TODAY'S "BOOK OF MASTERY" QUOTE!
When you think something must be there, it is brought into form. And when you believe it must be there, whether it’s a high creation or a very low creation, you are aligned to it, in acceptance of it, and in that choice, “I see this thing before me, it must be so,” you give it merit and you add to its structure. If you can understand that: When you think of something in a certain way you bring to bear the vibration of that thought on the thing you see. You like the bank you went to. They were very kind to you at the teller’s booth. You pass the bank and you say, “Oh, I have a good bank.” Your perceptions, you see, are informing the vibration not only of your relationship to your own thought but upon the thing itself. Now what we are teaching you today as we continue is that what you create you must attend to at a new level of consciousness. When you believe something must be there, you give it credence, and there are things you give credence to that do not need to be there. Here is a list of things that do not need to be there: Fear, in all its forms and in all its creations. And here is what is fear: war, poverty, greed, anger, abuse, and violence. These are all things you see out-pictured that you think must be there. “Well, they must be there, they’ve always been there, how will they leave? I don’t buy this for a moment.” Here is how they leave: The light that you are in its full expression has the ability to move a mountain. The alignment you have individually is much more powerful than you can conceive of.
(Paul Selig, "The Book of Mastery")
THE TRUTH ABOUT EVERYTHING, PART FIVE: THE BODY NEVER LIES!
"The Body Never Lies!"
First coined in mass consciousness, as far as I know, by Alexander Lowen, creator of the mind-body-emotions therapy process known as Bioenergetics, this simple, direct statement should change everything in the same way that the other Truths About Everything should. What Lowen extensively demonstrated in several seminal books, including his first, "Language of the Body", was that our physical bodies "speak" openly and clearly, continuously and unequivocally to us and to others. If you want to know the state of a person's inner life, beliefs and attitudes, even their emotional, physical and psychological history, you can literally read their body language like a book.
We all have this knowledge. To a great extent it is coded into our everyday expressions. Someone said to have a "stiff upper lip," which means able to endure hardship, does indeed have a thin, tight, not supple upper lip, indicating a history of early oral deprivation. Someone who you experience as a "pain in the ass," does in fact cause you to squeeze your buttocks together to ward off their intrusive, "anal" tendencies, reminiscent, perhaps, of some early toilet training issues. "Tight-fisted” (stingy), “tight-mouthed” (secretive), “shouldering responsibilities” (bearing burdens), “holding your head up high” (being proud), and on and on, these are not mere metaphors or analogies. These expressions about personality traits show up in actual body expressions and deformations, which are incorporated in our defensive systems and character structures.
It must be a calling of mine in this lifetime to be working in this area of body language, because even as a young boy, I was aware that people always looked exactly like who they were inside, even if on the outside they tried to cover up with a mask. All children initially have this awareness, but they are unfortunately taught to deny what they see. For the purposes of my path, I never suppressed this awareness. Interestingly, I've recently rediscovered the Ian Fleming "James Bond" novels, which I was an ardent reader of as a young adolescent. What I was surprised to find out in the current reading was that Fleming/Bond was an astute reader of body language, often describing someone's probable history and present-time intentions in their body configurations. A person might be described as having a "cruel mouth" or "proud breasts," in spite of other outward attempts to show the opposite.
So, what are the ramifications of this Truth, that the body doesn't lie? Well, for one thing, it puts our masks in perspective, doesn't it? You see, only the mind lies. We can fool ourselves, and attempt to fool others, with our thoughts and words, but in fact, our masks cannot actually hide our inner self from another who wants to see us. It can only, to some degree, hide our inner self from ourself. Others might agree to go along with your mask, if you go along with theirs, but know this - if someone wants to see who you are, they can do so with impunity, despite your best efforts at deception. That's what made James Bond such a good secret agent. It's also what makes for good therapy. A good therapist is a tuned in reader of body language, and an accurate mirror, basically someone who is willing to see and reflect back what is visible but denied by the patient. The same can be said of a good friend, a good parent, lover, etc.
Another ramification of this Truth has to do with our own attitudes towards our bodies. If you "don't like" your body or judge it negatively, it is an indication of your being out of alignment, being in a state of untruth. A significant book that I used for my class segment on body language, "Molecules of Emotion," by Candace Pert, demonstrates that all the way down to the bio-molecular level, when we are in truth, no matter how difficult to face, we come into a state of health and alignment. Conversely, when we are not in truth, we are in a state of dis-ease.
Furthermore... to not like your body is irrational. Your body is merely a living reflection of your inner life, and metaphysically speaking, your body is always a perfect expression of your soul. To blame your body for its condition it is like blaming a mirror for what you see in the mirror. If you hold anger in your body fat, if your muscles and skeletal system are twisted, rigid, inflexible, etc., it is simply you letting yourself know what you are going through inside. The opportunity in the reflection is for you to love and have compassion for your journey, and to know yourself better.
So, give it up, folks. Anyone who wants to can see who you are and what you're going through. See yourself. The amount of effort it takes to create and wear a mask is enormous and it has no practical purpose whatsoever. Really. Whoever loves you, loves you in all of your glory, in spite of what you believe to be your "imperfections."
We can see you. Relax.
First coined in mass consciousness, as far as I know, by Alexander Lowen, creator of the mind-body-emotions therapy process known as Bioenergetics, this simple, direct statement should change everything in the same way that the other Truths About Everything should. What Lowen extensively demonstrated in several seminal books, including his first, "Language of the Body", was that our physical bodies "speak" openly and clearly, continuously and unequivocally to us and to others. If you want to know the state of a person's inner life, beliefs and attitudes, even their emotional, physical and psychological history, you can literally read their body language like a book.
