space that were never imagined. We detect magnetic fields everywhere, even in the “empty” depths of intergalactic space. Magnetic fields cannot exist without causative electric currents.
The naked electric force is 39 orders of magnitude (a thousand billion billion billion billion times) stronger than gravity. The visible universe is constituted almost entirely of electrically active plasma.
In the twentieth century the pioneers of plasma science inspired a new school of investigation called plasma cosmology. Plasma cosmologists suggest that electricity is the primary force organizing spiral galaxies and the astonishing galactic clusters now seen in deep space.
Plasma cosmology has achieved surprising success in predicting major discoveries of the space age. This new perspective does not require purely theoretical inventions like the Big Bang, dark matter, dark energy, neutron stars, or Black Holes.
Stars
The “Electric Universe” extends the findings of plasma cosmology to the formation and evolution of stars and their planetary satellites.
Proponents of the Electric Universe suggest that there are no isolated islands in the universe. All objects in space, from subatomic particles to galactic clusters, are connected by manifestations of the electric force acting in realtime.
Stars are formed at the intersections of galactic current filaments in dusty space plasma.
It is electricity that continues to energize the stars in a form of glow discharge, our Sun included. This external power source explains why the temperature of the Sun increases above the photosphere, to coronal temperatures of 2 million degrees. (more)
Pretty fabulous. Be sure to check out their research and materials.
Exciting times to say the least. No wonder the elitist would-be controllers are freaked out…ha!
Why Worry
There should be laughter after pain
There should be sunshine after rain
These things have always been the same
So why worry now?
Why worry now?
Yesterday at AIPAC annual conference, the American president had to go out of his way to appease his Jewish crowd. He used every trick in the book, he even peppered his talk with some Yiddish sporadic words and he did it all just to justify his decision not to launch a World War as yet.
One should ask, how come a lobby of a small state that practices the most appalling racist expansionist politics and practices has managed to gain so much political power in the USA.
As it happens, more and more academics and political commentators indeed ask themselves the exact question – they wonder what is it in American culture and political system that allowed it to happen? I am also interested in a very similar quest. I actually try to identify the different elements within Jewish culture and identity politics that have led to the rise of AIAPC into the dominant force within American politics and foreign policy.
In my latest book, The Wandering Who, a book that both Zionist and Jewish Anti Zionist Zionists (JAZZ) are desperate to stop, I explore those themes. I for instance, elaborate on the significant role of the ‘Book of Esther’, in shaping Jewish Lobbing in the West and beyond. The Book of Ester is an Old Testament text that preaches lobby culture and tribal infiltration into foreign administrations.
I also explore the Exilic nature of Judaism. I maintain that Judaism, as we know it, was founded in Babylon in conditions that, from Jewish perspectives, were very similar to 19th century Europe and the birth moment of Zionism. In both cases it was the fear of assimilation that led towards the invention of an isolationist and separatist cult.
Seemingly the exilic nature of Judaism transcended itself into Jewish secular and nationalist politics- rather than being concerned with the ‘here and now’, the Diaspora Zionist Jew explores his or her aspiration towards a different place and different time i.e. Zion. Unlike other migrant lobbies in the West that are engaged in issues to do with the interests of their respective migrant communities (in terms of social rights, religious freedom, education and so on), the Jewish Lobby is actually solely concerned with the interest of a remote state and a remote community. This fact alone, explains the uniqueness of AIPAC. It also means that it is unlikely that any other political lobby would ever compete successfully with AIPAC except another Jewish Lobby.
Yet one may wonder whether AIPAC’s hegemony over American foreign policy is ‘good for the Jews’. In fact, more than a few commentators including myself are convinced that that it is actually a total disaster. It doesn’t take a genius to notice that the domination of Jewish elite in the USA is similar to the condition of German Jewish elite in late 1920’s Weimar Republic. In fact Jewish history is saturated with similar occurrences in which Jewish elite’s overwhelming influence led to the birth of rapid growing of anti – Jewish sentiment.
Israeli historian Shlomo Sand points out that in between the 1st and early 19th century Jews didn’t engage in writing history. Not a single Jewish historical text saw daylight in that period. According to Sand, the Rabbinical Jew didn’t need history text. The Bible provided a sufficient explanation. The meaning of it is clear, there is an element of Jewish cultural denial to historical thinking. Such an interpretation may help us to grasp the surprising fact that Jewish communities in the West are not at all alarmed by the growing influence of the Jewish lobbies in West and AIPAC or CFI in particular.
In fact, the complete opposite is correct. Jewish communities are often in the press boasting of their Lobbying victories. Jewish communities also invest a lot of energy silencing any attempt to point at the growing danger entangled with the emergence of Jewish power. This is far from being new. Jewish history is saturated with attempts to shoot the messengers and whistle blowers: Jesus found himself nailed to the wood, Spinoza was excommunicated, Bernard Lazare was largely ignored, Otto Weininger was dismissed, Mordechai Vanunu is locked behind bars again and as my followers know, I am also chased by the like of Alan Dershowitz, and the Jewish Anti Zionist Zionists (JAZZ).
Like many other commentators on Middle East current affairs, I also don’t have any doubt that we are facing a volatile situation. Considering its influence and its open advocacy to attack on Iran, AIPAC is a grave threat to world peace. In the open it pushes for another war that can easily escalate into a nuclear global conflict. AIPAC clearly endangers American interests and American people but it is also very dangerous for Jewish communities all over the world.
If America loves itself and cares for its future, it must immediately find within itself the means to dismantle the power of this lobby. America owes it to its people, to world peace but also to its Jews who largely have nothing to do with this appalling warmongering genocidal campaign.
Gilad Atzmon’s New Book: The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
Born in blood, Israel’s been drenched in it since. Its agenda reflects racist state terror ruthlessness.
“Can you hear the sound of injustice,” asked Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s Alexei Sayle, saying:
“To me the behavior of Israel and the uncritical support it gets from western governments is like” a destructive force harming bodily organs.
Its sound resonates “24 hours a day and poisons the whole world with its malignance.” Palestinians bear the burden, besieged Gazans and thousands of political prisoners most of all. More below.
