THE GATHERING ~ Posts

There Is So Much More Than This

michael_irving — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:16:34 GMT

~~~~~~~~~ There Is So Much More Than This From the song 'More Than This' by Peter Gabriel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I walked until I couldn't walk any more to a place I'd never been. There was something stirring in the air in front of me. I could see ... more than this .... so much more than this. There is something else there; it's coming through, and more than this. Much more than this; way beyond imagination. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Full lyrics of 'More Than This' by Peter Gabriel, plus 'Big World' images: http://www.worldgathering.net/news33.html Short clip from 'More Than This': http://worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/morethanthis19.mp3 ~~~~~~~~~

Even Though You May Be Fed Up ~ HELP THE WORLD

michael_irving — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:16:48 GMT

~~~~~~~~~ Logic Says: Even Though You Are Fed Up ~ Help The World I think many of us are more fed up than we realise. But even though we are deeply fed up with just about everything, if we still do some things to help the world, we may get the world we want and need. And this world may be better than what we can presently imagine. Without realising it, we may have felt a long time ago: "This world isn't going to get any better". And if we thought that, then that thought and that mood can be effecting everything we are presently thinking and everything we are presently doing. Thoughts and decisions about life become forgotten, but they carry on effecting the way we are. We spring-clean our homes, however it's not so obvious that we need to spring-clean our minds. Last night, from across the road I heard some extremely exhilarating music playing. I almost got up to dance, and the music lifted me so that I felt extreme hope in life. Then I realised how miserable I had become during the past few years. Listening to the music I felt immense exuberance about life, and I thought how could I have let myself slip to the point where I am living with such depression. I act, and I have hope all the time, but I didn't realise that because of the way life is today I had near-enough died inside. We are lost in fog; we are lost in Chemtrails. We are lost in the lies of 9-11, and we are being lost by media which does not seem to care. We got lost .... we are lost. But can you think back to when you had bubbly, effervescent hope for Life and for everything? Walking back through town with my shopping just now - blue skies and near-normal clouds for a change - I was thinking of saying to people: "Even though you are fed up, do something to help the world. And the world you've long-forgotten you hoped would come, may come." ~~~~~~~~~

WHY ARE SOME PEOPLE SLOW TO GET IT TOGETHER?

