Waking Up

Daily OM: Many of us are familiar with the experience of waking up to the fact that our lives are no longer working the way we have set them up. Sometimes this is due to a shift occurring inside ourselves over time, and sometimes it is part of the larger shift that is currently affecting all humanity. Change is happening at such an increased rate that it is difficult to predict what the future holds. As a result, many of the old ways of planning out a life are no longer applicable, and if we cling to them we feel strangely out of tune with reality. If we are in tune with the energies around us, we will begin to question ideas that just a few years ago seemed sensible.

In the simplest terms, the shift we are undergoing right now has to do with recognizing ourselves as being more than human, remembering that our earthly aspects are a very small part of who we are. In truth, we are multidimensional beings....read more>>>...

“The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.” ― Shannon L. Alder

Nankeen Kestrel - Totem Bird of the Day

"There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it"

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Glastonbury Tor

I had a life on Mars: Russian, 20, claims he lived on the Red Planet before being reborn on Earth

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Daily Mail: A Russian who has baffled scientists since birth claims he lived on Mars before he was reborn on Earth.

Boriska Kipriyanovich has confounded experts with his knowledge of outer space for nearly 20 years.

His parents claim that he was able to speak months after he was born and would often discuss subjects they had never taught him, such as alien civilisations.

As a toddler, he amazed his doctors by being able to read, write and draw by the age of two.

His mother, who herself is a doctor, said the first indication that he was special came a couple of weeks after birth, as he was able to hold his own head up unassisted.

Boriska, from Volgograd, claims to have lived on a 'war-ravaged' Mars, which suffered from a nuclear catastrophe in the distant past.

He says that Martians measuring about seven-feet tall still live undergound on the Red Planet and breathe in carbon dioxide....read more>>>...

“Life is so full of rough edges - small tasks and expectations that scratch you bloody and remind you that you're naked and alone.” ― Alexis Hall

Big Ag is ruining what ground water they don’t take: Excess nitrogen reaching dangerous levels, study finds

Natural News: A new study has revealed that big agriculture’s utilization of nitrogen can impact groundwater quality.  

A team of scientists from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) and the Departments of Agroecology and Environmental Science at Aarhus University were able to conclude that when farmers apply more nitrogen to lands than their crops can absorb, the amount of nitrogen in the groundwater increases, negatively impacting freshwater quality and marine life, and contributing to algae blooms in marine waters.

The study, titled: “Groundwater nitrate response to sustainable nitrogen management,” was published in Scientific Reports, a journal from the publisher of Nature, on Tuesday, September 26...read more>>>...

“Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.” ― Criss Jami

Value Your Own Wisdom

Light of Truth Oracle Artwork by Matthew James

Daily OM: Throughout our lives, we will encounter individuals who presume to know what is best for us. The insights they offer cannot compare, however, with the powers of awareness and discernment that already exist within us. From birth we are blessed with wisdom that cannot be learned or unlearned. It exists whether or not we acknowledge it because it is a gift given to us by a loving universe before we chose to experience existence on the earthly plane. Yet for all its permanence, it is vital that we value and honor this incredible element of the self. It is when we do not use our inborn wisdom that we begin to doubt our personal truths and are driven to outside sources of information because we are afraid. What we know to be true in our hearts is invariably true, and we discover how intensely beautiful and useful self-trust can be when we recognize the power of our wisdom.

Inner wisdom is not subject to the influences of the outside world, which means that it will never demand that we surrender our free will or counsel us to act in opposition to our values...read more>>>>...

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” ― Ansel Adams

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The Liver Building, Liverpool - UK

Pied Currawong - Totem Bird of the Day

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

New Vaccines Will Permanently alter Your DNA

Waking Times: A news story tend to move in waves. It appears, retreats, and then appears in an altered form—replete with lies, cover stories, and embedded confusion. That’s why I’m keeping this story alive in its stark essence—

The reference is the New York Times, 3/9/15, “Protection Without a Vaccine.” It describes the frontier of research. Here are key quotes that illustrate the use of synthetic genes to “protect against disease,” while changing the genetic makeup of humans. This is not science fiction:
“By delivering synthetic genes into the muscles of the [experimental] monkeys, the scientists are essentially re-engineering the animals to resist disease.”

“The sky’s the limit,’ said Michael Farzan, an immunologist at Scripps and lead author of the new study. The first human trial based on this strategy — called immunoprophylaxis by gene transfer, or I.G.T. — is underway, and several new ones are planned.” [That was nearly two years ago.]
“I.G.T. is altogether different from traditional vaccination. It is instead a form of gene therapy. Scientists isolate the genes that produce powerful antibodies against certain diseases and then synthesize artificial versions. The genes are placed into viruses and injected into human tissue, usually muscle.”

