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Monday, June 18, 2012
Getting Back to Eden
A LOT of people say we're in a place we've never been before. Uncharted Territory. That the whole universe is doing things it's never done before. That the Earth is receiving cosmic energies never before received. That we're entering The Shift of the Ages, The Age of Aquarius, The Daylight Age, The World of The Fifth Sun. The time of Awakening or Ascension.
Other people say, "There's nothing new under the sun," and that we're just following a well-established pattern, which repeats every 26,000 (approximately) years. We can't verify it with records of what people were saying and doing 26,000 years ago — because we don't have records that old. But it is generally accepted that the whole cosmos proceeds in a pattern, from a state of high spirituality to a state of the lowest materialism and back to spirituality, every 26,000 years.
So ... are we Ascending, or are we just riding the cosmic roller coaster around the same old track over and over? I think we're doing both. We're on the same old track — but the track is not a circle, it's a spiral. We're going upward in the spiral. We are Ascending.
What's at the very top? I like to call it Self-realization — where we truly real-ize our identity as the one and only Self (or Source, or God, or pure Being-ness). It's the same old Self-realization that has always existed ... and all roads have always led to it, because there's nowhere else to go.... : ^ ). But, what I think changes every 26,000 years is that the road gets easier — because of the upward spiraling — and more of us get to Self-realization than ever before.
Now, in the year 2012, we're about to enter The World of The Fifth Sun (if the Mayans were right : ^ ). The world in which we transcend all dualities, we experience everything as Oneness.
I don't know how that will feel, but it reminds me of the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden. Is The World of the Fifth Sun just a higher incarnation of Eden? As Adam and Eve, finding ourselves in a paradise, we couldn't understand or appreciate it, so we ate the forbidden fruit (knowledge of Good and Evil). We were kicked out of Eden, and we've been trying to get back in ever since. And, as Eliot said, "the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
YES, we're getting back to Eden, but at a higher point on the spiral. Maybe we are indeed at the very top of the spiral this time. The Bible talks about the creation of a new Heaven and a new Earth. It seems clear that these can only be created through a mass change in human consciousness. In order to transcend duality and create a new Earth, the consciousness of everyone on the planet will have to change. In previous Ages, people have attained Self-realization, but only in small numbers. What's different this time is that we're in an all-or-nothing situation: We have degraded the Earth and ourselves to such a point that nothing will survive without a total change of consciousness. That means, every one of us.
Everyone who is not willing to make the change will have to go somewhere else. Everyone who stays here will have to stop playing the duality game.
How can we transcend duality?
It's all a matter of energetic frequency. Everything in the manifest world is vibrating energy ... and we have a pretty good idea of how it all comes about. The Tao Te Ching, one of the oldest and most revered books we have, says: "From the Tao comes forth the one, From the one comes forth the two, From the two comes forth the three, And from the three comes forth all things." The Tao is the Unmanifest, the realm of pure potential or Being-ness (or Source, God, Self).
There is also a Japanese understanding that says the same thing in different words. It describes the manifestation of a hierarchy of energies. Everything begins with the Unmanifest or "spiritual essence" (or God), which the Japanese call Shin. The first manifestation of Shin is Shin-ki ("God-energy"), corresponding to "the one" in Taoism. From Shinki comes Reiki, corresponding to "the two" in Taoism. The Two are Yang and Yin (Yo and In in Japanese). At this stage — Reiki — Yo and In are complete in themselves, in harmony with each other and with Shinki, which connects them to Shin. But then, magnetism develops between Yo and In ... resulting in the next manifestation, an energetic state called Jiki. This corresponds to "the three" (Yo + In + magnetism).
From Jiki ("the three") comes vibration in the form of electricity, known as Denki. This is followed by the energies of Air, Water, and Minerals (called Kuki, Mizuke, and Shioke).
T'ai Chi
In terms of this hierarchy, we can see that the arising of magnetism is what plunges everything into the whirlpool of Yang and Yin continually chasing each other. This perpetual unrest is called T'ai Chi, and symbolized by the familiar depiction to the left. T'ai Chi is the world of duality, where Yin and Yang are forever chasing each other and transforming into each other. This is the world we were compelled to inhabit after eating the knowledge of Good and Evil. In the Garden of Eden, I guess we could say, the serpent was the arising of magnetism between Adam and Eve.