michael_irving — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:10:28 GMT

~~~~~~~~~ WHY ARE SOME PEOPLE SLOW TO GET IT TOGETHER? Insight into a massive 'Atlantis Ending' trauma - applicable to many people. ----- In 1988, living in Ogbourne St. George, my left eye exploded for the third time. Agony. My whole nervous system throughout my body burned. I stood in the bath to run cold water over my burning ankles and feet. This went on for weeks. It was as if a red-hot poker was in my left eye. One night, while standing in the bath, I started going over in my mind the names of scores of alternative therapists I was acquainted with in the U.K. I think I listed well over 100 people. A realisation, or intuition, came to me that all of these people were traumatised from the catastrophic ending of a civilisation on Earth several thousand years ago. In 1995, I had further evidence of this catastrophic trauma within most people. I had the realisation this was a deeply buried trauma in many people and was so strong it had a very restricting effect on people's consciousness and on their potential to feel alive. TOTAL RECALL - 'They stole his mind, now he wants it back again'. ----- Somewhere around this time, I had the film 'Total Recall', starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the film there was a colony on Mars. The hero had an implant and an artificial life had been set up for him in order he would forget crucial things he had experienced. But he fights to become conscious; and as an analogy to life on Earth right now where so many people are suppressed and depressed, he restores a natural air system to the people on Mars, and people are set free from the dictatorial corporation controlling life on Mars. On the plastic cover of the Total Recall video were these words: 'They stole his mind, now he wants it back'. I copied these words off onto a piece of paper and carried them with me for many years. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ATLANTEAN AMNESIACS ~ ATLANTIS FOUR From the book ‘Surfers of the Zuvuya’ By Jose Arguelles This thing we’re living through, it’s the last Atlantis. The fourth one. There’s major amnesia about it. So we just keep on creating it, unconsciously though. That’s the problem… unconscious… no memory. That’s why we’ve got these AA groups now… Atlantean Amnesiacs. It’s true. That is what’s really behind AA: Atlantean Amnesiacs. People hiding out, boozing and drugging, denying memories, because there’s no safe place to remember. But after this fourth Atlantis – there can’t be any more Atlantises, at least not on this planet. The options have been used up. That’s a big point to remember. This third Atlantis was underwater. Big crystal domes under the Atlantic Ocean. That’s connected with the Bermuda Triangle. That is the remnants of the third Atlantis’ interdimensional zone. Underwater they had good communication with the dolphins. Those dolphins originally came from the Sirius star system. This time around the Atlanteans got themselves into some deep trouble. They started to live in disregard of Cosmic law… fooling around with the laws of nature. [Editor: OH! OH! Ring any bells for where the world is now?] That is called disconnecting information and wisdom. Even worse than that they got into power games [Oh! Oh!]. Some people were tricked into giving their power away [Oh! Oh!]. When that started to happen, they got into the worst… people imposing their will over others [Oh! Oh!]. That is the big Cosmic infringement… the control game. Well, that was the end…. that spelt doom. Will over nature, and, will over others. That will do it every time. That is what we are doing down here, day in day out in every way we can – from the cradle to the grave. By this time, the 144,000 had forgotten their mission. Things were bad. The last king of Atlantis was a man named Markus Morpheus. During his reign they used drugs to keep people disempowered [Oh! Oh!]. And they had crystal devices, like walkman hand-sets, which they used to keep people under control. CONTROL. That’s the biggie. Control. Do you ever notice how that’s the button, the control button, that really keeps things seething? Nobody wants to give up control. (As I thought about this question, an uneasiness overcame me. My solar plexus got that tight feeling - my button was pushed. I felt it…. the struggle to maintain control - but - control over what? And for what reason? Protection and control and defence and punishment. All these things merged into the dark web of driven confusion called ‘modern life’) So the third Atlantis blew – and it blew big…. cataclysm…. bad scene to the maximum. All the crystal bubbles shattered. The oceans heaved. The land shook. It sank to the bottom of the sea. That was Plato’s Atlantis – gone! The rest is history – at least until now – and maybe now, the history is over. So, what happens now? Where are the Atlanteans? How do we get our memory back? Do the Atlanteans still remember that they are the Atlanteans? Are the Maya coming back? Are they behind the UFOs? ...… my mind was a welter of images, of underwater cities slowly swept and reshaped by deep tidal sands, and of metallic discs… UFOs… buzzing and sweeping the planet’s amnesia wracked reality….. There are Atlanteans living everywhere. What we have got to do now is remember who we are, what we have to do next and get back into ACTION. In evolution comes a time when ALL advance TOGETHER, or, none advance at all. ~~~ http://worldgathering.net/world/atlantis.html ~~~

Not decreasing, but INCREASING

michael_irving — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:38:12 GMT

~~~~~~~~~ Not decreasing, but INCREASING A few days ago I spent time at quite a few websites which have a strong feeling of 'taking action now' in every which-way. These websites give the feeling, 'Great and good change is really happening NOW'. And maybe it is. These activists are getting out there and are doing it, then they're putting video and photos of what they've doing on the Internet so that many millions of people can get the idea. This must surely be significantly changing those who are reading the ideas, watching video, listening to stirring music, etc. And if people are opening their minds and are thinking and considering, that's all that's needed. Then I was getting the feeling that instead of (my) putting so much effort into calling for more people to be actively involved, how about if those who are active and involved put a DOUBLE AMOUNT of effort into what we're doing? If 50 million people put a double amount of effort in, that's equivalent to 100 million people ~ and that's got to be worth something. Those '100 million' will be having a greater knock-on effect to a greater number of 'the general public'. We don't have to 'double' our efforts, we just need to increase our efforts. Because that's building and not going the other way: decreasing. Increasing is the right way to be going. "We must exert our influence by gathering together and sharing our ideas and plans... If we put a double amount of energy with what we are for, we can change it. We can change it." " ... as individuals and as a collective humanity it is our potential to dream of paradise and to create the kingdom of heaven on our Mother Earth. ... It is my prayer and dream, along with a multitude of others who have taught me to dream the Rainbow dream, that each and every one of you learn to dream both while awake and sleeping, the dream of unity and love through divine transformation." ~ Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope ~ http://worldgathering.net/vision.html We CAN change it ~ ~~~~~~~~~

