'Slumming is hanging out in chakras below the waist.'
9/14/2001
Mark ...I have few words now.......CM, a message by her, is posted under "tonite @ 9" thread
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by stephenw20 ina message from caroline myss.
dear all,.
during the past twenty-four hours, i have received hundreds of emails asking me to comment on the disastrous events of yesterday.
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Somebody & Mac Thank you... I had to share this as it was shared with me....
the place we have all heard of ... the paradise the REV 21 3-4 place is that ~oneness...~
the earth as we know it ,is no longer.... there is a new earth today full of new possibilities and full of new fears. fears we never considered before. There are many more still to consider. ONLY the spiritual oneness, the idea ~we~ all are ~one~ we all are human with spirit, can bind us in a way to rally in such an incident.
We have grown up a lot in a few days. Priorities are now in focus. The challenge is to keep them there and not allow us to become COMFORTABLY NUMB again. being conscious is a very painstaking thing , when its done all the time.
I hope this incident incites a heightened sense of fellow man , of love and of ultimatley forgiveness of the tradgedy . ONly Love can make this go away. its the only thing that can unite the world. AND make no mistake this IS the time.
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by stephenw20 inthe cayce reading of the day.
quote of the day for thursday , the 2 of august 2001. .
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Music should be a part of each soul's development.
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by stephenw20 ina message from caroline myss.
dear all,.
during the past twenty-four hours, i have received hundreds of emails asking me to comment on the disastrous events of yesterday.
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bringin it back up
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tonite@ 9PM
by stephenw20 ina message from caroline myss.
dear all,.
during the past twenty-four hours, i have received hundreds of emails asking me to comment on the disastrous events of yesterday.
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A Message From Caroline Myss
Dear all,
During the past twenty-four hours, I have received hundreds of emails asking me to comment on the disastrous events of yesterday. All day I thought about how we should respond to Tuesday's horrific events. When I couldn't fall asleep last night, I returned to my office and wrote a newsletter to all of you expressing my thoughts about this crisis, but when I read it this morning, I realized how emotionally in turmoil I had been when I wrote it. I was obviously confused and unclear about what to say to you. My second attempt was a bit softer, but something was wrong. And then I realized that I was not actually saying what I wanted to say. I was screening my sentiments for the sake of being spiritually proper, while attempting to offer some worthy insights about the political atmosphere of this planet right now. This, then, is my third effort.
Surely many of you have felt just as confused as I, and perhaps are having many of the same reactions as I am right now. To begin with, I cannot seem to comprehend that the World Trade Center has actually been destroyed. I commute to New York City from Chicago on a regular basis, and always when landing, I saw those magnificent twins holding their iconic position on Manhattan Island.Ê Witnessing their implosion yesterday and watching them crumble was an experience that I cannot find the words to describe. And I probably don't have to, since I am sure that all of you felt the same horror. The unimaginable was occurring right in front of our eyes.
Without a doubt, the disaster that our country experienced yesterday will have consequences that will be felt from now until forever. I listened to General Colin Powell commenting about the terrorists who brilliantly masterminded this crisis, saying that this was too well planned to be a one-time event. More horror is inevitable, but from where and from whom? The world has never before faced a faceless enemy. How do we defend ourselves? And what types of weapons will this enemy be willing to use? Germ warfare? Nuclear bombs? At least during the Cold War there was an understanding that neither side would ultimately win a nuclear war. Nuking the enemy was the same as destroying one's own nation. So we stared at each other for decades until both sides admitted that they had created weapons that they would prefer never having to use. The world breathed a sigh of relief.
Those behind these recent acts are clearly not so globally wise and compassionate. They may not view losing millions of people as a catastrophic event. Once a dear friend of mine made the insightful comment that he was not so foolish as to fight an enemy who is not afraid to die. Yesterday we witnessed terrorist pilots who were not afraid to die, to consciously sacrifice their lives for a cause--doing what for them was clearly an act of honor. This fact makes our opponents all the more frightening. So how should we respond? Should we go to war? According to the figures gathered by polls, almost ninety percent of Americans are in favor of military retaliation. Maybe that percentage will drop by tomorrow or next week, but for now the vast majority of this nation is prepared to go to war.
