Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Melody of Life - in the cubes?



Last night I happened to revisit an article I read sometime ago on the Rosslyn Chapel and the cubes that may hold some codes for healing. Minutes after leaving the computer, the travel channel happened to be on, and suddenly I was visiting the Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland and looking at these magnificient pictures from now another media source. When this stuff occurs back to back, it is usually a sign to pay attention. The music theme has been so prevalent lately for me, and this information was just a little more to add to the solving of the puzzle of life.

Tune into the Da Vinci coda
LEIGHTON BRUCE

ROSSLYN Chapel holds many secrets. For hundreds of years experts and visitors alike have puzzled over the carvings in the chapel. Whilst some debate whether they point to hidden treasure, Edinburgh composer Stuart Mitchell thinks he has cracked one part of the enigma.

He believes that the ornate ceiling of carved arches, featuring 213 decorated cubes holds a code for medieval music. His father Thomas Mitchell spent 20 years cracking this code in the ceiling and now Stuart is orchestrating the findings for a new recording called The Rosslyn Motet.

They hope that the music, when played on medieval instruments in situ, will resonate throughout the chapel unlocking a secret in the stone.

The breakthrough to interpreting the notation came when Mitchell's father discovered that the markings carved on the face of the cubes seem to match a phenomenon called Cymatics or Chladni patterns. Chladni patterns form when a sustained note is used to vibrate a sheet of metal covered in powder producing marks. The frequency used dictates the shape of the pattern, for example; the musical note A below middle C vibrates at 440 KHz and produces a shape that looks like a rhombus. Different notes can produce various shapes including flowers, diamonds and hexagons - shapes all present on the Rosslyn cubes. Stuart Mitchell believes this is "beyond coincidence" and has assigned a note to each cube.

Ernst Chladni first documented the phenomenon in the late 18th century - yet it appears to be present in a 15th century building. Which begs the question: "Was Sir William St Clair (the man who built Rosslyn Chapel) familiar with sciences far in advance of his time?".

Stuart Mitchell believes a link between the Knights Templar – who may have gleaned advanced Eastern scientific knowledge during their stay in Jerusalem during the Crusades – and Rosslyn could explain the encoded musical notes.

"The symbolism in Rosslyn is reaching back to times of a civilisation that is lost to us now that had sciences that are the roots of all the mechanics of the universe," says Mitchell.

If this science was used in the carvings at Rosslyn, then there needs to be an explanation of how this information came to be lost for centuries. According to Mitchell, the Church suppressed the knowledge as a means of controlling the public. "What it points towards is the church system denying people certain knowledge because knowledge is awareness. People who knew too much were burnt as witches."

Interestingly the Devil's Chord - diabolus in musica - makes an appearance in the music.

"In the ceiling is this jump of an augmented fourth, in fact it opens up with an augmented fourth," says Mitchell. The Catholic Church had banned this interval (seven semitones) from medieval music as it was believed to be disturbing and therefore diabolical. Perhaps St Clair was indeed challenging the authority of the church.

The music itself, according to Mitchell is a mix "of Celtic melodies and secular worship crossed with a kind of Christian worship" but not Catholic he says. Perhaps this explains why carvings depicting the green man, essentially a pagan image, exist alongside carvings of Christ in the chapel.

"[Orkney] and the Shetlands had a very big druid, pagan community and they had their own culture of music," says Mitchell. "William St Clair was the last Earl of Orkney and some of the melodies in the ceiling of Rosslyn Chapel are Orkney/Shetland Airs."

Mitchell doesn't believe that the notes were carved there simply to record a piece of music. He hopes that the repeated frequencies in the music will resonate within the building and unlock a medieval secret.

"Hopefully, knowing masons of this period of time were aware of the acoustic properties and the effect of resonance upon stone, we're hoping something falls loose… it's like a safe. This is why we think he [St Clair] has gone to so much trouble."

Mitchell has no idea what may be hidden in the church, but believes that St Clair used advanced science to ensure that the music was hidden from prying eyes.

Mitchell, dubbing the project "The Voice of Creation", says the carvings on the cubes are ultimately about sacred geometry.

"What it's saying is we've forgotten more than we know."

Perhaps the music is indeed a key to the past, the physics of the universe and just maybe, played loud enough inside Rosslyn, it will unlock a long lost secret hidden in the masonry.

http://heritage.scotsman.com/myths.cfm?id=627062006

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Accordion to my books..... :-)



Music and the keys to life's theme, seem to be part of this weeks ramblings. I am often amused as I reflect on the outward physical creations we make for our lives such as the accordion seen here, as to how it reflects or mirrors back to us, how we too are an instrument, complete with bellows that go in and out, playing different notes and finding the right chord to accompany the harmony and pitch that reflects who we are.

Each person seems to have his or her own rhythm and beat, along with the key or keys that they enjoying playing in. As I watched a recent yoga video demonstration on a yoga position called the spinal flex, there was a woman flexing her spine backward and forward, breathing in and out really fast, and suddenly it dawned on me that she looked like an accordion. Our bodies are truly amazing in every sense of the cells, molecules and atoms. We are our own universe that is constantly pushing and pulling, expanding and contracting, and those folds are forever moving in and out.

