Chaotic Nodes and Dimensional Attunements
Chaotic Nodes
In one of our previous communications we discussed the
concept of chaotic nodes. From our perspective we believe you
are on the cusp of one such node.
When predicting chaotic events, one is presented with an
enigma, since by its very nature chaos is unpredictable. Yet
within the flow of chaotic events there is a substructure
that feeds the flow of chaos, as you experience it. Based
upon our understanding of this sub-structure (the
quantum-field), we predict that a Chaotic Node will manifest
somewhere in the next 90 days. In reality it could appear
within hours of this message or weeks past the window we have
predicted. (Note: see previous Hathor message entitled,
Chaotic Nodes: http://tomkenyon.com/chaotic-nodes/.)
Nevertheless, regardless of the actual timing of this Chaotic
Node, we believe that it will present itself in multiple
ways, involving international finance, challenges to physical
and mental health, planetary earth changes, including
earthquake and volcanic activity, and increased weather
anomalies. All of these events will strain the resources that
your governments have to cope with such things.
As we said previously, the nature of Chaotic Nodes is such
that there are multiple effects that cannot be predicted, and
so we do not wish to address the specific aspects of chaos
that we believe will arise, but rather we wish to discuss
strategies for dealing with the chaos, energetically and
spiritually.
We suggest you shift your perspective regarding chaos and
view it not as an inconvenience and a difficulty, but rather
as an evolutionary catalyst. How such events affect you
resides in how you view them.
What we mean by this is that there is a tendency for human
consciousness to get stuck in a rut, to anticipate what
things are going to be like, and to take actions based upon
those predictions. And for most people, when the reality does
not match expectation this creates great internal travail,
and yet by the very nature of Chaotic Nodes your predictive
abilities collapse in the midst of multiple probabilities.
For most persons, chaotic events generate a fear response,
since the stability that one counts on to predict appropriate
action has seemingly disappeared. And while fear is certainly
an understandable response, it is only one of many possible
responses. Thus, we encourage you to train your mind to jump
out of the habitual rut of self-limitation and expectation,
on a moment’s notice, whenever confronted with unexpected
events.
From an energetic standpoint, what happens to you in a given
situation has more to do with your vibrational frequency,
meaning the state of your consciousness, than where you are
physically located.
Thus, two people in the same location experiencing chaotic
events can have vastly different emotional responses. Whereas
one person might be paralyzed with fear, anger, and
resentment, the other person might experience the moment as
humorous. He or she “gets” the cosmic joke, which is the
sudden and unexpected realization that the reality everyone
experiences as “real” is nothing more than the fabrication of
their own minds.
When chaotic events disturb the status quo, a doorway briefly
appears, an opportunity if you will, to jump upward in
consciousness, to wake up from the dream spell. But waking up
from the collective dream only occurs if you are prepared to
step across the threshold.
For a person who is prepared mentally and emotionally to
embrace chaotic events as evolutionary catalysts, the near
future will be full of amusing incidents, unexpected
serendipity, and a feeling of waking up from a mass dream
that has gripped humanity for the last several thousand
years.
So here is the line in the sand, so to speak. For those who
wish to continue blaming others for the problems they are
facing, for those who would rather die than wake up from the
dream that they are collectively dreaming, this coming
Chaotic Node will be extremely difficult to contend with, and
as we have said, this is just the first of many such nodes to
come. But for a person who has embraced the idea that Chaotic
Nodes are evolutionary catalysts, it will be a different
story.
Again, it is not where you are physically located that
matters, it is your vibratory frequency, the state of your
consciousness.
In the past we have given many tools to assist you as you
move through these portals that are a necessary and
unavoidable aspect to the ascent of earth and humanity. Some
of these methods we have shared involve sacred geometry. Some
of them involve emotional mastery and what we call “ecstasy
and the heart.” We would suggest that you refer to these
previous messages and work with the tools we have given.
For although we have said it twice already, we shall say it a
third time. It is a fundamental principal we would like you
to understand.
It does not matter where you are physically located. It is
the state of your vibratory frequency, your state of
consciousness that matters most.
However we wish to turn our attention to a very simple method
of shifting your vibratory frequency.
When you are in what we call a “coherent vibratory frequency”
you move through chaotic events with a greater deal of
mastery, heightened intuition, and greater awareness of how
you are creating the dream for yourself. These three elements
free consciousness and create a positive attractor, so that
in the midst of chaos you find the passageways (i.e. the
right actions) that will lead you through chaotic situations.
This is the type of spiritual mastery that will guide you
through the coming times.
Although there are very sophisticated and complex coherent
emotional states you are capable of, we wish to speak to the
simplest one. You would call it “joy” or “appreciation.” When
you are in a state of joy or appreciation, your vibratory
frequency shifts and you are at the beginning of a continuum
of vibration that moves upward.
So however you do it, and there are many ways to do this, we
encourage you to choose joy and appreciation as the primary
emotional tones you live in. This is mental and emotional
training, and we consider it vital to prepare for what is
coming your way.
Your culture hypnotizes you into believing that you must have
a reason to feel joy or appreciation, but we say to you as
spiritual masters, you have the ability to create this
response regardless of what is happening around you.
In other words, you do not need a reason to feel joy or
appreciation. If you train yourself to move into, and live
in, this vibratory realm, you will pass through the coming
chaotic times with a greater degree of mastery, heightened
intuition and unexpected serendipity.
Dimensional Attunements
We wish to share with you a gift of sound, what we call a
Dimensional Attunement to assist you through the energetic
portal that the earth is now passing through.
Dimensional Attunements are a series of sound patterns that
shift your vibratory rate through specific actions on energy
centers within your subtle body. In future communications we
will offer many Dimensional Attunements, based upon how we
perceive the transition of earth and humanity from its
current dimension into higher realms of consciousness.
This first Dimensional Attunement we are offering deals with
the pineal gland, which has within it a crystalline
structure, and from our perspective, operates like a cosmic
antenna, allowing you to receive impressions, information and
energy from the light realms of being.
When you listen to the Dimensional Attunement, we suggest you
place your awareness in the center of your head, and as you
listen to the sounds, imagine that they are coming out from
the pineal gland, which is located in the center of the head.
This shift in perceptual imagination will allow the sound
patterns to work with you more effectively.
There is, paradoxically, within the crystalline structure of
your pineal gland an infinite world of subtle impressions,
knowledge and information.
Depending upon your level of self-awareness and evolution,
you might experience the effects of this Dimensional
Attunement as a simple energy movement within the center of
your head or you might experience the complex waveforms of
light that it generates. And you might experience the flows
of this light and informational-energy throughout the neural
networks of your brain, and in some cases, through your
entire body and subtle bodies as well.
We suggest you listen to this attunement and determine, for
yourself, if it is something of value for you. For some
persons, it may take several “listenings” to determine this.
If you feel that this Dimensional Attunement has a positive
influence upon your mood, your thinking processes and your
subtle awareness, then we would suggest you listen to it at
least once a day, or more, if you choose.
