according to an interpretation of the Mayan understanding of time as waves of cosmic qualities, this is a very auspicious date

it marks the initiation of – what they called – the ninth wave of consciousness evolution
(if you are courageous enough to go into the details, read here http://www.calleman.com/content/articles/ninth_wave.htm)

this article and interpretation is interesting maybe, but for me it is more important what i feel and what my intuition tells me
and my intuition is on high alert these days ; )

fully awake

i feel that unity is on the way, time to be one
time to let go of the illusion of you and me
subject and object
inside, outside

all this differentiations of duality are real of course
our life in this dimension, on this earth is built upon polarity/duality

if we would not play this game we would not be here
and still … there is more

there are layers around/inside this reality that are a bigger reality
and i know that this – more – is a-waiting

there are so many ways to divide us
so many ways to build boundaries and walls
systems we set up to hide us
neighborhoods, nations ignoring the call
of the people who live outside of this boundaries
inside of a skin that looks different from ours
creatures whose eyes reflect the same sky
and watch the same stars
(loosely remembered – from a song by Molly Scott)

yea, it’s high time to let go, to transcend the differences
and to intend a unity, a oneness of all

time to remember that beyond all the different forms we have
and beneath the millions of different roads we take
there is the same lifethe same essencesomething that is already one
undivided
in-dividable
has always been
will always be
carrying the myriad forms thru eons of time
thru evolution

it is a mystery, really
when you think about it
when you – for a moment – allow yourself to let go of the importance of you
and just watch the night sky
feel
watch the spider climb down on her self-spun thread
notice your breath
how it is gently moving in and out
feel that you are – alive
and be aware of the consciousness that is aware of all of that

wow!
i am not kidding
i am not making this up ; )

as the years go by i experience it more and more
the substance of consciousness, the “thing” that “holds” it all together
carries it all

the substance in which we evolve, into which we dissolve

it’s very simple, nothing complicated here
it’s anyway happening – the whole time already
it’s just time now to notice it on a conscious level

to intend it, to want it, to attune to it

and this is – in my humble opinion – what this ninth wave of the Mayas is about
the wishing for oneness
the wanting to be whole again
the constant choice of unity in diversity

to do this on my individual level – just for me in my life – is my contribution to the bright future that is on the horizon
to attune to the intention of countless other human beings who have the same desire will produce the critical mass of light that Earth/Gaia needs to move into the next phase of evolution

this one that comes after the culmination of all the nine waves
this will be a real birth, a real celebration i guess : )

so i say: lets surf!lets surf the ninth wave that supposedly begins today
lets enjoy her power

one-ity

ps.: today and tomorrow all over the world gatherings big and small are taking place
indigenous people, new age people, spiritual people, simple people, all kinds of people gather consciously to celebrate this intention of oneness, unity, oneity

this is why this date has been termed “conscious convergence”

such an event already took place in 1987, august 16 / 17 and it marked a wave that many of us in the spiritual community felt
and it birthed many a projects and activities and developments that began all over the world after that time

so i am very!!! curious what is going to happen in the days to come
so – let’s have a great time then ; )

may all beings be happy 

spring is around the corner, i can feel the sun’s getting stronger

spring is coming

new life!

this inspires me to do some spring cleaning

in the cupboards of my belief system

check what is laying around there in the dark corners ; )

do i still need that?

does it still serve me well?

maybe i can throw away some of my old beliefs

re-define myself

maybe a little dusting off can not hurt

re-writing

after all, our beliefs are the programs that run our computer

so it’s wise to keep them upgraded

so, what do i believe? what are my core beliefs?

well, firstly … what i believe, that is what my experience is going to be

i really came to believe that ! )

and then there are some other things that i believe to be true:

i am a soul, a non-physical consciousness that is choosing to experience physical reality

I am created as a fractal, a holographic spark of The All, in the “Image of The Creator”

this is my true identity

my essence is unconditional love and the experience of one-ness, ecstasy & bliss is my birthright

free will is given to me as the highest principle of action

i am here on Earth at this time because i chose to be

the highest purpose of my life is to be authentically myself to the best of my ability and live each moment as fully as possible

i always and in every circumstance have free will and the freedom to choose

anything i can imagine and truly want is possible for me to experience

i attract my life experiences through the interaction of my strongest beliefs, emotions and actions

excitement & joy is the physical translation of the vibrational resonance that is my true being, my core natural being

following my joy and excitement leads me on my way step by step

i am naturally abundant and my choices are always supported by Creation

there are Four Laws that i see working on all levels of Life / Creation:

1. I AM

2. The One (GodGoddess / AllThereIs / TheTao) is all there is and all that is is actually One being

3. what i put out into the world is what i will get back in one form or the other

4. change is the only constant … only the first three laws never change ; )

the deeper i understand existence / life, the more paradox it appears to be

everything that exists has a deeper reason to do so

there is a perfect time & timing for everything

i can experience this when i allow myself to fully relax into the here and now

there is actually only one moment of Now existing in all of Creation

everything in my experience is the same moment from a different point of view

i create the past and the future from the here and now thru my believes, my feelings, my thoughts, choices and actions

i am an eternal being and while i may change my form, i cannot cease to exist

everything i experience is another aspect of myself

i am loved unconditionally by the All of Creation

well, this is what i can come up with for now as my core belief system

maybe you can take some time as well and sit down with a piece of paper or a keyboard

and look what kind of beliefs are forming your life

what is true for you

just try it!