This morning I had some time to catch a few TV shows while ironing - or pressing out the garments of my life. Sometimes, wrinkles are okay, then days less wrinkles are called for. The two shows, "The Today Show" and "Live with Regis and Kelli," also contained the music theme. The first one had a little "5" year old Music Prodigy on playing a trumpet. I can honestly say he "BLEW ME AWAY." The way it was discussed by the hosts and an adult horn blower himself, this has never been before seen. The next show featured a woman from last year who was recognized for teaching music to children for free. She would donate her time and often her own financial resources to furnish instruments to all children who so desired to learn and play music. Since then over 700 children have signed up for their free music instruction. This beautiful music lady was gifted with $30,000 of instruments from the show and from what they said was that all year long people have been sending her theirs to share.

In every fiber of my being, I know that music assists in our own healing and personal evolution. The children are showing us over and over that they desire music classes, instead of the nonsense equipment and toys we supply them with to program them more fully into becoming robots of society. By healing their inner energy centers with the vibrations and tones these instruments provide, we are helping them to discover their real essence and self-worth. For those who do not wish to learn a musical instrument, then I would encourage you to try a few yoga classes, where your own body becomes the instrument.

Todays story of the music lady from Canada, flashed me back to a dream I had several years ago. I can remember sitting around a table with other adults who were discussing issues that were only self-serving and materialistic in value. I watched as a young boy sat in the corner by himself, and his only desire was to learn music. I then remember going over to the boy and saying, "I will not only teach you music free of charge, but I will teach all who wish to learn free of charge." To see this on TV today and a remarkable woman from Canada doing this, makes we wonder how many of us dream together?

As I mentioned over at Laura's blog today, that a good composer will insert "Rests" into their composition, for after all that outward movement, we need to come back together and integrate all that we have learned.

And.........so on that note.........I'm out of here and ready for my upcoming rest!

Thanks for the memories is streaming through......got to check out the lines.
Music written for Bob Hope ..... may the memories we have and share, give all of us HOPE for a very BRIGHT/LIGHT of a future. (Might know Bob Hope would show up ---"Bob thanks for all those giggles you gave us.")

I now saw the word Accord ion like this and if we take it apart and research each word we find something like this....

Accord -
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French acorder, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin accordare, from Latin ad- + cord-, cor heart -- more at HEART
transitive senses
1 : to bring into agreement : RECONCILE
2 : to grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned
intransitive senses
1 archaic : to arrive at an agreement 2 obsolete : to give consent
3 : to be consistent or in harmony : AGREE

ion
Main Entry: ion
Function: noun
Pronunciation: 'ī-&n, 'ī-"än
Etymology: Greek, neuter of iOn, present participle of ienai to go -- more at ISSUE
1 : an atom or group of atoms that carries a positive or negative electric charge as a result of having lost or gained one or more electrons
2 : a charged subatomic particle (as a free electron)

WOW - no wonder this taught me about life!

I used to sing, "Make me an Instrument of your Peace" - now I think I really understand the accordion!

Bob Hope's trademark tune wasn't written by him—it was penned by composer Ralph Rainger and lyricist Leo Robin for Hope's first feature film, "The Big Broadcast of 1938."

The song was an instant hit and won the pair the Academy Award for best song.

"Thanks For The Memory"

Thanks for the memory
Of candlelight and wine, castles on the Rhine
The Parthenon and moments on the Hudson River Line
How lovely it was!

Thanks for the memory
Of rainy afternoons, swingy Harlem tunes
And motor trips and burning lips and burning toast and prunes
How lovely it was!

Many's the time that we feasted
And many's the time that we fasted
Oh, well, it was swell while it lasted
We did have fun and no harm done

And thanks for the memory
Of sunburns at the shore, nights in Singapore
You might have been a headache but you never were a bore
So thank you so much.

Thanks for the memory
Of sentimental verse, nothing in my purse
And chuckles when the preacher said "For better or for worse"
How lovely it was

Thanks for the memory
Of lingerie with lace, Pilsner by the case
And how I jumped the day you trumped my one-and-only ace
How lovely it was!

We said goodbye with a highball
Then I got as "high" as a steeple
But we were intelligent people
No tears, no fuss, Hooray! For us

So, thanks for the memory
And strictly entre-nous, darling how are you?
And how are all the little dreams that never did come true?
Aw'flly glad I met you, cheerio, and toodle-oo

And thank you so much

Monday, May 08, 2006

Lilacs of Desire


Aside from Roses, there is no flower as beautiful and aromatic as Lilacs - so says the Gardner's Network....

Friday morning on my way out the door, I suddenly had this strong urge to pick some lilacs and take them to my lawyer friend who rents space in our office building. I was already in the car and thinking, "Oh -- I can do it tomorrow." Then, this loud voice inside says, "Take the time and do it now."

So, I got out of the car, found the cutting shears and proceeded to pick her a lovely bouquet. When I arrived at the building, her door was mostly closed so I decided not to bother her, but instead put the vase of flowers on the floor next to her door. (Hey, in this small town, anything goes!) Peg is often known to leave little goodies at our door, so I thought it would be nice to pay her back.

When I stopped into today she came over and gave me a big hug and had a story. She told me that the night before she got the flowers, she was driving home and noticed a beautiful lilac bush outside of someone's home. Oh......she said she wanted some of those so bad. She could almost smell them and even thought of stopping and asking if she could pick some! She said she couldn't get the thought of those lilacs out of her mind. I guess she almost fell over when the next day she stepped outside her office and there she found a vase of her desires sitting on the floor. She asked everyone in the building if they knew who left them for her - and no one did. She figured since I never come in that early, that it couldn't have been me! :-)

I was thinking of something similar that Laura over at Musing of an Ant Watcher, http://www.wellspringcoaching.com/blogs.htm, recently posted on - Synchronicity and Desires, how they do manifest.

