12th February 2015

By Sayer Ji

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

So ancient a love affair exists between humans and saffron, that it can no longer reproduce without our help. Could its antidepressant and health-promoting properties be an example of saffron ‘returning the favor’?

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.” ~ Luther Burbank

A alluring clue to how ancient the love affair between our species and saffron goes is that the plant known in Latin as Crocos sativus cannot reproduce without human assistance. Sterile, incapable of producing viable seeds, its bulb-like, starch-storing organ (clustered in what are known as corms), must painstakingly dug up, broken into individual bulbs, and replanted by hand.

As we discussed in a previous article about this truly magical flower, “50,000 year-old depictions of prehistoric places in northwest Iran contained saffron-based pigments, indicating the human relationship with saffron is as old as time itself.”

What would have inspired this relationship? What would have compelled ancient farmers and herbalists to perpetuate, unbroken, this plant’s life cycle for thousands of generations? Is this an example of co-evolutionary interdependence?

Still today, it takes a Herculean effort to produce enough saffron to meet the global demand, that is barely met. One hundred and fifty hand-picked flowers still yields just 1,000 mg (0.035 oz) of dry saffron threads, and costs approximately $1,000 U.S. dollars a pound on the global market; there is no questioning that our motivation to engage saffron as a primary plant ally is as powerful today as it was a thousand years ago.

There must be more to the human desire to produce and acquire saffron than its culinary role as a seasoning alone. Perhaps saffron possesses powerful medicinal and or psychoactive properties, capable of alleviating human suffering and/or brightening the human condition, that we are only now beginning to rediscover through the optic of modern scientific research….

Saffron: Plenty of Evidence for Appreciating Its Role as a Medicine Botanical

Indeed, our ongoing research indexing project at Greenmedinfo.com reveals saffron has over 40 therapeutic applications in medicine, preventing and/or treating conditions such as erectile dysfunction, macular degeneration, Alzheimer’s disease, and even clinically diagnosed depression.

Notably, many of the conditions saffron seems to ameliorate are psychiatric, that is, address imbalances in the human psyche, soul.

“Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers embody something truly wondrous about the design of the universe. They are what I would call an example of the universe’s intrinsic superfluity (definition: “an unnecessarily or excessively large amount or number of something”), embodying a seemingly unnecessary excess of beauty. Flowers remind us that the fabric of reality is comprised of more than just atoms.  There is poetry, abundance, and aesthetic inspiration built into the structure of things, as long as we have the eyes and sense to perceive it.

After all, reproduction – especially as described mechanically by modern biological science – doesn’t need erotic engagement, scent, the simultaneity of touch, ecstasy, and all the synesthetic experiences associated with the first-hand experience of love-making; nor did Nature need color, scent, and the visually enchanting qualities of flowers for plants to fulfill their role in producing the next generation.

Saffron, I believe, is a perfect example of the ‘benevolent excess,’ as well as intelligence and compassion, built into the relationships between diverse species on this planet. When come to appreciate the divine order of things inscribed within the web of life, and the way in which species have spent hundreds of millions of years depending upon, appreciating, and supporting one another, clearly saffron’s unique properties to ameliorate physical and psycho-spiritual suffering in humans should not be that surprising.

For additional evidence that plants express a type of compassion towards the human species, read my article: Turmeric’s Healing Power: A Physical Manifestation of Compassion?

Why We Need Flowers

A 2005 human study performed at Rutgers University in NJ, titled “An Environmental Approach to Positive Emotions: Flower“, revealed that all study subjects responded positively in behavior and emotion to receiving flowers. As summarized by HortiDaily, the 10-week study revealed:

• Flowers have an immediate impact on happiness. All study participants expressed “true” or “excited” smiles upon receiving flowers, demonstrating extraordinary delight and gratitude. This reaction was universal, occurring in all age groups.
• Flowers have a long-term positive effect on moods. Specifically, study participants reported feeling less depressed, anxious and agitated after receiving flowers, and demonstrated a higher sense of enjoyment and life satisfaction. 

The paper itself provides an interesting co-evolutionary explanation for why flowers have such a powerful mood-enhancing effect:

“Our hypothesis is that cultivated flowers fit into an emotional niche – their sensory properties elicit human positive emotions. The flowering plants are thereby rewarding to humans and in return, the cultivated flowers receive propagation that  only humans can provide. Demonstration of such a phenomenon fills several gaps in the literature. It supports the basic significance of emotion for survival. As a corollary it supports the adaptive function of positive as well as negative emotion. Finally it opens an area of investigation into the psychological relationships between humans and other species through their sensory properties that have been relatively neglected.”

The paper also draws an interesting parallel between flower-human and flower-dog co-evolution:

“We hypothesize that as flowers moved into the new niche created by agriculture there was an increase in variation and the more pleasing and attracting flowers were allowed to remain. At some point humans might have moved from merely tolerating these weedy species to actively saving and sowing the seeds. It has not escaped our attention that the scenario we present for the evolution of flowers is very much like the scenario that Budiansky (1994) presents for the evolution of dogs. Flowers may be the plant equivalent of companion animals.“  [emphasis added]

The Evidence For Saffron As An Antidepressnt Drug Alternative

So, what is the evidence to support the notion that flowers, and saffron, elevates the human spirit, contributes to happiness and well-being?

There is a rather extensive body of human clinical literature on its role in treating depression, with a recent meta-analysis of the literature concluding: “Findings from clinical trials conducted to date indicate that saffron supplementation can improve symptoms of depression in adults with MDD [Major Depressive Disorder]“[1]

Also, a study reported about on Life Extension reveals that saffron is as at least as effective as the blockbuster pharmaceutical drug Prozac for treating mild to moderate depression:

At the close of the 6-week, double-blind, randomized trial, saffron was found to be as effective as Prozac® in the treatment of mild to moderate depression. There were no significant differences in unwanted reactions.

How Can A Flower Can Do This?

I believe that saffron’s power to lift the human spirit may demonstrate the intelligent design woven into the co-evolutionary relationship between certain interdependent species. After all, mammals and angiosperms (the flowering plants) which comprise about 250,000 species and include most of the plants that provide the modern world its diet, co-evolved for at least 200 million years together, eventually rising to become dominant life forms on this planet. In other words, we are designed to need one another, and in one another’s absence, something goes missing — a piece of ourselves, our psyche, without which we can not be whole, healthy and holy [all 3 words share the same etymological root].

Regardless of the exact mechanical explanation operative between saffron and human physiology, we now have the optic of modern experimental and clinical research to confirm that ancient plant medicines like saffron are effective at alleviating suffering. Considering that saffron is a culinary herb, safely used the world over, and can be used as a spice in everyday cooking, it would best to incorporate it not as heroic herbal intervention long after depression has established itself as a diagnosed disorder, but beforehand as a preventive to enjoy and appreciate in meals lovingly prepared and shared.

Article References:

[1] Heather Ann Hausenblas, Debbie Saha, Pamela Jean Dubyak, Stephen Douglas Anton. Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) and major depressive disorder: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. J Integr Med. 2013 Nov ;11(6):377-83. PMID: 24299602

Further articles by Sayer Ji:

• Research: Plants Cure Cancer, Not Chemicals
• A Higher Level of Freedom – The Benefit of Cannabis to Health
• Eating Wheat & Cow’s Milk Disrupt DNA Expression & Antioxidant Status
• How WHOLE Turmeric Heals the Damaged Brain
• Fluoridated Water Can Calcify Arteries, Study Finds
• How Monsanto’s ‘RoundUp’ is Cursing the Global Food Supply
• Research Proving Vitamin C’s Therapeutic Value in 200+ Diseases
• Biophotons: The Human Body Emits, Communicates with, and is Made from Light
• 13 Evidence-Based Medicinal Properties of Coconut Oil
• The Spice That Prevents Fluoride From Destroying Your Brain

About the author:

Sayer Ji is an author, educator, Steering Committee Member of the Global GMO-Free Coalition (GGFC), advisory board member of the National Health Federation, and the founder of GreenMedInfo.com – an open access, evidence-based resource supporting natural and integrative modalities. His writings have been published and referenced widely in print and online, including Truthout, Mercola.com, The Journal of Gluten Sensitivity, New York Times and The Well Being Journal.

