WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
THE GREAT ILLUSION
FALLS APART?

The Chinese say.... May you live in interesting times... Well these times are more than just interesting... I thought I was being challenged until I spoke to a few of my friends. One lost a job for caring for an ailing parent, some are watching as their investments go up in flames, some friends are upside down, ect.... I had my identity stolen last month and then again today....
( man I hate when someone messes with my money! ) all the while trying to survive “the depression” no one wants to talk about at least not with that language. Seems we are all being tested and reevaluating... our faith in ourselves (keeping our inner peace and resolve) and how much faith we can put in others (which is usually a really bad idea)...

It’s a time of optimism and growth... or complacency fueled by fear. We are on the eve of great changes in our society and our country as we knew it, and not only with the upcoming election. How’s it working for you? It’s time for cleaning up and securing our beliefs, our relationships, our inner workings (how we perceive ourselves), how we project ourselves to the world and how we want the world to see who we really are. It’s a time for discarding things, old ideas and theories, and people who/that no longer represent who and what we are... those that no longer serve us. It’s time to step up to the plate and be the change you want to see in the world... or not, that’s up to you... But serious change is a coming, like it or not and it will be uncomfortable as most change is.... and not just because the leaves are changing their colors this season...

Peace and Blessings,
Gail

We are in the midst of the battle of our lives. If fear wins you chain yourselves to a dimension that will never support your highest potentials, your authentic nature, your vitality or your peace.

If love wins, you regain everything that supports your passions, your relationships, your alchemical natures and your internal peace.

Each one of us is either going to free ourselves now to live as Ascended Beings on a New Planet Earth or relegate ourselves to one "hell" of a life.

If you are wondering why this is so, it's simple. Our Mother/Father God, the very soul of we are no longer desires the experience of further decline.
~Maureen Moss

"God is a God of Love and He does not teach through fear or use fear in any way."
~David Nelmes


WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
THE GREAT ILLUSION FALLS APART?

Maureen Moss wrote the following timely article for her World Puja newsletter. It inspires hope and action for the financial crisis we are facing today.

I pray you are well as we watch the "end times" and the "beginning times" simultaneously take their rightful and destined places on Planet Earth. As we watch the great illusion crumbling into ash, it is we, The Great Phoenix's, that are being prepared to rise up from the ashes, and stay up as we witness the end times of one of the most strategic games of Illusion ever played in any dimension at any time.

(I remind you that The Phoenix is the mystical bird, which consumes itself in the fire and then rises from its own ashes.)

While many profess we are in the worst times in our human history, with our "Wag the Dog" politics, shaking and shuddering of Mother Earth and an economy careening out of control, I beg to differ. We are in the midst of the most mystical times of our life, and the most demanding times of our lives as we are being called UP to higher consciousness and higher stewardship of our lives on ALL levels of our Creation including the aspect living on Planet Earth.

What we are facing in the world external is our blessing, not our curse. How much longer could we continue to live beneath ourselves as powerless hostages rather than Powerful Alchemists and Unified Co-Creators of a Great Reality rather than a pathetic Illusion? Yet again, does crisis unite us? Perhaps this time, after this particular crisis passes (and it will) we will call forth our unification without crisis as the instigator.

Undoubtedly and understandably because we are accustomed to believing illusion is reality, it appears to many as though we're all going down on the Titanic. We are NOT. The illusion however is, if we let it. The distortion of reality is going down, if we let it. We are not going down, if we agree to come out of the trances and denials that illusion has hypnotized us with for eons of time and is making strong last ditch efforts to persuade us that Truth Is, where clearly lies are. We will not go down if once and for all we finalize who is going to be in charge of our lives, (and it's not a President) and whether the almighty dollar or the Almighty Gods that we are is going to be a priority and a force for change. We will not go down if we stop trying to breach our security by grasping for fear based solutions granting us momentary reprieve.

The world external grants us a grand mirror my brothers and sisters. This is the time where we are being called upon to be super-conscious about what illusions and fears lie hidden in ourselves (not just in those running for office) that must be exposed and examined, blessed and left to die off before the mind gets in there to perpetrate another cover-up, and believe me it will. The only difference between the mind and the government is the spelling. Both make frenzied and inappropriate choices more often than not, which we have come to find out repeatedly. The mind however goes one step further by deciding to get prophetic about your future, by conversing rapidly and repeatedly with you as to what to do about the predicament you and our world "appear to be in." Actually as I consider that, the government is doing that as well now isn't it?