at the beginning it might not be so easy to identify what is making you tick

honesty is also important

but the more you try to formulate and re-formulate what is true for you

the clearer you will see it

and the clearer and the more conscious your beliefs are

the more straight forward the manifestation of your life will be

just try it

it really pays off ; )

may you be happy

how to love your man / woman, your husband / wife, your partner?

especially when you have been together for long while

and a lot of things might have happened since the time when you fell madly in love with this person

you might not believe me, but your wo/man is not your problem, not your opponent, not your enemy! ;-)

he / she is your partner, supporter, friend, companion, intimate, confidant, lover, shiva/shakti (sexual creative force), representing god/goddess in person

she / he is also your mirror, your trigger, your kali (ego death), also your complementary part

consider that every time you meet him/her

how to love her / him?

forget the romance kind of thing

no need to be nostalgic for the falling-in-love times

that has most probably been a mix of many things all together

i guess it’s a clever trick of the soul to get us together with someone that fits us for this time period

a way to get us into the appropriate classroom :-)

once we are in, the curriculum is simply: to learn to love

this is the ultimate and only curriculum at the end

so, you ask – how to love him/her?

love despite all the differences of character, opinion, cultural bias, personal imperfections and so on?

despite the years of bad habits that maybe sneaked in over time

my understanding is, that love is a feeling and an act

about the feeling – you can not do so much about it

you can not produce it, you should not fake it

if it is there somewhere in your heart, you can treasure it, remember it, cherish it and wish it to grow

if it is not there or not so much, you can always act love

act love long enough and the feeling will come automatically

and it will grow and blossom

there are countless moments, endless opportunities every day with your partner where you can choose to be active in love

little gestures of kindness, moments of showing affection, hugging, kissing, touching, stroking the hair, holding the hand

giving a hand, seeing the others need or wish and responding

reaching out to heal a situation of misunderstanding

letting go of your need to be right and remain in control

giving a little present or a big one

doing something, just because you know your partner likes that

giving a shoulder rub when s/he is tense

bringing home some flowers

showing her/him that for him/her you can even do things that you don’t really like to do and would probably would never do by yourself

did i mention sex?

not really

although sex is a great contribution to a great relationship, it should not be misused as a substitute for intimacy

that would be a dead end street

what about appreciation, telling her/him what he/she means to you, contributes to your life in so many ways

what about expressing what you like about her/him

what about little love notes here and there

or deeds that only you know about – but s/he enjoys the fruit of them

or many other things … and they are only limited by your phantasy and willingness to do something extra

something beyond the normal

i know, there are a thousand rationales and excuses that you could think of so you can stick to the old, dead habits of interacting

but remember – this is the person of your own choice

this person right now is the greatest chance you have to experience something like union in your lifetime

he / she is the promise that you might be able to transcend the separation of your little world

s/he is the wrapping of a parcel and inside you will find – love

what are you waiting for?

all it needs is a honest wish, a fundamental commitment and some endless determination

have a joyful unwrapping

Meditation group / Synopsis

Session 1:

Intent & method of the meditation, basic instructions 

intent of the group: learning some simple and clear steps to practice meditation on a regular basis

objective of the meditation practice: open conscious awareness, fully awake here and now – ness

experiences in meditation come and go

however interesting or boring – they are not the goal of meditation

the focus is on establishing a practice of meditation in a conscious and specific way

so we may know what we do when we sit down to meditate

1) consciously arrive

- give yourself some time to come here, sit down, notice how you are doing right now

- simply notice and acknowledge:

    your body, physical condition

    your emotional state (mood)

    what is occupying your thoughts

- just connect with it,  don’t do something with it

2) relax into a comfortable position that allows you to sit for 20 minutes without much disturbance

stick to a specific length of the meditation, no matter what happens

you might even use a soft alarm clock if you meditate by yourself

be utterly unconcerned about the time

3) close the eyes or have them partly open

4) create a clear intention for the meditation

- the intention is: continuity of awareness

- the method is: gentle focus on the breath

5) give yourself a clear “start signal”

- you might sound a gong, singing ball or any such thing

- you might simply state internally: “now i start meditating”

6) feel your breath (rather than focussing or concentrating on it)

- be the breathing

- if you notice that thought have taken you away, just simply return to breathing

- if you notice that something distracted your awareness, gently return to breathing

- if you feel some impulses or needs, acknowledge this and return to breathing

7) be sure that whatever happens in the meditation is exactly the right thing … as long as you stay aware of it

forget the censor that says: good meditation, bad meditation

there is no right or wrong in meditation

just awareness

8) make time in your daily schedule to practice regularly

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session 2:

posture, mudra, breathing, looking

the following instructions are just hints, things you can try

those aspects can help you to deepen the quality your awareness, bring it to more subtle levels

sit comfortable on a chair or on the floor

holding your spine straight without strain

pulling your chin in/back a bit

raising the top/back of your head ever so slightly

imagine you are a puppet on a string that is fixed on the highest point of your head

do that in a very relaxed but conscious manner

and you will naturally end up sitting in your seat like a yogi(ni) ; )

place your hands on your tights, palms up

gently bring together the tips of thumb and middle finger

this is called a mudra (sanskrit, meaning seal)

which is a gesture or position of the hands that locks and guides energy flow and reflexes in your chakras & brain

you can also try another one:

gently bring together the tip of thumb and pointer finger

i’ll not say more about it, because this is not the focus of the meditation

you may feel subtle energy streaming

awareness is refining

but remember – your intention is to bring your awareness back to the breath

gently

always returning

feel the breath

feel the subtle flow of air thru your nose

like you would smell a rose

or a faint fragrance

you don’t need to do it

you simply focus your attention on the subtle flow

become the breathing

changing your breathing pattern can also help you in case of drowsiness, sleepyness