In 1995 Sayer received a BA degree in Philosophy from Rutgers University, where he studied under the American philosopher Dr. Bruce W. Wilshire, with a focus on the philosophy of science. In 1996, following residency at the Zen Mountain Monastery in upstate New York, he embarked on a 5 year journey of service as a counsellor-teacher and wilderness therapy specialist for various organizations that serve underprivileged and/or adjudicated populations. Since 2003, Sayer has served as a patient advocate and an educator and consultant for the natural health and wellness field.

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2nd February 2015

By Wes Annac

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Effort is always required for the seeker who wants to attain enlightenment, but things get easier after we work hard for so long. If we want to achieve anything, we have to show some incentive and refuse to give up when things don’t seem to go our way, and as long as we stay dedicated, we’ll be rewarded for our dedication.

As seekers of enlightenment, our reward comes in the form of a greater perception, which we’ll have justly earned by the time we receive it. Although enlightenment cannot be forced, some effort is necessary particularly in the beginning of our quest for enlightenment, but the harder we work (and the more dedicated we are) the easier things will get over time.

Some of us try our best and make as much of an effort as we can, and yet, we still don’t seem to experience the fruits of our work. When this happens, the best thing we can do is detach, perhaps meditate, and evaluate where we’re at along the enlightenment path.

If we do, we might find that we still have some work to do before we can reach the flowing, spiritually vibrant state of mind we want. We might also find that while we’ve worked hard, there have been times when we didn’t embrace our path or do the work that’s required to reach the flowing state of mind that makes everything easier.

Dedication is as important as anything else when it comes to enlightenment, and we’ll want to stay consistent if our goal is to enlighten ourselves. Together with dedication, consistency will enable us to continuously practice the things that help us raise our vibration, and these two qualities will always be important for anyone who wants enlightenment.

Thought leader, the late Paramahansa Ramakrishna tells us that initial struggle is inevitable, but it gets easier in the long run:

“Always keep your mind on God. In the beginning you must struggle a little; later on you will enjoy your pension.” (1) “[We] must be up and doing in the beginning. After that one need not work hard.” (2)

He also tells us that power is only given to those who have done the work, and proven they can use it properly:

“[God] does not give one more power if the little that is given is not properly used. This is why individual effort and perseverance are necessary… Don’t you see, everyone has to make some effort, however small, before he gets God’s grace. When one does so, the experiences due to be undergone in ten lives will come to fruition in one, and man will attain to spiritual realization immediately. But one has to make some effort.” (3)

Whether you prefer the word “God”, or Source, or another is unimportant. Commitment, dedication and consistency are important to the enlightenment path because we can’t receive greater power and insight that we aren’t ready or willing to properly integrate and use in our lives.

If we distract ourselves with things we know don’t serve our evolution, we misuse any opportunities for greater creative or spiritual growth Source could otherwise bestow onto us. It isn’t given to us just because we ask for it – we have to seek it, and earn it. We have to be ready to accept greater perceptual power. While Source/God loves all of its creation, it doesn’t just give the power of enlightenment away to anyone. It is there for all of us to access, and we’ll all eventually receive it when we’re ready, but we have to prove we can handle it before we can receive it.

According to Ramana Maharishi:

“None succeeds without effort and the successful few owe their victory to perseverance.” (4) “Effort is necessary. In fact effort is itself yoga.” (5)

He also tells us how complicated true silence and stillness can be. With repeated practice, he tells us we’ll get used to quieting the mind and looking within:

“Everybody, every book says ‘Be quiet or still.’ But it is not easy. That is why all this effort is necessary. Even if you find one who has at once achieved the mouna (silence) or supreme state indicated, you may take it that the effort necessary has already been completed in a previous life. Such effortless and choiceless awareness is reached only after deliberate meditation.” (6)

“By repeated practice one can become accustomed to turning inwards and finding the Self. One must always and constantly make an effort, until one has permanently realized. Once the effort ceases, the state becomes natural and the Supreme takes possession of the person with an unbroken current.” (7)

Even though “God and the guru” can help to guide the way, he tells us, we have to walk our own path, however unique or challenging it is:

“God and the Guru will only show the way to release; they will not by themselves take the soul to the state of release… Each one should by his own effort pursue the path shown by God or Guru and gain release. One can know oneself only with one’s own eye of knowledge, and not with somebody else’s. Does he who is Rama require the help of a mirror to know that he is Rama?” (8)

We can only utilize so much external assistance before it becomes unnecessary, and at a certain point, we’ll have to get used to continuously looking within for a greater perception. There’s a lot of helpful advice from Maharishi and various other spiritual teachers that’s worth our attention, but again, we can only take in so much of it before it becomes necessary to find our own path. There’s nothing wrong with disagreeing with the advice various teachers have given, for example, because it’s only advice that’s based on their experiences with enlightenment. Some teachers claim to be embodiments of Source him/herself! But their perspective is theirs entirely and it doesn’t have to reflect or influence our path.

I think we can employ a healthy balance between utilizing external guidance and looking within for directions back home, and no matter what we hear or read, we’ll always want to be discerning. We’ll want to question things without letting our mind influence us too heavily, and we can be discerning with a calm, quieted mind.

All discernment really is, is the ability and willingness to decide if something resonates with us. If it does, great! If not, oh well – we have everything we could ever need within and we don’t have to integrate advice that seems misaligned. In fact, we disempower ourselves if we take advice that doesn’t ‘feel’ right, regardless of the source, and this is partly why so many teachers encourage us to chart our own path.

The path we chart will require as much effort as any other, and it’ll also require self-empowerment and the willingness not to give up, no matter what. We know by this point that we’re spiritual beings who are capable of achieving infinity, and as long as we stay dedicated and continue to make an effort, the spirit will eventually flow through us with ease.

Then our real work – internal and external – can begin.

Footnotes:

1. Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 210.
2. Ibid., 112.
3. Swami Saradananda. Sri Ramakrishna, the Great Master. Madras, Sri Ramakrishna Math, 2 vols, 1979-83, I, 94.
4. S.S. Cohen, Guru Ramana. Memories and Notes. 6th edition. Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanasramam, 1993, 59.
5. Ibid., 72.
6. Sri Ramana Maharshi, Gems from Bhagavan. Comp. A. Devaraja Mudaliar. Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanasramam, 1985, Chapter 8.
7. Paul Brunton and Munagala Venkataramaiah. Conscious Immortality. Conversations with Sri Ramana Maharshi. Rev. ed. 1996, n.p.
8. Anon., Who Am I? The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. Sarasota, FL: Ramana Publications, 1990, 19.

Previous article by Wes:

• An Introduction To Kundalini

About the author:

Wes Annac is a twenty-one year old writer, musician and blogger, and creator of the Culture of Awareness daily news site. Wes’ intention is to use writing, music and meditation to help raise the planetary vibration, and disseminates material from his blog that raises real cultural awareness – from the fall of the planetary elite to the new paradigm of unity and spirituality. You can connect with Wes at:

• CultureOfAwareness.com
• Facebook.com/Wes.Annac
• Twitter.com/Wes_Annac

27th January 2015

By Joshua Eagle

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

The sun is the supreme giver of all life and the greatest source of energy existing in our solar system. Just as water is the source of all life, the Sun is the source of all water. For it is not until the hydrogen radiating from the sun merges with the oxygen of the Earth’s atmosphere that water (H20) can be created.

The receiving of sunlight not only works to stimulate the brain, but is also held as one of the 5 essential elements in both Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurvedic Medicine. The sun which delivers a masculine energy to our mother Earth, is also responsible for stimulating our bodies to produce the essential brain antioxidant Vitamin D, typically referred to as “the master hormone”.

Our bodies naturally produce Vitamin D when the sun’s UVB light reacts with the cholesterol in our skin and Vitamin D can then be absorbed directly into our bloodstream. Studies on Vitamin D show its powers to enhance our brain by enhancing information processing speed, reducing memory loss and helping to prevent various neurodegenerative diseases. Yet the sun provides much more to our brains than just Vitamin D.

By exposing different parts of our bodies to sunlight, we trigger different biological DNA reactions and activations in our bodies. For example, exposing the male reproductive area to the sun is shown to multiply testosterone hormone levels in men by up to 300%. Likewise, exposing areas of our face and head to sunlight stimulates our brains pineal and hypothalamus glands to produce neurotransmitters which support overall mental functioning.

