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    I have been feeling down recently. Nothing seems to change, nothing ever seems to get better. The world is stuck in a rut of just endless misery and sameness and war. When will it ever end?

    The present regime and the Powers That Be cling on. I do not believe they will ever change, nor relinquish their hold on this planet. I look upon the leaders of the so called 'Free World' and I see little to no hope of progress from them. In fact I see the opposite. There's probably not been a single day in 5,000 years when a war, battle, or conflict was not happening somewhere in the world. I cannot see any downtrend to the violence. War will continue, and perhaps increase, as will restrictions on our freedom, and the suppression of the truth. As the transhumanist nightmare unravels and begins to flourish, I do not see more people waking up, I see those that are sleeping falling into an even deeper sleep.

    I was listening to Cameron the other day, with regards the immigration crisis in Europe. I also heard what Merkel and Obama were saying. Later, on a different note, I listened to the diatribes of Trump and Clinton on their rallies - all because these are the so-called 'leaders', and those seeking to be leaders, of the so-called 'Free World'. Are these the wisest, most qualified, most righteous people that Earth has to offer in her time of such crisis?

    I used to be amused when political elections came on TV, listening to all the rhetoric and false promises, and watching all the bright eyed, smiling supporters whooping, dancing and holding banners. Now it just makes me very tired, and very miserable. The flag-waving masses are sadly, utterly deluded still, after all the regimes and administrations, after all these years. Will they not ever learn? We they not ever figure it out? They are without awareness, and seemingly without a single iota of intelligence. Same for all the experts, commentators and pundits. Can't the people see that what we need in our leaders is honesty, peace, love, and wisdom, and a smidgeon of spiritual awareness at least? None of them have any of these things. All the sleeping masses are cheering is just another puppet of the system, a puppet replacing the previous puppet of the same system. It doesn't matter what party you support, or what colour flag you wave. There is no multi-party system. There is no democracy. Republican, democrat, socialist, liberal - whatever label you like. There is only one party, (with only superficial facets), with one philosophy, and one drive: to control, dominate, and control some more, and at all costs to sustain the status quo. What the flag-wavers are cheering, and will ultimately vote for, is for nothing to change, and for nothing to improve. For just more of the same…

    The more I think (brood) about it, the more I think that there is no way, there can be no other way the world will have an opportunity to change - for humanity to at last unite and move forward in both peace and freedom - unless there's some sort of big, watershed event to remove this current system of ours. The pressing of a global reset button. For Gaia Herself perhaps to rebel against the infestation that is damaging her so gravely. Potentially something, dare I say, cataclysmic.

    In order for a new world to begin, the old world must end. I ask an almost unthinkable question here. Is it insane, is it so very very wrong, to actually want this to take place? The thought horrifies me. Because I have reached the dreadful point now where I do not think there is any other way. Of course I don't want anyone to suffer, anyone to die. But without a reset, is there any other way - is there any other way at all except yet another century, or several centuries, of the so-called State subjugating, enslaving, poisoning and terrorising its own people? How much more can we take?

    Minor progress here and there with articles and essays and youtube videos to educate and inform is all well and good. It's very good, but how much difference does it make? How much improvement has decades of light work and free thinking really done? Is it working? Is it helping the wider world, the WHOLE world, or just the tiny awake portion of it? We need a massive paradigm shift. The wealth of the world needs to be divided. We need disclosure, and a whole new regime of peace, fairness, and transparency. For years we have been working, hoping, visualising and meditating for this change. Perhaps we slowly shuffle forward inch by inch in global consciousness towards that eventual change. But by the time we get there, will it be too late? At this rate Earth will be so over-populated by 2100, even by 2050, its air, water, and climate so ravaged that maybe it will be uninhabitable. The progress we are making might not be quick enough.

    We need sweeping changes. Now! I don't see anyone inside the current political method rising through the ranks to initiate and enforce the sweeping changes we want to see in the world. TPTB won't allow it. Can it come from someone outside then? Perhaps. But would an outside, independent force have the capacity to impose or inspire such a sweeping change? I doubt it. So what is the answer? Is there really any hope anymore? Without change, we ARE doomed. Where and how can the changes come? From Gaia? From the Universe. From ETs? Our destiny I suppose is in our own hands. But is there any way we can effectively, fundamentally, free ourselves and save ourselves, and our civilization?

