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We can change the course of planetary events. While solar cycle 24 is becoming more active, affecting all beings on Earth, we can decide on how to react to these changes. It is important to remember that the increasing solar activity has a positive affect – it’s a time when opportunity and creativity can flourish along with increased individual and collective enlightenment. It’s an auspicious opportunity for advancing our intelligence on how to cooperate more harmoniously with each other and with Mother Earth. This can eventually lead to a global consciousness transformation and increasing peace. A few effective co-creative actions we can take through these opportune times would include committing to reducing fear, becoming more responsible for our own energy, and increasing love, care and respect for others and for ourselves. This can do much to restore balance and energetic alignment between Earth and the global community.

Many thanks to all who are caring and holding the vision of humanity in the state of joy, love, peace and health and a vision of a vibrant Earth. I would like to end this commentary with a quote by Albert Einstein:

“Our task must be to free ourselves – by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”

An excerpt from today’s message from the Global Coherence Initiative. Read the entire message here. It talks about this years earthquakes and the effects of recent sun flares. Become a part of CGI and help protect the Earth. www.glcoherence.org

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It’s true! Whatever god you adhere to, your understanding of that God does not exist. There is no big ogre in heaven waiting for the next feeble human to step out of line or to disobey his utterances and to strike them dead. Such a god is dead. He just does not exist. People are like that, but not God.

There is no such god who favors one human being over another. A god who sends his chosen ones to wipe out a neighboring nation or who blesses one side more than another does not exist.

Look at your scriptures, what do they say? God rains on the wicked and the righteous. God is no respecter of persons. All men are equal in God’s sight. God is love, compassionate and forgiving. Does that represent the God you have been taught about? Too often we humans portray our weak, jealous feelings onto the Divine Entity who created our world, and we expect him/her to respond in a human way.

Fortunately for us, God is more tolerant than we are, and more patient. God to me is a Universal Intelligence who sees the big picture. He sees the beginning from the end and knows all things. God is also part of you and me. As the ultimate expression of love and light God is also expressed in all of creation, including you and me. That means I am an expression of the Divine, and you are too, as is the enemy across the frontier.

No, it is not God who is dead, but the faulty perception we have of God which is dead. God is very much alive, and alive in every human being, animal, fish and plant. Think of that. When one man kills another, he is killing God! Isn’t it easy to understand why God, no matter in which religion he is represented (or misrepresented), implores us to love our brother and sister, our neighbour and even our enemy. In doing so we are expressing the God part of our being.

What do you think? Is the god of your tradition dead? Or is He/She very much alive in all that you think, do or say?

It is also necessary in both public and private life to refrain consistently and empathically from inflicting pain. To act or speak violently out of spite, chauvinism, or self-interest, to impoverish, exploit or deny basic rights to anybody, and to incite hatred by denigrating others—even our enemies—is a denial of our common humanity. We acknowledge that we have failed to live compassionately and that some have even increased the sum of human misery in the name of religion.

We therefore call upon all men and women ~ to restore compassion to the centre of morality and religion ~ to return to the ancient principle that any interpretation of scripture that breeds violence, hatred or disdain is illegitimate ~ to ensure that youth are given accurate and respectful information about other traditions, religions and cultures ~ to encourage a positive appreciation of cultural and religious diversity ~ to cultivate an informed empathy with the suffering of all human beings—even those regarded as enemies.

We urgently need to make compassion a clear, luminous and dynamic force in our polarized world. Rooted in a principled determination to transcend selfishness, compassion can break down political, dogmatic, ideological and religious boundaries. Born of our deep interdependence, compassion is essential to human relationships and to a fulfilled humanity. It is the path to enlightenment, and indispensible to the creation of a just economy and a peaceful global community.

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The native Na’vi of the fictional planet, Pandora, are depicted as having a very close bond with Eywa, their mother of nature, and all life. This bond is demonstrated by a physical connection made either through their tails or pony-tails to other animals or to the earth itself. A spirit-tree which produces floating feather-like flowers, is their connection to Eywa. The flowers are attracted to innocence and an open heart. When a connection to Eywa is required the entire village gathers around the tree, tails connected to the earth, and holding each other they chant and connect in united spirit to Eywa. When they make a bond through their pony-tails to other animals these animals become their servants – a personal close bond is formed for life.

