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The Courage of Nonviolence

[From the book One by One, by Daisaku Ikeda]

"I don't want toys or chocolate. All I want is peace and freedom. People of Europe, people of the world, please find the humanity in your hearts to put an end to this war!"

--A young girl of the former Yugoslavia

I was visiting Raj Ghat, where Mahatma Gandhi, the father of Indian independence, had been cremated.

Somewhere a bird sang. A forest was nearby, and squirrels ran through its lush green thickets.

The area was a spacious, well-tended shrine to nonviolence.

As I offered flowers before the black stone platform that constitutes Gandhi's memorial, I bowed my head.

I pondered Gandhi's brilliant spirit. I thought of his ceaseless struggles to douse the fires of hatred with water drawn from the pure springs of love for humanity.

And I thought of how alone he was in his quest.

"Whose Side Are You On?"

"Gandhi tells us not to retaliate against the Muslims! How can he take their side? There's no way! They killed my family, including my five-year-old son!"

"Is he telling us just to endure the attacks of the Hindus? Ridiculous! Doesn't he know what we Muslims have been through all these years? After all, Gandhi's a Hindu himself, isn't he?"

The elderly sage went everywhere, wherever Hindus and Muslims were mired in blood-stained cycles of conflict and reprisal. He called for the killing to end. But people, crazed by hate, did not listen. They told him to leave, calling his attempts at reconciliation hypocritical or worse. They demanded to know whose side he was on.

But he wasn't on either side. And at the same time, he was on both sides. To him, people are brothers and sisters. How could he stand by, a silent witness to mutual slaughter?

Gandhi declared that he was willing to be cut in two if that was what people wanted, but not for India to be cut in two. What good, he demanded to know, could ever come of hatred? If hate was returned with hate, it would only become more deeply rooted and widespread.

Suppose someone sets fire to your home and you retaliate by setting fire to theirs, soon the whole town will be in flames! Burning down the attacker's house won't bring yours back. Violence solves nothing. By engaging in reprisals, you only hurt yourself.

But no matter how urgently Gandhi called on people to listen to reason, the fires of hatred raged on. Against the lone Gandhi there were far too many people fanning the flames.

Fire Cannot Extinguish Fire

On January 20, 1948--10 days, in fact, before he was assassinated--a handmade bomb was hurled at Gandhi as he attended a gathering. This act of terrorism was carried out by a Hindu youth. Fortunately, the bomb missed the mark and Gandhi survived.

The youth was arrested.

The next day, several adherents of the Sikh faith called on Gandhi and assured him that the culprit was not a Sikh.

Gandhi rebuked them, saying that it mattered nothing at all to him whether the assailant was a Sikh, a Hindu or a Muslim.

Whoever the perpetrator might be, he said, he wished him well.

Gandhi explained that the youth had been taught to think of him as an enemy of the Hindu cause, that hatred had been implanted in his heart. The youth believed what he was taught and was so desperate, so devoid of all hope, that violence seemed the only alternative.

Gandhi felt only pity for the young man. He even told the outraged chief of police to not harass his assailant but make an effort to convert him to right thoughts and actions.

This was always his approach. No one abhorred violence more than Gandhi. At the same time no one knew more deeply that violence can only be countered by nonviolence.

Just as fire is extinguished by water, hatred can only be defeated by love and compassion. Some criticized Gandhi for coddling the terrorist. Others scorned his conviction, calling it sentimental and unrealistic, an empty vision.

Gandhi was alone.

Many revered his name, but few truly shared his beliefs. For Gandhi, nonviolence meant an overflowing love for all humanity, a way of life that emanated from the very marrow of his being. It made life possible; without it, he could not have lived even a moment. But for many of his followers, nonviolence was simply a political strategy, a tactic for winning India's independence from Britain.

Gandhi was alone.

The more earnestly he pursued his religious beliefs, the deeper his love for humanity grew. This love made it all the more impossible for him to ignore the political realities that shaped people's lives. At the same time, contact with these political realities strengthened his conviction that nothing is more essential than the love for humanity that religious faith can inspire.

This placed him, however, in the position of being denounced by both religious figures, who saw his involvement in the sullied realm of politics as driven by personal ambition, and political leaders, who called him ignorant and naïve.

Because he walked the middle way, the true path of humanity that seeks to reconcile apparent contradictions, his beliefs and actions appeared biased to those at the extremes.

Putting an End to Terrorism

The September 11 attacks against the United States were savage beyond words. Our fellow SGI members and friends were among the victims. The attacks provoked universal revulsion and the heartfelt desire that such slaughter never be repeated.

For what crime were these innocent people killed? There is no reason, nothing that could possibly justify such an act. Even if, as has been reported, the perpetrators believed they were acting based on their religious faith, their acts in no way merit the name of martyrdom. Martyrdom means offering up one's own life, not taking the lives of others. True self-sacrifice is made to save others from suffering, to offer them happiness. Any act that involves killing others is reprehensible and purely destructive.

The time has come for humankind to join together to put an end to terrorism. The question is, how can this be achieved? Will military retaliation serve that end? Isn't it likely only to incite more hatred?

Even if, for argument's sake, the immediate "enemy" could be subdued, would that bring true peace? Long-simmering hatreds would only be driven further underground, making it impossible to predict where next in the world they might burst forth. Our world would be tormented with ever greater fear and unease.

Here I am reminded of the simple wisdom of the Aesop fable "The North Wind and the Sun." The North Wind tried to make a traveler remove his coat by assailing him with icy gusts, but the harder the North Wind blew, the tighter the traveler pulled his coat around him.

Peace that is based on the forceful suppression of people's voices and concerns, whether it be in your own or other countries, is a dead peace--the peace of the grave. Surely that is not the peace for which humanity yearns.

Violence vs. Nonviolence: The Struggle of the Twenty-first Century

I am also reminded of a moving episode that Leo Tolstoy related in a letter written two months before his death. The letter, dated September 7, 1910, was addressed to Mahatma Gandhi.

The episode went something like this. There was a test on the subject of religion in a certain girls' school in Moscow. A bishop had come to the school and was quizzing the girls one by one about the Ten Commandments. When he came to the commandment "Thou shalt not kill," the bishop asked: "Does God forbid us to kill under all circumstances?"

The girls each answered as they had been taught. "No," they said, "not under all circumstances. We may kill in war or as legal punishment."

"Yes, that's right! You've answered correctly!" said the bishop.

Then one of the girls, her face flushed with indignation, spoke up: "Killing is wrong under all circumstances!"

The bishop was flustered and marshaled all his rhetorical skills to convince the girl that there were exceptions to the commandment against killing, but to no avail.

"No," she declared. "Killing is a sin under all circumstances. It says so in the Old Testament. Moreover, Jesus not only forbade killing but taught that we must do no harm to our neighbors."

In the face of truth in the girl's assertion, the bishop's authority and verbal skills were of no use whatsoever. In the end, he could only fall silent. The young girl, Tolstoy wrote with evident satisfaction, had proven victorious.

Let us amplify the words of that young girl--"It is wrong to kill, even in war!" And let us broadcast them to the world!

The twentieth century was a century of war, a century in which hundreds of millions of people died violent deaths. Have we learned anything from those horrific tragedies? In the new era of the twenty-first century, humanity must be guided by the overriding principle that killing is never acceptable or justified--under any circumstance. Unless we realize this, unless we widely promote and deeply implant the understanding that violence can never be used to advocate one's beliefs, we will have learned nothing from the bitter lessons of the twentieth century.

The real struggle of the twenty-first century will not be between civilizations, nor between religions. It will be between violence and nonviolence. It will be between barbarity and civilization in the truest sense of the word.

Extinguish the Flames of Hatred with a Flood of Dialogue

More than half a century ago, Gandhi sought to break the cycles of violence and reprisal. What distinguishes us from brute beasts, he said, is our continuous striving for moral self-improvement. Humanity is at a crossroads and must choose, he asserted, violence (the law of the jungle) or nonviolence (the law of humanity).

The world today, in fact, has an extraordinary and unprecedented opportunity. We have the chance to open a new page in human history. Now is the time to make the following declaration:

We regard terrorist attacks to be a challenge to the law of humanity. It is for just this reason that we refuse to follow the law of the jungle upon which the attacks were based. We declare our determination to find a solution not by military means but through extensive dialogue. Rather than further fuel the flames of hatred, we choose to douse them with a great "flood of dialogue" that will enrich and benefit all humanity.

This is the best, the only means to assure that such horrors are never repeated, and we believe it is the most fitting way to honor the memory of those who lost their lives in the attacks.

Such a declaration, put into action, would certainly be met with the unstinting praise of future historians.

Great good can come of great evil. But this will not happen on its own. Courage is always required to transform evil into good. Now is the time for each of us to bring forth such courage: the courage of nonviolence, the courage of dialogue, the courage to listen to what we would rather not hear, the courage to restrain the desire for vengeance and be guided by reason.

Peace Is Born from a Willingness to Listen

In conversations with Mrs. Veena Sikri, director general of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), we discussed Indian philosophy and the tradition of nonviolence. And I spoke of my desire to bring the light of India, with its immense spiritual heritage, to the people of Japan. This wish was eventually realized in the form of an exhibition entitled "King Ashoka, Mahatma Gandhi, and Nehru--Healing Touch" that was held in Japan in 1994.

King Ashoka was a wise and virtuous monarch of ancient India (around the third century BCE). After witnessing firsthand the cruel realities of war, he converted to Buddhism, deciding that he would base his rule not on military force but on the Dharma, the principles of Buddhism. When Gandhi was asked whether a nonviolent state was possible, he replied that indeed it was. He pointed to Ashoka's reign as an example, and asserted that it must be possible to reproduce the ancient king's achievement.

Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India, was Gandhi's direct disciple. When he visited Japan in 1957, he voiced his profound concern over the escalating violence in the world. In one of his addresses he stated that the only truly effective response to the hydrogen bomb was not a bomb of even bigger destructive capacity but a spiritual "bomb" of compassion. This was just one month after Josei Toda, the second president of the Soka Gakkai, made his own declaration calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

Some of the Japanese involved in preparing for the "King Ashoka, Mahatma Gandhi, and Nehru" exhibition at first had difficulty appreciating the "healing touch" theme proposed by our Indian partners. This may have been partly because "healing" in the broader sense was not as familiar a term in Japan as it has since become. But no theme goes more to the very heart of nonviolence. For violence is born from a wounded spirit: a spirit burned and blistered by the fire of arrogance; a spirit splintered and frayed by the frustration of powerlessness; a spirit parched with an unquenched thirst for meaning in life; a spirit shriveled and shrunk by feelings of inferiority. The rage that results from injured self-respect, from humiliation, erupts as violence. A culture of violence, which delights in crushing and beating others into submission, spreads throughout society, often amplified by the media.

The American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a student of Gandhi's philosophy. He declared that a person whose spirit is in turmoil cannot truly practice nonviolence. It was my hope that the light of India--a country known in the East since ancient times as "the land of moonlight"--would help spread the spirit of peace, much as the cool beams of the moon bring soothing relief from the maddening heat of the day. From a healed, peaceful heart, humility is born; from humility, a willingness to listen to others is born; from a willingness to listen to others, mutual understanding is born; and from mutual understanding, a peaceful society will be born.

Nonviolence is the highest form of humility; it is supreme courage. Prime Minister Nehru said that the essence of Gandhi's teachings was fearlessness. The Mahatma taught that "the strong are never vindictive" and that dialogue can only be engaged in by the brave.



Works Consulted

Fischer, Louis. The Life of Mahatma Gandhi. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1950.

Gandhi, M. K. Gandhi on Non-Violence--A Selection from the Writings of Mahatma Gandhi. Ed. by Thomas Merton. New York: New Directions Publishing Corp., 1965.

Gandhi, M. K. My Religion. Ahmedabad, India: Navajivan Trust, 1955.

