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One of the world's most expensive foods is made from bird saliva
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
by Mike Adams, the Health Range

(NaturalNews) For more than 400 years, bird's nest soup has long been one of the most expensive foods in the world, and even today a single bowl of it costs between $30 and $100. You can't just make it out of any bird's nest. Only the edible nest of the cave swiftlet will do, a nest made entirely out of the bird's saliva. These nests are high in calcium, iron, magnesium and potassium. They are hard when harvested, but partially dissolve into a more jelly-like consistency when boiled into soup.

Cave swiftlets nest high up on sheer rock walls inside pitch dark caves, where they build sticky nests out of their own saliva. Traditionally, these nests can be harvested only by climbing on ladders up into the heights of these caves, a difficult and fairly dangerous undertaking. Today the swiftlets are encouraged to build their nests in artificially constructed concrete nesting houses. Even so, the harvested nests still sell for as much as $10,000 per kilogram.

Perhaps due to the high mineral content of the nests, eating them is believed to enhance lung health, prevents coughs, improve constitution and even promote longevity. The nests are nearly 50 percent protein and 30 percent carbohydrates, with a relatively small amount of inorganic salts and fiber.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/034342_birds_nest_soup_cave_swiftlets_food.html#ixzz1ftOLmkiY

It's all I want for Christmas

December 22, 2011 Solstice Meditation

Ninth Step in a Cycle of 12 Globally Synchronized Meditations

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Please note that on Friday, December 23, you will receive an important invitation to participate to a special 2012 weekly Meditation Focus Series which will replace during 2012 the Meditation Focuses that have been regularly issued over the past 11 years, starting with the Meditation Focus #1 issued on April 28, 2000. This series will conclude 12 years of dedicated service as a contribution to the awakening now sweeping the world as to the ever greater awareness about our true spiritual nature as immortal souls, jointly acting as channels to receive, transduce and radiate within the collective consciousness of humanity the ever heightening spiritual awareness of our essential Unity with All That Is. Over a period of 52 weeks, leading to the ultimate climax on December 21, 2012, you will receive every Monday a new meditation theme designed to provide an opportunity to recapitulate the essential awakening keys and concepts explored over the past 8 years.

2012 will be a Year of Revelation, a year to transcend and ascend... Although the promise and vision of an emerging Golden Age on Earth may sometime appear like a hazy dream to many, there is a metaphor that may help provide a guiding vision as to what lies ahead. The idea of a plane breaking through the sound barrier was once thought to be an impossible feat. Yet, against all odds, this challenge was mastered. We now have the opportunity, this coming year, to learn to go through whatever remaining 'Belief Barrier' we may still have, so as to actually co-manifest the impending Golden Age. Provided we collectively apply the necessary soul focus towards this goal, we can rest assured that this challenge too will be mastered.

Here is now the material for this coming global Solstice Meditation...

Hi!

As we are now entering the last 12 months of this cycle of twelve global meditations, leading up to December 21st 2012, which will see the largest global meditation ever organized as we will collectively celebrate the beginning of an unprecedented new era of Peace, Love and Harmony on Earth, you are hereby invited to join in the ninth step in this series of 12 globally synchronized meditations designed to mark the celebrations of the last 12 solstices and equinoxes before December 21, 2012, an era-changing pivotal moment that has been recognized and heralded by many as the central shifting point into a new Golden Age for humanity and all Life on Earth.

Each of those 12 ascending steps towards this climaxing shift-point is part of a gradual reawakening and remembering process to re-ignite in us all the deeply felt sentience of our Oneness with All That is, and thus enable us all to walk on a Golden Path of Light that will lead us directly into a conscious reunion with the Source of our existence.

The central template of this whole process is the ever deeper and keener understanding of the fact that our true nature is that of a soul living a physical experience and learning the lessons of a new lifetime. To facilitate this recognition of Who We Are and deep integration within the very matrix of our sense of self of this simple fact, it was announced on December 21, 2009 that twelve Keys would be shared over the course of the next 12 Solstice and Equinox Meditations to help stir the remembrance of Who We Are. The ninth key is offered hereafter.

To initiate and/or sustain this reformatting process of our self-awareness, it is suggested that you first reach a state of deep synchronism with the soul aspect in you, doing so with whichever method and for whichever period of time that suits you best. To reach the key triggering Moment of Remembrance at the same time as every other soul who will be participating to this globally synchronized meditation, please ensure that you have reached that stage at the exact same moment as all other participating souls worldwide.

It is recommended that during your preparatory meditation, prior to reaching the peak moment, you slowly go through the eight Remembrance Keys given so far, thus reiterating...

I Am Love... I Am Light... I Am Peace... I Am Harmony... I Am Compassion... I Am Forgiveness... I Am Kindness... I Am Mercy... imbuing your whole being with the entire spectrum of thought-forms and feelings each of those sacred Keys evokes in you.

Then, starting at the exact moment when the Earth is at the peak of this solstice cycle, on Thursday, December 22 at 05:30 Universal Time (UT), (which corresponds to 00:30 in New York, 21:30 on December 21 in Los Angeles, and to 06:30 in central Europe) express forth from the heart of your soul the following ninth Remembrance Key...
I Am Healing...

...and repeat it, mentally and/or aloud, as many times as necessary to feel you have impregnated your whole being with the full understanding and recognition of this unfathomable Reality.

To deepen your understanding of some aspects of what Healing truly is, the following affirmation is provided to further trigger the emergence within you of what no words can possibly describe...

When I open my heart to the full power of Universal Love, I become a fountain of Healing showering this blessed energy of innate perfection onto everything and everyone my attention is focused on. Love actually is and always has been the very Source of healing, because it has the power to bring what became out of phase and out of balance back into perfect synchronous harmony and equilibrium. There is no other task, mission or service greater than offering the healing that I am to all who ask, the sole requirement, for one has to initiate the request so as to enable the healing process to begin. When one is entering the realm of Sacred Healing, it is like entering the most holy temple in the most rarefied dimension that exists. At that moment, the soul vibrates to the highest frequency that can be, the blissful vibration of Love, the Omniversal Force that created all and which can instantaneously reinitiate the state of Perfect Health in the soul that truly knows, and not merely believes, that healing has already taken place. I am the very Source of all Healing, and as such I am an instrument of the Universal Healer living, loving and healing through me.

Note:
If you find difficult to fully grasp what you have just read, the following reminder may be helpful to you:

As you certainly know if you have attempted entering a state of deep meditation after reading theme-setting material such as this one above, the best way to actually reach a deeply vibrant sense of Oneness at soul level is certainly not to try to remember while you meditate any of the details you've read about the suggested meditation theme. Having a general idea of it in the back of one's mind is all that is necessary. If you wish however to use the exact wording for the affirmation suggested above, you may want to have it written or printed on a piece of paper and read from it when you are ready to do so during your meditation.

Finally, when you feel ready to go back to your normal everyday existence, you may conclude this meditation through reading the following affirmation, aloud or within the sacred sanctuary of your soul...
I am a soul
A divine spark of the Infinite
That gave birth to this universe.

I remember Who I am
and serve the Greater Purpose of Life
as One with All That is.

I came here with many other souls
to assist in the expansion of Light
on this living planet Earth.

I accept to let Love
Be the guiding beacon of my life
and to shine Its radiance in every moment.

I am a soul
and the sole purpose of my existence
is to be All That I Am.

So be it.

... and use this as often as necessary to help you remember and reassert Who You Are.

This Solstice Meditation: Ninth Step in a Cycle of 12 Globally Synchronized Meditations is archived at http://www.earthrainbownetwork.com/FocusArchives/December222011Medi...

Please note that several translations will be soon be available through http://www.earthrainbownetwork.com/FocusArchives/home.htm

To review the previous steps in this Cycle of 12 Globally Synchronized Meditations, click HERE

For those who wish to review them before or during their period of meditation in preparation for the climax of this solstice, at 05:30 Universal Time (which corresponds to 00:30 on December 22 in New York, 21:30 on December 21 in Los Angeles, and to 05:30 on December 22 in London, UK), the previous and current Remembrance Keys are available in a printable Word document (US letter format) that can be downloaded through http://www.EarthRainbowNetwork.com/FocusArchives/Doc/Remembrance_Ke...

To find out when is your local time corresponding to the exact time of this 2011 winter solstice (in the northern hemisphere) / summer solstice (in the southern hemisphere) at 05 hr 30 min Universal Time, on December 22, 2011, please go at
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=22&mon...

If you cannot take part to this globally synchronized meditation at this exact time, please pick any other moment of that day that suits you best, and do the same procedure suggested above while mentally projecting yourself at the exact moment when it is occurring in the Time Continuum, knowing that time is merely an illusion from our physical standpoint, and that the power of our focused intent can easily overcome this illusion.

