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fr/Judith Orloff: Laws of Energetic Attraction

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The 4 Laws of Energetic Attraction

Dr. Judith Orloff
a message from Dr. Judith Orloff
Monday, 10 October, 2011  (posted 19 October, 2011)

Are you longing for relationships that do your heart good and generate stronger connections? In my book, Positive Energy I discuss how to radically improve your health and relationships by bringing positive people and situations into your life. Knowing about energy can transform your ability to build positive relationships, prevent loneliness and ward off fatigue. By making the energetic shifts described here, you can draw good things to you.

Law No. 1: We attract who we are

The more positive energy we give off, the more we’ll receive. Ditto for negativity. It works like this: Love attracts love. Grumpiness attracts grumpiness. Passion attracts passion. Rage attracts rage.

First, define what being positive does and doesn’t mean for you in terms of attitude and behavior. Don’t worry if you’re far from a positive place. It’s an evolution. Give thought to what you value most in yourself or other. You can then strengthen these traits in yourself, and attract the same.

The idea is to find reciprocally nourishing interactions, not to win a popularity contest. (Of course, it feels good to be liked. But I’ve seen this need turn into addiction.) The following exercise will help you boost your positive signals.

*Identify your best qualities and project them to the world. Before meeting new people or going to important events, prime yourself. Think, “I’m not going to focus on my insecurity but on a strength like my sensitivity, compassion or humor; I’m going to feel and trust the positive energy inside me. I’m going to claim my full power.” Such selective attention puts your best parts front and center.

Law No. 2: Intuition clarifies smart choices

Relationships are tricky; they can be a big blur even when your eyes are open. We’ve learned to draw conclusions from surface data: how nice someone seems, looks or is educated, or how a situation adds up on paper. But attraction goes deeper; to make it work for you, other ingredients must be considered. Respect your intuitions about relationships and identify those that highlight compatible matches.

What may obscure the picture is anxiety or intense sexual attraction. If so, go slow until you get a keener intuitive read. In my book, Positive Energy I give exercises to help train you to act from instinct, not impulse.

*Tune in. Choose a relationship or situation that needs clarification – perhaps you’re confused about a friendship or vacation. Run it by your intuition criteria: Do you feel troubled and nervous or energized and safe?

*Act on vibes. Insecurity, ego, lust or stubbornness can obscure your better judgment. If a person feels positive, explore the possibilities. If the vibes are mixed, take a pass or at least wait. If all you sense is negative, have the courage to walk away, no matter how tempting the option seems. Then observe how listening to energy in this way leads you to the juiciest opportunities.

Law No. 3: Seeing the best in people magnetizes them

Instead of reflexively accentuating the worst in a person or situation, choose to energize positive qualities. The object isn’t to flatter, make nice, be politically correct or ignore intuitive red flags – nor to deny someone’s dark side or placate abusers. Your goal is to mine the gold in positive relationships and elevate the communication in more difficult ones.

We want to have the goodness in us acknowledges. If you want to connect with someone, notice his or her assets. Let’s say a co-worker is snitty. Realize that happy people don’t act this way. So instead of being snitty back or constantly miffed, redirect the energy. Comment on the long hours she puts in, or her dynamite shoes. Use this approach for a week – as well as the ones below – and watch the vibes change.

*Tell at least two people you love what you’re grateful for about them.

*Tell at least two people you don’t love what you’re grateful for about them.

*Adjust your perception. Spend an afternoon noticing the positive qualities of everyone you meet.

*Praise other people’s abilities.

Law No. 4: Soulful giving generates abundance

Giving is supposed to feel good; if not, something’s wrong. Soulful giving enlarges your capacity to be more caring – you give for the joy of it, expecting nothing in return. In contrast, codependent giving bleeds life force; it’s driven by obligation, guilt or a martyr-complex, and it leaves the giver feeling sucked dry, unappreciated and put upon.

You want to give for reasons that energize you, not because you’re taking inappropriate responsibility for others. The following strategies will generate bountiful vibes for you and the receiver. If you give from your heart, your vitality will soar.

*Give spontaneously. Any time is right to offer simple tokens of appreciation to friends or colleagues; a candle, rose, small plant, fragrant soap or funny card.

*Give anonymously. Walk an old lady across the street; hold open an elevator; let a car go before you in traffic; or do something nice behind the scenes for someone, but don’t get found out. Such good deeds add light to your energy field and ultimately draw the same goodness back to you. As a 14-year-old friend told me, “The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer up someone else.”

Use these “laws” to mobilize excellence and kindness in your relationships. Emphatically say “no” to anything that doesn’t further the heart. Cheer each success. Don’t cheat your joy by jumping too quickly to the next ambition. Instead, pledge to value even the tiniest of triumphs. That’s what the art of positive living is about.

Judith Orloff MD is bestselling author of the new book Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself From Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life (Three Rivers Press, 2011) upon which these tips and article are based. Her insights in Emotional Freedom create a new convergence of healing paths for our stressed out world. An assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA, Dr. Orloff’s work has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, and in Oprah Magazine and USA Today.