“Let’s make 2012 the year that injustice ends,” says Sayle. The world can’t wait nor should it. Injustice to anyone harms everyone.
For Palestinians, it’s a way of life. Daily oppression terrorizes them. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) publishes weekly reports documenting it.
Its latest March 1 one said dozens of Israeli security forces “attempt(ed to storm) the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem while Palestinian worshippers were inside” praying.
Systematic terror attacks occur regularly. They include bombing and shelling Gaza, killing civilians, middle-of-the-night neighborhood incursions, attacking peaceful protesters, and daily arrests.
Thousands of political prisoners reflect them. Many resist heroically. Hunger striking is their weapon of choice. Khader Adnan preferred death to unjust detention. Hana Shalabi joined his struggle for justice.
On March 4, the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association twittered: “Hana Shalabi enters day 18 of hunger strike as military judge prepares meeting to decide on confirming her administration detention.”
On March 2, she expressed determination to refuse food to highlight Israeli injustice against all Palestinian prisoners, especially those held uncharged under administrative detention.
On March 1, Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) lawyer Fawwaz Ash-Shalloudy visited her. She explained her horrific ordeal, including extreme prison harshness to break her spirit and force her to ingest food.
She refuses. She’s determined to persist. She wants her message delivered and heard. Her health’s deteriorating as a result. Justice takes precedence.
On March 3, she extended greetings ahead of International Women’s Day. On March 8, it’s commemorated annually. Observed for over a century, global gender equality and peace advocacy rallies are held. They also stress ending violence and injustice against women and girls everywhere.
Shalabi told Palestinian Prisoner Society lawyer Sherine Iraqi she’s hunger striking against Palestinian injustice and for all struggling women everywhere. She won’t compromise her rights or dignity.
She’ll persist until freed, adding Israel has “gone too far in humiliating and enslaving Palestinians in addition to practicing various types of insults and torture.”
Released in last year’s Shalit prisoner swap, she said re-arresting her reflects revenge and Israel’s “racist policy that knows no mercy.” She called allegations against her fabrications. She also saluted Palestinian women ahead of International Women’s Day, saying they’ll “always be the spearhead of resistance against the occupiers.”
She’s right. Despite decades of exceptional suffering, they display remarkable courage and endurance. Living under daily stress in poverty, their homes destroyed, lands razed or expropriated, children sick, husbands and family members imprisoned or killed, they plant seeds of hope, fulfill their social role, participate politically, and resist.
Since 1948, they’ve been denied basic human rights, security, free expression, movement, a safe and healthy environment, and education. They became refugees in their own land and abroad. They bear burdens beyond what most women can bear.
They struggle daily to endure, survive, and be spouses, mothers, caregivers, fighters, nurses, workers, and teachers.
One mother spoke for others, saying she “sleeps with her eyes wide open, and lives with her heart broken, expecting grief to be renewed at any moment.” Few in Western societies can imagine what they and all Palestinians endure daily.
Khader Adnan and Hana reflect their spirit, no matter the personal cost.
On March 3, the Israeli Prison Administration prevented a medical team from visiting Hana. It includes Palestinians and international healthcare professionals.
They said they wanted to see her after Israeli authorities refused to have her examined or hospitalized if her deteriorated health worsens. Her father Yahya said she’s lost considerable weight, is weak, and can barely stand.
The team holds Israel directly responsible for her welfare. It urged ICRC medical specialists to examine her.
This week, an Israeli military court will decide her fate. In private session, Hana’s lawyers are excluded. At issue is administratively detaining her indefinitely uncharged. Palestinian Prisoner Society lawyer Jawad Boulos demanded Hana’s immediate release.
He refuted allegations about planned “attacks against military targets.” Prosecutors claim secret evidence shows it. “Secret evidence” is code language for none whatever. Verifiable evidence is freely presented. Thousands of Palestinians language in Israel’s gulag based on nothing but baseless allegations. Though innocent, they endure horrific unjust treatment.
Solidarity Protests
On March 2, after Friday prayers, dozens of Palestinians marched in solidarity with Hana, Khader Adnan, and other Palestinian prisoners. Near Hana’s Borqeen village, they held Palestinian flags, placards, and banners calling for their release.
Their march ended at Hana’s home. Her elderly parents began hunger striking in solidarity. They’re doing it publicly in a protest tent. Her father Yahya said they’ll continue until she’s freed. National/Islamic Factions representative Rajeh Qablawi said her example and “determination exposes the true and cruel face of the Israeli occupation, aggression and injustice.”
The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights condemned Hana’s detention. They hold indifferent world leaders responsible for what happens. They called for international solidarity campaigns to free her.
They paid “tribute to Palestinian prisoners’ struggle against injustice and violation of human rights, and for freedom and dignity.” They condemned Israel’s abusive treatment. They said her case and others like it reflect Israel’s denial of fundamental human rights.
They also expressed concern for Hana’s life, safety and well-being. They urged international pressure to highlight what thousands of Palestinian prisoners endure. Hana’s struggling against decades of Israeli injustice throughout Occupied Palestine. Her struggle is ours. We’re all Hana Shalabi.
A Final Comment
On March 2, Amnesty International (AI) demanded Israel release Bassem Tamimi, saying:
“Palestinian human rights defender (Tamimi) is a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for his role in organizing peaceful protests against the encroachment onto Palestinian lands by Israeli settlers, and should be released immediately and unconditionally.”
On March 24, 2011, he was lawlessly arrested and charged with “incitement and support of a hostile organization, organizing and participating in unauthorized processions, incitement to throwing objects against a person or property,” and other alleged offenses.
Currently in Ofer prison, his trial continues. He repeatedly affirms nonviolent principles in resisting repression. On November 16, 2011 in court, he said:
“International law guarantees the right of occupied people to resist Occupation. In practicing my right, I have called for and organized peaceful popular demonstrations against the Occupation, settler attacks and the theft of more than half of the land of my village… I organized these peaceful demonstrations in order to defend our land and our people….”