Please let me remind you that neither the mortal mind nor the government have the capability to be either prophetic or design a Divine Blueprint of re-creation. Only our hearts and soul coupled with passion, intention and action can. With the great illusion finally falling apart, we are being given all of the legroom necessary to create something that is its polar opposite, something that has been waiting in the "wings" for us as a potential for a very long time - The Great Reality.

It seems that we in the United States had best cast our votes as wisely as possible and get busy with the task at hand, creating a Great Reality out of the ashes of the fallen Illusion. Once our votes are cast, the rest will be taken care of. Since I have never known Spirit to deal from the top of the deck, EVER, perhaps it's another Masterful set-up for unification on a much higher playing field. I certainly don't know for sure, but I have seen and experienced many a set-up that turned out to be experience used for something greater.

There is a reason that the election has stirred up a hornet's nest in so many bonnets and it's a good thing. It's caused many to stand up and fight for what they believe is fair and right. It's caused many to be sickened by blatant lies and fraudulent statements and to go to great lengths to discredit what they will not tolerate. It's inciting humanity to move out of complacency and fight for the right to be free and to demand honesty and integrity and to make sure our voices are heard and actions are taken. It's exciting that this might be the very fuel that's long been needed to amp up consciousness, to create a Greater Reality, not just talk about it or pray for it. It's our task, and it will be our blessing.

Imagine the example we are capable of setting for all of humanity including our children and theirs to come. Imagine the healing that will be felt by of our entire ancestral lineage if we go about the task at hand? There isn't a President or Head of State or Nation that's going to "secure" anybody's future. That's just another illusion being irresponsibly promised. It's a blessing to finally see what illusion does to humanity on a grand scale, and it's humbling to see where in our own lives we have done it to ourselves and each other.

Now, if each will take that stirred up energy, turn it inward and clean up any personal internal messes and clear things up with your loved ones (past or present) you will have fertile ground on which to create a Great Reality. You will be supported by a God and Guardians of higher dimensions in your pursuit of happiness and fairness, self-respect and love as you turn your attention towards what you really came to this earth to do, create a Great Reality that is dependent on nothing other than your increased abilities to love responsibly, BE compassion and imbue the vitality of Spirit in every soul you meet.

What would your version of the Great Reality look like based on heartfelt and soul-filled terms and conditions and love and beyond for your-Self and each other? Do you doubt for a moment that you can create a Great Reality and then inflame it? You can. After all we did it with the illusion didn't we? The same energy and power we used to inflame and joint venture with the great illusion shares the metal of the same coin to create the Great Reality and inflame it, and live peacefully within its embrace. It just depends which way you purposefully flip it and how sick and tired you are of the fraudulent nature of illusion and recognize once and for all how it rapes, pillages and plunders TRUTH and LOVE and COMPASSION and UNITY.

To some it may seem improbable to consider birthing (creating) a Great Reality given the current state of external affairs. It's not. It's perfect timing. Apparently we needed a great prompting and now our attention has been gotten in a palpable way. Are you ready for something fresh and life giving? Are you ready to once and for all BE harmonious with your Divine State of Being and with each other? Are you going to wait for someone to get elected to an office in third dimensional territory for a fifth dimensional happening to take place?

Remember WE are the ones we have been waiting for, not an elected official. It seems that those in every state and every nation would be well served to unite and co-create a new Great Reality whose underpinnings are Certainty, Strength, Support, Honest Communication, Wisdom, Compassion and Love. And here's something to consider; though some may not be ready to co-create The Great Reality with you, so be it. Bless them and let them live out their version of life. You will only be affected if you allow it or when you bend down in the mud and roll around with them.

Mahatma Gandhi said: "Human greatness lies in being able to remake themselves and then they will be the change they wish to see in the world." I add to that: Human greatness lies in being fully capable of closing down an era of time known as the Great Illusion and co-creating The Great Reality, opening a new era in time of love and beyond.

Copyright, September 2008, Maureen Moss, http://www.worldpuja.org
Please pass this on with proper credit and website.
as condensed by Sylvia Silk at www.sylviasilk.com

The Lost Art of Human Communication...
(have you been replaced by a server?)
&
The Meaning of Falcon and Hawk Sightings... as I saw them...

