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Parent’s Emotions are Passed on to the Fetus During Gestation
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/parent-s-emotions-are-passed-on-to-the-fetus-during-gestation
2019-06-01T14:54:20.000Z
2019-06-01T14:54:20.000Z
Joman Romero
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/JomanRomero
<div><p><strong>During the last 20 to 25 years, there have been numerous studies in France, Germany, and Spain about fetus’s life and receptivity to outside influences such as the emotional states of both the mother, the father, and other relatives involved during the gestation period. The fetus is also influenced by events, dramas, concerns, and anxieties that occur around them during life in the womb.</strong></p><p><strong>In BioNeuroEmotion, we call this time the Parental Projection Period, which begins at six months before conception, and can continue up to three years after the birth and principally involves the mother and the father. Our studies adjacent to the Parental Projection Period and focus on the fact that it is the mother who brings the most emotional information and incidental circumstances to the child during pregnancy. This includes both simple and complex stuff. The fetus will be “affected”, “influenced”, and “defined” by what the mother hears or sees. But above all, by the way the mother reacts to everyday events. The mother could leave small personality traces in the child or affect him/her completely in his/her health, physique, temperament, or self esteem. It will all depend on the type of emotions and reactions that the mother transmits to the baby. If the mother is strong, safe, confident, courageous, and expresses these qualities both in her words and actions, her child will be someone who possess similar qualities.</strong></p><p><strong>If, however, the mother is weak, insecure, fearful, or has low esteem, the child will also possess these negative qualities.</strong></p><p><strong>The Thoughts and Feelings of the Pregnant Woman</strong></p><p><strong>Most women, fortunately not all, are oblivious to these studies. Many women are ignorant to the big influence that their words, thoughts, reactions, and emotions have on the child. They believe that their child does not share any of these ideas, and therefore, feel that they are free to have any thought, emotion, or action without affecting the unborn infant. This is where they are wrong. The mother’s behaviour and belief system affects the child mentally, and even physically. In the novel Elective Affinities, Goethe tells the story of a woman who, during her pregnancy of her husband’s child, couldn’t stop thinking about another man she loved. The girl who was born had the same eyes as this man. So great is the power of thought and feeling in pregnant women! So why don’t women decide to work for the benefit of their child during pregnancy?</strong></p><p><strong> The True Nature of the Baby is Determined at the Moment of Birth</strong></p><p><strong>A woman waiting for a child should have affirmations such as:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>During these nine months, I have every chance to make my child a healthy, beautiful, intelligent, noble, full of love individual.</strong></li><li><strong>During these nine months, I have every chance to make my child a blessing for the whole world.</strong></li><li><strong>During these nine months, I should look at my thoughts, my feelings, my desires, my actions, and provide only the purest elements to contribute to his/her molding.</strong></li><li><strong>During these nine months, I must act knowing that my child, hears me, feels me, and sees me.</strong></li></ul><p><strong>Preparing to be Parents</strong></p><p><strong>The true education of the child begins before the birth with the education of the parents, who must prepare their interior beings well in advance through a better understanding of love, to attract an exceptional soul to the family. They must strive to conceive this child in the greatest light and purity. Once the child is conceived, the mother, aware of the power that has been given to her by nature, will work to give this soul a physical and mental body made from the finest materials. If thousands, millions of parents around the world decided to make this work, humanity would really be transformed in three or four generations.</strong></p><p><strong>This is an English translation of an article originally written in Spanish by: Elizabeth Romero Sanchez y Edgar Romero Franco </strong></p><p><strong><a href="http://www.emotionsandbody.com">www.emotionsandbody.com</a></strong></p></div>
Parent’s Emotions are Passed on to the Fetus During Gestation
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/parent-s-emotions-are-passed-on-to-the-fetus-during-gestation-1
2019-08-30T09:21:43.000Z
2019-08-30T09:21:43.000Z
Joman Romero
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/JomanRomero
<div><div dir="ltr" style="background:#ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="background:#ffffff;color:#343434;font-family:'source_sans_proregular', 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><ul style="background:transparent;list-style:circle;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;"><li dir="ltr" style="background:transparent;list-style-type:square;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="background:transparent;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="background:#ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><p></p><div dir="ltr" style="background:#ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><p><font size="5"><font face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">During the last 20 to 25 years, there have been numerous studies in France, Germany, and Spain about fetus’s life and receptivity to outside influences such as the emotional states of both the mother, the father, and other relatives involved during the gestation period. The fetus is also influenced by events, dramas, concerns, and anxieties that occur around them during life in the womb.</font></font></p></div><div dir="ltr" style="background:#ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><p><font size="5"><font face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">In BioNeuroEmotion, we call this time the Parental Projection Period, which begins at six months before conception, and can continue up to three years after the birth and principally involves the mother and the father. Our studies adjacent to the Parental Projection Period and focus on the fact that it is the mother who brings the most emotional information and incidental circumstances to the child during pregnancy. This includes both simple and complex stuff. The fetus will be “affected”, “influenced”, and “defined” by what the mother hears or sees. But above all, by the way the mother reacts to everyday events. The mother could leave small personality traces in the child or affect him/her completely in his/her health, physique, temperament, or self esteem. It will all depend on the type of emotions and reactions that the mother transmits to the baby. If the mother is strong, safe, confident, courageous, and expresses these qualities both in her words and actions, her child will be someone who possess similar qualities.</font></font></p></div><div dir="ltr" style="background:#ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><p><font size="5"><font face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">If, however, the mother is weak, insecure, fearful, or has low esteem, the child will also possess these negative qualities.</font></font></p></div><div dir="ltr" style="background:#ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><p><font size="5"><font face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><font style="background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-weight:400;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;">The Thoughts and Feelings of the Pregnant Woman</font></font></font></p></div><div dir="ltr" style="background:#ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><div dir="ltr" style="background:transparent;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;"><p><font size="5"><font face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Most women, fortunately not all, are oblivious to these studies. Many women are ignorant to the big influence that their words, thoughts, reactions, and emotions have on the child. They believe that their child does not share any of these ideas, and therefore, feel that they are free to have any thought, emotion, or action without affecting the unborn infant. This is where they are wrong. The mother’s behaviour and belief system affects the child mentally, and even physically. In the novel Elective Affinities, Goethe tells the story of a woman who, during her pregnancy of her husband’s child, couldn’t stop thinking about another man she loved. The girl who was born had the same eyes as this man. So great is the power of thought and feeling in pregnant women! So why don’t women decide to work for the benefit of their child during pregnancy?</font></font></p></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="background:#ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><p><font size="5"><font face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> <font style="background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-weight:400;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;">The True Nature of the Baby is Determined at the Moment of Birth</font></font></font></p></div><div dir="ltr" style="background:#ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><p><font size="5"><font face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">A woman waiting for a child should have affirmations such as:</font></font></p></div><div dir="ltr" style="background:#ffffff;color:#343434;font-family:'source_sans_proregular', 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><ul style="background:transparent;list-style:circle;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;"><li dir="ltr" style="background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;list-style-type:square;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="background:transparent;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;"><p><font color="#000000"><font size="5"><font face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">During these nine months, I have every chance to make my child a healthy, beautiful, intelligent, noble, full of love individual.</font></font></font></p></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;list-style-type:square;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="background:transparent;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;"><p><font color="#000000"><font size="5"><font face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">During these nine months, I have every chance to make my child a blessing for the whole world.</font></font></font></p></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;list-style-type:square;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="background:transparent;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;"><p><font color="#000000"><font size="5"><font face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">During these nine months, I should look at my thoughts, my feelings, my desires, my actions, and provide only the purest elements to contribute to his/her molding.</font></font></font></p></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background:transparent;list-style-type:square;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;"><p><font color="#000000"><font size="5"><font face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">During these nine months, I must act knowing that my child, hears me, feels me, and sees me.</font></font></font></p></div><div dir="ltr" style="background:transparent;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;"><div style="background:#ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:2.3;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><p><font color="#000000"><font size="5"><font face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Preparing to be Parents</font></font></font></p></div><div dir="ltr" style="background:#ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><p><font color="#000000"><font size="5"><font face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The true education of the child begins before the birth with the education of the parents, who must prepare their interior beings well in advance through a better understanding of love, to attract an exceptional soul to the family. They must strive to conceive this child in the greatest light and purity. Once the child is conceived, the mother, aware of the power that has been given to her by nature, will work to give this soul a physical and mental body made from the finest materials. If thousands, millions of parents around the world decided to make this work, humanity would really be transformed in three or four generations.</font></font></font></p></div><div dir="ltr" style="background:#ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><p><font color="#000000"><font size="5"><font face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><font style="background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-weight:400;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;">This is an English translation of an article originally written in Spanish by: Elizabeth Romero Sanchez y Edgar Romero Franco </font></font></font></font></p></div></div></li></ul></div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><a href="http://www.emotionsandbody.com"><font color="#000000"><font size="5"><font face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><font style="background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-weight:400;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;">www.emotionsandbody.com</font></font></font></font></a></span></p></div></div></li></ul></div></div>
The Urantia Book
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/the-urantia-book
2017-11-11T11:00:00.000Z
2017-11-11T11:00:00.000Z
Esta Lior
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<div><p></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book/read-urantia-book-online">https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book/read-urantia-book-online</a></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book/listen-urantia-book">https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book/listen-urantia-book</a></strong></p><p></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900640264,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900640264,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="245" alt="10900640264?profile=original" /></a></p></div>
Is the Ego Your Friend or Foe?
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/is-the-ego-your-friend-or-foe
2019-01-04T14:05:49.000Z
2019-01-04T14:05:49.000Z
Joman Romero
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/JomanRomero
<div><p><strong>It’s common to hear people on a spiritual path saying that you need to destroy or erase the ego. However, while you have a physical body, it’s necessary to have an ego just as much as you have a mind and intellect. Rather than focusing on eliminating the ego, your aim should be to balance it so it acts in harmony with all your other layers of life.</strong></p><p><strong>In terms of evolution, the non-local Absolute manifests the Jiva or individual soul. The individual soul brings with it the karma for this lifetime and creates the ego to help facilitate this. From the ego emerge the intellect, the mind, and your physical world as projections of your karmic tendencies. The karmic curse is that we have forgotten who we really are and instead, the ego creates all the stories, labels, and roles of who we think we are. Thus the ego knows us intimately and, if left to its own devices, becomes the director of our life story.</strong></p><p><strong>A Closer Look at the Ego</strong></p><p><strong>Up until the age of about two, the ego is fairly dormant. Then, all of a sudden the word “mine” is discovered. Even though this may be challenging for those around you, you enter the period when the ego plays an important role in your life. As you grow, the ego supports you in your education, career, starting a family, and generally establishing your life. The ego loves to organize things, but unfortunately, it also loves to control not only your life but also the world around you.</strong></p><p><strong>If not managed, this negative side of the ego manifests as arrogance, pride, vanity, judgements, and prejudices. In the more extreme cases, it emerges as the need to control, the lust for power, fanaticism, or an obsession with materialism. Unfortunately, many people forego a more spiritual approach to life and become stuck with these seductive qualities of the ego. This leads to one definition of ego as being Edging God Out!</strong></p><p><strong>Those of us who have begun to realize that there is more to life than materialism will sooner or later embark on a spiritual journey that will eventually take us “home.” However, this is a time when the ego can be most troublesome. The ego likes to be in charge to control, whereas your spiritual practices are to break you out of boundaries and live in freedom. When you first start your sadhana(spiritual practice), the ego doesn’t take much notice. It thinks, “It was that new diet last month and the exercise program the month before, this won’t last either.” However, as you continue and become regular with your meditation, yoga asana, etc., the ego starts to grow nervous.</strong></p><p><strong>The driving force within the ego is fear and, if you allow it, the ego will install fear into all areas of your life. Any greed, lust, intolerance, and anger are based in fear, and guess who’s behind it all? The ego. The ego knows all your weaknesses, your repressed desires, and your areas of denial, and it will use them against you, to knock you off your spiritual path.</strong></p><p><strong>Most of the doubts and worries you encounter are ego-based:</strong></p><p><strong>“Am I doing it correctly?”</strong></p><p><strong>“Am I on the right path?”</strong></p><p><strong>“Does this teacher know what he/she is talking about?”</strong></p><p><strong>Even simple thoughts like, “I don’t have enough time” or “When will the meditation be over” have been subtly slipped in by the ego</strong></p><p><strong>Now this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use your common sense but, when these types of thoughts or doubts arise, ask yourself, “Is this my Higher Self or my ego talking?” Maharishi Mahesh Yogi used to say, “When doubts arise, first doubt the doubter.” The doubter is usually the ego.</strong></p><p><strong>While your techniques themselves are effortless, as you progress on your path, it’s important to remain focused, vigilant, and disciplined in your approach to them. As long as you have a physical body, an ego will be with you. When the karma for this lifetime has been exhausted, the body ceases to exist and with it the ego. A new ego will be born with a new incarnation, again as a reflection of the karmic contract for that lifetime.</strong></p><p><strong>Even after Enlightenment, some trace of ego still remains. In the Vedas, this is called Lesha-Vidya or the “left over seeds of bad habits.” An enlightened teacher must be very aware of this so he/she doesn’t fall prey to spiritual pride and arrogance. In the early stages of Samadhi, the yogi may gain new and exciting qualities and yogic powers. If these are recognized as merely a part of the journey and treated with humility, he/she will progress to the higher levels of Samadhi. However, if they are used to control and manipulate, the ego takes over becoming like a “hungry ghost.” Such a yogi may gain temporary power and fame but won’t progress spiritually and will ultimately sow the seeds of his/her own downfall. This is why Vedanta tells us to, “Seek the company of those who seek enlightenment but run from those who claim to have found it.”</strong></p><p><strong>How to Manage the Ego</strong></p><p><strong>To manage the ego, then, you need to live your life consciously. Be aware of your choices and why you are making them. Be aware of the effects your choices have on others. There’s an Arab proverb which says:</strong></p><p><strong>The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers.</strong></p><p><strong>Before words get past the lips, the first gatekeeper asks, “Is this true?” That stops a lot of traffic immediately. But if the words get past the first gatekeeper, there is a second who asks, “Is it kind?” And for those words that qualify here too, the last gatekeeper asks, “Is it necessary?”</strong></p><p><strong>You may have heard the expression that someone has a “big ego.” Actually, it’s the opposite. People who stamp around with their chests puffed out have very small egos that are fighting for their lives, like a cornered wild animal. Love your ego, play with it, have fun with it, make it your friend and do not take it seriously. Seriousness is the ego playing the victim. Teach your ego humility through selfless service and compassion. When you love your ego, it will expand and cease to feel threatened. When the fear is removed, the ego will take its rightful place and become your biggest supporter on the path to enlightenment.</strong></p><p><strong>By Roger Gabriel (Raghavanand)</strong></p><p><strong><a href="http://www.emotionsandbody.com">www.emotionsandbody.com</a></strong></p></div>
Lightworker 808: Starseed Ascension Short-Cuts and Star Races
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/lightworker-808-starseed-ascension-short-cuts-and-star-races
2017-01-20T00:45:45.000Z
2017-01-20T00:45:45.000Z
J-Tariah Aset Maat Kumara
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<div><p>LIGHTWORKER 808: STARSEED ASCENSION SHORT-CUTS AND STAR RACES -- GFL & ASHTAR COMMAND DOWNLOAD<br /> J--Tar'ia'h En Ra El -- jtariah@protonmail.com --<a href="http://www.20Dhealing.com">www.20Dhealing.com</a></p><p>You probably think you are perusing this writing to learn more about starseed Ascension shortcuts and star races. Yet, reading these words begins your path towards a new reality. You are seeking your origins in the skies above: this is your quest. You are upon an adventurous intergalactic quest to find reflections of your innermost “self” -- patterns to identify with -- fractals which mirror you to your real Starseed family.</p><p>When you are truly Ascending and/or when you have already Ascended to the 5th Dimension, you will constantly be experiencing serendipity, a sense of inner wisdom, your body will be growing younger, and you will be instantly manifesting your wants and needs! Not quite there yet? Here are some super easy Starseed Ascension Shortcuts for you to use to rocket yourself to the 5th dimension and beyond!</p><p>Go Vegan Plus Probiotics -- this will get rid of all of your sleepiness and all groggy feelings, plus this will remove all ''time-loss'' scenarios!</p><p>Wear only Cotton or Hemp -- this will increase connections to your Guides, Angels, and Twin Flames, because synthetics block higher dimensions!</p><p>Remove Metal from Your Wardrobe --- this also increases connections to the Angelic realm. Only copper is Angel plusFaerie Sidhe friendly!</p><p>Be Celibate or Twin Flame Monogomous -- Being sensual only with your own Soul, with the self, with your Twin Flame heightens your dimension!</p><p>Create and Maintain Starseed Altars -- Creating Starseed Altars with your higher dimensional desires is a sure gateway to maintain your 5D reality!</p><p>Take Salt Baths -- Dunking in salt water followed by clear water daily removes 3D annd 4D residue from your Soul, body, and Merkaba!</p><p>Keep Crystals On You -- Drilled & copper-wrapped crystals -- and on your body, and in your bedroom -- help you maintain higher dimensions always!</p><p>Use Essential Oils & Hire Shamans for Healing -- Avoid western medicine in order to Ascend your pure Soul to the higher crystalline dimensions!</p><p>If you do not know ''HOW'' to do these shortcuts, write to me at jtariah@protonmail.com and I will help you out at no cost! And yes, I AM doing all of these shortcuts myself, daily!</p><p>Your Starseed relatives -- within the ships -- are attempting to talk with you now. They are trying all means of communication available. They approach you through dreams, visual signs, plus you may sense them physically of feel their ever-persistent presence in the psychic realms. Are you listening? Are you feeling? Are you sensing?</p><p>While you believe you are sleeping, you are -- in fact -- *on assignment* on your ship above. You are now attending ship-side schools related to your skill-set and Starseed race. Fundamentally, you're being *reprogrammed* for a brighter intergalactic future every night.</p><p>Many factors and tests (in the ships and higher dimensional areas while you believe you are sleeping) have decided your upcoming roles and jobs -– in the very near future -– in these primary arenas:<br /> - Acting as a Liaison between Humans and many other Star Races;<br />- Being a journalist on one of many media 7D holo ships;<br />- Returning to your home planet for rest and reunions;<br />- Working in this system for the Ashtar Command;<br />- Being a VOYAGER with your Twin Flames;<br />- Employment in space farm agriculture;<br />- Negotiating within a liaison / alliance;<br />- Performing within a committee;<br />- Being an empath healer;<br />- Working for the GFL;<br />- Being an artist;<br />- Performer;<br />- Pilot.</p><p>Most of these posts involve living on a ship, if only for a short time. This calls for traveling to a different planet within another galaxy -- or to an alternative dimensional reality such as a parallel universe -- or to even to a higher frequency of expression.</p><p>While you are co-habitating within a starship, flagship or lightship, you will be interacting with those from across the Cosmos! They will not be comparable to anything you’ve seen, felt, or perceived with your current reality veils (in this incarnation thus far).</p><p>Since you are now experiencing dimensional shifts leading to *life aboard the ships with your star race family* it is crucial to be as open-minded and open-hearted as possible: there are infinite prisms of kindness and utility that can be found within each planetary civilization.</p><p>Your Starseed relatives cannot *yet* be completely understood from your current vantage point, but will be holistically perceivable during your ecstatic love-filled multidimensional Starseed reunion.</p><p>You will be surrounded by non-human *family* on these ships (and your appearance will most definitely reflect theirs in your future). What will they look like? What will they be like? Here are some basic essential traits of just a few of the planetary star races you will relate with very soon:</p><p>Andromedans:<br /> 1) The 7D, 8D and 9D humanoid group-thinkers from the Andromedan Star System, or; 2) term identifying the race of sentient service-to-other beings occupying the livable planets such as Aion in the Andromeda sector, as well as; 3) Sentients known for perfecting co-creation for peacefully-running planets and star bases.</p><p>Arcturians:<br /> 1) Both 6D and 7D Sentient service-to-other beings occupying the livable planets and bases in the area of the star Arcturus, and; 2) These individuals are known by their deep compassion and unfailing kindness towards all walks of life in all dimensions.</p><p>Centaurians from Meton in Alpha Centauri:<br /> 1) 7D - 12D Loving high dimensional humanoids who are descendants of Venus Beings; and 2) Wildly strategic deep mental thinkers who are holographically connected to the Great Central Sun and maintain a 12D Akashic Library within it, and; 3) Gorgeous brainy beings whose ships appear in the form of a Merkaba spinning.</p><p>Centaurians from Proximi Centauri:<br /> 1) 5D to 7D Beings who come in the form of Humanoids and Reptoids, and hybrids who have both types of DNA; 2) Strategists, counselors, and empaths who are excellent benevolent thought-broadcasters; 3) machine savants who can fix anything mechanical, and; 4) Peaceful and harmonious group-thinkers with telepathy.</p><p>Lyrans:<br /> 1) Felines -- the original progenitor race of this Universe -- who are beautiful bipedal (standing) cats, and; 2) 6D through 12D Creators originally from the Vegan Star System of a planet called Lyra, but now live everywhere in the Universe, and; 3) Planners of many flagships and living planets, plus; 4) Cat-Beings who have a keen sense of fair play in all arenas, plus; 5) Sentients who believe that their young have more wisdom than elders.</p><p>Orion Beings:<br /> 1) 4D and 5D polymorphs who are either chameleon-reptilian or humanoid-reptilian hybrids, and; 2) Beings from the Orion System – also called the Orion Nebula – whom reside upon planets and space stations throughout the Universe, and; 3) Individuals and soul-collectives from Orion who have tendencies towards high intellectual pursuits in physics, plus; 4) Sentients whose self-ascension practices are linked to extreme isolation, as well as; 5) Beings well-known for the utter perfection of holographic recreation of other star races' emvironments.</p><p>Pegasians from the Pegasus Galaxy:<br /> 1) Humanoid descendants from Sirius B and Dinoids plus hybrids who have DNA from both; 2) Innovators, scientists, and diplomats in many sectors; 3) Expert polite gracious beings who are expert in creating peace, plus; 4) Linguists whose brains are adept and learning thousands of languages at once.</p><p>Pleiadians:<br /> 1) 5D and 6D humanoids as well as reptilian-humanoid hybrids (in gorgeous prismatic skin colors) from the planets surrounding the stars Targeta and Maia; 2) Soul-collective service-to-others beings who are artistic and sensual in nature, plus; 3) Beings who are masters of storytelling as well as inspired artistic ingenuity in<br />both music and projected visualizations.</p><p>Sirians from Sirius A:<br /> 1) 6D - 8D hybrids with a variety of humanoid, canine, and fox-like appearances resulting from tremendous dna manipulation, as well as; 2) Star races who are experts in bodily implant-device-tracking over eons of time, plus; 3) Beings well-versed in hyper-advanced bio-technology and organic holographic realities, and; 4) Sentients who are well-known across the Universe for their senses of humor, and their love of practical jokes.</p><p>Sirians from Sirius B:<br /> 1) Nektons of hyper-intelligent water beings -- called Chloglians, who look like Cetaceans (dolphins, whales, and orcas) of Earthshan -- whom group-think within pods, and; 2) Chloglian-humanoid hybrids, who are bipedal in shades of pale blues and greens, and; 3) Higher dimensional Sentients who reside in and upon many planets to raise vibrations, plus; 4) Playful and loving group-consciousness beings, known for their intricate songs, and also; 5) Advanced Beings who can live as numerous souls (called a pod) within one biological entity, such as a whale or orca.</p><p>Now that you have some depictions of some of your biological star race relatives, spend some time each day communicating with them -- until you have a constant rapport -- so you can quickly Ascend upward beyond the mundane.</p><p>Multidimensional life with your Starseed relatives is multi-layered, and must be cultivated by **you** making an effort to be alert to all subtleties. You need to reach out towards your Star relatives to begin communicating with them to have a relationship with them in a pro-active way!</p><p>It is the time to discipline yourself to be silent and aware of every nuance through waking hours of hearing (e.g.; you hear songs about specific constellations, star beings, etc.). Also it is vital to be hyper-aware of what you’re seeing (i.e.; you notice paintings of aliens, observing lightships everywhere, seeing number sequences indicating names of universes). Focus all of your six senses on receiving signals from your NOW future’s new realities.</p><p>Force your inner “Self” to wake up! Attempt to be lucid while your projected Earthshan body sleeps: talk to whomever you meet in dreams, as they just might be your relatives in the ships above.<br /> In the near future -- the upcoming articles will cover electrifying intergalactic chronicles, including: future home planets, Starseed missions, how to interact with non-organic life forms, and more! Meanwhile, WAKE UP -- shake others awake -- and remember that you are not *Home* yet…</p><p>///\\\\\\//\\//\\//\\\/\/\/\\\\\\\\\\\////\\//\\//\\//\\//\\\/<br /> About the Author:<br />J--Tar'ia'h En Ra El is a Walk-In from three space sectors. Every night during lucid dreaming, she is within the ships above attending school. Currently – during the day – she is a published poet, author and artist. Her Lightworking includes being a PR specialist for Sananda’s Eagles: <a href="http://www.sanandaseagles.com">www.sanandaseagles.com</a>. 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MESSAGE FROM LORD SAINT GERMAIN, MASTERS PAUL THE VENETIAN & EL MORYA ~ INTIMACY IS TRUST in the HEART
