Sunday, June 9, 2013

Mt. Shasta Street Luge

                                                                              

The summer of 2004 found me embarking on a spiritual quest of sorts.  For some time I'd been feeling "outside the flow of things"~ kind of off balance at a time when one chapter of my life was ending as another began.  The universal 'law of three' states that when something is presented to you three or more times in a brief period of time by different sources...you should pay attention to whatever is being shown to you.  It's a way the universe uses to tap you on the shoulder & get your attention.  I've seen it work far too many times to doubt it's authenticity.  As I sought to find my way back into "the flow" what the universe kept telling me was "Move to Taos."  Often times messages from spirit are nebulous or ambiguous, requiring us to puzzle out the meaning.  This was not one of those times, I knew exactly what the message meant.  At the time, Kirtan chanting had been a part of my spiritual practice for several years, and at the center of that, was the Hanuman Chalisa.  I'm a big fan of the monkey god, and I knew if I was being called, or sent to Taos it could only be because that is the location of the only Hanuman Temple in America.   Spirit was calling me to immerse myself in this vibration, to move to Taos so as to be near the temple.

I have this little thing, like a tradition that I do before embarking on any spiritual journey; and that is a visit to Mount Shasta to get rebalanced and recharged for the journey ahead.  Like so many others, I have a deep and abiding affinity for this mystical and magical mountain.  You never really know what the mountain is going to show you, it can vary greatly.  Many folks who are drawn there because of the frequency of  impressive low level UFO sightings may never see one during their visit, yet go home with some other totally unexpected spiritual experience.  You just never know, and that is always part of the equation.  When I visit the mountain, there is only one place I'm interested in being, and that is the Panther Meadows campground at about 7,500 ft. elevation.  It's where all the really interesting people hang out, and offers spectacular views of the peak, and everything else.  At that elevation it is the highest, and last campground you encounter, as the road ends about a half mile or so farther up.

I arrived there several days ahead of the annual drumming and sweat lodge ceremony.  There had been some big storms during the winter, leaving several downed trees throughout the campground.  There weren't very many campers at the moment, and the forest service campground host was busy trying to clear the fallen trees before the expected numbers began showing up.  As it happened, the campsite I wanted was one with a huge fallen tree in it; so I told the host I'd clear it if he could let me use the chain saw and equipment.  I was having a blast bucking up that firewood, as it reminded me of my days in Alaska.  I was just getting to really enjoy myself when I ran out of tree, so I just moved to the next afflicted campsite and went right to work.  By the time I ran out of gas for the saw I had cleared my campsite and two others.  When the campground host returned from running errands in town I had just finished putting up my tent, and was sharing a quiet moment with my traveling companion, Diago, the arctic white wolf.  Lyle, the host, walked over to visit for a while.  The conversation bounced around between several subjects and before it was done I had been asked and convinced to hang around for a couple weeks and function as a volunteer assistant host to help out, as they were short staffed.  It's like that when you travel with a white wolf, you become a sort of interspecies ambassador because people are just naturally gonna want to come meet the magnificent animal...and to pet the wolf too!  The very best part of the arrangement was that there was no leash law enforced at panther meadows because studies had discovered that free roaming dogs did far less damage to the fragile ecosystem.  It seems tethered dogs were always straining at the leash, clawing & digging up whatever was beneath them.

One of the nicest things about panther meadows is how quiet it is there.  Since it is essentially at the end of the road there is no noise from passing traffic to pollute the natural soundtrack of eagles skreeing and the wind whistling thru the trees.  It was on about my third or fourth day at the meadows when late in the morning I heard a most unusual sound coming from the direction of the road.  When I turned around to look, I saw this rather tall, lanky fellow walking up the road past the campground pulling something behind him on a long tether.  From where I was I couldn't quite see what he was pulling behind him, but it was small, and made a sound like a kid dragging a stick across a picket fence.  Having satisfied itself with identifying the source of the strange little noise, my mind drifted back to enjoying the natural silence of this wilderness paradise.  The serenity didn't last long, as a few minutes later I heard an altogether different sound again coming from the road.  This was the unmistakable sound of something moving down the road at speed.  It took a moment for my eyes to lock in on the source of this sound...it was in fact being made by a tall, lanky fellow speeding down the road feet first in a fully reclined position four inches off the ground.

