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Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity.

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by ‪#‎EthnosphereRadio‬
“Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge. Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be unjust to no man, and show all meekness to all men. Be as a lamp unto them that walk in darkness, a joy to the sorrowful, a sea for the thirsty, a haven for the distressed, an upholder and defender of the victim of oppression. Let integrity and uprightness distinguish all thine acts. Be a home for the stranger, a balm to the suffering, a tower of strength for the fugitive. Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring. Be an ornament to the countenance of truth, a crown to the brow of fidelity, a pillar of the temple of righteousness, a breath of life to the body of mankind, an ensign of the hosts of justice, a luminary above the horizon of virtue, a dew to the soil of the human heart, an ark on the ocean of knowledge, a sun in the heaven of bounty, a gem on the diadem of wisdom, a shining light in the firmament of thy generation, a fruit upon the tree of humility”.

-Bahá’u’lláh [1817 – 1892 ]
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“In generosity and helping others, be like a river.
In compassion and grace, be like the sun.
In concealing other’s faults, be like the night.
In anger and fury, be as if you have died.
In modesty and humility, be like the earth.
In tolerance, be like the sea.
And either appear as you are, or be as you appear”.

-Rumi

The Ugly Side of Ascension Nobody Wants to Talk About

The Ugly Side of Ascension Nobody  Wants to Talk About

by | Sep 28, 2015

The Ugly Side of Ascension Nobody  Wants to Talk About

Are you feeling low energy, anxious, resentful, or overwhelmed despite the “magical” full moon eclipse? I’m typing this while cuddled in bed feeling physical pain and a foggy, gloomy state of mind. If you’re feeling like this too, I want you to know you’re not alone.

AND, it doesn’t mean your positivity, spiritual practice, and wise woman power are all f*cked up either.

The massive astrological alignments and 5D ascension shifts mean we are “jumping up a level” but why doesn’t it feel good? Especially when there are so many people posting blissful elation and joy, you may be judging yourself for feeling low… I know I’m struggling with that right now.

The truth is, with so many souls waking up in the world right now, we may be feeling the weight of what we have yet to process, compounded by the confusion, frustration and chaos the newly awakened are feeling right now. Self love and radical self care are ESSENTIAL right now, especially honoring and acknowledging our needs for rest, reflection and healing. This is especially true for those of us who are committed to leadership in spirituality. Our old spiritual practices may no longer suit us or feel comforting. Right now my greatest comfort is to alternate crying, screaming, and cuddles with fluffy pillows and giving myself copious amounts of Reiki as my body and energy fields recalibrate.

Cleansing is not a glamorous process. It is not the stuff of viral videos and epic insta posts. It IS a process of deep self awareness, and accepting of the shadow side (how appropriate during a full moon eclipse time, right?!). Right now, in my shadow side, I hate meditating. Silence grates my nerves, and I don’t really want to retrain my brain or my emotions with guided hypnosis or EFT or any of my usual tools. I feel angry that after all the healing and clearing I’ve done, there is still more to clear, and I want nothing more than to just go about the business of being a normal human.

And I am PROUD to be a human. I’ve never stated that out loud and publicly before. There was stigma in it before. I wouldn’t be spiritual enough, wise enough, a good enough teacher if I didn’t want to walk my spiritual walk all the damn time.

But the truth is, to be human is truly divine! These magnificent feelings in my heart and in my body are divine. I am so vibrantly aware of them in this moment, and I am honoring each one as a precious jewel of life… Especially the ones that hurt. They are teaching me in a sensational way how to feel more deeply, how to be more aware and present in every moment, and how vividly I can experience.
I am birthing a more radiantly vibrating awareness of my physical self, that is big enough to allow more of my Soul and Spirit to live in my body. I am growing, I am expanding, and sometimes it feels like shit.