So ... how do we get out of the whirlpool? We do it by raising our energetic vibration to the level of Reiki or higher! And there happens to be a specific method of doing this ... known as ... Reiki !! : ^ )
There are countless other methods, too. Any kind of spiritual practice that raises your vibration, your level of consciousness. Anything that keeps you in the high-frequency range emotionally — feeling peaceful, thankful, loving, secure. Anything that gets you above the level of duality — to where you can feel the oneness and the all-rightness of everything.... I believe this is what the Bible refers to as "being in the world but not of the world."
It's also just Self-realization. If we can merely let go of such vibrations as fear, anger, hostility, worry ... and remember our true, original identity ... and then if we can help everyone else do the same ... the new Eden will be created...!
I believe, once enough of us are living at a sufficiently high vibration level, there may be a quantum leap in consciousness throughout the world. Millions of people may suddenly awake from the nightmare we have created for ourselves; awake and stop killing each other, and start caring for each other and for all forms of life.
My personal path
Thanks to discussions with two of my friends, I have come to realize that I've not been doing a very good job of this myself. For years I've been practicing Reiki and Jourei and Macrobiotics, plus other things to raise my vibration level (most recently, a way of directly accessing Shinki). That has been the main focus of my life. But, something else — especially in the past 5 years — has been dragging me down.
For many years I lived alone, and I chose not to have television. Now, for almost 5 years, I've not lived alone, and have lived in a house with television. And I've become a political junkie — watching hours of political "news" on TV every day. I thought I had found a way to neutralize the negative effects of it (see The Reiki Television Project) ... but no, not really. No matter how peaceful I remained while watching the TV, the stupidity of what I had seen kept eating at me until I couldn't resist writing a commentary about it...! Those commentaries have been the bulk of my blogging here for the past few years.
What a perfect example of being caught in the trap of T'ai Chi — my "light" side and my "dark" side chasing each other around the whirlpool...! And I kept finding excuses to justify it: "It's just harmless entertainment!" ... or, "I have to expose the truth of what is going on!"
But, no — the deeper truth is, I need to end my addiction! I have long known (and preached!) that there is no political solution to any of our problems; that only a quantum leap of consciousness can save us from the mess we've made. I've been telling people to ignore the whole political system, to walk away from it — and, how can I expect anyone to do that unless I lead by example?! The truth is, we're all so deeply caught in this ... and the American political system is the absolute epitome of the duality trap! Two sides locked in mindless battle, rabidly bashing each other over the head, no matter what!!
I came to the full realization of this through discussions with a new friend, Remko, about the energy hierarchy described above ... and through conversations with another new friend, Diana. Like me, she's been consciously on a spiritual path for many years; and we have great affinity for each other. But when we get into political stuff, we're on opposite sides of the fence! The craziness of that made us both see just how artificial is the political stuff!! And it made us vow to let go of it and walk away from it; to give it no more thought, no more reality.
That was almost 2 weeks ago ... and I have not watched a political show (or even the national "news") on television since. And I feel so much better! Now I'm deleting my political commentaries from this blog.... YAYYY!! Good riddance!! No one needs them!!
I greatly encourage you to take similar action — in every way possible, withdraw your attention from the political system and from everything else that traps you in a low vibration level. Our thoughts and attention are all that allow such things to exist and perpetuate. If we withdraw our attention, these artificial creations will crumble and fade away to nothingness....
There are millions of individuals and many organizations working to bring about the leap in consciousness that will lead us to a new Eden. Here are links to 2 such organizations, proceeding in complementary but very different ways:
The following is a video called Mission: Paradise, by Jim Channon, the creator of First Earth Battalion. It's the result of "35 years of scouting for good ideas and nine years of asking 2000 global leaders their visions."
Other people say, "There's nothing new under the sun," and that we're just following a well-established pattern, which repeats every 26,000 (approximately) years. We can't verify it with records of what people were saying and doing 26,000 years ago — because we don't have records that old. But it is generally accepted that the whole cosmos proceeds in a pattern, from a state of high spirituality to a state of the lowest materialism and back to spirituality, every 26,000 years.
So ... are we Ascending, or are we just riding the cosmic roller coaster around the same old track over and over? I think we're doing both. We're on the same old track — but the track is not a circle, it's a spiral. We're going upward in the spiral. We are Ascending.
