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LIMITS OF POWER: THE END OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM

chaz — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:13:42 GMT

Social Justice: A Spiritual Perspective Tribe http://spiritualsocialjustice.tribe.net/?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B1f17eecf-0538-4444-bc02-9a01dc74a333%5D I don't watch much T.V. but, I managed to catch this PBS special with Bill Moyers I think Andrew Bacevich has a much needed insight (Pluto in Capricorn) for our global paradigm and our future; of war, power, security and freedom - Dog Star http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08152008/profile2.html August 15, 2008 Andrew J. Bacevich's new book, THE LIMITS OF POWER: THE END OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM, is part of the American Empire Project. Find out more at the American Empire Project Web site http://www.americanempireproject.com/ The Limits of Power identifies a profound triple crisis facing America: the economy, in remarkable disarray, can no longer be fixed by relying on expansion abroad; the government, transformed by an imperial presidency, is a democracy in form only; U.S. involvement in endless wars, driven by a deep infatuation with military power, has been a catastrophe for the body politic. These pressing problems threaten all of us, Republicans and Democrats. If the nation is to solve its predicament, it will need the revival of a distinctly American approach: the neglected tradition of realism. The American Empire Project poses questions to American thinkers and writers: "At this moment of unprecedented economic and military strength, the leaders of the United States have embraced imperial ambitions openly. How did we get to this point? And what lies down the road?" where Andrew J. Bacevich has posted a new entry on the blog: "Illusions of Victory: How the United States Did Not Reinvent War... But Thought It Did." Below is an excerpt from THE LIMITS OF POWER. From an acclaimed historian and former military officer, a bracing call for a pragmatic confrontation with the nation's problems Introduction: War Without Exits For the United States, the passing of the Cold War yielded neither a "peace dividend" nor anything remotely resembling peace. Instead, what was hailed as a historic victory gave way almost immediately to renewed unrest and conflict. By the time the East- West standoff that some historians had termed the "Long Peace" ended in 1991, the United States had already embarked upon a decade of unprecedented interventionism. In the years that followed, Americans became inured to reports of U.S. forces going into action — fighting in Panama and the Persian Gulf, occupying Bosnia and Haiti, lambasting Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Sudan from the air. Yet all of these turned out to be mere preliminaries. In 2001 came the main event, an open- ended global war on terror, soon known in some quarters as the "Long War." Viewed in retrospect, indications that the Long Peace began almost immediately to give way to conditions antithetical to peace seem blindingly obvious. Prior to 9/11, however, the implications of developments like the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center or the failure of the U.S. military mission to Somalia that same year were difficult to discern. After all, these small events left unaltered what many took to be the defining reality of the contemporary era: the preeminence of the United States, which seemed beyond challenge. During the 1990s, at the urging of politicians and pundits, Americans became accustomed to thinking of their country as "the indispensable nation." Indispensability carried with it both responsibilities and prerogatives. The chief responsibility was to preside over a grand project of political- economic convergence and integration commonly referred to as globalization. In point of fact, however, globalization served as a euphemism for soft, or informal, empire. The collapse of the Soviet Union appeared to offer an opportunity to expand and perpetuate that empire, creating something akin to a global Pax Americana. The indispensable nation's chief prerogative, self assigned, was to establish and enforce the norms governing the post-Cold War international order. Even in the best of circumstances, imperial policing is a demanding task, requiring not only considerable acumen but also an abundance of determination. The preferred American approach was to rely, whenever possible, on suasion. Yet if pressed, Washington did not hesitate to use force, as its numerous military adventures during the 1990s demonstrated. What ever means were employed, the management of empire assumed the existence of bountiful reserves of power — economic, political, cultural, but above all military. In the immediate aftermath of the Cold War, few questioned that assumption. The status of the United States as "sole superpower" appeared unassailable. Its dominance was unquestioned and unambiguous. This was not hypernationalistic chest- thumping; it was the conventional wisdom. Recalling how Washington saw the post-Cold War world and America's place in (or atop) it helps us understand why policy makers failed to anticipate, deter, or deflect the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. A political elite preoccupied with the governance of empire paid little attention to protecting the United States itself. In practical terms, prior to 9/11 the mission of homeland defense was unassigned. The institution nominally referred to as the Department of Defense didn't actually do defense; it specialized in power projection. In 2001, the Pentagon was prepared for any number of contingencies in the Balkans or Northeast Asia or the Persian Gulf. It was just not prepared to address threats to the nation's eastern seaboard. Well- trained and equipped U.S. forces stood ready to defend Seoul or Riyadh; Manhattan was left to fend for itself. Odd as they may seem, these priorities reflected a core principle of national security policy: When it came to defending vital American interests, asserting control over the imperial periphery took precedence over guarding the nation's own perimeter. After 9/11, the Bush administration affirmed this core principle. Although it cobbled together a new agency to attend to "homeland security," the administration also redoubled its efforts to shore up the Pax Americana and charged the Department of Defense with focusing on this task. This meant using any means necessary — suasion where possible, force as required — to bring the Islamic world into conformity with prescribed American norms. Rather than soft and consensual, the approach to imperial governance became harder and more coercive. So, for the United States after 9/11, war became a seemingly permanent condition. President George W. Bush and members of his administration outlined a campaign against terror that they suggested might last decades, if not longer. On the national political scene, few questioned that prospect. In the Pentagon, senior military officers spoke in terms of "generational war," lasting up to a century. Just two weeks after 9/11, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was already instructing Americans to "forget about 'exit strategies'; we're looking at a sustained engagement that carries no deadlines." By and large, Americans were slow to grasp the implications of a global war with no exits and no deadlines. To earlier generations, place names like Iraq and Afghanistan had been synonymous with European rashness — the sort of obscure and unwelcoming jurisdictions to which overly ambitious kings and slightly mad adventurers might repair to squabble. For the present generation, it has already become part of the natural order of things that GIs should be exerting themselves at great cost to pacify such far- off domains. For the average American tuning in to the nightly news, reports of U.S. casualties incurred in distant lands now seem hardly more out of the ordinary than reports of partisan shenanigans on Capitol Hill or brush fires raging out of control in Southern California. How exactly did the end of the Long Peace so quickly yield the Long War? Seeing themselves as a peaceful people, Americans remain wedded to the conviction that the conflicts in which they find themselves embroiled are not of their own making. The global war on terror is no exception. Certain of our own benign intentions, we reflexively assign responsibility for war to others, typically malignant Hitler like figures inexplicably bent on denying us the peace that is our fondest wish. This book challenges that supposition. It argues that the actions of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, however malevolent, cannot explain why the United States today finds itself enmeshed in seemingly never- ending conflict. Although critics of U.S. foreign policy, and especially of the Iraq War, have already advanced a variety of alternative explanations — variously fingering President Bush, members of his inner circle, jingoistic neoconservatives, greedy oil executives, or even the Israel lobby — it also finds those explanations inadequate. Certainly, the president and his advisers, along with neocons always looking for opportunities to flex American military muscle, bear considerable culpability for our current predicament. Yet to charge them with primary responsibility is to credit them with undeserved historical significance. It's the equivalent of blaming Herbert Hoover for the Great Depression or of attributing McCarthyism entirely to the antics of Senator Joseph McCarthy. The impulses that have landed us in a war of no exits and no deadlines come from within. Foreign policy has, for decades, provided an outward manifestation of American domestic ambitions, urges, and fears. In our own time, it has increasingly become an expression of domestic dysfunction — an attempt to manage or defer coming to terms with contradictions besetting the American way of life. Those contradictions have found their ultimate expression in the perpetual state of war afflicting the United States today. Gauging their implications requires that we acknowledge their source: They reflect the accumulated detritus of freedom, the by- products of our frantic pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. Freedom is the altar at which Americans worship, whatever their nominal religious persuasion. "No one sings odes to liberty as the final end of life with greater fervor than Americans," the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once observed. Yet even as they celebrate freedom, Americans exempt the object of their veneration from critical examination. In our public discourse, freedom is not so much a word or even a value as an incantation, its very mention enough to stifle doubt and terminate all debate.