Latest from Steve Rother & The Group

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Play A New Game – Re-directing the Light

Steve Rother
a message from The Group channeled by Steve Rother
Saturday, 15 October, 2011  (posted 18 October, 2011)

From Steve: The group has tried on several occasions to pretend to be human.  The most difficult part for them is telling a joke.  They understand the laughter, as it is the language of angels. But let’s just say that their delivery really needs a little work. Pretending to be human is harder than it looks sometimes.

The group gave me no warning about what was coming in this channel.  I even made a comment just before starting that I had no idea where it was going.  Then I said it was OK, because at the very least I knew the first three words were “Greetings from Home.”  Everyone in the room laughed.

Have a great month and brace yourself… here we go!
Big hugs,

Steve

Greetings . . .

Yes, he was waiting for the other words and we changed them. There is an internal dialogue going on between the Keeper and us right now. Welcome. Greetings from Home.

The Spirit of Technology

This energy has changed so much and so quickly. It has become very exciting for each and every one of you. We wish to share with you today what is directly ahead and some larger items that are coming up for all humans, especially in the area of technology for there is so much that has started to move now.

Humans have always considered technology and spirituality to exist in two different worlds.  The polarity thinking of Earth has always kept them separate and in to some extent they are, yet everyone can now see how the two worlds are supporting each other in new ways. As humanity evolves, a higher perspective is reached that allows you to see and embrace other truths. Metaphysics is simply other than physical or what we call “spirit.” Our definition of spirit is that which exists when the physical world is removed. We do not see you as humans walking around, bumping into each other. We see you as spirits wearing a bubble of biology pretending to be a human and experiencing many challenges with it. We wish to share some exciting pieces today and to show you glimpse of where that is going. Each and every one of you can reach a little further out into your reality and create your heart’s desire, for that is truly what you came to do. You did not come to work hard; you did not come to accomplish goals. You came to be light.  That is difficult when you measure yourselves against others, and you are constantly moving in a direction that you think everyone wants you to move in. But now the underlying energy of all of humanity is changing. You have now risen to a level at which you can contain more of your own light, more of your own empowerment as creator beings than ever before. You do not have to wait for all these pieces.

Scar Re-surfacing

All of humanity is moving and that is also causing many challenges. Many have scar tissue that may surface as new energetic levels are reached. Many have been killed or tortured for simply trying to speak the truth or share light on planet Earth.  Now that is happening as everyone is starting to move, so those of you who have that scar tissue may find it re-surfacing. You may experience more of a blockage in yourself simply fearing to take that next step.

Understand that this is a normal human process, because humans advance with three steps forward and one step back. Please do not judge yourself with that step backward. Allow yourself a wide berth to grow and do not perceive that you are doing something wrong, for when a creator being thinks they are doing something wrong, guess what happens? It creates the illusion of something wrong and then you create an entire world around that to support your belief system. Be careful where you point that thing, because it is going to have an effect now. What you are finding is that you are creating every part of your world the moment you step into it.

Play a New Game

There are some events taking place that will allow all humans – every one of you – to take this step to wherever you want it to go. The first thing that has been re-moved is that underlying energy which many of you have felt is a safety net, as a base from which you have built your energy. Now that the base is gone, many are feeling unstable and a little lost. It becomes difficult to ground and find your place. What is happening is that humanity is starting a new game. It is very simple. You are creating energetics within your physical being that will allow you to carry more light from Home.  This will allow you to carry more of your own soul and spirit; it will take considerable adjustments for you to learn to let that come out. Every time you smile, talk, or glance at somebody the light spreads. This is a new base that is creating for all of humanity.

Let us share with you a simple story about Jane, for she is one of our favorite characters today. Jane grew up in a household and had a very loving mother who was always trying to entertain her. Jane was always looking for something to do, as she was very creative. But she would master things very quickly, become bored and move on to something else. So her mother bought her a wonderful board game. Jane found many friends to play with, and they would have big parties and play this game. One day, Jane came to her mother and said, “Mom, I am getting good at the game and I always win. I always beat everybody and I am getting bored.” Her mom looked at her and said, “Honey, play another game.” Jane looked around and said, “Oh. I can do that?” She went back to her toy box and found other games she did not even know she had. Then she found one that supported her in a higher vibration.

Dear ones, what we are telling you is that it is time to play a new game. It is time to take a step up into your consciousness, by being your light. This is not something that is simply going to envelop you; it is something that you must consciously step into. Now the beautiful part about it is that you are creating this path with each step you take. You are creating something that was never before imagined throughout all of humanity, throughout All That Is. You are creating the path beneath your feet just before your foot hits the ground, and it is the most magical piece to watch as the creator beings are starting to take their place on planet Earth.

Technology Drop is Grounding

Now we wish to switch gears for a moment and talk about a slightly different subject: what’s ahead in technology. Many times technologies have been dropped onto your planet from other beings, from outer space creatures as you call them. And yet those technologies did not work. They worked fine for the others, but when they were brought here to planet Earth, they did not work because the human spiritual connection was not high enough at that time to hold the vibrations of this technology. It is a balance. The technologies that are here on Earth are here to reflect your magnificence. They are here to carry light, much the way the Keeper is using this technology right now to send this light all over the world. There will come a time when your technologies will integrate with you. Then you will not need the cameras and all the fun technologies that you have, for you will be able to carry all of them inside.

