tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91961083139203847452024-03-20T11:11:51.990-04:00Divine Alignment"No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I in nature......in the garden...wet with rain."Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.comBlogger588125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-72256218901138310642021-12-31T18:23:00.000-05:002021-12-31T18:23:53.613-05:00Book Work<p> A number of years ago I had a manuscript I was thrashing through that sought to convey my insights into the awakened state. I had worked on the project for years while in an awakening process. Friends kept telling me that the manuscript looked more like three books, and that, it turns out, was just the problem. </p><p>One morning while getting gas on the way to taking a friend to the airport for her return home she asked if I didn't have another book I was wanting to write. I explained that I didn't have another book and that I was focused on this one manuscript. My friend, though, is a gifted psychic, and she kept pushing the issue. I wasn't in any mood to be considering <i>another</i> book while trying to finish the <i>first</i> one. </p><p>"My guidance is rarely wrong, Parker, and it's saying you have a second book in the works." She was right, of course, but I hadn't mentioned this to anyone at that point. I confessed, "It's just an idea at this point.." to which she said, "That's the book! My guidance is saying that you should work on <i>that</i> one because that book will be more widely accepted, and will help you in getting the second book, which is your first, read by more people." It took time for me to consider this. I had been working for so long on this first book. I spent another year editing the first book, nearlt destroying its comprehensibility, and then just set it aside just to take a break from it. </p><p>In the mean time, I began teaching at a local university in my chosen field of art as thoughts of this second book began to percolate up to the surface. I considered that my friend Ali was right: this book had in a way already written itself in its most basic form. It had played a key role in my awakening process, and even more, I have become convinced since then that the events surrounding my initial awakening process took place in the way they did in order to open my eyes to the core content that such a book could convey. </p><p>To explain this better, it is easiest to describe what took place in those early days as I was trying to figure out what on earth had happened to me. This takes time, but it also helps to show how the things I would discover later were contained in materials that were once hidden from most everyone for about 1600 years.</p><p>Awakening came at a time when I felt as though I had reached an empasse in my life. I had a couple of overhanging inner issues that had me tied up in knots, unable to reach any point of resolution about them. These were issues related to my own spirituality and my own destiny here on earth. Without going into detail, let's just say that I felt stuck regarding a few key spiritual events in my life, one of which involved a past life that itself tellegraphed the notion that in a future life I would go on to do something that would somehow be part of a shift in human awareness, one which would be part of a global event involving the earth as a gestalt consciousness, and humans, in an effort to get to a better place. This prophecy was rooted in First Nations prophecies about a Day of Cleansing, since my memory from my past life was of a man who had a vision about this day in the future when Earth would be swept up in this spiritual and physical event. </p><p>From my place as my present self, now a white man, I felt like I was at odd ends with being able to understand what this series of past life memories meant for me today. These memories lay like a burning ember in my pocket and I was finally left feeling frustrated, angry, and guilt-ridden over not having been able to figure out what the implications of this revelation made when I was 18 years old were. I had resolved to reach out to a Native holy man, a pipe holder of the Oglalla Lakota, to see if he could offer any advice to me. I wrote five drafts of the same letter and wasn't able to get my story any more clearer to this man. Something was wrong, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Why the hesitancy? I remember staring at that final letter as it sat ready to be mailed, and me swearing to myself that I would just go ahead and mail it, resistance be damned! It was then that I did something that was akin to a random act, a cosmic coin-toss; I checked my email and then did another web search using a central theme of my past life memory, which was a vision from that other life (having to do with the Thunder Beings). I wound up getting a result I had never seen before, and found myself reading a transcript of a speech another Lakota man had made about his vision which he had had that was related to my own. Further, this man did something you hardly ever see, which was he included his phone number for anyone to call to discuss the issue with him at greater length. </p><p>Something had happened in those few minutes while reading his account: I felt comfortable with this person even though I was just reading his transcript. I realized that all those drafts hid some sense of ill-ease about following that path. It felt like the universe was offering up a solution in the elleventh hour. I jotted his number down and promised that I'd call him. </p><p>I did call the next morning. I had hoped to find someone who could offer me insight into this very unusual situation I was in, which had to do with how to unserstand a memory from a past life that was part of a vision quest. What actually happened was something quite different. As I spoke to Sydney Has No Horses, I found that a giant tightly wound spring began to unwind within me. I felt like I was confessing more than asking advice. No, this was all happening completely different from what I had expected it would. And that was exactly the point!</p><p>Sydney did offer some advice, but it wasn't the answer I thought I might get. He suggested that I needed to go search for another vision in order to get clarity. He offered to help, even. At that point, though, something quite miraculous was taking place within me: a weight that I had been carrying had been lifted off of me. I literally felt eighty pounds lighter. I was walking on clouds...and all of this was completely unexpected.</p><p>This, I knew, was the first in a long string of "releases" of emotional material. This first act of release dissolved a long-standing inner division within me. It led ti an experience where more innexplicable events began to take place, and each event, in turn, led me to awakening. </p><p>Three days after speaking to Sydney I experienced a state of nonduality. In a quiet moment I felt as though some presence was opening up to me, had suddenly become plain. It was quiet, soft, and beautiful. It melted me as it explained how I was part of everything. This was family, a kind of joke because thus family included everything: the rocks, trees, the air, and the subatomic particles that made all of this seem real. I was plunged into an awareness not of division or seperation, but of belonging, of a state if being that was fundamental to our existance here....and I had missed it all these years! I was 42 then, and all of this journey was leading up to this one simple realization. Something in me began to melt, to let go, to soften, which for me was a necessary precursor to the steps that would be presented to me as if by happy coincidence. All of this was taking place in just such a way that it would be seen as a necessary precursor that would be later described in books I would read that came from earliest Christianity. </p><p>About a week and a half later, a friend who I had been emailing offered me a meditation technique he had been using for years that would play a crucial role in my awakening. I hadn't mentioned my experience with Sydney nor the state I had felt rise up within me on that second week of August of 2006. </p><p>I began using this meditation method and found within just a few days that some interesting things were happening. I checked with my friend, Brett, about it asking, "Is this normal?" To which he exclaimed, "It's working really well for you, Parker! Keep going!" So I did. Within about ten days I had suddenly become suffused in a brilliant white light. It was an event that lasted only a few seconds because of how the phenomenon wouldn't last if I turned my rational left-brained processes on in order to try and examine it. This served each time to collapse a wave of phenomenon that could only take place when using a part of my awareness that didn't analyze but instead experienced directly, without the usual rational processes we have become so used to using. </p><p>The earth didn't shake, I didn't even feel any different after this brilliant flash. I had even considered that someone had played a trick on me and had flashed the lights on and off in the dark room I was in. The only problem with that was that the switch that had to be used to do that was an older style switch that made a loud click, which could be heard throughout the entire house. That hadn't happened. One aspect of this meditation was how aware I was of the smallest of sounds. I soon realized that whatever this was, its source wasn't with the lights being turned on. This was, instead, an inner light, and this was my own Road to Damascus moment. I didn't understand what the implications would be, but itcwas important that I perceive this energy as a white light (some who awaken can experience it along a spectrum, all related to sensing great energy).</p><p>After this took place, I entered into a five month period of high-strangeness. There were all kinds of strange things happening. I would see things and hear things that seemed real but weren't physical. Was I losing my mind? I kept quiet about what was happening. It occurred to me that I was losing my grip on a familiar part of my mind while beginning to grasp or encounter, through unusual means, another part of my mind and being altogether. I was curious, but cautious, too.</p><p>By October, I experienced what I now know is described as a "kundalini flash" where it felt as if all the lights within me came on. The flash is that the energy comes on but soon wanes afterward. In that state, which lasted about four hours, I felt how I was able to grasp information that was encoded into the substance of reality, which I experienced as a form of living information that I felt I could tap into and translate. It was like downloading information from a vast living consciousness that contained information about anything you could imagine. I sat down to write some of what had happened to me, albeit in allegorical form. I wrote about how all of life seeks completion through an act of union, of begetting, which is expressed sexually, but which has a nonphysical component that is a part of our deepest creative impulse: genesis of new life, new awareness, a greater becoming. I titled the piece "The Yearning" and went on to experience an amazing synchronicity just after writing it. It was the first of many. </p><p>I posted the writing a few days later to the online forum where Brett was a member, and he shot back a comment that would lead me further down the rabbit hole. He explained that a passage in my piece sounded just like a passage in the gospel of Thomas. I was completely unaware that such a book even existed. Brett explained that I could read it online and provided a link to it. In reading it, it made little sense to me. That is, until I found the passage to which he was referring, which, as it turned out, was an often-quoted passage that pointed directly to nonduality and awakening. This passage is found in saying 22 of the gospel in which it states, " When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and female one and the same...."</p><p>It was a shock. How had I managed to communicate these same concepts in my own words that had existed since earliest Christianity with the implication being that these were the private teachings of Jesus? The only problem was that this all took place within a state of mind that had flashed before me that day in October of 2006 and now I was back to my old "normal" consciousness. Little of the book made much sense to me, though. It was like someone had held out a breadcrumb and was teasing me with it so that I might go deeper down that rabbit hole. It also served to illustrate to me how incomprehensible teachings like this one were to ordinary minds. To understand it all, you had to attain a certain light within mind to grasp it. The attainment of this light, I would learn, was the power of a deeper knowing, or gnosis, that was beyond most people's grasp because of how most people use their minds. This light could not be attained by way of old methods of rational grasp, but through a poorly understood means native to each person. Less about grasping, it was a cessation of chasing after ideas in a rational way, and the beginning of learning how to activate latent powers of the mind which then opened the channels in consciousness to the part of us that exists beyond time and space. This, these so-called "Gnostics" who considered themselves Christians, referred to this part of us as Sophia, Pistis, an indwelling quality we all have for knowing and wisdom. With it, one no longer needed teachers to tell them what was or was not true, because this knowledge existed organically within themselves.</p><p>Five months later, after having been guided to activate my third eye in a short meditation, I felt a blast go up my spine. I wasn't in meditation at the time. I was awake and going about my day. No yoga postures, no tongue on the roof of my mouth, and no mantras. It felt serpentine, as if a snake was moving up through the trunk of my body. It felt like the muscles in my torso were being zapped by an energy that pulsed upwards, first one muscle group, then the opposite, causing a gentle contraction of my body muscles along with a softening of them, leading to the serpentine sensation. After this took place, everything changed. The lights were back on! My body was responding to the intense energy. My body began producing fluids in an effort to shield itself from what it took as an irritant. I had developed nausea and diahrea which came and went. Prostatic fluid flowed constantly. All aspects of my endocrine system appeared to be hightened. A new chemistry in my body took hold. My senses were more acute, I caught a knife that had slipped from my hand while chopping vegetables one day. My hand reached down below my hip to grasp the handle of the falling knife. I realized I had never been able to do that before. I had never been able to speed my consciousness up that fast so that physical action seemed to pass along slower than usual. Further, this wasn't a one-off. I exhibited greatly improved reflexes and psychic abilities.</p><p>I found that I could feel what other people felt. I could hear their thoughts at night, and I could see objects and scenes from a great distance. In one case, I had glimpsed inside the apartment of someone on the online forum I mentioned earlier and found that out of the 24 distinct impression I had, all but three were entirely on the mark. I was able to describe the hallway outside this person's apartment: which direction out of the elevator I had to go to get to the apartment, where the door was in the hallway, the sconces lining the sides of the walls, the type of colors in the carpet and the colors of the walls. I could see the entire apartment and was able to identify where the windows were, their size, and the fact that they were casement windows whose frames had been painted black. I saw two bedrooms, one was nearly empty while the other was in active use. This person had not at any time described her apartment (I checked) before. I knew she lived in an apartment. I knew she lived in Cannada near Toronto. I knew she had a cat, and she was a very private person. I had never been to Canada, had never discussed with her where she lived. Up until this time, she was just another person on a message board.</p><p>I only knew about my accuracy with these impressions because, like a scientist, I contacted this person and explained that I thought I was getting impressions of where this person lived. I asked this person if they would take part in an experiment to see, and after I listed my impressions, I was told that most of them were entirely on the mark. Yes on the sconces snd thir shape, color, and spacing. Yes on the hallway carpet, the lication of the apartment in the hallway and the layout of the apartment. How could this be?</p><p>The energy continued to build and I was aware of two pillars of energy in my body. On my right side, I felt an energy that was concrete, logical and linear. It lacked emotion. I thought of it as "The Man." On the other side of my body I felt an opposite energy. This was fluid, holistic, nonlinear, and had a great capacity for feeling. I called this "The Woman." After about two weeks following the "rise" of the energy, I could feel these two forces begin to merge along the center-line of my body and awareness. The experience was orgasmic, but it didn't arise physically. This was energetic. Out of their union came an energy which was a synthesis of these two. Lifted by bliss, this energy I called "The Child" because of how it arose out of the union of these two energies which were like man and woman. Through this union, incredible energy of mind and consciousness had flowered. Once the energy of this "child" was operative, I found much like the day in October had been, that I just knew things. I didn't know how I knew them, I just did. I performed a series of experiments when it was possible where I had received information that could be independently corroberated. When I was able to get material like that, nearly always what I had picked up on showed a high degree of accuracy. In each case the material I picked up on was about things I didn't know anything about. This pointed to this, for me at least, was not a flight of fancy or imagining. </p><p>When I saw how the energies were relating to each other, I realized that this pointed to a triadic quality in human consciousness. Was there a tradition that dealt with a trinity? Christianity did, but their Trinity was clearly an all-male arrangement, so Christianity was out. Were there other traditions that might explain what I was suddenly experiencing? At this time I recalled how I had that run-in with the gospel of Thomas the previous year and wondered if I could see it with new eyes? </p><p>I began reading Thomas and this time, it was like an entirely new book. Words lifted off the page, and I kept seeing passages that seemed to be describing just what I had been experiencing earlier. Was it coincidence? </p><p>I read on. I read the gospel of Philip and it was there that I found the smoking gun: "Those who say Mary begot with the Holy Spirit are in error. They do not know what they are saying. When has a woman ever begotten with a woman?" My jaw dropped to the floor: here in plain words was the knowledge that the Holy Ghost was a feminine principle that led to divine union. This was precisely what I had described in my journal how two energies birthed a third in a state of orgasmic ecstacy. A little while later it was described: a female virgin and the father had entered the bridal chamber and out of it had walked the Christ!</p><p>I began consuming these books, looking for more clues, to make sure that this wasn't somehow a mere coincidence. Instead of making this all look coincidental, it strengthened my notion that indeed, these Christians were on to something really big!</p><p>There was a problem, though. How was it that these books had been decried as heretical by the early church? How did something so insightful fall into disrepute and chased once and for all from the scene of the Christian tradition? That is itself a fascinating story, and this is where my book begins. </p><p>I had done precisely what this Jesus had commanded in these secret gospels: when you remove what divides you, you will know the kingdom. I had indeed removed a deep inner division that had been in me for almost 14 years. Sydney played a role in helping me to let go of it. After that, everything began to change. I experienced bewilderment just as described in Thomas, where I attained "The All" or awareness of the true order of the world and of consciousness. </p><p>I went on to realize later that what I had was clearly spelled out as kundalini. The knowledge of this latent potential was present in many cultures! This wasn't due to an article of faith, this was a reality that each person faces once they have reached the maturity spiritually to cope with its corrective force (which appears as destructive at first). There was a reason why these teachings were kept silent or hidden. </p><p>In every culture where this knowledge emerges there is always an effort to shield ordinary people from it. This is because without the proper preparation, early openings could lead to madness or great emotional instability. It takes time to ripen or mature to where the possibility of awakening becomes a necessity. This becomes part of a process of becoming, growing, seeking, and finding that which has always been there, existing as a latent force of mind that our mainstream cultural institutions seem to do everything they can to distract us from. Instead, the world stands inverted from what it could be. While rare, awakenings have been taking place with great frequency over the last two decades (really more like a 40 year period which has been prophecied). Now awakening is a necessity if we are to bring the change needed to the race as a whole. </p><p>The story of how Christianity was formed is an interesting one. There is what the Orthodox sect says it is, but then there is also what other sects had to say. There were numerous inputs into the tradition such that instead of Christianity being a story based on eye-witness testimony, we learn that ALL of the gospels were originally anonymous. Names were ascribed by the church later. The gospels emerge written in Greek, and not a single gospel has been found, no early ones, that were written in the language that Jesus spoke which was middle Aramaic. We do have writings before the gospels and those are the letters of Paul. But instead of making clear an orthodox view, Paul describes his experience in much more Gnostic-like terms. Further, after Valentinus seeks out a direct disciple of Paul after had had also had a vision of the risen Christ is told that Paul had a private teaching which he gave only to his closest followers and disciples. The Orthidx response is pithy: Valentinus must have lied. This, about a man who was revered as an ardent Christian who was in the running to be bishop of Rome at a time when the church was considered illegal by the Roman Empire, a position that really meant putting yourself on the line. </p><p>It's an interesting story, and unfortunately, there are big pieces missing because of what Orthodoxy did to itself in order to extract all knowledge of the gnosis beginning in great earnest around 400 A.D. it was then that the Nag Hammadi codices were buried in Egypt, a find that would take place just as humanity was nearing its awakening moment: the explosion of the first atomic bomb and a more sudden collective questioning abouf consciousness itself. The discovery was made in 1945 and included over fifty works from gospels to letters. It took the full library decades before it could be publisged in total. It wasn't until the mid-1970's that the full library was available all in one volume (most of the books comprising the NHL had been published individually as the translation work progressed). Perhaps because of this, and less financial backing than the Dead Sea Scrolls received, it has taken more time for the importance of the NHL to seep into popular culture. Certainly Chatholicism nor its descendant Protestantism have done little to take these books seriously, so it has been up to the more Gnostic-minded of us to discover the treasure that they represent.</p><p>The great lesson for me in all of this is that belief blinds us to truth and can do so for thousands of years when authority asserts itself in such a way that people are made to believe that a myth, improperly rooted in reality, is real. It is also a story about how easily we can be fooled to follow a knowing that is incomplete, an effective cosmic dead-end of sorts, a comfortable coral for sheep who must be herded from thought to thought. This has been how the church has reaped great wealth and left its followers believing that they are broken, redeemable only by following one concept of Jesus as Savior, instead of the "heresy" that stated that the Christ is in us all. It is there where you must seek. Even Paul said as much, and he wasn't a believer. He didn't get there by believing it. Afterall, he was persecuting Christians at the time. But like Paul, I was struck by a brilliant pure white light, afterwhich everything changed for me also.</p><p>The book will be an effort to bring the one lens missing in examining the Christ drama, which is awakening. It will help show that there have long been traditions all across the world who were describing the same phenomenon, it will put forth evidence for why belief is itself such a poor substitute for direct knowledge and experience and why it is that it is now time to unshakle ourselves from such a deceptive practice. Humanity and its continuation here on the Earth depends on it. </p><p>.</p><p><br /></p>Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-12134085219604716972021-08-05T01:25:00.004-04:002021-08-05T01:25:36.244-04:00Hijacking Disclosure<p> </p><figure aria-label="Block: Gallery" class="block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped" data-block="286461ba-608c-4ce3-bdf9-09745f480c84" data-title="Gallery" data-type="core/gallery" id="block-286461ba-608c-4ce3-bdf9-09745f480c84" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 840px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;" tabindex="0"><ul class="blocks-gallery-grid" style="box-sizing: revert; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: revert; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: revert; margin-top: revert; padding-bottom: revert; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: revert; padding-top: revert;"><li class="blocks-gallery-item" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px; position: relative; width: calc(50% - 1em);"><figure class="" style="align-items: flex-end; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; height: 309.547px; justify-content: flex-start; margin: 0px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><img alt="" aria-label="image 1 of 2 in gallery" data-id="4283" src="https://wakingtheinfinite.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/serveimage-2.jpeg?w=600" style="border: none; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; flex: 1 1 0%; height: 309.547px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; width: 412px;" tabindex="0" /></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item" style="align-self: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; position: relative; width: calc(50% - 1em);"><figure class="" style="align-items: flex-end; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; height: 309.547px; justify-content: flex-start; margin: 0px;"><img alt="" aria-label="image 2 of 2 in gallery" data-id="4282" src="https://wakingtheinfinite.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/serveimage-5.jpeg?w=555" style="border: none; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; flex: 1 1 0%; height: 309.547px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; width: 412px;" tabindex="0" /></figure></li></ul><div class="components-drop-zone" data-is-drop-zone="true" style="border-radius: 2px; border: 2px solid var(--wp-admin-theme-color); box-sizing: inherit; inset: 0px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s, background-color 0.3s ease 0s, visibility 0s ease 0.3s; visibility: hidden; z-index: 40;"></div><figcaption aria-label="Gallery caption text" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable components-visually-hidden blocks-gallery-caption rich-text" role="textbox" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clip-path: inset(50%); clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); color: #555555; flex-grow: 1; font-size: 13px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: normal !important; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 1px;"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Write gallery caption…" style="box-sizing: inherit; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></figcaption></figure><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="c459a553-63da-45d8-bd3c-a46a7dde2282" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-c459a553-63da-45d8-bd3c-a46a7dde2282" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">There has been and continues to be a significant amount of deceit and obfuscation in the arena of all things ET on the part of the government. It is amazingly easy to fool people to make them think that people who are working against their best interest and the interest of truth are for them. It is an exploit of a time-tested impulse that all humans have which is their natural desire to trust authority. </p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="65ac073c-c375-49c3-83e7-3e4a028acb96" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-65ac073c-c375-49c3-83e7-3e4a028acb96" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">If you want to get to the bottom of the ET issue you will need to lay aside what you have been told by the news and the government and pay close attention to personal cases (your own are best or those of trusted friends). Learn to communicate with races who use telepathy as their go-to method for communicating between races. You can do this now. You can learn the CE5 protocols to begin initiating ET contact today. This is the single most powerful "weapon" for truth that can overturn what may well turn into the great deception getting ready to be sold to the world today - <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">ET's against whom we must protect ourselves</em>. Bear in mind that the narrative has not gotten to the point of ET's being a threat. Right now there are murmurings. This document is as much historical record as it is to show how the narrative will be rolled out (predictively so). Check back in a couple of years and let's see where we are by then. </p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="f8a18c1d-b53b-4f2e-ba15-7eac28233c76" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-f8a18c1d-b53b-4f2e-ba15-7eac28233c76" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Steven Greer has been a lightening rod in the space of disclosure. There are those within the community of researchers and advocates for disclosure who don't like the man. I have seen a tireless advocate for the subject who does not back down from a fight, and who has remained consistent for years. It's very easy to spin stories in this world, there is so little requirement for proof. Greer seeks to provide this and his record has been very good. I, however, always have an edge of skepticism when it comes to ANYONE in the ET arena, but it takes the shape of me taking in vast reams of data and never buying into any of it 100%. Only what I can confirm is what gets slowly moved into the trusted column. Nothing is sacred, and no one is above being something that they do not appear to be. It's not a fun place to be but there is a lot riding on the subject. Trillions, in fact. It is of utmost importance that everyone see this documentary. </p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="f8a18c1d-b53b-4f2e-ba15-7eac28233c76" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-f8a18c1d-b53b-4f2e-ba15-7eac28233c76" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="399" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1D9WcrJWpNk" width="481" youtube-src-id="1D9WcrJWpNk"></iframe></div><br /><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="f8a18c1d-b53b-4f2e-ba15-7eac28233c76" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-f8a18c1d-b53b-4f2e-ba15-7eac28233c76" role="group" style="background-color: white; 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white-space: pre-wrap;">In my quest to understand the forces that are impacting our world, I do a deep dive into the real European Union. To this end, I am reprinting Lindsay Jenkins’ investigative article </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-weight: 600; white-space: pre-wrap;">The European Union Unmasked</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which was originally published in </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-weight: 600; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everything You Know Is Wrong</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in 2002 (Russ Kick, ed. MJF Books, pub.) </span></p><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block is-multi-selected wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="b90fbfdb-110c-4ca2-892b-2840764ee019" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-b90fbfdb-110c-4ca2-892b-2840764ee019" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="573833d3-56dc-4347-bf15-37a60d25b9ca" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-573833d3-56dc-4347-bf15-37a60d25b9ca" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">If you want an anthology of many of the leading investigative journalists in the world digging into issues that mainstream media has either not reported on or does so poorly, even despite its having been printed in 2002, you will be stood in good stead with <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Everything You Know Is Wrong</span>. It is still an important collection and a means for pointing out how those with power have wielded it in the past, and as a precaution for how they are likely to wield it in the future. It is worth noting that while Jenkins’ article was written almost twenty years ago, her analysis remains as an important reminder in our current time about the slippery slope that unions and agreements that erode national sovereignty represent. Brexit had not happened at the time of her writing the following article, which makes it of particular interest since Jenkins’ observations formed a salient argument for why Brexit <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">should</span> happen. It is well worth the read for a host of reasons, the least of which involves understanding how the EU has pushed itself onto the world stage (it's a very old idea). My deep thanks to her for her permission to reprint her article in total here. </p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="573833d3-56dc-4347-bf15-37a60d25b9ca" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-573833d3-56dc-4347-bf15-37a60d25b9ca" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">*Copied from our sister site: Waking The Infinite on Wordpress.</p><div aria-label="Block: Dynamic HR" class="block-editor-block-list__block wp-block" data-block="ff8bb85e-c023-4758-87d7-7daf53ef5511" data-title="Dynamic HR" data-type="coblocks/dynamic-separator" id="block-ff8bb85e-c023-4758-87d7-7daf53ef5511" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 28px auto; max-width: 840px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative;" tabindex="0"><div class="components-resizable-box__container wp-block-coblocks-dynamic-separator" style="background: 0px 0px !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex-shrink: 0; height: 50px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: auto; width: auto;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit; outline: 0px;"></div></div></div><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="76719b91-772f-409a-a493-98b3eb80c6b0" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-76719b91-772f-409a-a493-98b3eb80c6b0" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"> </p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="a9dc5563-97b3-4e67-a56d-4f54127627a2" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-a9dc5563-97b3-4e67-a56d-4f54127627a2" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">From the author’s website</span></em>: </p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="0872a7ca-737e-4abe-adb5-e171db8313be" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-0872a7ca-737e-4abe-adb5-e171db8313be" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Lindsay Jenkins is an investigative author and journalist. She specializes in the history and current operations of the European Union.