HYMN TO HATHOR

chaz — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:38:05 GMT

Intimate Connections http://marsandvenus.tribe.net/ "Blue-lidded daughter of dawn, golden lady of the mountains, carrier of her father's wisdom, let an old man rest in your arms. Let him look last on love's face, breathing love's breath. I live in light a million years. The sun rises or sets now - it matters not. Here is ecstasy in death and certainty in life. We are gods in the body of god, truth and love our destinies." "Go then and make of the world something beautiful, set up a light in the darkness." HYMN TO HATHOR continues in the third post (below) first an introduction...KMT Series First power and equality of all Goddessing! For many thousands of years, much longer than the few years we call recorded history the female was worshiped and revered as the magical portal of life, Mother of earth possessed of the power of both physical regeneration and spiritual illumination and transformation that made the earth beautiful and in total cosmic balance. Until about 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, the voice of the goddess was always loud and clear before convoluted RACE MIND) arrived. Race mind is the collective unconscious and/or social belief system for the entire human race. Race mind can be a copious source of negative energy for any individual open and receptive to it, it is a prolific source of negative energy resulting in all kinds of dis-ease and maladies on our planet. Central to all of this is a positive force called life, spirituality and spiritual negation. The Lector Priesthood of ancient Kemet had this knowledge and this ancient wisdom was in other ancient cultures besides (Africa). The Priesthood of the other ancient cultures were also aware that we as humans had an unknown cosmic enmity energy and negative thinking force permeating the entire planet. This is where our Goddesses worship disappeared into oblivion, as many males are very receptive to this antipathetic phenomenon and so unchecked over the years it has grown to prodigious and ominous significance on our planet and we are now operating far out of balance as war, mayhem and violence are now first options. We believe in the voice and power of the Goddess for this coming Golden age and in the new millennium her voice must again be heard. This Goddess concept is not a new thing because in the ancient of days the goddess was a mighty symbol of the true powers that be of this earth. The present view of male the mighty hunter shared by Endo- Europeans, Hebrew and Islamic who are patriarchal in their ideology, a concept that is a very recent harmful phenomenon to our beautiful world. We then ask how can the Hebrews develop and evolve a Tantric Goddess centric technique called the Kabbalah where the oppression of their women is still a iatrical part of their religious culture. How many female Rabbis have you seen or heard of from within their special patriarchal all male Neo- Kabbalah. Madonna the female spokesperson doesn't count. Another patriarchal system is the Catholic church in the world and the United States lately are feeling the heat and with the help of elected bishops may be moved to put an end to bans against married and female priests. Banned females within this powerful church is it still operating in the dark ages! Recently, the world has disrespected, despised, devalued and ignored the feminine principle. Neberdjer and Maat' says there is no better time like the present to get back to the beginning where goddess power had a place on this planet. Under our ancient teachings of Maat and Sema Neberdjer in which we again bring back to the earth the power of women. We teach that there is a big powerful magnanimous, prodigious, fabulous, wonderful goddess in every woman alive today waiting for a chance to emerge in all her glory. We teach that the goddess is one of the greatest untapped natural resource we have available to our time period. Most of us just have a case of cultural male the mighty hunter blinders. We don’t even know what goddess power really is. All our true goddesses want is equality and to be known, heard and understood, to be a valued member of the human race, to be experienced, and to join her inner being with her sister goddesses and brother gods into the magnificent dance we call life. Come learn the power of Goddess.

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti

chaz — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:46:51 GMT

Fela Kuti: Music As A Weapon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq7IPEJiRI8&feature=related Fela Performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-SQH94Pifc&feature=related Masters At Work feat. Wunmi - Expensive (A Tribute to Fela) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYa0M_MT8hU Army Arrangement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URRtk4OQCY4 Fela Kuti-Sorrow Tears & Blood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxVy4FS46r0 By the age of eight, he began playing the piano and organ. He became his schools pianist, playing at morning assemblies. As a young teen, he played in a band called Cool Cats. His rebellious side was also beginning to emerge: at age sixteen he formed a club called 'The Planless Society', with just seven members, its sole aim was to violate all school rules. Fela also edited the journal of the club; 'The Planless Times Publication'. This was swiftly banned by the school authorities. Fela was sent to London in 1958 to study medicine but decided to study music instead at the Trinity College of Music. While there, he formed the band Koola Lobitos, playing a style of music that he would later call Afrobeat. The style was a fusion of American Jazz and Funk with West African Highlife. James Brown’s band also came to hear Fela perform at the Shrine, and attempted to capture some of his “African feel”. "Tony Allen, Fela's drummer and a key architect of Afrobeat, claims that Brown sent his arranger, David Matthews, to check him out. 'He watches the movement of my legs and the movement of my hands, and he starts writing down ... They picked a lot from Fela when they came to Nigeria. It's like both of them sort of influenced each other. Fela got influenced in America, James Brown got the influence in Africa.’ When James Brown toured Nigeria in 1970, bassist William 'Bootsy' Collins recalls, '[Fela] had a club in Lagos, and we came to the club and they were treating us like kings. We were telling them they're the funkiest cats we ever heard in our life. I mean, this is the James Brown band, but we were totally wiped out! That was one trip I wouldn't trade for anything in the world.' http://afrofunkforum.blogspot.com/2006/04/felajames-brown-connection.html FELA KUTI - DOCUMENTARY AND MUSIC (AMAZING)-PART 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MdsIeQeKZw FELA KUTI - DOCUMENTARY AND MUSIC (AMAZING)-PART 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzofkTt6imA&feature=related FELA KUTI - DOCUMENTARY AND MUSIC (AMAZING) - PART 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW1-8GESFqg&feature=related FELA KUTI - DOCUMENTARY AND MUSIC (AMAZING) - PART 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB7jUlS4mNg&feature=related FELA KUTI - DOCUMENTARY AND MUSIC (AMAZING) PART 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozGnw9Q261A&feature=related FELA KUTI - DOCUMENTARY AND MUSIC (AMAZING) - FINAL PART http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgbHg02R_3o&feature=related Fela Kuti: Music Is A Weapon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq7IPEJiRI8 FELA KUTI - LIVE- WITH JETHRO TULL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khFi-Iyke9k http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela_Kuti http://www.felaproject.net/

How the Feminine Grows

chaz — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:52:53 GMT

Intimate Connections http://marsandvenus.tribe.net/ Gifts Of Masculine And Feminine Loving (Into) Through practice, a man grows stage by stage into the fullness of free consciousness, serving his woman with the Masculine force of love. When she is lost in her mood or feeling abandoned, he calls her present with humor and passion, and he opens her heart with his pervading and uncompromising love. Through practice, a woman grows stage by stage into the fullness of the dancing energy of love, serving her man with the Feminine force of love. When he is trapped in his mind or feeling burdened by life, she enchants his heart and enlivens his spirit with her powerful healing energy and radiance of love. Through the three stages of intimate relationship, man and woman serve each other with their unique forms of Masculine and Feminine energy. In a Dependence Relationship, the first-stage man gives Masculine energy to his woman in the form of money, sweet affection and security. The first-stage woman gives Feminine energy to her man in the form of sex, admiration and nurturing care. In a 50/50 Relationship, the second-stage man gives Masculine energy to his woman in the form of insight and self-discipline. The second-stage woman gives Feminine energy to her man in the form of intuition and healing. In the practice of Intimate Communion, the third-stage man gives Masculine energy to his woman in the form of fearless persistence in truth. The third-stage woman gives Feminine energy to her man in the form of ever-radiant, heart-opening love. By growing through the stages of intimacy, both men and women eventually realize they cannot win: The Masculine never acquires absolute freedom and the Feminine never receives absolute love. Rather, through their unique gifts, men and women serve one another to grow beyond their illusions of security, need and self-identity. They serve to magnify one another's ability to let go, stop seeking and breathe freely as love and as freedom, in this present moment. http://www.deida.info/

How The Masculine Grows

chaz — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:44:03 GMT

Intimate Connections http://marsandvenus.tribe.net/ Gifts Of Masculine And Feminine Loving (Intro) Through practice, a man grows stage by stage into the fullness of free consciousness, serving his woman with the Masculine force of love. When she is lost in her mood or feeling abandoned, he calls her present with humor and passion, and he opens her heart with his pervading and uncompromising love. Through practice, a woman grows stage by stage into the fullness of the dancing energy of love, serving her man with the Feminine force of love. When he is trapped in his mind or feeling burdened by life, she enchants his heart and enlivens his spirit with her powerful healing energy and radiance of love. Through the three stages of intimate relationship, man and woman serve each other with their unique forms of Masculine and Feminine energy. In a Dependence Relationship, the first-stage man gives Masculine energy to his woman in the form of money, sweet affection and security. The first-stage woman gives Feminine energy to her man in the form of sex, admiration and nurturing care. In a 50/50 Relationship, the second-stage man gives Masculine energy to his woman in the form of insight and self-discipline. The second-stage woman gives Feminine energy to her man in the form of intuition and healing. In the practice of Intimate Connection, the third-stage man gives Masculine energy to his woman in the form of fearless persistence in truth. The third-stage woman gives Feminine energy to her man in the form of ever-radiant, heart-opening love. By growing through the stages of intimacy, both men and women eventually realize they cannot win: The Masculine never acquires absolute freedom and the Feminine never receives absolute love. Rather, through their unique gifts, men and women serve one another to grow beyond their illusions of security, need and self-identity. They serve to magnify one another's ability to let go, stop seeking and breathe freely as love and as freedom, in this present moment. http://www.deida.info/