I am grateful. I am loving all of myself. I am reveling in the darkness, in the discomfort. I am expectantly awaiting the crowning moment as I burst forth renewed. And I am sharing this raw, honest experience with you in the hopes than someone else feeling stuck in the darkness can see and feel the light, the love that is expanding and growing within… So you don’t feel so alone in this ugly, uncomfortable, gloriously human part of ascension.

Because most people won’t talk about it out loud. Silence and secrets around the struggle to embody our Souls in human form only demonizes this tender birth.

Judgment of what is in the moment makes monsters out of the shadows and draws our eyes further from the Light. Embrace yourself, my love. Lay your hands tenderly on your body and love yourself in your most fragile form. Allow yourself time and space as your vibrations rise to new highta, for it may feel like an electrocution of epic proportions.

The “ugly” is merely a perception that needs love and acceptance to be seen as beautiful. Like a wrinkly newborn adjusting to a new world, we must wrap ourselves in blankets of acceptance, cuddle ourselves with adoration, and close our eyes to rest while we acclimate to the bright New Earth.

We who feel this now are the teachers by example for those who are awakening so rapidly they cannot comprehend it yet mentally. Our tenderness to the ugliness we are feeling is sensed and gives permission to the world to love and cuddle ourselves in this newness.

We are the bringers of Light, and we must embrace the dark for our Light to be fully known.

Tips for Self Care:

  1. Be with the “ugly.” Honor all feelings.
  2. Breathe. All is well.
  3. Place your hands on your body and give yourself Love.
  4. Drink hot tea and cuddle with pillows. Or puppies. Or both.
  5. Share with a trusted friend how you’re feeling. Honesty and transparency are healing.
  6. Give up the illusion of polished perfection. Life is perfect in all its forms and bringing Light into the darkness of illusion is a most glorious experience.
  7. Be brave. Ask for love. You WILL be answered.
  8. Share what you learned with others. You never know who needs to hear this right now.
By Isis Arjeta 

 

 

How to Become a Stalker of Your Own Mind

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By:Hal Robinson, MRC

2015 September-October

How to Become a Stalker of Your Own Mind

If we are relentless and impeccable about stalking ourselves, a result is that we leave the world and other people alone.

There is a very old tradition taught by indigenous elders from the Americas that trains us to use the voice of the mind to be free of the voice. The term these elders use for this process is called “stalking.” It is understood that the word stalking has some negative connotations in our society. However, stalking is an honored part of this Medicine Way. These societies were hunter-gatherers: Just as they stalked animals for their energy, we have been taught to stalk the voice in the mind for its energy.

In stalking, we use three areas to assist us in finding energy. The first area is our thoughts: judgmental and critical, future or past, and self-pitying. The second place we look for energy is emotion: Am I having an emotional reaction to this person or event? The third area of awareness is physical: If I am unaware of my thinking or emotional responses I can almost always become aware of physical tension or upset in the body.

Stalking is proactive in that I begin to look for judgmental/critical thoughts and when and where they occur. For example, if someone cuts me off in traffic, I can be aware of how quickly I become critical, feel anger, and how such thoughts and emotions create tension in my body. When I become aware, I begin to have some choice in how I use my energy, either to judge or to accept. I begin to learn from the world and people, whether I am a leaf at the mercy of the wind, or if I am aware and responsible.

Usually stalking the voice in the mind begins with listening for the voice of self-judgment, as it is sometimes the easiest to hear and capture. When the stalker can hear the self-judgment and is willing to accept the idea that the voice is “not I” and yet I have such a voice, the stalking begins.

We then begin to realize the power this voice has to create suffering within, and that such suffering is separate from what occurs in the outer world. This suffering can occur from events that are years in the past. While traditional psychology talks about forgiving one’s self, the stalker looks for the power the voice has to create, how often it creates suffering, and then questions what life would be like if the voice were supportive rather than judgmental. If we could change the voice from “enemy to ally” what would happen physically, emotionally, and how would our mental activities change?

