Universal Awakening

A snowball at the top of a mountain has the potential to become huge, just by rolling down the mountain and gathering more snow. In a short time, this tiny snowball can become a force to be reckoned with.

We humans are like this when it comes to exchanging energy and vision, and no matter how few people are involved at the beginning, there is the potential for massive change. As consciousness seekers, we are in the midst of this process, and it is amazing to see people we thought might never come around, waking up to their truth. Each time we see this, we can count ourselves blessed to be living at a time when the awareness of humanity seems to be at a tipping point, as more and more individuals open their minds and change their ways.

For some people, this revolves around an awareness of the environment, for others it is a spiritual awakening, and for many it is both. A great change in consciousness is sweeping through us all, as we recognize that things are not what they have seemed to be, that there is more to our lives than meets the eye.

Many of us have the awareness and the energy at this time to break through old, outmoded ways of seeing things and to move into a new way of being in the world, and it is essential that we do so. The beauty of living at this time is that even small actions have a powerful ripple effect, and the reverberations of what we do have the power to reach and open many minds.

It is as if a scale is about to tip in favor of higher consciousness, and each one of us has the power to bring humanity closer to that point with the smallest of actions. Each time we move in the direction of our dreams and visions, we can visualize another small pebble dropping into the pond, or another gold weight on the scale, rippling and tipping our way to universal awakening.

'The Gate'
Original artwork by Matthew James

Inspiration from the Daily Om

A Favourite Band ....

'... A New studio album (at long last) .... a new line up .... AND a long awaited world tour! It's been a long time in the waiting, and it's been well worth the wait (IMO). However, I missed my chance to see them over here ... but one of our 'brood' has now seen them 3 or 4 times in the last few weeks!!!

The eldest Mark saw them first at Rockfest in Wellington. Then he came over to Europe recently ... and went to music festivals in Belgium, Holland and the UK .... so now he's seen Whitesnake more times than me (plus a whole host of other bands too) ....'

Music Video 'Lay Down Your Love' by Whitesnake.

'Operation Ground And Pound'

Music video by Dragonforce

G8 emissions target a positive step, says Garnaut

Big Pond News (Thurs 10th July 2008) says: The Federal Government's climate change adviser Professor Ross Garnaut says the Group of Eight (G8) Summit in Japan has not failed on climate change.

Professor Garnaut has been addressing a full town hall in Paddington, Sydney where he is presenting his draft climate change report.

The G8 countries have agreed to aim for a 50 per cent cut in global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Despite some observers criticising a lack of commitment in the agreement, Professor Garnaut says the move represents real progress.

"The Japanese Prime Minister set out to get a commitment from the G8 leaders that they would aim towards a 50 per cent reduction in greenhouse emissions," he said.

Professor Garnaut points out that the 50 per cent goal was for the world as a whole, not just the G8 countries, and the world's major countries need to aim for bigger reductions down the track.

In relation to the 50 per cent global cuts ambition, "The Japanese Prime Minister got that agreement," he said.

Hyperborea - 'Land of the North'

Hyperborea was a fabulous realm of eternal spring located in the far north beyond the land of winter. Its people were a blessed, long-lived race free of war, hard toil, and the ravages of old age and disease.

Hyperborea was usually described as a continent-bound land, bordered by the great earth-encircling river Okeanos to the north, and the great peaks of the mythical Rhipaion mountains to the south. Its main river was the Eridanos, which flowed south, drawing its waters directly from the Okean-stream. The shores of this stream were lined by amber-bearing poplar trees and its waters inhabited by flocks of white swans. Blessed with eternal spring, the land producing two crops of grain per year. But most of the country was wild, covered with rich and beautiful forests, "the garden of Apollon."

To the south the realm was guarded by the bitterly cold peaks of the near-impassable Rhipaion mountains. This was the home of Boreas, god of the north wind, whose chill breath brought winter to all the lands to the south--Skythia, Thrake, Istria, Celtica, Italy and Greece. The peaks of the mountains were also the home of Griffins (eagle-lions), and its valleys were inhabited by the fierce, one-eyed Arimaspoi tribe. Directly to the south lay Pterophoros, a desolate, snow-covered land cursed by eternal winter.

Hyperborea was a theocracy ruled by three priests of the god Apollon. These gigantic kings, known as the Boreades, were sons or descendants of the north wind Boreas. Their capital contained a circular temple dedicated to the god where hecatombs of asses were sacrificed in his honour. The musical race also celebrated his divinity with a constant festival music, song and dance. The hymns were joined by the sweet song of circling, white Hyperborean swans.

The land appears in several myths. The first of these was the story of Phaethon, the boy who tried to fly the chariot of the sun, but lost control, and was struck down by Zeus with a thunderbolt, His flaming body fell into the Hyperborean river Eridanos, where his mourning sisters, the Heliades, gathered and were transformed into amber-shedding poplar trees. His friend Kyknos, in his grief, leapt into the bitumen lake of Phaethon's fall, and was transformed into a swan. Hyperboreans afterwards leapt in this same very lake as they were approaching death and were transformed into singing white swans. The bird migrated to the Lydian river Kaystros and other places in the south, but remained mute beyond its homeland.

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New scans show evidence of water on the moon

Reuters (Wed 9th July 2008) says: Scientists have reported that tiny green and orange glass balls brought back from the moon nearly 40 years ago by astronauts show evidence that water existed there from the very beginning.

They used a new method of analysing elements in the lunar sand samples to show strong evidence of water, dating back 3 billion years.

Their study, published in the journal Nature, could support evidence that water persists in shadowed craters on the moon's surface - and that the water could be native to the moon and not carried there by comets.

Most scientists believe the moon was formed when a Mars-size body collided with the Earth 4.5 billion years ago. The giant impact would have melted both proto-planets and sent molten debris into orbit around the Earth.

Some of this would have eventually coalesced into the moon, but the heat of the impact would have vaporised light elements such as the hydrogen and oxygen needed to make water - theoretically, anyway.

Erik Hauri of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington had developed a technique called secondary ion mass spectrometry or SIMS, which could detect minute amounts of elements in samples. His team was using it to find evidence of water in the Earth's molten mantle.

