Reality the Great Illusion

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Playing in the Fields of Consciousness

By Rev. Sydney Salt

            Through this age of technology, we see into windows of the world that were previously hidden from us.  And it is often both enlightening and perplexing to see how much suffering can be witnessed all over our planet both in human and natures many forms.

            There have been times when I am filled simultaneously with compassion and distress, feeling a sense of impotence; asking what I personally could do to alleviate such suffering.  Yet most times I see these dramas in the world as playing fields; schools of learning where people can experience an evolving of their spiritual journey by participating in a personal and collective story.

            It seems to me that by confronting our personal challenges, it sets a course for liberation by creating an environment to make new choices from a cellular knowing.  By engaging our emotional responses to a physical circumstance, we become more alive, awakening from our old patterns of behavior to confront what seems to be adversity, whether it comes in the form of illness, separation from a loved one, financial or war crises.  What these circumstances do most profoundly is ignite the emotions within us and it is this aspect of our being that acts as a catalyst and integration point to move us forward.  Perhaps if we were to see our adversities as gifts from the source of our being – an opportunity the soul has created and embraced to evolve its individual and collective nature - then we could see its value and meaning from a much richer perspective.  We begin to see that each person, each circumstance, plays a role in expanding our consciousness, causing us to question what it is we truly believe and want, and ultimately returning us to a place of self-love and compassion for each other.

            I no longer see the world as catastrophic but rather as an ever-unfolding, conspiring of nature and human consciousness, providing thousands of “playgrounds” to learn and grow, activating our abilities to create and co-create our reality.  It is within this context of consciousness; we can become more aware of our soul’s path which challenges us to move from victim consciousness into one of free will and empowerment.

            In recent years, I have been hiding out.  Because of my early life experiences, I alternatively desired invisibility to avoid being a target of others jealousy, ridicule or judgment and yet wanted to be recognized and valued for my abilities and contributions.  It has been an intriguing dance, watching where I get caught between the desires of the ego and the yearning of the soul.  What I am most aware of these days, is that the “system” I operated under was stimulated by my egoic nature whose fear of loss, change and death kept me in a playground that was somewhat safe and predictable.  But in recent months that playground has become too comfortable, too small.  It is time to move to a new playing field, one where I can learn new things and contribute more.

            Just as the wisdom of Buddha speaks of suffering as a path to enlightenment, in retrospect I have felt blessed to participate in my own dramas over the years.  Yet I feel another turn on the evolutionary spiral where we, as humanity, can move beyond suffering into an exquisite lightness of being.  It is my hope that we are laying the foundations for this now as the world we once  knew is reconstructing itself from an age of suffering to a time of liberation for all.

Reverend Sydney Salt is a spiritual counselor, writer and ceremonialist. 

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She offers guided meditations for individuals, groups, by phone and in-person.   

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Divide and Conquer-Are You Hooked In?

By Jean Henderson

09/01/2007

Are you losing yourself?  Are you living according to other people’s rules and agendas?  Do you feel free or restricted?  You are a sovereign being that like most of us have fallen prey to the mind traps of society. Our minds are programmed to follow systems set up by others.  The mind sets or beliefs are usually limiting you.  These mind sets keep you in a place of restriction and these programs actually keep you in a continual and automatic state of playing the game according to the believed rules. I will call the game the Matrix and getting yourself free involves being aware of the traps and being able to see the programs for what they are and not getting attached or hooked into them.

The game has some very innovative and often subtle programs to keep you stuck in the Matrix.  They are mind sets or beliefs that you are taught to believe.  Most of programs have been with you so long that you do not even know you are operating under a certain belief system or mind set.  The programs form the reality you are experiencing and are set in your subconscious mind.  At first it is just a belief, you believe what you are told and after a while it is hardwired into your subconscious mind and you are continually operating under the belief.  Examine your beliefs, as they are creating your reality.  A good way to understand what your beliefs may be is to see what is occurring in your life.  If you are having some financial problems for instance, you can guarantee you have some erroneous beliefs about money.  Most of the beliefs were programmed by others, who have been authority figures and you have obediently believed them to be true.  Not all these programs were done maliciously to harm you, they were believed by generation after generation as the way things are. The programs are set up to control and confine you.  The Matrix is actually built and held in place by the belief system of the mass consciousness. If the majority of the people believe a certain thing that creates the reality most people live under. The reality is not real though, it is just believed to be real.  We are living under the illusion of what the majority believes to be true.

One of these programs I call the “Divide and Conquer” mentality.  This program is basically designed and set up to keep you feeling separate and not operating from a place of empowerment.  This program reinforces the belief that you are not “good enough” and views independent thinking as a poor choice, as it is better to believe what the majority believes. 

