A Higher Calling

29 Sep 2010 Leave a Comment

by cosmicsandbox in Cosmic Consciousness, Energy Awareness, Politics Tags: , , , , , ,

In reality we are all just little kids in big bodies. It is even more obvious that this is so around an election season. The competition seems to pull out the ‘terrible two” in everyone. Unlike our playgrounds or nursery schools, these political playgrounds have no rules or adult supervision. It’s a free-for-all.

I think that human beings were created to grow and mature into compassionate creators like the Creator. This would be the highest calling. But upon observation of the world stage and its seven billion players, it doesn’t appear we have progressed past the first act.

What has gone wrong? How did we digress or devolve into such a sorry state of criticism, judgment and condemnation? We use our precious gift of language to bludgeon each other. We have had visitations of magnificent men and women demonstrating what a enlightened human looks like. They all said they weren’t the exception, but rather the example of what we all could be. Unfortunately, the masses managed to totally discredit them and/or murder them. But they did leave a blue print of what the human being could grow into.

These master teachers taught that our Truth meter was our heart. It remains connected to the Life Source and guides us to the higher calling throughout our lives. However, it gets drowned out by fears, cares and sorrows that sink deep roots when we are just very young children. We then build hard, dense walls around our hurt feelings and traumas and vowing to never have anyone penetrate our protective barriers.

Unfortunately, walls may keep some of the fears and sorrows out, but they also keep out love and joy in the process. The fear stunts our growth, makes us insecure and causes our world to resemble a kindergarten playground scene. Adults and rules are absent, which causes even more fear and a stronger desire to build bigger, thicker walls. So many are encased behind walls it seems natural and we don’t realize we’re not free.

We’ve forgotten the master teachers told us to be like them, so we no longer bother to compare our behavior to them. If we did, we might just wake up and realize we are more like the Prodigal Son in the pig pen. It is only when one acknowledges they are bottomed out and need help that they can begin a restoration.

However, it is very difficult to aspire to the higher calling of being fully humane when all around us our leaders are acting like five-year olds slinging mud at each other every day. Many of us probably feel we are a few steps higher on the ladder than they are. Plus, we are being fed to fear “them” 24/7 (including even our neighbors). They are encouraging us to take on a more radical “us vs. them” mentality. Divide and conquer seems to the goal here. But who is the unnamed conqueror behind the curtain pulling these levers? Good question!

Since we as individuals are cut off from our heart intelligence that would neutralize these assaults of fear mongering and mud-slinging, we get demoralized by it all, energy drained and anxious to hide at home and indulge some form of “numb out”. But we must not give in to these lethargic fatalistic urges. We DO have a higher calling. We ARE meant to be unique, magnificent creatures joyously creating beauty that inspire one another. Our hearts resonate to that beauty and truth always.

Many wise men and women today are advising us to turn off the T.V., stop reading the internet feeds of fear and terror, and get into the beautiful outdoors, breathe deeply and rediscover your Self. Fall deeply in love with that higher Self that knows unconditional love, true compassion, cooperation and peace. Then, after you’ve had a good fill up, go back out onto the world playground and speak your Truth. Refuse to cooperate with injustice. We can know in our hearts what ‘Right’ is and apply it in love. If many of us awaken out of the trance, we can tear down the walls that separate us and free ourselves from our prisons of fear, angst and apathy. Then we have a chance to bring some order to the playground and grow up. It is our Higher Calling after all.

A BETTER TEA PARTY

22 Apr 2010 Leave a Comment

by cosmicsandbox in Energy Awareness, Politics, Religious Right, Uncategorized, Unity and Oneness Consciousness Tags: , , , , , , , ,

I have discovered the most amazing and inspiring philosophy at the end of the string of Yogi Tea bags. Each tea bag has a wisdom proverb attached. One of them in particular states, “Act…Don’t react.” Many folks are reacting strongly to America’s current incarnation of a Tea Party movement. But reacting just moves things in a circular pattern. It’s possible that Yogi tea bag wisdom could help change the tide.

