Compassion

I just carried a little goat up to the shed to shield him from the sun.  It's hot and very humid here which is the norm (according to the Meteorologist) although I feel that the heat is a wee bit earlier this year than last.  We've had a bout of goat sickness the past several weeks but this little one is still hanging on.  His sorrowful bah fills me with sadness as I cannot do anything more for him other than administer electrolytes and talk gently to him.  I lay my hands on him and invoke a prayer for healing.  I believe by doing this it helps to alleviate the animal's suffering.  I have seen much death in my lifetime with animals.  It is never easy to go through this.  Have you ever visited a loved one in the hospital in a coma?  Have you found yourself really not knowing what to do, how to act or how to respond?  "Maybe if I say something, they will hear me or maybe they won't."  It can be kind of awkward.  My personal belief is they will hear you and will also feel your touch on their arm or as you stroke their hair.  Animals are no different as they also experience suffering.  I think Science is just coming around to the opinion that the laying on of hands and soothing talk is actually quite helpful as studies have shown that the patient improves and heals more quickly.  These acts of kindness and compassion are what are needed in this world.  They will also come full circle and enrich your own life.  There are prayers for animals you can recite or you can make up your own.  Prayer and Thoughts are energy--negative thoughts give off negative energy while positive thoughts give off positive energy.   Ultimately the outcome of your life and an animal's life is left in the Creator's hands.  But even if you see signs they are not going to make it, it is a compassionate thing to stay with them and help them through the process of leaving this world. 

Update:  The little kid goat left this earth at 1:14 CST.  He died in my arms which is just the way I wanted as I made a promise to him that I would not leave until he had made the transition from this world to the next.    

Drone Deaf

How can anyone, today, possibly hear and heed messages from Spirit?  We are becoming drone deaf.  We are a swelling, sweating mass of undulating humanity, a rainbow of colors, living out our lives in some ugly, miserable corner of the planet or running ourselves ragged in another.  Technology is transforming us into a gigantic, hybrid, techno-human being, with ear buds firmly implanted in our ears, our mobile phones in a death grip as we  feverishly text friends and family.  We are inundated, daily, with bad news about conflicts and wars, or some sort of calamity, some sort of future catastrophe.  The Truth is, our reality is what we make it.  But is this really what we are all about? -- Conflict and Suffering?  And is this how humanity will end? -- it was all just a big mistake, a cruel joke, a casual tryst, a one night stand, that produced something truly regrettable?  We just didn't fall out the sky and land here by accident.  We  were given an opportunity to grow here, to learn from our mistakes, to help others, to really make a  difference on this planet.   We are Thought fragments.   Fragments of a Whole.  But we just can't seem to get our collective thoughts together to form the Whole.  We are two halves of an Idea, one part Good, the other part Bad.  We have choices-- we can continue to feed the bad part or choose to feed the good part.  We've made mistakes, yes, but we are instilled with the ability to reverse course if necessary and make things right.  Instead, in so many instances  we choose to empower governments, groups and organizations to make our choices.  We stand by idly while those who rail against the Matrix, those who offer meaningful solutions and cures either inexplicably disappear or are ridiculed and demonized so badly they can't make a difference anymore.  We pick the wrong people to lead us.  We allow the psychopath to run our lives, ruin our lives, and make our decisions.  We condone lying and cheating, asymmetry, murder and mayhem.  Will all that remain of us be but meaningless, hollow discarded husks spidering across a dirty warehouse floor, swept up into piles to be used as fertilizer or fodder?  Other species have come and gone.  What makes us so smug to think it can't happen to us?  The Ancients' message is still with us.  There are many garbled voices out there.  So many, in fact, that they are making us go mad.  Just witness the Insanity going on around us.  Spirit is still amongst us but will only reveal Itself if we consciously choose to quiet our thoughts, still our minds and open our hearts.