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="fb50af80-6eb8-4439-8449-b2baccb58664" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-fb50af80-6eb8-4439-8449-b2baccb58664" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">She has dedicated years of research to exposing the rising power of the European Union, the waning power of the member nation states and the decline of freedom, liberty and democracy. Her continuing series of books, Britain in Europe, shows how far this stealthy takeover has progressed.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="41838b8b-69ff-48ea-8717-09e30a93b138" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-41838b8b-69ff-48ea-8717-09e30a93b138" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Lindsay's first book, Britain Held Hostage, reveals for the first time who created the EU and why. This is the historical thesis the Brussels’ bureaucrats do not endorse.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="74e795df-6fd3-48bf-9384-809b2962343e" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-74e795df-6fd3-48bf-9384-809b2962343e" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Her second book, The Last Days of Britain, starkly illustrates how far ‘Brussels’ has already taken over Britain's former national life.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="d8b3893e-7729-4c4f-8d3d-f44d1bf2bbcd" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-d8b3893e-7729-4c4f-8d3d-f44d1bf2bbcd" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Her most recent book, Disappearing Britain, The EU and the Death of Local Government, exposes how local government in Britain and across the EU is being replaced by the EU’s own local government of regions, sub regions and sub sub regions and thus marks the end of the nation state.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="ac9f08f3-74d8-40b5-a277-142c05e3b661" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-ac9f08f3-74d8-40b5-a277-142c05e3b661" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Lindsay previously worked for British and American investment banks in the City of London and as a senior civil servant in the British Ministry of Defence. She received an honours degree from Bedford College, London University and an MBA from Cranfield School of Management. She lives in both the UK and US.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="1a7efabe-98f5-49e3-92e8-a71833756fe4" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-1a7efabe-98f5-49e3-92e8-a71833756fe4" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Jenkins' website: <a href="http://www.lindsayjenkins.com/about_lindsay.htm" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2271b1; outline: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;" target="_blank">http://www.lindsayjenkins.com/about_lindsay.htm</a></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="4c4bb83e-84ca-4dc4-b06f-698142036c51" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-4c4bb83e-84ca-4dc4-b06f-698142036c51" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">You can purchase her books here: <a href="http://www.lindsayjenkins.com/purchase.htm" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2271b1; outline: 0px; transition: none 0s ease 0s;" target="_blank">http://www.lindsayjenkins.com/purchase.htm</a></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="ee0972b2-a951-4b72-b282-f51a049ecb44" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-ee0972b2-a951-4b72-b282-f51a049ecb44" role="group" style="background-color: white; 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opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="d7deea83-d6a0-4a6c-b0b0-dfd3a4906b64" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-d7deea83-d6a0-4a6c-b0b0-dfd3a4906b64" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">In his address to the US Congress on September 21, 2001, President George W Bush claimed, “America has no truer friend than Great Britain. Once again we are joined together in a great cause. I'm so honored the British prime minister has crossed an ocean to show his unity with America. Thank you for coming, friend"</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="00970073-780b-402d-8e8a-f9b32d6fdf86" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-00970073-780b-402d-8e8a-f9b32d6fdf86" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">In the public gallery, Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair, stood at attention, tightlipped and serious of face to acknowledge the warm applause from the congressmen below.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="7bb3f1b8-22eb-453e-aee5-a2f1a0dacd6b" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-7bb3f1b8-22eb-453e-aee5-a2f1a0dacd6b" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Blair’s support for America in the dark hours after the terrorists attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon would have been worth little had his words not been backed by Britain's world class Armed Forces, ready to support American military action.. A military coalition stood against Osama bin Laden and his terrorists. </p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="59a3d7a2-738a-4a28-a2b4-c9e1e1f26e44" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-59a3d7a2-738a-4a28-a2b4-c9e1e1f26e44" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">It is therefore astonishing to review the events of less than three years earlier, when in December 1998 the same British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, went to meet the president of France, Jacques Chirac, at St. Malo in France.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="903520d7-f723-4f78-a235-7ccacd4895a3" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-903520d7-f723-4f78-a235-7ccacd4895a3" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Blair and Chirac effectively agreed to end the independence of the British and French forces in favor of the European Union (1) (EU) defense force. Here is part of their joint statement after the talks ended:</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="8f89fe10-d45e-40f5-87e7-ad7715db5f16" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-8f89fe10-d45e-40f5-87e7-ad7715db5f16" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">The EU needs to be [able] to play its full role on the international stage… [T]he Union must have the capacity for <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">autonomous</em> action backed up by critical military forces, the means to decide to use them, and a readiness to do so in order to respond to international crises….The EU will also need to have recourse to suitable military means… within NATO's European pillar or… means outside the NATO framework.</span></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="51536a0b-1240-4cef-b0be-22527dd2e9c3" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-51536a0b-1240-4cef-b0be-22527dd2e9c3" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Since that turning point in military history Tony Blair agreed to the EU's Rapid Reaction Force of 60,000 men backed by 300 aircraft and a naval force by the year 2003. Roughly a quarter of Britain’s armed forces were pledged to serve in the new force. With nominal rotation, most British forces will be allowed to be allocated to the EU army.</p><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="3c1fbd88-d8d8-48b5-b23b-e751b7410a99" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-3c1fbd88-d8d8-48b5-b23b-e751b7410a99" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><h2 aria-label="Block: Heading" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-heading rich-text" data-block="50a4b459-4d75-482d-8cdf-7fcd2d01bde1" data-title="Heading" data-type="core/heading" id="block-50a4b459-4d75-482d-8cdf-7fcd2d01bde1" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: revert; font-weight: revert; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">"<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Yet here was the British prime minister prepared to give up his country's armed forces to the control of a foreign power.</em>"</h2><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="1f60e038-8d50-43aa-bd05-dd201ec1c2a0" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-1f60e038-8d50-43aa-bd05-dd201ec1c2a0" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="e12fc965-499f-4da1-b009-387b913d0e12" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-e12fc965-499f-4da1-b009-387b913d0e12" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 0; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="2cbc1315-455e-4ad2-8209-143978262f9b" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-2cbc1315-455e-4ad2-8209-143978262f9b" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Many would argue the defense is the first duty of government. Yet here was the British prime minister prepared to give up his country's armed forces to the control of a foreign power.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="4429c54b-86af-42f1-a105-6eab67807840" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-4429c54b-86af-42f1-a105-6eab67807840" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Two British admirals warned: “It would probably mean that we would ultimately have to obtain [EU] approval if we wish to use [our forces] on a purely national basis." (<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">2</span>)</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="da8892aa-ae32-402b-9988-1f03f3b15030" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-da8892aa-ae32-402b-9988-1f03f3b15030" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Both British and European leaders have been engaging in doublespeak with the Americans, assuring them that this is not the end of NATO while at the same time planning exactly for exactly that-the end of NATO.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="21a94e62-c2ad-4754-a00c-bf9e72b30289" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-21a94e62-c2ad-4754-a00c-bf9e72b30289" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">George Robertson, when British Defense Secretary, quickly reassured the Americans that “[there is] no question of a European single army; no [EU] commission or European Parliament involvement in decision-making; no transfer of decision-making on military capability from individual government; and no undermining or duplication of NATO."</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="a3a973c9-87e7-4257-bbd8-96b3d66917cb" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-a3a973c9-87e7-4257-bbd8-96b3d66917cb" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">But the division between Britain and the US was laid bare on October 7, 1999, when the recently ennobled Lord Robertson, in his new job as NATO's Sec. General, backed the EU and not NATO: "We want to ensure that strong effective military resources are also available to the EU, so that we can take action in support of the CFSP [the EU's foreign-policy] when NATO… is not engaged militarily.”(<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">3</span>)</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="8046ebab-9670-4943-a2f9-a33239e50cc2" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-8046ebab-9670-4943-a2f9-a33239e50cc2" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">The the new president, Romano Prodi from Italy, was even franker: “When I was talking about the European army, I was not joking….If you don’t want to call it a European army, don't call it a European army….You can call it ‘Margaret,’ or you can call it ‘Mary-Anne,’ you can find any name, but it is a joint effort for peacekeeping missions---the first time you have a joint, not bilateral, effort at European level.” (<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">4</span>)</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="cff499cb-7087-44db-be6d-0bd572ab25ce" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-cff499cb-7087-44db-be6d-0bd572ab25ce" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">A Military Committee of EU Chiefs of Defense Staff from all EU countries now means regularly. It started work in early 2000 with a projected staff of 90 for its headquarters. The first director was the German General Klaus Schuwirth. A Political and Security Committee of ambassadors controls the political and strategic direction of any crisis operation, sending guidelines to the Military Committee.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="770ac4aa-65b6-4099-96a5-24f6a58187f4" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-770ac4aa-65b6-4099-96a5-24f6a58187f4" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">The terrorist attacks in the United States, and the resulting renewal of the “special relationship" with Britain, did nothing to stop or even slow the creation of the EU army. They did the opposite. The lack of military force obviously limited the use of world influence at a critical time, so the EU army project moved forward apace. It now included a committee of the EU intelligence chiefs. That must give us intelligence agencies pause for thought before passing secret material to their British ally.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="8ce68f27-23f9-4dd7-b246-ece733055e5f" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-8ce68f27-23f9-4dd7-b246-ece733055e5f" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Winston Churchill had presciently written years before: “A European army would be a sludgy amalgam." (<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">5</span>) Today at the heart of that “amalgam" are the forces of three countries: Britain, France, and Germany. But for Germany, sending its forces abroad represents a <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">volte face</em> after 50 years of legal limits on the use of its Armed Forces entrenched in it's post-WWII Constitution and a strong peace movement within the country. The EU army is further complicated because the EU includes both non-native countries and neutrals like Ireland and Sweden; there is no common language; and, last but not least, European defense is seriously underfunded.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="1b4eb469-7a97-4dbb-b706-5476368046a9" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-1b4eb469-7a97-4dbb-b706-5476368046a9" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Where will this new army be used? Anywhere up to 2,500 miles from its base, which includes the Balkans, the Middle East, and half of Africa. As Sen. John McCain shrewdly remarked: "It is not hard to envision our allies intervening militarily, under the auspices of their new defense organization and without our concurrence, in very different difficult problems that they are unprepared to resolve, necessitating an eventual appeal to NATO to bail them out.” (<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">6</span>)</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="c893b5f0-d823-421f-a6f2-57e25afbfa7c" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-c893b5f0-d823-421f-a6f2-57e25afbfa7c" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Though no politician would say so, creating a defense force had always been on the agenda for the new European state, but it was scheduled to be the last piece of the jigsaw to be slotted into place.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="6eb090e3-033a-4ae8-917c-1306e77745e6" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-6eb090e3-033a-4ae8-917c-1306e77745e6" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Jean Monnet, The so-called father of the EU, wrote of the outbreak of the Korean war in 1950: "the Federation of Europe would have to become an immediate objective. Army would have to be placed… under joint sovereignty. We could no longer wait, as we had once planned, for political Europe to be the culminating point of a gradual process, since its joint defense was inconceivable without a joint authority.…"(<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">7</span>)</p><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="3bfece20-8e79-4d50-9dbb-dbf3eb8d925b" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-3bfece20-8e79-4d50-9dbb-dbf3eb8d925b" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><h2 aria-label="Block: Heading" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-heading rich-text" data-block="6150b2ee-a1da-42ff-9119-14e3ba472490" data-title="Heading" data-type="core/heading" id="block-6150b2ee-a1da-42ff-9119-14e3ba472490" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: revert; font-weight: revert; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">"The existence of an EU army, depriving the constituent nations of their own defense and wrapping them in the foreign policy of the EU, powerfully demonstrates that free trade was a pretense."</em></h2><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="12e7864a-0206-47b3-a01d-303d8c74737f" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-12e7864a-0206-47b3-a01d-303d8c74737f" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="26cdbde3-7745-47ed-8a15-6bc6cd1e9cd5" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-26cdbde3-7745-47ed-8a15-6bc6cd1e9cd5" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">For 50 years the Federalists pretended that the EU (and its predecessors) was no more than a trading bloc and that the acquisition of more power was only to promote free trade. The existence of an EU army, depriving the constituent nations of their own defense and wrapping them in the foreign policy of the EU, powerfully demonstrates that free trade was a pretense.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="523872e4-bd16-4584-90e6-fb142a6dff1f" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-523872e4-bd16-4584-90e6-fb142a6dff1f" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">The new reality is a new country called "Europe."</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="9f07af77-6c60-48b4-8468-91283d58bdc7" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-9f07af77-6c60-48b4-8468-91283d58bdc7" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Monnet's “gradual process" has already achieve the supremacy of EU law over national law, with the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg as the ultimate court of appeal. Trade farming and fishing are controlled from Brussels,; No individual country can sign a treaty, which means, for example, that only the EU can negotiate at the World Trade Organization (WTO); and foreign-policy, taxation, and national finances are already heavily circumscribed. Both an EU wide criminal justice system and an EU wide police force, which will eventually run all national police forces, are well on the way.(<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">8</span>)</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="fdf939d2-23e0-4c8f-a2f5-764cbe4e84f3" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-fdf939d2-23e0-4c8f-a2f5-764cbe4e84f3" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">This long process of integration has been notable by the absence of any democratic choice. The origins of the EU can be traced directly to chance meetings at the 1919 peace conference at the end of the first world war. A small group of largely British and American elites kept in touch and developed ideas for a united Europe while waiting for any chance to start the process. The first attempt, the Franco-Anglo Union, took place in the dark days of 1940s when German armies were overrunning Europe. It failed. The second try was the Council of Europe which Britain deliberately reduced to talking shop by 1950. Finally, the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) of six countries began in 1952, with the unelected Jean Monnet at its head. That, too, was nearly stillborn because of the Korean War. While the ECSC report purported to be a trading alliance, it could levy taxes and was responsible to a supranational assembly and a European Court of Justice. It was an embryonic state.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="a3e39ca5-6ba1-4ece-9677-1ba2eca6e8ba" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-a3e39ca5-6ba1-4ece-9677-1ba2eca6e8ba" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">A further push with the Treaty of Rome in 1957 turned the ECSC into the European Economic Community (EEC), embracing all economic activity, not just coal and steel. Over 40 years later, the 15 countries of the European Union may enlarge to 28 countries. Even Russia is waiting in the wings. (<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">9</span>)</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="080dc0a0-828e-4e59-b69d-c8215fc96797" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-080dc0a0-828e-4e59-b69d-c8215fc96797" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">There is still a hole at the center of the EU jigsaw. The EU does not have a legal personality; therefore, it is not a state. An EU constitution is likely to be high on the agenda at the 2004 intergovernmental conference. These conferences always precede the next amendment to the fundamental EU document, the Treaty of Rome.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="2ef46d7c-0dd7-4170-8f59-90f60663886c" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-2ef46d7c-0dd7-4170-8f59-90f60663886c" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Progress toward one state has been made by a ratchet technique-small advances that only specialist watchers might appreciate for what they really are. Direct assaults on national independence are avoided. Some countries have held referendums on treaty changes. Most infamous where the two Danish referendums on the Maastricht Treaty. The Danes voted “no” in June 1992 and were promptly told they had to vote again. Less than a year later, and with substantial bribery and bullying; “You will lose your job if you vote no”—the Danes voted"Yes."</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="d4bbdfed-f287-4680-b36a-952141e9ed9b" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-d4bbdfed-f287-4680-b36a-952141e9ed9b" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">In every treaty is the term “irrevocable." The idea that the movement toward a single European state is inevitable is a constant refrain. Legally speaking, no treaty is irrevocable, and in the words of the old tag, only death and taxes are inevitable. Yet this propaganda is constant.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="45e37096-e2b2-46aa-9887-4ba444f1b745" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-45e37096-e2b2-46aa-9887-4ba444f1b745" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">As a former French Foreign Secretary admitted: “The Europe of Maastricht could only have been created in the absence of democracy." (<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">10</span>)</p><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="6d45e90d-ee33-41ce-8b55-e99f603df939" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-6d45e90d-ee33-41ce-8b55-e99f603df939" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><h2 aria-label="Block: Heading" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-heading rich-text" data-block="a84ab3b3-378f-491b-a599-2a851db5f07f" data-title="Heading" data-type="core/heading" id="block-a84ab3b3-378f-491b-a599-2a851db5f07f" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: revert; font-weight: revert; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">"In 1984 (some might well remember George Orwell's 1984), an inner group of EU countries agreed that there should be a greater “European consciousness" to overwhelm national feeling, and they set up the Committee for a People’s Europe to do just that. The committee created a "pretend" country."</em></h2><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="e48b5860-11b5-4fbc-bcf5-fdb0dcf156fe" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-e48b5860-11b5-4fbc-bcf5-fdb0dcf156fe" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="e40502e2-99f2-4072-86be-8ec2576f1802" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-e40502e2-99f2-4072-86be-8ec2576f1802" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Propaganda has been keen to oil the wheels of integration. In 1984 (some might well remember George Orwell's 1984), an inner group of EU countries agreed that there should be a greater “European consciousness" to overwhelm national feeling, and they set up the Committee for a People’s Europe to do just that. The committee created a "pretend" country.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="98b92234-146e-483f-a09e-bde442eabb08" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-98b92234-146e-483f-a09e-bde442eabb08" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">As a result, the EU flag of 12 stars on a blue background flies over the new 132 "embassies”—diplomatically called “delegations”—around the world and over its capital city, Brussels; the EU anthem, <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Ode to Joy</em> from Beethoven's ninth Symphony, is frequently played in Brussels with the EU Commissioners standing to attention; every country has adopted the red EU passport; EU drivers licenses are being introduced; and 2002, the currents the EU currency, the euro, replaced the individual currencies of all EU countries except Denmark, Sweden, and Britain.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="4410b08b-3733-4d5c-be1c-5f212f319c23" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-4410b08b-3733-4d5c-be1c-5f212f319c23" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Brussels is even using religion to promote its political agenda. Some estimates suggest the European commission's program “A Soul for Europe" has given over 38 million to pro-EU projects throughout Europe. Applicants for grants must "promote the integration of Europe" and "publicly acknowledge that assistance has been received from the EU." Though supposedly to set up to promote the religious and spiritual aspects of a unified Europe “Soul for Europe" literature doesn't mention the scriptures; this is strictly political.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="cfa459b1-ec55-4a8d-990c-811bd873c293" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-cfa459b1-ec55-4a8d-990c-811bd873c293" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">The Vatican sees advantages in backing the EU. To promote a Europe in which Catholicism might dominate, the Vatican has pursued EU integration from at least the early 1940s and mainly in secret. (<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">11</span>)The first six members of the EEC are largely Catholic countries.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="7cae1d7f-6e77-4d2b-b4b2-c8c074d2912f" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-7cae1d7f-6e77-4d2b-b4b2-c8c074d2912f" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">The Vatican is now taking a more public stance. The Rome Synod of October 1999 declared that it is necessary to "pursue, with courage and urgency, the process of European integration." Two months later, the Vatican began the canonization process for the so-called "founding fathers of Europe" from Germany, Italy, and France: Konrad Adenauer, Alcide de Gasperi, and Robert Schuman.</p><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="887d907b-df0a-4df8-a6f2-9c8ff506fb5f" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-887d907b-df0a-4df8-a6f2-9c8ff506fb5f" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><h2 aria-label="Block: Heading" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-heading rich-text" data-block="490e31eb-251e-4aec-80cc-be69b7909cdf" data-title="Heading" data-type="core/heading" id="block-490e31eb-251e-4aec-80cc-be69b7909cdf" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: revert; font-weight: revert; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">"No government dependent upon a democratic vote could possibly agree in advance to the sacrifices which any adequate plan must involve. The people must be led slowly and unconsciously into the abandonment of their traditional economic defenses, not asked, in advance of having received any of the benefits which will accrue to them from the plan to make changes of which they may not it first recognize the advantages to themselves…"</em></h2><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="f41e1fca-628a-4488-8c1f-214879ddb92d" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-f41e1fca-628a-4488-8c1f-214879ddb92d" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="49d4092f-b618-4653-b31c-ff532fbd7a65" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-49d4092f-b618-4653-b31c-ff532fbd7a65" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">In the first 50 years of political integration, it was easy to disguise what was really happening beneath an economic cloak. As a British conservative MP wrote in 1947 (while praising the good Adolph Hitler had done to make Europe one economic unit): "No government dependent upon a democratic vote could possibly agree in advance to the sacrifices which any adequate plan must involve. The people must be led slowly and unconsciously into the abandonment of their traditional economic defenses, not asked, in advance of having received any of the benefits which will accrue to them from the plan to make changes of which they may not it first recognize the advantages to themselves…" (<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">12</span>)</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="0e039a5c-cc9e-4bdd-afbc-63ecbdbf0af9" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-0e039a5c-cc9e-4bdd-afbc-63ecbdbf0af9" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Once the police and the Armed Forces were to be combined into multinational units, with one justice system, including local EU courts, disguising the true ends would be difficult. Local opposition could even imperil the enterprise.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="3cf25835-14ee-4740-8f51-2b798a0e4467" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-3cf25835-14ee-4740-8f51-2b798a0e4467" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">The EU is now poised at a critical stage. It's true nature is emerging from the shadows.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="32113062-5010-4731-bc56-1bf9ce1a88e3" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-32113062-5010-4731-bc56-1bf9ce1a88e3" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">At this late stage, political union had to be achieved quickly before serious opposition—even rebellion—could appear, so an inner core of countries is essential. Rules were included in the net in the Nice treaty for five or more countries to accelerate to full union common, leaving the others to catch up later. France and Germany, the two countries that have led the integration process since the beginning, say that full union can be achieved by 2010.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="4ae7a7c0-4f3f-4553-a9e9-7a4710ee9b9c" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-4ae7a7c0-4f3f-4553-a9e9-7a4710ee9b9c" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Democracy has been largely conspicuous by it's absence in the creation of the EU, and the EU is not run as a democracy. The government of the EU, though not yet an name, is the unelected European commission in Brussels. At its heart is the tension between the Commission and the only institution representing the nation-states against the centrifugal power of the EU-The Council of ministers. </p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="3737d1b5-a50d-4f89-9271-942b3a570f79" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-3737d1b5-a50d-4f89-9271-942b3a570f79" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Steadily, the nations are losing their powers to the Commission, as the national veto decreases Treaty by treaty. Politicians wrote in 1998: "It is therefore necessary and legitimate for participating countries to take part in each other’s domestic debate.… it is not interference in their internal affairs, of which the number is in any case constantly diminishing." (<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">13</span>)</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="2a71b433-034d-4914-8d36-8025f7588c86" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-2a71b433-034d-4914-8d36-8025f7588c86" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Once in Brussels, the 20 commissioners are independent of their "home" government, or in the words of Lady Thatcher: “They go native." Each commissioner swears “[t]o perform my duties incomplete independence, in the general interest other communities; in carrying out my duties, neither to seek, nor to take, instruction from any government…" (<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">14</span>) About a third of them are former national ministers; governments usually send to Brussels those they regard as politically dispensable. Others have been diplomats or International civil servants.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="696220c8-1c4f-4ae5-a9b9-400e21997eb7" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-696220c8-1c4f-4ae5-a9b9-400e21997eb7" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Nearly 30,000 civil servants (i.e., Eurocrats) back them, though this is still not enough to run such a huge empire. When plans were laid for the present EU in the late 1940s, the College of Bruges solved the problem of a massive and highly visible central bureaucracy. The college suggested a takeover of national civil services.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="f498223e-5956-4568-9e34-5010a79899b9" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-f498223e-5956-4568-9e34-5010a79899b9" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">This clever scheme meant that national opposition would not be aroused; it was erosion from within. A passerby would see the same old government buildings, but inside civil service would be shutting one master, the national government, in favor of Brussels. To facilitate the process, Brussels encouraged civil servants to sit on Brussels committees. This committee system has further subverted democracy. A British parliamentary select committee deplored: "In most cases the only scrutiny of the commissions implementing measures is that undertaken by national civil service in the [Brussels] committees. In practice there is little action in European or national parliaments.…" (<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">15</span>)</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="a2448081-adb9-4421-9192-cbdfee5a5080" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-a2448081-adb9-4421-9192-cbdfee5a5080" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">So today, unseen by the general population, over 250 EU EU communities and influence the way every country is governed. Out of the public eye, National civil servants horse-trade their way to consensus positions on subjects of which their mastery may be limited or nonexistent. The result is thousands of directives a year, often poorly drafted and inappropriate, replacing national legislation. </p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="291db085-057f-438e-b940-762272dad062" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-291db085-057f-438e-b940-762272dad062" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">A best guess is that about 80% of all legislation going through the British houses of parliament nearly rubber stamps Brussels's directives. On additional 3000 of Brussels's regulations are enacted every year by civil servants without any democratic scrutiny whatsoever. It is government by decree.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="5715eb28-b094-43a7-a636-740446a0eaed" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-5715eb28-b094-43a7-a636-740446a0eaed" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">If that were not a sufficient destroyer of democracy, the EU has set up a charade of a parliament with EU-wide parties, or as the Treaty of Rome has it: "Political parties at European level are important as a factor for integration within the union. They contribute to forming a European awareness and to expressing the political will of the citizens of the Union." (<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">16</span>)</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="93793538-5a46-4662-b2ec-532caa6d7c30" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-93793538-5a46-4662-b2ec-532caa6d7c30" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">The European Parliament started in 1951 with nominated members until the first elections were held in 1979. Each member of European Parliament (MEP) represents a very large number of people common, Few of who can actually named their representative. Any EU citizen can vote where ever he happens to be, and national nationality no longer counts. The 626 members of the parliament are elected by proportional representation (PR) every five years.