Kytle, Calvin. Gandhi, Soldier of Nonviolence. Washington, D.C.: Seven Locks Press, 1982.

Tolstoy, Leo. Tolstoy's Letters, Vol. 2 (1880-1910). Ed. and trans. by R. F. Christian. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978.

Yamazaki, Kayoko. Aru hi mura wa senjo ni natta--Bachuga kara todoita kodomotachi no messeji (One Day Our Village Became a Battlefield--Messages from the Children of Bachuga [in the former Yugoslavia]). Tokyo: Shueisha, 1995.

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The Unconventional Is In

By Noreen Seebacher
HealthScout Reporter

Alternative therapies are increasingly mingling with mainstream medicine at some of the nation's leading hospitals.

From Los Angeles to New York, physicians and their staffs are giving patients the option to complement their care with procedures that range from aromatherapy, biofeedback and clinical imagery to homeopathy, meditation and naturopathy, a form of health care focused on natural healing methods.

  • At the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, psychiatrists are prescribing herbal medicines to help patients overcome depression.
  • Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa, offers complementary treatments for cancer patients, including meditation, massage therapy, yoga and art therapy.
  • Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City this year opened a specialized Center for Health and Healing, where physicians work alongside chiropractors and practitioners who specialize in homeopathy, clinical imagery and other alternative treatments.
  • And Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles has just completed testing the potential for alternative programs in heart surgery.

Dr. William Jagiello, an osteopathic physician and chairman of the Mercy Center's integrative medicine committee, says the growing popularity of alternative treatment is confirmation that "illness doesn't exist in a vacuum" -- and that good medicine integrates spiritual, emotional and cultural aspects.

"At some point in the future, there won't be conventional and unconventional treatments. They'll all be melded into one system. The important thing will be identifying the best treatment for each patient, rather than whether it's mainstream or alternative care," Jagiello predicts.

Hospitals are embracing alternative care for several reasons.

For one thing, new scientific studies have validated some of the practices.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, for example, reports that patients who used self-hypnotic relaxation techniques during surgery needed less pain medication, left the operating room sooner and had more stable vital signs during the operation, according to research published in the British journal The Lancet.

Fostering cooperation

In addition, the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has worked to foster greater understanding of alternative medical practices by those in mainstream medicine. Last spring, for example, it arranged a meeting between alternative medicine practitioners and mainstream researchers to exchange ideas, report on current studies and discuss ways to increase collaborative research in cardiovascular, lung, and blood treatments.

But hospital administrators and physicians also concede they're responding to patient demand.

Between 1990 and 1997, the number of Americans using an alternative therapy rose from about 33 percent to more than 42 percent, according to a 1998 survey in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

About 83 million Americans in 1997 spent more than $27 billion on such therapies, including herbal medicine, massage, megavitamins, self-help groups, folk remedies, energy healing, and homeopathy, the report found. That total exceeded out-of-pocket spending for all U.S. hospitalizations the same year.

Dr. Matthew Fink, a neurologist and president and chief executive of the Beth Israel Medical Center, says it's foolish for doctors and hospitals to ignore something that will be such a large part of health care for years to come.

"Conventional medicine started to realize it was a little behind what patients wanted," adds Dr. Benjamin Kligler, medical director of Beth Israel's new Center for Health and Healing. The $5 million center, with 17 treatment rooms, pulls together the skills of an eclectic group of professionals, ranging from medical doctors and registered nurses to acupuncturists and massage therapists.

Some, like Kligler, represent multiple disciplines: He is a medical doctor trained in acupuncture, Ericksonian hypnotherapy, and herbal medicine and nutrition.

The goals at the center, and at other institutions that have made alternative practices part of their programs, are to tap into growing consumer interest, and to study whether such therapies work under clinical conditions.

"There are situations where we don't know yet whether something really works, and realize some skepticism is warranted," Kligler notes.

Heart patients enthusiastic

The ongoing research into these questions includes three recent pilot studies at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles that confirmed the potential of alternative treatments used after open-heart surgery.

Dr. Gregory P. Fontana, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Cedars-Sinai, says almost all of the 60 patients who were given acupuncture, massage or guided imagery in conjunction with their surgery were enthusiastic about the procedures.

Fontana speculates the therapies reduce the need for pain medication in post-operative patients.

"When patients are hospitalized, they're frightened, anxious and worried. There's one thing they know how to do: ask for pain medication," he says.

But, he asks, "Do they need the medication, or just a way to relax?"

Fontana believes some alternative therapies may provide an option for patients. "If they can allow themselves to relax, accept what has happened, and realize a state of well-being, pain becomes a less important part of their consciousness," he explains.

Fontana says 19 of the 20 patients who received acupuncture and massage therapy, and all 20 who received guided imagery -- a form of hypnosis -- said the treatments made significant differences in their recoveries. The real test, Fontana notes, may be patients' willingness to pay for the services out of pocket.

"Most would," he adds.

Sixteen of those who received acupuncture, 15 who received massage therapy and all 20 who received guided imagery said they'd pay $100, $75 and $35, respectively, to obtain the services, he notes.

Fontana has just started more research involving a randomized group of 200 patients. Half will receive an alternative therapy in conjunction with surgery, and half will undergo the surgery by itself. While Fontana and several others who offer heart-surgery programs have investigated alternative therapies, from yoga to herbal supplements to healing energy therapy, he concedes more scientific study is needed.

Supporters of complementary medicine say more research could break down some of the remaining resistance to alternative treatment within the medical community and open the door to expanded insurance coverage for some procedures. With the exception of chiropractic care, which most insurers have traditionally covered for at least some conditions, few carriers offer payment for massage or aromatherapy, for instance.

What To Do

Alternative therapies and the practitioners who offer them should be chosen as carefully as mainstream physicians, experts caution. Before you agree to any treatment, investigate your options. Ask for referrals from friends and family and physicians, and don't be afraid to shop around for a practitioner who makes you feel comfortable.

The National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine offers fact sheets, information about clinical trials and links to other sources of information. You can to the NCCAM Clearinghouse at P.O. Box 8218, Silver Spring, MD 20907-8218.

The Alternative Medicine HomePage, affiliated with the Falk Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, markets itself as a "jumpstation for sources of information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative, integrative therapies." The site has a comprehensive list of resources, including links for information on specific diseases, including cancer and HIV.

Source of this article: http://dailynews.yahoo.com

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26. Hunab K'u Has Flashed Like Lightning!

In the Mayan religion, the serpent symbolically represents the seven powers of light, energies distributed throughout the body as a gift of the Giver of Movement and Measure, Hunab K'u (the Creator). The seven powers combined and awakened form a circuit of energy focused through the crown of the head to join in the Dance and Flow of energies of the Creator.

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The Great Mayan Goddess

Reawakening of the Cosmic Human

"Have you felt the deep inner calling of hidden truth? Do you feel sacred knowledge is just waiting for you to grab it? The Mayas believe this coming spring is a time when you will begin to remember. In the spring of 1995, we are to enter a new cycle of time that the Mayas believe will be deeply profound and exceptionally transforming, far surpassing what we have experienced to date. By the use of ancient calendar cycles based on the cosmos, the Mayas understand that the spring equinox of 1995 is the completion of a Mayan prophesy that marks the end of two cycles of K’altun (two cycles of 260 years), bringing us to the time when ancient and hidden knowledge is to be reawakened in the human DNA. The Mayas understand it is the end of the "age of belief" and the beginning of "the age of knowledge." The Mayas called it the Itza Age — or, as our Western world says, the Age of Aquarius. With the initiation of this new cycle of time, we will no longer be veiled by illusion. We will remember all that has been forgotten. The limitations of the unconscious will be wiped away.

Hunbatz Men, a Mayan shaman, asked me to share this ancient Mayan prophesy and a simple solar initiation. He said this information is for everyone, not just the Maya. He said being Mayan is something that is in the heart and spirit, not just created by the color of the skin. This sacred prophesy is the call for the light workers of the earth garden to reunite and harmonize the Earth, to bridge the gaps between the continents, religions, cultures and races for all ages, for all time. It is time to sing our heart songs and begin to live our true solar destiny.

The following, paraphrased from a sacred Mayan text, belongs to initiates all over the world who seek Solar Initiation:

"In the year 1475, before the arrival of the Spanish, the Supreme Maya Council revealed that a calendar cycle of twice the K’altun of 260 years had to go by in order for the Mayan Solar Culture to flourish again for the benefit of mankind....In the spring of 1995, this 520-year period will be completed, bringing to an end the cycle of darkness brought by the Spaniards to the land of the Sun....1995 is a decisive year and the sacred human race will have to enter the path of cosmic light if it is to remain a thinking species....The human race will have to seek the path of initiation on Earth and in Heaven....Through Solar Initiation they will be able to see the luminosity of the great spirit....through Solar Initiation, the sleeping body of mankind can be awakened....Hunab K’u [the Mayan name for God] will flash like lightning that will pierce through the shadows that envelop the human race. Let us prepare to receive the light of knowledge that comes from Hunab K’u and transcend into the memory of the creator and become beings of eternal luminosity."

Aluna Joy Yaxk’in

(Aluna Joy Yaxk’in works with the cosmic and traditional teachings of the Maya. She is the founder of Hauk’in Publishing, an organization dedicated to the rediscovery of the cosmic wisdom of the Maya, and author of The Mayan Suns, a daily journal, and Mayan Solar Destiny Readings, both based on the sacred calendar. For information, contact Aluna Joy Yaxk’in, c/o Hauk’in Publishing, P.O. Box 1351, Mt. Shasta, CA 96067.)



Temple of Kukulkan
Temple of Kukulkan

Temple of Kukulkan (Serpent)

"Quetzalcoatl taught the ancients all the necessary skills to advance their civilization, from mathematics and science to agriculture and astronomy, as well as the famous Mayan calendrical formulae which predicts the end of the world to be December 21st 2012. He taught the people to live in peace and then moved on disappearing across the sea, but he promised he would someday return. Unfortunately for the ancient inhabitants of Mexico they mistook the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors and Cortez in 1519 as Quetzalcaotl's return, bringing about their tragic doom. Accepting them with open arms and treating them with utmost reverence the ancient people expected their newly arrived god to bestow great benevolence upon them. Instead the Spanish invaders brought nothing but greed and brutality for their trusting hosts.

The name Quetzalcoatl (ket-tsul'kwot-ul) means "plumed or feathered serpent". We must certainly then mention the great ancient city of Chichen Itza on Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. There, twice a year, an amazing spectacle related to the feathered serpent god takes place:

"The Temple of Kukulkan (the Feathered Serpent God, also known as Quetzalcoatl) is the largest and most important ceremonial structure at Chichen Itza. This ninety-foot tall pyramid was built during the eleventh to thirteenth centuries directly upon the multiple foundations of previous temples. The pyramid is a store-house of information on the Mayan calendar. ... The northern stairway was the principal sacred path leading to the summit. At sunset on the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, an interplay between the sun's light and the edges of the stepped terraces on the pyramid creates a fascinating - and very brief - shadow display upon the sides of the northern stairway. A serrated line of seven interlocking triangles (chakras) gives the impression of a long tail leading downward to the stone head of the serpent Kukulkan (Kundalini), at the base of the stairway." (Linda Casselman)

So then, on these two very important dates, the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, it appears that Quetzalcoatl is indeed present among his people as the shadow of the serpent moves along the steps of the Pyramid of Kulkulkan.

"This Power is placed in the triangular bone which is called as sacrum, which means Greeks knew about this centre. They very well knew about it, that’s why they called it sacred, sacrum. In many countries there has been a manifestation that they know about this particular Power.

I happened to go to Colombia where I collected an authentic antique copy of the antique necklace. The necklace had at its bottom a Kundalini and even the earrings had the Kundalini, but, surprisingly, it was from the Indians of America, though it is now kept in the museum in Colombia. It was in America that people knew about Kundalini, definitely absolutely in three and a half coil they had done this pattern very well. Is very surprising that it was done even before Columbus came here."