I'm really glad my ego didn't win out when it wanted to argue about putting the task off for a little bit, and I allowed myself to be available to help someone's desires come to fruition. Sometimes it's just those little things in life, that are so very meaningful.

Sunday, May 07, 2006

Lawrence Welk and the Bubble Connection - Sherlock's Sunday

Miracle Bubbles

There are days when my thoughts are rather hum drum, then days when it feels like a rocket is passing through them beyond the speed of light. Today seems to be one of those speed of light days. I will have to check whether there has been another burst off the sun, or where the Full Moon is on the calendar.

This past Easter a friend brought in a beautiful Easter Basket loaded with goodies, lots of fun colored easter bunnies and a bottle of Miracle Bubbles. My inner child was extremely happy! Today's reflections take me back to early childhood. Growing up in the 50's and 60's without the internet or cable, many of us had just a few choices on the TV channels to surf through. It was a Saturday night event of family togetherness that seldom changed its routine that comes to mind today. I would have a bath, followed by my mom pinning my hair up into tight curls and then securing these tightly woven powers to be with a hair pin. (Hair means power in dreams.) She was going to be sure I did not falter or misuse these God given talents until experience would lead me to wisdom. :-) Interesting the Miracle Bubbles says it's for ages 4+!!! Following my cleansing ritual, it seemed the family would sit down and together we would watch Lawrence Welk.

As a child I really enjoyed this program. I love music, dancing and singing. It seemed every cell in my body resonated with this type of entertainment. I would be mesmerized by all the "Bubbles" that would suddenly start rising behind the band during the prelude to commercial time and then Lawrence putting his finger into his mouth and out would come a loud "POP." :-)

My early days were filled with accordion lessons and my fingers enjoyed scanning all the black and white keys and learning new chords to put with them. I practiced moving the bellows in and out as this was no easy feat for a young child. I could barely carry the instrument, let alone push those folds in and out. The color of my accordion was this beautiful blue that reminded me of ocean water.

It is said we leave many clues along our path to awaken us. As I sit and reflect on this bottle of Miracle Bubbles that sits on my desk, the label has so many clues in it. The overall color of the bottle is deep purple (crown chakra), the label has the same color of the ocean water blue (sea of creation) bubbles on it. The wording says, "Miracle Bubbles" and includes a miracle wand inside. There is a picture of the Imperial Bubble (spirit body) wearing a crown on it's head.

This image takes me back to my previous post below on bubble bursting. I now see the Lawrence Welk show was trying to convey many messages to my soul with a purpose that the information contained within would help me to reawaken to a greater truth of my being. As a child it was hard to burst out of the bubble when your hair (power) is all kinked up in curls. I always wanted long flowing hair........now I know why.

I see now that my practicing the accordion was learning to breathe in and breathe out, or to remember that the universe expands and contracts and reality folds in upon itself. The keyboard represented our keys of life, how we play them and learning new ones that will bring the song of our soul back into harmony. The tones of creation or how we create, will be consistent with the type of music we hear or like to play. Have you noticed how dancing is coming back into fashion with many now taking dance lessons and learning the swing, etc. It's like we are recreating the 50's again - but perhaps with a new high 5 dimension. (This is the Age of Aquarius.)

Bursting the bubbles of your ray's out into the cosmos, is like finally attaining that Continuity of Consciousness. With the magic wand of the magician inside the Miracle Bubbles, one now has the ability to not only blow bubbles, but burst them. The White Spirit Bubble that reminds me of Casper the Ghost will show us what we attain when we are able to finally free ourselves - for this energy now wears the Imperial Crown.

So.......thank you Lawrence Welk, the champagne lady or bubbles and elixir of life, for allowing me to dance, sing, and blow bubbles into this new swing of mid-life. I hope to be popping those bubbles on a regular basis.

A one and a two ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!! Added up makes a three - don't you just love that trinity mantra? Lawrence Welk must have been a Grand Master! :-)

To my mother---------thanks for all those Bubble Baths!

Sunday's Sermon with a Twist

It's been a busy week of Bubble Bursting........do you remember as a child taking your bottle of bubbles outside and then blowing them and watching them rise into the air? Do you remember the beautiful colors of the rainbow that formed within each bubble? And......then the climax......the bubble would burst! Perhaps when we finally rise and burst out of our own bubble, our magnificent Rainbow of Light can then too be freed.

This week in discussions with friends, the word "bubble" was repeatedly rising to the surface. Then last night a friend sent me a web site on the Gospels of Thomas Collection, and I reflected on one of the paragraphs there that I read:

"Today most students would agree that the Gospel of Thomas has opened a new perspective on the first voice of the Christian tradition. Recent studies centered on GTh have led to a stark reappraisal of the forces and events forming "orthodoxy" during the second and third centuries. But more importantly, the Gospel of Thomas is awakening interest in a forgotten spiritual legacy of Christian culture. The incipit (or "beginning words") of Thomas invite each of us "who has ears to hear" to join in a unique quest:

These are the hidden words that the living Jesus spoke, and that Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down. And He said: "Whoever finds the meaning of these words will not taste death."