What's at the very top? I like to call it Self-realization — where we truly real-ize our identity as the one and only Self (or Source, or God, or pure Being-ness). It's the same old Self-realization that has always existed ... and all roads have always led to it, because there's nowhere else to go.... : ^ ). But, what I think changes every 26,000 years is that the road gets easier — because of the upward spiraling — and more of us get to Self-realization than ever before.
Now, in the year 2012, we're about to enter The World of The Fifth Sun (if the Mayans were right : ^ ). The world in which we transcend all dualities, we experience everything as Oneness.
I don't know how that will feel, but it reminds me of the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden. Is The World of the Fifth Sun just a higher incarnation of Eden? As Adam and Eve, finding ourselves in a paradise, we couldn't understand or appreciate it, so we ate the forbidden fruit (knowledge of Good and Evil). We were kicked out of Eden, and we've been trying to get back in ever since. And, as Eliot said, "the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
YES, we're getting back to Eden, but at a higher point on the spiral. Maybe we are indeed at the very top of the spiral this time. The Bible talks about the creation of a new Heaven and a new Earth. It seems clear that these can only be created through a mass change in human consciousness. In order to transcend duality and create a new Earth, the consciousness of everyone on the planet will have to change. In previous Ages, people have attained Self-realization, but only in small numbers. What's different this time is that we're in an all-or-nothing situation: We have degraded the Earth and ourselves to such a point that nothing will survive without a total change of consciousness. That means, every one of us.
Everyone who is not willing to make the change will have to go somewhere else. Everyone who stays here will have to stop playing the duality game.
| Taoist model | Japanese model |
| TAO v The One v The Two v The Three v All Things | SHIN v Shinki v Reiki v Jiki v Denki, etc. |
It's all a matter of energetic frequency. Everything in the manifest world is vibrating energy ... and we have a pretty good idea of how it all comes about. The Tao Te Ching, one of the oldest and most revered books we have, says: "From the Tao comes forth the one, From the one comes forth the two, From the two comes forth the three, And from the three comes forth all things." The Tao is the Unmanifest, the realm of pure potential or Being-ness (or Source, God, Self).
There is also a Japanese understanding that says the same thing in different words. It describes the manifestation of a hierarchy of energies. Everything begins with the Unmanifest or "spiritual essence" (or God), which the Japanese call Shin. The first manifestation of Shin is Shin-ki ("God-energy"), corresponding to "the one" in Taoism. From Shinki comes Reiki, corresponding to "the two" in Taoism. The Two are Yang and Yin (Yo and In in Japanese). At this stage — Reiki — Yo and In are complete in themselves, in harmony with each other and with Shinki, which connects them to Shin. But then, magnetism develops between Yo and In ... resulting in the next manifestation, an energetic state called Jiki. This corresponds to "the three" (Yo + In + magnetism).
From Jiki ("the three") comes vibration in the form of electricity, known as Denki. This is followed by the energies of Air, Water, and Minerals (called Kuki, Mizuke, and Shioke).
T'ai Chi
In terms of this hierarchy, we can see that the arising of magnetism is what plunges everything into the whirlpool of Yang and Yin continually chasing each other. This perpetual unrest is called T'ai Chi, and symbolized by the familiar depiction to the left. T'ai Chi is the world of duality, where Yin and Yang are forever chasing each other and transforming into each other. This is the world we were compelled to inhabit after eating the knowledge of Good and Evil. In the Garden of Eden, I guess we could say, the serpent was the arising of magnetism between Adam and Eve.So ... how do we get out of the whirlpool? We do it by raising our energetic vibration to the level of Reiki or higher! And there happens to be a specific method of doing this ... known as ... Reiki !! : ^ )
There are countless other methods, too. Any kind of spiritual practice that raises your vibration, your level of consciousness. Anything that keeps you in the high-frequency range emotionally — feeling peaceful, thankful, loving, secure. Anything that gets you above the level of duality — to where you can feel the oneness and the all-rightness of everything.... I believe this is what the Bible refers to as "being in the world but not of the world."
It's also just Self-realization. If we can merely let go of such vibrations as fear, anger, hostility, worry ... and remember our true, original identity ... and then if we can help everyone else do the same ... the new Eden will be created...!
I believe, once enough of us are living at a sufficiently high vibration level, there may be a quantum leap in consciousness throughout the world. Millions of people may suddenly awake from the nightmare we have created for ourselves; awake and stop killing each other, and start caring for each other and for all forms of life.