THE AWAKENING OF ANGUS ÒG

michael_irving — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:06:52 GMT

~~~ ~~~ ~~~ THE AWAKENING OF ANGUS ÒG When they came upon Angus Òg they sought to wake him, but Orchil had breathed a breath across a granite rock and blown the deep immemorial age of it upon him, so that even the speech of the elder gods was no more in his ears than a gnat's idle rumour. "Awake," said Keithoir, and his voice was as the sigh of pine-forests when the winds surge from the pole. "Awake," said Manannan, and his voice was as the hollow booming of the sea. "Awake," said Hesus, and his voice was as the rush of the green world through space, or as the leaping of the sun. But Angus Òg stirred not, and dreamed only that a mighty eagle soared out of the infinite, and scattered planets and stars as the dust of its pinions: and that as these planets fell they expanded into vast oceans whereon a myriad million waves leaped and danced in the sunlight, singing a laughing song: and that as the stars descended in a silver rain they spread into innumerable forests, wherein went harping the four winds of the world, and amidst which the white doves that were his kisses flitted through the gold and shadow. ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ http://www.sundown.pair.com/SundownShores/Volume_V/awakening_of_angus_og.htm ~~~ ~~~ ~~~

The Vatican: "ET CONTACT IS REAL"

michael_irving — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:37:07 GMT

~~~~~~~~~ "EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT IS A REAL PHENOMENON" ~~~~~~~~~ This announcement by the Pope's administration was made way back in 1999 - nine years ago. WE HAVE ALREADY MADE CONTACT: Craft have been flying all over the skies for many years, Crop patterns have appeared all over the world, individuals are receiving ET communications, and there are many reports of ETs walking among us. We are just waiting for some old and crusty institutions and the elite power-seekers to catch up with reality. Come on sleepy-heads, you can't hold up the whole Universe. In late 1999, the Vatican announced on national television: "EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT IS REAL" Monsignor Corrado Balducci, a Vatican theologian insider close to the Pope has gone on national Italian television five times in recent months to proclaim: "EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT IS A REAL PHENOMENON" The prelate announced that the Vatican is receiving much information about extraterrestrials and their contacts with humans from its Nuncios (embassies) in various countries, such as Mexico, Chile and Venezuela. Monsignor Balducci said that he is on a Vatican commission looking into extraterrestrial encounters, and how to cope with the emerging general realization of extraterrestrial contact. Balducci provided the Catholic Church's analysis of extraterrestrials, emphasizing that extraterrestrial encounters "... they are not due to psychological impairment, ... these encounters deserve to be studied carefully." http://worldgathering.net/times/vatican.htm ~~~

The 'Getting It Together' Process

michael_irving — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:31:32 GMT

~~~ I have always felt the 'Ascension Process' is one of the many Grey Alien mind-programmed illusory distractions which are meant to keep us divided and preoccupied while the negative Aliens steal the world. Why not join the 'Getting It Together' process, which might be as equally as profound as what people feel is entailed in the Ascension Process. The Getting It Together process involves making a stand so that the world is not saturated in poisons and bioweapons from the Chemtrail operation; getting safety, truth and justice for all life on Earth; uncovering the bad guys on and around Earth so that they have to stop what they're doing. As we accomplish those things, which will realign our physical bodies with our etheric bodies and our souls, Benevolent ET will be able to fly in here and help us create a life which will be amazing. An ascended life. ~~~

WAKE PEOPLE UP

michael_irving — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:26:41 GMT

