Hi, everyone.
I've been a little discouraged with all the difficulty people are having around the terrible events in the Gulf. It is hard to decipher truth from conjecture, and honestly I don't have the wherewithall to even know how to verify most of it. I read the posts, but generally won't comment as I just don't have much to say that would bring any value.
I've thought hard about what I need to do in this situation. How can I be most helpful? I've been trying (sometimes struggling) to just do what I can, which is the following...
I pray for Divine intervention to help - whether that produces a group of people who have the technology to get this issue solved and cleaned up, or a floatilla of UFO's to kick ass and take names. Makes no never mind to me, so long as it works. :)
I use ho'oponopono daily for the Waters, and for Gaia. I forgive myself for the guilt and shame of allowing this to happen, and for facilitating it, and all other crimes against our blessed Mother.
I revel in the beauty and incredible awesome power of our Earth, and remember, daily, how blessed I am to be so fully surrounded by all that is beautiful.
I love out loud! If me and everyone I know is going to die anytime soon, I want every experience to be the best, as it might be my last! I don't waste one moment being annoyed or stupidly pissed off. I smile. I say hello to strangers, and welcome a connection or conversation. I hug my son lots and tell him I love him often. I do the same with my family and friends. Never miss a chance to visit with them or exchange good words. I've dispensed with protocol and welcome good people into my life with abandon. I take the chance that I may be embarrassed by telling someone how I feel about them. I love you all and send you blessings daily. By name. I breathe Sacred Love and know you can feel it. (Didn't think I cared that much for you? Don't kid yourselves. You guys ROCK!)
I do not provide my precious energy to things that either draw me into darkness, or make me feel icky. I think about the oil that is infecting our waters, and know that I have let my own life force become infected with black icky shit for many years. It may still exist, but it will not infect my life force energy any longer.
If I live like this for 3 more months, that's fine. If I live like this for 50 or 70 or 100 more years, well that's just fine too. :)
Much love to each and every one of you!
Kathy
Amen Sister! You've summed it up really well (I LOVE YOU TOO!) Did I just shout that, why YES I did!
This was in email from Mike Dooley's site this morning and it seems appropriate to add.
On the very bright side, Rev. Kristyne, never in peace time history has there been such a gallant effort, by so many people, spending so many billions of dollars with no end in sight, to rapidly clean up your environment.
Never before have numerous heads of state and representatives of a corporation as large as many smaller nations, pledged to work together, sharing expertise and resources to get a job done.
Never before have so many prayer and meditation groups suddenly formed, amongst and in between every religion and those belonging to none, to foster healing of your precious planet.
Never before have finger pointers, conspiracy theorists, and blame mongers been so idle and unnecessary in the face of such a tragedy.
Never before have industry titans across every sea chosen to reexamine their own safety procedures, revisit their own environmental safeguards, and expend their own fortunes to voluntarily reflect upon and demand that they do an even better job from this day forward.
And to top it all off, your planet has a loving, brilliant consciousness all her own, and of her countless balancing acts, healing herself is one in which she truly shines.
Of this, and so much more, you can be very, very proud.
Yee-haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
The Universe
Little can ease the suffering or stem the pain over lives lost and careers halted, Rev. Kristyne, but human nature is every bit as resilient and courageous as mother Earth, and we are simply awed by what we see unfolding from here. All hail... before humankind.
We're in this together... Thoughts become things... choose the good ones! ®© www.tut.com ®
Thank you! I LOVE YOU TOO!
HUGS!
fairyfarmgirl
I hope we can stop punishing ourselves soon. The leak feels like that to me. It resulted from a few decisions to ignore safety and ecological concerns(we demanded they do this for low prices).
The financial collapse resulted from decisions to not resist lawmakers weakening financial laws from the Depression. We still aren't caring if they are restored.
The brutal murdering invasions we are prosecuting we allowed because we didn't want to be bothered with protesting them.