or when you find yourself dragged away by thoughts and phantasies

breath deeper

breath into the belly

take in more air for a while

expand your sides, your chests a bit

breath out deeply relaxed

like a sigh, just silent

this will bring you back on track

back into centered awareness

in case you find yourself thinking nonsense

or even if you think more interesting things ; )

or if you notice that you space out into cozy nothingness

you can sharpen your awareness by opening the eyes a bit

just slightly

and let their focus rest somewhere on the floor a bit in front of you

nobody can control you in your meditation

nobody can correct you

you have to become your own meditation teacher

if you want to progress

those tips might help you with that

try them out

see you next week

may all beings be happy

may you be happy

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Session 3

how to deal with certain states of mind - be your own meditation master

well, it’s been a couple of month now that i wanted to write about meditation …

and i tried … and delayed and delayed and delayed …

and one thing became very obvious to me:

after 35 years of doing meditation, i can not put my finger on it and say:

this is what meditation is!

and really, that’s very much fine with me : )

because meditation points towards a space beyond the known, beyond the mind, beyond what is express-able in terms of language

it’s something to be practiced

it’s something to be experienced

it’s something very intimate

… so just shut up and be silent for a while ; )

well, it turns out this good advice is not really enough for most of us

not really effective

because in closing our eyes most of us are simply lost in an unknown land

without a map and signpost

without a direction really

experiencing everything from wild phantasies to boring thoughts to sleepy nods to cravings for chocolate to half hours and more of spaced out unconsciousness to pornographic movies to cosy lollypolly drowsiness and back to opening the eyes again : 0

does it sound familiar?

and of course i forgot to mention the peace that we feel at times, the warmth of our heart’s opening and the sudden insights and flashes of creative ideas dropping into the clear pool of our empty mind : )

i figured it would be of little use to describe the meditation experience in beautiful metaphors and poetic references or use up your precious attention with scholarly explanations

i figured it would be best to teach some “how to’s”, some “know how’s”

some tools that make meditation a more precise endeavor, a more concrete undertaking

and so i gathered a small group of interested friends and once a week we sit together and apply some of the lessons that i have learned over the years

my intent is to be as minimal and practical in my instructions as possible

and as open and non-dogmatic as necessary

the following post will be a – weekly updated – synopsis of the instructions

for the participants a reminder of the areas we have covered

for other friends who may read this blog it could be a inspiration to take up some meditation practice

for me a chance to write down some of the things that are already such a integral part of me that i don’t think much about them at all

a reminder how precious meditation is for me

and will always be

you are welcomed to join, where ever you are, sundays at 5 pm middle european time zone

drop me a line if you do : )

obviously there are many schools of meditation, many ways and methods and techniques one can practice

the one i will talk about is the one i cherish most

the be-here-now meditation

open wide awake present moment conscious awareness

technically speaking we are talking about Vipassana meditation

although i am not crazy about the tradition and dogmatic about it

for me open awareness, the awareness of awareness itself is the closest to home that i know

the I Am of every moment of my existence

that unchanging thing that goes thru every possible experience

i feel that’s the active aspect of consciousness itself

this mysterious substance out of which everything arises

sorry : ) again words!

just want to say i don’t use meditation as a means to leave body and life behind

don’t intend to space out into realms of astral light or distant stars

no! i want to be here! now! fully awake! being one with all that is now

and moving with that moment by moment

without concept of right / wrong

without expectation

without attachment

open

this for me is the best practice for life

every day life

let’s have fun with that!

Sex

yes, we all want it

don’t we?

we desire it, dream about it, phantasize it and go for it when ever we can

it is all over the place

the whole advertisement business is driving on it, not to mention the porn industry, internet is full of it and the movies too

sex sells, they say

teenagers do it, old people probably too, even priests find their crooked ways to it and the rest of us, we have our ways as well

it’s truly basic!!!

it has not changed so much since our ancestors did it in their stone age caves

just like breathing has not changed much

or walking

it’s basic

it’s sex

the game of the sexes

the male/female game

(even is same sex coupling)

the attraction, the seduction, the erotic games, the love-making, the intercourse, the orgasm

yes we know it all well

how many times have we done it already?

and still we want to do it again!

“so what”, you say: 

“that is our nature! the biology! Procreate! Be fertile and multiply!”

keep your genes going

let the species thrive 

(well, hold on a bit please! we already have seven billion of us here anytime soon, no need really to produce more of us constantly :-)

sure there is biology

but i have the feeling that there is more to sex than what meets the eye

or the instinct, for that matter

more probably then biologic instinct, sensual pleasure and ego gratification and social norm …

all of that is fine in my eyes and has it’s place in the whole scheme of things

but there is more to it and  maybe it is time to consider that and to break thru to that expanded experience of sex

i think in sex we touch on one of the strongest and most mysterious forces of life

and we don’t even know it

most of the time we are quite entangled with and probably also satisfied with the habit of sex

and we don’t take the time and courage to feel deeper into it

or we just don’t know how

how to explore the core of it

even in our normal, instinctive ways of sex there are some interesting and extraordinary factors to notice:

during a healthy sexual act we are

- much more present in the here and now than in most other circumstances

- we breath deeper, we breathe more than normal

- we are in a sensing / feeling state

- we are in our bodies, we experience thru our body

- during orgasm endorphins, joy hormones are released in the brain, triggering rejuvenating processes all over the body system

- in the moments of orgasm we experience a short state of no-mind, it is also called “the little death”

i mean this is the moment where everything else disappears, the job, the bankloan, the weather, the ozone layer, the mother in law …:-)