~~~~~ WAKE PEOPLE UP ~~~~~ Get people talking and focusing on KEY issues. Yes, we'd all love to be 'on holiday', and enjoying life on Earth. But we have a few lunatics in influential positions who appear to want destruction and control for the whole world. So. What we're in now is not 'holiday time', it's 'make a stand for truth and life' time. Isn't that true? It's time for key issues ... important issues which if not stopped may destroy near-on the whole world. Important and key ideas which point to these few, mad persons. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Subjects which point to these 'elite', mad few are: ~~~ 9-11, the NWO, and the fake WAR ON TERROR, etc. ~~~ CHEM TRAILS / BIOWEAPON TRAILS ..... BIO TRAILS ~~~ The 'UFO / ET / ALIEN' Cover-up ~~~ WEATHER WARFARE and WEATHER MANIPULATION ~~~ INTENTIONAL KILLING OFF OF HUMANITY ~ AIDS, Chemtrails, Weather Manipulation, Wars, etc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>>>>>> Anyone ignoring subjects like these show they don't understand what is going on and they don't understand their lives are in danger. Our lives are in danger ..... in that there are things happening which are not natural, which are killing off ~~ in many different ways ~~ huge numbers of people. Why don't we 'GET IT ON', ensure the safety of our lives, and turn the world onto a wonderful course? Instead of being afraid to walk through our neighbourhoods, we can travel the Universe (I guess! ~ who's to stop us?) and see and ENJOY the wonders of Creation. AND be able to walk through our neighbourhoods in an entirely new way. Switch your TV OFF. Start thinking. Start talking. Start believeing it 'way' doesn't have to be like the rotten apple we have right now. We have been fooled ! ~~~ WAKE PEOPLE UP ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Why have so many people gone dopey?

michael_irving — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:05:58 GMT

"The time will come when from the earth will arise a mystic fog which will dilute the minds and hearts of all people." - Hopi elder, Dan Evehema. "The liberators will come in from the west with great force. They will drop down from the sky like rain. They will have no mercy.” - Hopi elder, Dan Evehema. [The Liberator was a cheap, mass-produced plane around the time of WWII. Much Chemtrail / Bio Trail spraying has been done in the west of the USA so prevailing winds will carry the ingredients across America.] "We will see ... mist … as a warning ... telling us people of all colour must unite and arise for survival, and that we must uncover the cause of our dilemmas." - Hopi elder, Dan Evehema. http://www.worldgathering.net/stop/hopiwarnings.html ~~~~~~~~~

Pay attention .... DEATH FROM ABOVE

michael_irving — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:55:07 GMT

It's time to start to paying attention ..... DEATH FROM ABOVE For those who already know this global killing and polluting operation has been underway for many years, and has become extreme over the past few years, this music video will knock your socks off and make you realise that NOW is the time to stop messing around ...... If you can't stand up for your life and the life of others, WHAT can you do? The big point is these worldwide sprayings right over our heads, and therefore inside our lungs, really do seem to include BIOWEAPONS. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RwbFM43Gf4o ~~~~~~~~~ STOP Chemtrails ~ http://www.worldgathering.net/stop "... samples from these chemtrails were analyzed ... and found to contain in addition to JP-8 jet fuel (... which contains the additive ethylene dibromide, banned as a pesticide due to causing severe respiratory reactions even at low levels) numerous pathogens, disease causing agents. These included Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, which not only causes respiratory infection but also attacks the immunization system; Serratia Marcescens, an antibiotic-resistant bacteria which causes pneumonia ..." STOP Chemtrails ~ http://www.worldgathering.net/stop Wake UP and pay ATTENTION The Big World Gathering ~ http://worldgathering.net ~~~~~~~~~

The Answers Are Known

michael_irving — Sun, 18 May 2008 10:57:53 GMT

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Answers Are Known ~~ It's all about caring more - for the whole world - and standing for what is right. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ How many times can a man turn his head, Pretending he just doesn't see? How many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? ~ Bob Dylan, Blowin' In The Wind ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Momentous Musical Messages from Bob Dylan .... Bob Dylan & Joan Baez - Blowin' In The Wind - (1976): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7_9YgQrFbc Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind - (1976): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDZvP7T3B30 Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - (1976): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKmxEJLcsIQ The Answers Are Known ~~ It's all about caring more - for the whole world - and standing for what is right. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Big World Gathering ~ http://worldgathering.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Free Our Minds, Internet, and World

michael_irving — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:30:19 GMT

So many people with such great hearts. Don't you think it's the time.... now? WE CAME HERE TO TELL OUR PEOPLE HOW THIS IS GOING TO BEGIN. WE'RE GOING TO SHOW OUR PEOPLE WHAT 'THEY' DON'T WANT US TO SEE. WE'RE GOING TO SHOW OUR PEOPLE A WORLD WITHOUT MENTAL RULES AND INTUITIVE CONTROLS, A WORLD WITHOUT INTER-HUMAN BORDERS AND A WORLD WITHOUT BOUNDARIES OF EXPRESSION. A WORLD WHERE ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE .... FREE OUR MINDS, FREE THE INTERNET, AND FREE THE WORLD