In essence, the sound patterns of the Dimensional Attunement
are an auditory reflection of complex wave patterns composed
of light. You are hearing sound patterns and harmonics, but
this is an auditory reflection of what is occurring in the
realms of light. In other words, when you use this
Dimensional Attunement while focusing upon your pineal gland,
you are stimulating complex evolutionary, catalytic light
waves that have vast implications for your spiritual journey.
We offer this gift freely with an understanding that those of
you who have the ears to hear will recognize this as a music
of the spheres, a calling home and the opening of a doorway
to a great destiny that awaits you.
The Hathors October 8, 2009
You will find a link to the Dimensional Attunement at the
bottom of the page.
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Tom’s Thoughts and Observations
Chaotic Nodes
First of all, I wish to assure our readers that a Chaotic
Node does not mean the end of the world. And if the Hathors
are correct, there will be a series of these before and well
past 2012.
This message is not one of gloom and doom, as I read it, but
rather a sobering call to wake up.
Instead of looking at large-scale chaotic events as
catastrophes, the Hathors are encouraging us to view them as
evolutionary catalysts, doorways through which we can step
out of our dream-spell into a greater perceptual reality.
They call this the cosmic joke, the sudden insight that all
of us on earth are creating and fabricating our perceptions
of reality.
Back in the late 1980’s when the Big Eared Guys (one of my
many nicknames for the Hathors) started communicating with
me, they said from the get-go that earth was undergoing an
ascension process by which the planet and all life on it
would enter higher dimensions of consciousness.
What this will actually look like (if indeed it does come to
pass) is anybody’s guess, but one of the facts of ascension
according to the Hathors is that chaotic states are
unavoidable. They are the signatures of an evolving system as
it moves toward a higher energetic resting state.
As I think about the world situation, the on-going financial
difficulties, the increasing magnitude of storms, heightened
earthquake activity in the Ring of Fire, the latest
challenges around the H1N1 virus, as well as the recent and
strange simultaneous eruptions of six different volcanoes in
Russia, I wonder if we aren’t already in the midst of a
Chaotic Node.
But upon asking the Hathors this after transcribing their
message, they said that we are just at the beginning of a
Bell Curve that will present itself as an ever-increasing
number of seemingly unrelated chaotic events. This is
essentially their definition of a Chaotic Node. (Note: For
more insight into their views regarding Chaotic Nodes see
message entitled Chaotic Nodes, which you can find in the
Archives section of our site, and also linked above.)
Now, for the record, this is only the second time the Hathors
have predicted an actual timeline in regard to events. The
last time they did this was two years before the current
financial meltdown. In that message they predicted a
financial meltdown in a window that was from around six
months to two years from when they gave the message. So in
that instance, the manifestation of their prediction came at
the edge of what they foretold, but clearly within the
window.
This time they gave the caveat that it is difficult to
predict a Chaotic Node due to the unpredictable nature of
chaos itself. And so I find it of interest that they would
put themselves out on a limb like this.
I have historically found beings who exist in other
dimensions of consciousness very poor at predicting exact
dates though they sometimes do successfully predict the
general theme of events. And so I wouldn’t be surprised if
the Hathors turn out to be incorrect in their timeline. But I
do feel that they are on the mark in regards to the general
thrust of things.
I think a lot of us have the very real sense that things are
out-of-control and that we are at the edge of some type of
collective precipice. What the precipice turns out to be
probably won’t be clear to us until we are on the other side
of it. Hindsight is notoriously better than foresight.
Anyway, the Hathors are encouraging us in this message to
master the art of shifting into joy and appreciation at a
moment’s notice, without needing any reason to do so. They
are very clear that this type of spiritual mastery is vital
for dealing with the chaos that is coming our way, regardless
of when it shows up.
My personal experience with joy and appreciation is that when
I manage to be in these emotional states my vibratory field
changes, and this does, indeed, generate what the Hathors
call a positive attractor, which brings to me (in sometimes
mysterious and unpredictable ways) more things to feel joy
and appreciation for.
If more and more people enter states of distress due to
increased incidents of chaos, the emotional atmosphere of
earth is going to get even harder to contend with. And if you
are empathic or just spiritually sensitive, you know what I
am talking about.
For me the most important point in the first part of this
message is a call to us to become masters of joy and
appreciation so that we can enter into, and sustain, higher
vibratory fields. This will allow us to move through chaotic
events, however and whenever they show up, with a greater
sense of ease and protection.
Dimensional Attunements
The second part of this message deals with what the Hathors
call Dimensional Attunements. These are essentially sound
codes that will assist us as we move upward in the ascension
process.
They have indicated that they will be sharing several of
these sound meditations as they sense the need.
The first Dimensional Attunement deals with the pineal gland,
which sits more or less in the center of the head. This is a
fascinating gland for several reasons. One of the more exotic
aspects of this gland has to do with the fact that it is
embedded with crystalline structures that are made of
calcite.
According to the Hathors these crystals can act as cosmic
antennae and are capable of connecting us to the realms of
light and to other dimensions of consciousness. They consider
this gland to be vital in the ascension process, and so this
first Dimensional Attunement is intended to activate and
stimulate the crystalline structures within the pineal gland
in order to open or deepen our connection to other realms of
being. The net result of this, according to the Hathors, is
an increase in spiritual insight, intuition and guidance from
those aspects of us that are beyond the constraints of time
and space.
It might interest some of you to know the conditions under
which this recording was made. True to many of the Hathor
sound meditations, this one was downloaded to me in the
ungodly hours after midnight. Specifically, I was awakened
after I had gone to bed and instructed to go into the studio
and start laying down the vocal tracks. The bulk of the
recording took place in the six hours remaining before the
October Harvest Full Moon.
I suggest you follow the Hathors’ suggestion on this one.
Listen and see if you are drawn to it. You should be able to
tell in a few sessions of listening if this is something that
nourishes you and is effective or not.
If it doesn’t work for you, forget about it. But if you are
like me, you will be amazed at both the subtle energetics of
this sound meditation and its effectiveness. I listen to it
several time a day and often in an extended session where I
repeat the track several times. I find that focusing on the
pineal in this way for an extended period deepens the
experience and leaves my pineal feeling as if it has been
turned into a beacon of light.
To hear the Dimensional Attunement, click here:
http://tomkenyon.com/sound-gifts/
For “Ecstasy and the Heart” click here:
http://tomkenyon.com/ecstasy-and-the-heart
Haiti and the Chaotic Node
A Hathor Planetary Message through Tom Kenyon
The recent seismic event in Haiti heralds the beginning of
the Chaotic Node we referred to in our last communication.
We are, quite frankly, surprised that this event occurred
slightly outside the timeline we had projected. This tells us
that new levels of “novelty” (meaning an increase in
unpredictability) are escalating faster than we anticipated.
Thus, it is, and will be, increasingly difficult to pinpoint
such future occurrences.
However, the general thrust of your planetary state is one of
extreme volatility. Your magnetic North Pole is shifting its
position in erratic and unpredictable ways. The photosphere
is also showing signs of unusual activity, as yet undetected
by your scientists. All of this is to be expected for a
planet undergoing a movement into Ascension, and we liken all
of this to the birthing pangs of Earth’s birth into higher
dimensions.
