I received a response by Liza yesterday to a post I'd made on Dreams of Artists months ago. It was a post about creating a web presence and all the effort required. I for one sometimes wonder if all that effort is worthwhile. But...

I then received an email from someone I've never met out of the blue this morning and, frankly, this one note makes it all worthwhile. I'd like to share it with you below.

Dear John,
                  On Friday . . .being the 21st August, I was in Kaikohe
to pick someone up, I had arrived a little early for some reason (& it's
odd for me to have time to kill) I went into the paperplus store. . .
just again. . . no apparent reason, & saw your book down the back of the
shop. Typically I'm not a reader, I don't consider I have time or
headspace for it. But I was compelled to pick your book up, I was quite
taken by it, but I rarely allow myself to buy spontaneously so I left
the book behind, or so I thought. For the next week the book was on my
mind every day. So the next trip I had into town . . .I bouoght it.
I'm only up to page 217, & there's a confirming message for me on that
page, it SO relates to my oft queries of my own decisions, My eyes
spiked with tears as I read that piece, . . ." All I had to do was my
best. All anyone has to do is their best."   You're so right, & I often
tell others that :-) , . . .but I've never told myself that.
I know there's more for me in this book, just by the way it bought me. .
.more than I bought it!  I know I'm on a search for. . . . . something,
maybe self, & this book you've written is helping me on that journey. So
Thank you very much, for all this effort you've gone to in writing this
book & sharing with us all,
                                                                         
Namaste,
                                                                                       
Shantina


As Winston Churchill said in his famous address, "Never give up."

For those of you who have not yet had the opportunity to read Paul Hawken's recent speech I paste it below. And if you have already read it, why not read it again. Enjoy and be inspired. John

 

"You are brilliant, and the earth is hiring..."

 The Unforgettable Commencement Address to the Class of 2009,

University of Portland, May 3rd, 2009

 By Paul Hawken

When I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if I could give a simple short talk that was "direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering, startling, and graceful." Boy, no pressure there.

But let's begin with the startling part. Hey, Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation - but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement. Basically, the earth needs a new operating system, you are the programmers, and we need it within a few decades.

This planet came with a set of operating instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don't poison the water, soil, or air, and don't let the earth get overcrowded, and don't touch the thermostat have been broken. Buckminster Fuller said that spaceship earth was so ingeniously designed that no one has a clue that we are on one, flying through the universe at a million miles per hour, with no need for seatbelts, lots of room in coach, and really good food - but all that is changing.

There is invisible writing on the back of the diploma you will receive, and in case you didn't bring lemon juice to decode it, I can tell you what it says: YOU ARE BRILLIANT, AND THE EARTH IS HIRING. The earth couldn't afford to send any recruiters or limos to your school. It sent you rain, sunsets, ripe cherries, night blooming jasmine, and that unbelievably cute person you are dating. Take the hint. And here's the deal: Forget that this task of planet-saving is not possible in the time required. Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world. The poet Adrienne Rich wrote, "So much has been destroyed I have cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world." There could be no better description. Humanity is coalescing. It is reconstituting the world, and the action is taking place in schoolrooms, farms, jungles, villages, campuses, companies, refuge camps, deserts, fisheries, and slums.

You join a multitude of caring people. No one knows how many groups and organizations are working on the most salient issues of our day: climate change, poverty, deforestation, peace, water, hunger, conservation, human rights, and more. This is the largest movement the world has ever seen. Rather than control, it seeks connection. Rather than dominance, it strives to disperse concentrations of power. Like Mercy Corps, it works behind the scenes and gets the job done. Large as it is, no one knows the true size of this movement. It provides hope, support, and meaning to billions of people in the world. Its clout resides in idea, not in force. It is made up of teachers, children, peasants, businesspeople, rappers, organic farmers, nuns, artists, government workers, fisherfolk, engineers, students, incorrigible writers, weeping Muslims, concerned mothers, poets, doctors without borders, grieving Christians, street musicians, the President of the United States of America, and as the writer David James Duncan would say, the Creator, the One who loves us all in such a huge way.

There is a rabbinical teaching that says if the world is ending and the Messiah arrives, first plant a tree, and then see if the story is true. Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, re-imagine, and reconsider. "One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice," is Mary Oliver's description of moving away from the profane toward a deep sense of connectedness to the living world.

Millions of people are working on behalf of strangers, even if the evening news is usually about the death of strangers. This kindness of strangers has religious, even mythic origins, and very specific eighteenth-century roots. Abolitionists were the first people to create a national and global movement to defend the rights of those they did not know. Until that time, no group had filed a grievance except on behalf of itself. The founders of this movement were largely unknown - Granville Clark, Thomas Clarkson, Josiah Wedgwood - and their goal was ridiculous on the face of it: at that time three out of four people in the world were enslaved. Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists. They were told they would ruin the economy and drive England into poverty. But for the first time in history a group of people organized themselves to help people they would never know, from whom they would never receive direct or indirect benefit.. And today tens of millions of people do this every day. It is called the world of non-profits, civil society, schools, social entrepreneurship, and non-governmental organizations, of companies who place social and environmental justice at the top of their strategic goals. The scope and scale of this effort is unparalleled in history.

The living world is not "out there" somewhere, but in your heart. What do we know about life? In the words of biologist Janine Benyus, life creates the conditions that are conducive to life. I can think of no better motto for a future economy. We have tens of thousands of abandoned homes without people and tens of thousands of abandoned people without homes. We have failed bankers advising failed regulators on how to save failed assets. Think about this: we are the only species on this planet without full employment. Brilliant. We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time than to renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can't print life to bail out a planet. At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product. We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.

The first living cell came into being nearly 40 million centuries ago, and its direct descendants are in all of our bloodstreams. Literally you are breathing molecules this very second that were inhaled by Moses, Mother Teresa, and Bono. We are vastly interconnected. Our fates are inseparable. We are here because the dream of every cell is to become two cells. In each of you are one quadrillion cells, 90 percent of which are not human cells. Your body is a community, and without those other microorganisms you would perish in hours. Each human cell has 400 billion molecules conducting millions of processes between trillions of atoms. The total cellular activity in one human body is staggering: one septillion actions at any one moment, a one with twenty-four zeros after it. In a millisecond, our body has undergone ten times more processes than there are stars in the universe - exactly what Charles Darwin foretold when he said science would discover that each living creature was a "little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars of heaven."

