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Experience The Creator's Love On Valentine's Day - & Everyday ! By Steven Hutchinson

We rejoice that you are celebrating love today, in whatever way you are doing so.Take a deep breath now and bring your attention within your heart. Ask your Divine Self now to awaken and expand the Creator's Love within your heart... and within your mind. Let the Creator's Love flow throughout your Whole Being !

Continue breathing deeply and affirm: "I Am consciously Present with my Divine Self and accept that every moment is a sacred moment for receiving the Blessings  of the Creator, and I Am willing, able, and accepting such blessings as I now anchor and embody them for my self, and to share and extend to all."

"All of the Blessings of the Creator's Love & Light now flow through me, and I now breathe, dance, and live in the sacred rhythm and the Divine Flow of the Creator's Love & Light"

I extend to All of You Divinely Beautiful people the Infinite Blessings of the Creator's Love & Light that are Divinely Perfect for Each of You !

Video - "3 Keys For Manifesting Love By Melanie Beckler"

https://youtu.be/0pM5MXpUBDQ

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It discusses the mechanics of the subconscious mind, dreams etc.

https://drlindagadbois.com/the-subconscious-mind-as-the-vehicle-for-the-soul-and-the-secret-to-the-manifestation-of-cosmic-will/

International Tele-session  February 11, 2023  

9AM (US/Las Vegas/Pacific Time  $35 100 mins

Along with all of the prophesies, predictions, daily news chaos, political drama and the many illusions of the global pandemic being revealed, you are probably wondering how and when the ‘Great War’ between dark and light on Earth will end!  The Ashtar Command and the Great Federation have a multi-level calculation technique that is able to forecast the most probable outcomes of situations, no matter how simple or complex it may be.  And even though the time-lines intersecting Earth are currently unstable and unpredictable, they are able to put forward a most interesting conclusion to our situation.  Come join us for this fascinating look at what is to come, along with lots of information that will help you relax, prepare for and understand the events that will be unfolding. Lots of great links will be provided as well…not to be missed!

24-Hour Replay Session Available!   

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By Mwendwa Mbaabu

What are your thoughts about your ascension process? Have you reached Layer 4 as mentioned here https://www.nonsymbolic.org/the-life-layer-existence-itself/

If so, (or if not yet) what are your experiences?

Layer 4 is also the singularity level that Aaron Abke discusses here. My perspective is the singlarity level is the abandonment/surrender of the soul/atman ("the witness/silent observer") as the guide in favor of the existence of All That Is. The end of individuality. The end of the Self.

Statement of Beliefs

We, at the New Universal Church believe that we are all seeking and discovering our own personal truth in our own unique way.

We value all the viewpoints of our ministers and congregation, however varied and controversial they might be.

We believe in religious freedom, as long as it does not infringe on the rights of others and is within the law.

We welcome any who seek truth, wisdom, and joyful acceptance.

We use teaching material from a variety of sources as wisdom is found in many places and people hear it in different ways.

We recognize that every individual has direct access to the creative source and the ultimate reality, which is the Universe.

We celebrate the Universe as the totality of all being, past, present and future.

We celebrate life and rejoice in the knowledge that all matter, energy, and life are an interconnected oneness.

Our main purpose is to help any and all who ask to find their spiritual truth, regardless of race, gender, background, lifestyle or other church affiliations.

We strive to live in harmony with nature and acknowledge the sanctity of all life.

We believe in encouraging individual responsibility for spiritual growth.

New Universal Church; a nature based church with focus on healing and self empowerment.

We hope that you will visit our website to learn more about the NUC.                                    

http://newuniversalchurch.org

Hello my beloved Lightworkers,

Here are some of the plans I have for 2023. 

Let's start first with the background.

During 2006-2012 I had an awakening experience, published 45 Free Reiki Attunements, 36 Free Reiki Attunements, 28 Powerful Attunements, Eternal Spirit, The Ascension Rays, Alpha Omega Healing Session and the Earth Gate. I also launched the City of Shamballa Social Network in 2009. In 2012, the City of Shamballa trademark was approved to keep the website online and reach the world with Light. 