The Earth atmosphere warming is because we didn't want to be bothered to live frugally and we wanted more possessions and more property and less satisfaction and less realness and connection with others.
The health crisis and climbing cancer rates are because we didn't want to be bothered to protect land and waters and the air and so we don't protect our own bodies now either.
I'm sort of surprised it's taken this long to finally start the really obvious self-punishments. People with the perspective of living in another country can't understand why we allow so much bad to happen to ourselves. Is it complicated? Really? Are we victims or do we cause these things to occur?
Or maybe I'm just cranky and not wanting to see what I've done myself, saying "we" when I meant me. Actually, forget the maybe. That's accurate. Sorry to be such a clown. K's post deserves better.
Hey Brian!
Just remember that we have the power to release our past, make it right, and be free.
I'll go all Biblical on you for a second (because I truly believe this quote)...
"If you forgive the sins of any, their sins have been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been retained."
To me, that means that so long as you don't forgive yourself, you just tie youself up in it. Once you truly forgive, you're completely free. I also believe that it's hardest to forgive ourselves. You can distance yourself from people you are angry with, but you really can't do that to yourself. (Just a note... I can easily replace all these "you"s with "I"s and be right on the mark.)
I'm really trying to get over the fact that even though I really feel connected and love of the Earth, I am still short sighted, lazy, selfish, etc... and treat her like shit. What's with that? How can I stop it? And who or what am I waiting for to help me stop? It's been very tough to forgive that, and make it right. I also know that the forgiveness is one of the keys to stopping that leak.
I'll keep working it. :) I hope you do, too.
Lots of love,
Kathy
I do not have the Answers! I do know though that I feel freed from the bondage of shame when I partipate in shrinking my footprint.
I follow the RRRC... Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Compost. I do not bag my "trash" which consists of 3/4 of a 13 gallon trash can a week for a family of 5.
I compost all paper that is not chlorinated and all flora scraps...
I always use reusable shopping bags. Today when i got my groceries the bagger started bagging my groceries in plastic and I asked him to use my reuseable bags... he was rather put out by my request... So I simply unbagged my groceries and rebagged them with reuseable bags. I made a joke about a floating island of plastic bags being a great vacation spot. Everyone laughed and then someone said... "Whoa wait a minute did you say a floating Island of Trash?" And I replied, yes. "A Great Destination coming near you if you continue to use plastic. You know it is not recycleable even though they say it is... all they do is send the plastic bags to China who then dump them in the ocean... because it changes hands it is considered 'recycling.'"
By the time I had finish saying all that I had my own groceries bagged and placed in the cart and on my way with the 2 kids in tow. It was a bit of a lesson.
I believe that it is only through Education and more Education and then removing the options that are not in harmony with the Earth that we will turn this boat around and begin to HEAL ourselves and the EARTH.
All HEALING begins with 1 step. The 1 step is to identify an area for improvement and begin to make improvements. To try to improve everything in everyway is defeating... it feels to insurmountable and leads to disillusionment. Begin with 1 Step. I chose RRRC and Unity Consciousness both begin with Me and then effect all that is around me.
The question of the moment is "What else is possible?" The universe will answer in ways that will enhance your life in ways you have yet to imagine. The time to begin is ever this moment... which ever moment you are in.
Love--
fairyfarmgirl
Kathy- you always seem to say something I really need to hear at just the right instant. I am going into a period of re-adjustment of my circumstances and it's so easy to become frightened or depressed about things that are happening. I just really needed to hear that...
FFGirl-I'm proud of you for your dedication and that you have such a reasonable approach as to say you can't do everything. I have been spinning my wheels thinking I SHOULD do more (should is a scary word ain't it?). Very freeing-your approach. Of course you're actually DOING a lot more than me and maybe most so you've earned your peace of mind too-good job girl!