So I have two questions for you all: First, can you feel your body? Stop for a moment. Feel your body. One septillion activities going on simultaneously, and your body does this so well you are free to ignore it, and wonder instead when this speech will end. Second question: who is in charge of your body? Who is managing those molecules? Hopefully not a political party. Life is creating the conditions that are conducive to life inside you, just as in all of nature. What I want you to imagine is that collectively humanity is evincing a deep innate wisdom in coming together to heal the wounds and insults of the past.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead the stars come out every night, and we watch television.

 This extraordinary time when we are globally aware of each other and the multiple dangers that threaten civilization has never happened, not in a thousand years, not in ten thousand years. Each of us is as complex and beautiful as all the stars in the universe. We have done great things and we have gone way off course in terms of honoring creation. You are graduating to the most amazing, challenging, stupefying challenge ever bequested to any generation. The generations before you failed. They didn't stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life is a miracle every moment of your existence. Nature beckons you to be on her side. You couldn't ask for a better boss. The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hopefulness only makes sense when it doesn't make sense to be hopeful. This is your century. Take it and run as if your life depends on it.

Paul Hawken is a renowned entrepreneur, visionary environmental activist, and author of many books, most recently Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. He was presented with an honorary doctorate of humane letters by University president Father Bill Beauchamp, C.S.C., in May, when he delivered this superb speech. Our thanks especially to Erica Linson for her help making that moment possible. 

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I've pasted below a generic invitation to a very special radio show I will be a guest for on September 4^th at 12:30 PM PST. Feel free to listen in and ask questions at that time. Anyone wishing to share the book or project they are passionate about should feel free to contact Sue Oliver at the posted website. Sue's doing great work.

John

A special invitation to listen to our Blog Talk Radio Program, The Passions and Possibilities Project (www.blogtalkradio.com/passionsandpossibilities), which airs Wednesdays, 3:00 to 4:00 pm, and Fridays,12:30 to 1:30 pm PST.   During each show, we feature bold, talented individuals who have leaped fully into their dreams.  They've stopped playing small and are living large, on their own terms, regardless of life's challenges!   Our vision is that their stories will inspire others who are feeling scared or discouraged about their own leap.   So we treasure your participation and comments as we share the powerful message that ordinary folks can live extraordinary lives...by following their passions and dreams!

Please join us live, when the show starts, by either dialing into the show's conference line (347) 205-9038 or linking into the streamlining live video at the website link above.  Either way, we welcome your questions and comments during the show!   We have a fabulous line-up of guests in the upcoming weeks, and archives are available on the site.  If you or others would like to be considered as guests, please let us know, and forward this schedule to your own contacts as you wish.  Thank you!

Wednesday Show Dates (3 pm PST)

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     Friday Show Dates (12:30 pm PST; lunch hour)

September 4th:       John Haines, author, coach, founder of Simple Living, http://www.insearchofsimplicity.com/

 

We are indivisible from Nature. You breathe in the same breath exhaled by the ancients, by Confucius, Buddha and Jesus. The stuff that makes up these bodies, these vehicles, is the same stuff that makes up every form of existence. Look at compost. The decomposed bodies of plants are the building blocks of the fruits and vegetables we eat. And we are what we eat.

Truly knowing our interconnectedness with all life, all matter, makes us responsible, respectful guardians of this beautiful planet. How can we then pollute the soil, water and air of our home? We are inseparable from these elements. They are in us and we don't want to pollute our bodies.

We are by nature creative beings. To be God-like is to be creative and alive. Why has the Creator brought us into existence? Our journey out into this world is co-coincident with a longing to return to the formless essence from which we come. But to be here in this world is to be a creator.

We are here to openly and freely communicate and share with each other. In order to bring completeness to our communications we must release any holding on to experiences of the past which bind us. When I was six I was sent to the office to get the strap for saying hello to my younger sister as we passed in the hallway of our school. When I was twelve I was told by a teacher to, "Speak softly John, your voice carries," while walking through the hallway of another school. For many years I spoke softly in social settings. I had a subconscious fear of being reprimanded. Only through years of sound work and yoga have the emotional memories of these experiences surfaced where I've been able to release them. Today I am a confident public speaker and singer freed from the clutches of past fears and experiences. You can be too.

In order to get something you've never had you'll have to do something you've never done. You'll have to walk beyond the gateway of the known into a land of trust. To grow is to take chances. Only those who risk are free.

 

I received this in my inbox this morning and would like to share it here. I wrote in In Search of Simplicity of the travels and studies of Jesus in the East in the lost 18 years of the New Testament. Patricia Diane Cotes-Robles confirms that observation and much more below.

We live in auspicious times. Follow your guidance. Live your dreams. Be the change you want to see in the world.

Blessings,

John

THE WONDER OF IT ALL - Part 2 of 2
by Patricia Diane Cota-Robles

http://eraofpeace.org/

Numerically 2009 is an eleven year. Eleven is the master number that reflects the transformation of the physical into the Divine. This year has involved the greatest influx of Light that Humanity has experienced since we first fell from Grace aeons ago.

In February, during the Sun Cycle of Aquarius, we experienced the specific celestial events that we had been told would herald our official entrance into the Age of Aquarius. Spiritual astrologers confirmed that this specific alignment did not occur for 1,000 years before or 1,000 years after the alignment that took place in February 2009. This event opened a portal that allowed the greatest influx of the 5th-Dimensional frequencies of the Violet Flame that Humanity has ever been able to receive. The Seventh Angel is now sounding his Cosmic Tones throughout the Universe, and the mystery of God is being fulfilled.

During the summer of 2009, many events took place to pave the way for the miracles that were destined to occur in August. During the Solstice, June 21, 2009, our Central Sun, our physical Sun, and our entire Solar System experienced a quantum shift. This shift resulted in raising the energy, vibration, and consciousness of every particle and wave of Life evolving within this system. This increased frequency of 5th-Dimensional Solar Light activated the pre-encoded memories within Humanity's RNA and DNA structures. These newly activated codes reflect the full potential of the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine within every Human Being.