Between my books, videos, and the City of Shamballa I'll estimate that I impacted 100,000 lives for the better, helping humanity find the Divine within and helping to spread the Light. I even made it into the book Llewellyn's Complete Book of Reiki. I'm eternally grateful to my masters Steve Murray, Stephen Lovering, Ole Gabrielsen, Kathy McConnell, Tami MacDowell, and many others for teaching me Reiki. I'm also eternally grateful to AMBA for her attunements, and many many others who have contributed attunements over the years. I'm eternally grateful to Esta Lior, Lu, George, Marius, Blane Hoffman, Sebastian Bota, Dr. Sohini Shukla, Tercy Lonan, Steven Hutchinson, and Mary Keating for all of the positive support and words of encouragement throughout the years. I'm also grateful to Alain, who I miss, for spreading the Light. Thank you to all of the translators of my books in the past. I'm indebted to all of you. 

In 2013 I entered the crucifixion phase, which I believe was designed to burn off any arrears of karma. If you read about my past life, I stole money from the king to give to my family. My karma was to lose money and lose my family. 

During 2013-2022 I went through a series of hardships which included divorce, loss of family members, and financial struggles. In 2022 I pulled most of my books from distribution at the request of a third party, which devastated me from losing 10 years of my work, but helped me further understand the law of free will. I discuss the struggles in my book The Path of Oneness. I know I am being prepared for a mission in the Higher Realms, and the rest of my time on Earth is the Path of Earth Service prior to moving into the Path of Sirius as a Lightbody. I'm confident I will reconnect with other masters such as Dr. Joshua David Stone and Christoffer. 

Despite the struggles trying to dim my Light, I refuse to give up and continue to follow my dreams of spreading Light around the world. If you look at my Gene Keys profile, there are 4 Gene Keys (Gene Keys 16, 9, 37, and 40) that center around God's Grace (Gene Key 22). My purpose in life has to been to align my life with my Higher Self's mission in order to receive God's Grace (and help others receive God's Grace), and express the traits of versatility (be an author, video producer, and website manager etc.), perseverance (never give up), tenderness/compassion toward all beings, and resolve (have faith- never give up- use my energy wisely for a purpose). 

So you may ask, what is new? What do I have planned?

As you are aware, the City of Shamballa has been upgraded to a new mobile friendly platform. In 2022 I published approximately 20 ebooks with various attunements in them. The links in the new books match the new website's links. Hoping this brings more people to the platform.

I've been locked out of my Facebook account since November 2022 (a test of my resolve and perseverance) but I'm sure I will get access again in 2023. I plan to make photos with wisdom and reference the City of Shamballa bringing people to the website and then sharing them everywhere. 

I estimate by January 2023 that the City of Shamballa trademark will be renewed. 

The next phase is to re-publish the books 28 Powerful Reiki Attunements and Eternal Spirit without the third party's content. Also planned are videos such as Medicine Buddha's Death Dying Purification Ritual, an Abundance Prayer, Djwhal Khul's meditations, the new COS website overview video, a Live Essene Healing Session, and more wisdom videos. I continue to be a volunteer healer at the Distant Healing Network. 

I'll continue to contribute to lifting others up on Earth as long as I can, and follow the manifestation of my Higher Self on Earth. It is with great hope that I have impacted the world for the better.

I'm eternally grateful to all of you and may God bless all of you on your journeys.

All my love,

Chris

P.S. This song summarizes my life.

When it comes to 'what is good or bad for our well being', what comes to the minds is just water, sunlight, oxygen, food, marijuana, vaccines, gamma rays etc. We are so engrossed with what someone (especially government) can deny it or shove it to us that we take for granted things that are always available in the right amount! One of those things is gravity! Why bother to think about gravity if it is always there? Indead, our concerns for immediate survival often makes our minds fool us that we understand what we don't! It simply tells us 'things must move downwards when nothing is beneath them' and we think we understand gravity! We now wonder if the earth is supported by a giant tortoise!

So we know that we need these things in just the righ amount: sugar, salt, water, oxygen, sunlight, radiations etc. But for the thing that supports us daily, gravity, we had to learn that we need it in the right amount only after going to moon!

NASA's view of gravity follows closely the unwise physicist's approach. They zeroin on what it DOES and never what it IS! apparently gravity is a non entity that does something without being there! But we can understand the universe more rationally if we think of a real entity that forces you downards right in your vicinity. Preferably, a 'river' that flows through your body on its way 'downwards'. This 'river' has spiritual benefits. Perhaps it is even the chi, prana or the 'kundalini'. This thing is everywhere, or at least 'in many places'. This is the missing 'dark matter' in the mainstream physicist's 'curved space' nonsense!!