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/message-from-lord-saint-germain-masters-paul-the-venetian-el
2017-06-22T20:39:39.000Z
2017-06-22T20:39:39.000Z
Christine Meleriessee
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<div><p><a href="http://walkingterrachrista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1-poster-intimacy-step-5.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://walkingterrachrista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1-poster-intimacy-step-5.jpg?width=200" width="200" class="align-full" alt="1-poster-intimacy-step-5.jpg?width=200" /></a></p><p></p><p><span><span>Ascended Master Spiritual Channeling Message with Lord Saint Germain, Masters Paul the Venetian (Pink Flame, and El Morya (Blue Flame) sharing their expertise of Integrating the Feminine and Masculine Divine for Intimacy, transmitted by Rev. Christine Meleriessee Hayden – Integrative Channel of Walking Terra Christa.</span></span></p><p>It is my Divine Pleasure as Lord Saint Germain to share with you the steps that are necessary for an individual, and especially an Initiate, to fully come into the state of balance with the Emotional and Mental selves. This is a process that is not easily recognized as the physical self has a tendency to take these aspects of the four-body system for granted.</p><p>As a soul within the physical vehicle, you will tend to think that you are walking through life as you should, feeling your emotions and allowing the thoughts to guide you in the right place. But many times it is just the opposite as the souls on this planet have been programmed from the many lifetimes to act first through the Mental Realm and then the Emotional Self will follow suit. This is why there have been revolutions in which the many women have stood up for themselves as the arena of the masculine energies has been in control for many centuries.</p><p>It does not matter if you are a man or a woman, many of you have lived many lifetimes with the Mental Body being in more control than the Emotional. The feelings can come later after the action has been created within the movement of the masculine being the one that knew and did everything first.</p><p>Fortunately, this school of thought has been changing for many years. It is not about the women standing up for themselves but it is the role that each person takes within their own consciousness and how it evolves to allow the Masculine and Feminine Selves to come into full alignment.</p><p>Since the Emotional Body of the Feminine Self has been repressed through your soul’s history, then those emotions that you experienced are very real within your consciousness but do not always have a voice; they are hidden within your psyche waiting for the right time for them to be revealed. The many timelines that you have experienced have these emotions tucked away within the depth of your Etheric Self.</p><p>So, when you have a challenge in your life, these are the emotions that are elicited through your physical self. They are hidden within your emotional body which are causing you pain through the four-body system, and many times directly related to the physical pain you may be experiencing.</p><p>As an Initiate allows themselves to feel these emotions, they can be very raw and vulnerable as a wound is being opened that has been closed off for many lifetimes. The mental body has taken over and in that process the Emotional Body can seem weak but yet within itself, it is just as strong as the Mental Body. Ideally, it may be stronger because as the healing takes place the emotional body then takes responsibility of holding these feelings which allows the Mental Body to relax and not have to do so much work to protect this part of your four-body system.</p><p><span><span>It is important to realize that the potential for the emotional and mental bodies to work in unison needs to be initiated from the Feminine Self or Emotional level. This is where all decisions are created from this realm, not the Masculine Self (Mental level). If you are a person that constantly moves from the Masculine self, then you will be challenged in a variety of ways as the Feminine self has no idea of how to work with the masculine energies.</span></span></p><p>As you go through this process, it is important to always make your decisions from your Feminine Self and then the Masculine will fully act upon it, make it a reality.</p><p>All of the characteristics that make up Intimacy of the Soul come from Love, Sharing, and Trusting your Heart so that your Emotional Body needs to develop the ability to step into full creation. This means to delve deeply within your feelings and actually “FEEL” the energy that your Masculine Self may be projecting as a thought.</p><p>For example, if you say that you are Insecure, what does that energy feel like for you? Utilize the ability to actually go deeper into your lower chakras, especially the Solar Plexus to feel the Insecurity. It is locked away inside this chakra as it represents your Empowerment to Yourself. Take some deep breaths and use your finger or a crystal and spin that chakra from the top, to the left, the bottom, and then to the right continuously. Allow yourself with your Mind’s Eye to go deeper into the chakra and feel the Insecurity. Then as you breathe deeper, ask to see what is causing this Insecurity. Is it a reaction to how you were treated in a past timeline, is there shame, or fear? It is important to allow yourself to spin deeper like you are spinning a wheel.</p><p>As you feel the emotion, you probably will have tears or possibly anger. This is allowing the energy to move upwards out of the chakra so your Emotional Body is now fully feeling the experience. Keep going; ask for the Ruby Red Flame to help you as this ray is associated within the Solar Plexus.</p><p>As you allow the feeling to arise, you then call upon your Masculine Self, the Mental Body to help you understand it. This is when the words come into play. You can write an affirmation like, “I allow this insecurity to be healed by the Love that I am from my Higher Self.” Use your breath and feel the energy change. You may also have to write more about the Insecurity so that the thought process within your subconscious mind can be changed into the higher realm of thought, such as Acceptance of Love.</p><p>This process is allowing your Feminine and Masculine Selves to work together to heal the lower element that has been lodged in your Mental Realm, by allowing the emotional Self to actually feel the energy. This is very important to do with every issue you encounter.</p><p><span>Then, and only then, can you understand what Intimacy represents as the Feminine Self will be able to elicit the change within you as the Masculine Self grounds the acceptance of the new energy you are becoming – Empowered Within.</span></p><p>The reason that an individual is challenged with emotional intimacy is because the process is very foreign to the four body system. All of the bodies of the Physical, Etheric, Emotional, and Mental must work together in order for the soul to truly accept the healing that needs to take place.</p><p>Intimacy is learning how to speak the feelings by allowing both the Feminine and Masculine Divine to work in unison, not separately. Once an individual acts upon this process, it will get easier each time that they are put in a position to share about their own self. When you allow the issues that your Inner Child has held for eons of time to be revealed, it can be very illuminating and healing to say the least.</p><p><span>As you learn to share your emotions, you allow yourself to be vulnerable; and this is empowerment. You cannot have a balanced state within your four-body system without allowing all parts of yourself to healed by being honest of the parts that have been hidden so the healing process can occur.</span></p><p>Learning to Trust your Heart through true Intimacy is a very powerful tool. Allow yourself to walk through the doorway of your Divine Self by acknowledging all parts that need to be put into alignment.</p><p>I am honored to have Ascended Master Ray Chohans Master Paul the Venetian, the Pink Flame of Love, and Master El Morya, the Blue Flame of Will and Power to share their essence on this subject of the Feminine and Masculine Divine with me.</p><p>I Am Lord Saint Germain at your service.</p><p></p><p>TO CONTINUE READING THE MESSAGES FROM MASTER PAUL THE VENETIAN AND MASTER EL MORYA, PLEASE USE THIS LINK: <a href="http://walkingterrachrista.com/ascended-masters-3/message-from-lord-saint-germain-masters-paul-the-venetian-el-morya-intimacy-trust-in-the-heart/" target="_blank">http://walkingterrachrista.com/ascended-masters-3/message-from-lord-saint-germain-masters-paul-the-venetian-el-morya-intimacy-trust-in-the-heart/</a></p><p></p><p><span>RELATED: “Intimacy: Your Connection to the World” is the next Ascension Class in the Mastering the Spiritual Recovery of the Soul Series to bring forth learning how to be Emotionally and Mentally Intimate through Intimacy of Love, Sharing, and Trusting Your Heart. </span><a href="http://walkingterrachrista.com/classes/ascension-training-mastering-the-spiritual-recovery-of-the-soul/">Click for Class Details and Enrollment</a></p><p></p><pre>Original Material © Copyright 2017 <a href="http://walkingterrachrista.com/">WalkingTerraChrista.com</a> by Rev. Christine Meleriessee Hayden and Rev. J. <br />Michael (Ara) Hayden. All rights reserved. AS IS. PLEASE POST AND SHARE THIS ARTICLE FREELY IN </pre><pre>THE ORIGINAL & UNALTERED FORM INCLUDING ALL IMAGES LINKS AND THIS COPYRIGHT NOTICE. <br />MANY BLESSINGS AND THANK YOU!</pre></div>
The Flower People from the Hollow Earth
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2016-04-27T10:02:25.000Z
2016-04-27T10:02:25.000Z
Alysen Vasold
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<div><p style="text-align:left;"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/3f62ee2d6238202b9f6b2c0ef/images/85a14caa-61a4-49e0-b265-9943e271c0f5.jpg" alt="85a14caa-61a4-49e0-b265-9943e271c0f5.jpg" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" id="templateContainer"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" id="templateHeader"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="headerContainer"><table width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" border="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" valign="top"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="600"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="600"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="headerContainer"><table width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" border="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" valign="top"><table align="left" class="mcnTextContentContainer" border="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" valign="top" style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms', sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">So we are here to talk about the flowers, and how they bloom so beautifully and so abundantly in Spring. They lift their heads and turn their faces toward the Sun, and lo and behold, their magnificent bodies emerge from the dirt and you see their full beauty and smell their deep fragrance. They are magical aren’t they? And they have a message for your surface folk now:<br /><br />Dearest people on Earth, we are the Flower People from Catharia, inside the Hollow Earth, here to guide you also, and to bring you the fragrant scents and smells from the Heaven World through our delicate and beautifully shaped bodies of Light. For we are of Light also, although your five senses do not yet detect our vibration.<br /><br />We flow our Light to you in currents of waves when you kneel beside us to smell our fragrant petals or to touch our stems. This is especially so in the Hollow Earth, where the people are connected to us in their full consciousness. Soon you will be too, and then we can converse and play together. Yes, we love to play, and we do this easily. Even though we cannot move around, our laughter and voices can be heard whenever you are in our vicinity, and we can play in our thoughts and visions and sing to all those around us. If you listen deeply, you can hear our songs and sing along with us. We invite you into our aura and into our lives.<br /><br />We were sent here by the Spiritual Hierarchy to guide you into your ascension, and to bring you the beauty of Heaven. For as you connect with our beauty, you connect to Heaven. It is one and the same. For beauty is who you are, and we are here to remind you of this truth. We send our love out to you on the petals of springtime and the aromas wafting through the air. Catch them and connect to us. We await your visit. We are the Flower People from deep inside the Earth.</span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" id="templateBody"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="bodyContainer"><table width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" border="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" valign="top"><table width="100%" align="left" class="mcnTextContentContainer" border="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" valign="top"><p><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms', sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Copyright © Dianne Robbins </span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms', sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><span><span><strong>Your donations are greatly appreciated </strong></span><span>and support me in continuing my work: </span><a target="_blank" href="http://diannerobbins.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=3f62ee2d6238202b9f6b2c0ef&id=d62574e806&e=2959da091e"></a><a href="http://www.diannerobbins.com/support.htm" target="_blank">http://www.diannerobbins.com/support.htm</a></span><br /><span><span><span><span><strong>(FREE Message from the Crystal Nation with any contribution PLUS Watch a bonus video of me reading the message!!)</strong></span></span></span></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" class="mcnTextContentContainer" border="0" cellspacing="0" style="float:left;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" valign="top" style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms', sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="600"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="bodyContainer"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
Here comes the rain - again: Britain battered as high tides cause more flooding
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/here-comes-the-rain-again-britain-battered-as-high-tides-cause
2014-01-15T02:22:01.000Z
2014-01-15T02:22:01.000Z
Melodie Munro
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<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900604492,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605453,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605879,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606288,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607066,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607891,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608659,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609080,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609858,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610259,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610676,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900611482,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610892,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612488,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612878,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900614065,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900614260,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615058,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615652,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615299,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615886,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900616298,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900617859,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900618060,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900618498,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619061,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619686,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619291,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900620658,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900620697,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4" style="color:rgb(51,102,255);">Here comes the rain - again: Britain battered as high tides cause more flooding</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> A fresh bout of flooding has caused more woes in the south and west of the UK. As the never-ending storm continues lethal waves are expected to batter the coast. Waves of up to 27ft have been recorded off Land's End, Cornwall. After high tides, heavy rain and strong winds flooded homes more severe weather is expected. The violent storm moving in from the Atlantic has brought travel chaos as commuters return to work after Christmas.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900604492,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900604492,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900604492?profile=original" /></a><strong>A giant wave crashes onto the promenade in Aberystwyth, Wales. (Reuters)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605453,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605453,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900605453?profile=original" /></a><strong>Shocked residents survey the scene in Aberystwyth - which looks like the aftermath of an explosion. Residents were asked to evacuate properties over the weekend due to the high tides and flood warnings. (REX)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605879,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605879,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900605879?profile=original" /></a><strong>Monstrous waves break on Porthcawl harbour, South Wales, watched by curious onlookers. (Ben Birchall/PA Wire)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606288,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606288,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900606288?profile=original" /></a><strong>Large sections of the promenade in Aberystwyth has been washed away by the sea. Concrete and paving stones have been dismantled and pounded into pieces while railings have been uprooted. Waves as high as 6ft left a blanket of debris and sand where the promenade once stood. (Photo by REX)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607066,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607066,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900607066?profile=original" /></a><strong>This 4ft emergency barrier was all that stood between residents of Avon Crescent, Bristol, and the encroaching River Avon. Many had moved their possessions upstairs as a precaution against possible flooding. Despite fears the water would break the barrier and flood the street the blockade, made in Sweden, held firm. (SWNS)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607891,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607891,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900607891?profile=original" /></a><strong>Sea spray thrown up by tumultuous waves conceals the harbour wall in Portstewart, Northern Ireland, from view. (Reuters)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608659,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608659,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900608659?profile=original" /></a><strong>Huge waves crash over the tops of houses at Lahinch, County Clare, Ireland. (London News Pictures/Rex)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609080,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609080,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900609080?profile=original" /></a><strong>Black storm clouds roll above the seafront at Falmouth, Cornwall, just after sunset. (SWNS)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609858,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609858,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900609858?profile=original" /></a><strong>A hotel on the promenade in Aberystwyth has taken the precaution of boarding up the ground floor windows. Concrete slabs are covered with a thick layer of sand thanks to the high tide. (Reuters/Rebecca Naden</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610259,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="677" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610259,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900610259?profile=original" /></a><strong>Strong waves have gouged out a chasm from a section of the promenade in Aberystwyth. Authorities fear the structure could collapse into the sea at any time. (London News Pictures/Rex)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610676,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610676,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900610676?profile=original" /></a><strong>The A487 main road between Haverfordwest and St David's in Pembrokeshire is closed after a mountain of pebbles was dumped on the tarmac after the storms threw up ferocious waves. (Reuters)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900611482,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900611482,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900611482?profile=original" /></a><strong>Flood water smashes through a wall in Langport, Somerset. (SWNS)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610892,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610892,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900610892?profile=original" /></a><strong>For some the strong winds means rough waves - and an exciting ride. A windsurfer enjoys the stormy conditions and muddy seas off of Mudeford beach in Dorset. (Andrew Matthews/PA Wire)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612488,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612488,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900612488?profile=original" /></a><strong>Sandbags are placed in front of a property on the seafront at Lynmouth in North Devon, England. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612878,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612878,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900612878?profile=original" /></a><strong>Waves crash against the railway embankment as a train edges along the coast at Saltcoats in Scotland. (PA)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900614065,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900614065,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900614065?profile=original" /></a><strong>Waves crash against Clevedon seafront, North Somerset. (SWNS)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900614260,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900614260,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900614260?profile=original" /></a><strong>During holiday season tourists enjoy the hot weather and sun as they paddle at the Plymouth Tinsdie Lido in Devon. But the view changed dramatically just a few months later...</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615058,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615058,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900615058?profile=original" /></a><strong>The popular outdoor pool in Plymouth has disappeared under sea water in a picture taken January 3. The raised steps surrounding the pool have been engulfed in the flood and just the top of the water feature in the centre can be seen. (SWNS)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615652,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615652,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900615652?profile=original" /></a><strong>A road in Amroth, West Wales, has fallen into the sea after being repeatedly hit and eroded by the strong waves. (Rex)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615299,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="426" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615299,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900615299?profile=original" /></a>In Harpingden, Hertfordshire, a freak hail storm lasting less than a minute covered this street in balls of ice. (Catriona Wightman/ Twitter)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615886,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615886,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900615886?profile=original" /></a><strong>Waves crash over the promenade at hightide in Saundersfoot, in west Wales in the early morning of January 3. (Reuters/Rebecca Naden)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900616298,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900616298,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900616298?profile=original" /></a><strong>High seas batter the Cobb at Lyme Regis, Dorset. (SWNS)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900617859,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900617859,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900617859?profile=original" /></a><strong>A car drives through flood water created by the River Mole bursting its banks at Jacobs Well, Surrey. (London News Pictures/REX)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900618060,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900618060,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900618060?profile=original" /></a><strong>Waves of up to 10m are expected to hit Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Residents of coastal towns have been warned to stay away from visiting the seafront to inspect the waves as it can be dangerous. (SWNS)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900618498,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900618498,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900618498?profile=original" /></a><strong>Council workers place sand bags on Plymouth's famous Mayflower Steps in the early hours of morning to prevent flooding. (SWNS)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619061,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619061,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900619061?profile=original" /></a><strong>Two children play by the Clevedon seafront in North Somerset, as waves crash against the railings. The Environment Agency issued severe flood warnings - meaning there is a danger to life. (SWNS)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619686,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619686,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619686,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900619686?profile=original" /></a><strong>Huge waves batter the seafront at Porthcawl in South Wales. The Met Office has also warned of wind and rain in Scotland and Northern Ireland. High tides are expected in Northern Ireland and residents of Belfast have been warned that parts of the city could be evacuated due to flooding. (SWNS)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619291,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619291,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900619291?profile=original" /></a><strong>A sunny day in Gloucestershire but heavy rain over the New Year have caused the River Severn to break it's banks near Tewkesbury Abbey. (SWNS)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900620658,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900620658,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900620658?profile=original" /></a><strong>A flooded street in Salcombe, Devon. The worst of the severe weather is expected to affect Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire and Wales. (SWNS)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900620697,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900620697,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900620697?profile=original" /></a><strong>Strong winds and a tidal surge cause waves to crash down on Plymouth's historic waterfront. The Environment Agency has warned flooding could endanger lives. (SWNS)</strong></p></div>
Archeia Lady Mercy ~ Nurture Yourself through the Healing Power of Forgiveness ~ via Julie Miller
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/archeia-lady-mercy-nurture-yourself-through-the-healing-power-of
2013-10-24T01:06:52.000Z