We all have this knowledge. To a great extent it is coded into our everyday expressions. Someone said to have a "stiff upper lip," which means able to endure hardship, does indeed have a thin, tight, not supple upper lip, indicating a history of early oral deprivation. Someone who you experience as a "pain in the ass," does in fact cause you to squeeze your buttocks together to ward off their intrusive, "anal" tendencies, reminiscent, perhaps, of some early toilet training issues. "Tight-fisted” (stingy), “tight-mouthed” (secretive), “shouldering responsibilities” (bearing burdens), “holding your head up high” (being proud), and on and on, these are not mere metaphors or analogies. These expressions about personality traits show up in actual body expressions and deformations, which are incorporated in our defensive systems and character structures.
It must be a calling of mine in this lifetime to be working in this area of body language, because even as a young boy, I was aware that people always looked exactly like who they were inside, even if on the outside they tried to cover up with a mask. All children initially have this awareness, but they are unfortunately taught to deny what they see. For the purposes of my path, I never suppressed this awareness. Interestingly, I've recently rediscovered the Ian Fleming "James Bond" novels, which I was an ardent reader of as a young adolescent. What I was surprised to find out in the current reading was that Fleming/Bond was an astute reader of body language, often describing someone's probable history and present-time intentions in their body configurations. A person might be described as having a "cruel mouth" or "proud breasts," in spite of other outward attempts to show the opposite.
So, what are the ramifications of this Truth, that the body doesn't lie? Well, for one thing, it puts our masks in perspective, doesn't it? You see, only the mind lies. We can fool ourselves, and attempt to fool others, with our thoughts and words, but in fact, our masks cannot actually hide our inner self from another who wants to see us. It can only, to some degree, hide our inner self from ourself. Others might agree to go along with your mask, if you go along with theirs, but know this - if someone wants to see who you are, they can do so with impunity, despite your best efforts at deception. That's what made James Bond such a good secret agent. It's also what makes for good therapy. A good therapist is a tuned in reader of body language, and an accurate mirror, basically someone who is willing to see and reflect back what is visible but denied by the patient. The same can be said of a good friend, a good parent, lover, etc.
Another ramification of this Truth has to do with our own attitudes towards our bodies. If you "don't like" your body or judge it negatively, it is an indication of your being out of alignment, being in a state of untruth. A significant book that I used for my class segment on body language, "Molecules of Emotion," by Candace Pert, demonstrates that all the way down to the bio-molecular level, when we are in truth, no matter how difficult to face, we come into a state of health and alignment. Conversely, when we are not in truth, we are in a state of dis-ease.
Furthermore... to not like your body is irrational. Your body is merely a living reflection of your inner life, and metaphysically speaking, your body is always a perfect expression of your soul. To blame your body for its condition it is like blaming a mirror for what you see in the mirror. If you hold anger in your body fat, if your muscles and skeletal system are twisted, rigid, inflexible, etc., it is simply you letting yourself know what you are going through inside. The opportunity in the reflection is for you to love and have compassion for your journey, and to know yourself better.
So, give it up, folks. Anyone who wants to can see who you are and what you're going through. See yourself. The amount of effort it takes to create and wear a mask is enormous and it has no practical purpose whatsoever. Really. Whoever loves you, loves you in all of your glory, in spite of what you believe to be your "imperfections."
We can see you. Relax.
HOLLYWOOD BIDS FAREWELL TO 3D!
One more day 'till the debacle known as The Academy Awards. Yes! The Oscars! In many ways this year, Hollywood, and the ubiquitous "Academy," are apparently giving the Lifetime Achievement Award to... Hollywood and the ubiquitous Academy! It is like a final tribute to its century-long reign in 3D (as in 3rd Dimensional consciousness) film entertainment. And like everything during this time of consciousness raising, 3D must give way to 5D.
That's it? That's all you've got, Academy members?!
Oh well, now, the movement I'm most excited about - the #HollywoodSoOldWhiteMen farewell!
These days, most people in the movie business under 65 years of age are pretty clear that the "Studio System" and the so-called "Golden Age of Hollywood" are defunct, certainly dying if not quite dead.
Old or aging white male moguls, titans and tyrants, who ruled with an iron fist for so long, keeping women, racial minorities, gays, and ironically, people their own age, locked out of positions of power or out of the choicest roles in films, are being challenged by younger, diverse, enlightened minds and rapid advances in technology and social media.
And just as traditional studio filmmaking gave way (somewhat) to independent filmmaking, and Network television gave way to Cable, which is giving way to Netflix, Hulu and AmazonPrime, all of which will give way to home grown, grassroots production companies and collectives very soon, the oligarchy that has been Hollywood is heading for its final moments on stage next Sunday.
More prescient that he may have known, Billy Joel's apocalyptic song from 1976 was our clarion call to "Say good-bye to Hollywood!"
See ya!
Flash! Hot off the press - "Hollywood still 'straight, white, boys’ club', finds major diversity survey!"
So, how is this honorarium and departure manifesting? Well, in 3 ways, basically - by the depictions in the nominated films themselves, by the #OscarsSoWhite mortification and boycott movement, and by the #HollywoodSoOldWhiteMen movement that's about to get underway.
Starting with the movies...
"The Big Short," "Spotlight," "Room," "Bridge of Spies," "Brooklyn," and "The Revenant" all harken back to recent or not so recent moments in time when the primary themes of 3D life were greed and corruption, sexual abuse and denial, paranoia and xenophobia, prejudice and nativism, survival and revenge.
Ah, you gotta love dualistic, linear, time-limited consciousness!
Then, there's Mad Max and The Martian, set in a future created by the most popular 3D themes of all: fear, fear and more fear! Fear of abandonment, of course, fear of technology, and fear of the ever present imaginings of a dystopian, nuclear war torn, water-deprived doom in the not-too-distant future.
What anticipatory, optimistic fun, eh?! Well, actually, it was for a while, in its way, and I sort of enjoyed most of the films above, but with a sense of relief to be moving on from those old story lines.
Onto #OscarsSoWhite... so much has already been said and written about this embarrassment that all I can add is... Really?!
