Friends:

The Pilot and Ruth .

http://youtu.be/spv585J3DTc

How could this boy ever know that his big-sister's name was Ruth in his
former life as a World-War-2 fighter pilot, when he could have no knowledge
of this past family life, before it was tracked down by records of the carrier
ship's crew? He thereby - a priori - proves the dry fact of re-incarnation!
A former "big-sister Ruth" does not just pop out of fantasy by random...

There are thousands of these stories where kids who often died in sudden &
violent circumstances can remotely remember enough details so that they can
be independently verified by historical records that the child never had been
in contact with or possibly know anything about… This phenomena have been
studied systematically and critically since the 1960ties:

Scientific Evidence of Rebirth by Dr Jim Tucker:
http://youtu.be/z-1BvpDZwiw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6M-nXjh_9I
Rebirth from an Early Buddhist Perspective:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Rare_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Divine_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Animal_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Samsaric_Dread.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Minor_Hells.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Five_Destinations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Birth_is_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Hell_Destiny.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Endless_is_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_5_Destinations.htm
htp://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Kamma_and_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Rebirth_and_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mad_Demon_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Samsaric_Round.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Human_Being_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Hungry_Ghost_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Past_Cause_Present_Effect.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/What_passes_on_by_Rebirth-Linking.htm

The Truth of Rebirth And Why it Matters for Buddhist Practice by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/truth_of_rebirth.html
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/truth_of_rebirth.pdf

REBIRTH VIDEOS:

Scientific Rebirth Research:
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/reincarnation01.html
BBC documentary on Near Death Experiences:
http://youtu.be/u8Ub2xx0KQ0
Near-Death Experiences on the Intensive Care Unit
http://youtu.be/fDwYCFiJ2Ys
Reincarnation research by Ian Stevenson Children's past life memories:
http://youtu.be/h6M-nXjh_9I
Scientific Evidence of Rebirth by Dr Jim Tucker:
http://youtu.be/z-1BvpDZwiw
The Cardiologist on the Near-Death Experience 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICdizzVY5h4
The Cardiologist on the Near-Death Experience 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFxc67bLrW0
Near-Death Website:
http://near-death.com/

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samāhita _/\_ 
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It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. --Mother Teresa

Bill Gates vs. Mother Teresa
--by Nipun Mehta, Jan 07, 2013

Two days ago, I was in China, speaking to a bunch of influential business leaders. One of them posed a challenge: "You speak about Vinoba Bhave, the spiritual heir of Gandhi, and how he walked 80K kilometers across India and inspired people to donate 5 million acres to their neighbors. Yes, it might've been an unprecedented feat in the history of mankind, but really, how many people remember Vinoba today? Instead, think of how many people remember Steve Jobs and the legacy he left behind." From a short-term impact point of view, it's a thoughtful dilemma.

In fact, Forbes magazine did a piece which reflected similarly, asking the question: "Who has changed the world more: Bill Gates or Mother Teresa?" And they concluded Bill Gates. My response to this industrialist, though, was a true story that happened a few weeks ago at a school near Pune. I asked the same question to them: who do you want to be when you grow up -- Bill Gates or Mother Teresa?

Usually about 60-80% of them will vote for Bill Gates, but here, a majority of them said Mother Teresa. So I probed further. Why? As people started raising their hands, a shy young girl -- maybe 11 years old -- raised her hand, hesitated, and then put it down. Seeing that, I encouraged her to speak, and her response completely floored me.

"Sir, Bill Gates used the power of money to change the world, and Mother Teresa used the power of love to change the world. And I think love is more powerful than money."

End of story. It was simple, clear, elegant and spot-on that it required no further responses from the class.**

The end of that story is the beginning of an audacious possibility. In keeping with the theme of our gathering, my Impossible Dream, and one that I'm sure we all share, is a world where we elevate this spirit of love from the mere emotional ranks of Bollywood to the infinitely stronger spiritual ranks of our hearts. As humanity, we have understood intellectual quotient (IQ), and even emotional quotient (EQ) but what the world needs now is CQ - Compassion Quotient. It is an intelligence of the heart.

More than a decade ago, neuroscientists discovered that, physically speaking, there are actually neurons not just in our brain but also in our heart. As Kabir and many sages tell us so clearly: Open your heart and it can contain the whole universe!

Our greatest hope for awakening our collective compassion quotient comes from - children! Children like that 11 year old who just intuitively knew that if you are moved by love, you can move mountains. In conversations with Dr. Maria Montessori, Gandhi said it very clearly, "In the early part of my life, I discovered that if I was to realize Truth, I must obey, even at the cost of my life, the law of love. And having been blessed with children, I discovered that the law of love could be best learned through little children."

The thing about this law of love is that it has a half-life that is far, far greater than the law of stuff. Its impact lasts for many generations. Inspiration from our gadgets devolves into mere information, sometimes within a matter of minutes. But when that same inspiration is delivered to us through someone who walks that talk, it activates the information in a context of vibrational aliveness. It resonates deep within our consciousness. And this is why, in the long term, the law of stuff stands no chance against the law of love. Work that is moved by love, no matter how small and humble, has an unending after-life.

A few years ago, my wife and I went on a walking pilgrimage. We started at the Gandhi Ashram in Gujarat and walked south; we ate whatever food was offered and slept wherever place was offered. It was an experiment that radically changed our lives. Along the way one thing we repeatedly encountered were the ripples of the law of love, particularly from Gandhi and Vinoba who had often walked those same paths. During a visit to a small village in the area, Gandhi realized it was 6PM - which was his prayer time. He was taking a walk on the farm, with some elders, but he immediately sat down right there for prayer. A bit thrown off, the elders gathered a couple folks who happened to be nearby.

Govardhan Patel was one of them. He was in fifth grade at the time, his mom had passed away when he was 2, and his father had polio; he wasn't all that interested in Gandhi. As serendipity would have it, though, he sat there in silence during Gandhi's prayer. And something shifted. He sat in on Gandhi's evening talk, and that very same day he decided to dedicate his whole life to service. When we met him he was a ripe 82-years-young and was still going strong, having transformed not only his village but dozens of others.

There are many stories like his, for instance that of Nagardas Shrimali. At a train station, while Gandhi is just passing by, amidst the throngs of people, he yells out: "Bapu, what should I do with my life?" Bapu says, "You go and teach your values to other children like you." Shrimali was 16 at the time, from that day forth to his last breath, Nagardas - who was "untouchable" -- dedicated his life to educating children.

Authentic inspiration has a long after-life, indeed. And my friends, we need to rekindle this law of love within us, and within our greatest hope -- our children, the next generation.

I want to end with a true story.

Many years ago, my dear friend Jacob Needleman was teaching a class at San Francisco State University, and he asked a question to his class of thirty students. "How can we be good?" One student raised his hand and said, "I learned goodness from my 5-year-old son." He goes on to explain: "My son and I were enjoying Christmas in Mexico, as he was excitedly playing with the toys he had received just the night before. A kid from the neighboring slum comes by, and I told my son to give him one of his toys. After some pleas and tears, he finally agrees and picks up a toy. His least favorite toy!" In a vintage Mufasa-Simba moment from Lion King, the father looks his 5-year-old in the eyes and says, "No, son, not that toy. Give him your favorite toy."

At this point, the son instinctively protests, but then looking at his father's stern-yet-compassionate look, he begrudgingly goes to the door to give away his favorite toy. Naturally, the father figured he will have to console his son when he returns; lo and behold, much to his surprise, the son returns back with a hop in his step. With an innocence befitting to a 5-year-old, he looks his Father in the eyes and says, "Dad, that was amazing. Can I do it again?"

This is the law of love, and may we all keep doing it again and again and again.
** Since the writing of that article, Bill Gates has thrown his energies into exploring other dimensions of impact as well.

This article is based on a talk by Nipun Mehta at InspirEd in Mumbai, Dec 2012. Nipun is the founder of ServiceSpace.org, a nonprofit that works at the intersection of gift-economy, technology and volunteerism. His popular TED talk Designing for Generosity provides an overview of their work and guiding principles.

http://www.dailygood.org/view.php?sid=369

University of Missouri Extension
CM150, Reviewed October 1993

Listening: Our Most Used Communication Skill

Dick Lee and Delmar Hatesohl
Extension and Agricultural Information

Listening is the communication skill most of us use the most frequently.

Various studies stress the importance of listening as a communication skill. A typical study points out that many of us spend 70 to 80 percent of our waking hours in some form of communication. Of that time, we spend about 9 percent writing, 16 percent reading, 30 percent speaking, and 45 percent listening. Studies also confirm that most of us are poor and inefficient listeners.

Why?

Several reasons are likely.

Listening training unavailable

Even though listening is the communication skill we use most frequently, it is also the skill in which we've had the least training. From personal experience, we know we've had much more formal training in other major communication skills — writing, reading, speaking. In fact, very few persons have had any extended formal training in listening.

The same is true of informal training. It's not difficult to find workshops and conferences that provide opportunities to improve our writing and speaking skills. But it is difficult to find similar training programs to sharpen listening skills.

Thought speed greater than speaking speed

Another reason for poor listening skills is that you and I can think faster than someone else can speak. Most of us speak at the rate of about 125 words per minute. However, we have the mental capacity to understand someone speaking at 400 words per minute (if that were possible).

This difference between speaking speed and thought speed means that when we listen to the average speaker, we're using only 25 percent of our mental capacity. We still have 75 percent to do something else with. So, our minds will wander.

This means we need to make a real effort to listen carefully and concentrate more of our mental capacity on the listening act. If we don't concentrate, we soon find that our minds have turned to other ideas.

We are inefficient listeners

Numerous tests confirm that we are inefficient listeners. Studies have shown that immediately after listening to a 10-minute oral presentation, the average listener has heard, understood and retained 50 percent of what was said.

Within 48 hours, that drops off another 50 percent to a final level of 25 percent efficiency.
In other words, we often comprehend and retain only one fourth of what we hear. We all want to be more than 25 percent efficient. It's not difficult to see the many problems inefficient listeners can create for themselves and others. Poor listening causes us many personal and professional problems.

Listening skill suffers with age

Other studies indicate that our listening skill suffers as we get older. Ralph G. Nichols, long-time professor of rhetoric at the University of Minnesota (now retired), says in his book Are You Listening? that "if we define the good listener as one giving full attention to the speaker, first-grade children are the best listeners of all."

Nichols describes an experiment conducted with the cooperation of Minneapolis teachers from first grade through high school. Each teacher involved was asked to interrupt classes and suddenly ask pupils "what were you thinking about?" or "what was I talking about?"

Results were discouraging but informative. The answers of first and second graders showed that more than 90 percent were listening. Percentages dropped in higher grades. In junior high school classes, only 44 percent of the students were listening. In high school classes, the average dropped to 28 percent.

Listening is hard work

Another likely reason for inefficient listening is that it's hard work to listen intently. Have you been forced to listen intently for an extended period of time? Try to remember your feelings. You were probably physically and mentally tired after such a period of concentration.