Our purpose in this communication is not to give predictions
as to the unfolding of this chaotic node, for we must admit,
in all humility, that our technology is no longer able to
precisely predict the chaotic events unfolding before you.
What we wish to address, as always, are practical
applications of multi-dimensional awareness.
It is the state of your vibratory field that determines your
experience of any event. In its most simple form, the
cultivation of appreciation for the smallest things in your
life will give you the greatest results.
The various inner technologies we have given before will also
help you navigate through this transition as well, but we
realize that not everyone is capable of entering into
multi-dimensional awareness. If you are one of these persons,
do not concern yourself with it. The simple act of
appreciation for what is in your life will shift your
vibratory field faster and more effectively than any sacred
geometry.
The task, then, is one of attaining a higher level of
vibration. We do not mean physical vibration–the vibratory
rate of your physical body–but rather we refer to the
vibratory rate of your subtle energy body (your KA, your
etheric double).
As your planet moves into its energetic process more deeply,
you can expect more volatility in weather patterns, as well
as an increase in unpredictable earth changes. But in some
ways the external events are easier to deal with than the
internal changes you will be facing.
Those of you who are more sensitive to the subtleties of
energetics may find yourself “hard hit” by the dimensional
and physical shifts that will occur. To a greater or lesser
degree, depending upon their vibratory levels, more and more
individuals will experience sleep disturbances, and strange
dreams–some of them prophetic in nature. There will also
most likely be an increase in strange physical ailments that
have no logical explanation. These will often arise early in
the morning hours as your energy body shifts from its inner
journeys back to orientation to your physical form. These
types of physical discomforts are a reaction from the organs
within your body and the various bodily systems to the
accelerating changes taking place. In other words, your
physical bodies are challenged by the rapid escalation of
planetary change.
You may experience sudden and unexpected periods of extreme
fatigue, weakness, and even the very odd state of being both
awake and asleep at the same time. Again, all of these
challenges are a result of the rapid changes taking place
upon your earth. If you have the luxury of time, and you feel
one of these energetic drops, the sudden onset of fatigue, it
is best to rest if you are able–to literally lie down. If
you are unable to do so we urge you to be vigilant if you are
driving or making critical decisions or choices, especially
when engaged with technology. There may be–and we expect
this to be true–a general increase in irritability
throughout the population; small negative encounters can
easily amplify into something much larger.
In our previous communication we offered the Dimensional
Attunement for the Pineal Gland. This is still a very
effective sound tool to assist you as you move through this
period. Listening to this Attunement a few minutes a day can
help your system “fine tune” itself so that the changes that
are upon you will be less stressful.
Again, the key component in all of this is your vibratory
rate, and the Dimensional Attunement assists your nervous
system by tuning the pineal gland to the higher realms of
light. Think of it as an “acoustic life raft.”
You may also experience a greater number of individuals
choosing to exit the Earth plane. These exits will take place
through unexpected accidents, unforeseen illnesses, and of
course, earth changes and weather anomalies. What we wish to
say to you in this regard is that as the dimensionality of
Earth shifts, the veils between the dimensions will become
thinner, and it will be true for many that they sense friends
and loved ones on the other side of the veil more clearly
than ever before.
In some ways the veils between life and death are being
lifted, and the veils between dimensions are being parted.
Thus some of you may have unusual and extraordinary
encounters with animal spirits, devic beings of the Earth,
and other nature spirits that have been obscured for the last
several thousand years.
Although this is a difficult and challenging period, it is an
extraordinary opportunity to be embodied at this time.
Regardless of what unfolds before you in your life, or in the
lives of those around you, we suggest you cultivate
appreciation for the smallest things in your life. Share your
love and affection for those to whom you feel close.
In the great miasma you call Western Civilization, it shall
be individual relationships that survive the coming storm.
As you let go of the distortions created by your culture and
wake up to the simple truth of your existence as an embodied
being in time and space, you will see that the great
adventure has just begun.
The Hathors January 13, 2010
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Tom’s Observations
In their last message, the Hathors predicted a ninety-day
timeline for the emergence of the first Chaotic Node. This
puts the earthquake in Haiti six days past their time line.
When the Hathors predicted this Chaotic Node, something they
have rarely done by the way, they did say that it could occur
either before or after the ninety-day period.
But when the timeline came and passed, they were rubbing
their proverbial heads. They were honestly quite surprised
that the event didn’t occur before this.
In my first contact with them they told me that there are
stages of chaos that all systems (including Earth) go through
as they move to higher levels of order. And the emergence of
novelty, meaning unusual situations that could not possibly
be anticipated, is part of the chaotic process.
The Hathors are of the opinion that the emergence of this
catastrophic event marks the beginning phase of
ever-increasing unpredictability and novelty. Please do note
that not all of this is negative. Unpredictable generosity
from one human to another, or one culture to another can also
be part of this. It is just that all bets are off when it
comes to predicting probabilities.
There are a few points in this most recent message I wish to
explore. The first has to do with “strange physical ailments
that have no logical explanation.”
Personally, I have experienced some of this, as have many of
my friends, but I would like to insert a caution here. If you
are experiencing physical ailments and are concerned about
them, especially if they persist, I would suggest that you
see your health practitioner to rule out any medical reasons.
Don’t assume that sudden physical ailments or loss of
wakefulness are just energetic.
Having said that, let me share a personal experience I had
with this type of phenomenon. I was caught off guard several
mornings around 3AM by particularly strong and strange
physical sensations. I asked the Hathors what the hell was
going on, thinking that I might be dealing with something
quite serious. They said that the atomic and molecular levels
of our bodies are being affected by the massive energetic
changes that are taking place within the Earth, the sun, our
solar system, and our galaxy. They said this was the
biological equivalent to “holding on” to old ways of
organizing third-dimensional reality and not letting go into
the unknown (meaning higher dimensional realities).
They had no real solid solution for this other than to say
that as I continued to work with the inner technologies they
had given, I would eventually reach a place where I was more
familiar with higher dimensional realities and could let go
of my attachments to the third dimensional world more easily.
For the record, they were not talking about death, per se.
They believe that the shifting of dimensionality (Ascension)
ultimately means that those of us who are embodied will be
aware of both the third-dimensional world we live in and
other realms, simultaneously. But in the process of moving to
this expanded state of awareness, most of us tend to hold
onto the known.
I also find it interesting that they addressed the issue of
sleep by mentioning “the very odd state of being both awake
and asleep at the same time.” I am experiencing this on a
regular basis, as are many others. In this odd state of body
and mind, my body is asleep, as evidenced by the same type of
breathing patterns I experience when I am asleep, and my body
feels heavy as it does when I am asleep. But in these
peculiar bodily sleep-states my mind is quite awake.
I am personally finding that sleep is becoming more and more
of an art form. For those of us experiencing the simultaneity
of sleep and wakefulness during the night, it is sometimes
challenging to enter into the restorative state of deep REM
sleep. If you are one of these persons, may the farce be with
you. Perhaps think more in terms of catnaps than long
comfortable sleep. Take what you can get, and be thankful for
it.