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Philadelphia, USA — Oct 15, 1993



The Serpent Mpound
Serpent Mound and associated 
constellations-Draco and the Little 
Dipper. Aerial photo
Great Serpent Mound

A most fascinating ancient Native American archaeological site found in Ohio, USA, called the "Great Serpent Mound", features an undulating snake's body, its coiled tail reminiscent of the Kundalini lying dormant in the sacrum. In its mouth appears an egg, symbol of the potential actualization of Second Birth. 

Is it possible, then, that the ancient Native American Peoples were worshiping the Divine Feminine and were deeply aware of the symbolic, spiritual significance of the Serpent Power and the Primordial Egg?

Although scholars are uncertain as to the precise significance of this Great Serpent Mound, it is, however, highly likely that this site was revered by American Indians as the sacred representation of Kundalini awakening (Second Birth).

Other sources offer added information on the Great Serpent Mound:

"The Great Serpent Mound, in Adams County, Ohio, USA, is considered to be the world's largest serpent effigy. The mound is a quarter of a mile long and five feet high, and it was originally much higher."[1]

"The Great Serpent Mound continues to wind its quarter-mile length along an Ohio hilltop...By the end of the nineteenth century, archaeologists were able to show that the mounds had in fact been built by Native American civilizations many centuries before-a-long-lost-civilization such as Greece, Persia, Holy Land or mythical island of Atlantis."[2] 

"...the two structures [Stonehenge and the Great Serpent Mound in the USA] share the same timeline. From carbon dating in and around Stonehenge, the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) gives an early date for the core of Stonehenge at 3,000 B.C.E. or 5,000 years ago. The design of Serpent Mound was conceived about 5,000 years ago as well-and is therefore among the oldest of earth and stone works in North America--or in fact the world. In this, Stonehenge and Serpent Mound are coeval. That time period is referred to in North American archaeology as being of the "Archaic Period" (approximately 6000 B.C.E. to 1000 B.C.E.) 

www.greatserpentmound.info/stonehenge.html 



"Awakening Quetzalcoatl/Kulkulcan: The Seven Powers of the Serpent

In the Mayan religion, the serpent symbolically represents the seven powers of light, energies distributed throughout the body as a gift of the Giver of Movement and Measure, Hunab K'u (the Creator). The seven powers combined and awakened form a circuit of energy focused through the crown of the head to join in the Dance and Flow of energies of the Creator. This flowering of energy through the crown chakra was often depicted through brightly feathered headdresses for the priests. The legends of Queztalcoatl are that he would appear as a rainbowed serpent with a crown or ruff of brightly colored feathers, as a macaw, or as a man with feathers waving from the top of his head - the headresses of the priests imitated and honored the feathered coif of both the serpent and the humanoid form.

The Hindu seven chakras match and are the same as the Mayan seven powers of light. The Mayan colors for these power centers are different, being the wavelengths/colors of the rainbow flowing upwards from red at the base chakra to violet at the crown. These seven colors together form the light of the sun, and the rainbow gives the pathway and seven steps upwards through the seven power points of "light" located within the human body. The water and air (rain/mist) break the light of the sun into the seven separate colors/powers.

The seven notes of the major scale in chakra toning correspond directly to the seven wavelengths of the rainbow color scale, as each tonal vibration going upwards is slightly increased in speed of wavelength.

The Hindu word kundalini directly corresponds to the Mayan word k'ultanlilni (a combination of the words for gods/pyramid/speak/ vibration/nose/vibration).

A brief digression on that "nose" reference in k'ultanlilni: By Mayan tradition, the Divine breath enters through the nose. This concept is often represented in sacred art by beings with large noses that look like elephant trunks, inscribed with signs and glyphs representing the wind and planets. The nose, the wind and the planets have a direct cosmic relationship. Mayan priests are depicted with large prominent noses; it is unknown if this is artistic license gifting the priest with the Divine Nose by virtue of his position, or if Priests were encouraged and selected from among the prominently proboscid populace.

The seven powers of light are represented in temple pyramids as seven triangles of light on the steps of the temple in Chichen Itza, Yucatan, that appear during the vernal and autumnal equinox. The number seven is sacred within Mayan culture. It is considered to be the number of the Divine and a reminder of the galactic forces and energies from which the Mayan religion formed. The seven isosceles triangles that form on March 22 and September 23 on the steps of the temple in Chichen Itza, Yucatan, allow the Priest to ascending the pyramid through the seven powers of light and into the mouth of the serpent of sacred knowledge.

The triangular and pyramidal energy conduits are based upon the structure of the water molecule. The bioelectromagnetic energy released from the inhalation/exhalation and the body's transformation/change of oxygen to co2 creates the energy released (the change in angle of separation of hydrogen on either side of the water molecule (h2o). My interpretation of this is the Divine breath brings water and air together within the body to form the fire of bioelectric energy. This energy focused through breathing and energetic concentration through the chakras in sequence produces the Serpent.

The Mayans had specific words to use to awaken these powers. Kulkulcan is a combination of k'ul (sacred vibrations), and can (sacred teaching). The energy radiating from the crown chakra (often symbolized by feathers) is cizin. Inlilnaluk' translates as "to receive sacred knowledge (literally self/vibration/mount/swallow)" and lol is "relationship between vibration and spirit". The beginning colors of the seven powers of light, red flowing into orange, is considered the color(s) of the galactic force (Milky Way Galaxy); the word for that color combination/force/energy is chacla."


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Something never seen before in the history of humanity

"Floyd Hand, a Sioux medicine man from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, said the birth (of Miracle, the White Buffalo) would affect all humans, not just Native Americans. “It’s an omen that’s bringing a change and a new world. The twenty-first century that is coming is going to unify all of us.”

Far south of him, ancient Mayan prophecies similarly predicted a coming change. Using their amazingly accurate calendar cycles, the Mayans said that the spring equinox of 1995 marked the end of two 260-year cycles known as K’altun. Upon the completion of the cycles, the Mayans say, we arrive at the time when ancient and hidden knowledge is to be awakened. They call it the end of the “age of belief” and the dawning of the Itza age, the “age of knowledge.”

The prophecy was written by the Supreme Maya Council in 1475, before the arrival of the conquistadors. Almost in anticipation of the bearded conquerors from the east, the council said that a time of darkness was near at hand and that two K’altun had to pass before the Mayan solar culture would flourish again. Once the time had passed, the council predicted, Hunab K’u — God, in Mayan — would flash like lightning and pierce through the shadows that envelop the human race. The council said that then we would begin to remember the ancient knowledge of the universe. That flood of knowledge would bring the rebirth of humanity’s spirituality and a unification of the people of the Earth in an age of peace.

On the other side of the world from the homeland of the Mayas, the same belief — that we are ending an age of darkness and entering an age of light and wisdom — is upheld in the prophecies of Indian astrology. Ages in that ancient belief stretch millions of years and are therefore impossible to pinpoint precisely. But according to various Indian astrologers, we have now reached the end of the Dark Age, the end of the spirit’s descent into matter, and the end of the last of the six epochs of the Kali Yuga. Now we must pass through a final cleansing stage before the spirit once again rises in the Satva Yuga, the “age of light.”

Already, we can see the points of lights shining, one here and one there. They are lighting in those who will carry the message. Maybe they won’t all shine at the same moment for now, but that doesn’t mean they should be turned off or that they will shine any dimmer because we try to close our eyes to them. The lights are there already, shining in the darkness, lighting our way to a new tomorrow. And as more and more lights shine, they will brighten our way and brighten our world...

Where we are going is to something brand new, something never seen before in the history of humanity."

Walter Mercado, Beyond The Horizon: Visions of a New Millennium, 
A Time Warner Company, 1997 p. 15-7.

 



"The Cosmic Return Of Spiritual Education
  Mayan Elder Hunbatz Men (PDF format)

March 16, 1999, will be, in my Mayan calendar, the day K'AN-10, month UAYEB-3, year CHICHAN-12. On this date, we will perform Mayan ceremony and will consort with the planets Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Father Sun, Sister Moon and the Pleiades. This ceremony that will be carried out in the water of the cenote is to help us enter into the new era of Aquarius. The planets previously mentioned will be in the sky in the middle of the day to observe us and to help us enter into this Mayan cosmic initiation, into the knowledge of the new Magnetic Pole of Spiritual Education. The whole of humanity today needs the education coming from the cosmos, because, as it is known, the education of modern civilization is not complying with the universal creator's correct educational mandates. Many times it contradicts it without understanding it; today we have an imposed civilization personified by humanity's manipulators.

Only the wisdom of the new cosmic time will come to correct that which has been badly done, only the great creative forces of the cosmos and of Mother Earth will correct the mistaken road that was imposed upon humanity. Only the universal creators TEPEU, GUGUMATZ and HUYUB CAAN will disturb 2000 years of mistaken direction, and they will eradicate these thousands of years of darkness.

Let us see, with our true human power, a little of our Mayan cosmic solar memory. In this way we will begin to understand what we have nowadays forgotten. Not knowing how to remember also has to do with the bad education that was imposed in all places where western colonialism reached. Today our obligation is to begin to remember. As Mayan I can remember with my cosmic mind, and you also, kind reader, can begin to remember with your cosmic mind, because you also are Mayan, you are a cosmic being who has come from HUNAB K'U, from the new time of universal wisdom.

When the universal memory began to wake up in remote times, there we were with our spirit. When our sacred body began to form, it had already been impressed in its first manifestation of life the memory of the universe. Afterwards everything was concluded for the great creator HUNAB K'U, our god that made us according to the great universal law. HUNAB K'U put the sacred measure in our body and spirit and also included the proportion of the universe in us.

When the creator HUNAB K'U concluded its creation, it gave us a little of its power, endowing us with seven corporal and spiritual powers. There are two more powers that we cannot take until we understand and develop the seven powers. One of these two powers is up in the universe and the other one is below in nature. They are complementary powers to the other seven powers that correspond to our body and spirit.

Inside our memory as great power exists our religion. This is an aspect so important that current humanity has not been able to understand it, because 2000 years of religious competition have confused even more of humanity. The proof we have of this is the great quantity of religions that exist in the entire world. One of the main current misfortunes is that each religious group says that God the creator is only on their side and that they are the chosen people of God.

It is important that humanity understands how the Maya of tradition understand the religious principle, of how it governs the actual body that we have. Accessing some of our ancestral memory will take us to remote boundaries of our existence; it will make us remember the lands and religion that do not exist today. We cannot see them because those great sacred lands and religion are under the waters of the sea.

When those that write history did not yet exist, religion already existed and was practiced by many people. When the god HUNAB K'U made the first cell of the human being he made it religiously. For this reason the human being was born of religion and consequently is religious from his root. In his cosmic thought is his religion, in his universal spirit is his religion, and in his earthly body is also his religion.

Many thousands of years that can go back to millions, the human being was in many lands that today cannot be seen physically, but, however, this information is in the memory. The Maya knew about this memory and wrote of it in their sacred books and stelae, and also shaped it in their pyramids. It is necessary to remember this history, because this information can help humanity reorient so that we take our true road, so that we no longer believe in the false history written or planned by some historians like Robert Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, and the Constantines.

Before the Maya arrived in the sacred lands where today we trod and live, they were in other lands that today are under the waters of the sea. They emigrated to many places as well long ago, as did a lot of people of different ethnic groups. In very remote times they lived in places with very high mountains sometimes covered with many trees and other times with a lot of ice; they were also in desert lands that sometimes became very fertile lands. Many of those lands arose from the waters, others disappeared with time; some transformed into very big lands, others into small lands.

The Maya can remember the last great sacred lands of the continent of Lemuria, or LEMULIA in the Mayan language, there where the cosmic religion that came from another continent that today rests under the waters of the sea was understood and practiced. Many peoples inherited the sacred symbols of LEMULIA, such as for example the symbol called the star of David of the Hebrews.