Ten worst listening habits

Nichols has described in speeches and articles the "10 worst listening habits of American people." He says that listening training is primarily eliminating bad habits and replacing them with good listening habits and skills.

Here are the 10 bad listening habits. You'll recognize some that you have and that you can make an effort to correct.

1. Call the subject matter uninteresting

You go to a meeting, the chairman announces the topic or you see it on a program, and say to yourself, "Gee, how dull can it get anyhow? You'd think they could get a decent speaker on a decent subject."
So you've convinced yourself the topic is uninteresting and you turn to the many other thoughts and concerns you've stored up in your mind for just such an occasion — you start using that unoccupied 75 percent of your mental capacity.

A good listener, on the other hand, might start at the same point but arrives at a different conclusion. The good listener says, "Gee, that sounds like a dull subject and I don't see how it could help me in my work. But I'm here, so I guess I'll pay attention and see what the speaker has to say. Maybe there will be something I can use."

2. Criticize the delivery or appearance of the speaker

Many of us do this on a regular basis. We tend to mentally criticize the speaker for not speaking distinctly, for talking too softly, for reading, for not looking the audience in the eye. We often do the same thing with the speaker's appearance. If speakers aren't dressed as we think they should be, we probably tend not to listen closely or we may immediately classify the speaker as a liberal or conservative, a hippie or a square.

But if we concentrate on what the speaker is saying, we may begin to get the message and we may even get interested. Remember, the message is more important than the form in which it is delivered.

3. Become too stimulated

We may hear a speaker say something with which we disagree. Then we can get so concerned that our train of thought causes us to spend more time developing counter arguments so that we no longer listen to the speaker's additional comments. We are busy formulating questions in our mind to ask the speaker, or we may be thinking of arguments that can be used to rebut the speaker. In cases like this, our listening efficiency drops to nearly zero because of over-stimulation. So, hear the speaker out before you judge him or her.

4. Listen only for facts

Too many of us listen for facts and, while we may recall some isolated facts, we miss the primary thrust or idea the speaker is trying to make. Be sure that your concern for facts doesn't prevent you from hearing the speaker's primary points.

5. Try to outline everything that is being said

Many speakers are so unorganized that their comments really can't be outlined in any logical manner. It's better to listen, in such a case, for the main point. A good listener has many systems of taking notes and selects the best one to fit a speaker.

6. Fake attention

This is probably one of the more common bad listening habits. If you're speaking to a group and suddenly you become aware that most of your audience is sitting with chin in hand staring at you, that is a good signal that attention is being faked. Their eyes are on you but their minds are miles away. We probably have developed our own faking skills to a high point. Let's recognize what we're doing and eliminate faking as a poor listening habit.

7. Tolerate or create distractions

People who whisper in an audience of listeners fall into this category. Some distractions can be corrected (closing a door, turning a radio off) to improve the listening atmosphere.

8. Evade the difficult

We tend to listen to things that are easy to comprehend and avoid things that are more difficult. The principle of least effort will operate in listening if we allow it to do so.

9. Submit to emotional words

We're all aware of the emotional impact of some words. Democrat and Republican are emotional words for some people. So are northern and southern for others. There are hundreds of examples. Don't let emotional words get in the way of hearing what a speaker is really saying.

10. Waste thought power

Nichol's 10th bad listening habit is the one he feels is most important. It is wasting the differential between thought speed and the speed at which most people speak.

Three ways to improve listening skill

Nichols says there are three things that you can do to help yourself stop wasting thought power and become a better listener.

One is to anticipate the speaker's next point

If you anticipate correctly, learning has been reinforced. If you anticipate incorrectly, you wonder why and this too helps to increase attention.

Another is to identify the supporting elements a speaker uses in building points. By and large, we use only three ways to build points: We explain the point, we get emotional and harangue the point, or we illustrate the point with a factual illustration. A sophisticated listener knows this. He or she spends a little of the differential between thought speed and speaking speed to identify what is being used as point-supporting material. This becomes highly profitable in terms of listening efficiency.

A third way to improve yourself as a listener is to periodically make mental summaries as you listen. A good listener takes advantage of short pauses to summarize mentally what has been said. These periodic summaries reinforce learning tremendously.

In summary, most of us are poor listeners for a variety of reasons. We have had little training and few training opportunities exist. We think faster than others speak. Listening is hard work.

We've listed some ways to improve skills to concentrate, to summarize, to avoid faking, and others.

Just as important are your attitudes — be positive, concerned, sincere.

It's a challenge to be a good listener. But good listeners get big rewards.

CM150, reviewed October 1993
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 Kuthumi As channeled by Hilarion hilarion@gmx.us The physical world seems predominant to most humans. In a sense, this is a pre historic view, perceptual experience. Actually, the physical world is only a part, even a small part of what you are. Many are feeling a lot of pain, and there is certainly nothing wrong with that. A little heads up though, after some time, faced with ongoing pain, there is sort of an auto response wherein one succumbs to a sort of forgetfulness, in a sort of subconscious, or unconscious way to sort of rewrite the awareness or story script within, in order to make life, the mind environment tolerable. Therefore we applaud those of you who are really getting involved in processing what they feel, think, and know. It is useful to use this window of opportunity to look at these intense things, in the context of the newer energies, before everyday life and energetic survival cause the intensity to die down somewhat, and the drolldom of accepting the old, the past, the already habitually established, has a chance to return. We would say that that road is not the road, not the choice for the future. Use this special opportunity to explore and find out what it is that is new, that you can ‘turn into’, so to speak. One of your first challenges, which you are currently engaged in, is to look at everything that has happened, and your feelings and hopes and desires. And hopefully while doing this, your investigatory sense and motivation will lead you into calling upon the very energies we call newly available, using them in this very process of inquiry and reapitulation. Now you establish your roads and directions from here on in, But yes, to do this without investigating the old, the past, and truly looking at and seeing what has happened to those energies, and what that means for you, Is to run off into the future ignorant and blind, not eyes without vision, but a mind and heart still in confusion. Yes, confusion. The woman ( or man ) who can honor that, feel that, know that, is closer to getting to know more of themselves than all the pontificates in the world. This woman would be said to be truly on the right path, the path of truth. Amen as always. is nowhere to go but up! And isn’t that the meaning of an upward ascending yuga/cosmic galactic cycle? So yes , you are at the bottom. The difference now is that the climb will be much less obstructed. Your inward journeys will feel safer and more real, and learning and progress will be more open to you. And you will find there are more inner choices, possibilities available to you, open to you, inwardly. This is good news. And remember that the human spirit is vast. It covers trillions of spiritual miles. It interpenetrates your physical and surrounds it, unto the far reaches. You are always contained within your spirit. Now it is time to really get to know yourself, meaning more and more of what you are In the living color, the living light, the living vibration of you in the divine, and the vastness of that experience. We congratulate you for feeling, discussing, getting into this, rather than running into a hole. You have not lost your spirits, You are finding your ways, and yes, these are new ways, so yes, it is going to be a bit of a stretch to get the consciousness adjusted to a combined physical and spiritual feel and function, but this is part of redefinition, recapitulation. This is the challenge that lies before you at this point. Wayshower means to find/show the open way. Right now you are finding it. Then later you can show it to others. And yes, this is enhanced energy technology. Continue to explore, as it is all up to you right now and we think you are all doing well, in that you haven’t fled and are looking at things, and that is all that can be asked , respectfully, of anyone. Sananda, Kuthumi, and Hilarion You may contact hilarion at <hilarion@gmx.us>

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Living in the New World
Part I
As you look around the world with your physical eyes, beloveds, it may seem as though nothing has changed, yet on December 21, 2012 all of life on your Earth began an evolutionary leap in consciousness that will now precede in stages as this “leap” still needs to be assimilated within all of the subtle and physical energy systems within and around your body. The length of time that this assimilation process takes will be determined by your consciousness, both individually and collectively, yet it will continue to become an ever more palpable experience within your day-to-day lives throughout 2013 and beyond.

This shift was set into motion when your Earth moved into alignment~in essence a Divine Union~with the Central Sun of your galaxy. The Central Sun, in the Pleiadian constellation, is the Heart Center of your galaxy, and it has not only moved into union with the heart of your planet, it has also moved into union with the heart of every soul on Earth.

~ Masters Saint Germain and Lady Portia

In the past this alignment with the internal sun within one’s heart has only taken place within those who have ascended by lifting their consciousness out of the limited confines of the 3rd and 4th dimensions. Because the Earth is now ascending, and you are in the process of moving into your galactic inheritance as masters of the Earth plane, the invitation to ascend has now been extended to thousands across your world. As you move deeper into your inheritance, you are all moving into your larger potential to create a new Golden Age in Unity Consciousness where you will have greater access to the Love and Light of Source.

When a planet comes close enough to the Central Sun of its galaxy to merge with the Light of its consciousness, every soul on Earth is offered the tremendous opportunity of embodying more of the consciousness of its Presence. The veil that has been holding humanity in isolation from their True Selves living in Unity Consciousness also begins burning off ages of misconceptions that have held humanity hostage within their own limiting 3rd and 4th dimensional belief structures.
Any old patterns that are not supporting you living in a new Golden Age are all in the process of being burned away by the Light of the Central Sun and by the energies that many of you are releasing as you continue to transmute and transform any limitations you may still be holding within your mental, emotional or physical bodies. As this process continues, both individually and collectively, all of life is awakening as if from a deep unconscious trance. The overall consciousness of humanity is expanding beyond the limiting 3rd and 4th dimensional domains and into its galactic inheritance, which means that you will all be moving into more of your expanded capacities to create a new world using the multidimensional levels of being that are naturally part of the consciousness of your Presence.

When the Earth moved into direct alignment with the center of your galaxy, many of you immediately started to adjust your own frequencies so you would be able to proceed gracefully though the 4th and into the 5th dimension without any encumbrances from your past. The quantum shifts in consciousness that you are now undergoing cannot really be defined by what you have experienced in your past because what is happening in your present is unprecedented and you have no references for it. This is exciting to some of you, and somewhat frightening to others, yet we are sharing this with you so you know that the choice can be made to either enjoy this transition or to resist it, yet you cannot stop it.

This alignment will eventually move all of you out of the concerns of your limited personalized ego as you will each be paying much more attention to what is best for the well being of humanity and the Earth. You will not be focused nearly so much on having to survive in a competitive world or of having to be good enough on any level of your existence. When you really become one with your Presence, all of these kinds of concerns will simply disappear into the vast sea of your shared unlimited consciousness and you will realize more and more that everything and everyone is simply energy qualified by consciousness, and that the Source energies that are now being realized are for your use in creating a new world.

To assist you in creating your new world, we in the Ascended Realms are bringing forth 2013: Creating Your New Life and Manifesting AS Your Enlightened Presence. We invite you to join us

Happy New Year! I believe it’s going to be a wonderful year and we will finally see the results of the work that we have been doing for decades. Don’t look for too many changes in January though, this month we’re setting the foundation for what is to come. This is a time for intention, balance, consideration, alignment and integration. We’re creating the boundaries for our path; the action and movement will come later. Although we want to jump out of the starting gate as soon as we think the wheels are beginning to turn, to get away from what has been limiting us but that’s like taking a trip without knowing where you want to go, or how you are going to get there and whether there is enough gas in the car to even get started.