2013-10-24T01:06:52.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(255,102,0);">Archeia Lady Mercy ~ Nurture Yourself through the Healing Power of Forgiveness ~ via Julie Miller</span></strong> <br /> Posted: 03 Aug 2013 10:45 PM PDT</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900620468,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="400" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900620468,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900620468?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;">Beautiful Bright Hearts we know many of you have experienced hurt caused by other people’s actions and words. Maybe your parent criticized you, possibly a co-worker spread invalidated gossip, or your closest friend or partner has said or done dishonest actions that caused hurt. There are many scenarios and examples and the pain you have endured can create wounds that hurt much more than a cut upon your body - the anger, resentment, and for some the feelings of vengeance can have a long lasting hold on your emotions and feelings. They can drain your precious energy away creating fatigue and unwellness. To remove yourself from these draining emotions and feelings, consider the practice of forgiveness. Embrace forgiveness as a way to heal yourself from deep within, releasing any pent up guilt, animosity and other fear created feelings and let them go. Bright Hearts when you embrace forgiveness as your healing medium for personal hurts you are leading your whole self down a wonderful path of physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. You are doing something good for you.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">We are quite aware that forgiveness is a challenge for many because one must be ready mentally and emotionally. Understand Bright Hearts, when you apply the practice of forgiveness you are not condoning what has happened or what someone has done. You are letting go of the pain that was created as a result. You are letting go of all the bitterness, sorrow, betrayal and other feelings that was created, you are freeing yourself from the heaviness of those feelings and emotions. Yes, forgiveness can be hard, especially when the person or persons who have wronged you don’t seem to deserve your mercy, but you are doing this also for you. Remember my dears, when you forgive the benefits are mainly for you. Forgiveness frees you; it shows you a path where you can breathe again without the pain caused by others or the lingering effects of a situation that has held your power far too long.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">Learning to forgive and let go of the pain caused by others gives room for compassion, and peace to enter your whole being. Your ability to forgive and let go can easily direct your journey to happier and healthier relationships, a higher feeling of spiritual well-being, less stressed are just some of the many things you may feel as an outcome of practicing forgiveness.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">We know it is very easy to hold onto the animosity and resentment after someone has said or done something to hurt you. As soon as you think on those words and actions, you allow them to take root and to grow and fester inside of you. They have the ability to push out any positive feelings and sometimes the feeling of being overwhelmed by your own sense of injustice takes over. Depending on how long you dwell within the negative emotions of the situation you may also find yourself losing valuable connectedness with others that you do care about.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">Even while in this dark state you may feel lost and confused, but there is always a way out but it does require commitment from you and your will do leave the heaviness behind. The commitment that is needed is your own vow to begin the process to bring in positive changes beginning with forgiveness. As you embark upon the path of practicing forgiveness, give yourself time to think about the value of forgiveness and how it is important and what you are hoping to achieve. During this time of self-healing, reflect back to past situations where hurt was involved, recognize the facts that are plainly there and notice your reactions then and how they effected your physical health and spiritual well-being and see how the past situation and the current one has effected your overall life.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">When you are ready, enthusiastically forgive this person that has caused you harm. Let go of that heavy pain and of those negative emotions and feelings. Give yourself the freedom from their disharmonic clutches and become no longer the victim but the survivor, one who is filled with great courageous, personal power and great knowledge and wisdom. You deserve to be free, to be in control of yourself and of your life. As soon as you consciously let go of your pain, along with the bitterness and anger that is often associated, your life is no longer defined by the actions and words done by others, it is no longer a reflection of the pain you endured. Through the power and effects of forgiveness, you are essentially rebirthing a new you. Forgiveness is like a gentle yet strong hug that nurtures and heals you from the inside. Through forgiveness you learn how to live again, to smile, to laugh and to just be you.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">When you have exercised forgiveness to the person that caused you pain and harm, this positive action doesn’t always mean there will be reconciliations. Through the process of forgiveness, you have learned what value means, and through the information you gathered you also are given the opportunity to recognize if the relationship with this person is of great value to you or if it will continue to create harm. Forgiveness often leads to reconciliation but not necessarily. You will have to discern, using your intuitive powers and come to the conclusion if reconciliation is best. Even if there is no reconciliation, forgiveness is still able to be applied and your path of self-healing continues.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">Bright Hearts, we know how difficult it can be when you have not forgiven the one who has caused you pain by their insensitive words or actions; just being near them causes great tension. But when forgiveness has been exercised, these feelings of fright and unease dissolves. The feeling of awkwardness is no longer present because you have begun to move forward because you have re-claimed your power, you have given yourself the respect you deserve as well as your love and care.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">We encourage you Bright Hearts, while on the path of forgiving others, you also need to forgive yourself. Forgive yourself for any past wrongs you may have done to others, forgive yourself for the feelings you allowed to enter, forgive yourself for judging yourself or being too hard on yourself. Remember who you are, remember that mistakes do happen. They don’t happen necessarily to stall your progress, but to help guide you to creating a stronger you, to learn to let go of certain cycles, to let go of people or ways that are no longer serving your best interests. When you seek forgiveness for yourself, don’t seek with excuses, seek specifically for forgiveness, include your regret and your sorrow, and be authentic. Understand dear ones you cannot force another to forgive you, they too deserve and need to move on and they will just as you will in time when they are ready. Even after you exercised forgiveness and the outcome doesn’t bring reconciliation, it is important to make the decision to be compassionate, kind and respectful towards others.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">Your spirit Bright Hearts requires the nourishment found within the goodness of truth and beauty that is discovered while on the path of forgiveness. Showing mercy and forgiveness to yourself and to others allows you to grow strong and increases your potential and ability to allow positive changes into your life. When you are being merciful towards others and of yourself, you are able to forgive, you are able to comfort, help and care for others and for yourself when needed. Remember dear ones when you act merciful and show forgiveness you are also demonstrating unconditional love, a kind of love that has no expectations, a love that is done for the simple sake of loving. Don’t allow your spirit to feel poorly or as if it’s in a poverty-like state, direct the healing energy of forgiveness to reach your soul as well.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">Give yourself the gift of mercy and forgiveness, heal from within and shine your goodness and renewed vitality wherever you go.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>I AM Archeia Lady Mercy through Julie Miller</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Who Are You, Truly? ~ A Message from the Angels ~ via Tazjima
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/who-are-you-truly-a-message-from-the-angels-via-tazjima
2013-10-24T01:05:45.000Z
2013-10-24T01:05:45.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4" style="color:rgb(255,102,0);">Who Are You, Truly? ~ A Message from the Angels ~ via Tazjima</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Posted: 03 Aug 2013 10:45 PM PDT</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619467,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="400" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619467,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900619467?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;">bluedragonjournal.com</p><p style="text-align:center;">“Who are you (or “Hu R U” in text!)?” asked the Caterpillar of Alice in “Through the Looking Glass”. Many of you are now deep into the process of discovering the answer that Alice was seeking.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Today, several of us, as ascended masters, angelic beings and divine mentors have joined together to address you through our scribe:</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> I AM Sanat Kumara, Planetary Logos, also known affectionately as “Raj” by many.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> We are the Angelic Legions of the Divine Mother.<br />We are the Pleiadian Council of Nine.<br />We are the Divine Mother and Father.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> We are You, part of your Multidimensional nature, which you are now in the process of rediscovering and opening up to the realization that you are greater than you know.</p><p style="text-align:center;">We have joined together to address our brothers and sisters through this scribe as part of her own mission to know herself better. While well aware of some of her own spiritual roots, she has been unwilling to reveal much to her readers. Now has come the time to speak of many things, not just of a personal level, but a Universal level.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Each of you is in the process of returning to Source. Why? Creator has instilled his creation with the desire to be in Oneness. For some time, this has not been the case; many worlds, universes, creations and individuals have, shall we say, strayed from the original blueprint and far into darkness and separation. And so Creator has sent forth brave ones, volunteers all, to work in these distant fields to act as wayshowers, to bring awareness back to those who notice them, in whatever light, positive or negative, that joining into oneness is possible for anyone to accomplish, no matter how lost they currently feel.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Our scribe has been undergoing the process of “getting to know yourself” as described and guided through the work of Jim Self, long one of our guides and mentors, taught by Archangels and Masters. This is one approach to coming into Oneness, but only one; there are many and each individual needs to discover what method or direction suits their own individual needs. All of you are unique and precious to Creator; all of you are now discovering just how unique and amazing you truly are. To some the revelations will be overwhelming at first, and then others will be quite accepting and also blasé about their discoveries. And still others will be secretive, at least at first, because they do not yet trust themselves or those around them to understand completely what has been revealed or why.</p><p style="text-align:center;">We ask nothing of yourselves that you are unwilling to give at this time, only to look dispassionately at what your heart tells you, what is shown to you through dreams and visions, what you feel through your body, what is revealed to you in moments of “aha”, as you piece together disparate bits of information into a complete picture… a new you is being revealed.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Our scribe has noticed what has been explained by Jim Self in his latest energy update (August 2013) as a removal of certain levels of frequency, a detachment from the need or ability to emotionally react to some happening in daily life that would have earlier created a disturbance in her emotional body, creating another thought form to be stored in her unconscious to be dealt with at a later date. This detachment, while deemed by some to be a lack of response or coolness in her nature, is a godsend now as the agitation in the world around her increases. She is now able to watch the gyrations of the minions of the departing paradigm with equanimity; these oppressors are now struggling to retain their control over the people and are attempting all kinds of acts of oppression and aggression to push through their agenda. It is not working anymore as the energy has shifted and the structures that once held together the rigid paradigm of the third dimension have been removed. All the flailing about is pointless, but will be done by these stubborn ones until they, too, realize that change is inevitable and that their time is done.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619893,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="300" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619893,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900619893?profile=original" /></a><br /> For the lightworkers to be drawn into the drama of the departing paradigm is not the solution, either, for to place attention and focus on these dark energies is to strengthen their remaining hold on society and the individual. One must learn to be observant, compassionate and removed, focusing instead on the golden vision of the inner heart and connection with soul; the I AM Presence and Creator. Through the Law of Attraction, what is focused upon will emerge into your life and hers. It is universal law and above all those created by those who wish to control the actions and lives of others for their own benefit. So be willing to forgive those who have worked against you throughout your many lives on this planet and others, and to move on into your own dream of bringing heaven to earth. It can be done; it is being done by many who have learned to focus on what gives them joy and can offer abundance and healing for the collective of humanity, not just their own pocketbook.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Now has come a time of letting go of what is not yours, what has never been yours. It is up to each of you to identify just what constitutes those things that have been put forward by others in your life as being the way to do things, what to believe, how to act, who to trust, who to hate. All of you have been affected by the administrations and belief systems of your elders, mentors, teachers and bosses, to one extent or another. However, as the energies shift and change, the new children coming into the world and many who are here already as Indigos, blue-ray beings, crystals, walk-in volunteers, starseeds and other various titles, these individuals do not resonate with the old energies and so they rebel or walk away from what has been placed before them as the way things have always been and seek another direction, one quite divergent from that of their parents and teachers. The children understand that there is another way to be, to follow; so they go their own way because of their different “wiring”. They have come in with bodies that naturally respond to higher frequency levels and so they can adapt to and demand that others change, as well. For them the process is easy and quite natural.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> This ability to shift with the incoming energies and shifts is not quite so apparent in the older generations still living on this planet. Our scribe is one who came in soon after the last great world war; she took on some of the decades of energetic healing of karmic patterns and lines that many of her compatriots did, but in a mostly unconscious manner. She just knew that things weren’t right or comfortable for her, so a great search for meaning was undertaken quietly, moving her away from the paradigm of her parents, and eventually quite away from her entire family. She has lived a solitary life for many years now out of choice, realizing that she needed to focus on her own inner growth and not respond to the needs of others in the manner which was the existing and unsatisfying paradigm of her own mother. Perhaps her actions were deemed suspicious and selfish by some, but she was driven by a deep inner desire to understand what was going on, outside and within. The process for her is still ongoing, but now there is an increasing acceptance of her inner power, strength and determination to be reunited with her Soul and with Creator. With this acceptance also comes a sense of peace despite all that is continuing to play out in the world around her. This is a journey that is being undertaken by many individuals, each in their own way, and is beginning to be reflected in changes manifesting in the outer world, as the “people” come awake to the need to change what has been accepted and put forward by the few to control the many to what can be accepted by the many and is for the good of all.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> It is up to each individual to arrive at that place when they can accept and learn to love themselves, as they are, not as they hope to be, but as they are here and now. And they will begin to discover just how truly wonderful and astounding that knowledge can be, even if they now see themselves as being quite simple and plain on the surface. No one is what they appear to be; all are part of creation, facets of the great diamond of Being and in the process of being buffed and polished by events in daily life, by opportunities and promptings to expand horizons and sense of Self. Respond to these promptings as you see yourself guided and learn to trust the process. You are in control; you just may not be aware of that fact, yet, mainly because you are not quite aware of Who you are.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900620455,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="225" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900620455,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900620455?profile=original" /></a><br /> You will discover that paradox will be quite apparent as you continue to grow towards self-realization. Paradox allows for people to change. What is true of a person or an event one day, may not hold true the next. Perhaps someone hurt you in the past. Will you hold that against them until the day you breathe your last breath or can you forgive yourself and them for what has happened and allow them to reveal how they have changed or not. You do not have to give in to another; just be compassionate and understanding. You act as mirrors to one another and reflect back what has not been dealt with. As bluffing agents, your “enemies” act to bring your attention to what has not been released from your own unconsciousness. How you react to their actions or not can give you a sense of just how far you have come in the process of forgiving yourself for acts of omission or commission.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> What upsets you today as someone commits an atrocity “out there” is something that you, yourself, may have committed in another lifetime or even this one. You need to forgive “them” and yourself and move on. These acts are still being committed by those who hate themselves so desperately that they believe by hurting others they will regain a sense of control and power over their own lives. Of course they are seriously deranged in thinking so, but even the worst murderer or child rapist can change, can find redemption in the “lord” if they can forgive themselves and learn to love what they are now, a child of the Creator.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Can you do any less than the angels and forgive that one as the Creator does every day, every moment, knowing full well what that individual truly is already?</p><p style="text-align:center;">Can you forgive yourself?</p><p style="text-align:center;">Can you learn to love your loneliness and the traits that drive you from being able to live with others?</p><p style="text-align:center;">Can you learn to accept that what you deem as weaknesses and character faults within may truly be your most precious gifts and strengths that you can place on the altar of Being?</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> As the velocity of change quickens in the world, through the avenues of extreme weather, social upheavals, economic and political changes, as well as upsets caused by the now daily revelations of what has been hidden from the general populace by their governments, religious institutions, by corporations and powerful individuals, each person is undergoing a process of initiation into mastery. Many are unprepared and will leave as the paradigms shift and the frequency levels of the planet continue to rise. This exodus is well underway already; it can be seen in an increase in the death statistics, whether through natural causes or through violence and social upheaval. Do not feel that the ones leaving have failed, however, as each individual has a path to follow. When one leaves the body, one can adjust the patterns and make another attempt at mastering the energies and demands of physical embodiment, which is so much more challenging than many beings existing in the higher frequencies, truly understand.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> You are the brave ones, who have taken on the job of bringing a planet back into alignment with the Will of the Creator; it is not an easy task and will take some time to come into full manifestation, but the light is increasing in this world. The new world will come into being; it exists already in your Heart of hearts. Each individual who leaves will come back to fulfill their mission or choose to fulfill it from the worlds of light, as they are so guided. Do not fear for your loved ones who do not appear to be awake yet; they will not be left behind even if they appear to forsake you and your efforts to go forth into the New World, now.</p><p style="text-align:center;">If you are meant to work together, you will, but you cannot force change on another against their will. Let them be what they are. They will discover what lies within soon enough.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Be the process of change that you want to see happen in the world. Focus on what is your dream, your passion, your joy and bring it into manifestation. It is not your duty to correct what is broken. The energies of change will scour and remove that which is not suitable for the continuation of life from the world. This planet is undergoing her own path of initiation and return to her Christic plane of being; what vibrates at a lower level is being removed, naturally. What already exists within her and within each individual will eventually manifest in the physical. This process is already underway. See the world with the eyes of a child, filled with excitement and wonder, free of cynical judgment, alive to the possibilities and delights of physical existence. Your world is a wonder of creation and you are, too. Discover the joys of life on a beautiful planet, made even more beautiful by your focused thoughts and visions of heaven on earth. You are a part of the Creator made manifest. Bring your most beautiful dreams and passions into reality. You have the power within; learn to harness it for the good of all creation. Be what you are meant to be, a beautiful, powerful being of light.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Go gently into the new day that approaches you as a dawn flushing the skies of your world. Go forth in wonder and create in joy. You are human angels, drawn into manifestation by the Mother and empowered with grace and spirit by the Father. You are their hands; create in the fields of the Lord and learn to sing, again, with angels and elementals. We stand at your side, guiding, mentoring and giving encouragement when needed, but you are the masters. Go forth and act accordingly. We truly love you as you are, here and now.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <strong>Namaste; we bow to the Divinity within each of you.</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Copyright © 2012-13 by Elizabeth Ayres Escher. All Rights Reserved. Permission is given to copy and distribute this material, provided the content is copied in its entirety and unaltered, is distributed freely, and this copyright notice and links are included. <a href="http://bluedragonjournal.com">http://bluedragonjournal.com</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Pictures of the week: From a roar that hit the spot to smoke-filled skies
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2014-02-02T20:13:44.000Z
2014-02-02T20:13:44.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615269,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615298,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900616275,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900617070,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900617860,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900618059,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900617694,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900618875,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619101,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619864,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619300,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-4"><strong><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0);">Pictures of the week: From a roar that hit the spot to smoke-filled skies</span></strong></span><br /> <strong>Here's our pick of the best pictures around the world this week...</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615269,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615269,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900615269?profile=original" /></a>Hear my roar! Young leopard Fred attempts to show his sister, Ginger, who's boss in their enclosure at Dvur Kralove Zoo, Czech Republic. Ginger looks unimpressed. (Action Press/REX)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615298,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615298,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900615298?profile=original" /></a>Mount Sinabung spews ash as stars glisten above. The volcano in Indonesia has been active since November. More than 25,000 villagers from the surrounding area have been evacuated, while the ash has coated the ground below in a thick blanket of grey soot. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900616275,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900616275,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900616275?profile=original" /></a>The Saudi Hawks Display Team perform stunning aerial displays at the Bahrain International Airshow in Sakhir, Bahrain. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900617070,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900617070,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900617070?profile=original" /></a>A message from the gods? Lightning strikes during the doubles match between Rameez Junaid of Australia and Adrian Mannarino of France, and Rohan Bopanna of India and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan, during the 2014 Australian Open in Melbourne. Australia has been in the grip of a heatwave this week. Temperatures rose above 45C and dozens of bush fires raged through communities in the south and west of the country. The fires have claimed one life in North Grampians, west of Victoria. (Photo by Robert Prezioso/Getty Images)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900617860,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900617860,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900617860?profile=original" /></a>Pie-eyed: World Scotch Pie winner Stephen McAllister, from Kandy Bar Bakers in Saltcoats, Scotland, celebrates the only way he knows how at The Scotch Pie Awards in Dunfermline, Scotland. (PA)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900618059,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900618059,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900618059?profile=original" /></a>Taking a break: A family wrapped up in traditional Mongolian wear rest on a sleigh, while their camel, adorned in colourful garments, waits by their side. The family are attending the annual Thousand Camel Festival in West Ujimqin Banner, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The festival boasts races, polo competitions and performances of traditional Mongolian music and dance. (Unimedia Images/REX)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900617694,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900617694,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900617694?profile=original" /></a>Is this real or fake? Talented painter Roberto Bernardi, 33, spends up to a month painstakingly perfecting paintings that look real. The 39-year-old Italian artist uses oil on canvas to produce extraordinary art that can fetch up to £76,000. (Roberto Bernardi/Caters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900618875,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900618875,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900618875?profile=original" /></a>A Naga Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, offers blessings to a woman after taking a holy dip at the meeting point of the Ganges River and the Bay of Bengal, India. The man, covered in white, bathed in the water during Makar Sankranti - a Hindu festival that marks the start of the harvest season. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619101,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619101,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900619101?profile=original" /></a>The beginning of the apocalypse? The Luminarias festival, where riders guide horses through bonfires, is held annually in the small town of San Bartolome de los Pinares in central Spain. The festival dates back 500 years and is held the night before St Anthony's Day, the patron saint of animals. It is believed the smoke from the bonfires bless the animals and protect them for the year to come. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619864,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619864,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900619864?profile=original" /></a>A trend for next season? Photographer Tim Tadder snapped the moment a water balloon popped over a model's head. (Tim Tadder)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619300,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900619300,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900619300?profile=original" /></a>Smoke billows from a vast fire at a recycling plant in Sherburn-in-Elmet, where 15,000 tonnes of tyres burned this week. The blaze was so fierce that the nearby town of York was blanketed by the black smoke. The plume reached heights of 6,000ft - high enough to be seen from space. The cause of the fire is not yet known. (PA)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
A Case for Including Chemtrails in the Disability Known as “Aerotoxic Syndrome”
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2014-02-24T00:19:51.000Z
