This week an earthquake trembled the Mid-Atlantic states, causing wide spread damage, including creating cracks in the Washington Monument and tumbling parts of the National Cathedral. This coming weekend, hurricane Irene will visit this area, and is expected to double punch the same area.
I grew up quoting, "Life is Consciousness," "We reap what we sow." And from this viewpoint, it seems Nature is now following these true sayings. For proof, consider how we have heard constant politicizing from our national legislators and media pundits alike, creating frustration, deadlock, and missed opportunity when we should have heard governance and the majority rule. The spin and reversion of reports has twisted facts to the point our moral compass has gone on the blitz, accepting as SOP lies and intentional manipulation. In this atmosphere of exhaustion and void of straight truth, the country -- which was first settled and founded for religious freedoms -- has moved away in mass from all religion, which use to feed our collective moral compass and give us strength in times of trouble. Many younger citizens only know "God" as part of a social media exclamation or advertising slogan -- OMG!
Emmet Fox, New Thought author and mega-metaphysical lecturer of the 1930's, when the country was recovering from another Great Depression, brought on by financial house schemes and war, told the audience "Life is Consciousness". He was telling them that however they perceived their current circumstances, so they were. Henry Ford worded this thus, "Whether you think you can, or can't, you're right."
Our thoughts (energy-emotion charged beliefs) determine our mood, how we see the world around us, or even if we see the world around us. Mind is creation and we can choose to create from our nature of Love or it's opposite.
If "Life is Consciousness", at what cost have we wallowed in uncompromising, separatist actions in enduring the gridlock in the Hill's governance? Does the pundit spin and hidden agenda posturing have a greater cost than just to our way of governance, but our environment as well? And what have each of us contributed to this folly? What words come out of our mouths, what fears invade our hopes and desires?
I guess few really see Michael Ende's "Neverending Story" as more than a child's tale. So many aren't considering that our environment, the planet upon we ride through space, might be communicating with us -- even responding to our mass emo-energy charged thoughts, words, actions.
As we close the radio program each week: You are the thinker of the thoughts that shape your world; think wisely.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Energy affects
Tuesday, while I was out with my mother looking at cars, I experienced an Energy Effect; best way I can explain it. It was the same afternoon when the verdict in the Casey Anthony case was announced, and many outside the courthouse and elsewhere, railed against the verdict with passion. As shown on the national news channels, many were thrown off balance by a verdict that wasn't even thought possible. The media convicted Casey Anthony long ago and the viewer were well prepared for the guilty verdict. Then it didn't come. And the sense of a system broken, perhaps betrayal or mistrust overwhelmed those who had put such focus on this case, seeking their programmed form of justice.
The same afternoon, I was helping my mother find a car to replace the one she lost to a flash flood recently. She set her criteria and we started the online and on foot search to meet that criteria. She wanted something less than five years old, with under 40K miles in her price range of under $19K. I helped her find some candidates and we set out to review them.
Then we can to the BMW dealer (the same one we had purchased the BMW that sank) and our former salesman guided her to "one I want to you test drive before we talk about it, we just got this in." We did and it was a 2003 with 112K miles and seemed old. When we returned we made sure he understood it didn't fit our criteria, and he had one more within our price range in the detail shop, which he was reluctant to show but would for his long time customers.
I decided to stay in the waiting room, sure this 2003 BMW wagon would not fit the bill and it was a waste of time. But she humored him and went to see it. She returned to tell me she was buying this one and we didn't need to go to a somewhat distant town to view one that fit our criteria totally.
I felt much like those who stood outside the Orange County Courthouse. Dumbfounded. Betrayed. Certainly off balance. Unlike them, I started immediately to know that there was something good in my situation and since I had just said my short prayer or affirmation, then I needed to trust Spirit was in charge. But this didn't keep me from letting some of my disbelief from shinning through, and mother, with whom I have always been close, soon picked up on my feelings. "Shouldn't you test drive it? Why pay that much for a car soon to be 10 years old (even though it was a BMW; I drive a BMW that is close to 20 years in age)." So I started a war inside working on trusting, then expressing some other statement of disbelief. By the next day, we could talk about it and Mother and I came to an understand, she went to the dealer to test drive the car, and I accepted her decision to purchase it.
How much of my burst of disbelief was coming from my own situation, and how much was I tapping into from the global consciousness as people around the world discovered the media had focused on the wrong verdict? How many events in our day-to-day life is influenced by a greater energy? Maybe I am just developing through my own work to do so, but it seems to me many of us are more connected to this global energy and are affected by it.