In less time than it takes to tell, the dude had whipped around the gentle curve in front of the parking lot doing at least 40 mph, and was now bombing on down the winding ten mile 2-lane blacktop road leading to the bottom of the mountain, and the town of Mt. Shasta.  A little while later I ran into Lyle and asked about this fellow with the overgrown skateboard.  I discovered his name is "Crazy Robert", and that he sometimes makes three runs a day, walking the whole way back up after each run.  A few of the other campers had also seen Robert make his morning luge run down Mt. Shasta, and decided to do a photo shoot if he came back up.  Sure as hell, a couple hours or so later here comes Robert dragging his street luge board back up the mountain to make a second run.  Everyone gathered around up where the driveway split off for the parking lot, and waited for Robert.  We didn't have long to wait, as we could actually hear him some seconds before he rounded the big curve a few hundred yards away.  He looked so tiny at first, but very soon closed that distance and was zooming past us, thumbs up, as he shot down the road.  Thrilling, but for the spectator, very brief.
                                                                           
                                                                                 
                                                           
                                                                                                  

                                                                                                
I suddenly got one of my infrequent spontaneous bursts of pure genius, and jumped in my minivan to catch up to Robert, and offer him a ride back up.  I caught up with him about three quarters of the way down.  He had wiped out on a sweeping curve, and taken a minor spill.  I introduced and explained myself to Robert, saying I could understand if he wasn't going to make another run, and would give him a ride anywhere he wanted.  He said he was fine, no injuries... and yes, he wanted to make another run.  Instead of the death defying skateboard thrasher 'kid' I expected to meet, Robert turned out to be a 30 something professional construction contractor with his own business, whose avocation and obsession is the sport of street luge.  When I told him several people were filming his last run, he lights up with a big smile; & said, "Let's stop and pick one of them up, if you want to drive chase car behind me on the next run."  So we stopped at the meadows long enough to recruit a cinematographer then proceeded on up to the end of the road.

As we prepared for the run, Robert looks at me and says, "Now stay right on my ass for the best pictures, trust me, I'll be fine, done this plenty of times before."  His remark was somewhat less comforting to me knowing that I had never done this before, then he adds, "You should be so close I look like a hood ornament."  That was when I first began to appreciate why the locals call him "Crazy Robert."  The next thing I know, he's off & rolling...as am I.  Now Robert had told me his groundspeed was actually faster than it looks, but that didn't prepare me for seeing him accelerate away from me when my speedometer was passing 45 mph.  This was going to be fun, just so long as that luge board didn't disappear under the nose of my minivan. 



We passed the first of several cars just beyond the parking lot to panther meadows, and for my money, as good as the pictures are that we got, the better ones might just have been the expressions on the faces of the drivers as we went by them.  Priceless!  It was a real education watching Robert luge down the Mt. Shasta hiway; steering by shifting his weight and using the soles of his sneakers for differential breaking.  He told me that the reason he prefers to walk back up is the same reason flight crews walk the deck scanning for FOD, or foreign object debris on aircraft carriers, "One little rock can ruin your day at 60 mph." When the run was over and my adrenalin levels returned to normal I dropped Robert off in town then headed back up to the campground.


Later on that evening Lyle, myself and a few others were just kicking back, relaxing around the community campfire.  Every so often someone else would wander in and join the rambling, freewheeling conversation, just as humans have enjoyed doing for millions of years.  A little after dark, Robert showed up, with some beer, and a friend who didn't believe there was a white wolf visiting Mt. Shasta.  Someone else showed up with steaks and franks to share with the group, and our numbers grew a little more, until now there must have been almost a dozen people enjoying the fire and company of strangers.  Late to arrive was the district forest ranger, the head tree cop on the mountain, who showed up with a cooler full of corona's and joined in the evenings spontaneously occurring cookout.  I thought the evening was going to take a different track when I noticed someone passing a joint to the forest ranger who was off duty but still in uniform.  He looked at the young lady and just said, "I don't see that" as he slowly shook his head to decline. 