Here is the punchline: “The viruses invade human cells with their DNA payloads, and the synthetic gene is incorporated into the recipient’s own DNA. If all goes well, the new genes instruct the cells to begin manufacturing powerful antibodies.”...read more>>>...

Learning to Follow

Daily OM: As grown-ups, we often approach children with ideas about what we can teach them about this life to which they have so recently arrived. It's true that we have important information to convey, but children are here to teach us just as much as we are here to teach them. They are so new to the world and far less burdened with preconceived notions about the people, situations, and objects they encounter. They do not avoid people on the basis of appearance, nor do they regard shoes as having only one function. They can be fascinated for half an hour with a pot and a lid, and they are utterly devoid of self-consciousness in the present moment, seeing everything with the open-mindedness born of unknowing. This enables them to inhabit a state of spontaneity, curiosity, and pure excitement about the world that we, as adults, have a hard time accessing. Yet almost every spiritual path calls us to rediscover this way of seeing. In this sense, children are truly our gurus.

When we approach children with the awareness that they are our teachers, we automatically become more present ourselves. We have to be more present when we follow, looking and listening, responding to their lead....read more>>>...

Fox - Totem Animal of the Day

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible"

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Stranger Pond, Bonython, Australia

Lizard - Totem Medicine of the Day

“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” ― Randy Pausch,

Genetic Engineering in the Woven Universe – the Progenitors & the Extraterrestrials

Waking Times:  God is everything. God is the all-pervading, imperishable, immutable, immeasurable, eternal One. There is no thing that is not God, otherwise God would not be God. The Cosmogonic Forces that we term God, weave the universes with moving energies that can be described with the language of electromagnetics, scalar and acoustical waves.

Cosmogonic Forces are invoked in the ancient sacred Sanskrit text the Rig Veda as Indra, Agni, Soma, Usha, the Ashvins, the Maruts, and more. Every prayer ever uttered throughout time is an invocation to the One Source, regardless of how these supreme forces are named, understood and interpreted.

God is everything and everyone. This means that every thing, person, planet, galaxy, and form is also God. You are also God. Your spirit-soul-consciousness is a portion of the eternal one. In Sanskrit this is said as: TAT TVAM ASI, meaning Thou Art That! Very simple. You are also God, and so is everyone in this universe...read more>>>...

Reclaiming Our Roots

Daily Om: Some cultures are more rooted to the earth and connected to their inherent spirituality. But every one of us, even those of us who have been disconnected from our roots for hundreds of years, comes from a place that was once inhabited by people who worshipped and honored the earth on which they lived. In other words, we can all claim this wisdom as an essential part of who we are.

One way we can begin to rediscover our roots is to explore the early earth-based religions practiced in the parts of the world that birthed our ancestors. If we explore the ancient spiritual practices of our ancestors, we will find that their practices and beliefs share many elements with Native American, African, and aboriginal religious traditions...read more>>>...

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Robin Red Breast (UK)

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” ― Albert Camus

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A Look at Claircognizance

Claircognizance is the ability for a person to acquire psychic knowledge without knowing how or why he or she knew it. The user can gain information about a person, object, place, or event through intrinsic knowledge, as in it just "comes to" the user's mind. 

Claircognizance means clear-knowing. It is that you know something, and (often) without memory of how you got to know it or why you know it. It's just a simple fact that you know and that you can't deny it (with some things). Though it can be very hard to get confident on things that aren't so clearly undeniable...read more>>>... 

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GOLDFINCH - UK

“You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.” ― Michael Ende,

Who was the woman in purple?

Daily Mail: About 8pm on the evening of May 3, 2007, Jenny Murat, a British expatriate living in the coastal village of Praia da Luz on Portugal’s Algarve, notices a woman staring intently at an apartment block next to the Ocean Club, a small holiday complex popular with British families.

‘I saw the woman standing on the corner of the street,’ Mrs Murat later recalled. ‘She caught my eye because she was dressed in purple-plum clothes. It struck me as strange. It’s so usual for anyone, particularly a woman, to be standing alone on the street in our resort, just watching a building.’

Sometime during the next two hours, three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappears from an apartment in that same block as her parents dine with friends nearby.

‘The next morning, we heard that a little girl had gone missing, and I later told police about the woman I’d seen right outside,’ Mrs Murat continued. ‘I didn’t recognise her and don’t have a clue who she is, but she seems a bit suspicious.’

It is this ‘woman in purple’, the Mail understands, who is keeping alive Operation Grange, the marathon reinvestigation of the Madeleine McCann case by Scotland Yard, now in its sixth year...read more>>>...