Making Love

chaz — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:12:16 GMT

Intimate Connections http://marsandvenus.tribe.net/?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B69cfe4e0-b648-4c40-b986-033b388b30dc%5D The cause of most of the unhappiness on earth is that man and woman have actually forgotten how to make physical love. This is the greatest tragedy of all time. The forgetfulness has been going on and slowly getting worse for so many thousands of years that it’s now a tragedy for the whole of mankind. (See KMT) The problem is social and too deep. Yet everybody has to do it for himself or herself, or it can’t be done. Woman’s basic unhappiness, her perennial discontent, is because man can no longer reach her physically. Her emotional excess, depressions, tearful frustrations, even premenstrual tension and the conditions leading to hysterectomy and other uterine problems, are due to man’s sexual failure to gather or release in lovemaking her finest, fundamental, female energies. These extraordinarily beautiful divine energies are intense and exquisite and when left untapped in woman, as they are now, they degenerate into psychic or emotional disturbances, and eventually crystallise into physical abnormalities. The womb gives birth to all things. Man’s basic unhappiness, his perennial restlessness, is because in forgetting how to make love he’s abandoned his original divine authority and lost sexual control of himself. His emotional or psychic degeneracy manifests as sex obsession. All men, without exception, are sex obsessed. This means compulsive sexual fantasising, chronic masturbation (even when living with a partner), sex repression leading to anger and violence, and the universal symptoms of chasing wealth and getting lost in work. Busyness and wealth-gathering compensate for being an inept lover and are cover-ups (in both sexes) for the inability or fear to love. Because of his neglect of love, neglect of woman, man suffers from premature ejaculation, guilt, anxiety self-doubt, impotence, sexual atrophy masquerading as sexual disinterest, sexual abstinence due to repressed fear of failure, sexual bravado and lack of true wisdom - all of which he inflicts on woman, aggravating her basic discontent and his own restlessness. No matter how much a woman loves her man and wants to give her love to him, she will not and cannot give up all her divine energies if he is not yet himself, fully integrated or aligned with love. As very few men are themselves, the gap of unhappiness between man and woman keeps on growing. To be a fully integrated male, a man has to assimilate in his body the divine female energies that woman can only release to him through right physical lovemaking. But the man has to be man enough. He has to be able to love her enough; that is, love her selflessly during the actual act of lovemaking. He has to be able to absorb and express sufficient love in his body to reach the highest part of her, and love enough to extract the divine energies from her deepest centre. To be able to love in this way is the authority man has lost - his only true authority over woman.

Search for Love and Freedom

chaz — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:37:23 GMT

Intimate Connections Tribe http://marsandvenus.tribe.net/ When a man and woman embrace one another without guarding themselves, without protecting themselves or holding back, then they naturally transmit to one another an ecstatic force of [love] energy, a oneness [a divine-ness] body-blissing, heart-rending and mind-blowing. Many of us have experienced intimacies based unhealthy dependence and pain. Many have then grown into "modern-style" intimacies based on independence [detachment] The trouble is, many modern women have had to cloak their unique and natural expression of "Feminine radiance" in order to succeed in today's more Masculine-oriented economy. And many modern men, stuck in a vague transition point between old models of the masculine and new identities, have become ambiguous at their core, unable to be fully present and confident in relationships and in their lives. Women are complaining that men are becoming weaker, less committed in intimacy, and seemingly lost in their lives. In short, women often ask me why men are such "wimps"" these days. Men are complaining that women are becoming hardened, more resistive and sharply independent, to the point that they are no longer very attractive to the men. In short, men often ask me why women are becoming such "ballbusters" these days.” However, in the name of economic security and emotional safety, many of us have developed a shell of protection that hides our native gifts. For fear of becoming too vulnerable or dependent, many of us have lost trust in our natural Feminine style of gifting, preferring a more aggressive or independent stance in the world. For fear of becoming too macho and insensitive, many of us have lost trust in our natural Masculine style of gifting, and in doing so we have lost touch with our real direction in life and are afraid to take a strong stand in our intimacies and in the world. To grow through the three stages of intimacy, we must come to terms with our deepest Needs to give and receive our emotional and spiritual gifts. We may find that we are hiding some of our real needs, thinking they are unfair or taboo. Before we can learn to give and receive our deepest gifts, whether gently or wildly, we must understand why we often confine our loving, and how we can liberate the mysterious force of love that lies yearning in our hearts.

Trust Him More Than Yourself

chaz — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:25:27 GMT

Intimate Connections Tribe http://marsandvenus.tribe.net/ For a woman to experience her deepest sensual bliss and openness, she must trust her lover’s masculine more than she trusts her own. Most women are capable of very deep sex. As a woman, your body and heart desire utter ravishment, total surrender, wave upon wave of pleasure and blissful love. But usually your sensual experience falls quite short of this. If you are like most women, you know that sex can be better than it usually is. Even if you have not yet experienced it, you intuit a deeper sexual potential, although you may not know exactly how to get there. For most women (and men), there are sensual skills to learn and emotional knots to untie. But no matter how skillful or easeful you become, your partner plays a huge role in how fully you will be willing to open sexually, physically, emotionally, and spiritually together. Deep, ravishing sensuality involves the loving play of masculine and feminine forces. The masculine is consciousness, and manifests through the body as presence and direction. The feminine is love-light, and manifests through the body as radiance and life force. A sexy masculine person is very present and confident in direction. A sexy feminine person is very radiant and alive with life force. Presence and radiance attract each other and can realize their oneness in the depth of sexual embrace. In truth, masculine and feminine are aspects of the one conscious light that is called the divine by many names. For the fullest expression of sensuality, love is necessary but not sufficient. In order for sensuality to become sacred ravishment, conscious light plays as two: one partner embodies the masculine force of consciousness, presence, and purpose, while the other partner embodies the feminine force of love-light, radiance, and life force. These days, many men and women are afraid to sexually embody these divine expressions. Why? Each person, every man and woman, has both masculine and feminine within them. Years ago, men were forced by social custom to always play the masculine role and women to play the feminine. This felt suppressive and limited. So, modern-day social custom has evolved to idealize balanced men and women: people who are each supposed to embody both masculine and feminine in a kind of psychological wholeness and relational independence. Being whole unto oneself is a sign of psychological health. But being able to take the next step, to relinquish your boundaries in order to realize and express something larger than yourself, is a sign of spiritual maturity. To grow beyond mere self-sufficient wholeness, you and your lover can learn to open your boundaries and relinquish sexual autonomy for the sake of two-bodied divine play. If you are sexually playing the feminine, you want to be swooned by your lover’s unwavering presence, taken beyond all resistance into the overwhelming fullness of love, ravished into bliss. If you are playing the masculine, you want to feel your lover’s trust and be attracted into your lover’s radiant surrender so that you may give yourself utterly in the ravishment of your lover. As your hearts trust, your boundaries are relinquished, and masculine and feminine open—sometimes savagely, sometimes sublimely—as one conscious light. But if you cling to psychological wholeness, you won’t be willing to relinquish your boundaries of self-sufficiency. If you are like many modern women, you have worked hard to establish healthy boundaries and actualize your own direction and purpose; relinquishing your own navigation seems dangerous. Yet, if you have a more feminine sexual essence, this trust and sexual surrender is exactly what your deep heart desires. So, if you want to open in deep sexual play, you can practice trusting your lover to play the masculine while you play the feminine.

KMT Series: Race in Ancient Egypt

chaz — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:25:30 GMT

KMT Ancient Metaphysical Egypt Tribe http://tribes.tribe.net/kmt?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5Bc5fd2d34-d3fd-4a5b-80ca-5874cdc6a257%5D The Ancient Egyptian Type in the Flesh http://www.geocities.com/wally_mo/people.html KMT Black Kingdoms http://wysinger.homestead.com/ancientafrica.html First off, Race is a social construct, so for our purposes it includes Culture. It is quite understandable that this issue would stir up heated passions. "For nearly five hundred years now, Western scholars have removed Black people from Buddhism, Black people from Asia, Black people from India, black people from Egypt, Egypt from Africa and Africa from world history. They have always taught that Egypt is in the Near East, the Middle East, the Mediterranean and even the Fertile Crescent. They have never informed the world that Egypt is and always has been on the Continent of Africa." NOTE: I challenge you to find 10 books written by White Egyptologists who mention that Egypt (and for that matter Israel) is in Africa it's important for ALL OF US is wake up, for our children and our future, so that we may have a future. and a better understanding of our world, who are are as a people, and what it means by and how we're all connected Part of our education - meditation, and spiritual cultivation must be to free ourselves of the false "paradigms" of a self-serving, self destructing Western paradigms; the patriartical ideology of BS, and these social and economical constraints, Scientism, etc. Our responsibility for women being degraded and exploitated with Sexism, it's the most powerful source we have. do you know that our modern science hasn't surpassed anything that KMT figured out 10,000 years ago? This social paradigm of Western supremacy (Lies) is what dominates (and is destroying) everything in this society (i.e., economics, education, labor, law, politics, religion, etc.) The distortion of history is just one component of this longstanding practice and tradition.