2014-02-24T00:19:51.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610085,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900611452,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900611292,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612070,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612282,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612865,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612879,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);"><strong>A Case for Including Chemtrails in the Disability Known as “Aerotoxic Syndrome”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610085,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="474" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610085,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900610085?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-2" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);"><strong>Chemtrails Pumped inside Commercial Jets Could Poison Passengers and Crew</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/AJWyqifDLEc?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/AJWyqifDLEc">http://youtu.be/AJWyqifDLEc</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>February 20, 2013</strong><br /> Chemtrail Toxins and Aerotoxic Syndrome Can Disable or Kill Pilots, Crew and Frequent Flyers<br />The graphic in the video was intended to show how toxic fumes from engine oil leaks could be pumped inside the aircraft with the result of poisoning the passengers and crew in a recognized phenomena called aerotoxic syndrome. Source</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> While Aerotoxic syndrome from an engine oil leak is a relatively rare occurrence it must be considered that Aluminum aerosols are sprayed from jet aircraft to saturate the skies at almost every hour of the day. Even when aerosols are not deployed by the affected crew, it’s the ambient nano-aluminum and barium heavy metals sprayed by many other aircraft that create the concentrated toxic air at flight level altitudes.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> And we know the highest concentrations of aluminum toxins begin at altitudes to which thousands of passenger, cargo and civilian aircraft are cleared to cruise, ascend and descend at every hour of every day.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> The identified problem in cabin air contamination is a device called a bleed air valve. The valve has no ability to filter the air pumped into the cabin and cannot distinguish between aerotoxins of engine oil, aerotoxins of aerosol aluminum or even aerosols of toxic radiation plumes.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> So, its no longer enough to say that aerotoxic syndrome is ONLY related to an engine oil leaks.<br />The definition of aerotoxic syndrome is not complete until all possible sources of atmospheric contamination that can possibly pass through the bleed air valve are considered.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/373594/Dead-BA-pilots-victims-of-toxic-cabin-fumes">http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/373594/Dead-BA-pilots-victims-of-toxic-cabin-fumes</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Dead BA pilots ‘victims of toxic cabin fumes’</strong><br /> TWO of British Airways’ most talented pilots have died after complaining of years of exposure to toxic oil fumes on board passenger planes.</p><p style="text-align:center;">By: Ted Jeory</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Published: Sun, January 27, 2013<br />Official records from the Civil Aviation Authority show that oxygen masks are being donned by pilots and crew at the rate of at least five times a week to combat suspected “fume events”.<br />(Comment: Necessary use of oxygen mask 5 times per week sounds too frequent to be mechanical failure producing an oil leak. Observers frequently say they can “smell” chemtrails when deployed at low altitudes. When pilots are using oxygen masks in response to an “odor”, it must be considered that the source of the odor and associated toxins may be a result of ambient alumina and barium concentrated in a layer of atmosphere at flight level.)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900611452,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="474" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900611452,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900611452?profile=original" /></a><strong>Pilot, Richard Westgate, deceased</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Doctors believe Richard Westgate died from cabin fumes<br />Karen Lysakowska, 43, was buried last Tuesday, while Richard Westgate, also 43, was laid to rest four days before.Both believed they had been poisoned by the toxic oil fumes that can contaminate cabin air and which regularly forces pilots to don oxygen masks in order to breathe.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Lawyers for Mr Westgate now want to “give him the trial he never got” by suing the airline in a case they say will be a “moment of truth” for the aviation industry. They say they are on the cusp of proving in a court of law the existence of “aerotoxic syndrome”, a chronic physical and neurological condition they predict will one day be seen as “the new asbestos”.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Thousands of pilots are currently “unfit to fly”, one specialist doctor believes. Official records from the Civil Aviation Authority show that oxygen masks are being donned by pilots and crew at the rate of at least five times a week to combat suspected “fume events”. In some cases, crew members have passed out yet in almost all incidents, passengers are unaware.The air enters the cabin unfiltered via a bleed pipe off the jet engine where any oil leak at high temperature can cause the release of a dangerous mix of compounds, including potentially toxic organophosphates. Those most at risk are pilots, cabin crew, other very frequent flyers and people who are genetically susceptible to the toxins.A suspected three per cent of people are most vulnerable due to a genetic make up that renders their bodies less resistant.<br /><span class="font-size-3"><strong><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">___________________</span></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Many pilots complain of headaches and other symptoms but they are often ignored or misdiagnosed.<br />Ms Lysakowska, who was one of the most talented pilots of her generation, having been given a special award as a cadet 20 years ago, had pleaded with her bosses at BA to address the issue after being grounded with ill health in 2005.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Writing to them in 2006, she warned: “My objective is to get well and carry on flying and not enter a protracted legal battle because of the impact exposure to contaminated air has had on my life but if I have to I will.”</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> However, she later developed cancer and the legal battle never took place.<br />Meanwhile, Mr Westgate, who was not married and had no children, also fell into the high risk category, his specialist aviation medic Dr Michel Mulder believes.<br />He died on December 12 in Amsterdam where he was being treated.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> He had been there since last April after diverting to the Dutch city while en route to Swiss suicide clinic Dignitas, having given up all hope of finding a cure for his illness.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> “All he wanted to do was fly,” Dr Mulder said.<br />However, it was a passion that slowly killed him.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Driven and ambitious, he was also a world record-breaking paraglider, a sport in which his talent was recognised only last August when he was given an award by ex-Royal Navy pilot Prince Andrew.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Richard had become a commercial pilot in 1998, flying with smaller airlines before joining BA in 2007, but he voluntarily grounded himself in 2011 after suffering whiplash in a car crash.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> However, Dr Mulder said by that time he had already become concerned about his health and memory, suffering persistent headaches, chronic fatigue, loss of confidence and mood swings.<br />Like many pilots, according to Dr Mulder, who himself flew for KLM and who suffered similar symptoms, Richard failed to tell his employer for fear of losing his job.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> And also like many others, he sought private medical advice to avoid any blemishes on his health record.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Dr Mulder said: “He was a very talented athlete but he had lost his sharpness. It had gone. He said to me, ‘I’m dying’. It was very sad.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> “He had been losing the ability to multitask, which is obviously important when you’re flying a plane.<br />“He was misdiagnosed with depression. So many pilots are misdiagnosed because there is so little awareness of aerotoxic syndrome.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> “Some of the symptoms are like the early onset of Parkinson’s Disease or MS.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> “There needs to be an understanding of this but it’s wilfully not recognised. The airline industry knows how huge the implications would be.”</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> He said Richard was beginning to make progress in his care but he then suffered a fall in which a head injury caused his neurological problems to deteriorate.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> He died last month and was buried in the Dorset village of Shillingstone on January 18.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> His family are now awaiting the results of two autopsies in Holland.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> However, before he died he had instructed his lawyer, Frank Cannon, who was also a pilot, to sue BA for alleged breach of health and safety guidelines.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Mr Cannon said BA is liable under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulations because it fails to monitor the quality of air on board planes.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Despite calls from many pilots and the Aerotoxic Association, BA and all other airlines do not install air quality detection systems.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Instead, they rely on the results of disputed Government commissioned studies, the most recent of which by Cranfield University, Buckinghamshire, concluded in 2011 that cabin air was safe.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Mr Cannon is now trying to force a groundbreaking British inquest into Richard’s death in which BA would be asked questions about aerotoxic syndrome.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Mr Cannon said: “I see this as an impending tsunami for the airline industry—it’s been hushed for and ignored for so long.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> “We hope to use the inquest to give Richard the trial he never got. It would be the first judicial recognition of his condition.”</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> A spokesman for BA said: “Our thoughts are with the families of the two pilots at this very sad time and we offer our sincere condolences.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> “We are not aware of any legal claims relating to the two individuals.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> “It would be inappropriate for us to comment or speculate upon the individuals’ cause of death.”</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Doctor ‘finds sheep-dip link’ to cabin air issue<br />THE effects of toxic fumes on pilots are similar to the symptoms suffered by farmers working with sheep dips over many years.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> The link is the dangerous organophosphates that are contained in dip chemicals and the oils used to lubricate jet engines.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> The Sunday Express has spoken to the medic who discovered the link in the late Nineties.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Hertfordshire based Dr Peter Julu is Europe’s only autonomic neurophysiologist and he believes it is the lack of experts in his field which is preventing full recognition of the condition by the medical profession at large.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Dr Julu found the link after treating a Lufthansa pilot who had been referred to him by a neurologist.<br />He said the airline believed the pilot was “faking” the symptoms as a way of suing for compensation.<br />The German pilot used his contacts in the UK airline fraternity, then several others asked to see Dr Julu with similar symptoms.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Airlines tried to argue that carbon monoxide poisoning was causing the symptoms but Dr Julu, who also had experience of those problems, disagreed.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> He said: “It was very strange. At that time, I was also doing some work on sheep dips for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> “To my amazement, the kind of symptoms and findings I was getting from farmers was very similar to the pilots, yet occupationally they couldn’t be more diverse.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> “We suspected the famers were suffering from organophosphate poisoning and then an aeronautic engineer wrote to me to say there were also organophosphates in the oil systems.”</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> He said the chemicals attack the autonomic nervous system, which controls the body’s major organs including the brain and heart.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> In particular, he said it targeted the brain stem, which he describes as the “headquarters of the autonomic nervous system”.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> He said: “It attacks that part of the nervous system which deals with emotion and short term memory.<br />“It tends to be fairly specific. It affects a specific group of neurotransmitters that includes serotonin, which explains the appearance of depression in some cases.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> He was a very talented athlete but he had lost his sharpness – Dr Mulder<br />“An imbalance means you could develop tremors and lots of problems with the regulation of blood pressure. “This is very similar to what happens with organophosphates. ”Asked why the condition wasn’t recognised, he said: “It’s mainly because the part of the nervous system it affects lacks experts.“Neurophysiology is the study of nerve function.</p><p style="text-align:center;">While there are many neurophysiologists—every hospital will have one—when it comes to autonomic neurophysiology, I’m the only one in Europe.”He has now treated a large number of senior pilots, including BA’s Karen Lysakowska, who was buried last week.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> He said: “She was exactly the same as the other pilots who I had seen.”</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <strong>Share this:</strong><br /><a href="http://chemtrailsplanet.net/2013/02/20/chemtrail-toxins-and-aerotoxic-syndrome-can-disable-or-kill-pilots-crew-and-frequent-flyers/">http://chemtrailsplanet.net/2013/02/20/chemtrail-toxins-and-aerotoxic-syndrome-can-disable-or-kill-pilots-crew-and-frequent-flyers/</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900611292,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="275" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900611292,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900611292?profile=original" /></a><strong>Chem Trails</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612070,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="276" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612070,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900612070?profile=original" /></a><strong>Chem Trails</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612282,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="254" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612282,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900612282?profile=original" /></a><strong>Chem Trails From Space</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612865,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612879,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612879,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900612879?profile=original" /></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612865,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="240" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612865,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900612865?profile=original" /></a><strong>Chem Trail Planes with barrels of Toxic Chemicals</strong></p></div>
Bone collectors: Inside the creepy crypt of 1,000 skulls under a Northamptonshire church
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/bone-collectors-inside-the-creepy-crypt-of-1-000-skulls-under-a
2014-01-05T00:46:32.000Z
2014-01-05T00:46:32.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608496,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608887,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609267,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610453,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610301,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900611086,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610866,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612067,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(255,0,0);"><strong>Bone collectors: Inside the creepy crypt of 1,000 skulls under a Northamptonshire church</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">The secrets of a creepy crypt holding more than 1,000 skulls and bones have been revealed. The 13th century crypt under the Holy Trinity Church in Rothwell, Northamptonshire, has been a source of great mystery and intrigue for villagers in the market town. The spooky collection is not the remains of soldiers or victims of the plague as it was once thought, but a place of memorial for superstitious pilgrims who wished to pray among the bones of their ancestors.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608496,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="630" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608496,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900608496?profile=original" /></a>Some skulls are kept turned to the wall, their bones cracked and dirtied over the years. There used to be hundreds of bone crypts all over the UK but most were thought to be destroyed during the Reformation (REX/Geoffrey Robinson)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608887,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="630" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608887,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900608887?profile=original" /></a>Rows of old skulls sit in the 13th century crypt beneath the Holy Trinity Church in Rothwell (REX/Geoffrey Robinson)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609267,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="630" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609267,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900609267?profile=original" /></a>For years villagers believed the disassembled skeletons were victims of the plague or soldiers from the nearby battle of Naseby (REX/Geoffrey Robinson</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610453,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="630" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610453,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900610453?profile=original" /></a>Researchers have debunked the theory that the remains are of soldiers and victims of the plague - instead they say the creepy collection was a medieval monument for pilgrims and villagers to pray among the bones of their ancestors (REX/Geoffrey Robinson)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610301,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="630" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610301,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900610301?profile=original" /></a>The Holy Trinity Church in Rothwell, Northamptonshire. The church has long held a spooky secret underneath its foundations (REX/Geoffrey Robinson)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900611086,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="630" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900611086,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900611086?profile=original" /></a>The bone collection was discovered in 1700 after a grave digger fell through the church and landed inside the creepy crypt (REX/Geoffrey Robinson)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610866,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="630" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610866,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900610866?profile=original" /></a>Researchers from the University of Sheffield's Department of Archaeology have found the reasons why the bones were gathered in the crypt (REX/Geoffrey Robinson)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612067,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="630" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612067,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900612067?profile=original" /></a>Centuries old skulls are displayed in the crypt under a nondescript village church in Rothwell, Northamptonshire (REX/Geoffrey Robinson)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Lady Quan Yin ~ Stabalizing the Grid and Healing the Earth ~ via Lesley Hicks
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/lady-quan-yin-stabalizing-the-grid-and-healing-the-earth-via
2013-12-05T01:44:21.000Z
2013-12-05T01:44:21.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(255,0,255);">Lady Quan Yin ~ Stabalizing the Grid and Healing the Earth ~ via Lesley Hicks</span></strong> <br /> <strong>Posted: 11 Aug 2013 10:01 PM PDT</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900611870,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="320" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900611870,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900611870?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">Beloved Eternal Beings of Light and Love, I come forward to you today with immense love and joy from my being, I am Lady Quan Yin and I love you Unconditionally.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> As you are understanding the Central Star Aspect of each of the Galaxies that are in the Universe you are finding that each of you are becoming and expressing your infinite energy from the space of a Star System or Galaxy.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> You see now how deeply within your own being that you can come and be connected to so much energy within the Universe Around you for many Star Systems and Planets give off such light and joy in each moment. When you can understand that all these Star Systems are giving off infinite energy, can you then ask yourself this question: What are my energy needs?</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Forgoing the question of personal energy needs for a moment, I ask you the question of what will become of the fossil fuels upon the Earth and natural resources? As you may know, The Planetary Lord Buddha oversees the Earth, and I, as Chohan of the 11th Ray of Light am also an overseer of the Earth, but, not in the sense that Lord Buddha might be.<br />You might understand that since Lord Buddha and I work closely together, I am always energizing and grounding my Rays of Light through Lord Buddha and into the Earth, especially the Celestial Rays, and so in regards to energy, this is what I would like to explain to you.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> It is important to understand that the Celestial energies can ground into the Earth energies because this will be the technology for your energy future. It is not that you will ever reach a catastropic state, but, it is important to understand that if you continue to deplete your uranium sources, mineral sources, and fossil fuel sources you will over a period of time begin to come to a point where you reach what will be termed as an energy crisis.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> You see now that in reality these terms have already been brought forward for you as a warning perhaps of what can happen when the Love held in the core of your being cannot be projected fully into your reality. Imagine for a moment that you are taking in nutrient rich food, perhaps a high nutrient apple from a Tree or a Pear perhaps.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> When you then eat this, you see that the Tree itself always has this to grow, but if you were to chop down the Tree and then uproot it, you would find then that not only you, but no-one would then be able to eat this fruit.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> This is the same with the energy and Her energies. When something is depleted completely, Gaia then must come foreward and replace that energy with something else. Because of Universal Law, the Earth cannot replace a depleted energetic source with the same energy.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> By Universal Law, that energy must be greater than the energy that was lost, and it must be different. If the Earth is karmically moving in a negative direction, the Universal Law states that an equal and opposite energy must co-exist within the same space, meaning that it is both greater than or equal and opposite meaning that it is unique and different. If the energy is karmically moving in a positive direction, the same.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> In Truth, as the Earth moves in a direction especially in this New Age Golden energy you will see that resolutions seek themselves out much more quickly and that at times the Earth will compensate just as you are compensating.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> It is very important that you understand this concept for in your energy works and in your work within the ashrams of this planet, it is important for you to balance this Karma through your energy networks.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> It is very important at this time to send waves of Unconditional Love and Light to the Earth and her kingdoms. The Fairy energy at this time is very powerful in anchoring this energy and if you call upon their energies at this time they will assist you in being able to anchor your positive thoughts and intentions. This affirmation can be used at any time to call upon the Fairies energy.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> "Dearest Fairies and Nature Kingdoms, I call upon your Light and Illumination to anchor into the Earth a powerful Ray of Light that is most appropriate for the Earth at this time. With this Ray of Light, I call upon the energies of Lord Buddha to anchor fully this ray of Light into the Earth.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> This Ray of Light can be of any color that is most appropriate at this time. Please carry this pure Light energy into all areas of the Earth that need it the most, bringing peace, calm, and divine love and inspiration to all that need it. Thank you."</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Within your ashrams, you have set up many hidden networks of geometry that have helped through the centuries to anchor into the Earth the necessary energies from Lord Buddha and the other chohans of the Rays. These networks were hidden and we now ask you with pure illumination to, with the most appropriate pathway, release these networks for grounding, healing, and anchoring the Cosmic Rays of Light.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> These Cosmic Rays of Light are very important to anchor into the Earth for in 10 years time they will be the groundwork for bringing for the Light Beings that are Family to you to be able to anchor forward their energies in a very powerful way, I congratulate you.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> My gift to you is the knowledge that when you have achieved sufficient enlightenment upon the Earth there will be no need for ships or other type of technology to land upon the Earth, but that those beings who are Family to you will be able to be seen by you when the Consciousness of the Planet allows it.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Think of it in the way that we are always present with you as Ascended Masters and Angelic Beings upon the Earth, but that you are unable to see it. When your third eye chakra has been completely cleansed, healed, and energized and the Consciousness of the planet allows it, you will be able to see us as we see you. In your enlightened form.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> In encourage you, for the sake of the Earth, to focus upon your energetic networks of Light and anchor in the New Golden Gate Celestial Grid before seeking to achieve much else, for if the Earth is unstable so shall you be.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> I send my compassion and love to you always, thank you.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <strong>I am Lady Quan Yin.</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Copyright Lesley Hicks (Jaina) Ma Atmananda 2013 Please share so long as you give credit.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>With Deep Love and Blessings.</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Pictures of the week: From flooded homes in Britain to wildfire in California
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/pictures-of-the-week-from-flooded-homes-in-britain-to-wildfire-in
2013-12-30T00:03:12.000Z
