Happy New Year 2010

Here we are in a January, named after the Roman god Janus, an appropriate personification of the start of the new year. This particular Roman god had two faces so that he could peer ahead toward the future and back at the past at the same time.

Through experience I have learned what I did right and what I did wrong. I appreciate that over the past year, I have been able to reconcile myself.

A new year is unfolding—like curled petals of a blossom, waiting for the sunlight to release the beauty hidden tightly within. I intend for this year to be filled with the things that are truly good—with the comfort of warmth in our relationships, with the strength to help those who need our help and the humility and openness to accept help from others.

I will continue to look forward with great hope that all things can be possible. I will continue on my journey with open eyes so that I may learn from my experiences.

I rebuke any memories of bitterness, and hate, cleanse them completely from every clinging spite; pick off all specks of pettiness and littleness; in short, see that these months are freed from all the past—have them fresh and clean as when they first came from the great storehouse of Time.

The new year brings with it the opportunity to practice what I have learned about life during the last twelve months. All that I sought and didn’t find is hidden in the new year, waiting for me to search it but with more determination.

All the good that I tried for and didn’t achieve. All that I dreamed but didn’t dare to do, all that I hoped but did not will, all the faith that you claimed but did not have. The new year offers  the opportunity to be awakened by the touch of a strong purpose.  We all have purpose.

The new year offers you the opportunity to renew your allegiance to yourself.

As we look into 2012, we look at a block of time. We see 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes, 31,536,000 seconds. The gift of time is not ours alone. It is given equally to each person. Rich and poor, educated and ignorant, strong and weak—every man, woman and child has the same twenty-four hours every day.

As the sun arises on the morning of different day, the first day of 2010, I look back, I can clearly see what I have accomplished.

I have new few friends who understand me, and I understand them. I have found work that has real value. I do not fear death, and understand that it is just an illusion. I have a better understanding and a stronger awareness for compassion. I will not be led by sheppards. I am not a sheep.  I can see beauty in all life.

I have arisen from the grand Illusion, and can see clearly and in color, and have gained courage through my convictions, and am no longer afraid of what may be ahead, as I continue on my journey, even though the path may not be blazed nor lit.  I have gained courage.  I am my own hero.

Should old acquaintance be forgot,

And never brought to mind?

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,

And old lang syne?

For old lang syne, my dear,

For old lang syne,

We'll take a cup o' kindness yet,

For old lang syne.

And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp,

And surely I'll be mine!

And we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,

For old lang syne.

For auld lang syne, my dear,

For old lang syne,

We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,

For old lang syne.

We twa hae run about the braes,

And pu'd the gowans fine;

But we've wandered mony a weary fit

Sin' old lang syne.

For old lang syne, my dear,

For old lang syne,

We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,

For old lang syne.

We twa hae paidled i' the burn,

Frae morning sun till dine;

But seas between us braid hae roared

Sin' old lang syne.

For old lang syne, my dear,

For old lang syne,

We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,

For old lang syne.

And there's a hand, my trusty fiere,

And gie's a hand o' thine!

And we'll tak a right guid-willie waught

For old lang syne.

For old lang syne, my dear,

For old lang syne,

We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,

For old lang syne.

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Once in a Blue Moon

Ever here of the saying, "Once in a blue moon." Well there is one on New Year's Eve. Revelers ringing in 2010 will be treated to a so-called blue moon. According to popular definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a month. Depending on where you live will determine if the moon will "appear" blue...it's not really the color.

If it's cold enough, and ice crystals form in the atmosphere, then the reflection of the light will illuminate a "ring" around the moon, which may glow blue.

The first full moon occurred on Dec. 2. and the second full moon will occur on Thursday in time for the New Year's countdown. We east coasters will see the moon directly above us and it's going to be absolutely brilliant.

The New Year's Eve blue moon will be visible to us here in the United States and those in Canada, Europe, South America and Africa. For you folks down under, the full moon will show up on New Year's Day, making January a blue moon month for you.

However, the Eastern Hemisphere can celebrate with a partial lunar eclipse on New Year's Eve when part of the moon enters the Earth's shadow. The eclipse will not be visible in the Americas.

A full moon occurs every 29.5 days, and most years have 12. On average, an extra full moon in a month — a blue moon — occurs every 2.5 years. The last time there was a lunar double take was in May 2007. New Year's Eve blue moons are rarer, occurring every 19 years. The last time was in 1990; the next one won't come again until 2028.

The popular definition of blue moon came about after a writer for Sky & Telescope magazine in 1946 misinterpreted the Maine Farmer's Almanac and labeled a blue moon as the second full moon in a month. In fact, the almanac defined a blue moon as the third full moon in a season with four full moons, not the usual three.[source]

"Blue moons have no astronomical significance", said Greg Laughlin, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Furthermore he says, "'Blue moon' is just a name in the same sense as a `hunter's moon' or a `harvest moon'."

I find it very significant in light of the reports from an Australian and Israeli scientist who have discovered and identified ancient light-sensitive genes, known as a cryptochromes, that occur in corals, fish and humans which are responsible for triggering the annual mass spawning of Great Barrier Reef corals that follows a full moon.

Reporting in the journal Science, team leader Oren Levy said that the Cry2 gene, stimulated by the faint blue light of the full moon, appears to play a central role in triggering the mass coral spawning event, one of nature's wonders. "This is the key to one of the central mysteries of coral reefs. We have always wondered how corals without eyes can detect moonlight and get the precise hour of the right couple of days each year to spawn," added co-researcher Ove Hoegh-Guldberg.