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I feel your excitement, my dear. The evidence is now out there and available to everyone. The CABAL is EXPOSED, at last. Yes, it has taken a long time, but it had to be thorough and understandable. Now the facts speak for themselves. It is the duty of everyone to acknowledge the true facts and act accordingly. You, the people, can now see how you were enslaved to a corrupt regime. You do not even own your property; you are only the tenant. Nor do you own your car. You have never been told the truth about anything. Even your children belong to the state: which can and does remove them at will.
As I have told you before, the POPE claims to own the entire planet. Again, I remind you, "nothing is as it seems". Look at the evidence for yourselves. It is now time to stop being slaves. The truth will set you free, and the truth is there for all to see. Dr Leonard Coldwell has done the research for you. It is time for you to study it for yourselves. You must admit that it was a very clever plot. You were all taken in by it. Now, you are being given every opportunity to step out of bondage and reclaim your heritage.
Michael Tsarion has also been showing you when and where all this deception began, and how it was planned 2000 years ago. You have been fed LIES about who you are, and from whence you came. The planning that went into this takeover of humanity is remarkable. No stone was left unturned. They set their goals high and they almost achieved it. We, in Spirit, could not allow this to happen. We have endeavoured to show you what was being done to you. Now, you are waking up in your thousands. You no longer accept what you were told in the past.
Challenge everything: stop just accepting that it's the law, and accept that the law does not protect you or yours: it only protects the corporation. It is time to unite and come together. The Cabal cannot operate without your cooperation. So ask yourselves, WHO HAS THE REAL POWER. The sooner you realise this fact, the sooner you will free yourselves from slavery. This is the first time in your history that you have been given the opportunity to take back your power, and thus, free humanity. Know with confidence that you can do this. You are not alone; the universe as well as the World of Spirit, is with you at this time. If we could do it for you, we would, but this is something you need to do for yourselves.
The temples of power are crumbling. It will not take much to remove them. They only protect their own. They do not concern themselves with you. You are mere slaves, who believe the illusion that was created by them. You have everything to look forward to: think of the celebration, world-wide, when you cut the shackles and see the LIGHT. Considering the speed at which the world is awakening, it is almost ready to cut the ties to the Cabal's enslavement of humanity.
Know that your families in Spirit are with you, every step of the way, on this, the most exciting journey of your lives. Some of the great people of the past are with you on Earth to assist you on this mission.
The Vatican will answer for its crimes against humanity. It is responsible for so much which it has kept well hidden behind the caring face that the public is shown. Soon it will be no more: it will be removed without trace of its evil rule.
The takeover of America is happening: though few recognise the signs. Crimes are committed, so as to remove the rights of the people to defend themselves. Switch off your TV sets which serve to keep you under control; you will never find the truth there. It is all part of the mind control which has been set up to enslave you. The American people believe that they have rights; it will be interesting to see who wins this battle. The world is watching them play this one out. What the American people believe, and what is actual fact, are two completely different things. Let what is happening in America be a lesson to all of you.
We must close now, as Veronica has work to do, with the people who will arrive shortly. All will be revealed when the timing is right. Come together in love and light and share your research. Help to open those minds that are frightened to open to the truth. They need guidance.
Nothing can stop us. Together, we have the power and the will to overcome all adversity.
My love, enjoy being with your friends. I will be present also. We are getting there!
My love is yours forever. Your adoring, Monty.

Are we focusing our attention in the right place?
With so much to talk about and some getting on their high horse about what they think was happening or not it is time to also take notice of what really did change.
Humanity is the part that did not really change, as the control system as many call it runs through humanity and cannot be destroyed in one way or the other.
When all humans are connected to each other there is always going to be a control system as this is how humanity as a whole works. Remember we are all One?
This is what the control system is.
We are all One.
We cannot expect a change happening if not everyone in the “One” gets onto one page. Good luck with that One.
We have been told for years, spread your light, be loving and compassionate, only if you love each and every one the change can take place.
The fluffy messages as I call them.
The ones where a reality is presented that is so beautiful, so magnificent, almost unimaginable to most people, but in their hearts many know there is such a thing.
The problem is that it’s a knowing, a feeling.
The reality outside of us does not reflect any of this and here is where the advice comes in through many of the messages.
Imagine it, live it, be it, it will happen, it is already there.
The physical reality is not real, only the spiritual reality is real.
You are here to be the change.
Should I go on?
I think you get my point.
Many feel disappointed, not just because of the messages with predictions, but of the inner feeling inside, the inner knowing that something might happen on the 21st of December.
Many seem to think that we should move on, leave it and get on with it. It was a lesson, take notes and learn from it, but enough already.
Some seem to think that because they didn’t expect anything, they are the ones that are a bit more superior in a way as they seem to express this sometimes in their comments.
Each and every person that feels disappointment or not, we have to learn something from this. It is not about the predictions, it is about what we as humans belief in, feel within and know within.
Maybe what we belief and feel and know is completely unrelated to the physical reality we live in. Maybe it is a reality that we have experienced or know within spirit and this is what is bringing us, or guiding us back into our spiritual reality, completely unrelated to any changes within the physical reality.
Maybe this is what we need to pay attention to as the physical reality is in fact a learning reality, and after this learning reality we should move back into the spiritual reality.
The only problem we have is that we have not yet found our way back to the spiritual reality. We seem to be stuck within this physical reality and are thinking that we need to bring this spiritual reality into our physical reality.
Who told us that?
We did, as we are so much involved in this physical reality that it most of the time seems to be the only reality, and for many upon earth it is the only reality they know.
Maybe all these glimpses of better worlds are to guide us back into our spiritual world, or at least remind us of our spiritual world. So we will start looking for it, find it, and find our way back to it.
Some have been looking, but most look from a physical perspective instead of a spiritual perspective.
As we know that we are spiritual beings, why would we not want to go back to being a spiritual, energy being fully?
Move out of the endless cycle of life and death, the cycle we cannot seem to escape fully.
But in a way that allows us to be still involved with the physical reality, to guide others that ask for this either out of the physical reality, or be able to give guidance and assist to make real changes to the physical reality, if that is our place to be.
Many can see things from a spiritual level, but no one as far as I can see it has the full perspective, the full knowledge and the full capability to do this.
After all everything is just energy, energy moves, energy can be influenced, redirected and even changed. But to me it seems that working on this from the physical reality is something that is only possible slowly, as the energy of the physical reality is dense and moves slowly.
The other part is that from a physical point of view we cannot see the overall changes needed, we can only see the changes we as humans think are needed, but these changes usually do not really comply with the overall changes.
Each human has different needs, different needs for this world, this reality. To think that the needs of a couple should overrule the needs of all and that this will work to change the world to the needs of just a couple is an illusion that has been presented to us in many ways by the ones that feel the world should change according to what they think they need.
These needs are part of one’s own personal exploration, and to the degree others are also encouraged to explore their within, well then you have done a lot of your job.  This is our temporary home, to come into a full knowledge of who and what this wondrous ever evolving source creation that we are, is.
Why are we really upon earth, to play the games forever?
Or to find our way out of the game?
We came here voluntarily, I don’t know but it feels to me we are not staying here voluntarily. Something is making us stay here in a way; it might be our own attachments to this reality or something else. It doesn’t really matter in a way.
We can make the decision to find our way out. We do have that choice.
From one source to another Petra Margolis

Firstly, thanks go to Cat for sharing a link in another article to some very important new scientific information about the two Milky Way Galactic Center (GC) bubbles having finally burst and are now massive, out-flowing energies from the GC. The Great Mother’s water has broken and she gives birth, anew…

I’ve been waiting since December 24, 2012 — the day after the “Three Days”, Expiration Date, Shift Point — for something big to manifest physically within the physical realm and dimension to reveal physically what already happened energetically during the Three Days/Expiration Date/Shift Point at higher quantum levels and dimensions. (Remember that everything manifests at the top first and then works its way downwards from there with the physical dimension being the last one to finally manifest what’s happened in higher levels and dimensions.)

Most people need tangible, physical proof to convince them that something has indeed happened, has indeed changed dramatically and is now physically pouring forth like cosmic Aquarian waters from the jug of the Milky Way GC. And of course, no matter how the heavens ignite themselves and morph magically before our eyes via photographs from scientists from around the world, there will still be throngs of disbelievers concerning the end of the Mayan Calendar, the entire Ascension Process, entrance into a new astrological Age, current compressed evolution, the Three Days Expiration Date and the intimate connection between all that and the Milky Way GC suddenly spewing forth black-hole energies unimaginable. Don’t let small minds put a damper on what you know and are living and feeling!

A link to scientific information about the bursting of the galactic bubbles and current out-flowing of GC energies will be included at the end of and outside my © copyrighted material. Part of the caption below the image in that scientific article (see link at bottom) says:

“Image Caption: The newfound outflows of particles (pale blue) from the galactic Center. The background image is the whole Milky Way at the same scale. The curvature of the outflows is real, not a distortion caused by the imaging process…”

The reason I copied that one sentence in bold is because it’s very important and the reason why I’ve been clairvoyantly seeing the Milky Way GC energies flowing outward like a massive cosmic waterfall, much like Niagara Falls, for the past two years. First however here’s an old article with photo about the Milky Way galactic Bubbles the scientists discovered in 2010 before they burst (on or shortly after the Three Days — 12-21-12, 12-22-12, 12-23-12).

http://deniselefay.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/milky-way-energy-bubbles-or-galactic-flares/

Secondly, here’s a recent article from me about this massive Milky Way GC out-flowing of energies that we, humanity, Earth and our solar system have been inching our way towards over the years but aligned/conjuncted on the Three Days. This event is quantum and has already happened on day one of the Three Days –12-21-12– and continued happening throughout the remaining Three Days, and has and is still happening and being felt by humanity in varying degrees. It will continue to be felt by humanity for a long time so relax and adapt into IT because IT is life and reality inside the 5D frequency range of the Age of Aquarius and vastly higher frequency, higher consciousness, High Heart, high creativity Aquarian Unity energies.

When you view the photo of Niagara Falls I used in my “12-12-12 Through 12-21-12″ article, please keep it in mind and heart when you view the new photo in the scientific article of the Milky Way’s two burst GC Bubbles and how the outflowing GC energies now resemble slightly curved, outward flowing energies like cosmic Aquarian waters pouring out of the cosmic jug (GC) — plus how it somewhat resembles the photo of the gushing, falling waters of Niagara Falls.

http://deniselefay.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/12-12-12-through-12-21-12/

There is and will continue to be so much to talk about concerning these new cosmic GC energies that, finally are physically visible for all to see, and hopefully many more to feel and consciously be increasingly aware of. This is just the start of… everything… and we’re all still making incredible ongoing adjustments internally and externally to what we’ve been through via the Three Days including everything that’s continued to happen since December 24, 2012 and will continue happening. I’m going to say that again in hopes that it really sinks into everyone’s Hearts and Awareness; this is just the start of everything so relax into IT all and give yourself whatever “time” you need. We’re all in brand NEW territory and it will take some “time” for all of us to get our bearings and better understand what’s happened already and is still happening.