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="6120d632-2d68-412b-bc5e-80aa6963bfdb" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-6120d632-2d68-412b-bc5e-80aa6963bfdb" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">PR voting is a clever way to divide and rule. Votes are not for an individual but for a party. The party chooses candidates, listing them in order of their importance to the party. The number of seats a party wins is proportional to the number of votes cast for that party.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="79d5f391-3e2f-478e-884e-9dff4d3ef360" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-79d5f391-3e2f-478e-884e-9dff4d3ef360" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">The usual result of a PR election is a compromise. No one party has a majority, and government becomes merely a theater of bartering and horse-trading as coalitions form and reform.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="ef313e30-5063-4aa8-bdb6-1965d0d8a872" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-ef313e30-5063-4aa8-bdb6-1965d0d8a872" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">The European Parliament has virtually no powers; it follows the Latin tradition of legitimizing the decisions of the unelected Commission. It has no similarity to parliaments based on the Westminster principle, such as the British and Commonwealth parliaments or the US Congress.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="d3f16325-3a53-4fef-96f2-44670cb3ab1b" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-d3f16325-3a53-4fef-96f2-44670cb3ab1b" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">All major decisions are decided by deals between the leaders of the party groups, and MVPs cannot initiate or repeal legislation; they only amend or reject proposals submitted by the commission.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="951a4464-fabd-46e8-bab1-c09c39d12bae" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-951a4464-fabd-46e8-bab1-c09c39d12bae" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">The European Parliament is like a medieval court: MEPs and their offices are constantly on the move, carrying all their files with them. The Secretariat is divided between Brussels and Luxembourg. MEPs are often absent because of the peripatetic nature of the Parliament and the technical nature most of the work as the EU extends its re-met into the smallest nook and cranny of everyday life. But day (like that Eurocrats) are financially well rewarded with excellent pensions and other perks.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="2207adc2-837f-48bf-afe2-9499c3c2ff12" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-2207adc2-837f-48bf-afe2-9499c3c2ff12" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Free speech is rationed. The time an MEP may speak in debates is allocated among the party groups according to the numbers in each group. A member of a small party has only 1 1/2 minutes to make his point in the debate before his microphone is automatically cut off.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="6cc0451e-d380-44e6-a3d0-85ce32ad590d" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-6cc0451e-d380-44e6-a3d0-85ce32ad590d" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">MEPs vote on commission proposals by following numbers on the list and pressing a button 100 to 300 times in an hour, allowing perhaps 10 seconds for each vote. They have trouble trying to follow the voting list, which will only have been available for a few hours and is published in French.</p><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="ec3f684e-6d3e-47b6-a0b4-a16bdfa06f7e" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-ec3f684e-6d3e-47b6-a0b4-a16bdfa06f7e" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><h2 aria-label="Block: Heading" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-heading rich-text" data-block="7e2fecb0-932f-475b-84be-17e05b2ccef2" data-title="Heading" data-type="core/heading" id="block-7e2fecb0-932f-475b-84be-17e05b2ccef2" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: revert; font-weight: revert; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">"Some British MEPs voting 300 times in a two hour session, inadvertently agreed to </em>corpus juris<em style="box-sizing: inherit;"> effectively abolishing the British criminal justice system common, including trial by jury and </em>habeas corpus<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">."</em></h2><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="c3a988df-66fa-4021-8473-80caf5fd6b36" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-c3a988df-66fa-4021-8473-80caf5fd6b36" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="8c299b84-6cd7-41e1-a630-e7340e18d665" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-8c299b84-6cd7-41e1-a630-e7340e18d665" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Mistakes are easily made. Some British MEPs voting 300 times in a two hour session, inadvertently agreed to <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">corpus juris</em> effectively abolishing the British criminal justice system common, including trial by jury and <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">habeas corpus</em>.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="7d4e2d78-15d8-4053-afa3-4e66d6ae0c55" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-7d4e2d78-15d8-4053-afa3-4e66d6ae0c55" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Even worse, an absent MEP is taken to have voted for this motion.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="ab149dd6-64bd-4a20-aa66-d2e847ae9ad9" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-ab149dd6-64bd-4a20-aa66-d2e847ae9ad9" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">European parties, without any country links, will become the norm.. All “recognized" party groups are funded from the parliamentary budget according to the size of the group.(<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">17</span>) The corollary must be that parties which are not "recognized" will be closed down.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="93d2836a-282b-4678-93fc-8fcb0e7afa1f" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-93d2836a-282b-4678-93fc-8fcb0e7afa1f" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">With such a lack of democracy, it is important to watch for signs that the new state may crush any dissent. Every nation has a treason law holding individuals to account for offenses against the state. So far treason in the EU has not been explicitly mentioned, but the EU set up a European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia in Vienna in 1998.(<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">18</span>) according to the Pan-EU party of European socialists, “Right-wing populism is one of the major dangers to the European experiment… by attacking the European integration and its alleged damage to nation states.…right-wing populism can use a new face of nationalism… this new populist nationalism is also displayed in anti-European rhetoric, blaming Brussels for all kinds of economic, political and social problems.”(<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">19</span>)</p><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="25704d64-8e3a-4290-bfd8-63e31c68856c" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-25704d64-8e3a-4290-bfd8-63e31c68856c" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><h2 aria-label="Block: Heading" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-heading rich-text" data-block="5fb8c201-ffa9-42e6-b518-008fea08cbd5" data-title="Heading" data-type="core/heading" id="block-5fb8c201-ffa9-42e6-b518-008fea08cbd5" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: revert; font-weight: revert; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">"The EU can cancel a country's voting and other undefined rights but leave it with all its obligations, including payments to Brussels and the enforcement of EU laws. Such a country would be reduced to a colony."</em></h2><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="4aca9c50-d9c2-4dce-a0cf-8f42f3a60831" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-4aca9c50-d9c2-4dce-a0cf-8f42f3a60831" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="18bbff6d-f123-41e7-886c-880185c6e058" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-18bbff6d-f123-41e7-886c-880185c6e058" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">The EU has already taken action against the country. The EU can cancel a country's voting and other undefined rights but leave it with all its obligations, including payments to Brussels and the enforcement of EU laws. Such a country would be reduced to a colony.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="9e330b5e-56c7-478d-b464-31f0f8d3aff2" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-9e330b5e-56c7-478d-b464-31f0f8d3aff2" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">The first case was Austria. Following a free and democratic election in February two thousand, with the conservative People's Party. In a move which sent shock waves around the world, the other 14 EU countries promptly sanctioned Austria, claiming the freedom party was fascist.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="13cf7e6f-9491-41dd-abc8-9709d8ee3748" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-13cf7e6f-9491-41dd-abc8-9709d8ee3748" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">In retaliation the Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel, set a deadline for the EU to end sanctions against Austria; otherwise he would pull Austrians for their endorsement of using”all suitable means" against the EU, which would have derailed the Treaty of Nice. The EU immediately appointed three "wisemen" to find a face-savings solution. Sanctions were duly lifted.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="492973e2-fef9-42a6-9e49-6112995208e7" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-492973e2-fef9-42a6-9e49-6112995208e7" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">After the Austrian debacle one British MEP asked in the European Parliament if anti-EU parties should be banned.(20) many MVPs shouted,"Yes." The EU's attack on Austria may be just the beginning. The Nice treaty strengthens the provisions of Article 7, under which Austria was sanctioned. Only two-thirds of the member states (i.e.,10) would be needed to ban a country, so even if the victim country had an ally or two, it would not be enough to save it from colony status. It will be even easier for the EU to gang up on one country, saying it is violating the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and the rule of law. Those principles are open to any interpretation: who's law and whose freedoms?</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="79d004f6-eecb-4acc-b2bc-e28c5baa3ce6" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-79d004f6-eecb-4acc-b2bc-e28c5baa3ce6" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Even worse, to attract a ban, a country may not have to violate the vague EU principles; it may merely pose "the threat of such a breach." Again, that is open to interpretation.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="a4a5264b-71a6-4b12-9063-8c92bea91c04" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-a4a5264b-71a6-4b12-9063-8c92bea91c04" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">If countries and parties might be banned, what about newspapers, books, magazines, even television and radio stations? The only evidence to emerge so far that this could be in the cards is the case of Bernard Connolly, a former head of the EU commission unit for "EMS, national and community monetary policies."</p><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="40118826-0198-41e9-90fd-58db405bf84c" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-40118826-0198-41e9-90fd-58db405bf84c" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><h2 aria-label="Block: Heading" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-heading rich-text" data-block="1fba08a3-4a08-4144-850c-c5aa7abe1fb3" data-title="Heading" data-type="core/heading" id="block-1fba08a3-4a08-4144-850c-c5aa7abe1fb3" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: revert; font-weight: revert; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">"In the European Court of Justice on October 19, 2000, the EU’s Advocate-General surprisingly argued that Connolly's book, </em>The Rotten Heart Of Europe<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">, an academic analysis of monetary union, was akin to the publication of a blasphemous work. Since blasphemy could be punished under the European Convention on Human Rights, then a punishment was permissible for "blaspheming" against Europe."</em></h2><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="cec9d26e-5f8a-49a5-866a-33c3b8e8fa9d" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-cec9d26e-5f8a-49a5-866a-33c3b8e8fa9d" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="9804a222-df9d-497f-9bc3-30de6636893e" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-9804a222-df9d-497f-9bc3-30de6636893e" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">In the European Court of Justice on October 19, 2000, the EU’s Advocate-General surprisingly argued that Connolly's book, <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Rotten Heart Of Europe</em>, an academic analysis of monetary union, was akin to the publication of a blasphemous work. Since blasphemy could be punished under the European Convention on Human Rights, then a punishment was permissible for "blaspheming" against Europe.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="efb16de7-50af-4d89-8830-7c80de79c327" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-efb16de7-50af-4d89-8830-7c80de79c327" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">A further hint came at a conference in 2000" Media and Democracy" when the European Socialist Party (PES) proposed a European Communications Authority. Such an authority could "recognize" journalists, fund programs, and exert EU control over the media.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="b1835277-616c-4216-9b51-607d0693575f" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-b1835277-616c-4216-9b51-607d0693575f" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">The EU commission is not only emasculating the power of each state, but it has divided it to the 15 EU countries into 111 regions. All EU regions are described in the same way—for example, as “London in Europe”—thus abolishing the name of the country and making clear that it is not free or independent.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="d5ea6902-b8ae-4ded-998d-db6aa8e64803" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-d5ea6902-b8ae-4ded-998d-db6aa8e64803" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Each region is in the process of acquiring an elected assembly and a development agency with the same boundaries as the European parliamentary constituencies. Their remits include regional planning, transport, and increasing regional ownership, economic development, agriculture, energy, and waste, all to fit in with the EU planning and funding. All have offices in Brussels.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="30a4563f-aadc-4324-87cd-43857bb071b1" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-30a4563f-aadc-4324-87cd-43857bb071b1" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Each region sends two representatives to the EU’s Committee of the regions "representing" the people in Brussels. A second committee of 222 people,, the Economic and Social Committee, entrenches lobby groups in the EU, such as employers's groups, trade unions, farmers, consumer associations, charities, and family groups.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="6621ff56-d62e-4126-8d66-d196e8e9d930" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-6621ff56-d62e-4126-8d66-d196e8e9d930" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Both committees are no more than Brussels wallpaper, but they have created a new political class in every EU country, an inner group to match the new political class in Brussels. Many local officials have reacted enthusiastically to more power and links with other regions in the EU. A few who have benefited financially in a substantial manner. Not surprisingly, they are eager apostles for "more" EU. It may not occur to them that this destroys the nation-state.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="bd6988ab-c1c3-46c0-8ba7-e65520c48a38" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-bd6988ab-c1c3-46c0-8ba7-e65520c48a38" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">What will the future role of the national parliaments be when all the regional "governments" are fully operational? The EU is silent on this point, and the assumption must be that they will fade into obscurity, as decisions are made in Brussels and rubberstamped in the EU regions.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="1fb19b4a-b830-49f4-8db4-b0170046ac3d" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-1fb19b4a-b830-49f4-8db4-b0170046ac3d" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">The commission has invented even larger areas, Euro-Regions, linking places which have never in recorded history been united or which once belong to a neighboring country, deliberately reopening old wounds. The EU funds television and radio to broadcast across these borders, to build a new identity, although many locals switch off their sets.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="706dc49b-9727-4b82-9613-de179704420f" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-706dc49b-9727-4b82-9613-de179704420f" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Part of the British Southeast's "link" across 70 miles of sea with the French area of Haute-Normandy and Picardy. Germany, abutting eight countries, has Euro-Regions enveloping neighboring lands once claimed by Germany. For example, Rhine-Maas, A German-speaking area of Belgium, is joined with part of Germany; and Southern Jutland in Denmark is linked with Schleswig and Holstein in northern Germany, which the Germans conquered in the war of 1864.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="ec33ad46-e248-44d5-8ba0-23475e1ee697" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-ec33ad46-e248-44d5-8ba0-23475e1ee697" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">The EU plans by 2004 all "internal" border controls will be abolished and one outer EU border set up. A huge border police force is being built up. From 2001, the German and Italian governments exchanged border troops as a vanguard of an EU force to secure the EU’s outer frontiers after the next wave of enlargement to the east.</p><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="6a61f8d5-edc4-4b7e-8220-419bb6c938fe" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-6a61f8d5-edc4-4b7e-8220-419bb6c938fe" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><h2 aria-label="Block: Heading" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-heading rich-text" data-block="37a7f583-dca9-46de-8da2-2a41ff6e93be" data-title="Heading" data-type="core/heading" id="block-37a7f583-dca9-46de-8da2-2a41ff6e93be" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: revert; font-weight: revert; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">"While the EU is outlawing most national differences, from imperial weights and measures (anyone selling an pounds and ounces is now a criminal) to currencies and legal systems, it is promoting other local differences at great cost. This can only be part of its deliberate policy to divide and rule."</em></h2><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="f763184d-1682-4ada-8b86-9677d5e98cad" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-f763184d-1682-4ada-8b86-9677d5e98cad" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="da34ca5a-dd11-4521-a554-e56ea3a9e4fa" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-da34ca5a-dd11-4521-a554-e56ea3a9e4fa" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">While the EU is outlawing most national differences, from imperial weights and measures (anyone selling an pounds and ounces is now a criminal) to currencies and legal systems, it is promoting other local differences at great cost. This can only be part of its deliberate policy to divide and rule.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="300906b0-c813-431f-82e1-1a9a9f8f8067" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-300906b0-c813-431f-82e1-1a9a9f8f8067" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">English, the world's leading language, is spoken by half of the EU, yet the signatory countries to the charter of minority languages of 1992 agreed to promote regional or minority languages. Across Europe there are over 100 languages, usually around national borders, reflecting Europe's checkered past. Most of them had virtually died out by 1600. In a bizarre move to reverse this historical trend, within one generation and with EU money, much of local life may once again be carried out in these languages.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="7ae70f05-acf6-40d0-a65c-5dc9db94e719" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-7ae70f05-acf6-40d0-a65c-5dc9db94e719" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Insistence on the use of minority languages, especially in educating children, will ensure that the locality is isolated and limit the opportunities for people in the wider world. It will make them second-class citizens and easier to control. All regional assemblies will have multiple translation services, each will further reduce their effectiveness.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="4aa741ef-7bf7-4f60-8ec7-212b5b38f818" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-4aa741ef-7bf7-4f60-8ec7-212b5b38f818" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">The EU, which describes itself as a Tower of Babel, already has 11 official languages, which causes confusion and vast expense with every document translated and every speech interpreted. On enlargement the number will shoot up again. Germany is already promoting German to become the EU official language, reducing English to minority status.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="7a5eb570-c296-4382-96d6-a61236e5ef07" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-7a5eb570-c296-4382-96d6-a61236e5ef07" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Why is it that so many countries have queued to join the EU? The answer, Simply put, is money. Only a few countries are net contributors to the use funds (is by far the largest), and most get more than their own money back but naturally only to find EU-Approved projects. And surprisingly few politicians across Europe understand the EU’s undemocratic nature.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="61a2b89b-8668-46e6-8900-1cb5ae1b5cce" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-61a2b89b-8668-46e6-8900-1cb5ae1b5cce" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">The EU’s superstructure is already in place. Enlargement to include countries of Eastern Europe is on track for 2006. The dividing rule policy, actively pursued for years, is accelerating. Strong national governments are being replaced with weak regional assemblies speaking a of languages and reporting directly to Brussels. The EU inner core, led by Germany and France, is gaining strength and may have the power to advance to one country by 2010.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="0285a875-655b-47ac-b8bf-28423bb34efa" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-0285a875-655b-47ac-b8bf-28423bb34efa" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">If so, the United States of Europe will have arrived. It will not be a democracy but a dictatorship. Unless there is rebellion, the world may become an even more unstable place.</p><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="f9300a13-c261-45b2-a222-91f927bbc3e8" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-f9300a13-c261-45b2-a222-91f927bbc3e8" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; 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start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="4575c05c-342f-481f-b64d-4144dd4a48ba" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-4575c05c-342f-481f-b64d-4144dd4a48ba" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 0; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="d40d8d59-4314-477e-adbf-c27ab5a43c99" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-d40d8d59-4314-477e-adbf-c27ab5a43c99" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 0; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="5f03af91-3aaf-4ff6-96bd-7bd7469db3cd" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-5f03af91-3aaf-4ff6-96bd-7bd7469db3cd" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Endnotes</span></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="bc0327c2-abf9-4ab8-abbd-1ee8dca0750b" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-bc0327c2-abf9-4ab8-abbd-1ee8dca0750b" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">1. The European Union is currently compile comprised of Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Finland, and Sweden.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="355cfca7-2b0a-4d72-8b10-620fb9f830fc" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-355cfca7-2b0a-4d72-8b10-620fb9f830fc" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">2. letter to the daily telegraph(London) 13 June 2001.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="ee8731c4-a428-485a-aa2d-3d17c0f49a07" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-ee8731c4-a428-485a-aa2d-3d17c0f49a07" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">3. Chatham House lecture in London.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="1fc464aa-7139-43fa-b018-c7d4eb0a91b8" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-1fc464aa-7139-43fa-b018-c7d4eb0a91b8" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">4. Independent (London) for February 2000.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="3908f90c-2905-4859-a45b-d6769d7cef05" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-3908f90c-2905-4859-a45b-d6769d7cef05" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">5. Quoted in Mayne, Richard et al. The Federal Union: The Pioneers. London: Macmillan, 1990.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="1afd4bce-4646-41f1-bf59-2cffb6e86dd8" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-1afd4bce-4646-41f1-bf59-2cffb6e86dd8" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">6. From a Kansas State University lecture, 15 March 1999.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="029791f9-c365-4db6-8f31-9f12907c6c54" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-029791f9-c365-4db6-8f31-9f12907c6c54" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">7. Monnet, Jean. Memoirs. Trans. Richard Mayne. London: William Collins and Son Ltd., 1976 (Author’s italics)</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="b8402690-7bf5-4143-968b-1e2cafba5936" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-b8402690-7bf5-4143-968b-1e2cafba5936" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">8. For a review of how far national governments have already been abolished, see Jinkins, Lindsey. The last days of Britain: The final betrayal. Orange State press, 2001</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="6edaab2c-2194-4620-b084-5140a0a135e6" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-6edaab2c-2194-4620-b084-5140a0a135e6" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">9. For the history of who created the EU and Y, C Jenkins, Lindsey. Britain held hostage, the calming euro-dictatorship. Second ED. Orange State press, 1998</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="9387a670-aa31-4721-8e3a-afd09b4ca9d4" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-9387a670-aa31-4721-8e3a-afd09b4ca9d4" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">10. Clause Cheysson.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="e42674d3-1fec-44c5-9d04-4fc5266ce11c" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-e42674d3-1fec-44c5-9d04-4fc5266ce11c" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">11. For the early history, sea Cornwall, John. Hitler's Pope: The secret history of Pious XII. New York: Viking press, 1999.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="93360b35-f004-48e2-bd58-abd0728c2e37" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-93360b35-f004-48e2-bd58-abd0728c2e37" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">12. Booklet published in 1947 under the banner"Design for freedom" Whose 24 members were mainly conservative MPs led by Peter Thorneycroft.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="090811ef-1f08-4c49-8c89-2ea0597fd268" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-090811ef-1f08-4c49-8c89-2ea0597fd268" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">13. Dr. Schauble and Karl Lamers in a CDU/CSU paper.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="46298a61-95df-42a6-ba24-f5384a6292e3" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-46298a61-95df-42a6-ba24-f5384a6292e3" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">14. Treaty of Rome, article 157.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="cf310a6f-e5ab-4918-b533-7e87a02ed56d" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-cf310a6f-e5ab-4918-b533-7e87a02ed56d" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">15. Extracts from the House of Lords select committee on European communities third report, delegation of powers to the commission: reforming Cosmetology, 2 Feb 1999.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="e8e6be1c-3eee-430d-b594-d8185129d344" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-e8e6be1c-3eee-430d-b594-d8185129d344" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">16. Treaty of Rome, article 191.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="3d53a7cf-b339-41f9-9762-0a39f36f45b6" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-3d53a7cf-b339-41f9-9762-0a39f36f45b6" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">17. Nice Treaty, article 191.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="e3f3991a-bdff-4dab-a113-e5603e0ce177" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-e3f3991a-bdff-4dab-a113-e5603e0ce177" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">18. Amsterdam treaty, article 29, title V I.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="7b8a857f-1eb8-4dc6-9641-e06e6ce6a3de" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-7b8a857f-1eb8-4dc6-9641-e06e6ce6a3de" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">19. A discussion paper produced for the Bern roundtable of the PES, July 2000.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="cbe81160-15ff-4670-bf43-a8df7f69324e" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-cbe81160-15ff-4670-bf43-a8df7f69324e" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">20. Jeffery Titfod, a UKIP MEP.</p>Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-43876906536767590192021-08-05T01:02:00.001-04:002021-08-05T01:02:24.884-04:00Will You?<p> </p><figure aria-label="Block: Image" class="block-editor-block-list__block wp-block size-large wp-block-image" data-block="2fed6bfe-0877-45c7-82d0-8519bb919b49" data-title="Image" data-type="core/image" id="block-2fed6bfe-0877-45c7-82d0-8519bb919b49" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 28px auto; max-width: 840px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative;" tabindex="0"><div class="components-resizable-box__container" style="border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; flex-shrink: 0; height: auto; max-height: 1905.14px; max-width: 1450px; min-height: 26.2778px; 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line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">When it comes for you</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="04f0c790-a981-410d-a810-42ee805ce6d5" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-04f0c790-a981-410d-a810-42ee805ce6d5" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">will you?</p><p aria-label="Empty block; 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box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Breathing in bodily</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="fe91be31-7ab9-44c6-b573-2fb7ac28f4bc" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-fe91be31-7ab9-44c6-b573-2fb7ac28f4bc" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">will you feel how it is aroused</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="e80f6992-cc9b-49cd-8761-9a34b3e5da16" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-e80f6992-cc9b-49cd-8761-9a34b3e5da16" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">in you?</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="9abcdce2-da56-4964-9044-8b183bdd161e" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-9abcdce2-da56-4964-9044-8b183bdd161e" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">This divine spark kindled;</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="a7139381-a0c2-441c-90fe-0425bbc957ba" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-a7139381-a0c2-441c-90fe-0425bbc957ba" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">the outer breath</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="3532425a-0b9e-490f-a339-2c982d859fc7" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-3532425a-0b9e-490f-a339-2c982d859fc7" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">meets the breath within breath</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="f307c3ad-2c8a-48e9-b668-55ec9ccf0179" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-f307c3ad-2c8a-48e9-b668-55ec9ccf0179" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">which is "yes"</p><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="64f41453-8f0e-463c-9a34-fb9219805a2a" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-64f41453-8f0e-463c-9a34-fb9219805a2a" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; 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max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 0; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="8957c0af-76a1-46ba-adc9-9bd5f6c7ac77" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-8957c0af-76a1-46ba-adc9-9bd5f6c7ac77" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">But will you?</p><p aria-label="Empty block; 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line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Invigorating</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="8dd2c379-d0ec-4aa3-8f3a-d9600446d8ec" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-8dd2c379-d0ec-4aa3-8f3a-d9600446d8ec" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">vivifying</em></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="e01d9c3b-3325-489b-ad21-3f0f88b18ea0" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-e01d9c3b-3325-489b-ad21-3f0f88b18ea0" role="group" style="background-color: white; 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max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">stepping through death</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="83eb09d9-d08a-4835-add2-50b9188b49ab" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-83eb09d9-d08a-4835-add2-50b9188b49ab" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">without fear</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="b11503c3-539e-46c6-8006-6b9844c3eac7" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-b11503c3-539e-46c6-8006-6b9844c3eac7" role="group" style="background-color: white; 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white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">The old skin falls</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="83cb74ac-043b-4632-8487-7c207dca08ed" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-83cb74ac-043b-4632-8487-7c207dca08ed" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">like the petals of the rose open.