Re: [FairfieldLife] The View From Canada
My ego requires none of this to feel okay. - Original Message - From: Robert To: fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 11:37 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] The View From Canada SaLuSa 8-April-2009 We know that our messages reach far and wide, and some people do not take them seriously. We tell you it is no joke, but a very serious time in your evolution. Failure to comprehend the gravity of the situation you are facing, will leave you at the mercy of those who would enslave you for the rest of your life. The opportunity you have to make a quantum leap forward comes very rarely, but it is there for all who are prepared to live the vision of Ascension. You have a once in many lifetimes opportunity to completely leave the lower dimensions behind. We are aware that so many of you tire of the never-ending turmoil that the dark forces create on Earth. That is their way to stall your spiritual progress, and have you make believe that there is no way out of the dark. Dear Ones, you cannot beat the dark forces at their own game, but have the advantage of being able to create a future that breaks their hold upon you. You of the Light have so much power that you can change the time line you are on. It requires dedication and trust that your efforts will produce results. It is the visualization of the end result you seek that will attract the energies that bring it about. Time is not a factor, as events will proceed in the manner that is best suited for success. As more of you envision a similar end time, so the energy becomes even more powerful. This is why an important part of our mission is to help you understand what is required of you. You moved yourselves beyond the Millennium when you might otherwise have experienced the end of the cycle. You created a chance for everyone to find their god selves, thus giving more souls the opportunity to break free from duality. You must admit that the last few years have given you a roller coaster ride, but what you are experiencing is no funfair ride. It is your future that is at stake, and although many higher Beings accompany you and give of their help, it is you and your actions that will determine the outcome. We are confident that you will rise to the occasion, and overcome the odds that seem stacked against you. You really have all of the answers, but many just do not believe in their own creative power. We can only do so much without being seen to interfere, but give us the chance to mount a peace mission with you and jointly we shall be a formidable force for good. The Creator has expressed a desire that all within your Universe shall ascend, and it is only your Earth that is experiencing a battle to be part of that upliftment. All other planets and dimensions are sufficiently advanced, to move with the changes without any difficulty. Nevertheless, the Earth is considered a success in bringing souls into the knowing of the changes, so that each one can make their own decision regarding their future. It is time for the people to make their mark, and be responsible for the direction they go into. It is clear to many that you cannot return to the old ways, but use your power to ensure that your governments are aware of your interest in determining your own future. They will listen, as they know the power has shifted from them to you. This is all part of the necessary changes that will restore your freedom and right to choose your own destiny. It is far too long since you had a firm say in your lives direction. These are times when seemingly miracles can happen, and some events will both shock and amaze the people. Be prepared to adopt a new mindset, but be sure to look for what is for the good of all. There are days to come when at a single stroke the U.S. President shall astound his critics by the changes he will authorize. No President of late has been one specifically chosen by the people, and therefore his decisions will reflect that aspect of his appointment. He is in any event, a highly motivated soul bringing much wisdom and authority with him. He has a great responsibility thrust upon his shoulders, but is equal to the task. Already he is making overtures to foreign powers that would otherwise be considered enemies of the Western World. Obama seeks peace instead of hostilities, and knows that he must build trust where previously there was nothing but confrontation. Humanity is being
[FairfieldLife] The View From Canada
SaLuSa 8-April-2009 We know that our messages reach far and wide, and some people do not take them seriously. We tell you it is no joke, but a very serious time in your evolution. Failure to comprehend the gravity of the situation you are facing, will leave you at the mercy of those who would enslave you for the rest of your life. The opportunity you have to make a quantum leap forward comes very rarely, but it is there for all who are prepared to live the vision of Ascension. You have a once in many lifetimes opportunity to completely leave the lower dimensions behind. We are aware that so many of you tire of the never-ending turmoil that the dark forces create on Earth. That is their way to stall your spiritual progress, and have you make believe that there is no way out of the dark. Dear Ones, you cannot beat the dark forces at their own game, but have the advantage of being able to create a future that breaks their hold upon you. You of the Light have so much power that you can change the time line you are on. It requires dedication and trust that your efforts will produce results. It is the visualization of the end result you seek that will attract the energies that bring it about. Time is not a factor, as events will proceed in the manner that is best suited for success. As more of you envision a similar end time, so the energy becomes even more powerful. This is why an important part of our mission is to help you understand what is required of you. You moved yourselves beyond the Millennium when you might otherwise have experienced the end of the cycle. You created a chance for everyone to find their god selves, thus giving more souls the opportunity to break free from duality. You must admit that the last few years have given you a roller coaster ride, but what you are experiencing is no funfair ride. It is your future that