So in space, we don't say 'gravity is not there'. We rather say 'gravity is not pulling'. The earth does not pull you directly. There is an intervening medium that connects you to the earth.

If someone spends too much time in the orbit, viewing the earth at a distance, he begins to develope mental problems and other strange diseases!! Scientist donnot fully understand such because they don't consider the spiritual aspect of human being! Disconnectedness from earth is generally not good for health,

Please join my friend Vishnu in his healing masterclass.

It's available at https://www.thenewearth.app/healingmasterclass

God bless all of you.

Namaste,

Chris

Hello everybody this is the Archangel Michael. We're going to talk today about energy management and why it matters and specifically why practicing energy hygiene is essential to maintaining a sense of peace and happiness.

So, let's talk about energy and how it works. Energy is basically the power of your physical body, that's what it is. It's related to your physical body and it matters greatly because if your energy is impacted or drained or lost you can feel very tired, you can feel very unhappy.

So basically, what we doing when we practice energy hygiene is we are maintaining a certain boundary around ourselves and we are preventing certain energies from interacting with us or affecting us or even being infiltrated into our body, because that can happen sometimes.

In order to understand energy hygiene there are three things we must discuss: Boundaries, satisfaction and compassion, because all three things are connected. So first, let's talk about boundaries.

Boundaries are not just physical boundaries, as in keeping someone at the physical distance from you, there also mental boundaries and emotional boundaries. Keeping people away who harm you that's essential, but there is one more type of boundary we must discuss and that is protection.  This is because protection is essential, if you are protected then you will not be harmed or impacted in the same way as someone who's not.

So basically, putting up boundaries is the way we protect ourselves and the way we keep our energy strong and vibrant. This is because if you allow someone to cross your boundaries, then they will impact your energy field, absolutely.

That's the first point. Secondly let’s talk about satisfaction. What I mean by this is: If you're not satisfied with yourself, then life generally doesn't bring you the things you need. Satisfaction is like the icing on the cake, you need that icing because when you're not satisfied, then life in general, it can impact you more than other times.

So, by satisfaction, I'm saying do things that make you happy, do things that bring you benefit and make yourself feel good. When you feel good, your protection is stronger, it's absolutely true.

Now the last thing I wanted to talk about is compassion. Compassion is actually more important than people think, compassion is like another form of protection because when you have compassion, you just naturally, effortlessly respond in a protective way. When you have compassion, you don't allow others to tread their dirty footprints on your aura, absolutely it's true.

So, I would recommend for anyone who doesn't know how to protect themselves, first of all meditate on compassion. Generate as much compassion as you can for yourself and others. Secondly, begin a practice, a daily practice of grounding into Gaia. Ground to Mother Earth and her energy will support you, you'll feel stronger. Thirdly I would recommend looking up some kind of psychic protection, because psychic protection is like the last layer of defence. If we have all three things, you'll be protected completely.

Bio

Stephan Davies is a channel of angels and divine beings. He runs the website The Divine Connection and regularly channels for clients from all over the world. Stephan also runs a blog that covers all matters spiritual. His passion is bringing through messages from above that uplift, bless, and empower others.

In 2009, I learned about the Unified Chakra Meditation. It is a powerful tool to accelerate your Lightbody integration and ascension or awakening process.

The Unified Chakra meditation below is adapted from the book What Is Lightbody? by Tashira Tashi-Ren.

This technique is based upon the original Unified Chakra from Angelic Outreach. This technique is brought to us by Archangel Ariel and was channelled by Tashira Tashi-Ren.

It supports your mutation at every level. The Unified Chakra creates a bubble of Light that allows you to handle vaster and vaster frequencies, and acts like a force field. It helps screen out other people's pictures of reality. Most of people walk around in other peoples' energies. The main thing is to get in your body and figure out what your energy is as distinct from other people's energies.

It is suggested you do the Unified Chakra meditation every time that you notice your attention is in the past or the future. At first that will seem like an incredible task, but if you do it with discipline, you will find that within two weeks you will unify instantly. By the end of four to five weeks, you won't step out of the merge. Unlike a lot of meditations, you do not leave your body; you stay conscious. It is an altered state, but it is one that you can live in.