Since December 24, 2012 when one of our atomic clocks jumped two days into the future, and another atomic clock did the same thing two days after the first one did it, I knew we (humanity, Earth, reality etc.) were IN some very NEW and very different space and experiences and that we didn’t have a good or large enough understanding about what we had just gone through via the Three Days.

Since 12-24-12 I’ve been paying close attention to everything; my dreams, other people’s dreams, what’s happening in my physical body, in other people’s bodies, with my and other people’s consciousness, weird anomalies and other phenomena and so on. From my perspective the trans-formative energies that were the “Three Days” only continued on 12-24-12, and the next day, and the next day, the next and so on. From my perspective IT has not stopped just because we exited out the other side of the Three Days. IT has continued and I suspect will continue for a long time until we’ve so adapted, adjusted to IT that we no longer notice IT anymore.

My brain is fried today (not like this is a new event!) and my “Ascension Tinnitus” is roaring inside my head which only adds to the cosmic GC energies I feel pouring down and into my Crown chakra and top of my physical head and into my spine and body. We are living Light antennas embodying these NEW GC out-flowing energies which are and will continue to improve us in very dramatic ways.

For the past week I’ve been repeated hearing in my head and emotionally feeling in my heart that profound and truly great Chorus from Joni Mitchell’s 1968 song for Woodstock. It is:

“We are stardust, we are golden, and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden”

You might enjoy, especially if you’re an original Hippie First Waver as I was/am, listening to her song done by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young again now with the entire Ascension Process, the Three Days Expiration Date, the Milky Way GC Bubbles, and finally the rupturing and dramatic out-flowing of GC (Aquarian) energies on the physical level. It is these grand evolutionary GC energies from Source that are helping us get ourselves back to the garden.

Peace n’ Love

Denise

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As channeled by John Smallman http://johnsmallman.wordpress.com

The long-awaited New Age has got off to a flying start as the energies that it has brought with it sweep across your beautiful planet to commence the essential revitalization of all her systems, and to encourage and inspire humanity as it begins to understand what has just occurred. The commencement of a New Age is an event of enormous importance and significance for Earth and for all the life forms that she so willingly supports. All humans on Earth at this point in her ongoing evolution chose to be here to assist in this magnificent process, even though large numbers of them still remain unaware of the marvelous opportunities with which they are about to be presented to create new lifestyles that will uplift and inspire you all as peace, harmony, and abundance replace the unbalanced and inadequate societal and international relationships in which you seem to have enmeshed yourselves for so long. Your future is very bright indeed, and will grow even brighter as you all decide to take part in ongoing creative ventures that will inspire enormous enthusiasm for life in every one of you.

As you have often been told recently, this is a wonderful time to be embodied on Earth ― because the inflowing energies will uplift and inspire humanity to move forwards collectively to establish a harmoniously balanced way of life that honors all on the planet, without exception. These new and joyful attitudes that you are starting to embrace will totally change your perception of yourselves and of one another as you look forward to interacting together with creative enthusiasm and bright visions of what the future holds for you all. The old times of constant conflict, disagreement, and mistrust are to fade away into the mists of time, forgiven and forgotten, as you move gloriously ahead to engage in many new ventures that will bring you unimaginable satisfaction.

It is indeed correct to refer to these new times as a New Age because so much is changing, so much is being renewed, and so much that is completely new is coming into being. The old ways that taught and encouraged rugged individualism as the only reliable life path to ensure your survival in an unsafe and threatening world were never valid. They seemed to work for those who were strong and confident, but in fact no one was particularly strong or confident; they just donned masks that hid their fears and anxieties and often succeeded in convincing others that they were invincible – until it became apparent that they were not, and other masked pretenders or role-players replaced them.

Now awareness is growing rapidly that behind the apparent power and might of authority -figures and organizations there is a vacuum, an emptiness in which individuals are constantly fighting one another for control. At times it appears that a strong person is in charge, but this only occurs fleetingly when the organization itself seems threatened; the norm is constant vying for control between groups and individuals within the organization. Many have been aware of this for eons, but their interest has been solely in arranging for the transfer of that authority from the current holders to new ones espoused by those who demand change.

However, this newly expanded sense of awareness throughout humanity is leading to the realization that authority in the form of government agencies, and throughout educational, health-care, political, social, and religious organizations is a means to control and suppress individuals and deprive them of their human rights. The reasoning constantly offered to justify these authoritarian measures is that they are essential for the safety and security of the majority, when in fact the true agenda is purely to preserve the power and authority of those at the summit of those organizations who believe that they have an inalienable right to that power and control. And it is a right that they had no intention of relinquishing.

In this New Age people no longer feel automatically beholden to those who claim authority over them, and as authority only works when people generally accept it, the age of massive agencies of control is finished. It started to become apparent over thirty years ago as the eastern European states began to disentangle themselves from the grip of the Soviet Union which then itself broke apart. That disentanglement from rigid and inflexible power structures is continuing apace right across the planet, and signs of it are apparent everywhere. At times it seems to threaten the very foundations of civilization – and of course it does because civilization needs to become civilized ― which is a very new concept indeed!

In previous times civilization meant the crushing and suppressing of the weak by the strong, who claimed to have better methods of running and controlling society for the general good. Now civilization is to re-engage with the true meaning of that word: a civilized society is one which respects and honors all life forms while continuing to further its own education as it strives for the spiritual enlightenment of all mankind, yet never imposing its own beliefs, judgments, or opinions on others. It offers loving encouragement and assistance to all who seek it because its sole purpose is to serve the needs of all its members.

The New Age has arrived, so engage with it joyfully and fruitfully from your hearts as they fill with Love from the divine field in which you are all enveloped, and which is constantly increasing the power and intensity of its presence in your lives. Expect happiness and satisfaction to expand and fill your lives until there is no area within them where the slightest sense of dissatisfaction remains.

With so very much love, Saul.