I remember years ago reading a book entitled, "New Dimensions in Healing," and the sentence that one has to attain "Continuity of Consciousness," stayed with me and perhaps this means that one will not taste of death.

So how does one attain this state of mind or have Continuity of Consciousness? I think the "Bubble" may have something to do with it. This week there is a magician who has placed himself inside a bubble of water for seven days and seven nights in New York. On May 9th he will then chain his wrists together and has only 9 minutes (the number 9 means completion)to free himself and burst out of the bubble to survive. Pay attention.......this may be the answer for all of us. When we unchain ourselves from our DNA strands that are kinked up, or our chains that bind us to present reality, we will then experience continuity of consciousness and will be able go on to experience alternate realities of existence - thus no death! We need to awaken the "Magician" within, break out of the beliefs of limitation and transform our matter into Spirit.

To see our reality as 'stuck in a bubble', is to see our soul spark stuck inside the box. We have to burst out of our bubble to get out of the box or this 3D way of thinking.

This morning the writing below came over an email and I believe is to be shared. This is what I have been experiencing over the last 12 years and much of it rings to true to me. We must all find our own truth through eXperience- "X" marks the spot - and for you ladies out there, I think the Playtex commercial years ago was trying to tell us something. Think back to the picture of the, "Cross your HEART bra." This is the spot or bridge when crossed will take you out of your Bubble! :-)

(A minister without a pulpit......but I've got a BLOG)!!!!!!!!!!

Have a wonderful Sunday, and at 12:00 noon today join in a worldwide meditation for cleaning up the airwaves by visualizing rainbow colors all over the sky!

The following Chapter was in an email from Earth Rainbow Network.
http://www.EarthRainbowNetwork.com
The email stated:
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE IN PASSING THIS ON TO OTHERS

Amanumenoum - Taken from "Born to Be God"
http://www.earthrainbownetwork.com/FocusArchives/MeditationFocus79.htm

"In the end, each Seeker has to make the Choice to dive and trust, in a leap of cosmic faith, that the true face of Divine Reality will be revealed, just at the right moment, to show where to next set foot, to inspire the right words as we go along sharing our views, and generally to guide us exactly where we are supposed to be, based on the lessons that still need to be learned and shared in our nearly endless journey from Light to darkness and back."

Born to Be God
Chapter 1

Every time a human being comes to life, in this world or in any other place in this universe where souls have a new opportunity to experience physical "reality", a new cycle begins whereas a spark of God's consciousness enters once again a body and starts afresh a new round of karmic playing towards ever greater awakening. Past threads that were uncompleted are woven into a new set of possibilities, either with the same players who have agreed prior to reincarnation to pursue unfinished evolutionary business within the same group of kindred souls, or within an entirely new context, but with always the same overarching goal: to reach ever higher on the ascending pathway from oblivious ignorance to the penultimate impersonation of Universal Divine Consciousness.

For as this book, this medium of mind to mind/heart to heart communication intends to make abundantly clear, there is just One Purpose to all that exists: coming to the deepest possible realization that we each are an integral, indissociable fragment of the One Being, The Universal Archetypal Essence, the Eternally Existent Presence, The Omniversal Source from which All That Is stems-and to which it will all eventually return.

Discovering the infinitely intricate consequences and overall meaning of this simple fact is what all sentient life is all about. It is pointless to pretend that one-anyone!-has succeeded in wrapping one's mind around what all that means, from stars to flowers, from atoms to super universes, from the invisible realms to the most ethereal of angelic worlds. For no one can comprehend it all. But the odyssey of learning every possible shade and nuance of what conscious awareness can encompass is what makes the Universal One in us happy to Be. Being the All Seeing, sensing all that can be sensed, touching with our mind's grasp every single aspect of experiential knowing is what makes the heart of Omniversal Creator in us throb.

We each are this Force. We each can feel its pulsing Presence in our conscience's loins. Every song ever composed, every word ever uttered, every thought ever formed is but an expression of that same Presence, of that same Joy, of that same blissful Perfection.

Everything hinges on us becoming aware of just Who we are, of just Who everyone is, of just what All That Is really is. And to that end, a nearly infinite numbers of possibilities are offered to experience every aspect of this cornucopia of perceivable realities-a "reality" being anything that appears real to our sensing abilities. From the realm of nirvanic paradise, where we all continue our journey after living a whole existence on Earth, or anywhere else in this universe, where we rest and regenerate between the intensely challenging tests of material embodiment, and where we also learn and exercise new skills that will prove useful at some future point in the Life continuum, to all other possible realities we may encounter in our never-ending journey from blissful Oneness to mindless oblivion and back, we are constantly accruing experiences and seeking to understand WHY, to what end this all IS.

The journey is long, very long indeed, and we sometime may feel very lonely as we try to cope with the endless bombardment of sensations, emotions and perceptions that may or may not help trigger the remembrance of our true nature and of why we are here for.

Usually when one starts awakening from the slumber of material inertia, from the treacherously tempting assaults of life's multifaceted stimulations carrying us from birth to so-called death on a treadmill of seemingly predetermined situations and circumstances, submerged into the morass of trivial trivia that encumbers most everyone's mind and clutters the ascending pathway from ignorance to full-bloomed knowledge, and we look around for like-minded people similarly inclined to question the prevailing narrowly focused paradigm, it takes some time to figure out no one is alone on this eternal quest. But sure enough, the inner resonance of spiritual awakening attracts other like-hearted souls and we realize that more and more beings are in the process of reconnecting with their spiritual roots. Despite the uniqueness of each person's interpretation of "reality", there appears to be enough of a common language to be able to share with someone else what is seen from our respective vantage points, and to mutually appreciate and acknowledge the precious beauty and gifts thus commonly contemplated.

