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Speaking of taking care of yourself first so you have the energy and resources to serve others, I’ve been thinking a lot about veganism and vegetarianism lately. I know a number of people who are and have been for years. In fact my son has been mostly vegetarian since his college days after reading “The Way of the Peaceful Warrior.”
And recently I have begun to know people who are not only very strict in their discipline around a vegan diet but are also strong advocates of such, recommending it as a way to eat to save ourselves and the planet in the process. In fact some folks become so enthusiastic about their lifestyle and dietary choices that they almost become zealots, fundamentalists in their beliefs and political views on the subject.
I could say that some people even push my buttons on this subject. And I ask myself, “what are they mirroring for me that I need to examine closely?”
Examining this question took me all the way back to my childhood. I grew up on a small family farm in Wisconsin; and yes, it was a dairy farm. But we raised pigs, chickens, and sheep as well. For the most part we were a self-sufficient farm growing and raising much of our own food. Milk was the primary cash commodity and it all, but what we saved out for our personal use, went to a local factory that made cheese. Everything was pretty local in those days. We traded the eggs to the local grocery store for credit toward the things we didn’t raise or grow ourselves. We ate the extra roosters. We ate our own meat from pigs and steers we raised. So, I grew up with a lot of meat, milk, cheese, eggs; and when the local hunters helped thin out deer herds during hunting season we had venison as well.
I look back on this childhood with a great deal of fondness; I feel blessed to have been raised in the country with what then would have been the nearest thing to non-GMO, organic food we could have had from any source at any price – and it came from our “back-yard”!. We knew exactly where it all came from and what went into it.
Fast-forward about 60 years and it is hard to believe how things have changed! While some of the family farm remains right there in Wisconsin where I left it, much of the land has been sold to a “giant farm” following the trend everywhere to big-agri-business; the family farms of my youth are mostly gone. And I now live on the east coast with just enough garden for a few tomato plants. The nearest thing to small farming is the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) approach we have supported for the past few years. At least this way we are sourcing some of our produce locally; it’s fresh and organic and supporting a healthy way of life and a healthy planet!
My diet has changed too: for several years I have made my breakfasts and lunches in my Vitamix “super-blender” by creating a concoction of nuts, seeds, fruit and vegetables; it’s all raw, as organic as I can find and it certainly qualities as vegan. I have lost a bit of excess weight, very gradually, while on this regimen, I have lots of energy, feel great and I believe I’m pretty healthy. And for dinner I often have a meat dish. I love cheese (here I don’t think I had a chance since from childhood I had more milk in my veins than blood!). And, while I’ve given up on chicken in my diet I still enjoy, now and then, a bacon-and-egg breakfast on a random weekend.
I am far from vegetarian, let alone vegan! And I am not sure I ever want or need to become a strict anything. I tend to avoid becoming a zealot about things in life.
That said I have asked myself if I need to look more closely into this mirror held up to me by those who are more zealous! Are we on an evolutionary path toward a meatless diet? Will this path, in part, be driven by realities of limited resources and over-pollution by the current approach by big-agri-business? Are we killing ourselves with GMOs? Can we rely on science and technology to continuously increase production of already strained resources?
And the real nagging question, because I want to think of myself as an evolutionary and cultural creative: “Is the New Human vegan?” I’d love to have your thoughts.
Where the children lead, we must learn to follow.
It’s an interesting concept but we’ve heard it before. We also need to heed it now.
The children are trying to tell us something about the world in which they wish to live. Have you talked to a young person about the environment lately? They accept recycling as a way of life. They care about trees and forests and animals that are endangered. They care about football and baseball and shopping at the mall, too, but they are tuned into their environments and are following the intuitive guidance they receive about what will keep the planet safe for them to enjoy and what will destroy it.
Children also care about others. There are some amazing stories about young folks who hear about a problem, do a little research, start a lemonade stand or take up a collection, and do good works with what they have earned. These kids have something to teach us.
First, they listen. Really listen. And do we do that? Do we really listen to what is going on around us or do we leap to conclusions based on our pre-conceived notions or political perspective or religious views? Are we willing to ask a whole bunch of questions until we get enough answers to form an opinion, or do we form an opinion and stop asking questions?
When our granddaughter was 7 it was a national election year in the US and she listened to presidential debates with the candidates, asked questions, and then decided which candidate she thought would be the best president. She really did sit through long debates and ask cogent questions. [I found it hard to sit through those tedious debates!] But she was astonished to learn t hat she could not vote in the election because she was too young. She was outraged! I did take her to the polling place on election day so that she could wave a poster of her preferred candidate, about the only thing that a 7-year-old can do about an election.