If this is true it ever so important for all who are aware of a global energy, to work with it, send love and peace and harmony through it and be aware in their own situation that maybe something more than the immediate place and event is are influencing their emotions and actions. Certainly working with the Global Consciousness Project or using the emWave2 device to train our heart coherence at this time is good. But perhaps just as good is simply knowing that whatever the unexpected news or event, affirm, "Something Good is coming from this for me, and I accept it now."
The same afternoon, I was helping my mother find a car to replace the one she lost to a flash flood recently. She set her criteria and we started the online and on foot search to meet that criteria. She wanted something less than five years old, with under 40K miles in her price range of under $19K. I helped her find some candidates and we set out to review them.
Then we can to the BMW dealer (the same one we had purchased the BMW that sank) and our former salesman guided her to "one I want to you test drive before we talk about it, we just got this in." We did and it was a 2003 with 112K miles and seemed old. When we returned we made sure he understood it didn't fit our criteria, and he had one more within our price range in the detail shop, which he was reluctant to show but would for his long time customers.
I decided to stay in the waiting room, sure this 2003 BMW wagon would not fit the bill and it was a waste of time. But she humored him and went to see it. She returned to tell me she was buying this one and we didn't need to go to a somewhat distant town to view one that fit our criteria totally.
I felt much like those who stood outside the Orange County Courthouse. Dumbfounded. Betrayed. Certainly off balance. Unlike them, I started immediately to know that there was something good in my situation and since I had just said my short prayer or affirmation, then I needed to trust Spirit was in charge. But this didn't keep me from letting some of my disbelief from shinning through, and mother, with whom I have always been close, soon picked up on my feelings. "Shouldn't you test drive it? Why pay that much for a car soon to be 10 years old (even though it was a BMW; I drive a BMW that is close to 20 years in age)." So I started a war inside working on trusting, then expressing some other statement of disbelief. By the next day, we could talk about it and Mother and I came to an understand, she went to the dealer to test drive the car, and I accepted her decision to purchase it.
How much of my burst of disbelief was coming from my own situation, and how much was I tapping into from the global consciousness as people around the world discovered the media had focused on the wrong verdict? How many events in our day-to-day life is influenced by a greater energy? Maybe I am just developing through my own work to do so, but it seems to me many of us are more connected to this global energy and are affected by it.
If this is true it ever so important for all who are aware of a global energy, to work with it, send love and peace and harmony through it and be aware in their own situation that maybe something more than the immediate place and event is are influencing their emotions and actions. Certainly working with the Global Consciousness Project or using the emWave2 device to train our heart coherence at this time is good. But perhaps just as good is simply knowing that whatever the unexpected news or event, affirm, "Something Good is coming from this for me, and I accept it now."
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
The Change has begun
For those of us who follow spirituality and conscious science, we have been aware of a great change, or crossroads, and most have expected it in the 2010-12 time frame. Some have pointed to the end of Mayan Calendars or other cultures' time writings, and prophets predictions and dreams. The spiritual scientists have known that the systems seem to point to this time for some kind of change, some shift of energy, some correction of course. In 2006 these scientists were discussing that we in America were at a crossroad, and our decisions would lead the balance of the world in one direction or another -- a bright future, where we prove we have learned our cosmic lessons and move toward enlightenment; or choose more the same, a darker future of war and limitation and separateness. But this time has been discussed, meditated upon, analyzed and imagined for at least four decades, if not more. Over this time small movements have organized, offering some kind of intention or meditation or energy shift in hopes to influence the choice for a the bright future.
Many among us viewed the "Yes we can" movement of our last election to be part of this positive push, though some have wondered if we strayed off course at times. But I think the events we are watching unfold in north Africa and the Mideast are part of the path to our bright future. Perhaps even the weather events are indications of the release of the frustration, oppression, fear, misguided power that have captured at one time or another most of the peoples of the planet. It is much like our pinned up frustration at our jobs, so we go to a movie where someone shoots up the very environment our repressed emotions want released from.
I applaud the people of Tunisia and Egypt and those who follow, in seeking their democratic identity. They are finding their voices, their personal power; they are growing up as citizens of the planet. True Democracy is for grown ups. At its core is a self-responsibility as well as communal self determinism, and a requirement for a self directed engagement in the process that doesn't stop with the ballot box. Leadership "by the people" only works if those people are willing to take their turn in serving the process, in a unselfish and humble manner, promoting the common good over individual gain.
