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    Satan has gifted me with a MacBook Air, which I have just finished setting up.

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    The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a
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    The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a
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    Breaking a rule of sorts of mine and bringing over something very special, here and now during these seasons of celebration, something very spiritual.

    Here is James Gilliland in a new update talking about (*gasp*) ... God.

    1/2 hour ... suggest you make the time to listen. Some won't agree ... some won't want to hear it.

    IMHO

    (note - youtube was taken down by "user" for awhile ... James sent a new link in case you could not view it before)

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    Ahhhh the peace the ensues after the gift opening...so nice.
    Life is a road we don't travel alone. But everyone's on their own journey home.

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    Quote Posted by Rantaak (here)
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    From my 3 month old Macbook Air to yours: Enjoy it as I'm still enjoying mine.

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    Thanks everyone for some really inspiring contributions. The nice thing is that these things can be accessed later at any time, one just has to remember Christmas 2011 was on pages 260-262 of this thread.
    When listening to James Gilliland's video I was reminded how the vision and concept of God has gone through shifts. Mine is pretty abstract and also superlative in terms of goodness...like the most stretched imagination can reach.

    years ago I used to follow the Wingmakers website, although I can't relate to or resonate with the latest additions, so around 5 years ago I dropped out. Dropping out has been a life-long pattern with me. It means there is room for new stuff, which was something the Wingmaker's author James actually warned against.
    Those warnings don't work on me. I must have new, new, new experiences, languages, thoughts. I see it as part of my adventure spirit. Trying to fight that only makes me miserable.
    But in the earlier Wingmakers pages I came across this statement which has stayed with me as I found it really inspiring.
    Some of you might enjoy these words...no idea how they originated....

    Quote I convey this message to you whom I have stirred with the sound of my voice. These words are my signature. You may bring your doubt, your fear, your faith, or your courage; it matters not, for you will be touched by the rhythm of my voice. It moves through you like a beam of light that sweeps – if only for a moment – the darkness aside.

    I dwell in a frequency of light in which finite beings cannot uncover me. If you search for me, you will fail. I am not found or discovered. I am only realized in oneness, unity, and wholeness. It is the very same oneness that you feel when you are interconnected with all of life, for I am this and this alone. I am all of life. If you must search for me, then practice the feeling of wholeness and unity.

    In my deepest light I created you from my desire to understand my universe. You are my emissaries. You are free to journey the universe of universes as particles from my infinite womb with destinies that you alone will write. I do not prescribe your journey or your journey’s aim. I only accompany you. I do not pull you this way or that, nor do I punish you when you stray from my heart. This I do as an outcome of my belief in you.

    You are the heirs of my light, which gave you form. It is my voice that awakened you to individuality, but it will be your will that awakens you to our unity. It is your desire to know me as your self that brings you to my presence so perfectly hidden from your world. I am behind everything that you see, hear, touch, taste, smell, feel, and believe.

    I live for your discovery of me. It is the highest expression of my love for you, and while you search for my shadows in the stories of your world, I, the indelible, invisible light, grow increasingly visible. Imagine the furthest point in space – beneath a black portal, cast in some distant galaxy, and then multiply this distance by the highest numeric value you know. Congratulations, you have measured an atom of my body.

    Do you realize how I am unfathomable? I am not what you can know, or see, or understand. I am outside comprehension. My vastness makes me invisible and unavoidable. There is nowhere you can be without me. My absence does not exist. It is this very nature that makes me unique. I am First Cause and Last Effect connected in an undivided chain.

    There is no supplication that stirs me. No prayer that invites me further into your world unless it is attended with the feeling of unity and wholeness. There is no temple or sacred object that touches me. They do not, nor have they ever brought you closer to my outstretched hand. My presence in your world is unalterable for I am the sanctuary of both the cosmos and the one soul inside you.

    I could awaken each of you in this very moment to our unity, but there is a larger design – a more comprehensive vision – that places you in the boundaries of time and the spatial dimensions of separateness. This design requires a progression into my wholeness that reacquaints you with our unity through the experience of separation. Your awakening, while slow and sometimes painful, is assured, and this you must trust above all else.

    I am the ancestral father of all creation. I am a personality that lives inside each of you as a vibration that emanates from all parts of your existence. I reside in this dimension as your beacon. If you follow this vibration, if you place it at the core of your journey, you will contact my personality that lives beneath the particles of your existence.

    I am not to be feared or held in indifference. My presence is immediate, tangible, and real. You are now in my presence. Hear my words. You are in my presence. You are within me more than I am within you. You are the veneer of my mind and heart, and yet you think yourself the product of an ape. You are so much more than you realize.

    Our union was, is, and will be forevermore. You are my blessed offspring with whom I am intricately connected in means that you cannot understand and therefore appreciate. You must suspend your belief and disbelief in what you cannot sense, in exchange for your knowing that I am real and live within you. This is my central message to all my offspring. Hear it well, for in it you may find the place in which I dwell.