My personal path
Thanks to discussions with two of my friends, I have come to realize that I've not been doing a very good job of this myself. For years I've been practicing Reiki and Jourei and Macrobiotics, plus other things to raise my vibration level (most recently, a way of directly accessing Shinki). That has been the main focus of my life. But, something else — especially in the past 5 years — has been dragging me down.
For many years I lived alone, and I chose not to have television. Now, for almost 5 years, I've not lived alone, and have lived in a house with television. And I've become a political junkie — watching hours of political "news" on TV every day. I thought I had found a way to neutralize the negative effects of it (see The Reiki Television Project) ... but no, not really. No matter how peaceful I remained while watching the TV, the stupidity of what I had seen kept eating at me until I couldn't resist writing a commentary about it...! Those commentaries have been the bulk of my blogging here for the past few years.
What a perfect example of being caught in the trap of T'ai Chi — my "light" side and my "dark" side chasing each other around the whirlpool...! And I kept finding excuses to justify it: "It's just harmless entertainment!" ... or, "I have to expose the truth of what is going on!"
But, no — the deeper truth is, I need to end my addiction! I have long known (and preached!) that there is no political solution to any of our problems; that only a quantum leap of consciousness can save us from the mess we've made. I've been telling people to ignore the whole political system, to walk away from it — and, how can I expect anyone to do that unless I lead by example?! The truth is, we're all so deeply caught in this ... and the American political system is the absolute epitome of the duality trap! Two sides locked in mindless battle, rabidly bashing each other over the head, no matter what!!
I came to the full realization of this through discussions with a new friend, Remko, about the energy hierarchy described above ... and through conversations with another new friend, Diana. Like me, she's been consciously on a spiritual path for many years; and we have great affinity for each other. But when we get into political stuff, we're on opposite sides of the fence! The craziness of that made us both see just how artificial is the political stuff!! And it made us vow to let go of it and walk away from it; to give it no more thought, no more reality.That was almost 2 weeks ago ... and I have not watched a political show (or even the national "news") on television since. And I feel so much better! Now I'm deleting my political commentaries from this blog.... YAYYY!! Good riddance!! No one needs them!!
I greatly encourage you to take similar action — in every way possible, withdraw your attention from the political system and from everything else that traps you in a low vibration level. Our thoughts and attention are all that allow such things to exist and perpetuate. If we withdraw our attention, these artificial creations will crumble and fade away to nothingness....
There are millions of individuals and many organizations working to bring about the leap in consciousness that will lead us to a new Eden. Here are links to 2 such organizations, proceeding in complementary but very different ways:
- Children of the Sun
- First Earth Battalion (I noticed some weird things in the left-hand column of the page — namely, Clooney Movie News and the Live Traffic Feed. I don't know why they are there; ad revenue, maybe...?)
The following is a video called Mission: Paradise, by Jim Channon, the creator of First Earth Battalion. It's the result of "35 years of scouting for good ideas and nine years of asking 2000 global leaders their visions."
Friday, November 18, 2011
A Letter to the National Organic Standards Board
PLEASE, Mister Postman — deliver my letter, the sooner the better ... to the National Organic Standards Board! tell them not to let corporate agribusiness (or anyone else) compromise the standards for organic foods!
That's what they want to do, of course....
Please see this article from naturalnews.com, for the details ... including a pre-written letter you can print and sign and mail. the National Organic Standards Board will convene, to discuss organic policies and regulatory guidelines, from November 29 to December 2, 2011 — so, your letter needs to arrive before then!
Just do it! click the link ... print the letter ... sign it and mail it. you'll feel better....
Here's some inspirational music you can listen to while you're doing it:
That's what they want to do, of course....
Please see this article from naturalnews.com, for the details ... including a pre-written letter you can print and sign and mail. the National Organic Standards Board will convene, to discuss organic policies and regulatory guidelines, from November 29 to December 2, 2011 — so, your letter needs to arrive before then!
Just do it! click the link ... print the letter ... sign it and mail it. you'll feel better....
Here's some inspirational music you can listen to while you're doing it:
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
LEGACIES / Tom Swope Video
THAT Swope boy is back in the news again...!
Here's a video about his book — LEGACIES: Stories from the Second World War — and his hometown of Mentor, Ohio.... (the video starts at about the 19-second mark)
a PDF edition of the book can be had for $10, from HaMaKuA Publishing.
a PDF edition of the book can be had for $10, from HaMaKuA Publishing.
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