In the times of LEMULIA, the symbols represented the summary of wisdom. They also represented religion. They worshipped the symbols, not like some religions that commercialize these sacred symbols nowadays. The true sense of these symbols come from LEMULIA. Still the majority of humanity cannot understand them. In order for the human being to understand these symbols, he has to enter into the land of the cosmic initiation.

Some indigenous groups, such as the Hopis, were in the sacred lands of LEMULIA. They came from the south of the American continent in order to settle down in what today is the United States of North America. When they arrived in these lands, many of the lands were under the sea. The Hopis have in their registered memory the big changes that have occurred to the sacred lands of the north of this continent of America.

Every several thousands of years, the Magnetic Pole of Religion arises in a different part of the Earth. When this happens, the ancient wise men of knowledge travel, taking with them the previous Magnetic Religious power that they took care of in order to deposit it in the new location. When in LEMULIA this great power indicated by the cosmos and Mother Earth arose, people with high degrees of initiation traveled to help ease the activation of this new sacred place where the New Spiritual Education would arise.

Through the passing of the millennia, LEMULIA fulfilled its sacred mission as educator of humanity. From here arose many teachers whose names are not remembered by human beings today. From this continent we inherited many symbols of cosmic wisdom that are still used today. When the time of LEMULIA completed its cycle indicated by the Mayan calendars, LEMULIA returned under the waters of the sea.

The Itzaes of tradition can remember when we were in the continent of Atlantis or ATLANTIHA in the Mayan language. For thousands and thousands of years we lived in these sacred lands where we ended up understanding the reason for our existence on these lands created by our supreme HUNAB K'U. In those remote times our sacred religious symbols were in all the locations of the continent of ATLANTIHA and those that inhabited these lands could understand these symbols that represent all. When ATLANTIHA arose from the waters of the sea, many teachers came to deposit the religious sacred wisdom to this new place; they came following a cosmic order. The LEMULIANS were present in order to deposit the great power to the ATLANTIHANS. With rites and ceremonies they made the transitions of power. Then Mother Earth was pleased by the great respect that was given, for in that time the human being understood when Mother Earth gave an order to change the Magnetic Pole.

In lands of the continent of the ATLANTIHA, there existed many communities that understood the cosmic spiritual work. Inside these communities, the old Itzaes, for many hundreds of thousands of years, cohabited with this cosmic wisdom in the continent of ATLANTIHA. Here there arose more sacred symbols about which they gave teaching and the symbols were also worshipped for the totality of universal wisdom that they contained. All time begins and also finishes. The cycle indicated cosmically by the calendars also marked that the continent of ATLANTIHA would arrive at its end. When this began to happen, many communities emigrated to other places. In this way great ATLANTIHA arose from the sea and in this way returned to the sea. The Magnetic Pole of Spiritual Religious Education had already fulfilled its cycle of educating humanity, and cosmically the order had already been given that this great power would have to be in another location on Mother Earth.

Many teachers of ATLANTIHA emigrated to other lands and took the spiritual and scientific knowledge with them to their new establishments. The ATLANTIHAN/Itza community also had to emigrate to new lands. Here it is where the great continent that is today called America arose, but the original name of these sacred lands for us, the Itzaes of tradition, is TAMAUNCHAN. Before settling in these lands that we inhabit today, the Itzaes traveled to many places, among them are mentioned the sacred lands of today's indigenous Kogis.

When the indigenous Kogis-Taironas arrived in the high lands of what are today the countries of Venezuela and Colombia, the forests of today in the country of Brazil did not exist. This fact indicates to us great antiquity. These indigenous brothers settled in the high lands of Sierra Madre of Santa Marta; these are geographically located between the western part of Venezuela and the eastern part of Colombia. Also what is today the Yucatán Peninsula, México, and the lands of Central America were under the waters of the sea. When these sacred lands arose from the waters, then the Itzaes arrived. They already knew what would be the destiny of these new lands.

The Magnetic Pole of Religious Education of ATLANTIHA had already reached its end; Mother Earth and the cosmos had already indicated which would be the new location where the new religious-scientific education would arise. At that time, the Itzaes that had waited for these new lands of light ended up populating these sacred lands. They brought the sacred symbols of the inherited wisdom of ATLANTIHA to deposit here. Note: I must indicate that there already were inhabitants in the high lands of this continent of Mesoamerica.

Then arose the great TAMUANCHAN as a continuator of the Cosmic Spiritual Education ordered by the new Magnetic Pole. In these sacred lands arose the high initiatic degree of Kukulkan, or K'UUK'MEXCAN in the Mayan language. In that time Itza educated the initiates in order to understand the symbols of the snake and the eagle, when the initiates understood these symbols of consciousness, then already they could understand the seven powers of the human being. When they then comprehended these powers of the body, then they were clever enough to understand the other two complementary powers, the high one of the cosmos and the one under the earth.

The Itza brought the knowledge of ATLANTIHA, but being in these new lands of TAMUANCHAN, developed more spiritual knowledge together with the inhabitants of these new lands, with those who are today called the Maya. In this manner the Maya inherited the knowledge of the ATLANTIHAS; for many thousands of years this Magnetic Pole of Spiritual Education was in the power of the Maya. They, with what they learned from the Itzaes in their time together, developed this cosmic wisdom even more. Then they created with their sacred language the word of HUNAB K'U, so that with this word they would represent the great concept of the creation of the universe."

Hunbatz Men, elder, Itza Maya Tradition.
Communicated on December 1998
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QUOTES OF SHRI MATAJI

The Great Adi Shakti Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

"It is important to understand about your own Kundalini, as Self realisation is Self knowledge and the one who gives Self knowledge is your own Kundalini because when she rises , she points out what are the problems on your Chakras. Now we say that it is pure desire. It is your chaste desire. It has no lust or greed in it. That power is your Mother and She Is settled down in the triangular bone. She knows everything about you just as a tape recorder. She is absolute knowledge. Because She is so pure that whatever Chakra She touches, She knows what is wrong with that Chakra before hand; so She is quite prepared and She adjusts herself fully so that you do not get a problem by the awakening. If any Chakra is constricted , She waits and goes on slowly opening that Chakra.

The Kundalini is the primordial power and is reflected in you. In a human being, it is like many strands of energy, like rope. This energy is all twisted together to form that Kundalini. In a human being the strands are 3 x 7 = 21 Nadis raised to the power of 108. When your kundalini rises, one or two strands out of this come up and pierce the fontanelle bone. It has to pass through the innermost nadi known as Brahma Nadi. It is a spiral movement throughout. The kundalini is spiral and nadis are also like a spiral. The outer most nadi is the right side Nadi, “Pingala Nadi”. The second innermost is Ida Nadi. She starts sending these threads through Brahma Nadi; by that they relax the centre. By relaxing of Centre, the sympathetic nervous system also starts relaxing, your pupils start dilating and when it has pierced the Agnya, then the eyes will be completely dilated and shining. Then She enters into Sahasrara.

It is absolutely the pure light of knowledge of love, compassion and attention. All these things are in that energy. We know of many energies like electrical, light energy etc. These energies cannot think. They cannot adjust and work on their own.

They have to be handled by us. But this energy itself is the living energy and knows how to handle itself. It thinks. If you see a seed being sprouted, you will find at the tip of the seed, there is a small little cell which knows how to go around the soft places, how to encircle the stones and how to find its way towards the source. That cell has got a little Kundalini in it. But within you a tremendous force of Kundalini exists. When a realised soul says that he should have more compassion, as my compassion, is not alright; my concern about others, my generosity is not alright, I have exploited other’s love. Then this energy starts moving, giving you that greater dimension of love and compassion. If you do not want to grow in your awareness then She does not supply the energy which is stored in you.

The Kundalini is there to nourish you, look after you and make you grow by giving you a higher, wider and deeper personality. All her power is nothing but love. She gives the power to forgive. Even when you think, the energy for thinking comes from Kundalini because you are asking her help.

The power of Kundalini is absolute purity, auspiciousness, holiness, chastity, self respect, pure love, detachment, concern, enlightened attention to give you Joy. As a mother will try whatever is possible to give Joy to her child, in the same way, this Kundalini has only one power and that is how to give Joy to her own Children. When we talk in the light of Kundalini, we have to understand that this light spreads in your life, outside your life and expresses itself in a very beautiful manner.

When you worship Adi Kundalini, the reflection in you, which is your Kundalini, is very happy. Also the deities feel happy.

The power of Kundalini which is your own Mother has to rise and manifest itself, because of your Pure Desire. In your introspection, pujas and in your Meditation, you should see for yourself, why are you in Meditation. It is for Pure Desire of compassion and love to be awakened within us. The growth has started and you will find that this shell which is human conditioning and ego will just break open. It is in the triangular bone, which comes up, manifests and can save the whole world. Just see the magnificence, the expansion, the greatness of this Kundalini which was within you and which came up in its full strength and has shown tremendous things.

The joy we feel during music recitals is because Kundalini is dancing. She gets happy because you ask for nothing but enjoyment of collectivity.

You are yourself fully connected when you are absolutely detached and your Kundalini is dancing. You are alone and never alone. This oneness with the whole gives you all the security and joy you want. That’s why the Kundalini awakening means collectivity. Unless and until you want pure collectivity in your being Kundalini won’t rise.

When you worship Adi Kundalini, You are trying to cleanse your Kundalini, as well as please the Deities. This is an object. It cannot be changed. But the reflector can change. The movement of Kundalini depends on temperament of person. Kundalini can give you honesty, and faith in honesty by actualising the experience. Supposing you want to go to a garden and you are suddenly there. Then you will know that your desire is pure and it has worked out. All such miracles happen. The pure desire works out because it is powerful.

When it works, the whole thing works out and you develop faith. That faith is within you. Nobody can challenge you, if you have faith, it will be done. Your Pure desire is now being fulfilled, you are now connected and you are now Divine. You are realised souls. You are different from others. For you, all this subtle knowledge is being absorbed, because your Kundalini is absorbing it. Whatever is absorbed is absorbed back by me. But that becomes like a barometer. You immediately know without thinking, asking, you know about anyone because Kundalini is the reflector. The better a reflector, you become, the more the Kundalini shows. Though Kundalini is an individual Mother, in her functions and methods. She is just the same. You cannot cheat the Kundalini, She knows you out and out. We must meditate to get into thoughtless awareness by which we allow the Kundalini to grow."

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi




"I am here to tell you about the last breakthrough of our evolution. This breakthrough of our evolution in our awareness has to happen in these modern times and has been, moreover, recorded in the writings of many seers. These are the times called as the "Decadent Times" last called by the great saint Vyasa who has written the Gita, and it is the decadence of humanity that we see around in every way possible.

Now I would like to tell the secret knowledge of our inner being which was known in India thousands of years back. For our evolution and spiritual ascent there is a residual power within us which is located in the triangular bone at the base of our spine. This residual power was available thousands of years back in India, the awakening of the Kundalini was done, traditionally, on an individual basis only. One guru would give awakening to on disciple. As a result of that awakening, what happens is that you achieve your self-realisation, your self-hood. Secondly, when this power is awakened, it rises and passes through six subtle energy centres in your body, nourishing them and integrating them. Ultimately this power breaks through the fontanelle bone area called as the Talu or Divine Love, which is described in the Bible also as the "cool breeze of the Holy Ghost", also in the Koran as "Ruh" and also in the India scriptures as "Paramchaitanya". Patanjali has called it as "Ritambhara Pragya". Whatever the name, this is a power which is all-pervading, which does all the subtle works of living process, of evolutionary process. The existence of this all-pervading energy is not felt before realisation but after self-realisation you can feel it on your finger tips or at the centre of your palm or above the fontanelle bone area.

Actually, this knowledge existed a long time beck but my contribution, if there is any, is that we can now achieve en masse realisation. Thousands can achieve mass realisation. It is a gift of this time where it was predicted that such global transformation will take place. In as many as 65 countries, thousands of people have attained their self-realisation through Sahaja Yoga....