Starting with the movies...
"The Big Short," "Spotlight," "Room," "Bridge of Spies," "Brooklyn," and "The Revenant" all harken back to recent or not so recent moments in time when the primary themes of 3D life were greed and corruption, sexual abuse and denial, paranoia and xenophobia, prejudice and nativism, survival and revenge.
Ah, you gotta love dualistic, linear, time-limited consciousness!
Then, there's Mad Max and The Martian, set in a future created by the most popular 3D themes of all: fear, fear and more fear! Fear of abandonment, of course, fear of technology, and fear of the ever present imaginings of a dystopian, nuclear war torn, water-deprived doom in the not-too-distant future.
What anticipatory, optimistic fun, eh?! Well, actually, it was for a while, in its way, and I sort of enjoyed most of the films above, but with a sense of relief to be moving on from those old story lines.
Onto #OscarsSoWhite... so much has already been said and written about this embarrassment that all I can add is... Really?!
That's it? That's all you've got, Academy members?!
Oh well, now, the movement I'm most excited about - the #HollywoodSoOldWhiteMen farewell!
These days, most people in the movie business under 65 years of age are pretty clear that the "Studio System" and the so-called "Golden Age of Hollywood" are defunct, certainly dying if not quite dead.
Old or aging white male moguls, titans and tyrants, who ruled with an iron fist for so long, keeping women, racial minorities, gays, and ironically, people their own age, locked out of positions of power or out of the choicest roles in films, are being challenged by younger, diverse, enlightened minds and rapid advances in technology and social media.
And just as traditional studio filmmaking gave way (somewhat) to independent filmmaking, and Network television gave way to Cable, which is giving way to Netflix, Hulu and AmazonPrime, all of which will give way to home grown, grassroots production companies and collectives very soon, the oligarchy that has been Hollywood is heading for its final moments on stage next Sunday.
More prescient that he may have known, Billy Joel's apocalyptic song from 1976 was our clarion call to "Say good-bye to Hollywood!"
See ya!
Flash! Hot off the press - "Hollywood still 'straight, white, boys’ club', finds major diversity survey!"
WOW! THIS IS A LOVE OF COFFEE!!
Well, I've written a lot on this blog about the benefits of coffee, and clearly I do love the dark brew, but this guy trumps me in his dedication to the roasted bean -
Really!
Read more HERE.
Read more HERE.
LEFT BEHIND? SORRY, BUT WE'RE ALL GOING!
This is somewhat vintage post (from 2 years ago) that came into my consciousness this morning -
I just saw one of the worst movies of 2014, "Left Behind," based on the first book in the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. The monumentally popular books (at least amongst self-described Christian fundamentalists) are quite loosely based on a fear-based and child-like interpretation of the Book of Revelations in the Bible. Starring a rather ambivalent Nicolas Cage, who wouldn't openly talk about his religious beliefs when interviewed about the movie, and a forlorn Lea Thompson, who seemed sad to have been reduced to the role of a chagrined mother who gets "raptured" early on in the film, Left Behind takes a powerful psychic projection from long ago, linear speaking, about the transition from 3D Earth to 5D Earth, now taking place in our times, and turns it into a proselytizing reward and punishment lesson about believing or not believing in a Jesus who actually never said most of the things devout Christians attribute to him.
Here's a piece I posted on FPL 2 years ago explaining how the Revelations predictions are actually playing out for all of us on 5D Earth.
As I've written on FPL, this current transitional time is a time of "non-optional choice." That might seem like an oxymoron, but let me explain.
The non-optional part is that you must make a choice, now. In other words, this is not a time where remaining in neutral is possible. The status quo must go. The optional part is what choice you make.
As has been written and talked about for a few thousand years, by soothsayers and metaphysically connected individuals, we collectively put in place a decision that in this age, at this time, and specifically centered around the calendar year, 2012, we would shift from 3D consciousness to 4D briefly and then on to 5D (You can read some FPL posts on 4D HERE).
The choices basically come down to this:
1. You may hunker down, hold on, and dig into 3D ideas and beliefs - like dualism and limitation - which means that your life will be what is referred to in the Book of Revelations as the "Tribulation." In other words, you will continue on in a struggling, battling, crisis-ridden way of life, in which obstacles, barriers and adversaries continue to plague your daily existence.
2. You may simply leave the planet, making your statement that you don't want to make the shift to 5D in physical form just yet, but you don't want to suffer either. As FPL readers may recall, I posted the statistic a few weeks ago that more people died last year in the U.S. than in any year since we've been keeping the statistic. Revelations calls this the "Rapture." Yep. It's definitely one popular route right now, especially with younger souls.
3. You may do the self-work necessary to open your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual channels, embrace change and the unknown and move forward into 4D, then 5D, where you create your reality consciously in accordance with your highest excitement. This is the "Thousand Year Golden Age" described in Revelations.
I mean, this might seem like a no-brainer to you, but that most likely means you're on your way to doing whatever it takes to get on the 5D train. A good number of people right now, I can assure you, are going with options 1 or 2.
This particular moment "in time" represents the opening of a significant window in our continuum, a moment when there is a great deal of energy available to make the transition. But The 2012 Train is heading out of the station, and it will not be as "easy" to catch soon. Can you eventually catch another train? Absolutely. Ultimately, every being must evolve and continue to raise their vibrational frequencies on their way to fully conscious oneness. Everyone "makes it," in other words. But how and when is always up to us. Again, as I've said before, there will eventually be another train of acceleration to get on at some point, and sooner or later, everyone is going to 5D and beyond. But if you're ready, willing and able, now would be a good time to leap!
So, here we go, folks. There's now less than 3 weeks left to 2012, time to make your choice and get on the 5D train... or not. But, as Bashar says, we're pulling out of the station.
All aboard!
HERE is link from a channeled piece by "Bashar" on "The 2012 Train" talking about "leaving the station!"
