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Daniel Pinchbeck's "Reality Sandwich" and "Evolver" recently launched a series of Teleconferences with renowned Psychedelic Luminaries, Visionary Artists & Esoteric Authors where many people can call in and get to listen to the featured guests being interviewed live by a host. At the end of the interviews all the callers get to ask questions to both guest and host on the line.

The second Evolver Teleseminar series begins July 30th and is called "Forging Community Through Visionary Art : How You Can Awaken Your Spirit and Your Connection To Others". It's hosted by culture critic and author Erik Davis, and the guests include ritualist and filmmaker Antero Alli, Neo-Tribal Festival producer Jen Zariat, visionary artist Alex Grey, and founder of Burning Man, Larry Harvey.



A Short version of the Teleseminar announcement ...

How does visionary art help us create community? How can you express your creative truths and engage with visionary art to help evolve the world forward? Join acclaimed author Erik Davis for the Evolver Intensive teleseminar series: "Forging Community Through Visionary Art : How You Can Awaken Your Spirit and Your Connection To Others" ... 4 telephone interviews by Erik with featured guests: visionary painter Alex Grey, Ritualist and Filmmaker Antero Alli, Neo-Tribal Festival producer Jen Zariat, and the legendary Larry Harvey, founder of Burning Man. These calls will offer practical steps you can take today on the personal, local and planetary levels that you can integrate into your life so you can make a difference in our world. Not only will you participate in these calls, you'll have the chance to ask the questions that most challenge you.




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Come September ... The 3rd edition of the Evolver series begins !


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Dr. Amit Goswami, Ph.D, a pioneer of this revolutionary new perspective within science shares with us his vision of the unlimited potential of consciousness as the ground of all being, and how this revelation can actually help us to live better.

The Quantum Activist tells the story of a man who challenges us to rethink our very notions of existence and reality, with a force and scope not felt since Einstein.

This film bridges the gap between God and Science. The work of Goswami, with stunning precision and without straying from the rigors of quantum mechanics, reveals the overarching unity inherent in the worlds major religions and mystical traditions.

Meet the man behind the message as Dr. Goswami tells how he moved away from the religious teachings of his childhood, to seek his path in nuclear and theoretical quantum physics, and how he has come full circle, through quantum insight, back to the very religious axioms offered as a youth.


With a poignant relevance to the problems of our day this film follows Dr. Goswami as he demonstrates how our mistaken views of reality have led to our current environmental, social, economic and spiritual crisis; as well as the means of correcting these errors. At stake is nothing less than our survival upon the planet. The Quantum Activist is a film for our time. It is a film for all time. It is a film whose very subject transcends time.


Witty, profoundly insightful and colored with humor, 'The Quantum Activist' brings you Amit Goswami’s vision of the universe. Steeped in the verifiable facts of Quantum Mechanics, Dr. Goswami asks the important question, "What are you doing to participate in the creation of the reality we all share?"


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The World According To Monsanto is a 2004 documentary film which makes an in-depth investigation into unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly made their way onto grocery stores in the United States for the past decade.

It voices the opinions of farmers in disagreement with the food industry and details the impacts on their lives and livelihoods from this new technology, and shines a light on the market and political forces that are changing what we eat. The film decries the cost of a globalized food industry on human lives around the world, and highlights how international companies are gradually driving farmers off the land in many countries. Potential global dependence of the human race on a limited number of global food corporations is discussed, as is the increased risk of ecological disasters – such as the Irish Potato Famine (1845–1849) – resulting from the reduction of biological diversity due to the promotion of corporate sponsored monoculture farming.


The issue of incorporating a terminator gene into plant seeds is questioned, with concern being expressed about the potential for a widespread catastrophe affecting the food supply, should such a gene contaminate other plants in the wild. Legal stories reported by the film related how a number of farmers in North America have been sued by Monsanto; and the defendant of the Monsanto Canada Inc. V. Schmeiser case is interviewed. The film was written and directed by Deborah Koons, produced by Catherine Butler and Deborah Koons, and premiered on 14 September 2005 at Film Forum in New York City to a full house.