May the Divine bless you all.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi




"But today it is the day I declare I am the One who have to save the humanity. I declare I am the One who is Adi Shakti, who is the Mother of all Mothers, who is the Primordial Mother, the Shakti (Divine Primordial Power) of the Desire of God, who has incarnated on this Earth to give meaning to itself, to this Creation, to human beings, and I am sure that through My Love and Patience and My Powers I am going to achieve it.

I was the One who was born again and again. But now I have come in My complete Form and with complete Powers. I have come on this Earth not only for salvation of human beings, not only for their emancipation, but for granting them the Kingdom of Heaven, the Joy, the Bliss that your Father wants to bestow upon you."

Shri Puratana Devi

(Purantana 801st: Primordial or Ancient) 

ADDITIONAL QUOTES

“We are living the times of the prophecies and now in another calendar of Ox Lahu Baktun. It also talks about the cycle of the great changes. In this cycle of the 5085 years in the Mayan calendar there are still 15 more years to go before this calendar can be completed. When this cycle is completed and another restoration of the planet will begin.

The world once again has fallen into neglecting nature. The world has been led by the materialistic ways, and humanity needs to transcend this cycle and to live in a more subtle dimension. Right now only the spiritual people in this planet are living this process. The indigenous groups of the planet are also living this process. But the great majority of humanity has no idea of these changes. These changes can be very catastrophic. It is my goal that the different indigenous and spiritual groups might come together as the new warriors of the light. With their tools of love they bring the message to humanity that their attitude needs to change. We need these positive attitudes as far as the different indigenous and spiritual groups and their relationship with nature, with our brothers and sisters the trees, with our brothers and sisters the animals, and with our Mother Earth.

Even though we have neglected and abused Mother Earth, we have taken her skin off, we have contaminated her waters, we have contaminated her wind, she is still serving us in a great way. Disobedient children we have been, yet she still loves us and nurtures us. We must understand that Grandfather Sun shines its light on us, no matter what color or shape or size we are. We must see each other with this attitude in mind. If a great part of humanity begins to understand this process, not only on an intellectual level, but also at a level of living it, those drastic changes that those prophecies talk about might not be so drastic.

Ancient sky watchers and wisdom keepers of the original traditions of Mother Earth remind us of our cosmic origins and how re-aligning with the cosmos can give us essential energy needed to live together harmoniously and with honor for our Mother Earth. They teach that everything that happens in the sky affects our perceptions and our evolution. We are not separate from anything or anyone. It is clear that these current times on Mother Earth are like no other. These are the times in which all races, from all directions, must come together in harmony and unity.”

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“Before the fall of man, apparently, we all performed at higher vibratory levels. Mayan myths indicate that we will once again reach the higher stage of evolution which we once enjoyed. The Mayan name for God was Hunab K'u...

The Bible tells us to seek the kingdom of heaven, and all else shall be added unto us. Yet, if our subconscious mind believes we can't enter heaven, then we are trapped here on earth. If the childlike subconscious mind believes that we can't enter heaven until we die (as dogma-spouting ministers tell us), then we will not try to ascend while we are still alive. Thus, we construct our own prison bars -- mentally. The reptile symbolizes the "dragon" which "guards the door to heaven". We can't enter until the subconscious realizes that it can indeed open the door.

It's interesting to note that Christian, Egyptian, Mayan and Oriental religions all predict a time when man will again perform in accordance with his true design. The Sphinx sits on a circle in the Egyptian desert. Half virgin, half lion, the structure faces 180 degrees across the circle. Its placement indicates the time of its construction as some time between the Ages of Virgo and Leo (Which are astrologically symbolized by a virgin and a lion). It gazes directly across the circle at the cusp of Pisces and Aquarius which is our current time period. This is the time that the Egyptians believed they would again reincarnate into the earth plane and be able to ascend the "staircase to heaven". Interesting prediction is it not?

The ancient Mayans were also avid astrologers. The Mayan calendar was constructed to accurately predict the time when God will create a sixth new world. They believed we all live in an astrological hoop of life. After incarnating to learn life experiences during each of twelve astrological ages, some of us will be ready for new experiences at a higher vibratory level. Those who still believe in God after the hoop of life is completed will live in a new world that God creates for them. The Mayan calendar predicts that God's sixth new world will be completed by December 21 in the year 2012.

The ancients also believed that as each new astrological age arrived, a teacher would be sent to the earth plane to teach us what to expect during the following age. The last teacher, Jesus, told us that He would come again and that those who believed Him would be able to ascend as He did.”       

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“Through Solar Initiation they will be able to see the luminosity of the great spirit... through Solar Initiation, the sleeping body of mankind can be awakened... Hunab KÆu (God in Mayan) will flash like lightning that will pierce through the shadows that envelop the human race. Let us prepare to receive the light of knowledge that comes from Hunab KÆu and transcend into the memory of the creator and become beings of eternal luminosity.

The Mayas understand this auspicious event as an initiation into cosmic consciousness that will reawaken humanity into the Age of Knowledge. By the use of the magnetic grid that covers planet earth, the solar ceremonies in Chichan Itza will create a unifying intent to activate humanity into Galactic citizenship. This will be done by harmonizing the earth and its peoples thus initiating the healing process for the entire planet and humanity as we enter the age of knowledge and peace. We will begin to remember the ancient knowledge of the cosmos.”

Aluna Joy Yaxk'in, The Reawakening of the Cosmic Human




“In her research the most compelling source she came up with was "Los Calendarios Mayas Y Hunab K'U" by mayan astronomer/ astrologer Hunbatz Men. H. Men decoded much the 17 Mayan calenders. Of these, the calender " Calendario edel Tzek'eb o Pleyades" which describes the timing and meaning of our Sun's orbit around the cetnral star of the Pleiades, which is Alcyone. According to this, our Sun has 26,000 year cycle around Alcyon and each one of these great cycles is equivilant to one of the Ages of Sun in the Aztec calender. We will complete a 26,000 year cycle accrding to the calender in Dec of 2012. We will also be completing a larger 104,000 year cycle and begin "El Quinto Sol". In this cycle, those who stay will become a cosmic humanity and contact with other worlds will be possible. Notice, she says, how closely 26,000year orbit of Sun, the 26,00 year photon cycle,and our precession of the equinoxes correspond closely to timing of glacial cycles from core sample taken at the poles. The first time the earth's orbit entered the photon belt was in March of 1986. Every year since we spend a week longer on either side ( entering and exiting ). This means we right NOW ( Feb95) in the photon belt ( since early Jan) and will exit in early May. By the year 2001 will be in more of the year than out. By 2012 earth's entire orbit will be in the photon belt. The most intense part of the transition will be when our Sun moves fully into the Photon Belt in late 1998 or early 1999- the apex of the predicted earth changes. The action of the photon belt, will also have significant effect on the pineal gland. that's why everyone's psychic energy is starting to ramp up. Barbara HC theorizes that the photon action will have alot to do with unlocking and decoding our DNA for the next leap in evolution. Understanding these cycles is crucial to the awakening process we are all experiencing and will help reduce the physical, mental and emotional shock of this transition.”

Barbara Hand Clow, Age of Light  (sypnosis)
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“This is the essence of the Gnosis achieved by not only the Maya, but most likely all the great civilizations of the Americas at one time or another. As each indigenous American came to this realization, their need for a civilization disappeared into time and the memory of man. As each civilization rose to attain its own brand of highly pragmatic Gnosis, its people reverted to a simple existence without the need of kings, priests, government, or civilization. However, each vanishing civilization left the seeds of their knowledge so that those who would eventually come after might replant, nurture, and perhaps bring forth an even more beautiful creation.

This was the pattern of history of the Americas. First came the Olmecs, then the Teotihuacanos, then the Maya, the Toltecs and so on. The Aztecs were also destined to follow in those footsteps, but their development was halted by the Spanish Conquest. To the South, the Nazcas were replaced by the Moche. When they fell, the Chimu carried the standard until they themselves passed it to the Inca. The Inca were also kept from attaining their ultimate evolution by Pizzarro and his band of Conquistadores...

But there is no need to grieve. The Gnostics of the New World left us something more precious than pyramids of stone, ornate murals, or memories of civilizations in their golden age. They left us the words to describe the very essence of the Gnosis that will lead us into the next millennium and beyond. "Our spirits are energy that will one day reintegrate into the great cosmos. Thus, it is on Earth that we reap our fortunes or suffer our conse quences, and nowhere else”

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“We are living the times of the prophecies and now in another calendar of Ox Lahu Baktun. It also talks about the cycle of the great changes. In this cycle of the 5085 years in the Mayan calendar there are still 15 more years to go before this calendar can be completed. When this cycle is completed and another restoration of the planet will begin.

The world once again has fallen into neglecting nature. The world has been led by the materialistic ways, and humanity needs to transcend this cycle and to live in a more subtle dimension. Right now only the spiritual people in this planet are living this process. The indigenous groups of the planet are also living this process. But the great majority of humanity has no idea of these changes. These changes can be very catastrophic. It is my goal that the different indigenous and spiritual groups might come together as the new warriors of the light. With their tools of love they bring the message to humanity that their attitude needs to change. We need these positive attitudes as far as the different indigenous and spiritual groups and their relationship with nature, with our brothers and sisters the trees, with our brothers and sisters the animals, and with our Mother Earth.

Even though we have neglected and abused Mother Earth, we have taken her skin off, we have contaminated her waters, we have contaminated her wind, she is still serving us in a great way. Disobedient children we have been, yet she still loves us and nurtures us. We must understand that Grandfather Sun shines its light on us, no matter what color or shape or size we are. We must see each other with this attitude in mind. If a great part of humanity begins to understand this process, not only on an intellectual level, but also at a level of living it, those drastic changes that those prophecies talk about might not be so drastic.

Ancient sky watchers and wisdom keepers of the original traditions of Mother Earth remind us of our cosmic origins and how re-aligning with the cosmos can give us essential energy needed to live together harmoniously and with honor for our Mother Earth. They teach that everything that happens in the sky affects our perceptions and our evolution. We are not separate from anything or anyone. It is clear that these current times on Mother Earth are like no other. These are the times in which all races, from all directions, must come together in harmony and unity.”

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“The Maya developed their calendar long before the Julian or Gregorian calendars came into existence. The Mayan Calendar is based on naturally occurring energy cycles and a close connection to Mother Earth, the Sun, and the Pleiades. Because the Maya honored Mother Earth and the energy cycles that are present here, they were in tune with the cycles. They had access to information that is not available to 'modern people' because 'modern people' are extremely limited by their belief systems.

The Maya gained knowledge about many cycles which occur on Earth. They recognized a 13-day cycle of energy which comes from galactic sources. They also came to know a 20-day energy cycle coming from the Sun. By studying the cycles and their interaction with each other, the Maya gained an understanding of life on Earth that far exceeds our 'modern' beliefs. Fortunately, this knowledge is becoming available to us at this time to assist in our 'return to natural harmony'...

As the Grand Cycle nears completion, something very interesting is also happening in the Pleiades constellation. The star Maya is the 3rd star of the Pleiades constellation. The star Maya passes through the Photon Band for about 2000 years and out of the band for about 1,200 years. It's orbital path around Alcyone is shorter since it is closer to Alcyone. Our Sun will enter the Photon Band in 1998 and become completely within the Band by 2002. As our Sun leaves the Galactic Night and enters the Band, the star Maya also enters the Photon Band. These two stars are synchronized at this time. As the star Maya returns to the Photon Band, the Mayan Beings of Light are returning to Earth to assist us as the Grand Cycle comes to completion. Grand Events are about to occur and Ancient Wisdom is returning to Earth. Know that you have all chosen to be here on Earth at this time to experience what will be...