On July 7th, we experienced a Full Moon Lunar Eclipse. This was the first in a series of three eclipses. Spiritual astrologers acknowledged that the effects of these eclipses would be profound and life changing for both Humanity and Planet Earth. The planetary alignments associated with the July 7th eclipse empowered the manifestation of the Divine Masculine and greatly enhanced the masculine momentum of Divine Love. This is an aspect of the Divine Masculine that has been suppressed for a very long time.

On July 22nd, there was a very powerful New Moon Solar Eclipse. This was also the day that is celebrated as Mary Magdalene's Feast Day. Mary Magdalene represents the Love Nature of Christ Consciousness, and she has held the sacred space for the return and balance of the Divine Feminine for millennia. On that day, the newly empowered Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine within every man, woman, and child on Earth were raised into the highest frequencies of 5th-Dimensional Solar Light that we were able to endure. This was the initial impulse of the Transfiguration of the masses of Humanity from 4th-Dimensional carbon-based Human Beings into 5th-Dimensional crystalline-based Solar Light Beings.

With the fulfillment of that activity of Light, Humanity's creative faculties of thought and feeling were greatly enhanced. This critical event occurred in perfect synchronicity for the next phase of the Divine Plan, which involved a global activity of Light called "Fire the Grid." This was a moment in time during which hundreds of thousands of people all over the world joined together in consciousness for one hour to empower the patterns of perfection for the New Earth in whatever way our I AM Presence guided us to do.

On August 6th, we experienced the final Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in this series. This eclipse intensified all of the incredible activities of Light that had taken place since the initial impulse of 2009, and it paved the way for the monumental influx of Light that was to take place during the 22nd anniversary of Harmonic Convergence.

Twenty-two is the master number that reflects power on all planes, and the ability to change the course of history.  The multifaceted, multidimensional aspects of the unfolding Divine Plan were all in place, and Humanity and the Company of Heaven were standing in readiness awaiting the events that would change our lives forever.

On August 15th, a day dedicated to Beloved Mother Mary, the Opening Ceremonies for the 23rd Annual World Congress on Illumination commenced. This event was held in Tucson, Arizona, within the portal of the most powerful forcefield of healing available on the planet. This is the portal through which the Emerald Green and Violet Flames of Healing through the Power of Infinite Transmutation are projected from the Core of Creation into the Heart of Mother Earth. With approximately 700 people physically present and hundreds of thousands joining with us in consciousness from around the world, Humanity was invested with a Gift of Love from our Mother God.

During these Divine Ceremonies, our Mother God and the Feminine Aspects of Deity throughout Infinity projected their luminous Presence into the atmosphere of Earth. Our Mother God's cohesive power of Divine Love filled our Chalice of Light, which Lightworkers around the world created through the unification of our Heart Flames. This Chalice of Light is a pulsating crystalline Lotus blossom that envelops the entire planet and cradles the Earth and all her Life in its embrace.

As the cohesive power of Divine Love from our Mother God and the Feminine Aspects of Deity filled our Chalice, the I AM Presence of every man, woman, and child on Earth took command. Through this aspect of our own Divinity, every person was raised into a profound awakening of supreme Love consciousness.

This activity of Divine Intervention lifted every person on Earth into a higher octave of Divine Service. Every soul was invested with a Cosmic Forcefield of Divine Love, which initiated each one into a Higher Order of Service to the Light. This completed the lessons of the First Initiation, which we had each been learning in our finer bodies during the past 12-month cycle. This was our graduation. It was the God Victorious accomplishment of our initiation into Oneness and Reverence for ALL Life. Everything that we learned about Oneness and the Reverence for Life is recorded in our Etheric Bodies. This sacred knowledge will surface into our conscious minds and experiences as we integrate these Truths into the physical plane.

Sometimes when we try to grasp the magnitude of these events, we become overwhelmed with what we perceive to be the reality of the physical plane. We look at all of Humanity's flawed behavior and our human frailties, and it seems impossible that these wondrous things could be happening for every single person. So for clarity, I would like to briefly reiterate what the Company of Heaven has revealed to us time and again.

We are all multidimensional Beings, and our various levels of consciousness exist in many frequencies of Light at the same time. The Company of Heaven has said that out of all of the dimensions we abide in, the physical plane is the least real. It is also the very last dimension to reflect the changes that we are cocreating.

No matter how oblivious a person may be of his or her Divinity, every person is a Beloved Child of God, which means that all that our Father-Mother God have is ours. We are One. We are interconnected, interdependent, and interrelated. What affects one of us affects all of us. The Universal Law is, "As I AM lifted up, ALL Life is lifted up with me."

In addition to these Truths, there has been a massive awakening since Harmonic Convergence, and we have reached a critical mass of Lightworkers on this planet. This has created an upward rush of energy, vibration, and consciousness involving every particle of Life on Earth. This increase in our vibratory rate has allowed the I AM Presence of every person to intervene in his or her life in ways that we have not experienced since our fall from Grace.

The Divine Intervention by every person's I AM Presence is creating an unstoppable shift, which is accelerating our Ascension into the 5th Dimension. This process involves every atomic and subatomic particle and wave of Life evolving on this planet, which of course includes every man, woman, and child.

Everything that is manifesting on Earth is the result of Humanity's thoughts, words, feelings, and actions. All of these things were first created in the Realms of Cause. Then as Humanity focused our attention on these thoughtforms and feelings, they were magnetized into the physical plane-the world of effects.

The miraculous events that I am sharing with you have been victoriously accomplished in the Realms of Cause. Now it is our responsibility to magnetize the results of these miracles into the physical plane.

The good news is, that once something has been successfully accomplished in the Realms of Cause NOTHING can prevent it from manifesting on Earth. The only variable is how long that will take, which is strictly up to you and me and every other evolving soul on this planet. The speed with which we begin to tangibly experience the patterns of perfection for the New Earth and Humanity's transformation into Christ Consciousness will depend on how dedicated we are in focusing on those patterns of perfection and the glorious acts of Divine Intervention that have been accomplished by our I AM Presence.