Taking the initiative, acting positively with intention is the way we move forward as individuals and a society. When we go unconsciousness and just react all the time, we stunt our emotional and spiritual growth. We can see this happening in real time right before our eyes. Polarized camps are facing off against each other everyday, yelling platitudes at each other. No one is progressing or learning anything.

The irony is that without the mass media, we would probably discover that most of us are on the same page when it comes to many issues that face us today. We want to have peace and security for our families, and the opportunity to support ourselves comfortably. But we get all agitated and inflamed when we absorb stories of strife from all over the world. It’s okay to stop listening to the avalanche of horrible news stories that we can do nothing about.

By eliminating the negative onslaught of reactive reporting we will have time and energy for positive input. This is where Yogi Wisdom can help us. Something simple on the end of a tea bag can be profound. Here are some priceless gems to ponder:

“When we practice listening, we become intuitive.” How wise is that? Listening is a lost art in our fast paced world overloaded with distractions. But if each of us made it a point to listen more than we speak each day and truly hear others, our whole world would shift.

In addition, Yogi says, “When we practice listening, we become intuitive.” Amazing, isn’t it? We all want to be intuitive and have super insight into baffling situations. But we must “Let our hearts speak to other hearts”. (another Yogi proverb) By doing this we would be able to understand one another. Think of what a world it could be if we took these Yogi wisdom sayings to heart:

“When ego is lost, limit is lost.”
“Love has no fear and no vengeance.”
“The mind is energy; regulate it.”
“Compassion has no limit…Kindness no enemy.”
“Life is a flow of love, your participation is requested.”

These speak for themselves and don’t need commentary. However, if we don’t meditate on the truths these proverbs provide we can slide into unconscious brutish behavior. If that continues too long, we stand a good chance of destroying ourselves as well as our planet. Violence in thought, word and deed begets more violence. Wars have never solved anything, but we don’t seem to learn this fact. Wars, fighting, and disrespectful arguing only fuels hatred and fear. As individuals we can’t do much to stop world conflict, but we do control our own neck of the woods.

Our influence in this world is limited to the people we can listen to heart to heart and see face to face. If we are doing that on a daily basis, we would have a city and country full of well adjusted, happy, productive people. That may sound outrageous, but I am convinced it’s true.

The last quote above about life being a flow of love; and your participation is requested is the focal point. If we want to be in the flow of love, we must listen to each other with compassion. We must try to hear what they are saying as if we were in their shoes, so to speak. Otherwise you can’t know what a friend or colleague is communicating.

Back in the day when actual debate was in vogue, diverse opinions were able to be thoroughly examined. People were able to make informed intelligent decisions about the issues. We need to attempt to resurrect a respectful debate climate in order to move forward as a society.

Ninety-nine percent of the time when people really listen and communicate with each other, they find agreement and solutions to their differences of opinions. The destructive habit of reaction leading to violence is eradicated. Let’s take a wise action and have a Yogi Tea Party instead.

REALISM OR SOCIALISM

03 Aug 2009 Leave a Comment

by cosmicsandbox in Politics, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , ,

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power we will have peace.” Jimmy Hendricks

There is hope for peace… if we learn how to listen to and really see each other. The human drive for power will rule the roost until a way is opened up within the heart to see and feel how that power affects the powerless. This point was driven home to me as I watched Bill Moyers Journal program on PBS this past weekend. A reformed and contrite CIGNA Insurance Co. executive, Wendell Potter, related how he had supported the insurance giant’s refusal to cover life threatening surgeries and treatments to increase their stockholder value.

Mr. Potter went into great detail explaining how the insurance companies use deceptive propaganda about regulated insurance calling it socialism. They lie to discredit anyone who exposes their draconian policies in an attempt to rein them in.

(You may view the entire interview on this link: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/. (You will be shocked and dismayed to hear the truth of what is really going on “under the hood” so to speak.)