Throughout the movie the na’vi’s bond to nature is emphasized and made central to the plot. The Earth scientists also made the discovery that the trees of Pandora where somehow connected to each other, forming a intricate network of some kind of communication.

The story revolves around the “need” for the Earth humans to harvest a precious crystal power source which just happens to be in great quantities under the home-tree of the na’vi. Either the na’vi move or the military force them out.

What does this teach us? First of all there is the very strong message that the Earth humans have destroyed their own Mother, Gaia. Their planet is no longer green and now they proceed to destroy another planet in their hunger for resources. It is a reflection of the rape and destruction of our remaining rain-forests and other natural habitats. The movie, Avatar, gives us a strong reminder that we cannot continue to rape our planet and kill Mother Earth, for in doing so we will bring our own ultimate doom.

A second lesson to be learned from the Avatar movie is the connectedness everything has to everything. Everything is connected. I’ve said it many times and I believe it to be so. Everything is energy and we are energy and on the energy level we are, everything is, connected. You may refer to this energy connection as a spiritual bond. Even quantum science is beginning to prove this connection and the ancient teachings of the alchemists and mystics all speak of an underlying spirit or power which gives all things life and holds all things together. We are all connected to all things alive and inanimate and because of this if we harm anything we also harm ourselves. If we hate someone because of skin colour or creed we are in fact hating ourselves.

The third lesson to be learned from Avatar is the magnetic attraction of innocence and love, a pure heart and a giving soul. Nature is designed to be a giving force to create and support life in all of its abundance. This includes every need and desire of humankind. I believe that the “natural” disasters which we experience frequently are the result of the imbalance of natural energy flows caused either directly or indirectly by us humans, directly through our scavenging the earth and indirectly through our selfish hatred of our own kind – humans.

The underlying force of Nature is Love. Love is never selfish and always wishes the best for the other. This is Nature as it is meant to be. Love is the source of all life. If we humans have not love then we upset the balance of nature. The laws of attraction tells us this is so. Think of evil and evil will come upon you. Think of good and you will experience good. Fear bad things and that fear will upset the natural balance of love and trust and bad things will result. Avatar reminds us that we each have the power for our own good or our own destruction in our our own hands.

There is one other lesson in the Avatar movie which may have gone largely unnoticed. It is the importance of gratitude. When Neytiri kills some wild creatures in order to save Jake she weeps because the animals did not need to die, but they died because of Jake’s carelessness. Later as Jake was trained in the art and ways of the na’vi he also learned to be grateful even for the prey he just killed for food. He very deliberately thanks the animal and releases its spirit to return to Eywa while it’s body stays to become a part of the na’vi.

How often are you grateful for the smallest blessings? Are you aware of your connection to nature, to your car, your money and your neighbour? Are you sensitive to the fact that whatever you give out will return to you, whether that be hate or love, or selfishness or generosity, rudeness or kindness. Have you been grateful for 2009? Stop and think now and give thanks for all the good that your life has received in 2009. And if you only think of bad things give thanks for that too, perhaps you have missed something.

Be blessed and enjoy your connections in 2010.

Right? Isn’t this what you have wished many times, many many times? What’s going on in your head? Where are the answers? Where do you expect the answers to come from? I tell you from where. From inside your head.

Does that sound amazing, or simply matter of fact. Of course the answers come from inside my head if no one else gives me an answer. What kind of answer is that? Well it’s not strictly “inside” your head, not there where all the intellectual thinking takes place. But the answer comes from inside you.

So what’s the difference? By “you” I mean the real being that is you, not the thinking physical being which is a part of you. The real you consists of several parts, or layers or levels of consciousness. There is the conscious mind, that part of you which you are aware of, the thinking you. Then there is the Sub-conscious mind. That is the part of you which is responsible for your habits, your  reactions and mind patterns. It is here, in the sub-conscious mind, where essential paradigms are formed, maintained and replaced. The sub-conscious mind is also that part of you which is connected to every other sub-conscious mind. We are all connected on this level and it is from here that information can be retrieved from other minds. Ideas are formed and the right people and situations are attracted.