Now, however, we must realize that the destruction that wars have created elsewhere can, and probably will, happen on our own soil. We have never prepared ourselves for doing battle in the streets of New York City, or Washington, D.C., or anywhere else. We never thought that we were vulnerable to invasion of any kind, which makes this event all the more traumatizing. In attacking the two targets that represented the "invincibility" of this nation--its finances and its military--these terrorists communicated the message that we are as vulnerable to destructive forces as any other nation. In their minds at least, our Golden Days have come to an end. While most of us would prefer to believe otherwise, it may not be inaccurate to say that in bombing our financial and military headquarters, they struck two other targets even more important to our survival, namely, our Bill of Rights and our Constitution, for never again will we be as free as we were prior to this disaster. Part of the government's response will be to clamp down on some of our freedoms and to restrict our lives in subtle ways. You can assume that security measures in airports will become tighter than we've ever known. One pilot told me that curbside check-in of luggage is already a thing of the past. Luggage can be randomly searched now. And who knows what other forms of security policies are going to be introduced into our lives? What if we have to begin taking "papers" with us in order to get into certain public buildings? Outrageous? So is suicide bombing New York City. Outrageous things happen precisely because we think they are too outrageous to happen.
The perspectives of positive attitude and spiritual oneness that characterize the human consciousness movement are like wiring that has been put into place during the past forty years. Now these perspectives need to be animated more than ever so that our world does not fall prey to the darkness of suspicion and hatred that terrorist attacks automatically inspire. We have spent years preparing to be spiritually effective, and I hope that we will respond in some measure with wisdom and compassion. Otherwise we are in danger of entering the same kind of cycle of suicide bombings and military reprisals that we have witnessed in the Middle East over the past decade. But can we pull it off? One person emailed me saying that he would like to hold to a higher perspective, but all he can think of right now is "taking out" the enemy. He said that he always criticized people in other nations who would not forgive and concentrate on finding ways to live in peace. Yet now, he writes, "I cannot move past wanting to see those who did this wiped out. I don't want to feel this way, but I do--and I don't want to pretend that I don't."
I have a great deal of respect for this man's honesty, because he risked the response of his peers who might be inclined to deny they felt those same emotions. In being candid about his response, he does more to serve the healing of this crisis than someone who represses those feelings while volunteering to give blood. Confronting the truth within and recognizing the spiritual gap that exists between potentially enlightened feelings and actual, darker ones begins the clearing out of the unconscious. You invite into the light your spiritual incongruities. The author of the email remarked that a few people said that feelings such as his lacked compassion, to which he said, "I'm not ready to be compassionate, but at least when I am ready, those feelings will be genuine."
It is difficult not to share this man's sentiments. In trying to imagine what lies ahead of us, I feel waves of rage rush through me at the very thought that a mere handful of individuals is now holding the entire world hostage. It's not just us, it's every nation that now has to live on constant alert. Our military and government officials are openly discussing their fears of germ warfare, enemy tactics for which there are no successful ways to protect our population. How can we not feel rage? The way of life of the entire planet was changed forever on Tuesday. I heard one man say that we should not overreact, that this is only one act of terrorism, after all. I wanted to shake him like a rag doll. Yes, these bombings do represent one three-part act of terrorism. But from a symbolic perspective, they represent the emergence of enemies that cannot be fought successfully with all the weaponry we have, because we don't know where they are or in how many countries they are hiding. Our leaders fear that these people would not hesitate to use the most lethal of weapons, sacrificing even their own members to accomplish their goals.
Months ago I wrote a column about the spiritual significance of the Sacred Contract of this nation. If I have guidance of any value to offer in the midst of this nightmare, I have to base it on my experience with so many people during the past twenty years. What I have to say will sound contradictory, and perhaps it is, but these are my thoughts. Because of the way we have lived in this country for the most part--protected, safe, well-fed, free--we are also extremely naive about what could happen to us. We think, "Oh, the government won't let this happen," or "Come on, now, things are never going to get that bad." To that I would now say, "Look alive. They can get that bad." As I watched television this evening, I saw the army covering Washington, D.C., like a war zone. I saw men armed with weapons that could wipe out five hundred people before needing to reload--all standing on Pennsylvania Avenue. What if that's they way it's going to be from now on? Impossible? This incident has told us that what happens elsewhere can easily happen here, so why not martial law?
Peter Jennings interviewed a government spokesman this evening and the topic was whether we would have to give up some of our civil liberties for the sake of security. God help us all if it comes to that, for it would mean that these planetary criminals will have done what no other foe has managed to accomplish: they will have brought us to our Constitutional knees. We must always keep in mind that once a freedom is revoked, it is never returned. I fear for that now because it can happen. Now I am prepared to recognize that anything can happen--poisoned water supplies, toxic germs sprayed into tunnels, anything. A segment on the news brought up security around the February Olympics in Salt Lake City, noting that the majority of organizational efforts being put into place have to do with terrorist protection. Terrorists are even controlling our sports events.