As channeled through Wes Annac
wesannac.com

Imagine and feel that you are Creating the grandest of change that can be Created in your increasingly-evolving third dimensional reality. Imagine and know that this change is being Created by each of you in your own unique ways, and imagine that what you are doing now is to greatly impact the Lives of every dear soul on Earth.
We have wished for you dear souls to know that what you are doing is setting the stage for the events that will bring about planetary abundance among so many other things, and we focus on this element specifically because we wish to make known that you are contributing to the Lighted energies helping to bring about abundance on your world.
Humanity as a whole is recalibrating and readjusting to a continually-pure state of consciousness and the increased inner-cognitive senses many of you will begin to find, will be among the many things showing you that you are working toward something real. Indeed, the validations that are simply too real to disbelieve will make their way to you and if you make the efforts to attune to such things as much as possible, you will increase your ability to perceive them in a quicker and realer manner.
Everything happening at present entails a continual readjusting to increasingly-pure states of consciousness as you begin the quite rapid travel through the realms of the fourth dimension.
For those of you who may be wondering; you have indeed began your ventures within the fourth dimension as a collective and while much of your collective is indeed still anchored in dimensions lower than and matched with the third, the actions of the Lightworker collective in holding the Light and anchoring the pure vibrations of Source unto your world is having a massive influence on the collective energies and is allowing Gaia’s planetary collective to begin your surface travels through the realms of the fourth dimension.
Many of you have been learning fourth dimensional lessons for some time, and those of you who have already been able to Master the lessons of compassion, understanding and the need to avoid self-martyrdom will handle the coming weeks and months quite gracefully as you will find yourselves breezing through repeated lessons that are only being repeated within you because the entire collective is (and will be) experiencing such fourth dimensional lessons.
Your resolve and ability to remain centered will indeed be tested, and we mean this for all of you. Every last bit of you will be and have already been undergoing the necessary testing that truly displays to you if you are ready to embrace ascension and your continually-unfolding reality if the external circumstances do not always seem pertinent to do so.
You are indeed being given the choice of how much faith and involvement you place in your ascension from here on out and many of you are passing these tests with much ease, while others are finding considerably-more difficulty.
It was anticipated that the Lightworker energy could take a dive after the 21st period because of the nature of change expected and the nature of inner-change delivered but not felt by all, and we wish you all to know that the brazen manifestations many of you have looked toward are completely within your sphere of ability to pull into your personal vibrations and manifest.
The collective, mass energies are required to move something along in a much more grand manner, but you can all begin to radiate your personal vibrations toward the disclosure of your Galactic brethren’s existence and presence on your world as well as a plethora of other things, such as abundance being delivered to your entire world and the wealth being restored to its proper owners; each and every citizen of your Earth.
There is so much good to look forward to and you all have the ability to attract such good to yourselves, which is why we ask you to do so as a collective. Collectively mediate on the initiating of disclosure, the giving of abundance to your world and your collective finding ascension.
Truly feel and radiate your vibrations toward everything you have worked for, for you are the prominent Creators and experiencers of your reality and your personal (and collective) vibrations determine more than anything else, what is to happen on the surface of your world.
We continue to reiterate that your ascension and the events to come with your ascension are and have always been assured, but we must still ask you to continue to make your effort to attune to the fifth dimensional reality many of you can begin to feel, because there is so much for you to witness and experience and you are just at the beginning of your journeys.
Indeed, from an Earthly standpoint you are at the end of a long journey within the lower dimensions, but you now begin the most exciting and incredible part of your Earth journeys which is, of course, bringing-forth Light and change on a mass level on the surface of the Earth for every single soul on your beautiful, pre-Galactic planet to benefit from.
Can you dear souls believe that your actions are affecting the Lives of everyone on your world?
This is truly so and this is why we ask you all to continue to place the importance in your ascension processes that many of you placed before the 21st alignment came and went.
We ask you to remain as focused and excited for the manifestation of wonderful ascension-related events in your Lives as you were before this timeframe for indeed, you still have many more dates and timeframes to pass through that, while not solely important or crucial to the manifestation of brazen or bold events and should not be looked toward in such a manner, will still serve to greatly benefit those who have continued in their inner-search and found an attunement to your ascension energies.
There are so many things we can feel you dear souls wondering about, and we wish to calm your fears, apprehensions or anxieties and remind you that everything is, has always been and will always be okay. Yes, there is still mass separation and hatred manifested on your world on a day to day basis, but you would be surprised to learn of the dissolving influence of such lower energies even right now.
While they are still manifested on a massive level in your current moment, more and more Earthly souls are responding to the continual work that the higher realms have been doing on their evolving bodies and spirits and they are finding the personal revelations and inspirations from spirit that are seeing them change their lifestyles into ones that match the happiness and wholeness they wish to feel in their Lives.
Please know, dearest Lightworker collective, that your actions are greatly benefitting the Lives of every Earthly soul and you are helping everyone to begin adjusting to and assimilating while benefitting from, the energies being delivered to your world at present in increasing purity.
There are so many beings doing all that they can to continually increase the purity of energies Creating your reality, as there is much going on within the realms past your conscious perception. Everything is being rebuilt and reformatted on an energetic level, to fit the expanded and evolved environment you will soon all exist within more fully and purely again.
There is oh-so much going on and we wish we could detail every last bit of the progress that has been made since the alignment of the 21st but for this current moment, we can only ask you dear souls to prepare yourselves for all that is to happen because as you can see, events have taken quite a long amount of your time to manifest and are reaching the point wherein they simply cannot be stalled any longer.
Yes, this has been said before and there have been many instances wherein the Company of Heaven has chosen to step back on matters for necessary reasons, and this is why we continue to implore you dear souls to Create as much positive and Lighted change as you can in your internal and external realties, because our actions are based on your choices and experiences whilst on Earth.
Everything you do or express toward others is fed to your collective consciousness in the form of a specific energy, and the general energy given out by your entire Earth collective in each moment determines the ability of the Light energies to match such energies and soak-into your collective conscious and subconscious, benefitting you all.
When negative actions, emotions or choices are fed into this matrix of consciousness, the Light energies are filtered and restricted from coming through and we are thus, unable to work with a landscape that is too dense for our intervention.
As you’ve heard, we [as well as the Galactics] cannot interfere with your freewill and we have no desire to do so, which is why so many Lightworkers and starseeds have incarnated unto your Earth to feed the collective of your world the most positive and harmonious of energies possible; to help give the Light energies a way through to your collective consciousness so that the Earth collective can be initiated into the pure states of consciousness your beginning Age of Aquarius is to call for.
You have so much awaiting you and yet, for some of you the spiritual road could not seem bleaker as you perceive yourselves as being duped or fooled into thinking something grand would happen, one too many times.
We understand that some may not feel comforted by our requests to keep the faith and hold strong to your vision, but as you are Creating your individual and collective experience in every single moment and your Creation determines our ability to intervene and assist, we are asking as many of you as possible to do so and the importance of your positive and Lighted energies simply cannot be overstated.
Everything that you have heard about is real, dear souls. We know that you can feel this and we know that you know this. To those who have attuned, nearly endless validations have been given and we can personally attest to meting so many of you in your dreamscape, during interactions that you may not likely remember because of your non-lucid state of perception during such moments.
There is so much Divine interaction taking place beyond the realms of your conscious perception, with us and you all and the Lighted change you are Creating even while your bodies lay sleeping and you hold meetings with us, your Galactic brethren and a plethora other souls and collectives, is indeed enormously-pure in scope.
There are so many important manifestations riding on your ability to stay positive and centered, as you are all literally forming bridges and holding open portals for the energies of the higher realms to come through yourselves.
While some of you are experiencing a final surfacing of doubt and fear in yourselves, others are benefitting greatly from your ascension energies and those of you who are benefitting could help greatly in consoling those who feel as if the higher realms, the Universe, we Ascended Masters or their personal guides have somehow abandoned them or left them, as they perceive of their ascension having not happened.
We are absolutely here for you dear souls and we will continue to make our presence known to you, in the form of synchronicities and many other things we will do to attempt to get your attention. As always, pay attention to the messages of spirit because there are so many ways we can get ahold of you, and some of them may indeed surprise you.
We wish to make our presence more personally known to each of you who feel as if you are cut off from the higher realms or as if the higher realms have abandoned you, because you have so much good to look forward to and as has been expressed, you are and have been in the home stretch, viewing the landscape of your fifth dimensional Eden whilst knowing your role of holding the space and helping the entire Lightworker collective to evolve before then finding your own heroic evolution back to the realms of the fifth dimension.
And oh, don’t even get us started on the wonders that lay beyond the fifth dimension.
Your processes are to continual eternally, and your growth and learning will be everlasting from the fifth dimension. You will experience lessons, growing and learning that will ready you for even purer sub-planes, planes and dimensions of consciousness and each dimension you experience will offer unique challenges, lessons and frames of perception.
Everything you experience will serve to show you aspects of yourselves that have been forgotten as you traversed the lower dimensions, and you are to find that you are and have always been the Creator in an increasingly-distorted form with each lower dimension you had fallen to in an attempt to traverse such dimensions.
You have all traversed the lower realms with a heroic might that you are strongly looked upon for, and we personally thank you for your efforts up to this point and for the efforts you don’t yet know you will be making in the time ahead. You are so important to Earth’s ascension, dear souls, and we wish for you to know this with every bit of yourselves for if your power is given away, you cannot experience the enlightened perspectives that show you the reality and awesomeness of the developing higher realms in yourselves.
You can all begin to channel the energies of your rapidly-developing fifth dimensional New Earth and we encourage you do so, for there is so much wonderful vibration and energy for you to attune to and find within yourselves and every last bit of it is happily and graciously awaiting your realization of it and its presence within and around you.
The brimming vibrations of Source are expressed in a very pure yet still distorted manner in the realms of the fifth dimension, as the purest energies of Love and Light are as well considered the purest of “distortions” and the building-blocks of your realities.
Your reality is a moldable and changeable energy that so many der souls have begun to learn to work with to help bring about the best intended results and experiences they seek, and we say that your Life path will garner in you, the understanding of working with your reality and finding for yourselves, the situations and experiences you desire.
You will be led increasingly with the events that manifest in your Lives, to take control of your Life paths and begin to Create for yourselves that which you truly desire, and some of you can perhaps notice these very catalysts playing-out for some around you at present. Every one of you are being led toward the revelations and epiphanies in yourselves that show you your ability to find happiness and wholeness in your Lives, rather than continue to put up with the same old limitations or distortions you had previously allowed to form the basis of your conscious experience.
You’re now being given the full opportunity to turn away from and transmute the lower and dissatisfying aspects of your Lives as they stand at present, because you dear souls have wanted the realms of the fifth dimension and you must first receive them in yourselves. The unawakened Earth collective who cannot yet feel these energies will be able to [receive them] because of your actions in anchoring them and holding the space for them to come forth.
As you hold this space, you will continue to realize that your own reality is refining and you will increasingly see matters playing out in your Lives from a different vantage point, a different perspective. You will begin to feel the hollowness of many aspects of your reality that have been fed up until this point, and many of you may find yourselves seeming to drastically change the ways you have Lived or the direction your Lives have been heading in, in favor of a reintegration into a more fulfilled and happy state of being.
One cannot ascend if one is still trapped within self-employed limitations and we can only do so much to help you realize such limitations as sometimes, even pointing out a limitation or employed density to an Earth soul can be considered a violation of their freewill-ordained right to believe that what they are doing is not harmful to their Life paths.
Humanity is feeding as a collective, the very same dense and negative, outdated energies in various different forms and facets. Sarcasm can be a destructive energy if used in a destructive way, and humor specifically has been distorted to a certain extent on your world. There is indeed humor in the higher realms, and you will occasionally find even one of us cracking a joke or two as we do indeed Love to laugh.
We Love and radiate out naturally, anything that feels good or is of a good vibration and when we speak of humor being used for ill gains, we speak of the humor that is employed and attached to darkness which can come in the form of sarcasm or ridicule. Finding personal gain because of the misfortune of others has become rife on your world, but the pervading energies of Oneness will see humanity realizing the need to put such a distortion to an end.
Of course, it would be a generalization to claim that all of humanity is feeding the select few mechanisms we have discussed here but overall, the prevalent few energies of darkness are fed and established massively on your world at present through a plethora of different souls.
Your media continues only to reinforce the negative and keep every person attached to it in a state of illusion and separation from their Godsource, and many of you will notice the purposeful violence and lower vibrational material put forth in nearly every aspect of your mainstream media. So very many television shows have been produced, unknowingly fulfilling an agenda of filling humanity’s minds and hearts with the continual vibrations of anger, violence, lust, sarcasm and most of all, separation.
One will notice that humanity is painted in a very negative Light in the majority of movies and television shows given on your world at present, and what is currently meant to keep one from fashioning a connection with One’s Godsource will soon be utilized to bring-forth truth that all of humanity needs to be reintroduced to, so that you can properly view your Earth through a lense of knowing all that has happened.
You are taught to view a world that is only physical and that has never experienced any wonders past what physical reality teaches, but so very much has happened that if you knew about, would display to you that your world has always experienced miracles and things that the majority of people in your current society would simply write-off.
The fact that much that’s been hidden from you would be unaccepted as reality by the majority of your world at present should not faze you dear souls, because your world is to be reintroduced to the concepts that drive a higher dimensional experience and in doing so, will see that they have allowed themselves to be held back in many instances.
The choices humanity has made has contributed to holding humanity back and among the choices you can begin to make to help cleanse yourselves of the negative vibrations of illusion and lower dimensional Life, are choosing the proper nutrients to feed your ever-evolving bodies in the form of healthy food, drink and interaction with your reality.
It is important now to find the most Lighted of foods that will not serve to block up your chakras or keep you in a state of lower dimensional discomfort.
Meat production of any kind is to become a thing of the past so very soon, as you will find yourselves sustained in a different manner and less accustomed to the mindsets that would teach you to desire meat or pleasure within flavor, as you will feel constant bliss all around you and you will contribute to such bliss with your own blissful energies.
It has been discussed that you will still be able to replicate your favorite heavy foods with the technology of your Galactic brethren and with your own Creative abilities which you will learn to utilize with the assistance of Galactic technology, and it should be expressed that you will likely need or want much less for such heavy foods despite your ability to manifest them.
The fact that you will indeed be able to have them will see them lose their perceived luster that some would perhaps imagine when thinking of not being able to enjoy their favorite lower dimensional pleasures, and despite the pleasure meat can provide for some souls, it is still vastly disrespectful to and un-allowing of the freewill of the animal collective who are forced to give up their body temples; usually in very violent ways and in ways that are destructive to their souls.
These souls really do seek peace and salvation from the twisted-up energies they have felt by losing their body structure by the hand of a human being in a violent manner, and to those of you who are eating meat, we would humbly ask you to bless and thank the spirit of the animal you would be consuming before doing so.
You can send your healing energies to the animal collective as a whole and to the individual sprits of each animal who has been forced to exit their incarnation in the name of becoming food, and all of humanity will realize the need to come together with the animal and even plant kingdoms, and you will no longer utilize them for nourishment as you find all of your nourishment provided to you and by you, in ways that do not require utilizing the sacred temples of any soul.
You are all Loved so very dearly and it is hoped that we have been able to offer a glimpse into your already-unfolding New World and New Year of 2013. 2012 will forever be known as the starting-point and the rest of your experiences from here on out will continue in the intensified manner they are beginning to play-out in.
We ask you to employ hope and balance when looking toward your future, and remind you that only you can bring what you desire to yourselves.
Thank you to the Ascended Masters.

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Thousands of people claim to have had near-death experiences. Do these experiences offer proof for the existence of an afterlife?

10 Ways to Use Psychic Energy
By Taryn Gale wind

Color is light. Light is energy. Energy governs everything we do and totally impacts how we feel. Each color of the spectrum has a frequency, and scientists know our brains and body chemistry react to those vibrations. Sensitives and psychics know our chakras react,too,and can be re energized by color.

Let’s look at ten simple ways to use psychic color.

1. Red Is Power. Every politician and corporate mogul knows wearing red when facing an adversary gives you an advantage. The richness and depth of red make you seem and feel like a stronger entity.