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    Loved that video. I wonder what knucklehead decided it needed music. Somebody seemed to think the sounds of jungle birds is an insufficient mood setting. I muted it for a while but was concerned I might miss some dialogue, sure enough. Gorillas are magnificent apes.

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    Love here and now

    Nora

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    And so my husband and I awake after having Holiday dinner out with daughter and friend and opening gifts. We begin making chicken chowder for later in the day when my childhood friend will come by, having no one to enjoy his Christmas day with and not wishing to spend it alone. Estranged from his wife and children we return to what we knew as children, moments together to remember our backyard circuses and the hot summers when we would cross the back alley to play trucks or cowboys and Indians.

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    Apparently I misheard. I could have sworn that that told me to "come spread Christmas Beer". Beer, cheer, either way it's family time.

    Love to all, be it Christmass, or Yule, or Feast of Saturn, or whatever it is you do.

    HAPPY HOLYDAYS!

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    If any of you enlightened souls want to bitch about family issues that popped up over Christmas, be my guest.
    I know for many alternative society people this is not an easy time.
    One might slip out some comment that normal church goers find offensive, and thus set them off.
    Then when they fail their commitment to Christ they resent you even more for having triggered their demons, which all along they had been comfortably in denial about.
    So then the mutual projection game is in full swing. But in the Here and Now Village there are only soothing energies, stroking ruffled feathers and cleaning up the flying furs.

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    I had an uneventful quiet xmas. Went to dinner with the wife to a very nice mountain lodge inn. Outfitted like an old upscale hunters lodge it is replete with trophy's on the wall. A couch area with a stone fireplace is in the main entrance room. I had a very peaceful meal.

    We had no tree, no lights and no gifts this year. Not an emotional glitch though. Much better than all of the fixings with the same old dysfunctions as xmas's past had been. Very nice. I am off to do a massage now. Only one and that is fine with me.

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    Thank you Ulli,

    I have come to realize that Christmas time was given(?) to us and for us to 'reset' our egos once a year. To awaken us slowly. To force us to stop and look at the fundimental reason we are here. Just as this part of your message says:

    (I could awaken each of you in this very moment to our unity, but there is a larger design – a more comprehensive vision – that places you in the boundaries of time and the spatial dimensions of separateness. This design requires a progression into my wholeness that reacquaints you with our unity through the experience of separation. Your awakening, while slow and sometimes painful, is assured, and this you must trust above all else.)

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    LOL Ulli. Don't get me started. Christmas with extended family ended some years ago because of such issues. The kind of dramas one is better off without. Immediate family and friendlies only from now on....

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    Mixed Christmas here. Would have been perfect without a particular person, but no choice since he lives here. I'm so ready for him to move out, but I can't make it go any quicker. And I sure can't turn him out onto the streets. I remember growing up with someone always living with us, in addition to our family. I think my Dad, with all his faults, had a kind heart. I got that, and when my brother had no one and needed someone, I couldn't turn my back. And he has the biggest heart. It was winter time, and he was cold. I have a tendency to take in those who are really in need-into my heart, my home...and if it doesn't end the way I envision it should have, and even if that is painful, I still would not have changed what I did. This time...well, I need for my home to consist of just my husband and my 2 younger daughters. But making that happen means putting him out, and I struggle with that. I am struggling with what I need and what he needs...and he needs a roof over his head. It would hurt him deeply if I found a shelter or a stranger for him to live with. And it would hurt me as deeply to know that is where he is. I just can't do it. He is the biggest reminder of all the family dysfunctions, as his need to discuss them and bring them up disrupts my peace. It has been 2 years. Where's a crystal ball when you need one. sigh.

    Have all three daughters here, and grandbaby...such wonder and content in their eyes...the energy is good, bipolar is at bay in the 2 that are effected...life is so cool sometimes.
    Life is a road we don't travel alone. But everyone's on their own journey home.

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    Still waiting for that cabin on a quiet beach waves crashing moonlight on the water..

    But lol.

    Good to spend it with all of you....

    Spent the morning with immediate family and that I do not have very much in commen -I really don't even really look like them either. Most of them are blond and blue eyed and tall and I'm short & have long dark strawberry blond hair and green eyes. They all stressed over it all. All I could think was could we get through a holiday or family dinner without someone having the f word or some other crass statement every other time.

    I spent most of my time outside from the 21st on looking at the skys and feeling nature.

    Sometimes they would come out ask what I was doing....

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    Ulli you may have opened a can of worms there, lol.
    THis year though not a word from me.
    In Fact this Xmas was the most spiritual one i have ever had,
    and not a Jesus in the manger in sight.

    But for some it's still another year of.....
    (warning this is bound to offend a bunch of people)



    I'm such a cynic this time of year.
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    And for those AB Fab fans we have more dysfunction...



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