This is what we call the singularity, the point at which your technologies advance to where they can equal the human brain; at that point, they will become integrated. The technologies will not take over, as many of your science fiction books and movies describe computers becoming smarter than humans. Understand that there is a balance between both.

There are technologies that have been on the cutting edge. However, if the spiritual vibration is not high enough to support the technology, the technology will run into what is called a brick wall. Quite simply, there will be one thing that does not work and it will stop that entire technology from moving forward until the vibration is high enough. You, meaning all humans, have now reached a level of vibrational integrity that is starting to trigger the release of all these blockages. You are beginning to find simple answers to these complex questions that have been blocking much of the advancement of humanity. It is now going to happen at a very rapid pace.

Vortex to Portal to Torus

We have shared with you before about vortexes. A vortex is simply energy moving in a circle. One of the reasons we are speaking to you from the Keeper’s voice here in Las Vegas, is because Las Vegas is a huge vortex. There are mountains on every side and when the energy – or wind, if you wish – comes in then it whips around, circulates and causes a vortex. The Las Vegas vortex has been used as a creation vortex, which is why all of these hotels are in the middle of the desert. Now you are able to use these vortexes for something else, but the vortex itself is really only on two planes; it is only in two dimensions of width and depth. What we tell you is, when you take a vortex into three full dimensions and later into five dimensions, you create a machine. It is a machine that each and every one of you carries around your physical body; it turns into what is called a “tube torus.” The tube torus is an individual energy cycle that is around every physical being,  rock, mountain, and every blade of grass. It is the point at which you connect to the universal energy, and it is in the area of technology that you will see the most rapid movement in. Watch for the tube torus to show up in technologies that will advance humanity greatly over the next six years. You will see major changes in your technological advances, many of which will solve some of the challenges you are having with your environment, such as pollution, and with your energies that you do not know what to do with. These are all elements that are starting to reach a tipping point. If you did not have the problem, it would not show up to be solved at this point. This is why many of these things are showing up right now on your planet.

Settling Into a New Pattern

Yes, there is much more that will occur with the re-distribution of water, for there has to be a new balance found. The planet now is wobbling differently because of the two earthquakes in Chile and Japan. Much of that re-distribution is working very well. You are settling into a new vibrational pattern, which is basically creating a new dimension to Earth. It is a place where even planet Earth can now support an empowered being on its surface. That is what the Earth is doing; she is not dying, but she is pregnant and about to give birth. What is she giving birth to?  It is to a new form of human that can carry a majority of your own true light; that is you. This is why each one of you has very carefully chosen to be here at this moment, for it was very critical for many of you. We have told you that there is no one on this planet that is taking up space. That is not happening now, because there is a critical mass that was reached. Those of you that have a seat for this journey, who have a ticket for the ride of your life, you have made it. Yet do not ever think that you are a passenger.  You are here on purpose. You carry a part of Home that you are bringing to create this new empowered Earth, and right now is the time to find it. We know that you are not confident in your own abilities. We know that many of you ask, “What can I say that has not already been said?” We know that many of you doubt your own abilities to channel your spirit You will not know until you try. Step out and allow it to happen, for once the energy starts coming in you will adapt. We harmonize with you and you harmonize with us. We can drop information in, not necessarily to take you to higher levels but to give you confidence. For that is all humanity is missing, having the confidence to step forward and to try something new.

Dear ones, play a new game. It is very simple. Create it. Find your joy and create something around it, for it is not the perception that you have seen before. Your worries about this world were about how you would support yourself, whether you were doing the right thing, making a difference, and fulfilling your contracts. Soon, it will be, “How much fun can I have?” Your focus will change quite drastically. Many of you will worry about it. You will think, “Oh, I cannot do that unless I work hard.” But you can. You are going to find major changes going on in your lives, in the opportunities in front of you. All we ask of you is that when you have that opportunity, play a new game.

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

Espavo.

The group

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Channel Dana Mrkich on October Energy

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October 2011 Monthly Visions: Stop Waiting and Start Leading

Dana Mrkich
a message from Dana Mrkich
Wednesday, 5 October, 2011

There is a constant heightened state of alert being felt these days, as if something big is just about to happen. Forums are buzzing with various angles on what this something will be. Imagining your best impression of the guy from Who wants to be a Millionaire?, the million dollar question is will this something be: a) A massive earthquake that sends the whole world into literal wobble b) Offical disclosure from governments, confirming that they’ve been in contact with other-planetary beings for a long time c) The culmination of the Mayan Calendar on October 28 triggering everything from Zero Point, a Pole Shift and three days of darkness or d) A blast of light that sends everyone into an instant awakened enlightened state.

It feels like so much energy is going into wondering what is going to happen, that we seem to be missing the fact that ‘something’ is happening right now! So many of us are waiting for ‘the big event’, placing our lives on hold until we get the official program as to what’s happening next, meanwhile show after show is playing at the Earth Theatre giving us previews and new movies galore that we can choose right now.