What could possibly have caused Mr. Potter to do an about face and expose the almost criminal policies of his employer of many years? It turns out, he felt guided to attend a health care exposition in his home state of West Virginia while visiting family there. He assumed it would be a typical health fair with booths and free samples of health care goodies and free blood pressure testing.

However, what he saw was incredible to him. Doctors and nurses had set up tents to provide totally free care. Some even set up in the animal stalls. He saw people being treated on gurneys on the rain- soaked pavement. There were hundreds of people waiting in long lines. Some had driven long hours from surrounding states.

It dawned on him that some of these people could be folks he’d grown up with. He felt like he had been hit by a lightening bolt. He couldn’t believe he was in America! He had been so insulated in his ivory tower high rise in Philadelphia, flying on corporate jets with gold plated silverware. He realized that these poor uninsured citizens had no idea of the opulence afforded to corporate executives of health insurance companies.

In all the years he worked for CIGNA he had never come face to face with the reality of how the purging from the rolls, the raising of premiums and denying of claims had affected the average American. He said, “When you’re reporting to the financial analyst of the company all you think about are the numbers. You don’t think about individual people. You think only about meeting Wall Street’s expectations. It enables one to stay there if you don’t really think that you’re talking about and dealing with real human beings.”

After the health fair incident as he was struggling with how to reconcile his work with CIGNA and what he knew now as reality, a quote from Profiles in Courage by President John Kennedy haunted him. “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, maintain neutrality.” He knew this applied to him. He was transformed and resigned from CIGNA. Now he is telling the inside story of the mercenary tactics of the corporate giants that don’t want to lose power, and are willing to do anything to keep it.

Potter is just one man that has ‘seen the Light’ and responded with love for his fellow man. He gave up the lust for power for the love of people. He was only able to do this because he was led to SEE the reality from within his own heart. He was not badgered and criticized by activists. He was gifted the grace and space to open and take in the suffering of real people and see how his actions affected them on the ground. (Please do check out the program on PBS.)

Mr. Potter’s conversion inspired me to ponder, ‘how many more blind executives might be able to descend their ivory towers and empathize with the average American suffering under corporate greed and lust for power?’ Instead of just assuming they are all evil monsters, maybe we can encourage more of them to experience reality as Mr. Potter did. It can open the fortress a crack and let the Light shine in so the power of Love can do its perfect work.

WHAT TIME IS IT ANYWAY?!

23 Jan 2009 1 Comment

by cosmicsandbox in Cosmic Consciousness, Politics, Quantum Shifts, Unity and Oneness Consciousness Tags: , , , , , ,

          Is this the end times? Are all the prophesies of the Bible, Nostradamus, the Mayan, Aztec, and Hopi tribes unfolding now? If so, when will this happen? What is ending and what may be beginning? Some claim the end is 2012, some say it’s any day now, some say 2030 give or take a few years. There are many interpretations from which we can choose. We can also choose to focus on what is dying or what is being born. The majority chose to look to the birth of the new in  our last election. However, the minority chose to hold onto the past. 

            Our polarized tribal social systems have kept us running in place, clinging to a narrow “us vs. them” ideology that allows us to believe we are always right and they are always wrong… or we’re good and they’re evil. Americans haven’t had much incentive to break free of this limiting box, because we still believe that we’re in control to a certain extent. But that illusion of control is deteriorating now too, and fears of calamity are mounting.

            Catastrophes always seem to wake us up and open us up. We have a Dr. Phil “ How’s that workin’ for ya?” moment. Here again we can choose to see the lesson in the problem or let the problem overwhelm us.  Fear and confusion just block our ability to make better choices. Between the collapse of world financial markets, threat of a Middle East Armageddon scenario, a repeat of the 1930’s Great Depression, the return of the Ten Plagues of Egypt and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, many are close to a panic state.