</p><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="687b54b5-6dde-455b-9c34-2c31e2996dbc" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-687b54b5-6dde-455b-9c34-2c31e2996dbc" role="group" style="background-color: white; 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line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 0; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="7d2a89bf-903c-43f4-81c9-2280f142785a" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-7d2a89bf-903c-43f4-81c9-2280f142785a" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Prana is not <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">just</em> breath</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="e4d24153-2d3c-4ef1-9bfb-1c9280080a45" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-e4d24153-2d3c-4ef1-9bfb-1c9280080a45" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">but the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">soul</em> of breath</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="37176514-e02e-4b46-81af-4b2e55710828" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-37176514-e02e-4b46-81af-4b2e55710828" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">the poem says: like light distilled form stars</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="72e13469-0447-4bc0-9bcd-fbdac901b1bc" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-72e13469-0447-4bc0-9bcd-fbdac901b1bc" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">an ecstacy beyond all ecstacy. </p><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="4f97f33e-348d-4206-ae74-633d04689ff8" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-4f97f33e-348d-4206-ae74-633d04689ff8" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="cbbf8c56-cd6d-406b-b61f-19ad99515e2e" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-cbbf8c56-cd6d-406b-b61f-19ad99515e2e" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 0; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="278b1d55-1b3b-48a9-b08e-9ab36e3b331a" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-278b1d55-1b3b-48a9-b08e-9ab36e3b331a" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">It breaks the old,</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="7b2528b0-a14c-4d1f-a31d-04e068297dfe" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-7b2528b0-a14c-4d1f-a31d-04e068297dfe" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">a bright red thread revealed,</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="b4a4df6c-7697-47fb-882e-48d4d155b249" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-b4a4df6c-7697-47fb-882e-48d4d155b249" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">soulful purpose</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="10d947f8-b146-45b3-be8d-c4bc795d194a" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-10d947f8-b146-45b3-be8d-c4bc795d194a" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">where divine alignment is found,</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="418afccb-3f2d-4ad3-a417-c1f8092cc9fb" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-418afccb-3f2d-4ad3-a417-c1f8092cc9fb" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">ever sought,</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="2fa4744a-67f6-4ec9-99bb-8d0971256d2b" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-2fa4744a-67f6-4ec9-99bb-8d0971256d2b" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">always aligning in <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">every</em> second</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="5e1ad197-a93a-445a-a085-c3dd21ba62b6" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-5e1ad197-a93a-445a-a085-c3dd21ba62b6" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">it was meant to be this way perhaps</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="b6486238-718d-43a6-b521-abd339ae3463" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-b6486238-718d-43a6-b521-abd339ae3463" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">for those as lost as we...</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="54f267e6-b01b-46da-90a2-b32c3e7b3422" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-54f267e6-b01b-46da-90a2-b32c3e7b3422" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">stumbling on our way to Promise and Paradise</p><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="f62020b5-1e42-47e1-8e2e-04dd0df24b6e" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-f62020b5-1e42-47e1-8e2e-04dd0df24b6e" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; 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user-select: none;"></span></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="bc749fb5-128a-416a-a2e2-6988e5d31321" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-bc749fb5-128a-416a-a2e2-6988e5d31321" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">But will you?</p><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="038673a0-18f3-40ea-86b2-5745dd53e6ee" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-038673a0-18f3-40ea-86b2-5745dd53e6ee" role="group" style="background-color: white; 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line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 0; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="82e6728f-6f1f-446f-b383-a80b17a41c36" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-82e6728f-6f1f-446f-b383-a80b17a41c36" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Will you welcome it?</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="dd4ed2b2-811e-45df-ae74-53412cde782f" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-dd4ed2b2-811e-45df-ae74-53412cde782f" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Like an old friend</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="76ab9cc0-78f2-4f51-b920-316681fe7008" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-76ab9cc0-78f2-4f51-b920-316681fe7008" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">both shipwrecked together </p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="8f685498-54b2-4065-941d-b0f73d7fe616" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-8f685498-54b2-4065-941d-b0f73d7fe616" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">but joyful now to be together,</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="479cfc7a-ad19-4a7a-b48f-b86521faeabd" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-479cfc7a-ad19-4a7a-b48f-b86521faeabd" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">each learning from each...</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="e4c05285-8295-4431-a305-c391cf7e3412" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-e4c05285-8295-4431-a305-c391cf7e3412" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">the god and goddess and the ancestor of that god and goddess</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="eb2e8c08-0536-46ae-a202-2639aaa03f5e" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-eb2e8c08-0536-46ae-a202-2639aaa03f5e" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">reaching forward and back</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="ed75f187-b8ba-43db-a82c-5936e64df10b" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-ed75f187-b8ba-43db-a82c-5936e64df10b" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">as outer breath meets</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="7737b38f-43ff-4eb0-a6b8-b61d9b75a771" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-7737b38f-43ff-4eb0-a6b8-b61d9b75a771" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">the inner breath</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="cbd91210-be79-4a23-845e-c018bfb642e8" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-cbd91210-be79-4a23-845e-c018bfb642e8" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">and the course clarifies as each breath is contemplated</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="63d93611-abb0-4064-959d-5540ebed0942" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-63d93611-abb0-4064-959d-5540ebed0942" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">proven,</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="49c9b027-de07-4946-85cb-4652e2a79b91" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-49c9b027-de07-4946-85cb-4652e2a79b91" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">experienced,</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="05a2e9d9-2225-4a42-ad90-a9f61b6b61c5" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-05a2e9d9-2225-4a42-ad90-a9f61b6b61c5" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">but never fully grasped in totality,</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="ab16b9b6-4ab3-450f-8ef2-9c8a57b8fe70" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-ab16b9b6-4ab3-450f-8ef2-9c8a57b8fe70" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">it's shape and curve pulling you further</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="fcce5b48-57da-45a2-894a-57191c6c6584" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-fcce5b48-57da-45a2-894a-57191c6c6584" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">like a lover...</p><p aria-label="Empty block; start writing or type forward slash to choose a block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="6866ac48-a029-4f3e-89b5-3d03f3182c44" data-empty="true" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-6866ac48-a029-4f3e-89b5-3d03f3182c44" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span contenteditable="false" data-rich-text-placeholder="Type / to choose a block" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; user-select: none;"></span></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="7859f406-4699-4b4f-b706-8c7feada1633" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-7859f406-4699-4b4f-b706-8c7feada1633" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">The end of shame</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="a5c40134-1408-4b1b-819a-c378d55faff7" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-a5c40134-1408-4b1b-819a-c378d55faff7" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">is the beginning of the path.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="c9c860de-d7f5-4bc5-b6bb-65fff9a5a499" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-c9c860de-d7f5-4bc5-b6bb-65fff9a5a499" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Here, excuses fall away</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="c7acf5ae-a725-4187-9f42-9406f28f1d52" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-c7acf5ae-a725-4187-9f42-9406f28f1d52" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">for why creation was anything but perfect</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block is-multi-selected wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="1e374484-a7d5-4859-8da3-b426270ba52c" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-1e374484-a7d5-4859-8da3-b426270ba52c" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">and bliss</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block is-multi-selected wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="25321b97-ddb2-4ea4-8e58-866991c390a6" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-25321b97-ddb2-4ea4-8e58-866991c390a6" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">breath by breath...</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block is-multi-selected wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="3dae02a0-16f5-4365-90d9-3abca1ddb399" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-3dae02a0-16f5-4365-90d9-3abca1ddb399" role="group" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: revert; margin-bottom: revert; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: revert; max-width: 840px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">cracks open the old beliefs</p><div><br /></div>Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-87782820369838292522021-03-22T18:47:00.000-04:002021-03-22T18:47:27.425-04:00Seeking Contributions!<p> I am working on a manuscript about awakening that was being taught in early Christianity. In 1945 archeologists were able to examine and translate a large collection of documents that had been known to exist but that had not been available for study until the discovery of what would come to be known as the Nag Hammadi Library. While these books sent ripples through the Christian community, their importance has not been fully understood by believers and scholars alike. </p><p>The project will cover Christian belief and how the movement evolved over time. The work will show how early Christians had a clear understanding of the phenomenon of awakening. It will also show how this group was sidelined in favor of a different movement we know today to be Christian Orthodoxy. </p><p>The implications of the work are profound. One aspect of the work will be an examination of the awakening experience in a contemporary context. I am putting out a call for those who would like to take part in a chapter in the book that will cover the experience from a Western perspective, showing the full range of this phenomenon. </p><p>To learn more, you can contact me at info@staffordartglass.com for a survey and a possible set of follow-up questions. You can be anonymous if you prefer. Interviews can also be conducted via Skype or Zoom also.</p><p>Regards,</p><p>Parker</p>Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-13057986244880942112021-01-21T20:10:00.001-05:002021-01-21T20:43:02.405-05:00Overcoming Resistance As A Path To Healing<p> </p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://wakingtheinfinite.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/banner.png"><img alt="" class="wp-image-6167" data-attachment-id="6167" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="banner" data-large-file="https://wakingtheinfinite.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/banner.png?w=460" data-medium-file="https://wakingtheinfinite.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/banner.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://wakingtheinfinite.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/banner.png" data-orig-size="602,452" data-permalink="https://wakingtheinfinite.wordpress.com/banner/" src="https://wakingtheinfinite.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/banner.png?w=602" /></a></figure><p> </p><p>Many years ago I overheard my Chi Gung teacher speaking with a person
in my class between sets. He explained that we can learn how to let go
of all kinds of resistance in our energy field and consciousness by
paying attention to the body. He said that many unconscious feelings
are held in the body and that they can be held in different parts of it.
He said that sometimes when we allow ourselves to become aware of this
tension in the body it can tell us something about our own feelings.
By going into and letting the resistance in a part of our body relax and
unwind itself, we can also let go of emotions that get stored there.
He said it might just be a little feeling in the back, the hips, the
shoulders, or even a toe….all of this had something to tell us and teach
us about letting go.</p>
<p>By letting things go like this, you can unwind all sorts of
unconscious emotional material. It can be surprising how much that we
hold onto. I have found that the more I do this work the more aware I
become of still smaller elements in my body/mind landscape. It can lead
to greater and greater clarity and a state of inner peace. I can also
attest that if this process happens quickly, like it did with me during
kundalini, the landscape is changed so quickly that it can even be
bewildering sometimes. So, I suggest that you take this kind of work
slowly and be easy on yourself. </p>
<blockquote>
<h3><em><span class="has-inline-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color">When
you can see that you are the source of all of your feelings, then you
are one giant leap closer to taking responsibility for how you have thus
far arranged your own inner emotional landscape.</span></em></h3>
</blockquote>
<h3> </h3>
<p>Everything that we feel is not the result of what others have done to
us but is instead how we have reacted to events in our lives. Buddha
had something to say about this, and it is sage advice. No one makes
you feel a certain way. No one. When you can see that you are the
source of all of your feelings then you are one giant leap closer to
taking responsibility for how you have thus far arranged your own inner
emotional landscape. This is not always easy to do, especially in a
time when people are increasingly wanting to have the world to conform
to their own feelings instead of just being an adult and understanding
how we each make choices ever day about how we feel and respond to the
world. Being able to develop this honesty about how we feel (and that
we feel) what is happening is the second big leap in work of this kind.
Be easy on yourself, but be honest and be responsible. </p>
<p>When you feel resistance in your body, the first step is to observe
it. It can sometimes manifest as physical pain. Instead of resisting
it, try going into it. It wont hurt you. Explore it with your
intuitive faculties. How does it feel? Why is it that you are holding
tension there? Try breathing deeply and slowly and then imagining that
your own breath is filling that tense hard space in you. Depending on
how tense or how resistant the area is, you might need to do this a
number of times. As you breath, imagine warmth going into that
location. Imagine that your breath is being sent there, that it is
opening up that area. <em>Relax</em>. Give yourself this moment to
simply explore. What things that you do help to limit or soften the
tension in your body, this pain or feeling of resistance? Often you
will reach a place where you realize that the tension was in fact in
your mind, being fed into a part of your body in a way that sent a
message to tighten. Over time, this location can begin to hurt because
of how recursive this feedback loop can become. A back can develop
significant pain, hips might hurt, leg muscles might remain chronically
painful or fatigued. In some cases, stretching gently can help, but in
others, merely recognizing the feeling that is feeding the resistance is
enough to short-circuit the feedback to that location in the body.
Always, bringing awareness helps to limit the problems, but this is just
a first step. If you can stop your mind after you reach the problem
area and let your mind go blank, you will actually be in a much better
position to intuit the problem. </p>
<p>Albert Einstein, who learned how to cultivate this form of intuition
in his life described it precisely this way. He said that as long as his
mind was busy with the problem, he would not find an answer, but once
he let his mind go blank, the answer would just come to him. It turns
out that this is what yogi’s and yogini’s do also. It is a cornerstone
state for resolving all sorts of challenges in life. </p>
<blockquote>
<h3><span style="color: #999999;"><em>By having a few encounters with how
this method works, you can apply it to a broad range of other issues in
your life, including things far-afield of our topic here.</em></span></h3>
</blockquote>
<p>There is a hazard in going about this in too much of a rational way
because if you do, you will tend to draw on previous experience, whereas
this approach I am describing to you now is the <em>opposite</em>. It
requires your mind to go blank. Imagine that you mind needs this
silence in order to pick up the deeper messages which will arise through
your consciousness, for surely this is how they do. By having a few
encounters with how this method works, you can apply it to a broad range
of other issues in your life, including things far-afield of our topic
here. As a Westerner, you probably have been taught to always have a
busy mind. This is one big problem many of us have, which is that we
tend not to cultivate more nuanced forms of awareness as our busy
monkey-minds steal the show. There is a great benefit in allowing your
mind to go quiet and to slowly learn how to cultivate this state of
mind. In fact, all meditation practices have this as one of their chief
goals. By quieting the mind you can more readily get to the substratum
of awareness, to the Essential Self which tends to lie just below the
surface. When you do this, it is much easier to delve into these
problem areas and see them for what they are. It always requires some
degree of discipline, courage, and self honesty. </p>
<p>Are your shoulders tight? Is your solar plexus hard as a rock? Do
your knees hurt? In some cases, you might have some issues with your
physiology because of an injury or something that comes to your through
your genetic line. That can sometimes be separate from what you hold in
a center, like say, your knees. And yet, the knees can go on to hold
tension that is more than merely how you have been gifted in your
physiology. There is a lot that we do with feelings of vulnerability to
further impact a part of the body. It is worth noting what part is
purely physiological and what part might be exacerbated effects of
emotion or tension in that area. I once had a shoulder in jury that I
made worse because of my protecting it too much. The shoulder joint
literally froze in place, hard as a rock from inactivity. I had to
learn to open up the injured shoulder and not be afraid to move it and
allow it to work as it had before the injury. In time, I found that I
was able to bring more flexibility to it than it had prior to the injury
itself, which was an unexpected bonus. </p>
<p>It sounds cointer-intuitive, but many reflexologists and energy
healers have found that certain parts of the body tend to be areas where
quite specific feelings can get trapped. Have had self-esteem? Your
root and your sacral region might need some attention. Is your
willpower off or is it too strong? That could very well be an issue in
the solar plexus. Feelings of being a victim? Goodness, your heart
might need some work. If you take on too much of others’ stuff, you
might find your shoulders literally tightening up with shoulder and
upper back issues plaguing you. </p>
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<h3><em><span style="color: #999999;">The more you do this work the more you will find yourself letting go of age-old problems.</span></em></h3>
</blockquote>
<p>It is helpful to have a good body worker who can help to loosen those
areas up, the open the energy channels so the old stuff can go and new
growth and healing can take its place. The more you do this work the
more you will find yourself letting go of age-old problems. If you find
yourself going back to an issue in your past over and over, this itself
is a stuck emotion and it will almost always have its compliment in the
body somewhere. It is actually pretty amazing how much we can become
aware of this stuck material if you take the time to slow down, get
quiet, and then begin to listen and pay attention in a meditative way to
what your body is telling you. In some cases, you might not be able to
get to the source of the problem yourself. You might know that there
is something likely stuck in a certain spot, but you have no idea how to
let it go. Despite everything that you try, it just hangs on. This is
where an energy worker can often help. Whether that person does
acupuncture, acupressure, reiki, cranio-sacral, or similar types of
energy work, someone who is practiced in energy work often will have the
intuitive abilities to get to the problem in order to provide you with
relief. It is my experience that truly great energy workers are rare,
so you will want to look around and ask people about their experience. </p>
<blockquote>
<h3><em><span style="color: #999999;">It is really quite a revelatory
experience when you can feel the emotional energy move out of the body.
It normally never comes back, which is a great relief, too. </span></em></h3>
</blockquote>
<p>With practice, you can use meditation as a way to take a quick
inventory of your body state and see what is coming up for you. We are
human, so we are prone to holding onto things, obsessing about something
that upset us or not being able to let go of something as far back as
childhood. We have lost the ability that most other mammals have for
“shaking off” the tension or past emotion or trauma. This is why I
recommend for really sticky issues a healing modality called TRE. If
you use this term to search my blog you will find a number of posts on
this method. It is actually quite simple to do on your own and has been
shown to relieve symptoms of PTSD, and if done more intensively, it can
eliminate the trauma stored in the body for good! It is really quite a
revelatory experience when you can feel the emotional energy move out
of the body. It normally never comes back, which is a great relief,
too. </p>
<blockquote>
<h3><span style="color: #999999;"><em>As you replace old negative self-talk with more positive thoughts, your whole outlook can begin to change.</em></span></h3>
</blockquote>
<p>While mulling this post, a quote came up on my social media feed in a
group that I am part of. It was a person describing how one day they
realized that they were free to feel anyway that they wanted about
themselves. They described this feeling as being able to become like a
butterfly, free from being tied down to old thoughts and feelings. One
day this person suddenly felt free to feel fantastic about themselves,
and so his life changed after that, forever. He now lives his life
considering that he is this marvelous creature with so much good in
himself that this now fills him with joy and wonder instead of being
hemmed in and feeling bad about himself. This is a really great way to
treat yourself, which is a form of self love. If you don’t love
yourself, how can anyone hope to do similarly? Plus, you will feel
really great as a result of shifting this way. For some of you, you
might need some practice, but go easy on yourself. As you replace old
negative self-talk with more positive thoughts, your whole outlook can
begin to change. Aren’t you worth it? My best of luck to you…</p>
<h3 class="sd-title"><br /></h3>Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-49281621899471250402020-08-23T14:07:00.000-04:002020-08-23T14:07:18.327-04:00Alison Neville, Psychic Intuitive<p> I have known Ali since 2008. I came to know her as a result of my awakening and my subsequent membership in an online forum having to do with the concept of the twinsoul and soulmate. We struck up a conversation at a time when I had questions, a time when I was beginning to question what was being said about the phenomenon or "twins" as well as the subject of awakening (which is often couched hand-in-glove with one another). I realized in our talks that I had found someone who had been teasing out th light from the noise for years and was brave enough to go her own way when her conclusions differed from the crowd. In many ways the subject of the twinsoul or soulmate or twinray is itself a crowd of people who have shoe-horned a feeling into a narrative that, while it seems to make a kind of sense because of how the experience feels, has always struck me as not being the full story. This became the backdrop against which her and my conversations began. In truth, she saved my life at a critical time when I very much needed someone who could help me show me the way ahead. It was interesting because instead of being someone who just told me the way it was, it was more like she was telling me what I had been trying to formulate myself straight out of intuition. As a result, this gave my conversations with her a ring of authenticity.....which is to say not a false sense of the authentic, but the true-blue stuff. That information has held up well over the years. It stood in contrast to what everyone else was saying about the connections that are forged in such circumstances, but it also served to reveal the potential that humans have for self-transformation if we can get out of our own way. </p><p> </p><p>In most cases, the "twin" winds up being a barrier to full self realization because of how the connection is being fueled by karma. It is hard to imagine that something so incredible and powerful could be catalyzed by karma, but once traced back, you can see for yourself that it is true. I will be the first to admit that the bulk of the experience with twins appears to be something that it is not. The reason for this is that for the most part the really powerful karma for humans at this stage in our development has been negative. Now, bear in mind that the universe is neutral. It operates according to some very basic laws and one of those is that karma will create chemistry. It will draw people who have interacted and gotten entanglements in the past (and future) together. It is a law of attraction. However, the universe does not judge or decide one connection over another....it just creates the chemistry to power a super incredible connection. That being said, it probably means that you could have a "twin" who killed you in a past life. In fact, it may actually be the case that you and your twin were involved in this kind of thing over and over for a lifetime or two. Now, the past seemingly far from your conscious view, you now have this powerful draw to them, and you just don't know why. But if you are really honest with yourself, you might begin to find the architecture of your past encounters with this person present in your heart and mind, albeit a bit disjointed in some ways. Maybe "incomplete" would be a better word here. However, you may find yourself feeling anxiety or even fear around this person at times, and for no known reason. There is a charge present that the person may find hard to know what to do with. This charge, absent knowing, is used to fuel a strong connection with the other person who was involved. I will be the first to admit that digging this deep into these connections results in some disillusionment. This was what we did and I found that I was able to drive my awakening to another level. I also was able to accelerate the releases that were taking place slowly so that I could remove a lifetime of stored emotion from the body. This was the stuff of what we were involved in. We talked about how mind and matter align when used in the right way, how to heal, how to let go of old stories, and how to be the best you that you could be. </p><p>Alison is an amazing type of psychic who is called an intuitive. I saw her abilities early on in our conversations when she would be reading me as we spoke. Given the time I have known her, I can say that she knew things about me that I had not yet come to know, such as the nature of relationships of people who I knew well but she did not. I had a number of instances where the things that she described that sounded completely off-base to me at the time (I just didn't know what she knew) that wound up being just as she had told me. These were intricate, detailed, and specific things about my life and the people around me. She, at this time, didn't know me from Adam. How could she be so accurate? </p><p>Over the years she has been able to assist me with releasing stored emotional energy in my energy field. For some, I know that this idea will sound odd, perhaps counter-intuitive. However, what we are now learning is what the ancients have known for centuries which is that the "body thinks." I would take it one step further and say that it also feels. To explain what I mean you only need to observe a discovery that has been made recently in biology, which is that researchers have found neurons scattered throughout the body. Neurons were normally thought to be those cell structures specific to the brain. To put this into perspective, the human gut has as many neurons as the brain of the average house cat. Now, pray tell me, what is your gut doing with that much processing power? What does your gut tell you? It doesn't stop there, though. In the heart, there is an astounding number of these neurons. It has recently been discovered that the heart sends more information to the brain than the brain sends to the heart. Electrical signals equals information, so this is completely opposite from what we had expected. I think this helps to begin to point out that the body is indeed a repository for thought and feeling. What is interesting here is also the reality that humans are the only mammal that does not have a way to release stored trauma. All other mammals exhibit this capacity through an instinctive reaction to trauma by way of intense bodily shaking. This was discovered by an animal behaviorist who saw that animals that were attacked in the wild by large prey animals but who survived, all would go through a shaking fit. He found that when he induced shaking in humans, it gave them relief from PTSD (he worked with veterans from the Iraq war). </p><p>As a result of this tendency that humans have for storing our old baggage is we have become one heck of a neurotic species! I really mean it. We go about our day, holding it all in, not fully realizing how we are holding it all in and after mid-life we turn 'round and feel like we are about to explode. Is this any way to live? No, no it isn't. </p><p>What is so interesting is that the force of kundalini, which is at its root an energetic event and phenomenon linked directly to prana or qi, is that its presence is know to release these blocks. For me, my journey became one of feeling these blocks fall away and the relief that it brought (albeit block by block, link by link, yard by yard). I was able to benefit from what a kundalini awakening had on offer. It was also interesting to me that I saw that the stimulation of kundalini was based in my removing a key block from my field of awareness. This has been one very big hint about how to bring on kundalini that most of the teachings (maybe all of them) do not address. Anyway, there you have it; clear yourself of enough material and it will be easier to awaken. This subject is covered throughout this blog. My last post before this one is on the architecture of the energy body and how and where emotion can get stuck in the meridians. In my last healing session with Ali she dug into the three points in my hip which was where I had a very stubborn series of blocks which she released inside of an hour. Boom. Years of angst and upset stored in my body and nearly all of it was just gone. Poof. And the path through it? A process of allowing the stored energy to express or in some way move so that it can begin to move out of the position that it had been in for decades. There was a correlation with the psoas muscle in the hip/back area and the L line that goes up the right side of my body up into the shoulder where it does this little shift where that energy goes out through the arm and fingers. What she did was like clearing out an old clogged garden hose so it could flow more freely. In flowing more freely it meant that there was less turbulence. Energy was calmer, it flowed, it did not become disruptive. The truth is, we can get used to the energy being disruptive. It becomes the devil that we know. Poof. Gone. She did that. </p><p>She does it in person, she does it over the phone, it doesn't really matter for her. She can deal with one person or a group. She works with corporations, NFL coaches, heads of large well-known companies. She worked with TED for a time on their board. She helps ordinary people like you and me learn how to anchor a better existence. </p><p>So a few weeks ago I went to visit her to help her with some marketing materials. She had helped me so much it was time to return the favor. We swam in the Pacific ocean off the coast of Santa Catalina Island and I filmed her and the ocean, which she loves so much. I was able to put together a video for her which she will be using to help her get the word out about her gift and her services which she has been providing to people for decades now. She is the best kept secret that I know of! </p><p>I would be remiss if I didn't provide you with a way to get in touch with her. You can find her on Facebook under Alison Neville. Also, you can find her website at https://alisonneville.com. If you would like to set up a session with Ali I am happy to give you her direct line, just leave me a message with a way to contact you and I will be happy to do so. This video that I am posting is on her Youtube channel, which is under her name (I had no trouble finding it). </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zTk25xEgdjc" width="320" youtube-src-id="zTk25xEgdjc"></iframe></div><p>If you have a challenge, it really doesn't matter what it is because Ali will be able to read it. Her gift also comes with a way to solve the problem that is tailored to the person. It's just that crazy amazing. All you need is to have a set of questions about the things that hang you up the most or that give you the most trouble in your life. Then watch her go to work. When she says that she works in miracles, she isn't kidding. Give her a try, she will not disappoint!</p><p>Namasté...</p><p><br /></p>Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-5898715500465164052020-05-06T03:18:00.000-04:002020-05-06T03:18:00.154-04:00Leg Chakra Work<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
