Friday, February 29, 2008

CHILDREN'S DREAM RESEARCH BY KAREN

Children's Dream Research

This study focuses on children's dreaming and how they make sense of what they are doing or experiencing while sleeping. I have long wanted to give young children and their parents a resource to help children stay connected with their dream life as they grow.

My research approach is to listen to how children themselves talk about what happens while they sleep. When I talk with kids, I rarely use the word "dream" because that assumes a particular way of thinking about what they are doing or experiencing while asleep. I want to hear what kids think.

Ages Included in the Study:
Children from ages 3 to 9 or as soon as your child is capable of talking about what she or he experiences while asleep. They do not have to already be talking with you about dreams to be included in the study.
Adults who had an active dream life or remember compelling dreams as a child.


Interviews:
If you live in the Denver area, I can meet with you and your child in-person. If you live outside this area, I will give you guidelines for interviewing your child.


If you are interested in including your child in this study, please contact me
303-942-0646 (MST - Colorado)

email karen@backyardhippo.com

I will contact you with additional information (e.g., consent forms).

Karen

Learn about my background in dreaming. Go to http://backyardhippo.com/id62.html

JUKEBOX -- JUST FOR FUN!!!!

Subject: Jukebox

This a Jukebox; but it is no ordinary jukebox. It will play all of your favorite songs from 1950 through 1982. Each year has a scroll or drop down box that shows all the great songs for that year. Most years have over 40 songs. There is even a section at the bottom that allows you to listen to show tunes, TV show themes, Doo Wop and several others This is pretty neat....and it is free. Read the rest of this and then click on the site at the bottom.

Once you click on a song it will play and when it finishes it automatically plays the next song in the list and continues until it has played all the songs. This is really cool!!!

It has a volume control which you should use in conjunction with your computers volume control. One of the best features is that it will play in the background. That means you can be doing other computer work on a different screen.

Pick and play any popular song from 1952 through 1982 or go to the specialty areas. You can't miss them. They are listed in very bright colors.

http://www.tropicalglen.com/

MERCY

The Bridge ~ Step 112 ~ Mercy

Who among you would deny mercy unto yourself?

As many of you know, Lee Ching helped us create The Intenders. What you may not know is that he is the archetype of mercy, the male counterpart to Kuan Yin who is the archetype of compassion. We thought you'd like to hear this very special story about him.

This man was the commander-in-chief of vast armies in a time which has long been forgotten in our current reckoning of history. He was both respected and feared as one of the most powerful men in the realm. At the time our tale begins, two great civilizations known as Atlantis and Lemuria had been involved in a series of wars for centuries, and, despite all efforts to bring peace to the land, no one of integrity had stepped forward to speak out on behalf of the true good of the people. The world situation was at a stalemate; a cycle of decadence and darkness prevailed.

Envision, if you will, a setting late one autumn afternoon toward the end of a particularly bloody battle in a valley that was strewn with bodies of brave men and women. With no sign of either side looking to retreat, the carnage continued unabated. The commander of the Lemurian army had fought relentlessly all day alongside his fellow soldiers and his sword was covered with the blood and sinew of fallen enemies. Though weary and wounded, he battled on, willing to fight until the last man was left standing or he himself was killed.

At a certain moment, with the twilight fast approaching, he found himself in a furious struggle with a very strong, courageous opponent. After almost 20 minutes of toe-to-toe combat against this formidable warrior, the Lemurian commander swung his mighty sword at his rival and connected. The brave man fell on his back, his helmet and sword flew to the ground beside him. Just as the great commander readied to run his sword through the defenseless man's chest, he paused for an instant to look into the face of his enemy. The soldier was just a boy - no more than 17 or 18 years of age - whose body had matured rapidly considering its years. The young man's eyes were filled with a terror beyond imagination; he knew that he was about to die.

Suddenly, as often happens when one is pushed to the limits of strength and endurance, the great commander's perception shifted. With his sword held high in the air, he glanced out of the corner of his eye at the bloody battle that raged around him. Arms and legs flailed in a strange slow motion-like dance, nearby shouts and screams seemed to come from far off in the distance. His entire awareness changed as a new power rippled through his body. He felt expanded into something much greater than he was just moments before. In that same instant, his knowledge increased dramatically - the future and past revealed themselves in one momentous flash. He looked down at the boy laying at his feet and saw into the depths of his young opponent's soul. This boy didn't want to die. He longed to be safe and warm in the comforts of his own home with his loved ones and family. He dreamt of once again running through the fields with the beautiful fiancée he left behind when he went off to war.

The great commander then saw of a part of himself in the young man's eyes; he saw a part of himself in everything around him. A feeling of deep compassion, such as he had never known before, overcame him. He knew he could not move to kill the helpless boy because, in doing so, he would only be killing himself. He dropped his sword to the ground and walked away from the battle to the top of a nearby hill.

What happened next was told and retold, passed on from generation to generation for thousands of years. There, as darkness shrouded the land, he fell to his knees, vowing never to harm or kill again. . . and in that moment, he was enlightened. Immediately, the soldiers in the valley below stopped their fighting and looked to the glow on the hill. Ten thousand people witnessed the light as it became brighter and brighter and broke free from its connection with the Earth. The great commander slowly ascended to perhaps 300 feet above the hill and then gently floated to a point directly over the center of the battlefield. Some said that he hovered there for only a short time, while others reported that it seemed like hours. However long it was, all of those present were bathed and purified in the crystal bluewhite radiance that gently showered down on them from above. None who were there that evening would ever go forth to fight again. Mercy and a new respect for one's fellow man were reborn within the human experience.

In time, the hovering white light began to fade and an outline of the commander's body took shape again. He settled slowly to the Earth and beckoned the soldiers to step back and give him room. Directly, he approached the boy who had fallen defenseless beneath his sword earlier and held out his arms. The two embraced like long-lost brothers, and when they finally pulled apart, the great commander bid the boy to go home to his family and fiancée and live his life in peace.

As the story goes, all of the soldiers on both sides left their weapons laying on the ground that night and sat around campfires together in silence. The next morning they began their return home to their families, carrying with them the story of what had happened the day before. Word quickly spread far and wide of a new Savior who walked the land. The great commander had become a Christed Being, a warrior for the light, and, from that point on, everywhere he went people were transformed, as if by magic, into fulfilled, joyful human beings. The series of wars that had lasted for centuries came to a sudden halt. Atlantis and Lemuria flourished once again as they had before the senseless wars had started.

It would be another13,000 years before mankind forgot about the power of mercy and the example that was set that night by the great commander. These two magnificent cultures and all of their wondrous architectural and scientific achievements would one day be washed beneath the ocean waves into the sea and lost forever. But that is not the end of our tale.

The great commander/Savior's teachings, after being forgotten for lifetimes upon lifetimes, are now returning to the people of the Earth. His messages are heard in quiet moments in the minds of those who call forth the return of mercy. More and more people each day are choosing to lay down their swords and set aside their control issues in favor of peace. More and more are urging their national leaders to stop bullying one another and take a stance for the highest interests of all mankind. We are beginning to understand that acts of compassion and mercy inherently vanquish fear and return us to safety and comfort. We are moving toward a better world.