Exposing corals to different colors and intensities of light and sampling live corals on reefs around the time of the full moon, Levy found the Cry2 gene at its most active in Acropora corals during full moon nights.

"We think these genes developed in primitive life forms in the Precambrian, more than 500 million years ago, as a way of sensing light."

"The fact they are linked with the system that repairs damage from ultraviolet radiation suggests they may evolved in eyeless creatures which needed to avoid high daytime UV by living deep in the water, but still needed to sense the blue light shed by the moon to synchronize their body clocks and breeding cycles."

The researchers believe that the genes are, in a sense, the functional forerunners of eyes. In humans, cryptochromes still operate as part of the circadian system that tunes us to the rhythms of our planet, though their light-sensing function appears lost to us.

"Many of these genes developed in deep time, in the earliest phases of organized life on the planet,"  "They were preserved for hundreds of millions of years before being inherited by corals when they developed about 240 million years ago, and are still found today in modern animals and humans. They are an indicator that corals and humans are in fact distant relatives, sharing a common ancestor way back." -Bill Leggat

The Cry2 gene (cryptochromes genes) stimulated by the faint blue light of the full moon appears to play a central role in triggering the mass synchronized coral spawning, and can even affect humans.

The researchers were shy about speculating whether humans are in some way affected by the full moon, but they did acknowledge that cryptochromes probably still play a part in our body clock.[read more]

So if your skies are clear and your out celebrating the new year, remember to take a peek at this "once in a blue moon" appearance, and enjoy the brilliant orb as it rises over the skyline.

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A New Year

Alot of things have happened

I made mistakes
But I learned my way

And I've had so many questions

Some left unanswered but that's ok

There are some things that are gonna change

Oh yes I'm sure

There will be some rainy days

And longer nights

But I will see the brighter day

Through all the hurt and pain

Cuz it will be

The beginning of a beautiful new year

A new beginning
For the ones whose shed some tears

It's time to wake up
And to show the world your here

This is the start

Said this is the start

of a new year

a better year

a good year

a fresh year

said a new year

a better year

a good year

a fresh year

I said -a new year

a better year

a good year

a fresh year

said -a new year

a better you

a good you

a fresh you

So I'm gonna start by wishing you a Happy New Year

Lyrics by Airto

Earthlings

******WARNING******

This post exhibits extremely violent pictures/videos that may not be suitable for all readers.  However, I highly recommend you read/watch. 

This is a documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research.  It illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called "non-human providers."

Christianity teaches it's followers that animals have no souls, therefore they have no consciousness. This is a ridiculous rationalisation for Christianity, and is often used to justify humanity’s mistreatment of animals.  This is an erroneous belief that humans alone possess immortal souls, and only humans, therefore, are worthy of moral consideration. The 19th century German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer, condemned such a philosophy in his On the Basis of Morality.

"Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account," ... "they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere ‘things,’ mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!" -Arthur Schopenhauer

Now I'm no Bible thumper, but I do know that the Bible teaches that animals have souls. Texts such as Genesis 1:21,24 are often mistranslated to read "living creatures." The exact Hebrew used in reference to animals throughout the Bible is "nephesh chayah," or "living soul." This is how the phrase has been translated in Genesis 2:7 and in four hundred other places in the Old Testament. Thus, Genesis 1:30 should more accurately read: "And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is a living soul, I have given every green herb for meat."[source]

This documentary has definintely affected me. I am torn between telling people to watch Earthlings because it is imperative for them to know the truth, and telling people not to watch it because it is genuinely the most disturbing film I have ever watched, but does remind me of the movie "Meet Your Meat".  I had to close my eyes during most scenes, and several times I had to stop the movie and go and lay next to my dog, hold her, kiss her, and tell her how much I love her, and wait for the nausea to pass. This movie made me physically sick.

This movie looks at the five things we use animals for: Pets, food, clothes, medical reseach and entertainment. It then goes on to show how each of these aspects causes massive amounts of suffering for the animals which have done nothing to deserve being treated like that.

We think that keeping animals as pets is good because the animals have a good life, but for every pet that has a good life, there are many more that suffer tremendously. The conditions which puppies, etc are ‘manufactured’ for pet shops are appalling. Many pets are badly treated by their owners, others are abandoned. The lucky ones are euthanised, the rest are killed in less humane ways or suffer along until they die from exposure, accident or illness.

A lot of time is spent looking at the conditions in which animals are kept to fatten them to size for us to eat. There are no words to describe this behavior, other than it's criminal. Then they look at how these animals are slaughtered, a process which, by no stretch of the imagination, can ever be called humane. They way that humans treat the animals is by far sickening, and absolutely devoid of empathy or conscience. I could not stop the tears from pouring out.

In the defense of the average person, most do not know where their meat they eat comes from. The slaughter of animals for leather is even less regulated than for food and it is sickening to see how these animals are abused. I watched them rip the skin off a fox while it was still alive, it was sitting there looking at itself, wondering what had just happened. All of this suffering so that someone can wear a fur jacket as a status piece. To show everyone that they hold a better status than another. These people are absolutely sick and digusting.

Most people do not realize that millions of animals are abused and killed every year in the name of medical research. To see what they do to these animals is to see man at his planck level. It is no wonder that man is continually performing atrocious acts against his fellow man.