After a couple hours, someone proclaimed a toast to "The luge king of Mt. Shasta" as conversation came back around to the days luge runs and photo shoot.  Robert was not one to shy away from the attention, and was soon captivating all of us with stories and anecdotes from his several years of doing the Shasta run.  The man had the rapt attention of everyone around the campfire, and I must say, was in his element as a storyteller.  Robert was one of those people you sometimes meet who when retelling a story, is actually reliving the moment; which can add an appealing element to the story.  And so it was as he began telling of one of his many road pranks..."There I was zooming down the road at over 60, when I have to pass a car ahead of me.  I was irritated he was driving so slow, so as I went by his car I reached up and knocked on the drivers door."  Suddenly remembering the ranger is partying with us, Robert gets this sheepish 'I'm busted' kind of look on his face; as he clams up and looks at the ranger.  The forest service ranger just smiled, took a sip of his corona, and said, "Robert, as far as I am concerned the only law you're breaking is Natural Selection." 
                                                                            
The white wolf & I hung around panther meadows as a campground host assistants for over a month that summer, helping out thru the high traffic weeks.  I was in no hurry to leave, as the Hanuman Temple wasn't going anywhere, and Mt. Shasta seemed to still have more in store for me.  Besides, Since Diago essentially had free run on the mountain, it was just so sweet to see him enjoying being in his natural element.  One weekend a couple showed up with a beautiful female wolf hybrid named Pria.  Watching those two wolves cavorting for hours out in the meadow was a rare pleasure I was in no hurry to see end.  A couple of weeks later the mountain confirmed my sense that it was time to go.  Shasta is like that, she will call you to her; and when it's time to leave, she will tell you that too. 

Until Next Time ~ Be Good to Each Other!





Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Twin Flame Soulmates



Humans are hard wired from birth to seek basic things for their survival; primarily food, freedom, shelter, comfort and safety.  Beyond or perhaps beneath this also exists the need for communal living and family structure.  We seek our place within societal realms which is tied to the survival instinct, and part of that instinct is to propagate the species.  Even though those with hardened hearts may disagree, everyone wants to love and be loved.  It's one of those primal instincts we're hardwired with from birth; you can deny it, but there's no escaping it.  Each individual incarnates with a matched set of longings.  The first is to return to source, the second is to find the missing half of their soul~ their split-apart, their twin flame.
As the common legend goes, at the time of physical incarnation each sovereign soul is split apart into two, one male & one female, who then proceed along different paths, according to what they have chosen.  We arrive here in this place with a hollow, half remembered longing to find something hovering out there just beyond the veil of memory ~ and it calls to us throughout our life to come find it.  We almost never know what it is we seek, we only feel the emptiness; so we begin a life long process of trying to fill that void with one thing or another, trying to scratch an itch we can't quite reach no matter what we try.  This trial and error approach to fulfillment tends to waste a lot of valuable time while it gradually takes its toll on ones psyche and overall outlook on life.  Almost nobody gets it right the first time, which is why reincarnation is so popular.
Our journey upon the wheel of life is one of completion and unity.  It is said that before this journey is complete each soul must experience the full curriculum that the Earth school has to offer; and from every perspective.  Can't you just hear the lifetimes piling up?  There is no set number of incarnations one must endure to graduate the course of study and escape the reincarnational cycle; it's all about how long a soul takes to "get it."  Not everyone presently incarnated is seeking a soulmate, although you couldn't tell it by watching commercials, or humans in public for that matter.  In the earth school one of the required courses of study is naturally relationships; because to experience completion we must master the lessons only relationships can bring.  To facilitate this there are three basic relationship incarnations.  The first is the incarnation where you experience many different partners throughout the life.  The second is where you experience loyalty to a single partner, and the third is the incarnation spent embracing solitude, probably after doing the first two a few times. 
                                                                                         

Not only does society bombard us with countless messages about how successful people have successful relationships (which isn't always true), but life itself tends to be difficult enough for most of us to want someone with whom to share our misery.  "Just me & you against the world"- that kind of thing; or as Bob Dylan put it, a little shelter from the storm.  While most people are just seeking compatible companionship with someone who won't drive them crazy; an increasing number of awakening souls are hearing the call of their soulmate, and are actively searching.  The concept of the split-apart, or soulmate has probably been with us for as long as humans have embraced communal living, but it certainly has enjoyed a great rise in popularity in the last 50 years owing first to the beatniks, and then the hippies, but mostly I think to the rise of the 'new age' and human potential movements in general. 


Picking up on the increasing interest in soulmates; Hollywood has of course tapped the subject many times over the years with varying degrees of authenticity & success.  From the fare offered by Hollywood, there are a handful of films which are very much worth seeing... here is my personal pick of the very best.