Now, I will continue. Interestingly, a few years ago Drunvalo Melchizedek shared with Humanity a prophecy that had been revealed to him by a New Zealand Waitaha elder. The prophecy predicted that there would come a pivotal moment in history that would change Humanity's course of direction. It said that moment would occur on August 15, 2009. The prophecy states that the event may not be known publicly, but that it would be the beginning of a new human dream. The dream would be almost identical to the Mayan belief that the Heavens will open, and our Brothers and Sisters of the Universe will reveal themselves.

On August 16, 2009, Humanity received another very powerful gift from the Silent Watcher for Planet Earth. This powerful Being is known as Immaculata. Silent Watchers are magnificent Feminine Beings who serve Life under the direction of the Elohim, the Builders of Form. Their purpose is to hold the Immaculate Concept-the Divine Blueprint-for whatever facet of Life they are asked to assist. On this special day, Immaculata fulfilled the directives of the Elohim by stationing one of the Silent Watchers from her Regal Court in the aura of every Human Being evolving on Earth. These selfless servants of our Father-Mother God have volunteered to remain in our auras, and to hold the Immaculate Concept for our Transfiguration into our crystalline-based Solar Light Bodies, until this process is complete.

After the Silent Watchers had taken their strategic positions in every person's aura, Humanity experienced a powerful healing at an atomic cellular level. This healing accelerated the transformation of Humanity's carbon-based cells into the crystalline-based cells of our 5th-Dimensional Solar Light Bodies. This assisted each of us further up the spiral of evolution. This healing allowed our I AM Presence to integrate deeper into our physical, etheric, mental and emotional bodies, thus preparing us for the miracle that would take place the following day.

August 17, 2009, was the 22nd anniversary of Harmonic Convergence. The monumental influx of Light that catapulted Humanity forward in our awakening process in 1987 had been building in momentum for 22 years. Once again, 22 is the master number that reflects power on all planes, and the ability to change the course of history. With the incredible shifts of vibration that had been God Victoriously accomplished since the beginning of 2009, and the sacred gifts that had been bestowed upon Humanity during the previous two days, every man, woman, and child was in the perfect position to be called into the Upper Room, a higher state of Divine Consciousness.

In a Divine Ceremony of Light, the I AM Presence of every person evolving on Earth stepped to the fore and took full dominion of each one's Earthly bodies. The gifts that had been given to Humanity over the past two days had been assimilated, the healing was complete, and all was in readiness.

Through the I AM Presence, and within the elevated consciousness of the Upper Room, every person consecrated his or her life to the path of Oneness and Divine Love, which is the only way back to the Heart of our Father-Mother God. In that higher state of consciousness, every person opened his or her heart and from the depths of their Being invoked a Baptism of the Holy Spirit-a Baptism by Sacred Fire from our Mother God.

In that instant, the masses of Humanity experienced through their I AM Presence the transformation that the Disciples experienced on Pentecost. In the Realms of Cause, Humanity's right-brain hemispheres were brought into perfect balance with our left-brain hemispheres, our spiritual brain centers were activated, and our Crown Chakras were opened to full breadth.

In that miraculous instant, the masses of Humanity reversed the adverse affects of our fall from Grace. We reclaimed our Divine Birthright as Sons and Daughters of God. In the Realms of Cause, we are now experiencing Christ Consciousness; we are the Christ grown to full stature. We are the only begotten Sons and Daughters of God. This has been our Divine Potential from the moment we were first breathed forth from the Heart of our Father-Mother God.

On August 18th, the Lightworkers gathered at the World Congress on Illumination were still assimilating the wonder and awe of the previous day when we were blessed with another miracle.

As the Christ within the masses of Humanity began the initial impulse of projecting itself from the Realms of Cause into the heart and mind of each soul, our Father-Mother God invested us with a Gift of Divine Love beyond our comprehension. On the Cosmic Tones of their Inbreath and Outbreath, our God Parents sent forth a clarion call invoking their Beloved Son Jesus to come forth from the Great, Great Silence.

With glory and splendor beyond what I am able to communicate with words, Beloved Jesus descended into the atmosphere of Earth. In response to the unified heart call from the I AM Presence of a newly Baptized and Christed Humanity, Jesus projected his luminous Presence into the Heart of Mother Earth. Then in an explosion of Light, he expanded his luminous Presence until the Earth and all Life evolving upon her were cradled within the Flame of Divinity in his Sacred Heart.

Now that the masses of Humanity have, through our own endeavors and the Divine Intervention of our I AM Presence, reclaimed our full potential as Sons and Daughters of God, Jesus is able to assist us in integrating the Christ within. He cannot do this for us, but he has volunteered to hold the Earth and all Humanity within the sacred space of his Heart Flame until we become the Christ grown to full stature in the physical world of form. For each of us to be held within this sacred space, is an incomparable act of Divine Grace. It is an expression of Divine Forgiveness beyond what we have earned in this present moment.

On August 19th, we were asked by the Company of Heaven to join forces with them for the most intensified cleansing by the Emerald Green and Violet Flames of Healing through the Power of Infinite Transmutation that the Earth and Humanity were capable of enduring.

Saint Germain is the incredible Being of Light who will guide Humanity through the evolutionary steps of the Aquarian Age for the next 2,000 years. On this day, he invoked Archangel Zadkiel and the Legions of the Emerald Green and Violet Flames to come and assist the Children of God with this activity of Light. These magnificent Angels traversed the Earth north, south, east, and west as they assumed their positions in every location on the planet.

Beloved Jesus then breathed the Breath of the Holy Spirit through his Sacred Heart, and expanded it through the Heart Chakra of every person on Earth. This opened our Heart Chakras to new breadths, and accelerated the integration of our Christ Presence. When the Breath of the Holy Spirit expanded through our hearts, it pushed to the surface the things in both our individual and our collective lives that were blocking the integration of our Solar Light Bodies, and the things preventing the manifestation of the patterns of perfection for the New Earth. As these patterns of imperfection surfaced around the world, the Legions of the Emerald Green and Violet Flames transmuted them with the power and might of a thousand Suns back into their original perfection. The Company of Heaven confirmed that this purging resulted in the most profound healing the Earth and Humanity have ever experienced. That unprecedented cleansing cleared the way for the final activity of Light in this facet of the unfolding Divine Plan, which would take place the next day.