“The military prosecutor accuses me of inciting the protesters to throw stones at the soldiers. This is not true. What incites protesters to throw stones is the sound of bullets, the Occupation’s bulldozers as they destroy the land, the smell of teargas and the smoke coming from burnt houses. I did not incite anyone to throw stones, but I am not responsible for the security of your soldiers who invade my village and attack my people with all the weapons of death and the equipment of terror.”
Beginning in December 2009, Tamimi organized weekly nonviolent protests against Israeli land theft and dispossessions in al-Nabi Saleh village near Ramallah. Israeli security forces confronted them violently.
On December 10, 2011, Mustafa Tamimi died from a high-velocity tear gas grenade fired directly at his head at close range. It was deliberate, cold-blooded murder.
On February 19, 2012, Bassem said:
“International law gives us the right to peaceful protest, to demonstrate our refusal of the policies that hurt us, our daily life and the future of our children… I do not know and do not care if they [the settlements] are permitted by your law, as it was enacted by an authority I do not recognize…True justice would not have me stand here before this court at all, let alone while I am imprisoned and shackled. This case is baseless and made up with the sole goal of putting me behind bars.”
In 1993, AI documented his torture in detention. As a result, he suffered a subdural hematoma and lay unconscious for six days during which he underwent life-saving surgery.
On December 6, 1993, he was released uncharged. His ordeal now continues. Support him, Hana, Khader, and thousands of others like them. Demand appalling Israeli injustice end and those responsible held accountable.
International law requires it, and that victims be justly compensated. Like America, Israel arrogantly refuses. It keeps inflicting horrific human rights violations. Justice is dismissively denied. For decades, Palestinians have suffered. Their liberating struggle continues.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
On March 4, 2012, 22 year old member of Young Jewish and Proud (the youth wing of Jewish Voice for Peace) Liza Behrendt stood up at the 2012 AIPAC Policy Conference in a breakout session called “The Struggle to Secure Israel on Campus” to call attention to the silencing of Palestinians— and young Jews who support them — on U.S. campuses.
This action was part of OCCUPY AIPAC. www.occupyaipac.org
This effort to draw attention to the silencing of Palestinians and young Jewish activists is part of a weekend long series of activities to highlight the destructive practices of AIPAC. A separate group of Jewish activists from Jews Say No and Just Foreign Policy went inside the AIPAC conference and gave interviews to journalists, in which they stressed that AIPAC doesn’t represent the majority of American Jews who oppose war with Iran and who want the US to oppose settlement expansion in the West Bank. Activists held daylong protests outside the AIPAC conference.
Timed to coincide with the AIPAC policy conference, Occupy AIPAC (www.occupyaipac.org) is a coalition effort led by CODEPINK: Women for Peace and cosponsored by over 130 organizations, including Jewish Voice for Peace, Interfaith Peace Builders, Jews Say No, Just Foreign Policy, US Palestinian Community Network and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. The purpose of the week of actions is to urge Obama to reject the Israeli administration’s push for war on Iran, insist on respect for Palestinian rights, and draw attention to the role of AIPAC as a special interest lobby that maintains a stranglehold over US policies.
Gareth Porter gives four clues that the bombers had no intentions of injuring or killing the passengers of the Israeli diplomatic car, but merely to cause an international ruckus to serve as war propaganda against Iran and try to split India and Iran, who have strong economic ties. The four clues:
The size of the bomb was very small, around 200 grams. In real terrorist bombings, the bombs pack a huge punch and are made to kill victims. This bomb was not like that.
There was no shrapnel in the bomb. Usually, there are nails or glass to pierce the body of the victims and amplify the damage of the blast.
The placement of the bomb was not beside the passenger door, or under the fuel tank. Rather, it was at the back of the car, far away from the passengers who were traveling in a long diplomatic car. In other words, there was ample space between the bomb and the passengers. If the bomber wanted to seriously harm and/or kill the Israeli passengers, then why didn’t he put the bomb closer to them, or under the fuel tank?
After placing the bomb on the back of the diplomatic car, it took 30 seconds to go off. In real case of terrorist bombings, the duration between placement of the bomb and the explosion is 5-10 seconds.
Listen to Porter’s full interview with Horton to get a fuller picture of this story. Porter said he talked with a U.S. intelligence official who confirmed his analysis that the bombing was not a revenge attack by Iran.
An excerpt from Gareth Porter’s article:
“We may never be able to establish with certainty what happened in Delhi, Bangkok, and Tbilisi earlier this month, but the evidence that has come to light thus far doesn’t support the widely accepted notion that Iran and Hezbollah were behind it. That evidence is consistent, however, with a clever Israeli “false flag” car bombing operation that would not injure the passenger but would serve its broader strategic interests: dividing India from Iran and pushing US public opinion further towards support for war against Iran.”
We should all thank Gareth Porter for getting to the bottom of this story, and destroying the war propaganda put out by the Israelis.
Knowing the truth is a matter of life and death, war and peace. Nothing is more important.
For so long we in the UK have been asked to believe the governmental proposition that combating ‘the threat of terrorism’ is a national priority for which our hard earned taxes are indispensable. We have repeatedly been told that it’s for ‘our national security’ that the US/UK and other European accomplices send their military into Middle Eastern countries to topple heads of state, destroy infrastructure and subject tens of thousands of men, women and children to an untimely death from bombs and bullets.
We were, in Libya’s case, even told by serious looking politicians in grey suits, that the invasion was a ‘humanitarian intervention’ and that the death and destruction which accompanied it was a necessary part of ‘protecting civilians’ against the edicts of their own ruler.
All the while, here at home, a steady build up of high-tech surveillance equipment has been tracking us as we go about our daily business. CCTV cameras, emails, text messages, telephone conversations, cash machines, credit cards, satellite images, all these and more can now be accessed in the supposed interests of curtailing potential home-based ‘terrorist’ activity. So much so, that it appears we are now all viewed as potential threats to the nation.
Ever since 9/11 and the pinpointing of its perpetrators as a handful of penniless Arabs somewhere in the mountains of Afghanistan, we have been paying out of our own pockets to be protected from mythical ‘evil empires’, demagogic tyrants and crazed despots, only to find that we are also now conjoined with them on the suspect list.