    So the terrible question. I ask you all this terrible question: For the benefit of our species, and the very survival of Earth itself, the world MUST change, and it must change profoundly, and soon. But if the only way this change could come about was through some sort of natural catastrophe, the reset button to wipe the slate clean by way of massive Earth-Changes, would you want it to happen?? Think about it, because it may mean your life, and everything you know and hold dear.

    Sorry to be on such a downer, but I'm feeling very sad about the world at the moment. More than I ever have. I would gladly give up my life (and go home) for things to change. Because I really don't want to be here anymore.
    "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
    ~ Jimi Hendrix

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    Quote Posted by Star Mariner (here)
    I have been feeling down recently. Nothing seems to change, nothing ever seems to get better. The world is stuck in a rut of just endless misery and sameness and war. When will it ever end?

    The present regime and the Powers That Be cling on. I do not believe they will ever change, nor relinquish their hold on this planet. I look upon the leaders of the so called 'Free World' and I see little to no hope of progress from them. In fact I see the opposite. There's probably not been a single day in 5,000 years when a war, battle, or conflict was not happening somewhere in the world. I cannot see any downtrend to the violence. War will continue, and perhaps increase, as will restrictions on our freedom, and the suppression of the truth. As the transhumanist nightmare unravels and begins to flourish, I do not see more people waking up, I see those that are sleeping falling into an even deeper sleep.

    I was listening to Cameron the other day, with regards the immigration crisis in Europe. I also heard what Merkel and Obama were saying. Later, on a different note, I listened to the diatribes of Trump and Clinton on their rallies - all because these are the so-called 'leaders', and those seeking to be leaders, of the so-called 'Free World'. Are these the wisest, most qualified, most righteous people that Earth has to offer in her time of such crisis?

    I used to be amused when political elections came on TV, listening to all the rhetoric and false promises, and watching all the bright eyed, smiling supporters whooping, dancing and holding banners. Now it just makes me very tired, and very miserable. The flag-waving masses are sadly, utterly deluded still, after all the regimes and administrations, after all these years. Will they not ever learn? We they not ever figure it out? They are without awareness, and seemingly without a single iota of intelligence. Same for all the experts, commentators and pundits. Can't the people see that what we need in our leaders is honesty, peace, love, and wisdom, and a smidgeon of spiritual awareness at least? None of them have any of these things. All the sleeping masses are cheering is just another puppet of the system, a puppet replacing the previous puppet of the same system. It doesn't matter what party you support, or what colour flag you wave. There is no multi-party system. There is no democracy. Republican, democrat, socialist, liberal - whatever label you like. There is only one party, (with only superficial facets), with one philosophy, and one drive: to control, dominate, and control some more, and at all costs to sustain the status quo. What the flag-wavers are cheering, and will ultimately vote for, is for nothing to change, and for nothing to improve. For just more of the same…

    The more I think (brood) about it, the more I think that there is no way, there can be no other way the world will have an opportunity to change - for humanity to at last unite and move forward in both peace and freedom - unless there's some sort of big, watershed event to remove this current system of ours. The pressing of a global reset button. For Gaia Herself perhaps to rebel against the infestation that is damaging her so gravely. Potentially something, dare I say, cataclysmic.

    In order for a new world to begin, the old world must end. I ask an almost unthinkable question here. Is it insane, is it so very very wrong, to actually want this to take place? The thought horrifies me. Because I have reached the dreadful point now where I do not think there is any other way. Of course I don't want anyone to suffer, anyone to die. But without a reset, is there any other way - is there any other way at all except yet another century, or several centuries, of the so-called State subjugating, enslaving, poisoning and terrorising its own people? How much more can we take?

    Minor progress here and there with articles and essays and youtube videos to educate and inform is all well and good. It's very good, but how much difference does it make? How much improvement has decades of light work and free thinking really done? Is it working? Is it helping the wider world, the WHOLE world, or just the tiny awake portion of it? We need a massive paradigm shift. The wealth of the world needs to be divided. We need disclosure, and a whole new regime of peace, fairness, and transparency. For years we have been working, hoping, visualising and meditating for this change. Perhaps we slowly shuffle forward inch by inch in global consciousness towards that eventual change. But by the time we get there, will it be too late? At this rate Earth will be so over-populated by 2100, even by 2050, its air, water, and climate so ravaged that maybe it will be uninhabitable. The progress we are making might not be quick enough.