Furthermore, it is now being heralded, in obscure writings here and there, that the great ascended commander himself will return one day in the near future to walk again among the people and show them the magnificent rewards that come to the merciful. Indeed, among the scribes who announce his return, there is one man who has faint memories - visions - of a lifetime long past when he lay, defeated and helpless, on his back with a great warrior standing over him, sword raised and ready to strike. And sometimes, in rare moments of even deeper contemplation, he remembers a pact made between his soul and the soul of the great commander. Their agreement was to come to Earth in times of unrelenting darkness and play out the roles of courageous rivals so that this message about the power of mercy could be given unto you.
From The Highest Light Teachings



My Intention for today is:
I Intend that I am withdrawing the sword, and I am allowing others to go free without any further persecution or judgment on my part.


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SAVE THE POLAR BEARS BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!!!!

If we don't act now to get the polar bear on the Endangered Species List and combat global warming, they could be gone in our lifetime - please donate today.

Dear Sherrie,

A month ago you signed a petition to Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne, telling him that we must act immediately if we want to save the polar bear from future extinction by including it on the Endangered Species List.

Well, 51 days have passed since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service missed its final deadline for deciding whether to include the bear, and this delay has allowed just enough time for oil companies to bid on rights to drill in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea where an estimated one-tenth of the world’s remaining polar bears live. And because there is no proven method for cleaning up oil in the Arctic’s broken sea ice, an oil spill in this area would be catastrophic for the bears.

Last week we sent a letter to the U.S. Department of the Interior along with our fellow environmental organizations demanding an investigation into the delay - but the Administration has yet to comment or provide even a reasonable explanation for the setback. That’s why we are asking our Sierra Club members and supporters to donate today and send a message to the Administration that if they are serious about protecting the polar bear, it’s time to include it on the Endangered Species List - right now!

Polar bears would be listed today if it weren’t for powerful special interests fighting the decision at every step. If we don’t act now to get the polar bear onto the Endangered Species List and get serious about combating global warming, America’s polar bears could be gone in our lifetime.

There is simply no time to lose. We need your support to get the polar bear on the endangered species list right now, so that the oil companies will be forced to clear more hurdles before drilling in this sensitive area. Please donate today and help us get the polar bear listed before it's too late.

And we cannot sit back and wait until the ice sheets melt and the last polar bear drowns before we address the devastating impacts that global warming has had on the polar bear. With your support we can provide a future for this magnificent animal - please donate today.

Sincerely,


Carl Pope
Executive Director

P.S. Please help save the polar bear by supporting the Sierra Club, and our work to protect our wildlife and wildlands, keep our air and water clean, and solve global warming.


Sierra Club
85 Second Street, 2nd Fl.
San Francisco, CA 94105
membership.services@sierraclub.org
(415) 977-5653
http://www.sierraclub.org/

A MOTHER/DAUGHTER EVENT THIS SUNDAY!!!

An enlightening and heartwarming experience awaits you
this Sunday...

"IT'S WHAT'S INSIDE THAT COUNTS!"
Self-Esteem Workshop for Women & Girls
Presented by Model, Actress & Author Debra Gano

Learn to love who YOU really are!

WHEN: Sunday, March 2, 1:00 to 3:00 PM
WHERE: For Heaven's Sake/New Age Inc.
4383 Tennyson Street | Denver | CO | 80212

Join international model, actress and author Debra Gano in this empowering and interactive workshop for women and girls as she brings her experience in the glamour industry to teach self-esteem principles "from the inside out." Debra will address the challenges faced today due to pressure from peers and the media, stressing the importance of inner beauty with the message, "It's what's inside that counts!" Learn to overcome your negative self-talk and the need for external approval, and instead move into positive self-love and acceptance, allowing you to see your true worth. Debra's book, Beauty's Secret, Book 1 in the Heartlight Girls Series, empowers girls of all ages by teaching them to connect with the strength, beauty and light within their hearts. For more information, please visit www.HeartlightGirls.com. Be sure to check out Debra's video!

A fun mother/daughter event! Bring your girlfriends!

COST: $15 Adults/$10 Girls (Ages 7-17). Call to reserve your seat (303) 964-9339!
For directions and more information, please visit www.forheavensake.com.

Look what they're saying about Beauty's Secret!

"Healthy self-esteem comes from knowing who you truly are. Beauty's Secret brings us this awareness. It's a book every girl should read!"
JACK CANFIELD, coauthor Chicken Soup for the Soul series

"One of our most urgent needs is to awaken in girls an awareness of their essential, soulful beauty. This lovely book does that.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON, author A Return to Love

"Beauty's Secret is a simple tale with a profound message containing deep spiritual truth - a truth that I hope every young girl - and every human being - embraces."
NEALE DONALD WALSCH, author Conversations with God

"A modern-day fairy tale with a much-needed message all girls, even the grown up ones, need to hear!"
MARILYN VAN DERBUR, former Miss America and author Miss America by Day

"Finally, a healthy message for girls! It will set an important foundation for life."
NICKY MARONE, CEO Smart-Girl, Inc. and author How to Mother a Successful Daughter


Book signing to follow workshop from 3:00-4:00 P.M.

Please forward this to anyone you feel appropriate. Thank you!

Thursday, February 28, 2008

HEALING TECHNIQUE

From: tellthetruth28@yahoo.com
Subject: Healing Technique

Hi Kids,

Thought you might enjoy receiving the blessings of doing this cleaning and clearing technique.

Read and scroll down and watch this 15 minute video. My friend Joe is explaining how to do Ho'Oponopono (pronounced ho-oh-po-no-pono.)

http://attractingyourgoals.com/joe-vitale-speech-in-maui/

Start your cleaning and clearing session by first feeling the feeling of love and gratitude for what you have. This is very important so you are in the appropriate vibration before you start. When you are in the vibration of love and honest gratitude, you are co-creating with the Creator Of All That Is. That is essential to making this work.

Remember to accept complete responsibility for anything and everything that's shown up in your life. Just start working somewhere and watch how your life changes.

I had heard about Ho'oponono last year sometime, but never used it because I didn't really understand HOW to use it. Since Joe's new video, this is amazing. I've been doing this two days. Yesterday I went out to 4 local businesses and offered my booklet, CD and podcast marketing services to them ON A COLD CALL and 2 men said YES! IT was AMAZING! That's a 50% rate of success...within 2 hours of each other.

I felt like I was being prompted from somewhere to say what I was saying. Somehow, I knew EXACTLY what to say to these 2 men and they ATE UP what I had to offer. I am going to be working with them within the next couple of weeks.

Additionally, I have experienced some physical healing, too. Here, when I thought we were about ready to file for bankruptcy, this amazing thing happened. God truly provides.

So, here are a couple more links that further clarify how to do this:

http://www.attractingyourgoals.com/how-and-when-to-use-hooponopono/

http://www.attractingyourgoals.com/index.php?tag=mantra

Here are the words I say after I'm in the feeling state of love and gratitude.

Creator of All That Is,
Whatever I've done to cause (describe undesired situation)
I'm sorry.
Please forgive me.
Thank you.
I love you.