Have you been feeling this heightened state? Do you feel a sense of anticipation bigger than anything you’ve felt over the past 5/10/20 years of your awakening? Are you feeling adrenalin or even what you might describe as electricity running through your body? Do you feel a tad nervous or excited or a bit of both, as if you’re about to step into something completely new and unknown? Our heightened state is the direct result of the now daily influx of high frequency light showering all over Earth that is lifting our personal and collective vibrations to a new level. This light is simultaneously stripping away our old veils and illusions, and opening our eyes and hearts to reality as it really is. Our hearts are beating faster not because there is something ‘coming’. Our hearts are beating faster because that ‘something’ is here right now and on our deepest and highest levels of being we all know this.

The time we are living in right now is our time. As more light showers over the planet, and as she shifts into a higher vibrational frequency, we are finally starting to feel like a big, heavy cloak has been lifted off us. We are stepping into our individual and collective power after a lifetime (in fact, lifetimes) of feeling like the odd ones out. You may be feeling quite strange because you are feeling free and happy most of the time, while all around you those who’ve spent a lifetime attached to the illusion are deeply engaged in their personal and social collapse processes.

Many of us have started to feel called to new work, or working in a new way, because we are finishing our old contracts now. It’s more than likely that you are finding it hard to put your finger on what specifically your new work is, and that’s because our roles and lives will be more fluid now. In the old reality we made sense of who we were by what we did. In the new reality our sense of meaning will come from knowing who we are, and this knowing will lead us to our daily doings. What we do will shift and change depending on what we feel most called to do. This doesn’t mean that we’ll be walking around aimlessly. Quite the contrary, living consciously means living purposefully and fully. Our society’s old ways of sticking to set routines and jobs as if on auto-pilot, with most people having no conscious awareness of their participation in what really was quite the prison society, now that was walking around aimlessly! So don’t stress too much about trying to figure out what your new work will be. Focus on knowing who you are, and being who you are, and that will lead you to the best work/life for you. Clues will come in the form of lightbulb moments, flashes of insights, unexpected doorways opening or allowing yourself to follow your feeling to go somewhere or do something. Action will be less about logical thinking, and more about being intuitively guided and divinely inspired.

For some work won’t be ‘work’, it will simply be creating a self-sustainable, happy, harmonious home or community and making our own unique contributions day by day. For others, where the primary focus of our work was helping people awaken, our new work will revolve around supporting the newly awakened, helping them find their way in a new world where it’s a whole new ballgame. For many newly awakened it will be like coming out of coma, like seeing the sun properly for the first time in years. Just like prisoners need time to adjust to freedom and life outside, so too people will need time to adjust to a reality where freedom and personal power are their new governing bodies.

On a mind level we’ve expected something big to officially herald the end of the end, and the beginning of the beginning. A huge mothership on the White House Lawn perhaps. The arrival of Planet X/Nibiru/Comet Elenin. A massive worldwide tsunami to really get people’s attention. Yet the reality is, the end of the end and the beginning of the beginning is being marked not by one or two world-stopping events. We are not going to have the world-wide devastation and destruction people fear (and that some people are secretly hoping for if only to prove to sceptics that ‘something’ is indeed happening!). Rather, we are witnessing and living through a multitude of events right now, all of which are either giving us the opportunity to wake up, or are a beautiful, direct result of us having finally woken up

to read more, go to:    http://spiritlibrary.com/dana-mrkich/october-2011-monthly-visions-stop-waiting-and-start-leading

Interview w/Flordemayo, Wise Woman

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FLORDEMAYO – Wise Woman of the Earth

By Donna Strong

From an interview that was originally posted in “AWARENESS” Magazine

A wise woman of the earth, Flordemayo has been a Curandera Espiritu, a healer of divine spirit, her entire life. And through her keen vision she is able to sense other realms of light, sound and color. As a seer, she is able to see the effects of existing imbalances on the physical, emotional and spiritual levels within a person’s energy system.

Flordemayo is a founding member and President of the Institute of Natural and Traditional Knowledge, based in Estancia, New Mexico. She has been widely recognized for her healing ability and wisdom, including being the recipient of the Martin de la Cruz Award for Alternative Healing. This prestigious honor is given by the International Congress of Traditional Medicine. Working with  respected spiritual leader, Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj, who is head of the Quiche Maya Council of Elders, Flordemayo has been recognized as a ‘Priestess’ by the Maya.

Flordemayo was born and grew up in the big highlands of Central America in a family of traditional healers. She now travels around the globe to share her healing abilities and to foster more spiritual understanding among people. Since 2004, Flordemayo has been a founding member of the Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, a group of traditional female elders drawn from around the world, whose work it is to travel and unite people through a circle of prayer.

A frequent contributor at international conferences such as the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Bioneers, we are most honored to highlight the visionary work of Flordemayo, in our July/August Indigeous Peoples Issue.

Awareness: In the West we often define health as the absence of symptoms, but as a Curandera Espiritu, you may have a different perspective on the process of healing and what health is.

Flordemayo: To my observation, when we look for healing and are doing everything we can to heal, we come to a place of surrender. When we surrender, we open ourselves to receive. Not only do we receive the wisdom we are to receive, but then we also open our hearts and our minds and it is at this point that someone like myself who does healings becomes a conduit, an intermediary who will bring the person looking for healing into a magical dance between themselves and their Beloved. So in actuality what I see is a magical dance. I don’t see it any other way. Healings don’t happen unless we surrender.