I ran the AV for Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell's talk about sustainability last night here in Durham. I got to meet him and tell him that he has been a great hero of my mine. He was embarrassed I think but it just spilled out of me! Although the first 2/3's of the talk was accounting for all the harm we're doing to the Earth, he left me feeling we can do it! He felt we have about one decade left to change our ways. His calm reassurance we can now change to alternative energy was very inspiring and I saw we really can turn it around if we act fast.
He was asked about aliens: Yes they've been visiting for maybe hundreds of years and they appear to be many species and come in two categories-those who want to help us and those who are just observing. He grew up in or near Roswell. After he walked on the moon (!) all the old timers in Roswell started coming to him to tell about what they witnessed of the crash, coverup, and aftermath. They'd been sworn to secrecy on pain of DEATH to themselves and their families but they just had to tell somebody before they died and he was a lightning rod for their confessions. He also went to the Pentagon with Steven Greer and addressed the Joints Chiefs and I think he said they were essentially snubbed. The officers chickened out from telling the truth.
He also said we are on the cusp of a breakthrough to attaining Zero Point energy. He felt confident it would be proven in this decade and spoke about it as a certainty.
I didn't know that he did telepathy experiments from space to Earth in his free time on Apollo 14 (unofficially and it was successful too). He also mentioned the famous epiphany he had in space. As he put it, he looked at the distant Earth and the billions of stars surrounding him and he just felt the intelligence of the Universe come over him. As a result, he created The Institute of Noetic Sciences in CA. to try to understand what the hell is going on. Dean Radin, probably the best psi researcher in the world works there too.
Gone on a little bit here but it was such a wonderful experience for me that I will always remember. I'm still high. I know now we can do it! But his parting shot was to say that sustainablilty isn't a spectator sport.
What a cool experience, Brian! I'm glad you chose to "love out loud", and tell Mr Mitchell how much you admire him! (Don't we waste so much energy trying to play it cool? :) And seriously, you know you made his night with just that single act of honesty!)
It's interesting to watch the huge rift that's happening as we recognize that we are living unsustainably, and also continue to live as we do. (How's the sales of that iPhone 4 going? How many of the people that bought it already had a functional iPhone 3?) Sustainability is definitely not a spectator sport! By definition, it can't be.
In the same way I was very much heartened by the video clips that Chris posted here last week on Steven Greer (gosh, I think that's who it was... lol... and I watched every part and still can't remember who the two gentlemen were). Anyway... I'm also heartened to hear the Edwin Mitchell feels that we're close to Zero Point Energy adoption. Yay!
I've often tried to think through what it would be like for the world with completely free energy for everyone. I've envisioned abundant food, and clean water and air. It seems to, on its own, make the need for money less important. I might have to put that in a new post. I'd love to know how people envision things for our future. :)
Lots of love,
Kathy
Hi Kathy, that vision you are alluding to in your last paragraph is spelled out in detail at http://www.thevenusproject.com and is called a resource-based economy. One of the more interesting results of such an economy is the naturally lowering of crime since there is no built in fear of loss or scarcity mechanism in the construct, therefore no sense of needing to steal anything.
To date I have yet to own a cell phone, but that is more of a personal experiment to see if I can do without one. So far so good... And Edgar Mitchell was one of my first eye-opening experiences during my initial mind and consciousness expanding learning curve a few years ago. And Dean Radin is on the Down the Rabbit Hole DVD by What the Bleep... So much good stuff there, like Dr. William Tiller and many others...
Here's Dr. Steven Greer and Dr. Ted Loder again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwuLwZSgacE
http://sbeckow.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/steve-greer-and-ted-loder-on-free-energy-technology-part-16
Thanks for the update, Chris! I loved that interview with Greer / Loder! Of course it generated more questions than answers regarding the leak... but really interesting stuff, regardless. And what possibilities - even if there is no government backing. The groundswell of desire to have this technology finally uncovered will HAVE TO win out. No doubt.