The Five People You Hang Out With

chaz — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:33:36 GMT

Intimate Connections Tribe: Divine KheMisTry http://marsandvenus.tribe.net/?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B69cfe4e0-b648-4c40-b986-033b388b30dc%5D http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/The_Five_People_You_Hange_Out_With.html Who are the five adults you spend time with? (You might want to grab a piece of paper for this one.) These may be people you work with or people you play with and definitely people you live with. • What are their positive characteristics? • What do they do that makes you a little (or a lot) uncomfortable? • What is the dominant theme of their conversation? • How does all that align with your wishes for your own life? Notice the phrase in the first sentence – spend your time. Do you ever think of actually spending time, as in spending money? Time is a valuable commodity and we truly do spend it as the minutes tick away. Do you live so that every minute is valuable? By that, I don’t mean productive or committed to the rat race. I’m all for some lying on the grass and seeing shapes in the passing clouds. I’m really addressing the value of the people we spend time with. Are we using our time wisely? A few years ago, I realized that I was spending a lot of time, sometimes over an hour each day, talking with a friend. In the beginning, it was a great get-acquainted conversation, but after a few weeks, it became repetitive and definitely non-productive. I realized that I needed to limit our conversations because they weren’t moving either of us forward and the hour out of each of our days was actually precious. How about spending time with someone who gossips or complains a lot or manipulates the conversation to be all about him (or her)? What is accomplished for you? Sometimes I find myself falling into an enticing trap. I am interested in people and I have opinions, but do I need to enlist others in my negative thoughts? Do I need to be enlisted into theirs? When I moved to San Francisco, I noticed my habit of making snarky comments about people as a form of entertainment. Wow! As soon as I actually heard the words coming out of my mouth, I couldn’t get away from myself fast enough! I have great radar for people who make such comments and after a few shudders worth of tolerance, I simply avoid them. What about hanging out with people who have different values? I’m probably not going to spend much time with a racist, but what about someone who watches and comments on TV shows which I find demeaning or someone who makes derogatory comments about something I hold sacred? How about the over-achiever or the over-indulger, the person who intentionally adds stress to every day? What do I gain from being with people who live life in ways that I have chosen to avoid? This question has come up for me recently as I’ve embraced a healthier nutrition program. Like a recovering alcoholic avoiding cocktail parties, I want to avoid social events involving food and drink that might be tempting but which I no longer want to indulge in. That’s an interesting dilemma because I’ve established my life around such social events. What can I do to inhabit a healthier environment? I have a lot of control, actually. I can suggest a walk instead of hanging out over burgers and fries. I can organize a movie outing rather than drinking beer at the local pizza place. I can redirect conversation to discussing current events rather than gossiping. I have lots of options, but first I needed to realize how much I am like the people I hang out with and if I decide I don’t want to be like them, I can change the amount of time I am with them, I can encourage different activities, or I can even look for new people. I’m in control of me. That’s huge.

Love--The Ultimate Vibration

chaz — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:50:33 GMT

Intimate Connections Tribe: Divine KheMisTry http://marsandvenus.tribe.net/?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B69cfe4e0-b648-4c40-b986-033b388b30dc%5D http://greenstoneofhealing.com/ Feel the vibes...? Although ridiculed, that question is not nearly as silly as it may seem at first. In fact, science has now recognized that what we call "reality" is in fact based on strings of vibrating particles. In other words, we and everything else in the universe consist, in essence, of vibrations. And the ultimate vibration--the highest, lightest, fastest, finest, largest, most powerful of all frequencies--is unconditional love. "Unless and until we access the consciousness frequency of Divine Presence/God consciousness - Goddessing/Spiritual Intelligence/Compassion/Forgiveness/Sharing/Giving/Heart Centered - all relationships, and particularly intimate relationships, are deeply flawed and ultimately dysfunctional." Enter the Now from Wherever You Are http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/c08f6642-c3ab-49e8-a2b3-ce3629281c51 The vibration of unconditional love is sheer joy, utter bliss, total transcendence. It is the healing, uplifting Source of All That Is. Some of us call that ultimate love vibration God. Others use different names. The moniker makes no difference. God is love. Love is God. Love is the Goddess, too. This begs some obvious questions, however. If everything is love, why is there so much ugliness and nastiness in this world? Why is our ultimate love-essence so well hidden? Why so much alienation, separation, suffering, and cruelty? Why are we wounded, fearful, and lacking instead of whole, loving, and abundant? Sages have maintained for millennia that the physical world is just an illusion. For being "unreal," however, it certainly packs a powerful and painful bite. No, the physical world we inhabit is very real. It serves many useful purposes, the most important of which is to reflect back to us the state of our vibes. If we don't like the reflection, instead of trying to "change the world," perhaps we might start with changing ourselves--our individual vibrations. There are many ways to do this. We influence our vibrations every time we meditate, pray, chant, assume yoga postures, consume certain foods, herbs, or supplements, visualize, and more. And while the effects of the preceding activities are often very positive, they also tend not to be permanent. Some maintain that this is simply spiritual discipline. But it can also devolve into a spiritual treadmill, tying us to routine and repetition even when it may no longer make much sense for us to continue. To keep experiencing the benefits, we have to "Giveitaway" and so forth....it recycles much like money, love has very little value until it's exchanged Why not just go straight to our vibrations? Most of us intuitively sense that love is healing. What we don't yet realize is what wounds us in the first place. We are in the dark about what keeps us separate from that ultimate love vibration, locked into cycles of misery, poverty, violence, and despair. Three words: Negative Thinking and Self-judgment (Ego). Let us shine the light at long last on how Negative Thinking and Self-judgment injures us at the energy-essence level because it does not vibrate. Negative Thinking stops what is meant to be our free-flowing energy-essences into a fixed EMOTION interpretation of our experiences, even when that interpretation (or Feeling) is mistaken or no longer valid. Once parts of our vibrating energy-essences are stopped [EMOTION] entirely or slowed by Ego[There's a positive Ego, let's call that Love, and there's a negative Ego] we experience pain and disease at all levels of self: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. We manifest lack instead of abundance, disease instead of health.- [it goes into Astroplane Emotional body, our Soul, this is when negative things and bad Karma happen] Negative Thinking and Self-judgment hampers, warps, and twists the vibration of our love-essences into something barely recognizable and often repulsive. Negative Self-judgment is the pervert, the liar, the deceiver, spreading darkness and disconnection, reveling in pain and mayhem. FEAR and Judging others, If negative self-judgment sounds like a more familiar term, such as Satan or the Devil, well, the shoe certainly fits. All of us go through our lives reeling unknowingly from the selfishness (which is different from Wholeness) trapped within our love-essence, which, as a consequence of Ego, does not vibrate as freely as it could, and in some places does not vibrate at all. And, just as selfishness wounds us individually eventually, the collective reality we know as the human condition on earth suffers in the extreme from the combined impact of all of our self-judgments. Believe it or not, the preceding is good news. It means that once we remove even the slightest negative self talk from our energy-essences, we have healed not only ourselves individually, but our world collectively. So speak positively of one another stop the gossiping.... We are indeed linked to each other and All That Is through our interconnected vibrations. When self-judgment slows a part of on energy-essence, the rest suffer as well, even if indirectly. The reverse is also true. When we remove a negative self-judgment from our energy-essence, we help heal everyone and everything else around us. Healing our energy-essences, then, is the greatest gift we can offer to others as well as to ourselves. Far from being selfish or self-absorbed, healing self at the energy-essence level is the ultimate act of generosity because doing so helps others heal, too. We are indeed all that connected via the vibes.