Let's begin the Meditation.

I breathe in Light

Through the center of my heart,

Opening my heart

Into a beautiful ball of Light,

Allowing myself to expand.

I breathe in Light

Through the center of my heart,

Allowing the Light to expand,

Encompassing my throat chakra

And my solar plexus chakra

In one unified field of Light

Within, through, and around my body.

I breathe in Light

Through the center of my heart,

Allowing the Light to expand,

Encompassing my brow chakra

And my navel chakra

In one unified field of Light

Within, through, and around my body

I breathe in Light

Through the center of my heart,

Allowing the Light to expand

Encompassing my crown chakra

And my base chakra

In one unified field of Light

Within, through, and around my body.

I breathe in Light

Through the center of my heart,

Allowing the Light to expand

Encompassing my Alpha chakra

(Eight inches above my head)

And my Omega chakra

(Eight inches below my spine)

In one unified field of Light

Within, through, and around my body.

I AM a unity of Light.

I breathe in Light

Through the center of my heart,

Allowing the Light to expand

Encompassing my eighth chakra

(above my head)

And my upper thighs

In one unified field of Light

Within, through, and around my body.

I allow my emotional body to merge

With my physical body.

I AM a unity of Light.

I breathe in Light

Through the center of my heart,

Allowing the Light to expand

Encompassing my ninth chakra

(Above my head)

And my lower thighs

In one unified field of Light

Within, through, and around my body.

I allow my mental body to merge

With my physical body.

I AM a unity of Light.

I breathe in Light

Through the center of my heart,

Allowing the Light to expand

Encompassing my tenth chakra

(Above my head)

And to my knees

In one unified field of Light

Within, through and around my body.

I allow my spiritual body to merge

With my physical body,

Creating the unified field. I AM a unity of Light.

I breathe in Light

Through the center of my heart,

Allowing the Light to expand

Encompassing my eleventh chakra

(Above my head)

And my upper calves

In one unified field of Light

Within, through and around my body

I allow the Oversoul to merge

With the unified field. I AM a unity of Light.

I breathe in Light

Through the center of my heart,

Allowing the Light to expand

Encompassing my twelfth chakra

(Above my head)

And my lower calves

In one unified field of Light

Within, through and around my body

I allow the Christ Oversoul to merge

With the unified field. I AM a unity of Light.

I breathe in Light

Through the center of my heart,

Allowing the Light to expand

Encompassing my thirteenth chakra

(Above my head)

And my feet

In one unified field of Light

Within, through and around my body

I allow the I AM Oversoul to merge

With the unified field. I AM a unity of Light.

I breathe in Light

Through the center of my heart,

Allowing the Light to expand

Encompassing my fourteenth chakra

(Above my head)

And to below my feet

In one unified field of Light

Within, through and around my body

I allow the Source's Presence to move

Throughout the unified field.

I AM a unity of Light.

I breathe in Light

Through the center of my heart,

I ask that the highest level of my Spirit

Radiate forth from the center of my heart,

Filling this unified field completely.

I radiate forth throughout this day.

I AM a unity of Spirit.

I AM a unity of Light.

And So it is. Amen.

The Unified Chakra Meditation

• is designed to train your chakras to stay open and connected multi-dimensionally

• The Unified Chakra creates a bubble of Light that allows you to handle vaster and vaster frequencies, and acts like a force field. When all your energies are aligned and connected, it is much easier to live Heaven on Earth.

• It also helps to screen out other people’s pictures of reality.

• By practicing the Unified Chakra regularly, you will train the different parts of yourself to merge, making you more present and able to follow your Spirit with each breath and each step. It takes 2 to 3 weeks of regular practice for this to start occurring.

• It is best done in a sitting position with the seven body chakras aligned vertically.

• It is suggested you do it daily.

• Unlike most meditations, you do not leave your body; you stay conscious. It is an altered state but it is one that you can live in.

• It is sometimes helpful when first using it, to record it, and play it, when learning until you get more familiar with the process.

• It is also important to feel what is going on in your fields. This is not a visualization technique. As you progress in the meditation, you will feel your consciousness expanding as the Higher parts of you connect into your personality.