But what was she trying to show us? She modeled how an educated electorate participates in a democracy. She took time to ask questions. She reviewed information. Do we do that? In how many situations do we do the research, ask the questions and, most importantly, weigh information before we form an opinion that a hurricane couldn’t move us to change?
What about the child inside of you? Do you listen to the voice of that scared, timid, insecure child or do you ignore the voice? Maybe there is a better way to work with your inner child than to try to shut him/her up. Perhaps really listening and then offering reassurance would lay to rest the fears instead of allowing them to operate within you at an unconscious level. With many of the clients with whom I work this is an issue where we focus the coaching. Buried inside each of us are the children that we once were, the ones who reacted to the parenting that we received, who were told a worldview to which they must subscribe. But also buried within us are the children who were dreamers, the ones who knew that this world could be a better place and who wanted to be the ones to bring that better world into existence.
‘You may say I’m a dreamer, But I’m not the only one.’ Remember that song – Imagine, by John Lennon? Let’s return to being the dreamers that our inner children were. Let’s allow the children around us to have and to pursue their dreams for a better world. Let’s listen, really listen, to the messages from all the children, inner and outer, as they lead us into that better world. And let’s commit to support the dreams that all people have.
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There really does seem to be a big shift coming. Can’t you feel it in the air? Or maybe I should say in the ground?
Certainly the weather shifts bring us to the question of “What’s going on?” We just returned home from a trip across country [Los Angeles, Annapolis, Maryland and New York City] and while visiting friends and family we heard stories about tornadoes in Maryland and the damage they have done. Our daughter and her family have been awakened at night twice by the emergency radio warning them to go to the basement with the kids because there was a tornado nearby. Scary!
And I have lived most of my life in that area where I can remember a few hurricanes over the decades coming up the Chesapeake Bay but tornadoes were something that happened to the middle of the country, not Maryland! My husband grew up in Wisconsin where there were frequent tornadoes but they didn’t happen in the middle of the night, where they are now occurring and are more deadly for those who are not forewarned.
But there are subtler levels of change on the planet that have an even more profound effect on us and on our lives. The energy shifts that are occurring are inviting us to grow into our ‘biggest selves.’ How are you growing today? What actions are you taking that propel you forward in your personal growth? This is the most important work we can do on Planet Earth as this time – our inner work, our own personal growth work.
We might be allowing economic news to have us focus on financial issues like making more money, finding a new job, selling our house [which we are doing, by the way, if you want to move to Colorado Springs!]. We might even be listening to disturbing news and finding ourselves moving in a downward spiral as we allow that news to shift our thoughts to the negative instead of positive thoughts of growth.
How are YOU responding to shifting energies around you? What is your pattern? Have you done the inner work to develop strategies to help you shift? Or are you clinging to the familiar to attempt to control your environment and the people around you?
Sometimes we don’t like the answers to these questions but I am seeing such amazing growth in the clients I work with who are ready to do the deep examination and ask the hard questions that I urge you to be one of them. Ask the questions that might be hard to answer and then answer them honestly. ARE you trying to control the people around you, wishing things were different? Or are you noticing how things are different and helping the people around you to be who they incarnated on Planet Earth to become, even if it doesn’t mesh with what you want for them? Are you railing at the shifting environment, weather or work, family or financial, instead of seeking solutions from a new set based on new energies?
Remember that integrity does not just mean not stealing from someone else. It means staying true to your own highest purpose in being here in this lifetime. And loving others, including Mother Earth, means that you allow everyone else to grow into the person they are here to be.
Work WITH the shifting energies and you will be sailing with the wind! Work against them and you will feel buffeted by those same winds. Which do you choose? You DO have a choice!
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Dear Ones,
Things are changing on Planet Earth and everything in your life must be scrutinized to insure that you are in integrity with your Soul Purpose at all times. What is your standard way of interacting with the people around you? Have you taken the time to really examine your relationships and decided who you are in them?
As the energy of Earth speeds up there are three typical responses to this energetic shift. A large group of people are reacting by trying to go back to the way things used to be, where they felt more in control of their environment and their lives. Unfortunately, many of these also felt in control of the other people around them and so they are clinging to the illusion that they can now exert control over others and how they behave, believe, and relate to the controller. These are the people who are not willing to shift their own energy to adapt to the changing energies of their environment. Rather, they try to shift their environment to get it to adapt to what they think they want.
