An Urge to Write--Yes, YOU!

I've been telling people to journal for the last year.  And now, with my clients, I'm really insistent about it.  Here they are, doing the most important work ever--themSelves--and journaling is a key component of it.  Recording it, reviewing it, rewinding it, observing Self as it happens; all this happens with greater depth and breadth with journalling.  Writing it down regularly helps you step back a bit, get a bigger perspective; it also provides the opportunity for the reflection through which comes greater insight, greater understanding, even those flashes of sudden inspiration Oprah calls those "A Ha!" moments.

So that's why I always tell my clients to journal.  If you don't, you're missing 70% of the journey, I really believe that. 

BUT, why I think it's critical to journal now, is ... it's 2012, for God's sake.  Let me say right off the top, I'm not talking about the end of the world scenario doom & gloom that Hollywood delivers.  I'm talking about the end of many natural cycles that have long been prophesied to end with the advent of a golden age.

Just think for a moment, what if it's true?  What if there's even a sliver of a possibility that this isn't just another year?  What if things really change "out there?"  Pretend for a moment it is true.  Now pretend it's 20 years later, 2032, and your (great) grandchild asks you with all earnestness, "Gamps, what were you doing the year the world changed?"  And you think, you ponder, and what comes to you is that job you were struggling with, and the general demoralization with the socio/economic/political structures falling apart at the seams, and how you bought a new car that year ... but what was going on inside you, that's a blur.  You remember when It happened, and how you had to adjust to a whole new reality immediately, and how painful for western culture it was--but your own personal process is lost. 

Really?  You're going to let 2012 go by without recording it?  Because what I'm coming to believe is, what's inside is what 2012 is all about.  That's where it's really, mostly going to happen.  It's the internal limitations breaking; it's the precepts that we all think are real that have created a totally false world--that's what's falling apart and ending.  Who you are, what you know, what you think is true and real, and what is false, what your essence is, what you're made of ... all that is going to change. 

So write it down.  This is a moment in history that we've been waiting for a very long time. 
Write it down.

Harvard Study Confirms Fluoride Reduces Children's IQ

Harvard Study Confirms Fluoride Reduces Children's IQ

I have been a proponent of removing fluoride from our water supply forever.  I remember when my hometown, Middlebury, Vermont, started fluoridating our water, because my father was beyond furious.  He testified, he ranted and raved to the town's Powers That Be, begging them to not do this.  He was incredulous when they went ahead with their misguided decision.  And that's the day he started getting our family's drinking water from a spring up in the mountains.
I was in 4th grade at the time, and at school the next day, having listened to his horrified conversations with mom and friends, I looked up fluoride in the dictionary.  "A yellow-green poison" was the definition.  I became utterly baffled upon reading that.  Why any sane adult would choose to deliberately poison our water supply, I just could not comprehend.  (That definition is hidden further down the paragraph nowadays). 

Now, as an adult and having done years of research on that and many other topics related to health, food, etc., I know why.  It doesn't change the fact that it's wrong; I was so hopeful when the matter came up for a vote in the city of Burlington--last year, was it?  I was astonished that it didn't pass.  We're paying for it with our bodies, our health, and now, it turns out, our intelligence.  Well, most people are.  (Most tap filters do not remove fluoride, if you think that's saving you).  I choose not to. 

I drive up to the mountains to get good spring water for me and my family to consume.  It's ridiculous that I should have to--but many things about our culture are, these days.

For Goodness' Sake ...

As the spider weaves its web, it can catch both the good (an insect providing a tasty meal) and the bad (a bird that tears the web to bits).  As we navigate our days, make choices, turn corners, our lives form a thread that, together with the rest of Life, weaves a Web of reality.  What is your thread made of?

I aspire to weave goodness into my little corner of the Web. I know I fail miserably at times, but Goodness is the goal.

Goodness.
The impulse to do the right thing, to help when there's a need, to make life better for someone, somewhere, in some small way ...

We can see signs of goodness everywhere.  There's the obvious places; the Food Shelves, the homeless shelters, etc.  But in our own way, we each can create goodness as we walk through our days.  If we pay attention, more opportunities present themselves.

Walking to my healing space this morning from the parking garage, there was an enormous tractor trailer trying to back up from Cherry Street around the tight corner onto Church Street in Burlington.  A daunting task, to be sure, and the driver had to stop and pull ahead again to make a correction.  I watched as several men passing by stopped to help.  One was directing him from the front, another at the back, and the man picking up garbage on the street gave further help from the side.  Concern for their fellow Man just kicked in and they stepped up.