2013-12-30T00:03:12.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603279,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603881,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900604862,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605287,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605898,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606701,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607077,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607697,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609075,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609271,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610074,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610681,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color:rgb(255,0,0);"><strong>Pictures of the week: From flooded homes in Britain to wildfire in California</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <strong>Here's our pick of the best pictures around the world this week...</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603279,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603279,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603279?profile=original" /></a>Staff and residents are rescued as the floodwaters rise at the Mercure Box Hill Burford Bridge Hotel, Dorking. Two separate storms have battered Britain this Christmas week. Rivers have burst their banks, flooded homes have been left without power, and high winds have caused travel chaos. (Tony Kershaw/REX)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603881,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603881,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603881?profile=original" /></a>This impressive castle is in fact made of ice. It is being constructed for the 30th Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, in Harbin, China. According to the festival organisers, nearly 10,000 workers were employed to build the ice and snow sculptures, which require about 180,000 square metres of ice and 150,000 square metres of snow. The festival kicks off on January 5, 2014. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900604862,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900604862,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900604862?profile=original" /></a>What are you looking at? Ring-tailed Lemurs inspect a scale during an animal stocktaking at the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg, Germany. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605287,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605287,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900605287?profile=original" /></a>Eve Grayson, a reindeer herder of the Cairngorm Reindeer Herd, feeds the deer in snowy conditions in Aviemore, Scotland. This is the only reindeer herd in Britain as the animals are not native to the land. Reindeer were introduced to Scotland in 1952 by Swedish Sami reindeer herder, Mikel Utsi. Starting with just a few reindeer, the herd has now grown in numbers over the years and is currently at about 130 by controlling the breeding. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605898,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605898,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900605898?profile=original" /></a>Haven't you forgotten someone? Onlookers hoping for a rare glimpse of Prince George were sorely disappointed after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived for the traditional Christmas Day church service without their newborn at St Mary Magdalene Church on the royal estate in Sandringham, Norfolk. (PA)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606701,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606701,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900606701?profile=original" /></a>Displaced families wait at Tomping United Nations base near Juba international airport, where some 12,000 people from the Nuer tribe have sought refuge as conflict rages in South Sudan. The country, which gained indepedence from Sudan in 2011, has quickly descended into violance after clashes between rival groups of soldiers in Juba spread across the nation. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607077,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607077,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900607077?profile=original" /></a>Stuart Radbourne (C), huntsman and joint-master with the Avon Vale Hunt, leads the riders and hounds for their traditional Boxing Day hunt, at Lacock in Wiltshire, England. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607697,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607697,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900607697?profile=original" /></a>A layer of ice coats the leaves of a Japanese maple tree after an ice storm in Toronto, Canada. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609075,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609075,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900609075?profile=original" /></a>Spot the baby: A shopper taking advantage of the Boxing Day sales in Leicester covers her child's pram with clothes while the baby sleeps soundly. (PA)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609271,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609271,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900609271?profile=original" /></a>Brrr, it's cold in there! Swimmers emerge from the Serpentine river on Christmas Day in Hyde Park, London. For over 100 years, swimmers have taken part in the Christmas Day "Peter Pan" swim in the Serpentine. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610074,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610074,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900610074?profile=original" /></a>Pope Francis holds a replica of the baby Jesus at the end of his first Christmas night mass as Pontiff in the Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610681,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610681,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900610681?profile=original" /></a>Fire fighters battle a brush fire in the Simi Valley, California. Strong winds and dry conditions hindered the crews hoping to put out the flames. (ZUMA/REX)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
'After the Final Curtain': Haunting photos capture the derelict shells of U.S. theatres
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/after-the-final-curtain-haunting-photos-capture-the-derelict
2013-10-24T01:03:34.000Z
2013-10-24T01:03:34.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(255,102,0);">'After the Final Curtain': Haunting photos capture the derelict shells of U.S. theatres</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> They were once packed out entertainment venues decorated with stunning architecture, but these neglected American theatres have since fallen into disrepair.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Photographer Matt Lambros documented the sad decline of 57 formerly thriving theatres as part of his 'After the Final Curtain' project.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> He travelled thousands of miles across the US, photographing crumbling venues in New York, Michigan and Massachusetts, among others, years after they stopped welcoming visitors.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900604080,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900604080,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900604080?profile=original" /></a>The inside of the Shore Theatre on Coney Island, NY is now filled with fading walls and building equipment.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605256,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605256,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900605256?profile=original" /></a>The stage and seating at the Paramount Theatre in Newark, NJ, which has clearly fallen into neglect. (REX/Matt Lambros)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606074,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606074,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900606074?profile=original" /></a>The crumbling interior of the Troy Theatre, New York.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606496,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="683" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606496,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900606496?profile=original" /></a>Unloved: The interior of Loew's Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, NYC.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607461,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607461,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900607461?profile=original" /></a>The inside of the Metropolitan Opera House in Philadelphia has clearly seen better days.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607861,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="682" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607861,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900607861?profile=original" /></a>Light streams into the dusty interior of the Loew's Kings Theatre in Brooklyn</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607701,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607701,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900607701?profile=original" /></a>The Liberty Theatre in Dorchester, Massachusetts is now a derelict shell of its former self.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608883,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608883,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900608883?profile=original" /></a>Decay: The Embassy Theatre in Port Chester, NY - one of 57 visited by Matt.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609483,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="682" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609483,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900609483?profile=original" /></a>The neglect and decay inside the Eastown Theatre in Detroit, Michigan is clear to see.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610260,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610260,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900610260?profile=original" /></a>Another image of the Troy Theatre shows ornate carvings and decorations still in place.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Glimpse of the Day - 12th Feb 2014 - 21st Feb 2014
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/glimpse-of-the-day-12th-feb-2014-21st-feb-2014
2014-02-24T00:06:50.000Z
2014-02-24T00:06:50.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609853,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="497" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609853,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900609853?profile=original" /></a><strong>February 12</strong><br /> A Zen master had a faithful but very naive student who regarded him as a living buddha. One day the master accidentally sat down on a needle. He screamed “Ouch!” and jumped into the air. The student instantly lost all his faith and left, saying how disappointed he was to find that his master was not fully enlightened. Otherwise, he thought, how could he jump up and scream out loud like that? The master was sad when he realized his student had left, and said: “Alas, poor man! If only he had known that in reality neither I, nor the needle, nor the ‘ouch’ really existed.”</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609853,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="497" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609853,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900609853?profile=original" /></a><strong>February 13</strong><br /> Remember the example of an old cow:<br />She’s content to sleep in a barn.<br />You have to eat, sleep and shit—<br />That’s unavoidable—anything<br />Beyond that is none of your business.<br />Do what you have to do<br />And keep yourself to yourself.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> PATRUL RINPOCHE<br />(MUDRA,<br />Chogyam Trungpa,<br />Shambhala, Berkeley<br />and London, 1972.)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609853,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="497" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609853,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900609853?profile=original" /></a><strong>February 14</strong><br /> Of all the practices I know, the practice of Tonglen, Tibetan for “giving and receiving,” is one of the most useful and powerful. When you feel yourself locked in upon yourself, Tonglen opens you to the truth of the suffering of others; when your heart is blocked, it destroys those forces that are obstructing it; and when you feel estranged from the person who is in pain before you, or bitter or despairing, it helps you to find within yourself and then to reveal the loving, expansive radiance of your own true nature. No other practice I know is as effective in destroying the self-grasping, self-cherishing, self-absorption of the ego, which is the root of all our suffering and all hard-heartedness.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Put very simply, the Tonglen practice of giving and receiving is to take on the suffering and pain of others and give to them your happiness, well-being, and peace of mind.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609853,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="497" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609853,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900609853?profile=original" /></a><strong>February 15</strong><br /> I know very well from my own experience how hard it is to imagine taking on the sufferings of others, and especially those of sick and dying people, without first building in yourself a strength and confidence of compassion. It is this strength and this confidence that will give your practice the power to transmute the suffering of others.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> This is why I always recommend that you begin the Tonglen practice for others by first practicing it on yourself. Before you can send out love and compassion to others, you must uncover, deepen, create, and strengthen them in yourself, and heal yourself of any reticence or distress or anger or fear that might create an obstacle to practicing Tonglen wholeheartedly.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609853,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="497" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609853,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900609853?profile=original" /></a><strong>February 16</strong><br /> To integrate meditation in action is the whole ground and point and purpose of meditation. The violence and stress and the challenges and distractions of this modern life make this integration urgently necessary.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> How do we achieve this integration, this permeation of everyday life with the calm humor and spacious detachment of meditation? There is no substitute for regular practice, for only through real practice will we begin to taste unbrokenly the calm of our nature of mind and so be able to sustain the experience of it in our everyday lives.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> If you really wish to achieve this, what you need to do is practice not just as occasional medicine or therapy but as if it were your daily sustenance or food.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609853,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="497" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609853,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900609853?profile=original" /></a><strong>February 17</strong><br /> As we follow the teachings and as we practice, we will inevitably discover certain truths about ourselves that stand out prominently: There are places where we always get stuck; there are habitual patterns and strategies that are the legacy of negative karma, which we continuously repeat and reinforce; there are particular ways of seeing things—those tired old explanations of ourselves and the world around us—that are quite mistaken yet which we hold onto as authentic, and so distort our whole view of reality.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> When we persevere on the spiritual path, and examine ourselves honestly, it begins to dawn on us more and more that our perceptions are nothing more than a web of illusions. Simply to acknowledge our confusion, even though we cannot accept it completely, can bring some light of understanding and spark off in us a new process, a process of healing.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609853,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="497" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609853,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900609853?profile=original" /></a><strong>February 18</strong><br /> We all have the karma to take one spiritual path or another, and I would encourage you, from the bottom of my heart, to follow with complete sincerity the path that inspires you most.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> If you go on searching all the time, the searching itself becomes an obsession and takes you over. You become a spiritual tourist, bustling about and never getting anywhere. As Patrul Rinpoche says: “You leave your elephant at home and look for its footprints in the forest.” Following one teaching is not a way of confining you or jealously monopolizing you. It’s a compassionate and practical way of keeping you centered and always on your path, despite all the obstacles that you, and the world, will inevitably present.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609853,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="497" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609853,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900609853?profile=original" /></a><strong>February 19</strong><br /> At the moment of death, there are two things that count: whatever we have done in our lives, and what state of mind we are in at that very moment. Even if we have accumulated a lot of negative karma, if we are able to make a real change of heart at the moment of death, it can decisively influence our future, and transform our karma, for the moment of death is an exceptionally powerful opportunity to purify karma.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609853,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="497" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609853,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900609853?profile=original" /></a><strong>February 20</strong><br /> A meditation technique used a great deal in Tibetan Buddhism is uniting the mind with the sound of a mantra. The definition of mantra is “that which protects the mind.” That which protects the mind from negativity, or which protects you from your own mind, is mantra.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> When you are nervous, disoriented, or emotionally fragile, inspired chanting or reciting of a mantra can change the state of your mind completely, by transforming its energy and atmosphere. How is this possible? Mantra is the essence of sound, the embodiment of the truth in the form of sound. Each syllable is impregnated with spiritual power, condenses a deep spiritual truth, and vibrates with the blessing of the speech of the buddhas.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">It is also said that the mind rides on the subtle energy of the breath, the prana, which moves through and purifies the subtle channels of the body. So when you chant a mantra, you are charging your breath and energy with the energy of the mantra, and so working directly on your mind and your subtle body.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609853,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="497" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609853,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900609853?profile=original" /></a><strong>February 21</strong><br /> The mantra I recommend to my students is:<br />OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HUM</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Tibetans say: “Om Ah Hung Benza Guru Péma Siddhi Hung,” which is the mantra of Padmasambhava, the mantra of all the buddhas, masters, and realized beings, and is uniquely powerful for peace, for healing, for transformation, and for protection in this violent, chaotic age.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Recite the mantra quietly, with deep attention, and let your breath, the mantra, and your awareness slowly become one. Or chant it in an inspiring way, then rest in the profound silence that sometimes follows.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Stunning before-and-after pictures have been released showing the falling water levels in flood-hit Walton-on-Thames in Surrey
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/stunning-before-and-after-pictures-have-been-released-showing-the
2014-02-24T00:07:29.000Z
2014-02-24T00:07:29.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605477,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605689,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606683,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607486,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608075,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608297,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a>Getty</strong><br /> <span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(0,255,0);"><strong>Stunning before-and-after pictures have been released showing the falling water levels in flood-hit Walton-on-Thames in Surrey.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605477,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605477,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900605477?profile=original" /></a>This picture shows the transformation of a street in the village on 10 February (below) and 19 February (above).</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605477,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605689,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605689,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900605689?profile=original" /></a>Walton-on-Thames: 19 February (above) and 10 February (below)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605477,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605689,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606683,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606683,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900606683?profile=original" /></a>Walton-on-Thames: 19 February (above) and 10 February (below)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605477,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605689,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606683,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607486,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607486,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900607486?profile=original" /></a>Walton-on-Thames: 19 February (above) and 10 February (below)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605477,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605689,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606683,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607486,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608075,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608075,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900608075?profile=original" /></a>19 February (above) and 10 February (below)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605477,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605689,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606683,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607486,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608075,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608297,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608297,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900608297?profile=original" /></a>19 February (above) and 10 February (below)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Noni stimulates the immune system to reject tumor cells: Research
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/noni-stimulates-the-immune-system-to-reject-tumor-cells-research
2014-01-05T01:13:17.000Z
2014-01-05T01:13:17.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607884,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(0,128,0);">Noni stimulates the immune system to reject tumor cells: Research</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Friday, August 16, 2013 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607884,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="300" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607884,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900607884?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Learn more:</strong> <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/041651_noni_immune_system_tumor_cells.html#ixzz2cAMa4CUc">http://www.naturalnews.com/041651_noni_immune_system_tumor_cells.html#ixzz2cAMa4CUc</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">(NaturalNews) It is a widely reputed "superfood" that a cohort of published scientific research suggests possesses incredible healing powers. But the anti-cancer effects of Morinda citrifolia, also known more popularly as "noni," are among its most pronounced benefits, as a 2008 study out of South Carolina found that the fermented juice of noni stimulates the body's natural immune system to reject the formation and spread of tumor cells.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">Researchers from the Oncology Research Institute at the Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center in Clemson discovered this after testing the effects of fermented noni exudate (fNE) in rats -- fNE, in case you were unaware, is dried noni in whole form, which includes the juice, pulp, and seeds of the fruit. Healthy rats, as well as rats lacking certain blood and immune cells, were given fNE as part of the study.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">Published in the peer-reviewed medical journal, Oncology Reports, the findings of the study are truly astounding. In healthy rats with normal functioning lymphocytes and healthy natural killer (NK) cell function, intraperitoneal injection of fNE effectively induced complete tumor rejection by spurring the action of granulocytes and NK cells in the peripheral blood, peritoneums, and spleens of the rats. Even in rats lacking functional lymphocytes, partial tumor rejection was observed.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">"These data demonstrate that fNE appears to be able to stimulate the innate immune system and the adaptive immune system to reject tumor cells," wrote the authors in their conclusion. "NK cells respond quickly and appear to be among the major players of the innate immune system, while the adaptive immune system reacts later with a retained memory."</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Numerous government-funded studies confirm anti-cancer properties of noni<br />The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) also recognizes the anti-cancer benefits of noni, which is why this division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is currently funding research into the fruit. According to the agency's official website, NCCAM is currently moving forward with a laboratory study on noni's effects on prostate cancer cells, while the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is funding preliminary research on noni in the prevention and treatment of breast cancer.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">"In laboratory research, noni has shown antioxidant, immune-stimulating, and tumor-fighting properties," says NCCAM. "These results suggest that noni may warrant further study for conditions such as cancer and cardiovascular disease."</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">The results of a Phase I clinical trial where patients with advanced cancer were given noni have also been promising. Published in 2009 in the Journal of Dietary Supplements, the results of this particular trial revealed that taking as much as 12 grams of noni extract daily can help advanced cancer patients not only improve their overall quality of life but also potentially reverse their condition. NCCAM has yet to publish the results of Phase II trials involving noni.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">A 2006 study presented at the IVth International Conference on Aromatic and Medicinal Plants from French Overseas Regions also observed an anti-cancer effect in mice given noni. Particularly with regards to tumor metastasis, noni was found to not only block the growth of tumor cells but also prevent them from affixing to tissues within the body.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">For a more complete list of published studies on the nutritive and health benefits of noni -- noni has also been shown to help relieve stress and anxiety; control blood pressure; fight damaging and chronic inflammation; boost energy levels; regulate blood sugar; battle diabetes; control blood serum cholesterol levels; and boost immunity, among other functions --</p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>be sure to visit NoniResearch.org:</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="http://www.noniresearch.org">http://www.noniresearch.org</a></p><p style="text-align:center;">Sources for this article include:</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://science.naturalnews.com">http://science.naturalnews.com</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://nccam.nih.gov">http://nccam.nih.gov</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.noniresearch.org">http://www.noniresearch.org</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://nccam.nih.gov">http://nccam.nih.gov</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://science.naturalnews.com">http://science.naturalnews.com</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Learn more:</strong> <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/041651_noni_immune_system_tumor_cells.html#ixzz2cAMShvIJ">http://www.naturalnews.com/041651_noni_immune_system_tumor_cells.html#ixzz2cAMShvIJ</a></p></div>
Truth Tells the Best Stories ~ via Maryann Rada
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/truth-tells-the-best-stories-via-maryann-rada
2014-01-21T21:14:20.000Z