The Hathors also mentioned the Pineal Dimensional Attunement
in this message. When they originally gave me this sound
code, they indicated that they would give other Attunements
in the future. By the way, all of these Attunements will be
offered free of charge to the world community through this
website as they become available. For now, the Hathors are of
the opinion that listening to the Dimensional Attunement for
the Pineal Gland (on a regular basis) will continue to assist
those of us choosing the path of Ascension.
Personally, I sometimes think of the Hathor inner
technologies and the Attunements as energetic surfboards that
allow us to keep ahead of the evolutionary waves.
This brings me to one of their statements that I found both
illuminating and quite amusing: “The simple act of
appreciation for what is in your life will shift your
vibratory field faster and more effectively than any sacred
geometry.”
Mind you this is coming from a group of intelligences that
have given me volumes of information regarding geometry. And
I have no doubt that sacred geometry shapes the flow of
subtle energy. But when it comes down to it, the most
important thing here is to raise the vibratory rate of
your own subtle energy body (your KA) despite what may be
happening around you. If the use of sacred geometry assists
you in this, then so be it. It certainly does for me. But if
you are unable to engage such pyrotechnics of the mind, the
Hathors are saying don’t worry, be happy. Just appreciate the
smallest things in your life and your vibratory rate will
rise by itself. I applaud them for this simple statement for
I, too, have found appreciation to be the express elevator to
the upper floors of my own consciousness.
There is a tendency for many of us to get attached to our
little devices, whether physical or mental, thinking that
they will shift us into whatever version of paradise we
imagine. But this is, I think, just another type of
dogmatitis (an inflammatory condition of the soul).
Dogmatitis appears whenever there is a limiting idea or
belief. The most common form of this is the belief that you
cannot move upward in consciousness on your own, unless you
use some type of device and/or follow a certain path. The
Hathors are reminding us that we possess one of the greatest
tools for self-evolution within our emotional nature, the
simple act of appreciation.
This brings me to another one of their statements that occurs
toward the end of this message. “In the great miasma you call
Western Civilization, it shall be individual relationships
that survive the coming storm.”
Whatever comes down for humanity in terms of 3D realities, I
suspect that truthful and co-operative relationships with our
fellow humans may turn out to be our most reliable currency.
May you find both the small things and the big things that
bring you joy.
Tom Kenyon
For more information about the Pineal Attunement:
http://tomkenyon.com/sound-gifts
To listen to or download the Attunement:
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Where is God?
Mark Nepo
It’s as if what is unbreakable—
the very pulse of life—waits for
everything else to be torn away,
and then in the bareness that
only silence and suffering and
great love can expose, it dares
to speak through us and to us.
It seems to say, if you want to last,
hold on to nothing. If you want
to know love, let in everything.
If you want to feel the presence
of everything, stop counting the
things that break along the way.
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The number nine has been endowed with a special significance in many different spiritual and religious traditions. Nine was the number of muses in Greek mythology and Nine were the number of worlds in the Scandinavian. Nine was the number of doors to the holiest part of the temple in Jerusalem and the month of Ramadan is the Ninth in the Muslim calendar. Moreover, the counting system used by most of the world today includes nine numbers and so the relevance of this number is much ingrained in us. Also, in the Mayan tradition the number Nine plays a predominating role. The only existing inscription from ancient times that discusses the meaning of the Mayan calendar “end date” for instance speaks of Nine “deities” that will descend then as its crucial event. This would in modern wording mean that Nine energies, or Nine cosmic forces would fully manifest then since the ancient Maya would look upon time periods as “deities”. As far as we can tell these “deities”, or cosmic forces, are like evolutionary wave movements, built on top of one another where we are currently riding on the eighth one getting ready to ride on the ninth.
The Nine Cosmic levels (Underworlds) that according to the only existing Mayan inscription about the calendar end date (Tortuguero monument 6) will manifest then. Currently we are in the eighth level (The Galactic Underworld) gearing up to the Ninth and highest level, the Universal Underworld. Photo of the Pyramid of the Jaguar in Tikal by the author.) In the manifestation of these evolutionary waves we may now as we approach the Ninth level notice an amazing synchronicity. This is that the upcoming date 9.9.9 (September 9, 2009 in the Gregorian calendar) happens to coincide with the beginning of a Mayan Sacred Calendar count of 260 days. Hence, in this calendar, in use since 3000 years, the modern date 9.9.9 has the energy of Hun Imix, or 1 Alligator as its English translation reads, which happens to be the first of its energetic combinations. If we ponder what this synchronicity may be telling us the most natural conclusion to draw is that on this particular date we are called to focus on the number nine and especially the Ninth level of the Mayan calendar system, whose coming into existence we are soon about to witness. I believe that behind these cosmic forces, whose times of activation are described by the Mayan calendar, is an intelligent plan for the history of humanity that comes from a higher source and has a benevolent intention. To realize this is also to understand the importance of the guidance regarding how to follow this plan that we may gain from the calendar of the Maya. These nine cosmic forces are influencing and in fact governing our collective consciousness and so we have every reason to pay attention to what is going on in this cosmic time plan. Synchronicities can often be interpreted in different ways, but if they are profound they always deserve our attention. 9.9.9, three Nines in a row, may for instance be seen as symbolic of three sacred calendar rounds of 260 days that will now in three steps lead us to the completion of the Ninth level of evolution which is its highest level. To the best of our knowledge this highest energy state of the universe will be attained on the energy 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13 13 Ahau (13 and Ahau are symbols of completion in the Mayan calendar) on the Gregorian date October 28, 2011. This highest state does not in any sense mean the end of the world, but only that all the Nine wave movements are then completed. Maybe we can use the metaphor that we are now about to climb the last hard steps of a ladder until we climb on to the roof where we will find a new stability under our feet and a place to rest. Regardless of what this final climb will mean we thus have reasons to expect an unprecedented period of change in a very short period of time. This is partly because we are entering the final phase of the eighth level of evolution and partly because a wave movement of a very high frequency, the Ninth level, will radically come to transform the collective consciousness in such a way that we will see the world in an entirely different light. It is for this reason that in the three upcoming Sacred Calendar rounds that follow upon 9.9.9 we will need to network and focus our intentions so that they converge in the birth of a new world. This is all the more important as there are several sources that seem to indicate that the sixth night of the Galactic Underworld, beginning on November 8, 2009, may come to generate a deep downturn in the world’s economy. The first of these 260-day Sacred Calendar rounds, the one which actually begins on 9.9.9 and goes on until May 26, 2010, may be seen as a period of build-up to the Ninth level that is suitable for prayer, meditation and mental focusing. We encourage community building, networking and spiritual synchronization in this time period, also of a practical nature. The second 260 calendar round, starting 27.05.10 will create a preliminary arrival of the Ninth level and the beginning of this will be marked by the Cosmic Convergence, July 17-18, a significant focus point for spiritual projects of a practical nature that will prepare for the birth of a new world. The third Sacred Calendar round of 260 days will begin February 11, 2011 and includes the actual activation of the Ninth level, the Universal Underworld on March 8, 2011. This may be the most dramatic of the three steps as it leads up to the establishment of the highest energy state of the universe on October 28, 2011. I believe that through these three steps, three Sacred Calendar rounds, starting on 9.9.9: 1/ Build-up, 2/ Preparatory Ninth level and 3/ Actual Ninth level of the evolution of the cosmos, the universe is now about to deliver what it has been striving towards all along, the establishment of a new level of consciousness, a unity consciousness. I also believe that the Ninth level is designed especially to generate such a unity consciousness, which will transform all of human society. For the human race it will mean very big challenges and opportunities. These changes will however not happen by themselves and need to be manifested by the human beings themselves who may then chose to resist or welcome them. From this perspective we may thus look at the date 9.9.9 not only as a numerological curiosity to celebrate, but also as an opportunity for us to focus on and embrace the participation of humanity in a transformation process of a very large scale, the one brought by the Ninth level of the Cosmos. From what we may understand of the Mayan calendar the unity consciousness will set an end to all forms of dominance of one human over another and especially those generated by the left brain. What this likely will mean is that instruments of dominance, such as the current financial system, weapons, national borders and many other structures upholding authority in this process will come to crumble as an effect of this unity consciousness coming into existence and so conclude with the birth of a new world where a divine harmony characterize the human relations. This end to dominance will also affect the relationship between the genders on a global scale that as a result will profoundly shift. Needless to say, there will never be any return to business as usual. Instead we will need to approach the birth of the new world consciously and with an intention of co-creating it in a positive sense and not just react to the various difficulties that lie ahead. I believe that such a collective intention of co-creating the new world will be the best way of easing the consequences of these difficulties. Although what is starting on 9.9.9 is only the build-up phase to the Ninth level, this date is nonetheless a very important focusing point since the timing of the continued preparations for the emergence of this level are of the essence. From this follows that the more practical projects that will start to manifest in the Cosmic Convergence, July 17-18 2010 as the name implies, will have to be based on an understanding that the very framework of the human existence and of consciousness will be dramatically expanded. The expansion of human consciousness is what will bring the socio-economic transformation at a time when the hardships of the old systems may be expected to be painfully felt also by nations that currently may been considered as wealthy. As the Ninth level is finally activated our identities will come to be defined in a much expanded spiritual framework. This article comes much too late to encourage people more broadly to focus and intend together for the future. Nonetheless, many will celebrate the 9.9.9 date regardless (see for example http://www.fredpajorden.se/sida21.html ). The purpose of my present article is then only to inform those that will be celebrating this date anyway, that indeed this is not just a numerological curiosity in the Gregorian calendar, but that the date plays a profound objective role in the cosmic plan as we may understand this from the Mayan calendar directly leading up to the birth of a new world through the Ninth level, 9.9.9. It is an ideal time to participate in prayers and meditations with the focus and intention of co-creating a new and better world. Additional tools for networking and communication with the focus on the Cosmic Convergence, July 17-18, 2012 will be developed as we go along. 9.9.9 may be seen as an initial and modest initial call for the co-creation of the birth of a new world. Malmö, September 6, 2009 (11 Edznab) |
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Everything personal if faced
belongs to everyone, the way water
riding up the chest of a horse returns
to the river once the horse has crossed.
The deeply personal aspect of search,
which seems at times unbearable, leads
us to the deeply common well which
once immersed in tells us there is
nothing else to search for.
Like snails who curl in shells
to be tossed by the sea, the soul
finds a life to inhabit.
So close your eyes and chance
to see your self from the inside.
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A yantra is a symbol representing something to be internalized in the human consciousness. Each yantra radiates the specific divine energy that is embedded within it, and can serve as a doorway for the divine to enter into both our internal and external worlds. The geometric form aids in balancing and focusing the mind and bringing us in touch with its powerful source energy.
The Hindu Goddess Kali is a fierce liberator. She embodies the power of action and transformation. She is said to destroy anything that is not absolute truth, fiercely devouring the self-centered views of reality. While she is known as a liberator and destroyer of all that is not truth, Kali’s essence is Divine Love. When we surrender to that Divine Love, we find that all is possible.
The Kali Yantra shown is embedded with the transformative energy of change. According to Hindu tradition, inviting Kali’s essence into your life must be a conscious and mindful decision because she will not stop until the transformation has occurred. What it means to surrender to “what is” in our lives, is why we often find change so difficult, and ultimately why change is so important as a part of our ongoing evolutionary journey. As the northern hemisphere heads into the spring and the southern hemisphere shifts into autumn, the whole world is entering into a time of birth and death – a reawakening of life in the northern hemisphere and a surrender of life in the southern hemisphere. Birth and death are inseparable. In order to evolve and give birth to the new we must be willing to let go of what was. And in the same way, letting go of what was opens the door for new beginnings.
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Spirit Is One and Many
Spirit is generally seen and understood to be the grand unifying principle behind all apparent difference. In its revelation, there is the undeniable recognition that we have never been separate and there is only One. But the contours of that which is only One, as it becomes manifest, contain countless dimensions and levels that are not all the same. This is very important to understand. Why? Because our capacity to manifest that which is highest here on Earth—wisdom, insight, evolutionarily enlightened awareness, and deep, impersonal, spiritual love—is entirely dependent upon our being able to discern what can at times be subtle differences. Our own evolution at the deepest level of our being depends upon our willingness to strive consistently to make philosophically and morally challenging distinctions.
Andrew Cohen
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by Maya Christobel
“We live in a REDEFINING moment of history. So, it would seem logical that each of us would be mirroring this moment in our lives. Life is chaotic and uncertain right now. Many of us have the capacity to feel all dimensions at one time: Physical, emotional, intuitive, mental and spiritual, as well as other dimensions that exist simultaneously or parallel to the reality we are in. All of our sensory experience registers in a complex way and our mind makes every attempt to interpret, but it is a very difficult amount of energy for anyone to process in our unevolved bodies and minds. We have not yet learned to center or focus on the data coming in from a purely intuitive and physical channel.
So, when your mind is activated and does what it has always done, you interpret the incoming experience with old outdated and delusional constructs and belief systems and can be very overwhelmed with energy.
The key to managing all these energies is the heart ,not the mind. But our species is living with contracted hearts which are not open to processing or transmuting these complex energies. As a result we can become ill, dis-oriented and depressed.
Then, as you also know, the backdrop of energy in our culture and the world is producing fear and pain, prompted by the influences of the cosmic forces bearing down on our planet. There is a huge increase in energy that is chaotic and fear driven, also a magnification of energies due to the breakdown of our atmosphere, global warming and a shift in the EM energy on our planet. That is why the mundane SEEMS so difficult to focus on, but in reality, is the most important practice you can do. The mundane will ground you. Eating, cooking, cleaning, gardening, walking the dog, taking a shower, are all ways to stay focused. Then as you “pick up” information or feel strong feelings that many times are simply not your own, but floating debris, cast off emotions from all around you, then when they float by or stick to you or overwhelm you, you can let that energy go into the very things you do day to day. Send the excess energy into the ground or into the sink with the dishes…consciously.