I just saw one of the worst movies of 2014, "Left Behind," based on the first book in the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. The monumentally popular books (at least amongst self-described Christian fundamentalists) are quite loosely based on a fear-based and child-like interpretation of the Book of Revelations in the Bible. Starring a rather ambivalent Nicolas Cage, who wouldn't openly talk about his religious beliefs when interviewed about the movie, and a forlorn Lea Thompson, who seemed sad to have been reduced to the role of a chagrined mother who gets "raptured" early on in the film, Left Behind takes a powerful psychic projection from long ago, linear speaking, about the transition from 3D Earth to 5D Earth, now taking place in our times, and turns it into a proselytizing reward and punishment lesson about believing or not believing in a Jesus who actually never said most of the things devout Christians attribute to him.
Here's a piece I posted on FPL 2 years ago explaining how the Revelations predictions are actually playing out for all of us on 5D Earth.
As I've written on FPL, this current transitional time is a time of "non-optional choice." That might seem like an oxymoron, but let me explain.
The non-optional part is that you must make a choice, now. In other words, this is not a time where remaining in neutral is possible. The status quo must go. The optional part is what choice you make.
As has been written and talked about for a few thousand years, by soothsayers and metaphysically connected individuals, we collectively put in place a decision that in this age, at this time, and specifically centered around the calendar year, 2012, we would shift from 3D consciousness to 4D briefly and then on to 5D (You can read some FPL posts on 4D HERE).
The choices basically come down to this:
1. You may hunker down, hold on, and dig into 3D ideas and beliefs - like dualism and limitation - which means that your life will be what is referred to in the Book of Revelations as the "Tribulation." In other words, you will continue on in a struggling, battling, crisis-ridden way of life, in which obstacles, barriers and adversaries continue to plague your daily existence.
2. You may simply leave the planet, making your statement that you don't want to make the shift to 5D in physical form just yet, but you don't want to suffer either. As FPL readers may recall, I posted the statistic a few weeks ago that more people died last year in the U.S. than in any year since we've been keeping the statistic. Revelations calls this the "Rapture." Yep. It's definitely one popular route right now, especially with younger souls.
3. You may do the self-work necessary to open your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual channels, embrace change and the unknown and move forward into 4D, then 5D, where you create your reality consciously in accordance with your highest excitement. This is the "Thousand Year Golden Age" described in Revelations.
I mean, this might seem like a no-brainer to you, but that most likely means you're on your way to doing whatever it takes to get on the 5D train. A good number of people right now, I can assure you, are going with options 1 or 2.
This particular moment "in time" represents the opening of a significant window in our continuum, a moment when there is a great deal of energy available to make the transition. But The 2012 Train is heading out of the station, and it will not be as "easy" to catch soon. Can you eventually catch another train? Absolutely. Ultimately, every being must evolve and continue to raise their vibrational frequencies on their way to fully conscious oneness. Everyone "makes it," in other words. But how and when is always up to us. Again, as I've said before, there will eventually be another train of acceleration to get on at some point, and sooner or later, everyone is going to 5D and beyond. But if you're ready, willing and able, now would be a good time to leap!
So, here we go, folks. There's now less than 3 weeks left to 2012, time to make your choice and get on the 5D train... or not. But, as Bashar says, we're pulling out of the station.
All aboard!
HERE is link from a channeled piece by "Bashar" on "The 2012 Train" talking about "leaving the station!"
TODAY'S LOVE QUOTE!
"And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."
Kahlil Gibran
[FPL Editor's Note: 1. It is more accurate to say that it is Eros whose course cannot be directed; and 2. Love always finds you worthy.]
Happy Valentine's Day!
Kahlil Gibran
[FPL Editor's Note: 1. It is more accurate to say that it is Eros whose course cannot be directed; and 2. Love always finds you worthy.]
Happy Valentine's Day!
TODAY'S "BOOK OF MASTERY" QUOTE!
“How
you decide to be in encounter with any situation will call to you the next
series of events that you will learn through. Each time you make a choice to be
a certain way, to align to the self in a certain way, you claim the potential
of that choice to ricochet and propel you forward. So the choice that is made
of how to perceive the self in regard to any situation calls to you how the
response is manifested in the physical realm.”
(Paul Selig in "The Book of Mastery")
DO YOU HAVE "RBF SYNDROME?!"
In the past on FPL, I've written about so-called "syndromes" identified over recent years by the so-called "Traditional Medical Establishment" ("TME"). (See "The Medicalization Of Mundane Experience: The 'Syndrome' Syndrome.") My favorite at the time was "RLS" or "Restless Leg Syndrome."
Well, I have a new favorite - "RBF Syndrome" or "Resting Bitch Face Syndrome."
This is from Wikipedia:
"Resting bitch face, or bitchy resting face, is a term for a facial expression (or lack of expression) which unintentionally appears angry, annoyed or irritated. The concept has been studied by psychologists and may have psychological implications on facial biases, gender stereotypes, human judgment, and decision making."
This is from the Urban Dictionary:
"A person, usually a girl, who naturally looks mean when her face is expressionless, without meaning to."
Now, you might think that RBF is just a humorous meme, but think again, because once the TME gets ahold of it... That's right! According to the NY Times: "Plastic surgeons say they are fielding a growing number of requests from those who want to surgically correct their 'permafrowns.”
Well, I have a new favorite - "RBF Syndrome" or "Resting Bitch Face Syndrome."
This is from Wikipedia:
"Resting bitch face, or bitchy resting face, is a term for a facial expression (or lack of expression) which unintentionally appears angry, annoyed or irritated. The concept has been studied by psychologists and may have psychological implications on facial biases, gender stereotypes, human judgment, and decision making."
This is from the Urban Dictionary:
"A person, usually a girl, who naturally looks mean when her face is expressionless, without meaning to."