The second typical response is to move into a ‘Woe is me’ attitude of victimhood and rail against the changing times with despair, never considering that perhaps there is some action they can take to make the adaptations being called for by the shift of energy. These people sometimes wake up and realize that they are, indeed, in charge of their own lives and that they CAN take action to make their life what they wish it to be. But there are some who will choose to stay with the concept that they have no control and therefore their mantra continues to be ‘Woe is me.’
The third response is that of the conscious individual who looks around at their environment and decides that they will assess the energies and will adapt to continue their forward motion through the changes. These people will strive to change themselves until they can continue to be successful in their own journey of personal growth. These are the ones who will emerge as the leaders of the future, who will take care of themselves and their families and their businesses to make sure that they are transitioning whenever it is required to continue to grow as they feel led and as they desire.
Which response are you feeling in yourself to the changing energies around you? Be honest with yourself here, for denying that you are fearful and paralyzed does not bring you the resources you need to make the adaptations that will bring you forward in your growth journey. If you admit that you have been falling into the trap of longing for days of the past and have been trying to control both the people around you and your environment then you have the power now to change yourself to flow with the changes that are happening, whether you try to control them or not.
The wisest person becomes a child of the 21st Century and decides to adapt and continue to move forward. This requires a commitment to the inner work that manifests as success in the outer world. Looking inward is where the answers lie. Finding fellow travelers brings the outer support. Moving away from those who try to control you or the circumstances will help to free you to continue your forward progress.
Set your sights on sailing into the future with the wind at your back, helping you to move forward, supporting that flow into what awaits you — which is your personal success.
Shift or you will be left behind.
And so it is.
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Dear Ones,
Who are you in the global sense? Do you think of yourself as a citizen of Earth or are you wedded to your own town, country, continent or hemisphere? The time has come for every human being on Planet Earth at this time to lift up their consciousness and consider themselves to be a citizen of Earth.
If you are wondering why this is so important at this time it is because there are so many problems that are global issues and thinking in small-minded approaches to these problems will not yield the best results. The citizens of one country who do not consider the effects their decisions have on others in the world are missing the opportunity to participate in far-reaching solutions. History will deem them very small-minded indeed. And the solutions being found for global problems by other nations will ultimately cause economic and social harm to those who persist in their limited thinking.
In times past people did not traverse the globe for short trips or business meetings or short vacations with the family to a foreign country. When someone traveled in the past they were often gone from home for months or years at a time. There were no telephones or computers to use to connect with others across the Planet. Now, however, people will fly across the country for one day, or hop to another continent for a weekend. Computers and telephones allow people to be instantly connected with others anywhere in the world. The world has changed dramatically in the last century and, yet, there are many people who have not expanded their thinking into this global perspective.
Think about those around you who have never left the country in which they were born. What is their perspective on the bigger issues facing humanity today? The television has certainly brought into consciousness many global issues because the images are put before people who are not directly involved. Computers hook up those who live on opposite sides of Earth so that collaboration can take place without regard to physical location. Shouldn’t these advances also have an impact on the search for solutions to those problems that are global in nature?
How do you answer questions from friends in foreign countries when they ask about your country and its impact on theirs? Do you even think about this when you are considering decisions that you make? Think in the microcosm, such as recycling your waste to help your local community and not putting into landfills that which is toxic to the environment, and then extrapolate into the macrocosm and consider how your choices can have an impact in the two dimensions of space and time. What are the choices that you are making for the Planet and what is the impact on your descendants? How are the choices you are making having an effect on your environment?
Every choice that you make today will have an impact, both on Planet Earth and on future inhabitants of the Planet. Do you think in these terms?
Become conscious of your role on Planet Earth as a global citizen. Are you being a good steward of the Planet in this time and for the future? Are you relating harmoniously to your immediate environment so that your footprint will not leave a permanent impact? Are your choices today good for those who live in other countries, on other continents, in the other hemisphere? Can the choices you make today be sustained if everyone else on Planet Earth at this time made the same choices?
Consider these things so that your conscious decisions are made from the global perspective. At this time, Earth is the only Planet you have to live on!
And so it is.
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Dear Ones,
When a person struggles with intimacy issues or with issues within an intimate relationship that issue has nothing to do with the other person or even the relationship. The issue is an inside issue of being honest with and trusting the Self. The relationship is merely the crucible, the classroom, in which one is being given the opportunity to learn the lesson.