Yet, in spite of this discovery, hardly a British whimper has been registered in response. The majority of the population of our island appear to be saying “Take my money, I trust you to know what to do with it Mr Blair, Brown and Cameron. We know you care more about people than about money and power. We accept that you have only humanitarian considerations at heart and would not allow the prospect of cheap oil, minerals and foreign military bases to cloud your vision. We are grateful for the protection you accord us. We know that there may be nasty terrorists plotting to overthrow our Country at this very time. This is a democratic Country; we are civil people. After all, it was we who spread democracy all over the world in the first place wasn’t it? How ungrateful those people are who now want to seek revenge on us!”
Such a reaction, should it stand up to reasonable scrutiny, bears testimony to one of the most problematical features of British society: its refusal to look in the eye its own long record of conquest, pillage and murder. A record so often callously portrayed as a great crusade of empire building. There remains a lingering, stubborn determination, particularly amongst the upper classes, to see such British barbarism as nothing other than the valid expression of an unquestioned racial superiority. The moral presumption whispered around the coffee tables of the British bourgeoisie has been that other less ‘developed’ countries should be helped to ‘come up to our standards’. Whereas, the reality was not even one of patronising morality; it was grand conquest and all that entails.
The reason why the British ruling class is still operational today is because of the largely passive acquiescence of a society ordered on the principle of ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ of ‘lesser’ and ‘superior’. This suggests an unspoken moral assumption in favour of class divisions which are, in certain ways, equatable with Darwin’s theory of ‘the survival of the fittest’. Divisions in which one part accepts – albeit grudgingly – its subjugation by the other; based not on the attributes of wisdom and example, but on a hierarchy of wealth and power.
By uncritically accepting such subjugation within one’s own society, the basis is laid for the condoning of foreign invasions and the same process of subjugation being applied to the victims of these invasions. In this way war becomes rationalised and accepted as a natural part of preserving the status quo. It is just a short step from here to accepting the unimpeded imposition of a ‘big brother’ totalitarian-style control system. The type so prophetically foretold by George Orwell and Aldous Huxley in the first half of the 20th century.
So long as the majority of citizens hold onto a sense of nationalistic pride when their country sets off to invade a foreign one – then they will be perfectly conditioned to have this same ‘war state’ imposed upon themselves. And this is where we are today in Britain. The same symptoms are of course strongly borne out in the USA and beyond, but I am concentrating on Britain in this article, not least because Britain still plays a key role in masterminding the strategies behind such conquests and has considerable experience in perfecting the controlling techniques necessary to keep the subjugated from rising up in defiance.
If ‘the people’ were able and willing to recognise the heinous levels of impoverishment and slavery that the British ruling classes imposed upon their vanquished populations – we would at least have a chance of understanding the origins of the present crisis. If it was also recognised that the divisive repercussions of these actions are still being played out in Africa, India and beyond, then we would be in a position to put the groundwork in place for a genuine resistance to the establishment of the ‘surveillance society’ which is closing in upon us today
As the ominous beat of war drums herald preparations for yet another invasion (this time the Persian Gulf) so do our political figureheads once again straighten their ties, stiffen their necks and reel-off the well rehearsed war-speak agenda: in this case the ‘inevitability’ of having to take action if Tehran refuses to bow to the will of the West.
We live in thrall to an almost perpetual war state. It has a cruel, crushing and conditioning effect on the human psyche; breeding suspicion and fear, where what is called for is clarity, understanding and courage. The cabal of countries at the forefront of the sabre rattling are those least willing to examine their own failings. Their historical records have been carefully written to disguise the bloody truth behind their own acts of terrorism, conquest and empire building. History is only allowed into the national curriculum if it somehow manages to gloss over the horrors carried out in the name of aid, education and honour.
The insupportable misadventures of modern-day invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, are still being defended as rightful incursions by those who swallow the political rhetoric of the ‘war against terror’. And even when the motives for the invasion are proved false, other alibis are invented to try and give a veneer of authenticity to the true motives for invasion.
With the tacit permission of the electorate, a whole raft of infrastructural elements of the repressive control state have been put in place in the name of protecting against a ‘terrorism’ which is nothing less than a grand hoax. A hoax carefully constructed to pave the way for the imposition of a lock-down on any elements unwilling to conform to the creeping strictures imposed from above.
The police have already gained access to technologies so sophisticated that they are able to ‘monitor’ in real time the exact whereabouts of any individual they wish to track. Not only this, they will soon be applying for the right to fly CCTV-equipped ‘drones’ over homes and businesses anywhere in the country; and if any resistance should unduly manifest itself, they can TASER those deemed responsible into comatose submission.
We have moved far beyond the territory which constitutes ‘infringements of civil liberties’ and are now in the domain of what amounts to an autocratic dictatorship masquerading as a caring democracy. The national and international war criminals who stand as unflinching totems of this ‘democratic dictatorship’ and its ‘war on terror’ are merely mirrors of the evil they claim to be fighting. They have yet to be seriously challenged.
What was once called “The Peace Movement” has gone into hiding and appears to be incapable of raising a coherent voice in opposition to the drum beat of war. Left-leaning citizens and Greens, who might be expected to raise their voices, have so compartmentalised their interests as to appear oblivious to the breadth of the social engineering takeover going on in front of their noses. What should have incited a people’s revolution, has instead been assiduously allowed to establish itself as the necessary price to be paid for keeping the CIA-sponsored Taliban as far East of the English Channel as possible.
The real terrorists are still at large. Those who have so cynically contrived to use the fake threat of terrorism to put in place the building blocks of the modern surveillance state. They have been able to do so because the citizens of ‘Great Britain’ have for far too long averted their eyes from misdeeds both past and present, and have continued to brush the accumulated bloodstained dust under the colonial carpet. This, rather than honestly and rationally face up to the unpalatable reality that stands behind the events which made the small island of Britain one of the wealthiest nations on this planet.
So the real terrorists walk amongst us. They hold high office in our lauded institutions and come together to hold a missile to the head of any nation which does not conform to the agenda required of it. They will apparently go to any lengths to maintain the power structures to which they are accustomed, and by which they acquire the oil and mineral wealth deemed necessary to maintain and expand these structures.