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The Mayan Wheel Crop Circle : Silbury Hill, Wiltshire 2-3 August 2004

The year 2012 and the Mayan Prophecy of the end of time, the shift of the ages is symbolized with the end of the Mayan Long Count Calendar in 2012 by the masters of celestial knowledge, time keepers of ancient times, The Mayans, who had deep knowledge and understanding of the natural cycles of time in which life evolves ... This knowledge is coming back to us now, in the form of Sacred Art in the fields we know as Crop Circles, nudging us to awaken to the spiritual transformation underway ... here and now !


The 2012 Mayan Crop Circle : Wayland's Smithy, Oxfordshire 9th August 2005



Another 2012 Mayan Crop Circle : Woolstone Hill, Oxfordshire 13th August 2005






The Mayan Connection is short video by Jaime Maussan, Mexico's leading Ufologist about the amazing messages encoded in the Crop Circle formations in recent years which a have a strong Mayan signature to it and all pointing towards a time period from now to 2012 when Quetzalcoatl or Kukulcan, the Feathered Serpent will return ... the crop circles encode Maya symbolism to represent the date of the solar zenith conjunction of Venus and Pleiades on May 20, 2012 and the Venus transit (June 6, 2012).

Jaime Maussan at the 16th Annual International UFO Congress giving the interpretation of the Crop Circles and the 2012, Mayan Symbolism ...
"Crop Circles ((( Healing Terra ))) 2012"
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Moon Rising, the sequel to UFO The Greatest Story Ever Denied is a film by Jose Escamilla featuring some never seen before pictures of the Moon in it's true color and uncovers some of NASA's long kept secrets about the huge structures on the Moon blurred out by NASA in all the pictures released to the public. The film show us enough evidence to know that Moon has intelligent life living on it, in fact the universe and even our surrounding spaces is teeming with consciousness invisible to our eyes since we can see only within the visible spectrum, that is quickly changing now .... the dimensions are now getting thinner and we are beginning to see more as divine energy from source surges towards our solar system ... bringing about an inner transformation to attune to a multidimensional reality ...

On February 25,1994 1.8 million photos were taken of the Moon during the Clementine Mission. Different variations were taken including “Full Color” photos. The front cover of this DVD is one of hundreds of photos featured in the film. This is the first time in human history the Moon is being revealed to you in its’ “Full Natural Color.”

On the matter concerning whether or not we went to the Moon, we landed there without a doubt. This film is about what was waiting for us when we got there and the lies put in motion in order to conceal what was found.

Disclose.tv - Science 'Moon Rising' - Full Documentary


Moon researchers and investigators appearing in this film disclose facts hidden from you for over forty years. The facts will amaze and shock you at the same time. You may ask yourself why these lies have been impressed upon us all these years.


The answers to these questions may prove we are not considered equal to those pulling the strings involved in this “greatest of all discoveries you have been denied.”

The suppressing of the evidence that there may have been civilizations existing on the Moon, or even more incredible, the possibility they are still there brings into question why we have been kept in the dark. We've been conditioned to believe the moon is a grey - colorless rock. On the contrary, The Moon appears to be a small planet teeming with life and structures the likes of which you have never seen before until now. At least it appears to have been inhabited in 1994 when these photos were taken.

On the front cover there is a bright silver - bluish disc on the upper right with a light green dome at its‘ center. Comparing it with the terrain below it does not conform with the angle of the surface. The object is hovering above on its’ side. The other disc at the bottom is in correct placement on the surface and is illuminating the immediate area.

"Once I started the colorizing process on the photos by adding earth tones and colors to the moon landscapes, the structures and towers began to pop out! I was so overwhelmed at what I was seeing that I stayed up all night to colorize as many of the photos from the archives as I could. I have spent as much as two days colorizing a single photo because there are so many things there to see."

- Jose Escamilla

"Moon Rising" has been nominated for the Best Documentary Award by the Action On Film International Festival being held in Pasadena, California July 24 - 30, 2009. The film will be screening on July 27 at 8 PM in the Academy 4 Cinema in Pasadena.

This is a must see on the large screen !