What Dreams May Come ~   Cloud Atlas  ~  City of Angels   ~   Made in Heaven
  Defending Your Life  ~  The Lake House  ~  The Butchers Wife ~  Only You

As the basic lore goes, there are twin flame soulmates as described above; and then there are other types or levels of soulmate as well.  It is altogether common for groups of souls to travel and incarnate together, time and again.  Sometimes one or more of this group may not be incarnate at the same time as the others, (known as taking an incarnation off) and they often serve as guides and spirit helpers for their earthbound friends.  In this same manner, twin flame soulmates do not always incarnate at the same time, (only about 5% do) so every life isn't only about finding your other half.  In other scenarios, both twin flames may incarnate at the same time, but on opposite sides of the planet, diminishing their chances of reuniting.  It isn't always about the reunion of our twin flames, even though the longing is always there.  In those times when finding our twin flame isn't in the cards, very often 'surrogate' soulmates will appear instead and are most often part of the group we incarnate with.  Like Steven Stills sang, "If ya can't be with the one ya love, love the one you're with."




As difficult as it can be for an ordinary romantic relationship to thrive, many people think that if they could just find their soulmate, everything would be sweet and heavenly.  Nothing could be farther from the truth.  You see when the soul splits apart, each half is a perfect mirror for the other, and each knows their split-apart as nobody else ever can.  When the split-aparts separate and go their own way, it is with the understanding that each is striving to learn, heal and grow...to become as complete as possible so that when the reunion does happen, between them they will possess all the pieces needed for unity, and moving beyond the reincarnational cycle.  This is why some will tell you that twin flame soulmates only meet during their last incarnations.  So even though reuniting with your twin flame soulmate might eventually culminate in the kind of bliss people imagine, getting there can be a very rugged ride, as each half of the whole will tend to mirror the other one's negative shortcomings and deficiencies.  Twin flame soulmates tend to challenge one another, to bring out the best attributes, and the worst, often at the same time.  Another thing to consider is that sometimes when twin flame soulmates do find each other in the same incarnation one is ready for the experience, while the other is not.  One is open to change & growth while the other sleepwalks thru the incarnation.  Every great once in a while twin flames who have each prepared themselves for reuniting with their twin soul will find each other here in the earth school, and that, is something to behold!


How to find Your Twin Flame Soulmate

I am sure that the intercyberwebnet and YouTube are chock full of all kinds of tried and true ways to find your elusive twin flame soulmate, and some of them might even have some useful information, but I will share the very best way with you right here.  It is a deceptively simple & very effective two step approach.

     Step One: Make a list of all the traits, attributes, qualities, & skills you will require of your perfect mate.  

      Step Two: Set about making sure you possess all of those same traits, attributes, qualities & skills .

If you do this, I promise...you will stand out like a lighthouse at midnight to your twin flame soulmate.  Now, be advised this will also attract moths, & other insects, so you will want to acquire some discernment along the way as well, it never hurts.  Primary among the attributes you will be developing will be an open heart with balanced emotions as this is usually what others will notice about you long before the more superficial things like buns of steel.  Not that there is anything wrong with buns of steel, but if that is your first criteria, then you're probably not soulmate material..."sorry Charlie." It will not matter to your twin flame whether you are rich or poor; whether you live in a penthouse or a pick-up truck.  What will matter to your twin flame, is finding their split-apart whole, happy and ready to move on to the next level. 
                                                                          

Clearly one must work on every level of themselves to prepare and be 'qualified' for stepping up to a twin flame relationship, and it just makes tons of sense to begin with the foundation of what you will bring to that relationship ~ the heart chakra.  First, before anything else; check the heart for any residual booby traps left over from previous emotional adventures.  Baggage & issues are like depth charges waiting to destroy all pretenders to the throne of our heart.  Before we can be ready for unconditional love we must first purge our hearts of hurtful, negative programs, and drain the emotional charge from painful memories.  It certainly does seem to be true that men tend to seek partners who remind them of Mom, and women tend to pick mates who remind them of dear old dad.  This is not always a good thing and can cause recurring problems until the cycle is broken.  The next step here is one called radical forgiveness* and entails clearing old emotional debris and negative thought forms from the heart and emotional network.  Before you can turn the basement into a recreation room you must first sweep & mop up then clean out all the cobwebs.
Cleaning House 