I am only listing the tip of the gargantuan iceberg that we are now facing, for we are living a type of scenario that is a cross between the archetype of the Titanic (we never thought anything could sink us), and Pearl Harbor (the explosion of our bubble of impregnability). (How curious that major movies were recently and released on these two events.) But we have been preparing ourselves for years to rely on perceptions of a higher order, like group meditation and prayer, as a response in times of darkness. We need to do that now more than ever. Let me suggest that we agree to send positive thoughts to the planetary community each day, and not just for world peace. And if any of you has a suggestion that would benefit all of us as we move together through this storm, please share it. We also need to pray for the innocent people who may end up paying the price for the actions of a few. I saw on the news this evening, for example, a story about how many Arab Americans have been attacked in retaliation for the recent acts of terrorism.
I realize as I write this that I am communicating with you as if we are at war, but according to what I am hearing on the news and the language being used by our leaders, we ARE at war. I am going to share a story with you as a closing thought. During World War II, a psychic named Tudor Pole was an adviser to Winston Churchill. (Turning to psychics and astrologers as well as others skilled at alchemical arts has never been an uncommon practice among world leaders.) Tudor suggested to Churchill that he urge the British people to hold Britain in their thoughts every evening at 9:00 P.M. for one minute. This became known as the "silent minute." Whether this collective effort helped protect Britain from invasion will never be known. All we know is that the island was never conquered. And incidentally, after the war, papers were found in Nazi records noting that Britain had a "secret weapon" connected to Big Ben, but they were never able to identify the nature of that weapon. So, shall we meet each evening at 9 o'clock?
God Bless You All
Caroline
To my Salon family:
As a result of this catastrophic event, I have decided to change the
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'When you push three times and nothing happens, don't push the fourth time.'
9/13/2001any thing can be discussed Mark.... the forum is a safe free place. if We decide it to be that way. As with any freedom when its taken for granted, it can be undervalued, and distorted or destroyed.
LEt that not happen
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For hope and faith are living--living--things! Thus hope springs anew with the growth and the knowledge and the understanding of the light on the way, and that life indeed is an eternal statement of the love of the Father; and that as it gives the statement through the individuality of each and every soul as it comes in material manifestation by the weaknesses, we find the strength in the Lord--and in the glories ever in His beauteous purpose with each soul; that purpose that ye might be the companions, one with Him.
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Healing Prayer
by stephenw20 inthis was sent to me the other day ... i was not here to get it but wanted to share it now.
> if we could love even those who have attacked us, and seek to understand .
> if you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
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THis was sent to me the other day ... I was not here to get it but wanted to share it now
Seven Days of Prayer
> It took seven to create the world,
> we now ask you to join us in spending
> the next seven days recreating it.
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> Wherever you are, join us for the next seven days "FEELING" this new world
> and praying it into existence. At 9pm EST, 6pm west coast time, from
> September 11 to 18, simply feel the presence of millions around the world
who
> are praying for all violence to cease. Spend ten minutes in silence each
> night knowing that we are creating a new world based upon the laws of
> compassion and peace. Once again, please pass this on to everyone you
know.
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> A Letter from Neale, Marianne, James, James and Doreen:
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> Dear friends around the world.
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> The events of this day cause every thinking person to stop their daily
lives,
> whatever is going on in them, and to ponder deeply the larger questions of
> life. We search again for not only the meaning of life, but the purpose of
> our individual and collective experience as we have created it - and we
look
> earnestly for ways in which we might recreate ourselves anew as a human
> species, so that we will never treat each other this way again.
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> The hour has come for us to demonstrate at the highest level our most
> extraordinary thought about Who We Really Are.
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> There are two possible responses to what has occurred today. The first
comes
> from love, the second from fear.
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> If we come from fear we may panic and do things-as individuals and as
> nations-that could only cause further damage. If we come from love we will
> find refuge and strength, even as we provide it to others.
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> This is the moment of your ministry. This is the time of teaching. What
you
> teach at this time, through your every word and action right now, will
remain
> as indelible lessons in the hearts and minds of those whose lives you
touch,
> both now, and for years to come.
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> We will set the course for tomorrow, today. At this hour. In this moment.
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> Let us seek not to pinpoint blame, but to pinpoint cause.
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> Unless we take this time to look at the cause of our experience, we will
> never remove ourselves from the experiences it creates. Instead, we will
> forever live in fear of retribution from those within the human family who
> feel aggrieved, and, likewise, seek retribution from them.
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> To us the reasons are clear. We have not learned the most basic human
> lessons. We have not remembered the most basic human truths. We have not
> understood the most basic spiritual wisdom. In short, we have not been
> listening to God, and because we have not, we watch ourselves do ungodly
> things.
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> The message we hear from all sources of truth is clear: We are all one.
