FINDING YOUR TRUTH

The Portal

Time and place are fleeting things—so ephemeral and illusive. One instant here, then gone; the next the same. And still we expect them to remain as we wish them to be—available to us always and forever.

But they aren’t.

I mentioned to a friend that her new home felt very much like it was located near a time portal to a distant past—the FEEL of the nearest town was dusty and rugged like a western town in the 1800’s with horses and buggies, and women in long coarse skirts and men in rain-sagged Stetsons crossing the dirt streets. The town had this ancient vibe. To me it always had.

A few years back we would attend horse auctions there once a month, and it was the perfect place for them. I half expected to see cattle-drivers riding into town, pushing a few head towards the town’s cattle pens awaiting a train to haul them further.

While it never actually happened in my reality; the town had that FEEL that it once had and likely would again.

There are places like that in the world. You can inadvertently step into the portal between two dimensions and suddenly become disoriented by the shift in the energy vibe. It can be discombobulating to you at the least and personal-crisis creating at the worst. Energy sensitive folks may not know what is affecting them, but they may recognize that they are being pulsed between two dimensions of existence, and it’s not a pleasant feel.

I think that’s what is happening to us at present. A portal is opening to a new dimension (hopefully higher) and we are mid-step into it. Chaos is the catalyst to massive change; and chaos creators use widespread chaos as opportunities to destabilize social institutions and civil safeguards. It is easier that way to influence the changes that they want to create when everyone is trying to determine which way is up and which is down.

Think of it like when you are in an earthquake—when the ground is shaking and buildings are being tossed around like Lego towers cascading to the ground, you just want it to stop. You want solidity and stability beneath your feet again. But in our current climate, almost two months into this wild, world-wide energy turbulence, the ground beneath us is nowhere near stabilizing yet, so it’s important for you to stay on your toes and prepare for some lengthy ground-shifting in the year ahead.

Just keep this is mind: You know WHO you are. You know what you WANT and DON’T want. Don’t give in to a sense of stability just for the sake of feeling more grounded during the turbulence. Stay awake and alert to those ‘chaos opportunists’ using the manufactured crisis to shift away your liberties and freedoms.

Decide NOW what you want your future to be—decide how you want to FEEL tomorrow and the next day. And if you willingly step through that new dimension portal, be sure it is the dimension that YOU wanted to be in—not the one chosen for you by chaos opportunists.

Signatures of Endurance

“Trees leave signatures of endurance on the grounds, the story of making deep roots in the wild winds.”

Jayita Bhattacharjee — Inspiration Showers

Those of us who actually reach retirement age also have ‘signatures of endurance’ with every line on our faces or crepey wrinkles in our now looser skin. Our youthful freckles overnight became spreading age spots; and muscles that were once so toned and dependable, have now slackened to rubbery lumps if left unused.

Stamina, once so prized in our 20’s and 30’s and even in our 40’s or 50’s, is more fleeting now requiring frequent rest periods between bouts of strenuous physical tasks. (Stumbling to the bathroom is not considered one of those, but getting up from the recliner might be for some.)

However like that tree image above, those roots we’ve established holding us to the earth have long ago grown strong and deep. The gale-force winds haven’t taken us down yet because we eventually learned how to weather a storm—maybe bending but never breaking.

That’s what most of us are doing right now—weathering the latest onslaught of wind and bluster knowing it can’t last forever, so we are primed for an eventual calm spell to put out new leaves and soak up the returning sunshine.

And to that dancing clown onstage who has never used a chainsaw in his life, if you come near my trunk with it, the kickback might cost you a leg.

The Driving Forces of Our Lives

Been thinking a lot about many things lately—some I have control over and some I don’t. What I do know is that ‘change’ is a game shifter for everyone because change makes you recalibrate all aspects of your life—it makes you step back and reassess your previous life direction and your current game plan for achieving future happiness.

And likewise challenges in life are the catalysts to our behavior changes. We have all known life’s challenges—those ‘driving forces’ in our lives from childhood onward that often affected our overall LIFE perspectives, including how we learned to adapt to or even to survive our family environments if they were less than nurturing and ideal.

These driving forces of life often involved having our most basic needs met: like food, shelter, protection from harm, and feeling love and a sense of belonging somewhere to someone or something. Our deeper needs drove us forward day by day toward some distant unknown we naively thought of as our future life; and as children we looked to adults around us as the examples of what we had to do and how to we had act to receive our most basic necessities.

The problem with those adult behavior examples was that they only showed us two things: 1) how to act to get what you wanted in life and 2) how NOT to act if we as children were the ones being adversely acted upon. Harm-causing examples showed us HOW NOT TO BE by how much pain they personally cost us. But both the GOOD and the BAD adult behavior examples taught us deeper personal lessons than most of us are even aware.