Hello friends... this month is interesting...
Happy birthday to all Virgo's

Wishing you all lots of heartfelt love and happiness

P & B,
Gail

The Lost Art of Human Communication
by Gail Oliver © 09-05-08

In 2004, I turned my personal phone’s answering machine off for good. I got tired of coming home to 10 messages that were urgent in the minds of the senders. OPP & OPS* (you figure it out). It works... with Caller ID I can see who called, and I can return the call when I have the time... which is usually the same day. Add that to 7 email addresses, a Business line and a cell phone, I figure that's good enough and if you really want to find me.... I can be found.

2+ years ago, I joined a social website (then called Zaadz, now Gaia, now part of the Gaiam conglomerate) for spiritual growth and fellowship. Their pitch was join us, network and share ideas, do conscious commerce and be the change you want to see in the world. God bless you Brian! WOW! I thought, how forward thinking and what a great opportunity to connect with like minded people.

At first I only had a few friends... then a year later I looked up and the numbers increased, now I have 215 friends (not much compared to some other larger social web sites, but considering the numbers, enough... and more than enough "friends" to try to manage). A few of us have communicated off the site and have discussed life, most of them overseas and I chat with them weekly. Onsite, well, some I will write to and hear from again, and some I won't. Some are friendly and some are aloof. Some a genuine, and some are not. Some just need attention... Some are on there all day ( how do they make a living?). Some invite you and then you never hear from them. I guess you get out... what you put in. But when does this become just a collection of people for ego gratification (look how popular I am) or sincere goodwill? If that is the case, then less is way better... if you can’t keep up with the real time people in your life, how can you keep up with ePeople?

Switch reels, this becomes a parable for life. When did electronic communication replace actual human interaction? When did intimacy get replaced with pablum relationships that require no commitment? Sometimes sending love and light, peace and blessings, is a great thing to hear when you are having a tough time... But I still appreciate the human call or visit. On these spaces, its easy to say anything to a stranger... no harm no foul. It is what it is. No "real" investment or "real" responsibility and again, "no" intimacy. This type of communication truly does not matter in terms real life and waters down real relations. How does this foster or sustain human interaction?... There are no challenges or interactive conversations, no emotions, no immediate feedback... Cuts our brain's skills down to silly (useless) putty because again we aren't responsible for anything we say or promise. I find this true with email too... When things get uncomfortable... And they always do.... that’s life!...But now you can “delete!” a conversation. Thus deleting life. And what’s more important than life itself in real time.... after all, we only have NOW!

I am at last weaning myself off of this site... Was I in it for the attention like most? Or was I in it to connect? True I have met friends that are like minded that perhaps I would have never met where I live, and I love them.... but then given the chance, maybe I would have run into real time humans that are like-minded in my own environment. The internet seems to dis-enfranchise us from real connections with real people.... and make it OK to be disfunctional.

When did we become a society of email junkies instead of real time communicators? When did we lose touch with human interaction? When did arguments online replace shared human emotion and passion? We’re all guilty...(been there done that, got the tee shirt, gave it to goodwill, and soooo over it) When did phone skills and talking with people back and forth become replaced with a “tag your it” mentality? (I got you first, now the balls in your court)... This cuts out rejection or consent in real time...Real life.... Are we that insecure? When did our lives begin to be played out over the world wide web like a soap opera? (seemingly private, but by now we should know better) When did this become the optimum way to communicate? Is this easier than dealing with the messiness, and responsibilities of real people? Are we that lazy?

I still prefer a real visit with face to face interaction (being able to see, touch, react) or a 5-10 minute conversation if not longer when a visit is impossible, for optimum communicating.... it takes longer to email anyway. With email, you don’t have to deal in real time with real time reactions... and by the time you check back, the response either irrelevant or outdated.

If you are in business, it cuts out faxes and phone calls therefore, I understand the worth of this form of communication. What took hours, messengers, FedEx and 2 day shipping in my chosen profession, now takes minutes... Now I can do my graphic design and be "Green"... I can collect photos, copy and art, create it, it can be proofed and it can be approved online. I can even order the printing online, transfer the files and then have the project shipped to the client without leaving home... So I get it, and I'm glad to be able to utilize this technology.