            Who will save us? Is it time for the return of a savior to vanquish all the evil and restore the kingdom to the faithful? Is it time for the arrival of the mother ship from outer space to beam the faithful up? Some may have already left or “ascended” to Planet 2, a theoretical cloaked planet near here without as many bad guys (and gals) as our Earth . Others are doggedly slugging it out in the battle fields as God’s warriors, but each side believes God is only on their side.

            Since these deliverance scenarios have been in place for millennia in every tribe and religion, and the world hasn’t yet ended; we can pretty well deduce from history that they were not meant to be taken literally. They were meant to be taken as a symbolic or metaphorical description of a spiritually awakened understanding of the future rather than a literal interpretation. Most all the doomsday predictions point to our current period, which indicates that the time is now to shift gears and rise into that higher consciousness in order to see the big picture on a global scale. All prophesies include clear guidance as to how humanity can avoid total destruction by rising above tribal ignorance and cultural differences to discover our common yearning for peace and freedom. For example, the Hopi prophesies state “We are the ones we have been waiting for”.

            Many still choose to remain in tribal “us vs. them” boxes of prejudiced beliefs, fighting endless wars at home and abroad. But this is the very world system that is self destructing. We have played all the cards in the deck. This game is over- the game of “let’s see how long we can continue to destroy each other and the planet”.

            We can create a more positive end time scenario but we must choose to let go of our right to play God trying to control everything and live from the inside out with our hearts instead. We don’t have to wait until more catastrophes happen in our lives to turn the tide. Each one of us has the light of understanding in our core that we can access at anytime we choose. We call it our gut feeling, our sixth sense or intuition. It is a plumb line of justice and truth we can always use to measure and discern the bad, better and best individually and collectively. Our collective thoughts can create a new reality.

            What time is it? It is time to choose the world we want to create. The time is NOW.

CAN WE CHANGE?

06 Dec 2008 Leave a Comment

by cosmicsandbox in Energy Awareness, Politics, Stress Relief Tags: , , , , , , ,

Now that we have successfully decided to CHANGE as a group, what is the next step? Changing a nation is a lot like changing a person. Number one…no one can change another person. Number two…the person needing change must really, really want to change. That means that they have decided what they are doing isn’t working for them anymore. 

As a nation we have pretty much decided what we don’t want and what is not working for us anymore. The majority really want a change. But what do we want? It isn’t enough to know what we don’t want.

Most of us can conjure up long lists of what we don’t want and rattle it off without even trying. But when you ask someone, “What do you really want for your life?” or “What is your purpose for being here?” they glaze over. As a nation we could glaze over very easily because we haven’t focued our energy deeply into the issues of what we want this nation to look and feel like. We just know what we don’t like.

The new President cannot do all the heavy lifting himself. He can suggest ideas as to how to create wealth on Main Street, end wars, provide universal health care, etc. etc. But unless we take some time and ponder these issues ourselves and maybe even have discussions with friends and colleagues about them, nothing much will be created or change. We will slow the process for lasting change and maybe even get more of what we don’t want!

The icky issue is that each of us is a microcasm of the macrocasm, and that means we each have to solve the wars, economic failures, health issues and social glitches in our personal lives immediately if not sooner!  We expect Obama to ride in as a white knight and wave a wand and heal our critically ill nation/world like Merlin the magician. Not realistic. More wishful thinking.

I hate the fact that I have to take full responsibility for my life and the messes I have made. I have been waiting for Prince Charming, Robin Hood, The Rapture, you name it for decades. I want so badly to think that it really can happen – a miracle on 34th street or whatever. But the reality check is that I have to step up and answer “Present.”  Am I present? Am I aware? Am I conscious? Do I really SEE reality?

The curtain is down on the wizard. Toto (the dog whose name means your EVERYTHING) has pulled it down and exposed the fraud that has been masquarading as our American Dream Life. The shoot out at the OK corral has just finished. Now we as the townspeople or the Munchkins in Oz get to decide what and who we want to run the show. But we have been drunk on greed and materialism just as our leaders have been. We have to sober up, quickly!