Source : Moon Rising - The Movie


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The Total Solar Eclipse on July 22nd 2009 will be the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, lasting at greatest eclipse 6 minutes, 39 seconds with the maximum eclipse occurring in the ocean at 02:35:21 UTC about 100 km south of the Bonin Islands, southeast of Japan. It's the second in the series of three eclipses in a month. There was a lunar eclipse on July 7 and now a new moon total solar eclipse on July 22 and then a lunar eclipse on August 6 as also indicated in the Crop Circles this Season.

((( Crop Circle Season 2009 : Part1 ; Part2 ; Part3 ; Part 4 )))




The Barbury Castle Pi Crop Circle reported on 24th of May 2009 shows 22 circles of equal size, arranged into 7 rings, symbolizing Pi(22/7). 22/7 also happens to be the day of the Total Solar Eclipse which some teachers of mathematics have designated as "Casual Pi Day", because it's date can be written as "22 / 7" just like the fraction ! The 7 rings shown here could stand for "July 7" as a lunar eclipse, while its 22 circles could stand also for "July 22" as a solar eclipse.


Eclipses can only occur when the New or Full Moon occurs near the Lunar Nodes, the points at which the Moon crosses the ecliptic of the Sun. In the astrological language, the Nodes of the Moon represent the evolutionary direction of the soul, with the South Node pointing to the direction from which we have come, and the North Node the direction of our future. Therefore, the symbolism inherent in the eclipse is a powerful clue to the evolutionary potential in an eclipse event.

This upcoming eclipse is very tightly conjunct the Nodes - within one degree - which portends its importance for planetary evolution. The ancient Chinese, Incas and Hindus viewed the nodes of the moon as the Dragon's Head (North Node) and the Dragon's Tail (South Node), and they perceived an eclipse as the Dragon eating the Sun or the Moon. From the beginning of the use of astrology, somewhere over 2,000 years, eclipses have been used to time significant events. In a typical year there are two pairs of eclipses, but this year there are an astonishing six, indicating that this is a significant year for change.


Lunar and Solar eclipses have always been markers of change and evolution, dating to ancient times and civilizations. In the days before humanity became en'light'ened, the solar eclipse represented a time of fear and darkness. We have learned to see beyond myth and dark magic that controls through illusion, and moved into scientific truth.

Eclipses not only have gravitational affect on our bodies and planet Earth, but they also affect the collective unconscious, the grids, and in the astrological significance our natal birth charts, as well as the charts of nations. An eclipse seems to stop time, stop energy, and stop movement. Where once there was light filtering through the elemental forces of the zodiac into the Earth's aura, there is suddenly darkness, nothingness, a temporary lack of input from the Sun or Moon that serves to bring our awareness closer to the energy of the Solar or Lunar season, and thus intensify it.



The energies of a solar eclipse create changes on many levels as they represent letting go of the old and embracing the new, destruction, balance, rebirth.





Barbara-Hand-Clow on the Total Solar Eclipse July 22nd 2009 ...

"This solar eclipse, exactly conjunct the lunar South Node, is the most intense one of the last 100 years, and its aspects suggest we are attaining multidimensional consciousness at the species level. We are realizing that cellular and ancestral healing-homeostasis-is the true source of our security on Earth and in the universe. In general, maximal intuitional access is ours during total solar eclipses, when the intuitive Moon obscures the egoic Sun and healing knowledge arises from within."



Gillian MacBeth-Louthan on the Total Solar Eclipse July 22nd 2009 ...

You will feel the surge of Oneness in your heart as we line up for the next generation of Light, from July 7 to August 8, 2009. Entering and exiting through 3 eclipses that are holding hands, we will be doing a dangerous circus act with great precision. It is here, we will finally meet our own hearts!

As the energies are lined up between July 7 and August 8, lay yourself down a template of intention; something physical; holding the vibration of what you have pledged to do, to be to become. A place that cannot be broken for it vibrates in your heart.

On July 22, 2009 the Star Sirius Rises and the Atlantean New Year begins and we will have a total solar eclipse, the longest of the 21st century. The eclipse is a 74/11 vibration. This sacred vibration teaches one to believe in what cannot be seen. This Light comes through the heart not allowing anything to sway it from its destiny. The four, representing earth and material, dances and tries to seduce the seven out of its holy place. By acknowledging the God within all things we will make it through this teaching vibration. Discipline is needed to keep peace of mind and keep one from drowning within circumstance.