Awareness: From what I have read, you basically see light in and around a person.

Flordemayo: I see light with everything. Everything is alive. When it is alive, it is full of light. I see light like the Aurora Borealis, you know how it moves, kind of like that. I also hear my Beloved speaking to me. So then I will let the person know what it is that I am seeing and what I am being told. I ask for permission to look into their sacred space. When I ask for permission, I close my eyes and listen to their name. In listening to their voice, I listen to the vibration and it is the vibration that opens the picture for me. I close my eyes and with my spirit eye, I see a combination of a dance of color and light in and around the body, and this is how I do the healings.

Awareness: You have said there is quality of trust that needs to emerge…

Flordemayo: Well, you see the trust also comes when we surrender. We can’t be in fear or doubt. When I meet people for the first time, I don’t know anything about them and they don’t know much about me, so when I start talking to them and I say, ‘I see this and this and that going on in your body, and you’ve been doing this and it hasn’t helped you out. As I’m starting the dialogue with the person, I also see the energies.

When I pray I ask for help from the Beloved with this healing, because I am not the healer. It is between the person and his or her Beloved. So as soon as the person starts receiving through this dialogue, I start witnessing the change. I talk to them, “Look, now this is beginning to move, I see this other light and other color coming in, and I see the healing starting.” Some healings are instantaneous and some are not.

Awareness: You were acknowledged at a very young age as a healer. Can you tell us a bit about how that happened?

Flordemayo: The recognition came from my family, my mother, brothers and sisters, while I was a baby. I was born seeing, and I was not the only child born like this in our family. In my particular case I saw a lot of things. My mother was a midwife.

When I was four, my mother decided that it would be good for me to come with her while delivering babies. I never saw the baby being delivered. She would give me the baby after the umbilical was cut and the baby was cleaned and wrapped in a little blanket.

I would kind of innocently just look at the baby and I would see how the light looked, things in the past and in future, in the presence of the child. I would see little bits of information, but it was enough to delight the mother and father, and my mother thought it was a good way for me to continue my growth. It was beautiful!

Awareness: How few babies born are seen and recognized such as this! So you worked with your mother probably for quite a long time…

Flordemayo: My mother was my teacher throughout my life until she passed away when I was seventeen. I was with her when she took her last breath, and was able to help guide and prepare her in surrendering her physical body. By the age of seventeen, when you come from Central America, you are raised in such a reality of life, so I felt like I was all grown up having seen so much – birth and death. You know, you are never ready for your mom to die. Absolutely never. I didn’t have a dad, and was the youngest in the family, so I got married right after my mother died.

I wanted to have a teacher because I was always seeing and experiencing with dreams, and you have a need to communicate with a physical person who understands you, who would be able to sit there and dialogue. I really missed that as I was getting older. I prayed and prayed and prayed to my Beloved. It wasn’t until my late forties when my teacher came. So there was a long period of loneliness waiting for a teacher. When he came, my interest at the time was my people and their way of life. I wanted to hear the language and prayer in the Mayan language. That is how I came to meet him.

Awareness: How courageous that you kept going for what must have felt like such a long time – almost two decades.

Flordemayo: I was not ready to embark on this journey until then. Earlier I had to take care of little children, the house and the husband. But I met my teacher in a period of time in my life when my children were all grown up and I could give my teacher one hundred percent of my time.

Awareness: I had also wanted to ask, what is it that you would offer women about being more in alignment with rhythms of nature?

Flordemayo: I am honored to say that my mother taught me so much – this is what her life was, working with women. My mother used a few herbs in her practice that are really, really good for the woman’s body.

One of the things my mother always talked about was how we as modern women had forgotten how to honor and feed the earth. In doing so, she would always, when she could, squat on the earth and allow her menstrual to flow on the earth. Because this was food for the earth and we had the capacity to do that.

When I was a child, all of the placenta was buried in the earth. But we don’t do that anymore. I had the privilege of doing this with my grandchildren, but not my children, because I was in a big city when I had my children. As women, we have to be aware of the need to feed the earth and how we are going to do this. We have to feed the earth the nourishment she needs.

Awareness: Is there anything you would suggest to women living in urban areas to stay more attuned to the cycles and rhythms of Mother Earth?

Flordemayo: When you go outside you bless the ground. Even women in urban areas can collect their blood and give it to the Earth. Let that be a silent dialogue with the Earth. If there is a will, we just have to find a way of doing it. In the old days women would use a sponge or a rag; they would wash it, take that water and put it in a very sacred place, so it is not anything we cannot do.

to read the rest of the interview, go to:    http://www.spiritofmaat.com/oct11/flordemayo.html

Witness Tree Wines

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My daughter, Cate, is in Oregon learning about viniculture and the wonders of the wine making process at Witness Tree Vineyards.  SHe finds it amazing, the recognition of the grapes, the percentage of sugar versus water, and all the rest still to come.  Check out their website to learn more about their wines:

 

Witness Tree Vineyard is a small producer of premium quality Pinot Noir and Chardonnay made entirely from grapes grown on our 100-acre estate. As winegrowers, we believe that only by tending our own vines can we produce the finest wines. Low yields in the vineyard and minimal handling in the winery allow us to create wines of depth, elegance, concentration, and character. They are the ultimate expression of the earth from which they were born.