BJORK

chaz — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:58:59 GMT

The Icelandic singer, has caused controversy in China by seeming to end a concert in Shanghai with an appeal for Tibetan independence. Raise your flag! Declare independence! - "Tibet!...Tibet!" http://www.danwei.org/music/raise_your_flag_declare_indepe.php sHE'S oNE oF mY aLL tIME fAVORITES Sugercubes - Hit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5fAWpv_axs Bjork- Big Time Sensuality http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wYmq2Vz5yM All is full of love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAoBKagWQA Bjork - Army Of Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyEJxzQM24Q Human Behaviour http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOepheinkCM&feature=related Björk - Venus as a boy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJoYyHyJcII&feature=related Iceland's avant-garde art-rock songstress, Bjork, performed to a sold-out crowd last night at the Shanghai International Gymnastic Center; her first-ever show in Shanghai – she performed once before in Beijing, circa 1996. Never ceasing to draw attention, Bjork closed the show with a 2nd encore performance of "Declare Independence" – a rousing power-to-the people anthem containing such lyrics as: "Declare independence!" "Don't let them do that to you!" "Start your own currency!" "Make your own stamp" "Protect your language" "Make your own flag!" "Raise your flag!"...etc. [lyrics] You can imagine where this might be going. At the end of the song, just before walking off stage, Bjork left the crowd with two words: "Tibet.....Tibet"......fully audible, in English. "Declare Independence" was originally written with the Faroe Islands and Greenland in mind, not Tibet. It's unlikely Bjork will be performing again in China any time soon, if ever. Bravo.

Coded Language

chaz — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:55:23 GMT

Saul Williams & DJ Krust - Coded Language http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HerpGwbLSM8 Niggy Tardust http://www.saulwilliams.com/

ASTROTHEOLOGY

chaz — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:49:42 GMT

Let's bring Order and Harmony to all this Chaos and Madness "...perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself" - Plato The very first thing which I would like to clarify is that both the Tarot and the Zodiac are not external phenomena. They are not "out there" and should be considered living essences or archetypes within each individual. You are a living, breathing zodiac. "No ancient astrologer or diviner believed, as the exoteric astrologers do now, that rocks floating in distant parts of space, affect consciousness. Nothing of this kind was taught, and nothing could be further from the actual truth. If the planet Mars exploded tomorrow, it does not mean that the human proclivities, represented by Mars, will disappear from consciousness." Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him - Paracelsus Refer to it as the "Living Oracle." The external planets have no strange effect on consciousness, at least not enough to affect one's fate. It is a fundamental error and the basis of great metaphysical confusion to postulate otherwise. As long as you still experience the stars as something above the head you lack the eye of knowledge - Fredrick Nietzsche All things that come into being have a reason for their existence, although intellectual lethargy, together with the passage of time, are the reasons why some things are accepted as fact when they are not. We dwell in times were the ego of man, and not the spirit of man, is adored and reinforced. We should allow for all that is said to be sacred to be in an adulterated and atrophied state. when the planets of the Solar System are named or symbolized...it must not be supposed that the planetary bodies themselves are referred to, except as types on a purely physical plane of the septenary nature of the psychic and spiritual worlds - Blavatsky It is an erroneous interpretation of astrology to opine that special forces emanate from the planets and the stars - R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz (Sacred Science) A Astro chart, like any divination chart, is a record of the interaction between the conscious and unconscious dimensions of being and on a gender level between the masculine and feminine polarities. Due to modern society's aversion to right-brain expression, the esoteric disciplines once revered by kings are all but deleted from serious concern, being relegated to the level of novelty and pseudo-science. Though there is a plethora of "New Age" websites and books rolling off the assembly lines, few authors or researchers concentrate on the relationship between Astrology and its sister disciplines - Astrology, Numerology and Kabala - all children to the great mystery systems of Kemet - Mama Afruka It is time for each person to become their own priest or priestess and to dispense with such authorities on the external level. What we have been receiving from the pulpits is not religion or theology but propaganda. Theosophists and Magicians know that we each have within us a Living Oracle. We need to find out how it comes into being, how it operates and how to get directly into contact with it, if we are going to be mentally and psychologically present in the New Millennium and be able to assuage the existential nihilism and decadence apparent everywhere. Excerpts www.taroscopes.com/home.html

Anyone here studying KMT Spirituality?

chaz — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:11:25 GMT

TREE OF LIFE MEDITATION SYSTEM KMT Ancient Metaphysical Egypt Tribe http://tribes.tribe.net/kmt?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5Bc5fd2d34-d3fd-4a5b-80ca-5874cdc6a257%5D I found this posted in another blog... "Hey, is Anyone here studying KMT Spirituality?" "I would like to become Friends/Acquaintances because it is the "religion" (for lack of better terms) that is in my heart, and I need someone to help me study it and incorporate it into my daily life." Well to my understanding.... All of nature/creation exists inside us...like As in Heaven so on Earth...as Above so Below, As Within as so Without, Ya know...follows same laws..similar patterns, like a woman and the cycles of the moon, etc For most part it's about letting ones divinity shine through the things clouding it. Our Higher nature being divine and in-tune with God/Divine - ''NeTeR'' (into NaTuRe) and our lower nature being animal-like, that's perhaps why U see people wit animal heads or bodies in art work, her-em-akhet (sphinx) etc The different 'gods' are really different ATTRIBUTES of God...(Tree of Life) The Merciful one, The Judge, The Mother, The Father..The Hero, etc The Creator being infinite, how can U try to define it or place shape to something without shape? know what I mean? Ra = the divine life force or CHI as the Asiatics called it... it is SIMILAR to the sun in our physical universe as it releases a positive energy flow to sustain life Auset = being like a Motherm of God; nurturing Nature, and is caring, loving, mothers milk etc KMT has a high regard for women, as some of you know, we were also a matriarchal people who had much respect for our women (naturally) Goddess The Tree of Life has its Roots in Divines Heart KMT is the Root to all Jewish Mysticism; Kabbalah and Judaism, etc Islam, and Christianity and all the other religions as well - Taoism (Ma'at) Buddha (Phutah -Ptah) etc

Fidel

chaz — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:02:53 GMT

Fidel & Che: Revolution of Love Tribe http://fidelandcherevolution.tribe.net/?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B7ccbb37a-1d41-4dfd-b5f6-5e6666702eb3%5D *This Tribe is not about starting a revolution against or to overthrow our Govt -The revolution is within - Will Not Be Televised-It's not about being a Communist, It's about two men who stood up for the love of their country and people. People always ask me why do i admire him (them) so much? It is his strength of purpose and dedication to his beliefs, i may not agree on all of those or his politics, and I'm sure there are many varied views by the Cuban people, and many would disagree and even question my posting this. I may not know the complete history from the inside, but based on my studies and research I believe that he truly loved his people and saw the corruption of western society, and even though poor, never subsided for riches of exploitative materialism, personal gain...or selling his people out. I don't know if there has ever been one person who has stood up to nations (in world history - let alone the united states) so defiant so strong think about it, he was in the mountains with only a few men remaining (out of only hundreds) and took on a army ... that's hard core faith. "Castro's forces were quite small, about one hundred poorly armed guerrillas, while the Cuban army and police force numbered between 30,000 and 40,000 in strength. Yet nearly every time the army fought against the revolutionaries, they were the ones who retreated." The ¡Revolución! of Justice and Equality continues...

Ode to RHCP: Love, Loss, and other Transformations

chaz — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:40:08 GMT

Video: Red Hot Chili Peppers-Desecration Smile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKdCFHxykgY Intuitive Astrology Tribe: Celebrity astro-reading: Anthony Kiedis (relationships) http://astrotribe.tribe.net/thread/92e2e358-54b0-4046-a0d5-511fb138e019 Desecration Smile different versions Alt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTQuOHHAcc8 Stage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nIUgvYOtGk&feature=related Live http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kOpyBnfABU All alone not by myself Another girl bad for my health I've seen it all thru someone else (Another girl bad for my health) Celebrated but misunderstood Serenaded by the terror bird It's seldom seen but it's always heard (Serenaded by the terror bird) in the wrong time at the wrong place Desecration is the smile on my face The love i made is the shape of ...space disintegrating sun without a trace A rolling black out of to oblivion And I'd like to think that I'm your #1 (I'm rolling black out of oblivion) I love the feeling when it falls apart I'm slow to finish but quick to start and Beneath the heather lies the meadowlark Red Hot Chili Peppers - Intro Jam - Can't Stop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2MWLhgT85s Red Hot Chili Peppers live at Green Fest 07 Intro Jam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHswOjTbnCE&feature=related Higher Ground http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS3hEuAbuLE&feature=related Soul to Squeeze http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqJeWhtpVek Road Trippin' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31VXZg1UjFg Knock Me Down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdo2khcCa70 If you see me getting mighty If you see me getting high Knock me down I'm not bigger than life (or god) I'm tired of being untouchable I'm not above the love I'm part of you and you're part of me Why did you go away!? Too late to tell you how i feel I want you back but i get real Don't be afraid to show your friends That you hurt inside inside Pain's part of life don't hide behind your false pride It's a lie your lie Don't slip away and don't forget I pray for you most every day. My love's with you, now fly away. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWHkluThDXQ Live http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwXBIkgItNA

STILL SEARCHIN' - DAMIAN "JUNIOR GONG" MARLEY

chaz — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:18:15 GMT

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59fiY7r2w4Q [feat. Stephen Marley & Yami Bolo] "A little child has grown And he's got love on his mind But what he'll never know A Virtuous woman is hard to find" "You have some gyal ah come pon man premises And ah fling up the ting that's between di knees And ah full up man head with false promises Oh dutty bungle please! couldn't want to run that so fast wid ease -been there dun that- my main squeeze is natural - Spiritual - simply natural" "So if you is a gyal with whole heep of value What a valuable nice and decent gyal you When I get you I'll be glad I got you Then stand firmly inna your life like statue" STILL SEARCHIN' - DAMIAN "JUNIOR GONG" MARLEY Lyrics VERSE Some girl in the twinkling of an eye Dem ah ready fi come pull down mi Karl Kani Oh come on now Tell me how can I Love ah one dat really don't deserve me Natural fi keep and natural preserve me Me is ah boy could get a whole heep ah girl ya heard me Many are called but only few deemed worthy Body have ta physically strong and sturdy Spiritually balanced fi clean and purge me Mentally advanced fi always urge me Read couple books and challenge the clergy Read a couple psalms up inna the morning early CHORUS Could you be so kind Then show me a sign I've been searching and it's so hard to find Decent values with a decent wine Decent jubee running it down the line Maybe it's my mind Maybe I'm blind Maybe it's the way that I've been spending my time I'm still searching for a fine peace of mind (piece of mine) Decent jubee running it down the line CHORUS (Yami Bolo) A little child has grown And he's got love on his mind But what he'll never know A virtuous woman is hard to find CHORUS (Stephen Marley) And dat's when she said She feels the pain And she'll never fall In love again VERSE You have some gyal ah come pon man premises And ah fling up the ting that's between di knees And ah full up man head with false promises Oh dutty bungle please couldn't want to run that so fast wid ease been there dun that my main squeeze is natural simply natural CHORUS (Yami Bolo) Some say that love is blind But he keep saying Not this time So all he need is love To keep his heart in line VERSE So if you is a gyal with whole heep of value What a valuable nice and decent gyal you When I get you I'll be glad I got you Then stand firmly inna your life like statue Seen some old tings seen some young tings Seen some little silly go and come tings Seen some one night just for fun tings What a indecent piece ah some ting CHORUS Be so kind Den show me a sign I've been searching and it's so hard to find Decent values with a decent wine Decent jubee running it down the line Maybe it's my mind Maybe I'm blind Maybe it's the way that I've been spending my time I'm still searching for a fine peace of mind (piece of mine) Decent jubee running it down the line VERSE So tell me ah when price tag gone pon annany Gyal ah love man for Benz and Ferrari Little one eyed brethren weh name Omari Couldn't get no loving since him start sell stary And ah full up man head with false promises Oh dutty bungle please couldn't want to run that so fast wid ease been there dun that my main squeeze is natural -Spiritual- simply natural Oh come on now Tell me how can I...? WRITTEN BY DAMIAN MARLEY

Why is love so painful?

chaz — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:07:17 GMT

Love is painful, because it creates the way for bliss. Love is painful because it transforms; love is mutation. Each transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new. The old is familiar, secure, safe, the new is absolutely unknown. You will be moving in an uncharted ocean. You cannot use your mind with the new; with the old, the mind is skillful. The mind can function only with the old; with the new, the mind is utterly useless. Hence, fear arises, and leaving the old, comfortable, safe world, the world of convenience, pain arises. It is the same pain that the child feels when he comes out of the womb of the mother. It is the same pain that the bird feels when he comes out of the egg. It is the same pain that the bird will feel when he will try for the first time to be on the wing. The fear of the unknown, and the security of the known, the insecurity of the unknown, the unpredictability of the unknown, makes one very much frightened. And because the transformation is going to be from the self towards a state of no-self, agony is very deep. But you Cannot have ecstasy without going through agony. If the gold wants to be purified, it has to pass through fire. Love is fire, It is because of the pain of love, millions of people live a loveless life. They too suffer, and their suffering is futile. To suffer in love is not to suffer in vain. To suffer in love is creative; it takes you to higher levels of consciousness. To suffer without love is utterly a waste; it leads you nowhere, it keeps you moving in the same vicious circle. The man who is without love is narcissistic, he is closed. He knows only himself. And how much can he know himself if he has not known the other, because only the other can function as a mirror? You will never know yourself without knowing the other. Love is very fundamental for self-knowledge too. The person who has not known the other in deep love, in intense passion, in utter ecstasy, will not be able to know who he is, because he will not have the mirror to see his own reflection. Relationship is a mirror, and the purer the love is, the higher the love is, the better the mirror, the cleaner the mirror. But the higher love needs that you should be open. The higher love needs you to be vulnerable. You have to drop your armor; that is painful. You have not to be constantly on guard. You have to drop the calculating mind. You have to risk. You have to live dangerously. The other can hurt you; that is the fear in being vulnerable. The other can reject you; that is the fear in being in love. The reflection that you will find in the other of your own self may be ugly; that is the anxiety. Avoid the mirror. But by avoiding the mirror you are not going to become beautiful. By avoiding the situation you are not going to grow either. The challenge has to be taken. One has to go into love. That is the first step towards God, and it cannot be bypassed. Those who try to bypass the step of love will never reach God. That is absolutely necessary because you become aware of your totality only when you are provoked by the presence of the other, when your presence is enhanced by the presence of the other, when you are brought out of your narcissistic, closed world under the open sky. Love is an open sky, To be in love is to be on the wing. But certainly, the unbounded sky creates fear. And to drop the ego is very painful because we have been taught to cultivate the ego. We think the ego is our only treasure. We have been protecting it, we have been decorating it, we have been continuously polishing it, and when love knocks on the door, all that is needed to fall in love is to put aside the ego; certainly it is painful. It is your whole life's work, it is all that you have created -- this ugly ego, this idea that "I am separate from existence." This idea is ugly because it is untrue. This idea is illusory, but our society exists, is based on this idea that each person is a person, not a presence. The truth is that there is no person at all in the world; there is only presence. You are not -- not as an ego, separate from the whole. You are part of the whole. The whole penetrates you, the whole breathes in you, pulsates in you, the whole is your life. Love gives you the first experience of being in tune with something that is not your ego. Love gives you the first lesson that you can fall into harmony with someone who has never been part of your ego. If you can be in harmony with a woman, if you can be in harmony with a friend, with a man, if you can be in harmony with your child or with your mother, why can't you be in harmony with all human beings? And if to be in harmony with a single person gives such joy, what will be the outcome if you are in harmony with all human beings? And if you can be in harmony with all human beings, why can't you be in harmony with animals and birds and trees? Then one step leads to another.