Entertainment from animals was also an eye opener. Circus animals are treated with immeasurable cruelty, zoo animals suffer in captivity and thousands of animals suffer and die for entertainment in bull fighting rings and rodeo rings. This reminded me of our 3 month trip to South America, where we stopped to attend a bull fight. My father had no idea that they were so bloody, and horrific. Needless to say, we left once we became aware of the cruelty, and bloodshed.

I contemplated not continuing to watch the entire documentary, and turned it off and walked away many times, but decided to watch to the end because I believe that I needed to be aware of the impact of my choices. What I eat, what I wear, the products I buy and the entertainment I choose to watch can all lead directly to the extreme suffering of many innocent animals.

My roommate eats alot of ground beef, simply because it's inexpensive, and that is what he grew up eating. I have stopped eating red meat about 8 months ago. I moved completely to chicken, thinking that I was doing some good, then I saw the movie, Meet Your Meat.  Today, I find myself eating more vegetarian as it becomes very hard to stomach the idea of eating meat from all that suffering. These two movies have impacted my life tremendously. How can it not? If enough people watch this movie, it can cause change, and we need to have our children watch this movie, since it starts from the roots up.

This is a film that the Meat Industry does not want you to watch, nor does the government backed corporations that produce this crap.

Shaun Monson began work on a series of PSAs about spaying and neutering pets. The footage he shot at animal shelters around Los Angeles affected him so profoundly that the project soon evolved into Earthlings. The film would take another six years to complete because of the difficulty in obtaining footage within these profitable industries. Though the film was initially ignored by distributors, who told Monson that the film would “never see the light of day and should be swept under the rug,” today Earthlings is considered the definitive animal rights film by organizations around the world.

"I got the idea because I was filming some public service announcements. It was mostly domestic animals, dogs and cats, and when they were killed on the street or euthanized in the shelters, they were put into this room that resembles a large refrigerator. But when I saw them piled up in there, it suddenly made me think of meat in a refrigerator. Even though they looked nothing like meat, there was this parallel – dead animals kept in a fridge – and that made me think of cows and chickens and pigs and eggs and milk, and so on. That was the beginning of Earthlings really, the first spark of inspiration."

So instead of making a couple of public service announcements on one issue (in this case spaying and neutering domestic pets), it began to encompass food. And as I thought more about food, then it was like, “Well, hang on a second, what about clothes?” And it grew from there. Of course then I felt overwhelmed about how I couldn’t do it, how vast the subject matter was, how problematic, and who was I to make this film, there’s simply too much information, etc., etc. But that’s how it began. And all I could do was just work on it until it was done."

I have been fighting an uphill battle with my dog current health. I have been fighting the option of having her put down, not really understanding how this takes place, never having had to put an animal down myself. That was the most disturbing part of the movie for myself, considering my current predicament. I know there is a reason for everything...and I know I had to watch this movie for the entire message, but most importantly I saw a clear message, that I hold personal.

The beginning and ending are so beautiful and inspiring...with the intervening parts so heartrending and shaming...but each in its own way should confirm and renew our commitment to all animals.

Mankind wallows in the quicksand of eternal narcissism. The only rights that matter are their own. The only lives that have worth are their own. The only suffering that merits consideration is their own.

Most of the footage was similar to the footage in the documentary Cruelty, USA, but what was different in this movie, was that they did speak about Kosher meat, which I found very enlightening. For all you Kosher meat lovers, take a look at what is "really" happening to your Kosher foods.

Did anyone know that Monsanto has been trying to patent a Pig?

The film talks about how we are killing our fish in the sea by our total disregard for what wastes we allow to eventually get into our oceans and seas. Anywhere from dumping drums filled with toxins off ships to fecal matter from the largest pig farm in the United States. Which earlier this year, was determined to have orginated the H1N1 virus. [read more]

We can send men to the moon (and that fact is actually in question) - but when it comes to moral evolution, we are still cave-dwelling Troglodytes torturing and murdering each other and animals under the banners of sexism, racism, religion, nationality, and speciesism.

It is the latter that is most pervasive and resistant to reform. I have alot of so called "spiritual" friends, people who are "awakening"....each one of them eats hamburgers, bacon, eggs, fried chicken....without any thought about it. Well actually, I recently asked a spiritual advisor how he dealt with eating animals. I was having a difficult time after watching Cruelty, USA. He said it hasn't stopped him from eating meat. I will tell you this right now, that if your eating meat, eggs, chicken...wearing leather, fur..etc....then you are no where near an "awakening", nor are you in any way "spiritual". If someone tells you they are spiritual, and are awakening, ask them a simple question...

When is the last time you ate another being?

People say they want change. People do not want change.  Most people are afraid of change. People just speak up so they can feel good about themselves.  Now you know where your meat comes from....the question will remain....will you still eat another being?

Take a look at our behaviors, they are indictive of our parents behaviors. We were taught by our parents and it's perpetrated by society. You folks are familiar with the Happy Cows of California right? There are no happy cows, I assure you.

It's a veil being pulled down over your faces, and the sad thing is they fall for it, and do not even realize it. It's no wonder people who drink milk and eat red meat get prostate cancer, and heart disease. We easily recognize the blatant evil with acts of wanton abuse displayed in this film- but we are less willing to acknowledge its more subtle form cloaked in the ignominy of indifference. It is my unwavering observation through my 44 years on this planet, "that he who is most cavalier toward the pain of others is usually most sensitive to his own" - and he who is the most dismissive of the rights of others usually exhibit vociferousness the same."