At a certain point in my own process of shedding blocked energy in the wake of a kundalini awakening, I became many times more aware and sensitive to my own energy. As a result of the clearing work, I realized that the body, every square inch of it, has chakras. Not just seven, there were thousands. I had never heard of such a thing, but reading later confirmed this.<br />
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I saw that this energy system extended to every corner of the body in much the same way that the nervous system is established at the most minute scales in the physical system. I saw how energy lines would cross, creating a thicker line of energy, and that a line would cross another line in a series of branches until all lines seemed to be connected by way of a central trunk. This looked like a tree of life. I realized that this system was responsible for what we call chakras, which are vortices of energy that are produced when at least two lines of energy come together. In the case of the trunk of the system, many lines merged to create powerful effects. This is where the seven major chakras are located. Everyone knows about those, but not about the thousands and thousands of chakras all through the body.<br />
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What kept me interested were the chakras no one seems to mention, which are the chakras in the arms and legs. Why doesn't anyone talk about those?<br />
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These areas deserve attention if for no other reason that the energy that gets stuck there is the hardest to remove (at least this has been my experience). Not only this, but the <em>type</em> of energies that become lodged there are also the ones that can hold us back the most.<br />
It would make sense that more awareness about these chakras is in order. To that end, I have blogged on this topic numerous times already. You can search my blog using "leg chakras" to learn more. I have named them and the paricular emotional vibrations they correspond to. I'll put up a few direct links about those older posts since this topic is so popular.<br />
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Moving energy in the legs is no different than how energy is moved in any other part of the body with the one exception that the force in the legs seems lower to me than in the trunk of the body. It is the intensity or force of the energy that is so useful in releasing or clearing blocked energy. I will tell you that the hardest energy to move has been in my legs.<br />
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<h3>
A Curious Event</h3>
Last night as I settled down to sleep, I slipped under the comforter and instantly felt the energy in my legs seem to come alive. This thing about this, I knew, was that my awareness was what was coming alive, not the energy. The energy had always been there. Something about last night was different. I couldn't figure out what it was, but something was <em>different</em>.<br />
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As I lay there, I experienced what I call "shimmer" which is a word I use to describe a pulsation of energy in my body. This shimmer effect was happening at about five pulses per second in my legs last night. This pulsation moved all through my legs and it gives me the feeling as though I have come alive in some novel way. This was located in my legs only. I call it shimmer because it has the effect of a physical compliment to how a visual effect might feel like if it was moving through your body. As one pulse emerges, there seems to be the tail end of the last pulse leaving. In a way, it could be also a little like an echo, with multiple pulses happening each second, some pulses feel as though they could be echos of later pulses (even though they aren't). I was very pleased with myself and was happy to be experiencing this.<br />
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I began trying to approximate the cycles of pulsations. With my phone on the charger and in another room, I didn't want to get up to try to use the stopwatch in order to count the exact number of main pulses per second so I tried to "guestimate" it. As I put my attention there, there came a sweeping type of movement of the energy, moving from one end of my legs to another. This was so enjoyable, lovely, and as the energy continued, it turned into bliss. I kept counting the pulses until I felt relatively certain they were in the 4-6 per second range.<br />
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I wondered how this might relate to ELF waves, which are waves of energy human energy operates at (this stands for Extra Low Frequency). For the moment, it was good enough to map it in this way. It could change over time, s this could be a moving target of sorts. Time would tell.<br />
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All of this was happening as if my energy system was on automatic. Nothing I did seemed to make any change in it. As I lay there my inner guidance nudged me to place my hands on my legs. I had noticed that there was a strong pulse coming from an accupuncture point just above the right knee, about 4 inches from the knee on my thigh, so I centered on that point to see what might happen. This point can be seen on the meridian chart above, which was LV-9. At the time, I wasn't familiar with this point as I was with the one lower down on the leg.<br />
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All pulsations changed....immediately. I heard a voice in my head explaining how it changes when another part of the body and its electrical system gets placed in proximity to it. It had the effect of having been grounded out, although I can't say that this is an accurate description. Perhaps some energy was being re-routed? Accupuncture can sometimes reroute blocked energy through metal needles that conduct electricity so that energy flows with the hope this is enough to clear the center of the blocked energy.<br />
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I then took my index finger and traced from the meridian point up my leg into my right hip and up into the liver meridian to try and move the energy. This was a technique I was shown in a dream years ago about how to move energy in a body. I could feel a sense of something being drawn upwards. This was very subtle, and no other results were noticed after having done this. I wouldn't say this resulted in a large release of any kind, but something moved. That is, nothing moved at that time or in that particular interval of time. Something interesting was about to happen that was surprising, though. Sometimes a "nothing" winds up as something.<br />
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The shimmer effect or the cycling had changed after this, and as I lay there I returned to the point above my right knee that had been pulsing earlier. As I thought about it I was being told how this point in my right knee had an energetic relationship to jealousy. This was odd because the point normally associated with jealousy was much closer to the knee, the inside knee point as a matter of fact. Instead of resisting, I asked how this was so.<br />
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Almost immediately I was shown the person that this block was associated with. I was having a memory of being dressed down and berated by this woman in a parking lot years ago for having called a cashier in the market by her first name (this is something I do-its part of who I am which is letting people who work these menial jobs know that I appreciate what they do). This woman kept yelling at me, trying to create this sense that I had somehow done something wrong, a terrible transgression. Even though I knew there was nothing for me to get upset about in that moment, it was upsetting for other reasons, most notably that she obviously didn't understand me very well. Still, connected as it was to her being over the top jealous must have been why the block happened where it did. This is very interesting, because it wasn't me who had stuck energy related to jealousy, it was the other person and yet I had stuck energy from this emotional attack just above the knee area regarless. It was my stuck energy, but was based in my reaction to another person "losing their shit." I think this is interesting to learn. Jealousy is described as being locked into the knee region under the Indian chakra system (different yet similar to the Chinese meridian system).<br />
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As I lay there, it seemed like something was beginning to clear. This was an unexpected outcome. My guidance said to imagine placing my hand over this person's heart and feel the energy return, flowing back to this person and to the universe. Normally energy of this kind only needs to be dropped, but I suspect the nature of how the block happened had to do with this urging on my part to give it back, so to speak. I suspect this only served to keep my mind clear and focused on how this block was created (not like there is any magic to any of this beyond my mind being made clearer about where this emrged). Quite unexpectedly there was this moment of feeling this person right across from me. I remained calm and did as instructed. She seemed to be laying facing away from me, which was good for me and I directed the energy and felt the energy return or flow out of me.<br />
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After this I fell into a deep sleep brought on by a fuller flow if prana. You know the feeling you have after having a great massage? It's as if you can't focus with the rational mind and you just float off into deep sleep. That was me.<br />
I awoke suddenly in the middle of the night to find that this person had been in a dream, but when I fully woke up, she was still there. She said she had left but came back and began making a statement that sounded like an odd excuse for being there. What she said suggested to me that there was a less than honest statement being put forward. As she spoke I could hear an entirely different dialog in my head of what she really was thinking . You could say this was what she really meant. As she kept talking and I kept hearing how her words did not match her thoughts or feelings, I began to tell her what was the truth and then said, "You really need to be more honest with yourself if you ever hope to heal from your issues.." I then turned over and went to sleep. At first I was concerned that I wouldn't be able to get back to sleep because I had been asleep for a few hours already. Surprisingly, I was able to drop back into deep sleep again.<br />
Upon awakening, I found I was aware that my right leg felt different. I also had crazy bliss moving through my body. It continues unabated since the experience, which is a very nice outcome.<br />
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I think I will try to focus my attention on my legs each night to see what happens. If I continue to feel the energy so clearly then perhaps it will be an avenue for working through the energy system of the legs. To be clear, I never really know when something like this is going to come along. It certainly isn't something that is deepky rooted in intention or expectation, but seems as though it works on its own time-table. Why I would quite suddenly be thrust into working on my leg chakras, I can't say. Maybe it is a ripening process. Maybe this simply had to reach some stage of maturation before it would emerge in my conscious awareness? Being calm, quiet, and reflective seems to have been an important factor in tapping into the state necessary to be aware of this issue enough to be guided properly. I know for some of you, this may seem obvious, but it may not be for others. Learning to feel your energy is important.</div>
Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-61805605275393863802019-04-28T02:29:00.000-04:002019-04-28T02:29:03.375-04:00A Surprising Outcome<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I was working in the studio making a new type of work recently when something surprising happened. The work involved a body movement that required me to reach to a tool that was needed for the next step. I work with hot glass, and some steps involve very precise timing, and if a movement is not made correctly it can result in problems. In the case of this one step, I had to reach around a glowing red metal pipe in order to get at a tool. Since this movement was new, I was still learning it, putting it into "muscle memory" so that this movement could eventually go off without a hitch.<br />
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What happened was I wound up pressing the crook of my arm against the hot metal. And then something interesting happened, which is the reason for the post.<br />
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First, with my eyes on the tool, and not where my arm was, I realized what I had done. This had happened once before but without so much contact as was taking place at this moment. I continued to grab the tool, though, neither flinching or drawing back. This move took three seconds. I was aware of my skin on the hot metal all the way through this. I could hear and feel my skin sizzling. Then I could feel the nerve pain come barreling into my awareness. I had an odd calm through all of this...idd because for the first time ever, I just didnt react as I normally woukd have in the past.<br />
<br />
I finished the movement, shaped the glass, turned around to get ready for the next step and found myself choosing a state of calm instead of a big reaction to the pain which was coming and which I knew would soon be so strong that I might need to stop my work because it would be too much. That's when it happened.<br />
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A thought arose in my mind that I should try to not feel the pain, but instead to try and make it just go away. Up until this time I could feel an emotional and mental tension building like "steeling" myself for the inevitable rush of pain. Instead, something in me just relaxed a little and I felt myself aware that I might be able to change the outcome. Instead of feeling inner resistance, this felt more like surrender. This eliminated the tension, and it was immediately followed by a surprising change of events.<br />
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As I turned to make the next step in my work, I felt the pain being replaced by an entirely different sensation. This sensation was not pain at all. In fact, I experienced a coolness where the burn was. My arm exposed, I faced a furnace blasting heat at me. Normally this would have been like pouring salt on a wound. It would have made the burn howl with pain. But it didnt. I felt myself in a very calm detached state and I completed the piece I started in another five minutes without a hint of any pain whatsoever. This turned out to be one of the worst burns I have ever gotten in the studio.<br />
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The burn two weeks later and after the scab came off<br />
<br />
I realized that what I was doing was controlling my autonomous nervous system, a kind of "brain hack" that enabled me to completely change my natural response to this burn. It wasn't a moment of smugness, but I was pleasantly surprised that it was as easy as it was.<br />
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There was no pain at all until the following day when the burned skin began to dry and started to pinch and pull at my burned skin a round the edges. It oozed for several days after that. This was not a feeling of burning, but a different form of pain related to tender skin being covered in a crusty layer. After a few more days I put honey on the burn, which is known to have natural antibiotic qualities and the healing moved swiftly along.<br />
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Truth be told, I was always interested in these kinds of "feats" that seem to defy our normal understanding about how the body works. I read many years ago of Indian monks who could slow their heartrate incredibly slow, selectively lower blood flow to one arm or other extremity. And then I heard the story on the radio of the Tibetan monks who would go out on the coldest night in Winter (the full moon in February) with nothing more than a wet sheet, which they would dry with their body heat.<br />
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I always felt that there was more to ourselves than meets the eye, and I have begun to realize that at least in part, I knew this because in other lives, I had done things which were similar in nature. I was surprised at how effortless this turned out to be.<br />
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When I think about it, I began to realize that I had been practicing similar forms of deep control at the root level of my body. I had turned on and turned off all kinds of responses over the last few years. Just yesterday I found a pain in my abdomen wound up being energetic in nature, something our doctors might chalk up to as neuralgia or something similar, and as I sank into a meditative state, I reached a place where I could really feel the body response, look at it, and then just make a small effort at letting the tense energy lift away, which instantly addressed the pain. In this case, the pain was not even being induced by way of an injury or disease. My body was treating it like it was pain, or maybe it was my brain that interpreted this energy as pain and made it so. Whatever the exact case, the problem was no more.<br />
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You might be thinking, "Yeah, but pain is an important warning sign that helps alert you to trouble, Parker." I would agree. Pain let's you know something is wrong. But in the case of my burn, I knew I was being burned, could feel the pain crowding into my body like a freight train in flames. I just chose to reverse it. My stomach pain turned out not to be an injury at all, or disease, but instead a kind of persistent tension energetically that was being interpreted as pain (or as something wrong). If I hadn't gotten to the bottom of my stomach pain, I might still be feeling something that might have only gotten worse and who knows...in time it could lead to physiological and chemical changes that could lead to a very real physical dysfunction.<br />
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I am passing this along because my sense is that the more we meditate, the more we spend time deep in the subconscious digging out stored emotional debris, the easier it is to begin brushing up against not just our emotional codes, but our physiological ones as well. I think that things like this may be a natural turn of events, much like how the Tibetans who were practicing g-tummo meditation were able to gain control over their body heat in order to dry sheets in zero degree temperatures. Not a boast or a brag, but to share with others interested in our own inner workings. If I can do it, so can you!<br />
~Parker</div>
Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-33024972047900936572017-05-04T23:17:00.000-04:002017-05-04T23:17:01.810-04:00MORE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I was not satisfied with the teaching in church....I knew there was
more. I didn't know what it was, only that it was wanting. I knew this
above all else, beyond the explanations of others that I was merely
"prideful" or unable to take the teaching as truth. No, there was more, I
knew it beyond all else.<br />
<br /> When I awakened I was lucky to have
seen how there WERE teachings by Jesus himself which he passed on to
his disciples in books that spoke directly about a process whereby one
entered the kingdom. These were central teaching that acted like a key
to understanding everything else Jesus was teaching in his ministry. The
problem was that these teaching were demonized and anathematized by the
church. These were part of this something "more." I knew that in fact
Jesus was teaching his followers about awakening and that the truth was
hidden or obfuscated in numerous ways. History offered up her secrets
and laid bare the many ways that contributed to our losing these central
teachings. What is so amazing to me is that these teachings are
actually the lynch pins in understanding all that Jesus taught about.
It's pretty incredible to look at all of this and know that this went
down in the way that it did.<br />
<br /> I once wrote about this issue
and had some of my friends asking me why I was so critical about
Christianity, or why I hated the church. It's too easy to feel that way
when dealing with this issue and to me, it is an easy way out of
actually examining things closely and asking some very fair questions.
But it's not out of a deep hate or any of that. In fact, it is quite the
opposite. I want a religion that offers the keys to self realization,
of actually knowing what this kingdom is. Truth is a curious thing; we
can have all levels of it and still be missing key points.<br />
<br />
I
have done the hard work of inquiring and looking. I have poured through
the texts of the New Testament as well as those that were not included,
from apocrypha to the Nag Hammadi. I have studied issues surrounding
translation, how the contextual nature of Aramaic actually does matter
when translating to <i>any</i> language, as well as what biblical
scholars are saying that pastors dare not touch. More than this, I
awakened and saw that the only books that helped describe my new state
of being were the words of Jesus teaching his followers about the
kingdom, which fit my experience perfectly....but also happened to have
been deemed heresy. They had been cast aside and had never made it into
canon. The more that I read, the more it became clear that what we got
was a version of the truth, but not the full truth. I'm not even
suggesting that this was some sort of conspiracy. It may have been
simply a conspiracy of ignorance acted upon by those who had less than
the full story. But even half the story is better than no story, and it
wasn't as if we weren't getting truths. We just didn't get its heart,
and this, dear readers, is the hardest one to swallow for some of us
today. It is covered over first by some 1700 years of tradition and
then it includes a whole new dimension of thinking added, a great
mystery that has been hidden from all of us (for whatever reason).<br />
<br />
Since
my experience in awakening is the same exact phenomenon as others who
have awakened, and it's all described in the same way by nearly
everyone, and is being described in these cast-away texts, it begs the
question; isn't it possible that something very important was missed?
And perhaps, then, might this missing piece be important to know the
fullness of this man's great insight and teaching? If you found out that
the teaching of Jesus was incomplete, wouldn't you, as a follower of
Christ, want to know? I'm asking you to put your pride aside and get
curious and be simple like children, ripe for hearing what might just be
really big news.<br />
<br />
Awakening, which is the kingdom, brings a
renewed way of using the mind. If you can teach yourself to forgo mere
rational thought, you can activate more and more of your capacity for
understanding, which is truly liberating. It requires humility because
there is so much to give up in order to see in this way. There is a
blizzard of biases and beliefs that rage in such places, and the very
religion that was created to support these teachings has essentially
continued to demonize the concept of awakening in some quarters. Once
these biases have been cleared, though, the mind becomes a luminous
field of awareness in direct proportion to how much bias has been
released. But it isn't just that, it's letting yourself be shown, led,
taken by the presence of the indwelling divine and it's child which is
the Christ consciousness. Others call it Cosmic Consciousness, or Cosmic
Mind. It is all the same and emerges in the same way in each tradition
because this is what we ALL are, rather than the beliefs we hold.
Remember how Jesus said the kingdom is within you? That might just be an
important clue to all of us. It's what's inside-this does not happen
outside of any of us. Where, then, do you think you will meet God?<br />
<br />
This <i>more</i>
asks me to continually to let go of my familiar moorings to here and as
I do, new understanding floods in, mysteries become knowns, and the
universe resolves into a greater and greater miracle. But no words can
contain this more...you just have to go and see for yourself.<br />
All
of this is like a seed that grows into a sprout, then a plant, and then
a flower. The flower opens more and more and this flower is awareness.
This is how awakening proceeds; it is the smallest of seeds that grows
in stages. More and more, it opens, revealing still-deeper layers of
comprehension. To get there, I lay aside all rational thought and allow
my mind to go blank. Yes, blank. It is here that absent thought a great
and ineffable presence grows that is a love unlike any other. Everything
I could ever wish to know becomes available in that "space." If you
believe you can't, you probably won't....but if you consider it
possible, then it becomes possible. I wish this for everyone because it
reveals our own foolishness and opens us to wonder and awe. The world so
needs this right now.<br />
<br />
Until next time....</div>
Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-49998755835146581582017-03-13T16:44:00.000-04:002017-03-13T16:44:08.038-04:00Music For Yoga, Meditation Or Just Getting Through Your Day!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Do
you find yourself having trouble with much of the music out there today
that gets airplay over the radio waves? Do you find yourself having
trouble with your old play lists that you listened to before awakening?
Old favorites that have just….fallen away?<br />
Oh so much changes,
doesn’t it? I know that at a certain point in my process, I could no
longer watch certain movies or even listen to certain kinds of music. So
much of our world is drenched in this vibration of hardness, and it
shows in the music we listen to. I recently began to reflect on all of
the <em>really great</em> music that I have listened to over the last
ten years that helped me to find a place to be where I could still
listen to music without going into the wrong kind of overwhelm.<br />
<br />
So if that has been the case for you, I have a treat or two hiding in here for you!<br />
<br />
I
have a list. It is in truth, a lot of different stuff, but its been
selected because it has at different periods of time, helped to support
me in my process. Some days, I just could not listen to ANYTHING deeply
rhythmic because, awakening. But other times, I NEEDED that deep
beat. But mostly? I needed something that wasn't drenched in the
drama and BS of popular culture. Some of the music is great for work,
yoga, meditation practice (if you use music at all) and for just getting
around through the day. I have selected out all of the things that
didn’t put me in a funk and that usually tend to lift me up or helps to
put me in one great zone or another (some very quiet and subtle). I
don’t know about you, but my tastes range all over the place, and what
suits me one day does not work the next. I have all kinds of play lists
often just to suit the mood. So the list….it ranges all over the place,
too. I hope you can pick up a few things to add to your sonic tool box.
So sharpen your pencil, take down some names and head over to i-Tunes to
listen to the free samples, or try them on YouTube.<br />
<br />
This is<em> not an exhaustive list</em> by any means, and there is a lot that is not included because it might only be <i>one</i>
great song on one album, but this should be something to get you
started on a new sonic-mind space groove. Note: everything I am listing,
except for a few noted exceptions, can be found on <u>i-Tunes</u>. Injoy!<br />
<br />
What's your favorite music these days? Care to share? I'm expanding my list on a daily basis and would love to hear from you.<br />
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<br />
<strong>Elephant Revival. </strong>An
eclectic blend of styles rooted in folk, but without slavery to
instrumental styles that hem them in. My favorites from their most
recent album <strong>Petals</strong> are <em>Peace Tonight</em><strong>, </strong><em>Petal.</em><br />
<br />
Their album <strong>These Changing Skies</strong>
is their second most recent album and it’s worth taking a look/listen
because the sound is a little different in some ways, while staying true
to their quiet calming meditative music. In some ways, there are songs
on this album I like even more than their most recent Petals. Make sure
to check out<br />
<em>Birds and Stars, </em>and<em> Down To The Sea </em>– I do have to admit that these soft-sided works often get a little much for me; I like some variety, so <em>Down To The Sea</em> feels a little turned inward, but I am sure you will like it in the right pairing, right? Also,<em> Rogue</em> <i>River</i> is worth listening for a bit of unexpected bluesy variety on the same album. Rogue is a bit hard in the lyrics, though.<br />
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Here is a link to one of their songs on youtube:<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LgHDFHzMI4" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LgHDFHzMI4</a><br /><br />
<strong>Jai-Jagdeesh. </strong>Taking
a sudden turn into the Bakhti vibe, there is the work of Jai-Jagdeesh
who blends western with Indian sensibilities. This is good for those who
want longer songs, more contemplation, less just easy listening, but
often delightful and uplifting. Her album I Am Thine is made up of
mostly long six to eight-minute tracks that help to keep you in the
groove. I liked the first song on the album <em>Aad Guray Nameh</em>. And while the title track <em>I Am Thine</em>
might be pretty popular, I liked Om Namah Shivaya Raam more because it
departed from the more mellow rhythms and had a more bluesy feel, which
is always interesting to me from a creative standpoint. Her earlier
album Of Heaven and Earth has a little more upbeat feeling overall, and
might be worth a listen.<br />
<br />
<strong>Bachan Kaur</strong> is another artist whose work seems to be designed for yoga. Her album <i>Anahata</i>
has a very folk feel, but this is not because it has traditional folk
instrumentals, often just a guitar and a sitar in the background. Her
work is spare, but if you want to have a fifteen minute tune, her work
could be just the ticket.<br />
<br />
<strong>Mirabai Ceiba</strong>
is a duo that blends an interesting range of instrumental styles. I
found myself grasping for a way to describe their sound. The best I can
say is that it is a Celtic-meets-Latin feel. I find that I’d like their
work without the singing because the instruments shine so beautifully on
their own. Their albums <i>Sevati</i>, and their most recent <i>Sacred Love Meditations</i>, along with several others, are all on i-Tunes.<br />
<br />
<strong>Matisyahu </strong>is
less meditative music as it is something with a positive message. It
has a reggae backbone, toss in some world, and you are done. Light is
one of his recent releases and personally, I like the track on Light, <em>One Day</em> the best.<br />
<br />
<strong>Trevor Hall</strong>
has a great message, and isn’t into the trancy eight minute journey’s,
which means that Trevor is a bit like Matisyahu not so much in style,
but in that they have a rhythmic instrumental style that lacks the
rawness often present in music of this type. I like Trevors music a lot
and I find I pepper my play lists with his stuff when I need to break up
the longer “trancy” stuff with something that has a nice beat. His last
two albums Kala and Chapter of the Forest are two you should start with
and explore his earlier work from there. I wouldn’t call his work yoga
music though. Its really nice thoughtful music with soul.<br />
<br />
<strong>This is his Youtube channel: </strong><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96SGUEnI2uw&list=PL11s0VhvKvosz9kjROX5j11NrnP8meHCJ" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96SGUEnI2uw&list=PL11s0VhvKvosz9kjROX5j11NrnP8meHCJ</a><br />
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In a similar kind of rockin’ vein is <strong>Michael Franti</strong><b>. </b>Again,
his stuff might be too fast for some yoga, but his message is
supportive and strong with his hi-hop reggae blended style. In fact, his
music is often really great to dance to. His most recent album is
Soulrocker.<br />
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<strong>Deva Premal</strong> was music I
listened to when I did my Qi Gong practice. Her music has a contemporary
backbone but well within the New Age style. The focus is on her voice,
which she uses very well for create rich landscapes that can help carry
you along in your work. It tends to be faster tempo than, say <b>Bachan Kaur</b>. If you want a really wild sound scape, try her <i>Tibetan Mantras for Turbulent Times</i>. This album is most definitely for trance work, if you ask me. Much of her work tends to be mantras sung in the Sanskrit.<br />
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<b>NOT ON I-TUNES</b>: Now for one that might be hard to get to, but at a certain point in my work, especially meditation and Qi Gung, Vyas Huston’s <strong>Victory Over Death</strong> fit the bill. It’s a bit severe sounding sometimes, but when its good, it can be <em>really</em>
good. I copied the file twice and burned a disc for listening for long
periods since it is one giant circle of mantra (but somehow, it doesn’t
listen as repetitive because of how the phrases are paced out with the
music). And to be fair, he isn’t singing <em>mantras</em>, but reciting a <i>prayer</i>
whose words can be found on other sites dealing with Huston and his
work. I was introduced to his work by my teacher Robin and I was able
to copy his disc. If you do Thai Chi or Chi Gung, you might see how the
pacing of his recitation works really well with the moves of Qi Gung
(which my teacher Robin presented to the rhythm of his piece, which is
almost half an hour long-perfect for getting in a number of important
moves in the Gung).<br />
<br />
When I went looking for his work on
i-Tunes, it didn’t show up, and honestly besides a Youtube video, I am
not sure where to tell you to go to get it (if you like it). Vyas is
mentioned on the internet here and there, so maybe you can get lucky
(and maybe share back here for a link?). Let me know what you think of
his work! Until then, this is the link to the youtube that has the piece
on it (and a few images that are a dead-ringer for places where I
live):<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv4DcBDNwI8" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv4DcBDNwI8</a><br /><br />
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<strong>Moksha</strong>
(featuring Kanchman Babbar). If you want something in a similar and
perhaps more traditional vein, try these Vedic chants by a chorus of 21
Brahmins. Just type “Moskha” in i-Tunes and it should be the first
choice that comes up and give it a try. All of the chants are done in a
pitch and style that does not vary except the mantras being chanted.<br />
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<strong>Odesza</strong>. So nice. One album worth listening to is <strong>In Return</strong>. First track: <em>Always This Late</em>. This is not meditation music per se, but its <em>great</em>
texture and a sonic landscape for….running, working on writing (if the
vibrations match what you are doing), cleaning, dancing (?)and heck,
maybe even an <em>active</em> yoga routine. Check them out and let me
know what you think. Very upbeat, bright, and lovely vocals with a
definite electronic backbone to it all. I own their work.<br />
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<strong>Emancipator</strong>. Another electronic trance groove kind of sound-scape in a similar vein as Odesza. See their album <strong>Seven Seas</strong>, <strong>safe In the Steep Cliffs</strong>, and <strong>Soon It Will Be Cold Enough</strong>. I like their stuff. I have a few of their songs, too!<br />
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<strong>Peter Gabriel</strong>.