In order to transform our hearts into someplace a soulmate might be comfortable hanging out we must first spruce the place up a bit.  This begins with monitoring your emotional thoughts for 'stinking thinking'.  A classic example of stinking thinking is any thought which begins with the words "What if..." or "If Only..." so when they come around, do not finish the thought, banish it.  A great banishing technique is when you catch yourself beginning to think or speak a negative thought, stop, and in your  mind's eye see the thought burst into a fireworks type starburst, which should provide sufficient light to see clearly, if even for a moment.  Remember, the technique used is not so important as your intention.  If your intention is clearly stated & unambiguous your results will be also.  You must re-train your brain in two regards.  first by watching what you think (and why) and second by not believing everything you think.  How much of what is crashing about in your noggin is actually original critical thought, and how much is just stuff the programmers snuck in on ya when you were in an alpha state, which happens every single time you watch TV??  How often do you take the time to go thru your computer to remove outdated programs and trash that came in with the cookies?  How often do you defragment the hard drive to organize files properly so the machine will operate more efficiently?  How often do you perform these same tasks on your own internal hard drive with random access memory ~ your brain?  Nowadays, it is a good idea to not let negative or counterfeit programs clutter up your mind and distort your perceptions.  Especially important if you are preparing to be with your soulmate, and absolutely mandatory if you expect your twin flame to recognize you.
                                                                           

The next step in this energetic makeover is a bit more problematic, as we are dealing with painful memories.  Clearly, we just don't want to go deleting any major memories on account of the pain the remind us of.  No, we want to keep those memories as they often times are the ones which brought us our most valuable lessons in how to relationship with someone we love.  Gotta keep the memories, but drain the pain!  Again, another technique.  Whenever a painful memory surfaces to snag your heart like a thorn, do this.  Take a deep breath, close your eyes, and visualize the memory as a battery...AAA for small stuff, all the way up to a 12 volt car battery for the very gnarly ones.  In your mind's eye hold this battery between two fingers, (or hands) making contact with both terminals.  Now feel the pain associated with this memory, and let it simply drain right out of you thru your feet, all the way thru the floor and into Gaia; who will transmute your negative emotion into positive energy for her own sustained healing.  As you feel this pain draining from you; look at the battery and see the charge draining from top to bottom.  As you discharge the energy of the battery, you are also removing the energy of pain from the memory, balancing & healing it in the process.  Yes, some of your painful memories will be healthier than others from overfeeding, so they may require more than a single balancing.  Just keep draining the charge, until the memory shows up with nothing attached, then it is healed.  Repeat as necessary.


Marriage in the Heart
Preparing yourself to be with your twin flame soulmate is going to require some extreme makeovers; and one of the very best is something known as the Marriage in the Heart ritual.  It is something you do to transform your heart chakra into a temple of love worthy of your twin flame, it is a homecoming ceremony.

This ritual/meditation is going to involve the Heart Chakra, the throat chakra just above it, and the solar plexus chakra, below the heart chakra.  The heart chakra is our energetic center of unlimited love.  Above it is the throat chakra.  The throat chakra is our full range of expression, & as such is the masculine energy center.  Below the heart is the solar plexus chakra, our full range of emotion, the feminine energy center.  Being centrally located in the chakra system, the heart chakra is not only our personal nexus for emotional stability, but when it is in tip top condition it tends to 'export' that clarity and balance to the chakras immediately above and below it...which becomes central to this meditation.  Once the basic house cleaning is done we can go about creating that temple I mentioned.  This is accomplished by merging the essence of the throat chakra, and the essence of the solar plexus chakra; into the heart chakra, or the coming together of masculine & feminine.  Transmutation thru the union of opposites.  Marriage in the Heart. 

                  

When you are ready to do the meditation, center yourself in your heart chakra.  If you use Om, or a specific mantra this would be the time to employ that, and any other techniques you customarily use to attain/enhance the meditative state. Once comfortably centered in the heart chakra, allow your awareness to drift upwards to the throat chakra where you will "see" the black half of the YinYang symbol representing your masculine energy.  With your intent, bring this essence of masculine energy down into the heart chakra.  Next allow your awareness to drift into the solar plexus chakra below, where you will "see" the white half of the Yin Yang symbol, representing your feminine energy.  As before; use your conscious intent to bring this essence of feminine energy up into the heart chakra.  Now snap the white half into place alongside the black half, and with your conscious intent, start the completed Yin Yang symbol to spinning, in a clockwise direction.
                                                                                    


As the yin yang spins around envision the melding and blending of your individual polarity energies.  See the disparate aspects of self, reuniting in a dance celebrating unity and oneness for you, and your split-apart.  Spinning faster now, the yin yang becomes a solid blur of color neither black or white, but rather pink, as the polarities of masculine and feminine become as one ~ creating the sacred space for unlimited, unconditional love.  As you bring your own heart into unity and balance, that resonance will reverberate throughout the causal plane like a searchlight at the county fair; and it will help attract your twin flame to you.  So, make sure the frequency with which you do the meditation is in accordance with how serious you are about meeting your soulmate.  According to your personal preference this meditation may be as simple and elegant, or as complex and detailed as you may require & desire it to be...just remember who you're doing it all for, and that intent is more important than décor.  Think of it like homework.  Its the work you have to do to go home.