Fight the Krakons

michael_irving — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:33:55 GMT

~~~~~~~~~ FIGHT THE KRAKONS Or all life on Earth will perish. Fight all those Bullies and Daft-Heads who are suffocating real expression from appearing on the Internet. SHOW THEM A WORLD WITHOUT RULES AND CONTROLS, WITHOUT BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES ~~~ A WORLD WHERE ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE ~~~ FREE YOUR MIND ~~~ FREE THE INTERNET ~~~ AND FREE THE WORLD Fight ! Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehoods school. And the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool. ~~ PLATO Fight ! All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third it is accepted as self-evident. ~~ ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Fight ! Aye, fight and you may die. Run and you’ll live, at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may not take our lives, and they will never take our freedom. ~~ Adapted from BRAVEHEART Fight ! Awake, awake, the world is young, For all its weary years of thought. The starkest fights must still be fought, The most surprising songs be sung. ~~ JAMES ELROY FLECKER Listen: http://worldgathering.net/wg1.mp3 ~~~~~~~~~

Over the Hopi's Rainbow Bridge

michael_irving — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:44:03 GMT

Why would three anomalous aerial vehicles ('spacecraft') be located on and close to the bridge section of a bridge-shaped cloud in early 2007? See photograph: http://www.worldgathering.net/ufo2/bridge1.jpg Why would a spherical craft locate itself close to a gap in the top edge of a cloud which looks identical to the Hopi's 'Rainbow Bridge' rock formation in North America? See photograph: http://www.worldgathering.net/ufo2/bridge2.jpg The Big World Gathering ~ Take Your Power Back http://www.worldgathering.net ~~~ ~~~ ~~~

The Big World Gathering

michael_irving — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:40:33 GMT

THE BIG WORLD GATHERING http://www.worldgathering.net What is The Big World Gathering? The Big World Gathering is happening now wherever we are by all of us sharing with others what we really feel and think about life today, and by distributing information we believe is important. ~ At a later stage, perhaps soon to happen, all our individual actions may help lead to something quite surprising: a major world change. ~ If there are calls for specific gatherings in specific locations, then we will do that. ~ If this develops to the point where a worldwide link-up on a specific date is called for, then together we will do that too. Let's start. Where does the idea for The Big World Gathering come from? The Big World Gathering has its roots in 'The Start of the World Gathering for Truth'. The World Gathering For Truth global link-up was held at noon on August 17, 2000. The date of 17th August, was chosen to coincide with a date referenced in the Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope. Background information ... Dedication for World Gathering For Truth 2000: http://www.worldgathering.net/world/gathering1.html Link-up reports from participants around the world: http://www.worldgathering.net/world/gathering2.html The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope 1993-2013: http://www.worldgathering.net/vision.html "Awake, awake, the world is young, For all its weary years of thought. The starkest fights must still be fought, The most surprising songs be sung." ~ James E Flecker Surprising Songs for The Big World Gathering ... The Big World Gathering Theme Tune 1 ~ (5+ mins): http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/wg1.mp3 The Big World Gathering Theme Tune 1 ~ (1+ mins): http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/wg2.mp3 Big World Gathering Love Song ~ Time ~ (2+ mins): http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/time.mp3 World-Action Big Gathering Theme Tune ~ (1+ mins): http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/wa18.mp3 Special Images for The Big World Gathering: http://www.worldgathering.net/logos.html Subscribe to the BWG NEWS List at Google: http://groups.google.com/group/worldgathering ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'THE GATHERING' by Sitting Bull It is very important that as many people as possible, in different places, should take part in the Gathering. Decide where and when and how to gather. Your participation is needed. This is the beginning of the break we are all waiting for; for you all on Earth and ourselves out here. This is the beginning of the turn around. We have waited so long for the change. It is time. This is the beginning of the end of the old ways; the turning of the tide. State what you believe is true. Courage is the ability to go beyond the familiar. Exchange the information and hopes you have. Always in the world, a change starts with a few people. These few speak the feelings and thoughts of a multitude. They speak the heart of humanity's soul. The people and ETs who will come together shall ring in a return, a turn around. There will come a flow on Earth which will burst the dark energies surrounding you and your planet. That which you believe is true must be stated. The truth is the key. May strength and vision be yours as you establish the new. Follow your hearts. Let your inner light be your guide. Realise the beauty and greatness you have within yourself and step