Britain and the USA stand shoulder to shoulder in their role as purveyors of this terror regime, scheming up the most effective way of upholding this 21st-century version of colonial conquest. They have, between them, engineered the domination of vast tracts of this planet under the guise of what is euphemistically named ‘the special relationship’. A special relationship forged out of the collaborative art of conquest, suppression and theft and sold to the world as the means of ‘ maintaining global stability.’
Only when a critical mass wake up to this reality and see it for what it is, without taking the evasive action of denial, will we finally be in a position to turn the tide and set in motion a whole new agenda for the future of mankind*. There is no time to waste. We are either going to be complicit in the launching of a 3rd world war of disastrous proportions, or we are going to become the masters of our destinies and genuine peace makers — throwing off the chains of serfdom in the process. In the capacity of being masters of our destinies we will become purveyors of a new kind of justice for those whom we once enslaved and whose wealth helped bestow the title ‘Great Britain’ upon this island once known simply as Britain.
Britain still can be ‘Great’ but only when we Britons have set aside the false vanities and misappropriated pride that has been the historical passport for conquest and suppression. Freed of this karma, Great Britain can instead come to the aid of those countries still struggling to rise above the perverse forces of repression, aggression and greed for which we, wittingly or unwittingly, established such a tragic template.
Julian is a British pioneer organic farmer, writer and activist. He is currently president of the ‘International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside’ which is leading the fight against GMO in Poland. He is author of “Changing Course for Life – Local Solutions to Global Problems” www.changingcourseforlife.info
All five visible planets in the March 2012 evening sky: Mercury (early March), Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn (mid to late evening)
Venus, below, moon and Jupiter, above, as seen February 26, 2012 in Manila, Philippines by Jv Noriega. Jupiter and Venus will be closest in mid-March. The moon will sweep near them again in late March 2012.
Wow, March 2012 is about as good as it gets for planet watching! Mercury, the innermost planet, makes its best evening appearance for the year in the Northern Hemisphere. All over the world, Mars shines at its greatest brilliance for the year – and moreover, the red planet stays out all night long. Plus, the brightest and second-brightest planets – Venus and Jupiter, respectively – come together for a stunning conjunction in mid-March. Saturn, the farthest and faintest visible planet, is nonetheless as bright as the brightest stars, and its glorious rings are surprisingly easy to view through a backyard telescope.
Four of the five visible planets – Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Mars – pop out first thing at dusk. Saturn comes up later in the evening. All of these worlds should be easy to see, with the sole exception of Mercury, the innermost planet of the solar system. As darkness falls, Venus and Jupiter blaze away in the western sky, while fainter Mercury lurks beneath them, near the horizon. The red planet Mars is found low in the east at dusk and nightfall, beaming as the sky’s fourth-brightest “star,” after Sirius. Sirius, the brightest star in the nighttime sky, is only a touch brighter than Mars, and sparkles in the Northern Hemisphere’s southern sky at early evening.
Use the dazzling planets Jupiter and Venus to locate Mercury near the horizon
Make Mercury a priority in early March, for the first week of March will feature the Northern Hemisphere’s best opportunity to catch Mercury in the evening sky until June 2012. First thing, after sunset, look for the dazzling planets Venus and Jupiter to burst into western twilight dusk. Then draw an imaginary line from Jupiter and past Venus to locate Mercury near the sunset point on the horizon.
Given an unobstructed horizon and clear sky, Mercury may become visible to the unaided eye about 45 to 60 minutes after sunset. Binoculars, though, make the search for Mercury so much easier, especially if the sky is murky near the horizon – as is so often the case. Mercury is actually as bright as a first-magnitude star, but the glow of evening twilight tends to subdue its brilliance. With Mercury setting a whopping 90 minutes after the sun at mid-northern latitudes, Mercury may well be yours to behold just before darkness falls in the first week of March.
The moon, Jupiter and Venus as seen from North America on Saturday, March 24
Venus blazes like a lighthouse in the west at dusk in March 2012, as seen from all parts of Earth. In fact, all through March 2012, Venus and Jupiter – the sky’s two most brilliant planets – are the first “stars” to pop out at evening dusk, with Venus being the lower planet and Jupiter the higher in the first half of the month. After Venus and Jupiter have their conjunction at mid-month, Venus will become the higher planet and Jupiter the lower.
At mid-northern latitudes, Venus follows the sun beneath the western horizon about four hours after sunset all through March. Day by day, you’ll be able to watch Venus climb a little closer to Jupiter into the evening sky. It’ll finally meet up with Jupiter around mid-March 2012, when Jupiter and Venus will stage an amazing conjunction in the western twilight sky.
Watch the waxing crescent moon swing close to Jupiter and Venus in late March, on the evenings of March 24 and 25 and 26.
At the beginning of the month, Jupiter sets about five hours after the sun and Venus sets about four hours after at mid-northern latitudes. Every evening thereafter, watch for Venus to climb upward while Jupiter falls downward. By the end of the month, Jupiter will set about two and one-half hours after the sun yet Venus will still set a good four hours aftersunset.
Jupiter and its moons as seen on August 15, 2009. From left to right, these moons are Europa, Ganymede, Io and Callisto.
Even on a moonlit night, it’s pretty easy to see Jupiter’s four largest moons with a backyard telescope. In their outward order from Jupiter, these moons are Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. However, the positions of Jupiter’s moons – as seen from Earth – vary from night to night. Sometimes, a moon may be “missing” because it’s in front of or behind Jupiter. If you want to know which moon is which at a certain date and time, check out this handy almanac.
Mars is rising in the east as the sun sets in the west in early March 2012. This is the other planet that will “wow” you on these March evenings. Mars reaches opposition on March 3, at which juncture this brilliant, ruddy world shines all night long, from dusk till dawn. Mars will become extremely noticeable in our sky in March – more noticeable than it’s been for the last two years. Very exciting!