But there is another, higher, part of your consciousness, that is the super-conscious mind. This is a hidden part, even more obscure than your sub-conscious mind. The super-consciousness is the part of you which has a direct link to to the Divine, to God, or the Universal Consciousness. Here is where true inspiration for new ideas and new ways comes from. The only problem is the intellectual mind, it is so busy thinking it doesn’t even know the super-conscious mind exists. Luckily we have the sub-conscious mind which can send messages to the super-conscious mind.

Here is how it works: First your conscious mind gets an idea, a desire, a plan – something it wants, something you want. Secondly the conscious mind, you, uses intention, repetition, affirmations, visualization and emotions to impress this desire, this image, onto the sub-conscious mind. Thirdly, the sub-conscious mind, now that it has a clear picture of what is desired (and it doesn’t know if it’s good or bad) passes this message to the Super-conscious mind, which processes it and gives it to the Divine. Next, fourthly, the Divine sends an answer via the super-conscious mind direct to the conscious mind – inspiration. At the same time the sub-conscious mind is attracting like vibrations. So “chance” meetings and unexpected circumstances, combined with the Divine Inspiration, all work together to produce the desired result.

But like I said, there is a problem. The busy thinking mind can’t communicate its desire clearly enough to the sub-conscious mind, nor can it hear the inspiration from the super-conscious mind.

Mind blowing? Tell me what you think below.

So what to do to get that answers, that important inspiration? Simply – shut up! Shut up your mind. Stop thinking, literally. Only by stilling the mind can you possibly hear what God has to say to you. And how do you quieten your mind? Focus! Focus on something still, like a nail head, a candle flame, a spot of the wall. Just focus and allow your mind to settle down. Accept but ignore any thoughts coming into your mind. Just let the waters settle. Stay focused and calm will return. Then and only then will your hear it –  the still small voice – speaking to you.

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As a master Neo could see The Matrix for what it truly is, a matrix of digital information. This gave him the ability to change that digital information and override certain “fixed” programming.

Did you know that your world, this physical reality we call “real” is in fact nothing other than a Matrix like reality? It’s true! Scientists have discovered what Lynn McTaggart calls The Field and what Gregg Braden calls The Divine Matrix, a field of energy connecting everything in space and time. Physicists tell us that everything we know is made up with atoms and electron. Everything we can see and touch are only variations of thee vibrating elements. Even the stuff we smell, hear and feel are again vibrational energies interacting with our intimate field of awareness.

And here is where it gets really interesting: Thoughts are also energy! The whole scary conclusions which quantum physicists are talking about is that human intention can change matter. It has been seen in experimentation how deliberate intention of thought can effect how particles react. On a larger scale it is well know how thoughts can be “read” and transmitted instantly to other locations. Thoughts can brings about healing, or illness, can cause events to happen to being about a desire or a fear. Thoughts are energy and as such if directed and focused with intent can bring about change in the “physical” realm as in the movie.

When you break this understanding down to its simplest form, everything in our physical world is only energy. There is nothing really solid. Everything is made up with atoms and electrons, which are themselves not solids, but concentrations of energy. So your body is nothing more than a bunch of energy bundles all working together to produce your physical “solid” experience. And all that is held together through intent. If this is so, then all of life is only a series of bits of information, DNA, various programs of information all working together to create the living, physical reality we know.

If this is so, then you are Neo, and if you can grasp this understanding you too can manipulate your environment through deliberate intent of thought and sub-conscious feeling. It is at the sub-conscious level where the programming happens and it is these sub-conscious programs which control what we do, have and are. So if we want a different reality, different results, then we must change the programming. We do this through auto-suggestion, which is only a tool to get the sub-conscious mind to accept a new idea. Once that happens your actions will change, your words will change, your feelings will change and your results, your life will change.

This whole Divine Matrix idea that everything is energy can be a scary thought. But if you can grasp it, the world is yours.

Have fun with this. Tell me what you think.