Now, you might think that RBF is just a humorous meme, but think again, because once the TME gets ahold of it... That's right! According to the NY Times: "Plastic surgeons say they are fielding a growing number of requests from those who want to surgically correct their 'permafrowns.”
Folks, you don't have to be an expert in body language to understand the concept of "masks," as described in character analytic and bioenergetic therapies. They are the repetitive attitudes, stereotyped verbal expressions, and rigid physical poses and postures we adopt in childhood in a futile attempt to hide ourselves from ourselves and others. But your grandmother knew that when she told you to stop frowning, lest that expression become permanently stuck on you.
The good news is you don't need surgery; your mask can be removed by you in a thorough holistic therapy that gets to the underlying cause of the deformation. In fact, when the mask comes off in therapy, it is a beautiful sight to behold. Suddenly, the entire person's visage becomes supple and vibrant.
So, while she may have been right in her admonitions, for Grandma's sake, take action and heal your RBF... before the TME comes up with a drug for it!
The good news is you don't need surgery; your mask can be removed by you in a thorough holistic therapy that gets to the underlying cause of the deformation. In fact, when the mask comes off in therapy, it is a beautiful sight to behold. Suddenly, the entire person's visage becomes supple and vibrant.
So, while she may have been right in her admonitions, for Grandma's sake, take action and heal your RBF... before the TME comes up with a drug for it!
TODAY'S "IF A TREE FALLS IN THE WOODS..." QUOTE!
“If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.”
(Niels Bohr)
And read THIS piece!
(Niels Bohr)
And read THIS piece!
TODAY'S "JOY OF BEING WRONG" LYRIC!
FIXING A HOLE
I'm fixing a hole where
the rain gets in
And stops my mind from
wandering
Where it will go.
I'm filling the cracks
that ran through the door
And kept my mind from
wandering
Where it will go.
And it really doesn't
matter if I'm wrong.
I'm right where I belong.
I'm right where I belong.
See the people standing
there
Who disagree and never win
And wonder why they don't
get in my door.
I'm painting a room in a
colorful way
And when my mind is
wandering
There I will go.
And it really doesn't
matter if I'm wrong.
I'm right where I belong.
I'm right where I belong.
Silly people run around,
They worry me, and never
ask me
Why they don't get past my
door.
I'm taking the time for a
number of things
That weren't important
yesterday,
And I still go.
I'm fixing a hole where
the rain gets in
Stops my mind from
wandering
Where it will go.
(Lennon/McCartney)
AND YET... EVEN MORE ON THE BENEFITS OF SUNSHINE! REALLY!!
Someone sent me THIS headline story this morning: "Scientists Blow The Lid on Cancer & Sunscreen Myth"
Below is the list and links of FPL posts I'm adding this story to.
Remember, folks, conventional wisdom is an oxymoron.
Enjoy! Summer's just around he corner!!
Here we go again! I've written about this many times (HERE and HERE), especially when celebrating the good 'ole summer time, as I am right now. I've posted links to studies showing that sunlight improves eyesight, and that the sun's dosages of Vitamin D help prevent cancer. Well, here's yet another article on the benefits of sunlight, this one entitled: "The Real Key To Improving Brain Function."
Nicholas Spitzer, professor or neuroscience at the University of California and editor-in-chief of brainfacts.org, has a message for all of you out there who are listening to classical music and doing crossword puzzles as a way of improving your brain functioning:
"Stop it right now!"
According to Spitzer: "What we have learned is that exercise and exposure to sunlight are the key things for better brain function."
Come on, folks! It's a brilliant, sunny, summer Sunday in early August. Get out there - to the park, the beach, the country, to whatever your version of a natural paradise is, and heal yourself - of everything or anything that ails you.
Enjoy!
Below is the list and links of FPL posts I'm adding this story to.
Remember, folks, conventional wisdom is an oxymoron.
Enjoy! Summer's just around he corner!!
Here we go again! I've written about this many times (HERE and HERE), especially when celebrating the good 'ole summer time, as I am right now. I've posted links to studies showing that sunlight improves eyesight, and that the sun's dosages of Vitamin D help prevent cancer. Well, here's yet another article on the benefits of sunlight, this one entitled: "The Real Key To Improving Brain Function."
Nicholas Spitzer, professor or neuroscience at the University of California and editor-in-chief of brainfacts.org, has a message for all of you out there who are listening to classical music and doing crossword puzzles as a way of improving your brain functioning:
"Stop it right now!"
According to Spitzer: "What we have learned is that exercise and exposure to sunlight are the key things for better brain function."
Come on, folks! It's a brilliant, sunny, summer Sunday in early August. Get out there - to the park, the beach, the country, to whatever your version of a natural paradise is, and heal yourself - of everything or anything that ails you.
Enjoy!
SPACE IS OUR DESTINY!
30 Years ago today, the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up upon take-off. The country and the world was devastated, as was I. I so believed in humankind's calling to travel to the stars that when I heard naysayers proclaiming that we shouldn't send human beings into space, I had to write a letter - to The New York Times and to then President Reagan, which ended with me volunteering to go into space myself!
Here it is:
"Space is our destiny"
Published in the NY Times: February 9, 1986
Published in the NY Times: February 9, 1986
To the Editor:
The shattering tragedy of the Challenger on Jan. 28 will no doubt stir up such sentiments as ''if man were meant to fly, he'd have wings.'' Some will say that we should send only unmanned probes into space.
I disagree. Human beings do have wings. Our wings are our minds, and our minds have always compelled us to reach out and look beyond the boundaries of the observable. We honor the spirit of Christopher Columbus for daring to explore ''the edge'' of a flat Earth, as we reveled in the spirit of Christa McAuliffe, who dared to teach from beyond the classroom.
The logic of statistical probability tells us that we are only one of perhaps millions of civilizations in this universe, that we most surely have brothers and sisters out there. We are compelled to meet them and know them because we are all part of the same whole. Perhaps we can be helped in our development someday by a more advanced civilization. Perhaps we can make a contribution. But we cannot stay at home, retreating into ourselves. People must be prepared to travel in space. It is our destiny.