Time is not linear. We have been taught to think of Time as only going forward, from one point to another. I think it is more accurate to think of Time as a spiral, as cycles. In an ancient time, our Mother Earth was pristine and all of her life forms lived in harmony and honor. It is possible to heal the Earth and restore Her to her pristine state by merging the Ancient Times with the present. To accomplish this, we must first rid ourselves of the limitation of believing that Time is linear. The Mayan and Dreamspell Calendars can assist us greatly in coming to a greater understanding of Time. It is something that must be experienced. It is difficult to put into words because our language lacks the terms to express the nature of Time.

We create our Reality. For whatever reason or purpose, the mass consciousness of humanity is embracing linear time and creating a very limited reality. As each of us shifts out of the mass consciousness, it helps to change the whole. Love and Honor your Mother Earth. Receive the Galactic Synchronization Beam from the Sun. Sing the song of your Soul. Listen to your Heart.”

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[2]Wood, Marion. The World of Native Americans, First Edition. New York, NY10010,156 Fifth Ave. Peter Bedwick Books.1997. ISBN: 0750022760(hc.) pp.10,11
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A NEW APPROACH TO HEALTHCARE DELIVERY

               

                         Healthcare System for the Nation

                              Health Share 2000-plus

 

Dr. Leon W. Bleiberg, has had a healthcare delivery system for a long period of time. This program by Dr. Bleiberg, a retired Podiatric Surgeon, is shovel-ready for implementation now without a major expense to the government or the adopting entity. It is an outstanding solution to our current sick health insurance system. In particular, you will be impressed with the free market aspect of the program. It does not call for heavy government spending, or government interference in the lives of the people.

 

The program, which is approved by the U.S Department of Labor under the ERISA (Employee Income Security Act of 1974) Law, would:

 

(1) Give the member/patient 100 % healthcare coverage with no additional cost to him/her. The basic membership fee of the program takes care of all costs;

 

(2) Provide steady increased income to physicians and providers, and eliminates all paperwork related to billing; there is no billing, no claims, no deductibles, no accounts receivable and therefore no collections or bad debt. There are no exclusions of pre-existing condition or exclusions of any kind;

 

(3) Provides direct patient-doctor/provider relationship; there is no middleman;

 

(4) Cut employers cost by over 50% of current insurance premiums. 

 

(5) Cost for a family of four is approximately $250 - 300/month in California or about $260 for national program for a family of four – for all medical services including lab work and hospitalization. Single or individual would be about 30% lower.

 

Best of all, It is Accessible, Cost Effective and Fiscally Sound.  It promises a panacea for most interested parties – the public, the government and the medical profession/providers. It does not add to the federal deficit.

 

You, too, may agree that it could be the most innovative program ever developed in the field of healthcare.

            NOBODY IS LEFT BEHIND!!

 

WHY HEALTHSHARE 2000-plus IS BETTER!

 

Though the system has some elements of similarity to the present system of Capitation, it is not the same. Unlike the present system, HealthShare 2000-plus

 

A. Pays separate Retainers to each field of service detailed by the operational divisions within the provider network. This network is composed of all fields of service within the framework of the total benefit structure.

 

B. Providers are comprised of professional practitioners, hospitals, specialists, allied healthcare personnel, etc. This contractual system covers all benefits through the commitment of the provider network.

 

C. While the current system of indemnification is salary-based and pays for services rendered, which is fraught with uncertainty, uncontrolled costs, abuse, fraud and waste, it is not so with HealthShare 2000-plus, which is based on fees for services offered. There is a firm contractual assurance that all services and benefits that are to be rendered prophylactically and therapeutically are paid for by “retainer” before the member/consumer ever needs that service. There is no billing before or after service is rendered.

 

D. The system has no intermediary decision makers between the provider and the member. It is a direct doctor-patient relationship. The selection of treatment is discussed and made between patient and doctor.

 

E. The elimination of the intermediary means that over 80% of members’ fees/premiums are paid to doctors/providers at the beginning of each month.

 

F. The elimination of billing saves the provider more than 65% in paperwork and administration costs.

 

G. The substantial cost reduction, the built-in regulatory system, the free market-free choice feature, as well as the total streamlining results in a total win-win program for all sides – the employer, the employee, the government and the national economy.

 

 

 

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Happy Earth Day Topanga!
In honor of Earth Day this issue of the newsletter will be a little more dedicated to some of the reasons why organic and sustainable farming practices are so important to our health and the health of our planet.  Did you know that agriculture can affect climate change?  Yep, it's true.  The research is showing increasingly that organic farming has some of the greatest potential to store carbon.  The whole system of organic farming and other sustainable practices that come out of the organic toolbox all really focus on soil building.  Keeping carbon in the soil rather than letting it escape into the atmosphere makes for healthier crops and combats global warming.  Did you also know that just this week researchers discovered that half of the meat in the U.S. may be widely contaminated with strains of drug-resistant bacteria?  The study's leader said the animals most likely harbored these drug resistant pathogens because antibiotics routinely are fed to livestock to promote growth and prevent disease in crowded pens on large farms. The AMA, the World Health Organization and other medical groups have warned that the misuse of antibiotics in food animal production may be creating a serious problem for human health by fostering development of drug-resistant bacteria.  Oh, and did I mention that some of the meat and poultry samples tested were purchased in Los Angeles?
Don't despair, meat-eaters!  We are so fortunate to have access to some of the cleanest, healthiest meat, chicken, and eggs right here in our very own farmers market.  Not only does Novy Ranches never use antibiotics or have disgusting crowded pens but they have created a closed herd, meaning that they breed all of their own cows and never allow outside cows into their herd.  Lily's Eggs also provides antibiotic-free, seriously free-range naturally fed chicken and eggs.  If you pay close attention, you'll see that eggs are seasonal, with spring, appropriately enough, being the most prolific time.  Hens don't lay as much during hot weather and Lily's gives a lot of thought to keeping the birds cool.  They have built palapas (dried-palm-leaf umbrellas), installed sprinklers on the roofs of the open-door chicken houses, and provide lots of shady trees and bamboo.  Eggs are collected twice a day at Lily's, more often when it's hot.  If you notice smaller eggs among your dozen, they are most likely from younger hens, rather than a sign of an inferior product.
My favorite item in the market last week?  The red-veined spinach at McGrath Family Farms.  It's an entirely different creature than the green spinach and is bred to be cut as baby greens.  It's beautiful.  The taste is sweet with nutty spinach undertones and it's definitely best used raw where it's delicate flavor and texture can be most appreciated.
There's a lot happening in the Canyon this weekend, namely Topanga Earth Day!  Check out the incredible schedule of events at www.topangaearthday.org or on their Facebook page.  And I have to give a big birthday shout-out to Topanga's Earth Day Birthday Goddess of Dance and Beauty, the fabulous Devon Farr!  Happy Birthday Devon - I love you!!!!
See you tomorrow!
Elise
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“How do you Know when you’re Angry?”  I ask the 15 “at-risk teens” sitting in a circle at 8:30 a.m. .   I go around the room, one at a time.

 

“My heart races”, “my fists clench”, “I get hot”.

 

“Good.  These are your Early Warning Signals.  When you can identify the signal of your anger before it comes out of your mouth you have a chance to change your behavior.”

 

“Let’s do the breathing.  Inhale, two three Pause Three heartbeats, Exhale, two, three Pause three heartbeats.” (  you can be guided through the breathing exercise at   www.TamingYourAnger.com ).

 

My vision is to teach Emotional Intelligence as basic curriculum in modern education.

 

To begin, I’ve been teaching at what I sometimes refer to as both the basement and the penthouse. I’ve been teaching EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE and TAMING YOUR ANGER (www.TamingYourAnger.com ) in the basement of our educational system for the past year at a Continuation Charter High School for kids suspended from their regular high school.  I call it the basement because these kids have nowhere to fall.  They live in a world of gangs, drugs, violence, poverty, etc.  and some of these kids are changing their behavior: demonstrating more self control and greater Emotional Awareness.   I’m very excited that, in the spirit of “Each One Teach One” some students are now teaching the basic course material to other, new students.   A group of them also volunteered to participate in a documentary to share what they have learned and you can see a clip of it at  http://youtu.be/prE-g4HVM-s

 

I also teach the same work at the penthouse of higher education, USC’s Ostrow School of Dentistry.  The “penthouse” because these extremely bright and competent students  are attending one of the finest schools in the country.  They are learning to better attend to frustrations and anxieties which come up in their training as well as frustrations or anger they may experience in primary relationships.

 

If you’re interested in finding out more about how to bring this work to your community, please contact me at:  wolfti.org@gmail.com 

 

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HAVANA — Former President Jimmy Carter planned to meet with Cuban dissidents early Wednesday following two days of talks with President Raul Castro, other government officials and religious leaders in a trip he hopes will boost strained U.S.-Cuban relations.

Speculation about the three-day trip has focused on whether he will leave with imprisoned U.S. contractor Alan Gross, who was recently sentenced to 15 years in prison after being convicted of illegally importing communications equipment — though there has been no sign of a resolution to that dispute between Washington and Havana.

Editor's Notes:

Members of Cuba's small dissident community, including internationally renowned blogger Yoani Sanchez and Oswaldo Paya, who sought a referendum on the communist government and guarantees of such rights as free speech and private business ownership, confirmed that they, among others, were invited to the breakfast meeting in historic Old Havana.

Carter was scheduled to give a news conference Wednesday afternoon before leaving the island.

Cuban opposition members have achieved certain fame overseas for their marches, hunger strikes and other activities to push for political and economic change. Visiting U.S. officials often meet with them, although it rankles the Cuban government.

They are not as well known on the island, however, and the government calls them mercenaries paid by Washington to undermine the government. Recently a U.S. diplomatic cable revealed by WikiLeaks described the dissidents as riven by petty rivalries and hopelessly out of touch, with leaders too focused on funding their operations to mount a serious opposition.

Gross was arrested in December 2009 while working on a USAID-backed democracy-building project and convicted of crimes against state security earlier this month in a case that has blocked improved ties between the U.S. and Cuba.

Carter's visit came soon after the sentencing, and its sudden announcement sparked expectations that he might help facilitate Gross' release. Last August, the 39th U.S. president and winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize traveled to North Korea to secure the release of an imprisoned American.

He said Tuesday that he discussed the Gross case with Cuban officials but was visiting to talk about strained ties.

"I am not here to take [Gross] out of the country," Carter said in Spanish.

"We are here to visit the Cubans, the heads of government and private citizens. It is a great pleasure for us to return to Havana," he added. "I hope we can contribute to better relations between the two countries."

Accompanied by former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the ex-president met with Raul Castro at the Government Palace for private talks, but there was no word on what they talked about.

Castro and Carter later arrived by motorcade for an apparent late dinner at an upscale restaurant in Old Havana.

Gross has said he was working to improve Internet communications for Cuba's tiny Jewish community, though community leaders deny knowing or working with him.

Havana considers such USAID projects to be aimed at toppling the government.

Washington and Havana have not had formal diplomatic relations since the 1960s, and the United States maintains economic and financial sanctions on the island.

U.S. officials say no thaw in relations is possible while Gross is in prison.

Carter — who was president from 1977 to 1981 — previously visited Cuba in 2002, becoming the only former U.S. president to do so since the 1959 revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power.

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A Coherent World

8930632688?profile=originalTHE Cheyenne say that “our first teacher is our own heart,” but  mainstream science offers few apples to our inner instructor.


Western medical school medicine still views the heart only as a mechanical blood pump.


That view is beginning to change. The Medical Community is being challenged to expand its thinking about human biology, health, and wellness.


Leading-edge research in holistic medicine, biophysics, bioenergetics, and biocentrism all point in the same direction – telling us that we are more than just our physical body.


Explaining how we are more, H. P. Blavatsky maintains in The Secret Doctrine that “The whole issue of the quarrel between the profane and the esoteric sciences,”


8930633074?profile=original“… depends upon the belief in, and demonstration of, the existence of an astral body within the physical, the former independent of the latter.”


