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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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.

Amanda Knox

Who murdered Meredith Kercher? This may seem a strange topic for this blog, but this is not so much about the trial and verdicts as about finding out the truth. As in any public tragedy the public want to know the truth. And giving a guilty verdict, although pleasing to the victim’s family, is not always a representation of the truth.

Take the assassination of JFK, the murder of OJ Simpson’s wife, the cause of Michael Jackson’s death. All leave us with a mystery – who did it? Who was responsible? And the case of whether or not Amanda Knox is innocent leaves just such a mystery. For many it is clear, yet the evidence is not conclusive.

So how do we find out the truth? Quite simply, ask your sub-conscience. David Hawkins, author of Truth vs. Falsehood: How to Tell the Difference, has spent decades researching the accuracy and results of testing truth and levels of consciousness using a technique called Kinesiology. This basically is the use of muscle tests to determine facts. It was originally developed to determine the cause and source of pain and illness. But Hawkins saw something else.

The muscle test, there are many but the basic test uses an outstretched arm, indicates either a strong response – resistance to pressing, or a weak response - giving way to pressing. The strong response indicates a positive answer to a statement, the weak response indicates a negative answer. The tester, the one adding the pressure to the outstretched arm, can simply think of the statement or object and test for a response. The tested person is unaware of what is being tested yet the response received is known to indicate the truth. In this way Kinesiology therapists help their clients release the cause of stress or pain, which often lies somewhere in the emotions of past experiences.

There are variations to this basic test, as my wife, a trained Integrative Kinesiologist, will tell you. Her primary testing involves the conscious participation of the client, so the statements being tested are always known.

But what Hawkin’s saw in this method was a way to tap into the sub-conscious mind. He knew that if he could directly ask the sub-conscience that he would get true responses. The perfect lie detector, the ideal truth analyser – the human body and human consciousness.

Meredith Kercher

I am sure we will see this in the future. Court trials will be reduced to independent teams muscle testing to determine the truth. The only requirement is something we could wish more of in our courtrooms – integrity. To get a clear answer the channel, the tester, must be free of prejudice.

I have seen other methods where the tester can use a simple unadulterated pendulum to get similar responses from his own sub-conscious mind. Again, integrity is essential.

Let us not be too quick to judge. It is amazing how many will jump on the band wagon to shout murder and hang them. They don’t know all the facts, no one does, yet they follow along with the media selling their stories to a revenge hungry public. As in the case of the recent deaths at a James Ray event in Arizona, many unleash their hate as if they are themselves immune from such happenings and they are God the judge. As I have seen in both these cases, the accusers (those unattached to the affected families) reveal their own weak, hateful  hearts. The accuser always shows what is in his own heart.

If anyone has done such testing post your responses below. I wish the Kercher family a peaceful letting go and Amanda and her family truth and justice.

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.

Leave your comment below. Do you believe this?

But they survived, not what could be said about their belief systems. “Our beliefs took a knock, a big knock,” says Jim. “One day we thought all our beliefs about God, life and the world were in order, then they were all turned on their head. Nothing has been the same since.” This was the turning point in their lives as they began to pursue the answers which had been avoiding them until now. And thus began a journey of discovery.

Their discoveries, uncovered independently as they each walked distinct paths, were complimentary and served to bind them together against all odds in spite of the forces threatening to pull them apart. Amazingly, their separate paths were uncovering the same truths and they found themselves agreeing more and more as they learned about God, the universe and consciousness.

The lessons they learned on their journey serve as an inspiration to the reader. You will read how they grew in awareness of who and what they are, how they learned to let go of old ways and paradigms and how to listen to their inner voice for guidance. The reader will benefit from their lessons of overcoming obstacles, daring to experiment with new ideas, realizing their purpose and acting on their new found truth to live the life they desire.

To help tell their story, Jim & Katharina have been inspired to adapt a parable to highlight each chapter. Using a family of geese they intriguingly blend in their life’s experiences into the geese’s life and their pursuit of happiness in learning the V formation and daring to fly south.

Katharina sums it up, “The readers will have fun. It’s inspiring and they will learn something for life. There is hope for anyone. No matter how bad a situation may be there is wonderful hope.”

Wings of Change – Discover a New Formation to Success will inspire you to take a new look at life and dare to be different.

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?

Intuition is largely ignored and spoken of as something mysterious. Sometimes you will hear someone speak of their intuition as a feeling in their gut, or that hunch or inkling of an idea. “I just know it’s so”, “I can’t explain it, it’s a feeling I have inside.” These are some of the ways people speak of their intuitive faculty. Even though they may feel something, they usually can’t explain it. How many times have you experienced this inner feeling that something is wrong or right? Is this something we should be taking more notice of?

These definitions from Rhymezone are quite good at explaining Intuition in simple terms:

Intuition is that intellectual faculty which takes the place of reason. Reason uses the memory and conscious analytical thinking to assess a situation to make a decision. We reason things until we think we understand it, weighing the pros and cons and making finally a doubtful decision. We either decide not to go ahead with the idea hoping we are not missing something good, or we decide for it hoping we are not making a mistake. On the other hand intuition is more of an inner feeling or knowing that something is either bad or good. So what is intuition? Is it more than just a feeling? Can we rely on it?

I believe that intuition is a lost ability to receive messages from God. This is our built in ability to communicate with the universe. Inventors will also tell you that their ideas come from their intuition, or from some unknown source. This source is the spiritual connection we have with God and every being in Heaven and Earth. It is like a spiritual, infinite Google, an unending source of wisdom and knowledge. All we need to do is to tap into it and receive the information it delivers.

Modern man is unfortunately taught to rely totally on his reason and logical thinking abilities. Intuition isn’t taught. However, if this is indeed our connection to this infinite source of wisdom then wouldn’t we be wise to do all we can in order to consciously become aware of it and use it? In order to do so we must learn to trust the instinctive feelings we receive. When reasoning fails to deliver a clear answer, or even before wasting too much time with reason, breathe deep and feel within and discover what your inner being is telling you. The only way to really know this inner voice and to recognize it whenever it is active is to step out on faith and trust it. Only by practice will your intuitive voice become familiar and you will become comfortable to heed its instructions. What experience have you had with your intuition? Would you like to share it here?