Excitement is reaching to a fever pitch as Mars is now displaying its greatest brilliance in our sky. Mars started to retrograde (move westward) toward the star Regulus in the constellation Leo on January 24. Mars has been brightening ever since retrograde motion began, and its brilliance culminates with the Martian opposition in early March. Mars is now the fourth-brightest “star” in the nighttime sky, after the planets Venus and Jupiter, and the star Sirius, the brightest true star of the nighttime sky.
In early March 2012 – just as Venus and Jupiter are gearing up for their spectacular conjunction – Earth passes in between the sun and Mars. Mars comes closest to Earth for this two-year period and shines most brightly in our sky. This is the wonderful Martianopposition. Although this 2012 opposition will be a rather distant one for Mars, any Martian opposition is a grand event. It’s when we remember why we love this planet! So be sure to watch for Mars.
The moon, Mars and Regulus shine low in the east as darkness falls on Wednesday, March 7
Use the moon to find Mars on the nights of March 6 and 7. Mars shines in front of the constellation Leo the Lion, but easily outshines the Lion’s brightest star, Regulus. You can also distinguish Mars from Regulus by color. Mars glowers in a ruddy hue while Regulus sparkles blue-white.
At mid-northern latitudes, Saturn rises in the east around 9 to 10 p.m. local time in early March 2012 – or at about the same time that Venus sets in the west. By the end of the month, Saturn is rising at nightfall – or approximately 8:30 to 9:30 local daylight saving time. Starting around mid-month, you can see Venus sitting low in the west as Saturn is rising in the east. Saturn appears highest in the sky around 3 a.m. local time in early March and about 2 a.m. local daylight saving time by the month’s end.
Before going to bed on Saturday, March 10, look for the moon and Saturn in the eastern sky
Saturn isn’t as dazzling as Venus or Jupiter. It’s not as exciting as Mars or Mercury. It’s the least conspicuous of the visible planets. In fact, early stargazers used to call Saturn “the oldest of the old sheep.” Thank goodness Saturn is fairly close to Virgo’s brightest star, Spica now. If you see two bright objects close together on the sky’s dome, one of them might be Saturn!
Use the moon to be sure you’ve identified Saturn and to see the beautiful pairing of the waning gibbous moon with Saturn and Spica on the night of March 10.
Jupiter, Venus and Mercury as seen in the west about an hour after sunset in early March
As a reminder, Mercury will only be visible in west after sunset during the first week or so in March 2012. Look for this innermost world in our sun’s family to lurk near the sunset point on the horizon about 45 to 75 minutes aftersunset. Try drawing an imaginary line from Jupiter through Venus to locate Mercury by the horizon during the last week of February.
Morning planets in February 2012: Mars and Saturn
Although Mars appears in the evening sky and Saturn at mid-evening, these two worlds light up the morning hours after midnight all the way till dawn throughout March 2012.
Bottom line: Excitement is building with respect to planets in Earth’s sky. Jupiter and Venus are edging toward a spectacular conjunction in March 2012. Mars is at its brightest and shines opposite of Jupiter and Venus as soon as darkness falls! This month, three planets – Venus, Jupiter and Mars – conspicuously stage themselves in the March 2012 evening sky, while Saturn more modestly displays itself from mid-evening until dawn. Mercury, the shyest of the five visible planets, will put on a good showing after sunset during the first week of March.
Two kites, a partial mystic rectangle and *two six-pointed stars* in March!!!
A rare and complex set of aspects dominate March’s chart. This chart takes us close to the frontiers of astrological understanding. It also takes us over a threshold into a different kind of energetic space, one with a distinctly spiritual component.
The focus changes from big, headline-making aspects and major events to a dense, highly charged primal energetic blend aimed at individuals and isolated processes. The focus will be on countless small events and opportunities affecting countless lives separately. A deeply complex energetic atmosphere in which trends are hard to spot and predictions are hard to make.
Claude Swanson Ph.d, author of THE SYNCHRONIZED UNIVERSE, NEW SCIENCE OF THE PARANORMAL and LIFE FORCE, THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS has put out a call for joining in a Global Peace Prayer. Based on the findings of his work, we can change the world by joining our hearts and minds in prayer and stop world war three in its tracks!
Please read below for more information and you are invited to tune in.
INCREASED INTERNATIONAL TENSIONS NEW GLOBAL PRAYER PROTOCOL
“Let us avert war and heal the world through prayer.”
Recent tensions in the Middle East have highlighted the need for peace prayers. To make prayer the most powerful, we ask that everyone around the world pray simultaneously, at the same time. This will increase the power of the prayer, possibly by a factor of several hundred because more people are praying simultaneously. Prayer in each time zone is adjusted so that prayers are simultaneous all around the world.
There is also a best time of day to receive prayer, a time when our receptivity is greatest (see below). This depends on where we are in the world. Prayer times are set to correspond to the hour when receptivity is greatest in the Middle East. Our prayers of peace, love and forgiveness, while directed to everyone around the world, may in this way have greatest effectiveness in calming and bringing peace to the Middle East, which is near a flash point, with tensions involving Syria, Iran and Israel. Let us pray that peace, love and forgiveness penetrate the hearts of all people.
The chart below, Table 1, shows the best time to pray to accomplish this. It depends on what time zone you are in and the time of year. The time zones and locations are listed in the left-hand column. Find the row which describes your time zone. Then move across to the right to find the column for the correct date. For example, if you live in Colorado (Denver time zime), you look down the left hand column until you find Colorado or MST for Mountain Standard Time. This describes your time zone. If it is February 20, you then look across the top row of the chart to find the date, February 20. Going down that column to the row corresponding to Colorado or MST you find the prayer time given is 6:20 PM. This is the center of the prayer period.
For a 20 minute prayer, this means beginning the prayer 10 minutes earlier than this. Since the center is 6:20 PM, you would start the prayer ten minutes earlier, at 6:10 PM. If the times are inconvenient, then pray when you can but include the intention that the prayer is to be joined with others praying in the same time window.
We propose that the prayer be for world peace, forgiveness of others, healing of Mother Earth, and the awakening of love for our fellow man. This follows the lessons of the great Teachers of all religions.