I know, “isn’t he that pop artist who was once with Genesis and did
Shock the Monkey?” Yes! If you listen to his music, you will find that
all of his work has a driving desire towards awareness. He is a modern
Gnostic in my book with his revealing More Than This. He is a kind of
revealer of important issues concerning our place in the world. While
his music has hit the charts and has had a lot of play, giving his music
a listen to revealed, at least to me, a great depth of comprehension
about spiritual issues. His album Growing Up, which was also released as
a DVD of his live concert (in France, if I remember correctly). While
his work with Genesis was more in the pop/rock vein, his work began to
mature once he broke from the band. Some of his work gets hard and even
edgy, but some of his songs, like Signal To Noise are dealing with the
issue of disinformation and seeking truth. His music was indispensible
at a certain phase in my awakening. Blood of Eden speaks to the union of
the opposites in consciousness.<br />
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<ol>
<li><strong>IZ</strong>.
Also known as Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, Iz is Polynesian and has a
beautiful melodic voice that he matches with equally sensitive lyrics.
Iz is no longer with us, but he has left a number of albums like Facing
Future, and Alone in IZ World. His is a Hawaiian experience.</li>
</ol>
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<strong>Yoga Music Co</strong>. These folks create music expressly for yoga. Might be worth a try. If you want a quick intro, you can go to youtube:<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij28wzJMijI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij28wzJMijI</a><br />
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I am not sure if they are i-Tunes but their web site is <a data-mce-href="http://www.yougamusicco.com" href="http://www.yougamusicco.com/">www.yougamusicco.com</a>. I liked what I heard!<br />
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For
that matter, there are a number of channels on youtube now with music
like Yoga Music, so it might be worth a listen and a little seeking to
find things that you like.<br />
<br />
<strong>Deborah Van Dyke</strong> is a chanter and her work is, as you might have guessed, very repetitive, but these are mantras after all.<br />
<br />
In a more melodic and musical vein is the work of Donna De Lory, a mix of English and Sanskrit language styling.<br />
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So
what music do you like? Please feel free to share and we can make a
nice list for others in desperate need of a sonic transformation!<br />
<br />
Until next time,<br />
<br />
-Parker</div>
Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-27599000645833821072017-03-12T20:44:00.000-04:002017-03-12T20:44:00.154-04:00Marks Of My Awakening - Pt II<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
NOTE: This is part two of a two-part work that details the marks that
have emerged on my body throughout my awakening process. I am finally
including this information here in the hopes that if anyone else
encounters them that they can rest assured that they are not losing
their minds and that all is well. If you are finding this and would
like to read the first installment please look at the previous post before this one for that.<br />
<br />
I want to reiterate that everything that you are going to see here was in no way faked or created in order to make this claim. All of the marks occurred all within the context of awakening. I have held onto these images for ten years, uncertain about ever posting them. I am doing so because by now I have had two people who have written to me to tell me about their experience with similar looking marks (one of whom who was kind enough to send me photos).<br />
<br />
Continued from the previous...<br />
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When I awoke and saw this burn on my hip, I was at a <em>complete loss</em> as to how to explain <em>any</em> of this. <em>How had I managed to burn myself and never even notice?</em> If I <em>had</em>
burned myself, I reasoned, whatever had burned me would have burned
through my clothing. I would have noticed this kind of burn. It would
have been a circular or semi-circular object. I would have clothing
that was burned through near the hip. As I searched memory, I had not
been in the kitchen or near anything that was hot enough to create a
burn like this. It just wasn't adding up the morning I got up and saw
the mark plain as day as I sat on the side of the bed before my feet hit
the floor. I knew there was <em>no way</em> I could have gotten
burned just lying in bed asleep. No sharp objects, no chemicals had
come into contact with my body in the last week. And a burn? I would
have noticed it. I would have <em>felt</em> it. I would feel it throbbing, begging me to put something on it to ease the pain. This was a <em>complete</em> mystery!<br />
<br />
Over
the course of the next couple of days I shot the same mark several
different times in a variety of different light just to make sure that I
had captured it. Had I been <em>branded</em>? A friend later suggested
that maybe I had been branded, but perhaps branded by spirit. Had I
been taken out and abducted? Why a burn? And why didn’t it hurt? Why
didn’t it behave like a burn? It simply faded over a period of about
three days with no marks, no scaling of the skin, no itching, no
scarring at all. There was no evidence of bruising or abrasion either.
It was a complete mystery…at least as the time.<br />
<br />
Below, see a close-up of the mark.<br />
<img alt="aut_0024" class=" wp-image-3551 aligncenter" data-mce-src="https://wakingtheinfinite.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/aut_0024.jpg" height="393" src="https://wakingtheinfinite.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/aut_0024.jpg" width="519" /><br />
<br />
<strong>The Second Mark</strong><br />
<br />
The
next photo is of a mark that manifested in 2012 after I experienced a
powerful heart clearing. This was the third such clearing that I was
aware of, which suggested to me that this was the third kosha, level, or
dimensional aspect to be impacted through the clearing process that
kundalini helped to facilitate. In the case of the mark at my heart
chakra, it took a number of days before this mark emerged. Prior to
that, I felt a powerful magnetic effect of energy surrounding my heart
center that I can only describe as a beaming energy that was moving
outward from my heart center. It is worth noting that I had two years
prior to this had an experience with an angelic being who reached into
my heart center in a kind of psychic surgery where he pulled out what
felt like a part of my insides. All of this was energetic in nature,
but felt very physical at the time. While he had his hand in my heart
center, I was on fire with an unbelievable pulse of love that radiated
throughout my entire being at a pitch that I could scarcely believe was
even possible. It was this experience that initiated a series of
powerful heart openings that continued over the following three years
that resulted in a number of releases of old ancestral, physical,
karmic, and emotional material from my field of awareness. Once the
release came that resulted in the mark in my heart center, my heart felt
more different than it ever had. It felt as though I had a beaming
light shining from the center of my heart.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<img alt="heart-mark-72-dpi-copy" class=" wp-image-3543 aligncenter" data-mce-src="https://wakingtheinfinite.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/heart-mark-72-dpi-copy.jpg" height="552" src="https://wakingtheinfinite.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/heart-mark-72-dpi-copy.jpg" width="368" /><br />
<br />
This
mark began as a single circle and over a period of months as my heart
center grew or expanded, a second lighter circle developed on top of the
first. This had the effect of two hoops or circles making a figure “8”
on my chest. I did not take photos of this new or expanding of the
mark on my body.<br />
<br />
I noticed that when I looked at it in the mirror
over that year that the circle took one a look as though it was a circle
with many smaller flames encircling it. It reminded me a lot of the
image of Shiva dancing and being surrounded by a circle of flame. In
fact, this mark was different from the first in that it was more like a
series of marks making up a circle. It also has the effect of being
like a string of red burn-like marks strung together, which the picture
above illustrates. Again, this mark <em>did not</em> come about as a
result of a fungal infection like ringworm or psoriasis and has been a
mark that at various times reemerges when I am moving strong heart
energy. I can in fact feel its presence all the time, but it gets
stronger at different times. Besides the burn mark shown earlier, I have
never had these strange burn marks that I could not account for. If
anything, the marks are more like the result of my body being slightly
irritated by the energy across the skin, perhaps more like how
electricity might burn the body more than anything. Could this be a
reaction to strong pranic energy flowing through the heart chakra? It’s
interesting to me that it is so small; this ring feels like it
corresponds to the central channel, the shushumna as it transits through
the heart chakra because my heart chakra takes up nearly my entire
chest now. There is an emergence of the most brilliant part of the
heart center that starts at the center of my chest and radiates
outward. This ring corresponds to this most intense center of energy
(and might be a slight overloading of energy that irritates my skin?).<br />
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What
I do find interesting is that in my inner work I discovered a
characteristic of prana while working with a Kahuna healer one day.
When I am having her work on me, I feel very relaxed and secure and I
often drop into a deep trance state in the hopes of facilitating the
energy she is moving in my body. As I looked down into my meridian
system I noticed something I had never seen before, which was that each
energy line was surrounded by a series of other lines, like a bundle of
fiber optic cables surrounding a central sheath. The mark on my chest
is very similar to how the channel looked when viewed in cross-section
(I am able to use the inner eye to get all kinds of views of my body
ethereally, including what is essentially a cross section view). But I
don’t know if this is connected to this discovery I made with my healer
or not, and will be something that I will be bringing up with healers in
my area to see if we can develop this further to see if these bundles
can be further looked at to work out ways to work with them for moving
energy and for healing work. So much to ponder and consider! All of
this, <em>no larger than the size of a dime</em>. This is one reason
why I think that this mark corresponds to the central channel and not
the entire chakra because in both the Indian and the Chinese
methodologies, the channels are described as quite small. The Ida and
Pengali (which are nadi, or <em>channels</em>, for prana) are said to be
as thin as the hair of a boar, for example. Each of the spots or
flames are themselves closer to that size while the central core or
inner circle is more in line with the shushumna channel size. I bring
this all up because this might possibly be a way to study the anatomy of
the energy body (until a scientist or engineer gets curious enough to
build a device that can detect and read prana in the body!). So given
this size of these channels, does this circular mark correspond to the
diameter of the center channel, the shushumna?<br />
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<img alt="channels" class=" wp-image-3542 aligncenter" data-mce-src="https://wakingtheinfinite.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/channels.jpg" height="383" src="https://wakingtheinfinite.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/channels.jpg" width="255" /><br />
<br />
If
you would like to learn about the nadi, which are many, and the larger
system of energy that transmits prana throughout the body you can begin
with a pretty good wiki article first. <a data-mce-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadi_(yoga)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadi_%28yoga%29"> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadi_(yoga)</a><br />
<br />
What I have noticed is that my chest continues to feel <em>different</em>.
It even seems to have had an effect on how my skin reacts to this
energy. Radiant, glowing almost, there is an abiding presence of all
that I have worked to bring forward within myself. The energy, though,
seems to have a slight irritating effect, which is mild, but is
ever-present. Sometimes it can lead me to want to scratch or rub it,
which can also make it sore <em>very easily</em>. I have to remind
myself not to touch it, but to be aware of it, to feel what this all
represents and the change that it has brought into my life.<br />
<br />
<strong>Marks Are Not A Given Nor A Necessity</strong><br />
<br />
I
don’t think that you have to have ANY physical manifestations of
awakening in your life to prove anything about your awakening
experience. In fact, the central phenomenon of awakening that is most
important to my mind is the <em>Presence</em> that emerges and never
goes away, which is itself, at least to me, a higher dimensional aspect
of who and what we are potentially, and that this Presence can help to
bring great change in our lives if we allow it to do its work. This
Presence can bring awareness if we can be humble and if we can be honest
with ourselves. Then, it burrows deeper into us, integrating and
clearing as it goes. Resist, and it too will cease its development, its
movement ever-deeper.<br />
<br />
I also consider the great likelihood that I
may have been a mystic Christian in an earlier life and either knew of,
or experienced, some aspect of stigmata before, and this may be part of
why I am experiencing these marks as I have in this life. Or not. I
will give you a couple of examples of how past life experience can
inform our experience in the here and now (hoping its not too far a
jaunt off our beaten path of the marks of awakening).<br />
<br />
Thirty years
ago, in an effort to project consciousness out of my body, I was
approached by a serpent with the face of a man where the face of the
snake should have been. This serpent was coiled and was floating in the
air. This face looked decidedly Mayan. In the projection, I was being
told that I needed to project my consciousness into the form of the
snake. I looked at it and thought how odd an image that was, because I
knew about a Mayan God name Quetzalcoatl, but always <em>imagined</em> it to be a winged or feathered serpent, not a <em>floating</em>
serpent with a man’s head. I wondered why it was that I would
experience this image, obviously connected to Quetzalcoatl, in the way I
had. There <em>was</em> a reason for it, I just didn't know what it
was, at least not right away. Later in life, however, I would have a
series of dreams that revealed to me that I had lived as a Mayan in the
Yucatan Peninsula and probably had some experience with this same god.
In my studies in art school, I came across a nearly identical image of
Quetzalcoatl I had not seen before in the Museum of Natural History in
Mexico City that depicted him in just the same way I had seen him during
my projection work. I also read later about Quetzalcoatl and found out
that the priests who worked with this being were said to be visited by
this god and would be taken on spirit journeys. Curious, that, I
thought. It was exactly what I was being told to do when I was younger,
yet I knew nothing about Quetzalcoatl. Not at least in this lifetime
(and not until I took a course in college later simply because my
curiosity had been piqued). And in still another interesting turn, that
lifetime spent in the jungles of Palenque would bear upon many things
that would take place in a life in the future which is the life I am
living now with the whole “end” of the Mayan calendar-round in 2012.
Life is not without its interesting coincidences, and seems to be woven
into a dynamic fabric where one life informs another in useful and
coherent ways.<br />
<br />
In an odd twist, I also found out a year after my
experience with the seraphim that visited me while reading up on
Christian mystics that there was an account written about a seraph who
visited one Christian mystic which was strikingly similar to my own
experience. The mystic was St Theresa of Avilla. Theresa wrote about
her experiences, and the account was similar, right down to the side
that the angels would come to her and how the seraphim had pulled her
insides out of her while she was “on fire with a great love of God.”
While Theresa offers no insight into why the angel did this to her, I
suspect that this was nothing short of a kind of “operation” performed
in the etheric with the matter of the meridians, prana, or chi as the
substances or systems that were being worked on. All of this sounds
crazy of course, unless you have seen and felt these systems for
yourself.<br />
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What
I am saying is that I think that we may have a predilection toward
certain experiences over others depending on our own turn of mind,
reincarnation background, beliefs, and our constitution. Some of us may
need this “surgery” while others may not. Some of us may “remember”
the lost or ancient gods and goddesses as they seem to make a return to
us in this age. If I could count the number of people who I know who
have had some significant experience with Isis, I would have a large
room full of people who all know an important aspect of this woman who
once walked the earth, who taught, and who was revered above mere saint
and reached goddess status. Lying deeper within us are these memories.
We are often just too busy or unaware that they exist. Awakening can
be enough to shake them loose in us and bring us face to face with these
forces in the healing and resurrection that is this experience.<br />
<br />
For
some time, I have resisted putting these images up because I suspected
that there would naturally be those who would be skeptical. However, I
know I am not the only one, and I place these images not for the
skeptics, but for those who may have had unusual or baffling
physiological changes taking place within them that might seem alarming
or strange to them. While all of this takes place in the context of a
grand sort of unraveling and rebirth and a coming to know one’s self in a
new or expanded way, we also remain physical creatures with our own
frailties sometimes. <em>Everything is as it should be</em>. And
things will continue to change along a path that is certain and for your
own betterment. Believe in yourself, your own inner voice, and the
authority placed there by the divine! The universe, while neutral, is
set up to allow you to succeed if you just know how to be authentically
in the world. Others might not understand it, or might not even get it.
And this is, in its own way, part of how things are.<br />
<br />
Finally, and
lastly, I would add that for some time I considered that this
phenomenon might not be unlike some of the burn marks that are common
amongst those who have experienced abduction phenomenon. I hesitate to
put it too front and center in all of this because of how loaded all of
this is. Having a few things in my own past experience that have made me
wonder about the nature of my et experiences in my earlier life, I
often consider the very possibility that some of the et encounters are
themselves not entirely physical and belong to a range of experiences
not unlike those experienced in awakening. That is, that they may be a
form of out of body experience, or inner “synthetic” reality which the
ancients knew and wrote about at some length. Now I know that for some
people, these are traumatic experiences and it can be hard to hear
someone suggest blithely and perhaps unknowingly that they might not
somehow be entirely physically real in the normal sense. But I ask you;
what is real? Do you actually know what is real? It is curious to me
that the early Christians (Jesus in his “secret” teachings to his
disciples) knew about these beings and described them as a spiritual
agency that behaved more like spiritual parasites than god-like beings
(although they behave in both cases as if they are on this kind of
level). While mainline Christianity barely mentions them, the newly
discovered documents in the Nag Hammadi do, and it is there, in the <em>Hypostasis of the Archons</em>
that so much can be discovered about them and how similar they are to
our modern et experience in certain strands of the phenomenon. What
books like this describe is a phenomenon with beings that fit the modern
et abduction scenario perfectly, and are too similar one to the other
to dismiss out of hand. I suspect that in these cases, we may have a
presence that is psychic or spiritual in nature that could be so present
and powerful enough to create effects in us in just the same way that
hypnotists have been able to cause burn marks to emerge on their
subject’s bodies. It is also likely or possible that what we have seen
is a kind of transiting between dimensions so that physical dna can be
taken, while in other cases, their presence is more of an internal
nature. What is sure is that these beings behave more like
shape-shifters than anything we normally know in our world.<br />
<br />
I know
that such a mention might seem far afield to you, but I suspect that
all of these things may cross at a place where body and mind might have a
lot to tell us about ourselves and the capacity for us to release or
express hidden or submerged memory, emotion, or knowledge when a thought
or feeling contains sufficient force to manifest in these ways. And it
is here that burn marks emerge along with a few minor other types of
markings as well. We may yet be only on the edge of understanding the
full breadth of what all of this means or is about.<br />
<br />
So the marks
of my awakening are my own. Others have experienced them, and still
others may experience them in the days, months, and years to come. I
simply want you to know that all is well, it’s just your body expressing
a truth or a knowing or awareness that it needs to get out for your
conscious mind to see. In the case of my first burn mark, this took
place just prior to the full rise of kundalini. However, I will remind
my readers that my awakening was gentle and gradual (taken in phases or
steps). I had a six-month period where the full power of awakening was
released in distinct stages through my own inner practice and hearing a
voice inside of me that guided me. I was brave enough to not think I
was going crazy and I listened to that “voice” or inner prompting. As a
result, it led to what I think was a much gentler form of awakening
that could help others to awaken more peacefully and with less worry or
fear. And still, even then, it was quite a wild ride because….well….<em>kundalini</em>.<br />
<br />
Finally, in sum, I would like to add one small point that might be why the first mark emerged as it did. Ten years <em>after</em>
that mark emerged on my right hip, at a time when I had removed layer
after layer of piled on junk from my consciousness, I found myself at a
place where I felt like I had reached nearly the end of the material I
had worked so diligently to remove after this decade of inner work. As
this vista came into view, I have noted that it is in this same location
in my body that the single most difficult block has remained. I have
learned a lot about what this represents in the esoteric systems that
describe it. This is the point, an acupuncturist once observed, that
resided along a meridian line that was tied to the gall bladder. Being <em>solar</em>
in character, it could create specific digestive problems aligned with
this hot or solar energy (which I have had throughout awakening related
to bouts of nausea and even diarrhea in the first six months of the
awakening process). Here in the hip, so close to the root chakra, along
the yang energy line, we have masculine energy stuck in a realm having
to do with nurture and a sense of safety, and personal abundance. Here,
too, is very likely the emotion of both fear as well as anger, stopped
up in a block, held in tension without a place yet for the psyche to
know how to let it go, and which can be felt as an almost physical
sensation which no physical doctor would be able to ever detect unless
the block were to manifest as a physical condition such as illness. So
in the last few weeks I have received guidance on the inside that has
told me what next I need to do to neutralize this last block. This is
ultimately bringing in the feminine yin to balance the masculine and
neutralize the block and to heal this last rift which has been so
stubborn. I suspect that blocks can be this way; the easiest and least
activated are likely to go first while the more dug in and most
activated ones remain until the end. But by the time that day comes and
one block remains in a field that has been cleansed, having even the
stubbornest of blocks does not feel like an impossible feat to remove. I
know that when I can bring up all the right feelings that I need to
both acknowledge and move through, this block, like the hundreds before
it, will also go into the ether as it is transmuted back into a clear
and brilliant body that has been my life work here these past number of
years. And maybe the crescent holds some symbolic meaning for me. It
might have been the image of the seers of old, or emblazoned on the
heads of priestesses and priests in Atlantis, Egypt, or pre-Christian
Europe. Perhaps once this cycle is complete, I might just find out.
Until then, it’s for me a sign of the times playing out on the
intelligence of my body.<br />
Until next time...<br />
<br />
<br />
©Parker Stafford, all rights reserved. No part of this work may be copied or republished without consent of the author.</div>
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<br />
Over the course of my awakening my body has
had a habit of expressing itself as kundalini has unfolded. I have up
until this point not posted the pictures from these curious effects,
although I wrote about them a few years ago. Since then, my reservations
about publicly documenting this phenomen have subsided significantly.
Instead of keeping them to myself, I am making them available not as
novelty, but to aid both in a broader understanding of the phenomenon,
as well as to assist those who may have been similarly affected. It
might also serve to calm concerns about other symptoms of awakening,
too, which is a very regular occurance since search terms are a part of
the stats that I see here on WTI. I put this here for broadening
awareness and understanding.<br />
In my reading about the symptoms of
awakening, having physical manifestations of awakening appear to be
uncommon. They are not unheard of, though. U.G. Krishnamurti (<em>that</em>
Krishnamurti...there were two of them sharing a similar experience but
both were very different from each other), for example, described how
during a certain phase of the awakening of kundalini he had a series of
<em>physical effects</em> that were witnessed by others. There were
swellings of the skin, his neck flared out in a hood-like effect people
described as like a cobra. In one case, he developed a breast on his
yin and Shakti side of his body (left). (1)<br />
<br />
<strong>A Shared Experience</strong><br />
<br />
On
my other blog, Divine Alignment, which is on the blogspot platform, I
wrote about my experience a few years ago and someone wrote to comment
that she had had a similar experience that involved the same shaped mark
as my own, which was a crescent shaped burn that appeared out of
nowhere and then quickly faded once it was noticed. What is interesting
here to me is that her mark was close to her heart, she described it as
being on her right shoulder. When I think about the energetic
polarities of the masculine and feminine, the root in the male is
polarized positively (transmittive) while the male heart is negatively
charged (receptive). The energetic circuit for the woman is exactly the
opposite. I have often wondered if what she and I experienced was part
of the same spectrum of experience, but that hers would naturally
manifest at a transmittive center along the torso like mine, except in <em>reverse</em>.