"Then one day I said, 'Look, why don't we go and try it on the moon glass?'" Alberto Saal of Brown University, who helped lead the study, said in a telephone interview.

"It took us three years to convince NASA to fund us."

Professor Saal's team did not find water directly, but they did measure hydrogen, and it resembled the measurements they have done to detect hydrogen, and eventually water, in samples from Earth's mantle.

Sister Blog Named

We are currently 'toying' with the name of " A LIGHT DOWN UNDER" for the sister blog to A Light In The Darkness ....

It is still very much on the drawing board ... but several of the proposed ideas for the new blog are being given a trial run on ALITD....

So watch this space for more info in the future.

Genuine Psychic Experiment

Moving on from the ‘ESP test’ of recent times, this post represents a genuine psychic experiment. For the sceptical and the cynical ... it may well prove to be a great topic for laughter and ridicule. It matters not ... the experiment has been devised with genuine reasoning behind it. It’s been considered for a while ... ‘how to give people the opportunity to test their own abilities of remote viewing and psychic-ness’ ...

The concept is simple. Below is a blank space which represents an image which forms the basis of the experiment. The image itself is stored on my hard drive ... and its content has been ‘mentally impressed’ on to the blank space below.

Your mission is to clear your mind ... spend a few minutes gazing at the blank space in an attempt to ‘tune in’ to what the image is (not what it might be ... but what it IS. Reinforce the reality you know what the image is) ... and with that positive thinking ... begin to see what is there.

BLANK SPACE (what was the image here?)

Those interested in trying the experiment are welcomed to e-mail us here at A Light In The Darkness with your impressions. We will then genuinely e-mail back the image itself .... we say ‘genuinely’ as there is no attempt here to mislead or fool around with this experiment.

In a week’s time the image will then be posted on the blog as a public revealing ... those of you who e-mailed in will then be able to verify it was indeed the image ... it seems the only way at this time to conduct an experiment of the this type. By the way I’ve also been focussing on the image content as I write this post. I am offering NO clues to its content. It can be just about anything at all ... the harder the better; the more impressive the results ....


Good luck ....

Minds to Mind

With no divination tools close to hand, there is a desire and an inspiration to write something down at this time. A sense of 'need' and prompting from a mind beyond this realm. A familiar presence ... 'one of the two' I feel ... 'one of the two old dears' moves in close. One blessed with stage presence and 'not giving a damn. Saying what needs to be said when it needs to be said.'

There is a clear instruction here that someone needs to come clean and get it off their chest. A network won't protect them forever. Loyalty will only stretch for so long. Like an elastic band it will snap when overburdened.

There is clear 'rebellion' in the minds of a group here. There may be souls here who are well versed in patience and silence ... but even those vows can be broken. They will not harbour this 'black sheep' forever. A number of souls do know the true one who has been the harbinger of the grief and the misery which has been well known for a while now.

A mind extends the insight that there were upholders of the law, in the early stages, who could have done something about it all. Higher persons than themselves followed instructions to the letter not to permit intervention. The one old dear is quite sure on this count. She is also still confident that eventually the bairn will be re-emerge. Though now the mind reaching out to me is not the same individual. There is a gentle 'celtic' lilt to this other lady. One of the extended family pulls near and knows how to deliver. She's had plenty of time to shake off the shackles of indoctrination ... especially when she overcame the shock of being somewhere after a painful transition. She'd been adamant that 'when you're dead you're dead' but now she is able to freely wander the shores of her emerald childhood without the de-habilitating aches and pains & gradual bodily decomposition which plagued her in her later life. Her regret was never to get back to the land she loved so much. She is back there now ... and is watching over the wee one who is most certainly still with the living. There is no place in the other realms that haven't been searched where someone of such a young age would go after a transition ... the wee one still lives ...

Proof will be the article 'found' or unearthed which has not yet come to light. Something where the trail has gone cold but ... cold can become heat when the right pressure is applied. Do not run out of patience or hope ... in the moments of 'time' that have moved by in the higher realms since the first gifted minds reached out to learn the whereabouts of the wee one ... nothing has changed the viewpoint of those who communicate ...

Hope still exists in the world. As does eventual happy endings ....

A Word On Chemtrails and Chembusters

Chemtrails are a 'real' occurrence ... here, over the skies of Canberra, in recent months they have been all plain to see. Even Kristine has noticed them. There are clear blue skies one minute ... no sign of any aircraft in the sky ... then suddenly from out of nowhere 'clouds' begin to form. Tiny wisps that seem to 'seep' and 'extend' into the tell tale 'tentacles' which are the cliche chemtrails. The trails are then in the sky for hours. Extending in size and hanging there as a menacing spectacle ...

One such formation appeared in the sky above our now 'hometown' ... from out of nowhere again. Seemingly only a few hundred feet above our heads. There was one distinct trail .... then as we looked around there were several more.

On another occasion we watched another formation stream across the sky from one side of the valley to the other. We parked up the car and watched. What was weird with this particular formation was the fact we both could see what appeared to be a tiny orb like 'vessel' slipping in and out of the individual trails of the formation. It appeared not to be involved in the production of the chemtrails ... but what it was doing there, and what it was neither of us could say.

Next time I have a camera handy and another formation appears (there's been a distinct absence now for at least five weeks) ... I will take some photographs then upload them ....

For the 'uneducated' ones .... here is a passage from Educate_Yourself.Org which categorizes chemtrails and also introduces 'chembusters' ...

Definition of a 'contrail': A contrail occurs when a plane travels at a high altitude (about 30,000 ft. or more) and compresses the air into a water vapor or ice crystals through jet engines or the wing tips pushing through the air. This trail disappears after anywhere from a few seconds to 15 minutes, as the water vapor evaporates.

Definition of a chemtrail: The term "chemtrail" is a relatively new word, which appeared in the last few years along with the appearance of chemtrails. A chemtrail is very different from a contrail. At first a chemtrail might look a bit like a contrail. However, instead of disappearing like a contrail does, a chemtrail just keeps spreading out and forming a hazy cloud bankout and forming a hazy cloud bank These trails traverse the whole sky and stay for up to around five or even eight hours. .