Yet for many this sense of loneliness is an endearing myth that proves hard to dispel. The deeply ingrained habit of carrying on an endless inner dialogue both nurtures the illusion of being the sole witness of our every day, moment by moment, happenings, and perpetuates the disconnection from All That Is around and within our individual bubble of awareness.

In fact, the pervasive sense of being cut off from everything else starts the very moment our umbilical cord is separated from our mother's womb. From this instant on, we are led to believe that none of what constitutes human embodiment has anything to do with the magnificently soothing feeling of oneness we experience between incarnations and, to a lesser degree, while we are still connected to our mother's physical and psychic bodies. From that point on, in each new sojourn in physical reality, we unconsciously crave and long to reconnect our shattered persona back into the cosmic womb where all is felt as One. It is like an ever echoing sensation of Something Primordial that is hurtfully amiss which, even if deeply buried within the psyche of each human, continuously tries to remind us that our separation, our individualization is a mere figment of our collective imagination, and that we ought to find a way back to where the hurt of disconnection is no more.

This inner drive to reestablish the link with Omniversal Source is precisely what propels every single human relationship, from the bond between mother and child to the everlasting love that sometimes develops between two-or more-human beings.

Whether we like it or not, we are forever moved to embrace our spiritual side and trace our way back until we somehow succeed, at some point in the Life Continuum, to fully reconnect with the Source of our very existence, that still small voice within, that place of all Knowingness which knows infinitely much better than what our limited grasp of things usually allows. The very process of walking the path towards rediscovering that pervading sense of blissful Oneness we intuitively remember from the time we were not yet separated from the Source of all is in itself a most joyful experience.

The quest for true happiness, that seemingly unattainable goal, is initiated the moment we separate from the Cosmic Womb, when for the first time we experience individuated thoughts, feelings and consciousness. It is for this return back to the great undivided sense of bliss that we ceaselessly strive throughout all our lives, until we finally remember our way back to Oneness Love, Absolute Perfection and Eternal Serendipity.

Being on this long, infinitely long journey which began so long ago that we invariably forget we have ever embarked upon such an odyssey, we try our best to find some measure of contentment through whatever keeps us interested, captivated, even entranced long enough to forget the missing element to our happiness. We are led through the stimulating influence of our environment-family, school, work-related, volunteered or not-to undertake all kinds of activities and projects that for a time fill our life and offer us a modicum of satisfaction. Through our many relationships with other humans, with preferred animals, even with Nature in all its infinitely diverse forms of expression, we create bonds, enjoy wonderful moments of joy and succeed in most part to alleviate the nagging sense of being alone in our own bubble of consciousness.

For most people, these fleeting moments of shared intimacy along with vague remembrances of being part of a Greater Whole experienced in their dream state is all they will ever know of their true cosmic nature as fragments of the Universal Being who manifests Its Presence in and through all that is. Yet there is now an ever growing number of souls in incarnation who catch increasingly clearer glimpses, while awake, of why they are here and how they can access, while in embodiment, states of consciousness and blissfulness during which they reconnect, through high vibrational resonance, with the Omniversal Force that had been dormant within them ever since they took their first breath. This book is dedicated to those blessed souls who are reaching in to reconnect with their divine essence and rekindle their innate sense of belonging to the One from Whom everything emanates. Through exemplifying how these way-showers manage to open their treasure throve of ecstatic resonance that is embedded within the very fabric of their soul, acting like a holographic crystal of the Greater Whole, this written medium may indeed serve as a reminder of the glories that are everyone's birthright once the vibrational shift in consciousness has been activated.

And that's all it may do. Spiritual cognizance of one's own true nature cannot be taught. It can only be experienced and thus remembered. Reading about it may perhaps trigger a recognition of something similar previously experienced, a sudden dawning of an already felt revelation, like an echo restimulating a preexisting knowledge of one's greatness still reverberating deep within despite aeons of slumbering forgetfulness; vicariously exploring through thoughts and concepts encoding in a written language the evocative offerings of another soul may help sustain one's own quest for higher knowledge and deeper sensory activation of Oneness Consciousness; but in the end, each Seeker has to make the Choice to dive and trust, in a leap of cosmic faith, that the true face of Divine Reality will be revealed, just at the right moment, to show where to next set foot, to inspire the right words as we go along sharing our views, and generally to guide us exactly where we are supposed to be, based on the lessons that still need to be learned and shared in our nearly endless journey from Light to darkness and back.

Activating Sentient Knowledge

There is an old saying that goes like this: "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." What this means is that when a soul is actively seeking the path to spiritual remembrance of one's inner, intuitively felt knowledge in relation to any subject under consideration, as soon as that soul properly attune to the right inner attitude of unquestioned faith in one's own "veritas absolutis", then, as if by magic, the needed answer-whether it is a better grasp of anything observed, or simply a keener sense of direction regarding what, where, how and when our next step, metaphorically speaking, should be-spontaneously comes to mind, illuminating like a powerful beacon what we've known all along, but forgot we knew.