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    So the terrible question. I ask you all this terrible question: For the benefit of our species, and the very survival of Earth itself, the world MUST change, and it must change profoundly, and soon. But if the only way this change could come about was through some sort of natural catastrophe, the reset button to wipe the slate clean by way of massive Earth-Changes, would you want it to happen?? Think about it, because it may mean your life, and everything you know and hold dear.

    Sorry to be on such a downer, but I'm feeling very sad about the world at the moment. More than I ever have. I would gladly give up my life (and go home) for things to change. Because I really don't want to be here anymore.
    I can feel your pain as well as relate. I'm sorry it is overwhelming for you at this time.

    The following video is helpful for me when I'm screaming inside to go home. Hope it helps! Much Love Star M.


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    I am saying this seriously you sound like you need a break. Take time out and distract yourself from these thoughts by immersing yourself completely in something you enjoy for what ever time you need to. Or have a vacation by just lying down and having a nap. You will feel better afterwards.
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    Thanks for this very honest (and anguished) post. I can really understand.

    Your 'terrible' question...
    Quote For the benefit of our species, and the very survival of Earth itself, the world MUST change, and it must change profoundly, and soon. But if the only way this change could come about was through some sort of natural catastrophe, the reset button to wipe the slate clean by way of massive Earth-Changes, would you want it to happen??
    ... is a good one.

    And there's growing evidence that just thing kind of natural 'reset' has happened before, maybe as recently as 12,000 years ago (see Graham Hancock's ongoing work on this), and better-established in the mainstream scientific community, the enormous Toba eruption, maybe 70,000 years ago, that many now suspect downsized the human population at that time to just a few thousand individuals. That's very nearly extinction.

    It seems these things do happen, and are part of a far larger natural cycle. We're prone to see them as 'terrible', but they're maybe just part of the natural process.

    To speculate further (and this is hardly new): maybe the ramp-up of ET interest in our world is because they know, with highly advanced technology we can barely imagine, that something catastrophic may happen. Maybe many of us can sense it in the wind, without being able to put out finger on it.

    Maybe the elite of the world somehow know this with more facts (or probabilities) available to them... hence the deep underground bases, and the secret space program with a possible agenda to evacuate the planet (at least for a few).

    I speculate on this on this thread of mine from 2012:

    From Bill Ryan -- the Ultimate Hypothesis

    Interestingly, I was discussing this a few years before some others opened up the same question in the recent Secret Space Program conferences.

    I have a kind of personal take on this, too. See this thread of mine, also, in which I report on a recall of an abduction experience from my previous life in the late 1940s. Some newer members may not know about this. It was traumatic — not the experience, but what I recalled I was shown.

    A warning from benevolent ETs about our future - over 60 years ago

    There's even an update on this, which I should post more about (if I can summon the courage!). About 18 months ago, I dived into this again, with a highly competent therapist, and recorded about a dozen hours of regression sessions on this (and a lot more, besides).

    Basically, I was shown the Earth's atmosphere literally burning. I can see the image right now, and it's the most awful, dreadful sight one can ever imagine. I can see it in my mind's eye like I saw it in a movie last night. I just stare at it, and it kind of stops me from functioning, until I mentally turn away.

    Earlier, I thought I was being shown a possible potential nuclear war. Now, I'm more given to suspecting that it was a kind of 'Killshot' (as per Ed Dames' remote viewing predictions). The big question is whether this was just a possibility, or an inevitability. I have no idea which. I suspect the former, but (sometimes) fear the latter.

    Camelot witness Henry Deacon (who, of all the way-out witnesses that have appeared in the last few years, is far and away the most reliable, and maybe the ONLY one that's reliable) was adamant that future timelines are all possibilities, but that some are more likely than others.

    (Dan Burisch would agree: see http://projectcamelot.org/t1v83.html, about Timeline 1, Version 83: that was the 2008 Hillary Clinton presidency timeline, that never transpired at that time.)

    Henry stated that it was known there were four major future timelines — only one of which was truly catastrophic, featuring the Earth as a barren ball of rock, 6,000 years hence. Henry did NOT tell us how this was known or had been 'seen'. Of course, this kind of information is quite unverifiable, and can only be noted in the margin, as it were.