I love this quote from the documentary, "Human beings have an infinite capacity for suffering, as long as it's someone else who's suffering."

Let me translate this into American slang...."As long as it's not MY fat ass, Who f'ing cares?"

If you have read this far, then I suggest you watch the documentary now, even if you can't get through the middle portions at least watch the first segment. If these animals had to go through what they did, then by all means, your fat ass, better stand up and bear witness! If you want to continue eating these tortured animals, then by all means YOU should bear witness. 

The questions that I ask are:

Who are these people working in these slaughter farms?
Who are these bull riders?

Who are the people working in these dog farms? 
Who are all these people?
Who raised such monsters?
How can their parents be proud?
How do these people sleep at night?

The answer is:

Your father, your brother, your uncle, your cousin, your mother, your sister, your friend, your neighbor. 

Why?  Because you and I allow it. 

If you are going to continue to eat  meat, then  the least you could do is bear witness...and watch Earthlings in it's entirety.

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The Living Matrix

I just finished watching The Living Matrix, which features top geneticists, scientists and switching between true stories of people healed and releasing powerful scientific studies — the movie was very similar to What the Bleep, Do we Know!?, this movie truly moved me as well. In my ever changing paradigm we are ALL healers.

To me the movie illustrates that I am currently on the right path. And as more and more of the masses see this movie, and fully absorb the information being released here, we all, as a collective consciousness, can move forward by awakening to the way we look at our health, and healing. This isn't new information, Bohm, and Pribram did studies in the late 50's. I recommend you read the Holographic Universe, by Michael Talbot.

This movie grabs your heart from the beginning with the story of Dimitrios, a little boy in Greece with Cerebral Palsy who Dr. Eric Pearl had a few Reconnective healing sessions with. Dimitri was told by conventional doctors he would never walk on his own, play unassisted or even be able to feed himself because of the shape of his hands and feet. After persuasion from close friends Dimitri’s family took him to see Dr. Eric Pearl and the healing began almost instantly. We see Dimitri playing on a playground, feet healed, hands able to grasp onto the bars. He is MUCH better off than conventional medicine ever told him he would be and it is due to Reconnective Healing (an energy and information medicine). We watch as Dr. Pearl and the family tell their emotional story.

The movie switches from scientists and doctors talking about all the studies and findings to real stories of how different energy and information medicine is used in healing. A few of the prominent cast members also healed themselves which deepened their interest in alternative medicine. From Dr. Marilyn Schlitz who healed her leg with her mind after a horrible motorcycle accident before it was to be amputated to Dr. Edgar Mitchell (former astronaut) who had his tumor in his kidney shrunk and dissolved by distance healing. When you heal from the “un-healable” you are given back a life that you were told you wouldn't have. The power and gratitude I feel is difficult to atriculate. All I know is that I witness it daily through my own healing.

Harry Massey and Greg Becker had the vision for “TLM“. Harry Massey overcame chronic illness and co-founded Nutri- Energenetic Systems (NES) with scientist Peter Fraser (also featured in the movie). Greg Becker is a director, producer and filmmaker that was always interested in the latest scientific studies and holistic health. Greg and his wife Susan own Emaginate, a San Francisco area based film, video and interactive production company. Together Harry and Greg created this film to give people a new way to look at health and well being.

Epi-genetics — (From Wikipedia) In biology, the term epigenetics refers to changes in phenotype (appearance) or gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence (hence the name epi – “in addition to” – genetics). These changes may remain through cell divisions for the remainder of the cell’s life and may also last for multiple generations. However, there is no change in the underlying DNA sequence of the organism; instead, non-genetic factors cause the organism’s genes to behave (or “express themselves”) differently.

Or more simply put "Epigenetics refers to modifications in gene expression that are controlled by heritable but potentially reversible changes in DNA methylation and/or chromatin structure."

We can turn these DNA markers on and off without changing our DNA.

As Dr. Bruce Lipton has said Epigenetics is “control above the genes”. Yes, our genes are a blueprint but we with our thoughts and beliefs control the triggers that make up the many different scenarios. In the movie “What If“, Dr. Lipton says, “Yes, Genes are the blueprints but WE are the contractors”.

We can say “cancer runs in our family” but what does that really mean? Is it the environment, learned messages or is it really not in our control and all predetermined by genes? The Living Matrix presented an interesting study that showed adopted children when brought into a family “where cancer is prevalent” had the SAME odds of developing it as if they were biological children.

The Human Body Field (The Morphogenetic Field) –"In The Living Matrix it is stated, “researchers theorize that the body does have a field of energy known as the Body Field or the Morphogenetic Field. There is a hierarchy of fields organizing the body. There are fields of the whole body, there are fields of the organs, fields of the tissues, fields of the cells within those. Fields are around whole body and there are other fields around other parts of the body (limbs)."

The body field is familiar to different cultures under various names, such as life force or vital energy in the west or as qi in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), ki in the Japanese Kampo system, doshas in Ayurvedic medicine, and elsewhere as prana, etheric energy, mana, and homeopathic resonance.

I feel this is so important because other cultures KNEW it was important to include this energy field for hundreds of years. In Western medicine we somehow “dismissed” it and chose to think of the human body more as a machine. BUT with THAT limited thinking there was no way to explain how we develop from a single cell into the complex system of mechanisms and processes that make our body run so seamlessly without our conscious thought. WHEN we experience emotions these are imprinted into this energy field. When the emotions are positive this system of information runs much smoother.