Getting to the point where we are able and unreservedly willing to surrender to our divinely inspired higher knowledge is, for most people, the tricky part, since we are usually convinced we know better and don't need any kind of assistance. And yet, we do it all the time, but just don't recognize it as such. Anytime you open your mouth to express a thought, you surrender to that which in you knows how to move your lips, tongue, vocal chords and lungs in perfect harmony to project sounds that others will translate through their own auditory apparatus and skills learned over years of experience to decipher those sounds into meaningful sentences, more or less representing the thoughts you initially wished to convey. You also surrender to your finely tuned sense of balance anytime you undertake a physical activity that involves synchronously moving thousands of muscles, small and large, to do something as simple as walking on a straight line, or as complex as surfing a wave on a slippery board.

Imagine the level of trust and surrender in one's own balancing abilities a tightrope walker must achieve to avoid falling to an almost certain death in some cases. Now imagine the same level of trust applied to returning to that self-sentient place within you where you can tune into Universal Divine Consciousness, of which you are a holographic fragment, and tap into this infinite Source of all knowledge to extract effortlessly whatever information you may need at any point in time.

First, you don't even begin to question what then comes to mind, for any such questioning, however well intended it may be, introduces an element of doubt. You simply take at face value the nascent thought and the accompanying first few words that spring to mind, seemingly from nowhere, and allow these forming ideas, endowed with corresponding feelings, images and sensations to guide your attention to wherever they may lead, relaxing all along in the well trodden path-once you've walked it often enough to know it always lead you exactly where you are supposed to be-that threads from the awareness of something that needs to be rediscovered/remembered/reactivated, to the unshakeable bedrock of a realization now and again fully exposed to your sentient awareness.

Now, once you got a clear enough glimpse of what it is you had to be appraised of, whether it is a life-saving information-say, a warning about an imminent danger that if you are trusting and wise enough to heed will indeed prevent you from being hurt of killed-or simply an inspiring thought that will make you more buoyant, or make more fun whatever it is you are doing, you can then come back to a more analytical state of mind and assess the value of what was communicated to you through your permanent link with your higher Self.

But if you are to successfully tap deep into your well of inner knowledge, you have to learn to resist the urge to start pondering or mentally reacting to the initial thread of thoughts or images springing to your attention, either tentatively if these are your first steps on this path, or possibly very strongly, depending on your experience at this, along with an array of supportive emotional and psychic feelings surging throughout your whole body to confirm the truthful validity of what is being conveyed to you. Indeed, if you allow too much of your intellectual mind to move into a scrutinizing stance, it will instantly blur your spiritual vision and you may then loose track of the guiding thread thrown at you as a lifeline by your higher Source of Knowledge to show you the way ahead in your journey of self-discovery.

It is precisely through this same process that this book is being written, just following the thread of ideas wherever they may lead, without any actual plan as to its content, except for a general intent of allowing the intuitive guidance of the holder of the pen-the so-called "author"-to express his innate knowledge born of literally lifetimes of experience at this, for the benefit of those you may find an interest in these writings.

Likewise, when a musician endowed with a finely tuned talent at composing music, follows his inner muse and brings forth to this plane of existence a perfectly balanced work of art, he is not in any way the sole originator of his musical creation, as his Source is the same as that which guides every possible creation in this universe. Whenever one creates something that has never existed before, to the knowledge of the creator, one then automatically takes part into the same creative process that has taken place since the very first moment when that manifesting abilities of the Universal Creator has started-if there ever was a starting point!-making All That Is out of the Omnipotent Nothingness. In that sense, and to a considerably lesser degree, we each partake of the same creational urge that has been the originating ferment throughout all times and at the basis of all creations as expressed by the Universal Being, the supremely mysterious and yet all too familiar Presence that writes these words right now, as well as read them through your own eyes, right now, in the ever present time continuum that stretches from infinite past to infinite future, but is ever accessible from the Universal Holographic Matrix at any nano-point in time, each infinitesimal segment of which is always in perfect synchronous coexistence with all others-which is why the human perception of time has no basis in Universal reality.


Likewise, just as humanity's embryonic perception of the true nature of time, the generally acknowledged consensual understanding of the true nature of God, of the Supreme Being who created all that exists, is far from the truth as seen from the perspective of one who has started grasping the awe-inspiring magnitude of this magnificent and yet so simple Reality. A topic so often relegated to the boring indoctrination of believers fed with dogmatic scriptures devoid of any vibrancy and mainly designed to enslave souls under the pretence of liberating them from ignorance, the subject of discovering and truly understanding who and what God is rarely gets the attention it deserves, for if people were to really grasp how central this question is to achieving complete happiness, they would pay far more attention to it.

(To be continued...)

Friday, May 05, 2006

A few coaching tips I saw today on my server

Don't dress for the job you have, rather dress for the job you want.

Don't just have the passion you feel for your current job working for you, have the passion you would feel if you got the next job, that way you will get the next job.

(A universal law in action - or what you think you will create)
Thoughts are powerful - choose the good ones!

And.........perhaps the last one many of us have received wisdom over from learning the hard way is........

Merlot and E-Mail Don't Mix!!!

Tip: if you need to express your thoughts while sipping merlot at the computer, have a rule that you will send your post to "SEND LATER." After 24 hours have passed, and you are merlot free in your system, still like what you wrote after rereading your posts, then it is probably safe to send it on. :-)

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Last words for the evening

"FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THOSE WHOSE LOVE RADIATES AND YOU CAN NOT GO WRONG, MY FRIENDS."