- in the situation of a sexual encounter with another person we inevitably open our auric field to the field of that person

this is the situation that is custom-made to feel the other deeply, to let her/him in to our heart and soul

sadly, i know this is not always so

just too often sex is used for all kind of ego purposes

and the promise of a true union is not fulfilled

but this fact does not do away with the potential of sex

with the opportunity we get when ever we are willing to turn mere sex into love-making

when we open up to deeper layers of the sexual energy

when we are willing to see the bigger, archetypal picture of this act

male and female coming together, masculine and feminine energies merging, yin and yang creating a wholeness

this is a truly extraordinary event!

i would call it cosmic, a sacred thing

our universe as we know it is based on polarities, is a world of duality

sun – moon, black – white, man – woman, subject – object

just as the development of consciousness in a individual person is moving towards an enlightened state called unity, where the apparent contradictions of duality merge into a synthesis – oneness -, so the evolution of the universe is moving towards a ever higher order of integration, a higher dimension

in our place, in our space / time quadrant i think this next higher order can presently be called the fifth dimension

can also be called unconditional love

can be called soul

love needs to be infused into our sexual acts

the highest possible level of honesty, presence, joy, care, respect, quality, time, relaxation and openness should be applied every time we come together in sex

listen inside, feel, let go of the habit of performing, let go of concept, let the moment guide you

trust the energy

there is nowhere to go

orgasm is not a goal to be attained

orgasm will come in right time

or not, it does not matter

what matters is the moment, the intimacy, the closeness, the atonement, the perfect dance

opening of the hearts, opening of the chakras

this prepares for the merging

the union

and what comes then we can only discover

not talk about it, i guess

and of course, there are techniques, there are ways people have found that can help to accomplish such a state

ancient ways

nothing new and too sophisticated

but that is another issue …:-)

for now – just enjoy it!

Why am i taking up the issue of 2012 again?

Because i feel that it is the single most important reality of our lifetime and everything seen and unseen is influenced by it’s occurrence.

Obviously the majority of people have no awareness of the background of this immense transformative process that is causing the acceleration of life and human development and that will exponentially pick up speed and intensity in the next 3 years to come.

And even people who have heard or read about 2012 often have a very vague idea and incoherent information about the cause and the effects and what to do about all of that.

So from my own inner experience and accumulated knowledge i will outline my perspective of the whole thing, the bigger picture as i see it and i will leave it up to you to take whatever is resonating with your inner feelings and intuitions. 

I think we have all been here before, on this very place in space.

We the Humans.

The human race, the human kingdom together with the animal kingdom together with the plant and mineral kingdom and probably a few other realms of beings that we are only vaguely aware of.

One could say that the whole of us together we are part of a living evolving being that in ancient cultures has been called many names, one of them is  Gaia, the Earth.

We not only live on the planet Earth, we are a part of it and what happens to the Earth happens to us.

And what happens in the collective mind of humanity determines the path that Gaia is taking.

Because it is said that we, the humans are the nerves, the nervous system of the Earth.

Earth together with the other brother and sister planets spins her path around the sun, creating seasons,  precise cycles marked by equinoxes and solstices. 

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equinox 

the time or date (twice each year) at which the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are of equal length (about September 22 and March 20).

solstice 

either of the two times in the year, the summer solstice and the winter solstice, when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days.

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In analogous fashion the sun with our solar system together with countless other stars of the Milky Way galaxy is dancing around a Galactic Center, the Dark Rift as it was called in ancient mythologies and indigenous creation stories. 

It has also been revered as the Womb of the Great Mother, the Place of the Beginning.

Modern day astronomy and astrophysics calls this area in the center of it all a black hole.

To astrophysicists such black holes are fascinating and mysterious things and i think the more advanced scientists considers them to be gateways to other universes or dimensions.

In many metaphysical traditions this area of the Milky Way has been called the Great Central Sun.

Spiritual Sun, Seat of the Tao and other such names were given and the highest significance was attributed to it, the highest reference.

It was referenced as the origin on all life giving, life enhancing impulses.

Now modern astronomy and astrophysics reveals again what ancient stargazers and mathematicians like the Mayans already knew for sure – that we, the Earth is coming to a relative closest point to the Galactic Center every 26000 years or so.

and such an event has the highest significance for all that lives on the planet as well as for the Earth itself.

To point towards that reality, the classical Mayas created the most sophisticated system of timekeeping based on celestial observation their highly advanced mathematical skills and produced a calendar that reaches far far back into the past and curiously ends at December 21 of the year 2012.

This date marks the end of the Long Count of the Mayan Calendar and they called it the “End of Time as we know it”.

Astronomy says that this date marks the closest conjunction of the winter solstice sun with the Galactic equator and the Ecliptic – which simply means that this is the closest point that we ever get to the Central Place of the Galaxy.

I would say it’s high time to get a good sun cream and the coolest sunglasses you can find :-)

In ancient Vedic philosophy and astronomy (which dates back some 5000 years in India) the Galactic Center is known as Vishnunabhi, the seat of creative power.

The vedic Rishis, the wise man of old times called this Long Count Cycle the “outbreath and inbreath of Brahma” and they divided it into 4 Yugas, the Satya Yuga, the Treta Yuga, the Dvapara Yuga and finally the Kali Yuga, which can be roughly translated with the Golden, Silver, Bronze and Iron Ages.

Those “ages” describe the seasons of the condition of human consciousness and they correlate with the proximity of the earth to the Galactic Center.