That
> is a message the human race has largely ignored. Forgetting this truth is
> the only cause of hatred and war, and the way to remember is simple: Love,
> this and every moment.
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> If we could love even those who have attacked us, and seek to understand
why
> they have done so, what then would be our response? Yet if we meet
> negativity with negativity, rage with rage, attack with attack, what then
> will be the outcome?
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> These are the questions that are placed before the human race today. They
> are questions that we have failed to answer for thousands of years.
Failure
> to answer them now could eliminate the need to answer them at all.
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> If we want the beauty of the world that we have co-created to be
experienced
> by our children and our children's children, we will have to become
spiritual
> activists right here, right now, and cause that to happen. We must choose
to
> be at cause in the matter.
>
> So, talk with God today. Ask God for help, for counsel and advice, for
> insight and for strength and for inner peace and for deep wisdom. Ask God
on
> this day to show us how to show up in the world in a way that will cause
the
> world itself to change. And join all those people around the world who are
> praying right now, adding your Light to the Light that dispells all fear.
>
> That is the challenge that is placed before every thinking person today.
> Today the human soul asks the question: What can I do to preserve the
beauty
> and the wonder of our world and to eliminate the anger and hatred-and the
> disparity that inevitably causes it - in that part of the world which I
> touch?
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> Please seek to answer that question today, with all the magnificence that
is
> You.
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> What can you do TODAY...this very moment?
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> A central teaching in most spiritual traditions is: What you wish to
> experience, provide for another.
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> Look to see, now, what it is you wish to experience-in your own life, and
in
> the world. Then see if there is another for whom you may be the source of
> that.
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> If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
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> If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are
> safe.
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> If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help
> another to better understand.
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> If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or
> anger of another.
>
> Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for
guidance,
> for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and for assurance
at
> this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for love. -
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9/12Hence, will is given to man as he comes into this manifested form that we see in material forces, for the choice.
Edgar Cayce Reading 262-529/11
Ideas may be as thoughts, made criminal or miracles. Be sure the ideal is proper. Follow that irrespective of outside influence. Know self is right, and then go straight ahead.
Edgar Cayce Reading 1739-69/10
For as the heaven is His throne, the earth is His footstool, so may we at His feet learn, know, become aware of, the knowledge of His ways. For He is not past finding out. For is God, the Father, so far away that He answers our pleas, our prayers, as from afar? Rather is His presence felt when we become aware of His force, His power, His love; the knowledge of His presence in our lives, our experiences, our undertakings in His name.
Edgar Cayce Reading 262-959/9For the greater individual is the one who is the servant of all. And to conquer self is greater than taking many cities. For, here ye may find humbleness as against that which cries oft for statement, and the feeling of not being appreciated. Express it more in the greater amount of love upon those who may be aided through thy effort. For, remember, man looks upon the things of the day but God looks upon the heart.
Edgar Cayce Reading 3253-29/08That there have been many problems and many questionings is true; yet when the entity has allowed or does allow itself to meditate upon the principles of the prompting which come from its study, its application of the law of the Lord which is manifested in the precepts, the commandments, the psalms and the promises of Jesus, little has been the fear of what the man-force has to offer as to disturbing factors in the earth.
Then, as would be given, keep that faith . . .
Do not let those things which may not in the present be understood weary thy soul, but know that sometime, somewhere, you, too, will understand. Keep the faith.
Edgar Cayce Reading 5369-29/07Know that the purpose for which each soul enters a material experience is that it may be as a light unto others; not as one boastful of self or of self's abilities in any phase of the experience, whether mental or material, but living, being in spirit that which is ideal and not idealistic alone, nor the unattainable.
For, as He hath given--if ye would know the Spirit, or God, search for Him; for happy ye will find Him.
Thus--in that consciousness of daily living and being that which is in keeping with the ideal--life and its problems becomes not a burden, but opportunities--for the greater expressions and expansions of self in knowing that as ye sow daily the fruit of the spirit, ye need not worry nor fret thyself as to its growth. God giveth the increase. Hence be not weary in well-doing.
Edgar Cayce Reading 641-69/06And as He has given, "In all thy getting, my Son, get understanding." This is putting proper emphasis in the proper places, and do not become sidetracked by things that would pertain to material or spiritual alone, or things of the body or things of the heavenly force. For you grow to heaven, you don't go to heaven. It is within thine own conscience that ye grow there. For there first must come peace and harmony within thy purpose, thy ideal, thy hopes, thy desires. Thy wishes even must be in harmony with thy ideal if you would make the experience in the earth of value to thee.
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'When something small and meaningless happens, it is protecting something big that is being born.'
9/12/2001