Those joyful or painful childhood memories taught us that we had to be adept at reading ‘people situations’ before we had to react to them. Self-confident individuals often handled people-challenges better than those who were continually belittled or psychologically abused as children because personally challenged, battered kids quickly learned to find some place to hide until the nearest threat lessened. Understandably they also learned how to avoid conflict and human contact in general because they had become masters in furniture-camouflage and wall-blending. It was just safer that way—to remain unseen in the house.

The strange thing is that even those BAD examples of what it means to be a human being were not only teaching us harsh lessons about the world around us; but more importantly, they were also teaching us important lessons about ourselves as loving, caring individuals who needed more mutual support and community involvement just to survive childhood.

But then again, we are not kids any longer. We don’t need to hide in closets or under the bed now. We know bad behavior examples when we see and hear them because they are all around us now everywhere. And the only thing they are really showing us is how important it is to NOT be like those bad examples.

So look for more positive inspiration in your life to help you be better than the bad examples you are seeing everywhere in the world now. Be better than them. Be better than those caustic human behaviors creating chaos and heartache wherever they roam. Elevate your life out of this continual, political muck and mire and find ways to be a strong, good example of a loving person for the younger ones in your life. Be someone they can model as the ideal person who cares about others and tries to make this a better world for everyone—not just for themselves. You can do this. No more wall-blending or closet sitting. Be bold and bright and impossible to miss as you make this a better world for everyone that you encounter from this day forward. *** BE YOU. *** BE AWESOMELY UNFORGETABLE.

Elevation

Weird dream early this morning where I walked into a classroom trying to approach someone for some reason—maybe the teacher—and she turned and asked me a question like “Why are you here?” and I said “Elevation!”

College-age students around the room began to chime in on what elevation meant to each of them, and it got heady/spiritual fast with each new description offered. And I felt physically buoyed with each one—like “YES! This is true interaction. THIS is the catalyst for awakening within each heart and mind—a single word, ELEVATION, and how it relates to each person’s life.”

In the dream as the structured classroom began to organically morph with student excitement and active discussion, the teacher gave me an angry look and I walked out with my index finger pointing skyward mouthing the word: Elevation.

Then I woke up feeling floaty and excited, and thought that had to be more than a dream.

I’m mentioning it here as a possible GOOD SIGN for all of us, even though things don’t seem so positive at present. Who knows, maybe the word ‘ELEVATION’ also means something inspiring to someone out there in the world who may run across this post. If so, elaborate on it for all of us just like the class did back to me. Maybe that spark of recognition is the turning point for love and light to return to us.

Maybe it really is all about ‘elevation,’ and how you can elevate yourself beyond your more restrictive earthly boundaries. Interesting thought.

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

I was lying in bed two nights ago—ready to shut off the TV for the night when the NEWS flashed on the screen and my “preferred mutee” mumbled that the United States will be taking over the Gaza strip, bulldozing all the war-torn mess flat and reconstructing the NEW, and I quote: “Riviera of the Middle East,” with businesses and condos, and all sorts of people from all over the Middle East will be coming to live and to work there. “What a beautiful thing it will be,” says he.

I laughed out loud—just couldn’t help it. (So much for going to sleep now.)

And this is not a good situation to laugh about. There are 2 million people displaced from living there who are now returning to the crumbled mess that was once their homes. What about them? Where are YOU, oh orange one in your infinite wisdom, going to “send them?” Not that if fazes him, but this intended takeover statement was wrong on SO many different levels, not to mention illegal by most global standards, that it just boggles the mind. Or, … maybe it’s just Tuesday in our NEW world order. And so what?

It dawned on me then that this was yet another “drink bleach” moment for him. Remember that? In 2020 as Covid was slowly spreading across the United States and the world, and ‘guess who’ was in charge at the time, his response to what people should do to combat the virus prior to immunizations existing then was to stare at this health advisor on stage with him and say this, “Well maybe they could drink bleach to kill it.” Yeah. That’s what they should do—drink bleach. A few gullible souls were hospitalized from heeding his televised health advice. This news conference Tuesday was pretty similar in effect.

From Biden’s proposed “TWO-STATE solution” between Palestine and Israel, it became instead the “United States’ 51^st or 52^nd state solution”—depending on how our neighbors to the frozen north view their ranking in American state additions. Of course there is also Greenland and Panama to consider as our ‘new state’ rankings are proposed. Can’t forget about them. Gonna need a bigger flag.

Personally I believe that RFK’s ear must had gotten too close to ‘someone’ else’s ear who says these strange things, and the brain worm must have wriggled into the large vacant area beneath the blondish-white, transplanted hair follicles and started thrashing around; and wa-la, the “Riviera of the Middle East” resulted. Wow.

Let’s see. What is today? Thursday? Yeah. It’s anyone’s guess for Thursday.