If you can do this meditation and remembrance activation in the company of other souls – especially at a sacred place that evokes deep feelings of peace like the seashore or any other natural sanctuary – its effects will be magnified in direct proportion to the intensity of the vortex of Love and Light generated by these assembled souls. Whether you do this alone or with others, always be aware that many other souls from other dimensions of existence are partaking in our experiences every time we dedicate ourselves to such sacred moments of communion with All That Is.

To discover the significance of the solstices in all cultures around the world, review this Wikipedia entry on the winter/summer solstice.

Healing from Within the Core of Our Soul

"Healing" is just a fancy word for Love and indeed only Love heals. Healing-Love is the energy that holds the entire Creation. It flows in and out and all over naturally when we experience a harmonic state between all parts of our being: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. In other words, we are in that state when we love ourselves and others just as we are. Because remaining in that state takes unrelenting dedication and infinite awareness, on a moment by moment basis, we are all, without exception, at some point in need of healing.

With each thought, feeling, word or action that falls out of this harmonic state, we simply block the Healing-Love from flowing into and fully through us, thus holding us together. If such thoughtless thoughts, feelings, words or actions become a habit or a pattern we are not even aware of, we may start to come apart with a serious and growing deficit of energy and, as a consequence, disease may take hold in our finer etheric bodies at first, and then finally settle into the physical and densest layers of our being.

Once we begin to accept that we are made of pure energy, we then need to integrate fully what that actually spells for us as humans. When illness strikes us, no matter what shape it may take, we are faced with the unescapable responsibility of connecting the dots of the thought-feeling-word-action pattern that brought about this transient reality.

Those who are good at breaking their self-made thoughtless habits and patterns go on to healing themselves without any external help, although it may also help to seek assistance from a spiritual healer to speed up and accelerate the entire process and help us keep it on track. A true healer knows that healing is not just about transmitting energy to others, but above all making them realise and rely on their own healing abilities, their own inner power, whose sacred codes need the infusion of Love to be fully operational, so as to regain their natural, harmonious state of being.

Always remember and frequently repeat to yourself: I Am Love... Reprogram this great Truth in every cell that has forgotten its duty and that has begun obeying unconscious commands of un-awareness. Command in full awareness your Divine Presence to reconnect and reactivate all the Divine Codes of Perfection within all your spiritual, mental, emotional and physical layers of being, so that all you think, feel, say or do will be and remain in perfect divine order.

Repeat often the following healing affirmations, and know that healing is essentially a state of being. Knowing this deep within will help you to be again what you really are...

I Am Light...
I am Love...
I Am Peace...
I Am Harmony...
I am Compassion...
I Am Forgiveness...
I Am Kindness...
I Am Mercy...
I Am Healing...

I am divinely loved, protected, guided, healed and provided for...

All is unfolding in my life and in the life of everyone and everything, everywhere, exactly as it should, according to the Great Divine Plan...

I surrender my fear and ego, and choose to trust my Divine Presence...

My disease is only a reflection of my lack of love for self and others, and as I learn to love myself and others, I let go of that which no longer serves me...

I open myself to receiving the gifts of Life flowing into my being...

I choose Life...

I choose to heal...

And so it is.

For more information, please review the material posted by the Global Meditation Focus Group at
www.earthrainbownetwork.com/FocusArchives/home.htm

YOUR ASSISTANCE IN NETWORKING THIS ON TO OTHERS OVER THE NEXT WEEK WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

Blessed Sons and Daughters of God, as the Manu of the Seventh Root Race, the Great Divine Director, orchestrating the coming forth of a new wave of lifestreams, I proclaim the Day of Coming! First and foremost for your own Christhood as you pave the way for engendering into the consciousness of the mankind of Earth a Purity, a Consciousness that upholds the Truth of Cosmic Law, that forges the Will of God for each lifestream, and that establishes Wisdom beyond all measure so that these lifewaves coming forth will not be met with the negativity that is so prevalent in the land.
When you have the awareness and the understanding of the importance of your role as the Christ, it is hoped by all of the Cosmic Councils that you will adopt a way of life for yourself that will establish the Christ Virtues, the God Qualities, and the inherent Body Consciousness of your own Mighty I AM Presence so that the fabric of life will ring loud and clear as the pealing of the pure Tone announces: “All is ready. Come, receive the Cup of Life that is offered to you.”
Surely, there are those of you at the level of your Mighty I AM Presence who could witness your own coming — that natal birth into the physical octaves — when you, too, were to bring forth your Christhood and establish that Consciousness of your own God Presence through the Office of that Christhood, all the while learning, establishing
momentums of creativity to be offered upon the Altar of your God
Presence as the glad tidings and gifts worthy of the Presence of God.
It is a story long told that you know well already: How there was the
departure of consciousness from that pristine estate. And then the fall
from Grace when you were obliged to begin to forge your God Identity
in a more difficult manner, balancing your karma as you went along,
receiving your daily allotment of that karma that you had lost track of
and did not remember — by the Grace of God — which would catch
you unaware. What a glorious day it should have been — and was for
some — when you discovered that you could transmute that karma by
your calls and your devotions to God, by the release of the Violet Flame,
and by the correction of your conduct and affairs so that there would
be the establishment in your life of what was right in the Face of God.
You are not called to continually put your attention upon the
negativity of the Earth. It is enough to know that it is present. And
likewise you are not obliged to ignore it; for by ignoring that which
is so prevalent in the land, the calls of your own Heart Flame are not
going forth sufficiently to enlist the Angels of Heaven, the Ascended
Masters, and the Elohim to release their Cosmic Light, their Momentum
to put to rest and transmute all of the forces of negativity that abound.
How does this age-old story relate to you? Most especially as
you recognize the imperative that you put on the garments of your
Christhood, that you attend to the Will of God − not the fantasies
of the ego, of the outer mind, of the eruptions of the emotional body,
or the desires of the flesh. But you attend to that pure stream of God
Consciousness that flows into the Heart Flame and reports to you — in
sometimes the most subtle manner — those things which you should
be taking to heart, establishing new patterns of identity, correcting
the old habits that you have fostered far too long — for some, over
the course of many incarnations. And all the while, you are preparing,
strand by strand, fold by fold, the garments of Light that will wrap
about you through the Threefold Flame of your Heart as it begins to
expand and take dominion in your life. When this occurs, you are no
longer befuddled, confused, disoriented regarding your Divine Plan
or what the future holds for you.
Certainly, it is easy to know where you have been karmically; and for
that, you have the Violet Flame and the calls of Purity and Perfection
that you can direct into these outer vehicles. But the future is built upon
this very moment and the vibration that you are engendering. Will your
tomorrows be filled with God Consciousness? Will there be Peace and
Harmony? Will you have the Christic Fire ready to stream forth as the
Emerald Matrix establishing the Divine Creation and Momentum that
you were intended long, long ago to fulfill? Will your tomorrows be
held in the embrace of God Love? Will that Christic Fire so resonate
through your vehicles of consciousness that that Love is so unmistakable
to all you contact that they will desire to find out for themselves how
to have that Love in their own heart? What is the secret that you have
learned? How have you opened the Door of the Heart and embraced
them in your Love?
The Office of Christhood is a very real Office. You are intended
to move, create, live, and be in that exalted state so that as the Christ
is performing the many duties that are required by your own God
Presence, as you are balancing your karma, as you are loving God in
life, you will understand how the fabric of life upon the Earth must
change. For there must be a shift in consciousness so that the timetable
and cycles for the Seventh Root Race will not be forestalled. And
they will come at the appointed hour, not to rescue the Earth but to
breathe in the Pranic Breaths of the Five Secret Rays and know that
with every breath, with every engagement, they will experience the
rarefied atmosphere that is befitting the Christ.
O Blessed Hearts! What a glorious day that will be! And all who
partake in the celebrations of that Day of Coming will look to the
history of what each one of you has accomplished, preparing the way
and ushering in a new era. Greater Service can no man or woman
experience than being the Hands, the Feet, the Mouthpiece, the Heart,
and the Vision of God. For then, when each one is fulfilling their part,
the fabric of the Golden Age will be established.
Think of your lifestream as an integral part of that fabric. Perhaps
you are a Cornerstone, perhaps you are the Heart, perhaps you are
the wave of Energy carrying out from the core center that Divine
Estate of Purity, perhaps you are charged with the responsibility as
the priest or priestess of the Sacred Fire to hold open the door to the
Great Central Sun. All these are Offices that must be fulfilled. They
require many lifestreams, not just a few. But we understand that it
begins with the few. You are those lifestreams when you elect to take
up the Scepter of Authority, where glows the Will of God as an orb,
radiating the Diamond Shining Mind of God in all directions, to feed
into the consciousness of those who are yet to know of their Mighty
I AM Presence.
This Holy Day, blessed hearts, you will come to commemorate
as the Moment in Eternity known as the “Great Beginning.” Most
assuredly, it is the beginning for your lifestream, as you will mark in
your consciousness a new establishment of Light that flows through
your being. Likewise, you will mark in your consciousness the etching
of your Mighty I AM Presence, as a finger of Light, writing upon the
screen of life for the Earth: “A new day has arrived. Behold the Great
Beginning.”
ALL THIS is the Promise and the Vow that your God Presence
has extended to you in physical incarnation. This is why your Mighty
I AM Presence elected to incarnate, fashioning the Threefold Flame
of the Heart to carry the Engram of that Divine Will that you are to
fulfill and all of the aspects of God that are required for you to call
forth by the Christ Command.
This is your Day that we will celebrate each year — when there is
somewhere upon the Earth a lifestream who has reached maturity in
their Christhood, where there is no turning back, no shadow in any
form cast upon their lifestream, for the Light of their God Presence is
there burning brightly upon the altar of their Heart and is evidenced
for all to see. This, blessed ones, is the Holy Day that all will celebrate
for each other. It will be a Day of Commemoration for those who have
reached that level of Attainment and a reminder of the Promise to those
who have not. And when there are sufficient numbers, as the voices are
raised on high to proclaim the Victory, the Seventh Root Race will
stream forth into incarnation as quickly as that shift of consciousness
upon the Earth has dawned.Yes, there are those select few who are protected in certain areas
of the world who have already embodied; but they could be numbered
on one hand, and this so that the anchor point of the Seventh Root
race could begin by their Pure Consciousness to hold open that Manu
Yuga of Divine Coming.
Blessed hearts, you are entering into a time of celebration where one
Son of God is revered and honored. Let that be an example of this New
Day of celebration that is to be established as its own consecrated Holy
Day when each one will honor the birth of their own Christ Presence.
Surely that can occur even as you are celebrating the birth of Jesus.
However this new Holy Day of which I speak will not be commingled
with the birth of Jesus the Christ but be a cycle wholly dedicated to
celebrating the coming forth of each one's own Mighty I AM Presence
into the Eternal Light and into incarnation.
As you move through these days of celebration, understand that
great purification will be required; for, after all, you are following the
example of one who proved the validity of the Path of the Ascension.
Let your heart be filled with Joy as you welcome your own Christhood
and as you proclaim the coming of the New Day for the Earth.
I, the Great Divine Director, as the Manu of the Seventh Root
Race, seal you in this Divine Edict from my Heart. Grasp quickly your
Christhood! Put away the childishness of your human ego and the
meanderings of the many incarnations that you have had, and establish
once and for all sufficient Purity in your life to behold the Face of God.
As you welcome this New Day, know that I will hold you and your
Victory in my Vision while you walk in procession to that glorious day
of awakening in your own life!