The current field of epigenetics has further discovered that by simply exposing our naked skin to sunlight, over 3,000 epigenome DNA switches are turned on or off and re-synchronized in our body in response to natural celestial frequencies being emitted by the sun. (In turn, the sun’s light unique frequencies are responsive to the communicative information it receives being emitted from the black hole at the center of our galaxy.)

The Great Deception

In the bible, it is written about a “deceiving light” or Lucifer, whom will attempt to usurp and replicate “the light of God”, but whom is incapable of doing so. This great deceiver has turned up in the form of synthetic vitamin pills for vitamin D, pharmaceuticals that claim to be able to replicate natural vitamin D, and various commercial sun-tan lotions which actually contain toxic carcinogens and other chemicals which block the UVB required for our bodies to naturally produce vitamin D.

Not only do the majority of these lotions block ultraviolet light from the sun, which is needed for both producing vitamin D and activating DNA, but the numerous toxic chemicals used in these lotions are also ingested into the body through the pores in our skin. It is estimated that 60% of what you put on your skin is in fact ingested into your body and bloodstream through your pores. Being that a person using sunscreen is further adding to this absorption by heating themselves up in the sun and causing their pores to open further, one is essentially baking themselves in toxic chemicals by using most commercial sunscreens.

Enhancing Ultra Violet Light Absorption

While the sun is a major provider of life and health, certain modern technologies will counteract the healing effects of the sun, and can reverse them from healthful to harmful. For instance, the healthy UVB rays of the sun cannot penetrate glass and sunlight transmitted through glass onto the skin will promote burning rather than health. As well, the Vitamin D our bodies produce as a result of sunlight is maintained in our body’s natural oils. Therefore technically, using soap within a 24-48 hour period after receiving sunlight can wash away these vitamin D containing oils and prevent the Vitamin D from being absorbed into our bloodstreams.

To protect yourself from sun over-exposure, I recommend consuming antioxidant rich foods prior to sun exposure such as green tea, berries, cacao beans and other antioxidant rich organic fruits, vegetables and herbs. If you have circumstances which require you to spend unusually long hours in the sun, or you burn easily, consider using a protective hat or seek out a natural organic sunscreen lotion; much safer alternatives to standard commercial sunscreens. Don’t run from the sun, embrace it and activate a higher frequency of intelligence throughout your DNA today.

For more tips on activating your DNA and ascending your health naturally, please check out my new book Mind Nutrition.

References:

• BURN: Health Impacts of Sunscreen Found to be Worse Than UV Damage
• UVB Radiation: Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
• www.researchgate.net/Ultraviolet_B_enhances_DNA_hypomethylation/…

Previous articles by Joshua Eagle:

• Music as Medicine
• Raising Your Vibration – How To Crack Open Your Pineal Gland
• How to Heal Your Heart
• The Golden Age Paradigm of Abundance
• Spellcasting 101 – Tapping Into The Power Of The Magnum Mysterium

About the author:

Joshua Eagle is a Holistic Health Coach specializing in immune system revitalization, detoxification, weight loss, mind ascension and longevity. After a decade of studying health through various modalities he received formal training from the Institute for Intergrative Nutrition as well as The Body Mind Institutewhere he studied under various Naturopaths, Nutritionists and healers of various holistic health systems.

He is also the author of the book Mind Nutrition: Timeless Secrets to Enhance Your Brain Daily, a guide to timeless natural health strategies, foods, herbs and exercises for improving one’s mind on a physical, emotional and energetic level.

Connect with Joshua at:  JoshuaEagle.com • Bloominati.com • Facebook.com/JoshuaEagleHealth

Right now as you read this, you know yourself to be living on a planet called Earth in a physical incarnation that you share with about 7 billion other people and over 8 billion other living species. In this solar system that we are in, we think of ourselves as being one race of human beings, sharing one planet and one reality. But do we really? 

When we examine this fact on a deeper level of awareness, we begin to realize that there are many more worlds within this one world that we envision ourselves to be living in. What is more so, is that there are numerous realities as well. And I am not even talking here about the heavy duty ideas of quantum physics, parallel Universes or multiple dimensions. I am simply talking about the fact that each one of us, being a physical individuation of source energy, is its own world and reality. This means that we have about 7 billion worlds sharing 1 planet. 

Although the idea may be simple for us to grasp and know conceptually, the depth of this idea has major implications for understanding life here on this planet. It opens up a whole new understanding when we move past the concept, and actually apply it. 

If we look at the state of the world today, 10 years ago, 100 years ago or even 1000 years ago, we see that although much has changed, one thing remains the same. We cannot seem to get on the same page of understanding when it comes to life on this planet. Why is this? Why is it so hard for us to apply concepts that should be so fundamental to increasing the quality of life for all, especially when we have the means to do so? Take the idea of peace for example. It cannot be argued that it would improve everyones lives, yet we choose not to apply peace on this planet, both personally and collectively. It can be done tomorrow worldwide if we really wanted to, but we don’t. This is just one example of what happens when worlds collide. 

We May Be One, But We Are Each Unique 

In recent years the phrase “we are all one” has gained increasing popularity. It is used by many in spiritual and non-spiritual circles alike, often indiscriminately. I used to use this phrase too, and sometimes still do, but today in a very different way. What I have noticed is that many who use this phrase, often use it in a way that strips us of our unique individuation and diminishes the purpose of our individuality. 

In my experience thus far, yes, we are all one meaning we have all come from the same source of creation, but this does not make us all the same. And although this may seem obvious to you, I feel it all too often gets lost in many spiritually oriented people who are trying to take on a conceptual “love & peace” view of the world, rather than an experiential one. We may all have the same general purpose of spiritual evolution, but our unique purpose and how we see or experience reality is very different. 

This is not meant to divide us or make us focus on our differences, rather than our similarities. Instead it is meant to acknowledge the gift of uniqueness that we each are. In allowing myself to explore this idea, I have come to grasp why so much misunderstanding, chaos and confusion exists in our world today. We are simply trying to merge everyone into the same reality. To do this however, goes against the basic law of free will. This is why people speak about love, but what the concept of love actually means to each person is so different. The same goes for similar concepts like peace, compassion, equality and so on. We each understand these concepts through our lens of reality, through our personal state of awareness and evolution to that point. 

Similarly, this message is also not meant to depress us, but rather to empower us to be more understanding of the different levels of existence and concepts shared on this planet, as to why things are the way they are. We may think we are all talking about the same things, but more often than not, we aren’t. Billions of different worlds are colliding and the final outcome is a rather disorganized state of affairs, where most have to learn through life the hard way. 

You Are Your Own World and Reality 

Artwork by Cameron Gray

And so, as many of us think that we live in one world, the truth is we do. However, this is not the world we are thinking of. The one world we live in, is our personal world. Each of us comes into this life and physical incarnation at a different level of evolution, we are then conditioned by the various cultural, religious and political influences depending on where each physical incarnation takes place. This builds various biases, beliefs and perceptions about the world as we know it. Most of us continue life at this pace, possibly with some small bursts of various awakenings that may change some of these patterns. Others, may have major awakenings and drastically shift the course of their lives, sometimes even multiple times. 

The most important thing to note here is that there really are as many worlds co-existing on this planet as there are human beings. Each one of us lives in our own world, with its own perceived reality. Embracing our unique qualities and individual paths is not a bad thing that should be seen as separating, rather than uniting us. 

In order to fully grasp the wholeness of who we are and really put the phrase “we are one” into action, rather than as just a concept, we have to embrace our own unique purpose and individuality first. Just as, in order for a seed to know itself as being part of the planet, it has to experience itself as a plant first. The same goes for us. 

When we embrace our unique individuation, purpose and level of existence, we can then begin to see how we fit into the whole. This is where I feel many people in spiritual areas have skipped a necessary step. This being, to fully embrace yourself first, before you can embrace the totality of all creation. You get to know the whole, by first getting to know the parts that make it so. Thus to understand the external world, we need to first understand the internal parts that make it up. 

Spiritual Grades of Evolution 

To best summarize what I mean by all of this, I’d like to use a simple analogy that all of us are familiar with based on the current model of education that spans from kindergarten through college. Through this analogy it is my intention to help you see and understand why our Earth is in the state that it is. And again, the state I am referring to is neither bad or good. It is simply a disorganized state, where we are not living from a state of high efficiency or coherence. 