2014-01-21T21:14:20.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606684,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">Truth Tells the Best Stories ~ via Maryann Rada</span></strong> <br /> Posted: 23 Aug 2013 09:25 PM PDT</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606684,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="470" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606684,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900606684?profile=original" /></a>opalescentnine.com</p><p style="text-align:center;">Over the many, many eons of time that you have been traveling as a planetary body composite through the vortex of the sun’s trajectory through the galaxy, you have had a lot of time to think about the way you would like to have things work out. Or in the case of having time to think, you have had a lot of time to have some deep thoughts and some brief but powerful insights. Inner-world mechanisms of understanding being what they are, sometimes you hardly hear the echo of your soul’s call to pay attention for a few moments, while it tries to share some general vital statistics with you. You have so much to compete with the sound of your soul in this now, and the deafening buzz of background noise is about to hit a new pitch of intensity. Stay grounded in the knowing that your soul is in the driver’s seat for the reality-shifting ride ahead, and dive into the next adventure that the planet is undertaking with fearless abandon of worries and details of everyday humdrum-ness.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> The truth has been hiding in a web of lies for a long time now, and the time has come for it to emerge from the shadows, dust itself off, and speak for itself, for what you have been listening to has not had the real bright quality of veracity to help it alter your reality in a favorably concrete way. In fact, what has been passing for the status quo has long served merely to reinforce the concrete underpinnings of what has become the business-as-usual workaday world. That is set to change, and you along with it. No longer will half-truths satisfy your curiosity about what is happening in your world, and no longer will the tolerance of prejudice and morbidity be the norm for social behavior. Love is about to burst through the doorway and into the spotlight, primed and ready to deliver a message that has waited for just the right moment to unleash itself onto an unsuspecting, somewhat somnolent audience. You, if you are awake, are ready to hear it without flinching. You may be surprised at the response of those who doze, however, even at this late hour; they have a moment to take everything in and show themselves in their true colors. Don’t blame them for sleeping late, for it was all part of their soul plan, and serves a purpose that does great good for the whole of humanity, even if you aren’t aware of it yourselves, yet.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> What you are about to hear is a story of undeniable truth. It will soon become crystal clear that the lies you have woven your history from are fraying beyond repair. It is time for another story to have center stage. Would you like another one made of shadows and deceit or one in which you can see and understand what your role is and what the future of the global human organism is capable of achieving? You may have had your fill of deceit and servitude by now. It is worth considering the alternative, and to really embrace the essence of what could be, it is necessary for you to cast off the costume of dark design and step into a new outfit altogether. What this means is that you have had a long time to explore the experience of slavery from various points of view, from addiction to employment, from law and order to cult bliss. There are many ways to experience limitation on what you are capable of, and even the most palatable can eventually show itself to be as dark as any other. The alternative is the truth that tells the story of you as a being of divine nature, lost in forgetfulness yet fully aware on the level of the soul about the life you are living in this now.</p><p style="text-align:center;">That story has just begun to go mainstream, and while the main level of consciousness is yet in the twilight zone between wakefulness and sleep, you may take a moment to recalibrate your understanding of exactly what the purpose of being here really is. In this moment in your collective story, as you are living it, let all the knowingness you have acquired over the eons to slip away into a void of unknowing. It is not the end of knowing, but just a temporary setting aside of the act of knowing. In the moment before you, in which you know nothing about the way the world is fashioned, in which the pages of the storybook about the human race on Earth are blank, you have an idea of what real freedom is. Let that feeling plant itself within you, and allow yourself to come back into the know, into the now, unattached to thought of what is and what should be, free to let the soul’s pen write the next few words from which you can direct your next few steps.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Because there is so much happening on your planet at this time, is there any reason not to let go? You will not perish if you release your idea of Who You Are and allow a greater understanding to root in your awareness of self. The future of the greater body of humanity will not suffer if you end your relationship with the person you thought you were and start a new friendship with the faithful friend who has always lived inside of your being. The truth is, dear friends, that the world is about to lose the pattern that has kept the truth from letting you know what is happening without distortions and mutilation of its intrinsic weave.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">It is upon you now to look at the next step you might take as the role you have long been playing, and consider that there is more to gain by looking at things from a new perspective in which you allow your soul to give you a new idea of how to best navigate in a new world. That’s the only way to help love be known, in fact. Even as a lightworker, a healer, a yogi or a pawn, you can bear to reassess your true role as it is outside of what you have always known and what you have watched come into being. What’s in the new moment yet unborn but taking form is best served by your highest potential having a clear field in which to run unimpeded by things like “me” and “who I am.” What lay beyond the next moment remains to be seen, but with the eyes of your pure self, you will emerge into something more engaging than what has been written for you outside of the light of love’s natural world. Let the pages take a new turn, and history reflect your power as conscious co-creators of a world where truth wears the world’s latest style – soul bold and beautiful!</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Daily practice for all round healing
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2013-11-03T22:11:24.000Z
2013-11-03T22:11:24.000Z
Solomon Azulay
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<div><p>Hi!</p><p>This post will go through a list of actions which you can do to make yourself a much more healthy, aware, relaxed, easy-going, loving person.</p><p></p><p>Step one: Take a short walk to a quiet area, probably surrounded by nature. If you are not near a natural area, or it is not a nice day -- maybe just stay in your living room, or a quiet room somewhere in your house.</p><p></p><p>Step two: Sit down and relax, to steady your breathing. Maybe practice deep steady breaths, or alternate nostril breathing, to clear out your lungs.</p><p></p><p>Step three: Do a short yoga exercise, a example is salute to the sun;</p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606454,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606454,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-left" alt="10900606454?profile=original" /></a></p><p>Repeat this exercise until you feel relaxed, but not tiered.</p><p></p><p>Step four: <span style="font-size:13px;">Fill your chakras with energy, generally using Reiki, or another form of energy sharing; like Ethereal Crystals.</span></p><p>(You may want to call your spiritual guides/angels/archangels, to help with your healings.)</p><p></p><p>Step five: <span style="font-size:13px;">Ground, to relieve yourself of all negative energies.</span></p><p></p><p>Step six: Meditate for 10 - 15 minutes. I suggest a simple Chakra meditation, or Zen meditation, practiced in Zen Buddhism.</p><p></p><p>If you feel stiff between any of these steps, do a few stretches. Like stretching your spine or spinning your arms gentle around in their sockets.</p><p></p><p>Do this exercise daily, and make sure you have plenty of fresh air around you, so maybe if you are inside, open a window?</p><p></p><p> Love & light,</p><p>Solomon Azulay.</p><p></p><p>Namaste.</p></div>
Daily OM - Burning Brightly + Begin with Yourself + Plunging Into The Deep + Going Away to Go Within + An Invitation to Comfort + Peeling Away the Layers + Light Of The Party + More
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/daily-om-burning-brightly-begin-with-yourself-plunging-into-the
2014-02-21T02:42:13.000Z
2014-02-21T02:42:13.000Z
Melodie Munro
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<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="320" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900585275?profile=original" /></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a></p><p style="text-align:center;">June 9, 2011<br /> <strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff6600;">Burning Brightly</span></strong><br /> <strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">Allowing Your Soul to Shine</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> When we hide and try to be invisible and unseen by all we are only really hiding from ourselves.</p><p style="text-align:center;">At times, we’ve all wanted to crawl under a rock and hide away from the world. We may have preferred to be invisible rather than let other people see us or notice that we exist. This desire not to be seen often happens when we are feeling very hurt, angry, or simply weary of the world. And while we may console ourselves with the defense that we are shy, an introvert, or a loner, we may actually be hiding.</p><p style="text-align:center;">When we hide and make believe that we are invisible, we can think that we no one sees us even though, truthfully, we are only really hiding from ourselves. And while we may try to live life as inconspicuously as possible, we only succeed in becoming more conspicuous because people can’t help but notice that we are trying to hide our light. None of us are meant to hide; each one of us radiates a unique brilliance that is meant to illuminate the world. When we try to dim our light, we diminish the natural radiance of the Universe, and we deprive the people around us of the unique gifts and talents that we are here to share.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Stepping out of the wings and letting your light shine is actually a way to serve the planet. We each have a responsibility to contribute to our community, and we do this when we let ourselves be seen. It doesn’t do anyone any good when we try to hide. We are all beings of light and we are here to light the way for each other. When we let ourselves shine, we become a bright mirror that others can see their own reflected brilliance through, and they can’t help but want to shine also. Shine your light out into the world, bless those around you by sharing your gifts, and watch the universe glow.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="84" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603893?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="320" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900585275?profile=original" /></a>June 10, 2011<br /> <strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff6600;">Begin with Yourself</span></strong><br /> <span class="font-size-2"><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">The Journey of Finding a Relationship</span></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> The journey to finding a relationship is just that, a journey that uses all of our life wisdom and experiences.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Before we embark upon the journey of finding the relationship that is right for us, we may want to take the opportunity to refine our concept of who we are and our ideas of what we want from life. That way, we are clearer on the kind of person we want to attract into our lives. Part of the journey of finding a mate is learning how to become our own mate. When we can learn to meet our needs without relying on someone else to complete us, we don’t have to form relationships from the space of needing our emptiness to be filled. We can also discover our intrinsic value, separate from what someone else might be reflecting back to us. Getting to know who we are and learning to love ourselves creates a solid foundation of self that we can bring to any relationship.</p><p style="text-align:center;">We are fortunate to live in a time when relationships can unfold at a pace that is right for us and take unique forms. Friendship, dating, open relationships, long term relationships, long distance relationships, or committed relationships — we are free to choose the kind of relationships that we want. If you want to be in relationship, but haven’t found the right one for you, remember that the universe works in perfect order and, therefore, right now your life is unfolding exactly as it is meant to be. Maybe all this time has been part of your preparation period for meeting your intended partner. Even the relationships in our lives that haven’t worked out as we had hoped serve us by teaching us to make better choices in our next relationships.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Finding the relationship we want can come early or later in life. It may even happen again and again in one lifetime. There is no right or wrong for how to find a relationship nor is there a timeline that you have to follow. Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, continue to become your own soul mate, and stay open to love. The journey of finding the right relationship begins with</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="84" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603893?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="320" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900585275?profile=original" /></a>June 13, 2011<br /> <strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff6600;">Plunging Into The Deep</span></strong><br /> <strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff6600;"><span class="font-size-2">Life Can Be Scary</span></span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> No matter how brave, strong, or levelheaded we are, sometimes we all get scared.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Life can take us on a roller coaster ride full of highs and lows and twists and turns. Even for those of us who enjoy unexpected thrills, it’s frightening to suddenly find ourselves heading for a deep plunge. Yet, it happens to all of us. At these moments, it is important to remember that you are not alone in your experiences. No matter how brave, strong, or levelheaded we are, sometimes, we all get scared.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Our fears may revolve around our physical safety, particularly if we are not feeling well, living under difficult circumstances, or doing work that exposes us to hazardous conditions. Or, we may be experiencing financial woes that are causing us to be fearful about making ends meet. We may also fear the loss of a loved one who is sick, or we may be scared of never finding someone special to spend our life with. We may be scared to start at a new school, begin a different job, move to a new town, or meet new people. Whatever our fears are, they are valid, and we do not need to feel ashamed or embarrassed that we are, at times, afraid.</p><p style="text-align:center;">It may be comforting to know that everyone gets scared, and it is perfectly OK. Sometimes just acknowledging our fears is enough to make us feel better. And while it sometimes takes a lot more to ease our mind, we can console ourselves with the knowledge that life can be scary at times. Giving ourselves permission to be scared lets us move through our fears so we can let it go. It also makes it alright to share our fears with others. Sharing our apprehensions with other people can make our fears less overwhelming because we are not letting them grow inside of us as pent up emotions. Sharing our fears also can lighten our burden because we are not carrying our worries all by ourselves. Remember that you are not alone.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="84" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603893?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="320" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900585275?profile=original" /></a>June 14, 2011<br /> <span class="font-size-3"><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">Going Away to Go Within</span></strong></span><br /> <strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">Retreat</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Going on retreat is a time to cocoon so that we may emerge ready to return to our lives with a new perspective.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Occasionally, we need to pause - and step away from the hustle and bustle of modern life. One way to do this is to get away from our daily life and go on retreat. Far more than a vacation, a retreat offers us time to ourselves to rest, heal, reflect, and renew our spirit. It is a time to cocoon so that we may emerge renewed, refreshed, and ready to return to our everyday lives with a new perspective. A retreat gives us time for uninterrupted meditation so that we may go deep within and spend time with ourselves.</p><p style="text-align:center;">A retreat may offer quiet, solitude, and sometimes even silence. Retreats often take place in humble dwellings with simple fare so that our senses may be reawakened to the beauty of unadorned tastes and the sights and sounds of nature. When we spend days in contemplation, we can more easily hear our heart when it speaks to us. We also are able to really listen when a bird sings, deeply breathe in the smell of flowers, grass, or earth, and delight in a soft breeze blowing on our cheek. When we go on retreat we have time to connect to the sacred geometry of a labyrinth, discover epiphanies through asanas, or take a long, reflective walk through the woods where we can give each step our full attention.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Without the pull of deadlines, relationships, the Internet, or other media, we give ourselves time to go deep into our own solitude where we can fully reflect on our joys, sorrows, and fears, owning and releasing them as needed. We may even come to know and understand our life path more deeply. Hopefully, when we return home, we can take a little bit of this time alone back with us and create the space for deep reflection on a daily basis. We also may come back to our life renewed and ready to take on the world. The beauty of going on retreat is that no matter where you go or how long you stay, you’ll always meet yourself when you get there.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="84" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603893?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="320" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900585275?profile=original" /></a>June 15, 2011<br /> <span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>An Invitation to Comfort</strong></span><br /> <span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Creating a Happy, Serene, and Healthy Home</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Include all 5 senses while making a home, doing so provides safe haven for your evolving body and soul.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Your home is your oasis. Through your efforts, your house or apartment can become both a private sanctuary and a welcoming, serene, and healthy place to live in and visit. An organized and comfortable home can have a calming effect on you, your family, and guests, as well as be your personal escape from the rest of the world. Creating this nurturing space isn’t difficult. Even a household that includes young children or multiple animals can be a serene and peaceful place. In just a few minutes, you can make a number of changes that can turn your home into a safe and comfortable haven that you can be proud to share with your loved ones and friends.</p><p style="text-align:center;">One way to fill your house or apartment with calming energy is to imbue it with a peaceful ambiance that nurtures all five senses. Soft lighting and soothing colors like blue, purple, and green can make a space feel warm and inviting, while pleasant and calming aromas such as lavender and vanilla can positively affect moods. Peaceful sounds, such as running water in a fountain or gentle chimes can uplift and clear the space, while clearing clutter and making the most of open space can ease internal turmoil and dispel negative feelings. The physical objects in your home as well as your home itself can retain the energy of previous owners and the object’s creator. You can give your household’s energy a lift by visualizing white light surrounding our home, symbolically sweeping out residual energy, or smudging your home with cleansing sage.</p><p style="text-align:center;">The changes you make to your home can be as unique as you are and may involve utilization of space, lighting, new furniture, decorating, feng shui, or ritual. But what you do is not as important as being clear in your intention to set up your household as a soothing and refreshing place to be. Make your home a place of comfort, and you will feel nurtured and cared for whenever you are there.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="84" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603893?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="320" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900585275?profile=original" /></a>June 16, 2011<br /> <span class="font-size-3"><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">Peeling Away the Layers</span></strong></span><br /> <strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">Trees Shedding Their Bark</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Like a tree our growth depends upon our ability to soften, loosen, and shed boundaries and defenses we no longer need.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Trees grow up through their branches and down through their roots into the earth. They also grow wider with each passing year. As they do, they shed the bark that served to protect them but now is no longer big enough to contain them. In the same way, we create boundaries and develop defenses to protect ourselves and then, at a certain point, we outgrow them. If we don’t allow ourselves to shed our protective layer, we can’t expand to our full potential.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Trees need their protective bark to enable the delicate process of growth and renewal to unfold without threat. Likewise, we need our boundaries and defenses so that the more vulnerable parts of ourselves can safely heal and unfold. But our growth also depends upon our ability to soften, loosen, and shed boundaries and defenses we no longer need. It is often the case in life that structures we put in place to help us grow eventually become constricting.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Unlike a tree, we must consciously decide when it’s time to shed our bark and expand our boundaries, so we can move into our next ring of growth. Many spiritual teachers have suggested that our egos don’t disappear so much as they become large enough to hold more than just our small sense of self—the boundary of self widens to contain people and beings other than just “me.” Each time we shed a layer of defensiveness or ease up on a boundary that we no longer need, we metaphorically become bigger people. With this in mind, it is important that we take time to question our boundaries and defenses. While it is essential to set and honor the protective barriers we have put in place, it is equally important that we soften and release them when the time comes. In doing so, we create the space for our next phase of growth.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="84" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603893?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="320" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900585275?profile=original" /></a>June 17, 2011<br /> <span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Light Of The Party</strong></span><br /> <span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Confidence In Social Situations</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> If you feel shy or awkward in social situations, know that many others are probably feeling the same way too.</p><p style="text-align:center;">If you’ve ever been to a social gathering where you’ve felt awkward and uncomfortable, chances are you are not alone. While social gatherings can be very enjoyable, especially when we are surrounded by people whose company we enjoy, there are social events that we attend where we sometimes find ourselves wishing we were someplace else. Such occasions can sometimes be the cause of much anxiety and self-consciousness. We may even feel like everyone else is having a good time except for us. Yet the truth is that everyone has felt shy and awkward on occasion. One of the best ways to overcome self-consciousness or get past your feelings of shyness at social gatherings is to focus on the people around you. If you can remember that other people might also be feeling awkward or shy, you might find the thought of speaking to them less intimidating or overwhelming.</p><p style="text-align:center;">The next time there is a social event you feel nervous about attending, you may want to try this exercise: Spend some time with your eyes closed and breathe deeply. When you feel ready, create your own zone of comfort by visualizing yourself surrounded in a warm white light that is protective yet accepting of others. Imagine people at the event being drawn to you because of the open and warm feelings that you are radiating. When you arrive at the event, take a moment to spread this same light of loving acceptance to everyone around you. Smile and greet people warmly. Try going up to someone who is standing alone and introduce yourself. When you radiate acceptance, openness, and receptivity, people can’t help but respond to you in kind.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Focusing on how we can make other people at a social gathering feel at ease can help us forget about our own insecurities. In the process, we end up making the very connections that we seek. The next time you attend a social gathering, invite people to join you in your zone of comfort that you have so lovingly and intentionally created. Let yourself enjoy being encircled in the warmth of their friendships.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="84" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603893?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="320" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900585275?profile=original" /></a>June 20, 2011<br /> <span class="font-size-3"><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">Staying Afloat amidst the Spin</span></strong></span><br /> <strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">Taking Things Personally</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Try not to take everything personally, things that people say and do don’t always have anything to do with you.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Every time you interact with others, you have the choice to listen to, acknowledge, and let go of their words, or you can take what they are saying personally. Taking things personally is often the result of perceiving a person’s actions or words as an affront or slight. In order to take something personally, you must read negative intent in an individual’s words or actions. But what people do and say has no bearing upon you and is usually based on their own experiences, emotions, and perceptions. If you attempt to take what they do or say personally, you may end up feeling hurt without reason.</p><p style="text-align:center;">If you are tempted to take a comment or action personally, creating some distance between yourself and the other person can help you. Try to determine what is at the root of your feelings. Ask yourself if the other person’s words or actions are just reinforcing some insecurity within you or if you can really be sure that an offense was intended. You may even want to ask them what they meant. Finally, put yourself in the other person’s shoes. Instead of taking their words as the truth, or as a personal affront, remember that whatever was said or done is based on their opinion and is more reflective of what is going on inside of them, rather than having anything to do with you. You may have been an easy target for someone having a bad day, and their comments may have been offered with no ill intentions.</p><p style="text-align:center;">When you recognize that what anyone says or does doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with you, you will no longer feel hurt or attacked. While it’s easy to take things personally, you should never let anyone’s perceptions or actions affect how you see yourself or your worth. Your life is personal to you, and it is up to you to influence your own value and sense of well-being.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="84" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603893?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="320" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900585275?profile=original" /></a>June 21, 2011<br /> <span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>In the Open Air</strong></span><br /> <span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Spending Time in Nature</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Because we instinctively know that nature is good for us on many levels, it’s not unusual to feel powerfully drawn to it.</p><p style="text-align:center;">In this modern age, we spend so much time indoors, focused on the busyness of our lives and disconnected from the earth. But much of what we truly need can only be found under the naked sky, alongside tall trees, on open plains, or in the sound of running water. Spending time in nature allows us to commune with other living beings and to find comfort in the nurturing embrace of Mother Earth. You can’t help but experience a different sense of self while walking in a wood or traversing a mountainside. Being in nature connects us to the earth, grounding us as we walk, unhindered by concrete, upon her. Surrounded by other living beings, both bigger and smaller than we are, we remember that human beings are simply one form of life in this vast universe.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Because we instinctively know that nature is good for us on many levels, it’s not unusual to feel powerfully drawn to it. Even if you live in a city or find it difficult to travel to a forest or the countryside, there are a myriad ways to reconnect with nature. When you step out of your door each morning, pause for a minute and close your eyes long enough to let your senses absorb your surroundings. Listen and breathe deeply, until you hear the wind rustling through branches, smell rain on damp grass, and see the reflection of leaves brushing up against windowpanes. If you have time, crouch down and closely examine any nearby grass and soil. The sights, sounds, smells, and sensations we experience that are part of nature can remind us of all the gifts Mother Earth grants us each day.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Spending time connecting with nature nourishes the soul, reminds you that you are never truly alone, and renews you by attuning you to the earth’s natural rhythms. Taking a walk under the stars or feeling the wind on your face may be all it takes for you to reconnect with nature. Remember, you are as much a part of nature as are the leaves on a tree or water bubbling in a brook.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="84" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603893?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="320" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900585275?profile=original" /></a>June 22, 2011<br /> <span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Reversed Perceptions</strong></span><br /> <span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Being Projected Upon</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> When we take ownership of our thoughts we are less likely to project our issues or disowned qualities onto others.