Additionally, I also do something else. I thank The Creator Of All That Is for what I have. I feel the feeling of love, appreciation and gratitude and simply say thanks for the experience and I love you. I say it to the Creator Of All That Is and to the people with whom I've experienced the experience. Even I thanked Ralph for mistreating me during my first marriage. I felt a really strong release. Sometimes as you do this you'll cry but you'll FEEL so much better and much lighter!

I know I have no power but when I do the cleaning and clearing session, I feel like I'm using The Creator Of All That Is's power of creation. After all, that's what I'm doing. When I move forward I'm creating instead of acting egotistical. Remember, we create all pain and suffering by acting selfish, fearful, scared, anxious, dominating, controlling, greedy, all that egotistical thought form stuff. So, this cleans and clears all that out of the way of our natural prosperity into which we were naturally born. This is really cool!

I know that I'm improving what's happened and that things are turning around quickly now. Amazing stuff. Rig, you can do it with your asthma. Just talk to your body, accept full responsiblity for creating the ego-asthma and apologize for creating it using the mantra.

Yesterday I did this on a friend who felt deep bruises from an injury. Within minutes she was feeling better. Still a little work to do, but now she is physically feeling much better. You can use this to repair relationships you never thought you could repair. It's cool, stuff.

Happy Saturday!

Enjoy!

Love,
You Know Who



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A NEW EARTH AWAKENING -- SIGN UP

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Oprah is having her free, 10-week course called, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose on Monday, March 3, 2008 starting at 9:00 EST. I have this book and it is excellent! Eckhart Tolle is a great spiritual teacher and author (his best-selling book, The Power of Now is also outstanding) and both Eckhart and Oprah will be teaching this course. The consciousness of humanity is accelerating exponentially and what a perfect time for this book and course to be offered to assist in this awakening!

If you are interested, you'll need to sign up on Oprah's site to become a member, enroll in the class as well as download the media player software so you can participate.


Many Blessings,
Chyrene Pendleton
The Isle Of Light
The Isle Of Light Radio Talk Show
Prosperity is a State of Mind

"Get ready to be awakened! Oprah and Eckart Tolle will teach an exclusive online class on his best-selling book, A New Earth. Beginning Monday, March 3, join us every Monday for 10 weeks."
http://www2.oprah.com/index.jhtml

FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!

Dear Sherrie,

Yesterday, Ed G. Perlmutter made renewable energy history by voting for important energy tax incentives. The bill that passed in the House* will take billions of dollars in tax handouts away from oil and gas companies and invest them in low-carbon energy industries such as wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal. It also extends consumer tax credits, making it easier and cheaper for you to make your home more energy efficient or to purchase a hybrid vehicle.

Please help us keep Congress on track by sending a quick email to say thanks -- and to encourage Ed G. Perlmutter to keep voting for a clean energy future that creates hundreds of thousands of new jobs at home while also helping us fight global warming.

This is our chance to make real progress in putting America on the path to energy independence. Let's keep the momentum going!

Sincerely,



Carl Pope
Executive Director


* H.R. 5351, the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008, passed in the House with a vote of 236-182.

WHOLE HEALTH EXPO BENEFIT - March 29, 2008

Don't Miss Out...
The Whole Health Expo Benefit
Lisa Temple, OMD and the Spiritual Women's Network presents:

The Whole Health Expo Benefit

Saturday March 29, 2008 - 11:00-5:00

Boulder Elk's Club

3975 28th Street

Boulder, CO 80301


Come and experience hands on healing. Reiki, reflexology, massage, acupuncture, breath work, craniosacral, Rolfing, organic cosmetics, and so much more. Meet Boulder's alternative medical community in person. Artists, jewelers, musicians, readers, face painters, cutting edge nutritional products, and latest in energetic technology. This is a meeting of the clans! All are welcome. Children 12 and under, seniors 65 and older come free. We will be serving delicious, organic, vegetarian, gourmet food and having raffle drawings on the hour. Goody bags to first 250 attendees filled with marvelous samples and giveaways from Boulder's progressive, alternative community. We expect people from all over the state as we are advertising state wide.

This event is a benefit which will aid children and mother's in Tibet where 1 in 5 babies dies in childbirth. Go to Friends of www.surmang.org to learn more about this wonderful organization. We will also be donating to SRF, a world wide organization promoting peace through prayer and heightened consciousness.

Booths are still available!

Please inquire about volunteer opportunities. We have a growing team
of wonderful volunteers working for a higher purpose and having fun!

Please go to http://womenspiritnet.googlepages.com/
for registration forms, and more information.

Inquire about the March 7 Women's Spiritual Network luncheon. Mention this ad for a complimentary 20 minute acupuncture facial rejuvenation, an essential oil reflexology session or an herbal diagnosis. Get 20% off a Chakra Balancing or Women's Health Class

by reserving before March 31, 2008

Call 303-530-1833



This EventsList is a service providing current information on local events to people requesting this service. These events are not necessarily sponsored or endorsed by The Healing Path magazine, so for more info about this event be sure to contact the event contact person listed above.

Donna Visocky www.healingpath.com

The Healing Path magazine, 970-493-0206

GO TO SIMPLETRUTHS FOR A SPECIAL DEAL!!!

Dear sherrie,

William James, one of the founders of modern psychology, said, "The greatest discovery of this generation is that a human being can alter their life by altering their attitude." I believe this with all my heart, and over the years have seen it happen countless times. What most people fail to realize is that your attitude not only impacts your happiness and your success, it also can impact the happiness and success of all the people around you...your family, your friends, and your peers at work. Attitudes truly are contagious, and from time to time we need to ask ourselves..."is mine worth catching?"

My book, The Power of Attitude, is about how to maintain a positive attitude in business and life. Here’s the chapter titled: Know Thyself. Enjoy!

Also, I’m pleased to offer a one-time special of $10.00 for The Power of Attitude, including our free 3 minute DVD. Regular price is $15.95, a savings of over 35% (offer expires on March 6, 2008 at 12:01 am CST).

Live with passion,

Mac Anderson
Founder, Simple Truths

Know Thyself
(an excerpt from The Power of Attitude by Mac Anderson)

You have to be, before you do, to have lasting inner peace. In other words, making a living is not the same as making a life. Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.

Many people work all their lives and dislike what they do for a living. In fact, I was astounded to see a recent USA Today survey that said fifty-three percent of people in the American workplace are unhappy with their jobs. Loving what you do is one of the most important keys to maintaining a positive attitude. You can’t fake passion. It is the fuel that drives any dream and makes you happy to be alive. However, to love what you do, the first step is to self-analyze, to simply know what you love. We all have unique talents and interests, and one of life’s greatest challenges is to match these talents with career opportunities that bring out the best in us. It’s not easy – and sometimes we can only find it through trial and error – but it’s worth the effort.

Ray Kroc, for example, found his passion when he founded McDonalds at the age of 52. He never “worked” another day in his life.

John James Audubon was unsuccessful for most of his life. He was a terrible businessman. No matter how many times he changed locations, changed partners, or changed businesses, he still failed miserably.

Not until he understood that he must change himself did he have any shot at success.

And what changes did Audubon make? He followed his passion. He always had loved the outdoors and was an excellent hunter. In addition, he was a good artist and as a hobby would draw local birds.