Lakota + A Prayer for Healing

http://youtu.be/NwUxXQlKvHs

Anonymous Message for 2014

http://youtu.be/Ew3aEMs9XbI

Shaman Stone

For the past several months I've been walking past a stately old Oak.  I would say, "Good morning" and "I love you."  "You are beautiful and it's nice to see you."  Its hard and knobby roots are exposed above ground so you have to walk on them to get past it yet it doesn't seem to mind you stepping on its toes.  When I'm by this tree I will put my arms around its girth and tell it how much I appreciate it.  How much I enjoy having it there as I will occasionally step under it to get out of the heat.  I've encouraged it to thrive and grow, to fill out its dense canopy, which it has.  Trees are wonderful companions that shelter and shade animals and humans.   Well, just the other day, on my routine walk, I spied what appeared to be a stone sticking up from between a small opening in its roots.  It wasn't laying horizontally but was sticking vertically up and out of the ground.  Maybe it was vertical because as the tree grew, its immense root system had thrust it upward.  I looked at it with interest for a minute and concluded, "Nah, that can't be a stone."  "I mean, how uncommon, how interesting that it is sticking up out of the ground and the fact that I've been walking over and around this tree for years and I've never noticed this before."  I stared at the "stone" but decided it would have to wait another day to examine it and pry it out.  I think I was tired and just wanted to get in the house.  The next morning I headed straight for the tree.  I apologized for stepping all over its toes again as I located the stone then bent down and gently pulled it out.  It was embedded in dirt that covered it to about 2 - 3" and it didn't offer any resistance.  As I placed the stone in the palm of my hand, I almost couldn't believe what I was beholding.  The stone is unique, to say the least.  It is not round but more oval in shape and honed smooth by what one could surmise is water.  It has a nice feel to it and is softly grooved on one side so you can hold it with ease.  This whole area I'm living in used to be underwater thousands of years ago so that makes sense why the stone would be so smooth.  If you look at it under a magnifying glass it closely reminds one of the universe with a myriad of stars and the outline of the Big Dipper and tiny Nazca-like lines crisscrossing it.  It is a soft gray, green and brown (earth tones) but the slender intersecting lines are a deep black.  The most remarkable thing about this stone are the two eyes and a mouth. What an exquisite  experience this was.  I just witnessed, with my own eyes, an Oak Tree giving birth to a stone.  Was this poignant discovery in direct response (a communication of sorts) to my outpouring of love, gratitude and concern for this green giant that it responded by opening up an esoteric doorway, exposing a wondrous hidden realm?  Or, was this just simply a thank you?  This stone is a treasure.  I now sleep with it under my pillow.  Perhaps one day (when the universe deems it is so) this stone will reveal its magical secrets and reunite, introduce me to my Native American ancestors, and the soldiers of the American Revolutionary War, as I prepare to take the long walk back into the deep dark forest.   

Shaman Stone 6/19/14

    

I'm On My Way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qOXmtM5w18&list=UUKVziFUWLUrSvywvfvLVvow&feature=share&index=21

Olafur Arnalds - "Only the Winds"

http://youtu.be/9eWewdTkghM

Avatar of Change

We are one physical body but actually two beings  inhabit that body.  One half is experiencing the reality of this moment while the other half is still dealing with the past.   Have you ever looked at yourself and said, "I need to change this habit."  Were there times when you did something, knowing that it was dead wrong, going to be destructive to yourself and harmful to others yet you went ahead and did it anyway, then found yourself repeating this mistake over and over?  Take drinking for example.  One drink you're fine but two, three, four, now the whole bottle and you've lost control yet you can't seem to break the habit until, God Forbid, something really awful happens.  We could use this analogy to describe other errant behaviour such as domestic abuse, child abuse, or drowning oneself in pornography or drugs.  Have you ever noticed that one half of yourself is actually watching, monitoring your behaviour, what you are saying and even, what you are thinking?   That half is your soul, your being, your conscience, your essence, your Avatar of Change.  I believe we are many different individuals with many different pasts and life experiences (see Reincarnation) and that we are here solely to work out the bugs in our souls and make amends (Karma) by overcoming those parts of our being that stand in the way of our spiritual ascension.  The reality of existing here is that we will come face to face with the demons of our past and will have choices to make.  We either continue down the same old reckless, self-centered path or we conquer and rise above those parts of us that are holding us back from spiritual enlightenment and perfection.  We all have fears that require confrontation and weaknesses requiring resolution.  Sadly what we are witnessing today and has existed since mankind inhabited this planet, are the many millions who aren't even afforded an opportunity to work anything out as they are continuous fodder for the evil that exists here.  How is this possible that a Creative Intelligence would allow this to happen?  Does evil exist throughout the universe or is evil just unique to Planet Earth?   If Evil does exist elsewhere in the universe, how do others deal with it?  It is up to us who have run the Gauntlet and are still running the Marathon, those who have seen the Light, to aid and comfort those struggling with issues in their past.  We are here to help.  Do not forget, We Are All In This Together.        