2. White, the great protector. White light combines all colors. If you feel anxious or are dealing with fear, close your eyes and surround yourself with a dome of white light. The dome keeps thoughts and energies pure and can protect you as you work through issues.

3. Pink secures wishes. Meditation teacher Shakti Gawain advises using a pink psychic bubble to obtain heart’s desires. Get into your deepest meditation state. Envision your heart’s desire in as much detail as you can. Surround it with a pink bubble – glowing, buoyant. Hold the bubble close for a moment, then let go. Watch it rise, disappearing into the universe. Don’t think of your wish again. Let your psychic energy handle it.

4. Create peace and harmony. Wall and environmental colors have a profound impact on your energy and power. Analyze your home. Make sure you feel centered in each room. If not, using visualization and large color samples, find out which colors strengthen your energy. Make changes.

5. Balance your chakras. In Sanskrit, chakra is wheel of light, so color is important here. In order, color association is: Root chakra – red, second chakra – orange, third – yellow, fourth – green, fifth – blue, sixth – purple, seventh – white. Use those colors in meditation and visualization to balance energy and life force, bringing you closer in tune with your soul and the soul of the universe.

6. Change your mood. Wear bright pink or green to enhance and lift mood if you feel depressed or morose. The reflected light touching your skin and stimulating your eyes will give your brain chemistry a kickstart.

7. Psychics know orange can change relationships and scientists may agree. Use orange to work on your emotional self, or someone else’s. That light frequency seems to be associated with social confidence and outcomes. Orange may create optimism and joyful relationships.

8. Find out what kind of love you need. Take yourself to your magical place of meditation and visualization. As you relax, enclose your body, beginning with your head and working down, with an aura of green light. Green connects you to every positive energy, from peace, to purity, to self knowledge. Inside your green aura, explore the qualities you seek in friends or lovers.

9. Soothe pain/treat illness. A holistic approach can include colored light, psychically or physically produced, as therapy. Long ago, blue was thought to affect pain and illness. Now, it isn’t unlikely to find medical staff wearing blue and clinical settings painted blue. Last year, Chinese doctors had success using blue chemicals to treat back pain. For mild pain or illness, try envisioning blue light healing the area. Consult your medical team for anything beyond the mildest condition.

10. Have an aura reading. Ask your psychic practitioner to conduct a reading, and perhaps a balancing of your aura. You may learn a lot more than your anticipated. Take your lover with you for a great couples’ experience.

Many believe our bodies contain a series of energy fields. When the energy is in balance, the body is healthy. We’ve already established that color is energy, so it’s easy to understand how using psychic color energy can have profound impact on you and your reactions to everything you encounter. Tomorrow, choose your colors carefully and see what happens.

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Have a beautiful sunfilled day...Carol Paradis

Blue Dragon Journal

a starseed's journey

Message from Sanat Kumara – 18 Dec 2012, by Tazjima
Posted on December 19, 2012

Sanat Kumara – 18 December 2012 – Breaking Through to the Other Side, by Tazjima
Not having any messages come in for the past week or so, I thought I might experiment and call in a master and see what happens. This past week or so has been an interesting one for me. I’ve had high highs and low lows. I’m sure quite a few of my readers can say the same thing or have similar experiences. I started out with a short meditation, invoking a tube of white light for protection and then:

I am invoking the Presence of beloved Sanat Kumara, Planetary Logos.

I AM here. I AM Sanat Kumara.

Yes, I can feel you in my heart. My heart chakra was burning hot as the Master began to come in.

I stand in the heart flame of all who live upon this planet.

Thank you, Raj.

What can I help you with tonight?

I want to thank you for leading me to the J. Stone books. They have helped clarify some issues for me. And I am enjoying making some of the invocations that are listed there.

Understand, dear one that the ascension preparation given out in those volumes is no longer valid in terms of what most people are experiencing these days. The directions were given during a time that has long since passed. The dispensations given out in the book still apply, but few people, even lightworkers are using these volumes so we approach ascension in many ways now. It is not necessary to even know about ascension in order to be qualified to take the step now.

How is that so, Raj? (Raj is a nickname which the Master prefers to be called than by his full title.)
Those people who live good lives, in service and peace, will ascend, even if they have never heard of the term. Many of these people are lightworkers, but who have not consciously woken up to their missions. They are vaguely aware that there is more to life than what they have already encountered, but are unable to discover what that might entail. Due to circumstances, some care for family members and work long hours to make a living, and do not feel that they have the luxury of making their own spiritual journey. They have made their steps along the path of ascension mostly unknowingly, yet they will rejoice when they discover one day that they have come into a new land, one filled with peace and love.

What has been my path?

Do you not know? You have forged ahead, leaving husband, family and friends behind. Nothing could deter you from your spiritual quest. You have questioned, learned and let go of teachings time after time, seeking your own way through what was offered in the world. You have learned to listen to your inner voice, to your heart. You know how to test the spirits by listening and feeling within. You have come far; you will go further along the path than many.

Yet we tell you now (including my readers) that ascension is not a contest. It is a personal journey and a collective one that at least a portion of humanity is undergoing currently. It is a process and will continue, even when you break through to the other side and into the fifth dimension. When you arrive there, you may decide to rest, but sooner than later you will begin again to move forward on the path, through service, through learning, through the many ways that will be offered to you.

There are many now in these last days who still doubt that they have “the right stuff” to make ascension. Fear not, beloved ones, for all of you are loved. It is your own thoughts and emotions that keep you down and continuing in feeling the separation, the disparity, perhaps even despair. And certainly you might feel confused about all the conflicting opinions and information that is being presented within the lightworker community. This is why it is so important to approach any information, including these messages, by using your own inner discernment as your guide. The time for the outer teacher is coming to an end; it has ended. There are no captains, no leaders in this movement. It is a movement and a journey made up of individuals, all following their own paths, yet it is also a journey that will take many in the same direction, to the same destination.

Know also that ascension is not a one-time initiation. There are many steps to ascension, not just one. Those of you, who choose to move on beyond the first baby-steps of ascension, will find themselves being mentored by ascended masters and angelic beings. It is a grand and vast world that you are in the process of entering. The multiverse is far more than you can possibly imagine after being relegated to school-room Earth. There will be much to re-learn, but you will discover great pleasure in doing so for you will begin to re-member what you left behind when taking embodiment so long ago.

Your planet is currently in the throes of the last days of the Dark Age, of the Kali Yuga. Soon you will move beyond these lower vibrations, only touching them briefly if it is your desire to teach and lead those who will not cross the bridge of swords at this time, at the Shift. Archangel Michael recently stated (see 2012 Scenario for more information) that ascension will remain open for those who are close until the end of this lifetime. Those who go ahead will contribute to the raising up of the vibrations of the planet which will clear the way for more to follow in their footsteps. Some of the wayshowers will become gatekeepers, keeping the connection between the two worlds open to facilitate the passage of others. And many of the first to ascend will take up a life of service, helping those friends and family members who remained behind, assisting them to understand the benefits and possibilities that ascension into the fifth dimension can offer.

For many of our initiates this has been a time for undergoing a life review. You may have seen episodes of your life play out in your mind’s eye or remembered long lost friends or relatives. Some people have returned back into your lives, also, perhaps to see if a lesson forgotten or unfinished has been learned. It is certainly a time to let go of what is no longer necessary; nothing that is of a lower vibration can be taken into the new world – it will be left behind. This list includes relationships that are unhealthy, jobs that do not allow for creativity, as well as anything excessive and unbalanced. It is also a time to learn to forgive yourself for those things that you feel you have not done as well as you could. Forgiveness, letting go, listening to your heart, and being at peace are most important considerations.

The world that is being left will make its bid to keep your attention, to bring up fears, to create distrust between people through the misuse of the media and propagation of lies from governmental bodies and various institutions, including the medical field, religions, education, science, economics, and other international corporations. Leave it all behind you; they cannot follow you into the new world unless they, too, let go of their fears and step into the light.

For those of you, who fear that you are not suitably prepared for ascension, know that you can still have issues to resolve, still have emotions to work on, still have physical conditions that need healing.

You do not have to be perfect in order to be able to ascend. You do need to be open to expanding your world view to include the diversity of humanity, as well as those galactic and intergalactic beings, ascended beings and angelic realms, which will be more apparent to you as you become more acquainted to your new world. There is much to explore there and much to learn.

In the passage of cycles, eventually all of humanity will pass through ascension, just not now. Not all are ready for in the past it has taken lifetimes to prepare to take the first steps leading up to becoming an initiate on the path to ascension. Those who are undergoing ascension during this present cycle have either prepared for a long time or are starseed who have embodied for this very purpose – to act as wayshowers and to create an energetic pathway for those of humanity able to follow in their footsteps. Many of the starseeds have ascended on other planets and in other solar systems, galaxies, even in other universes. Some of the starseeds and lightworkers have come from the highest heavens and will return once their work here is done. There is a great variety of helpers here on hand to assist in this birthing process for both the planet and her cargo, humanity.

In these last days of this present cycle, spend them in quiet contemplation and meditation if you can. If not, keep mindful during your day of the energies and call on us, the ascended masters and angelic realms, for our assistance. We are here to help, to serve, as it our means to further our development as we, too, are moving up in our responsibilities and expanding in our service to the Universe.

Expand your mind to include the whole of this planet as your body. See all of humanity as one being; in truth you are one. You are experiencing this process from several points of view to gain experience which you will pass on to other worlds in your turn, as we have assisted you in ours. Know that we are your brothers and sisters and are here to assist. Call on us and we will be there, to lend our energies, light and love to give you strength in moments of doubt and weakness. If you feel that you have stepped off the path momentarily, forgive yourself and continue on. Keep a close internal focus on how you are feeling, what you are feeling and how you would like to feel. Keep a journal of your inspirations, dreams, meditations and practice communicating with your higher self. Have faith that you will break through those last bits of darkness that seem to keep you from your goal. We will assist; we are here to help – just remember to call for us and we will be there.

Forever in the Light, I AM Sanat Kumara.

Namaste.

Copyright © 2012-13 by Elizabeth Ayres Escher. All Rights Reserved. Permission is given to copy and distribute this material, provided the content is copied in its entirety and unaltered, is distributed freely, and you are love, you are loved, and I love you

Dealing With Difficult People

Learn how to deal with difficult people from a spiritual perspective.

BY: Tara Springett

Virtually everybody knows people who seem to be put into their lives for the sole reason of making it difficult. They either have excessive demands, are unnecessarily contrary or even outright mean and nasty. How can we deal with this all too common problem from a spiritual perspective?

First of all, we need to understand that difficult people are having a difficult time. Nobody who is genuinely happy and has a loving and fulfilling life is nasty on purpose. Real joy generates love – the wish to share one’s joy – so if someone behaves in a selfish or unloving way it is a sure sign that they are unhappy in themselves. This is true even if they appear to be happy. As a therapist, I have the opportunity to talk to thousands of people in depth about their feelings and I have found that people only get angry and demanding if they are under some sort of extreme stress.