To illustrate this, I want you to imagine the following scenario. You have just arrived in a brand new country that you know nothing about. As part of your tour of their culture, you are taken to visit a local school. You walk into a classroom and you notice something odd that you have never seen back in the schools of your own country. This classroom is full of kids of all ages and they are all trying to learn together. You notice some kindergarteners, a high percentage of elementary school kids, some high school kids and a handful of college kids. All of these beings are trying to learn and coexist together. The teacher is of course trying to do the best job they can by adhering most of the curriculum to the high percentage of elementary school kids, and so this leaves a lot of the kindergarten kids restless and getting into all sorts of trouble, while it leaves the college kids bored or frustrated. The older kids often try helping the younger ones understand the concepts before them, and while this works sometimes, other times it is a useless endeavor. The older kids soon realize that the younger kids can only grasp certain things at different levels of their development and there is no point in trying to teach them the same things they are learning themselves, or things they are not yet ready for. 

Okay, so let’s come back from the visualization. I am sure you have guessed it by now as to the purpose of that scenario. This is the easiest way to envision very much what is happening here on Earth. Planet Earth is like one giant classroom. It is fun, it is exciting, sometimes the lessons are easy and sometimes they are hard. But the biggest challenge in this classroom is being with kids of all ages and at all very different levels of learning. This is how I have come to see and understand planet Earth. And so we may all be one, coming from the same source, but we are all at very unique levels of our personal evolution. It is this, that poses the greatest challenges on this planet. 

Akasha by Elreviae

When we begin to see our planet from this perspective, we begin to understand why there are those of us who like the kindergarteners are only interested in fulfilling their own needs and captivated only by their own existence. Then there are all sorts of elementary school kids who are each at very different levels themselves. Some just want to play, while others actually want to learn something. Some are causing themselves all sorts of trouble, not yet understanding how this “school” works, but as they want to figure things out for themselves, as kids often do, they won’t hear from the older kids about how things can be done differently. Then there are the high school kids who are starting to see through the system and rebelling against it in all sorts of ways. They are often the activists who want to make a change, who want to be heard, who feel like they must do something. And then there are the college kids, again all at different levels of their personal mastery and specialization, who are starting to understand that the only way to change the world, is by changing yourself. 

If we compare life on this planet to other planets where life forms exist, what we know of so far, is that one of the biggest reasons why our planet is so unique is because it breeds such diversity. What we know about other civilizations is that they are much more aligned to being at a similar level of evolution. This naturally makes it much easier for their societies to coexist together in peace or work for a common goal. On our planet, because there are such wide variations of beings, this is very difficult to do. As you can imagine a 4th grader wants very different things than a 10th grader, or even a 7th grader! And so we have those on our planet who want to play with guns, those who have no problem killing others whether it be humans or animals, those who want to create beautiful architecture, or those who are interested in learning all they can about their existence. Also, since there is a greater predominance of elementary school kids, just as the teacher in the above example, our society is geared towards these elementary “grade levels”. And instead of “a” teacher, we have a system put in place to keep the majority under control in various ways, be it political, religious, etc. 

To make matters more complex, yet fun, we are not all at the same level or grade with respect to every area of existence. For example, a being may be at a college level when it comes to mastering personal relationships, but at an 8th grade level when it comes to living in harmony with nature. To add to this, when we speak of people having “spiritual awakenings” or experiencing “enlightenment”, this does not mean one awakening in a conclusive sort of way. We may each experience a spiritual awakening when it comes to a specific subject, or at a whole grade level, which we can equate with graduation from that grade. This would happen when we equalize all areas of existence to be at least at that level of evolution, as we proceed to the next. Even along these levels, as each child in the same grade, we too have different interests and preferences. Even when we reach the college level, we are still not done, for we are then involved in an eternal journey of specialization and further self mastery. 

This is also why we can begin to understand why sometimes something as simple as trying to have a conversation with others about topics which we may think we would all understand similarly, proves difficult. Let’s use some more examples to further understand on a practical level. Think about the topic of abortion for example, a 3rd grader will have a completely different understanding of this topic compared to a 9th grader, compared to a college kid. (Remember we are using complex human topics in the context of grade school analogies.) What peace means to a 1st grader is very different than what means peace to a 5th grader, and more importantly what each is willing to do in order to have peace. And so we can take any topic, the so called economy, politics, ethics, health or nutrition and understand why we have the misunderstandings and miscommunication we do. We may be talking about the same things, but each of our unique abilities to comprehend the vastness of each topic totally depends on our personal level of evolution. 

Ultimately, I am not sharing this so that you may try to figure out what supposed grade you or anyone else is in. That is not at all the point of this dialogue. The point is to realize that we are all at different levels of our learning, thus of our personal evolution and spiritual development. 

Concluding Thoughts

1. Although we are currently part of a collective reality on this planet, we each construct our own reality, based on our personal perspectives, past experiences, biases and level of evolution. Our personally constructed reality is the most influential force in our lives.
2. We are all at different stages of spiritual evolution, or in different grades. And a 3rd grader is no better or worse than a 9th grader. “Better” and “worse” are simply constructs of an unconscious ego-mind that lives in the world of duality.
3. We each need to be tolerant of the fact that we are sharing a planet with many other beings of every level, just as kids of all ages in one classroom. The older kids need more patience with the younger kids, for we were all once there. While the younger kids can save themselves a lot of hurt and pain, if they so desire, by taking example from the older kids.
4. In order to create most effectively, you must align yourself with those that share similar worlds to yours. This does not mean people of the same religion or same political party, but beings who choose to perceive reality and vibrate at a similar frequency to you.

In the end, I do not have a solution for you, because technically there is no problem. We simply have to recognize and understand the challenge before us, to be able to better get along with each other, and create the lives and world we most want to experience. We each came to this planet, this time and many times before, knowing this challenge very well. In fact, this is one of the reasons why we come here at all, as contrast can cause us to learn and evolve the fastest. It is why we tend to pick the families we do, religions, cultures and such. It can therefore be seen as a very positive, rather than negative thing, despite the challenges that it presents. As long as we don’t get caught up in other people’s realities, but see the bigger picture of what is going on, there is perhaps no better playground or classroom where we can have the chance to spiritually evolve at a faster rate. 

This article has been reprinted from Evolving Beings

About the Author 
Evita Ochel is a consciousness expansion teacher. Her diverse passions and expertise include being a writer, speaker, holistic nutritionist, web TV host, and author of the book Healing & Prevention Through Nutrition. Her health oriented teaching focuses on natural, whole, plant-based and organic nutrition for optimal health and longevity. Her spiritually oriented teaching focuses on consciousness expansion and heart-centered living for optimal joy and inner peace. Evita is also the creator of several online publications: Evolving Beings, Evolving Wellness, Evolving Channelsand Evolving Scenes, as well as Healthytarian—a lifestyle for the well-being of the mind, body and spirit.

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Hey Sohini,

You ARE Your Divinity

by Bored Panda 

The flower, as a reproductive organ, evolved with one primary purpose in mind – to attract pollinators like insects or birds. This function has driven their astounding evolutionary explosion of distinct colors and shapes, some of which have even come to resemble various recognizable figures, plants or animals. 

The colors of these flamboyant orchids attract insects and birds, signaling that these flowers are full of tasty nectar. Their shapes, on the other hand, often evolve to attract or accommodate specific pollinators while dissuading parasites or other, less desirable pollinators. Some flowers are more welcoming to bees, while others are perfect for hummingbirds or different insects. 

Their stunning colors and biodiversity have attracted another type of creature as well – us. Orchid lovers value flowers like these for their resemblance to other recognizable objects which, while coincidental, is still definitely entertaining! 

Monkey Face Orchid (Dracula Simia) 

Moth Orchid (Phalaenopsis) 

Naked Man Orchid (Orchis Italica) 

Hooker’s Lips (Psychotria Elata) 

Dancing Girls (Impatiens Bequaertii) 

Laughing Bumble Bee Orchid (Ophrys bomybliflora) 

Swaddled Babies (Anguloa Uniflora) 

Parrot Flower (Impatiens Psittacina) 

Snap Dragon Seed Pod (Antirrhinum) 

Flying Duck Orchid (Caleana Major) 

Orchid That Looks Like A Tiger 

Happy Alien (Calceolaria Uniflora) 

Angel Orchid (Habenaria Grandifloriformis) 

Dove Orchid Or Holy Ghost Orchid (Peristeria Elata) 

Orchid That Looks Like A Ballerina 

White Egret Orchid (Habenaria Radiata) 

Darth Vader (Aristolochia Salvadorensis) 

Selacia's Article: Buddha Wisdom at Wesak

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Buddha Wisdom at Wesak    

by Selacia   

If the Buddha celebrated at Wesak were alive today, he would experience a dramatically different world. That world is your world, and your challenge in these moments is to find new ways to walk the spiritual path. 