They have been known to turn what was originally a clear blue sky into a grey haze. It is believed chemtrails are composed at least in part by an oil based substance of unknown content that is actually being sprayed from jets on populated areas. It has also been found that some chemtrails contain red blood cells, aluminum, mycoplasma, viruses and other unknown biological components. There are many reports of increased diseases, especially respiratory ailments, in areas where there are chemtrails.

Chemtrails are often seen to be sprayed by white planes with no markings. Sometimes you will see these planes give off no contrail at all, and immediately after the same kind of plane in the same area will start to leave a thick chemtrail. At other times, distinct short gaps in chemtrails have been photographed, as though the plane ran out of chemicals and then had to start spraying with a new supply.

For information on Chemtrails see the sites listed at http://www.carnicom.com/contrails.htm

History of the Cloudbuster

The Wilhelm Reich Cloudbuster was well known for its ability to create rain. But a problem existed with its continued use, in that the deadly orgone energy that it absorbed could in fact hurt the operator if it was not correctly "drained off". This "draining off" of deadly orgone energy was accomplished by 1. Connecting the Cloudbuster to a body of running water (difficult) or 2. Connecting the Cloudbuster output to an orgone accumulator. However, the orgone accumulator would soon become saturated with the deadly orgone energy which in turn caused more problems for the operator. So the Cloudbuster, as good a technology as it is, has lain dormant for many years.

The Cloudbuster Re-Invented

By utilizing the research of Wilhelm Reich, we have created a cheap, portable and easy-to-build device that consistently destroys Chemtrails and heals the atmosphere. The “Chembuster” is the answer to these ongoing attacks. Unlike the original Cloudbuster, the CB changes the deadly orgone energy to good orgone energy and does NOT become saturated or dangerous to the operator. You can build one for about $150.

For more information on The Cloudbuster http://educate-yourself.org/ct/goodbyects10jan02.shtml

Faked UFO .... right?

Take a look at this 'UFO' footage ...

See it for yourself then decide. It is a well produced short clip of an apparent UFO close up.

Sitting Bull

Tatanka Iyotaka most commonly known as SITTING BULL, Sioux chief, born about 1837. He was the principal chief of the Dakota Sioux, who were driven from their reservation in the Black Hills by miners in 1876, and took up arms against the whites and friendly Indians, refusing to be transported to the Indian territory.

In June, 1876, they defeated and massacred Gen. George A. Custer's advance party of Gen. Alfred H. Terry's column, which was sent against them, on Little Big Horn River. They were pursued northward by General Terry.

Sitting Bull, with a part of his band, made his escape into British Territory, and, through the mediation of Dominion officials, surrendered on a promise of pardon in 1880. In July and August, 1888, in a conference at Standing Rock, Dakota, he influenced his tribe to refuse to relinquish Indian lands.

He died in 1890 when followers tried to rescue him from the reservation police.This inspirational leader was murdered d eep within Lakota Nation territory, a vast area encompassing much of the central and northern Great Plains. Tatanka Iyotaka in his day was one of the most influential leaders on the prairie. Today, he is the most recognizable Indian in the world.

Tatanka Iyotaka was not impressed by white society and their version of civilization. He was shocked and saddened to see the number of homeless people living on the streets of American cities. He gave money to hungry white people many times when he was in the large cities.

He counselled his people to be wary of what they accept from white culture. He saw some things which might benefit his people; but cautioned Indian people to accept only those things that were useful to us, and to leave everything else alone.

Tatanka Iyotaka was a man of clear vision and pure motivation.

As is often the case with extraordinary people, Tatanka Iyotaka was murdered by his own people. The colonial force set the weak of his own race against him. A tactic they continue to use. Indian police today carry on the tradition started by the assassins of Tatanka Iyotaka and Tasunke Witko. Indian police harassing, arresting, even killing other Indian people keeps the colony in control. Seeing that their paychecks, just like those of the elected tribal/band councilors, come from the colonial government points to that quite clearly.

The unrelenting love for his land and his people caused the enemies of the Lakota to fear Tatanka Iyotaka. The Hunkpapa Oyate and the Titonwan Lakota had many powerful leaders, but Tatanka Iyotaka will forever remain the icon of traditional, full-blood strength and dignity.

Tarot Card of the Day

The central theme of what is traditionally called the Wheel of Fortune card is cyclical change. The Wheel keeps on rolling, churning events in a ceaseless progression of ups and downs, either way freeing us from the past.

No one can escape its cyclical action, which can feel somewhat terrifying -- no matter whether we are rising or falling. When one is balanced on top there is a moment of crystal clarity, but the only part of the Wheel not going up and down is the hub, which is your eternal Self, the Source of Freedom.

Every one of us will occupy all the points on the wheel at some time or another. The cycle of the wheel is its lesson -- and we can learn to take comfort in it (as we do when we celebrate our birthday). If you don't like the look of things right now, just wait -- things will change. Of course, if you do like the look of things right now, enjoy it while it lasts, because that will change too!

"The culmination of unfolding events can be portrayed here. A circle coming back to the start. Back to the beginning of the trail, in the now, based on the events which caused the cyclic pattern in the first place ... but shaped by the resulting events between the start and the return to that point once more.

Nothing should be overlooked when the wheel moves round back to its starting position. For the charioteer it is time to take heed. To feel at ill ease as the wheel of fortune is linked to the power of law. The law of the land, the law of justice and more especially - the law of creation. Be warned, the wheel of fortune is a powerful bane. "

The Effect of Not Doing

Life is sculpted on a moment-to-moment basis. Every one of the thoughts we think, the words we speak, and the actions we take contributes to the complex quality and character of the universe’s unfolding. It simply is not possible to be alive without making an impact on the world that surrounds us. Every action taken affects the whole as greatly as every action not taken. And when it comes to making the world a better place, what we choose not to do can be just as important as what we choose to do.

