December 21st.

 The day we realize it is not about nations, and the whole world is one.. oh, that will be the grandest of days” ~ Gandhi

On the Universal Significance of

 December 21st, 2012

World Centering and World Renewing and A Proposal for a World Wide Cultural Event !

The question about the year 2012 and in particular December 21st, is not— what’s going to happen—but rather what are we going to make happen !!

Twenty-Twelve has shaped up to be an exceptional year from any angle you look. Here’s a snap shot of what’s looming for 2012.

    Growing global movement to purge governmental and economic systems of their corrupt and exploitive polices.

    Growing global movement to purge corporations of their corrupt and exploitive polices.

    Western Imperialists are chomping at the bit to attack Iran and overthrow the Syrian Regime.

    Not to mention ongoing US led wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen.

    Not to mention that Iraq and Libya have been savagely brutalized and in total chaos thanks to US imperialism.

    Not to mention covert operations in who knows how many countries.

    Growth of totalitarian State powers and out of control Governments. NDAA, SOPA etc.

    Countless localized ecological nightmares and urgent ecological conditions elsewhere.

    US Presidential Elections aka Parade of Goons

    Solar maximum is expected to peak near end of 2012.

    Socio-economic chaos is expected to peak in 2012.

    World economy teeters on the edge of the abyss.

    December 21st, 2012

Based on the macro-trends in motion it does indeed look like the “end of the world” as we know it is upon us. The crystallization of the 99%/Occupy movement represents the leading edge of the emergent culture movement, aka the birth of a planetary culture. The great mythologist Joseph Campbell said that the next stage of human cultural evolution would be dependent upon the creation of the planetary mythos. The planetary mythos is nothing less than the presently unfolding story of how humanity’s collective yearning for a better world is turned into reality via a collective movement to save the planet and her inhabitants from the clutches of the Current World System. It is the story of how we as a whole outgrew our straightjackets of tradition, fear, enthnocentrism, self-absorption and apathy to embrace the worldview of a cooperative Planetary Culture.

A Planetary Culture would be characterized by the following attributes.

    Direct democracy

    Ecological sensitivity

    Evidence based policies

    Gender balance-respect

    Diplomacy and cooperation

    Government transparency

    Incorruptible monetary system

    Cross cultural unity and respect

    Egalitarian socio-cultural philosophy

    Egalitarian lawmaking

        By egalitarian lawmaking I mean the enactment of rules, laws, and codes that do not favor any particular group or individual to the detriment or disadvantage of the rest.

    Demilitarization, disarmament and non-violence

    Clean and harm minimizing technologies and products

    Identification with the Planet as a whole i.e. Planetary/Global Citizens

    Acceptance of others customs and beliefs with the following exceptions;

        Militarism, coercion or force as a solution,

        The subjugation of women and minorities

        Slavery of any kind,

        Discrimination based on sexual orientation,

        Child sexual abuse,

        Religious proselytizing

It should be glaringly clear to all, but the most self-absorbed and isolated among us, that the Current World System is a menace to life, liberty, sanity and universal prosperity. And by universal prosperity I don’t mean that everyone should have the same standards of living. Natural inequality is a fact of life, but legalized criminality, organized predation and systematic exploitation is the socio-economic strategy of the “one percent” and not a fact of life.

Awakening

 Humanity’s Awakening

by John Smallman

Humanity’s awakening is at hand.  Of course you keep hearing that, because it is a fact.  Within the illusion however, time often seems to drag slowly and relentlessly onwards without an identifiable destination or purpose, as pain and suffering continue to plague your lives.  Time is illusory, and in your perception it generally slows down when you want it to pass more quickly, and it passes more quickly when you want it to slow down.  That in itself should demonstrate very clearly to you that it can only be illusory.

Reality is constant, without inconsistency or imprecision of any kind.  It is perfect, clear, transparent, and authentic, just as God created It.  Reality has no need of time, and within It there is only the eternal now, the permanent moment in which God and His creation exist eternally.  While you remain apparently enslaved within your illusory time-determined reality, that is an idea that is totally inconceivable to you: everything must have a beginning and an end; any concept other than that seems utterly insane.

Since the Big Bang, or whatever other beginning you choose to believe in, it seems that everything has been moving away from that point towards a final disintegration, because nothing lasts forever.  And yet, modern physics has shown that all that does exist in your illusory reality is composed of energy which is indestructible.  This presents you with quite an enigma.  Nothing lasts for ever and yet nothing can be destroyed.

Each one of you is pure energy and therefore indestructible.  Your bodies age, decay, and disintegrate.  Then you lay them down, but you return to the spiritual realms.  The vast majority of you have had many, many lives during which you have been continuously evolving, sometimes very slowly, while at other times it may well seem that what had unfolded and been learnt in one life was lost in a later one.  However, every life you have led has been a learning experience, and although the knowledge learnt can remain hidden for long periods, nothing you have learnt is ever lost.