This past weekend I took my son to the A&W Root beer stand in Middlebury for a root beer float.  Of course, I couldn't resist the onion rings, nor my son the french fries and cheeseburger.  When our food came, she attached the tray to my car window and cheerfuly announced "$11.85."  I looked around for my wallet, and then sputtered with embarrassment when I realized I'd forgotten it at my friend's house down the road when we'd left.

"No problem," the young woman said.  "Eat your food while it's hot and then go get your purse."

So that's what we did, greatly appreciating the goodness in her that created a good situation out of a potentially unpleasant one.

Calling to check on a friend having a hard time, sending a card, lighting a candle with a special prayer, holding a door on the street for someone, or dropping a quarter in an expired meter (not your own) with the meter man coming down the block ... little bursts of goodness--random acts of kindness--can make the world spin a little more smoothly for someone, can strengthen the threads of the Web of Life.

Who can you share your goodness with today?   :-)

A Morning Moment at All Souls Interfaith

I love stormy days!

We've just been promised lots of lightning today--in my cosmic crystal world, that means, put your crystals outside! On your deck, lawn, patio, whatever you've got. They will be cleared TIMES A GODZILLION, they'll be energized and truly charged up with all that elemental/storm energy.

Then when you bring them back into your home--wow. Use the energy to Clear, Clear, Clear. What are you ready to let go of this week? Emotionally, mentally, physically ... use Nature's gift of the elements to enhance your ascension 2012 process of jettisoning what doesn't work, what isn't you or yours, what is getting in your way; let it all go, and make room for the new, the grand unfolding of the upgraded You you now get to align with, once you've created the space--your choice.

My brain on Life ...

This is my story, and I'm stickin' to it!

Summer Solstice in this year of Ascension 2012 ... where will you be?

How are you liking 2012 so far?  The mid-point fast approaches ... I know some folks whose lives are imploding, some whose lives are exploding, some who just seem to plod along ... and others are diving headfirst into the richness, the juicy depths of the human experience, that is being magnified and multiplied times a Godzillion this year, and working it, running with it, expanding into it with relish, and glee.

I woke up this morning and did a meditation with my Ascension 2012 Essence blend, and it was fantastic.  Well, the essence is amazing anyway, if I do say so myself.  Using it with its affirmation, is really powerful.  And, it creates a perfect link to enable you to tune into this superwave of energy coming from the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy, the very phenomena the 2012 prophecy is based on...   Dr. Paul LaViolette calls it the Galactic Superwave in his youtube video  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADjnRaBa410&feature=related).

As a result of this meditation, I realized I really want to offer an Ascension 2012 workshop next Tuesday--twice, in fact!  First, Tuesday morning, 9-12, and in the evening, 6-9.

The reason for doing it Tuesday is that the Summer Solstice is Wednesday.  According to Peter Dawkins (zoence.com), we need to show up this solstice season.  Here's a quote from his paper, Midsummer 2012 Baptism of Light, which I recommend.  You can find it as a pdf linked on his home page.  (Bold is mine.)

Of these three Royal Arch gateways into the new Great Age, the Inner Gateway is by far the 
most important. Whatever we do, we're not to miss the midsummer solstice time. It is the most 
important time of all. It is a time for us to both receive and evolve accordingly, and also to serve 
and help others to rise up into the greater light that will be gifted to the world during that time. 
It is a gift, a moment in time, and has to be grasped. If grasped, it can be held onto forevermore 
and will lift the one who holds onto it up to higher levels of consciousness and evolution. If, 
however, that moment in time is missed, it will be gone and the opportunity will be lost. It is up 
to us to be in the right place at the right time, in the right consciousness and serving in the right 
way, helping as many others as possible in the world to receive and be lifted up by this Great 
Light that is coming to the world.

I for one am going to enjoy this opportunity and do ceremony every day, somewhere, on those days; June 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.

Today, at my healing space in the Rainbow Institute, I did another marvelous meditation, with Cyndi, the director here.  Wow.  We first gathered some friends in the center of our space--see the photo above. We then invited our non-physical friends to come in, and we did indeed have quite a group.  They joined us making some beautiful, brilliant magic.  At the end, Kuan Yin reminded us that she too, is experiencing the marvelous process that is the 2012 Ascension, as are all the Ascended Masters, and gods/goddesses from all the traditions.  She said we have to expand our awareness to allow all of them to blow out of their old molds and traditions and shift into the new golden age coming in, along with us.  They're being held back by the binds and thoughtforms of our precepts, locking them into their original forms and accompanying traits.  So, that was very cool.  Everyone wants in on this new time of expansion, enlightenment, and awakening.  What's not to like?