For example, when we neglect to recycle, speak up, vote, or help somebody in immediate need, we are denying ourselves the opportunity to be an agent for positive change. Instead, we are enabling a particular course to continue unchallenged, picking up speed even at it goes along. By holding the belief that our actions don’t make much of a difference, we may find that we often tend to forego opportunities for involvement. Alternatively, if we see ourselves as important participants in an ever-evolving world, we may feel more inspired to contribute our unique perspective and gifts to a situation.

It is wise to be somewhat selective about how and where we are using our energy in order to keep ourselves from becoming scattered. Not every cause or action is appropriate for every person. When a situation catches our attention, however, and speaks to our heart, it is important that we honour our impulse to help and take the action that feels right for us. It may be offering a kind word to a friend, giving resources to people in need, or just taking responsibility for our own behavior. By doing what we can, when we can, we add positive energy to our world. And sometimes, it may be our one contribution that makes all the difference.

The Daily Om 9th July 2008

Amber Alert called off, girl found

The Vancouver Sun (Tuesday 8th July 2008) says: A 10-year-old girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert on Tuesday has been found.

Comox Valley, B.C., RCMP on Vancouver Island called off the Amber Alert after the girl was found in Victoria. Police did not say under what circumstances she was found.

Shyanne Dawn Carto, who is 4 feet, 10 inches tall with long dark brown hair and hazel eyes, went missing from the Cumberland area, outside Courtenay, around 3 p.m. on Monday, RCMP said.

More Self Mastery

The fact is that you don't have control over what happens in your life! You go from day to day not understanding the forces that are at work so things just stay the same.

You are at the mercy of your surroundings and you may not even realise it. You are doing what your environment pushes you into doing and you have no control. You even have to go to work everyday!

The good news is that your life can be much better!

You are supposed to be in control of your destiny but the problem is they don't teach you how to do this at school. You are not shown how easy it is to live the life you dreamed about. You don't need to live an average existence and a miserable one is out of the question when the techniques to a better life are at hand.

From on the trail ...

'...it appears she must hand back her 'prize'. Her delusion must come to a close. Her celebration of 'her creation' must cease, as higher forces than herself instruct her to finally give back Maddy! The rough seas of public reaction have distorted the 'reflected' picture so much that not even the 'intended distortion' of the truth appears in their minds .... what they see before them appears not to be part of the original design.

The despair must therefore cease, as a clear instruction seems now to pass down the ranks to effect what must be in the public eye. Madeleine must be returned alive and well ...'

Extract taken from 'Three Cards of the Star' Daily Merlin Transcript 10th August 2007

Volcano erupts in spectacular fiery display

Daily Mail (Tuesday 8th July 2008) says: The world's most active volcano has erupted in spectacular fashion on Hawaii, but scientists warn it is spewing more lava than ever before.

Kilauea, meaning 'much spreading', has been continually erupting since 1983, but more molten rock than usual is flowing from an outbreak that started last November.

Lava has been spewing as high as 150ft in the air at temperatures up to 1,200 °C and a surface flow is snaking east from the crater.

Meanwhile underground 'tubes' are expelling lava into the Pacific ocean creating huge clouds of steam and ash.

Scientists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory have also reported an 'unusually high amount of sulfur dioxide gas' emerging from one of the craters.

Kilauea is a low flat shield volcano. It is the youngest on Big Island and sits on the south-eastern side. The volcano has its own magma-plumbing system, extending to the surface from more than 60 km deep in the earth.

De omni re scribili et quibusdum aliis.

"What then is taking place in the world, and why do priests and potentates tremble? What secret power threatens tiaras and crowns? A few bedlam-ires are roaming from land to land, concealing, as they say, the Philosophical Stone under their ragged vesture. They can change earth into gold, and they are without food or lodging! Their brows are encircled by an aureole of glory and by a shadow of ignominy!

What secret do these men bear with them to their tomb? Why are they wondered at without being understood? Why are they condemned unheard? Why are they initiates of those terrific secret sciences of which the Church and society are afraid? Why are they acquainted with things of which others know nothing? Why do they conceal what all men burn to know? Why are they invested with a dread and unknown power? The occult sciences! Magic! These words will reveal all and give food for further thought! De omni re scribili et quibusdum aliis.

But what, as a fact, was this Magic? What was the power of these men who were at once so proud and so persecuted? If they were really strong, why did they not overcome their enemies? But if they were impotent and foolish, why did people honour them by fearing them? Does Magic exist? Is there an occult knowledge which is in truth a power and works wonders comparable to the miracles of authorized religions? To these two palmary questions we make answer by an affirmation and a book. The book shall justify the affirmation, and the affirmation is this: There was and there still is a potent and real Magic; all that is said of it in legend is true after a certain manner, yet--contrary to the common course of popular exaggeration--it falls below the truth. There is indeed a formidable secret, the revelation of which has once already transformed the world, as testified in Egyptian religious tradition ..."

There is one sole, universal and imperishable dogma, strong as supreme reason; simple, like all that is great; intelligible, like all that is universally and absolutely true; and this dogma is the parent of all others. There is also a science which confers on man powers apparently superhuman."

Extract taken from Transcendental Magic by Eliphas Levi

A Destiny Begun ....

'Madeleine: A Destiny Begun' says: "MADELEINE IS STILL ALIVE! I just wanted to make that perfectly clear! In this website I will explain why I believe that, and further, why I believe she has an incredible and wonderful destiny to fulfil.

I have always believed that the big events, the one’s played out on the world’s stage, happen for a reason. Dramatic stories that dominate the news, I think, do not happen by chance, are not random events, but must have a purpose, even if we do not always readily understand that purpose.

The disappearance of Madeleine McCann, on May 3rd, 2007, has gripped the world in a way that no other child abduction ever has, and still has the power to dominate the press even today, one year on. This site is dedicated to my attempts to unravel the possible meaning of it all, and what it could mean for our future."

Another Perfect Circle ....

This is another fascinating pattern. Another example of sacred geometry crafted by 'unknown' hands .... by the hand of man or non-terrestrial agency? Who knows but someone on earth must know - profound statement perhaps yes, but there is clearly an intelligence and a technology behind circles of this beauty and precision ....