Great Divine Director
Copyright © 2011 The Temple of The Presence, Inc.
www.TempleOfThePresence.org

How to Develop the Midas Touch
By Dr Joshua David Stone

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As we all know the Midas Touch is the ability to turn everything you do into Spiritual Gold! It is the ability to be successful at anything and everything you work on. So the key question is, what are the mechanics and/or psychological and Spiritual mechanism to develop this ability? My Beloved Readers, this is a multifaceted question and there is no one quick answer. However, I will attempt here to lay out the key principles that will allow you to develop this ability within self if applied as directed.

The simplest answer would be become an "Integrated Ascended Master." This is easier said than done. It is, however, the focus of all my work. The first key to developing the Midas Touch is you must fully own your personal power at all times. Second, you must develop unconditional self-love and self-worth and an attitude of self-deserving of the bounties of GOD. Third, you must be unconditionally loving and forgiving to others at all times. Fourth, you must dedicate your life completely to GOD, your Brothers and Sisters, and service. Money or material wealth cannot be your main goal; GOD Realization and Demonstration at all times must be your main goal.

Next, one of the unbelievable keys to developing the Midas Touch is that you must transcend negative ego thinking and instead as much as possible think with your Melchizedek/Christ/Buddha mind. Next you must let go of all your attachments and only have preferences, so if anything is taken away or doesn't happen you are still happy. Next it is essential that you constantly examine your motives in everything you do to make sure they are GOD-centered and not self-centered. Next, you must constantly pray to GOD, the inner plane Ascended Masters and your Angels for help in all ways and all things. Most people do not pray. Next, constantly do positive affirmations, positive visualizations, repeating the names of GOD, mantras and sacred names and power words of GOD. Cultivate Faith, Trust and Patience in GOD and in GOD's laws. Develop the attitude of being a Spiritual Warrior at all times and being persevering in your quest for God Realization.

Next, to have all, give all! If you want GOD to not hold His abundance back from you do not hold your love and giving back from your Brothers and Sisters. See every person, every animal, every plant and every rock as an Incarnation of GOD, including yourself. Co-operate with others at all times, do not compete! Do not judge or criticize yourself or others, but do have unconditionally loving Spiritual Discernment. Be balanced and moderate in everything you do. Be 100% happy in other people's success and prosperity, even if it is something that you want and do not have and want.

Maintain absolute mastery over your mind at all times and do not allow any negative thoughts to enter it. Be optimistic, not pessimistic at all times. Look at everything that happens in life as a Spiritual test and lesson, not a bummer or problem. Do not allow yourself to indulge in any negative emotions. When they start arising stop the process and immediately practice attitudinal healing, and cultivate spiritualized feelings and emotions. Develop even-mindedness at all times so whether you have profit or loss, pleasure or pain, sickness or health, victory or defeat, praise or criticism, you remain the same. Release all guilt and practice self-forgiveness, look at mistakes as positive and not negative and just learn from them. Properly parent your inner child with firmness, and love. Take care of business and do not procrastinate or be lazy. Develop a flawless character in everything you do and most of all be in integrity at all times. If ever there is a disagreement with others, strive to take the selfless path. Create Unconditional Love, Oneness, Peace, and Harmony in all your relationships and put this above money or material concerns. Maintain absolute mastery over your subconscious mind so it serves you and you do not serve it. Maintain self-mastery at all times, and never allow yourself to be a victim or effect. Strive to live a simple life regardless of the Spiritual leadership, success, or public recognition you receive. Be generous with others if you want GOD and life to be generous with you. Strive to always demonstrate the Purity of GOD in your every thought word and deed. When you make a mistake, admit it no matter what the circumstance and forgive yourself, learn the lesson and do not think about it any more. Always apologize to others if your mistakes affect others. Practice humbleness and humility at all times. At all times be vigilant against the negative ego's thought system. Practice positive self talk all day long. Eat a good physical diet, get enough sleep and take time to have fun and recreation.

Form a co-creative partnership with GOD and the inner plane Ascended Masters and always remember, GOD helps those who help themselves. When negative things happen in life, say, "Not my will but Thine, thank you for the lesson" and pray to GOD and the Masters to heal and correct it. Strive for pristine clarity in everything you do, including every detail of life, no matter how small. Every morning when you center yourself to start your day be sure to place your bubble of protection around yourself. Start your day also by praying to GOD and the inner plane Ascended Masters for help in all ways and all things to make this day of the highest service to GOD, your Brothers and Sisters and your Spiritual Path. Always remember that it is your thoughts that create your feelings, emotions, behavior and what you attract and magnetize into your life. Respond to everything in life, do not react. As you walk through your life spread unconditional love, joy and happiness in everything you do. Whenever you see something not going right, whether in your life or on the news, pray to GOD and the Masters to fix it, and forgive, love and bless the situation. No matter what happens in life, never give up, never give up, never give up. Be absolutely relentless in your search for complete God Realization for self and others. Always remember you are working for GOD, not for self. Since you are a part of GOD you are working for self automatically when you work for GOD. Practice the selfish/selfless balance at all times, knowing when to be Spiritually selfish and when to be Spiritually selfless. In every situation of life try to respond appropriately the way GOD would have you respond. If you do not have anything nice to say, do not say anything at all. Avoid gossip! When you have crosses to bear in life, bear them with a smile and positive attitude and do not coddle yourself. In other words, develop a certain mental toughness as well as tremendous unconditional love and compassion for the suffering of others. Always walk the extra mile for your Brother and Sister. Lastly, my Beloved Readers, to develop the Midas touch, practice demonstrating the Presence of GOD at all times!

My Beloved Readers, if you practice these basic principles with all your heart and soul and mind and might to the best of your ability and constantly pray to GOD and the inner plane Ascended Masters for help, I personally guarantee you that you will develop the "Midas Touch"!

                                                             Breaking Free of Conditioning            

                                                                                 By

                                                                            O S H O

       ~**~   Innocence is your very nature.   You do not have to become it, you are already it.

       You are born innocent.   Then layers and layers of conditioning are imposed upon your innocence.