Once he stopped trying to be a businessman and started doing what he loved to do, his life turned around. He traveled the country observing and drawing birds, and his art ultimately was collected in a book titled, Audubon’s Birds of America. The book earned him a place in history as the greatest wildlife artist ever. But more importantly, the work made him happy and provided the peace of mind he’d been seeking all his life.

How do you find your purpose in life? There are no easy answers, but here are two practical tips that can help:

Discover Your Gifts – We’re all unique and each of us has our own special gifts. Make a list of what you consider your strengths and your weaknesses. Next, don’t just assume your assumptions are correct. Get feedback from what Ken Blanchard calls “trusted truth-tellers” – friends and family members who won’t just tell you what you want to hear but who will share their true opinions. With their help you can get a realistic perspective of your gifts.
Discover What Moves You – Find your passion and strive to live your life around it. Make your list. Do your homework. There is this caution, however...have patience. Your purpose in life probably won’t surface overnight, but like love, it will find you when you least expect it.
Finding your reason for being brings a positive attitude that can be unstoppable.

.

Simple Truths, LLC., 1952 McDowell Road, Ste. 205, Naperville, IL 60563, USA
Email: info@simpletruths.com Phone: 800-900-3427 / 630-946-1460

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

THE LAW OF ATTRACTION EXPLAINED

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Can't Sleep? Cell phone radiation could ruin your bedtime

Can't Sleep? Cell Phone Radiation Could Ruin Your Bedtime
By Geoffrey Lean, The Independent. Posted January 23, 2008.

Phone makers' own scientists discover that bedtime use can lead to headaches, confusion and depression.

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Radiation from mobile phones delays and reduces sleep, and causes headaches and confusion, according to a new study.

The research, sponsored by the mobile phone companies themselves, shows that using the handsets before bed causes people to take longer to reach the deeper stages of sleep and to spend less time in them, interfering with the body's ability to repair damage suffered during the day.

The findings are especially alarming for children and teenagers, most of whom -- surveys suggest -- use their phones late at night and who especially need sleep. Their failure to get enough can lead to mood and personality changes, ADHD-like symptoms, depression, lack of concentration and poor academic performance.

The study -- carried out by scientists from the blue-chip Karolinska Institute and Uppsala University in Sweden and from Wayne State University in Michigan, USA -- is thought to be the most comprehensive of its kind.

Published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium and funded by the Mobile Manufacturers Forum, representing the main handset companies, it has caused serious concern among top sleep experts, one of whom said that there was now "more than sufficient evidence" to show that the radiation "affects deep sleep".

The scientists studied 35 men and 36 women aged between 18 and 45. Some were exposed to radiation that exactly mimicked what is received when using mobile phones; others were placed in precisely the same conditions, but given only "sham" exposure, receiving no radiation at all.

The people who had received the radiation took longer to enter the first of the deeper stages of sleep, and spent less time in the deepest one. The scientists concluded: "The study indicates that during laboratory exposure to 884 MHz wireless signals components of sleep believed to be important for recovery from daily wear and tear are adversely affected."

The embarrassed Mobile Manufacturers Forum played down the results, insisting -- at apparent variance with this published conclusion -- that its "results were inconclusive" and that "the researchers did not claim that exposure caused sleep disturbance".

But Professor Bengt Arnetz, who led the study, says: "We did find an effect from mobile phones from exposure scenarios that were realistic. This suggests that they have measurable effects on the brain."

He believes that the radiation may activate the brain's stress system, "making people more alert and more focused, and decreasing their ability to wind down and fall asleep".

About half of the people studied believed themselves to be "electrosensitive", reporting symptoms such as headaches and impaired cognitive function from mobile phone use. But they proved to be unable to tell if they had been exposed to the radiation in the test.

This strengthens the conclusion of the study, as it disposes of any suggestion that knowledge of exposure influenced sleeping patterns. Even more significantly, it throws into doubt the relevance of studies the industry relies on to maintain that the radiation has no measurable effects.

A series of them -- most notably a recent highly publicised study at Essex University -- have similarly found that people claiming to be electrosensitive could not distinguish when the radiation was turned on in laboratory conditions, suggesting that they were not affected.

Critics have attacked the studies' methodology, but the new findings deal them a serious blow. For they show that the radiation did have an effect, even though people could not tell when they were exposed.

It also complements other recent research. A massive study, following 1,656 Belgian teenagers for a year, found most of them used their phones after going to bed. It concluded that those who did this once a week were more than three times -- and those who used them more often more than five times -- as likely to be "very tired".

Dr Chris Idzikowski, the director of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre, says: "There is now more than sufficient evidence, from a large number of reputable investigators who are finding that mobile phone exposure an hour before sleep adversely affects deep sleep."

Dr William Kohler of the Florida Sleep Institute added: "Anything that disrupts the integrity of your sleep will potentially have adverse consequences in functioning during the day, such as grouchiness, difficulty concentrating, and in children hyperactivity and behaviour problems."

David Schick, the chief executive of Exradia, which manufactures protective devices against the radiation, called on ministers to conduct "a formal public inquiry" into the effects of mobile phones.

CONFIRMATION

The Bridge ~ Step 111 ~ Confirmation

Prayer and fasting heals just about anything in a few short days


It's a strange predilection of mankind that we look for confirmation for our aliments. We look to see what happened to everybody else who has experienced similar symptoms to ours, and in doing so, we do ourselves a great disservice. What many people don't realize is that just because somebody else developed a chronic condition after showing similar symptoms to ours doesn't mean that we will do the same.

We are all dealing with toxic thoughts, substances, and experiences in our world that may or may not present us with short term aches, pains, bumps, zits, and so forth. It's a part of life nowadays. What we oftentimes forget is that a great many of the things we think we have "wrong" with us are only temporary. They'll go away by themselves in a short time if we leave them alone. Oh sure, sometimes we'll need to adjust our diet or our work habits for awhile, and that is natural.

But it's unnatural for us to look too deeply for confirmation for the causes for our aliments. In fact, we put ourselves in harm's way when we delve too deeply, parading every disease imaginable before us, in our quest to find out the cause of an ache or pain. We tend to make things chronic that would have only been temporary.

You see people do this all the time. They'll get a new bump somewhere on their body and begin to mull over all the reasons as to how it could possibly have gotten there. They'll check out magazines, talk to friends, and have doctors run test after test as they seach frantically to find out what happened to others who also had similar bumps. In order to validate their own theories (which are growing rapidly now), they'll even resort to looking for coincidences. For example, while walking through a popular coffee shop, they might notice a newspaper sitting on a table with an article in it that describes what happened to a person who had a similar bump - and lo and behold, they treat this as a confirmation for their own condition, and thus make it worse.

Fortunately, there are a couple of good antidotes for the toxicity in our world today. First, we can always remind ourself that we are creating whatever we put our attention on, and that when we dig too deeply in search of explanations for our aches and pains, we run the risk of bringing other possibilities into the picture that have nothing to do with our original situation. Instead, we can tell ourself that we are fine and that we do not choose to use our body to act out any sickness scenarios. According to the Law, as we envision ourselves being happy, healthy, and whole, that is what we will create.

And second, we can trust that whatever is bothering us is only temporary and will go away on it's own very soon. The shamans and medicine men of old knew that prayer and fasting healed almost everything in a few days. It could be that instead of spending our precious energy in search of confirmation for what ails us, we could stop eating or begin a Master Cleanse, retire into a quiet place where we can be alone for awhile, and ask God to help us.