Witness Tree Vineyard is owned by Dennis & Carolyn Devine. The Devines are originally from the Midwest, but have lived throughout the country during Dennis’ career as a clinical researcher in the pharmaceutical industry. Carolyn serves as President and Business Manager. Witness Tree is located in the Eola Hills, northwest of Salem, an area recognizedas one of Oregon’s premier growing regions.

 Witness Tree
for more, go to:    http://www.witnesstreevineyard.com   (and don’t forget to mention Cate)med for an ancient oak which towers over the vineyard – it was designated a surveyor’s landmark in 1854 – Witness Tree is dedicated to the production of exemplary estate – bottled Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Dennis and Carolyn Devine welcome you to our tasting room.

Norma Gentile on Time & Creation

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Time and Creation

By Norma Gentile

I sat down to write and asked what one message would be most useful to share. I had asked this after inviting Archangel Michael into the room. To my surprise it was Mary Magdalene who identified herself to me and who then began to help me form thoughts. Below is a transcript of what was shared with me.

Time is an illusion. You have been told this, and some of you have had the experience of stepping beyond your agreed upon definition of time as linear. If you consider that time may bend itself, much as you can turn your face to one side and allow your body to remain stationary, facing forward, so too can time be at once both linear and non-linear.

Your hearts are not linear. Your soul is not linear. Your bodies are not made to function solely within a linear timeline. Only one of many types of thought processes within your minds can conceive of things in a linear manner. To use a metaphor from you current life: the linear timeline that you refer to is a result of one program among a multitude of software programs that your brains agreed to have installed within it.

Why is this important?

Because at this point in time your ability to utilize many other ways of reasoning that include other aspects of who you are (your heart, your soul, your spiritual network of helpers and your physical body) are being called upon. They are being called by the changes of the cosmic winds to step into your awareness and offer their own unique counsel.

You are not alone. But for thousands of years you have let your brain function as if it were all alone. You have believed that your very consciousness resided in that lovely round globe which rests upon the upper portion of your torso; but what of the remainder of your body? If indeed it were only your brain that held your consciousness, then there would be no need to animate your body. However, it is the loving presence of your consciousness that brings life-force into your entire body.

The bucket is empty without water. So too your body is a vessel waiting to be filled by you. Thinking merely identifies that the bucket exists. Actively engaging in your body fills it with water.

Let us address the issue of linear and non-linear time.

Consider this metaphor: Time is the action of moving the bucket to fill it with water. In order to fill a bucket with water one usually must turn the bucket to dip it into water. Turning the bucket on its side and filling it with water means allows the bucket to enter the water. Here the water is linear time, and the bucket represents your ability to bend time and let the bending of time enter into and pass through linear time.

This metaphor represents how linear and non-linear time interpenetrate each other and co-exist within your reality. In this moment those of us who are Spiritual Teachers place a great importance upon your understanding of time as a result of where your thoughts originate from. Not just the thoughts of your head, but the reasoning process and resulting thoughts that travel through your entire physical body create your experience of time.

Thinking with aspects of yourself that include your body, your soul, your spiritual support network and your heart allow you to access the multitude of software programs within you that create non-linear time. Thinking as you have been taught to think, with your head, limits you to experiencing time only in its linear form.

When you exist in linear time you are limited to creating within linear time and in a linear fashion. When you think using all of who you are, you access the possibilities of creating outside of linear creation. This means engaging the thought process with your heart, your soul, your spiritual network of helpers and your physical body.

And it is not we of the Spiritual Realms who hold the key to how you experience time. You alone are the guardians of your own time. When you choose to follow the principles of time in its linear form, you continue to think within the limitations of the physical brain. The bucket is defined but empty of water.

As you explore your entire body, and how thought moves through your body as well as your soul and those Beings of Consciousness who comprise your spiritual support team, you open yourself to experiencing the other manners in which time expresses itself in your dimension.

For now, notice when time seems to stand still. And when it passes quickly. Notice how your body feels and how you experience yourself in relationship to your Spiritual support team and your soul. All these give subtle clues about what you are doing and what you are not doing

Why is learning to experience non-linear time important?

When you experience non-linear time you are in a position to create your reality in a non-linear fashion. Have you ever wondered why your world has seemingly developed so much maturity (in some ways) in the past 500 years? It is because various humans have, for a moment here and there, stumbled into experiencing themselves as comprising wholly their soul, heart, body and spiritual team members.

And these moments of non-linear time and creation, like the bucket, have been dipped into the water of your ongoing linear creation. Those things which were created in a non-linear fashion were brought into your linear reality and filled with your linear reality. Much like the bucket was filled with water.

We said at the start that your thought identifies the bucket. And your active engagement in the world fills it with water. Now we would add that the quality of your thought is now able to change the water in the bucket from reflecting linear creation principles to reflecting non-linear creation possibilities. You are now a participant in the generation of non-linear reality and hence creation.