Nice words to think about right before dream time. :-)

The Love You Take Is Equal To The Love You Make

The Love You Take Is Equal To The Love You Make

The Tlytiettlym Tree

by Alena Netia Horowitz

This beautiful heartwarming children’s hardcover, by a talented 9-year old author and full color illustrator, teaches children how to live, love and work together to accomplish great deeds. The title—Tlytiettlym (pronounced Tly-tita-lum)—an acronym for “The Love You Take Is Equal To The Love You Make,” relays a delightful story with lots of humor. Two “clicks” of children are competing for social acceptance. They finally merge with all the members needing to work together to find a magical tree. The Tlytiettlym branches bear the bountiful fruit from all the earth. Harvesting requires lots of love and collaboration. Once gathered the fruit is taken to the children’s village to heal everyone who eats it.

Inspired by a Paul McCartney concert, and written to raise money to send the author’s class to perform plays for autistic children nationwide, this treasure will capture your heart and your children’s minds for years to come.

Price: $12.95

Available from:

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And moments ago another email came in about trees.......obviously this kingdom is speaking to us.........

I wonder if man was on to something when he started grafting trees? I imagine a field of each and everyone of these beautiful trees all growing together. Somehow I can't imagine the Fir Tree building a nuke to take out the Elm! :-)

WHAT TREE DID YOU FALL FROM?
Find your birthday and then find your tree. This is really cool and somewhat accurate.
Jan 01 to Jan 11 - Fir Tree
Jan 12 to Jan 24 - Elm Tree
Jan 25 to Feb 03 - Cypress Tree
Feb 04 to Feb 08 - Poplar Tree
Feb 09 to Feb 18 - Cedar Tree
Feb 19 to Feb 28 - Pine Tree
Mar 01 to Mar 10 - Weeping Willow Tree
Mar 11 to Mar 20 - Lime Tree
Mar 21 (only) - Oak Tree
Mar 22 to Mar 31 - Hazelnut Tree
Apr 01 to Apr 10 - Rowan Tree
Apr 11 to Apr 20 - Maple Tree
Apr 21 to Apr 30 - Walnut Tree
May 01 to May 14 - Poplar Tree
May 15 to May 24 - Chestnut Tree
May 25 to Jun 03 - Ash Tree
Jun 04 to Jun 13 - Hornbeam Tree
Jun 14 to Jun 23 - Fig Tree
Jun 24 (only) - Birch Tree
Jun 25 to Jul 04 - Apple Tree
Jul 05 to Jul 14 - Fir Tree
Jul 15 to Jul 25 - Elm Tree
Jul 26 to Aug 04 - Cypress Tree
Aug 05 to Aug 13 - Poplar Tree
Aug 14 to Aug 23 - Cedar Tree
Aug 24 to Sep 02 - Pine Tree
Sep 03 to Sep 12 - Weeping Willow Tree
Sep 13 to Sep 22 - Lime Tree
Sep 23 (only) - Olive Tree
Sep 24 to Oct 03 - Hazelnut Tree
Oct 04 to Oct 13 - Rowan Tree
Oct 14 to Oct 23 - Maple Tree
Oct 24 to Nov 11 - Walnut Tree
Nov 12 to Nov 21 - Chestnut Tree
Nov 22 to Dec 01 - Ash Tree
Dec 02 to Dec 11 - Hornbeam Tree
Dec 12 to Dec 21 - Fig Tree
Dec 22 (only) - Beech Tree
Dec 23 to Jan 01 - Apple Tree
TREES (in alphabetical order)

Apple Tree (Love) -- quiet and shy at times, lots of charm, appeal, and attraction, pleasant attitude, flirtatious smile, adventurous, sensitive, loyal in love, wants to love and be loved, faithful and tender partner, very generous, many talents, loves children, needs affectionate partner.

Ash Tree (Ambition) -- extremely attractive, vivacious, impulsive, demanding, does not care for criticism, ambitious, intelligent, talented, likes to play with fate, can be very egotistic, reliable, restless lover, sometimes money rules over the heart, demands attention, needs love and much emotional support.

Beech Tree (Creative) -- has good taste, concerned about its looks, materialistic, good organization of life and career, economical, good leader, takes no unnecessary risks, reasonable, splendid lifetime companion, keen on keeping fit (diets, sports, etc.).

Birch Tree (Inspiration) -- vivacious, attractive, elegant,friendly, unpretentious, modest, does not like anything in excess, abhors the vulgar, loves life in nature and in calm, not very passionate, full of imagination, little ambition, creates a calm and content atmosphere.

Cedar Tree (Confidence) -- of rare strength, knows how to adapt, likes unexpected presents, of good health, not in the least shy, tends to look down on others, self-confident, a great speaker, determined, often impatient, likes to impress others, has many talents, industrious, healthy optimism, waits for the one true love, able to make quick decisions.

Chestnut Tree (Honesty) -- of unusual stature, impressive,
well-developed sense of justice, fun to be around, a planner, born diplomat, can be irritated easily, sensitive of others feelings, hard worker, sometimes acts superior, feels not understood at times, fiercely family oriented, very loyal in love, physically fit.