You are Loved

chaz — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:24:11 GMT

this is by Gayle in the healing light tribe... this is a part of the AWAKENING AQUARIUS Series... So how do we achieve this great Brotherly and Sisterly Universal Love? Leo can help us with lessons of the Heart ... the noble one who resides within each and everyone of us, our inner Heru (Hero), Christ Buddha consciousness You are a priceless Jewel, and don't U ever forget it - no matter what they say - Dog Star If you want to know how to heal, and how to become a healing presence on this Earth, there is one simple way: that is to know that you are loved. =Feel= how you are loved. Know that you are absolutely worthy of love. You will never be abandoned, not ever. You will never be rejected, not for any reason. The love that the universe (Divine) has for you is absolutely without conditions. You do not have to "earn" it. You do not have to "deserve" it. You do not have to "prove" anything. Most important of all, you do not have to doubt your value or importance or worth to this universe. [don't let others put labels on you or a price tag - i can not be owned bought nor sold] -Dog Star The universe loves you without conditions, without qualifications, and without reservations. The love that the universe has for you is absolutely unbounded. You can never expand your receptivity this l've enough -- there will always be a greater l've that you can keep opening to. You are absolutely worthy and absolutely accepted and loved and valued and cherished by this universe (and me). This is the essence of healing. If you understand and accept that you are totally worthy and loved without reservation by this universe, then you will naturally be a channel of this love for others. If you doubt that you are loved, if you doubt that you are worthy of love, if you wonder "Do I deserve to be loved," then you cannot help but have doubts about other people being worthy of love. If you feel that you have to "deserve" love in order to be loved, then you cannot help but feel that other people must "deserve" love in order for you to love them. If you feel that you may be rejected for your weaknesses and imperfections and the mistakes that you may make, then you cannot help but feel that other people may be rejected for =their= mistakes and =their= imperfections and weaknesses. So if you put yourself down as not being totally worthy of love, you re not making yourself a healing presence to others. But by accepting love and its healing power, you become a healer because you make it possible for other people to begin to accept love as well. You will never be rejected and you will never be abandoned, no matter what mistakes you may make. You can best understand this, perhaps, as the love that a parent has for a child; the true spirit of parenthood is unconditional love regardless of the child's mistakes in the learning process. That is why some spiritual traditions represent the love which the universe has for you as a parental love, which indeed it truly is. If you know that =you= are absolutely worthy of love, then you will have no doubts that everyone you meet is absolutely worthy of love also. If you can truly and fully accept the fact that =you= are loved without reservation by the universe, then you will know without doubt that everyone else you meet is also loved without reservation, and you will share in that love for them. So what can be meditate on to become a healer for this planet? You can simply meditate on "I am loved, I am loved, I am loved," until you DO feel it and know it and understand it and believe it. Your understanding and acceptance of this love can never cease to expand. As your Acceptance of this love expands, your Acceptance of others and of the universe will also expand. When you accept that the universe loves you without conditions and without reservations, then you will naturally live a love for others that is without conditions and without reservations. YOU are loved absolutely. This love will never be withdrawn. That is the essence of healing.

AWAKENING AQUARIUS -2012

chaz — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:08:41 GMT

Dear Friends, We are NOW, in the New Millennium age of Aquarius! The first issue is appropriately about Aquarius, the archetypical energy that is creating the foundation of our inner urgings and global community for the next 2000 years. This blog contains information that can help all of us grow, excell and feel fulfilled now and in the years to come. This is a meditation to tune into the Universal Aquarian Mind. AWAKENING AQUARIUS Each sign of the zodiac is an archetype, a universal thought form and an expression of the Universal Mind. Each archetype is an organizing principle in the human psyche, which manifests in the human experience as psychological needs, personality traits, emotional states, and mental attitudes and perspectives. We all contain the Archetypes, everyone has AQUARIUS in their chart Each archetype is part of the structure of human consciousness and a motivating force in the quest for spiritual growth and indeed eventual enlightenment. Every Soul comes to Planet Earth seeking to embody the highest expression of all twelve archetypes. The human journey is the quest to experience this wholeness.

"N" WORD actually comes from the Khemit term for GODS

chaz — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:42:18 GMT

Never forget that the word Negro "Niger" (and the other derogatory term and pronunciation) actually comes from the Khemit/Egyptian term for 'GODS' and that word is 'N-G'R' or 'NET-GER'. Divine Expressions of NU "NU-TERU or NETER Before European history, the ancient Nubians were using the name "NU" as the name and the address to the Supreme Divine Creator of the universe. Since then modern civilization, learners with the title ;- Archeologist, Egyptologist, Anthropologist etc. humiliated and changed the Hieroglyphic's original translation of "NU-TEM, NU-TERU, TEM or NETERU to the same meaning of the English word ;- God, Goddess or "gods". Kemeties were NOT polytheistic These are what the Kamtians call the Neteru; Yorubas call the Orishas, and Westerners have translated these as deities, gods, archangels, angels, etc." -Dog Star WE MUST STUDY OUR HISTORY IN ORDER TO DEVELOP OUR CONSCIOUSNESS AND MAKE PEOPLE'S RACIST REMARKS IMPOTENT "it is time that Negroes, pan-negroes (pan-africans, melanesian negroids, indo-negroids) white and black folks worldwide to know that the so-called negro (Origin and Mother to ALL Nationalities) is of the godhead and should start believing it, having self-confidence, belief in self and in our ability." "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." - Hosea 4:6 We must study our history. It is by knowing who we are that racist remarks and racial epithets will become impotent. Every time one uses the word "nigg..." to refer to a Black person, they are actually calling that person "God." When we say that our Afro's and locks are "natural," we don't realize the significance of the word or the true meaning. But something in our consciousness simply cannot be destroyed. To say we are going "natural," means we are going back to being "gods," because the word "natural," comes from the original Egyptian word, "n-t-y-r" which means "God." The ancient Kemtians used a similar word to call their Pharoahs. That word was "N-g-r." The word "Pharaoh," was never used to refer to any Egyptian King. Pharaoh came from the word "Per-o" which was the term for the Great Temple, where the King lived. THE ORIGINAL MEANING OF THE "N" WORD HAD A CONNOTATION CONNECTED TO THE GODS http://www.raceandhistory.com/cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/127 The word "nig..." used to be the most revered and sacred word in the universe. It was the "devine epithet," and the people who began using the mother of all words that originated from this word which was sullied by the British, were the ancient Egyptians or better, the Khemites, who called their land, "Khemet" or "The Black Land," and also used the name, "Ta-merri" or "The Beloved Land." THE WORD "N-G-R" MEANS "GOD" IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN The father of the "n" word was the word used by the ancient Egyptians for "God." That word was "N-g-r" and as one can see, there are no vowels in this word. In the ancient African and even the present African languages (the Afro-Asiatic linguistic family) vowels such as "a,e,i,o,u" are not found in many translations, particularly of ancient Hebrew and Egyptian languages. In the translation of ancient Egyptian and Hebrew (which is heavily influenced by Egyptian), one will not always find vowels, therefore, very few people will realize that the word for God, which is "N-g-r" pronounced "en-ger" was the Egyptian word for God. In fact, the Egyptian word for "nature," is also the word used for God. That word is "ntyr," (pronounced net-jer." Now prounce the word "nigg.." and the word "net-jer," and one sees the clear connection. MANY AFRICAN WORDS DENOTING PEOPLE OR IMPORTANT PEOPLE STARTS WITH "N" In many African languages particularly the Niger-Congo language family. Words that connects with people, Gods, and groups begin with "n" and that word is always the first word. For instance, the word "Nkosi" in Xhosa is "God." The word "Ndaba," in another South African language is "counsil" (or gathering of elders). Many common names also begin with "N". WORDS OF AFRICAN ORIGINS THAT CAME FROM THE ORIGINAL WORD, "N-G-R" (PROUNOUNCED EN-JER) N-g-r (Egyptian;pronounced en-jer) = God N-t-y-r (Egypt; pronounced net-ger) = God, Devine Negash (Ethiopia; ne-gash) = King Negus (Ethiopia; ne-goos) = Emperor Nkosi (Xhosa; en-kosi) = God Ndaba (Zulu; en-daba) = Counsil/Officials, Naga (East Indian, Nubian = People Nugarmarta (West African = People (See the writings of Ibn Buttata's journey to West Africa)

Yeshua -The Essence of The Way

chaz — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:51:51 GMT

While the Disciples of TheWay have become well known in their role as Essenes who we now know to be the true bedrock and foundation of what is known today as Christianity, the Essene followers of Yeshua came to be called Ebionites http://ebionite.com/ An Ebionite Is Not A Sect Or Group But Rather, A Spiritual Condition a State Of Mind That Permits Entrance Into The Kingdom Within http://www.ebionite.com/ In The World And Not Of It The Ebionites were the true Israelites of the Nazirene Vow They are/were the Genuine Disciples of Yeshua/Jesus who are in the world and not of it! Those who continue in the way of sin, cannot "...inherit that glory of righteousness which is spiritual and imperishable in heaven" Did Yeshua Teach Gnosticism? Does Man Have An Inner Connection To A Higher Self, God, And The Kingdom? What the scriptures state is that the written word has a spiritual meaning that cannot be discerned with man's physical eyes -- or understood with his natural organic mind. And that the body-vessel only supports those lesser aspects of mind which correspond to the physical, is the reason why the organic mind of man cannot comprehend the higher Mysteries of God, and this is why Yeshua taught the multitude in parables. What this means is that there was a spiritually sustaining knowledge that could only be imparted and taught to the few who had detached themselves from the thinking and ways of this world, and had themselves commenced to live a life of spiritual transformation. And this Spiritual Knowledge/Divine Manna could only be imparted to those who developed the mind beyond the physical limitations of the body. Brother Yeshua expressed the need for each believer to pick up their own cross, and travail in TheWay which would bring about the next stage of soul-birth, it was in the reality of their own experiences as portrayed in the words: "We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God" (Acts 14:22 NKJ). The tribulations they speak of is the process of severing one's attachments to the thinking and ways of the flesh, and bringing about the necessary transformation of the body to make it a Consecrated Temple of the Most High -- i.e., in the words of Paul: "Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature" (Col 3:5 NIV). To the degree that Paul warned: “For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live” (Rom 8:13 KJV). With respect to my above statement pertaining to the actual ability of the disciples to enter the Inner Kingdom, this is allegorically portrayed in the Old Testament with respect to entering within the Holy of Holies and dwelling with the Lord. And while this important teaching became lost when the teachings of Yeshua and TheWay became corrupted under Pagan Rome, the time has come for the modern Church to begin to restore the original objectives of my Brother Yeshua's teachings with respect to being in the world and not of it -- and living the ordained life that permits the disciple to enter in at the "narrow gate" within, and dwell in the House of the Lord while one is still physically alive in this world. Gnosis is the experiential knowledge, or the Divine Manna, that the Disciple receives, by entering the Inner Kingdom as the prodigal son or daughter escapes the physical limitations of this world.