Why?

walking down to the mailbox I was overcome with feeling.
   the wind was whispering softly through the pines that lined my path.
as I continued walking, I felt an overwhelming sense that these pines
were actually watching me.
  they seemed to say 'good morning' in unison, as soft murmurs and
sounds of rustling branches filled my ears.
   I stopped and looked up...'good morning to you', I said.
at that moment, an awareness of all things being whole, all things
being one, overcame me.
  at these moments nothing on earth matters because I've glimpsed what
cannot be seen but can only be felt.
  even though these moments are fleeting, somehow the memories become
embedded.
but how can you reconcile these extraordinary insights with the stark
and very dark reality (to many) known as everyday existence?
  the reality that we rise, we eat, we live, we are.
the (possible) reality that today might be our last day on earth.
  the (possible) reality that someone, somewhere, will do us harm?
there is a unruly savagery to this planet - kill or be killed; the
weak will perish, the strong will survive.
  it is inherent not only in the animal/plant kingdom, but also in
human beings.
how is it that we continue to watch hopelessly, helplessly as people
are brutally subjugated, tortured and slaughtered across the world?
  vehemently being denied their natural right to live freely?
where is the outcry?  I only hear silence.
how is it that human monsters continue to thrive, caring nothing about
the well-being of those they serve,
  but serving only to terrorize, subjugate?
why this constant tug of war between good and evil?
 who will win out?
will it be good?
  will it be evil?
what is good?
  what is evil?
we have groups of individuals in this world who are solely bent on
wiping others out.
  was it always this way?
yes, but not to the extent that I'm personally sensing it at the
present time.
  there are people in this world who are so consumed by hate for those
who will not convert nor subvert their wills, their very souls, into
accepting an intolerable and twisted belief (a perverse version of who
should live
  and who should die) based solely on what that particular individual
believes that they are:
hoisting their flag of intolerance and hate and using declination to decapitate.
  did you or i give them permission to do this?
of course not yet they are actively engaged in usurping the will of
people all over the planet and will
  not hesitate to step on my body to get to yours.
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think about where we (collectively) will all be fifty years from now.
  it's not that far off.
is there really a global cabal that wishes only to enslave us all?
  to compartmentalize, dehumanize each and every one of us according
to its deformed doctrine?
if so, are we willing to stand up to this rape of the human spirit,
this cabal of contagion?
  their mayhem and lies are deceptively packaged.
if so, are we willing to stand up to and resist the attempts by those
whose primary goal is subverting the very
 purpose of human existence which is to ultimately live together
freely and harmoniously?
as one spirit.

Grass Harp

 

This morning as I was busily weeding in my garden and after an hour of hard work, I heard a faint rustling sound.  I was happily listening to the birds and watching the spirals and quirky entrails of intriguing clouds floating by so I didn't really hear the sound at first.  "Let's see, I thought to myself, I've finished this row now so what about the beans"?  "They look pretty weedy so I better start on them".  Again, a quiet rustle as if someone or something was trying to get my attention.  Have you ever experienced the feeling that someone is behind you, watching you?  I quickly turned around, convinced I'd see a rabbit or some other small animal.  But there was nothing.  I was surprised.  Then I noticed the tall grasses growing in a row next to the metal shed.  All of a sudden they all swayed in unison making the rustling sound I had heard.  It was like they were saying hello.  I was really quite amazed and felt rather comforted.  I acknowledged them.   "Hello", I said it's nice to have company out here."  