So, why on earth do i even bother you with all of that stuff?

Well, probably just to make the point that all of that is nothing new, no fuzzy New Age philosophy.

Probably just because most of us have no knowledge of such things and no believe system or tradition, that would provide such a perspective.

To have have such a framework and to interpret the events of our lifetime and world from this perspective is an immense help in times of outer chaos, in times when the pillars and foundations of our existence seems to fall apart, disintegrate, evaporate

Just as it is happening right now in our time.

Just look around you with open eyes.

:-)

Watch it unfold.

And the speed will pick up dramatically, i promise you:-)

So why is that?

Since years, ten years or so there has been talk about a mysterious Photon Belt, an area in space that is filled with Photon particles.

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photon 

a particle representing a quantum of light or other electromagnetic radiation. A photon carries energy proportional to the radiation frequency but has zero rest mass.

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Without going too much into the confusions of quantum physics, my understanding of this unique particle is is what light is about, it has no polarity, it comes when positive and negative meet into a union, it is a paradox for the dualistic mind, symbolically speaking it represents unity.

Metaphysics associate it with the Christ Consciousness.

What ever … the thing is, that this Photon Belt is a vast area in space – doughnut shaped – around the Galactic center and our earth is wobbling into it since quite a while.

This high energy field might be trigger for the acceleration of consciousness that can be observed in the collective human mind over the last 30 years or so. 

Now there could be many things that would be interesting to discuss, but i just want to outline the picture in broad strokes.

What effect does this energy field have on human life, on society, on our ways?

Basically it accelerates the vibration of everything.

Time, speed of everyday life, accruing events, psychic processes, inventions, understanding, realization of goals, inner development, enlightenment and so on.

On the “negative” side it unveils and breaks down all rigid structures, concepts, ideologies, outdated believe systems, all fake and phony delusions and make-believes, all hidden agendas, all separative ways of being that don’t support the whole.

Sounds not so bad, doesn’t it?

No it sounds actually very good to me.

Just too bad that much of the human world as we know it is build on such unreality, mostly revolves around phony illusions, is basically based on quicksand.

So when the quicksand starts to move, the whole card house comes tumbling down.

Chaos reigns. 

Apocalypse.

This is what this energy does – basically.

But it is only the necessary preparation, the prelude for the real thing.

It is only the cleansing storm before the sunrise.

The rigid concrete floor has to crumble so that the fresh green plants can grow again, the flowers blossom.

The vedic philosophy calls this time the end of of Kali Yuga, the Iron Age, the darkest time, the most materialistic dense period of the cycle where there is no further to go.

This is the state of life on earth now.

Six billion people exponentially increasing the population with natural resources quickly dwindling, nature stripped of it’s rich resources, species disappearing, dying out in record numbers, people rapidly loosing trust in all kinds of institutions – presidents, FBI, CIA, organized religions, even the banks and stock markets :-) – the polar ice caps and all glaciers melting with unprecedented speed raising the sea levels in ways that soon will make it not so very attractive to live on some sunny coastline or in New York or San Francisco or ….

But the end of Kali Yuga is also the beginning of the Golden Age, Satya Yuga

and when the Mayas talked about the “end of time as we know it” they did not mean Doomsday.  

They indicated a point in “time”, linear time where a shift in consciousness can and will happen, an upward shift into the Fifth World that Hopi prophecies talk about.

In my understanding it is the shift into the next higher dimension of consciousness, we could call it the fifth density, the Dimension of Unity, the realm of Soul.

It means a transcending of duality and all duality based thinking, all separation based ways of living. 

This is what is going on, what we are about to experience in this life, that is not a small thing!

It will take some time to fully realize that state of unity consciousness and live it on the level of human society, but there is nothing to wait for

the time is now to set the sails, to put the right coordinates into the navigation computer and to do all it takes to stay on course.

I think this shift is an adventure like nothing we have done since time in memorial :)

It will just change everything we can imagine and bring about a whole new way of life.

According to the Mayan interpretation of time, on Nov 15 we just entered what they call the 6. day of the Galactic Underworld, the dawning of an energy of synthesis, a unity that can include contraries.

And i see signs appearing on the world scene that show me a reflection of that energy, the new soon to be president of the US is one of them, empowered women popping up everywhere is another one :0

The Mayans say that this energy will intensify during the next 2 Days of the Galactic Underworld, which span the time till Nov 2011.

There the last cycle of the Long Count Calendar starts, the most intense and accelerated period that lasts till December 21 2012

So what will be after that, we will see.

Nothing is really written or channeled about that.

No serious predictions that i am aware of.

But i would not just wait to see!!!!!!

I would just right now start to get my act together.

Clean up all the unfinished business in my psyche, wash the dirty dishes, make some order in all the dusty cupboards.

Forgive all the dark spots of my past and so release my karma.

Become brutally honest with myself and outspoken about my feelings and thoughts – so the people can know me.

Get to know myself, get clear about what i really want and focus on that without compromise. 

Clarify my goals, my dreams and intentions.

Create a solid set of positive, life-supporting attitudes and habits.

Become self directed, self empowered, self sufficient.

Learn to feed my body well, learn to nurture my soul with beauty, colors, sounds and such …

Learn some practical skills. 

Learn to love myself fully.

Learn the true meaning of: love thy neighbor as thy self.

Well, with all of that, we will be pretty busy till 2012.