People often project their issues onto the people or the world around them. Others feel the ‘attack’ and react to that with defensiveness or retaliation. But projection implies that a person’s Self, inner being, is looking for a mirror in which to see that issue. If someone else projects onto you, see that as their opportunity to learn a lesson, regardless of whether or not they take that opportunity to learn it.
Where most people get tripped up is in reacting to the projection as if it had something to do with them. It doesn’t. And the sooner one learns this the easier one’s life will be.
Other people are on the Earth for 2 purposes: 1) To learn their lessons [foremost]; and 2) To help you learn yours.
That is the simple reason for having a lifetime in the School of Earth – to accomplish those 2 purposes.
And, yet, most people spend most of their time reacting to someone else learning their lessons or to ignoring actively the learning of their own.
The Earth is a lovely home in which to be home-schooled. Lessons abound in every situation. Everything in the environment is placed there to help you learn. It is a wonderful setup for personal growth and Soul Evolution.
Yet most humans spend their time resisting the lessons, railing against their environment [and situations] or numbing out to avoid personal growth.
What a choice!
Choose the lessons and Soul Evolution. You’ll be much happier in your Earth Environment!
And so it is.
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When I had that dream a couple of weeks ago, I felt that it was an important one. Now I see the message.
Our work in the world now is not just to try to avert dangers and disasters, but to choose the response that supports the evolution of the New Human when something does happen.
The Feminine Way is one in which we reach out to help because there is a need. We treat others as our family. We dispense with greed and look to what we can do so that all can survive. This woman’s story shows a village that does just that. Instead of hoarding there is sharing. If someone is better off than another, they take the other into their home.
This is the best of humanity. This happens around the world when there is a crisis. Neighbors help neighbors. Strangers help strangers. People get a clear understanding that we are all one, we are all members of the same family, the Human Family.
So why is there so much greed rampant in our society? Why do so many people forget that we are all one? Why the subterfuge, the anger, hatred, judgment, intolerance of others? And what would all the hate-mongers do if a devastating earthquake or tsunami hit their village?
I wonder. Maybe this is the time that we can wipe out the separating forces with a tsunami of Love. What if we decide that we will Love all others, no matter how different they are, no matter what they’ve done? We will hold ourselves in so much Love that it pours out of us, without judgment or fear or hatred or anger or intolerance. Maybe we can each commit to the concept of The Feminine Way, saying now, before we are the ones suffering a devastating disaster, that we will respond with Love if something like that happens around us. Let us prepare ourselves to be a part of a community and a support of that community should the need arise.
My sister works in the disaster response world. She would tell you to make the preparations that are prudent for everyone to make, whether the disaster be an earthquake, a tsunami, a hurricane, a blizzard, a tornado or just a power outage. Check out the Red Cross website for info. Take care of your family and household. But also be aware that you are a part of the greater community.
If you have a Homeowners’ Association, get them to have a disaster plan. Is there someone in the neighborhood who is on oxygen and might need a generator? Are there elderly or babies who might need something that others can offer? Does someone need dialysis and can’t get gas for their car to get to the appointments? The Association could learn these things and prepare as a community for whatever might occur.
Thinking outside the box of ‘me, me, me’ enables each individual to grow as the New Human.
Maybe I had that dream as prophecy. Maybe it was a message to all of us to think about what The Feminine Way really means in our lives. And maybe it was a wake-up call to all of us to examine the ways in which we feel disconnected from each other so that we can find our way to connection.
Keep praying for the people in Japan and for the healing of all who inhabit our Mother Earth.
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“Dear One,
“You have been given this dream that you might share it and its message with others. It is time for the People of the Earth to rise up and declare their intention to live on Earth in The Divine Feminine Way.
“No longer can Mother Earth sustain the patriarchy’s abuse of her resources and her peoples. You are seeing the culmination of the end times of the old paradigm.
“This does not mean the end times of Planet Earth. Rather, it is She who will continue to exist and the People of the Earth who must change or leave Her.
“The old paradigm of power over others will collapse. There are many who view this as immaterial to themselves because they believe themselves to be impervious to what is happening with ‘the little people’ – those they view as inferior. They are wrong.”Those who perceive themselves to be impervious are the most vulnerable for they have the farthest to fall when their ivory towers are toppled.