Cypress Tree (Faithfulness) -- strong, muscular, adaptable, takes what life has to give but doesn't necessarily like it, strives to be content, optimistic, wants to be financially independent, wants love and affection, hates loneliness, passionate lover which cannot be satisfied, faithful, quick-tempered at times, can be unruly and careless, loves to
gain knowledge, needs to be needed.

Elm Tree (Noble-mindedness) -- pleasant shape, tasteful clothes, modest demands, tends not to forgive mistakes, cheerful, likes to lead but not to obey, honest and faithful partner, likes making decisions for others, noble-minded, generous, good sense of humor, practical.

Fig Tree (Sensibility) -- very strong minded, a bit self-willed, honest, loyal, independent, hates contradiction or arguments, hard worker when wants to be, loves life and friends, enjoys children and animals, sexually oriented, great sense of humor, has artistic talent and great intelligence.

Fir tree (Mysterious) -- extraordinary taste, handles stress well, loves anything beautiful, stubborn, tends to care for those close to them, hard to trust others, yet a social butterfly, likes idleness and laziness after long demanding hours at work, rather modest, talented, unselfish, many friends, very reliable.

Hazelnut Tree (Extraordinary) -- charming, sense of humor, very demanding but can also be very understanding, knows how to make a lasting impression, active fighter for social causes and politics, popular, quite moody, sexually oriented, honest, a perfectionist, has a precise sense of judgment and expects complete fairness.

Hornbeam Tree (Good Taste) -- of cool beauty, cares for its looks and condition, good taste, is not egoistic, makes life as comfortable as possible, leads a reasonable and disciplined life, looks for kindness and acknowledgment in an emotional partner, dreams of unusual lovers, is seldom happy with its feelings, mistrusts most people, is never sure of its decisions, very conscientious.

Lime Tree (Doubt) - intelligent, hard working, accepts what life dishes out, but not before trying to change bad circumstances into good ones, hates fighting and stress, enjoys getaway vacations, may appear tough, but is actually soft and relenting, always willing to make sacrifices for family and friends, has many talents but not always enough time to
use them, great leadership qualities, is jealous at times but extremely loyal.

Maple Tree (Independence of Mind) -- no ordinary person, full of imagination and originality, shy and reserved, ambitious, proud, self-confident, hungers for new experiences, sometimes nervous, has many complexities, good memory, learns easily, complicated love life, wants to impress.

Oak Tree (Brave) -- robust nature, courageous, strong, unrelenting, independent, sensible, does not like change, keeps its feet on the ground, person of action.

Olive Tree (Wisdom) -- loves sun, warmth and kind feelings, reasonable, balanced, avoids aggression and violence, tolerant, cheerful, calm, well-developed sense of justice, sensitive, empathetic, free of jealousy, loves to read and the company of sophisticated people.

Pine Tree (Peacemaker) -- loves agreeable company, craves peace and harmony, loves to help others, active imagination, likes to write poetry, not fashion conscious, great compassion, friendly to all, falls strongly in love but will leave if betrayed or lied to, emotionally soft, low self esteem, needs affection and reassurance.

Poplar Tree (Uncertainty) -- looks very decorative, talented, not very self-confident, extremely courageous if necessary, needs goodwill and pleasant surroundings, very choosy, often lonely, great animosity, great artistic nature, good organizer, tends to lean toward philosophy, reliable in any situation, takes partnership seriously.

Rowan Tree (Sensitivity) -- full of charm, cheerful, gifted without egoism, likes to draw attention, loves life, motion, unrest, and even complications, is both dependent and independent, good taste, artistic, passionate, emotional, good company, does not forgive.

Walnut Tree (Passion) -- unrelenting, strange and full of contrasts, often egotistic, aggressive, noble, broad horizon, unexpected reactions, spontaneous, unlimited ambition, no flexibility, difficult and uncommon partner, not always liked but often admired, ingenious strategist, very jealous and passionate, no compromise.

Weeping Willow (Melancholy) - likes to be stress free, loves family life, full of hopes and dreams, attractive, very empathetic, loves anything beautiful, musically inclined, loves to travel to exotic places, restless, capricious, honest, can be influenced but is not easy to live with when pressured, sometimes demanding, good intuition, suffers in love until they find that one loyal, steadfast partner; loves to make others laugh.

Has religion been hijacked?

Has religion been hijacked?
By Barbra-renee Brighenti
http://www.crescentandcross.com/index.php?page=articles&author=barbra-renee_brighenti&subpage1=has_religion_been_hijacked

Thoughts to ponder..........

Da Vinci Code and Music of the Cubes

Da Vinci Code and Music of the Cubes

Physical reality is created by harmonics ...

Interesting article I read this morning and thought I'd share.

Myths and Mysteries

http://heritage.scotsman.com/myths.cfm?id=627062006

With the Da Vinci Code soon to be opening in theaters, I can only imagine it's going to create a lot of controversy.

I believe we are going to see more and more controversial material being presented in the days to come. Is it part of the program that now awakens us to view our present world as having been in the dark? I read that the Vatican has asked Catholics to boycott this movie. Mmmmmm - those that are still in the dark or asleep probably will, those that have a seen a glimmer of more light will be curious, and those that have had the flood lights turned on will know that if human's are going to be able to get along and find lasting peace, each one has to have the courage to ask questions, debate, seek their own truth. They then finally realize that all religions have a piece of the pie, but probably do not share the entire contents of the whole. One has to put it all together by not being afraid to sample the information, discern for self and extract from each piece.