That path is timeless, as are the teachings of the great ones like Buddha, the Christ, and Kuan Yin. They shared universal truths to remind you of your divine nature and the love that it is at your core.  

Buddha Alive on Inner Planes

Even though these enlightened beings are no longer in physical form, they are very much alive on the inner planes. When living on the Earth, they discovered timeless wisdom about the true nature of existence, applying it to everyday life situations. As they did this, they set the template for enlightenment. 

At Wesak season - including at Wesak celebrations such as those occurring this weekend - you have increased access to this template for your own journey. Not only that, since the veils between dimensions are thinner at such times, it becomes easier for you to receive tangible connections with the Buddha and the other ascended beings.  Likewise, you have more opportunities to evolve spiritually because of the auspicious blessings available at this time. 

If you're wondering how the Buddha would be challenged by texting or other modern technology, you can be sure that he would face similar frustrations about living in the "on" position 24/7. Most likely, he would be talking about the need to find balance and quiet time.  

What Buddha Would Teach Now 

Certainly, the Buddha would be teaching about how to stay connected to the world while still managing to meditate and do spiritual practice. As part of that, he would remind us to cherish and honor one another - not allowing devices and nonstop media to replace genuine human contact. 

To be sure, the gaze between two people or the sound when two people speak remotely in present time cannot duplicate a mechanized exchange. There is a palpable energy that gets exchanged between people who are physically engaged with one another in the present moment. Your eyes and ears take in much more than you may imagine. It is through such energy exchanges that you learn from others, helping you to see yourself more clearly and to evolve spiritually. 

Enlightenment cannot happen in a vacuum. It occurs in a process over time as you fully engage with life, the world, and other people. This was true for Buddha, and it is true for all of us. You may be saying about now that it's much harder today - not so simple and too many distractions.  

To some extent this may be correct, but the Buddha would tell us that mindfulness is the same now as during his lifetime. It is up to each of us to learn to master our own mind - only we can do this in the moment. Even if we were able to shut off the outside world for days - no TV, no texting, no phone calls, no visits from others - our own nonstop untrained mind would keep us quite busy!  

Mindfulness the Key 

We can learn mindfulness as Buddha did, controlling our thoughts and our ruminating mind. The masters like Buddha remind us that we can do what they did - that we are Buddhas in training.  Buddha simply means enlightened one.  

A Buddha in Training 

Think of yourself this Wesak season as a Buddha in training. Let go of the small stuff that arises and appears threatening. Focus on the big picture and the long term. You are, after all, eternal and you are wired at a DNA level to achieve mastery as the Buddha did. Trust this. 

Copyright 2014 by Selacia - author of Earth's Pivotal Years, healer, and teacher * All Rights Reserved * www.Selacia.com * Feel free to share these articles with your friends and post to your blog or website as long as you include this copyright line and the full article text.   

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The Elders Transmission ~ May 2014

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Welcome, sweet ones. It gives us great pleasure to be with you in this Now, and indeed in these rapidly accelerating dimensional frequencies of Light as they are experienced through many of these incredible planetary activities of Light. And you are seeing the quickening, sweet ones, a deeper level of remembrance that has been activated through the DNA in the knowing of your magnificence, your preciousness, and your Light. Through the Full Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse on April the 14^th/15^th, you were taken deeper into the octaves of the higher dimensions of the Cosmic Heart of All Creation, utilizing that Now moment to transcend human miscreations through the I AM Avatar Consciousness of Light, and indeed too, sweet ones, to go deeper within the shadow aspects of yourselves, embracing both the shadow and the Light. And this beautiful diamond, golden and white Flame of Divine Light and Love illuminates through the beautiful silver ray of Interstellar Christ Consciousness, this beautiful silver ray of Illumination that activates into the fifth dimensional New Earth Templates of Light, illuminating your pathway in Christ Consciousness, showing you, sweet ones, a deeper sense of this golden Age of Light.

You are coming into a recalibrating frequency of the higher dimensional octaves and this is affecting Mother Earth and all her life as these dimensional frequencies and New Earth Templates activate within the Unity Grid of Divine Love. And for many of you too as initiates of Light there is a deeper level of remembrance as these parallel realities of your Highest Potential merge into this Now. As you experienced the Cardinal Grand Cross Alignment on April 22^nd, 23^rd and 24^th, you had the opportunity to be taken into a deeper sense of these multi-dimensional realities. As you experienced the Activation of the Seals of Solomon and the energy in particular of joy, abundance and empowerment, these frequential energies together with these Seals of Light illuminated the Pathway of Christ Consciousness and your Heart's Dreaming as well as activated, purified and recalibrated the lower bodies into a deeper connection of the crystalline matrix of the fifth dimensional templatings.

And now, in this month of May, you start this celebration of Light activities through the activation of the Crystalline Cities of Light, and the activation of the Sedona Vortex. This planetary activity of Light amplifies over the 3^rd and 4^th of May, as you are embraced within the diamond, golden and white Flame of Divine Love and the diamond Flame of Purity that activates within the Sedona Vortex. In this celestial activity of Light, sweet ones, as you connect at a Higher Light level, it is through the initial impulsing of the sonic vibratory frequencies that were experienced in a co-creation of Light taking you into this vortex of Divine Love and linking from here into the Sedona Vortex of Light and the Sedona Crystalline City of Light. The Sedona Vortex of Light, sweet ones, amplifies over this month of May into a greater stargate of Light allowing these Christed Timelines of infinite potential and possibility to be experienced through all dimensions of Light through the sacred diamond Flame of Purity. And it is through the Flame of Purity within the Flame of Divine Love, sweet ones, that you come into a deeper level of self-love, self-appreciation, and self-nurturing. The Flame of Purity takes you into a greater level of your magnificence and your Light as these sacred transfiguring Flames of Divine Love. It embraces the aspects of the negative ego existing within the lesser-than and better-than consciousness, and in particular, the aspects of yourselves that need to be integrated, that experience a sense of unworthiness, of being unwanted, and of being unloved. And as this Flame of Purity activates within your hearts in this beautiful diamond octahedronal shape it further allows you to link into the beautifuleighteenth ray of Multi-Universal Service, and the Cosmic Heart of all Creation. And it is within this Source Light, sweet ones, that the purity of your creations unfold, and as this beautiful Flame of Purity, this diamond Flame of Light, activates within the Sedona Vortex it links you too into the Crystalline Cities of Light and the 33 fifth dimensional Stargate Portals of Light.

The Crystalline Cities of Light, also known as the higher dimensional Cities of Light, bring through the crystalline matrix of your Heart's Dreamings, and the ability to collectively anchor your Heart's Dreamings in this Now, sweet ones. The Crystalline Cities embody the energy of pure Divine Love, of peace, of harmony, and further act as a dimensional gateway for many of the Beings of Light from On High to connect to the awakened souls on this earth plane. And in Golden Ages of Light many initiates would find themselves walking up a spiral of crystal stairs into a beautiful Crystalline City of Light, greeted by Christed extra-terrestrials and higher dimensional Light Beings, you would experience various Healing Chambers of Light, celestial musical transmissions, inter-dimensional creations of art, peace embassies, golden fountains, dolphin birthing chambers, schools of spiritual enlightenment ~ the peace and beauty of nature, as well as the advanced healing technologies. And so, sweet ones, the gift of this particular planetary activity of Light links you into the twelve primary Crystalline Cities of Light related to the primary vortices or chakras of Mother Earth. And this is in part what is being activated throughout this year, the deeper connection into each Crystalline City of Light, not only in the knowing of your ability to co-create Heaven on Earth, but in your ability to anchor and activate your Heart's Dreaming and follow the Christed Timelines into the greatest sense of yourselves, sweet ones, as these sacred transfiguring flames of Divine Love, and these Master Beings of Light. So let us start with a deeper sense of the primary attributes experienced briefly through these twelve Crystalline Cities of Light and from here step into the Portals of Light, the spiritual Portals of Light being activated over this month of May, and the corresponding spiritual laws that take you ever deeper into this pathway of Divine Love.