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"

“The False Ego creates a wonderful version of reality in the minds of the vulnerable & the naive....” - Matthew James

Sacred Vows

Daily OM: Speech is a vehicle for vows, but the sacred vows we speak are more than just words. When we make a promise, a subtle yet powerful shift takes place in our souls where intentions are housed. A vow is both a tool we employ in order to facilitate transformation within ourselves and an expression of will. Thus, to make an oath is to communicate to the universe and our deeper selves our commitment to the principles most important to us. Fulfilling a sacred vow--whether it is as complex as "'till death do us part" or as simple as "I promise"--challenges us, exercising our willpower and aiding personal growth.

When we speak a sacred vow out loud rather than reciting it in our minds or recording it on paper, our voices project our promises into the deepest reaches of the universe...read more>>>...

Echidna - Totem Animal of the Month

Also known as the Spiny Anteater, the Echidna is a very timorous animal which resides in the Australian bush. I was extremely lucky, on several occasions, to come into close contact with these wonderful animals.

Echidnas do not tolerate extreme temperatures; they use caves and rock crevices to shelter from harsh weather conditions. Echidnas are found in forests and woodlands, hiding under vegetation, roots or piles of debris. They sometimes use the burrows of animals such as rabbits and wombats. Individual echidnas have large, mutually overlapping territories.

Superficially, they resemble the anteaters of South America and other spiny mammals such as hedgehogs and porcupines. They are usually black or brown in colour.

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.” ― Carl Sandburg

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Robin Redbreast - UK

New Holland Honeyeater - Totem Bird of the Day

"Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you're doing"

Wren - Totem Bird of the Day

“When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.” ― Suzy Kassem

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“Humans see what they want to see.” ― Rick Riordan

Explorers of the Mundane

Life is an adventure we have all willingly volunteered for. It is a privilege for us to be on the Earth Plane. This is overlooked by so many of us, who take waking up every morning for granted. We have been programmed to forget everything prior to this existence.

Those 'soul memories' have seemingly been erased from our awareness, but they are still present within our super-consciousness. They still control our sub-conscious which in turn drives what our conscious mind reacts to.

The sub-conscious never sleeps. It is a constant awareness that takes in everything that goes on around us. It records the entire existence, and these recordings are at our disposal for review when we adjust our state of awareness.  The same happens on whatever altered state of consciousness we are on. When we leave a state of awareness, and move to another level of awareness, we totally forget our thoughts in a previous level of awareness. Those thoughts cease to exist until we go on that level again.

If someone revises or studies when intoxicated, they may not remember what they were revising when they become sober. But once they become intoxicated to a similar degree as when they were revising, they will remember what they'd learned previously. Alcohol merely puts you on an altered state of consciousness.

We need to remember the difficulty we all go through to get to incarnate here, and stop taking our lives and its stimuli for granted. We need to appreciate what we have, even if it appears to be little at times. We are meant to be explorers of the mundane; travellers of the manifest plane. We set sail to here in order to experience being a physical being. Even if this is a virtual reality, we need to cease trying to become spiritual gurus - trying to explain it all away with wacky theories - and just embrace our time on this realm. Accept it for what it is, and be our true expressions. We are not really meant to know or remember who we truly are at this time. We are remembering, and the lucky few do get to become their true selves. But we are just here to experience whatever our lives present to us.

Shapeshifting Newscaster (Or Not?)

Disclose.tv - Reporter caught shapeshifting in live news

“To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.” ― Vironika Tugaleva

"I just want to celebrate another day of living"

Heron - Totem Bird of the Day

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Top Lock, Wheelton, Nr Chorley

This pleasant location, is roughly a twenty minute drive from Chorley Lancashire, located on the timeless banks of the Leeds-Liverpool canal. It offers a pleasant (But bracing!) walk through the magnificent English countryside. It's not too far from home, and represents an ideal location for walking and nature watching. 

"The darkness is needed for the light to shine"

Sharing Grief

Daily OM: When we experience something that causes us to feel shock and sadness, we may feel the urge to withdraw from life. It may seem like remaining withdrawn will keep us protected from the world, but during these times it is important to reach out to those trusted and precious people who care about us the most. Even with our best information and reasoning, we never know when someone else's experience or perspective can give us additional information that we need. The universe speaks to us through many channels, and when we open ourselves up to receive its messages, we also receive nurturing care from a loving partner in life's journey.

Grief is part of the human experience, and sharing our vulnerability is what creates truly close bonds in our relationships. Opening ourselves up in this way gets to the core of our being, past all of our defenses and prejudices. When life seems to crack the outer shell of our world, we are both raw and fresh at the same time....read more>>>...

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Light of Truth Oracle artwork by Matthew James (Copyright)