TABLE 1. BEST TIME TO PRAY
TABLE 1. How to use it: Look down the far left-hand column to find your time zone. California, for example, is Pacific Standard Time right now, or PST. When you find the right row for your time zone, then go across to the right column for the present date. If it is February 22, then find the columns for February 20 and February 25. Your prayer time is in between these two numbers. Choose that time for the middle of your prayer period. (Updated time tables will be at http://www.synchronizeduniverse.com/globalpeaceprayer.htm)
THE SCIENCE
The power of prayer has been known for thousands of years. Recent scientific experiments have proven it (Ref. 1). Experiments show that when people pray together at THE SAME TIME, it has EVEN MORE IMPACT (Ref. 2). Science has also discovered there is a SPECIAL TIME OF DAY when we are MOST RECEPTIVE to spiritual and intuitive messages (Ref. 3). Prayers received at this time are likely to have the greatest effect. If everyone around the world will pray at this time the prayers can have heightened impact, both because of the time of day and because many people are praying together. Fifteen or twenty minutes of concentrated prayer everyday at this time can work miracles.
The Princeton PEAR Lab, the Global Consciousness Project, and other research institutions have discovered that consciousness affects physics and can be measured (Ref. 4). The human mind and human intention alter the behavior of devices called “random event generators,” or REGs. They measure the power of human intention to affect distant events. In scientific studies on prayer, it has been found that when many people pray together the effect is larger (Ref. 2).
The graph below shows this effect. The lower curve in blue shows the level of randomness of these REGs when no one is praying. When many people around the world pray together, the devices begin to act as though they are coupled together (the red line on the graph). This shows that synchronized prayer affects the physics of space-time around the world. Prayer has power that can be measured, and synchronized prayer can have great effectiveness.
Graph 1
GRAPH 1. The power of synchronized prayer. The red line shows how prayer, by millions of people around the world, affect devices called REGs. These devices have been shown to measure the power of consciousness. They are based on patterns of quantum noise which occur when many people around the world think the same thought or focus on the same idea.
The second key piece is the importance of the TIME when one prays. It has been discovered in scientific experiments that there is a BEST TIME of day when intuitive messages are most accurately received. Prayer is an example of messages of this type. The graph below shows how accurately such messages are received versus TIME OF DAY. The peak in the graph shows the best time. It is found to depend on the position of the stars overhead, and is therefore called “sidereal time.” Because the peak has width of about a half hour on either side, this defines a one hour window which should be the “best time” for sending or receiving prayer. Table 1 above, labeled “Best Time to Pray,” shows how this “best time” relates to your local clock time.
Graph 2
GRAPH 2. The most powerful time of day to receive a psychic message. This seems to be the time of day when psychic or spiritual communication is least noisy, which means it is clearer then. If we are sending an intuitive or prayer message to others, this is the best time for it to be received. Just like channels on a radio dial, it is best to send and receive on a channel which is clear and quiet, not one that is noisy. The peak in the graph shows when this occurs. It depends on the star positions overhead, which is why it is called “sidereal time” (Ref. 3) Table 1 above translates this into your local clock time.
To have maximum effectiveness when we pray, it may be most powerful to combine these two ideas: To have many people pray TOGETHER, and also to pray at the BEST TIME for it to be received. In each time zone, when the clock reaches the BEST TIME, as shown by Table 1, everyone in that time zone should join their minds and hearts to pray together.
The times in each time zone are adjusted so everyone will pray at the same exact moment around the world. This means the largest number of people will be praying together, which will have the GREATEST EFFECT. The prayer is timed to correspond to the time during the day of best receptivity in the Middle East. This is when the peak in receptivity, shown in Graph 2, is over that region. This part of the world appears most critical at the present time. It is hoped that by directing prayers there when they are most receptive, we may help encourage peace in the region.
THE CRISIS OF OUR TIMES
We are living in a time of great change on the planet. We have built technologies which are transforming the world’s ecology and weather. Our investment in weapons of war is skyrocketing. New weapons including engineered diseases are being stockpiled. Soldiers are fighting in many countries, and it is not bringing peace but only more war. Tensions in the Middle East have erupted into “hot wars” in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon, and threaten to spread into Iran and Syria. Growing opposition by China and Russia to U.S. military incursions and the effort by Iran to develop nuclear power raise the potential for escalation. It only seems to bring more anger and create more terrorists, which then feeds the cycle.
In many religions and cultures, the times we are living in have been the subject of prophecy. The Hopi Indians of North America are but one of many peoples who have predicted these times. They describe Western man as having a head and body which are separated. The body represents understanding of the physical world, i.e. technology, and the head represents spiritual wisdom. In the Hopi view, the separation of head and body symbolizes that Western man is out of touch with spiritual guidance, and therefore misuses his understanding of technology. Unless we can learn to access spiritual wisdom, we will make wrong decisions leading to an extremely destructive Third World War.
We humans are at a turning point. Are we able to handle our technology to make our lives better and to spread wealth and opportunity to all? Or do we have a streak of violence, hatred and greed which will doom us to bring about the destruction of this beautiful world in which we live?
The answer does not lie in violence. This only creates more hatred in the victims who respond with greater violence toward us. The answer does not lie in more technology, for without wise and thoughtful use it just causes more environmental damage. The true answer has been given in many cultures and in many religions. We must stop the violence and hatred and greed within ourselves, and then we can help heal the world.
RAPID ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
The Gulf Stream which is responsible for the temperate climate in Europe has been slowing in recent years because Global Warming has rapidly melted Arctic ice bringing fresh water into the North Atlantic. Ten of the twelve ocean convection cells which maintain the Gulf Stream flow have reportedly slowed or stopped on occasion, raising the possibility in the near future of drastic weather changes. The Antarctic polar ice sheet, which is two miles thick and a thousand miles across, has experienced rapid melting, leading to sea level rise. Meanwhile the extinction rate of the earth’s animal and plant species has accelerated to a level not seen since the last “Great Extinction” 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs perished. They were the dominant species then. Are we next?
Let us send love and healing to Mother Earth and to one another, that our mistakes and mistreatment of the environment and of our fellow man may be healed, that we learn how to tread more gently on the earth, and that we be forgiven for the disturbances we have so far created.