When Divinity dons her full costume of light one realizes there are no needs ... for all needs are fluid and able to fulfill themselves. Pass through this gate with a deep knowing. On August 6, 2009 we have a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse which escorts us into the 8:8 Lions Gate.

August 8, 2009 (8:8) is an energy doorway that activates the etheric and cellular/Stellar Hall of Records. This is a Galactic activation of stellar proportion. Time has quickened and the 'time matrix' shifts into unknown areas. August 8, 2009 is a meeting place of polarities. It is a celebration beyond time that escorts us home through the Sphinx Lions Gate to the Stars we shine for. The very ends of our DNA open to embrace a new possibility.

At the time of the July 22nd Total Solar Eclipse, we can call upon the highest beings of the cosmos, and the highest good within ourselves !


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NASA's Web Page on the Total Solar Eclipse of 22nd July 2009


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The Total Solar Eclipse of 22nd July 2009 opens a new gateway for divine energy from the source entering our solar system and creating strong vibrations of transformative healing energy ... awakening the human spirit to align with the cosmic light of divine elevated consciousness. This is a channeling from Metatron, received by Carloyn Evers ...

Today is a day of magnificence. You know we feel that away about every moment, but today there is something special happening in the heavens. There has been much talk about today's eclipse and it is right that humanity become aware of this day.

I won't discuss the mechanics of eclipses as you are well aware of how this phenomenon works. What I want to discuss is yes, while this is the direct result of Source's energy coming to Earth, you were meant to be on Earth at this auspicious time.

What might not be remembered is that this is the moment when there is a change in the physical body that is very laudable and very special in the sense that humanity has been waiting for this particular energy for a very long time.

We have spoken about the fall into the dense dimension that all of humanity now resides in. We have spoken about the fact that there was an appointed time when that moment was to be reversed, and the energies would be on Earth again when there would be an upward climb to the dimension above the one where humanity presently resides.

This is the moment. This is the time when the particles are beginning to change. This is the moment when destiny is again in the reach of humanity.

Now there will be a general change and there will be an individual change. Generally this change will affect all in a certain respect, but it will affect those whose sights are on the spiritual path in a more robust manner.

Those who are already open to the light will feel the impulses as an urge to fulfill what is before you. You see, so much of what you have been following presently is the result of the prompting of your immortal soul and now this energy that is here will connect or harden a bridge between the conscious and unconscious mind.

All will not be affected in the same manner. You will receive this connection based upon the manner in which you have been working on the spiritual path in the past. Some gifts are given to all and some gifts are given in measure according to one's efforts.

This is how humanity will find themselves presently. Those who have been indifferent to the messages of their soul or shall we say inspiration to the higher aspects of desires and actions, might not feel any change, but those who are cognicent of their spiritual selves will feel these energies in a more direct manner based upon their connection to their spiritual selves.

These connections will be felt more dramatically during the next week. This is the beginning of a foundation for this implementation. It will not be immediate, but will slowly filter into your consciousness.

Those who are bordering on the spiritual gifts of clairvoyance and the like will find their gifts start to unfold. Those who haven't begun this process yet will become one step closer to opening up these doorways to your spiritual gifts.

As we said, this is a momentous moment for other reasons also. Besides connecting the conscious mind to the unconscious mind you will also start to see and feel changes in the physical. These changes will be subtle at first but in about a week you will start to see changes in your personal emotions. You will start to feel a new type of love.

Earlier this was called agape, and this form is a special kind of love as it is love for all of humanity. Yes, while you did feel love for others you might say, you will feel a quickening of this love. You will enter a new doorway in this sense.

This is the beginning of the comprehension of what the ONENESS means. This is the beginning of what you have called a gathering of all particles on your plane where there is an attraction and coherence with regard to the past, present and future.