On August 20th, we experienced the Closing Ceremonies for this sacred and holy week. This activity of Light resulted in the maximum acceleration that Cosmic Law would allow for the Transfiguration of Humanity's carbon-based Earthly bodies in to our crystalline-based Solar Light Bodies. This accelerated Transfiguration also occurred within the physical, etheric, mental, and emotional strata of Mother Earth.

First the Lords of Power and Protection from the Great, Great Central Sun descended into the atmosphere of Earth. They projected their luminous Presence into all of the vulnerable areas in the body of Mother Earth in order to prevent any cataclysmic backlash from this acceleration of crystalline Light. These majestic Beings entered all of the cracks, faults, fissures, and tectonic plates in the Earth. They also projected their luminous Presence into all of the wounds that had been created in her body through mining, drilling for oil, and nuclear testing.

After the vulnerable areas within the body of Mother Earth were secured, the Directors of the Elements took their positions at the cardinal points. The Directors of the Air Element were to the North, the Directors of the Water Element were to the East, the Directors of the Earth Element were to the South, the Directors of the Fire Element were to the West, and the Directors of the Ether Element were within the Sun of Even Pressure in the center of the Earth. These Beings of Light enveloped the Elemental Beings associated with the air, water, earth, fire, and ether in an invincible force field of protection.

Then Beloved Jesus called forth the newly reclaimed Christ Presence within the Heart Flame of every man, woman, and child and enveloped each one in an intensified force field of his Protective Love. This prepared us to safely withstand the influx of 5th-Dimensional Crystalline Light that was about to be infused into the carbon-based atomic and subatomic particles and waves of every facet of Life on Earth.

When all was in readiness, the influx of 5th-Dimensional Crystalline Solar Light began. This Light from the Heart of our omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent Father-Mother God, the Cosmic I AM, All That Is, flowed through the Divinity pulsating in every person's heart and penetrated deep into the core of purity in every electron of precious Life energy evolving on Earth. This influx of Light and the resulting acceleration of energy, vibration, and consciousness moved the Earth and all her Life a quantum leap up the spiral of evolution.

Now we understand what the Beings of Light in the Realms of Illumined Truth meant when they said that 2009 would be a turning point. Now we know why it will be the year that is referred to throughout the Ages as the Cosmic Moment when the masses of Humanity changed our course of direction and reclaimed our Divine Birthright as Beloved Sons and Daughters of God. 

With the victory of these events, it is time for the next level of Humanity's Earthly experience. Humanity has reclaimed Christ Consciousness, and now we are responsible for expressing that aspect of our Divinity with our every thought, word, feeling, and action. Let's all begin by recognizing the Divinity in every person with whom we come in contact. Let's respond with Divine Love and Reverence for ALL Life to every person, place, condition, and thing that presents itself to us in this school of learning. After all, at any given moment our life is merely reflecting the results of our past thoughts, words, feelings and actions. We are co-creating our reality in this physical plane. Let's co-create through the consciousness of the Christ that is now pulsating within all of us.

Namaste---the Divinity within me acknowledges the Divinity within you.   And so it is.

Patricia Diane Cota-Robles
New Age Study of Humanity's Purpose
a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit educational organization

Website: http://eraofpeace.org/     

 

Here's something I found this morning that is definitely worth a read. We are receiving help all the time-just enough to keep us out of trouble and moving along on the desired course of evolution. This was found here:

http://www.projectavalon.net/forum/showthread.php?page=15&t=8441

Re: 2012 Nexus Event - Unknown Form of Energy comes our way!

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What I like about David Wilcock is that he is true to the principle of interpreting any given situation in such a way as to maximize the potential for spiritual growth. When that principle is understood/applied, it is impossible to be a "victim" of anything anymore. Everything - every circumstance - becomes a catalyst for spiritual growth. That is true self-responsibility in my opinion. One never blame others/circumstances, but rather seek to use whatever happens as a tool for spiritual growth. Here is a quote from Wilcock's latest article concerning spiritual evolution and 2012:

Quote:

A HIGHLY STAGE-MANAGED ILLUSION

The perceived threats we face on the planet are real - let's make that point clear. Lives have been lost, and more will be lost as we go on. This is an inevitable aspect of the greater drama of evolution we're running through.

Nonetheless, we have documented an ongoing, highly impressive body of evidence suggesting that major, life-threatening disasters have been averted left and right - not by ‘good luck', but rather a very deliberate intervention - over and over again - by beings far more spiritually and technologically advanced than ourselves.

It is their job to remain completely hidden, and thus take no credit for their hard work. If it were obvious that these ‘rescues' were intelligently designed, there would be no motivation for us to change - and / or we would begin worshipping them as Gods rather than seeing them as fellow seekers on the path, serving the Universe in their own way.

As just one of many examples of such interventions, I have spoken repeatedly about multiple witness testimonies that UFOs have repeatedly powered down nuclear missile silos and knocked live missiles out of the sky during tests - and when they were recovered, all the radioactivity within them had vanished.

Our military sees these interventions as hostile acts, but in light of the greater context we now have access to, the motives behind this gesture are very clear. The Earth is a school for spiritual growth, and a vast illusion is maintained by higher beings.

The most important defining characteristic of this illusion is that we will always be presented with equal opportunities, in any given situation, to seek the negative or the positive.

This balance will never be altered at any point in our growth on this planet.

It's the most basic, intrinsic rule that must be maintained for the ‘school' to be effective.

Whether we believe it is working or not, the balance will continue either way... and we will continue to be protected from a vast number of different ‘nightmare' scenarios.

IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE SCARY

Let's be clear about something at this point: the changes we're now going through ARE intended to be scary. Extremely scary. That's what is required for us to experience the collective awakening that this ‘school' is intended to give us. In spiritual terms it's referred to as Initiation.