So i’ll probably see you then

:-)

In case this brings up any questions, i will be happy to answer them to the best of my abilities.

cris.r@volny.cz 

so what about the future?

what will be, where will i be?

shall we care about the future? 

shall we save for our pension?

shall we ponder where we want to spend our old days?

right now the polar ice is melting with record speed, the world’s population increasing exponentially, food resources are dwindling and energy prices climbing dangerously high

mayor economic markets are slumping into recession and islamic terrorism is exporting the holy dirty war the world over

do i think the bad news will stop anytime soon? 

no, i don’t!

so, where will i be safe, where will i go to spend my old days in peace?

and what about our children, our grandchildren?

or is it the apocalypse right around the corner and i better start praying fast?

well, whatever our point of view might be about the future, i think there is one fact that is unshakeable true:

that the life is taking place right at this moment and ultimately this now is the only time we have for sure

so why wait, why await something or the other!

whatever my personal future will be, it will naturally and organically grow out of my present state of being

my dreams, my desires, thoughts, feelings, attitudes and intentions will attract my future to me

what my aspirations are today, this will shape my life and be my reality tomorrow

in that sense i can say: the future is now

every dream and heart’s desire that i envision, nurture and work on consistently will come true and every attitude and soul quality that i strife to embody now and radiate out into the world will eventually be manifest in my life’s environment, will one day be reflected back by my surroundings by the people and things that are in my life

this is not an esoteric theory, rather laws of physics and metaphysics

laws of life

certainly this is my experience:

my life is the outer reflection of my consciousness

so what has all of that to do with the year 2012 and what does it mean for our individual and collective future?

and what is this 2012 anyway?

december 21. 2012, to be exact

i think i came across this date for the first time in 1986, when i stumbled upon a book written by Jose Argüelles, an artist and researcher of the Mayan culture, a specialist on their astronomy, astrology, mythology and astonishingly advanced timekeeping system

this culture had blossomed in middle america in the time period between the years 300 and 900 AC and then disappeared mysteriously at some point

without going to much into any of this rather complex stories it is enough to say, that the Mayas had a perspective of time as phenomena of a cyclic nature rather than something linear and their understanding of it was grounded in observation of astronomical and cosmic realities rather than the mechanical approach of our gregorian calendar and our clocks

their knowledge of cosmic cycles and their astronomical calculations are astonishing and their calendar was reaching back into very distant past … and curiously this calendar ends in 2012 on the 21. of December

they called this date the end of time as we know it

not the end of the world!

so what then? is there any real relevance to this mayan calendar?

i the later part of the 1980s it also became more widely known, that many other prophecies and visionary predictions, indigenous myths and extraterrestrial channeling, astrophysical and cosmological/archetypal pieces of information seem to be pointing towards some mayor event that would affect not only individuals, not only “believers” but all of humanity, actually all of the earth and far beyond

the Hopi indians of America call this the “transition from the forth to the fifth world”, other predictions speak of the reappearance of the Christ (consciousness) in the hearts of men, the coming of the Maitrea Buddha of unconditional love and compassion and so on

many pieces of channeled information that claim to come from non-human spiritual sources talk very specifically about the coming dimensional shift into the 5. dimension, the dimension of one-ness, unity consciousness

advanced philosophers and thinkers like Teilhard de Chardin have postulated the awakening of the Noosphere, a kind of collective consciousness of humanity, the nerve system of Gaia, our earth

you can read many books talking about all those things, you will find loads of interesting stuff there and probably you will also find that there is a lot of crap as well :-)

but in the end it is clear that there is a lot of evidence!

a lot of fingers are pointing at something!

i think it would be unwise if not outright stupid to ignore such a large body of evidence and to keep walking ahead just like we always used to do it … blindly 

close the eyes and assume that everything will simply go on and on as it always has

i think it will not!

my inner knowing tells me that very clearly

in the past 25 years i have tried to stay very up to date with all available material, very informed, keeping my ear to the ground so to say

to hear the horses coming

and tried to stay critical too, wanting to separate the wheat from the chaff

interestingly, the flow of information from spiritual sources, the channeled teachings about “the transition” and how to approach it has ebbed in the recent five years or so and almost nothing new is appearing

what does that mean?

i would say that all has been said already, more or less

all has been warned, all has been explained, all has been inspired and dictated

the bottom line of all those teachings is, that the only time there is is now, that what we think so we will be, what we send out into the world will come back to us in some way, what we have inside we inevitably be attracted to us outside and so on

it is not my intention now to point out the universal teachings

but pretty much it is all there

if we want to know it

obviously it is up to us now to realize it, to make real those teachings, to live them in everyday life

if we make the choice to do so, to invest our life in the things that essentially matter … this will make us very busy in every moment, very conscious of our every day of our life, conscious of every action

every impulse, influence, mood, thought and feeling will come to our awareness

every outdated believe system and emotional hang-up will come to light to be released

every destructive habit will have the chance to get transformed

in this way of life we will maybe totally forget the months and years passing and 2012 will come and go unnoticed, because we will be so completely absorbed in doing what we love to do, focussed and flowing from moment to moment so that we don’t really notice :-) that we have already shifted into the new dimension, that we have already entered a new age, the so called golden age – satia yuga - that we live more and more fulfilled, more and more connected, more and more knowing, more and more one with ourself and life

and just in case we do notice that it is Dec. 21. 2012 on our good old calendar … we will just smile and know for sure that there is really nothing to worry about

:-)

p.s: if you want to read some more, here a few recommended books:

Beyond Prophecies and Predictions 

by Moira Timms

Galactic Alignment – The Transformation of Consciousness According to Mayan, Egyptian, and Vedic Traditions

by John Major Jenkins

The Mayan Code: Time Acceleration and Awakening the World Mind

by Barbara Hand Clow 

many others … but that’s a bit too much now

after watching such movies like “The 11th hour” and “An inconvenient truth” or more poetic wakeup calls like “Baraka” and “Koyaanisqatsi – Life out of balance”, one cannot help but be touched, sad, angry, overwhelmed, even numbed … but sooner or later might come an urge to take action, to do something

but what shall we do?

in the face of such complex problems we might feel powerless or inadequate

as with all grassroots movements it is true, that any action counts, no matter how small o big

there are probably a lot of websites out there who can help to channel our feelings into action, connect us with organizations and people who can use our contributions or simply give us concrete ideas and inspiration for mindful action

this is just one of them, a good one as such:

11thhouraction.com

i recommend to watch this two films:

- The 11th hour

- An Inconvenient Truth

probably best would be to watch them once every month

to make sure that we don’t forget what time it is

and what we have done 

to our world, to ourselves

supposedly we are an intelligent species, we human beings

probably even the most complex and advanced life form here on earth

capable of creating such cool and stylish things as Apple computers, iPhones, Botticelli Madonnas, Cathedrals, Taj Mahal, Calvin Klein Underwear, Nikon cameras, World Wide Webs, Hot High Heel shoes, space stations, little robot vehicles driving around on mars and on and on 

some of us have come in the form of Mahatma Ghandi, Einstein, Mother Theresa, Plato, Aurobindo, Hildegard of Bingen, Albert Schweizer or the countless unknown ones who have done outstanding things to put their intelligence to the service and betterment of this place

and some of us have come as Idi Amin, Stalin, George Bush or Charles Manson to think up such monsters as the military industrial complex, ritual serial killings, torture chambers, concentration camps, monoculture, one-child-politics, nuclear weapons, spy satellites, domestic surveillance and all the other agents of fear, destruction, power-over-others, greed and general un-feeling-ness that does not consider the other beings as brother/sisters but rather as objects in the way

and surely we have both those sides inside of us, darkness as well as light

and we can always choose which side we are on

there are no rules for that, really!

there is free will given to us humans

and the more the time moves on into the 21 century, the more the traditional frameworks of values are disintegrating – religion, family, ethics, humanistic education – we find our selves alone as individuals, left to our own devices, forced to make our own intelligent choices

and intelligent our choices need to be!

better be!!!

if you watch the films that i mentioned above you will most probably agree that it is indeed high time to make intelligent choices

a lot of intelligent choices

choices that are driven by common sense and empathy of the heart

empathy of the heart i think is what we need – and lots of it!

genuine feeling for the others is the only remedy that counters the coldness of intelligence, the narrow-mindedness and detail-fixation of technological thinking

a thinking that does not think about the circle of life, that has no concern for the whole thing, that does not consider the benefit of the next seven generations to come

we need a way of thinking that knows that we are part of the whole

and the whole is – simply put – our world, Terra Gaia, the 3rd planet from the sun

therefore all our actions should strive to contribute to it rather than take away, exploit or destroy

watching these films might cause some feelings of panik, pessimism or even depression, but this is not the way to go!

the call is to wake up, to get agitated, to get inspired, to act

act in any way

in many ways, big or small

we will be able to find countless ways to make a difference, if we want

i recommend to watch the films once every month for a year

as a kind of 21st century spiritual practice :-)

you can download the a copy of the movies from here:

>> my website Download Area

or get the original from a good video store / or buy the original from Amazon.com

life – the most important of it all

then only comes love and then the rest

i am in awe when i think of life

i cant find the words

my mouth stays wide open and only silence is there when i try to comprehend life  

life does not need words – and still it can have all the words ever written in all the books of human literature or any other expression of thought – be it painting, be it music, be it whatever…

life holds it all

i am sitting here on the shore of the sea, Mediterranean Sea 

and looking at the water, this is such a beautiful metaphor for life!

i watch the waves, the pattern it creates and how they change with the passing of time, with the tides,the wind,the boats coming and going

all that shapes their form and appearance just as events shape what we call “our life” 

from the peaceful and mirror-like calm to the chaos and fatal danger of a fierce storm – all of that is what usually holds us very busy, transfixed, hypnotized into reactive action, identified

but beyond that surface there is the unknown,the deep blue

immense unexplored space and stillness

mysterious currents connecting all oceans

fantastic life forms that seldom meet the human eye

and then there is the very thing itself – the water

the holder of it all, the cradle

the mysterious soft element that is stronger than any stone, any metal

this for me is the perfect metaphor for life itself

i mean not only life as we see it with our eyes

i mean all life

all galaxies and stars, supernovas, black holes, all subtle worlds of spirit, angles and demons alike, all the light and darkness, yin, yang, all the butterflies and the flowers, the incredible variety of colors in the rainbow and the hues of frequencies only visible to clairvoyants 

all this and probably much much more than my comprehension can grasp – all this is Life to me

or shall we call it God? 

who cares!

it does not matter how we name it or what our philosophy or religious concept is about it or even if we see it or not

it just is

in it’s ever changing, ever evolving, ever ongoing forms it simply is!

i deeply feel that this is the greatest message, the divine “twinkle-in-the-eye” that life gives us human beings so obsessed with form, with production, with results:

BE

relax and be

allow

the flow will carry you where you belong

there is nowhere to go

everything is already here

YOU ARE

be still and know

you are the ocean and the shore

the waves and the deep blue

you are the form and the essence

you are it all

YOU ARE GOD

wow !!! i have not been here on my inspiration blog for a long time now! 