Flexing Your Inner Strength

I’ve noticed that some of my closer friends are being more adversely affected by news of the daily antics in DC.; expressing lots of stress and worry now about the upheaval in government structures and personnel firings, etc.. To which I can only say that much of this fallout was inevitable once the die was cast on election day. I personally am only doing what was suggested to me—I am waiting and watching. No big emotion—no big reaction to anything done now, because sometimes NOT reacting is the very best thing you CAN do in situations beyond your control. My advice for most of us with no retaliatory political power: ‘Wait and watch’ and see how it actually shakes out. Hold your own energy frequency as high as possible for you. (I’ve previously listed here techniques to help in that regard.)

Sometimes deescalating a situation is the far better approach to peacefully resolving a conflict than is in-your-face resistance to it. Sometimes the ‘conflict creator’ wants you to adversely react or to OVER react to what is being threatened.

Sometimes it takes far more inner strength to NOT go nose to nose with a conflict instigator. Take it from a combative personality whose first instinct is to clench my fists and step forward toward the blustering bully trying to block my path. When your actions become too predictable, they’ve got you right where they want you. Better to step back, assess what is really happening, and then plan your way forward from there.

Will this whole situation get worse? … Oh heavens yes. No question there. ☺️

Can you endure it until it reaches a natural resolution through courts or future elections? Hopefully you can, but it will require your digging deep within you to hold your cool and then assess and plan your next step forward.

Peaceful resistance is the best option: unified marches, letters to representatives, active coalition building with similar thinking people all make positive statements of peaceful discontent with policies leveled on the masses; and use less of this passive-aggressive BS on social media. That just makes you a target for retaliation. This is not an US versus THEM situation no matter how much the chief chaos agent wants his followers to believe that it is.

This is about US—ALL of us. And right now is a bit too early to start moving to his proposed 51^st state in the frozen north. We’ll get through this. Just strengthen your inner resolve to do so and stay smart. Life will always be a challenge of some sort. This is just the latest one. You can handle this.

This could actually be an ‘evolution’ challenge in disguise for lawmakers and the courts to see who can ‘grow a backbone’ during the next four years. Wouldn’t that be something? Hopefully the Departments of Science and Health are still standing by then to document it.

The Play on Illusion

Now you see it, now you…wait, was it here at all?

One week in and it’s the ancient ‘pea under the walnut shell’ trick amid mass confusion.

Were you fooled this time? How about the next time he shuffles the shells around? Do you still think the pea is under one of them? Are you missing his sleight of hand? He’ll insert the pea wherever you think it isn’t, and then remove it again before the game restarts.

Why are you playing his game to begin with? Ignore him. Bet on yourself.

Another New Remote Control on Order

Now that January 20^th has arrived I should order another new remote control for my decade old TV.

I burned the MUTE button out of the first one a year ago and will likely do the same for the current one as well since my ‘preferred mutee’ is in charge of the nation starting today.

That first poor remote control never had a chance. By midyear of his first term it was going through batteries like crazy. This past year of political theater has been a challenge for the newer one also.

Might as well prepare myself for the inevitable—either pulling the plug on the TV or going back to Netflix. I’m already reading five big books a month before he even starts. Don’t want to burn out my eyes by next Christmas.

So for those of you who prefer solitude and silence to pompous, bloviating obfuscation, the MUTE button (or the OFF switch) is your friend.

We should start a new online group—‘the MUTERS.’

Presence and Transcendence

Say aloud: “I AM in the NOW.

My NOW may not be a preferred location, but it MY NOW.”

Breathe into that NOW and feel your lungs expand. Feel the air flowing in and then out.

Take another breath even slower than the first. Allow the extra oxygen to flood your body with precious life.

Say aloud: “I AM here. I AM NOW. I AM alive. ….

I live in LOVE. I live in LIGHT. I LIVE.”

That simple realization is transcendence.

All That You Are

“On the stroke of midnight tonight, you can resolve to be better, if you like…

to be fitter,

to eat cleaner,

to work harder.

On the stroke of midnight tonight,

you can resolve to become a whole new you,

if you so choose.

Or, you can take a moment to acknowledge

all you already are.

Because it’s a lot.

You’re a lot.

And you deserve to be commended.

On the stroke of midnight tonight, perhaps you could congratulate yourself, for coping.

For breaking, again,

and for rebuilding, again.

For catching the stones life has thrown at you,

and using them to build your castle that little bit stronger.

You have endured, my friend.

And I don’t see the need to resolve to become a whole new you,

when you are already so very much indeed.

Happy new year.

You made it.

Now let us face another 365 day-turn, arms wide,

accepting, embracing and ‘seeing’ each other,

for all we are..”

Donna Ashworth — Sacred Self Living

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To Be Hopeful

“To BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places-and there are so many-where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

Howard Zinn

Thank you John Ebrecht for sharing this pennings… Kindred Spirits

— Jugsuk Lee Art

Beyond Space and Time

“I exist as awareness beyond space and time.” Deepak Chopra