Please understand that we are not saying there is anything wrong with going to a medical practitioner. If you believe that a doctor will help you, then, by all means, that is the route for you to follow. Likewise, if you have a broken bone or need a cut stitched up, then doctors are the experts and can be of great help. But when it comes to diagnosing sicknesses, it's a guessing game and we are still in the medical dark ages. It's easy to come out of a hospital or doctor's office nowadays feeling worse than when you went in. On the other hand, if you can bring yourself to believe in it, you have a just as good or better chance of getting rid of your health challenges through prayer and fasting than by all the remedies prescribed by the credentialed medical establishment. That's a universal fact.



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Dear Avaaz members,

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Good news from Pakistan -- opposition parties pledged to restore civilian democracy won the elections for which we campaigned.1 But outrageously, President Musharraf has hinted he may try to "get rid of" the new government if it challenges him.2 After imposing martial law last year and dismissing the judiciary to lock in his power, his survival in the presidency now rests on backing from Western powers like the US and the UK, along with Pakistan's army.

As the horse-trading begins, tensions are high -- and Musharraf has not yet convened Parliament. The Pakistani people have cast an undeniable vote for change and they must not be betrayed. Let's give them our own vote of global support with big advertisements in Pakistan's The News, a respected broadsheet read by politicians, ambassadors and generals alike, calling on all parties- the US and the UK in particular- to support not undermine the people's vote. We need to raise $10,632 for this -- so click here to view and endorse the ad, then please give a donation if you can:

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Already last year, over 83,000 of us called on the international community to condemn General Musharraf's crackdown and press for constitutional rule and free and fair elections. Avaaz campaigners delivered that message privately to high-level contacts in the US Congress and the British government, key supporters of the General who have since begun to shift. The election and polls suggest that 75% of the population want President Musharraf to go3 -- but the Bush administration and other elements are still propping him up.

This is a golden moment, in which Pakistan's voters have overcome widespread vote-rigging to set a course for civilian democracy. Now opposition leaders face the challenge of reinstating the free media and independent judiciary, undoing martial laws, and building the institutions and legitimacy that are essential for any lasting security in Pakistan.

Pakistan needs the international community to pledge greater help for this democratic effort, not to bully and meddle. So let's send a ringing global message to the leaders, generals and ambassadors now politicking in Islamabad, and make sure they don't bungle the transition that citizens of Pakistan, and of the world, demand. View the ad and give it your support at this link:

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With hope and determination,

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Sources:

1. Opposition victory in the elections over pro-Musharraf parties:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aLbEG4ZyRAZs&refer=home

Musharraf's radical extremist allies also defeated:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7255642.stm

2) Musharraf hinted to the Wall Street Journal that he may not go quietly - "The clash would be if the prime minister and president would be trying to get rid of each other" (he retains martial law powers to dismiss prime minister and parliament):
http://www.dawn.com/2008/02/21/top4.htm

Demands to convene Parliament:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5igw0xruZ7DAMq5QCsTxr3NpFMoug

3) Last polls before the election, showing at least 75% want Musharraf to go:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL48294.htm

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

FEBRUARY 26 UPDATE BY SHELDAN NIDLE

Update by Sheldan Nidle for the Spiritual Hierarchy and the Galactic Federation
10 Ik, 15 Zac, 3 Manik

Selamat Jarin! We return with more to tell you! The end of the month of Zac through the first part of the following month of Ceh is an important time in your history: Many things, both subtle and more overt, are scheduled to happen. Mother Earth is accelerating her preparations for a number of massive surface changes, which correspond with a series of measures that we have planned for this moment. The combination of the escalating economic chaos with the equally disturbing problems arising from your inability to curb your global pollution crises now demands swift action. Also, many plans have been put into motion by our Earth allies that warrant such actions, and our role is to ensure that these do indeed come into being. At present we are collaborating with them on these plans and firming up the back-up plans to support those who are on point and ready for the start of these activities. Further, our on-planet personnel are contacting those individuals whose participation in these plans is also deemed essential.

What we are talking about is a sequence of actions on the part of our Earth allies and us to make it possible for you to go to the next level of events that brings your planet to the brink of first contact. We cannot, of course, be more specific as a degree of obfuscation is still required. The dark has ears that are finely tuned to whatever we say on these vital subjects, and so we must remain somewhat vague in our messages to you. Nonetheless, know that a break in the current stalemate is being prepared for swift manifestation when agreed upon. In fact the early phases of this scenario are underway even as we speak. The success of these moves will determine what comes next. Our overall objective is to move your society toward first contact and, in so doing, to assist Heaven in her multifaceted plan to return you to full consciousness. This comprehensive modification of your reality is behind all that we have done to date and all that we are currently planning with our Earth allies. It is time this realm was moved into a more transitional stage in preparation for what the divine plan prophesies for you.

Full consciousness is something we have talked about at length with you. Heaven is now expanding upon the many changes that we described in our last message because your world needs to be awakened at a much swifter pace. On this front Heaven has encountered a few difficulties that she is now in the process of correcting. The resulting heightened level of consciousness has awakened some of your national populations to the rampant skullduggery, which has long been the modus operandi of the dark, and its many powerful earth minions. These dark ones are now being exposed, and the revelations are creating reverberations that the dark is finding increasingly hard to subdue. These tactical problems alerted the dark to the growing power and influence of the Light on your world, and the dark's reaction is to instigate measures to quell the advances of the Light. These include intensifying the mind-control methods of their worldwide psychic network and further tightening the daily global movement of money and similar transactions.

This showdown between Light and dark has been carried out in a way that, in our opinion, is taking far too long, and we feel that you concur with us. This is why we instituted the plan of action mentioned above. The original range of strategies begun a while ago is working; but these additional ones are deemed essential for moving your reality closer to first contact. As we have stated before, we deeply wish to engage in a more direct mode of contact with you, as it is much easier to interact with groups and individuals on a firsthand basis. A number of groups already have experience of this and we need to set up the means whereby more and more of you can gain experience in working with us. This can further our mutual causes and make it easier for the actual first contact operation to go off even more smoothly than now envisioned.

"Moving you toward first contact" is a phrase that means much to us. We have been through a great many revisions of our final plans for most effectively accomplishing this goal. The unique circumstances on your world made it necessary to take the step of explaining our position to our Earth allies. This mutual education process gave birth to a number of objectives, which then took on a logical order of priority. These many activities of high promise are currently underway and are to pave the way for other events that are intended to alleviate your world's present levels of distress. During this phase our joint intention is to "break through" at several critical points and allow for the change, which will be recognized as the harbinger of your new reality. These strategies are in full agreement with the divine plan's forecast for the way your reality is to be divinely transformed.

Changing your reality is at the core of what we are doing. All our plans and goals are tied into completing first contact and finishing your transition into fully conscious Beings of Light. Heaven has been quite detailed with us about how to do this; the procedure involves bringing in a great many layers of spiritual and physical changes. This, in turn, affects how your world operates: A more conscious populace is less inclined to accept at face value the pronouncements handed down by public and private officials, and this makes it more difficult for the dark to retain the amount of control it has been used to. This is where we currently stand. The next step is to capitalize on this growing public skepticism by putting in place instruments for change. The current set of plans was created to do this in the most effective way possible.