I envied Mrs. McAuliffe. She was living out my greatest fantasy: to view the Earth as a whole planet from space. I am a psychiatric social worker, waiting for the day when a President or NASA asks for someone from the human-services field to volunteer for a similar mission. I am ready to go!
PETER V. LOFFREDO New York, Jan. 29, 1986
TODAY'S "ONENESS" QUOTE!
"When you experience a particularly poignant response to a given situation—one that you may judge to be extreme—consider, before judging yourself too harshly, that what you may be feeling is depth of emotion you share mutually with an aspect of self that has been denied and was left behind along the way. By repressing the expression of the depths of your feeling, you only serve to prolong the separation between you and that aspect of self, and to invite repeat performances of scenarios which are calculated to produce the same emotional response. It is imperative that you open your heart to the very real sensations of hurt, sorrow, or outrage summoned to you by circumstances in the dramas in which you play a part. In so doing, you pave the way for the reintegration of a missing piece of your own being whose life theme may be the embodiment of those very responses, and who strives from his depths to transcend them."
("Oneness" by Rasha)
("Oneness" by Rasha)
THE TRUTH ABOUT EVERYTHING, PART EIGHT: THERE IS MORE THAN ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE TO HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH!
Okay, let's start at the top with this one... You exist because you are fully supported. That's it. The Universe, All That Is, your Higher Self, nature, life... however you want to frame it... fully supports you. Period. If you were not fully supported, you would not exist. In fact, you are so supported that you even get supported in your imaginings that you are not fully supported.
What? You say. People suffer, people die, people are broke or married to the wrong person or slaving away at jobs they hate...
Yes, that's right. People do create suffering, and they are completely supported in so doing. People also create joy, abundance, health, pleasure, and also do things they love to do... and they are fully supported in that as well. We are always in a state of abundance, in other words. Some human beings create and experience an abundance of material things, love, adventures; others create and experience an abundance of lack and pain. In fact, if you believe in the illusion of death, as most do, you will have the death experience, and then set about experiencing whatever else you wish to experience after death. And so on.
You see, whatever you create, the Universe backs you up... completely! And without judgement. So, whether you put out a call through your inner intentions for impoverishment, illness and loneliness, or prosperity, vitality and deep love, the energetic "creation factory" you exist in will fill your order. When things "happen" in your life that you deem to be negative, how often do you have that "See, I knew it" feeling? Or that "This always happens to me" state of being? Do you believe that "Murphy's Law" applies to you?
There's an entire Pathwork Guide Lecture on this subject: "The Superstition of Pessimism." Here's a passage from the lecture:
"The superstition of pessimism begins as a superstitious destructive playfulness, but then you get lost in its very painful effects. You may really believe in what you first assumed as a safety measure. However, denying the positive and believing in the worst to appease the gods, as it were, is destructive. You do not know the power of such thoughts.
"The power of this game needs to be made conscious. It can apply to many things in your life. When you have an illness, it may apply to the healing. When you find yourself alone and unloved, you may playfully -- safely, as you think - express the belief that it will always be that way. When you lack funds or a fulfilling profession you say to yourself, 'I had better believe it must be that way, so maybe then it can come to me unexpectedly.' It is as though you hoped for some idealized parental figure to assuage your doubts, to come forth and tell you, 'No, no, my child, it is not that bad, it is all going to be wonderful.'
"Without knowing it, you dictate into your soul a belief creating circumstances that prove it. You then 'forget' that you had started this game in a spirit of superstition or perhaps in a spirit of emotional manipulation. You become so involved in what you have unwittingly created that you really begin to believe that the negative is the reality. What started out as a superstitious safety measure gradually becomes belief on another level of your consciousness. The belief creates the reality and you stay in exactly that position."
Look, here's the physics of it, folks, and this really runs through all of the Truths About Everything - everything is made up of particles and streams of energy. Everything. If you could put your hand or your shoe or a pencil or the air you breath under an electron microscope, what you would see is that we are all "composed" of particles and streams of energy living in a vast sea of that same energy. So, what makes one thing appear separate and different from another? Consciousness. Quantum physics has demonstrated that anything being observed is changed by the fact of it being observed.
Consciousness moves and arranges everything! Get it? The abundance that is all around you, that is yours for the having is... again... everything! All around you.
If your intentions were free and clear, in other words, not clouded by old, conditioned beliefs in limitation, for example, you could literally turn lead into gold as the ancient alchemists were said to be able to do. You could end a drought by making it rain, as Native Americans were known to do. You could create or attract financial prosperity, vibrant health or the love of your life. And it's no secret.
There's more than enough for everyone to have more than enough. The vast, unlimited, infinite "stuff" of the Universe is yours to command.
What are you waiting for?
Consciousness moves and arranges everything! Get it? The abundance that is all around you, that is yours for the having is... again... everything! All around you.
If your intentions were free and clear, in other words, not clouded by old, conditioned beliefs in limitation, for example, you could literally turn lead into gold as the ancient alchemists were said to be able to do. You could end a drought by making it rain, as Native Americans were known to do. You could create or attract financial prosperity, vibrant health or the love of your life. And it's no secret.
There's more than enough for everyone to have more than enough. The vast, unlimited, infinite "stuff" of the Universe is yours to command.
What are you waiting for?
GOD WHOPPERS!
Here are the top eight God whoppers human beings have made up (from the book, E-SQUARED by Pam Grout):
Whopper #1: God is a him. Even though the progressive churches sometimes refer to God as she, the FP doesn’t really have a gender. We certainly don’t talk about Mrs. Electricity or Mr. Gravity. The more appropriate pronoun would be it. The FP is a force field that runs the universe, the same energy source that grows flowers, forms scabs over skinned knees, and constantly pushes for wholeness. God is more like the force in Star Wars, a presence that dwells within us, a principle by which we live. That’s why Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader have become such a phenomenon. Star Wars is a myth that speaks to us at a deep, gut level. Some part of us knows that “the force” is with us and that we, through our words, thoughts, and deeds, create the world.