Lakota + To Walk the Red Road

http://youtu.be/R2fhKCWRTBE

No Shmuck

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.” - Albert Einstein

No Fear

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I just felt a presence pass right through me

It passed through me as easily as a drop of water rolls    off a leaf after summer’s rain

It passed through me as easily as a knife slicing through warm butter

It passed through me as easily as running a comb    through long, flowing tresses

Its unheralded visit made me pause what I was doing

A tall grand and stately being that towered at least 6 feet over me

I could not see its face as it was shrouded

It was clothed in a long soft gray hooded cloak

It made no Sound

I could feel its energy

And I was unafraid

It was just passing through

A sojourner, perhaps, who had just completed a journey and

  was making its way back home

Who happened by for a brief rest

It was neither male nor female

  but comprised of both genders

Masculine and strong yet soft and Feminine

I loved the feeling it left within me

I hope it passes this way again

Going Down

I'm feeling moody and depressed.  Could it be the Full Moon on Friday the 13th and the fact that Mercury is in retrograde?  Could it be today's thunderstorms?  Maybe...I'm not one to spout off that what we're seeing happening across the planet is the beginning of End of Days, but all the calamities taking place in the world and wrong being the new norm while right takes a hike does seem to warrant some scrutiny.   Here in America we have a lawless president and a lapdog Congress.  If it feels good, do it.  Don't even think of the possibility of any harmful consequences.  And no one is offering solutions to solve anything.  The rich and powerful are more arrogant now as they wield their battle axes, intimidating, harassing and downright threatening average Americans.    You can't even pick up the phone to tell someone you disapprove of something because nobody's listening.  All the while Evil continues its bold march while Good seems to be receding into the background.  I think this entire planet is on the cusp of something.  Someone or some thing is going to push us all over the edge.  Something appears to be coming to a head.  A conclusion of some sort.  We're all being squeezed and squeezed till there is nothing left of us to squeeze.  Maybe this is why Evil has ramped up its attack.  Evil has had its way for a very long time but maybe, just maybe, it knows that this time is different.  It knows somehow that it is going down, permanently.  That could account for why we're seeing so much unprecedented chaos and misery occurring everywhere.  Evil knows its time is just about up.  There is a saying, "These are the times that try mens souls."  Very true.  But just as true is another adage:  "If Evil is the Disease then Prayer is the Antidote."    

Help One Another

From Cecilia Navata on Facebook:

I have my doubts anybody will read all of this or respond, but I do believe this, so I am posting regardless... For all my friends, whether close or casual, just because, One of the longest posts I will ever do.. and the most real, too.
Everyone will go through some hard times at some point. Life isn't easy. Just something to think about...did you know the people that are the strongest are usually the most sensitive?
Did you know the people who exhibit the most kindness are the first to get mistreated?
Did you know the ones who take care of others all the time are ...usually the ones w...ho need it the most?
Did you know the three hardest things to say are I love you, I'm sorry, and Help me? Sometimes just because a person looks happy, you have to look past their smile and see how much pain they may be in.
To all my friends who are going through some issues right now--let's start an intention avalanche. We all need positive intentions right now. If I don't see your name, I'll understand. May I ask my friends wherever you might be, to kindly copy and paste this status for one hour to give a moment of support to all those who have family problems, health struggles, job issues, worries of any kind and just need to know that someone cares.
Do it for all of us, for nobody is immune. I hope to see this on the walls of all my friends just for moral support. I know some will!! I did it for a friend and you can to.

Look Within

We fell the stately tree
In our brash, unmindful spree
We plane it
Turn it into a door
Or piece it together to form fancy floor
How sad
But have you ever bothered to take a look
At engravings concealed in its nooks and crooks?
They’re embedded deep in this wood-grained art
Forgotten mosaics of some broken heart?
Quirky spirals peering out at you
We silently observe, but still have no clue
These bashful phantoms are everywhere
When we’re tucked into bed
When we’re combing our hair
Also, when sitting upon the throne
In that small little room, quite all alone
But no, we’re not
We're under their spell
Watching and waiting for whom the toll bells
Because that door,
   the one we've closed a thousand times before
Is staring us down and now we see
A snarly dragon, a cup of tea
Could it be they’re prodding us
To get off the couch, get off our duff?
Get out of that easy chair
Take head out of book
You have many friends if you’ll only just look

The Federal Reserve Explained in 7 Minutes

http://youtu.be/j282JKnmeVo
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It's not often that I post political items on this blog but when I come across something I feel is very important to the American people I share it.  This is one of them. 

D Day Remembrance - June 6, 2014

http://www.worldwar2history.info/D-Day/
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"Those who ignore the mistakes of the past are destined to repeat them."  - M. D.