       Your innocence is like a mirror and conditioning is like layers of dust.   The mirror has not to be

       achieved, the mirror is already there  -  or rather, here.   The mirror is not lost, it is only hidden

       behind layers of dust.

       ~**~   You don't have to follow a way to reach your nature because you cannot leave your nature, you 

       cannot go anywhere else.     Even if you wanted to, it is impossible.  That's exactly the definition of

       nature:  Nature means that which cannot be left behind, that which cannot be renounced.  

       But you can forget about it.   You cannot lose it but it can be forgotten.

       ~**~   And that's exactly what has happened.  The mirror is not lost but forgotten  -  forgotten because

       it is not functioning anymore as a mirror.   Not that any defect has arisen in it, just layers of dust are

       covering it.   All that is needed is to clean it, to remove those layers of dust.  

       ~**~   The process of becoming innocent is not really a process of becoming, it is a process of

       discovering your being.   It is a discovery, not an achievement.  You don't attain to something new,

       you simply attain to that which you have always been.     It is a forgotten language.

       ~**~   It happens many times:  You see a person on the road, you recognize him, his face seems

       familiar.     Suddenly you remember also that you know his name.  

       You say,  "It is just on the tip of my tongue,"  but still it is not coming to you.  What is happening?  

       If it is just on the tip of your tongue, then why

       can't you say it?   You know that you know it, but still you are not able to remember it.  And the more

       you try, the more difficult it becomes, because making an effort makes you more tense, and when you

       are tense you are farther away from your nature, you are farther away from that which is already

       there.   When you are relaxed you are closer;  when you are utterly relaxed, it will surface of its own

       accord.

       ~**~   So you try hard, but it doesn't come, so you forget all about it.   Then lying down in your bath,

       or just swimming in the pool, you are not even trying to remember that man's name when suddenly

       it bubbles up.     What has happened?     You were not trying to remember, and you were relaxed.

       When you are relaxed you are wide, when you are tense you become narrow  -  the more tense, the 

       more narrow.   The passage between you and that which is inside you becomes so narrow that nothing

       can pass through it, not even a single name.

       ~**~   All the great scientific discoveries have been made in this very mysterious way  -  in this very

       un-scientific way, so to speak.   ~**~

      Reference: INTELLIGENCE   by   O S H O   ~

      Shared with Love, Mary  ~

http://shala.audioacrobat.com/download/Dec411WhaleDolphinMeditation.mp3

Takes about an hour
Swami Craig

Thanksgiving is a day and time to be grateful for all the good received and accomplished by and for each one. It actually stems from the celebration at Inner Levels by Divine Beings for Their Gratitude for what They were enabled to do for mankind and the Earth, especially through receptive individuals in embodiment.

Since ancient times, this darkest time of the year approaching the winter solstice was celebrated - especially in northern climates with long winters - as the "Festival of Lights" – many candles, torches and fires burning in cabins, lodges and temples. The reason for the season was quite simply to bring more light to dark times.

The Ascended Host have appropriated this period of time as the "Seven Sacred Weeks" - beginning on the American Thanksgiving Day and continuing for 48 more days through the Christmas holiday season and into the first part of January. At this time the Cosmic Hierarchy participates in releasing a great outpouring of Light onto the Earth and throughout humanity.

During the Seven Sacred Weeks and the Christmas Season, the Cosmic Highways are opened. Ascended Beings from Higher Levels of Existence, planets experiencing Golden Ages, and Stars of Divine Perfection also come to Earth and give Their Radiation, thus adding to the Radiation of Those Ascended Masters already working with mankind and the Earth. By giving our attention and recognition to the Divine Beings of the Brotherhood of Light and God's Hierarchy, we give Them the Opportunity to pour forth Their Radiation. All of this expands the Cosmic Christ Divine Love of the Spirit of Christmas.

Seasonal good cheer and Gifts of Love are based upon this Sacred Time when Cosmic Light Rays are being released to us from the Ascended Host. It is a tremendous Blessing to us and a great time to get more acquainted with the Ascended and Cosmic Beings that could assist us so much in our lives. If we appreciate and acknowledge Their existence, we draw Them closer to us. Their ability to intercede in our lives would be so much greater if we only became aware of our Blessed Brother and Sisters in Eternity! Remember that it is by first loving our own I AM Presence and giving recognition to our own Immortal Identity that we can then call on the Ascended Host for assistance in our lives and in helping to raise the Earth and humanity.

Open Door

For seven weeks and 49 straight days, we have the Glorious Opportunity to join together with the Ascended Host to receive greater Releases of Divine Love and Joy upon the Earth. This Sacred Season creates an "Open Door" between the lower three octaves of Earth (physical, emotional, and mental) and the Ascended Master Octave - as well as even Higher Levels of Perfection! Through the power of our attention and our Gratitude, we may receive Their Gifts of Divine Momentum, Their Activities of the Sacred Fire, and Their Enfolding Divine Love.

The Ascended Masters, the Archangels, and the Cosmic Beings come to teach us how to be One with our True Self - the Mighty I AM Presence, and how to blaze the Sacred Fire into our lower bodies (physical, emotional and mental). The Sacred Fire is used to free ourselves from the human consciousness and to pierce the veils of limited human perception - into our God Consciousness. This especially involves the dismantling of one of the last major veils: the false belief of a duality of good versus evil. We must allow the Divine Consciousness of the Higher Mental Body, our own Pure Christ Mind, to be in conscious control of every thought, word, and deed in our everyday lives. We will then experience the Christmas Spirit everyday!

Planetary Grid Transmission....

Dissolving Illusion - Shifting Out of the Matrix

* A Leap of Faith
* Changing Genetics While in Our Current Form
* Where Do We Begin to Unplug?
* Connecting to the Crystalline Grid
* Wisdom from the Oracles
* Merging into Oneness

Planetary Grid Transmissions
Full Moon Lunar Eclipse - December 10th

There will be no audio support for the upcoming full moon as
we gently release our need for electronic aids. Please join us in
silence and stillness.

A Leap of Faith

As Spiritual beings, we live in a state of timelessness... a sacred space of
thoughts and feeling where the gifts of Divine Truth and Faith grow stronger
and more beautiful in every moment as we reside within perfected patterns of
the immaculate concept.

We have had many guides, tools and beneficial relationships with the self
and others that have brought us to this current level of clarity and
understanding.I n order to sincerely progress and to truly live as free
sovereign beings, small and gentle steps are necessary to unplug, break out,
and dismantle ourselves from the container of this illusion.

From this process, our sole focus becomes a great responsibility to the
cause and effect of our unique individuality, as well as the collective in
the many facets of being. With a deep meditative act of self inquiry into
our feelings of truth, it becomes quite clear that life, as we have been
living it, is the illusion and it is now slowly dissolving as we allow a
greater level of Divine Alignment to occur.

Imagine the act of unwavering faith that is involved... leaping empty handed
into the void with total trust that one will be supported. This very act is
a testament to ones spiritual attunement to the Will of God.

Let the Stars and the Earth truly be our guides as we journey into the
deepest parts of Self and let us draw only upon the Source within us for all
our needs.

The stargate portals burst open on the greatly anticipated date of 11:11:11
and the new light codes of transfiguration and regeneration continuously
shower the planet and the human race. As we now begin to develop our Avatar
skills and integrate all that is being downloaded, we must take a hard and
realistic look at all the technologies and stimulus of our material world.

From our new collective resonance, this technology actually harms our energy
field and creates fissures in the auric body. So many of us have never truly
been out in raw, untouched nature - away from electromagnetics and worldly
stimulus - where we may rediscover our inherent abilities to align with the
natural rhythms of our beloved Earth and the vast expanse of the cosmos.

The purity and unity of Nature is a Divine Reflection
of what we, as emerging Avatars, can achieve.

Our Changing Genetics

The human race has de-evolved into a genetic program of gross insanity,
dependent and addicted upon outer stimulations to reward the illusion of
separated identity. We are kidding ourselves to think that we are advancing
into 5th dimensional beings when we are still attached to these sensory
stimulations.

We can only understand so much through the use of intellect. At some point
we have to lay down our tools and our gadgets, lay aside our perceived
"path" and all the dependencies of the mind itself, and make our way back to
the still point. When we experience this still point, we may bear witness to
true metamorphic change in areas such as the brain, the blood and the
nervous system.

How do we experience still point on a more consistent basis? There are so
many ways, consistent silent meditation being key. We must also focus on a
complete energetic departure from the matrix that upholds the insanity.
When you have nothing, absolutely nothing to stimulate your senses...
nothing to do, nowhere to go, to create, to vision, or to do... this is when
our robot programming can begin to dissolve.

The innovative genius of survival is within us! The beauty and even
perfection of Nature expresses this in our waking moments.

