We ‘went dark’ at the Ashram early in January due to some hardware problem and it took our Internet service provider 2 weeks to repair it! so we are posting late this month… thus, we’re already more than 3 weeks into the year, and so far, everything is still intact and seemingly the ‘same.’  However, I have increasingly felt that the expectation that things will be the same tomorrow as they were yesterday is no longer reliable, and in the weeks ahead it would be wise to accept it when processes do not complete or no longer follow your planned or desired sequence(s).

On the other hand and at the same time, one of the manifestations of the ‘speeding up’ or acceleration of time continues to be the quickened pace at which things you desire, appear, or that you’re thinking about, happen.  And I understand there is a good reason for this – its training.  One of the aspects of 4th-5th dimensional living will be the lack of density of 3-D… when things occur at the speed of light, we get the feedback – the results and/or consequences – far more quickly.  We are being given opportunities to ‘check’ ourselves and our thoughts now – to discover our thinking and speaking patterns and habits, e.g. do I really want what I just said to come true?  If what I just thought came to pass, would it make things better or worse?

The truth that ‘thoughts are things’ (or quickly become things) is NOT a reality our shadowed culture is prepared to live; 3rd-D has placed quite a buffer between what we ‘create’ in our thoughts and what we experience in our outer world, the lag time being due to material density.  We are all being given many opportunities to experience manifestation at the speed of thought, and most of us will be taken aback more than once by seeing our ‘creations’ become ‘real’ much more quickly in the recent and coming months.  Its all practice for our dimensional shifts, because we don’t really want to create a lot of what our thoughts express, not yet.

Know, however, that each human being is beginning or continuing to spend increasing amounts of time – still mostly while asleep – in the higher dimensional states.  What this ‘practice’ time is accomplishing is for us to have increasing amount of experience at those higher levels of thought and experience.  With these perspectives, no matter how different from our ‘normal’ or waking awarenesses, we ARE shifting and developing into higher beings.  From this, we may find ourselves feeling somewhat bored or tired of our normal waking existence; there may be a vague, nagging sense of impatience to ‘get on with it’ and move ahead.  Some have been feeling this for months, some for longer still.  Do not give up – sense how you are feeling what Gaia/Earth has been feeling as She waits for her humanity-children to awaken to their actions and repercussion cycles, and to make better decisions – decades she’s been waiting, and the time for moving forward presses firmly.  As my father used to say: ‘we can do this the easy way, or the hard way, but its got to be done.’  That’s about where we are as a species and a planet this year, and each month, each quarter, will push us closer to the point of inevitability, of no more time to waste, to zero point.

For myself, this has been a really long wait – like a long climb up a mountain range, and I have reached the ridgeline and have nearly finished the climb – sometimes things are clear to me, and sometimes occluded for a while.  But when I stop for any moment to contemplate things, I realize with a start that I/we have arrived!  The goal is within reach! I can’t tell you how blessed, relieved, and grateful that makes me feel!!

I encourage you today, for this New Moon, to focus on some of the goals you have let slide – for winter, for the holidays, for impatience, etc – and see which ones can move to the front burner for the next weeks.  Spring is just around the corner in the northern hemisphere, and I believe we will feel closer to and more in partnership with the earth, the soil, our plants and food supply, this year.  At last!  The empowerment that will come from taking charge and managing your nutritional intake and support will energize you on many levels of your beingness, and be another step in your self-sovereignty.  Be well.  Be at Peace.

I love you…

Wow!  The year is nearly over- can you believe it?  And what a ride its been…

I recall hearing and feeling/knowing that we shouldn’t overlook 2011 as a pivotal year of this transformational period, and that has been well borne out during the Universal / 9th & final Wave of the Mayan Calendar.  That ‘ended’ (according to Carl Calleman) on October 28th, then we experienced the 11:11:11 portal and its influx of powerful energies, then last week’s partial lunar eclipse and next week’s total lunar eclipse – if you think we’re done for a while, you might want to re-imagine that.  I do believe the progressive shifts have changed, however, to a different, higher and less physically-troublesome frequency.  As I understand it, Mother Earth has moved into the forefront of processing the incoming energies now; our ‘job’ will be to remain very grounded and connected to the Earth in the months ahead.