This is why spiritual unfolding is beginning on an accelerated basis. The connection between the human soul and the essence of what is in the world is coming together in a heightened manner. You will start to understand what connected into one voice will FEEL like. Up to now this has been a spiritual concept. You will start to understand what it feels like to hold connections to everyone in the world and to the essence of Mother Nature herself.

With this comes a renewal of the soul in a sense. The adversities that you have experienced in the recent past will seem to be understood in a manner that hasn't been there before. You will also start to understand spirit in a manner and degree that wasn't there either. This understanding along with your actions is a true understanding of your Mastery.

With this you will also begin to understand on a level what your journey is all about. You see, up to this point you held this information on a subconscious manner. When the subconscious and conscious self begin to merge, an understanding comes forth and you will begin to feel a peace that you haven't experienced in the past.

This is peace of the soul that is entering your conscious awareness. Up to now you might say that there has been a cloud between your soul and you, the ego. This cloud begins to dissipate and you will notice this starting within the next week. There is great glory in all of this.

We come forth to bless you and to reconnect with you in a manner that you haven't felt before. You and I are one in the secret recesses of the soul.

Now for the meditation...

Lord Metatron Brought forth by Carolyn Evers

If you are drawn to join these extraordinary calls, go to go to http://tinyurl.com/ng95r9. The work we do on them is profound.


Jeshua explains the solar eclipse of July 22nd 2009 !
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Blessings, Joy, Love and Peace.

Dr. Richard Presser


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Cannabis Sativa, the miracle plant contains a cure for Cancer and other ailments ... this is quickly becoming a well known fact among the ones who now choose to seek awareness of the truth of things concealed behind all the meta programming, fear propaganda and conditioning of the Global Brain ... Run From The Cure - The Rick Simpson Story is an eye opening documentary on the medicinal use of Marijuana !

Cannabis has an ancient history of ritualistic use for spiritual exploration. According to one description, when the elixir of life was produced from 'samudra manthan' or 'churning of the ocean', Shiva created cannabis from his own body to purify the elixir (whence, for cannabis, the epithet angaj or body-born). Another account suggests that the cannabis plant sprang when a drop of the elixir dropped on the ground. Thus, cannabis is used by sages due to association with elixir and Shiva.

Researchers claim that Siddhartha ate only hemp for six years prior to becoming the Buddha in the 5th century BCE. Cannabis continues to play a significant role in the meditation ritual of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, and has been a practice since 500 BCE when Cannabis was known as a sacred herb.



Run From The Cure : The Rick Simpson Story

After a serious head injury in 1997, Rick Simpson sought relief from his medical condition through the use of medicinal hemp oil. When Rick discovered that the hemp oil (with its high concentration of T.H.C.) cured cancers and other illnesses, he tried to share it with as many people as he could free of charge, curing and controlling literally hundreds of people's illnesses... but when the story went public, the long arm of the law snatched the medicine - leaving potentially thousands of people without their cancer treatments - and leaving Rick with unconstitutional charges of possessing and trafficking marijuana!


Rick Simpson on How Cannabis Cures Cancer And Nobody Knows ...

My name is Rick Simpson. I have been providing people with Hemp Oil medicines, at no cost, for about three years. The results have been nothing short of amazing. Throughout man's history hemp has always been known as the most medicinal plant in the world. Even with this knowledge, hemp has always been used as a political and religious football. I want this knowledge out there for everyone to learn! Watch the documentary Run From The Cure to understand more about using cannabis as a cure for cancer and other medical problems!

The current restrictions against hemp were put in place and maintained, not because hemp is evil or harmful, but for big money to make more big money. Look at a proposal such as this; if we were allowed to grow hemp in our back yards and cure our own illnesses, what do you think the reaction of the pharmaceutical industry would be to such a plan? Many large pharmaceutical companies that still exist today sold hemp based medicines in the 1800's and early 1900's. They knew then what I have recently found out. Hemp oil if produced properly is a cure-all that the pharmaceutical industry can't patent.