This program has a long heritage and can be seen everywhere.  One example of this program in action is our religious belief systems.  Religions are set up for you to follow and believe what someone else has deemed to be true through their filtering and perception.  This is true whether the religious system is Christian, Mormon, Jewish, Muslim, and the other multitude of religious organizations.  The organization or church focuses on a belief system and gets people to buy into that system.  Often if you have doubts or questions or know of a way this serves you better you can be ostracized, made to feel guilty, shamed, or worse.  Jesus was actually persecuted and killed because he was teaching other concepts not held by the majority of the people.   These are techniques done to get you to comply with the majority of believers or followers.  Your own ideas or perceptions are not wanted, as the system wants followers, not leaders.  The idea is to have you conform to the belief system and blindly follow.  Many religious organizations also want you to believe that their organization is the one true belief system, thus continuing the “Divide and Conquer” mentality as other people who do not believe what they do are considered, wrong, inferior and a line of separation is perpetually created.

Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines the word divide as follows: to cause to be separate, distinct, or apart from one another; to separate into opposing sides or parties and division as; to become separated or disunited especially in opinion or interest.  The definition of conquer from the same source is: to gain or acquire by force of arms; to overcome by force of arms; to gain mastery over or win by overcoming obstacles or opposition ; to overcome by mental or moral power.   If a person, system, or organization can make you feel separate from their beliefs or cause you to join into their belief you have just set yourself up in the mentality of separatism.  The conquering aspect comes in when you make others that believe differently than you the enemy or the opposite, you get to retain the position of I am correct and they must be taught to believe what the rest of us believe or pay the price for non-conformity. You may be able to see our Government in action here.

Corporate America is another great “Divide and Conquer” system. Many corporations are set up in a hierarchical fashion.  The top of the system decides all the rules and you must comply or be fired. You are somewhere on the corporate ladder and there are people above you and below you.  This system is a great form of separation and you are taught to comply.  You are paid according to what someone else thinks your value is.  This does not foster empowerment and in fact disempowers its people.  Some of the more innovative corporations have realized that there is a problem and have taken up teamwork as the answer to their solution, this is definitely a step in the right direction if set up as a cooperative effort where everyone has a voice. Most teams are not set up this way currently.

America is moving into home based businesses as many are breaking away from the Matrix.  People want to create their own rules, taking their own responsibility and deciding what their value is.  This in essence is a good thing as people are forced to look at options, as they have been disempowered, stressed and unhappy.  I am very hopeful that this group of people will start to work with others and create a system of unity, working together as empowered individuals, honoring each other for our own unique gifts and talents.

By living authentically and knowing who we are is the way out of the Matrix. You are a powerful divine being that has been playing a game of “less than”.  Caught in the opinions and beliefs of others you have diminished yourself and the very essence you are.  You get to decide what is right for you. You abuse your power when you think you can decide what is right for others. 

 We can replace the “Divide and Conquer” mentality with one that actually says “United We Stand”.  This is not done by standing against others and making them wrong, unity is formed by including everyone. We are moving toward a global consciousness based on unity of all people, diversity is wanted as it brings with it many new perceptions to explore and expand us. We are all one people and everyone is a divine being in many different states of awareness.  We can raise the bar to be an inclusive community of harmony for all.  If we continue to hold onto the mind set of exclusivity, we continue the game of separation.  To move beyond the “Divide and Conquer” mentality we must start to think for ourselves.  We can look at the mind sets and decide if they are a program we want to consciously attach to, are they serving me?  Am I free to be me in the program, or am I restricted and having to adapt and lose part of me. It does not matter if you choose to be part of a mind set, the difference is you are actually choosing the mind set and are aware of your choice. The time has come for you to be part of this grand reality shifting experience and we want you to show up in all your brilliance. You get to decide what part of the masterpiece you create. You get to consciously choose the reality you are wanting to experience. You are the one you have been waiting for! 

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world”  

  Mahatma Gandhi

“We don’t live in a world of reality; we live in a world of perceptions”

  Gerald J. Simmons

“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance”

Orville Wright

Jean is a life change coach who specializes in helping you create change in your life in a supportive, co-created process.

“I help you move beyond your current limitations to creating your dream life”

www.welcomesuccess.com

You can contact Jean at amlivinglove@yahoo.com

Love- Without condition?