The second thing I found is that virtually nobody acts nastily on purpose. The average person almost always believes that they are doing the right thing with a good motivation. This may seem unbelievable if we are at the receiving end of some very egotistical behaviour but it is nevertheless true. The real problem is ignorance – people believe they are doing good when in fact they are hurting other peoples’ feelings.

These two insights – that difficult people are unhappy and unaware of how hurtful they are will help us to be more compassionate and patient with them. Once we have that little bit of inner distance, we can then apply the ultimate remedy to dealing with difficult people. This remedy is to send love first to ourselves and then to the person who is stressing us out.

If you are one of those people who easily believes that everything is your own fault it is paramount that you take a lot of time to envelop yourself with loving light and wish yourself to be happy like a loving mother wishes for her child. Once we have done that, we need to do the same with our adversary. We need to envelop the difficult person with love just like we have done with ourselves. This may seem contrary to all human inclinations because, after all, why should we send love to someone who has harmed us? The answer is that love is the sublime healer of the universe and will restore peace and harmony to all our relationships or help us to end them in a harmonious way.

In my own life, I have worked in this way for many years with every single person who has made my life a misery: with boyfriends and ex-boyfriends, noisy neighbours, nasty colleagues, mean landlords, difficult friends, rebellious children and everyone else who caused some unpleasant ripples in my mind. I can say with confidence that sending love has never let me down and has restored peace and harmony to the most difficult situations within a matter of days. The same is true for the hundreds and thousands of clients who have used this ‘method’ for a multitude of conflicts.

To learn more about relationships please refer to Tara Springett's book Soulmate Relationships. Tara holds an M.A. in Education and has post-graduate qualifications in gestalt therapy, body awareness therapy and transpersonal therapy. She is a fully qualified and licensed psychotherapist and counselor. Tara has worked as a drugs counselor, counselor for adolescents and general psychotherapist since 1988. Tara has been a dedicated Buddhist practitioner since 1986.

In 1997 she received encouragement from her Buddhist teachers to teach meditation. Tara is the author of several self-help books. She has been featured in numerous publications and has appeared on various radio and television shows in Europe and the United States. Her website is: www.taraspringett.com.

I AM MERGING WITH MY GOD SELF NOW ! ! !
Posted by STEVEN L HUTCHINSON

So, beloved ones, let us now gather our energies as we guide you through the dimensional portals, through the energy and into the center of this Ascension Wave therefore, please straighten your spine, draw your shoulders slightly backwards opening your heart chakra. Take a deep breath in through your nose, exhaling through your mouth, take another deep breath in exhaling through your mouth and relaxing your body. Imagine a powerful gold and red flame of energy running up and down your spinal column. This is your life-force; the empowering energy that has always existed within you.

This energy becomes more tangible now and you become more conscious of it because many veils have fallen and many outdated beliefs, attitudes and perceptions have been released. You have already acknowledged aspects of yourself that you never knew existed, and this was not such a long time ago.

I want you now to take a moment to give thanks for every challenge you have experienced, for every tear you have shed, for every moment of woe, of grief and sadness. Give thanks for every dark night of the soul you have endured, for it is all of these experiences that have made the cracks in the walls of defense and burnt through the veils of illusion and broken down the constructs of ignorance and revealed to you your inner wisdom, revealed to you your inner tutor and shown you the higher intelligence of the advanced aspects of your divine self that have guided you, guarded you and gifted you.

The "Earth Walk" is one of the most challenging any soul can choose to undertake. It is the most stringent school of learning and is a place where the soul is stripped bare, left with nothing but the potential to gain everything. Your journey into reclaiming the treasures that exist within love and wisdom and empower you as a spirit and as a being of light is now before you. Feel your energy as it moves from the dams, along the streams and the rivers and into the lakes, and feel your energy moving into the great oceans, becoming one with the vast body of divine wisdom and love represented by the seas and oceans of your Planet.

Breathe in deeply as these Beings connect their energy field to yours. These marine creatures hold within their energy signatures a vibration so pure, so pristine, that it is able to penetrate the densest human ego motivated and base, ignorant and dark part of self. Feel these energies penetrating this part of you, and you find now that you become suspended within the water surrounded by these energies, which amplify the presence of light existing within you. These energy pulsations penetrate all the alternate and parallel aspects of yourself, the most dark part of yourself, and the most evil deed you have ever committed in any of your life experiences is now penetrated by this pristine energy of pure unconditional love, light, wisdom and intelligence.

Lord Poseidon enters this field of energy and hovers in front of you and twelve Mermaids accompany him. These beings also begin to emanate sound vibrations that can only be perceived through the body of water, which opens the emotional body inside of you and allows the dark aspects of yourself to be touched and penetrated by this love.

One hundred and eleven Seahorses begin dancing around you. Their dance creates another beautiful energy pattern, which is a system of communication being given to them by your Monad. This is the first time this pattern is being encoded into your energy field and allows your emotional body to move beyond the paradigms of the old world; specifically the Piscean Age, and as this fluid body of yours steps into this safe place of knowing that you are being motivated by this part of you that is one with God/Goddess, a wall of defense falls away.

As this wall drops you are not left fragile and vulnerable, you are left strong, empowered, revitalized, re-energized and reconnected with this powerful part of you -- your Monad. Take a deep breath in exhaling fully. Now notice that deep in the depths of this water a light begins to emerge; a golden light, and the marine creatures around you begin to energetically pull you into the depths of the water, Lord Poseidon and the Mermaids following you and the Seahorses still moving around you.

As you are taken into the depths you move deeper and deeper into the realms of your most intelligent self, into the depths of love that exist beyond the human lower-ego, beyond the human personality and identity, beyond the human nature and into the sacred energy of you; that which exists beyond human form. You now enter a world of exquisite light, a world so filled with the most profound......

I AM MERGING WITH MY GOD SELF NOW

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Wisdom from Psychopaths?

A scientist enters a high-security psychiatric hospital to extract tips and advice

from a crowd without a conscience
ByKevin Dutton

Image: Niklas Asker

In Brief
Life Lessons from the Inside

• Psychopaths have personality traits that, in moderation, can offer significant benefits. These typically terrible individuals may thus have a lot to teach the rest of us.

• The triumvirate of charm, focus and ruthlessness that psychopaths possess can predispose a person for long-term life success.

• A psychopath's proclivity to live in the moment can arm against anxiety and bring joy.

Adapted from The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us about Success, by Kevin Dutton, by arrangement with Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC (US), Doubleday Canada (Canada), Heinemann (UK), Record (Brazil), DTV (Germany), De Bezige Bij (Netherlands), NHK (Japan), Miraebook (Korea) and Lua de Papel (Portugal). Copyright © 2012

Kevin Dutton

“Got anything sharp?” the woman at reception barks, as I deposit the entire contents of my briefcase—laptop, phone, pens—into a clear, shatter-resistant locker in the entrance hall. “Now place the index finger of your right hand here and look up at the camera.”

Once you pass through border control at Broadmoor, the best-known high-security psychiatric hospital in England, you are immediately ushered into a tiny air lock, a glass-walled temporary holding cell between reception and the hospital building proper, while the person you are visiting—in my case, a psychologist assigned to escort me to my destination—gets buzzed by reception and makes his way over to meet you.

It's a nervy, claustrophobic wait. As I sit flicking through magazines, I remind myself why I'm here—an e-mail I had received a couple of weeks after launching the Great British Psychopath Survey, in which I tested people in different professions for psychopathic traits. One of the survey's respondents, a barrister by trade, had written to me. He had posted a score that certainly got my attention.

“I realized from quite early on in my childhood that I saw things differently than other people,” he wrote. “But more often than not, it's helped me in my life. Psychopathy (if that's what you want to call it) is like a medicine for modern times. If you take it in moderation, it can prove extremely beneficial.

It can alleviate a lot of existential ailments that we would otherwise fall victim to because our fragile psychological immune systems just aren't up to the job of protecting us. But if you take too much of it, if you overdose on it, then there can, as is the case with all medicines, be some rather unpleasant side effects.”

The e-mail had got me thinking. Might this eminent criminal defense lawyer have a point? Was psychopathy a “medicine for modern times”? The typical traits of a psychopath are ruthlessness, charm, focus, mental toughness, fearlessness, mindfulness and action. Who wouldn't at certain points in their lives benefit from kicking one or two of these up a notch?

I decided to put the theory to the test. As well as meeting the doctors in Broadmoor, I would talk with some of the patients. I would present them with problems from normal, everyday life, the usual stuff we moan about at happy hour, and see what their take on it was. Up until now it had seemed like a good idea.

“Professor Dutton?” I look up to see a blond guy in his mid-30s peering around the door at me. “Hi, I'm one of the clinical leads at the Paddock Center. Welcome to Broadmoor! Shall I take you over?”

The Paddock Center is an enclosed, highly specialized personality disorder directorate comprising six 12-bedded wards. Around 20 percent of the patients housed there at any one time are what you might call “pure” psychopaths. These are confined to the two Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) wards. The rest present with so-called cluster disorders: clinically significant psychopathic traits, accompanied by traits typically associated with other personality disorders—borderline, paranoid and narcissistic, for example. Or they may have symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations indicative of psychosis.

Suddenly, reality dawns. This is no drop-in center for the mocha-sipping worried well. This is the conscienceless inner sanctum of the Chianti-swilling unworried unwell—the preserve of some of the most sinister neurochemistry in the business. The Yorkshire Ripper is in here. So is the Stockwell Strangler. It's one of the most dangerous buildings on earth.

We emerge from the mazy, medicinal bowels of the hospital to the right of a large, open-air enclosure, topped off with some distinctly uncooperative razor wire. “Er … I am going to be all right, aren't I?” I squeak.

My guide grins. “You'll be fine,” he says. “Actually trouble on the DSPD wards is relatively rare. Psychopathic violence is predominantly instrumental, a direct means to a specific end. Which means, in an environment like this, that it's largely preventable. And in the event that something does kick off, easily contained.

“Besides,” he adds, “it's a bit late to turn back now, isn't it?”

Getting to Know the Locals

We enter one of Broadmoor's ultrasequestered DSPD wards. My first impression is of an extremely well appointed student residence hall. All blond, clean-shaven wood. Voluminous, freshly squeezed light. There's even a pool table, I notice. A man named Danny shoots me a glance from behind his Nintendo Wii. Chelsea are 2–0 up against Manchester United. “We are the evil elite,” Danny says.

“Don't glamorize us. But at the same time, don't go the other way and start dehumanizing us, either.”

Larry, a gray, bewhiskered, roly-poly kind of guy, takes a shine to me. Dressed in a Fair Isle sweater and beige, elasticized slacks, he looks like everyone's favorite uncle. “You know,” he says, as he shakes my hand, “they say I'm one of the most dangerous men in Broadmoor. Can you believe that? But I promise you, I won't kill you. Here, let me show you around.”

Larry escorts me to the far end of the ward, where we stop to take a peek inside his room. It looks like a typical single-occupancy hospital room, though with a few more creature comforts such as a computer, desk space, and a raft of books and papers on the bed. Next is the garden: a sunken, gray-bricked patio affair, about the size of a tennis court, interspersed with benches and conifers. We then drop in on Jamie.