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Leonardo DiCaprio presents 'The 11th Hour' a documentary on the state of the natural environment and our relationship with Planet Earth. While we might think of ourselves as separate biological life forms living on a planet which feeds us, nourishes us, gives us all that we have, the emerging truth is that we are one with all that is ... we are nature ... we are the earth ... we are in fact one with the Brahman, the cosmos ... The Cosmos is Consciousness ... and we are that one cosmic consciousness experiencing itself subjectively ! This knowledge originates from the ancient vedic texts of India.


With contributions from over 50 politicians, scientists, and environmental activists, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, and journalist Paul Hawken, The 11th Hour documents the grave problems facing the planet's life systems. Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of the oceans' habitats are all addressed. The film's premise is that the future of humanity is in jeopardy unless we change our destructive ways and learn to live one with nature, in harmony with all existence.

The film proposes potential solutions to these problems by calling for restorative action by the reshaping and rethinking of global human activity through technology, social responsibility and conservation.

References : Wikipedia : The 11th Hour Film


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'My body and the Universe come from the same source, obey the same rhythms, flash with the same storms of electromagnetic activity. My body can't afford to argue over who created the Universe. Every cell would disappear the second it stopped creating itself. So it must be that the Universe is living and breathing through me. I am an expression of everything in existence. At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos.'

'There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between your bloodstream and the world's rivers, between your bones and the cliffs of Dover. Every shift in ecosystem has affected you at the level of your genes. The Universe remembers its evolution by leaving a record written in DNA. This means that your genes are the focal point for everything happening in the world. They are your line of communication with nature as a whole. The Universe thinks and works through you...'

- Deepak Chopra



What's playing through your DNA at this moment is the evolution of the universe. We tend to think of evolution as a straight line march from primitive organisms to higher ones. A better image would be of a bubble expanding to take in more and more of life's potential.

The force of evolution is infinite, but it can work only with what the observer bring to it. A mind closed off to love, for example, will look out on a loveless world and be immune to any evidence of love, while an open mind will look out on that same world and find infinite expressions of love.


THE WISDOM YOU ARE ALREADY LIVING - THE BODY'S INTELLIGENCE


1. You have a higher purpose.
2. You are in communion with the whole of life.
3. Your awareness is always open to change. From moment to moment, it senses everything in your environment.
4. You feel acceptance for all others as your equal, without judgment or prejudice.
5. You seize every moment with renewed creativity, not clinging to the old and outworn.
6. Your being is cradled in the rhythms of the universe. You feel safe and nurtured.
7. Your idea of efficiency is to let the flow of life bring you what you need. Force, control, and struggle are not your way.
8. You feel a sense of connection with your source.
9. You are committed to giving as the source of all abundance.
10. You see all change, including birth and death, against the background of immortality. Whatever is unchanging is most real to you.


None of these items are spiritual aspirations; they are facts of daily existence at the level of your cells.


HIGHER PURPOSE: Every cell in your body agrees to work for the welfare of the whole; its individual welfare comes second. If necessary, it will die to protect the body, and often does - the lifetime of any given cell is a fraction of our own lifetime. Skin cells perish by the thousands every hour, as do immune cells fighting off invading microbes. Selfishness is not an option, even when it comes to a cell's own survival.

COMMUNION: A cell keeps in touch with every other cell. Messenger molecules race everywhere to notify the body's farthest outposts of desire or intention, however slight. Withdrawing or refusing to communicate is not an option.

AWARENESS: Cells adapt from moment to moment. They remain flexible in order to respond to immediate situations. Getting caught up in rigid habits is not an option.

ACCEPTANCE: Cells recognize each other as equally important. Every function in the body is interdependent with every other. Going it alone is not an option.

CREATIVITY: Although every cell has a set of unique functions (liver cells, for example, can perform fifty separate tasks), these combine in creative ways. A person can digest food never eaten before, think thoughts never thought before, dance in a way never seen before. Clinging to old behaviour is not an option.

BEING: Cells obey the universal cycle of rest and activity. Although this cycle expresses itself in many ways, such as fluctuating hormone levels, blood pressures, and digestive rhythms, the most obvious expression is sleep. Why we need to sleep remains a medical mystery, yet complete dysfunction develops if we don't enjoy its benefits. In the silence of inactivity, the future of the body is incubating. Being obsessively active or aggressive is not an option.