The key is explained in today’s frontier science by the presence of the ‘biofield’ – a human body-field that is described as a structured web of information and energy that underlies and informs our physical body, and rules our state of health and well-being.


The heart is the primary contributor, regulator and overseer of this web. “Electrically, the heart generates over 500 times more electricity than the brain,” writes BioCare Certified Neurofeedback Provider, Helena E. Kerekhazi, MS, NRNP.

 

“It is the biggest generator in the body.”


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Wellspring of Love

In order to survive the next 100 years, we must come to realize, the fittest among us are, in fact, the wisest. We simply can no longer make it on physical brawn and Nationalistic might. Through our amazing, innovative technologies a global world was birthed; each country collectively interdependent upon the whole, entwined in a delicate balance of commerce, ingenuity and connectedness. Isn’t it, then, rather ludicrous that we would even consider investing our precious resources and lives in such a suicidal venture as war?
If we are to make it in this global milieu, which necessitates mutual respect and reciprocity, then we must open up, giving way to our higher nature, unfolding a new paradigm for world relations; a paradigm wherein the energies of love and peace prevail, guiding and motivating our actions. As people everywhere still subscribe to the old, bloody, conquering, territorial imperative model, somehow they must be impregnated with the reconciling view that only peaceful, loving means will sustain all of us into a viable future. It is imperative we explore every possibility so we can live and flourish harmoniously on this awesome planet with its diverse religions, ideas, customs and traditions.
In the spirit of honorable exchange, we can certainly brainstorm and heartstorm to come up with equitable solutions to build bridges to one another, rather than continuing to manufacture weapons of mass destruction, indulging a serial killer mentality. If this remains the hallmark of how we deal with conflicts and disagreements, then the ultimate fate of our self-annihilation will be sealed. But, if we share a vision that holds peace as its enduring, most fruitful option to save our world from the ravages of this murderous, war-infected ideology, then we can move forward together.
We can do this, not in the fashion of attempting to melt differences, but in the mode of good will and understanding; these differences honored and dealt with through wise, honest, reflective dialogue. In this way, all of us would be heard - the ears of listening offered. This, in itself, can heal and transform. When any one of us feel we have been really heard, we are more apt to listen, as well, from a place of non-judgment. Thus, through this portal of pure listening, peace and love can flow unimpeded by small- minded self-interests that do not take into account the full range of possibilities available, forging lasting bonds.
It all starts with us, in our own individual lives. If we can’t listen to one another here and now in terms of our immediate, personal differences, how can we expect this to happen with nations on a global scale? So, ineluctably, as reiterated again and again, peace does begin at home. We must listen to each other and to this deep calling within us for connection, embarking on a fresh path so we embrace all beings, despite our differences, whatever they may be. Then there is hope for a greater future, as we are delivered from the self-righteous, combative urges of the ego into the realm of love, where peace is no longer a dream, but a reality nurtured by our willingness, right now, to drink from the wellspring of love, putting down the cup of hatred, emptied of malice.

 

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The Peacemaker Within Nurture the Peacekeeper through World Vision Walks Thich Nhat Hanh’s Annual PeaceWalk & LWF’s “Walk Across the World” by Michele D’Arbanville The moment I stepped into the street at 6th and MacArther in downtown Los Angeles with Thich Nhat Hanh on his annual Peace Walk, I experienced a deep sense of belonging; a oneness with all who seek to transcend the boundaries of racial and social injustice and an awareness of our connection to the suffering of all people. Flooded with emotion, I recalled those in our past and present, who have walked and stood for peace in the face of violence. Enlightened souls who’ve led the way, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese Monks, The Dalai Lama, all those who participated in the non-violent protests in Tibet, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Germany, USSR, Yugoslavia, China and Lebanon, are all part of a human heart chain that stretches far back into our historic past, our Native Americans, Knights of the Roundtable, Kshatriya Warriors of Ancient India and around 600BC it is said, Gautama Buddha, helped make all Asia mild. One of today’s revered spiritual teachers, Thich Nhat Hanh, calls himself a simple monk. He says, “Peace is in Every Step. Each step we take is the doorway to the kingdom of happiness.” The Vietnamese, Buddhist Priest, known affectionately as, “Thai”, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King. He shows us ways to calm the mind and open the heart. Might the simple act of walking for peace break us open to spiritual consciousness and principles of deep listening, compassion and non-violence? As I stepped into the streets, taking long, slow breaths, an inner spaciousness and a sense of universal responsibility entered into the walking meditation. I felt a collective memory of those who have walked before me, as peacemakers for social justice, understanding, tolerance and peace. The heart of the great universe called on my strength, all of our fearlessness called up my truth. Each human who has suffered, penetrated the sphere of my heart. Yes, we are all truly part of this larger heart, beating in unison for truth. What does it mean to be a peacemaker in this time? Each breath, each step becomes nourishment for the places inside ourselves that aren’t comfortable, the parts inside that need healing…even the perceived enemies inside and out…we breathe each step for them and us. “We must meet hate with creative love, love is the most durable power in the world. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” said, Martin Luther King. When we guide our bodies, hearts and minds to hold this message, our intention for non-violence becomes clear. As we walk in our everyday life we carry the spiritual lineage of peacemaking that these great teachers have passed on to us. We become Peacemakers for the planet. Helpful ways to heal include spiritual retreats, peacemaking workshops, World Vision Walks and Sacred World Arts and Music gatherings. At a previous retreat through, “The Open Center”, Thai took thirty of us through the streets of New York City in the late ‘80s. We gathered to share in the wisdom of this then little known Vietnamese monk. He led us through the streets of Manhattan, hearts leading the way in a walking meditation, as we gently stepped in unison, even getting on and off subways together. The heart pilgrimage took us from downtown’s SOHO all the way uptown to a grassy knoll on the upper east side of Central Park. There we all participated in a Dharma Talk with Thai. The experience engendered deep trust, silence and loving kindness. If we listen to our hearts for the message of peace in every step we take, in every breath we breathe and every gesture we make, then each precious moment is filled with conscious presence. The challenge is great and the rewards even greater. As we guide ourselves to hold a strong vision of Tolerance and Non-Violence, we help each other at this vital time. We join in a collective healing that breaks us open to the heart and turns the cycle from greed and need into giving love and abundance. “There is no way to peace, peace is the way.” said, Mahatma Gandhi. In honor of Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, October 2nd, Living Wellness Foundation held a World Vision Walk for Tolerance at Self Realization Fellowship’s beautiful ‘Lake Shrine’ in Pacific Palisades. We all walked slowly around the beautiful lake with the brothers and sisters of SRF, the ‘Full Circle Learning’ students and community members. The children sang the most poignant song, “…A glorious vision is waiting for you, a personal mission, if only you will see it through…” Thoughts were shared about Gandhi’s teachings on Non-Violence, “Satyagraha” and the ‘Full Circle’ children signed the ‘Walk Across the World in Unity and Harmony’ flag. Their prayers and wishes for peace joined those of Jane Goodall, The Tibetan Monks & Nuns of Zangdokpalri and many others from all the World’s Cultures. October 2nd, Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, has now been sanctioned by the United Nations as a, ‘Day of Non-Violence’. This October 2nd, was a worldwide event for LWF, with walks in Channai, India, and Northern California as well. The Walk Across the World, Paths to Tolerance Program is a worldwide coordinated effort that seeks to raise awareness for tolerance and understanding, which cumulatively logs walker’s distances throughout the year to equal the earth’s circumference of 24,800 miles collectively by the end of October 2, 2008. We stepped into the street and dropped into a collective soul memory, a reminiscence that included the pain and suffering of all who had walked before us, those who made so many sacrifices. They made sacred the land they walked on. Now we are present, all striving to heal injustice in an act of non-violence, walking together in harmony. We walk together on this earth, shadow steps of light, learning to carry and share these seeds of wisdom, to create a collective awareness within, from which we all can heal our world.

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by Philip D'Arbanville Could it be that the world relies on humans to think clearly - and in harmony - for its survival? The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) at Princeton University just may prove that the Morphogenetic Field Theory is more than pseudoscience. Based on a hypothesis developed by English scientist Rupert Sheldrake, which was influenced by Carl Jung's controversial theory of the Collective Unconscious, the GCP aims to prove that all of mankind is connected through a powerful mind field. morphogenetic If Jung's theory that a "reservoir of the experiences of our species" actually exists, then the morphogenetic field is where this knowledge resides. Sheldrake's theory postulates that these fields contain a sort of "universal database" of human intelligence that is shared amongst all living beings. This knowledge is necessary for beings to not only exist, but also to evolve. For example, 200 years ago, it took nearly a week for a child to learn how to ride a bicycle. Since then, generations of children have learned this ability. As a result, the imprint of that knowledge has carried into humankind's morphogenetic field so that now it typically takes a child only a few hours to master the balance needed to ride a bike. Since 1998, the GCP has monitored 50 diode machines around the globe in an effort to determine if the consciousness of mankind actually exists. Through the use of white noise signals, these machines are believed to have the ability to measure if the morphogenetic field is influenced by our behaviors, our interactions with other beings or even the occurrence of tragic world events. For example, each time there has been a tragedy that arouses collective world mourning, such as Princess Diana's death and 9/11, the diodes have registered an interruption in the random, yet statistical, pattern that exists when the world is in harmony. Fascinatingly, these disturbances have been detected hours before the event even happened. For example, all 50 diodes worldwide simultaneously registered a disturbance in the morphogenetic field five hours before the first airplane crashed into the World Trade Center. Researchers for the GCP believe this is most likely the time the terrorists put their long-planned attack into motion. The scientific proof of the connective link between all living beings and the morphogenetic field has the potential to radically change the 21st century. If we truly have a constant impact not only on each other, but on future generations and the health of our world, our responsibility as humans may have just been ratcheted up a few notches.
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CENTURY CITY NEWS

JUNE 29 – JULY 12, 2010

LA’s SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES BRING IN ‘LIVING WELLNESS’s

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES FOR THEIR STAFF

by Dana Kline

Health just took on a whole new meaning of renewal for skilled nursing staffs from Pasadena and Downtown LA to Beverly Hills as Health Care Administrators turn the table on our front line caregivers and bring in Complementary Therapies for their Nurses! ‘Living Wellness’, out of Topanga, CA., is bringing them self care techniques such as massage, aromatherapy, T’ai Chi, Yoga and Reflexology to decrease their stress and increase their stamina.

At Highland Park’s, Amberwood Convalescent Hospital, in appreciation of National Nursing & Nursing Home Week, Administrator, Jeanie Barrett, brought ‘Living Wellness’s team of holistic healers and massage therapists in to practice and share self-care techniques with her staff. Using integrative healing modalities, [Complementary and Alternative Modalities, known as CAM] every employee, from her Nurses, to Nurse Assistants, Kitchen, Laundry, Administration and Maintenance Staff, received a light healing massage and aromatherapy treatment.

Living Wellness directors, Philip and Michele D’Arbanville, along with their staff, provided unique health experiences for the caregivers. “We believe in health support and CAM education for those serving our loved ones in skilled nursing facilities”, said Philip, “The better care they’re taking of themselves and their families, the more superior care our loved ones in these centers will receive.”

Holly Ianieri, Administrator of Alexandria Care Center also chose to reward her staff for their constant, dedicated work by introducing them to this special world of CAM Therapies, - so they can learn to use it for themselves. “They all work so hard, day in and day out, providing quality care for our residents, they deserve some health support and stress relief themselves.” she said.

When the Living Wellness team comes in to give their sessions, the excitement is omnipresent. Massage tables are set up, fresh cut flowers adorn the room and celestial music delights the ear. Between the wafting lavender and citrus diffused air, the room is completely transformed into a Spa Health Center. Receiving light massage and aromatherapy treatments, employees experience the calming and inspirational affects of plant essentials, such as lavender and wintergreen. Invigorating peppermint oil infused water is also served as an ‘after-treatment’ stimulant to ease each employee’s return to work.