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Paradigms determine how we think and react in given situations. Religion is a big paradigm, a given set of ideas. Science is a collection of other paradigms. Paradigms are all over the place, in our heads affecting the way we think. They determine our habits, our reactions, our actions, our thinking and even our feelings.

We learn to react and feel in certain ways when faced with certain situations. Someone stands on my toe, I may have learned to scream and fling out with my arm. Instead I can react much differently. Some may have learned to get angry or swear when something doesn’t go as expected, like it rains at the picnic, or a job is lost. These reactions can be different.

When you look at your life and how you answer people, react to news and circumstances, you will probably see a pattern which you can identify in many of the people around you. We learn to respond instead of react.

Another example of a paradigm is that illness comes form outside into my body. It is well researched and known that illness comes from within. Katharina, my wife, has studied kinesiology, which uses the muscle test to determine what the body has to say about the cause of an illness or emotional trauma, or stress. It is a method for tapping into the subconscious mind, which is, to keep it simple, a field of spiritual energy connecting us all together. It is known that our emotions, feelings over past events can cause illness, and when this cause is known the illness dissolves.

The Law of Attraction and the teaching surrounding this understands the presence of such a field of consciousness of which we are all a part. It is this consciousness which holds the universe together and has created this physical universe. Call it God if you like, it is the same thing. We are all joined or connected to God, and God dwells in each of us. This consciousness is part of our consciousness.

This is why it is possible to change the physical. The physical is controlled and subject to God, or Universal Consciousness. If we think and feel intensely enough we can change our environment. This is what makes miracles possible and healings. It is not a miracle, really, but appling other laws that exist in the universe.

Feelings, or emotion, is the language of this consciousness. It is our feelings which make things happen and can change our physical world. Consciousness isn’t limited by physical laws, it creates them, and the paradigms say this is a very physical problem and thinking can’t change it. This may be true in the physical realm, but in the spiritual realm, in the world of Universal Consciousness, in God’s realm, all things are possible.

Think of this as a kind of prayer, except you are not asking or begging, but making a clear and specific statement. “Ask the Father what you will and believe that you have it and it will be yours.” Jesus said this and it couldn’t be clearer. To sum it up, yes, healing is possible and it is our choice. Our thoughts and feelings determine the result. So what are we thinking and feeling? Maybe we need to change that in order to get the change we desire.

What is you desire? Are your thinking and your feelings getting you there?

What is a Relationship?
A relationship is a connection between two human beings, be it a business, family, social or intimate relationship. All relationships comprise of similar characteristics and boundaries. The connection is what determines the kind of relationship and respect for that connection determines its success. Connections are made in business deals, births and marriages, membership or attendance in clubs and organisations and on the emotional and sexual level between two individuals. Problems arise when this connection is not respected and one party’s boundaries are crossed.

The connection is the basis for the relationship. If this can be maintained honestly then the relationship will grow as trust grows. Where there is dishonesty, there is no trust, the connection is broken and the relationship no longer has any grounds for existence. If the relationship is subsequently forced to continue, either because either or both parties do not face the truth of the dishonesty, or because of fear of what others may think, or even because of the fear of not knowing what to do without this relationship, then this relationship becomes a conflict. The relationship has broken down and only conflict can remain when the two insist on playing out a relationship.

What Boundaries are Necessary in a Relationship?
Every individual has his or her private sphere. This is the area where a person is alone with his or her thoughts, their interests and pleasures. A relationship is built on the connection of common interests. No two people are the same, so there is naturally a boundary between the connecting interest and the individual interests. I see three possible scenarios when this boundary is reached:

1. The boundary of individual interests is respected and left alone. There is no attempt to interfere with the other’s personal interests.

2. The boundary is shared for the sake of the other and the interests are enjoyed by both parties.

3. The boundary is ignored and one party attempts to change the other to make them fit more into their realm of interests.

A combination of the first two will lead to a successful relationship. But any attempt at the third brings only disaster to the relationship.

A healthy relationship is always depending on a healthy give and take attitude. Each party seeks the best for the other and never forces anything. Any attempt to control the other immediately breaks the connection forming the relationship. Freedom should be given and each party is free to develop their own interests and personalities.