LESSONS OF THE GREAT SPIRITUAL TEACHERS
In the West every day we see images of violence and war. War has never solved problems for very long. The defeat of Germany in World War I led to resentment and poverty and eventually to the rise of Hitler and World War II. The wisest teachers have taught a very different lesson. Jesus said:
“…if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.” (Matthew 5:38-41)
Jesus taught that violence solves nothing. It only creates more violence. It hurts and angers the victim who vows and plots his revenge. Jesus realized and taught the great lesson that the best way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend. Jesus taught that the only way to end violence is to:
“…Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you…” (Matthew 5:44)
The alternative is to create more and more people around the world who hate us and plan and live for our demise. With the increasing power of modern weapons, nuclear, biological, and chemical, even a weak enemy can cause death and suffering on a massive scale. And we know from experience that this only leads to retaliation and escalation. It will only stop when one of two things happens.
(1) Either we destroy ourselves in a global conflict, which has been predicted by many, or
(2) We escape this fate by trying something new: forgive and send love to our enemies, and pray for peace and healing everywhere.
It is up to us to begin the forgiveness process, to love, to send prayers daily around the world to ease the anger and fear, to forgive the violence, to pray for a growing peace. Let the fires of hatred and fear and revenge burn down, let the embers cool. Remember that each of us possesses an immortal soul and is here to learn. Let us follow the teachings of the great Masters of all ages, sowing love and kindness and generosity, and extending it in prayer to all living souls around the world.
When we look beneath the external trappings of any religion, it is remarkable how similar are the underlying beliefs. We offer two examples here. The first is the “Golden Rule,” which in Christianity is “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” This same belief is taught in most of the world’s religions:
Buddhism (Udana-Varga): Hurt not others with that which pains yourself.
Judaism (Leviticus 19:18): You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Confucianism (Mencius VII.A.4): Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.
Hinduism (The Mahabharata): This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee would cause thee pain.
Christianity (Matthew 7:12): Whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
Islam (Hadith): No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.
As a second example, consider the teaching of Jesus to “turn the other cheek.” This is often considered a more unusual teaching, because it emphasizes that we should not return violence with violence. In a world torn by terrorism and war, this lesson is too seldom heeded. Yet it is not unique to Christianity. Consider the following quotes:
Buddhism (Dhammapada 201): Victory breeds hatred, for the defeated live in pain. Happily live the peaceful, giving up victory and defeat.
Judaism (Talmud, Baba Kamma 93a): One should choose to be among the persecuted, rather than the persecutors.
Confucianism (Mencius IV.A.14): In wars to gain land, the dead fill the plains; in wars to gain cities, the dead fill the cities. This is known as showing the land the way to devour human flesh. Death is too light a punishment for such men who wage war. Hence those skilled in war should suffer the most severe punishments.
Sikhism (Adi Granth, Shalok, Farid): Those who beat you with fists, do not pay them with the same coin, but go to their house and kiss their feet.
Christianity (Jesus in Matthew 5:38-41): You have heard that it was said, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if any one would sue you and take your coat, let him have your cloak as well…”
Islam (Forty Hadith of an-Nawawi 32): Let there be no injury and no requital.
Such correspondences can be found for almost all religions. Therefore, as the world becomes smaller it would serve us well to look at the underlying similarities in religions, rather than the differences. These similarities are not due to coincidence. They are due to a deep intuitive knowledge on the part of religious founders. These rules seem to describe important truths about how the universe works and how we should live. The alternative, in this time of nuclear and biological warfare and a seriously damaged environment, may be our destruction. A non-violent solution is to pray for global healing and peace.
OUR MISSION TO BRING INTO REALITY THE CENTRAL MESSAGE OF ALL THE WORLD’S RELIGIONS: TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER, TO TREAT OTHERS AS WE WOULD LIKE TO BE TREATED, TO FORGIVE OTHERS AND RETURN LOVE FOR HATE, KINDNESS FOR ANGER, TO SPREAD THIS FEELING TO EVERYONE, TO OUR FELLOW MAN AS WELL AS THE EARTH AND ITS ENVIRONMENT.
WE ARE AT A CRUCIAL TIME WHEN MANY PROPHECIES, AND INDEED THE TIDE OF WORLD EVENTS, THREATENS A WIDER WAR AND DRASTIC CHANGES TO OUR CLIMATE AND ECOLOGY. THESE MAY THREATEN OUR WELL-BEING AND EVEN OUR EXISTENCE. THIS IS OUR OPPORTUNITY, MAYBE EVEN OUR “FINAL EXAM” TO SEE IF WE ARE WISE ENOUGH TO HANDLE OUR TECHNOLOGY AND TURN IT FROM DESTRUCTIVE TO CONSTRUCTIVE ENDS.
GLOBAL SYNCHRONIZED PRAYER, DONE EVERY DAY BY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD, CAN TURN THIS TIDE. IT CAN HEAL HATRED AND FEAR AND TURN IT INTO PEACE AND LOVE. IT CAN EASE THE DISTRESS OF MOTHER EARTH AND BEGIN TO HEAL THE DAMAGES TO CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS. IN THIS WAY WE MAY AVERT WAR AND CHOOSE A BETTER FUTURE FOR OURSELVES AND OUR CHILDREN. WE CAN CHANGE THE FUTURE. IT IS UP TO US.
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An old Cherokee told his grandson, “My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth.”
The boy thought about it and asked, “Grandfather, which wolf wins?”
Venus, below, moon and Jupiter, above, as seen February 26, 2012 in Manila, Philippines by Jv Noriega. Jupiter and Venus will be closest in mid-March. The moon will sweep near them again in late March 2012.
Use the dazzling planets Jupiter and Venus to locate Mercury near the horizon
The moon, Jupiter and Venus as seen from North America on Saturday, March 24
The moon, Mars and Regulus shine low in the east as darkness falls on Wednesday, March 7
Before going to bed on Saturday, March 10, look for the moon and Saturn in the eastern sky
Jupiter, Venus and Mercury as seen in the west about an hour after sunset in early March