The mystery continues ....decide for yourself the 'who' which is the hand behind this work of art ...

Furze Knoll near Beckhampton, Wiltshire
Reported 20th June 2008

Image courtesy of The Crop Circle Connector

Image Of The Day

The Swoop

Dragons Den

Was watching an old showing of a UK programme 'Dragons Den' on Sunday.

There was one man hoping to get financial backing from the 'Dragons' with his device which was fitted to the toilet to save water.

He was asked by one Dragon, if he was an 'eco-warrior' more interested in saving the planet than earning money. He replied that he was!

Not the thing to say to a Dragon!!

Needless to say, his device was then laughed at and none of the Dragon's were interested in him or his invention.

If I had been in his shoes standing in front of these millionaires, I would have been so tempted to say........

" And what use will any of your millions be when the planet has been destroyed"....

I wonder if they would have answered?

Self Mastery Quoted

One of the most persistent of errors is the belief that the spiritual life is separate from our daily life in the home or office. The truly spiritual mind sees no difference in the two. Differences in geography seem to make them different in psychology, but the wise mind sees them as one world.

A businessman is doing spiritual work when he refuses to waste his energy in feeling disappointed. At the same time that Ralph Waldo Emerson was writing his victorious philosophies, he was also raising the best commercial apples in his home town of Concord, Massachusetts.

Don't be afraid to play through life. Retire from heavy thoughts. Take everything with lighthearted wisdom. We are heavy because we think we must make an impression, gain something, be somebody.

In spite of what society tells you, you need not be anybody at all in the eyes of men. The only genuine need you have is to be a real human being. Try to see this, try to feel it with all your heart. Then you will know what it means to make the world your plaything.

These quotes are from the ebook, Manual For Self Mastery by Joe Anthony, http:-www.thedailyguru.com/selfmastery.htm

Real Boss Expects Ronaldo To Stay At Utd

BBC Sport (Sunday 6th July 2008) says: "Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon says he expects Cristiano Ronaldo to stay at Manchester United. Madrid have been linked with Ronaldo, who has often spoken of his "dream" to play for the Spanish La Liga champions."

"The most probable outcome as of today is that Cristiano Ronaldo will continue to play for Manchester United next year," said Calderon. "Theoretically we still have time, there are still two months left until the end of August."

Calderon also said that Real's attempts to sign Ronaldo had hit an impasse due to United's reluctance to sell. "We have not had any discussions with Ronaldo because United said they don't want to sell and we don't want to be disrespectful to them," Calderon told BBC World Service Sport. "I wouldn't like to interfere in a relationship between player and club."

Real are yet to make an official bid for the forward, who scored 42 goals for his United last season as they won a Premier League and Champions League double. The Spanish giants are rumoured to be preparing a package to bring Ronaldo to the Bernabeu, but Calderon has said that Real will not go against United's wishes.

"I have heard that he has said many times that he would like to go to Madrid and it is his dream," he said. "But we can't say any more as it could be misinterpreted and we wouldn't like to upset Manchester. I don't know if he will play for Real Madrid next season. We will only do what Manchester United want to do with the player."

A Former Home From Home

Flight Over Doha, Qatar

(Showing Al Fardan Twin Towers)

Circa 2006

'Future' Daily Merlin Insights

Future Daily Merlin Insights have been 'planned' to venture right back to the start of the trail (i.e. 3-5-7) and 're-investigate' the markings and indentations which were seen on the trail as the mystery unravelled.

Like the trained Native Indian scout utilising all of the six senses at his disposal ... calling on Great Spirit; being aware of mother nature and its environs ... intuition will call on all the magic arts to re-address the trail and its peculiarities ....

Future Daily Merlin Insights may well, therefore, be linked to previous insights and news stories of the time.

Native American Scouting Pictographs

Courtesy of Enquiry.net

Ordinary Can Be Awesome

"Everything in life can be nourishing. Everything can bless us, but we've got to be there for the blessing to occur. Being present with quality is a decision we are invited to make each day." -- MacRina Wiederkehr

Spirit is not only found in holy places, prayer and meditation, yoga and retreats. It is everywhere -- in your relationships, your work, your daily chores, in nature ... if you are willing to connect deeply with your environment.

Open to connect with something and you open to its essence, its purpose and meaning. There are other dimensions of reality below what we normally see and hear. Open to the mystery.

"We live in a world of theophanies. Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb. Life wants to lead you from crumbs to angels, but this can happen only if you are willing to unwrap the ordinary by staying with it long enough to harvest its treasure." -- Macrina Wiederkehr

Open To Possibilities

"Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there." -- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

"One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride." -- Richard Nelson Bolles

"The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions." -- Alan Cohen

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." -- Walt Disney

Another 'Wonder' ...

The Crop Circle Connector; says: 'After an absence of some nine years, the Circlemakers have provided another kabblistic gift for all of us to share, and indeed a rather personal event for myself.

The last event connected to judiasm appeared in 1999 at Barbury Castle, nr Wroughton which included the entire Kabbalah or 'Tree of Life' design.

From the central element of the 2008 event we can clearly view the Jewish Kabballah, which literally means “receiving”

What a befitting symbolism, for we have certainly received another masterpiece in the landscape. This latest event is a little more subtle in its meaning than its 1999 counterpart, as the tree itself can be witnessed although slightly hidden from view due to the perimeter design.

What is intriguing about this design is the part of the tree which is partially hidden. The outer perimeter rings attached to the design, could represent the 12 signs of the Zodiac, which are part of the Rosy Cross of The Golden Dawn.

However as the tree repeats itself within the central part of the formation, it demonstrates that four degrees are always partially hidden.

Within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn there are 10 degrees based on the ten degrees of the Sephiroth from the Qabalah (Kabbalah). The main emphasis and motive of passing through the degrees was to develop the personality through the higher self, and achieve god like status by identifying with universal energies and archetypes. The Malkuth which is the 10th degree is at the base of the Tree of Life, with the 1st and 2nd and 3rd degrees also partly hidden from view. These are the Keter (Will) Chochmah (wisdom) and Binah (understanding)

Interesting that all of these aspects of humanity have to improve if indeed we are to understand our place in the universe. '

The Ridgeway, nr. Avebury, Wiltshire, UK
Reported 15th June 2008

Haunted? We want to hear from you!