So you start by coming deep into yourselves, breathing, expanding the lower abdomen as you breathe in, contracting the lower abdomen as you breathe out, centering and grounding yourselves now as you experience this beautiful diamond, golden and white Flame of Divine Love activate within your heart chakras, and now this beautiful diamond Flame of Purity, and now, this silver Flame of Illumination, illuminating your pathway as you walk the Christed Timelines. You have a sense now of merging with your Beloved I AM Presence, the Highest Light that you are, within the Cosmic Heart of Mother/Father God, merging into the soul aspect of your consciousness, of purity, of innocence, of unity, sweet ones. Calling in now ~ your master guides, your guardian angel and all other Beings of Light from on High that you personally acknowledge and that wish to join you now in this sacred space. And as you ground into the crystalline matrix of the Unity Grid of Divine Love, you start to come into a deeper sense of these planetary key codes and numerologies and sacred geometries that are activating through the New Earth Templates of Light, the Star Blueprints of Light. And as you take on a deeper level of your own individual puzzle piece within this collective you connect now to the Light workers, and star seeded ones, and all the Beings of Light from On High, assisting in this journey of Divine Love, in this embrace of One Unity Consciousness.

You have a sense of being deeply supported in this Now, sweet ones, by the many Illumined Beings of Light from On High, your Beloved I AM Presence and your soul and star family and friends of the Light. You are joined by the many Legions of Light, and you feel and experience these sonic transmissions, these vibratory crystalline frequencies that activate the carbon based cells into the crystalline matrix of the Solar Light Cells and the Patterns of Perfection. And you have a sense now, sweet ones, of coming together at this Higher Light level, participating in these many glorious activities of Light, knowing that these higher dimensional frequencies of Light are being activated through the hearts and minds of all awakened souls in this Now, in this timeline, and the re-union of hearts is to be experienced as you trust and surrender ~ as you believe, sweet ones, as you believe in the magnificence and Light of your Selves, as you believe in the knowing of your co-creation in this Golden Age of Light.

You have a sense now of traveling in soul consciousness to the beautiful Sedona Vortex of Light, feeling and experiencing this beautiful diamond Flame of Purity in particular as it purifies the lower bodies, sweet ones, asking you to know that your body is a Temple of Light, to give yourselves the sustenance, and the energies that are supportive and conducive to the nurturing of Self. As you embrace yourselves now in this beautiful diamond Flame of Purity, you travel the timelines in which you have felt unwanted, unloved, unappreciated, unseen or unheard, and you embrace those sub-personality aspects of yourselves, sweet ones, you give them a voice. You Love these aspects of yourselves as you are taken deeper into this beautiful diamond Flame of Purity and this diamond, golden and white Flame of Divine Love.

This diamond Flame of Purity activates the diamond Light Grid, sweet ones. This diamond Light Grid that is being anchored now activates in August through Glastonbury Tor, the heart chakra of Mother Earth, and at that time you will be able to create the diamond Lightbody Merkaba Fields of Light. For now, as this beautiful diamond grid activates into the crystalline matrix of the 144 Unity Grid of Divine Love it brings with it the ability to experience all dimensions of Light within the Cosmic heart of Mother/Father God ~ unlimited timelines as they activate now through the Sedona Vortex of Light, and you experience now, sweet ones, this connection initially into the Sedona Crystalline City of Light.

As you are lifted in soul consciousness into this Crystalline City of Light, you draw in particular upon the energy of the god/goddess archetypes of Light. These spiritual archetypes embody what you are needing to experience to know yourselves in self-mastery, to know yourselves in Love, looking through your master eyes at all of life around you, and you draw upon these energies of Light as you are placed in this God/Goddess Archetypal Chamber of Light, brought in by the Pleiadian Emissaries of the Light, the Sirian Archangelic League of the Light, the Arcturian Emissaries of the Light, the Andromedan Intergalactic Beings of the Light, and the Overlighting of the Brotherhood of the Light. As this multi-colored laser grid of Light comes in, you are shown the images of this beautiful Sedona Crystalline City of Light. You hear these sonic vibrations of crystal frequency as you create a deeper sense of the diamond light body, sweet ones, as you come into a knowing of your full multi-dimensional multi-faceted natures, and your ability to experience this deep love within yourselves. It is this sense of loving and nurturing yourselves that amplifies over this month of May, sweet ones, and it allows you to draw upon archetypal energies that support you, and that are experienced as you connect now to the primary Crystalline Cities of Light through the primary vortices of Mother Earth, drawing into your reality and this Now the energies of the high priest, and priestess, the lover, mother/queen, father/king, wise woman, sage, spiritual master, alchemist, inventor, intuitive healer, the warrior, the advocate of justice, the visionary and seer, the artist, the magical innocent child and the servant. These archetypal energies will support you, sweet ones ~ to magnetize, to manifest, and to bring into your reality all that you need in any given Now moment, lifting you into another level of awakening and remembrance as though still waking from one dream and experiencing another. All these realities are being dreamed into creation, sweet ones, and this multi-dimensional reality is so very real, so very vivid, and it is your ability to ground these energies as the physical vessels of Light that activate in a greater level of purity and innocence and Source Light over this month of May.

And now you have a sense of the 33 Stargate Portals of Light that are experienced too within these fifth dimensional templates of Light. And you are drawn now into the first spiritual portal of Light. This thirteenth spiritual portal that supports the Law of Divine Flow. The Law of Divine Flow reminds you to live in this Now, centering yourselves in Love, being of service in Love. In this Now, sweet ones, there is no concern for what is to unfold, or what has been. There is a knowing of harmony, and grace in your co-creations of Light, of your ability to dance in Divine Love ~ reflecting Love, allowing Love, being Love. It is these actions, sweet ones that call for not only the dynamic outward flow, but also this inward flow into yourselves, taking the time to support your own biorhythmic ebb and flows. To feel and sense what you are needing to support yourselves fully in this moment, and allowing this beautiful silver ray of Illumination to guide you with the Flame of Purity, and the Flame of Divine Love, to the Heart's Temple, into the natural flow of peace and harmony and co-creation, sweet ones. And you have a sense of how this Law of Divine Flow operates within your own lives; of the synchronicities that abound, that bring you together in Unity Consciousness, that bring you together in your co-creations of Light, that connect you at this soul level with one another, and allow you to feel the creative inspirations that activate as you further experience a greater level of the rebalancing of the divine masculine and feminine aspects of yourselves. You hold to this knowing of this divine flow and a deep level of trust and surrender, sweet ones, aligning your will to the Will of God and knowing that even as you walk this pathway and its perceived challenges, you have chosen these lessons to create these Pathways of Light for others. And as these flames of Divine Love you anchor these energies of these stargate portals and spiritual laws so that others too may experience this flow of Divine Love within their lives in a deeper level of self-love and self-nurturing and self-appreciation.

You now activate the Cosmic Christ holographic discs, the Cosmic Christ holographic disc in particular related to this dimensional stargate portal of Light. As this beautiful silver Cosmic Christ holographic disc activates through the vertebrae of the spine and from here in to the appropriate chakras and nadis, you have a sense of being able to find this flow and balance within your lives through this Flame of Purity, sweet ones, and the illumination of this beautiful silver ray of Light. And if there is anything that you are needing guidance with, allow this beautiful silver ray of Light to illuminate your pathway, to show you this flow, and harmony that you are needing in this Now.

And now, sweet ones, you find yourselves in this spiritual portal of Light related to the Law of Divine Love and Oneness, although of course, sweet ones, you are familiar with this law, it is to know that such a law exists only for you to know the truth of the One Reality of All that Is. There is only Divine Love and you are all One, and this Divine Love embraces this, all aspects of yourselves, moving into the shadows and the Light, and within the flame of Divine Love the shadow aspects are embraced in love, for there is only Love, sweet ones. There is no separation, and you have this sense of unity, too, amplifying now not only with your soul family and friends and the Illumined Beings of Light from On High, but at this earthly dimensional level, sweet ones, you have a sense of being able to see others. To know that it is just the levels of Cosmic Consciousness awareness that differs from individual to individual, and to be able to see the Light of all Souls as these open hearts in this Golden Age of Light.