And I am in aw of images of these multi-generational protesters with their signs in languages other than their own native, so that the camera can see their message directly from the source, not a spin by a reporter -- intentional or not. They want to be heard, and heard they are through social media and cellular communications when possible, as well through any other means. They have gotten the attention of the world, they are igniting something deep inside our conscience -- whether we live in a country who have enjoyed the liberty they call for, or in a country still yet to dream it -- and that is, how we are all connected through our basic humanness and need for respect, dignity, right to choose for oneself, to be responsible for ourselves and the actions of the larger society to which we choose to belong.
I watch these events with more hope and promise for a bright future for the people of the planet than ever before. In part because the crusty and controlling regimes that were based in fear, hate, revenge, terror, and personal gain are coming to an end. They are being ejected by the only people who could, those who lived under them. And from a higher perspective, I see this as the result of those little movements who have offered little positive pushes and thoughts and prayers over the decades. So let's not stop now, let's not be too busy to spend daily time in prayer, mediation or just our energy of love sending it out into this planet and it's people to be free. The next eighteen months may be a bit more active and bumpy than 'normal.' But when has a semester exam not been challenging or stressful?
Many among us viewed the "Yes we can" movement of our last election to be part of this positive push, though some have wondered if we strayed off course at times. But I think the events we are watching unfold in north Africa and the Mideast are part of the path to our bright future. Perhaps even the weather events are indications of the release of the frustration, oppression, fear, misguided power that have captured at one time or another most of the peoples of the planet. It is much like our pinned up frustration at our jobs, so we go to a movie where someone shoots up the very environment our repressed emotions want released from.
I applaud the people of Tunisia and Egypt and those who follow, in seeking their democratic identity. They are finding their voices, their personal power; they are growing up as citizens of the planet. True Democracy is for grown ups. At its core is a self-responsibility as well as communal self determinism, and a requirement for a self directed engagement in the process that doesn't stop with the ballot box. Leadership "by the people" only works if those people are willing to take their turn in serving the process, in a unselfish and humble manner, promoting the common good over individual gain.
And I am in aw of images of these multi-generational protesters with their signs in languages other than their own native, so that the camera can see their message directly from the source, not a spin by a reporter -- intentional or not. They want to be heard, and heard they are through social media and cellular communications when possible, as well through any other means. They have gotten the attention of the world, they are igniting something deep inside our conscience -- whether we live in a country who have enjoyed the liberty they call for, or in a country still yet to dream it -- and that is, how we are all connected through our basic humanness and need for respect, dignity, right to choose for oneself, to be responsible for ourselves and the actions of the larger society to which we choose to belong.
I watch these events with more hope and promise for a bright future for the people of the planet than ever before. In part because the crusty and controlling regimes that were based in fear, hate, revenge, terror, and personal gain are coming to an end. They are being ejected by the only people who could, those who lived under them. And from a higher perspective, I see this as the result of those little movements who have offered little positive pushes and thoughts and prayers over the decades. So let's not stop now, let's not be too busy to spend daily time in prayer, mediation or just our energy of love sending it out into this planet and it's people to be free. The next eighteen months may be a bit more active and bumpy than 'normal.' But when has a semester exam not been challenging or stressful?
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Toucan Words launch
Toucan Films now has a sister, Toucan Words, the name for the publishing business.I guess its birth was around 1:11 a.m. on May 11, 2010. The first project is to publish "A Case of Intent", P.S. Barta, in an ePub format for iPad and other digital readers.
It might seem strange to launch a publishing business in these uncertain times. Many small and independent presses have closed their doors, along with small bookstores, as the publishing industry under goes technology and economic changes. Technologies such as print on demand, and the ebook readers, has rewritten the business model. Some distribution companies, like Baker & Taylor and Ingram have embraced these changes by opening new POD/Order units, which eliminates warehousing, which brings down costs.
Toucan Words will strive to the same standards as Toucan Films, producing "engaging stories, enlarging minds, enriching lives." Soon we will be accepting queries.
It might seem strange to launch a publishing business in these uncertain times. Many small and independent presses have closed their doors, along with small bookstores, as the publishing industry under goes technology and economic changes. Technologies such as print on demand, and the ebook readers, has rewritten the business model. Some distribution companies, like Baker & Taylor and Ingram have embraced these changes by opening new POD/Order units, which eliminates warehousing, which brings down costs.
Toucan Words will strive to the same standards as Toucan Films, producing "engaging stories, enlarging minds, enriching lives." Soon we will be accepting queries.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Restarting yet again
Due to several events and distractions, work on The Active Mind came to a standstill several months ago. It was as if I went dull, the project taken away, dissolved. For the first time since the beginning in 2004, the energy and momentum was completely stopped. And I couldn't seem to find a way back.