We need to step up here and figure out what we want as individuals and what we want as towns and counties and states and nations. That means we probably have to spend less time in front of the TV. We may have to actually meet our neighbors and talk to them about what they want. Wow, what a concept!

In a way we are resurrecting the 60′s without LSD! If we had pulled the drug abuse out of the movement, it would have been exactly what we need today. The 1960′s was about being authentic, loving and aware.  What a great combination. 

I am ecouraged by this mess we have in the US. (For those of you in other countries, I’m sorry you can’t be here in person for this party BUT you can join virtually!). We are on the brink of finding out just how fabulous and absolutely transcendent we really are. Amazing things are about to happen as we discover what we can do when we wake up and actually SEE each other.

I think I may have gone on too long for this post, but I will be back soon for more fun ideas as to how we can literally put Humpty Dumpty back together.  Yes we can!

TRICK OR TREAT ELECTION

27 Oct 2008 3 Comments

by cosmicsandbox in Politics Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

 

TRICK OR TREAT ELECTIONS

 

Halloween and political elections are a lot alike, I’ve discovered. I was debating with myself about the subject for this week’s post. Should I write about Halloween or the elections? That’s when I realized how much they have in common!

Halloween is a day set aside to send children out disguised as something or someone else to get a treat from others or they will trick them. Election day we send our citizens to a polling place to choose from disguised candidates and hope we don’t get tricked in the end.

Last year I published an article called “A Hidden Halloween”. It was about how we hide from ourselves and each other behind masks everyday. We role-play the Good Girl, the Hero, the Prince/Princess, the Warrior, etc. etc. Seldom do we ever take the time or the effort to go inside ourselves to discover if we really are that good girl, hero, prince/princess, warrior or whatever.

How sad to live a whole life as someone else and never really know oneself. But sadder still is that people who are not authentic can’t discern whether another person is being authentic or not. We’re in costume and so are our candidates. No one knows who anyone really is. Trick or Treat!

There is some good news though. Just the awareness that most everyone is in costume can be liberating and can lead to understanding and insight of the truth of a matter or person. What we see is not always what we get. Unmasked we can ask the deeper questions that go to the intentions and motives behind the costume or persona. Is their true intention to serve the best interests of all the people and not just a priviledged few? Do they want to unify and heal the divided factions?

This is where the heart comes into play because it doesn’t play trick or treat games. If we can engage our hearts in our decisions we will be able to FEEL the truth inside ourselves. Deep down we know that hate and violence never solve anything or bring peace. We when witness candidates attacking character, inflaming violent or fear-ridden emotions, our hearts break inside. We experience a sour taste in our mouths.

We also experience the same physical reactions when we do violence to ourselves in words, thoughts or deeds. These are the body’s thermometers to let us know we are being incongruent. The inside is not matching the outside. We are in our costume again. Just seeing this helps us to be able to take off the mask and get real. Only then will we see others more clearly and be able to tell the truth from the lies.

Halloween and elections should be totally incompatible – no similarity. But because our emotional and intellectual growth has been stunted, we want to stay in denial of reality. We don’t want to admit to ourselves that our leadership is corrupt or that they are deceiving us. We don’t want to take the time and effort to actually fact-find and reason things out. It’s almost like we want to stay in OZ and believe the Wizard. But now that the disgusting underbelly of the financial world has been exposed, maybe we can muster the courage to look at the underbelly of the political world.

It is time to grow up, wake up and smell the coffee. We are adults here, not the kids in costumes trick or treating through life. None of us is one dimensional, able to be defined in one or two words. Yet that is how we are assessing our candidates. It’s as if they had on a Halloween costume. It does take time and effort to understand others and complex issues. But freedom isn’t free. We can’t just turn over our choices and our rights to whomever appears willing to lead. That is childish. Children aren’t independent and free. Only conscious adults can be independent and free.

We can take off our masks and costumes, get authentic with ourselves, have integrity with others and discern truth in our communities. Don’t trick or treat through this election. The trick is way too costly!

 

 

 

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