Moving out of the matrix means letting go of all the dependencies out there
that we use in order to continue to support the 3rd dimensional illusion.
Obviously this includes all techno-devices that keep us wired to the
electric grid but also our belief patterns, our deities, and our plethora of
new age tools. These were the tools and instruction that have graciously
supported us thus far. However, it is now time to move and expand ourselves
and our innate gifts, such as telepathy, much further.

If the current matrix of illusion were to dissolve due to a solar flare
event or a natural disaster, are you prepared to be in the raw field of
ascended nature?

Where do we Begin to Unplug?

We begin one step, one day at a time. Perhaps we start by setting aside one
day each week to "unplug" from electronic devices and to slowly increase
this. departure. Or we might limit our plugged in time each day to certain
hours and methodically decrease the time.

We start out with baby steps and all the while we increase our time in the
natural world, our time seeking the still point. Get out and hug trees, lay
on Mother Earth to harmonize your heartbeat with hers, sun gaze or bathe or
swim in natural and unpolluted waters.

Our DNA is downloading our Christ Avatar blueprint and we are making
conscious choices about diet and seeking nurturing environments, but many of
us... the world servers, the way-showers, the first-wavers are dependent
upon mechanical devices to do the most simple thing in the Cosmos... to
meditate!

We are a loving species and wish to unfold into the Avatars and guardians of
our new earth with the new codes of the 5th dimensional frequencies.

How do we Connect to the Crystalline Grid?

During our recent New Moon focus of Silence for Grid Transmissions, several
questions were received from members unsure regarding to how to participate
without an audio-support. Even among the Oracles, we have had a passionate
discussion regarding the giving up of recorded music during our meditations.
All music is "vibrational light" and a healing gift of the Cosmos so there
is no actual objection to music, only to the dependency on it and the use of
earphones and electrical devices.

Our training wheels must come off! We must begin to practice our Avatar
Divine Blueprint skills that we have recently downloaded and really step
inside and try to decode our inner skills and wisdom. We may use our body
and all it's elements including voice, movement and visualization to
connect. Shamans use music and rhythm in sacred ceremony to create energy
that brings in the Divine. Our ancestors used dance, drumming and yoga to
induce the meditative state. Walking, labyrinths or running can also bring
one to the desired still point.

The Oracles are here to share their views and methods of meditation,
however, as Children of the Sun representing One Group Soul, we all agree on
the following steps to consider:

Invocations:
This can be a mantra or decree, smudging or incense, toning, drumming,
chimes, bells or anything that creates a sacred space and uplifts your
energies. This can include calling in the directions or the Ascended Host
and is used to "set the zone" of entry into stillness...and then into
silence.

Grounding to the Earth and Connecting
with the Central Sun or Galactic Center:

Our divining power rod...feeling the connection to Earth's core through the
core of our being and then though our Heart and up to Source.

Focusing on the Heart:

Visualization of the 3-fold flame and seeing our inner Sun radiate
unconditional love from the heart center automatically increases our
frequencies. We moving into the Heart-Mind, focusing on the heart-beat and
knowing this is God.

Turning on the Pineal Gland:
Activating our new communication system as a communicator and receiver of
conscious vision and cosmic awareness.

Connecting to the Crystalline Grid, Group Soul and the Unified Field:

This may be visualized as a brilliant Sun, the Maltese Cross, the Merkabah,
the Torus Field of Sacred Geometry, or many other ways.

Fire the Grid and holding the vision of the Immaculate Concept:
Transmission of the Sacred Fires and holding the image of Divine Plan.

A Time to Receive:
Entering the still point, the void, merging in Oneness with Source...a time
for personal visions and messages.

Wisdom from the Oracles

I just went into meditation space...and didn't use the music as usual but
just sat in the silence and it was so wonderful! So freeing...although the
music does help me focus on riding the waves of sound...it is not necessary
at all. Without hearing the outer music...it was as if the container was
lifted so Inner Sound became more clarified. The silence was incredibly
alive and freeing on so many levels. ~ Rhajarani Jewel

Heart Gazing is a wonderful silent meditation that radiates as a sun loving
energy just from the awareness of breath while holding the immaculate
concept and incorporating everything we have learned from these beautiful
productions of feeling and sound. There is no right or wrong...it opens an
individual to their own spiritual practice.

~ Hope DeVenuto

When it is difficult to still the mind...there are other means to meditate,
by intention or other focus. A Buddhist monk advised me that there can be
too much focus on the "form" and not to force the stillness, but to be more
active with intention and focus. Walking meditations...focus on the pebble,
a fallen leaf, a centipede. What is it...what is it's essence? (no-thing) ~
Anne Davis

During the preparation process of the 11.11.11, one of the things that was
very clear to me was that "we are the Portals", we have to ignite the portal
inside us. I had a very strong meditation experience, a vortex turned on
inside my heart chakra...our body and all our being is our vehicle and we
must practice turning on our own machine to ground the light in us and into
the earth. ~ Elisa Valdes

I have very rarely used a recorded meditation my whole life until we began
these this year. I began meditating under the silent stars as a child,
unaware of what meditation really was, and my first conscious attempts to
meditate were always out in nature...the forest...the sunny meadow. As much
as I have loved our audio meditations...I have felt a little like my wings
were clipped...I love basking within the Language of Light and the Music of
the Spheres. ~ Gay Anne Liberty

I focus on my threefold flame, see myself in the Violet Flames, then the
tube of light. I place myself upon the grid, I 'see" group soul as a Maltese
Cross. I automatically go to the core of the earth and all the sacred sites
following Tiara's lead in all the audio supports. As we put forth streams of
light, we are encased, our group body in this Maltese Cross torus, and we
are everywhere, we ARE the Universe. ~ Diane Lee

Something I have found helpful for "monkey mind quieting"...is something we
already know...placing our attention upon the Greater... but giving that a
bit more clarity by recognizing that we are placing our attention on our
Group Soul., which is ALWAYS in meditation upon the Divine Will of
God/Divine Plan... it never ceases meditation. ~ Gandolf Germain

Since coming from Peru and Bolivia after 11:11:11, I have been meditating
consciously, instantly connecting and just observing... putting my attention
in nature and feeling, really feeling the energy going through every cell of
my body and filling myself with gratefulness and awareness. I do it at any
time and it is a natural state of being. I am feeling detached from the
guided meditations although it was a magical experience...the Rites of
Passage...Wow! ~ Olga Sharn'a Dreyfus

Merging Into Oneness with the Unified Field

When we master the techniques of pure, raw meditation and have unplugged
from the artificial grid of illusion so we may sustain our subtle and
physical bodies purely from the cosmic magnetics of the Earth and the Stars,
we merge into oneness with the Unified Field of Living Light.

We then harness the ability to enter into meditation instantaneously, to
connect to Group Soul and the Crystalline Grid at any moment or every moment
of our day. We no longer have to sit down and go through the steps to
transmit Immaculate Concept upon the grid as we remain connected within this
Unified Field day and night. We graduate not only to riding without training
wheels but we are flying hands free!

Let go, Children of the Sun! Trust the process.
Take the leap. Spread your wings and let's fly together!

As the month of November ended, there was a layer of peace over the Earthplane that could be felt by many. It didn’t feel like a break between chaotic waves or the feeling of anticipation of the next wave; it felt like relief. And boy, did we need relief from all the ups and downs because of the shifting energies! For those of you following the physical changes of Mother Earth, even she was rocking slower with earthquakes than normal.

Now December is here and things are starting to rock again. This has been the strongest year of our collective ascension process. With all the changes that are occurring, many are realizing that this Ascension is actually happening; that it is not the end of the world but a beginning of a new one.

We have been preparing for this time period for years. We were told by Spirit to be more light, in body, mind and spirit. Spirit explains the way to do this is by forgiving others and ourselves. Once we are able to forgive completely, we are open to truly loving ourselves. For some of us, this will be the first time that we experience true love for ourselves without the ego being involved. (Once you clear your heart through forgiveness, your heart is open to a higher love that the ego cannot touch.)

We were told by Spirit that we were the ones (our souls) that would create the Ascension. The energy of light flowing through each soul on Earth is making this happen. Every bit of light helps. There are 144,000 people on Earth that are working towards having light flowing through them constantly. When this perfect amount of light energy is stabilized here, then the Ascension will occur.

How long will it take? As long as it takes these 144,000 people to keep their heads up, focusing on the light 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It could happen anytime now or it could take a while. The issues that are working against us is time and weariness. Yes, Spirit prepared us for this. And we answered, “Yes, we want to do this!” But we expected it to happen as soon as we got spiritually, emotionally and physically prepared. But it didn’t. The path to Ascension has taken longer than we expected. And people are weary; especially now when there is so much darkness around us.