We are preparing your world for a shake-up in the way it views reality. As a reality changes, the agency of Heaven puts you in a place where you adapt quite naturally to the changes happening in your environment. This energy exchange is reciprocal and resembles the action of a Slinky toy moving downstairs: once started, the energy in the coil propels the onward motion (i.e. change) in the desired direction. As we watch this effect gain momentum, we are gratified to learn that our on-planet observers have come up with the same analogy. Armed with this reassurance we allowed the present line-up of actions to be launched with our full blessing. Hence, the time has come for your world to begin a grand reordering. And once this process is finished, the stage can be set for our first contact operations!

First contact is a step leading to your final metamorphosis into fully conscious Beings. Thus, the activities done in conjunction with our Earth allies to hasten first contact are high on our agenda. All the signs indicating that our upcoming plans fit appropriately into Heaven's schedule are present. Our priority is to follow Heaven's lead and achieve the directives she gives us. This course is not only most satisfying for us; it also permits us to move you ever closer to first contact. In a very real sense Heaven's Angels and Guardians can be regarded as the phalanx guiding us all to victory! Behind them are yourselves and your loving family of mentors, the first contact mission of the Galactic Federation of Light. The things that need to be done are being done! Remember, Together, We are indeed Victorious!

Today, we talked about what is going on around you. Never lose sight of the fact that we are always with you. A vast fleet of ships and a huge legion of proponents surround you, working hard to bring about the conditions for your transformation into fully conscious Beings of Light! Know in your Heart of Hearts that the perpetual Supply and infinite Abundance of Heaven are indeed Yours! Selamat Majon! Selamat Kasitaram! (Sirian for Rejoice! and Be Blessed in Heavenly Love and Joy!)

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Consider the possibility that you two have a soul agreement. When you met and fell in love you were setting your agreement into motion. It went like this: "We agree that when one of us forgets who we really are and what we came to this lifetime to accomplish, the other person will remind the one who gets off-path. We agree to help each other keep on path."
Now, here you are, living your wonderful life, raising children, buying houses and cars, getting benefits, and completely forgetting the great work that's still buried in your soul - the work you came here to do. And everybody around you, on an unconscious level, knows it. Even the kids.
So little things happen. You get colitis, you gain 20 pounds, you have chest pains, or insomnia. Your soul knows you're off track and that's how it speaks to you. But you don't listen. You go to your doctor who prescribes something to quiet your symptoms and you go back to work. At work you're fighting with most everybody and the politics are "killing" you. At home, there's no energy left for anyone.
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Monday, February 25, 2008

ILLUSIONS

The Bridge ~ Step 110 ~ Illusions

The longer you hold on to the old ways, where one profits at the expense of another, the longer your challenges will continue. However, as soon as you let go and allow Great Spirit to bring about a solution that is best for everyone, your challenges will lessen.

It's difficult for some of us to see that our worldly beliefs are temporary, illusionary. We think that it's all written in stone and since everything has been this way for ages, then it must be true and good. After all, if everybody agrees that an hour only has 60 segments, an item just bought at the store really belongs to us, the TV always tells us the truth, our leaders are kind and beneficent, then they must be right, right? Well, times are changing fast and many of our long-held beliefs and institutions are falling apart before our very eyes. As we step forth into the future, we are seeing that many of the ideas we invested a lifetime in are no longer working for us like they used to. Indeed, if we are to going to build a better world for ourselves and our children, we must begin to reexamine our thinking patterns and be willing to make changes when we run across a belief that's out of date. Perhaps one of the most illusionary of our beliefs centers around who we are. We've been led to believe that we are a name and a body, with all its inherent proclivities and preferences, but this point of view is fast becoming obsolete. Clearly, the hallmark of the age we're stepping into bids us to become more than we thought we were.

"Who are you?"

I looked up. No one was in sight. Not even Eagleheart. I was alone.

"Who are you?" the invisible voice asked again.

"Robert," I answered sharply. "I'm Robert McCoy."

"Are you sure about that?"

"What?" This was maddening.

"I said, are you sure? Are you sure that you're Robert McCoy?"

"Yes, I'm Robert McCoy!" I yelled it up at the sky.

"What is it that makes you so sure you're Robert McCoy? Couldn't you just as easily be William Smith or Joe Adams? Isn't Robert McCoy just a name your parents made up?"

"Well, yes. I suppose so," I said. "But that's my name."

Silence. Then, "Are you your name, Robert? Or could it be that you are more than that?"

I didn't know what to say. Up till this point, I'd been mildly annoyed. But now I was beginning to get angry. "Who are you?" I demanded.

Nothing. Not a sound. I stood there surrounded by nothing but the trees and the sky. "Eagleheart!" I yelled.

"He's not here," the voice said.

"Then who are you?" I asked again.

"That's not the question, my brother. The question is who are you? You keep telling me that you are your name, Robert McCoy. But I believe that you're more than that. I believe you're more than a couple of words that come out of your mouth."

"Okay!" I shouted. "I'm Robert McCoy, and I am the body that stands here in front of you!"

"Really?" The voice sounded mildly amused. "Yes, I am my body."

"And I suppose you're sure about that, too?"

"Yes!" I screamed.

Silence again. Then, finally, "Then you must be your hands. Is that right, Robert. Are you your hands?"

I thought about that for a moment. "No," I answered.

"You sound a little tentative, my brother. Like you're not so sure. Are you your feet then? Answer me that."

This was ridiculous! "No!" I stated. "I'm definitely more than my hands and my feet!"

"Good for you, Robert," came the voice. "Because what I'm suggesting to you is that you are much more than your name, much more than your hands and feet, and much more than your body, as well."

It's hard to explain what happened next. A feeling of great melancholy swept over me. I was totally disoriented; my legs gave way underneath me, as I crumpled to the ground and began sobbing. Tears flowed until none were left. Somewhere in the middle of it all, as I lay whimpering face down on a bed of soft pine needles, a new sensation--I don't even know if it was a thought or a feeling--came to me. Yes! I am more than my body! I am a Being who lives inside of my body!

And with this revelation, two things happened at once: the shift in my perceptions that I'd experienced yesterday came back. The stones and trees and leaves and everything around me came alive and shimmered even brighter than before. At the same time, a strange and beautiful man appeared . . .
From The Reunion: A Parable for Peace

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MESSAGE FROM MATTHEW

February 24, 2008



This is Matthew with loving greetings to all. This is a year of great foment and revelations—never before in Earth’s history has there been such profound activity in her energy field of potential! In some cases this fervor is obvious, but much more is going on than you can know in this moment, and with excited anticipation you await the ultimate resolution.



May I give you an analogy that comes to mind? It is not the best, I know, and most surely I do not mean to be patronizing, much less insulting, but in my great love for all animals, the images are very pleasing to me. Imagine yourself witnessing the birth of piglets as the mother labors to bring forth new life. After all her infants have emerged, there is such wiggling about that you can only wonder what will come next. Sometimes you see a great deal of activity in this new little family; at other times, all is quiet, giving the impression that no developments are taking place. Ah, but there are! Vital unseen things are going on with the piglets—respiration, digestion, growth in physical strength and comprehension—and the exhausted mother is regaining her vitality. In your continued watching, you see that some piglets are not flourishing as much as others. However, because the diligent mother cares about all her children, she strives to give her littlest ones all the nourishment they need. In time, all the babies are scampering about, occasionally engaging in typical sibling squabbling, yet staying close to their mother, who continues her nurturing even as she lets each little one make its own way.