“This guy's from Cambridge University,” announces Larry, “and he's in the middle of writing a book on us.”

Jamie stands up and heads us off at the door. A monster of a man at around 6′2″, with char-grilled stubble and a piercing cobalt stare, he has the brooding, subsatanic presence of the lone, ultraviolent killer. The lumberjack shirt and shaven, wrecking-ball head don't exactly help matters.

“So what's this book about, then?” he growls, in a gangsterish Cockney whisper, arms folded in front of him, left fist jammed under his chin. “Same old bollocks, I suppose? Lock 'em up and throw away the key? You know, you've got no idea how vindictive that can sound at times. And, might I add, downright hurtful. Has he, Larry?”

Larry guffaws theatrically and clasps his hands to his heart in a Shakespearean display of angst. Jamie, meanwhile, dabs at imaginary tears.

“I happen to think that you guys have got something to teach us,” I say. “A certain personality style that the rest of us can learn from. In moderation, of course. That's important. Like the way, just now, you shrugged off what people might think of you. In everyday life, there's a level on which that's actually quite healthy.”

Jamie seems quite amused by the idea that I might be soliciting his advice. “Are you saying that me and Larry here have just got too much of a good thing?”

Back at other end of the ward, Danny has just been named Man of the Match. “I see he hasn't killed you, then,” he says casually. “You going soft in your old age, Larry?”

I laugh. More than a little nervously, I realize. But Larry is deadly serious.

“Hey,” he says insistently. “You don't get it, do you, boy?” He looks at me. “I said I wouldn't kill you. And I didn't, right?”

And it hits me that Larry may not have been bluffing. The curtain comes down on the football game.

Danny zaps it off. He leans back in his chair.

“So a book, eh?” he says.

“Yes,” I say. “I'm interested in the way you guys solve problems.”

Danny eyes me quizzically. “What kind of problems?” he asks.

“Everyday problems,” I say, and I tell him about some friends of mine who were trying to sell their house.

Ruthless People

How to get rid of an unwanted tenant? That was the question for Don and his wife, Fran, whose elderly mother, Flo, had just moved in with them. Flo had lived in her previous house for 47 years, and now that she no longer needed it, Don and Fran had put it on the market. Being in an up-and-coming area of London, the house had drawn quite a bit of interest. But there was also a problem. The tenant. Who wasn't exactly ecstatic at the prospect of hitting the road.

Don and Fran had already lost out on one potential sale because he couldn't, or wouldn't, pack his bags. But how to get him out?

“I'm presuming we're not talking violence here,” inquires Danny. “Right?”

“Right,” I say. “We wouldn't want to end up inside now, would we?”

Danny gives me the finger. But the very fact that he asks such a question at all debunks the myth that violence, for psychopaths, is the only club in the bag.

“How about this, then?” rumbles Jamie. “With the old girl up at her in-laws, chances are the geezer's going to be alone in the house, yeah? So you pose as some bloke from the council, turn up at the door and ask to speak to the owner. He answers and tells you the old dear ain't in. Okay, you say. Not a problem. But have you got a forwarding contact number for her, cuz you need to speak to her urgently?

“By this stage he's getting kind of curious. What's up? he asks, a bit wary, like. Actually, you say, quite a lot. You've just been out front and taken a routine asbestos reading. And guess what? The level's so high it makes Chernobyl look like a health spa. The owner of the property needs to be contacted immediately. A structural survey has to be carried out. And anyone currently living at the address needs to vacate the premises until the council can give the all clear.

“That should do the trick. With a bit of luck, before you can say ‘slow, tortuous death from lung cancer,’ the wanker will be straight out the door.”

Jamie's elegant, if rather unorthodox, solution to Don and Fran's stay-at-home tenant conundrum certainly had me beat. The idea of getting the guy out so sharpish as to render him homeless and on the streets just simply hadn't occurred to me. And yet, as Jamie quite rightly pointed out, there are times in life when it's a case of the “least worst option.” Interestingly, he argues that it's actually the right thing to do.

“Why not turf the bastard out?” he asks. “I mean, think about it. You talk about ‘doing the right thing.’ But what's worse, from a moral perspective? Beating someone up who deserves it? Or beating yourself up who doesn't? If you're a boxer, you do everything in your power to put the other guy away as soon as possible, right? So why are people prepared to tolerate ruthlessness in sport but not in everyday life? What's the difference?”

Winning Smiles

Jamie's solution to Don and Fran's tenant problem carries undertones of ruthlessness. Yet as Danny's initial qualification of the dilemma quite clearly demonstrates—“I'm presuming we're not talking violence here, right?”—such ruthlessness need not be conspicuous. The dagger of hard-nosed self-interest may be concealed, rather deftly, under a benevolent cloak of opaque, obfuscatory charm.

Psychopaths' capacity for charm is, needless to say, well documented. As is their ability to focus and “get the job done.” It's a powerful, and smart, combination.

Leslie, another inmate, has joined us and has a rather nice take on charm: “The ability to roll out a red carpet for those you cannot stand in order to fast-track them, as smoothly and efficiently as possible, in the direction you want them to go.”

With his coiffured blond locks and his impeccable cut-glass accent, he looks, and sounds, like a dab hand. He also has a good take on focus, especially when it comes to getting what you want. Leslie realized from a rather young age that what went on in his head obeyed a different set of operating principles than most.

“When I was a kid at school, I tended to avoid fisticuffs,” he tells me. “You see, I figured out pretty early on that, actually, the reason why people don't get their own way is because they often don't know themselves where that way leads. They get too caught up in the heat of the moment and temporarily go off track.

“Jamie was talking about boxing there a minute ago. Well, I once heard a great quote from one of the top trainers. He said that if you climb into the ring hell-bent on knocking the other chap into the middle of next week, chances are you're going to come unstuck. But if, on the other hand, you concentrate on winning the fight, simply focus on doing your job, well, you might just knock him into the middle of next week anyway.”

The triumvirate of charm, focus and ruthlessness can predispose someone for long-term life success. Take Steve Jobs. Jobs, commented journalist John Arlidge shortly after the Apple chief's death in 2011, achieved his cult leader status “not just by being single-minded, driven, focused …

perfectionistic, uncompromising, and a total ball-breaker.” In addition, Arlidge noted, he had charisma. He would, as technology writer Walt Mossberg revealed, drape a cloth over a product—some pristine creation on a shiny boardroom table—and uncover it with a flourish.

Apple isn't the world's greatest techno innovator. Far from it. It wasn't the first outfit to introduce a personal computer (IBM), nor the first to introduce a smartphone (Nokia). What Jobs brought to the table was style. Sophistication. And timeless, technological charm.

Apple's setbacks along the road to world domination serve as a cogent reminder of the pitfalls and stumbling blocks that await all of us in life. Everyone, at some point or other, leaves someone on the floor, so to speak, and there's a pretty good chance that that someone, today, tomorrow or at some other auspicious juncture down the line, is going to turn out to be you.

Neural Steel

Psychopaths, lest Jamie and the boys have yet to disabuse you, have no problem whatsoever facilitating others' relationships with the floor. But they're also pretty handy when they find themselves on the receiving end. And such inner neural steel, such inestimable indifference in the face of life's misfortunes, is something that all of us, perhaps, could do with a little bit more of.

Studies of psychopaths have even revealed a brain signature for this relative indifference to setbacks.

Anthropologist James Rilling of Emory University and his co-workers scanned the brains of those scoring high in psychopathy after these individuals experienced having their own attempts to cooperate unreciprocated. The scientists discovered that, compared with “nicer,” more equitable participants, the psychopaths exhibited significantly reduced activity in the brain's emotion hub, the amygdala. This diminished activity, suggestive of a muted emotional reaction, could be considered a neural trademark of “turning the other cheek,” a response that can sometimes manifest itself in rather unusual ways.

“When we were kids,” Jamie chimes in, “we'd have a competition. See who could get the most elbows (rejections) on a night out. You know, from girls, like. The bloke who'd got the most by the time the lights came on would get the next night out for free.

“Course, it was in your interest to rack up as many as possible, right? A night on the piss with everything taken care of by your mates? Sorted! But the funny thing was, soon as you started to get a few under your belt, it actually got f— harder. Soon as you realize that it actually means jack, you start getting cocky. You start mouthing off. And some of the birds start to buy it!”

The Feel-Good Emergency

Mental toughness and fearlessness often go hand in hand. Of course, to many of us lesser mortals, fearlessness may seem quite foreign. But Leslie explains the rationale behind this state—and how he maintains it. “The thing about fear, or the way I understand fear, I suppose—because, to be honest, I don't think I've ever really felt it—is that most of the time it's completely unwarranted anyway. What is it they say? Ninety-nine percent of the things people worry about never happen. So what's the point?
“I think the problem is that people spend so much time worrying about what might happen, what might go wrong, that they completely lose sight of the present. They completely overlook the fact that, actually, right now, everything's perfectly fine.

“So the trick, whenever possible, I propose, is to stop your brain from running on ahead of you.”

Leslie's pragmatic endorsement of the principles and practices of what might otherwise be described as mindfulness is typical of the psychopath. A psychopath's rapacious proclivity to live in the moment, to “give tomorrow the slip and take today on a joyride” (as Larry, rather whimsically, puts it), is well documented—and at times can be stupendously beneficial. In fact, anchoring your thoughts unswervingly in the present is a discipline that psychopathy and spiritual enlightenment have in common. Clinical psychologist Mark Williams of the University of Oxford, for example, incorporates this principle of centering in his mindfulness-based cognitive-behavior therapy program for sufferers of anxiety and depression.

“Feeling good is an emergency for me,” Danny had commented as he'd slammed in his fourth goal for Chelsea on the Wii. Living in the moment, for him and many psychopaths, takes on a kind of urgency.

“I like to ride the roller coaster of life, spin the roulette wheel of fortune, to terminal possibility.”
A desire to feel good in the here and now, shrugging off the future, can be taken to an extreme, of course. But it's a goal we could all perhaps do with taking onboard just a little bit more in our lives.

“Settle in okay?” my guide inquires as we jangle back to clinical psychology suburbia. I smile.

This article was originally published with the title Wisdom from Psychopaths?.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)

KEVIN DUTTON is a research psychologist at the Calleva Research Center for Evolution and Human Sciences at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. He is author of Split-Second Persuasion: The Ancient Art and New Science of Changing Minds (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011).

(Further Reading)

The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Reinterpret the So-Called Psychopathic Personality. Hervey M. Cleckley. C. V. Mosby, 1941.

Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths among Us. Robert D. Hare. Guilford Press, 1999.

Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work. Paul Babiak and Robert D. Hare. Regan Books, 2006.

Psychopathic Personality: Bridging the Gap between Scientific Evidence and Public Policy. Jennifer L. Skeem, Devon L. L. Polaschek, Christopher Patrick and Scott O. Lilienfeld in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, Vol. 12, No. 3, pages 95–162; December 2011.

Take part in the Great American Psychopath Survey and learn much more about psychopaths at Dutton's Web site: www.wisdomofpsychopaths.com

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