A simple question: 'do you feel you are being haunted or have poltergeist activity? Are there unexplained cold spots in your rooms ... unexplained movement and shadows in rooms within your house or property? Have you experienced 'the terrors' in the dead of night - having your foot or hair grabbed by unseen hands? Or have you sighted apparitions or deceased persons?

IF SO .... we want to hear from you.

We would welcome the chance to read about your experiences. Please feel free therefore to e-mail us.

Dubai - The Build Goes On

Sky News Uk (Saturday 2nd July 2008) says: Despite all the doom and gloom of the world's financial markets, there is a place where the pace of development has hardly skipped a beat and the credit crunch is for other people to worry about.

That place is Dubai.

Unlike many of its Arab neighbours, the emirate of Dubai has little oil. But at one time, it did. The emirate has used the revenue generated during that time to fund a massive building programme aimed at making Dubai one of the world's premier tourist destinations and financial hubs.

Everywhere you look there is construction, the most spectacular of which is based in and around the Palm at Jumeirah. As its name suggests, the Palm is shaped like a giant date palm. It is entirely man-made and juts out into the gulf from the Dubai mainland. It took almost 100 million cubic metres of sand taken from the ocean floor to build it and is now the site of some of the most expensive real estate in the world.

England football stars David Beckham, Michael Owen and Joe Cole were among the early investors - and they should make a handsome profit. Villas that were sold for around £500,000 just six years ago are now changing hands for 10 times that.

But how does Dubai manage it? Sultan Bin Sulayam - the man who oversees all the emirate's development for ruler Sheikh Mohammed - says that the local banks isolated themselves from the subprime markets. This means they are not feeling the vagaries of the credit crunch that have stricken so many other lenders worldwide.

The latest mega-project is called Atlantis - a £750m super-hotel with more than 1,500 rooms, the most expensive of which will set you back £15,000 a night. There is also a huge aquarium inside the hotel that is home to 65,000 fish, while outside there is a waterpark with dolphins and sharks.

It is all designed in order for you to have an entire holiday experience without leaving the hotel.

Daily Merlin Insight: An Overview

Daily Merlin Insight
Saturday 5th July 2008, 10.15 - 11.00pm
Added Sunday 6th July 2008

Using Servants Of The Light
‘An overview of the mystery.’

The mystery continues. The worker bees no longer as industrious as they were, still concede their lack of valid insights by providing repetitious reminders from time to time. The walls of the citadel seem locked tight with nothing being leaked out now. The world holds its breath, aware something goes on behind the scenes.

Initial impressions now as attention is drawn once more back into the situation. To recover impressions from the trail, which has apparently gone cold … but, the embers still remain, the possibilities are rekindling can happen.

Turning the inner gaze now to The Shining Star … applying the arts … there is a strong initial impression of a young girl experiencing teething troubles. In the upper mouth, a taste of blood in the mouth and sore gums. A reassuring sense these are impressions from the Earth-plane.

Her current locality is the cause of rhinitis (hay fever like symptoms). An itchy throat and blocked sinus. Runny nose. Irritated with the symptoms. A young child feeling under the weather. Impatient. A feeling too of a slightly swollen gland on the right side of her throat.

The locality feels like a ‘safe house’ within a neighbourhood community. One of many communities within suburbs of a city. A townhouse with a neat front garden. An olive green door through which the young girl wanders through. Unfamiliar territory but with familiar faces around her. The house appears new. Clean and tidy décor. It’s front façade suggests a normal family. But on the inside are numerous examples of expensive technology. But why? This does not feel like ‘home’ or a ‘new home’. It is merely a meeting place to where she has been taken.

A father-figure is the communicator here from ‘the other side’. A proud and efficient man. One who demanded respect but earned a reputation. Trustworthy. A sense of blue with the attire he chooses to present himself with. Well built and healthy at the prime of his life before his health deteriorated. I see a proud man now with a yellow/orange handkerchief in the right hand top pocket of his suit. The suit isn’t plain. It is striped perhaps blue/grey. He had a distinctive cough? A person of authority. Quite strict with family. Making reference to a member of the family in the spotlight. Driven to the point of despair. Determination and stubbornness for his own good.

Someone it seems here (on the manifest plane?) who enabled the pioneering engineering (?) which someone in the family is very much dedicated to. Very life changing events perhaps 18 months or 2 years prior to 3-5-7. Very controversial circles and implementations. Linked to some very greedy individuals who would care not that a young child is at the centre of it all. Care not of the effect it would have on the young child’s family. They see only the financial gain. They see on the potential investment and reputable standing within the inner courts.

MAKER OF SPHERES
7 OF CRESCENTS
USER OF WEAPONS
KEEPER OF CRESCENTS
NINE OF CRESCENTS
SIX OF SPHERES
WHEEL OF FORTUNE.

First impressions indicate the appearance of so many crescents. Crescents = moons = reflections/illusions/deceptions. Still continuing. Hidden veils and ‘cine town’ facades which hide what is going on within the mystery. Which occurs away from where the public eye’s are drawn.

The Maker is the front person. He/she who speak the carefully planned words. Who act on behalf of agencies of diplomacy. He/she who has a personal interest in the situation but is also dedicated to the establishment he/she is employed by. He/she knows much more. Knows more of the truth than the role represents. Has to remain silent and only use the words written which must be said.

7 of Crescents represents the 7th month and the concealment of the trail which leads to the Shining Star. There are ‘six levels of the open eye’ and ‘one closed eye’ between the sea of emotion (the family ??) and where the Shining Star resides. The shining star’s locality is seemingly under observation from eyes in the sky? Is being observed or is known by agencies of the lower eyes. Those of the closed eye are expected to remain silent. They are at the lower levels and their loyalty to the upper levels keeps the trail disjointed. The Maker is aware but stays silent for he is of the lower levels. Even intelligence is aware but is kept silent for that is the instruction they follow.