Please comment below about your own experiences with this Meditation. I would love to hear from you.

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for all that you do. I appreciate all of you. I love you all. God bless you all.  In Loving Service. Namaste.

Online sources for the Unified Chakra Meditation:

https://aprilkirkwood.com/united-chakra-meditation

https://cleaningwings.com/unified-chakra-meditation.html

Buy Tashira Tachi-Ren's book What is Lightbody? at https://www.amazon.com/What-Lightbody-Tashira-Tachi-ren/dp/096272095X/

This Huna Prayer is from the Original Huna Prayer by Djwhal Khul through guidance from Archangel Michael to relate to today’s high vibrational frequencies. Rewritten by Carolyn Ann Oriley.

My Creator, I AM asking and humbly praying with all my heart, soul, mind and intent for divine abundance manifesting through my personal fortune and success. I AM manifesting, receiving, accepting and allowing my divine abundance to completely permeate all parts of my beingness on all levels, dimensions and aspects.

I AM grateful to you, my Father, for this blessed prosperity.
I AM open and receiving my financial wealth, success, bounty, abundance, blessings, gifts and grace. I AM fulfilling my service commitments.

I AM accepting my diving heritage right now and thank you, MY Creator, for the timely answer to this prayer. I AM so very grateful for the divine bounty. MY Father, Your Will is done through me.
And so it is. Amen. (Repeat three times)

My beloved subconscious mind, I AM hereby lovingly decreeing, commanding and acknowledging that this prayer be heard directly by my beloved Father, and it is sent along with all the prana and vital force asking, manifesting and demonstrating my intent in this prayer.
Amen. And so it is.

Interactive Exercise

Breathe in the prayer to the Mother/Father God through the Crown Chakras, Along with the arm Mudras (lift arms in a cup shape above your head visualize the abundance of blessings, and grace showering down upon you, all around you, and permeating and penetrating all parts of you beingness all levels dimensions and aspect that you are). Wait ten to fifteen seconds then continue …

My Lord, the Rain of Blessings is falling on me and soaking this beingness on all levels, dimensions and aspects with Divine bounty, gifts, grace, wisdom, truth, love and light.
I am thankful and I AM sending you my gratitude.

And so it is.

The direction from Archangel Michael is to work with this revised prayer for 30 days.

Source: https://numerologistkathleen.com/2016/02/28/prayer-for-manifestation-of-abundance

Greetings everybody this is Jesus. I want to say this - anything is possible if you truly love yourself and when you love yourself, others love you too. That's the very first thing I want to say and the second thing I want to say is this - in terms of meditation, compassion is essential. Compassion is necessary, that's the overarching theme of my discussion that I'm going to give today.

So, let's talk about meditation. First of all, what is meditation and why does it help? Meditation is basically changing your mind and changing the way you interact with your thoughts. Meditation is something that is not well understood by many people because they think it's trying to quieten the mind or trying to still the mind. That can happen, stillness and peace can be gained through meditation, but meditation should not just be about stilling the mind.

True meditation is about seeing the mind clearly and not reacting to thoughts, just letting the thoughts be natural. When you let the thoughts just exist, appear, transiently move through your mind and then dissipate, that's meditation. It's just watching, it's just allowing, that's the secret to true meditation.

If you are a meditating, if you sit down and follow your breath, then get into a state of relaxation and your mind feels open and spacious, that's beautiful, that's good. That's how you should feel when you meditate, but there are times when your mind may feel tight and closed and reactive or upset by certain things. That’s what can happen, but that's not a problem because all these experiences are naturally part of the meditation consciousness, or the meditation theme that we're trying to integrate with our minds.

So, the question is this - how do you integrate the sense of love or the sense of compassion and a sense of wanting to do good things, how do you integrate that with meditating? I'll give you 2 simple tips today - the 1st is this: Don't worry about what you do during a meditation, find it as peaceful as you can be, find it is compassionate as you can be and then relax and then don't do anything more just be with that, that's the first thing.

And now the question arises how do you become a loving person, how do you become someone who cares for others? That’s simple, you can practice a different meditation which is called opening the heart. A heart opening meditation is actually something that will complement your sitting meditation very well. If you do both together you will ascend or you will transform yourself very, very quickly and you'll become a completely different person, it's true.