And so it is with Mother Earth. After long suffering, she is birthing the raised consciousness and spiritual renewal within her children and providing everything they need to thrive, yet in her understanding that each must choose its own way, allowing all to do so. And even as you witness this developing process, you cannot know every aspect of it or how every soul ultimately will respond.



There is not much time left for those who still are sleeping behind the veil, so to say, to waken from the conditioning that has kept them so long asleep and unaware of their god and goddess selves. They must become consciously aware so they can separate the wheat from the chaff in their lives, in your world, and become spiritually prepared to accompany Earth into the higher planes of energy. It is not Earth who decides which of her beloved children will make the trip with her—she wants ALL to go!—and it is not an arbitrary basis that determines who goes and who doesn’t; it is just plain physics. The light of raised consciousness and spiritual clarity—the knowing that all life in this universe is inseparably connected with God and all other souls, and living accordingly—carries a frequency that enables physical survival in the energy planes where Earth is heading. Those who ignore the urging of their souls and instead choose to stay oblivious to this universal truth, do not have that light; and without it, they remain in their lower frequency that prevents bodies from surviving in higher energy planes. Although once back in spirit life they can plan the next incarnation with the same circumstances and another opportunity to “see the light,” they will realize that they defaulted in their pre-birth choice to do that in this lifetime.



A part of “seeing the light” is honing discernment ability and trusting intuition, the messages from your soul, wherein the truth for each of you lies. Readers familiar with my messages may be thinking, “Oh, not again—why does he say the same old thing when he must know we want to hear what’s new?” I cannot cease telling you something as important as that, and since I have transmitted about 70 messages since the fourth book was published, it is difficult for me to think of something new that is essential for you to know in this unique time in Earth’s long history. Perhaps I need to say that the separation of wheat from chaff pertains to lightworkers too. Oh, most assuredly not to the extent that the newly-awakening ones do, but let me give you something to think about.



It is time to comfortably communicate with your soul and heed its messages, make the changes your inner guidance is urging and stop thinking “but what if….” Time to be a caring, compassionate observer and not an active part of others’ traumas and dramas. Time to cut out trivial and unproductive matters and rise above any frustrating aspects in your life. Time to focus only on the positive so you can manifest it, and feel more joy, less concern. Time to sweep away self-doubt, resentment, criticizing others, guilt, ego-centeredness, procrastination and regret, and fill those spaces with unconditional love of self and others, self-confidence, forgiveness of self and others, assisting wherever you see the need and viewing a situation from all perspectives. It is time to feel peaceful because you know you have the innate power to handle whatever challenges arise between now and the Golden Age, where all life flows in harmony with Nature.



Oh yes, I know you have heard that before too, but if you have not yet let this guidance leave your head, where there is no argument, and enter your heart, the seat of the soul, so it automatically becomes action and reaction, it is time for you to do that.



Now then, as I mentioned, this year in your calendar is one of foment and revelations, and so it shall be! You are seeing in news reports some of the reasons for the fervor in Earth’s energy field of potential, particularly changes in governments and the state of the economy, but even if those reports were complete and honest, most of what is unfolding still would be unknown to the vast majority of Earth’s peoples. Nevertheless, we do not advocate that anyone forego knowing what newspapers, TV and radio are supplying as news. We do not hold with the philosophy that ignorance is bliss—it is not! Hiding one’s head in the sand doesn’t protect the head, it leaves the entire being vulnerable. However, in addition to being only an observer and using discernment, we do advocate putting what is reported into this context: The collective awareness and abhorrence of violence, corruption and deception is what is bringing it to its knees.



To comment briefly on the areas of most significant interest insofar as violent conflict and what will be transpiring—Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel and Palestine— there will be no all-out wars, but localized hot spots will continue to flare up and die down until the last of ages-old karmic experiencing throughout the entire Mideast plays itself out. That includes Iran, of course, but the saber rattling of the US government towards that country will not lead to an invasion. Other countries in the entire region also are winding down third density karma. Where there is heavy oppression, especially regarding women’s rights, changes will lead to equality for all citizens; and in the countries where a few live in obscene opulence while the masses live in poverty, a leveling out of this disparity will begin. Please remember that reformation is a process, not abrupt endings or beginnings, and every instance of ungodly action further dissipates the ever-weakening energy of the dark tentacles.



Even though media news is but the tip of the iceberg, in some countries there is ample evidence of government shake-ups in accordance with the citizens’ demands for reforms. In others, where tyrants are ruling, we can only assure you that strong undercurrents eventually will lead to their displacement too. Please dismiss any concerns about present and proposed unjust laws and policies; all will be eliminated as government leaders either “see the light” or are replaced by spiritually evolved souls who are experienced in wise governing.



Ample evidence exists as well in the other major field of change, the economy, and I must be frank about this so you will be prepared when the full truth no longer can be hidden. As bleak as some publicly reported facets of the economy are, the facts are more serious. Any positive “spin” on the situation that can be mustered is designed purely to serve the interests of banks and multinational corporations that need you to keep borrowing and spending; however, spending cautiously in these days is only common sense and so is having a cash reserve immediately available. I hasten to speak about the “silver lining” in the international economy as reallocation of the world’s wealth undergoes profound changes: The team of economists with integrity who will replace the corrupt ones have transition plans that will keep disruption to a minimum during the changeover process.



Although rarely reported in the United States, some other nationsÂ’ media are less timid about publicizing the marked increase in sightings of spacecraft in your skies. Your space brothers and sisters are making themselves more and more evident for sound reasons. They are sending the unmistakable message to governments, especially in the US, that it is futile to continue denying their presence and numbers. To people everywhere, they are showing that if their intentions were not peaceful, they could have landed en masse and taken over your planet. And for you who know that these soul family members are benevolent, it is their clear signal that the time is coming closer when, in safety, they can land and the beings from highly evolved civilizations who are living among you can introduce themselves; it is their reassurance that great changes are nigh and they are at the ready to assist in the world transformation you have been co-creating.



Other well-publicized happenings are the stepped-up geophysical occurrences, record-setting temperatures, drought of greater duration in some places and heavier than ever flooding in others—not only aberrant weather, but changing climates. What is not widely known is that governments’ weather manipulation is partially responsible for these numerous “natural disasters”; nevertheless, all these occurrences aid the planetary cleansing process—Earth’s means of releasing the negativity amassed over millennia. Nor is it widely known that destruction and death toll are being eased to the greatest possible extent by off-planet civilizations with advanced technologies.



We are aware of the false information the Internet offers along with the truth, and one example is channeled material claiming that extraterrestrial craft will evacuate the populace before Earth changes increase to the extent that no surface life can survive. There will be NO need for evacuation! The persons receiving those transmissions donÂ’t realize that their sources are not the spiritually evolved beings they claim to be, but exactly the opposite, and that their purpose is to instill fear.