When twin flame soulmates meet, there is never any doubt for either one of them, they simply know it.  There is never any doubt as to whether they should be together; as both will feel the power, attraction, intensity and heat equally.  When twin flame soulmates re-unite they become a very powerful & potent force, and they feel that as well.  Twin flame unions are created by source when the two individuals have no more lessons to learn in the earth school, and when they re-unite on the earth plane, the universe conspires to help the meeting happen.  Twin flame soulmates have a great wealth of knowledge & experience due to their many incarnations.  This can enable them to easily inspire others to break free from conformity and find their own way.  What graduating from this earth school means for the re-united twin flame soulmates is that they have reached a state of spiritual resonance which frees them from the reincarnational cycle, and they can now choose pretty much whatever they want to experience next.  They can live free from restraint in any area of life as long as they remain here in this place; or they may choose to ascend together into the realms of 5D.  If you ever wondered what 5D will look like, I think the scenes in What Dreams May Come may be as close as anything mankind has conjured onto film.
                                                                                                 


The Law of Attraction

Twin flame soulmates who are walking the earth during the same incarnation but haven't met yet, can feel each other regardless of distance.  One heart can feel the yearning of the other no matter the circumstance.  It is not entirely uncommon for twin flames to actually hear their split-apart calling out for them.  Now of course this calling out does not happen with the vocal cords or human voice, but rather it is the voice of spirit, the voice of the purest and truest love humans can experience.  The universal law of attraction states that what you resist will persist, and what you pursue will remain just beyond reach; and twin flame soulmates are not exempt from this.  Just because they are here at the same time, and the universe will help all it can, there are no guarantees they will meet.  If each of them is actively searching for the other it is altogether possible they could become the proverbial "ships passing in the night."  This brings us full circle, back around to the idea of attracting rather than finding your twin flame soulmate. 
                                                                                             


 Here's why it works.  When you prepare yourself for your soulmate by constantly elevating your vibratory rate, your inner light shines brighter and brighter the more you accomplish.  At first a lot of moths and other pretenders to the throne of your heart will gather around; but soon enough that light will become blinding to them and they will fade from view knowing they are not compatible with or qualified for what and who you are becoming.  The brighter and purer your light, the more you will stand out to those who are not afraid of it because they can match it.  It won't be just your twin flame responding to your refined light, those others who aren't afraid of it will also be coming around to check you out, so remember to pack your discernment.  You will suddenly start noticing there are more really high vibe spiritual people entering your sphere of influence than ever before.  There will be a lot of commonality with most of these travelers, most will be actively seeking their soulmate, maybe even their twin flame soulmate.  You could think of this as your final examination before graduating the earth school, time to keep your cool, use discernment, check credentials and always be respectful and polite.  Maybe your twin flame has already spotted you and is watching to see how you treat strangers.  You just never know. 

                                                                                 
Considering how rare twin flame soulmate reunions are in this place to begin with, it is  probably contraindicated to spend obsessive amounts of time trying to find yours.  Like I said, you will feel it in the ethers if your twin soul is about, and when you do encounter them, do you really want to project the image of a needy soul obsessively searching for love?  Or would you prefer their first impression of you to be that of  their accomplished other half, who has not only been expecting them, but who has also built a temple!

                                Until Next Time ~ Be Good to Each Other


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Friday, May 31, 2013

Don't You Remember?