Lynn McTaggart talks about is one done on people from Kosovo that had severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. These people had survived atrocities such as seeing half their families wiped out as well as severe abuse. A form of Information Medicine and Energy Psychology called “Thought Field Therapy” was applied to them. In this form of information medicine they could see that these people had “negative imprints” on their field. They used this form of Energy and Information medicine to clear these disturbances. All of the people were instantly better –they were laughing and happy and once again and able to get on with their lives. This would have taken years of traditional talk therapy as well as medications.

An important quote from the movie is:

“The body field is an energetic field filled with patterns of information. All of the organs in our bodies generate their own specific fields. One organ in particular seems to generate significant fields which affect the entire body. The heart is the Emperor…”

The Heart is constantly emitting sound, pressure waves, heat, light, electrical, magnetic and electro-magnetic signals. The Heart generates by far the largest rhythmic electromagnetic signal in the body. If you look at this magnetic field as a carrier wave — it is being modulated with information so it is the carrier wave for information.

“The heart has been found to have rhythmic beating patterns that can be incoherent or coherent. These patterns are closely linked to our emotions and how we feel.”

When the heart’s rhythmic beating pattern is smooth and ordered it is called a coherent rhythm. That coherent rhythm entrains or synchronizes the brain rhythm, the nervous system, the bodies organs and glands all dance in harmony to that heart coherent rhythm.

The heart not the brain is where information originates. Your heart gets information before it is even presented in front of us (call it ESP, intuition) from the field and then sends a message to the brain which alerts the nervous system to react physically.

There are many other important definitions and studies presented in this movie. The definitions of “Energy Cardiology”, “The Placebo Affect”, “Meridian Lines” and more all point to a new way of looking at healing.

We need to look at healing as a real possibility in all cases. Too often things are dismissed as “incurable” but as I know that isn't true. The growth of Information and Energy Medicine and incorporating it into our conventional medical model will only bring about more of these successful stories. Everyone deserves full health to live to their full potential and Information and Energy Medicine is paving the way so this is indeed possible.

The Living Matrix is a must-see for anyone interested in opening the mind to the possibilities of healing that allopathic medicine does not address. I recommend that you gather your friends and family around to watch it — you will not be disappointed.

It is my pleasure to bring you the full length movie and give you definitions that will be important to know as informational medicine becomes more prevalent and mainstream.
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Someday at Christmas

Someday at Christmas men won't be boys

Playing with bombs like kids play with toys

One warm December our hearts will see

A world where men are free

Someday at Christmas there'll be no wars

When we have learned what Christmas is for

When we have found what life's really worth

There'll be peace on earth

Someday all our dreams will come to be

Someday in a world where men are free

Maybe not in time for you and me

But someday at Christmastime

Someday at Christmas we'll see a land

With no hungry children, no empty hand

One happy morning people will share

Our world where people care

Someday at Christmas there'll be no tears

All men are equal and no men have fears

One shinning moment my heart ran away

From our world today

Someday all our dreams will come to be

Someday in a world where men are free

Maybe not in time for you and me

But someday at Christmastime

Someday at Christmas man will not fail

Take hope because your love will prevail

Someday a new world that we can start

With hope in every heart

Someday all our dreams will come to be

Someday in a world where men are free

Maybe not in time for you and me

But someday at Christmastime

Someday at Christmastime

The Revolution of Consciousness

We must declare that of all the natural resources of the world as common heritage to all people. While informing everyone as to the true state of technology and how we can all be free if the world works together rather than fights.

The choice lies with you. You can continue to be a slave to the financial system and watch the continuous wars, depressions and injustice across the globe while placating yourself with vein entertainment and materialist garbage.

Or you can focus your energy on true meaningful lasting holistic change, which actually has the realistic ability to support and free all humans with no one left behind.

But in the end the most relevant change must occur first inside of you. The real revolution is the revolution of consciousness and each one of us first needs to eliminate the divisionary materialistic noise we have been conditioned to think is true.

While discovering amplifying and aligning with the signal coming from our true imperical oneness. It is up to you.

What we are trying in all these discussions and talks here is to see if we can radically bring about the transformation of the mind, not to accept things not as they are, but to understand it and go into it to examine it. Give your heart and your mind with everything that you have to find out. A way of living differently. That depends on you and not somebody else. Because in this, there is no teacher, no pupil. There is no leader. There is no guru. There is no master no savior. You yourself are your teacher, and the pupil, the master, you are the guru...you are the leader. You are everything.

To understand is to transform what is.

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Winter Solstice

In an increasingly secular society here in the United States, Christmas has a diminishing meaning. Here in the United States stores now open on Christmas day and several banks are now offering holiday services. It is now almost endemic in our society that nothing can ever close. Americans have turned this day into a day of consumption.

As I sit here and stare at the beautiful blue sky through the windows which are helping keep the heat from our gas furnace inside, I know it is cold, and everyone's trying to get some heat to their hearts, but very few can actually do it. For many, Christmas is a time to be spent with friends and family, to put as much food and wine as possible within their already full-filled stomachs.

Instead, for me it is only a time of recapitulation, of remembrance of how many things I wanted to do and I couldn't.