You may think it is superfluous for me to mention still again the critical need for using keen discernment about all information and trusting your intuition as to whether it is falsehood or truth. However, since my mother is still receiving emails from people who are alarmed about those reports of worldwide evacuation plans as well as various prophesied types of dire happenings like the imminent imposition of martial law, millions will be rounded up and put in concentration camps, belligerent ETs will invade your planet, and all-out nuclear wars brewing, I think there cannot be too much emphasis upon discernment and intuition. Furthermore, our repeated assurances that NONE of those will befall you seem to fly out the window each time a fear-filled report makes the Internet rounds. The light will not permit any such reversal in its ever-increasing intensity, and Earth did not endure many, many centuries of the tyranny and bloodshed that caused all the negativity, just to have her current beloved inhabitants experience more of it!



With the challenges you will be encountering as foment leads to revelations, we feel that understanding why you must not fear is essential. Mother, this is well explained in a chapter in one of the books. Please find that and copy it.



DO NOT FEAR!



August 28, 2002


MATTHEW: Mother, regarding that “doomsday” letter swirling around the Internet, first I say: Fear NOT! That dire prediction of a massive earthquake and loss of billions of lives on September 7 is NOT going to happen!

Is this “message from God” via that person who is intending to alert the world to this imminent event not the same End-of-the-world idea that has been considered inevitable for centuries by doomsayers? It IS! The dark forces originated this concept so long ago that current Earth history has no record of its initiation into belief systems. It is not its origin in antiquity that DISempowers this concept, it is its origin within the darkness that literally dooms it!



Manifesting any date for planetary destruction so severe that Earth could not survive is no different from manifesting anything else at all—it is a matter only of sustained belief and intent that brings about happenings. This would be the manifesting capability of the soul at work co-creating with God, implementing that law of Creator that exists inseparably with free will.



This works with one consciously-focused mind or with billions, and when the latter, the term “mass consciousness” comes into it. I reluctantly use that term because of its application to “ascension,” which is another term often improperly applied, as if bodies will be lifted off the planet into the heavens. Moving into the lighter density of the universe, which is by the opening of hearts and minds unto the light of love that enables Heaven on Earth, is ascension.



So I ask that “mass consciousness” be understood as the majority of energetic interaction on Earth choosing to anchor and sustain the light on and within and throughout the planet. This is not the same as a specific number or a defined percentage of souls consciously sharing the same belief or focus, which is the prerequisite of a different interpretation of mass consciousness and is not the correct understanding of the actual physics operating.

Now then, there are two essential considerations about this “inevitable doomsday idea.” First, this could happen ONLY if this concept were to sweep over the world and mold more than half the mind power—NOT half of the souls, but half of the mind power—into the rigid belief form that Earth actually is hopelessly doomed. Please note that it is not “would” happen, but “could” happen, and that brings us to the second of the two overriding factors here.



Even if that degree of doomsday conviction could be mustered, “doom” could affect only the energy embodied on the planet. With only physical life at stake, which in your current belief system is meant to be only short-term anyway, an arbitrary, identically-timed ending to everyone's eternal life really is ludicrous when you think about it. Just Zap!—totally discounting the stage of spiritual awareness and intelligence advancement and soul evolvement, not to mention the plans of God and Creator? I don't think so!

So then, “doomsday” is only an idea, a concept, a topic of discussion, a nonexistent event that got talked about way beyond the originating circle. So what is to be feared? To actually create that fearful-sounding scenario would require the power of focused minds without any great opposition in belief, in feelings, in intent of energy direction. And therein lies the doom of the doomsday idea!



There IS massive disbelief, disagreement and opposition to it! There IS a massive abundance of light firmly anchored on Earth that is in complete energetic opposition to the darkness, within which the doomsday concept was developed; and there IS massive soul-level knowingness and emerging conscious awareness of whence this doomsday fallacy came and why!

It came from the dark forces specifically to create fear. There is no issue of greater importance today than clearly understanding how the darkness uses fear as its ultimate weapon against individuals, nations, your whole world. Fear of an idea, of what might be, is as much a captive state of consciousness as the fear of what you consider concrete actuality.



When information about merely conceptual fearsome situations is passed on as foregone conclusion by sincerely well-meaning individuals, they may be doing so in concerned innocence, but the fear that's created nevertheless is as virulent as if the peak of darkness itself had pronounced it. This is what happens:



The energy of fear forms a barrier between the feared object or
circumstances and the energy of light. Because of the barrier, the light in the souls of fear-full people cannot reach their consciousness to dispel the power of those fears over their lives, and the light being sent to them by light workers cannot penetrate. The barrier feels like a real wall, isolating the person with the consuming fear and leaving no way out. This energy blockage of the light intensifies the power of whatever is feared, thus enabling it to draw to itself more manifestations to be feared.



Fear is wildly contagious, and due to its magnification in power, fear sensation streamers have sticky edges that attract the kinds of energetic interactions that omit common sense, sound judgment, and wise decisions. Fear is so insidious that it can convince a person that the only way to escape is through portals leading deeper and deeper into darkness. Fear is the forebear of such actions or characteristics deemed prejudice, tyranny, greed, cruelty, belligerence, deception, dishonor and hatred, and even those seemingly senseless tortures or deaths of innocents arise through psyches that have been twisted and tormented by fears.

The light, in which love and universal knowledge and spiritual clarity abide, cannot reach those souls to let them know their spiritual powers are far stronger than anything the dark powers can conjure to frighten them. Nothing is stronger than the light, which is the gift to every soul of the love and power of God.



Because the dark forces cannot create light or capture it and they cannot coexist with it, they can only try to create fear and try to capture souls through fear. The magnified energy of fear draws to the people like thought forms from the universal soup, and the power of natural laws then brings into reality the fearsome ideas manifested into form through sustained conscious belief in their existence. Then there is indeed something to fear – it's what fear itself created!

The viciousness of the cycle permits people to be held captive by the darkness whose stronghold is simple: It doesn't permit them to “see the light” because that light would reveal that what they have been told to fear is only an idea. Belief in the fear-filled idea's reality is what makes it so. Literally “seeing the light” exposes the fabric of lies and desperate measures of the dark forces and destroys their grasp on awakening minds. Now fearing for their own continuation, these forces are creating fear through any possible means, no matter how transparent or arrogant the falseness of their claims in their last gasp to maintain control of their darkly-inclined helpers on Earth.



What you are seeing in everything you may call evil—from kidnappings to killings by children to greed and corruption of global degree to hopelessness of entire nations to talk of deterring a nuclear invasion by preemptive war declaration—is born of fear within the darkness itself because it knows its power is cracking. Those forces that steadily have chosen to harm others rather than allow love to motivate them will not much longer be on your planet to create havoc and despair.



The light is increasing in abundance and power in consonance with Earth's own chosen pathway, and the bodies of people who continue treading in darkness simply would be destroyed if they were forced into the light, like crystal shattering at certain frequencies. The souls of these people will be transferred to a density station compatible with their energy registration, which is determined by the lifetime free will choices.



No, Mother, I donÂ’t know if the promise of beauty and peace in EarthÂ’s new world will persuade these souls to let the light fill their voids with love. We pray that they will desire this, but we cannot influence the free will courses they choose. And no, I don't know whether in body or only spirit they will expe