You have a sense within this spiritual portal of Light of these sub-atomic particles vibrating in increased Light frequencies further activating this beautiful diamond Flame of Purity, this diamond octahedron within the heart chakra, holding to this expanded sense of your multi-dimensional selves, and bringing into this Now, the understanding, the remembrance, the wisdom, and the knowing, sweet ones, of the Cosmic Heart of Mother/Father God, of Source Light, as it anchors deeper now through this beautiful Flame of Purity within your hearts, and through this Flame of Divine Love.

And now you activate the silver Cosmic Christ holographic disc of Light related to this spiritual portal, this spiritual law of Light, through the body and through the energy field, through the vertebrae and the corresponding energy centers of the body, creating this etheric templating with a greater level of flow within the embrace of the Cosmic Heart of All Creation and the Patterns of Perfection, sweet ones; and the knowing too that you are able to experience all dimensions of Light, all realities of Oneness, if you so choose.

And lastly now, you find yourself experiencing the fifteenth Spiritual Portal related to the Law of Continuity of Consciousness. The Universe itself, sweet ones, is a continuous and endless process of creation. Everything within this One Reality, everything in creation, is connected to everything else; and this interconnectivity, this relationship is one of consciousness connecting individual consciousness to the universal consciousness, to the vibrating frequencies of Light ~ and you experience now a greater sense of these geometries, and New Earth templates, these key codes, fractal geometries, numerologies, and crystalline frequencies of Light. You are experiencing a greater level of Cosmic Consciousness awareness, sweet ones, merging into a greater sense of your magnificence and Light through the Overlighting of your Beloved I AM Presence and being lifted into many of the Ashrams of Light. In particular, in this month of May, this is activated at a deeper level through the Festival of Wesak experienced on the full moon in Taurus on May the 14^th. So for a moment now as you experience this Law of the Continuity of Consciousness you activate this fifteenth silver Cosmic Christ holographic disc through the vertebrae and spinal column allowing the cerebral spinal fluid to activate in this new Consciousness of Light recalibrating the pituitary, the pineal, and the hypothalamus glands, the left and the right hemispheres of the brain, and integrating the divine masculine and feminine aspects of yourselves, sweet ones, which amplifies too over this month of May. These recalibrations quicken and will lead for many of you to a great reunion of hearts, to the merging of twin flames individually and through your soul groups into a greater level of collectively ascending to these multi-dimensional realities and all dimensions of Light.

As you experience the Festival of Wesak, sweet ones, you are drawn into the energy of Lord Buddha, and the Masters from Shamballa. Lord Buddha is the Planetary Logos and embraces all Life within his cosmic heart, and it is the energy of the Masters from Shamballa and the Ashrams of Light, that connect you, sweet ones, as the chelas on the threads, into the Ashrams of the Masters through purity of heart, through Source Light, through your desire to serve in Love, through your commitment and your ability to create the change that you have always wanted to as you step into a greater level of self-mastery. You let go of the lesser-than and better-than consciousness as you step deeper into the knowing of your Selves as the sacred transfiguring flames of Divine Love. Wonderful.

As this beautiful silver ray of Light illuminates your pathway through the Christed Timelines, you bring a focus now to the Ashrams of Light within Shamballa and in particular to the first three ray ashrams of Will and Power, Love/Wisdom, and Divine Intelligence. As you experience this beautiful three-fold flame activate now within your hearts, you are lifted energetically into the Ashrams of these first three rays, and from here you will be guided into the Ashrams of the twelve earthly rays, and the six cosmic rays, as is appropriate to your levels of conscious awareness, sweet ones. Request this blessing as you walk the pathway of Buddha Consciousness, and Christ Consciousness, to a greater level of self-mastery.

If you are ready in this month of May, sweet ones, greatness presents itself. If you are ready to purify the lower bodies, if you are ready to purify the mind, the heart, and the soul, to truly know your magnificence as these Master Beings, leading the way in this Golden Age of Light, a greater level of wisdom, of Love and empowerment activates for you, taking you deeper and deeper along the pathway of Divine Love, in service in Love. Know this to be a resonating truth of the highest order, this reunion of hearts, sweet ones. Follow your Heart's Dreaming, and know that this is unfolding in this Now. Take these beautiful flames, this diamond golden and white Flame of Divine Love, this diamond Flame of Purity, and this silver Ray of Illumination ~ activate these energetic frequencies to the maximum cosmic law can allow, as these flames of Light activate now around Mother Earth and all her Life, so that all life may know their magnificence and their Light.

And now this beautiful diamond flame of Light activates through the crystalline matrix of the 144 Unity Grid of Divine Love. You experience this activation through this diamond octahedron within your hearts and now this beautiful diamond golden and white flame of Divine Love this creates this beautiful shape of the Flower of Life, fifty four feet in diameter around you. For it is in this, sweet ones, when you are ready, that you will activate your diamond Light Body merkaba field, and for now, you simply come into remembrance of this, with the ability to experience all dimensions of Light, in self-mastery and in self-enlightenment, as these sacred transfiguring flames of Divine Love and these Master Beings of Light.

You come back now into your sacred space, grounding once more into the crystal heart of Mother Earth, and keeping this connection of Light open to all these Beings of Light from On High. Acknowledge these frequential energies and what they bring to you, and the knowing of the New Earth Templates of Light building to a greater harmonic of Divine Love and Unity Consciousness. This is indeed an amazing time to be on this sacred earth, sweet ones.

As you ground once more into the crystal heart of Mother Earth you align into the Inner Earth Sun, the Inner Sun within your Hearts, the Sun, the Central Sun, and the Great Central Sun, to the Cosmic Heart of Mother/Father God. And you come back now through all dimensions of Light, physically grounded in the physical realms too, in purity and Love and wisdom, in power, unity consciousness and illumination. Wonderful.

We thank you, sweet ones, for your service work, and we bless you, and with this we bid you a most magical day.

Transcribed by Eadie Miller.

Artwork by Art Dimension http://martdimension.com/

Suggested links:

A-Z ~ The Nature of Stargates ~ Metatron via J Tyberonn ~ http://youtu.be/_2RnD2tIZWY

Sedona Crystalline City of Light http://www.sedonalightcenter.org/

Activation of the Crystalline Cities of Light www.pleiadianlight.net/eventsservices

Feeling edgy and out of sorts, or simply sensing that you're on the edge of your seat about to make your next move?

If you're experiencing either of these states right now, you are in good company. You don't have to look far in any direction to notice people with an anxious disposition. Some of them close to you may be acting out their jittery feelings, too, adding to your own nervousness.

Especially if you are sensitive, you can feel what others are feeling. Sometimes you are aware of this response - other times it may be unconscious. Don't make sensitivity or awareness bad. It's part of being multidimensional to tap into the interconnected world and the collective. This includes people you work with, live with, and interact with in everyday life. 

Energy is energy and it exists whether or not you are consciously aware of it. No matter how hard you try, you cannot divorce yourself from the world and its current energetic shifting that touches everyone around you. Even pets are impacted!

As a reminder of what's going on, here's a recap of this month's energies underlying the edginess, chaos, and intensity.  We now sit between two powerful eclipses in a longstanding transformational cycle building for decades. 

Next Wednesday's Grand Cross Peak

Part of that cycle is the rare cardinal grand cross energy you can feel now before it peaks April 23. Even after that peak, too, is a cycle of releasing and adjusting to the new energies. 

For perspective, what you are feeling is both personal and your tapping into the collective dance of radical shifting involving how Earthly life is lived. It's not just about one day, or one month, but certainly April is an intense time for most people to handle! In my private astrology readings for DNA healing clients, we address the very personal implications of cycles like this. 

These definitely are moments you don't want to sleep through or let slip by unnoticed. Indeed, this cycle has great potential to catalyze just the breakthroughs you have needed to get free of your past and move into a much more promising future!  

From a multidimensional perspective - as I describe in my book Earth's Pivotal Years - "upward spirals of growth can occur either very slowly or seemingly in a flash of time. This applies to both individuals and the planet as a whole."  When we have a grand cross, think of it as a crossroads that can ignite your personal spiral of growth with a bolt of lightning!