A reminder for those of you that know you have said, “Yes!” to this position of bringing in the light for the Ascension, don’t let time wear you down. You are working to give the most amazing gift that humans have ever been given by other humans; a new life. Every time the Earth ascended it was done by Spirit. This Ascension is our doing and one we agreed to create! My friend, it may seem like you are doing nothing in your day to day life, but you are! Each and every moment of happiness, of smiling, or being peaceful and content, is one more notch of light that is flowing through you. Feel fulfilled in just being you, knowing that you are working towards a goal of light for all! This is a collective effort. As you hold the light longer in your day to day experience, it makes it easier for the next person to do it as well.

What about the days you don’t feel light? That is going to happen. The only thing that Spirit asks about those days is to not feel guilty about them. Feeling guilty or worrying about those days will bring your overall energy down and it will be harder to get as high in the light when that day passes. The next day when you wake up, spread your arms and tell yourself what kind of day you are choosing to have and just move on. We are being supported by Spirit to complete this task of human ascension. Ask for what you need to be supported. Most of all, don’t give up! We are so close!

I heard these words on the radio yesterday: “It’s not the end of the world. It’s the end of the world as you know it.” I thought that was a beautiful way to describe the Ascension. One day we will be in our new world and it will have all the things that have been promised to us; which is whatever we have created in our thoughts and prayers.

Would you like to create light with me? How do you do that? Forgive yourself and others. Love yourself. And be light in all things. You are the creator of your life now. Create light in your life. Anyone can do this. It doesn’t take money. It doesn’t take time. It just takes the thought and intention. Be light and feel joy knowing that you are doing your part to create the Ascension.

Blessings of light,

Christina

www.ChristinaLunden.com

By Children of the Sun

A Leap of Faith

As Spiritual beings, we live in a state of timelessness... a sacred space of thoughts and feeling where the gifts of Divine Truth and Faith grow stronger and more beautiful in every moment as we reside within perfected patterns of the immaculate concept.

We have had many guides, tools and beneficial relationships with the self and others that have brought us to this current level of clarity and understanding.In order to sincerely progress and to truly live as free sovereign beings, small and gentle steps are necessary to unplug, break out, and dismantle ourselves from the container of this illusion.

From this process, our sole focus becomes a great responsibility to the cause and effect of our unique individuality, as well as the collective in the many facets of being. With a deep meditative act of self inquiry into our feelings of truth, it becomes quite clear that life, as we have been living it, is the illusion and it is now slowly dissolving as we allow a greater level of Divine Alignment to occur.

Imagine the act of unwavering faith that is involved... leaping empty handed into the void with total trust that one will be supported. This very act is a testament to ones spiritual attunement to the Will of God.

Let the Stars and the Earth truly be our guides as we journey into the deepest parts of Self and let us draw only upon the Source within us for all our needs.

The stargate portals burst open on the greatly anticipated date of 11:11:11 and the new light codes of transfiguration and regeneration continuously shower the planet and the human race. As we now begin to develop our Avatar skills and integrate all that is being downloaded, we must take a hard and realistic look at all the technologies and stimulus of our material world.

From our new collective resonance, this technology actually harms our energy field and creates fissures in the auric body. So many of us have never truly been out in raw, untouched nature - away from electromagnetics and worldly stimulus - where we may rediscover our inherent abilities to align with the natural rhythms of our beloved Earth and the vast expanse of the cosmos.

The purity and unity of Nature is a Divine Reflection
of what we, as emerging Avatars, can achieve.


Our Changing Genetics

The human race has de-evolved into a genetic program of gross insanity, dependent and addicted upon outer stimulations to reward the illusion of separated identity.  We are kidding ourselves to think that we are advancing into 5th dimensional beings when we are still attached to these sensory stimulations.

We can only understand so much through the use of intellect. At some point we have to lay down our tools and our gadgets, lay aside our perceived "path" and all the dependencies of the mind itself, and make our way back to the still point. When we experience this still point, we may bear witness to true metamorphic change in areas such as the brain, the blood and the nervous system.

How do we experience still point on a more consistent basis? There are so many ways, consistent silent meditation being key.  We must also focus on a complete energetic departure from the matrix that upholds the insanity.  When you have nothing, absolutely nothing to stimulate your senses... nothing to do, nowhere to go, to create, to vision, or to do... this is when our robot programming can begin to dissolve.

The innovative genius of survival is within us! The beauty and even perfection of Nature expresses this in our waking moments.

Moving out of the matrix means letting go of all the dependencies out there that we use in order to continue to support the 3rd dimensional illusion. Obviously this includes all techno-devices that keep us wired to the electric grid but also our belief patterns, our deities, and our plethora of new age tools. These were the tools and instruction that have graciously supported us thus far. However, it is now time to move and expand ourselves and our innate gifts, such as telepathy, much further.

If the current matrix of illusion were to dissolve due to a solar flare event or a natural disaster, are you prepared to be in the raw field of ascended nature?


Where do we Begin to Unplug?

We begin one step, one day at a time. Perhaps we start by setting aside one day each week to "unplug" from electronic devices and to slowly increase this departure. Or we might limit our plugged in time each day to certain hours and methodically decrease the time.

We start out with baby steps and all the while we increase our time in the natural world, our time seeking the still point. Get out and hug trees, lay on Mother Earth to harmonize your heartbeat with hers, sun gaze or bathe or swim in natural and unpolluted waters.

Our DNA is downloading our Christ Avatar blueprint and we are making conscious choices about diet and seeking nurturing environments, but many of us... the world servers, the way-showers, the first-wavers are dependent upon mechanical devices to do the most simple thing in the Cosmos... to meditate!

We are a loving species and wish to unfold into the Avatars and guardians of our new earth with the new codes of the 5th dimensional frequencies.


How do we Connect to the Crystalline Grid?


During our recent New Moon focus of Silence for Grid Transmissions, several questions were received from members unsure regarding to how to participate without an audio-support. Even among the Oracles, we have had a passionate discussion regarding the giving up of recorded music during our meditations. All music is "vibrational light" and a healing gift of the Cosmos so there is no actual objection to music, only to the dependency on it and the use of earphones and electrical devices.

Our training wheels must come off! We must begin to practice our Avatar Divine Blueprint skills that we have recently downloaded and really step inside and try to decode our inner skills and wisdom. We may use our body and all it's elements including voice, movement and visualization to connect. Shamans use music and rhythm in sacred ceremony to create energy that brings in the Divine. Our ancestors used dance, drumming and yoga to induce the meditative state. Walking, labyrinths or running can also bring one to the desired still point.

The Oracles are here to share their views and methods of meditation, however, as Children of the Sun representing One Group Soul, we all agree on the following steps to consider:


Invocations:

This can be a mantra or decree, smudging or incense, toning, drumming, chimes, bells or anything that creates a sacred space and uplifts your energies. This can include calling in the directions or the Ascended Host and is used to "set the zone" of entry into stillness...and then into silence.

Grounding to the Earth and Connecting
with the Central Sun or Galactic Center:

Our divining power rod...feeling the connection to Earth's core through the core of our being and then though our Heart and up to Source.

Focusing on the Heart:

Visualization of the 3-fold flame and seeing our inner Sun radiate unconditional love from the heart center automatically increases our frequencies. We moving into the Heart-Mind, focusing on the heart-beat and knowing this is God.

Turning on the Pineal Gland:

Activating our new communication system as a communicator and receiver of conscious vision and cosmic awareness.

Connecting to the Crystalline Grid, Group Soul and the Unified Field:

This may be visualized as a brilliant Sun, the Maltese Cross, the Merkabah, the Torus Field of Sacred Geometry, or many other ways.

Fire the Grid and holding the vision of the Immaculate Concept:

Transmission of the Sacred Fires and holding the image of Divine Plan.


A Time to Receive:

Entering the still point, the void, merging in Oneness with Source...a time for personal visions and messages.

Source: www.childrenofthesun.org

Gordon Ramsay's mint chocolate truffles

Gordon says: 'At home, I’m raising my own little brigade of sous chefs, who are always willing to help with any recipe that involves chocolate and the possibility of licking the spoon – this one certainly appeals'

• Makes: 80-90
• Prep time: 30 mins
• Cooking time: 1 hr chilling time

Ingredients

Gordon says: 'Instead of mint, you might like to flavour the chocolate truffles with a splash of brandy, or grated orange zest and a little Grand Marnier, or even fresh chilli to give a surprising but delicious kick.'

• 250ml double cream
• 250ml single cream
• small bunch of mint
• 500g dark chocolate (about 70% cocoa solids)
• 130g butter, diced
• 130g clear honey
Coating (one or more of the following)
• cocoa powder
• crushed chocolate flake bars,
• crushed amaretti biscuits,
• finely chopped pistachio nuts or almonds

Method

1. Pour both creams into a medium saucepan. Lightly bash the mint sprigs with a wooden spoon to release their fragrance and add to the pan. Heat very gently for 5–6 minutes to infuse the cream with the mint.