What I have mentioned is an external way you can manage the energy. It is applicable to the negativity that is floating in the world around you. You must also manage the energies internally and psychically. Breathing is essential, exercise is essential, the proper food is essential, but meditation and quiet reflection, imagining and creative expression, identifying the feelings and releasing them, these are important ways to mange the energy and stay focused in hard times. The engine for all these ways of processing energy is the heart. Love is the energy that balances out all other ‘out of balance’ or negative energies.
When you become afraid about where money is going to come from, you are submitting to a flow of energy all around you that is a cultural fear about money. Therefore, first of all, turn off the news. Only check headlines on your computer once in awhile. Do not bombard yourself with outside information that is steeped in fear. Everyone is afraid about jobs and money and security and personal resources. Although circumstances are difficult at this moment, your major experience is that you become a conduit for the fear that is all around you. Managing fear is essential since it causes physical harm and illness. without a full and open heart you cannot successfullychange or manage energy.
Fear in our world is at an all time peak, and the weather around you on your planet is brewing up a storm of its own, the volcanoes are expressing themselves and so on. As you can see, it will take more effort on your part to say centered and focused and not get all “riled up” so to speak. The question you do not ask is what does it matter anyway? What does it really matter that you do not have the money you desire? What does it really matter that you could die, or loose a house or have to grow your own food? What does it really matter at all?
Your Spirit is wanting to evolve and when you hold yourself in a place of fear and insecurity, doing mental harm to yourself with your ongoing thoughts and worry, your Spirit is held down and put in a cage waiting for you to relax and simply allow the realities around you to pass through and by you. So change those realities. Make a new stance in your life to only do what brings you joy. To play in your life.
Most us us are saying “how can I be happy and paint or draw or dig in my garden if I do not have money.” Then you frantically try to “make money”. You are contracted and edgy when you try so hard and that does not allow creativity to flow in the direction of money. You think you need to draw money to you or security and resources toward you, when in fact it does not really work that way. You create a flow of energy in and around you that is abundant and the Universe matches that energy with abundant energy.
If you have happiness and joy and not worry and fear, then that happiness and joy flows into the Universe which then mirrors the energy back toward you. It is spiritual physics. What you put out, your get back. You have always thought that the laws of ‘what goes up must come down’ or ‘everything has an equal and opposite reaction’ are the primary laws, but in truth, everything has a “unified reaction”, a reaction of like to like. Holism…you are happy and happy things happen, you feel abundant and imagine abundance and abundance happens. But, if you feel scared and worried and frightened then that is what your experience will be. These emotions will shut down or contract your heart ,which will eventually show up as heart failure, heart attacks, a hardened heart.
We need to face our diminishing patterns, to deal with the ways we each hold ourself in prison with our fears or oour insecurities. You have a wealth of experience that lets you completely KNOW how the Universe is simply always supporting you and there for your happiness and growth. You need to remind yourself of this every day. This is not a time to be Doing everything you can to make money or create the life you think you want. This is a time that you should be Being every part of yourself every day and letting the laws of the Universe operate the ways it does.
This will feel paradoxical in that all around you you will see scary things and changes that will be difficult. This is but one reality. You can be your own weather front, your own sustenance, your own joyful heart. Allow yourself to play, even if you feel you have to reinvent your life. Allow yourself to play even if you need to make a phone call or design a brochure, or clean the cat box and pay your bills. Allow the Universe, your guides, your faith to do the work of creating abundance even in times like these. Inspiration is the key. Do for yourself and for others what inspires you…all the time. Learning and practicing living in and with an openheart.
Ideologies separate us.
Dreams and anguish bring us together.
–Eugene Ionesco
Reflections By Mark Nepo: March 31, 2009
I was at a conference in Florida, a Jewish-Catholic gathering in which believers were trying to understand each other’s suffering. At last, there was a tiredness of debating ideas and varying points of faith. And weathered old souls gathered like birds appearing from trees to nibble at God’s bread finally left out in the open.
It was late in the day, amid the scattering of coffee cups, that a tall, thin man with clumps of white hair and thick glasses shuffled to the microphone perched in the aisle. His back was slightly curved in a permanent bow. He started several times, clearing his throat, as if climbing the years to this ordinary day. He had been in Buchenwald and, in those early months of ’45, he knew the end of the war was near. A sudden air of liberation filled the yard with whispers. And one day, for some reason, he felt it was very close, the way birds know a storm is near by how the wind skirts the leaves. So, he hid in a garbage can for seven days, enduring the dark and the hunger and the largeness of every noise without sight.
After an unthinkable hiding, he felt the lid start to lift and didn’t know if it was a German about to shoot him or an American bringing him back to a life he could barely remember. In that instant, he almost collapsed from the pounding of his heart. It took a few seconds for his eyes to focus. He was still there. It was then he saw the shape of the helmet. It was American and he began to weep.
There was a profound silence in the room as the old man wiped his eyes. As he started to shuffle back to his chair, another old man stood up, his voice shaking as he uttered, “I was that soldier,” and they teetered to each other and fell into each other’s arms.
I don’t know how to describe what happened in that moment. In all outward appearance, it looked quite ordinary. Nothing around us stopped. Traffic came and went. The ocean surf kept breaking. Young boys kept stocking shelves in nearby supermarkets. But two broken pieces in the foundation of the Universe fit perfectly together and everyone in the room knew it. And more than these two were healed. We were all healed in a place that is hard to reach. It is strange yet constant that the breaking apart in the Universe is often loud while the coming together is often quiet.
Things will always break apart and come together. Yet, in our pain, we often lose sight that each cocoon must break so the next thing can fly. It is our curse and blessing to die and be born so many times.
Notes from the Prarie: By Maya Christobel
The winds are howling here in Tulsa. The first tornado alert of the season and it seems all but natural to me now. Funny how new weather fronts can seem so alarming and throw us off balance until the weather front passes and then reconfigures over and over again until it is simply…commonplace. Adaptation is a remarkable thing.
I have been here in Tulsa for two months today. The winter landscape is now a lush budding bouquet of color and fragrance. Spring this early seems so foriegn and not one time of shoveling snow for over a year now. I do appreciate that aspect.
These months have been brimming with moving, settling my mother into Assisted Living so she can start her own new chapter at 90, and building life from the ground up once again. I admit that this time, “starting over” has been exhausting or maybe the move came at a time when after my previous year, my exhaustion was well under way.
I am “watching” my new city and all the inhabitants. I am carefully constructing the new me I want to bring here with the hopes of doing far less Therapies and more creative endeavors. Yet the economy presents an urgency for solid income, so I am finding myself wandering back toward the certainty of income with my usual work in Voice Stress Assessment. I am uneasy with the fit this time but understand that the times we are in necessitate compromises.
Reinventing a self at nearly 60 is formidable. I have far more fears of changing the staus quo in myself than I would have thought, yet the people who embrace my presence here are my champions for being all I can be and have brought love and acceptance to my life in no short order. I am so grateful.
My writing as you can see has been on the back burner once again as I do the mundane talks and lectures, endless social meetings, introducing myself to Tulsa and Tulsa to me. But Spring finds me now more in a place of feeling modestly settled and ready to resume my various writing projects. Where I am going is a mystery still.