Over the last seven or eight decades, humanity’s spiritual evolution has been accelerating very rapidly, bringing you forward to this point, where it appears to many that all that remains is for the military-industrial-corporate-insanity conglomerate to complete its destruction of all that enables life to exist on the planet as it continues to expand without let or hindrance.

However, it is also the point where you are about to awaken into the realization that you are all one with each other and with the divine Source of all consciousness – awareness, aliveness, sentience, intelligence – and into the wondrous state of euphoria that that realization will deliver.

Thus it is very difficult for you not to be hugely distracted by the extreme contrast between the enormous and apparently insoluble problems facing humanity and the world, which are being constantly discussed on the mainstream media, and what you know is about to happen.

Nevertheless, you are the Light-bearers — the ones who chose to come and assist humanity in its awakening process.  And because of the task that you have taken on you have infinite help and assistance from all in the spiritual realms to ensure the success of this divine plan.

You really do know, deep within yourselves, that this is your task and that your success in bringing humanity to wakefulness is divinely guaranteed.  The divine Will is for you all to awaken, and therefore no other outcome is even remotely possible.  However, not all of you will awaken in the same moment.  This is not a contradiction!  The field of divine Love enveloping humanity is going to bring about sweeping changes in the way in which you relate to one another – very suddenly.  For those who have chosen to awaken, this will be the moment for which you have been waiting so patiently and with such excited anticipation.

Read the full article here

Nessie

Loch Ness monster cited by US schools as evidence that evolution is myth

THOUSANDS of American school pupils are to be taught that the Loch Ness monster is real – in an attempt by religious teachers to disprove Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Pupils attending privately-run Christian schools in the southern state of Louisiana will learn from textbooks next year, which claim Scotland’s most famous mythological beast is a living creature.

Thousands of children are to receive publicly-funded vouchers enabling them to attend the schools – which follow a strict fundamentalist curriculum.

The Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) programme teaches controversial religious beliefs, aimed at disproving evolution and proving creationism.

Youngsters will be told that if it can be proved that dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time as man, then Darwinism is fatally flawed.

Critics have slammed the content of the religious course books, labelling them “bizarre” and accusing them of promoting radical religious and political ideas.

One ACE textbook called Biology 1099, Accelerated Christian Education Inc reads: “Are dinosaurs alive today? Scientists are becoming more convinced of their existence.

 “Have you heard of the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland? ‘Nessie’ for short has been recorded on sonar from a small submarine, described by eyewitnesses, and photographed by others. Nessie appears to be a plesiosaur.”

Another claim taught is that a Japanese whaling boat once caught a dinosaur.

One former pupil, Jonny Scaramanga, 27, who went through the ACE programme as a child, but now campaigns against Christian fundamentalism, said the Nessie claim was presented as “evidence” that evolution could not have happened.

He added: “The reason for that is they’re saying if Noah’s flood only happened 4,000 years ago, which they believe literally happened, then possibly a sea monster survived.

 “If it was millions of years ago then that would be ridiculous. That’s their logic. It’s a common thing among creationists to believe in sea monsters.”

Private religious schools, including the Eternity Christian Academy in Westlake, Louisiana, which follows the ACE curriculum, have already been cleared to receive the state voucher money transferred from public school funding, thanks to a bill pushed through by Republican state governor Bobby Jindal, a Hindu convert to Catholicism.

Boston-based researcher and writer Bruce Wilson, who specialises in the American political religious right, said: “One of these texts from Bob Jones University Press claims that dinosaurs were fire-breathing dragons. It has little to do with science as we currently understand. It’s more like medieval scholasticism.”

Mr Wilson believes that such fundamentalist Christian teaching is going on in at least 13 American states.

He added: “There’s a lot of public funding going to private schools, probably around 200,000 pupils are receiving this education.

 “The majority of parents now home schooling their kids are Christian fundamentalists too. I don’t believe they should be publicly funded, I don’t believe the schools who use these texts should be publicly funded.”

scotsman

Chasmosaurus by Kim Thompson

Great Deception

No-one really loses in the grand cycle of conscious evolution. It’s rather more a question of velocity. The deeper one is embedded into the industrial construct of transforming time into money, the slower and more laboured one’s consciousness becomes. Not unsurprisingly, such insentient drifting is actively encouraged. The self-confessed arousal junkie can drink deeply from an epicurean cellar of endless sensual narcotics – all freely available through innumerable screens, stores and capsules. The dark sorcerers are renowned for their many flavours of oblivion. It is in this constant suppression of man’s natural transcendental trajectory that the greatest deception of all is perpetrated.

NielKramer (excerpt)

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

THOMAS EDISON

Soul Age

Soul Age

As we reincarnate from lifetime to lifetime on our soul's path -- gathering experiences, learning lessons, and fulfilling agreements -- an evolutionary process transpires and that course of development is called Soul Age

Soul age refers to how a person has grown from experience on the planet, not just to how many lifetimes he or she has lived. No person is "ahead" or "behind" any other, but is simply occupying another place in the continuous circle leading to and from the Tao.

There are five soul ages to progress through during our cycle of incarnations on the physical plane. Each stage is a mark of our soul's evolution.