The next energetic movement is to picture the voice in a chair opposite us. We use right brain to picture this energy and give it a place to sit—honoring it because it has power to create. We stalk buffalo not to hurt him, yet to capture the power in his being and take it into ourselves as a gift from Spirit. Our intention is the same with the voice: it has power and we wish to reown that power to create.

As we choose to experience the suffering this voice can create by judging us, we feel this physically, emotionally, and notice that it is done through our mental faculties. When the awareness of suffering is high, we then change places and become one with the voice and look back at “ourselves.” When we choose to do this, we can feel the power the voice has in the physical and how quickly emotions can change. Often we laugh and feel light and happy playing the role of the judge, a real paradox.

It has been said that Spirit is always in paradox. If we are willing to do this movement, rather than think about it, we can literally reown this creative power in our physical body, quiet our mind, and become neutral emotionally. We find peace through the voice that creates suffering. We begin to understand the old Medicine Way called Enemy Way—to use the enemy as teacher.

A side effect of these energetic maneuvers is that I will become stronger and more grounded. Another side effect of stalking is that my thoughts slow, and I become more peaceful and therefore happier. Stalking is rigorous and proactive (opposite from our reactive culture). Stalking builds awareness, clarity, and responsibility. Stalking forces me to be responsible and to stop blaming the world and other people for my reactions (on the mental, emotional, and physical levels). The elders teach this Medicine Way that helps me become a more complete human.

Stalking to Heal Relationships

A professional woman who joined our stalking group tells a story of using stalking to heal an aspect of her relationship with her husband. In her words:

“One evening during dinner with my husband, he said something I experienced as very sarcastic. I immediately reacted and fortunately was aware of my reactions. My stomach and neck were tight, I was angry, and my heart was closed to him. Because of my training as a psychotherapist, I diagnosed and labeled him.”

But this time, instead of speaking her thoughts and arguing (creating more distance), she chose to “stalk herself,” to see if she was sarcastic in some place in her life. Her ego (self-importance) said she was not sarcastic; “People are rude when they are sarcastic, and I’m not rude.”

Later in her office, she said she actually heard herself be slightly rude to her receptionist. In the afternoon, she heard herself be sarcastic to a client. Later that evening, much to her surprise, she spoke in a sarcastic way to her husband. At that point she committed herself to stalking her own sarcasm for the next five days before saying anything to her husband about his. A short version of the story is that she discovered she was sarcastic every day, even though she said she hated sarcasm in other people. This Medicine Way teaches stalking will reduce our self-importance (shrink the ego). This is true.

“Toward the end of the week when my husband was sarcastic, I laughed and went over and hugged him and felt closer. He helped me discover something I was blind to,” she said.

In this way of living, we see other people become our spiritual teachers. If we are relentless and impeccable about stalking ourselves, a result that is we leave the world and other people alone. This helps us in being more peaceful.

Would You Like to Be a World Citizen?

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  Would You Like to Be a World Citizen?

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I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world. – Socrates

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. – Eugene V. Debs

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. – Thomas Paine

Our true nationality is mankind. – H.G. Wells

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this. – Woodrow Wilson

For millennia now, philosophers, poets and prophets have dreamed of the day when all humanity might become citizens of the world. Going back to the earliest human civilizations, this vision of our unity as global citizens has inspired us. Centuries ago, in the Hindu Sanskrit Hitopadesha, an early collection of spiritual parables, the term “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” meant “the world is one family.”

How would that vision of global citizenship actually work? In practical terms, what steps could we take to begin making that great dream a reality? You might be surprised to know that several globally-minded, internationalist groups have already made progress toward the goal of world citizenship.

The Global Scenario Group (GSG), an environmental organization that specializes in futurist forecasting and scenario analysis, has already said the world has entered thePlanetary Phase of Civilization. Their reports predict that increasing global interdependence and planetary risks like climate change must inevitably bring the world together into a unitary system. This Planetary Phase, the GSG forecasts, will produce a fundamental shift in institutions, values and ways of thinking, including global governance, a reduction in economic and political boundaries, increasing globalization and mass migration.