So, I will commit once again to weekly reflections and notes on life. I am not continuing with my blog regarding “Letters from the Cosmos” though, since one of my decisions is to compile them into a book. So, please leave me comments that I may know how you are out there and how you are doing, your thoughts and feelings and ideas on our changing and challenging times.
Faithfully Maya
Have I Told You?
By Maya Christobel
Have I told you, you are the love of my life?
Have I told you, you are my beacon,
My blazing light, my truest heart?
I am certain I have, but never enough.
Never with the depth of feeling that exists in me,
Nor the broadest smile possible.
Not on the phone when you cannot see my eyes,
Or even when I hug you hello
After such a long absence.
Never enough.
So, I am telling you now,
Even after all these years,
The hardships,
The times I forgot what is important in life,
I am telling you today that I love you so much
That tears always come
At the sight of your picture,
The sound of your voice,
The beauty
That is only you,
Always you,
All of the time.
Sniffing Out What Is Sacred: Mark Nepo 3/23/09
Sometimes a glance, a few casual words, fragments of a melody floating through the quiet air of a summer evening, a book that accidentally comes into our hands, a poem or a memory-laden fragrance, may bring about the impulse which changes and determines our whole life.
—Llama Govinda
When I think of the times I’ve been lost in my life, each had the feel of an earthquake that upended something foundational. At the time, I was hurt, frightened, disoriented, unsure how to go on. Yet who would have guessed that one foundation broken apart would reveal another.
I was barely ten when I asked my parents about God. They looked at each other and flatly shut the door, saying, “We don’t believe in God.” It was the way they closed off all conversation that made me feel orphaned in my inquiries. I felt completely on my own. This was my first sense of death—the death of home. But it caused me to venture further into my own firsthand experience of everything larger than me. Ironically, because of how they shut me out, I solidified my bond with the mysteries.
As a teenager, I fell in love for the first time, and I fell deeply. She was beautiful and had questions of her own. In my innocence, I imbued her as the keeper of all that was holy. When she left me for another, I was devastated and darkly lost for almost two years. But one day, when exhausted of my very colorful despair, I sat in a field, drawn to watch the bees pulling nectar from the dew-heavy flowers. I was stopped by the beauty that keeps on creating itself no matter what we experience. Here, the death of my first love had led me to the unshakeable bottom of beauty.
At the age of thirty-six, in the midst of my struggle with cancer—between angiograms and MRIs—Grandma died. It was my first taste of inconsolable loss. For no one loved me like Grandma. She believed in me more than I could comprehend. And she was gone. The ground beneath me had split apart. Within months, the cancer resurfaced in a rib in my back. I felt utterly lost. It was the death of my faith. My rib was removed. When I woke on the other side, after having nothing to rely on, I discovered a deeper faith—one that exists like gravity, independent of our wishes and regrets.
It was almost ten years after cancer, when I was forty-five, that my former wife Ann and I separated after helping to save each other’s lives. To my surprise, several of my deepest friends, who had held me during surgeries and chemo, cast me out. This made me question the very ground by which I enter friendship. Not only could I no longer trust those I so loved, but I could no longer trust my own assessment of closeness. I felt isolated, and what I knew that was dependable, within me and around me, was no bigger than my palm. This was a death of friendship that I am still recovering from. But it forced me to fall into the bedrock of a deeper self which sniffs out what is sacred with the wonder of an animal—independent of what others think.
Still, when forty-eight, I learned that the press that had published my epic poem Fire Without Witness had gone out of business. In doing so, they had destroyed almost 1,500 copies without ever contacting me. Though I was experienced enough to know that this was just an external loss, it punctured me to my core. It had taken me ten years to birth that book. It was my deepest journey into the Unconscious. Try as I did to accept this brush with impermanence, I felt defeated and grew depressed.
Months later, I was driving a rental car from Albuquerque to Santa Fe to see my good friend Wayne when the old mountains baking under the big southwest sky somehow snapped me back into life. If they could outlive native names and Spanish names and American names, I could outlive this.
Now, at fifty-five, I still miss Grandma terribly. But now her presence is foundational. She is in the silence that holds my missing rib, in the flowers waiting for the bees to find their nectar, and in my lifelong sense of God as everything larger than me. As I consider where I’ve been, I realize that, at every turn, I’ve been broken of my preferences, and so I find, to my delight, that I am interested in everything.
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Dear Ones,
I am approaching the one year mark of being here with my Mother. Not one aspect of what I imagined this time would be about has been remotely true. It reminds me of childbirth. You do it with only a faint understanding of what it means to carry and deliver a baby but the Universal compelling call to birth overrides every reality or fear, since if any woman knew in advance how painful the process can be we might just reconsider. It seems as if this principle works for each of us when change and growth are necessary but we need a catalyst. My mother dying was an urgent compelling call that I instinctually answered and then attached my own expectations and assumptions to. But, when the reality set in as the REAL nature of the decision to be here became evident, I found myself standing in territory that I could not have expected nor imagined. I think this is what it really means to move in the Flow of life.
So, my mother nearly died three times and then came back stronger than ever. And then a critical experience with my daughter’s health, who is now so much better and building her life differently. As a result of these two loved ones facing life and death issues, I faced every buried demon from my past, faced every fear I avoided in my life and saw more of my shadow self than I knew existed. In short, I have become a different person. My imagined time here to HELP my mother was nothing of the sort. My mother called me home to myself and to birth my own truth and lay to rest the old, manufactured, fear based self I had been carrying with me most of my life. What a transformation of death and birth but nothing that could have been expected.
My mother Betty is now in Assisted Living and more joyful and alive than I have seen her in my entire life. She has a ministry there since she is the most outgoing and healthy one present. She cares for so many and brings light into their lives after living her own life in so much darkness of the heart. I am astonished. The place she lives has people dying all the time. It keeps my mother out of her denial and has created an appreciation for the time she has left to live. (Which could be forever the rate she is going.)
And in the process of her coming alive and not dying, so have I. What I have offered her here, living in her life with her, is not nearly as vast as what my mother gave me by nearly dying and calling me home. Each time I thought to leave and possibly escape the pain of transformation I was in, she nearly died again and I stayed longer to move further into my own transformation until I feel I am finished for the time being. Energy lighted and changes, doors began to open, inspiration returned.
Another gift came from my time here. Matthew who came to help for the summer has stayed on since his experience has been identical to mine. We have both been Waking UP in Oklahoma and could say volumes about why this is true. In the process we wiped clean so many aspects of our ten year relationship and built a new one filled with independence and love, partnering and personal quest, togetherness and detachment. We are always a work in progress, but our time here with one another has landed us in a space of creative relationship and loving kindness that was yet another unexpected product of a choice to move to the Prairie.
Yet, Shawnee Oklahoma has been physically and socially a very empty place for us. A few months ago we were encourage to “get out of Dodge” and visit Tulsa Oklahoma which had a Whole Foods Market we were craving and the largest Unitarian Church in the United States. Sixteen- hundred diverse and colorful members. I had not set foot into a church for nearly 30 years, so this was quite a departure for me. Tulsa having been settled and created by New Yorkers, Bostonians and having an East Coast mentality, as well as being a city with more Art Deco Architecture in the US, surprised us and the church, well the only thing I can say is an Arc filled with loving, open, mindful, spiritual and alive people. So after traveling there twice a week for some time we have decided to move there at the end of January. To try out what we imagine being another transformative experience while continuing to be open to wherever the Flow takes us. What an amazing time.