is at stake, and although many higher Beings accompany you and give of their help, it is you and your actions that will determine the outcome. We are confident that you will rise to the occasion, and overcome the odds that seem stacked against you. You really have all of the answers, but many just do not believe in their own creative power. We can only do so much without being seen to interfere, but give us the chance to mount a peace mission with you and jointly we shall be a formidable force for good. The Creator has expressed a desire that all within your Universe shall ascend, and it is only your Earth that is experiencing a battle to be part of that upliftment. All other planets and dimensions are sufficiently advanced, to move with the changes without any difficulty. Nevertheless, the Earth is considered a success in bringing souls into the knowing of the changes, so that each one can make their own decision regarding their future. It is time for the people to make their mark, and be responsible for the direction they go into. It is clear to many that you cannot return to the old ways, but use your power to ensure that your governments are aware of your interest in determining your own future. They will listen, as they know the power has shifted from them to you. This is all part of the necessary changes that will restore your freedom and right to choose your own destiny. It is far too long since you had a firm say in your lives direction. These are times when seemingly miracles can happen, and some events will both shock and amaze the people. Be prepared to adopt a new mindset, but be sure to look for what is for the good of all. There are days to come when at a single stroke the U.S. President shall astound his critics by the changes he will authorize. No President of late has been one specifically chosen by the people, and therefore his decisions will reflect that aspect of his appointment. He is in any event, a highly motivated soul bringing much wisdom and authority with him. He has a great responsibility thrust upon his shoulders, but is equal to the task. Already he is making overtures to foreign powers that would otherwise be considered enemies of the Western World. Obama seeks peace instead of hostilities, and knows that he must build trust where previously there was nothing but confrontation. Humanity is being offered the opportunity to consign the past to your history books, and broker a new understanding between each other that leads to friendship and cooperation. Support for the new look way of governing is vital; as the dark forces will do all they can to disrupt its progress. Read carefully into reports that twist Obama’s words, as much disinformation will be circulated. Be intuitive, and measure the soul that is Obama by his intentions as expressed with wisdom and love for all people. He is charged with a task that holds the future of Mankind in its grasp, and it must not, and cannot fail. His emergence is one that the people of the world can take credit for, as your prayers and longing for a trusted and worthy leader to make peace a
[FairfieldLife] 'A view from Canada'
In my lifeFor millions of fans,
the Beatles provided a soundtrack for life. They symbolized a
generation in all its aspirations and failures
Robert Sibley,
Citizen SpecialPublished: Sunday, April 27, 2008
I was spellbound the moment I heard that crashing chord. Chaang ... It's
been a hard day's night ...
It
was, as best I can remember, the summer of 1965. I was sitting in a
metal folding chair in the recreation hall at the Fort Nelson airport
for the local premiere of the Beatles' movie, A Hard Day's Night. The
film had been released in 1964, but towns along the Alaska Highway were
low on the distribution pecking order. When Beatlemania finally
penetrated the forests of northern British Columbia, us kids packed the
musty war-era hall to watch John, Paul, George and Ringo.
That's
not to say I was so backwoods not to have heard of the Beatles before
then. Like millions my age, I loved their music -- songs like I Want to
Hold Your Hand, She Loves You and All My Loving provided the lyrical
references for our emerging adolescent emotions. But A Hard Day's Night
was different, at least for me. I suspect it had something to do with
being a 13-year-old desperate to be 16, 18 or, best of all, 21. The
movie and the music provided a talismanic key to a world beyond my
small town. I could suddenly imagine myself on the London streets shown
on the wobbly projection screen.
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Years
later, I read David McFarlane's novel Summer Gone, in which it is
explained what a Beatles song meant to one character, Bay: It was the
pause in All My Loving -- the instant of silence between the end of the
last bar of the second verse and Paul McCartney's suddenly clear,
suddenly unaccompanied vocal introduction of the song's refrain -- that
Bay found irresistible ... Bay imagined everything rushing into that
second of perfect emptiness in All My Loving. There he was 12 years
old; briefly happy ... balanced between his childhood and whatever came
next.
That's it, I thought, that's how I felt hearing A Hard
Day's Night. George Harrison's strident opening chord on his 12-string
Rickenbacker contained all the compacted dreams and pent up desires of
an adolescent just starting to glimpse the mystery of his future. The
rest of the movie and its songs -- Tell Me Why, If I Fell -- only
reinforced that sense of future possibilities. The Beatles woke me from
the long slumber of childhood.
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I doubt I'm alone in my
modest revelation. Joey Ramone, the vocalist for the Ramones, once
referred to Harrison's chord as an amazing wake-up call. Rolling
Stone called it the most famous chord in all of rock 'n' roll.
Such
judgments are no surprise to those whose adolescence spanned the '60s.
Collectively, Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr transcended the
niche of pop entertainment. When they burst out of Liverpool in 1963,
the first edge of the Baby Boom generation was turning 18. For the
millions that followed, the Beatles provided a soundtrack for their
lives from early adolescence through to adulthood. They symbolized a
generation in all its aspirations and ideals, as well as, arguably, its
confusions and failures.