9 of Crescents is the apparent change in media reporting. Hints of more favourable news on the horizon. Truth or more reflections of the moon? The seas behind the image appear quite choppy once more (I can only interpret that between the 7 and the 9 are these events. Between July & September is a real key time). There are stories prepared in readiness for the nod for their appearance in the papers. But many other stories too … dependant on the mood that the Pied Piper wishes to have portrayed. He relies on upper levels of the open eyes to instruct him what must trail must be told.

The User of Weapons is the continued campaign. The representatives of the Flaming Sword fight a worthy opponent for the ‘custody’ of the young child. It’s blow for blow. Measured opposition well balanced it seems that it’s still a stalemate. A game of chess it seems. But the Keeper still holds the ‘near perfect replica’. The man in the moon watches on as ‘the Dishevelled woman’ parades the product in the inner courts. The network looks on as negotiations continue with the ‘kingly’ ones. The barons and the holders of wealth who seem to be the intended audiences here as the product was taken from shore to shore.

There is much to be gained by the continued survival of the shining star. It is imperative. She is priceless. The Dishevelled woman has seemingly travelled to powerful places to prove something spectacular occurred? But who is ‘the man in the moon’? What has he to gain? Someone keeping his identity hidden. An unknown benefactor?

There is seemingly an inner war between a brotherhood or organisation; a rivalry and real ‘rush’ to be the first to complete something. But keep it only privy to the inner courts. The seizing/blackmail of one faction by another to gain supremacy. A private venture perhaps between collections of major funds.

Six of Staves is the unifying of many flags under one flag. The purification of something which requires cleansing. The breathing now of fresh air where once there was a foul stench. Amber alert? A driven cause which is part of the situation.

Wheel of Fortune represents the crucial time/phase which approaches. A deadline to be reached. The progression of a process into the next.

Crucial meetings. The return could be any time but only when sufficient funds have been raised. When it is resolved and a meeting/reunion occurs nobody in the public will be permitted to know or see … it is crucial it is kept hidden as someone mustn’t know that it takes place.

There is a sense that the star is no longer in the European Union. After a long journey over the many months taken to see many strangers. Many meetings on boats? Blood samples taken? Sedatives. In and out of sleep so that the past year feels only like a matter of weeks. Disorientated now. Very sleepy and unsteady on feet at this time. Told she is a ‘famous little girl’ by someone who can speak QE but with the accent of their own tongue. Very much alive with long time companion. No longer on boats. Destination appears to have been a deserted runway. Lead to a waiting car ….

MJ

Quote For The Day: 'The Kingdom Of Mind'

The time is coming when we shall not have to work for things, for our physical needs in the way of food and clothing, because they will come to us through the accumulation of the right ideas in our mind.

We will begin to understand that clothing represents one idea of substance, food another, and that every manifest thing is representative of an idea. We find that the elemental substance is in our body. It is a kingdom of substance and of Mind. This Mind interpenetrates our mind and our mind interpenetrates and pervades our body. Its substance pervades every atom of our body.

Are you giving it your attention, or do you still look to outer sources for supply? Are you meditating and praying for an understanding of this omnipresent substance? If you are, it will come, and it will demonstrate prosperity for you. When it does, you are secure, for nothing can take that true prosperity from you.

It is the law that does not and cannot fail to operate when once set in operation in the right way.

Elite Seeks Control Over Rising Cashless Society

Rogue Goverment. Com, says: 'The terrorists in the federal government are continuing their push to implement a cashless economic enslavement system. According to a legislative notice from the U.S. Senate, a new Housing Bill contains a provision that will require nearly every online credit card transaction to be reported directly to the Internal Revenue Service. '

The insanity of this is obvious and it is nothing more than a way to give the government a means to track and trace as many private transactions as humanly possible. Previously, Visa's CEO has stated that it is their goal to establish a cashless society by the year 2012. As technology increases, a greater number of businesses are accepting credit card payments.

It wasn’t too long ago that fast food restaurants wouldn’t accept anything but cash for payment, now almost all of them accept credit cards. We are also starting to see biometrics utilized as a way to facilitate transactions. The bottom line is that there is an agenda at play to setup a cashless system that will allow the elite to take total control over the global economy. These people want to eliminate privacy in mutual exchanges and this is another step in doing just that.

One 'Possible' Explanation

Another 'Stunner'

It's upon us again. The season of magnificent crop circles. This one for example, is in the same vein as crop circles 'discovered' around July 2007 ...

The Crop Circle Connector reports: 'This is the most exciting and puzzling event so far this year to appear in Wiltshire. This formation appears to deliberately straddle a public pathway. This is a little baffling as there is plenty of room in the barley field to accommodate a pathway free design. Intriguing indeed! There are numerous mind bending possibilities and explanations within this formation. A fascinating conundrum.'

Crop Circle at Barbury Castle, nr Wroughton, Wiltshire. Reported 1st June 2008

Through The Eyes Of The Hawk

'The hawk is airborne once more. Distant eyes scanning the trail with increasing interest. A change is in the air. An end of one cycle it appears and the commencement of another. Perhaps the final phase. A wheel can be seen to be set in motion. Part once more the the chariot. It's occupant observed ... calling together the troops and gathering up speed once again. There is renewed urgency as unanticipated interest at the start of the circle is resumed.

The star still shines out there in the manifest. Still a resident on those shores. Still the commodity which it was at the start of the great plan. Taken from shore to shore to prove the existence of a progression. Used as a form of barter. Making agencies privy to a blackmail of a significant scale.

Hidden behind the veils. Far apart from the stage show which the charioteer devised and demanded the sheep observe; and accept.

All appears still and calm. But the white mists do clear. It seems through the eyes of the Hawk that all is not as was planned. There is the sense of breakthrough or the unexpected here.

Those who still have possession of the star are being observed. Watched by clever surveillance now. A matter of time before the covert operation comes round to their sector of the maze. Then and only then can the instruction come to rewrite the stage show and disguise the wilful trail once more ...'