    I'll pause now! This is a huge topic... and thanks again for being brave enough to ask the question.

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    Yes, RESPECT & Kudos to you, for speaking out despite the "feel good fairies". . .I feel the same, & am willing to drop this body right now if it will help in making a new, better world for all. . . .how can we be "happy" when we know that others (especially the animals) are being used/abused/vivisected/lied to. . . it is kind of psychopathy. And death of the body is fairly speedy, in comparison to world events, & as such is not to be feared. We wear our bodies for a short span of time, like a school uniform. . . Please do not feel depressed or afraid, (IF you do!) it comes to us all. . . . & we're all still OK
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    Yes all the above...but we keep soldering on.. until...

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    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    And there's growing evidence that just thing kind of natural 'reset' has happened before, maybe as recently as 12,000 years ago (see Graham Hancock's ongoing work on this), and better-established in the mainstream scientific community, the enormous Toba eruption, maybe 70,000 years ago, that many now suspect downsized the human population at that time to just a few thousand individuals. That's very nearly extinction.

    It seems these things do happen, and are part of a far larger natural cycle. We're prone to see them as 'terrible', but they're maybe just part of the natural process.

    To speculate further (and this is hardly new): maybe the ramp-up of ET interest in our world is because they know, with highly advanced technology we can barely imagine, that something catastrophic may happen. Maybe many of us can sense it in the wind, without being able to put out finger on it.
    Warning. This post may seem flippant: it is not.
    The idea that things may end very badly definitely has to be kept in mind regardless of the eventual outcome this time around. The outcome is certainly not a foregone conclusion. One learns from sporting situations that when things are close, if you are ahead, it is only by being fully aware that you may lose – and without this interfering with your positive mindset – that you can go on to win; if you don’t, you become cocky and make mistakes. If you are losing, you need that same positive mindset to understand that you may still win, notably but not entirely because of the above. Either way, you have two opposing forces, and within each of them two opposing forces: the determination to win and the acceptance of possible defeat; all of this taken in the context of a particular event: next time might well be different, but every time it is the same, it becomes harder to change, and believe in that change.

    Maybe the ET presence right now and the fact that for humanity it is standing room only on planet Earth have something to do with an endgame: no one leaves a tennis match finely poised in the final set when things have unavoidably been coming to a head for some time. The favourite is in danger, and although he usually wins, even from here, there is always the chance of a memorable upset. Previous disasters are merely the formbook, caused by a combination of the other (one’s opponent) and oneself; but if the outsider is to have any chance, that is something he refuses to think about, because for him this time is going to be different. Mistakes can be made, but most of all they can be provoked by raising your game: just give it everything you’ve got and see what happens.

    I am not interested in previous disasters: they can only produce more of the same. I am only interested in getting things right this time around. On the other hand, when the game is over, but not before, and whatever the result, I will remember that it is only a game – one of many games: next time may be different again. But beware of the odd bad loser – and the odd cheat.


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    We can all understand where you are coming from! What gives me comfort at this later stage in my life is I realize now that my life has had a purpose, even if when I was living through circumstances, I could not comprehend what was unfolding. Your life has a purpose as well, even if you are unable to recognize it at this point! The very fact that you are a part of this marvelous community shows that things are indeed changing! Just "go with the flow" & live each day in the moment.

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    I hit the proverbial wall about 3-4 weeks ago.

    Still waiting for the attention span to come back on-line. A perfect example is I’m 36 minutes into the latest episode of ‘The BlackList’ that’s 44 minutes long. I began it about two and a half hours ago….no… make that three and half hours ago.

    Recently, I figured out to stop comparing what worked before with what works now. Like, no matter how fried I get, either a power nap or a five minute sit down without gadgets and I’m 100% rejuvenated.

    I understand folks are talking about the bigger picture here. I’m feeling it, too. I’ve made a conscious effort to shift focus. As mentioned before, I notice the small ways things are changing around me. Out of nowhere, I ’catch myself’ doing something with greater efficiency. It’s as though the brain cells are smarter, the instincts have sharpened and the synchronicities continue to pop-up.
    So in my world, we’re all balancing out that other.

    Bottom line is…I live my world.