I was talking with a friend of mine this weekend about this very thing (Venus project). (I laugh at how often we talk about things here, then I have the opportunity to talk with someone on the very same subject within just a few days.) In a resource based society, I wonder what I'd have to trade. What thing could I give you that would be worth, say... tonight's dinner? I just don't know. That's where I get tripped up with resource based. And I would totally love for that to happen, but I just don't know how to work it, personally. I could weed your garden, and tell you what plants to plant... do a decent Reiki session... give you a few of my gazillion books on spiritual matters... lol. I know that's where we're going, and I want to be ready when we get there... just not sure how to do that yet.
Lots of love, and many blessings,
Kathy
We have so long been "habituated" in this scarcity-inducing profit-based economic model that you may be unable at present to imagine all the possibilities. First of all, we are so well trained in this system that we take scarcity for granted, as if it were a natural part of our lives.
Scarcity and planned obsolescence are strategic parts of the present model and they, like so many other aspects of this very unnatural socio-economic model, cloud and dim our ability to imagine something different, more liberating and equitable.
My hopefulness has waned too lately, but I am trying to just let that be just another experience and keep an open mind. I get to feeling like I am getting too old for this shit, especially when I see things becoming so polarized that it begins to look like a black comedy. The layers of absurdity, well, you know what they say about truth being stranger than fiction. And then to realize that what we might call truth is just more of the same from a somewhat insane collective imagination.
The good news about that is that it means we make our own truth constantly, and therefore have the inherent constant ability to change it. That means that my giving in to feelings of despair is a choice too. And it is always good to remember that there truly is no such thing as right and wrong, which means we can stop beating ourselves up with self loathing and reclaim our power to think and be differently, regardless of what our take on all of this is at present....
God we have been fed a crock of lies, but we are not victims of those lies we willingly chose to adopt, to call our own for a "spell"..... A friend of mine and I were discussing something along these lines the other day and he asked me, "is that a bad thing?". Instantly my mind went to all my adopted determinations about what I had been taught about right and wrong. I quickly exhausted all of those bogus determinations and judgments and was left with a very clear and liberated feeling. I could not come up with anything I felt to be truly authentic or legitimate, just a bunch of culture-based determinations.
Funny thing is, being relieved of all that nonsense did not make me want to go kill someone or steal something, or anything negative feeling because there is still that inward desire not to get too entangled in karma type cause and effect stuff. I have enough of that crowding my brain and heart already, LOL
It sounds like you're struggling not to get cynical Chris. I've been there and lost that battle and won that battle multiple times. I get so disgusted with the polarity and I pray just to remember not to take it too seriously. You've seen me when I do. Sometimes it's just the gentle voice of my sister or my Mom or my son who help me keep perspective and humor about the nonsense. One time I was kvetching to my mother about some awful thing and she just said "Well, stop thinking about it!" it was so simple and she was so right. I know the slings and arrows come hard and fast especially to people who are sensitive and who don't harden their hearts too much. I really have appreciated your calm voice more than once Chris, so please keep your perspective on the crud that's bugging you and share your frustrations here-I certainly will relate.
Hey Kathy,
The really interesting thing is that we would get to redefine what is of value to us........the old saying I have heard many times before.....how much does a "house wife" get payed....at the moment...zip...nada...and thier work is not valued as highly because there is no high dollar value associated with it.....although these days there is here...child care costs a fortune, is a huge business!.....
....jobs we do not acknowledge today would become "real" work and you won't need to prove yourself to an "employer" or anyone, ........you could be a poet or a painter.......or any of the creative things that don't "pay" today unless you are exceptional or determined to "sacrifice" to get there...and you will be supported by your community to follow your heart/passion....you could earn your place in the community and you would not necessarily have to do anything for anyone....you could just be yourself exploring your own creativity and still contirbute to the whole....it's not an "I have this much" thing, a quantifiable and reactive thing as you described...ie what can I "do" for "this" meal.....it only works if we smash the whole tit for tat mentality.....it works when we share freely and openly, acknowledging all paths as equal.....
L
Jez