In the case of the person who had searched the web and had found my
post, she explained that she had been practicing a projection technique
in order to have an OOBE. While her experience was not couched in a
kundalini experience, OOBE’s are themselves part of a range of human
experience that can put a person in touch with divine energetics and the
energy of consciousness. Both of us appeared to be in the early stages
of a spiritual process.<br />
<br />
The first mark, which came just prior to
the full rise of kundalini, appeared after I awoke one morning in the
early Spring of 2007. What was so curious about the burn mark was its
position and the fact that I had not had any contact with anything hot
that could have caused the burn. This mark lasted for about three days
and faded away. It left no scar, and at no point did it ever hurt or
behave as a normal burn would. I realized that if I had gotten a burn
like the mark on my skin, I would have been in pain for a few days and
the scar would have scabbed over after several more days. It simply
made no sense, all things being equal.<br />
<br />
I have thought about this
phenomenon and what I am most certain of is that whenever there is
strong psychological material that is rising to the surface of feeling
or thought, the body can manifest a whole range of effects. I was put
in mind of what Christian saints would experience in ecstatic
experiences which most often would happen while in a trance state while
experiencing visions of Jesus or Mary, for example. This phenomenon is
known as stigmata. While many stories about stigmata strike some as
self-inflicted, there have been some cases of stigmata where witnesses
saw the marks manifest before them. As strange as all of this may seem,
I think that it is not so unusual given the ability of the body to
manifest thought very well. Take for example how subjects placed in a
deep hypnotic trance will, when told they are being touched by a red hot
poker, will produce welts and blisters moments after they are touched
lightly with a pencil and believe that the pencil is in fact just what
they are being told it is.<br />
<br />
<strong>The Marks</strong><br />
<br />
I have
decided to make these images available in the event that anyone else
out there has found themselves similarly affected. And for those who
have not gone through this, it can serve to illustrate the broad range
of what can happen in awakening. The following photo is of the burn
mark on my right leg near my hip. There were several photos taken of
this burn over a period of a few days. It is worth pointing out that
the burn had a center that was brighter than its surrounding, if you
will notice, there is a lighter band surrounding a redder center. When I
get burned normally, the object tends to leave a fairly uniform burn of
the skin across its surface. This burn is almost more in line with a
radiant burn rather than contact with an object directly on the skin. A
closeup of the same burn follows.<br />
<br />
<img alt="cropped-burn-mark-hip-2007" class="alignnone wp-image-3541" data-mce-src="https://wakingtheinfinite.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/cropped-burn-mark-hip-2007.jpg" height="405" src="https://wakingtheinfinite.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/cropped-burn-mark-hip-2007.jpg" width="425" /><br />
Because
of the length of this post, the remainder of the work is found here
along with the rest of the photos of one of the other marks that
developed later. Read the rest of the story in the second part, posted right after this entry (check back soon!).<br />
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(1) Krishnamurti U.G. Arms, Rodney, ed. <em>The Mystique of Enlightenment</em>. Goa, India, Dinesh Vaghela Cemetile Corp. ©1982.</h5>
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Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-9208722827819059732017-03-10T20:20:00.000-05:002017-03-10T20:20:22.126-05:00Update!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Over the next few days I am going to be sharing with you variety of different posts. one of these will reveal the marks of my Awakening. A few years ago I had a post that was titled The Marks of my Awakening and described how I had burn marks on my body as part of my Awakening process. I have felt for years a little funny about posting these images of the marks that have appeared on my body that have been directly related to the kundalini process. However in recent months that resistance has softened and I have decided that I'm going to publish some of those images. Since posting images on another blog I have already found that there are other people who have had similar types of marks on their bodies. In addition to this material I'm also going to be sharing a post that's lighthearted in nature that will cover a lot of the really good music I think that is out there that's great for people who want an alternative to what's on the radio these days. This music could be used as part of a yoga practice but it's also really great music to listen during various stages of my awakening process when I could not handle regular music. The music that I'm going to be sharing with you is much easier to handle while you're going through an Awakening and also being changed in your taste level for music. So that's something to look forward to. I also have a few other tidbits that I want to share with you including a recent clearing that occurred just in the last few days thats been fairly significant.<br />
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I will begin to make these posts starting on Saturday and these will be published over a period of several days so there will be a fresh batch of new posts with new information which I hope will be of use to you. Sorry for not posting here more frequently but life has been very busy. I look forward to getting the information out to you and I hope that your spring is shaping up nicely!<br />
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-P.</div>
Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-5626752090612048222017-01-14T20:11:00.001-05:002017-01-14T20:12:33.365-05:00More Poetry...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is a nice piece about the love one feels when stepping onto the innermost path....let me know what you think...<br />
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https://wakingtheinfinite.wordpress.com/2017/01/05/the-leader/</div>
Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-13508356354920957232016-12-30T23:27:00.000-05:002016-12-30T23:27:02.164-05:00Binaural Beats - Self Improvement Through Technology?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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NOTE:
I have used binaural beats from time to time in my meditation work. I
was able to observe how this technology worked when a friend loaned me a
Hemisync CD that he had bought his from the Monroe Institute (which is
located in Faber, Virginia). I was already having the forward edge of
awakening at this time, just not a full rising of the energy, and the CD
most certainly helped with awakening symptoms. I noticed that I began
getting all kinds of very unusual light phenomenon happening that was
tied to my third eye, which had been recently activated as a result of
listening to this CD (I can't say you will get the same light effects
from a Hemisync CD because I was kind of in different waters at that
point, so there is that). Be that as it may, I found that I <em>felt different</em>
when I listened to these sounds which had out of phase vibrations as
part of their technique to help to cause the two hemispheres to "line
up" in its circuitry vibrations. The Hemisync CD was designed to get the
two normally different hemispheres, which both put out different
frequencies of energy (as seen on an EEG) to begin putting out more
similar frequencies, to essentially "sync" together. The idea was that
this could lead to a brain that was entrained or "synced" to itself for
better learning, awareness, and a host of meditation work. While Robert
Monroe pioneered the work in the West, there is ample evidence to show
that the Germans were aware of this effect and had used it for a host of
rather nefarious reasons (to get people to buy Nazi propaganda). It is
important to understand that a hemisync or a binaural beats audio track
can only entrain your brain to a certain frequency. It does not make
you do anything you would not otherwise want to do. It does not brain
wash you, it provides a frequency effect to foster different brain
states depending on the frequencies and how they are used in the audio
file. it is a very effective way to stimulate your brain to fall into a
given brain wave frequency range for doing certain kinds of self
improvement work, meditation, learning, etc. Yes, you could listen to a
higher frequency binaural beat that is pitched to help support or
stimulate high levels of alertness as you study for that difficult exam,
for example. You could also use the slower frequencies for absorbing
information more deeply, which has its own benefits as well. So to
better understand how this all works, it is helpful to dive into the
technology a little more.<br />
<br />
<strong>An Intro To Binaural Beats</strong><br />
<br />
The
concept behind Binaural beats is that the brain can be entrained by
certain frequencies in sounds that wind up having specific effects on
us. It has been known for centuries that certain rhythms were better
for inducing trance-like states. Aboriginal cultures have used drumming
(beats) of very specific frequencies for reaching accelerated states of
mind. A medicine man I spoke with once explained the reason behind the
type of beats they use when they are gathered together; he says the
pulse is akin to the heartbeat and this beat helps people to be calm and
more meditative and thoughtful.<br />
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Harmonic effects in choral music
within the Christian church can have similar kinds of effects. The
large echo-chambers of European churches help to create a dream-time
effect, and the chanting of Tibetan monks can seem to put you on what
feels another world. Binaural beats take this understanding one step
further by recognizing that the two hemispheres of the brain actually
tend to operate at slightly different frequencies, and when sound is
introduced into the ears that are out of phase with one another in just
the right way, the two hemisphers can be entrained to work together and
not be out of phase as is usually the case. Binaural beats actually
causes the brain to supply a frequency of sound energy to make up for
the sounds that are supplied that are out of phase (one ear is hearing a
frequency that is a few hertz faster or slower than the other ear) as a
result of the out of phase sound. Here a source explains how the effect
is produced:<br />
<blockquote>
If the left ear is presented with a
steady tone of 500Hz and the right ear a steady tone of 510Hz, these two
tones combine in the brain. The difference, 10Hz, is perceived by the
brain and is a very effective stimulus for brainwave entrainment. This
10Hz is formed entirely by the brain. When using stereo headphones, the
left and right sounds do not mix together until in your brain. The
frequency difference, when perceived by the brain this way, is called a <i>binaural beat</i>.<br />
SOURCE: http://www.bwgen.com/theory.htm</blockquote>
With binaural beats, the thing to realize is that it only offers a sound <em>environment</em>
to support or help induce a general state of mind. You yourself have
to be willing to be swept away on the rhythms in order for them to work
well. It is in effect, a launching pad, a meditation tool that is is
utilizing an understanding of how the brain works so that it can speed
your entry into target brain states quickly.<br />
It is important to
point out that binaural beats work when using headphones in order to
properly isolate the two different phases or frequencies. Being able to
isolate them in this way is key to using them effectively. Listening
to stereo speakers will not provide you with the right separation since
the beats from the left channel will bleed into your right ear,
canceling a lot of the effect that takes place in the brain itself. In
many ways, what is happening is exactly what is happening when you watch
a 3-D movie. By having one eye see one view and the other eye see a
slightly different or offset view and feeding these two different images
into the different hemispheres of the brain, the brain creates a
tapestry out of these two images that results in the effect or sensation
of depth. In the case of binaural beats, instead of depth being
produced, it is a vibration that is being created that supports a given
brain wave frequency and leads to a general state of mind.<br />
<br />
In
the links I am providing, I am including beats for deep and slow brain
wave patterns. These are best used for learning and for deep meditative
states. Since I am all about getting down to that lower substratum for
deep substantive removal of old conditioned emotions that trip up most
people, I tend to feel these slower beats are most effective for this
type of self-improvement work.<br />
<br />
I have found that the
way to work with these is to allow yourself to drift as though you are
going to sleep, without going to sleep. You want to learn how to <em>skirt</em>
the edge of sleep without going into it since this is where the deepest
and most effective tapping of the subconscious is achieved. It also is
where you can do the most substantive work, too, at least
theoretically, provided you are ready to process old emotion and free
yourself from it forever. It is here at this deep level that many of
these emotions can be tapped into and properly processed. Don't worry;
an old trauma might seem scary at first to face, but I have had
hundreds, thousands of these releases, and each one really was a
non-event. You are left wondering why you let it bounce around in you
for so long. These unprocessed emotions can lead you to being attracted
to people and events that are not in your highest. I had a friend who
used to call me up in the middle of the night wondering why she was
always attracted to "Mr. Wrong" and while I didn't have an easy answer
for her back then, I know its directly tied to these unprocessed
emotions most people don't even realize they have. Its hard to explain
to someone who has never done this work just how healing it is, so you
must trust me on this and discover for yourself by doing the work and
engaging in this type of process (which I write about voluminously on my
blog).<br />
<br />
This is in effect what many who have meditated
over the ages have sought to do in their inner work, which is tapping
these deep states associated with sleep and dreaming. It is here that
the subconscious can be tapped into and the conditioning that causes so
many people difficulties in their lives which can then be melted away in
a more or less conscious way. This is what so may in the spiritual
community call shadow work. It is simply being able to face the
emotional material that has been shoved down and that keeps emerging
into awareness as the result of certain triggers (which are all based on
memory: a sound that reminds you of something traumatic in your past,
etc.) and by sticking with the feeling, the emotion is properly
processed and can actually be released. This work is important because
the skeletons are never so bad as we fear they are and it frees up the
consciousness so that it can more clearly perceive the energetic realms
that are the other side of our physical sensory experience. This is, in
a phrase, about growing up and breaking free from negative patterning
and conditioning, some of which has been instilled in childhood while
others touch on other lifetimes. Doing this work opens the self up so
that it is no longer a prisoner of its own cognition. By dealing with
your skeletons, you are simply more free, and that is a beautiful thing
indeed.<br />
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This audio (above) I have used for what turned out to
be a very useful meditation with some significant shadow work. Was it
just a coincidence? You will have to decide. I found that while the
sounds were a little much in some ways (a little spooky), but it also
moved me quickly into a state where I had something akin to a waking
dream where I was able to become aware of material that I had not
previously gotten to. It included being brought into what was very much
like a white-light experience with an illustration of how it is that
heaven can be all around us and we simply don't see it for what it is,
because there are layers of material we either choose to look through,
or we don't tune out enough to be able to perceive these realms within
us continuously. I include it here for your consideration, and of course
you will need to find beats that you relate best to in your own inner
work. The beats I am including are intended to bring about a deep state
with Theta wave activity, which is very much in the dreaming range of
brain activity. These are good I think for going deep while remaining
very lucid. Also, there are many other videos/audio pieces on youtube
with different ranges that you can check out to find what works best for
you.<br />
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The folks who run the channel that made this beats version also have
other beats pitched to different frequencies for different ranges of
consciousness/brain wave activity, so whichever range you are interested
in helping to activate, they likely have your range. I have used this
audio, but it has had less of a direct effect for me. The lower the
number, the deeper the brain state. If you want to do work that
requires a high level of alertness, look for higher numbered beats that
are followed by the "hz" which indicates the sound frequency being used.<br />
<br />
There are many different binaural beats on youtube. It looks like
some of them may not have real binaural beats in them but will have more
in the way of music and intonations of sound to achieve certain
effects. The two examples I have provided have these beats at a fairly
low frequency, which can help to entrain you closer to what is known as
theta brain wave states.<br />
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The concern that is voiced over and over
is what if they have subliminal messages in them, how do I know that
what I am getting is the real deal. I can't speak to audio files having
subliminal messages in them, but I can say that binaural beats do not
make you think anything you do not want to think. They simply help to
induce a certain state of mind and you do the rest. The work I have
done using this technology has all been very positive, and I hope that
they might be of some use to you in your own work. Like anything, it
takes some time and patience to achieve results, but binaural beats is a
tool that can get you there much faster than the old ways of doing
things, especially if you have trouble really being able to calm your
mind down enough to do this kind of work.<br />
<br />
As I was
writing this entry, I came across a documentary produced by Gaiam as
part of the Open Minds series, as well as another under the Buzzsaw
series that both delve into how our own government has used technology
like this to control the mind. However, it is important to understand
that there is no market for the kind of bets that our government might
create for creating disgust, instead of elation, or upset over deep
meditation. And it is not like you wont know if you use them. The
research I have done makes it clear to me that while there have been
efforts have been made on the part of our government to do just this, we
don't see these type of effects in the binaural beats used for
self-improvement.<br />
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You can order Hemisync CD's from the
Monroe Institute and through licensed representatives for the Monroe
Institute as well. In addition, the Monroe Institute provides training
on a range of subjects including learning, meditation, and out of body
experiences (Robert Monroe wrote several ground breaking books on the
subject).<br />
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Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-69399502214979895762016-11-16T20:25:00.001-05:002016-11-28T02:13:44.681-05:00The Essence<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You glimpse it when the opposites merge into one, creating a trickle, a stream, a cataract that emerges into a roar of the flow that is all of life; it is as though an infinity of things flows through you.<br />
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"We have to use our brain like a bicycle. In this exact instant, act in that exact way. Each instant is different. Here-and-now changes every instant, so our brains must not be one-sided. If we decide things according to our own mental categories alone, our brain does not develop and we cannot act with wisdom.". -Taisen Deshimaru<br />
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All of the esoteric wings of all thought have one similarity; merging the opposites results in the golden flash of realization. This was for the Taoists the <i>Golden Flower</i>, the Hindu the <i>Kundalini</i>, and the earliest Christians the <i>Kingdom</i>. It is in bringing ourselves into this still-deeper union within that we taste the fruit that is bliss, satori.<br />
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But the essence, which is unspeakable, resides in the smallest and biggest of things. It is an unending chain or web that unites everything big or small. The force that does this exists before all realities, creates all realities from itself so that everything that exists does so because of the force that unifies everything. Instead of rising out of matter because of matter, it makes matter so that it rises and lives in it.<br />
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The essence is not dependent on spatial relationships and so the chain or web that connects it through everything is not even a web; it exists without space, without time, yet exists here in it. If you split the seed you cannot hope to see it with physical sight because physical sight is not it's truest domain. Here, you can only see physical effects, traces, of a deeper mystery. It can be glimpsed by an uncluttered mind, a mind now-unified through that golden moment where the fullness of what we are rises and falls, while unifying us even more.<br />
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The presence of this essence, the true reality of all is so powerful that to remain with ones own karma, our illusions, is to experience deep pain. Such is the unbending nature of it. But by watching where we hurt, we can change our position, like a calf caught in the coils of a serpent; it relaxes and finds relief. The serpent nonetheless eats the calf, transforming it from what it once was into a new form. We are daily transforming in this way when this essence shows us the way. Each time this happens, we are like the blind facing a door that opens into the light. We only know enough to flee the dark even though we fear the newness of the light. Each time we do this and each time, we enter more and more into a greater light, a broader awareness.<br />
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Our karma is what blinds us to the light. But dissolving karma, which the essence will do naturally, always results in a surprised state; each karma blocks the Light from shining in that one shadowed place within ourselves.<br />
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People want to make this complicated, but it is not. Remember that the essence is like a seed that splits itself by our own divisions and is reunited in us when we dissolve what divides us. What divides us inwardly divides the split seed in us. It was never split, you see. We were split. Returning to wholeness with fewer divisions allows for the energy of the cosmic order to circulate. The spirit and self contains the technology for powerful transformation, a simple technology based not in the machinery we know here, but of an enduring timeless presence that is the gateway, the portal to the All.<br />
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Techniques, the best of them, serve to remind us who we are. I know; most think that a technique is intended to create a certain condition, like you press your hand into clay and there is the result; an impression. But when it comes to the soul, it is all about opening channels so you can FEEL. So is that technique helping you to open up, to remember how to feel in a way you might have not felt before? Most require us to inquire within. It is like finding a crack in the wall through which we see a wonder. But the wonder is what the soul is, and as the small self in the body learns to surrender control, it is able to glimpse parts that are beyond here soul to sense and see freely the soul of the world.<br />
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Such a simple thing, an essence like this, is hard to know because it is at once itself and occupies all other things. When I smile and look at you, the essence is there observing and looking, too. But even so does it look out through every other kind of experience. It is there in war and in peace. It's regard for freewill is absolute. When we cry where was God when things go bad, the answer is that we simply stopped being aware that the God exists within each of us. When things go wrong, it's usually because we have stopped listening. We have become like the calf who fights being consumed when deep down it knows that it is timeless and ageless. We learn to die to ourselves and become filled each time, more and more, with the light.<br />
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We think but must reside outside, that a teacher has the magic formula. But Krishnamurti sought out those who "had it" and realized it was not catching. When he did get it, he did so out of a silent recognition of what he was at a still deeper level. To know enlightenment, it helps to be a grave digger. In digging so deep within, a place beyond thought exists, a part of the brain that is presence but does not think thoughts. It is like a place beyond this life, the resurrection and the life. No teacher has what we ourselves do not also possess.<br />
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So this essence exists in the balance, in even use of both sides of the brain, in a balancing of the yin and yang. When opposites exist equally within. We are ready to begin seeing more of what the world has to offer.<br />
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Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-8514508201382791482016-11-16T20:22:00.001-05:002016-11-16T20:22:23.579-05:00The Big Adjustment - Coping With Kundalini<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Awakening
can be a sudden and bewildering change that pushes a relentless process
of clearing stored emotional material, ultimately with the light at the
tunnel being a better more peaceful life with bliss as the centerpiece
of this new level of attainment.<br />
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<em>Right</em>?<br />
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While the
"rise" of awakening can be a very quick event, it instigates a
transformative process that can be years in the making. One of the big
challenges among the many that come with awakening is how to BE in the
world. Most specifically, after awakening, how do you go on doing what
you have always done? So much is irrevocably changed within you; how
you see, how you respond, how you interact with the world around you.
Its a big shift that brings with it a lot of self examination about what
it was you have been up to for all these years. Often you can be left
feeling at odd ends about your work, your relationships, and how to move
forward with awakening as the "new normal."<br />
Most importantly to
bear in mind is that everything has changed. Trying to go back to the
old way tends to repeat old patterns and methods. This is a wonderful
opportunity to be brave and leap into the breach, into the void of the
future in a new way. I know as well as you do, that if you are going
through awakening there is a new aspect being brought to bear. This new
"element" within the self is discovered while awakening. It is itself
the nonlinear, more feminine aspect within consciousness. It is what I
think of as a missing link in our own awareness and consciousness that
sparks great change. You can see just how big a change it is because
this unfolding of this part of you results in events happening
differently. You are interfacing with reality in a different way, or
perhaps I should say, in a much more efficient way than ever before.
Like what you think has a way of coming to pass very quickly. We refer
to this as synchronicity. It is in fact a kind of "upgrade" to our own
native ability to co-create with reality. You create your reality. Now,
though, its just a touch more seemingly magical because of this added
and once missing element.<br />
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So the trick, I find, is to not try to
go back to the old ways. You have been changed. Period. Let the new
filter into you and as a result of it, even though you are different
from the masses, you will feel a flow and freedom as well as wonder joy
and awe about this new life. And the more that you are able to anchor
this sense of being within, the more it surrounds you in your life.
Slowly, or even quickly, your energy body is released, cleansed, of the
hundreds of hitches that has gotten caught up in the co-creative cycling
that is your karma. Letting it go clears the decks and makes thing
easier in direct proportion to the mass of inner material released. You
are now better able to NOT know what the future holds, willing to ride
the wave of bliss and maybe even find how perfect things happen when you
are in this zone. Trusting. Happy. A little breathless, intense
sometimes, hard at other times, too, yes, but getting better and better.<br />
<br />
But.
Sometimes you want to take what you may still love to do and adapt it
to your new life. I can tell you that in my own experience, so much
changes. If you are a business owner like I have been, being able to
steer the ship in a way that supports you in basic ways as well as all
of the new ways can be a daunting task. This is where listening to the
force within will guide. I was an artist in production. Nothing got
done that I did not myself do. I worked 80 hour weeks and loved it, and
yet I brought to the work a lot of issues that disapeared once awakening
came along. I was left lost for about a year, bereft of creative
juices, new ideas, or even the drive, the old fire in the belly.
Intuitively, I knew that the fire in the belly could be supplanted by a
different kind of fire. It would attract a different kind of client
just as it would support my new life. Before I went in a very linear
fashion, a rather rational approach to all of this. But post awakening, I
saw a world of new opportunities for collaboration and leveraging my
brand as well as my own creativity by working with others with similar
interests as mine. I found that instead of being so aggressive, I
simply did what I had always done; let the work speak for itself and let
the chips fall where they may. If I needed someone to help market the
work, someone would come along in perfect timing. It has always
happened this way. I don't go looking for resources, I am now
attracting them magnetically. Less about money and more about having fun
and enjoying life, I have opened the door to a world of possibility. I
simply say, "bring me the highest" and for the time and the place I am
in, it almost always has. All of this requires me to step back and let
the universe work its magic. This involves faith I think.<br />
<br />
Along
with this change is also what I experienced as my mind entering into a
persistent state of stillness and quietude. To get there, I had to ride
some pretty serious waves of bliss for extended periods. This took
place over about a two to three year period that culminated not in ego
death, but in what I call ego rearrangement. Its important to understand
that there is no such thing as ego death. Those who use it are trying
to explain what feels like might be a death, but is in truth a gentle
but tragic-feeling change that asks us to allow ego to drift into the
background. Once that is done enough, the self will feel immense relief
as well as a number of new benefits to consciousness and how you feel
on a day to day basis. But for a time, there is also a kind of "spacey"
quality to your mind. I forgot things very quickly. On the one hand,
the chemistry behind this was important for letting go, but try getting
through a day with a long list of things that need to be done. I have
found that I make written lists so that my bliss state remains without
any feelings of tension or anxiety about missing something. I can say,
though, that there were many times when I was in that "daze" of the
quiet mind that I would end up being in all the right places, a little
embarrassed to realize that I had forgotten an appointment even though I
was there at just the right time. I found that the more I let go, the
more flawless this worked. But it didn't work every time. I was not
always in the perfect flow, so being able to set up a note system has
been a nice way to remind me when I am soaring through the day.<br />
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I
was pleased to find that this state of mind was described by Zen monks
as the goal of reaching samadhi. It was a necessary precursor, they
said. This is often referred to in Buddhism and the Vedic tradition as
the "empty head" or "no-head," suggesting that the normal operations of
the mind as a linear thinking rationalizing organ have been disrupted.
In my own experience where I have carefully observed the chemistry at
work in my body, I identified the chief compound involved in this
surrender state as being primarily dopamine. I arrived at this as a
result of a lot of careful research and study into the effects of
dopamine as well as opiates on the body, and all opiates have had an
analogous enough effect as dopamine since the signature of bliss in the
body is far more complex than any one compound- this includes hormones
as well as oxytocin, and even small amounts of adrenaline in order to
modify the spacey quality inherent in dopamine).J. Krishnamurti
described that he went into a "<em>declutched state</em>" where his mind
simply refused to work. He would often forget names, would look at
himself in the mirror and simply not recognize who it was that was there
(this happened to me several times). This state persisted for some
time, and while it moderated later, he retained an aspect of it
throughout his life. And I think that its a necessary state to have in
order to deal with cosmic consciousness. You simply cannot rationalize
your way through your day and expect to get through in one piece.