Avoid the tendency to go into fear and have a breakdown. Use these energies to have huge breakthroughs instead.

5 Tips for Having Breakthroughs

Here are five tips for having breakthroughs in April and over the coming weeks as the chaotic energies continue to play out. As I've been writing about on Facebook, these can be times of meltdown or breakthrough - applying these tips can help you to achieve breakthroughs. 

First, avoid your learned tendency to be harsh with yourself. Refuse to listen to your ego voice that keeps you in fear and negativity. Don't let that critical voice convince you that things are hard, no fun, or tough to accomplish with all that's going on. Invite your higher wisdom to help you stay positive, on track, and open to the gifts of self-discovery now becoming available at this crossroads.

Second, when you first begin to feel a negative emotion, check in with yourself to determine how much of what you are feeling is yours, how much is other people, and how much is the collective. The only feeling you have any power over is your own. This means owning how you feel but refusing to act on the emotion. An angry text or comment to a colleague or loved one will backfire. Find a gentle way to communicate or hold your tongue for a bit until you can find more constructive words.

Third, remember that just on the other side of chaos and darkness there is peace and light. These qualities always are there, in fact, but during turmoil it can be challenging to access them. Keep your focus on your light-filled intentions and your own light within. It is your own light that can reveal things blocking your full divine expression. Allow this light energy within to bring you the outer resources you need to break free. These resources could include insights from others not invested in seeing you the way that you have always seen yourself. It's common knowledge that enlightenment is catalyzed by being with and seeking input from others outside of you. Asking for help doesn't make you less than - it can help you to be more than your ego self is allowing you to be.

Fourth, know that crossroads like these tend to bring up intense desires to do or be something different from what society dictates. To have breakthroughs, you will need to self-moderate your desires and only take actions on things that truly need action right now. If you're not sure, wait. Meditate on your desires and invite dreams or other inner input to help you see the larger picture of where these desires will lead long term.

Fifth, on a daily basis, ask your higher self to reveal to you what you are not seeing about your situation. Ask to be shown - directly or through other people - what in your DNA-level conditioning is blocking your forward movement. Invite a knowing of how your current blocks relate to things you experienced in past lives, vows you took in other lifetimes, or agreements you made with people at another time in history. These things, not on the ordinary person's radar, can be seen in the field of the DNA, which is also the place they need to be cleared to have real progress. Remember, too, that in your DNA are very beneficial patterns helping you in this pivotal lifetime - ask to be made aware of these things so that you can see your divine qualities. Then call upon those qualities to assist you in creating breakthroughs that subsequent generations will liken to miracles!  

Copyright 2014 by Selacia - author of Earth's Pivotal Years, healer, and teacher * All Rights Reserved * www.Selacia.com * Feel free to share these articles with your friends and post to your blog or website as long as you include this copyright line and the full article text.  

Top 100 Benefits of Meditation

Physiological benefits:

1. It lowers oxygen consumption.
2. It decreases respiratory rate.
3. It increases blood flow and slows the heart rate.
4. Increases exercise tolerance.
5. Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation.
6. Good for people with high blood pressure.
7. Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate.
8. Decreases muscle tension
9. Helps in chronic diseases like allergies, arthritis etc.
10. Reduces Pre-menstrual Syndrome symptoms.
11. Helps in post-operative healing.
12. Enhances the immune system.
13. Reduces activity of viruses and emotional distress
14. Enhances energy, strength and vigour.
15. Helps with weight loss
16. Reduction of free radicals, less tissue damage
17. Higher skin resistance
18. Drop in cholesterol levels, lowers risk of cardiovascular disease.
19. Improved flow of air to the lungs resulting in easier breathing.
20. Decreases the aging process.
21. Higher levels of DHEAS (Dehydroepiandrosterone)
22. Prevented, slowed or controlled pain of chronic diseases
23. Makes you sweat less
24. Cure headaches & migraines
25. Greater Orderliness of Brain Functioning
26. Reduced Need for Medical Care
27. Less energy wasted
28. More inclined to sports, activities
29. Significant relief from asthma
30. Improved performance in athletic events
31. Normalizes to your ideal weight
32. Harmonizes our endocrine system
33. Relaxes our nervous system
34. Produce lasting beneficial changes in brain electrical activity
35. Helps cure infertility (the stresses of infertility can interfere with
the release of hormones that regulate ovulation).

Psychological benefits:
36. Builds self-confidence.
37. Increases serotonin level, influences mood and Behaviour.
38. Resolve phobias & fears
39. Helps control own thoughts
40. Helps with focus & concentration
41. Increase creativity
42. Increased brain wave coherence.
43. Improved learning ability and memory.
44. Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation.
45. Increased emotional stability.
46. Improved relationships
47. Mind ages at slower rate
48. Easier to remove bad habits
49. Develops intuition
50. Increased Productivity
51. Improved relations at home & at work
52. Able to see the larger picture in a given situation
53. Helps ignore petty issues
54. Increased ability to solve complex problems
55. Purifies your character
56. Develop will power
57. Greater communication between the two brain hemispheres
58. Respond more quickly and more effectively to a stressful event.
59. Increases ones perceptual ability and motor performance
60. Higher intelligence growth rate
61. Increased job satisfaction
62. Increase in the capacity for intimate contact with loved ones
63. Decrease in potential mental illness
64. Better, more sociable Behaviour
65. Less aggressiveness
66. Helps in quitting smoking, alcohol addiction
67. Reduces need and dependency on drugs, pills & pharmaceuticals
68. Need less sleep to recover from sleep deprivation
69. Require less time to fall asleep, helps cure insomnia
70. Increases sense of responsibility
71. Reduces road rage
72. Decrease in restless thinking
73. Decreased tendency to worry
74. Increases listening skills and empathy
75. Helps make more accurate judgments
76. Greater tolerance
77. Gives composure to act in considered & constructive ways
78. Grows a stable, more balanced personality
79. Develops emotional maturity

Spiritual benefits:
80. Helps keep things in perspective
81. Provides peace of mind, happiness
82. Helps you discover your purpose in life
83. Increased self-actualization.
84. Increased compassion
85. Growing wisdom
86. Deeper understanding of yourself and others
87. Brings body, mind, and spirit in harmony
88. Deeper Level of spiritual relaxation
89. Increased acceptance of one self
90. Helps learn forgiveness
91. Changes attitude toward life
92. Creates a deeper relationship with your God
93. Increases the synchronicity in your life
94. Greater inner-directedness
95. Helps living in the present moment
96. Creates a widening, deepening capacity for love
97. Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the ego
98. Experience an inner sense of Assurance or Knowingness

99. Experience a sense of Oneness
100. Leads to enlightenment

March 28, 2014
Cloud Meditation
Head in the Clouds
by Madisyn Taylor

Following a cloud with our eye and drifting through the sky with it can be an easy and relaxing meditation.

When people use the phrase “head in the clouds,” they usually refer to a mental state that appears to be drifting rather than concentrating. For this reason, putting our heads in the clouds can be a wonderful meditation tool. Whether puffy and white or tinted with the colors of dawn and dusk or shades of gray, those vaporous sky dwellers can remind us of so many things about life and about ourselves.

For this meditation, we can find a physical place to relax and look upward, or we can look to the skies from within our imaginations. Directing our thoughts to the endless of expanse of sky that clouds inhabit, we feel our souls expand to reach beyond any seeming limitations. Following the clouds, we are free to unleash our imaginations. We may choose to merely drift along with them for a time, enjoying their distanced perspective on the world. Or we can look for messages in their fantastical shapes, or feel the joy of bounding between their immense billowy puffiness. However we interact with them, we do so from a peaceful place. Clouds drift above the hustle of the world below, knowing they belong to another realm that cannot be affected by its frenzy, reminding us that peace is always available to us. By directing our vision beyond the ordinary, clouds also remind us of the illusion of appearances. While appearing to be solid, their vapor and mist appear like cotton balls ! from below, giving little indication of the heights they reach. Sometimes they may cast shadows, leaving us in shade, but like life’s difficulties clouds change shape and move onward, revealing the shining sun, twinkling stars, and blue sky that are behind them.

When a ray of light breaks through the clouds, their dramatic filtering only makes the light more beautiful by contrast, just as we can shine more brightly in the midst of life’s challenges. When we allow clouds to offer us a welcome respite, they help us visit the realm of illusion to see the truth beyond.