I've had many cases where I thought I had lost something of great value to me, contemplated and accepted whatever lesson I was being taught by this happening, and then discovered I hadn't lost it after all.

This may seem like a weak and personal example, but there really is no difference between the personal and the collective. The world is simply a large-scale reflection of the issues occurring within each of us.

Therefore, the scary things we're seeing on the planet now - the idea that nothing short of Divine Intervention could help us - is precisely the point. Our very existence here is a Divine Intervention in the first place... and we will continue to enjoy that protection as we move forward.

GRADUATION

This is also not just a situation where we keep being born and reincarnating through the same mess over and over again. We are very clearly on a course curriculum - and the teachers want as many students as possible to graduate at the end of the year.

The time roughly around the end of 2012 could be thought of, in this sense, as Graduation Day... and our future from there on will be determined by how well we've navigated the curriculum.

On an esoteric / spiritual level, almost all teachers agree that the objective of this school is to teach us to love one another. The more unpleasant the world - and its leaders and controllers - may look to us, the more inclined we are to not act the same way... and that ultimately IS the whole point.

In more scientific terms, we can argue that we are going through an energetically-programmed evolution at this time.

Evidence shows this energetic evolution has direct effects on our level of consciousness - and even the structure and function of our own DNA. 

http://divinecosmos.com/index.php?op...=422&Itemid=70 

Enjoy!

In the Light,

Sanat

 

Why are our schools filled with medications, nut-free policies, elimination diets and special learning programmes? Have you ever wondered if there is a connection between ADHD, allergies, asthma, autism, food intolerance, learning delay and behavioural issues? Did you know that roughly half of the children in the UK have allergies, 5% of NZ children are prescribed Ritalin, 1 in 4 children in NZ has asthma, and 1 in 10 is sensitive to the gluten in wheat? In June, 2007 on Voices from the North I recorded this interview with Dr. Debbie Fewtrell of Kerikeri. Dr. Fewtrell was one of the organisers and keynote speakers a the Mindd International Forum on Children that was held the month before in Takapuna, Auckland. Dr. Fewtrell is a lecturer, medical educator, and paediatric integrative medical practitioner. She is also New Zealand's first DAN (Defeat Autism Now) medical practitioners. This is an interview that should be of interest to parents, grandparents and educators.

Discussion covered a wide range of pertinent topics such as:

• Healthy food information and ideas and recipes for the sensitive child that they will enjoy.
• How to boost your child's immunity and safe natural therapies to use with common childhood illnesses.
• How to create a less toxic home for the benefit of the entire family.
• How to best manage siblings of affected children who may be vulnerable and how to avoid triggers.
• Gluten (wheat) free and/or casein (dairy) free diets made easy!
• How to work with schools to achieve the best combination of mainstream and special educational programs.
• The world's latest science and research behind biomedicine that explains the current escalating rates of childhood disorders and the common themes that underpin them
• Breathing therapy to help asthma and allergies.

Debbie' dream at that time as stated in her words was:

My dream is to fully integrate the biomedical treatment of autism into New Zealand. In the last 5 years I have passionately pursued a professional interest in this field and I plan to develop a cohesive biomedical model so that New Zealand families can benefit from this specialised approach. This model could help significantly change the lives of autistic and ADHD children and their families.

Again, the interview can be heard here:

http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25089625-Dr-Debbie-Fewtrell-Defeat-Autism-Now

For additional information see: http://mindd.org/serendipity/archives.php/109-Mind-Forum-2007.html

Have I been living in a vacuum? This song by Declan Galbraith arrived by email today. Wow! I'm putting the video here in case there are others who have somehow missed this like I have.

You may have noticed I've been absent from the virtual halls of Gaia.com often the last months. I'm working on two books simultaneously. One is the sequel to In Search of Simplicity. I believe it will be called Beyond Simplicity.  The other is a little book of essays, quotes and affirmations. I thought I'd paste below a few unedited pages from the very beginning of Beyond Simplicity. I am completely open to constructive feedback if anyone feels so inclined.

Enjoy,
John

 

Like its predecessor, Beyond Simplicity is my story. And like my first book, In Search of Simplicity, it contains the stories of those I've met along the way and those who've walked before. I may not have met them all in this life, but the trails they've blazed and the examples they've lived illuminate the story and at times carry my pen across the pages of time.

Join me; join us, on this journey into a world of cooperation and great peace for all the nations and peoples of this planet.

I hold the pen, but who is the author of the story?

I walk the path, but who guides my feet along the way?

In an age in which we are taught we each forge our own destinies can any of us escape a deeper destiny, a timeless book in which we each inhabit a page?

In an age that preaches independence are any of us truly independent-from each other and from the spirit that carries us along? A spirit barely hidden from the world we call reality; a reality which is but a meager impression in the macrocosm of life.

In these pages you will come to know me and Lucia, the woman who shared my dreams and who continues to dream with me today.

You will follow our sometimes faltering steps on our shared journey.

In the end it is not the degrees we've attained or the positions we've held that measure our success. It is the love we've shared and that we allow to flow through us that is the real measure of who we are.

I openly share my life and my love with you. At times I play the fool. Always I am the eager student. In reading this story perhaps you too will be my guide. Welcome.

It was a beautiful crystalline American Southwest summer day with nary a cloud to mar the azure tint of the sky. We were traveling north on the interstate highway and had just passed a small modern city. My passenger was a high school student, Michael, in his late teens. He had been visiting and helping us for a few days. Earlier that same stunning morning we had said goodbye to Lucia before jumping into the car for the two hour drive to the airport. Michael was flying home to his parents in Vermont.

The road followed a narrow ridge of rock and earth, like the back of some ancient giant dragon, the rest of whose body had been devoured by the sands and rocky scree of the New Mexican high desert plateau. On our left stood mammoth centuries-old matriarchal trees, the likes of which one only finds in a handful of protected areas anymore. After this narrow band of trees the earth fell away sharply to the endless flat, open desert below. On our immediate right plummeted another cliff into a gorgeous, turquoise lake, an unexpected oasis in an otherwise stark and parched environment.