It's difficult to be around people who are plastically saying "Merry Christmas"....and not really understanding the pain that is in the world today, that there are people being killed by our military, your sons, brothers, sisters, fathers, friends...and that there are starving people in this world, whose screams of agony that can never be heard because they would sound too horrible and perturbing to the society that commands one to smile always, no matter how much one is suffering, no matter how cold one is, no matter how much pain is within one's heart.

While for many, Christmas is a time to run into the stores to buy some happiness and to wait for presents that would hopefully give them a bit of that happiness they need. But for me Christmas is a time for being grateful for what I have achieved spiritually and intellectually throughout the year. Displaying acts of love, kindness and joy come naturally when you feel fulfilled and satisfied with yourself. I know that I could not have achieved so much without some spiritual strength, and from an eternal friend, Pholus - who allowed me to see the world through the eyes of another.

I feel that most people are missing the true point entirely. This religious holiday seems to have become nothing more than a time for people to express their religious traditions and are compared and unashamedly pronounced as being the "best" of the lot.

Yes, I do respect other people's religious beliefs, and if you feel no reason to celebrate this Pagan tradition, then you have the right to behave in the way that you have chosen. The the only reason Christmas seems to be such a universal festival is because of the unnecessary emphasis that corporations of the western world have placed on materialistism.

Most people are spending lots and lots of money on gifts instead of considering what Christmas really means. It's bizaar, you see it all around you. Christmas is a day of joy and it is a day of celebrating the Birth of Jesus Christ, right? There are some people, however, who do not know what Christmas is all about. They are programmed to celebrate it. Yes, gifts are wonderful to give out, and should be given throughout the year, when not expected. The meaning goes much much further.

Christmas was invented by the Christians to assist the wiping out of ancient pagan traditions and the brain washing of native Britons. This time of year is called Yule in those traditions and is celebrated still by a growing number of people. I believe in the existence of Jesus Christ, but not as a son of god. The spirit of Yule is older than Christianity, its a shame that so many have kneeled before a false image. Christmas has always been a pagan celebration. Even today, those that called themselves Christian, are actually pagan believers, they just haven't awakened to it. Christmas is celebrated by the masses who have no sense. As a non-christian belief, this can be quite a hostile time.

With religion penetrating every aspect of life in the US, people view you as being strange for not celebrating it. Ironic for a country with supposed freedom of religion, and more ironic that Christmas is not so important in the Holy Land. Go figure.

To me Christmas is a time when I grasp hold onto the simple messages of Peace and Love. In this complicated and hurry up world, somehow we have obscured this simple message. Unfortunately the noise, bright lights and ringing cash registers make the message, difficult to see and hear. It has become a pointless charade.

To most people, Christmas means only two things to them, getting drunk and receiving gifts. They have fallen prey to the commercialized, possession-orientated, advertisement-led, greedy "must have" society.

"Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit. If we think on these things, there will be born in us re-newed hope and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world." - PowerSpirit3

Perhaps when thinking about what we're celebrating at this time of the year its worth noting that the original celebration (before it was hijacked by Christianity) was a pagan one to mark the end of the winter and shorter nights. As this was an occasion with large amounts of eating, drinking and merrymaking we could say that the occasion is getting back to what it was originally about! Your actually celebrating a Pagan holiday, the winter Solstice, which has started yesterday, and for the next six months, the days will once again get longer.

The word "solstice" comes to us from combining the Latin words "sol" (the sun) and "sistere" (to stand still), which is precisely what the sun appears to do in the arc it traces across the sky from our perspective here on Earth, and it does this twice every year: once in June, and again in December. For us here in the Northern Hemisphere, the June solstice marks the start of summer and the period of maximum daylight and shortest nighttime darkness, while the December solstice kicks off winter and represents the shortest days and longest nights.

These astronomical events have formed the basis for awe and celebration for cultures as ancient and as global as humanity itself. And the solstices would not occur at all were it not for a geometric quirk in the relationship between the Earth and the sun. If you think of the circular path around which the Earth travels around the sun as a plane, the axis that goes through the north and south poles on which Earth spins (thus giving us individual days) is at a tilt of about 23.5 degrees. If the axis were to be perpendicular to our orbital plane, we'd have 12 hour days and nights every day of the year, and the whole matter of seasons and of changes therein would be totally alien to us.

So on this solstice, let's all stand still for just a moment and appreciate what the day represents. Tomorrow is another day, and one that will feature just a little extra bit of daylight.

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A "super-Earth" has been discovered orbiting a red dwarf star on our cosmic doorstep, only 42 light years away. But here's the best bit: it's composed primarily of water, possibly in liquid form.

A "super-Earth" is an exoplanet (or "extra-solar planet") with a mass of 5-10 Earths. Only one other super-Earth has been confirmed (and a few more candidates have just been announced), the other 400 exoplanets we know of are many times bigger and are often referred to as "hot Jupiters" (many orbit very close to their host stars, getting roasted).

The race to find Earth-like planets around stars similar to our sun edged closer to a finish with the announcement on Monday that up to six "super-Earths" have been found orbiting sun-like neighbor stars.

The smallest of the bunch weighs in at about five times the mass of Earth and orbits a star known as 61 Virginis, which is visible with the naked eye in the constellation Virgo. The star is 28 light-years from Earth and closely resembles the sun in size, age and other attributes.

Two other newly detected planets -- each about the size of Neptune -- are part of 61 Virginis' family.

Another planet that is 7.8 times larger than Earth orbits HD 1461, a sun-like star located 76 light-years away in the constellation Cetus. Two sibling planets may orbit this same star, though confirmation is still pending, astronomer Gregory Laughlin, with the University of California's Lick Observatory, told Discovery News.