</p><p style="text-align:center;">We all have issues, as well as undesirable qualities or traits that we don’t like about ourselves. Most of us realize that we are not perfect and that it is natural to have unpleasant thoughts, motivations, desires, or feelings. However, when a person does not acknowledge these, they may ascribe those characteristics to someone else, deeming other people instead as angry, jealous, or insecure. In psychological terms, such blaming and fault finding is called projection.</p><p style="text-align:center;">When we are the target of projections, it can be confusing and frustrating, not to mention maddening, particularly when we know that we are not the cause of another person’s distress. Even people who are well aware of their issues may find that sensitive subjects can bring up unexpected projections. They may feel insecure about a lack of funds and thus view a friend as extravagant. Or, if they really want to get in shape, they may preach the benefits of exercise to anyone and everyone.</p><p style="text-align:center;">While we can try to avoid people we know who engage in projecting their “stuff” onto others, we can’t always steer clear of such encounters. We can, however, deflect some projections through mindfulness and meditation. A useful visualization tool is to imagine wrapping ourselves in a protective light everyday. At other times, we may have to put up a protective shield when we feel a projection coming our way, reminding ourselves that someone else’s issues are not ours. Although it’s difficult not to react when we are the recipient of a projection, it is a good idea to try to remain calm and let the other person know if they are being unreasonable and disrespectful. We all know that it’s not fun to be dumped on. Likewise, we should be mindful that we don’t take our own frustrations out on others. When we take ownership of our thoughts, motivations, desires, and feelings, we are less likely to project our issues or disowned qualities onto others.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="84" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603893?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="320" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900585275?profile=original" /></a>June 23, 2011<br /> <span class="font-size-3"><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">Gut Response</span></strong></span><br /> <strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">In Touch with True Emotions</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Our bellies can be wonderful monitors of our emotional health and the truth can always be found there.</p><p style="text-align:center;">So often, emotions that we long to express get stored in our bodies instead. The space where this most often happens is in our bellies. Rather than telling people, our even ourselves, the way we truly feel, we may stuff our true feelings deep inside of us, where they take up space until we are ready to let them go. Stuffing our feelings in our bellies may feel like the “safe” response, since we then don’t really have to deal with our emotions. Yet, doing so can actually be detrimental to our emotional well-being and physical health.</p><p style="text-align:center;">One way to connect with and release your emotions is to do a focused exercise with your stomach area. Take a moment to center yourself with some deep breathing and quiet meditation, relaxing your body fully and turning off the chatter in your brain. With your right hand on your stomach, tell yourself three times: “Please reveal to me my true emotions.” Listen for the answers. Repeat the exercise as many times as you would like, allowing yourself to drop deeper into your body each time. Notice any physical response in the stomach area, whether you have a warm, relaxed feeling in the middle of your body or if you feel tight knots in response to any emotions that do come up. You may even want to write down any answers that come to you. Remember that the body doesn’t lie.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Releasing our pent up feelings from our bellies can prevent disease and allow us to live more authentic and expressive lives. Sometimes, if too much emotional energy builds up inside of us, a blowout can result that can cause discomfort. You can help to alleviate this compression by doing the same exercise and adding sound to your emotional release. The more guttural the sounds released through your mouth, the more emotions you are likely letting go. Releasing your emotions from your belly doesn’t have to be painful and hard; rather, it can be organic and effortless. It’s important not to judge whatever comes up for you. We tend to stuff our feelings in our bellies when we are ashamed of them or not ready to express them. There is nothing wrong with having feelings, whatever they may be. You can’t help your feelings; if anything, you can help yourself by acknowledging the truth of your emotions so you can set yourself free.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="84" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603893?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="320" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900585275?profile=original" /></a>June 24, 2011<br /> <span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Warning Signs</strong></span><br /> <span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Paying Attention to Red Flags</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Red flags often come in the form of feelings urging us to pause for a moment, listen to our intuition, and reconsider.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Just as the universe wants to provide for our needs, it also seeks to protect us from dangerous situations, destructive relationships, and even minor inconveniences. Frequently in our lives, perhaps everyday, we encounter psychic red flags warning us of potential problems or accidents. We may not always recognize the signs. However, more often than not, we may choose to ignore our intuition when it tells us that “something just isn’t right.”</p><p style="text-align:center;">Red flags often come in the form of feelings urging us to pause for a moment, listen to our intuition, and reconsider. We may even experience a “bad” feeling in our bellies. This is a red flag letting us know that there may be a problem. We may not even know what the red flag is about. All we know is that the universe is trying to wave us in a different direction. We just have to pay attention and go another way. We may even wonder whether we are paranoid or imagining things. However, when we look back at a situation or relationship where there were red flags, it becomes easy to understand exactly what those warning signs meant. More often than not, a red flag is not a false warning. Rather, it is the universe’s way of informing us, through our own innate guidance system, that our path best lies elsewhere.</p><p style="text-align:center;">We may try to ignore the red flags waving our way, dismissing our unease as illogical. Yet it is always in our best interest to pay attention to them. For example, we may meet someone who outwardly seems perfect. They are intelligent, attractive, and charming. Yet, for some reason, being around them makes us feel uneasy. Any interactions we have with them are awkward and leave us feeling like there is something “off” about the situation. This is not necessarily a bad person. But, for some reason, the universe is directing us away from them. Red flags are intended with our best interests at heart. No harm can ever come from stopping long enough to heed a red flag. Pay attention to any red flags that pop up. The universe is always looking out for you.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="84" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603893?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="320" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900585275?profile=original" /></a>June 27, 2011<br /> <span class="font-size-3"><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">Vibrational Imprints</span></strong></span><br /> <strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">Psychometry</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Like you, the objects you encounter have stories to tell as the previous owners have left their vibrational imprint.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Because our bodies exude energy, we leave behind a vibrational imprint each time we touch or live in close proximity to an object. These imprints, which may be positive or negative memories, emotions, or impressions, can become part of the history of an item. Like you, the objects you encounter have stories to tell. Psychometry is the natural art of reading an object’s history in regard to the people and events it has encountered. The objects we associate with are by no means silent bystanders. A house in which a tragedy has occurred may feel cold or silent, while handling a much loved toy may make you feel good. It is widely believed that all human beings possess psychometric abilities. All objects vibrate at specific frequencies, and psychometry asks only that one tune in to those frequencies.</p><p style="text-align:center;">It is common to learn the art of psychometry by using items such as jewelry or a watch, because these objects spend much of their time in close physical proximity to its owners. Information sensed using psychometry usually has to do with an object’s owner and may be related to a location, a feeling, or an event. Emotions tend to be easier to sense, though it can take time and diligence to perfect your psychometric talents. To exercise your psychometric skills, relax and sit in a quiet place with your palms facing upward. Have a friend place one of their treasured possessions in your nondominant hand. Let your mind wander until you receive any impressions. Finally, relate what you have seen, heard, or felt.</p><p style="text-align:center;">By simply by holding an object in your hand or putting it to your forehead, you can sense an object’s past and vicariously experience the emotions, sounds, tastes, scents, or images that have transpired around it thus far. While psychometry is most often performed on small objects intimately connected to its owners, it is possible for humans to leave an imprint on a large object like a home or automobile and to receive impressions from these objects. Once you know an object’s story, you can release it of its memories or marvel at the wealth of information cradled within.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="84" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603893?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="320" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900585275?profile=original" /></a>June 28, 2011<br /> <span class="font-size-3"><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">Let It Flow</span></strong></span><br /> <strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">Tears</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Tears are as natural to us as breathing and there is beauty in allowing yourself to be open to the pain of tears.</p><p style="text-align:center;">How wonderful it feels to give in and let tears flow when we are overwhelmed with emotions, whether we are happy or sad. Tears come from the soul, from our well of feelings rising from deep down. When we give in to the prickling behind our eyes and the lump in our throat to let teardrops fall from our eyes, we allow our feelings to surface so they can be set free.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Proud parents shed tears of pride in a child’s accomplishments, a baby’s first step, birthdays, and graduations. Long lost friends fall into each other’s arms, tears rolling down their cheeks when they reunite after years of separation. Tears may flow from us when we are witness to a commitment being made at a wedding or even while we are watching a love story. Tears of relief may spring forth from our eyes when we hear that a loved one has survived an ordeal, and tears may fall when we bow our head in sorrow over a loss or death. Tears born from heartache can flow like they’ll never cease, whether our tears are for a love that is over, a friendship lost, or an opportunity missed. We shed tears because of disappointment in ourselves, tragedy in the world, pain, and illness. Tears of anger can burn with emotion as they fall down our faces. Tears offer us a physical release of our feelings.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Shedding tears can sometimes make us feel better, although it can feel like the tears will never end once the floodgates are open. There is no shame in letting tears flow freely and frequently. Tears are as natural to us as is breathing. There is beauty in allowing yourself to be vulnerable enough to shed tears. Open up, release your tears, and let your feelings flow.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="84" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603893?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="320" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900585275,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900585275?profile=original" /></a>June 29, 2011<br /> <span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Reflections of Self</strong></span><br /> <span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>We Are All Mirrors for Each Other</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> People you feel drawn to reflect your inner self back at you, and you act as a mirror for them as well.</p><p style="text-align:center;">When we look at other people, we see many of their qualities in innumerable and seemingly random combinations. However, the qualities that we see in the people around us are directly related to the traits that exist in us. “Like attracts like” is one of the spiritual laws of the universe. We attract individuals into our lives that mirror who we are. Those you feel drawn to reflect your inner self back at you, and you act as a mirror for them. Simply put, when you look at others, you will likely see what exists in you. When you see beauty, divinity, sweetness, or light in the soul of another, you are seeing the goodness that resides in your soul. When you see traits in others that evoke feelings of anger, annoyance, or hatred, you may be seeing reflected back at you those parts of yourself that you have disowned or do not like.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Because we are all mirrors for each other, looking at the people in your life can tell you a lot about yourself. Who you are can be laid bare to you through what you see in others. It is easy to see the traits you do not like in others. It is much more difficult to realize that you possess those same traits. Often, the habits, attitudes, and behaviors of others are closely linked to our unconscious and unresolved issues.</p><p style="text-align:center;">When you come into contact with someone you admire, search your soul for similarly admirable traits. Likewise, when you meet someone exhibiting traits that you dislike, accept that you are looking at your reflection. Looking at yourself through your perception of others can be a humbling and eye-opening experience. You can also cultivate in you the traits and behaviors that you do like. Be loving and respectful to all people, and you will attract individuals that will love and respect you back. Nurture compassion and empathy and let the goodness you see in others be your mirror.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="84" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603893,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603893?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Pictures of the week: From a homemade boat in India to a colourful run in the Philippines
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/pictures-of-the-week-from-a-homemade-boat-in-india-to-a-colourful
2014-01-15T01:26:09.000Z
2014-01-15T01:26:09.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596067,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596092,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596297,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900597291,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598290,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598865,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900599498,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600276,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900601075,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900601653,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900602272,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900602683,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">Pictures of the week: From a homemade boat in India to a colourful run in the Philippines</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">Here's our pick of the best pictures from around the world this week..</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596067,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596067,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900596067?profile=original" /></a>Hot lava from Mount Sinabung volcano spews skyward in Indonesia's North Sumatra province. About 20,000 villagers have been evacuated since authorities raised the alert status for Sinabung to the highest level. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596092,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596092,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900596092?profile=original" /></a>Row, row, row your boat: A fisherman rows a makeshift boat to fish in the Bay of Bengal at Visakhapatnam, in Andhra Pradesh, India (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596297,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596297,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900596297?profile=original" /></a>The first koala joey to be born in the UK in May of last year finally has a name. Pictured here with a toy koala he was given a name after keepers found out he was male. He was christened 'Yooranah', an indigenous Australian term meaning 'loving'. (PA)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900597291,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900597291,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900597291?profile=original" /></a>No longer the 'Windy City': This stunning aerial view over Chicago shows the 'Windy City' encased in ice as a weather phenomenon known as a 'polar vortex' wreaked havoc across vast swathes of America and Canada. (Hank Cain/@WCL_Shawn/Twitter)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598290,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598290,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900598290?profile=original" /></a>A large wave crashes over the promenade at high tide in Aberystwyth, Wales, as Britain endured more floods and winds. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598865,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598865,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900598865?profile=original" /></a>Students hold candles at a mourning ceremony for Run Run Shaw in front of a building donated by Shaw at the University of South China. The Hong Kong media mogul died on Tuesday at the age of 106. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900599498,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900599498,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900599498?profile=original" /></a>The beauty of the Northern Lights in Whalsay, Shetland. The Lights can be seen as a green glow on the left. They were also seen in southern England and the last time they were so clear was 151 years ago.(SWNS)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600276,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600276,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900600276?profile=original" /></a>Anglers cast lines through holes into a frozen river during an ice fishing competition in Hwacheon-gun, South Korea. The annual event attracts thousands of competitors where participants compete with traditional lures or with bare hands. (Getty)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900601075,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900601075,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900601075?profile=original" /></a>Bright lights, big city: Visitors watch fireworks during the opening ceremony of the 30th annual Harbin International Ice and Snow festival in Harbin, in northeastern's China's Heilongjiang province. (PA)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900601653,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900601653,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900601653?profile=original" /></a>Flying high: A participant prepares to fly a large tiger-shaped kite at the 26th International Kite Festival in Mumbai, India. Kite-flyers from numerous countries participated in the day-long festival. (PA)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900602272,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900602272,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900602272?profile=original" /></a>'What are you looking at?' The Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Hospital in Queensland, Australia, has been inundated with tiny flippers at the start of the New Year. 18 short-neck turtles, no bigger than a 50p coin, have recently hatched at the sanctuary. (Rex Features)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900602683,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900602683,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900602683?profile=original" /></a>Participants throw coloured powder in the air during the 2014 Colour Run in Manila, Philippines. The event was founded in the U.S. in January, 2012, as an event to promote healthiness and happiness by bringing the community together. (Rex Features)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
The wonders of the world: Eight bizarre natural phenomena
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/the-wonders-of-the-world-eight-bizarre-natural-phenomena
2014-01-21T20:50:30.000Z
2014-01-21T20:50:30.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900597083,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900597473,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598653,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900599257,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600065,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600480,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600882,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900601699,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4" style="color:rgb(0,128,0);">The wonders of the world: Eight bizarre natural phenomena</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Nature can behave in peculiar ways - and the following list only proves this. From destructive supercell storms that are terrifying to behold to the incredible sight of the Northern Lights, here are a few examples of nature's most peculiar phenomena.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900597083,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900597083,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900597083?profile=original" /></a>This awe-inspiring picture is of volcanic lightning while the Shinmoedake volcano in Japan erupts. The reasons behind the phenomenon are not well understood but scientists believe it occurs when charged fine ash particles emitted from the volcano clash with ice particles in the clouds - which in turn creates lighting. (Photo by Sipa Press/REX)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900597473,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900597473,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900597473?profile=original" /></a>Bioluminescent shores: The stunning blue glow seen in the waves here in California is the result of an algae bloom (or red tide). The other-worldly aqua colour is a product of the marine microbes which have gathered there, called phytoplanton. The micro-organisms glow blue when affected by stress - such as the presence of a surfer or when waves crash onto the shore. (Photo by KeystoneUSA-ZUMA/REX)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598653,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598653,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900598653?profile=original" /></a>The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights as it is more popularly known, has inspired millions of people to travel to the far north to see the shimmering spectacle. The beautiful dance of light occurs when particles from the Earth's atmosphere collide with charged particles from the sun. A similar occurance occurs in the southern hemisphere, called Aurora Australis. (Orn Oskarsson/Solent News/REX)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900599257,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900599257,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900599257?profile=original" /></a>This menacing cloud is a supercell storm. It is a thunderstorm with a mesocyclone - a rotating movement of air. A supercell storm forms where cold dry air meets warm moist air. It can produce tornadoes, hail the size of golfballs and heavy rain. The destructive phenomenon can last for several hours. (Photo by Marko Korosec/Solent News/REX)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600065,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600065,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900600065?profile=original" /></a>'Sun dogs' - halos, often with bright spots, that forms in the sky around the sun - behave in a similar way to rainbows. This beautiful sight is caused when sunlight is bent after hitting ice crystals in a cloud. The ice crystal acts as a prism and separates the sunlight into different colours to form a sun dog. When rainbows form it is because raindrops, not ice crystals, act as a prism. (WestEnd61/REX)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600480,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600480,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900600480?profile=original" /></a>Fire Rainbow: The technical term is 'Pileus cloud' and it appears when sunlight passes through ice crystals in a cirrus clouds. If the light and cloud particles are perfectly aligned the crystals behave like a prism and refract the light - in what looks like a rainbow. The sun needs to be very high in the sky for this phenomenon to occur. (KeystoneUSA-ZUMA/REX)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600882,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600882,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900600882?profile=original" /></a>Red tide (or algae bloom) may look like the scene of a massacre - but it is when colonies of algae grow rapidly - causing the water to turn a deep red. Red tides can be harmful to marine life, birds and even people, either due to toxins produced by the algae, or a lack of oxygen in the water. (KeystoneUSA-ZUMA/REX)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900601699,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900601699,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900601699?profile=original" /></a>They may look like normal clouds but Asperatus Clouds are so rare they were only proposed as a 'new' classification of cloud in 2009 after extensive study. Typically found in Iowa, they look storm-like, resembling the surface of the sea, but they tend to disappear without a storm forming. (FLPA/Andrew Bailey/REX)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Fiery 230ft crater nicknamed the 'Door to Hell' baffles scientists after burning endlessly for 40 YEARS
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/fiery-230ft-crater-nicknamed-the-door-to-hell-baffles-scientists
2013-11-30T17:45:57.000Z
2013-11-30T17:45:57.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(255,0,0);"><strong>Fiery 230ft crater nicknamed the 'Door to Hell' baffles scientists after burning endlessly for 40 YEARS</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Originally a level surface, the site was identified by Soviet scientists in 1971 as an area that was believed to house a substantial oil field</p><p style="text-align:center;">Yahoo News UK</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/door-hell-burns-over-40-231636083.html">http://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/door-hell-burns-over-40-231636083.html</a></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">With fiery embers glowing deep underground, it looks like a scene from an apocalyptic sci-fi blockbuster.</p><p style="text-align:center;">But this huge crater is amazingly a real-life phenomenon which has been flaming away for more than four decades.</p><p style="text-align:center;">The 230ft-wide crater, known by locals in Turkmenistan as the 'Door to Hell', has baffled scientists since it first appeared more than 40 years ago.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Originally a level surface, the site was identified by Soviet scientists in 1971 as an area that was believed to house a substantial oil field.</p><p style="text-align:center;">However, the ground beneath the drilling rig soon collapsed, creating a wide crater that was believed to be releasing large quantities of methane gas, a potential danger to the nearby villages in Derweze, Turkmenistan.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Scientists decided that the most efficient way to solve the problem would be to burn off the poisonous gases -- by doing so, it was expected that all of the gas in the crater would be burnt off within days.</p><p style="text-align:center;">More than four decades later, though, the crater is still ablaze with endless flames and boiling mud - and hundreds of tourists flock to visit it every year.</p><p style="text-align:center;">The Karakum Desert, where Derweze is located, has one of the largest gas reserves in the world. Turkmenistan hopes to up its exportation rate around 75 million cubic meters of gas in the next 20 years.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598881,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="630" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598881,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900598881?profile=original" /></a> <strong>The fiery crater first appeared in Turkmenistan more than 40 years ago. (TORMOD SANDTORV / CATERS)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900599096,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="630" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900599096,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900599096?profile=original" /></a> <strong>The astonishing crater is 230ft wide. (MARTHA DE JONG-LANTINK / CATERS)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Will Keeping, a retiree from Buchlyvie, near Stirling, visited the crater last month.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Unaware of the Door to Hell's existence before he visited Turkmenistan, Will, 57, was told on his tour that the crater was one of the hundred most bizarre places to visit before you die.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Intrigued, he decided to ride across the bleak desert environment, not knowing what to expect.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Will said: 'During daylight, I was initially not impressed as it looked like a hole in a vast desert. As we got nearer and the glow from inside the carter became evident, though, I started to notice the size of the crater and wondered how could continually glow like that.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600298,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="630" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600298,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900600298?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Bubbling: The crater has been nicknamed the 'Door to Hell' by locals in Turkmenistan. (MARTHA DE JONG-LANTINK / …</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900601467,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="630" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900601467,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900601467?profile=original" /></a> <strong>Inside, the crater is filled with endless flames and boiling mud. (WILLIAM KEEPING / CATERS)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> 'As I approached on foot, it became clear that this was a large crater and that inside was like a huge open furnace. At first, it appeared that it might have been a natural phenomenon, but the sides of the crater contradicted that. I could see the bent and rusted remains of some sort of metal railings or structure, implying some sort of catastrophe having occurred long before.</p><p style="text-align:center;">'I stood there gazing into the crater, the sheer size and intensity of the fire inside became more and more apparent.</p><p style="text-align:center;">'As the sun began to set, the location slowly transformed from a large, isolated furnace in the middle of the desert into the centre of attention that dominated the surrounding area - the glow became more intense and lit up the area including the sky above. It was impossible not to be drawn to the crater, something that was just dominant over the surrounding area.'</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Follow the Path of Your Joy ~ A Message From Talia Of The Council For The Assistance To Earth ~ via Isis-Neith