You can practically track the boomers'
psychic shifts through the development of the Beatles' music. From the
cheerful, if sardonic, optimism of the early songs -- Can't Buy Me
Love, for example -- to the acid-dipped explorations of Revolver, from
the dark undertones of cultural despair in the Sgt. Pepper album and
the White Album to the retrospective sadness of Abbey Road, that
glorious swan-song released a few months before the Beatles' 1970 break
up, you have a lyrical portrait of the mental and emotional terrain
travelled by a generation. Those near-to-last lines on Abbey Road serve
as both a commentary on and epitaph for the Boomers. And in the end,
the love you take/ Is equal to the love/ You make. To a generation
unable to share the faith of its fathers, that's about
[FairfieldLife] 'The View From Canada'
Mantra Meditation Reveals a Hidden Agenda: Are the Gods Alive and Well and Working Towards the 'New World Order' by Bronte Baxter What I expected to see when I came back to the Fairfield scene after 20 years away from Transcendental Meditation was a group of mainstay meditators true-blue to Maharishi and a group of robust dissenters, whose minds questioned everything they learned from their guru days. Instead, I found the true-blue meditators, but not the kind of dissenters I anticipated. I encountered people who had left the TM movement but hadnt substantially changed their belief system. This latter group had changed in the way that people change hats, or redecorate their homes, leaving unaltered the structure underneath. The dissenters had splintered into a myriad of Eastern or Eastern-related philosophies: Eckhart Tolle, Byron Katie and Andrew Cohen were popular, and Neo-Advaitin gurus had rallied many behind their minimalist philosophy. Saints like Ammachi visit Fairfield regularly, dispensing dharshan and picking up new recruits. Across town, small groups meet in satsangs to discuss their growing enlightenment or to chant songs to the gods. Heated debate is common between adherents of competing gurus, and people grow vitriolic over whether Maharishi has slept with young women or not. There is a smattering of hedonists and atheists, but ex-TMers in the Fairfield circuit mostly show up with an intact Vedic worldview. That worldview is a lens through which they perceive and measure all gurus and reality itself. I find this disturbing. Its rather like people whove been swindled by a con man, despising him for how they were treated while they continue to invest money in the enterprise he sold them on. Why doesnt the skepticism extend beyond the procurer, to that which he procured for? And what did Maharishi procure for? The Vedic gods. He sold us a meaningless word that was supposed to guide our minds to transcend superficial consciousness. Later we learned those meaningless words, our mantras, were names of deities. He taught us advanced techniques with the Sanskrit word namah at their core: I bow down. Mantra meditation is a form of paying worship to those who call themselves gods. When you scrape away all the fancy and misleading explanations like meaningless sounds and impulses of creative intelligence, what you get very simply is people with their eyes closed bowing down in their minds to an assigned Hindu deity. Of course we can explain this away using TM explanations, much like the townsfolk explained away the emperors nakedness using the reasoning they were fed by the tricksters who paraded him through the town. But the emperor has no clothes. Mantras worship the gods. Namah means bow down. Its right there on the surface for anyone to see if we toss out the excuses we were handed and look at the situation with even a shred of unbiased observation. Who are these gods, that were so willing to explain away as impulses of our own consciousness? The same gods have appeared in other religions and cultures, even in societies that had no contact with each other. They go by different names, but the entities are the same. In Hinduism, you have Indra, god of thunder, ruler of the gods, married to Indrani, queen of the gods, known for her jealousy. In Greek mythology, you have Zeus, god of thunder, ruler of the gods, married to Hera, queen of the gods, known for her jealousy. One-to-one correspondence like this is common. The gods are a global phenomenon, with their imprints on every society. Historically, the gods exacted worship and sacrifice blood sacrifice commonly, including the murder of humans. While Hinduism has a history of human sacrifice, it has been reduced today to worship of Kali, the goddess with her bloody tongue hanging out, whose body is adorned with a necklace of bleeding, decapitated human heads... Or Shiva, adorned with serpents, who dances on graves... Or Vishnu, whom Arjuna perceived in His cosmic form with pieces of devoured victims flesh sticking between his teeth. These 'Gods' appear to feed on the energy of suffering, the fearful energy of the victim. In one South American sacrificial ritual, a bull has his throat slit, as slowly as possible. The reasoning given is that the gods cherish live blood as the blood with the greatest energy, so the animal must be kept alive while the blood drips from its body. In other words, the greater the fear and suffering of the sacrificial beast, the greater is the pleasure of the gods. The Shrimad-Bhagavatum, among other scriptures, explains the antipathy of the gods for human enlightenment. According to the Vedas and the mythology of other cultures, the gods feel threatened by the human race, afraid mankind might grow as powerful as they. The gods want humans to remain ignorant and