EFFICIENCY: Cell function with the smallest possible expenditure of energy. Typically, a cell stores only three seconds of food and oxygen inside its cell wall. It trusts totally on being provided for. Excessive consumption of food, air, or water is not an option.

BONDING: Due to their common genetic inheritance, cells know that they are fundamentally the same. The fact that live cells are different from heart cells, and muscle cells are different from brain cells, does not negate their common identity, which is unchanging. In the laboratory, a muscle cell can be genetically transformed into a heart cell by going back to their common source. Healthy cells remain tied to their source no matter how many times they divide. For them, being an outcast is not an option.

GIVING: The primary activity of cells is giving, which maintains the integrity of all other cells. Total commitment to giving makes receiving automatic - it is the other half of a natural cycle. Hoarding is not an option.

IMMORTALITY: Cells reproduce in order to pass on their knowledge, experience, and talents, withholding nothing from their offspring. This is a kind of practical immortality, submitting to death on the physical plane but defeating it on the nonphysical. The generation gap is not an option.

'Cells know that they are fundamentally the same. They recognize each other as equally important. Every cell in your body agrees to work for the welfare of the whole. The primary activity of cells is giving, which maintains the integrity of all other cells. In a healthy body, every cell recognizes itself in every other cell.'

In a healthy body, every cell recognizes itself in every other cell.

The first secret is to let your body's wisdom point the way. The purpose here is to extend your body's comfort zone into behavior and feeling. Let your words express aspirations near your heart that make you feel like your true self. For example:

HIGHER PURPOSE: I am here to serve. I am here to inspire. I am here to love. I am here to live my truth.

COMMUNION: I will appreciate someone who doesn't know that I feel that way. I will overlook the tension and be friendly to someone who has ignored me. I will express at least one feeling that has made me feel guilty or embarrassed.

AWARENESS: I will spend ten minutes observing instead of speaking. I will sit quietly by myself just to sense how my body feels. If someone irritates me, I will ask myself what I really feel beneath the anger - and I won't stop paying attention until the anger is gone.

ACCEPTANCE: I will spend five minutes thinking about the best qualities of someone I really dislike. I will read about a group that I consider totally intolerant and try to see the world as they do. I will look in the mirror and describe myself exactly as if I were the perfect mother or father I wish I had had (beginning with the sentence 'How beautiful you are in my eyes').

CREATIVITY: I will imagine five things I could do that my family would never expect - and then I will do at least one of them. I will outline a novel based on my life (every incident will be true, but no one would ever guess that I am the hero). I will invent something in my mind that the world desperately needs.

BEING: I will spend half an hour in a peaceful place doing nothing except feeling what it is like to exist. I will lie outstretched on the grass and feel the earth languidly revolving under me. I will take in three breaths and let them out as gently as possible.

EFFICIENCY: I will let at least two things out of my control and see what happens. I will gaze at a rose and reflect on whether I could make it open faster or more beautifully that it already does - then I will ask if my life has blossomed this efficiently. I will lie in a quiet place by the ocean, or with a tape of the sea, and breathe in its rhythms.

BONDING: When I catch myself looking away from someone, I will remember to look into the person's eyes. I will bestow a loving gaze on someone I have taken for granted. I will express sympathy to someone who needs it, preferably a stranger.

GIVING: I will buy lunch and give it to someone in need on the street (or I will go to a cafe and eat lunch with the person). I will compliment someone for a quality that I know the individual values in him- or herself. I will give my children as much of my undivided time today as they want.

IMMORTALITY: I will write down five things I want my life to be remembered for. I will sit and silently experience the gap between breathing out, feeling the eternal in the present moment.

The mystery of life is an expression not of random accidents but of one intelligence that exists everywhere.


~ BEING IN THE DHARMA ~

• You were ready to move forward. The experience of your old reality was worn out and ready for change.
• You were ready to pay attention. When the opportunity arrived, you noticed it and took the necessary leap.
• The environment supported you. When you moved forward, events fell into place to ensure that you didn't backslide.
• You felt more expanded and free in your new place.
• You saw yourself as in some way a 'new person'.