Whopper #1: God is a him. Even though the progressive churches sometimes refer to God as she, the FP doesn’t really have a gender. We certainly don’t talk about Mrs. Electricity or Mr. Gravity. The more appropriate pronoun would be it. The FP is a force field that runs the universe, the same energy source that grows flowers, forms scabs over skinned knees, and constantly pushes for wholeness. God is more like the force in Star Wars, a presence that dwells within us, a principle by which we live. That’s why Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader have become such a phenomenon. Star Wars is a myth that speaks to us at a deep, gut level. Some part of us knows that “the force” is with us and that we, through our words, thoughts, and deeds, create the world.
Whopper #2: God looks like ZZ Top, makes black check marks after your name, and is basically too busy working on world hunger to care about you. God, if you believe the accepted box, is a little like Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird: this mysterious neighbor constantly peering out the window of his penthouse suite, waiting to catch us doing something “naughty, naughty.” We can’t really see him, but we’ve been properly warned that he’s there. Watching. Judging. Monitoring our every move. If you don’t follow this commandment or if you break that rule, God just might send his angel Secret Service after you to bop you on the head like Little Bunny Foo-Foo.
Whopper #3: God plays favorites. The FP is a force field that’s equally available to everyone. It’s a natural capacity in all of us, not an exclusive gift bestowed upon a few. In fact, that is the primary lesson Jesus taught. God is within. You are part of God. You can perform miracles. To worship Jesus the way we do is a little like worshipping Benjamin Franklin because he first discovered electricity. Ben Franklin sent that kite up in an electric storm so we could use the principle he demonstrated. He didn’t do it so we’d build temples to him, paint pictures of him, and wear little commemorative keys around our necks. He wanted us to take the principle of electricity and use it—which we do to run radios and computers and air conditioners. Had we stopped with Ben’s discovery the way we did with Jesus’s discovery, we’d all be sitting in the dark. Benjamin Franklin didn’t invent electricity any more than Jesus invented spiritual principles. Lightning and the resulting electricity have always been available. We just didn’t realize it or know how to access it. Galileo didn’t invent gravity when he dropped the wooden ball off the leaning tower of Pisa. He just demonstrated it. Likewise, Jesus demonstrated spiritual principles that he wants us to use and develop. We’ve wasted 2,000 years worshipping this idol of him instead of using the principles he taught us. Look through the Bible and nowhere does Jesus say, “Worship me.” His call to us was “follow me.” There’s a big difference. By making Jesus out to be a hero, we miss the whole point. Jesus wasn’t saying, “I’m cool. Make statues of me; turn my birthday into a huge commercial holiday.” He was saying, “Here, look what is possible. Look what we humans are capable of.” Jesus is our brother, our legacy, the guy we’re supposed to emulate. What Jesus was trying to tell us is that the churches, the religious leaders, and all their blaring rhetoric has drowned out God’s truth. They’ve pulled the wool over our eyes by failing to mention the fact that the FP is not an object of worship, but a very real presence and a principle by which we should live.
Whopper #4: God rewards our suffering and gives brownie points for our sacrifice (better known as “Life sucks and then you die"). Many of us think life is some sort of boot camp for heaven. We believe this short life span is “only a test” for the paradise we’re eventually going to earn. If we hang on and bear it, we’ll someday walk through those pearly gates and be happy. These errors in thinking have been condensed into living facts. Nothing is plainer than the inevitability of sorrows and trials. But what if it isn’t necessary? What if there is no reason to be poor? Or get sick? Or do anything but live an abundant, exciting life? What if these tragic, difficult lives are another rumor made up by the churches and cemented into our consciousness by years and years of conditioning? What I’d like to suggest is that this heaven you’re waiting for is available now. And that you’ve been sold a bill of goods about who you are and what is possible.
Whopper #5: God is just so demanding. The FP doesn’t judge. It doesn’t punish. It doesn’t think, Well, Sammy C. was a good boy yesterday, helping that little old lady cross the street. I think I’ll answer his prayer about winning the lottery. Those are thoughts Clarence Thomas might think. The FP doesn’t need anything. It requires nothing of us. It makes no demands. It doesn’t like Mother Teresa more than Celine Dion. Only misinformed humans, scrambling desperately to make sense of their world, came up with a God who plays eenie-meenie-minie-mo with our lives, a God who likes and dislikes the same people we do. Our fear has trapped us into a box that plays out our very limited perception.
Whopper #6: You don’t want to ask too much from God; you certainly wouldn’t want to bug him. As I’ve already pointed out, the FP is not a person; therefore you cannot bug him. The FP is a power, an unseen energetic force. It isn’t finite or limited, so you certainly couldn’t ask too much of it. As the old saying goes, you can take an eyedropper or a bucket to the ocean. The ocean doesn’t care. If anything, we don’t use the FP power nearly enough. This is an all-powerful force we’re talking about here, not some last-minute relief team that comes in to pay the mortgage. The FP is not an adversary that has to be coaxed to the bargaining table.
Whopper #7: God is just so vague. Au contraire. Once you get rid of the black cloud of rumors and half truths that hide your awareness, you’ll find the unseen force communicates just as clearly as Dr. Phil. Once you rid yourself of the blocks, you’ll be shown exactly what to do and how to do it. Again, we need to condition ourselves to think of God more like we think of electricity. Electricity doesn’t care who plugs in a curling iron. Electricity doesn’t need proof we’re good enough to make toast.