Starting with aching backs, sore feet and headaches, the myriad of post massage faces soon beam with smiles, thrilled by improvement in their emotional, physical and psychological states. Malu Monteclaro, RN from Alexandria Care Center raved, “I love the therapeutic effect. They found the exact pressure points in my neck to relieve my shoulder pain and headache. The lavender and thyme oil sent me back to work with a big smile.”

The Living Wellness staff is always moved by the interest expressed by the employees for their personal and professional use of the oils and complementary therapies. “The sessions are so successful that we’re providing more education, so they can learn how to work effectively with these modalities themselves,” said Michele,” This is not a one time occurrence, where we create an environment and then it’s forgotten. These health techniques benefit everyone. Our ongoing program teaches the most simple and effective methods to alleviate depression, fatigue and stress and increase stamina.” It is a real sign of the progressive times in healthcare today that LA’s skilled nursing administrators are bringing these healing modalities to their employees for the ultimate benefit of their residents.

['Living Wellness' can be reached at pdarbanville@gmail.com or 310-663-5007]

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The Inner Ruler

THE Cherokee say that “our first teacher is our own heart,” but unfortunately our western science has rewarded that teacher with very few apples.Mainstream medicine still looks at the heart as only a mechanical pump.That view is beginning to change. The Medical Community is being challenged to expand its thinking about human biology, health, and wellness.Leading-edge research in holistic medicine, biophysics, bioenergetics, and frontier biology all point in the same direction – telling us that we are more than just our physical body.The Human Body Field“The whole issue of the quarrel between the profane and the esoteric sciences,” H. P. Blavatsky wrote,“… depends upon the belief in, and demonstration of, the existence of an astral body within the physical, the former independent of the latter.”In today’s terminology this says we each have a biofield – a human body-field that is a structured web of information and energy that underlies and informs our physical body and influences the state of our health and well-being.“Electrically, the heart generates over 500 times more electricity than the brain,” writes BioCare Certified Neurofeedback Provider, Helena E. Kerekhazi, MS, NRNP. “It is the biggest generator in the body.”“We have to subtract out the heart artifact from the brainwaves when we record, so strong is the signal.”The Heart is The Emperor(Watch Video)(Excerpt from “The Living Matrix”)
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Being Blessed by Trees

The whole life of these trees is to serve.With their leaves, flowers, fruits, branches,roots, shade, fragrance, sap, bark, wood,and finally even their ashes and coal,they exist for the purpose of others.~ Srimad BhagavatamOne of my favorite memories growing up occurred when I was about 8 years old. I had just climbed up to the very top of the tall tree in our front yard one day — when a storm front began sweeping across our neighborhood. It began raining very hard and a strong, warm wind was also blowing. I was in heaven at the top of that tree as it gently swayed 5-10 feet back and forth high in the air for well over an hour. I can still connect with the exquisite oneness I experienced that day as time disappeared. Of course, from that day forward that tree became a dear friend of mine.This memory, and the gorgeous photograph above, reminds me of my love for trees as vibrant givers and teachers of life. One of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver, captures her reverence for the wisdom of trees in the following poem:CAN YOU IMAGINE?by Mary OliverFor example, what the trees donot only in lightening stormsor the watery dark of a summer’s nightor under the white nets of winterbut now, and now, and now - wheneverwe’re not looking. Surely you can’t imaginethey don’t dance, from the root up, wishingto travel a little, not cramped so much as wantinga better view, or more sun, or just as avidlymore shade - surely you can’t imagine they juststand there loving everyminute of it, the birds or the emptiness, the dark ringsof the years slowly and without a soundthickening, and nothing different unless the wind,and then only in its own mood, comesto visit — surely you can’t imaginepatience, and happiness, like that.Although I usually include one poem each week, the trees themselves insist that I share another one of their favorites:WHEN I AM AMONG TREESby Mary OliverWhen I am among the trees,especially the willows and the honey locust,equally the beech, the oaks, and the pines,they give off such hints of gladness.I would almost say that they save me, and daily.I am so distant from the hope of myself,in which I have goodness, and discernment,and never hurry through the worldbut walk slowly, and bow often.Around me the trees stir in their leavesand call out, “Stay awhile.”The light flows from their branches.And they call again, “It’s simple,”they say, “and you, too, have comeinto the world to do this, to go easy,to be filled with light, and to shine.”Blessings of peace to your own rich memories of times spent in awe of nature in all its extraordinary, healing forms.In Love, Gavin
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Future Seeing

“THE PAST, the Present, and the Future are, in the esoteric philosophy, a compound time,” wrote Helena Blavatsky, “for the three are a composite number only in relation to the phenomenal plane—but in the realm of noumena have no abstract validity.”Our generally accepted worldview of duration and time “are all derived from our sensations according to the laws of Association,” explained Blavatsky.And according to a precept in the Buddhist Prasanga-Madhyamika teaching:“The Past time is the Present time, as also the Future, which, though it has not come into existence, still is.”Because they are “inextricably bound up with the relativity of human knowledge,” as Blavatsky said, reductionist ideas are useful only for mechanical concerns—and because they ignore holistic experience, must eventually fall away in the face of man’s deeper spiritual understandings.Senior scientist Dean Radin, of The Institute for Noetic Sciences (IONS), is a daring explorer who boldly goes where the establishment won’t, methodically measuring the immeasurable. In this clip he explains ongoing experiments demonstrating evidence of “presentiment” and “precognition”:Watch Video
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Our current central focus is the creation of the La Paz Eco Village: http://lapazecovilage.org/index.html outside of the town of Todo Santos in Baja California Sur, Mexico. This project is in its' founding stages with the closing date for the purchase of the property set for October 30Th, 2009. The website gives all pertainent information and includeds 56 photos of the project site and surrounding area, including the Sierra de Laguna World Heritage Bio-Reserve which borders the property.This Eco Village will also be the central coordinating point for the End of the Mayan Calendar-Beginning of the New Era: Celebration of All Cultures (please Google search the name for more information) with events to take place around the world. Palenque, Chiapas - Mexico will be the main event and all events will take place in December of 2012.We are also working with many events, gatherings, projects and relief efforts globally.Walk in PeaceRainbow Hawkhttp://onthepathto2012.mundomio.orghttp://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=62306258632http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23975299969http://lapazecovillage.org/index.htmlhttp://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=225300480301&ref=mfhttp://www.facebook.com/inbox/readmessage.php?t=1126837585273#/group.php?gid=16127417116https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr__EgM3c9Uhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=MX&hl=es-MX&v=utBkbJIYMy8Rainbow Hawk: Focalizer/Coordinator rainbow_gathering@yahoo.comhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61BCB2-OmRY
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Neti Neti

THE idea that things can cease to exist and still be, is a fundamental one in Eastern psychology. Under this apparent contradiction in terms, there rests a fact of Nature to realize is the important thing.A familiar instance of a similar paradox is afforded by chemical combination. The question whether Hydrogen and Oxygen cease to exist, when they combine to form water, is still a moot one.Some [argue] that since they are found again when the water is decomposed, they must be there all the while—others contending that as they actually turn into something totally different, they must cease to exist as themselves for the time being.“Neither side is able to form the faintest conception of the real condition of a thing, which has become something else and yet has not ceased to be itself.”Read complete Article.Existence as water may be said to be, for Oxygen and Hydrogen, a state of Non-being which is ‘more real being’ than their existence as gases.To our talpatic, or mole-like, comprehension the human spirit is then lost in the One Spirit, as the drop of water thrown into the sea can no longer be traced out and recovered. But de facto it is not so.Everyone “must preserve their divine (not human) individualities, and...“… however long the rest period between worlds or births. When the rest is over, “the same individual [spirit] resumes its majestic path of evolution, though on a higher, hundredfold perfected and more pure chain of earths than before — and brings with it all the essence of compound spiritualities from its previous countless rebirths.”Evolution has a spiral motion and is dual, according to Blavatsky — “the path of spirituality turns, corkscrew-like, within and around physical, semi-physical, and supra-physical evolution.[H. P. Blavatsky, Article: Isis Unveiled and the Vishishtadwaita]
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The God Effect 2

EVERY organ and cell in the body has a field, by which it mysteriously networks with every other organ and cell. The heart and gut talk to the brain. And the brain’s holographic networks are due to the noetic fields of its cells and neurons.The Field is the underlying mechanism of healing, of thought transference, gene behavior, and the way the environment influences us — it is the real “secret” behind the power of intention.Receiver and sender are locked in an invisible lover’s embrace.When circulation is blocked, death begins. When universal brotherhood, compassion and unity are compromised, societies suffer and decline.Feelings, motives, thoughts, intentions—invisible except in effect—all shape our health, our well-being, and our relationships, for good or ill.And it’s all because we are immersed in a field of consciousness that records, stores, and reflects back everything we feel, think and do.“The whole issue of the quarrel between the profane and the esoteric sciences depends upon the belief in, and demonstration of, the existence of an astral body within the physical.” -H. P. BLAVATSKY, SD 2:149These are the “morphogenetic fields” of biologist Rupert Sheldrake. By means of them, he says, “ Dogs Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home” and it explains our “Sense of Being Stared At.”It is why his “Telephone Telepathy” experiment works:Watch Video: “Telephone Telepathy”
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The God Effect

THESE ARE transformational times, and new orders of thought based on ancient verities are seen flowering once more.A growing number of New Thought leaders are fostering a welcome shift in human consciousness.It is a revolutionary shift. The seeds of change evident throughout the 20th Century, and now in the 21st, were sown in the 19th—sparked by the Theosophical Movement.Progress on the New Frontiers is gradually building momentum. We are discovering new ways of furthering the shift away from a morally purposeless, material-based worldview.“As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” -Proverbs 23:7New Age ideas gaining ground today, and we noticed recently a common thread running through them all. Whether it be biology, psychology, physics, cosmology, healing arts—all seem to be rooted in what is called simply: “The Field."Credit must be given to Lynn McTaggart for her seminal work The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe where she gathers together and popularizes the work of many often isolated researchers.It would be difficult to overstate the importance of her contributions.The Living Matrix(WATCH VIDEO)This is the first film to bring together scientists and academics to reveal scientific evidence that “The Field” surrounds us. We can heal our bodies and we can create from our mind.“[W]e are beginning to see into the secrets of the subconscious as well as the deepest regions of consciousness,” Blavatsky wrote, “showing us how little of the real self we are aware of……a self which seems without limit, apparently omniscient and all powerful, beyond all limitations of time and space, and where earthly things and interests grow pale and indistinct.”View complete article.
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Pot of Miracles

Helena Blavatsky was the first to refer to nature spirits as elementals.“Some classes of elementals… have an intelligence of their own and a character…”and….“A plant can be receptive or non-receptive, though every plant without an exception feels and has a consciousness of its own. But besides the latter, every plant—from the gigantic tree down to the minutest fern or blade of grass—has, Occultism teaches us, an Elemental entity of which it is the outward clothing on this plane.”William Quan Judge further explains...“As it (the elemental world) is automatic and like a photographic plate, all atoms continually arriving at and departing from the ‘human system’ are constantly assuming the impression conveyed by the acts and thoughts of that person…“…and therefore, if he sets up a strong current of thought, he attracts elementals in greater numbers, and they all take on one prevailing tendency or color, so that all new arrivals find a homogeneous color or image which they instantly assume.Quantum Plantics“On the other hand, a man who has many diversities of thought and meditation is not homogeneous, but, so to say, particolored, and so the elementals may lodge in that part which is different from the rest and go away in like condition. …”“They move with the velocity of thought. In their world there is no space or time as we understand those terms.”Penn State University scientist Consuelo M. De Moraes and other researchers are finding that plants behave with the diversity of which Judge speaks concerning elementals.by Kara R. LeBeau, EditorRead complete post here.
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