“Those, however, who have lifted up their consciousness to higher levels have nothing to fear, for even death is not a threat to them, merely a doorway to Other Dimensions.
“The Way of the Divine Feminine is the most important focus for the coming days. Taking care of Self and Others. Focusing on what really matters vs. what one is told is important. Finding strength, courage and confidence to go out into the world with one’s unique message for humanity. THIS is what is important. The leaders of oppressive institutions — governments, churches and corporations — will topple from the heights that they believe to be their rights. The people who destroy the base of these self-proclaimed temples will triumph and the people who remain will create community from the wreckage of the old institutions. The time is NOW for radical change.
“And so it is.”
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Let me just add a word or two here about the term ‘end times.’ There are those who would say that the world is ending and ‘they’ are going to Heaven while the rest of the inhabitants of Earth will be condemned to eternal flames. This is not happening.
But there must be changes in the way that we live on Planet Earth in the coming times.
Examine this dream for any particular message FOR YOU. In the great collective consciousness we dream for each other. As I continue to work with this dream I keep finding new information, guidance and wisdom. Feel free to use this dream as part of your exploration of these times. You might get a different message or an enhancement to what is contained here. You might find something very personal that is revealed to you by examining this dream. Use it as a starting point in doing spiritual exploration.
And ask yourself about the ways in which you can manifest The Divine Feminine Way in your life today.
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Mystic Messages 
Question your Questions! –Richard’s Commentary
February 7, 2013 — RichardQuestions, questions! Where do I go for answers? Seems like we are constantly assessing and reassessing as we move through the early years of this 21st Century. Now we are in the teens! Is it time to begin to grow up into this era?
And sometimes we don’t want to hear the answers so we don’t ask even the safest of questions. How many of us are really interested in hearing the unvarnished truth about the environment? Our youngest “child” is back in college at NC State and taking some classes in environmental studies toward his geology degree. Some of the new facts coming up in his course work are scaring him! There are some serious problems out there: melting ice, ocean temperatures, ocean currents, salinity changes, bio-mass expansion, methane build-up, it goes on and on. Our computer models can’t even keep up because the data is off the charts!
Then there’s the “soft science.” I just finished a book by Drunvalo Melchizedek, The Mayan Ouroboros. Yes, I read some far out books, and no, I don’t believe every word. However, I do enjoy counter-balancing all the so-called “facts” of science with information coming in through various channels, including my own and Rosemary’s. And more often than not, 80% of the information we read in some of these “far out” books corroborates our own information! OK, so maybe sometimes we are a bit far out there too.
But here’s what Rosemary is offering in her message this week: “Question everything!”
I start with questioning myself; and yes, I question my questions. Am I listening to my inner guidance? Am I double checking my inner guidance? Are my practices right for this time? Do I need to change my diet? Am I spending too much time practicing and not enough doing? Am I sleeping too much, or too little? Are my priorities set correctly? You get the picture, right? This is about awareness. This is an awareness practice!
I am reminded of a Korean Koan that I frequently fall back on; actually it’s like another practice. The koan is simply to ask: “What is this?” when faced with an issue. Ask it inside and listen for the answer. And when you get that answer, ask again: “What is this?” You keep drilling down as deeply as you can go until the issue is resolved or the answer to the question is satisfying. When facing a dilemma I often fall back on this practice and simply ask myself: “What is this?”
This is where I go for the answers: inside. And if the answer doesn’t bubble up I go to external sources; and then I test their answers inside. How does the answer feel; does it resonate; is it off the grid? And if I can’t feel for the answer I sometimes use an intuitive tool, like a pendulum (I carry one with me almost all the time). And if I don’t have one I can even test something with my body. Here’s an example of that:
When I am looking for an alternative health support item, like an herbal preparation to boost my immune system if I feel a sniffle coming on, I usually face an array of possibilities at the health-food store. So, I narrow the field just by reading labels but still face several options. What I do is a form of muscle testing: I close my eyes and hold the products, one at a time, near my heart and sense the energy. I am usually either pulled a bit forward or pushed a bit back for each item. I reject the ones that push me back (repel) and keep the ones that pull me forward (attract). I continue this selection/elimination process until I am down to the one that’s most effective.
Our body, our heart, our intuitive senses know the answer well before our brain, especially the left side, kicks in with a “logical” one.
The array of questions out there can be overwhelming. There are many complex issues coming forward in the early teen years of the 21st Century! Narrow them down to the important ones and seek for satisfying answers on the inside.
Then be at peace!