"Michael, look! They're cutting down some of those old trees." My voice was tinged with awe. There was no judgment. I was simply amazed to see the magnitude of those trees, some of whose trunks were now dangling precariously, ready to fall at any moment. Men with huge chainsaws worked feverishly to sever the remaining bits of wood that just held the trees together.

As I returned my visual attention to the task of driving the car, I saw, to my amazement, that the car had left the road and we were now soaring over the lake with the full momentum of the 70s era Chevrolet. I hadn't heard or felt when we broke through the guardrail, as my logical brain said we must have done. It was obvious that we would soon crash head on into the approaching cliff.

Just to the right of this cliff I noticed a sort of natural, twisting rock lane rising up from the shore of the lake, as if a lava flow from some dreamtime volcano had frozen in place. This lane led to a mostly horizontal stretch of rock, above which soared a broad, rainbow-shaped arch of solid rock. The unreal blue of the sky and the rugged landscape beyond could be seen in part through this huge, natural arch.

All this was noted in a furious instant. I made a decision and turned to Michael.

"Let's head for that lane of rock to the right of the cliff."

Now you know that you can't control the direction of a car once it leaves the surface on which it is being driven. Michael and I didn't know that. Together we leaned and looked in the direction we wished to go. The car responded instantly to our intentions. It would be touch and go, but based on our present velocity I estimated that we would just clear the lake, if we were lucky.

Above us, just visible in the shadow of the arch, were the faces of a man and two small children, all anxiously watching our approach.

Luck was with us and we hit the lane, tires bouncing and skidding, just where it rose from the lake. The onlookers smiled with relief and so did we.

Just another day in paradise, I thought as we drove on and returned to the interstate. Michael made it to the airport on time.

"It is my hope that your hearts may become as ready ground, carefully tilled and prepared, upon which the divine showers of the bounties of the Blessed Perfection may descend and the zephyrs of this divine springtime may blow with quickening breath...Then will the garden of your hearts bring forth its flowers of delightful fragrance to refresh the nostril of the heavenly Gardener...Let your hearts reflect the glories of the Sun of Truth in their many colors to gladden the eye of the divine Cultivator Who has nourished them...Day by day become more closely attracted in order that the love of God may illumine all those with whom you come in contact...Be as one spirit...one soul...leaves of one tree...flowers of one garden...waves of one ocean."

Abdu'l-Baha

Following the Yellow Brick Road

Kansas, February 1989

I'd been driving all day in the second hand Ford pickup I'd purchased the week before in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was Santa Fe I had left in the light of a rising sun twelve hours earlier. From the shadows of the Sangre de Christos peaks, I'd driven north to Colorado through the forested foothills of the Rockies. It had been yet another beautiful clear day, with the cool winter sun reflecting rainbows from the snow on the side of the road.

At Colorado Springs, an immaculate military town, I'd turned east, losing elevation as the gentle rolling hills and high plateau in the rain shadow of the mountains gave way to the flat, monotonous stubble and snow-covered prairies of Kansas.

Kansas. The name and the place forever remind me of someone else embarking on a magical journey. Dorothy and her dog Toto left the dust bowl of Kansas and followed a yellow brick road to find a wizard in the land of Oz, a wizard who could direct them home.

I still found it amazing and somewhat magical how I had ended up here, a lone traveler in a small red truck on a slick road in Kansas, also heading home.

I grew up in Ontario, the place I was now aiming for like a bee pulled to honey, or a metal filing irresistibly attracted to a magnet, on this solitary cross-continental winter drive.

Five years and a month earlier I'd left my work, my family and my home in Canada on an adventure. That adventure, much of which was described in In Search of Simplicity: A True Story that Changes Lives, had carried me and my backpack from the Middle East, where I'd worked two years as an advisor to Saudi Telecom, through Europe, South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand to Papua New Guinea in search of truth and simple, meaningful existence. From there I'd crossed the breadth of China and the nearly three-mile high Khunjerab Pass into the Hunza, a Shangri La-like land of apricots and centenarians. All told, eleven months were spent in the Himalayas. In Mcleod Ganj, the home of the Dalai Lama and a thriving Tibetan community, I'd overcome severe illness, experienced a profound spiritual awakening, met Dutch-born Lucia, the woman of my dreams, and received a remarkable chain of synchronistic messages directing me to embark on a life of self-sufficiency near Santa Fe, New Mexico, a place I'd never been before.

I'd arrived in New Mexico to find that the place I was pulled to belonged to a man I'd met in Nepal almost a year before. He and I negotiated a settlement on the twenty acres of land his tiny handmade house sat on. And now I was bee lining for Ontario to pick up the furniture, books and other personal belongings I'd put in storage five years and a month before, so that I could begin my experiments in self-sufficient living at the base of Turquoise Mountain, near Cerrillos,  thirty five minutes south west of Santa Fe.

There's something about solitary travel that allows the mind to wander in ways it has rarely wandered before. Perhaps the newness of the surroundings allows newness of thought, unencumbered by the conditioned associations of the familiar. My mind and my thoughts investigated a question I'd been forced to ask a few times these last years.

What is the biggest fear most of us have, besides the fear of public speaking, that is?

The fear of dying. The fear of death.

Is this simply the ultimate fear of the unknown? If fear can be described as ‘false evidence appearing real' the evidence is based more on our own conditioned ruminations than on any concrete fact.

How much had my scholastic and religious education prepared me for dying, for death? The Tibetans and ancient Egyptians each had ‘Books of the Dead', clear guides for those left behind to assist those on the next stage of their journey after having left behind their bodies and their loved ones. And there was a whole recent body of Western literature that investigated the possibility of life after death.

Ah, the fear of death. It's a strange thing, isn't it, since death is inextricably linked to every birth. As far as I could see, from the moment one is physically born, every subsequent moment brings one closer to death. If that was the case, and I could see no way around it, if one fears death, one carries that feeling through every moment of living. This struck me as being a counterproductive way to live.

When I was struck down with spinal meningitis in Norway I'd been absolutely terrified of dying. I don't why I felt that way. I just know that was how I felt.