Linear thought becomes the short-order cook in your life, very good for
specific short-termed tasks, but terrible for the bigger stuff. The Zen
master Taisen Deshimuro explains that people who are rational and
"mental" have a lot of trouble with awakening. They have trouble just
being a monk, too, but its because they use the mind in a way that is
no longer compatible with awakening. You just need to be much bigger
than the narrow linear mind. You have to be bigger-hearted, more
soulful, to navigate the energy in greater peace.<br />
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For as much as I
like to be my own boss, awakening sparked in me an interest in working
with others, so I have. I have been able to bring to my work in
teaching something that few teachers do. School is still very much a
mechanistic process. Some of it is necessary in order to teach
technique in art, for example. You simply have to learn how to lay down
paint well, or to know just how to move a tool across a surface in
order to get a smooth surface in clay. This is what dancers study for
years, what ballerinas will repeat endlessly in order to train
themselves to be the best they can be. Its important, but its only one
side to the coin. Along with this is the human soul that is part of our
creative expression, and how we access creativity. Instead of teaching
through pressure and the fear of deadlines, I create an environment of
freedom that includes personal responsibility to ones own work. To be
an artist, you cannot hope to succeed if you don't have discipline
within you as a choice instead of imposed from outside. So doing this
work, while very different from how I was trained, I have used and I
have hoped that it will yield results for the hundreds of students whose
lives that have transited my own through my work. As more and more
students "come back" after graduation by asking to be 'friended' through
Facebook or through other forms of social media, I see how what I do
has been catching on.<br />
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Creativity goes crazy when it is stripped of
fear and is instead infused with joy and wonder. Something very
special happens. And I have been dedicated to supporting this way of
teaching because I know how great it is to experience creativity in this
more expansive way. Each of us has genius inside of us. I know you
might not agree, but I have seen it when someone pokes their heads out
of their own fear and desire to play it safe.<br />
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Another aspect of my
teaching work has been to do group projects so that my students can
realize a much broader range or scope to a finished work. The result
has been that we have made hundreds of pieces for an installation,
larger-scale work that has grabbed a lot of attention by other students
and faculty as well as the world at large. By learning how to
collaborate my students also learn how to work with each other in an
interesting dynamic that involves give and take, as well as making
choices and going with them. They do less overthinking their choices
while in the process and learn how to follow their instincts, an
important non-rational aspect to creative work. Ultimately, my hope is
to empower my students so that they might develop greater confidence in
themselves and use their experience with me as an example for something
they want to do later in life.<br />
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Collaboration means inclusiveness.
If you find yourself hungry for working with groups of people as so
many who awaken do, you might serve as an inspiring presence that
suggests that while the way forward may not always be known, things have
a way of working themselves out perfectly when we let go of expectation
and just throw ourselves in projects with joy and enthusiasm. It might
be that your work sustains you but you find that it is not terribly
rewarding. I think you have two choices, either you find a way to work
so that its more interesting, or you find something beyond your work
that fills the bill for you. Between my creative work and the five
sites that I manage for it, my spiritual work and the three blogs I
manage for those writings, along with my work teaching and being a
father, I find that life is just packed. I am constantly tuning and fine
tuning my inner work in order to harmonize with a life that continues
to change and clarify. Things change as they need to, and the timing
always seems to be just right. I know that when I say I go with the
flow that it sounds like I am somehow inactive, it is less that I am
inactive as I am at a deeper level very engaged in the river of my life
in a way that does not involve the same level of physical manipulation
needed. I am simply not pushing the river as much, but finding ways to
be "like water" (thank-you Bruce Lee) and to use the flow of my life in
as harmonious a way as I can. I'm human, so its not perfect, but in the
imperfection lies an opportunity to know more about myself as long as I
am willing to be honest with myself.<br />
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The answer to coping may not be in trying to do things the <em>old way</em>,
but to navigate life in a new way. This new way may require you to
have faith, to not always know what the future holds but to find that
the more you are able to suspect that a"bad" outcome one day is just
setting you up for something not yet in your present. I recently had a
pretty significant equipment failure, but instead of letting it get to
me, I saw that there had been a series of these odd little glitches
happening that made me feel like I wasn't supposed to be doing the work I
was doing. For reasons I do not know yet, the work that I would have
done had the failure not happened, probably wont be needed. Thus, this
has given me two additional days away from my production work in order
to get ready for an open studio event. I have learned that when I go
with this flow, there is always something that comes along that shows me
that had it gone differently, it would not have been "right" or that
the flow of events were perfectly arranged in the way they were for
certain other events to happen as they did. Without the equipment
failure, I would have missed something, or something important would
likely not take place. I don't know what that is, but I have faith that
everything is unfolding as it should. In the old days, I would be
banging my head against the wall. The flow of events have been
sufficient to put me where I need most to be. And sometimes the right
place is not something that I might even want or recognize as important
at the time, but often winds up being significant in some important
way. So the job that you lose, which is seen as a tragedy, also means
that you wind up taking off time and find yourself swimming in a pool
with someone who is to be a major player in the next chapter in your
life. Had you not lost your job you would not be swimming in the pool
at just that moment meeting your new contact in perfect timing. These
things happen with great frequency the more we can open ourselves up to
being available to them.<br />
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What you might lose, you also win. There
are compensations in this new life. Limits tend to go out the door as
you ask yourself, "What can't I do?" And that is just the spirit,
right?<br />
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Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-80307454808631083662016-10-10T20:56:00.000-04:002016-10-10T20:56:08.728-04:00My Religion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My religion is the wind swept plains, the tea shared on rainy days with wordless joy passing between us. It is the pulse within me which finds the pulse of the universe as I find them the same. My religion has no beliefs but is filled with presence, and a joy that grows ever-bountiful. Like a hermit I live, and every moment with those whom I love grows more precious by the day.<br />
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My heart is filled from a deep well from within as it's waters never lessen or subside. I do not have to believe anything when what I know burns and flows with a power I just can't tell. But I do wish the world could know this. But until then, I do the curious things we creatures do and find excitement in the simplest of things. This eternal flame of a presence contents me and rouses me to a new life.<br />
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I wish it were true that love is found in another, but this pulse of life that animates my awareness says this is not so. We must find this love first within us if we are to know it in another... for how else could we ever love them rightly, speaking such different languages which we want to call love. No, I must first overflow, be so enlivened and filled that it will ward me off from loves mistaken, loves that seek to take and make others responsible for what we truly each must find for ourselves. It's been one of my latter realizations that I am here building a vibrant love inside myself so grand that its often hard to stand. But I do, and sigh into deeper folds of its mesmerizing wonder.<br />
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I am left utterly stripped of belief, and naked as I am, I am so much closer to the one that animates and guides. Listening quietly, I do wonder that if this is all there is, how grand that I may have just come to it, ready for the consummating kiss that is it's promise made somewhere hidden in the folds of our bridal chamber.<br />
I do not believe, but I bear the riches of the heart of religion. I have the temple without the priests. It is the deepest and most holy of the mysteries, and it is the only one you ever need to know to see how it alone reveals the rest. She bids me enter her most sacred of mysteries. She shows me where her lover meets her which is in the triadic chamber of my heart. No priests or priestesses, no law, no guess work. No prophets, no holy wars. No hymns, save my warm breath and yearning. No candles, save the flame of it all, and no opinions, no pronouncements in the deep chamber that is my soul knowing itself.<br />
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To love that the divine moves in you is no sin but sacred. To know beyond all dogma is a healing hand. With just a glance my whole life opens to it with no eventuality ever being just sheer chance. To honor the love that lives in me is to love and honor how masterfully I was made...and I do hope that you find this soon, too, so we can share Summer's last fading light with tea and thunderstorms and the honor of pure religion flowing in our hearts.</div>
Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-91061728932264708702016-07-25T16:22:00.002-04:002016-07-25T16:22:47.525-04:00A Technical Note For Readers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Back in 2009 when this blog was created, secure connections to sites like blogs was simply not important. These are mostly read-only kinds of sites. Having secure connections weren't as important.<br />
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All of that has changed, though, as blogs can be the subject of efforts by others to hack or install malicious software through ever-increasingly creative means. Sadly, a lot of this material is made to direct your computer to a given site, I assume, to drive up traffic so those sites will show up better in search engine rankings. None of this makes a lot of sense to the average person, especially why someone would go to the bother of doing things like this. Don't people have better things to do, and better ways to drive real traffic or to get eyes on their sites?<br />
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As a result of the site being http based, this has begun to cause some problems with accessibility with search engines and navigating through the archives on the blog. This does not mean that there is malicious software on the blog, however. Lacking the "https" method for transferring data has simply gummed up the process of file access in some instances. <br />
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The site is now https based, with the emphasis on the "s." You will notice, now, that your browser bar will show a green "lock" at the top, which shows that the information is being encrypted during transit, which also protects you from anything that might try to get between you and reading the content here. It should also clear up some minor glitches for searching the blog. <br />
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-P.</div>
Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-12884740638190538102016-07-08T21:48:00.000-04:002016-07-08T21:48:45.324-04:00Mudra's & NRG Work<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I offer you this link to mudra's and how they work. Your body is a sophisticated system for energy transmission, and mudra's allow for shifting currents to different channels of the light body for specific effects and benefits.<br />
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I began experiencing the very real effects of how energy flow can be shifted about a year ago when I tried a few mudra's during deep meditation. I found that in normal waking focus that it was not easy to detect the differences in NRG flow that mudra's can create. I find a quiet mind helps if you want to be able to actively observe the energy shifting.<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/Mudra's%20&%20NRG%20Work%20%20I%20offer%20you%20this%20link%20to%20mudra's%20and%20how%20they%20work.%20Your%20body%20is%20a%20sophisticated%20system%20for%20energy%20transmission,%20and%20mudra's%20allow%20for%20shifting%20currents%20to%20different%20channels%20of%20the%20light%20body%20for%20specific%20effects%20and%20benefits.%20%20I%20began%20experiencing%20the%20very%20real%20effects%20of%20how%20energy%20flow%20can%20be%20shifted%20about%20a%20year%20ago%20when%20I%20tried%20a%20few%20mudra's%20during%20deep%20meditation.%20I%20found%20that%20in%20normal%20waking%20focus%20that%20it%20was%20not%20easy%20to%20detect%20the%20differences%20in%20NRG%20flow%20that%20mudra's%20can%20create.%20I%20find%20a%20quiet%20mind%20helps%20if%20you%20want%20to%20be%20able%20to%20actively%20observe%20the%20effects.%20%20http://idayofyoga.org/index.php?route=information%2Finformation&information_id=32" target="_blank">Mudra's</a></div>
Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-36272042379946961142016-06-16T15:33:00.000-04:002016-06-16T15:33:00.223-04:00A Recipe For Creative Juiciness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
(this was a post from 2013 that had been sitting, patiently, in my drafts folder...time to dig it out for you)<br />
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will admit that like my spiritual journey, my journey through the
creative has been studied, considered, and lived for many decades now. I
have pondered long the nature of creativity and I have been a careful
firsthand observer of it. Over the years I have had pieces of the
puzzle, I knew deep down that there was a way to help make creativity
FLOW instead of merely flash for a few short seconds.<br />
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When I awoke many new pieces of the puzzle came into view. When the
bliss field emerged as a part of my experience more as a steady state
experience I realized that what we call the human orgasm is part of a
larger spectrum of bliss energy that is wildly creative and that once we
awaken and can properly ride this bliss wave without falling off of it
or needing to bleed it away through sexual union (this doesn’t happen in
awakening, but that is itself another blog entry), this same baseline
energy can be used in the same way that the flow of energy in a river is
used as long as the water flows. What I am saying is that in awakening
energy that is orgasmic in nature flows through every corner of your
being, the proverbial genie in the bottle being released and bathing the
entire body in the rich nourishing flow of what the Hindus call prana.
It is the very locus of ecstasy, of expansive states of consciousness,
of the very essence of self transformation and of intense, wild and
wonderful creativity. Its just that in our unawakened experience that
we only see this high level energy as expressed through the orgasm as
being the only way to experience such high levels of energy, that we can
become biased as to what is or is not possible. When you awaken, you
can open up the floodgates to inspiration. Ask anyone who has gone
through this experience. I know people who began writing music, writing
poetry, designing clothing, artwork, etc. In my case it fueled a
whole new direction for my business which was a hot glass production
studio. I wrote short stories, children stories, music, poetry, and
began a journal that turned into a book several hundred pages later. It
has also helped to illuminate the nature of creativity as being
essentially an intimate encounter with the two “opposite” forces within
the body, within the self and soul that we call yin and yang.<br />
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The elusiveness of the creative state is really not elusive at all
once you understand how it works. We have allowed ourselves to become
alienated from a fundamental instinct or way of being that is native to
who and what we are. We are operating with only half engines on full.
We can in truth live in a constant state of inspiration as the next
dimension of experience unfolds in experience. There is a way for the
creative to flow unhindered. It involves the two seemingly opposite
aspects of your being reaching unity within you. When these two forces
come together, some very interesting thing happen. I have experienced
ongoing creative energy flow continuously for years at a time. The
nature of creativity means every corner of human endeavor is littered
with creativity. Its not that art is the place where we feel creative,
it is that human experience rich and rewarding moments of creativity in
every single facet of experience. We ARE creativity. It is in our
blood bones and nervous system and souls.<br />
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When you understand the nature of creativity, it becomes much
easier. To learn more about this, read about it in my upcoming book<b> Waking The Infinite.</b><br />
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In it, I go into the relationship that both the yin and yang energies
have as purely etheric and nonphysical manifestations of cosmic
consciousness and how the physical body then is designed to be a perfect
biological mechanism for the expression and conveyance of that energy
physically. I also explain how the etheric or pranic current moves
through the body and how it intersects with the nervous system, informs
it, modifies and enriches it once kundalini is awakened in a more or
less conscious way. I also show how the two brains that we possess
themselves are mirrors of this cosmic couple and how we can in a very
practical way, learn how to marry them in order to discover that moment
when the two explode in that moment of genesis, the moment of
inspiration. I further explain that it is possible to actually LIVE in a
constant state of inspiration and what effects or benefits that this
has. This is nothing short of learning how to ride a wave of bliss and
wonder that these two energetic currents create when the consciousness
of the individual is able to focus the energy in the arena of the
conscious self. Learning this is about learning the correct type of
balance of feeling necessary to generate the physical chemistry needed
to support the etheric or nonphysical state that those who are
interested in awakenings seek to do for themselves and for the race as a
whole.<br />
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There is also some suggestion that when we use different sides of our bodies, like our left hand, for example, it helps to trigger greater use of the right brain, often thought to be a critical hemisphere in the large picture thinking that makes visual art so engaging for us because we can take in a scene so quickly through that part of the brain. Playing what I call "mind games" which are ways to help you to step out of your normal patterns of thinking can spur creativity. It is known that as children get older, the choices for a simple creativity test change significantly. Seven year olds, when presented with the question of what a paper clip can be turned into almost always, on average, return many more possibilities that children in their teens. When you don't think of the possibilities, you are not aware of them, and your options are naturally limited. By thinking more outside the box, we can incite the energies of the creative in a more dynamic and fulfilling way. The idea that some people are just not creative, I have found, is simply just not true. People FEEL like they are not creative, but this is different than it being a quality available to them. Sometimes people just need to be inspired, to glimpse the possibilities through a teacher or another artist or an experience of some kind that opens us to more options. <br />
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These energies are all around us all the time. They have always been
and shall always be. In awakening we make a lot about how we awakened,
that the energy “rose” in us. What “rose” in truth, was our own
awareness of a universe that was, right out of the gate of creation,
awake and aware with this vibrant boundless energy. The truth is, it
has the power to change your life tremendously and for the better if you
are engaged enough to recognize what it is that seems to stand in the
way of your realizing this state.<br />
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Creativity will play a role in the book simply because as an
artist I recognize that the power of awakening is the same power as the
flash of inspiration. the sad thing is that we in the arts call it the
flash instead of the steady state flow or the dwelling place or
something else that would suggest that the experience is continuous.
The fact remains, it just isn’t. We still are beings that find this
part of our experience to be something of a mystery. It need not be.<br />
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By learning how to turn this faucet on you can learn how to bring
fulfillment in your own life as well as inviting in the force that can
dismantle lifetimes of dysfunction and trauma and hurt from your light
body. And if you didn’t know already, the light body records ever
single thing that ever happens to you, at least of an energetic and
emotional nature. We are fast realizing that while the brain may be the
locus of recording memories, it may in fact be more of a biological
switching system for nonlocal as well as locally recorded or imprinted
experiences which we call memories. The realization is fast upon us,
though, that the body itself records past emotional impacts, and by
learning how to erase those impacts from our energy memory, we actually
free up the energy system of the physical and etheric bodies to operate
in a way that is far more optimal, efficient, healthy, and clear.<br />
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When
awakening hits most people, they are bowled over by the experience and
are in wonderment over the power of the experience. And yet, in time,
people who learn how to move through their awakenings in a successful
and fulfilling way find that this same intensity is itself more a
steady-state experience that is the new way of being for humans. What
is on offer for us is a truly incredible way to be and to feel every
moment of the day. To get there is the “work” that so many talk about,
which in truth is merely a surrender of those patterns, beliefs, and old
feelings that stand in the way of a clearer flow of the cosmic in your
seemingly tiny frame here on Gaia…..which is herself a speck in a sea of
specks. And yet, even on the micro-scale, the atomic scale, everything
still vibrates with knowing. This knowing may be beyond science at the
moment, but everything in our world is alive. It may not be what
science call sentient life, but it is certainly what the ancients
observed is part of a universe that lives and breaths in its own way.
When you consider that energy is conscious, the whole universe, bound
together by energetic forces (an atom is mostly energy, not matter),
then you can perhaps begin to appreciate the impact that this has.<br />
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Creativity is itself one of the most healing of activities. To use it as part of an awakening is not a surprising outcome because the way creativity is felt is the same way awakening is felt....it is an expansion of the self and its energies now felt in a whole new way. Being creative roots you in your personhood, and is most often unifying in nature. </div>
Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-5758152136955087562016-06-13T22:03:00.000-04:002016-06-14T20:02:50.213-04:00True Buddhas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Forget the Buddha, sitting in quiet meditation as he sits on a golden lotus. Or Christ as though asleep quietly napping on the cross...Forget what you think you know...<br />
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For these and others who were real men and women of greatness among us, they have been dressed and redressed over countless years so that they have been made from our own desires, which is been that they are made into more than us.<br />
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But the Buddha in you is not this. This is the wish of the unknowing....and the Buddha, which is a nature, rests in everything. It is not one person but all of us. It is not resting on a pedestal or made more than it is. It is not one person, like Jesus was made into this God-man....only accessible by letting him into your heart. I say, he is always present, the same as a Buddha, all pointing to the exact same thing...It is us, right here as we lose our car keys, mend broken cabinets, taking in sweet evening air. And because of this, Buddha lives right along with our common selves, smiling a world of joy because it is this and all the rest.<br />
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To heck with our false sense of divinity. Buddha farts and burps and....and oh did Jesus Christ the middle Eastern Buddha love to cuss. "Those damned Pharisees!" He said that, you just need to look. Its kind of a secret.<br />
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But you see, this makes these heroes real. We resist this...but we need it badly because we look to them for how to be. Don't be false! See the humanness and the divine as easy partners with each other. They are not a paradox to be solved, only a reality to be experienced. No I am not saying not to try to improve. I mean be realistic. If you do, you are closer to the Buddha nature in you.<br />
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Those who study the Kundalini yoga and say how they look forward to lessening personality are fooling themselves. That, and setting their poor friends, for some eventual neurotic behavior. Anything you seek to control only winds up going out of control. Work with it on its own level and you will know the path best suited for its greater becoming and fulfillment...be it a person place event or thing. All things seek their own specialized balance. Some things may be correcting course even as they seem totally "off." Don't pretend to be the Buddha hero man. Be the Buddha that yearns to be within you. You begin with where and what you are now.<br />
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There are Buddha's who are butchers, singers, carpenters...mechanics and masseuse's and writers and prostitutes. Some are thieves, some are leaders. Some hide in the seemingly most diminished amongst us. This nature resides in all things. Beyond time, you can glimpse your infinite nature as time unravels your sweet mystery for you to see....and you are infinite....expanding in all directions as you and then all the you'd you have ever been.<br />
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Don't put on airs. Be yourself. The universe cherishes the diversity of itself....seen in you and the endless others,craftily hidden inside every particle and every one of you. Don't fool yourself; be real and honest. Be easy and be true. Show no shame and don't shame others....for someday their Buddha will bloom and you wouldn't want to have hurt a Buddha and her chances of opening her petals all the way.<br />
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Let's just be real. Let's strip away the glaze and gloss on our hero's and see them as each of us are...traveling and seeking for the hidden trigger that will release the flow of the cosmic in us. It is there...in each of us.<br />
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Namasté,<br />
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Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-16768360789327267222016-06-10T21:21:00.003-04:002016-06-10T21:29:32.017-04:00What it is like to be a Bee? Do Insects Have Consciousness?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There is an interesting bit of science happening about the consciousness of invertebrates such as insects. It centers around using computer modeling in conjunction with known anatomy to see how the brain and nervous system of insects developed and whether they have consciousness or not. For a long time science has tended to see insects as akin to programmed robots, an idea some of you may find kind of sad an lacking for creatures that appear to be so complicated. Simpler than us, the study finds, yes, but also that these ancient life forms also may suggest how consciousness evolved over vast time scales.<br />
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Using the insect's analogue to the human's midbrain, biologist Andrew
Barron and philosophy professor Colin Klein have found that the activity
being displayed there suggests that an individual insect has some sort
of sense of itself within it's environment: where it is, what's around
it, and how it needs to respond. <br />
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With this, Barron and Klein propose that the basis of consciousness may
very well be traced back to the Cambrian period, a 56 million-year
period that started 541 million years ago, when the first invertebrates
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Insect awareness may be debated by materialistic science, but as our ability to develop new methods for probing consciousness, we may be able to begin to bump up against still larger implications for our understanding of what consciousness is. We can hope. The source goes on to explain that,</div>
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"While insect brains are minute – the largest are far smaller than a
grain of rice – new research has shown that they perform the same
ancient functions as the human midbrain.<br />
The insect central complex ties together memory, homeostatic needs
and perception in the same integrated way. This integration has the same
function as well: to enable effective action selection.</blockquote>
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In the bee, this detailed representation of the animal in space is
what allows it to perform remarkable feats of navigation. Thus, while
insect brains and human brains could not look more different, they have
structures that do the same thing, for the same reason and so support
the same kind of first-person perspective.</blockquote>
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That is strong reason to think that insects and other invertebrates
are conscious. Their experience of the world is not as rich or as
detailed as our experience – our big neocortex adds something to life!
But it still feels like something to be a bee.</blockquote>
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If this argument is correct, studying insects is a powerful way to
study basic forms of consciousness. The honeybee brain has less than a
million neurons, which is roughly five orders of magnitude fewer than a
human. That is a lot easier to study." (2)</blockquote>
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Sources - (1) <a href="http://www.unknowncountry.com/" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #003399;">http://www.unknowncountry.com/</a><br />
(2)<a href="http://theconversation.com/what-it-is-like-to-be-a-bee-insects-can-teach-us-about-the-origins-of-consciousness-57792" target="_blank"> http://theconversation.com/what-it-is-like-to-be-a-bee-insects-can-teach-us-about-the-origins-of-consciousness-57792</a><br />
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Himhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060145600210103461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196108313920384745.post-90423773171848612882016-06-08T19:55:00.000-04:002016-06-08T19:55:48.513-04:00Emotional Responsibility<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Have you ever had an experience where you became upset with someone for making you feel a certain way? They kept pushing your buttons and you reacted in frustration or anger. In life it is easy to see how it is that people are the ones who upset us, hurt, or cause us pain. <br />
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But in truth, it is we who choose to react the way that we do. We don't like to admit that this is so, but it is. Just as we think that others cause us pain, we also rely on others to bring us joy and happiness. The only problem is that the source for joy is found in us, not in others. When we do make people responsible, what we are doing is handing our power over to them so that we are unable to feel anything without someone else's involvement. In psychology, we have a concept called projection, and its pretty common for all of us to project onto others our own faults so that we swear that our neighbor or a family member or co-worker is actually the one who is at fault or who falls short. <br />
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I have seen this behavior in action in my life with people I was close to, and it is the strangest thing to experience. It has also been one of my own.....hot button issues. People seeking to skape-goat me. And you could say that what I really need to do is not worry about what others do and tend to my own stuff. As I have worked over the years to clear away countless blocks in the light body, what the (in the nadi or meridian channels of the light body), I have found that I become less and less effected by the shortcomings of others. Slowly, the stone is worn away. <br />
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Being able to come to a place where you can stop making everyone the source of your happiness or your displeasure is significant. It is a point of power. When you take back what is yours, you shift the rules of engagement so that you are clear about whose stuff is whose. By letting people be who they are without needing to get in the middle of their mess, the mess can remain theirs. <br />
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The benefit to seeing in this way is that it can help you to identify your own junk that you need to let go. This material is almost always unresolved emotions that have been submerged into the body where they form blocks in the light body. I know how that sounds, but everything points to this as a fact. While the literal memory of the emotion may not be stored in the body, there is a direct relationship between hundreds of thousands of small points in the energy body that can be massaged, or moved in order to release the stored material. It is also possible that we do actually store unprocessed emotion in the body through a process that we do not fully understand yet. The body itself has as many neurons in the human gut, for example, as in the brain of the average cat. That is a lot of power for processing information. While it may do this in a very different way than the brain does, the idea that our bodies think is new to western medicine, but an ancient observation among many cultures throughout the world. <br />
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When these blocks release, the emotion that was associated with it also goes. It is akin to having a "reset" and is as though the issue had never been there. The cease "dwelling" on whatever the block was about. Is it possible that this helps to rewire the brain in some way? I think that this is indeed possible.<br />
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You might know, rationally, that the way you wind up feeling when it comes to one of these blocks makes no sense, but you will be virtually powerless to do much to resist it. But not letting the emotions stir in you is different than the release I am writing about. It is a whole other animal, in fact. Something significant happens when these releases take place. It is like rewriting some script. The freedom opens up new vistas. <br />
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Being able to become responsible for what you feel, knowing that no one makes you feel anything is an important step in self realization. <br />
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For more on blocks and how to work with them, search blocks and healing them on this blog.<br />
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Namaste</div>
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