These kinds of sweeping changes have inspired many organizations to form social movements that advocate the formal realization of world citizenship for every person on the planet.

TokyoHere’s just one interesting example: the World Government of World Citizens one of several serious world citizenship movements, has popularized the use of the term mundialization, a French term for the declaration of a specified territory—a city, town, or state, for example—as a world territory, with responsibilities and rights on a world scale. This global citizenship idea, first promoted by Robert Sarrazac, the former leader of the French Résistance, initially created the Human Front of World Citizens in 1945. Since the late 1940’s, Sarrazac’s mundialization concept has spread around the globe, with more than 1000 cities and towns declaring themselves “World Cities:” Los Angeles, Tokyo, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Hiroshima, Toronto, etc., etc. To see if your city or town has agreed to be a World City, or to find out how to make it one, take a look at the list.

The overall goals of these grassroots global citizenship movements often have a remarkable resemblance to the Baha’i teachings. Mundialization, for instance, asks cities, states and nations to voluntarily work to help establish a federally-affiliated government of all humanity, with executive, legislative and judicial functions combining to create a world parliament, universally and democratically elected by the people of the planet. The World Federalists advocate a very similar model of global governance and world citizenship. The Baha’i teachings offered that model to the world in the 19th Century, long before any of the popular movements toward world citizenship got underway.

Certainly most people can comprehend the advantages in such a global structure, and its enormous potential impact on world peace, the dramatic reduction of military budgets, the lessening of the burden of taxation, the tremendous potential for binding international pacts to prevent further environmental destruction, and the extension of human rights to all. The Baha’i writings say that the development of such a world consciousness represents the best and highest expression of our destiny:

The emergence of a world community, the consciousness of world citizenship, the founding of a world civilization and culture — all of which must synchronize with the initial stages in the unfoldment of the Golden Age of the Baha’i Era — should, by their very nature, be regarded, as far as this planetary life is concerned, as the furthermost limits in the organization of human society… – Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Baha’u’llah, p. 163.

In 1985, the world’s first democratically-elected global governing body—The Universal House of Justice, the administrative leader of the planet’s Baha’is—issued this statement about the relationship of love of country and love of the world and all humanity:

The love of one’s country, instilled and stressed by the teaching of Islam, as “an element of the Faith of God,” has not, through this declaration, this clarion-call of Baha’u’llah, been either condemned or disparaged. It should not, indeed it cannot, be construed as a repudiation, or regarded in the light of a censure, pronounced against a sane and intelligent patriotism, nor does it seek to undermine the allegiance and loyalty of any individual to his country, nor does it conflict with the legitimate aspirations, rights, and duties of any individual state or nation. All it does imply and proclaim is the insufficiency of patriotism, in view of the fundamental changes effected in the economic life of society and the interdependence of the nations, and as the consequence of the contraction of the world, through the revolution in the means of transportation and communication — conditions that did not and could not exist either in the days of Jesus Christ or of Muhammad. It calls for a wider loyalty, which should not, and indeed does not, conflict with lesser loyalties. It instills a love which, in view of its scope, must include and not exclude the love of one’s own country. It lays, through this loyalty which it inspires, and this love which it infuses, the only foundation on which the concept of world citizenship can thrive, and the structure of world unification can rest. It does insist, however, on the subordination of national considerations and particularistic interests to the imperative and paramount claims of humanity as a whole, inasmuch as in a world of interdependent nations and peoples the advantage of the part is best to be reached by the advantage of the whole.

Baha’u’llah’s statement is: “The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.” The concept of world citizenship is a direct result of the contraction of the world into a single neighbourhood through scientific advances and of the indisputable interdependence of nations. Love of all the world’s peoples does not exclude love of one’s country. The advantage of the part in a world society is best served by promoting the advantage of the whole. Current international activities in various fields which nurture mutual affection and a sense of solidarity among peoples need greatly to be increased. – The Universal House of Justice, October 1985, The Promise of World Peace, p. 3.

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