I even found at first it difficult to meditate on the film. When I would try, other events quickly invaded my inward screen, demanding my attention. Emotions seemed distant, dull leaving me no choice but to simply get through the day. And that I did, sometimes filling my hours with a hobby, others with just getting through. Now and then I would try to think about the big questions, like should I continue the film or what do I really do to help the world. I had an increasing drive to become relevant, do something that made a difference. Yet, as an idea come to mind, often upon waking in the morning, it would soon fleet away before my head raised from the pillow. So I did what I could, which was often just counting the chimes of the clock or watching the weather.
Then one day, as I again attempted to meditate, I felt a shift in the energy of the planet, and a oneness with that Allness, that warmth radiating from me called Love. As I watched news events, accessing if the film was still relevant, needed, mine to do, I started to hear themes in the anchors' reports. So many reports seemed to identify the creative and powerful energy of thought, only to fall back into our mechanistic thinking. This film still has a role to play.
The Marianne Williamson's quote that starts with "Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure" now hangs on my wall. This section is now marked, "Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you." I then realized the film and other creative projects started to disappear because of my reaction to harsh criticism and quick judgments of me, of my abilities and strengths. I started to accept other's limitations that they so willingly shared with me. The price of this was cutting the ties I have spent a lifetime cultivating, connections to the Allness of God, Creation, Infinite Source. In this effort to adopt the opinions of others about me, my body started to experience dysfunction, my mind started to stall and my lips stopped singing or laughing.
This is the theme I heard in the anchors' reports. We all are tempted to make real their stories of lack, fear and oil domination. Which means even those of us who have studied and worked the power of thought haven't integrated our spiritual understanding with our daily societal living. Thus, this film is still relevant and very much needed. It is time for us as a nation, as a human race, to understand that we create this experience. Whether you choose to understand that from the viewpoint that a person with happy frame of mind has a better time of it going through life than the one that only sees and therefore attracts challenging events, or from the viewpoint and understanding "It's all illusions!", it is still true. Science is starting to define this Truth, that the early metaphysicians discovered through their own seeking in the Silence. And when we open ourselves up to the Allness of God, we open ourselves up to all knowledge, all creation, and to our own source of greatness and purpose.
So I restart again, as we all have the chance to do, to become part of The Active Mind.
I even found at first it difficult to meditate on the film. When I would try, other events quickly invaded my inward screen, demanding my attention. Emotions seemed distant, dull leaving me no choice but to simply get through the day. And that I did, sometimes filling my hours with a hobby, others with just getting through. Now and then I would try to think about the big questions, like should I continue the film or what do I really do to help the world. I had an increasing drive to become relevant, do something that made a difference. Yet, as an idea come to mind, often upon waking in the morning, it would soon fleet away before my head raised from the pillow. So I did what I could, which was often just counting the chimes of the clock or watching the weather.
Then one day, as I again attempted to meditate, I felt a shift in the energy of the planet, and a oneness with that Allness, that warmth radiating from me called Love. As I watched news events, accessing if the film was still relevant, needed, mine to do, I started to hear themes in the anchors' reports. So many reports seemed to identify the creative and powerful energy of thought, only to fall back into our mechanistic thinking. This film still has a role to play.
The Marianne Williamson's quote that starts with "Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure" now hangs on my wall. This section is now marked, "Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you." I then realized the film and other creative projects started to disappear because of my reaction to harsh criticism and quick judgments of me, of my abilities and strengths. I started to accept other's limitations that they so willingly shared with me. The price of this was cutting the ties I have spent a lifetime cultivating, connections to the Allness of God, Creation, Infinite Source. In this effort to adopt the opinions of others about me, my body started to experience dysfunction, my mind started to stall and my lips stopped singing or laughing.
This is the theme I heard in the anchors' reports. We all are tempted to make real their stories of lack, fear and oil domination. Which means even those of us who have studied and worked the power of thought haven't integrated our spiritual understanding with our daily societal living. Thus, this film is still relevant and very much needed. It is time for us as a nation, as a human race, to understand that we create this experience. Whether you choose to understand that from the viewpoint that a person with happy frame of mind has a better time of it going through life than the one that only sees and therefore attracts challenging events, or from the viewpoint and understanding "It's all illusions!", it is still true. Science is starting to define this Truth, that the early metaphysicians discovered through their own seeking in the Silence. And when we open ourselves up to the Allness of God, we open ourselves up to all knowledge, all creation, and to our own source of greatness and purpose.
So I restart again, as we all have the chance to do, to become part of The Active Mind.
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