The race to find Earth-like planets around stars similar to our sun edged closer to a finish with the announcement on Monday that up to six "super-Earths" have been found orbiting sun-like neighbor stars.

The smallest of the bunch weighs in at about five times the mass of Earth and orbits a star known as 61 Virginis, which is visible with the naked eye in the constellation Virgo. The star is 28 light-years from Earth and closely resembles the sun in size, age and other attributes.

Two other newly detected planets -- each about the size of Neptune -- are part of 61 Virginis' family.

"I think this is really the tip of the iceberg," Laughlin said. "There's so many planets that have been detected now; it's completely clear that planets aren't rare. With our program, we've been focusing very intently on finding low-mass planets that orbit very nearby solar-type stars."[read more]

These are very exciting times for extrasolar planet hunters. Dozens of new exoplanets have been discovered (some a little larger than Earth, others several times the size of Jupiter) and astronomers are refining their already sophisticated techniques to analyze the composition of the atmospheres of these distant worlds.

Take exoplanet HD 209458b for example. It might not have the most romantic of names (the designation "HD 209458" is the catalogue number of the Sun-like star it's orbiting), but this exoplanet is famous in its own right. In 1999, it was the first ever transiting exoplanet to be discovered. A transiting exoplanet is a world that passes in front of its parent star when viewed from Earth, blocking a little of the starlight for astronomers to detect and measure.

By using the parent star's light to their advantage, NASA scientists have been able to decipher what chemicals HD 209458b's atmosphere contains even though it is 150 light years from Earth. This exoplanet is a very large gas giant which has a very tight orbit around the star (it is therefore dubbed a "Hot Jupiter"), so life isn't expected to be a possibility, but HD 209458b contains the basic organic chemicals as used, and produced, by life as we know it.[continue reading]

Naturally, the question of the potential for extraterrestrial life is bubbling, but the thick atmosphere of this super-Earth may be blocking out much of the star's light from reaching the surface.

Although this particular waterworld might not be suitable for habitation, the researchers who made this discovery think we're on the right track.

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This publication has received information from government sources suggesting that indeed a secret UFO base has been discovered by researchers on Tierra del Fuego’s remote Hoste Island: a territory of Chile. The UFO base is believed to exist beneath an icy plateau that lies between some of the island’s many mountain peaks. While the exact purpose of the base is not yet known, government scientists have monitored and recorded large luminous objects entering and exiting the plateau. Analysis of these objects has shown them to be consistent with other UFOs seen and picked up by radar: such as the enormous UFO seen above Alaska by Japan Airlines pilots in 1986.

The strong flash seen on December 16th, in the dark evening in Tierra del Fuego left no doubt whatsoever to the presence of an unidentified flying object over the Darwin Range.

"The vehicle remained motionless for some 20 minutes in the sky. It was then that began observing it more intently, and the first thing we saw was the apparent "break-off" of a small, brilliant orb," said attorney Juan José Arcos.

Regional UFO researcher Eugenio Bahamonde admits that there has been an increase in the number of sightings.

At least four giant UFOs have been filmed disappearing beneath this plateau in the last decade. The UFOs were all large glowing yellow spheres. Some sceptical scientists have claimed that they might not be UFOs but rather other natural phenomenon such as ball lighting or even gaseous orbs created by weather conditions.

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We are Living on the Edge

There's somethin' wrong with the world today

I don't know what it is

Something's wrong with our eyes

We're seeing things in a different way

And God knows it ain't His

It sure ain't no surprise

We're livin' on the edge

There's somethin' wrong with the world today

The light bulb's gettin' dim

There's meltdown in the sky

If you can judge a wise man

By the color of his skin

Then mister you're a better man that I

We're livin' on the edge

You can't help yourself from fallin'

Livin' on the edge

You can't help yourself at all

Livin' on the edge

You can't stop yourself from fallin'

Livin' on the edge

Tell me what you think about your sit-u-a-tion

Complication - aggravation

Is getting to you

If chicken little tells you that the sky is fallin'

Even if it wasn't would you still come crawlin'

Back again?

I bet you would my friend

Again & again & again & again & again

Tell me what you think about your sit-u-a-tion

Complication - aggravation

Is getting to you

If chicken little tells you that the sky is fallin'

Even if it was would would you still come crawlin'

Back again?

I bet you would my friend

Again and; again and; again and; again

There's something right with the world today

And everybody knows it's wrong

But we can tell 'em no or we could let it go

But I would rather be a hanging on

Livin' On the Edge

You can't help yourself from fallin'

Livin' On the Edge

You can't help yourself at all

Livin' On the Edge

You can't stop yourself from fallin'

Livin' On the Edge

Yeah, you got that now?

Crossroads

I agree with other visionaries who feel the world is ending. But I'm very optimistic about the end of the world. I mean, if you actually think about it...reality kicks in...the world I speak about is already gone. The world I grew up in has been consumed by an enigmatic new planet I strive each day to find my place in.

Terms like "sustainability", "green buildings", polar thaw, bio-diesel, ozone hole, patriot act, and global warming have entered our vocabulary. We don't have to wait for 2012 to see the death of the past...evidence is quite clear already that the old world is sinking fast.

The question is less whether the world is ending, and more, what are we going to do when it does?