This set of circumstances, both inner and outer, is what Dharma provides. Which is to say that when you feel ready to move forward, reality shifts to show you how. And when you aren't ready to move forward? Then there is the backup system of Vasana, which moves you forward by repeating those tendencies that are embedded in you from the past. When you find yourself stuck and unable to make any progress at all, the following circumstances usually apply:

1. YOU AREN'T READY TO MOVE. The experience of an old reality still fascinates you. You keep enjoying your habitual way of life, or else, if there is more pain than enjoyment, you are addicted to the pain for some reason not yet revealed.

2. YOU AREN'T PAYING ATTENTION: Your mind is caught up in distractions. This is especially true if there is too much external stimulation. Unless you fell alert inside, you won't be able to pick up the hints and clues being sent from the one reality.

3. THE ENVIRONMENT WON'T SUPPORT YOU. When you try moving forward, circumstances push you back. This kind of thwarting means that there is more to learn, or that the timing isn't yet right. It also can be true that at a deep level you don't see yourself moving forward; your conscious desire is in conflict with deeper doubt and uncertainty.

4. YOU FEEL THREATENED by the expansion you would have to make, preferring the safety of a limited self-image. Many people cling to a contracted state, believing that it protects them. In fact, the greatest protection you could ask for comes from evolution, which solves problems by expansion and forward movement. But you must own this knowledge completely; if any part of you wants to hang back in a constricted state, that's usually enough to block the road ahead.

5. YOU KEEP SEEING YOURSELF AS THE OLD PERSON who adapted to an old situation. This is often an unconscious choice. People identify with their past and try to use old perceptions to understand what is happening. Since perception is everything, seeing yourself as too weak, limited, undeserving, or lacking will block any step forward.


~ ON EXPENDING ENERGY ~

If you have ever committed yourself passionately to anything, you've found that the more energy you devote to it, the more you have. Passion replenishes itself.

What drains energy, strangely enough, is the act of holding back. The more you conserve your energy, the more narrow become the channels through which it can flow. People who are afraid to love, for example, wind up constricting love's expression. They feel tight in the heart rather than expanded; loving words stick in their throats; they find it awkward to make even small loving gestures. Tightness develops fear of expansion, and thus the snake keeps eating its own tail: The less energy you spend, the less you have to spend. Here are a few steps that can cause the channels of energy to expand:

• LEARN TO GIVE. When you feel most like hoarding, turn to someone in need and offer some of what you posses in abundance. This doesn't have to be money or goods. You can give time and attention, which actually will do much more to open your channels of energy than giving away cash.

• BE GENEROUS. This means generous in praise and appreciation even more than generous with your money. Most people hunger for praise and get much less than they deserve. Be the first to notice when someone has done well. Appreciate from a full heart and not just with formulaic words. Praise in detail, showing the other person that you actually paid attention to what he or she accomplished. Meet the person with your gaze and stay connected as you praise.

• FOLLOW YOUR PASSION. Some area in your life makes you want to spend all your energy there. For most people, there's a built-in inhibition about going too far, however, so they don't really spend themselves even in those areas. Be willing to go the limit, and then go a bit further. If you like to hike, set your sights on a mountain and conquer it. if you like to write, start and finish a book. The point is not to force yourself but to prove how much energy is really there. Energy is the carrier of awareness; it allows awareness to come out into the world. By devoting more energy to any endeavor you increase the reward of understanding that will come to you.

Every observer creates a version of reality that is bound up in certain meanings and energies. As long as those meanings seem valid, the energies hold the picture together. But when the observer wants to see something new, meaning collapses, energies combine in a new way, and the world takes a quantum leap. You the observer bring your version of reality into being.

Before anything happens to you it is conceived in the imagination - that is, in the state where images and desire are born. These images then unfold into expressed objects and events, While that happens you enter the event subjectively, which means you absorb it into your nervous system. The simplest way to describe this three-part act of creation is to say that you imagine a picture, then you paint it and finally step inside.

'Creation is creating itself, using consciousness as its modeling clay. Consciousness turns into things in the objective world, into experiences in the subjective world.'

(Excerpt from 'THE BOOK OF SECRETS by Deepak Chopra')


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