And I am so aware that these changes for me, for my life, for my mother and friends are embedded in the Mayan Calendar’s Sixth Day that began in November. I am including below a short description of the energy for this next year that we all will be challenged by and enfolded in.
So, I will continue to allow my Blog, www.theheartspace.wordpress.com and www.mayachristobel.wordpress.com (devoted to channeled material), to flow even if not focused on my time with my Mother and hope it will illuminate the transformative time we are all in, by sharing with you my own journey. I cannot thank each of you enough for all you have done in the support of me and of my family and send you love and blessings. My new phone and address is below as well as new website.
Thank you,
Maya
THE SIXTH DAY IN SHORT
The Sixth Day (2009) we return to a period of “Enlightenment.” This is the time of flowers for the plant. For you personally, it was adolescence. In human history this was the creation of the first tools, the first attempts at agriculture and constructed shelter, the Renaissance and, most recently, the Flower Children Movement of the 60’s. The Sixth Night (2110), one last period of Dark in the cycle follows. In the plant’s life the flowers wilt and die setting the stage for fruit development or of seedpods that will dry. This is what happened to the Maya civilization right on queue. Throughout human history there have been conflicts and revolts during this period, the most recent of these having been the Viet Nam War.
Now the Sixth Day of the Galactic Underworld begins [November 12, 2008] with Yohualticitl, the goddess of birth. This period is the renaissance of each cycle and this time lasts until November 2009. It is the time in which the flower blossoms. Look with in to propagate your flower. Grow spiritually and remain centered. Stay true to yourself, stay connected to community and the environment. Practice reciprocity and random acts of kindness for balance and connection.
This is all very representative of our nation’s events over the past decade. So this ancient knowledge is very relevant to us today. During this transition, things may very well become even more chaotic, before they improve. However remember to keep focused the big picture and do your best to spread and maintain the positive energy that the world needs so greatly right now.
The last Sixth “Day” was the time of Beatniks, Flower Children, mass spiritual transformation, orbital satellites and global communication systems or distilled down to its essence, profound change.
The Sixth “Day” of the last cycle was the beginning of the European Renaissance.
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From a spiritual perspective, attachment is the complex of dynamics that bind our capacity for love to self-centered desires. The root of the word, a-tache, means nailed to. Spiritual traditions see attachment as nailing our capacity for love to something other than what it was meant for.
-Gerald May
At first, our fierce impulse to live is bent on survival, fending off events and each other. But then, by some ever-shifting miracle, our stubbornness is broken and we are moved, if blessed, through that primitive survival into a deeper reality in which our lives depend wholly on each other, the way blood relies on organs to keep it flowing.
A complex journey stands between our primitive want to survive and this more humble recognition of how everything is connected. That journey takes many of us through the purging of our attachments. Or, as Gerald May so powerfully puts it, we must live through the nailing of our capacity to love to certain ideas, people, and things.
Just how does attachment start? It’s hard to say, but I know, for me, like many, it began when as a boy my want to live and my want to be loved became confused. Pretty soon, I nailed my sense of survival to the idea that life was only possible if in love. When love relationships failed, I grew desperate to make them work, to make them last, until I gave myself away as kindling to keep the fire of life as I imagined it going.
Often, our personal forms of attachment grow out of painful situations that we spend much of our lives trying to correct. My mother was an angry person. She seethed and smoldered much of the time. It was like living near a volcano, never sure when it might erupt. I’m not sure what painful situation she was reacting to. But I quickly learned how to absorb her heat and threw my attention on her like water. But it was never enough. There was always more fire than I had water. And even when leaving home, I looked for fires to put out, thought this was love. I became attached to the idea and kept thinking, “If I could only find more water.”
Once our fierce impulse to live is nailed to what we want or think we want, that fierceness keeps us from the direct joy of living. And feeling cut off, we work harder and longer at getting what we want. If worked at hard enough and long enough, our attachment can deepen into addiction-that is, we can make a god of attachment. In fact, we could say that addiction is a collapse of attention by which we pursue one thing repeatedly, as if that one thing will give us everything, as if that one thing sucked on enough will take away the pain of living.
Whatever the object of such focus-alcohol, drugs, love, sex, success, money, the thrill of adventure, or the tumble of crisis-addiction is attachment run wild until, like a self-replicating Midas, everything we touch turns into our troubled self. Ironically, addiction attaches to everything in its path, nailing our troubled self everywhere we go, when all we want is to lead our self out of its trouble.
Yet the skin between reverence and addiction is thin and always near. It is humbling that we can so easily aim for one and land in the other. When attached, we can become preoccupied with one thing (the touch of a loved one or a painful image of ourselves that we need to drown) until it prevents us from being touched by anything. When we can let go of our self-interest and simply lean into our capacity to love, we can be surprised by a tender strength that appears for caring openly for the smallest thing (a wave breaking or a stranger laughing) until it becomes a doorway to everything.
It seems that compassion is only possible when we dare not to nail down our capacity to love. Only when letting our impulse to live flow without preference or judgment-in essence, loving everything-can all skins of separation vanish, at least for the moment. In this way, when I am hurtful or cold or vengeful, I can feel at once both my striking out and the hurt it causes-as if I’m doing this to myself. Likewise, when I am giving or listening or loving, I can feel at once both my ache to care and the comfort it stirs-as if I’m doing this to myself. This is the mystery of compassion at the core of all the spiritual traditions: when we dare to open our hearts to life as it happens, we are doing all this to ourselves. For the gift of compassion, entered without hesitation, is that we are humbled by the truth that-despite our separate bodies and personal histories and all the nailing down-we are each other.
It is both troubling and freeing to realize that everyone is born with a fire within that we try to ignite by rubbing our hearts against the things of the world. The feel of the fire coming up from within is what we call passion. The rubbing of our hearts against the things of the world is the purpose of experience. When we are centered in our capacity to love, the friction of experience ignites our fire; and the edge and lick of its flame is curiosity and wonder, and the fire is illuminating. When we are divided and nailed to our desires, we simply burn up. We are capable of both and often shine and burn by turns.
The gentle love of everything makes a life of being lighted, while the pitfalls of attachment and addiction make burning up a way of life. A thin edge of grace often separates the two. Often, we need each other to pull us out of burning up. The mystery is that, while burning, we can still love. While burning, we can let love in. When the love overcomes the burn, we somehow cease being eaten by the fire and are warmed by the fire. In these blessed moments, or moods, or even days, we stop looking for love and become love. We cease being lighted and become light.
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These reflections are excerpts from several books, including a new book of poems, Surviving Has Made Me Crazy, CavanKerry Press, and a new book of spiritual non-fiction, Facing the Lion, Being the Lion: Inner Courage and Where It Lives, Red Wheel/Conari Press. For more info, please visit www.MarkNepo.com .
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