have been very busy lately

people probably would call it work

hardcore programming work

i rather choose to call it creating

making something from almost nothing :-D

from ideas

bringing them down into specific form,into tangible shape, use-able things

that is always exiting for me

this very alive process that goes far beyond just doing the job at hand

right now it is the digital medium that i am working with, the web, but it could be wood just as well, it could be clay or a class of students or a meal to cook

always it is the process of creation that makes it fresh, new, alive, special 

this is why i refuse to call it work

i rather call it play

because that attitude of play, the child-like innocence of phantasy takes everything beyond habit, beyond something i already know and simply repeat, it takes the same thing into the realm where magic can happen – creation, manifestation of something unique and fresh

of course … there is always the temptation to do something the way we already know how to do it

to go on mechanic

do the job!

in the world of business, of profession,of money making i know that something like my attitude towards productive action is not always appreciated, maybe not always practical or practicable

but for myself i try to apply it to whatever action i dedicate myself to

there is always the little bit extra that i can do, the little bit different road i can take, the new technique i can learn along the way

and the extra love i can put into the task

people see the outcome and maybe they can not really put a finger on it – but they can feel it!

there is something special, something different

the element of phantasy? life? inspiration?

i think all of that

when i get myself out of the way, my fears (“am i able to pull this complex task off? “i have never done such a thing”), my petty calculations (“will i be able to stay in budget?” “will i be adequately paid?”), my ambitions (“i want to create something really outstanding here”)

when i let go of all that and simply put myself into the creative flow, open minded, awake, willing to go any way needed, progressing one step at a time after the other -then an amazing thing happens:

i go beyond time, hours do not matter anymore,day, night, food is not my main concern anymore

this all becomes peripheral

the creative flow becomes center stage and i become the child again that plays, weaves phantasy into reality

of course i have all my skills and i have my persistence, my perseverance that takes me thru the very real technical obstacles and challenges that have me sweat sometimes

but still – the lightness of being is still with me

when i manage to stay in the flow the inspiration, the freshness of spirit, the ideas,the energy, the life – all is there and i don’t have to do it

it does

this is cool, really

probably hard to express with words

i hope you see what i mean :-)

colors are everywhere

can we imagine our world without colors?

hardly

would be very boring

but usually we don’t focus on the colors very much

we focus on the form and what the form means to us

but if i look at the colors

take time to let them in, let them impress on my perception

then an astonishing thing happens

i feel moods, i sense vibrations, the colors tell me something!!!

especially now, that i am fasting, my perception of colors is very much intensified

i take time now to bliep out the forms and the mechanical recognition / associations of mind

and dissolve myself in the mood of the colors

maybe that’s the way the great impressionistic painters have seen the world

who knows 

but i want to inspire you to train yourself to do it this way

great nourishment of the soul comes from that

much joy

and i would like to share this with you now because i think this is an important book
it talks about things that are missing from the spectrum:

"Woman & Money" is the title, written by Suze Orman

as you know, i am not really a woman -technically speaking (:-) – but I started to read the book and got very happy.
I think this woman fills a gap, a void with her thinking – and she obviously is walking her talk – and she is of a quality that puts her in line with some other inspirational women that i highly respect:

>Marianne Williamson<

>Caroline Myss<

>Jyoti and the Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers<

just to name a few

I am a stern believer in the power of the Feminine, the return of the Goddess
Suze Orman connects into all of this, she brings this consciousness way down into the realms of … money
and this is where the power is stuck nowadays (actually since way too long already), controlled by hierarchies of males, thought forms of exploitation, monopolies, control

so this book is about empowerment
i hope you get inspired

you can download it from the >download page< on my website

greetings & may all beings be happy

in our days and age we are experiencing a continuous speed up of time / pace of life and an exponential widening of space /  options / choices

this puts us deeper and deeper into a almost paradoxical situation – we have less and less time for more and more things

those trends are driven by evolutionary dynamics far beyond the choices of us as individuals – cosmic cycles – and they will continue to increase in intensity in the years to come until the paradox collapses into itself :-)

how do we survive that, we with our complex urban lifestyles, our jobs, our spouses, our kids, our hobbies, our mortgages, our love affairs, our holidays, our parents, our tight schedules, our media overkill, our technological revolutions, our tv shows, our computers, our friends, our illnesses, our aging, our tiredness – how do we cope with all of that, how do we bring it together under one hat?  

and where is love in all of that, where is the essence and meaning?

where is the magic, the wonder and delight that we can see in the eyes of a young child sometimes?

how can we get back to that? 





reflect on that question for a while 





i think we can, i am convinced that the kingdom is not far
kingdom of heaven i mean, the land ruled by the law of love

where the paradoxes come together to be paradox no more, past and future merge into now, time becomes endlessly flexible

and so on :-)

what ever our trip is, our individual path, our dharma and karma, our job at hand – i think the key to the kingdom is always close by

if we can just take a deep breath and relax, love the exact thing we do right now, give ourself full heartedly into it, no reservations, no holding back, no second thoughts, no putting off till tomorrow

if we can just manage to go about our business gently, with no hurry or haste, one thing after the other, put all the consciousness and attention into it that we can gather and focus, then we become ONE with our life and we will FLOW

on and on

a deeper intelligence sets in, a higher vision beyond what our best planning can do

if we can hold ourselves in this state of grace for a longer while, a sense of purpose sets into our life, a deep knowing of what we are here for and what this is all about

and this is an experience, something real, existing beyond philosophy or belief or intellectual reasoning   

something simple

it may happen in the stillness of a sun drenched meadow deep in the woods  or it may happen in the middle of a busy busy business meeting – it does not matter where


all you can do is breath it in


and smile


:-)