You won't find any gloom and doom scenarieos here. I do not evision 2012 as the righteous comeuppance for a species gone wild, nor as the historic prophecies carved in stone. I don't see it as utopia, either. Does anyone want to argue that?

Instead I see 2012 as a huge crossroads in history, a key choice in evolution, a rare window of opportunity that appears to have been forecast in ancient days. Will we emerge from the dark ages and to write a new ending to humanity's countless variations on short sightedness, self sabotage and greed? Will we quit pretending to be so much less than we are? Will we step up to fulfill our awesome potential as a species? Will we seize this unique moment and finally haul ourselves towards something infinitely more satisfying than replaying the same historical mistakes over and over and over. Aren't you tired yet? Come on, it's so very tiresome, especially for me, the Phoenix....I continue to arise from the ashes....to return to the ashes....to arise from the ashes.....it would be great to arise once again to something wonderous...a new Age of Awareness.

If you really think about it, every moment in life is a crossroads. All of us are on our spiritual journey, and there are different key peiods, crux points, destiny crossroads where our reality becomes more malleable and we tap into a larger stream of awareness through our development...constant evolution.

Today, right now, so many massive challenges face us today, global climate change, droughts, floods, and food shortages, the preservation of natural resources, the erosion of human rights, that we must face it, and awaken to the fact that this is our crossroads in evolution folks! Perhaps for the first time in history, it doesn't seem to be the provincial dilemma of one nation, but the complex quandary of the whole fucking world.

It's easy to see why futility sets in, because these dilemmas cross all borders folk....it's not a black problem, it's not a mexican problem it's not a Japanese problem or a Iranian problem....it's a human problem. We have no world council capable of putting aside it's differences to unite the disparate factions and come up with viable longstanding resolution.

I was asked by a reader, if I had the power to save humanity, would I.

I thought about this long and hard. Now I come from a large family. I have 3 brothers, and 2 sisters, all of which do not communicate with each other, or myself for reasons I will not go into. The point is that I can't even bring my fucking family together, what gives me hope for humanity coming together?

All that said, I know everything has it's purpose.

In the past year I have sensed a nascent spirit arising within me, a spark of a kind I haven't seen since the I left California 4 years ago. It's a yearning to challenge the status quo. To refashion basic existence. We need to wake up, and quit pretending to be so much less than we are. We need to go Dr. Phil...and get real.

It saddens me to see the youth of today not even bothering with this broken world I spend so much of my life railing against.

They're already in the future.

As world seems to darken, in fact, the revolutionary impulse only seems to gain traction. Once you start to wake up, you begin to see lies and distortions all around you. You see the lies of our "leaders" get so patently absurd. I can't believe some of the things that are said, and allowed, and we the American people, well not we...you the American people allow this...I mean you actually ask for it. You are now a caricature.

For civilization to transform, human nature itself has to change. Our hunger must be for miracle, not limitation transformation, not repression. We must challenge presumed distinction between "us" and "them", between the living and the dead, between all polarities striving to find each other after centuries of separation. We must see us as one.

In the Age of Aquarius our commonality leads us forward. The time is now for the sleeping masses of consciousness to awaken and turn the tide on centuries of karma and of the corrupt few lording over the many.

Therein lies the crossroad of my journey, because the overarching bias of my awakening was that something marvelous is contained in the core of every human being, whether they know it or not, that we each have massive soul force to turn the world around and that every moment offers us a gateway to a fuller inhabitance of our true nature, our lives and our planet.

If the Maya civilization is right, and humanity is transforming on an unprecedented scale, then my little post may inspire you to Arise from the Illusion and find some thing transformative and profound in you so that the cycle ends with you. And if enough of us do that, who knows, maybe the world will change.

We all face crossroads throughtout our journey.  Some people recognize the signs and some do not. 

If you've read this far, then you too are at your crossroads....what will you decide? 

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Then and Now

My blog, Arise from the Illusion, was created to give my voice a platform in which to be heard, and I guess at a deeper level, to offer a different perspective as if I were attempting to paint a picture that explains what humanity is doing here on Earth...now. Like an onion, there are so many different layers. One would be that of my spiritual journey, in which I share openly, on a intuitive level, giving hope that the sound of my words will awaken you and invite you to become aware of your own core nature and connectedness with all. We all have purpose. We all have strands in which to weave into the fabric of reality.

In recent years it's become fashionable to be critical about society and the fate of humanity, to succumb to numbness, fatigue, or apathy, to feel as though the world has steamrolled itself beyond our control. We stumble along blindly maintining day-to-day existence while leaving the big picture to someone to deal with.

My perspective is that we were born for so much more than this....that we are connected. We are all connected by an innner dimension that we can draw upon to make all the difference. The future to a large extent is in each of our collective hands.

Most of what you need to know can be discovered in the depths of your own nature, if you only knew where to look. I do not advocate 'followers', but instead my suggestion here is very clear, that you must find your own truths.

My mission is to encourage you to expand your everyday awareness, by challenging your most fundamental beliefs about our place in the universe, and by introducing you to a great source of power and creativity buried within your human soul. To awaken you.

As I write these words it's December 14, 2009 and 2012 is much closer now as we reach the 22nd Anniversary of the year of Harmonic Convergence. It's a little odd, but the world has changed since then, but then again, it really hasn't changed at all.

I am 45 now, and it's become clearer than ever what a rare combination of people and ingredients that have come together in my lifetime. It is a remarkable convergence of time, personalities and circumstances that will never happen again. The future I have studied is getting closer by the minute.

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