But when did this become acceptable for dealing with and cutting out our friends and loved ones by lumping them into an abyss of eCommunication? No one is that [fill in the blank] busy... When did our form of relaxation become bantering on a social website for hours with strangers and or emailing loved ones replace and become our chosen form of human reach out OR touch? Jokes, political mess, photos, a great poem/story, uplifting info.... Yeah, I get it! Texting and e-mails after all have replaced paging... but at least with paging you usually spoke to the person at some point. Cell phones... Well you know how I feel about that from previous blogs... Its rude! Especially when you bypass old phone etiquette ( I have company), for new school urgency (look, I'm popular!). News alert! There is a time and a place for this! As stated before... If you are always attached to the new millennium’s umbilical cord ( your beam me up Scotty gear), you are detached from the real time real world with your foot in the future.... If I have company, or I am in a meeting, or I am interacting with a real human... the cell phones off! I do not answer. And I do not answer if I am driving... My life is too important and so should be yours!

When did we get so self-involved and so self-centered, that we have no time for people? Aren’t these devices and innovations suppose to make life more efficient? So why has it made real time interaction with humans seemingly obsolete and unimportant?

Enough said....

To my friends on Zaadz and the like ( my real time friends)... I LOVE YOU ALL.... However, I am going to go back to real life interaction... as messy as it is... as uncomfortable as it is... as inconvenient as it is... as beautiful as it is... as rewarding as it is... as fulfilling as it is... as comforting as it can be!.. At least it's real... and stop this madness... It is the regression of our society as we know it.. a major dis-connect when we are supposed to be connecting... in these disconnected times.

I hope you can disconnect long enough from the “E” world to join me in the “RT” (real time) world... BALANCE!

Disclaimer... I really enjoy email to reach out to friends and family that live in other towns and countries... after all there would be no way to communicate with them other than high phone bills. My rant is based on the social web sites... and those that use this as a way to avoid true intimacy... As a friend told me last night... with texting and email, there is no way to save a kind message or love offering, birthday greetings or words of encouragement.... not like a handwritten note or card that can be reread and cherished forever...

*other people's problems and other people's shit...


Hawk

In Native American cultures the hawk represents a messenger. It often appears in our life when we need to pay attention to the subtle messages found in our surroundings and from those we come in contact with. As with all messages received it is important to recognize its underlying truth. Because there are so many varieties of hawk its messages vary and can affect all levels of our psyche.

One thing that all hawks have in common is the skill to move between the seen and unseen realms gracefully connecting both worlds together. Their acute vision compliments this ability and their discriminating nature keeps them out of harms way. The broader vision of the hawk allows them to see what the future holds. In man this symbolizes prophetic insight. If this medicine is underdeveloped a tendency towards over analyzing everything is common. In so doing, clear vision is lost. Those who hold this totem should remember to keep their analytical mind under control and not allow it to run wild.



The Peregrine Falcon

lives up to its Latin name: Falco Peregrinus which means foreigner or stranger because it is a migratory bird rather than sedentary - it is found throughout the world and tends to travel great distances. The peregrine is most often used in falconry due to its keen intellect and incredible ability to calculate or judge its prey.

Throughout history, culture and myth, Falcons symbolize superiority, spirit, light, freedom and aspiration. The Falcon is a solar emblem for success, victory and rising above a situation. Further evidence of its solar influence, the Falcon was symbolic of the rising sun in Egypt. It is also the king of all birds where many gods were shown with the head or body of the Falcon (including Ra).

In Western tradition, the Falcon represents the huntsman and is associated with the Germanic sky-gods Wodan as well as Frigg and the trickster Loki.

In European culture the Falcon is considered a warlike symbol. At its core, the Falcon represents visionary power, wisdom, and guardianship. This powerful bird awakens visionary power, and leads you to your life purpose. The Falcon carries with it a message of transition and change - perhaps in your vocation, work, home, etc.

The fact that this Peregrine chose to show itself is a powerful message in itself. This is a call for you to pay attention to the your performance, your function, your actions. Falcons encourage us to calculate and strategize. If we have a goal, Falcons beckon us to make plans and strategies to obtain these goals.

Falcons are all about focus - strong, one-pointed focus. When they show themselves to us, we are being called to focus on our desires and our goals, and do what is necessary to bring our desires into our reality.

The fact that the Falcon is a solar beast, something in your life that you are highly passionate about, and the Falcon is asking you to take action on this passion. But be smart about it - don’t jump into something without doing research and planning. Make your passion a reality by persuing it methodically.

Lastly, invoke the spirit of the Falcon in your meditations, during quite/relaxing times, and just before sleeping. When you calm yourself and call upon the spirit of the Falcon, the Falcon is then able to come through your consciousness and provide you more details about what you must know. Animals are always willing to provide us more messages - it is up to us to allow their messages to come through an listen.

Thank you for this gift! These birds are a wonderful gift from God to witness...