2. Meanwhile, break up the chocolate and place in a heatproof bowl with the diced butter and honey.

3. Strain the hot cream through a sieve onto the chocolate, butter and honey, stirring as you do so; discard the mint sprigs. Continue to stir until the chocolate has melted and the mixture is smooth.

4. Pour the mixture into a wide, shallow dish, cover and chill in the fridge for an hour or until firm.

5. Scatter your chosen coating(s) on separate plates. Take the truffle mix from the fridge and, using a teaspoon, scoop out a portion and shape into a sphere by quickly rolling it in your hands. (Do this speedily to avoid the truffle melting with the warmth of your hands.) Toss the truffle in your preferred coating and arrange on a plate. Repeat with the rest.

6. Place the truffles in a shallow plastic container, seal and refrigerate until firm and ready to serve. Eat within 3–4 days.

Nutritional information
Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.

By Gordon Ramsay

Chicken Korma Recipe

Diet Non-Vegetarian
Cooking Method Sauteed
Difficulty Moderate
Course / Dish Main Course
Main Ingredient Chicken

Description

Chicken korma curry is a very popular Mugalai dish originating from North India. It’s a mild creamy chicken dish served in most Indian restaurants. A popular curry dish in the west along with vindaloo and madras.

Ingredients At a glance Serves 4

1 medium-sized chicken
2 large onion
2 cloves garlic
1 small root of ginger
500g tomatoes
2 small dried red chillies
6 cloves
2 sticks cinnamon
2 cardamon pods
oil
8 black peppercorns
4 pots yoghurt
1 teaspoon turmeric
A pinch of saffron
Salt
1 teaspoon blanched almonds

Take the skin off the chicken, bone and slice off flesh.

Slice onions, garlic and ginger.

Chop tomatoes and chillies.

Brown cloves and cardamon in a little oil and add onions, pepper, garlic, ginger and chillies. Fry for 5 minutes.

Add chicken and cook till its brown.

Mix the saffron and turmeric into the yoghurt.

Pour mixture into pan with tomatoes, cover and leave to simmer for about 45 minutes.

Add almonds and cook over a low heat for 10 minutes.

Additional Tips -Serve with basmati rice or naan bread.

Madras beef curry

Ingredients (serves 4)

• 2 tablespoons ground coriander
• 1 tablespoon ground cumin
• 1 teaspoon turmeric
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon chilli powder (optional)
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 2 teaspoons grated ginger
• 2 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1kg chuck steak, cut into 2.5cm cubes
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• 1 cup beef stock
• steamed basmati rice, raita and mint leaves, to serve

Method

1.Combine coriander, cumin, turmeric, pepper, chilli, garlic, ginger and lemon juice in a bowl to form a paste. Set aside.

2.Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a large saucepan over high heat. Add half the beef. Cook, stirring, for 2 to 3 minutes, or until browned. Transfer to a bowl. Repeat with remaining oil and beef.

3.Reduce heat to medium. Add spice paste. Cook for 1 minute. Return beef to saucepan. Cook, stirring, for 1 minute, or until meat is coated with paste. Add tomato paste and stock. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low. Cover. Cook for 1 hour 15 minutes, or until beef is tender.

4.Remove lid. Cook, uncovered, for a further 15 minutes, or until sauce has reduced and thickened slightly. Serve with rice and raita. Top with mint leaves.

Notes & tips

• Shortcut: You can substitute the spice paste in step 1 with Madras curry paste. It's hot, so adjust the amount according to your taste.

Chicken Vindaloo

Serves: 4

You Will Need:

• 3 chicken breasts
• splash lemon juice
• 2 tbsp white wine vinegar
• 2 medium onions
• 5 tsp garam masala
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1 tsp ground coriander
• 1 tsp cayenne pepper
• ½ tsp mustard seeds
• ½ tsp ground cumin
• ½ tsp ground cinnamon
• ½ tsp chilli powder
• pinch salt
• coriander leaves , to garnish
• 1 Bowl
• 1 Saucepan
• 1 metal or wooden spoon

Step 1: Make a Paste

With the lemon juice, vinegar, onion, mustard seeds and spices, make a paste. Add the chicken to the marinade and leave for at least 3 to 4 hours.

Step 2: Fry the Onion and spices

Fry the onion in oil until it has turned translucent, and then add the garlic, ginger, spices, salt and stir.

Step 3: Add the chicken

Add the marinade chicken and cook until the chicken is opaque in colour.

Step 4: Simmer

Reduce and simmer for 20 minutes or until the Chicken is cooked, stirring constantly. If needed, add more water to prevent the curry becoming too thick or dry.

Step 5: Serve
Serve hot with rice and garnished with the whole coriander leaves sprinkled over the top.

Tandoori Chicken (low fat version)

Ingredients

4 largeChicken Breasts; - Skinless Boneless
2 tablespoonsvegetable oil; or olive oil for basting

-- Marinade --
3/4 cupPlain yogurt
2 tablespoonsLemon juice
4 clovesgarlic; peeled
1 inchfresh ginger; - Peeled
1 tablespoonGround cumin
1/2 teaspoonGround cardamom
1/4 teaspoonGround cloves
1/2 teaspoonCayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoonBlack Pepper; freshly ground
1 tablespoonred food coloring; (optional)
2 tablespoonsyellow food coloring; (optional)
Coarse salt; to taste

Calories Per Serving: 164

How to Prepare Tandoori Chicken (low fat version)

Cut each chicken breast in half to make 8 equal pieces. Prick the flesh of the chicken and make diagonal slashes, 1-inch apart using a paring knife. Set aside in a sealable plastic bag or shallow covered dish.

Mix all the ingredients of the marinade in an electric blender or a food processor and process until thoroughly pureed. Pour the marinade over chicken, toss and rub, to coat thoroughly. Cover and refrigerate for 8 hours or overnight.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Place chicken in a single layer over a rack positioned in sheet pan. Bake in the middle of the oven for 45 minutes, Turning once and basting with marinade juices and oil, or until cooked.

Serve immediately garnished with lemon or lime wedges. Accompany this with Pan-Roasted Potatoes and Onions with Cumin and Indian Salsa.

Adapted from a recipe in: "The Essentials Collection: Low Fat" by Parragon Publishing.

Notes
You may want to consider using Achiote paste rather than the food coloring if you're sensitive about artificial color.

Tandoori Chicken II

Prep Time: 15 Min
Cook Time: 15 Min
Ready In: 50 Min

Ingredients

• 1/2 teaspoon curry powder
• 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon paprika
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric
• 2 tablespoons water
• 4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves

Directions

1. Preheat grill for high heat.

2. In a medium bowl, mix curry powder, red pepper flakes, salt, ginger, paprika, cinnamon, and turmeric with water to form a smooth paste. Rub paste into chicken breasts, and place them on a plate. Cover, and allow to marinate for 20 minutes.

3. Brush grate with oil. Place chicken on the grill, and cook 6 to 8 minutes on each side, until juices run clear when pierced with a fork.

Barbecued Tandoori Chicken

Ready in 40 minutes

Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 1/2 teaspoon curry powder
• 1/2 teaspoon dried chilli flakes
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon paprika
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric
• 2 tablespoons water
• 4 skinless, boneless chicken breast fillets
• Oil for brushing on grill hotplate

Preparation method

Prep: 25 minutes
Cook: 15 minutes

1. Preheat barbecue to high.

2. In a medium bowl, mix curry powder, chillies, salt, ginger, paprika, cinnamon and turmeric with water to form a smooth paste. Rub paste into chicken breasts, and place them on a plate. Cover, and allow to marinate for 20 minutes.

3. Brush cooking grill hotplate with oil. Place chicken on the barbecue, and cook 6 to 8 minutes on each side, until juices run clear when pierced with a skewer.

Tip: If you're looking for a dairy-free tandoori recipe, this is perfect. But for a more authentic tandoori, try substituting the marinade's water with yoghurt.

Tandoori chicken 3

This low-fat curried chicken is packed full of flavour. It's quick to cook and the marinade does all the work - who needs takeaways?

Serves 8

Preparation and cooking times

Prep 30 mins
Cook 15 mins

Low-fat

Ingredients

• juice 2 lemons
• 4 tsp paprika
• 2 red onions , finely chopped
• 16 skinless chicken thighs
• vegetable oil , for brushing

• 300ml Greek yogurt
• large piece ginger , grated
• 4 garlic cloves , crushed
• ¾ tsp garam masala
• ¾ tsp ground cumin
• ½ tsp chilli powder
• ¼ tsp turmeric

Method:

1. Mix the lemon juice with the paprika and red onions in a large shallow dish. Slash each chicken thigh three times, then turn them in the juice and set aside for 10 mins.

2. Mix all of the marinade ingredients together and pour over the chicken. Give everything a good mix, then cover and chill for at least 1 hr. This can be done up to a day in advance.