Remember that the whole point or truth of this ascension process is the remarkable, never-before-throughout-the-galaxy transformation of our 3-D bodies and our 4-D density or consciousness are moving whole and intact into the 5th dimension.

I believe its time for all of us to engage in a sincere game of “What If?”

What if… by the end of next year, a mere 12 months or less, we have indeed ascended?

What if… everything that we have worked so hard to accumulate and create, everything that has defined us as a culture, or a corporation, or a nation, dissolves… transmutes into a higher vibration that is no longer 3-D?

What if… the prophesied 3 days of darkness – which Mayan Wisdom Elder don Alejandro and Drunvalo Melchezidek now state will be 36 hours instead – happens one day, in the middle of whatever you are busying yourself with?  Drunvalo has begun to teach, in his Awakening the Illuminated Heart workshops, that the magnetic field will collapse this year, resulting indeed in a total blindness (disconnection of mankind’s 3-D visual processing capacity) and absolute darkness.

What would you do if/when that occurs?  How will you react?

It will be, at that moment, more important than ever before that you have a facility with ‘going within’ as in meditation.  Within our Sacred Space of the Heart, our ‘cave of the heart,’ there is access to light, and warmth, and succorance of all spiritual guides, teachers, comforters, and souls we might draw on in times of crisis or fear, worry & doubt. If you don’t yet meditate, don’t yet have any feel for your inner heart space, I highly suggest you spend time daily going and being ‘there’ within.  This is your access to your Higher Self, and to a feeling-state of being connected to God/Creator, or Christ, or Divine Mother or whatever connects you to your Divine Self.  It’s time to establish, strengthen, and have facility with this connection, this perfect ‘fallout shelter’ we all carry with us all the time.

What if… it is time to withdraw – as you will, in ways that work for you personally – from most of our attachments to the ‘outer world’ in order to be in contemplation, to be with family and friends, to be of service to strangers and to our communities?  Do you still care what the Stock Market is doing, in its wild fluctuations, arguably the death throes of a dying egregore and paradigm?  Are you keenly interested to hear about the latest Republican debate, or the gaffes and bright moments of the candidates?  Are you pinning all of your hopes and dreams on an event that isn’t expected to occur for 2 years, or 5, or 15 (like the dates attached to so many national legislative acts)?  Stop for a moment, and feel, deeply, whether and how you really feel your future-focus will evolve… is it bringing you any fulfillment in the present moment?  If not, perhaps you might want to re-think any choice to invest heavily in it, and bring your attention to a more present-time focus.  Like planting seeds in February for a summer harvest of fresh vegetables.

Have I startled you? Have you ‘tuned out and turned off’ mentally because this is too much to take seriously?  I hope not… I hope you are strong enough to spend a few moments imagining that what I am proposing might indeed be true, in some fashion.  After all, what DID you think was coming in 2012?

Here is what I have learned, and thus Know: that everything will be all right if we just slip out of the stiff jacket of our rational, thought-producing Mind, and ease into the clear lake of our aware, sensitive-thus-knowing Heart.

Develop that quick-change faculty starting today, if you don’t already have it – it’s a skill that will serve you far better than any college degree or employment title, all things considered.  For in a real crisis, housing is available to be found, food is not as necessary as we’ve believed but is available, too… but your connection to your heart, your soul – you don’t want to be without that!

I tell you these things because I feel the time for acting like nothing is really changing is long past… because the linear, plodding, future-focus is a tool of the dualistic old paradigm that will lead us all off the cliff like the lemmings we often act like… because I love you as aspects of the One Being, therefore as my real & true brothers and sisters in a cosmic family of All Life.  And if I’m mistaken – if all this sensing that we have been & are about to go through a remarkable and life-altering transformation turns out to be misunderstood or misguided – then I accept that, and what harm has come from meditating more, from not putting more resources into more projects for a while, from ‘lying fallow’ for a while as we recalibrate as humans?  None, I’ll wager, no harm would come at all.  And the value of being prepared for a huge transformation, the likes of which is heretofore unknown throughout the galaxy – that seems worth a few months of our life, doesn’t it, if we enabled ourselves to do it smoothly and gracefully?  I think its worthwhile, in any case.  And my money’s on Ascension happening, sooner than later….

Be at peace, Friend.  Namaste…