 

About Norma Gentile

Norma Gentile

 

Norma Gentile, sound shaman, is a natural intuitive and channel for Mary, Archangel Michael and the Hathors. She maintains a private healing practice, offering sessions in English and Spanish, as well as singing healing concerts and teaching workshops. Her CD of live sound healings, Songs of Spirit, is available in the Maat Shop. To see and hear her sound healings, articles and podcasts at her website www.healingchants.com.

from:    http://www.spiritofmaat.com/oct11/time_and_creation.html

Cracking the Genome of the Black Death

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Scientists crack Black Death’s genetic code

By Kate KellandPosted 2011/10/12 at 2:23 pm EDT

LONDON, Oct. 12, 2011 (Reuters) — Scientists have mapped out the entire genetic map of the Black Death, a 14th century bubonic plague that killed 50 million Europeans in one of the most devastating epidemics in history.

A Wayson stain of the Yersinia pestis bacterium, responsible for the plague that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351. REUTERS/CDC

The work, which involved extracting and purifying DNA from the remains of Black death victims buried in London’s “plague pits,” is the first time scientists have been able to draft a reconstructed genome of any ancient pathogen.

Their result — a full draft of the entire Black Death genome — should allow researchers to track changes in the disease’s evolution and virulence, and lead to better understanding of modern-day infectious diseases.

Building on previous research which showed that a specific variant of the Yersinia pestis (Y. pestis) bacterium was responsible for the plague that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, a team of German, Canadian and American scientists went on to “capture” and sequence the entire genome of the disease.

“The genomic data show that this bacterial strain, or variant, is the ancestor of all modern plagues we have today worldwide. Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague,” said Hendrik Poinar, of Canada’s McMaster University, who worked with the team.

“With a better understanding of the evolution of this deadly pathogen, we are entering a new era of research into infectious disease.”

Major technical advances in DNA recovery and sequencing have dramatically expanded the scope of genetic analysis of ancient specimens, opening up new ways of trying to understand emerging and re-emerging infections.

Experts say the direct descendants of the same bubonic plague still exist today, killing around 2,000 people a year.

A virulent strain of E. coli bacteria which caused a deadly outbreak of infections in Germany and France earlier this year was also found to contain DNA sequences from plague bacteria.

to read more, go to:    http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre79b5d2-us-plague-genome/

Spirituality & Society

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Pythia Peay

Author and writer on spirituality, psychology and American psyche

 Spirituality And Social Change: An Interview With Corinne McLaughlin
Posted: 5/18/11 08:38 AM ET

Those who despair over the gap between their vision of a more environmentally sustainable, just and peaceful planet and the world as it is can find inspiration in Corinne McLaughlin’s call to become practical visionaries: Those activists, she says, who remain steady in their work over time by keeping their “eyes on the horizon, their feet on the ground, and their hearts on fire.”

McLaughlin, a spiritual and political activist who has taught politics at American University, is coauthor of “Spiritual Politics”with her husband Gordon Davidson (author of the forthcoming “Joyful Evolution”). They are as well founders of The Center for Visionary Leadership and The Sirius Community, and are fellows of The World Business Academy and The Findhorn Foundation.

The following is an edited version of my interview with McLaughlin on her recent book,“The Practical Visionary: A New World Guide to Spiritual Growth and Social Change”.

Pythia: I’d like to start with a simple question. What is your definition of a “visionary”?

Corinne: A visionary is someone who sees the future with both insight and foresight: Insight into the deeper causes and meaning of events in the world, and foresight, or an intuitive grasp of the big picture, such as the trajectory of politics and popular culture.

Pythia: You write in your book that you’ve seen many visionaries fail to manifest their inspiring visions. What do you find is the biggest obstacle most visionaries face?

Corinne: The problem I find with a lot of visionaries is that they’re too far ahead — perhaps their vision won’t happen for another hundred years. That’s why I like to help people focus on “next step” visions that are more doable.

Pythia: Why is being too far ahead of one’s own time a problem?

Corinne: Thinking that something that is far in the future can come sooner leads to unrealistic expectations, as well as rigid and dogmatic perspectives. It can also prevent visionaries from seeing what’s possible right in front of them. Our work is to translate what we might receive from a flash of insight into things that are useful today.

Take for example the recent uprising in Egypt. I could hold a positive vision of how this could all turn out, but I know it’s not going to be as simple as that. It’s one thing to get rid of a dictator. The harder part is to create a viable democracy that empowers people. But what I found inspiring in Egypt is how, during the revolution, the people organized their neighborhoods, created street clinics to help the wounded, and cleaned up after their demonstrations. These may seem like small things, but to me they are examples of practical, effective visionaries at work.

Pythia: You write that as a young woman in the sixties you were inspired by people in government and their dedication to public service — such as President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy — to enter government service yourself. You then went on to work at various Federal agencies, such as the Social Security Administration and President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development; you’ve even taught meditation to some government agencies. How did these first-hand experiences shape your development as a practical visionary?