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    Even without a catastrophe, humanity is unlikely to exist en masse beyond another 200 years.

    The catastrophe is inevitable and normal; just my opinion, but I think it's a few thousand years off.

    In my time I have seen the establishment go exactly backwards. However, I should also say that the anti-establishment thoughts and actions (of many kinds) of ordinary people has blossomed significantly. Both in my area, and world-wide. I also see the un-sustainable, self-destructive nature of the system is hitting home, more and more. I don't think it has very many years left, and once it abdicates the throne, we as a whole have a better chance.

    I may not personally make it much further and there is a great deal of horrible-ness in store for many. No denying it. I wouldn't say it's insane or fault anyone for wanting a cataclysm to do the wipeout, just that the earth will run its own cycle whether you want it to or not. We *could* simply fire the whole nuclear arsenal and defy any higher power to neutralize it. I would prefer to struggle to death than to go ahead and eat a man-made sun. So ultimately I must disagree with any intentional, or any negligent, methods of total annihilation.

    Smaller methods: yes, I think in some cases, wars and other unpleasantries are justified.

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    I do not seek for others to be as I am. I met a killer and gave him love, he gave me fear, I still gave him love. At the point of his knife I sat and awaited his choice, he left me alone. I am not bound by what I can not control. May the skies shower me with ash. May the ground scorch my feet. My heart is with me. Your heart is with me. No army of jokers can stand in the way of what is always there. Most people around me are blinded by fear. I will stand by them in their decided destruction as a light, if they need me.

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    I get it. I get it I so get it. We are a community that has for so long talked about the very bumpy road ahead and it's already upon us and in so many ways for me as well, it's been going on for a while.

    So when folk on here, who I think are bullet proof resilient to all manner of the tumultuous and gritty realities that swirl around take a melt down, I wake up and admire you more for being real and vulnerable with where you are and where you at at.

    This is a snakey time. It's also the time we see the miracles within us. All I can say to my many meltdowns, is, they are what I need as an individual. They are like eating lumps of concrete with barbed wire, yet when I ask myself why, and just live with myself instead of beating myself up, the self awareness is like nothing else and the answers are there. Can't miss them.

    Deepest night of the soul ... We are all heroes and this is the path.

    Hang in there Star Mariner, what I believe is this is your soul beating on your door to come into your next expansive moment. Viva the transition!
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    I called my second daughter hope.I did this as I would always have hope in my heart no matter what was going on in the world

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    I agree totally with everything you say Star Mariner. I could add plenty more things I've observed over the years, but suffice it to say that I too believe a global "catastrophe" is the only thing which will shift humanity into the next level of evolution. If I'm one of those whose life gets extinguished in order for there to be a future for the occupants of planet Earth, (ALL the occupants), then so be it.

    The only way I can come close to being centred is to listen to Alan Watts on a regular basis, normally just before bed. This and to realise on a deep level that the universe truly is unfolding in the way it needs to, and that maybe I don't need to understand it rationally.

    There's plenty of Alan Watts freely available (1 minute of whom is worth hours of anyone else), here's a good one to start with ....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Qp_q-PqAc

    Needless to say, spending some time in nature will also help you feel more balanced.

    Thanks for your post and saying what I, and probably many others, think.

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    Double posting: Doc John Waterman gives his explanation of how junk DNA is tightly wound from stress(ors) and gives suggestions on how to counter it. The full story begins around 58 minutes, and @ 1:02:00 (quick link here) Waterman jumps into the junk DNA part. The topic runs for approximately eighteen minutes. It’s worth a listen.

    Doc Waterman - re FEMA, EQs and Financial Meltdown

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    I think the 'end' may be much more like T.S.Elliot's "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper." Certainly the problem of overpopulation will be less when we have no antibiotic or certain antidote for the bacteria and viruses that cause deadly diseases. It used to be a scratch from gardening could cause disease or an infection that would kill. I can remember many people with missing fingers from having amputations, the only treatment then for such infections. Many more died. TB and other diseases used to cut down thousands of young people in their 20s, there was no cure. We have overused the 'miracle' drugs to such an extent that we face a future of disease that will resemble the past. It will be worse than we can imagine- think of the panic over ebola- and what treatment stopped it! Imagine if those drugs did not work any more. Maybe the people among us who know about this are actually building their quarantine areas with the underground bunkers etc.