Whopper #8: God only answers when he’s good and ready. There is never a time when God or “the force” isn’t guiding you. And you do not have to wait for any green lights or “get out of jail free” cards. The big guy is available 24/7 once you’re ready to focus your full attention on it. The FP’s guidance happens (as they say about … well, something else)—through a song lyric on the radio, by a phone call from a long-lost friend. The trick is to pay attention, trust, and as I will continue to repeat, focus your full attention on it. And while we’re on the topic of God’s will, let’s get this out on the table. There is no place in our updated picture of God for a hell of everlasting torment or for a sadist who would or could attempt to put you there. Nor is there any room for the idea that sickness or deformity or death or poverty or limitation of any kind is the will of God. The will of God, for those who insist on using that term, is the ceaseless longing of the spirit in you to become all you’re capable of being. Amen.
WARNING: 3D POST! BARACK OBAMA'S NO JACK KENNEDY; HE'S JACKIE ROBINSON!
Below is a 3D comment I posted on another blog 4 plus years ago during President Obama's re-election campaign in 2012.
BARACK OBAMA'S NO JACK KENNEDY; HE'S JACKIE ROBINSON!
People in the so-called "Progressive Movement" are threatening not to support President Obama's re-election bid because he is proposing to make some cuts in Social Security and Medicaid. But the truth is, Barack Obama has been consistent.
Anyone who was really paying attention in 2008, and not projecting onto him, can see that President Obama is following the trajectory of Candidate Obama. He was never what his left wing constituents believed or wished him to be, anymore than he was or is what right wingers claim.
Barack Obama is a centrist politician.
Because he is intelligent, unlike our last president, and emotionally mature, unlike the president before that, progressive-thinking people expected him to be some kind of heroic, transformative figure, a Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. at best, an FDR or JFK at the very least. But Obama is not cut from that kind of cloth.
He broke the color barrier in the White House, as Jackie Robinson did in major league baseball, and like Robinson, Obama has been vilified and delegitimized for the fact, and like Robinson again, Obama stays above the assault. This is where his heroism lies. He has changed history by the very fact of his presence and his dignity in the face of our country's least common denominator. But as a policy maker, he is cautious, strategic, and more than liberals may want to realize, simply what the political middle used to be before the so-called "Conservative Movement" took over the government in 1980.
BARACK OBAMA'S NO JACK KENNEDY; HE'S JACKIE ROBINSON!
People in the so-called "Progressive Movement" are threatening not to support President Obama's re-election bid because he is proposing to make some cuts in Social Security and Medicaid. But the truth is, Barack Obama has been consistent.
Anyone who was really paying attention in 2008, and not projecting onto him, can see that President Obama is following the trajectory of Candidate Obama. He was never what his left wing constituents believed or wished him to be, anymore than he was or is what right wingers claim.
Barack Obama is a centrist politician.
Because he is intelligent, unlike our last president, and emotionally mature, unlike the president before that, progressive-thinking people expected him to be some kind of heroic, transformative figure, a Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. at best, an FDR or JFK at the very least. But Obama is not cut from that kind of cloth.
He broke the color barrier in the White House, as Jackie Robinson did in major league baseball, and like Robinson, Obama has been vilified and delegitimized for the fact, and like Robinson again, Obama stays above the assault. This is where his heroism lies. He has changed history by the very fact of his presence and his dignity in the face of our country's least common denominator. But as a policy maker, he is cautious, strategic, and more than liberals may want to realize, simply what the political middle used to be before the so-called "Conservative Movement" took over the government in 1980.
TODAY'S MLK QUOTE!
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1ST WAVERS, LISTEN UP - YOU'RE NOT LATE. YOU'RE EARLY!
For those of you born 50 years or so ago, you are the "midwives," the coffee servers for those just now waking up or for those just now incarnating. You may feel that you are behind the times, that you are too late to experience what you desire to achieve in this life, but in fact you are, if anything, a little early for your heart's desire. Fear not.
Here's a passage from "Oneness" by Rasha on the matter:
"Generations to come may speculate on what it was like to be alive in these times. For, your history will allude to conditions that they will not be able to comprehend. The world as you know it will undergo radical transformations in the times to come. And the foundation upon which you have built your understandings of the nature of your reality will have changed so dramatically that one would be apt to question whether it was the same world at all. Indeed, that is the very nature of the process. For the world as you know it to be is, in fact, dematerializing in the wake of the momentum that is driving all Creation.
Here's a passage from "Oneness" by Rasha on the matter:
"Generations to come may speculate on what it was like to be alive in these times. For, your history will allude to conditions that they will not be able to comprehend. The world as you know it will undergo radical transformations in the times to come. And the foundation upon which you have built your understandings of the nature of your reality will have changed so dramatically that one would be apt to question whether it was the same world at all. Indeed, that is the very nature of the process. For the world as you know it to be is, in fact, dematerializing in the wake of the momentum that is driving all Creation.
"The changes are taking form in subtle increments. And often
one does not even notice that a significant shift has occurred. But, from the
perspective of a broader vision, one will be able to look back upon these times with wonderment. And those of you
who will have retained your physical form will have fascinating stories to tell
as to how these changes came to be. Younger beings, who will only be able to
imagine life under such conditions, will marvel at how such memories are even
possible. You, whose very presence will attest to the extent of the journey in
consciousness humankind has undertaken, see these days of transformation from a
markedly different perspective.
"For, collectively, you are the midwives who are
assisting with the birthing of a new reality. Your willingness to be in
physical form during these changes is an act of courage. For, it would have
been far easier to wait until the dust had settled and simply manifest into
more favorable circumstances. You, who read these words, are among those who
chose to experience the transformational journey in physical form and to have
the experience of physical ascension.
"Future generations will have made
preparations for incarnation into a dramatically different world. Their natural
inclination to be less reactive reflects the fact that many of these younger
beings have a dramatically different vibrational constitution than you do.
Their energy fields are not cluttered with unresolved emotional blockages, and
life for the young, in general, flows more smoothly than it did for you at
their stage of development."
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