When Dr. Yeshi Dhonden treated me in India with the herbs of his specialty, Tibetan Medicine, my already severe symptoms initially deteriorated further and I feared the worst. I don't know why; I just know that was how I felt.

It seemed to me my years of work and travel subsequent to my formal education had been packed with more consequential and practical learning than all my years spent in school. I began to view my entire life as a school.

I loved my years of travel, even though on more than one occasion, I'd been extremely ill and come face to face with my mortality. I love the unknown. I love adventure. Wouldn't death be the ultimate adventure? Why had I feared it then?

It has been said that there's nothing to fear but fear itself. Where does fear originate? If one lives completely in the present moment, is there room for fear?

I'd always considered myself an optimist. I'd even created a mnemonic in Saudi Arabia to help me with the challenges I faced in that land and work environment so different from anything I'd experienced to that point in my life: POP or Patience, Optimism and Persistence. It could have as easily been an extension of that well known adage, ‘If at first you don't succeed; try, try again.'

My last couple of hours of driving I'd been accompanied by a steady drizzle. It reminded me of the kind of winter weather I'd left behind in southern Ontario. It was the kind of weather that plays havoc with roads, turning them from dirty slush one moment to hazardous ice the next.

America is criss-crossed with interstate highways, the four lane divided roads designed to get motorists from point A to point B in the shortest possible time and, seemingly, in the least picturesque way.

This trip of mine was to take me from the continental divide to the Great Lakes, following in general the flow of water from the flanks of the mountains on an inexorable journey to the sea. I was determined to maximize my enjoyment of this trip. So I would take America's Blue Highways, the two lane strips of pavement that visited the little towns and scenic byways of this massive country.

Tomorrow I was due to follow the Missouri River until it disgorged its vast bounty into an even bigger river, the mighty Mississippi, at St. Louis, the biggest city in this part of the country. I was getting in touch with the land and waters Mark Twain had immortalized and which had fired my youthful enthusiasm so many years before. I was no Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer, but I was on a journey of discovery nonetheless.

I turned the vehicle lights on. It was that in between time of dusk when visibility was at its deceptive worst. I turned north onto an even quieter two lane road, another byway new to me. There was very little traffic. My destination-southern Ontario-lay mostly east and somewhat north of my present location, so I had to occasionally alter my course. I noticed too late that the drizzle, my misty companion of the last two hours, had stopped. Not only does visibility diminish at dusk, but the temperature drops.

I should have known better. I should have slowed down. As it was, I was already traveling at 45 miles per hour, well within the speed limit. My years spent overseas had dulled my winter driving senses.

I only knew the road had turned to ice when the truck began to spin. Fortunately no one was coming the other way on this quiet and dead-straight country road. Just as fortunately, the truck kept its spins, initially at least, to the icy pavement. The roadsides were more of the snow-covered, stubbled corn fields I'd been traversing the better part of the day.

My attempts to adjust the spin were futile. I was definitely not in control. After a couple of full 360 degree revolutions the truck decided to slide straight backwards, presumably still at 45 mph. The headlights were doing an excellent job of illuminating where I had come from. I could only hope no other vehicles were coming the other way. The lights also made clear the deep ditches on either side of the road. Once my friction-free projectile of a vehicle left the pavement it would surely hit a ditch.

All this happened in a few short moments but, just as I'd experienced years before when catapulting over a waterfall in a canoe, time seemed to stand still. I could see I stood a good chance of dying. I seemed to have ample time to analyze this possibility. There was no fear. All I thought of was the inconvenience this would cause for my family and for Lucia, my partner-to-be. How would it be for them when they received calls from some stranger, probably a police officer, telling them of my unfortunate demise?

Unlike my experiences in Norway and in India, fear played no part in this. There was only crystal clear, dare I say icy clear, analytical thought free of emotion.

I continued to adjust the wheel, but the truck showed not one iota of respect for my efforts. The truck and I were in someone else's hands and so was my family.

The truck turned again, 180 degrees; until the headlights were again pointing in the direction I was headed. I began to pump the brakes, remembering my defensive driver training. The truck slid onto the right hand gravel shoulder and the braking took hold. I just managed to stop before entering the ditch.

The engine stalled.

I sat for a moment and gave thanks for my survival. Miraculously, the truck hadn't hit anything and hadn't blown a tire. I turned the key and the motor turned over, coughed, hesitated ... and started! It was my lucky night.

I slowly and very carefully drove from the shoulder back onto the road. It was still slick, but I was crawling along now. It took considerable time to cover the five miles needed to reach the first little roadside hotel. Along the way, I passed two vehicles that had obviously left the icy road. One was overturned and attended by a tow truck and police car. Someone obviously hadn't been quite so lucky as I.

When I settled into my simple lodgings for the night I reflected on my lack of fear during the brief icy trauma. I wondered if all my experiences traveling had taught me something after all. Death seemed less an unwanted stranger and more an obscure companion; not something to be feared, rather something to be accepted as an inevitable visitor at the end of life's journey, at the end of one's allotted time span. Death would visit sooner or later-at the right time.

I'd dodged the bullet once again and been given more time to live. There was work to be done. Tomorrow I would continue my cross continental journey. Carefully. And then I would pick up the furniture and other possessions put in storage so many years before and return to New Mexico to begin my new adventures in self-sufficiency on a remote high desert property near Santa Fe.

I could see now this adventure involved another kind of work as well: the work of awareness.

I said time seemed to stand still when the truck began to spin. Reality exists where there is no time. Perhaps the trauma had temporarily jarred me from the illusory time-measured world into that timeless realm which the mind and conditioned thought cannot visit and where fear is a stranger.

Fear is surely a conditioned response that takes place in the conditioned world, rather than in the Eternal Present. Reality can only be found beyond the mind, and only revealed when the mind becomes quiet.

Surely, part of my new adventure would be to learn to return to that precious state of Reality at will, rather than relying on the suddenness of a trauma to jar the incessant thought and mind into a state of rest. I could see I needed to learn to live in a state of passive alertness, a state without judgment where one accepts things as they are

Here surely there could be no problem. There are no problems in Reality. There are only problems in the minds of men. Oh, I had so much to learn.