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    Here's my take on this:
    The way I've learned to deal with this kind of issue is actually something I first encountered way back in the 60s when I began to get deeply into the teachings of Zen and Tibetan Buddhism.
    It has to do with non-resistance, surrender and living in the Now.
    The meanings of those words have been my koans for years.

    I resist non-resistance like crazy!
    But eventually I've begun to understand more just by observing my own inner world, which allows me to become more conscious.
    What I've come to see is that resisting the feelings that my biggest issues bring up for me is actually much worse than actually just experiencing those feelings.
    And I began to understand that the issues weren't really what were causing my angst, but my feelings about the feelings those issues bring up.

    Surrender, something which classical spiritual practices are always referring to, in my view isn't cowardice or passivity (which is what that word originally brought up for me); instead, I think it's having the courage to face all the scary feelings and thoughts and just BE with them--look at them, live fully with them, make friends with them.
    We think we will drown in them, be overcome by them; but what happens, as we consciously observe the process, is that we become more and more peaceful and the feelings and angst attached to the issues are gradually released.

    I practice living in the now by conceptualizing life as kind of like being in the eye of a hurricane.
    I have always the feeling of having had to come through one side of the storm in order to reach that peaceful center, and I also know that I will have to go through the other side as well, and that no doubt there will be more storms to come.
    But if I focus on being the calm center myself, then I can experience that center of peacefulness no matter what kind of storm in life I am going through.

    Somewhere inside of us, those black holes of despair, fear, anger or whatever, were always there, kind of like events on a timeline.
    We spend huge amounts of energy trying to avoid them and jump to a better timeline.
    But if we finally surrender and allow ourselves just to be in those holes, they will start to shrink and eventually disappear, and we emerge much freer to move onto our next step.
    The healing of our world starts with the healing process that goes on within each one of us, and that process is our first fundamental responsibility.
    At the very least, if we are doing our best with that, the worst feelings--of guilt, remorse, self-hatred--lose their power over us.
    And a clear conscience is the best friend we can have, no matter how dark the future may seem.

    So if you find yourself in your deepest, darkest despair, you have cause to celebrate!
    If you allow yourself to experience it fully, and have faith that embracing it consciously and with acceptance, centered in your full beingness, you will come through to the other side a much lighter, brighter and wiser being.
    Each breath a gift...
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    That is beautifully expressed onawah, and valuable instruction on how to weather the storms we find ourselves in these days!

    Yes it's hard not to be overwhelmed and undone by the times we live in, but learning to be the calm in the eye of the storm, where the beauty and magic of life can still be perceived, is magical indeed. Easier said than done, but that's how it is with anything worth doing.

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    I remember when I was a little girl and had this absolute optimism that the human condition would only get better. I believed we would see the folly of war, we would make sure everyone was clothed and fed, I believed the lion would eventually lay down with the lamb. Wow, was I in for a surprise.

    This may sound really strange, but in a lot of ways I feel like the person that goes out into the world everyday without a hair out of place, dressed nicely with a smile on my face while in my house the other family members are starving and living in squalor. It is that kind of disconnect that each of us lives with everyday. At this very moment, there are 10,000 refugee children missing and unaccounted for. I can only imagine what has happened to them, and it's not pretty. There are millions of people literally starving at this very moment. What about the wonderful animals that we were supposed to look out for? What the hell is going on here? Why do we have to live with this huge hypocrisy every day?

    I don't seem to have the filter that lets me forget about it. I feel it in the background all the time. It's the evil swept under the bed and it sits there and waits....... there is something so wrong with this world. A disaster might change things initially, but unless there is a change of consciousness, I fear the same scenario would be repeated. As long as the egoic self acts out of fear, and greed from the standpoint of the separate self we will get more of the same.

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    Quote Posted by onawah (here)
    Somewhere inside of us, those black holes of despair, fear, anger or whatever,
    Beautiful, thank you, onawah.

    I’ve experienced that place of calm. Two months after my son passed, the pain was too much to bear. In the woods, I let loose all the rage and pain and anger. I collapsed on the ground in wait for my death. Instead heat and silence blanketed me.

    I’ve not been in that deep a place since, but it’s comforting to know how to access it. In times of necessity, I know how to sit in the center of calm because of that experience.

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