LIFE OF YEHOSHUA (Jesus)

chaz — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:47:31 GMT

*Please see his personal story of illumination (2nd post) Yeshua (Jesus) was an Essene... Jesus was born in a cave in Ethiopia The name [or title] of the historical man was Jehoshua (or Jeshua, Yeshua), not Jesus. *Actually Heru/Horus * The original name for Jesus was "Jehoshau Ben Pandira" which means "Jesus (Heru), son of the Panther!" Even the Bible refers to him as "the Lion of the tribe of Juda." (Rv. 5:5) Jesus in fact, was a "Black nationalist freedom fighter.. whose goals were to free the Black people of that day from the oppressive ... Roman power structure and to build a Black nation." When the true tradition of Ben-Pandira is recovered, it shows that he was a the sole historical Jesus who had learnt the arts of magic (Gnosis) in Egypt, and who was put to death as a sorcerer. He was crucified and stoned by the fake Jews and the Romans. The Ebionites were the Essenes who became the Disciples and Followers of Yeshua Ebionite means the "poor ones" ."Blessed in spirit are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven". Quoted from the Gospel of the Nazirenes "Although there may have been a historical Jesus at some point, the Christ is a principle that lives within each human being, and may have been awakened in that Jesus." "for instance, concedes a possible physical original; “Jesus, the Christ-God, is a myth concocted two centuries after the real Hebrew Jesus died”[xii]. " In this case she is referring to Jeshu Ben Pandira Jehoshua Ben-Pandira, was an historical character, known to the Talmud, The personal existence of Jesus as Jehoshua Ben-Pandira can be established. (IMO i believe this to be the title giving to this man who was their hero (heru) simular to if someone called Bob marley the Lion of Judah - Dog Star * The word Christ is from Krishna (Christna) from karast or krist, Egyptian for the annointed mummy, the great black avatar (savior) in India 3000 years before Jesus. The story of the resurrected God-King Heru can be found among the Khoi and San peoples of southern Africa and in Kemet as early as 5,000BC. It is only in KMT that the story is this old. Often called, "the mouthpiece of Africa," Egypt's location gave it contact with the Near East and called him Horus Consider these facts: * The original early Christians were the Essenes, a Jewish sect in Palestine. Yeshua was an Essene. They are portrayed Black. These Essenes in fact, were the "early Christians" who were brutally persecuted by the Romans and often fed to the lions for entertainment! * The Original Christians Church was also African (Ethiopian). Its original African founders and early saints were often martyred when this church was usurped by the westerns who replaced it with their counterfeit Roman Catholic Church. * The Dead See Scrolls exposes knowledge concealed by westerns False Christianity. They prove that Christianity was an outgrowth of Essenism. These scrolls reveal knowledge hidden from the world ever since the Alexandrian library was burnt by the Toman churchmen in order to purposely destroy it, because they considered it dangerous to the existence and survival of the new religion (False Christianity) which they eleaborated by alteraion of the original doctrines taught by the Essenes centuries previously." The only Jesus known to the real Jews was Jehoshua Ben-Pandira, who had learnt the arts of magic in Egypt, and who was put to death by them as a sorcerer (filled with Gnosis). This was likewise the only Jesus known to Celsus, the writer of the "True Logos," a work which the Christians managed to get rid of bodily, with so many other of the anti-Christian evidences. Celsus observes that he was not a pure Word, not a true Logos, but a man who had learned the arts of magic in Egypt. So, in the Clementines, it is in the character of Ben-Pandira that Jesus is said to rise again as the magician. Who is Jeshu ben Pandira? Jeshu ben Pandira, or Jeshu son of the Panther, lived on the earth one hundred years before Christ. He was the personage whom the Dead Sea scrolls aptly describe as the Moreh Sedek ‘Teacher of Righteousness’ the noble leader of the Essenes. He was one of the great Spiritual masters connected in particular with the power of speech, of the word. He was accused of blasphemy and was stoned and hanged on a tree. And yet this story of divine nature, of love, lives on forever, hidden within the bible of a lord Jesus, but he was not "the savior" but of the true christ in man. -Dog Star

Historical Jesus and Mythical Christ

chaz — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:35:45 GMT

http://africawithin.com/massey/gml1_jesuschrist.htm Biblical Origins in Ancient Egypt http://home.austarnet.com.au/calum/egypt.html In presenting my readers with some of the data which show that much of the Christian History was pre-extant as Kemetian Mythology. I have to ask you to bear in mind that the facts, like other foundations, have been buried out of sight for thousands of years in a hieroglyphical language, that was never really read by Greek or Roman, and could not be read until [KMT] the lost clue was discovered by Champollion, almost the other day! In this way the original sources of our Mytholatry and Christology remained as hidden as those of the Nile, until the century in which we live. The mystical matter enshrouded in this language was sacredly entrusted to the keeping of the buried dead, who have faithfully preserved it as their Book of Life, which was placed beneath their pillows, or clasped to their bosoms, in their coffins and their tombs. Secondly, although I am able to read the hieroglyphics, nothing offered to you is based on my translation. I work too warily for that! The transcription and literal rendering of the hieroglyphic texts herein employed are by scholars of indisputable authority. There is no loophole of escape that way. I lectured upon the subject of Yeshua many years ago. At that time I did not know how we had been misled. Jehoshua Ben-Pandira, we're told, was an historical character, known to the Talmud, Is this the supposing that proves the personal existence of Jesus Christ who is portrayed in the Canonical Gospels? But after you have heard this story, and weighed the evidence, now for the first time collected and presented to the public, you will not wonder any longer, or that I should be impelled to tell anything other than the truth to others as it now appears to myself; although I am only able to summarize here, in the briefest manner possible, a few of the facts that I have dealt with exhaustively elsewhere. The personal existence of Jesus as Jehoshua Ben-Pandira can be established. The "blasphemous writings of the Chrisitans about Jesus," always refer to Jehoshua Ben-Pandira story, and not to the real inner Christ of the Gospels. The only Jesus known to have actually lived was Jehoshua Ben-Pandira, who had learnt the arts of magic in Egypt, and who was put to death by them as a sorcerer and in his only claming that he had the Gnosis. Celsus observes that he was not a pure Word, not a true Logos, but a man who had learned the arts in Egypt. So, in the Clementines, it is in the character of Ben-Pandira that Jesus is said to rise again as the magician. It was he or nobody; yet he was neither the son of Joseph nor the Virgin Mary, nor was he crucified at Jerusalem. There being but one history acknowledged or known on either side, it follows that the Jesus of the Gospels is the Jehoshua of the Talmud, or is not at all, as a Person. In short, the Jewish history of the matter will be found to corroborate the mythical. As Epiphanius knew of no other historical Jesus than the descendant of Pandira, it is possible that this is the Jesus whose tradition is reported by Irenæus. When the true tradition of Ben-Pandira is recovered, it shows that he was the sole historical Jesus who was hung on a tree and stoned by the fake Jews and Romans, and authenticates the claim now to be made on behalf of the astronomical allegory to the dispensational Jesus, the Kronian Christ, the mythical Messiah of the Canonical Gospels, and the Jesus of Paul, who was not the carnalised Christ. For I hold that the Jesus of the "other Gospel," according to the Apostles Cephas and James, who was utterly repudiated by Paul, was none other than Ben-Pandira, the Nazarene, of whom James was a follower, according to a comment on him found in the Book Abodazura. Anyway, there are two Jesuses, or Jesus and the Christ, one of whom is repudiated by Paul. But Jehoshua, the son of Pandira, can never be converted into "Jesus Christ", the son of a virgin mother, as an historic character. But Pandira is the Jesus of the bible.