Do you remember how you felt when you first arrived in this place;
In a brand new body,
Was there a faint, half remembered memory of having been here before?
Do you remember the intangible lightness of childhood?
The thrill of discovery, and the promise of each new day?
Do you remember feeling more alive outside rather than indoors?
Do you recall the feeling of seeing something new for the very first time?
Do you remember finding that very first true blue friend?
And how you felt like you'd known each other forever?
Do you remember the sensation of finding 'another you'?
Do you remember anything from before you came here?
Did you bring any memories of that other place with you?
Do you remember why you are here, or what you came to do?
Do you remember that the rules in this place are different?
Do you remember the little pieces of yourself you had to hide to thrive here?
Do you remember the day you first found your courage?
And how utterly awesome a feeling that was?
No matter how many times you feel it in your life,
It's never as good as the first time!
Do you recall how courage made you feel indestructible ?
How the confidence it bestowed was so liberating to your soul?
Do you remember when you thought you could do anything?
Do you remember how empowering it is to face your fear?
Do you remember when you saw all creatures as equals?
Do you remember how they don't need words to communicate?
Do you remember those endless summers we hoped would never end?
When the responsibilities of adulthood seemed a million years away?
Do you remember the pure joy of flying weightless thru the air?
Always searching for a newer more dangerous way to feel alive?
Do you remember hunting fireflies on warm summer nights
Then putting the jar full of fireflies in your room as a night light?
Don't you remember the sense of awe & wonder you get from being in nature?
and wondering why it always seems to be destroyed by greed, money and progress?
Do you remember the door which was never locked?
The door of your Imagination, and the places it took you?
Do you remember Mermaids,
and how such beliefs are called childish by those who fear truth?

Do you remember them poisoning your imagination with fear?
Trying to make you afraid to go thru that unlocked door.

Do you remember when you were first afraid to grow up?
Did you fear becoming like 'them' because of what it cost?

Do you remember when you first fell into the trap of Television?
Remember how slow & gradual the box began changing you?
Don't you recall TV teaching you to Fear life instead of embracing it?

Do you remember how school was a place which sucked your soul out
just a little more each day until you could recite dates & stats?
Do you remember how school only teaches conformity
and how to be a proper consumer?

Do you remember "Cruising the Vard" as a way of rebelling from school & rules?
Acting out all the silly little rituals seen on TV, trying to figure it all out
instead of just being told?

Do you remember finally becoming an adult, and taking your place in society? 
Remember how very far away all this is from what you wanted for yourself?

Do you remember when, for a while there was finally one leader worthy of the title?
Do you remember how he inspired a generation as never before.
Do you remember the day they killed him for doing it?

Do you recall when so many of us broke free from conformity, and once again
took to the streets in rebellion, on a new journey of discovery
across this great land of ours?

Do you recall the tears of those who lost the great love of their life
to selfish wars of greed and conquest?
And are we now not swimming in a flood of such tears as each day
still more good, young people are shoved into the meat grinder of war.

Do you remember how so many now disillusioned, returned again to reconnect with Earth
as they tried to find their way back to something right and true?

Do you remember the empty horror upon discovering
what greed, & lust & power have done to the good Earth?

Do you remember any of the many messages we sent out for you to find?
Messages of hope for those drowning in the illusion of despair.
Messages seeking your help in the fighting of the good fight.

Do you remember when the responsibilities of adulthood seemed a million years away?
Do you wonder whatever became of all those years
and the things you were going to do with them?

Do you recall the other voices down thru your life~
 trying to call you back from the matrix?
Do you remember how you started to listen more closely to those voices
the worse things became here in this place?

Do you remember the first time you thought your head would explode
from all the cognitive dissonance in this place?

Do you recall the feeling when you first realized humanity is drowning in lies?

And that you are drowning right along with it?

Do you remember that jar full of fireflies?

Do you remember finally understanding how those fireflies felt years ago?
Having their light captured for use by others within an invisible prison?

Do you remember wondering what the future holds for your children, and theirs?
Or is that on the growing list of things you dislike thinking about?

Do you remember Fukushima, the worlds first nuclear volcano?
You do remember how it is still spewing out its poison
into the air we breathe and the water we harvest food from?
Are you really OK with that?

Do you remember the things we came to this place to learn?
Do you remember that death is just an illusion, exactly like life is an illusion?

Do you remember how it felt seeing the first signs of hope in this desolate place?

Does remembering that you still believe in hope make you want to escape the matrix?
Does that hope also make you want to help awaken others to what you see around you?
Strength in numbers, a mass exit from the world of deception!

Don't you remember we all came here on a soul migration?
The grand experiment to see if we would remember
after being dropped off here with no memories of before?
Don't you remember we all came here together to empower
humanities evolution?

Do you remember the place we all come from, and how life is supposed to be?
I Do!


Until Next Time ~ Be Good to Each Other!


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