Corinne: I believe strongly that social change isn’t just about demonstrations in the street against the wrongs in society. There is also the path of the social innovator who creates new institutions and the path of the reformer who goes within an institution and makes incremental changes. Based on my own experience, I learned that implementing a vision in an institutional setting involves working with conflict resolution and a whole systems perspective. It’s important, for instance, to have a multi-stakeholder perspective — in other words, you can’t just go charging in with your own ideas, you have to appreciate people’s different perspectives, then work to find common ground and bring the various parties to the table in a respectful dialogue.

Because I frequently encountered obstacles such as old, entrenched ideas, ongoing power struggles, or the lack of staff and money, I also learned to develop patience and detachment. In federal, state and local governments, administrations, philosophies, and policy initiatives change. If your vision aligns with the values of the current administration you’re working with, you can make some progress — but that could all change in four or six years.

Pythia: Together with your husband, Gordon Davidson, you’ve also taught the path of “Ageless Wisdom” for many decades. What has this spiritual perspective brought to your calling as a practical visionary?

Corinne: What I’ve taken from my spiritual study is the wisdom of living a balanced life. My spiritual path has also helped me to be more emotionally centered, to be more understanding of those that disagree with me, and to learn how to let go of some of my power issues so that I can be more effective and bring a sense of humility to my work — while still having the self-confidence to be effective.

Pythia: You write about how easy it is for activists to burn out, and list different ways that they can stay “spiritually sane.” What contemplative practices do you teach activists that can help prevent disillusionment?

Corinne: Many activists just see what’s wrong: they want to stand up to injustice and educate people about it. But I think it’s equally important for activists to hold a more positive vision of what’s right with their country: what’s going well, and what they’d like to grow or see more of. I also like to encourage activists to take some time each day to sit silently or take a walk in nature as a way to be in touch with their inner wisdom and peace — and to remember why they are on this path in the first place.

to read more, go to:   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pythia-peay/spirituality-activism_b_859918.html?ref=spirituality

Eckhart Tolle on The Dark Night of the Soul

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Eckhart on the Dark Night of the Soul

Eckhart Tolle
a message from Eckhart Tolle
Friday, 7 October, 2011

Have you ever experienced the dark night of the soul?  Your teachings have been so helpful through this difficult period.  Can you address this subject?

The “dark night of the soul” is a term that goes back a long time.  Yes, I have also experienced it.  It is a term used to describe what one could call a collapse of a perceived meaning in life…an eruption into your life of a deep sense of meaninglessness.  The inner state in some cases is very close to what is conventionally called depression.  Nothing makes sense anymore, there’s no purpose to anything.  Sometimes it’s triggered by some external event, some disaster perhaps, on an external level.  The death of someone close to you could trigger it, especially premature death, for example if your child dies.  Or you had built up your life, and given it meaning – and the meaning that you had given your life, your activities, your achievements, where you are going, what is considered important, and the meaning that you had given your life for some reason collapses.

It can happen if something happens that you can’t explain away anymore, some disaster which seems to invalidate the meaning that your life had before.  Really what has collapsed then is the whole conceptual framework for your life, the meaning that your mind had given it.  So that results in a dark place.  But people have gone into that, and then there is the possibility that you emerge out of that into a transformed state of consciousness.  Life has meaning again, but it’s no longer a conceptual meaning that you can necessarily explain.  Quite often it’s from there that people awaken out of their conceptual sense of reality, which has collapsed.

They awaken into something deeper, which is no longer based on concepts in your mind.  A deeper sense of purpose or connectedness with a greater life that is not dependent on explanations or anything conceptual any longer.  It’s a kind of re-birth.  The dark night of the soul is a kind of death that you die.  What dies is the egoic sense of self.  Of course, death is always painful, but nothing real has actually died there – only an illusory identity.  Now it is probably the case that some people who’ve gone through this transformation realized that they had to go through that, in order to bring about a spiritual awakening.  Often it is part of the awakening process, the death of the old self and the birth of the true self.

The first lesson in A Course in Miracles says “Nothing I see in this room means anything”, and you’re supposed to look around the room at whatever you happen to be looking at, and you say “this doesn’t mean anything”, “that doesn’t mean anything”.   What is the purpose of a lesson like that?  It’s a little bit like re-creating what can happen during the dark night of the soul.  It’s the collapse of a mind-made meaning, conceptual meaning, of life… believing that you understand “what it’s all about”.  With A Course in Miracles, it’s a voluntary relinquishment of the human mind-made meaning that is projected, and you go voluntary into saying “I don’t know what this means”, “this doesn’t mean anything”.  You wipe the board clean.  In the dark night of the soul it collapses.

You are meant to arrive at a place of conceptual meaninglessness.  Or one could say a state of ignorance – where things lose the meaning that you had given them, which was all conditioned and cultural and so on.  Then you can look upon the world without imposing a mind-made framework of meaning.  It looks of course as if you no longer understand anything.  That’s why it’s so scary when it happens to you, instead of you actually consciously embracing it.  It can bring about the dark night of the soul – to go around the Universe without any longer interpreting it compulsively, as an innocent presence.  You look upon events, people, and so on with a deep sense of aliveness.  Your sense the aliveness through your own sense of aliveness, but you are not trying to fit your experience into a conceptual framework anymore.

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