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The Sanctuary, Avebury, Wiltshire, UK

1st July 2008

Source: Crop Circle Archive

The soft drink called Cocaine that claims to be the legal alternative to drugs

The Daily Mail (Friday 4th July 2008) says: A soft drink named Cocaine could be on the shelves within weeks. Billed as the 'legal alternative' to the Class A drug, the high energy drink has three times more caffeine than its rival, Red Bull.

It expected to be launched in Britain this summer and will be sold with the word 'Cocaine' spelled out in what looks like a white granular substance, resembling the recreational drug, on the side of the can.

Yesterday anti-drugs charities accused the drink's makers of 'cynical and irresponsible' marketing which could tempt young people in trying drugs. Alcohol groups are also likely to protest against the drink as fears grow about the effects of high caffeine drinks, such as Red Bull, on young drinkers.

Harry Shapiro, director of DrugScope, said: 'This is clearly a piece of cynical and irresponsible marketing. However, I hope people will not be fooled by it. They have obviously picked this name because it is a high energy stimulant drink and there are other high energy stimulants out there - cocaine being one of them.'

David Raynes, of the UK National Drug Prevention Alliance, added: 'It is people exploiting drugs. It is a pretty cynical tactic exploiting illegal drugs for their own benefit. The fact is that subliminally it is making the image of drug use cool and that's what kids want to be, cool. Kids will be drinking Cocaine and will inevitably link the two. The drink is relatively innocuous, but they will be linking it with cocaine use and the market, which is far from innocuous.'

The Cocaine drink is made from guarana, a natural 'caffeine' berry from South America, and contains 350 per cent more caffeine than Red Bull.

Las Vegas-based drinks company Redux Beverages claim the only way to get more caffeine per ounce is with an espresso. The U.S. version of the drink also contained wasabi and cinnamon, which numbed the throat to mimic the effect of taking cocaine for drinkers.

However, in February this year Redux was forced to relaunch the drink after complaints from the Food and Drug Administration over its purported health benefits. A source from the newly-formed UK parent company Ocke Cokey, based in Kent, said the drink will be on the shelves in the next few weeks.

Quote For The Day

The past does not really exist. This means that the future does not really exist. This is because you cannot have a future without a past, just like you cannot have an inside without an outside.

But YOU exist. YOU KNOW this to be TRUE and furthermore this is the only fact that YOU really know. So if YOU exist, then you must exist NOW and not in the future or the past.

To exist in the dimension of NOW, without a future or past, means that you are Eternal. On the other hand, what does exist in the past and the future are your acquired personalities, which are processes running in your mind and are not eternal.

And, if you believe you are these personalities, then you may unknowingly believe that you may not continue.

'Parallel Universes'

“For almost a hundred years science has been haunted by a dark secret, that there might be mysterious, hidden worlds beyond our human senses. Mystics have long claimed there were such places. They were, they said, full of ghosts and spirits … but ever since the 19th century physicists have been trying to make sense of an uncomfortable discovery.

When they tried to pin point the exact location of atomic particles like electrons, they found it was utterly impossible. They have no single location … the only explanation that anyone could come up with is that the particles don’t just exist in our universe.

They slip into existence in other universes, too, and there are an infinite number of these parallel universes, all of them slightly different. In effect, there’s a parallel universe in which Napoleon won the Battle of Waterloo; in another the British Empire held on to its American colonies; in one you were never born … they are even stranger than Elvis being alive.” (Opening narrative - Horizon, BBC 2002 )

Police investigation 'over'

The police investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been closed. Detectives have shut their files and referred the case to the public prosecutor for a final decision, local sources confirmed. A lack of evidence has been cited as the reason for the case being shelved. (Daily Telegraph UK Monday 1st July 2008)

It means that Gerry and Kate McCann are likely to be cleared as suspects in their daughter's disappearance, along with British expatriate Robert Murat.

"The police have failed to find those responsible," the respected Portuguese paper Jornal de Noticias daily said.

Clarence Mitchell, the couple's official spokesman, said the McCanns were still waiting for official confirmation of the move.

"We are aware of it because we have heard about it on the grapevine," he said. ‘The team haven't heard officially so we are not in a position to make any comment."

The McCanns' Portuguese lawyer, Carlos Pinto de Abreu, said the news would allow the couple to finally see what evidence, if any, police had that prompted the decision to make them suspects, or arguidos, in the case. He pledged to study the case files "from the first to the last page" to find out.

He said: "I want to be in a position to do what the McCanns always wanted, which is to assure themselves the investigation was properly conducted and continue to look for their daughter."

But a source close to the case said they would be disappointed with the material. "The police report barely outlines the conclusive and non-conclusive facts," he said. "What this means is that it is not conclusive nor does it point in any particular direction - kidnap, murder or the concealment of Madeleine's body."

He said that, unless new evidence emerges, the investigation team will now be disbanded.

"Police will continue to be attentive to any new information that arises once the case has been archived as happens with other missing children," he said. "But the Madeleine McCann case can only be reopened if an important piece of evidence comes to light."

Vanished - a.k.a 'Jumping On The Bandwagon'

SYNOPSIS Of 'Vanished'
On the evening of 3 May 2007, Gerry and Kate McCann returned to their holiday apartment in the resort of Praia da Luz on Portugal's Algarve to every parents' worst nightmare: their daughter, three-year-old Madeleine Beth McCann had vanished from her room. Her disappearance sparked a worldwide manhunt, the like of which had never been seen before. Poster campaigns, distraught pleas from the parents and frenzied media coverage all ensued - but still Madeleine's whereabouts remained a mystery. Portuguese police initially commenced a search for Madeleine's abductor, but as the case dragged on the waters became muddied and controversy dogged the investigation: British police were called in; suspects entered and departed the frame; sightings of Madeleine were reported from around the world; accusations about the thoroughness and competency of the Portuguese police were made; and the McCanns were scrutinised in the full glare of the media spotlight - with the Portuguese police even declaring Gerry and Kate suspects. A year after Madeleine disappeared, Spanish-based veteran investigative journalist Danny Collins looks at the clues and false leads gathered over 12 months of meticulous in-depth investigation in an attempt to piece together just what happened on that fateful night.

Source: John Blake Publishing Online

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DOUBLE JEOPARDY!