By Jean Henderson

09/03/07

Is not everyone deserving of love? I have seen the programs of conditional love in my own upbringing.  The children were taught if you act in a certain way, you will receive the attention and affection of the parent.    If you did not do what was requested, love was denied and you were punished for not following the conditioned love response. Many children were taught to conform to receive love.  I am seeing how this same program is still very present today; people in relationships will give and deny love based on how the other person is performing to their satisfaction.  Can we be free to be? 

I myself tried the online dating websites for awhile and realized if I was to find an appropriate partner I would have to define and categorize who I would love, they would have to have a certain financial status, height, weight, education and on and on. A truly amazing thing happened after the categorizing was put in place, I met these people and they were nothing like they had portrayed themselves.  I even contacted one who claimed to be a very open minded, spiritually based and non-judgmental.  We talked on the phone and when I confessed I was a smoker trying to quit, he exclaimed “Call me when you are a non-smoker”.  I am not sure what happened to his premise of non-judgment.  Of course I take full responsibility for my actions here as I was also categorizing and limiting who I was in my profile.  I should have just exclaimed, “Goddess looking for another God”, those with too many restrictions and limitations need not apply, I want to be me and free.

 Have we become a society that controls love?  Have our definitions of what a perfect partner consists of, actually kept us away from the perfect partner?

Due to my family background, I was a person who definitely did not want to follow in the family footsteps of conditional love.  To me unconditional love was the only answer, so everyone who came my way I loved unconditionally and freely.  A problem arose here also, while I was loving them unconditionally, they were walking all over me.  So after much introspection I decided, I must love myself first.  This was the answer, to see the beauty in myself, the loving divine Goddess I truly am.  If you can see me and I can see you, we can dance together, free to be. 

My definition of love is a little different than most now.  Love to me, means LIVING ONES VIBRANT ESSENCE.  Living a life that is true for you, being who you really are and displaying your essence and passion for the entire world to see.  Being me has not been as difficult as I once perceived, being who someone else wanted me to be has been exhausting. So I have come to a place in my life if you show me yours, I will show you mine.  We stand naked, unencumbered by our own or others agendas and it feels good to be free.

Jean is a life change coach who specializes in helping you create change in your life in a supportive, co-created process.

“I help you move beyond your current limitations to creating your dream life”

www.welcomesuccess.com

You can contact Jean at amlivinglove@yahoo.com

HAS STEWART SWERDLOW SOLVED THE RUBIK CUBE OF THE MIND???-by Thaahum

Many people live by the philosophy that things aren’t always what they seem, and that what you think is true is really a cover-up for a Real Truth that goes beyond our "average" perception. Some may call these people "conspiracy theorists", "truth seekers", or even "nuts." Whatever name you call them, it could be agreed that there aren’t many outlets for these people to openly express their ideas, and find that "truth" they seek. Author and lecturer Stewart Swerdlow has devoted a great part of his life attempting to fill this void and provide that outlet through what he calls "Hyperspace Healing Techniques," and His new book, 13-Cubed: Case Studies in Mind-Control and Programming. Swerdlow, has been proclaimed a healer, intuitive, and a "Mind-Pattern Analyst;" one who determines how ones thoughts affect their health, life situations, and reality altogether. His clients range from teachers, doctors, and even directors, producers, and actors in the entertainment industry. 

13-Cubed goes a step further than a lot of books of a similar nature, and in a detail-oriented way attempts to help those as Swerdlow says were victims of intentional programming by an elite group he says he was forced to work with in a covert government experiment called "The Montauk Project." The book gives an elaborate view of 13 different case studies written by people who claim to have been victims of mind-control experimentation. "I came up with the title because 13 is an Illuminati number representing the totality of mind programming," he explained. At the end of each chapter, Swerdlow gives a breakdown of what each patient experienced, and gives different healing and "deprogramming" techniques he used to help the clients. "I help clients remove the trauma in layers. Once the overlays of programming are removed, there are things a person can do to protect themselves from this happening to them again. Once protected, the person can create with their own thoughts without any outside influences." The stories sound stranger than fiction, and whether you believe them or not, you will certainly get the impression that the writers believe that what they are describing actually happened to them. At the end of the book are articles written by Janet Swerdlow, Stewart’s wife, which gives further tips on "neutralizing" the effects of mind-control, and releasing the victimization mind-pattern within ones’ self.

Interestingly this book has sparked the interests of people worldwide, and from all walks of life According to Stewart, a medical doctor told him that this was the greatest book on psychiatric work ever written. Overall this book satisfies the curiosity one may have on the topics of mind-control and programming, and should answer the questions of the mysterious unknown.

For more information on Stewart Swerdlow and His work, go to www.expansions.com

Copyright 2008

 (Thaahum)

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