ahead. This is the time so many have waited so long for. Never doubt it has started. The young of all nations are looking for a new direction. It is time to light a beacon to show the way for all humanity. Let your feelings, thoughts and beliefs be your guiding light. The power of the moment. The wishes of the people. The good times ahead. It is time for the gathering. Tatanka Yotanka - The Sitting Bull (This message is via a clairvoyant in Holland, in recent years) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Special Words for The Big World Gathering: ~ The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope: "This prophecy is a dream and vision that is a potential reality for mankind. It is not an ultimatum. But it is ours to behold and to create if we only dare to create it together." ~ ~ A Central American Mayan Elder: "Human beings must come together in support of life. At present, each person and group is going his or her own way. There is hope if people can come together and unite." ~ ~ E F Schumacher: "We must do what we conceive to be the right thing and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we will be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we will be doing the wrong thing and we will just be a part of the disease and not a part of the cure." ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'The Gathering' by Matthew Hankinson Last night I had a gathering for all my departed friends I asked Jim Morrison where he'd been He just laughed and smiled, Spoke of what he'd seen He said "I've been to the end of the rainbow" He said "I've seen supernovae burst" But before I could ask a question, He said "Let me finish first" He said "I have something to tell you", This really is the MASTER KEY ONLY! ONLY LOVE! Will set this planet free He then spoke ok Atlantis, And what has come to pass In an alien war of genocide, He and his friends escaped the blast * * * Now these ones are returning, They see our hearts are burning The Universe is yearning, For us to break on through Well now you see here is my request, The letter to your heart Will you join us now, Let the healing start First there came THE question, Then I found THE door Now I have come through it, A stronger man for sure I will ask you the same question, I can lead you to this door If you will walk through it, You will be Wiser than before Yes now I have this question to put to you Are you going to resist, Will you break on through? Will you break on through? I am waiting for you... The Gathering ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Special Images for The Big World Gathering: http://www.worldgathering.net/logos.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Subscribe to the BWG NEWS List at Google: http://groups.google.com/group/worldgathering ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Big World Gathering is happening now wherever we are by all of us sharing with others what we really feel and think about life today, and by distributing information we believe is important. ~ At a later stage, perhaps soon to happen, all our individual actions may help lead to something quite surprising: a major world change. ~ If there are calls for specific gatherings in specific locations, then we will do that. ~ If this develops to the point where a worldwide link-up on a specific date is called for, then together we will do that too. Let's start. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Big World Gathering ~ http://www.worldgathering.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We Are Ready For The 100th MONKEY

michael_irving — Tue, 30 May 2006 07:55:42 GMT

The Big World Gathering ~~~ http://www.worldgathering.net 'Whatever You Can Do, or Dream You Can Do, BEGIN IT. Boldness Has Power & Magic In It' - Goethe http://www.worldgathering.net/times/monkey100.htm 1952 - A SPECIAL YEAR THE 100TH MONKEY EFFECT BEGAN IN 1952 Something started in 1952, which was accomplished by 1958, which had never been noticed before..... The 100th Monkey Effect. HUGE GLOBAL UFO SIGHTINGS IN 1952 1952 was about the busiest year ever for the sightings of UFOs in the atmosphere of our Earth. Was, perhaps, friendly ET giving humanity - via an obliging species of life on Earth - a helpful hand in under-standing how consciousness and change function? THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS THE 100TH MONKEY EFFECT The following is from 'Lifetide', by Lyall Watson. Book Club Associates, London, 1979. Pages 155-158. "..... This might imply that the essential conflict is between the newer parts of the forebrain and the more primitive parts in the mid and hind brains. Between the mammalian and reptilian memories. And in a sense this is probably correct, but I doubt that it is possible or even necessary to isolate the command centres of the opposing forces in any spatial location. The war is between the old selfish instructions and the new self-awareness. Between genotype and aspects of the phenotype. Between the needs of the replicators to keep on doing their thing, which is replicating, and the desire of the organism for identity. The battle lines are drawn between orders and ideas. Where the two coincide, a truce is declared and progress takes place by leaps and bounds. But where they disagree, skirmishes are fought in the no man's land of the mind and ambivalent we, with all our special strengths and peculiar frailties, are the result. I believe