3. Heat the grill. Lift the chicken pieces onto a rack over a baking tray. Brush over a little oil and grill for 8 mins on each side or until lightly charred and completely cooked through.

Nutrition Per Serving:
171 kcalories, protein 24g, carbohydrate 4g, fat 7 g, saturated fat 3g, fibre 0g, sugar 2g, salt 0.29 g

Low Fat Thai Chicken Curry
By Fiona Haynes, About.com Guide

Coconut milk makes a wonderfully mild and sweet aromatic base for this Thai-accented low fat chicken curry. Chili garlic sauce and curry powder add the the kick, so feel free to adjust the quantities of these to suit your taste. Many supermarkets now routinely stock canned coconut milk and chili-garlic paste. Be sure to use the lite coconut milk, which is considerably lower in fat than the regular version.

Ingredients:

• 1 14-ounce can “lite” coconut milk
• 3 tbsp reduced-sodium soy sauce
• 1 tsp brown sugar
• 2 tsp curry powder
• 1 tsp bottled minced ginger
• 2 tsp chili-garlic sauce
• 3/4 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast, cut into 1-inch pieces
• 1 red pepper, de-seeded and chopped
• 2 cups mushrooms, sliced
• 1 large carrot, chopped
• 1 celery stalk, chopped
• 2 bunches scallions, chopped into 1-inch pieces
• 2-3 baby bok choy, (green parts) chopped

Preparation:

Place coconut milk in a large Dutch oven. Add soy sauce, sugar, curry powder, ginger and chili-garlic sauce, and stir. Gradually bring to a boil over a medium heat. Add chicken pieces, red pepper, mushrooms, carrots, celery and scallions. Cover and cook for 5-6 minutes. Stir in bok choy and simmer for 5 minutes more. Serve over Jasmine rice or whole grain rice, with juices.

Serves 4

Per Serving: Calories 201, Calories from Fat 58, Total Fat 6.5g (sat 4.5g), Cholesterol 49mg, Sodium 518mg, Carbohydrate 12.5g, Fiber 2.5g, Protein 23.2g

COOK ON THE RUN - Low fat Thai Green Curry

Working out twice a day builds an appetite...but it's 8:50PM and I need to eat quick and healthy. I decided on making a quick curry. There is no shortage of Thai restaurants in New York City so I've been eating Thai curry on a regular basis for the past 6 years. I always have coconut milk in the house and happened to have to have green curry paste. Dinner was ready by 9:08. Another quick one!

Like the majority of the dishes I make, there is a lot of room for intepretation here. Unlike many Indian curries, where the dish is stew-like, in a Thai curry, the proportion of solids to liquid is small.

These curries do not have to be spicy either. Keep it simple.

Green Curry

1 13.5 oz. can of low-fat coconut milk
1 tbs (or more) curry paste
1 tbs. fish sauce (optional)
1 tsp. brown sugar (regular sugar works fine)
2 chicken breasts cubed
1 potato
1/2 onion sliced
and any other vegetables you'd like to add

Method

Pour the coconut milk into a saucepan. Add 1 tbs. or more of the curry paste. let it simmer for a couple minutes. Add the cubed chicken and sliced onion. In a separate pot boil the cut potatoes in salted water until tender. Add to the curry.

Once all the ingredients are in the pan add fish sauce (optional) and brown sugar (again, regular sugar works great)

Serve by itself or with rice.

Notes/Tips

• Add chilis to heat up the dish.
• Don't be scared of fish sauce. Thais use it as we would use salt & pepper. But if you must, you can leave it out.
• It's up to you what vegetables you want to use. I've used eggplant, carrots, peanuts etc. Be creative.

Thai green curry – low fat
By: Frank Bordoni From: Good Food Bites

Ingredients

• 2 chicken breasts
• 1 cans coconut milk, or low fat coconut milk
• 1 handfuls Thaibasil
For the curry paste
• 4 greenchillies, chopped
• 2 banana shallots, chopped
• 1 sticks lemongrass, chopped
• 2 tbsp galangal, finely chopped or fresh ginger root
• 1 tbsp coriander roots, chopped
• 1 tsp cumin, ground
• 0.5 tsp salt
• 1 pinches freshly groundwhite pepper
• 0.5 limes, grated
• 1 tsp shrimp paste

Method

1. To make the curry paste, using a mortar and pestle or blender, pound or process all the ingredients, to obtain a fine-textured paste. (This can be stored in a screwtop glass jar in the refrigerator for 3-4 months.)

2. To make the curry, cook the paste in a large non-stick wok or large frying pan over a low heat, for 5 minutes. Cut the chicken into strips and add to the pan. Cook for 5-8 minutes or until no longer pink.

3. Stir in the coconut milk and simmer for about 10 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through. Scatter over the Thai basil and serve

The dangers of your digital death

Harvey Jones, 11:26, Monday 5 December 2011

Don t make this mistake with your family s finances...

You only live twice, James Bond author Ian Fleming wrote. Well, I've just discovered that you die twice as well. The first is your paper death, and the second is your digital death.

Digital death is quite a new phenomenon, so most of us simply aren't prepared for it. It's about time we were. Because your digital death could be far more troublesome than the paper version.

You already know what to do about your good old-fashioned paper death. You write a will, setting out which of your loved ones will inherit the title deeds to your property and other assets.

Half of us still don't bother, which is ridiculous, given that you can write a will for a cheap price.
Even fewer of us are prepared for our digital death.

Sudden digital death syndrome

When we die, our body and soul aren't the only things that stop functioning, our online persona will also pop its clogs. If there is an afterlife, you won't find it on Facebook or Twitter.

This is a big problem, now that we live such active online lives. We have net-based bank and savings accounts, pensions and investment portfolios, and personal effects such as music, movies, photographs, blogs and social media accounts.

As banks, insurers and other financial organisations push towards paper-free statements to save money (and the planet, they claim), the trend will only grow.

In the online world, you won't leave a paper trail when you die, according to will-writing experts at law firm Hart Brown, which recently highlighted the problem. That makes it difficult for relatives to put the online pieces back together.

Online life after death

If you want your loved ones to know about your online activities after you die, you must assemble all the necessary data. You could call it your digital will.

If not, your digital effects will effectively be buried with you. Ancient tribal societies used to do this, so people could use their kit in the afterlife.

We don't have such high hopes of the afterlife, so please, bequeath your online life to the living.

Death is not the end

When people died in pre-digital days, they generally left plenty of paperwork, so relatives could find where the money was.

That's not so easy if their personal and financial data is buried on unnamed websites. Or if they have a massive digital music collection, but you are struggling to access it from their computer. Or don't know who is supposed to inherit it.

Passwords are another problem. Even if you have a vague idea of where they bought their pensions, ISAs and insurance, you will need their login details to access them.

If your loved one has uploaded photographs and videos to social media such as Facebook and YouTube, you will need login details for them as well.

And you will also have to decide whether you want to bury that highly personal blog.

People are starting to include this sort of information in their wills, Hart Brown says. The danger is that a will is a public document, which anybody can view for £6 by applying to the Probate Registry. You won't want your login passwords publicised this way.

Legacy locker

Several years ago, I made an attempt at tackling this problem. I printed out all the account numbers for my pensions, investments, insurance policies, and so on, and handed them to a relative for safekeeping, in case of my death.

Lazily, I have failed to update the information. I also forgot to include online passwords. I keep meaning to overhaul it, but haven't got round to it yet.

May be a better option is to store all the information in one of the growing numbers of online digital legacy lockers.

It is quite a problem, and one few of us have faced up to. Dying once is bad enough. Dying twice could be even worse.

Digital zombie attack!

When you die, you will leave a digital legacy behind you. You want to leave it to the right people.
You also want to prevent online fraudsters (or even greedy relatives) from robbing your digital grave, or even bringing your online ID back from the dead, forcing you to roam the next as a digital zombie.

Start thinking about it now. Otherwise your digital death could come back to haunt your family.

namaste

 iam frm india,  province .. kerala,,,reiki master(i made one event... gift of cure)

 now,,, here  in kerala,,  have one of  dam here  this dam aged 118 year***

(mulla periyar dam,,,  )

 now this dam maybe will blast,, if it is blast,,,  atleast 35 lacks people and 4 district will wastout,,,

 our province  and neighbour provence are quarelling  about dam re build or  or no need?

  ithis cause also put in  our supreem court

  please  all healers   heal this situation...  we  need to win  in supreem court ,,    we need to re build  this dam before blasting....

 we need to  live..... saftly...  35  lacks  people  fearing.....

 if it blast....  this  absolutly..  top big,,,,  accident in world,,,,

 hence.. alll   world people,, all world  news  paper,,,  report  it?

 all maters  and  healers   send reiki for this  situation

                       love and light

                       rakeshchenicher

                       kerala

                      india

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