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/follow-the-path-of-your-joy-a-message-from-talia-of-the-council
2014-02-19T00:58:44.000Z
2014-02-19T00:58:44.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600083,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(0,128,0);"><strong>Follow the Path of Your Joy ~ A Message From Talia Of The Council For The Assistance To Earth ~ via Isis-Neith</strong></span> <br /> <strong>Posted: 03 Sep 2013 08:30 PM PDT</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600083,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600083,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900600083?profile=original" /></a>councilfortheassistancetoearth-com.webs.com</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">I am Talia of the Council for the Assistance to Earth. Greetings.</p><p style="text-align:center;">I spoke last week about stepping out of the fear of what other people think of you and standing in your own power, but I feel that I must continue to talk to you about the freedom that this entails, because I realize that there are those who think that to step out of needing to please others is not a good quality.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> I want you to understand that you are worthy of anything good and I want you to understand that when you put yourself second you deny the universe the privilege of giving you the good that you deserve because you are saying to it very loudly through your energy and matching actions that you don’t truly deserve the good it has stored for you.</p><p style="text-align:center;">What the universe looks for is someone who deeply feels through and through that they are worthy!</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> What the universe looks for and feels out for is someone who holds the energy of self value!<br />What the universe wants for every person is all the love and goodness that they desire to be part of their experience and a constant expression of their life. Not only a constant mental and emotional expression but a constant physical one too, and you should be living a life that is joyous and living to the fullest, not selling yourself short because another is not accepting what you want out of life when they are not even living your life. Only you are living your life!</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <strong>Don’t make excuses.</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">When you want something deeply you find a way or you regret never finding it. Do not let other people stop you when they are not in agreement with what you value and want and hold dear to have for yourself. You are not another person, so don’t try to persuade another not to do the thing that they love either.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> As a for instance and one that is a cliché on Earth and so you will most easily relate to it, the dancer who loves what they do more than anything including money and the parent who really wants the best for their child, but doesn’t understand that the best for their child is living joyously and the money must follow the person who lives full and joyously!</p><p style="text-align:center;">When you are full of joy you are a river overflowing with abundance of all sorts; you are destined to be in alignment with everything you are!</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> The river of joyous living and an abundant mind flows to the heart of the person who trusts their own desires and puts themselves in the places that give them more joy! Always follow your passion, no matter what anyone else wants from you or for you! Always follow who you are and put your joy above needing to give joy to others! Everybody is responsible for their own power, for their own love, for their own abundance, for their own joy!</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Everybody is responsible for only themselves and not to complete another or give to another something that they haven’t found inside theirself!</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Everybody is meant to find the river of joyous movement, meaning the river that never stops moving and that pushes you forward in the moment when you find your own power which is your passion and your joy! Your joy is your driving force, the force for living to the fullest you possible. Love is a high emotion, passion is a high emotion. If you want to move into a higher vibration you must follow the path of your joy!</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <strong><span style="color:rgb(0,128,0);">WHAT BRINGS YOU JOY?</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <strong>Namaste.</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> For More Please Visit: <a href="http://councilfortheassistancetoearth-com.webs.com/">http://councilfortheassistancetoearth-com.webs.com/</a> Namaste!</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
City of Love fails to woo the Chinese
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/city-of-love-fails-to-woo-the-chinese
2013-10-13T00:13:50.000Z
2013-10-13T00:13:50.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color:rgb(255,0,0);"><strong>City of Love fails to woo the Chinese</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900594864,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900594864,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900594864?profile=original" /></a>A farmer works in a field with the replica of the Eiffel Tower in the background (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900594887,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900594887,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900594887?profile=original" /></a>A resident stands on the balcony of his Parisian-style apartment. Construction first started in 2007 and although it is near completion and mostly open for business, local media regard Tianducheng as a ghost town (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900595661,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900595661,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900595661?profile=original" /></a>Rows of white Parisian style homes can be seen in Tianducheng. The knock-off of the famous 'city of love' features a replica Eiffel Tower, an Arc de Triomphe and a Bassin de Latone (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900595698,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900595698,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900595698?profile=original" /></a>European-style buildings are covered with Chinese lettering in Tianducheng. The development is supposed to house 100,000 people but so far is only home to 2,000 (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596098,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596098,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900596098?profile=original" /></a>People walk past a fountain with black statues of a chariot, horses and other animals in Tianducheng (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596500,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596500,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900596500?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900597093,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a>A lightning bolt streaks across the sky above a replica of the Eiffel Tower in Tianducheng. The replica stands 108metres tall and is just one of the Parisian-inspired landmarks in the Chinese city (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900597093,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="683" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900597093,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900597093?profile=original" /></a>Brooms lean against a statue at the Tianducheng development in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. This isn't the only European-inspired town in China: Thames Town near Shanghai is filled with Georgian terraced houses, a Chinese Dorchester in Chengdu is modeled on the Dorset town. German and Italian-style towns are also being built (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900597866,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900597866,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900597866?profile=original" /></a>Tianducheng, a gated community near Hangzhou, capital of coastal Zhejiang province, was built to attract China's wealthy. Paris, French wine and designer labels and handbags are popular status symbols in the Asian country (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598486,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598486,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900598486?profile=original" /></a>A replica of the Eiffel Tower can be seen behind a farmer's house in Tianducheng (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900599859,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900599859,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900599859?profile=original" /></a>The 108metre replica of the Eiffel Tower in Tianducheng, Zhejiang Province (Reuters)</p></div>
Everyone You Chose to Meet on Your Lifepath will Appear at Exactly the Right Moment ~ via John Smallman
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/everyone-you-chose-to-meet-on-your-lifepath-will-appear-at
2014-02-19T01:04:59.000Z
2014-02-19T01:04:59.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900599065,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(204,153,255);">Everyone You Chose to Meet on Your Lifepath will Appear at Exactly the Right Moment ~ via John Smallman</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Posted: 03 Sep 2013 08:30 PM PDT</p><p style="text-align:center;">johnsmallman.wordpress.com</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900599065,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="500" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900599065,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900599065?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Jesus</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Much attention is being focused on the troubling situation in the Middle East, and this is understandable because your compassion flows to those who are suffering there. But do not forget to focus also on being Love in action all day every day, while not judging those whom you think are causing those problems, because in truth they too are suffering and are equally deserving of your love and compassion. Only a constant flow of Love can resolve that situation, and you who are reading this chose to be incarnate on Earth at this time so that you could send your love to those who are suffering anywhere on Earth due to military conflicts, or for any other reason.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Suffering is an enormously powerful distraction that tends to draw you deeper into the illusion. It can lead you to forget to make your daily intent to be Love in action, while those involved in conflicts are frequently so distracted by their own suffering and that of loved ones that they find it almost impossible to enter their quiet inner space even for a moment, where they can access the spiritual help they so dearly need. Your intent to send love to those who are suffering is very effective and does help them to experience brief moments of peace despite the intense distractions of their unhappy environment.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> As you know, the divine energy field in which everything has its eternal existence is composed of Love, so that everything that exists is therefore composed of Love. The limitations that are the characteristics of the illusion are the result of attempting to live without Love. . . separated from It. The power of Love is infinite, and by entering the illusion and attempting to separate yourselves from your divine Source you effectively reduced the power, the life force available to you enormously. It is as though, using electricity as an analogy, all the immense power flowing out of an earth-based electrical power station was available to you, but you chose to reduce it to the level at which it would barely light a lamp.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">That is why it is in your best interests to wake up. When you do so you will cease to reduce the power level of the Love that flows through you constantly, and without which you would not and could not exist, but will allow It to flow without restriction of any kind, and you will then know yourselves as you truly are: beings of immense influence. . . of immense Light.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Awake and fully conscious, you could not even conceive of the way of life that you are experiencing in the illusion. It is truly beyond understanding, and yet you cling to it in fear, unable to conceive of life without it, with many believing that life ends permanently with the laying down of their human bodies. Nothing that God creates dies. Death is an illusory concept. . . merely a move forwards, a progression to a state of being that is way beyond your present severely limited experience of what life means. It is not to be feared.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> The time at which a human lays down her body is not random. Accidents and illness are experiences on the lifepath that you planned, and everything that happens to you is part of your own personal plan. That is not apparent to you while embodied, although some of you are rather good at getting an intuitive sense of what your future path entails. The thing to be aware of is that you are each on the path home to Reality: the state in which Love fills you with the infinite power and joy in which you were created, and of which you are fully and eternally aware.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> You are all destined for eternal joy in the eternal Presence of God, the loving Source of all creation, and your homeward paths have been uniquely and individually tailored for you to encounter precisely the experiences and lessons that you chose, before you incarnated, to undergo. Nothing that happens to you is by chance, although you may well feel that some of your experiences just had to be accidental because you cannot imagine any other cause.</p><p style="text-align:center;">However, once you accept that nothing that happens to you is a chance occurrence it becomes much easier for you to see and learn the lessons with which your lives present you.</p><p style="text-align:center;">And when this happens you will find life flows more easily for you with far less stress. This is because you have effectively made the choice to accept the situations that arise, instead of fighting against them and blaming others – or God! – for any misfortunes that befall you.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Wherever it is that you are experiencing life on planet Earth, it is where you chose to be for the lessons that you elected to experience and learn. Where you were born, to whom, and where you live are no more chance occurrences than any other events that “happen” to you.</p><p style="text-align:center;">It is impossible for you to understand these reasons while you remain on Earth as humans, and utterly impossible for you to make sense of another’s lifepath. You have no need to.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> If you meet or become aware of someone whom you could help, then do so; it will be one of your lessons. But you do not need to go seeking out people to help. You may certainly choose to do so, but everyone you chose to meet on your human lifepath – for the lessons that you could learn together or teach each other – will appear at exactly the right moment.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Your lifepaths will always unfold just as planned; the fact that they may displease or delight you does not alter that fact.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Pay attention to each moment by living in the now as consistently as you can. Doing that is the most effective way to follow your paths and learn your lessons with the minimum of discomfort. When you created your lifepaths you built into them all kinds of allowances to enable you to provide for the myriad choices within each and every situation that comes up.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Think of all the choices you make, moment by moment, choices you could not foresee, and from which you had to therefore provide alternative routes forward. To proceed most efficaciously, trust the path that opens before you and proceed lovingly and compassionately along it. It is the most direct way Home.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <strong>Your loving brother, Jesus.</strong></p></div>
What if the world's icecaps melted overnight?
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/what-if-the-world-s-icecaps-melted-overnight
2013-11-08T21:58:50.000Z
2013-11-08T21:58:50.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(51,102,255);">What if the world's icecaps melted overnight?</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">New maps show how the world would change if the polar icecaps completely melted - rising sea levels would flood large parts of Britain, Europe and the US</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">By Chris Hall | Yahoo News</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900594453,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="630" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900594453,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900594453?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;">Yahoo News - In 5000 years' time, this is what Britain could look like as the polar icecaps melt. (National Geographic/JASON TREAT, MATTHEW TWOMBLY, WEB BARR, MAGGIE SMITH, NGM STAFF, ART: KEES VEENENBOS)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood disaster film - what would happen if the polar icecaps completely melted in one go?</p><p style="text-align:center;">But you could also see it as the eventual product of global warming - as levels of carbon build up in the atmosphere, temperatures will one day rise to the point where all ice on Earth has melted.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Luckily for the millions of people whose homes would be flooded by this change, scientists estimate that melting all the ice in the Arctic, Antarctica and Greenland would take at least 5,000 years. The total volume of ice on Earth is currently estimated at between 5million and 7.5million cubic miles. Melting all of it would cause the sea level to rise by a minimum of 216 feet (66m).<br /> The impact of such a drastic change to the sea level is shown by these National Geographic maps. Some parts of the world would be largely unaffected, but every continent would undergo significant changes. In addition, Antarctica would emerge as a landmass for the first time in 15million years.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900593696,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="630" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900593696,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900593696?profile=original" /></a> Coastlines around Europe would shrink, with some countries disappearing altogether. (National Geographic/JASON …</p><p style="text-align:center;">The UK and Ireland would change enormously. The east coast of Britain would flood as far inland as Leicester and as far north as Harrogate. London and the Thames valley would all be underwater, with Kent and Norfolk reduced to a scattering of islands.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Much of western Ireland would flood, except for the highlands of County Mayo and Galway. Wales and Scotland would be less heavily affected.</p><p style="text-align:center;">In Europe, the Netherlands would be completely submerged. Denmark, Belgium, Estonia and Latvia would also be significantly flooded. The Black and Caspian Seas would connect directly to the Mediterranean, and huge areas of Russia and Kazakhstan would flood.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900594680,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="630" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900594680,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900594680?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;">Much of the USA would be unharmed, but Florida and the Eastern seaboard would all flood. (National Geographic/JASON …</p><p style="text-align:center;">In North America, the eastern seaboard would all find itself underwater, and Florida would completely disappear. California would lose San Francisco and San Diego, and the Mississippi delta would become a large bay, but the rest of inland America would be largely unharmed.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900594089,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="630" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900594089,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900594089?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;">Only the major river basins in South America would be significantly affected. (National Geographic/JASON TREAT, …</p><p style="text-align:center;">In South America, only the areas around the Amazon and Paraguay rivers would change significantly, with the mountainous western coastline protecting most of the continent.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900595074,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="630" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900595074,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900595074?profile=original" /></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900594089,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a></p><p style="text-align:center;">China would be most affected in Asia, with an area home to 600million people being lost to the sea. (National Geographic/JASON …</p><p style="text-align:center;">Asia would see the largest number of people affected. Flooding in northern China and Bangladesh would leave more than 760million people without a home. Large parts of Cambodia and Thailand would be affected.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900595273,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="630" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900595273,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900595273?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;">Australia would gain a sea, and lose all of its coastal cities. (National Geographic/JASON TREAT, MATTHEW TWOMBLY, …</p><p style="text-align:center;">Australia would look very similar but for the addition of an inland sea in South Australia. However, the coastal flooding that would affect the entire world would have huge repercussions in Australia, as 80% of the population lives on the coast.</p><p style="text-align:center;">According to National Geographic, this scenario could arise if humans were to burn the entire planet's supply of fossil fuels - causing the average temperature to rise by more than 20 degrees by adding 5trillion tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere.</p><p style="text-align:center;">As well as flooding great swathes of the planet, it would also make much of the world intolerably hot to live in. So don't feel too smug if you live on top of a hill.</p></div>
Mother Mary ~ Claim Your Rightful Place Amongst the Masters in Your Ability to Love and to Create ~ via Fran Zepeda
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2013-11-16T21:42:25.000Z
2013-11-16T21:42:25.000Z
Melodie Munro
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<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(51,204,204);"><strong>Mother Mary ~ Claim Your Rightful Place Amongst the Masters in Your Ability to Love and to Create ~ via Fran Zepeda</strong></span> <br /> <strong>Posted: 09 Aug 2013 09:31 PM PDT</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900594281,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="378" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900594281,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900594281?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>franhealing.com</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">Hello dear ones. By now you have realized that you have reached a crossroads, a crossroads of true unequivocal belief in your divine nature. We have been telling you for quite a while now of the magnificent essence that is you, naturally and never-ending and eternally, and many of you have accepted it with open arms and true belief in your true nature.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> However, there are many that still doubt this, and for you to move forward, it needs to be embraced fully and without any hesitation. Deep down you know of your nature, your Divine Nature. Deep down you know of its possibilities and its consequences. Deep down you recognize yourself more and more, as the veils are lifted from your hearts and as you accept yourselves truly and absolutely. But are you fully embracing it? Are you fully believing it? That is the question we pose to you this day, where you find yourselves continually inundated with purer and purer energy into your hearts, if you so accept it.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> For many it is bringing up doubts and resistance. For many it is still bringing up those parts of you that still cling to old beliefs of what you think you are, of who you think you are. But beloveds, I come today to ask of you: let go more, surrender more; look closely into your hearts and see any remaining doubts and fears and beliefs that are holding you back from receiving and accepting this pure light of such magnitude, that nothing can hide now, that nothing can be in your way of expanding more fully into your new lives and new sense of yourselves.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> But it isn’t really “new” now, dear ones, is it? You are indeed coming back to your true beginnings, your true center, and while it may feel sometimes that you are like a new fresh seedling newly sprouted and waving in the harsh winds of change, feeling very vulnerable, know that you are not alone and you can withstand it, that you can grow further and stronger into your true glory.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> I come to you now to give you comfort and love in your treacherous journey, or so it may seem to you now. Hold fast to your center, dear ones, and see how much love you can hold without feeling like you are bursting. And bursting is ok, even so. For you are breaking the barriers of old paradigms for one last time and it is so – it is rightfully so - that you claim your rightful place amongst the Masters in your ability to Love and to Create.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> The only thing stopping you, my dear ones, is belief and trust – belief and trust in your Divine Nature, in your Divine Essence, in your Christed Self, in your Lighted Ascended Being. You merely have to choose those thoughts and feelings that support that new level you have found yourselves in. It feels new, yes; it feels strange yes, but go with it. Allow it. You are almost there.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> You are the Lighted Love-Bearers of the World. I have told you this before. You are fully capable of sustaining that role; you are perfectly capable of carrying forward as supreme examples of Lighted Ascended Beings, of evolved Ascended Beings, so full of Love and promise that no one can deny it. Don’t deny it, dear ones. Be with us in your full glory. Now is the time. Now is the Creation you have been waiting for – the creation of so much Love oozing within you and without you and for you and by you. Take it in further, dear ones. You are almost there.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> We love you immensely, dear ones, we in the Celestial and Galactic Realm. That has never subsided. It grows and flourishes with each further acceptance of it. Let this Love and Light now illuminate any remaining dark patches that may prevent you from fully accepting that you are a Full and Lighted Divine Being, here to spread it further out than you could have ever imagined. For the dark patches are merely beliefs and fears and doubts you have accumulated to sustain you in the times of separation. But that time is closing dear ones. And you merely have to light them up and move through them like wisps of fog lingering before you on your path to full freedom.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> You have my deep abiding love always. You have the deep abiding love of all the Celestial and Galactic Realm, of which you are one. Believe it fully, dear ones. Now is the time.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <strong>All my love.</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(51,204,204);"><strong>Mother Mary</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> ©2013 Fran Zepeda. 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