the seeds of this conflict are sewn in every cell by the presence there of nuclear DNA and factors connected with the contingent system. And that just as the presence and pattern of a number of cells behaving in a certain way can produce sensations such as sight or sound, so the mere existence of contingent factors in sufficient numbers in certain critical configurations could account for their recent intrusion in evolutionary affairs. There is a biological analogy which makes this process clear. IMO - THE FIRST MONKEY The behaviour of the Japanese monkey Macaco fuscata has been studied intensely for more than thirty years in a number of wild colonies. One of these is isolated on the island of Koshimajust off the east coast of Kyushu, and it was here in 1952 that man provided the monkeys with the right sort of evolutionary nudge. Provision stations were established at selected sites in the range of the troop. Normally young monkeys learn feeding habits from their mothers who teach them by example what to eat and how to deal with it, and in these macaques the behaviour had grown to a complex tradition involving the buds, fruits, leaves, shoots and bark of well over a hundred species of plants. So they approached the new artificial food supplies equipped with a formidable array of behavioural predispositions, but nothing in their established repertoire enabled them to deal effectively with raw sweet potatoes covered with sand and grit. Then an eighteen month old female, a sort of monkey genius called Imo, solved the problem by carrying the potatoes down to a stream and washing them before feeding. In monkey terms this is a cultural revolution comparable almost to the invention of the wheel. It involves abstraction, the identification of concept, and deliberate manipulation of several parameters in the environment. And, reversing the normal trend, it was the juvenile Imo who taught the trick to her mother. She also taught it to her playmates and they in their turn spread the news to their mothers. Slowly, step by step, the new culture spread through the colony, with each new conversion taking place in full view of the observers who kept a constant watch right through all the daylight hours. By 1958, all the juveniles were washing dirty food, but the only adults over five years old to do so were the ones who learned by direct imitation from their children. Then something extraordinary took place. The details up to this point in the study are clear, but one has to gather the rest of the story from personal anecdotes and bits of folklore amongst primate researchers, because most of them are still not quite sure what happened. And those who do suspect the truth are reluctant to publish it for fear of ridicule. So I am forced to improvise the details, but as near as I can tell, this is what seems to have happened.... THE HUNDREDTH MONKEY In the autumn of that year an unspecified number of monkeys on Koshima were washing sweet potatoes in the sea, because Imo had made the further discovery that salt water not only cleaned the food but gave it an interesting new flavour. Let us say, for argument's sake, that the number was ninety-nine and that at eleven o'clock on a Tuesday morning, one further convert was added to the fold in the usual way. But the addition of the hundredth monkey apparently carried the number across some sort of threshold, pushing it through a kind of critical mass, because by that evening almost everyone in the colony was doing it. Not only that, but the habit seems to have jumped natural barriers and to have appeared spontaneously, like glycerine crystals in sealed laboratory jars, in colonies on other islands and on the mainland in a troop at Takasakiyama. The latest news from Japan is that Imo has by no means exhausted her powers, but has unleashed several additional cultural bombshells. Another of the foods provided at the stations is wheat, which the monkeys enjoy but find difficult to deal with once it has blown out of containers onto the sand. Imo was only three when she solved this dilemma by picking up mixed handfuls of sand and wheat and winnowing the grain by casting both into the sea. There the sand soon sank, leaving the wheat floating free on the surface where it could easily be scooped up and eaten. At the moment this sub-culture has spread only to Imo's immediate associates, but it will be fascinating to see what happens next. I personally wouldn't be surprised if, in her later years, Imo re-invented agriculture. The relevance of this anecdote is that it suggests there may be mechanisms in evolution other than those governed by ordinary natural selection. I feel that there is such a thing as the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon and that it might account for the way in which many memes, ideas and fashions spread through our culture. It may be that when enough of us hold somethingto be true, it becomes true for everyone Lawrence Blair says: 'When a myth is shared by large numbers of people,it becomes a reality.' I'll happily add my one to the number sharing that notion, because it may be the only way we can ever hope to reach some sort of meaningful human consensus about the future, in the short time that now seems to be at our disposal. Lyall Watson, 'LIFETIDE' --------- http://www.worldgathering.net/times/monkey100.htm http://www.worldgathering.net/world/1952.html The Big World Gathering ~~~ http://www.worldgathering.net