Why are Relationships Important?
Relationships are important because of our connection with each other. This time I mean another type of connection. All of us are connected on a higher level than is obvious to our physical perceptions. On the understanding that everything is energy, our bodies, the world around us, even our thoughts, and that beyond the physical world which we are familiar with there is another non-physical existence, outside of our perception of time and space. On this other level, we’ll call it energy level or the spiritual level, everything is connected through a field of energy, for all beings are energy. This connection, although not obvious to us here in this life, is still very real in the other realm.

This is why we are drawn to one another (all man-made religious ideas and ideals set aside) because we are a part of one another. There is a sense of completeness when we have a close relationship with another individual, whether this be on a social or intimate basis. Even a successful business partnership can be fulfilling as both parties benefit from the partnership. We are constantly looking for this inner fulfilment. Some try to find satisfaction in religion, enjoy the connections there, but are driven to despair by all the other stuff which make relationships impossible. Others will seek fulfilment in social or cultural groups, finding those who like the same things. But even these relationships are doomed to failure if they are not built on a mutual connection respecting individual boundaries.

Every individual has a purpose. Our relationships work best when this purpose in respected and given freedom to evolve. How far a boundary should be set is up to the mutual agreement of the parties involved. This may be unspoken yet naturally worked out in the love and respect of each other.

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Think about it. Every area of conflict has one basic problem: one or both sides believe themselves to be right and in the right to do harm to the other side. We scold our children when they fight over toys, yet we accept the same adult behaviour which leads to fists, fighting and feuds. Why is it, that after hundreds of years, people persist in hating the other side? Why is it that we insist the other back down before we do? Don’t they see that when no one backs down that conflict will persist and fighting will continue and children will still get killed?

In this world we have those still acting out of a low state of awareness. They are unaware of the universal connection to all humans. They think themselves as separate entities and of their cause as their identity as an individual being belonging to an distinct group. They feel the need to protect this identity and are prepared to kill for it. And here’s the crunch – Not one of them, no matter which side they are on, is thinking their own thoughts and making their own decisions!

Every one of us has grown up with indoctrination. “Don’t do that!” “Do this!” “Don’t trust them!” “They are not nice people.” And so on. We learn as children to mistrust our fellow human beings simply because they were born to different parents who lived on the other side of the fence. So now they are are enemies and all we know is we must fight them to stop their evil from spreading. And that child on the other side is being taught exactly the same thing.

Mr. Taliban, Mr. Ulsterman, Mr. Iranian, Mr. Israeli, Mr. Palasitnian, Mr. Religious, Mr. Colleague, Mr. Neighbour, and you too, isn’t it time in this world of growing global consciousness to stop our childish, petty quarrels and learn to forgive? Isn’t it time to put aside the centuries old conflicts and outdated views and seek to help our neighbours and give them food, rather than bomb them out of existence.

And Mr. USA, isn’t it time you stopped bullying the world and attacking out of fear and mistrust, and started using your might to build schools, factories, food plants and educate the world to provide for his neighbour? Isn’t it time to turn our swords into ploughs, our tanks to tractors, our bombers into carriers of water and grain? Isn’t it time to make this planet a world of peace and prosperity for all?

For God’s sake and the sake of our children, grow up and stop pointing the finger. We’re no more perfect than the one being accused. Here’s why:

We are all one. All of us! Everyone, no one excluded. We are ALL one. We are living in a sea of energy and we are ourselves formed out of energy and we are all connected via energy. Everything I do effects you and the rest of the world and vice versa. Believe me, God, Jesus, Muhammed, Buddha, Krishna, King David and every other religious or political leader that ever lived are looking down on us right now and shaking their heads. They are urging us to remember their most important message: Love your neighbour as yourself – forgive one another – do good to those who abuse you – provide for the poor, the orphans and widows. If I kill another I kill part of myself. If I love another, no matter where he was born or what he believes, then I am healing myself and humanity.

Isn’t it time to wake up and recognise that the human race is unique and a part of something much greater than humanity? This is our testing ground. Will you mess up, or pass into global acceptance and universal love? What do you think? write a comment below.