I'm not going to go into the exact details of how to open the heart, there are many meditations you can look up, but basically, I would say this - if you're doing true, important, powerful, spiritual transformation, then you should be focusing on love and compassion and stillness meditation and mindfulness meditation all at the same time. These things should be like all the fingers of your hand: one finger is love, one finger is compassion, one finger is stillness, one finger is mindfulness and one finger is bringing presence to everything you do. These are the five fingers of true spiritual transformation.

Bio

Stephan Davies is a channel of angels and divine beings. He runs the website The Divine Connection and regularly channels for clients from all over the world. Stephan also runs a blog that covers all matters spiritual. His passion is bringing through messages from above that uplift, bless, and empower others.

By Ruth King

At this momentous time in our nation’s history, “equanimity” probably does not describe what most of us are striving for right now. On the contrary, many of us are striving for justice, for healing—some of us, for survival. Is the peace and balance of meditation taking us in the wrong direction?

Not in my understanding. In my experience, equanimity has great power—especially at times like these.

When I reflect on the power of equanimity, I think of those times when we see beyond judgment and self-interest and realize that we are choosing instead of reacting; those times when the pain of injustice is held in our hearts, while the mind is still, steady, and clear; those times when we make small choices that show great care and influence social balance. This is the power of equanimity.

We might begin to understand this power using nature as a metaphor. For example, equanimity can feel internally like a great mountain, with the mind solid and stable, undisturbed by the changing seasons. Or it can be like the ocean, with the mind vast, deep, and immeasurable, undisturbed by whatever swims, floats, or is housed in its waters. Equanimity can be like a strong fire — roaring, engulfing, and transmuting, undisturbed by whatever is thrown into it. Or like immense space — open, allowing, and receiving, undisturbed by the objects that arise and pass away.

As we walk through the coming week, we may want to call on the strength of these elemental inner resources for balance and equipoise. For example, there are times when we will need to stand our ground, strong like a mountain, and observe what emerges, or we may need to add a spark of fiery truth to a situation. Other times, we may need to open and allow more space around the tightness of our worries, or let go and be held by an ocean of love.

In all of these forms, equanimity is awareness so spacious that whatever arises in our mind and heart, whether agreeable or disagreeable, is small and incidental compared to awareness itself. In other words, when we are equanimous, nothing is left out of heart’s view.

Equanimity enables us to know the energetic movements of mind without reactivity. It is an experience of grounded presence in the midst of extremes, when the mind is steady and responsive, and when we can say to ourselves, “This moment is like this, and it doesn’t have to be different right now. I can allow what is here and offer what is needed.”

Imagine the power of this inner resource as we engage with the messy world in which we live.

And yet, equanimity is not something we can force. It’s an experience we come to recognize and nurture through mindfulness practice. Fortunately, even outside of formal meditation, you can orient the heart toward that experience simply by bringing to mind intentions of equanimity. I will give several examples here. My invitation to you is to find two or three that resonate with you, and try them at different times in your day. As you say them to yourself, take time to relax and linger in the goodwill motivating these phrases:

May I bear witness to things just as they are.

May I remain peaceful and let go of fixation.

May I offer care without hesitation, knowing I may be met with gratitude, anger, or resistance.

May I offer care, knowing I don’t control the course of life, suffering, or death.

May I find the inner resources to genuinely contribute where needed.

May I see my limits with compassion, just as I see the limits of others.

I care about the pain of others, yet I cannot control it.

I care for all beings, but my way is not the only way. All beings have their own journey, and I have mine.

May I be free from preference and prejudice.

May I see the world with quiet eyes.

Ruth King is the Founder of Mindful of Race Institute, LLC, and is a celebrated author, educator, and meditation teacher. Formally an organizational development consultant to Intel and Levi Strauss. King now teaches the Mindful of Race Training Program to leaders, teams, and organizations, weaving mindfulness-based principles with an exploration of our racial conditioning, its impact, and our potential. She has an M.A. in Clinical Psychology and is the author of Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism From The Inside Out.

Source: https://www.tenpercent.com/meditationweeklyblog/the-power-of-equanimity

I want to express my gratitude to all of the members of the City of Shamballa. Thank you for the past 13 years of contributions. Eternal gratitude. You are all amazing and I love you all.

Love and Light, 

Chris