posted June 23, 2004 03:44 AM         

And hearing the news of this second beheading of another human being, has really affected me.
I can't stop thinking - What in the hell is going on with this world? How can someone do this to another human being. I know - evil things are happening on this planet all the time. But, when's it gonna give? What has to happen before we all WAKE UP?
Is it too late? I know we all have free-will and choices. But it feels like humanity as a whole has made them, and there's no turning back now, we will soon have to face the concequences of our choices. I think things will be getting alot worse before they get any better.

I had something mind blowing happen to me today. I was waiting for the local bus, still thinking these thoughts, and being really bothered by them. The bus arrived and I sat down behind an older gentleman, and as it starts to take off, he says to the bus driver, "You know, people don't realize the weird times we are in today. It's not good. And things will be getting much worse, alot of people can't seem to see this."

Holy $#&*! I thought, He just read my mind!
YES! YES! I agree. Tell me what you know!
I wanted to scream out - but I did'nt. It was like my mouth was glued shut.
The bus driver seemed confused, and did'nt reply. And since I seemed to have lost my voice at the moment, what would have probably been an incredible conversation ended there.

Maybe I've read to many doomsday prophesies or something. I don't know why this has been bothering me more often lately. I've got to do some meditating.

It just kills me inside when I think of all this madness going on in the world. Why can't we love one another? Will this ever happen? Will people ever wake up and realize we are really all ONE? That there is only GOD (or whatever you prefer to call him), and he is within each of us. And when you do something to hurt yourself or another you are hurting us all? Why is this so hard to grasp?

This materialistic and ego centered mindset among a large portion of the population has got to go.
I am deeply saddend by recent world events. It really cuts me deep down to the core. I know alot of you here feel it too.

I am not directing this to anyone here, so please don't take it personally. I think alot of you might relate to the things I'm saying.

I do, also see the beautiful things that happen constantly amidst my life and the world around me everyday. I pray for the good of everyone on this planet, and our future as a human race. Ultimately I have faith that things will be even better than we could imagine. Although we may have to go through rough times before we get there.

I look forward to hearing from the many intelligent and insightful people in this forum.

Tell me we're going to be okay.
Guess I'm just having one of those days.
I've got to meditate and try to get centered again. (it's a never ending process )

trying to "be the change I wish to see in the world"
26

posted June 23, 2004 05:57 AM         

I saw the beheading's on the news last night (beheadings have always bothered me so made it worse) and it really bothers me. This morning, weeping pictures of Kim Sun-il's parent's were shown. THE GRIEF. I mean, are we going into a dark 'medieval phase' and going full circle?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3831553.stm

Situations such as 'need to believe's' really bother me since I want to help so much. I stayed at work for ages last night pondering on that and felt helpless since I could do was update a posting in Free-For-All.

I believe everything is ONE. Recently - more so than before.. I've tried to extend my love to people I don't know - see them as souls that are infinitly part of one another. Show compassion when I can because I want to. I thank the stars since the iron in our blood came from them! The greenery since I'm grateful of the fresh air, and rain! I am tiring of some shallowness I see day to day, frustrating how quick we are to judge others - I say frustrating because I am guilty of it, but am aware of it too. Maybe there is another reason why I came to live in central London, since many issues seem to be amplified here - sometimes too much for a sensitive soul!

This week has been strange, since it's developed a 'calling' for me at last. Maybe my horoscope in 'Summer Solistice' was right when it said the Universe would show me what it is I should be doing. Recently, I've been placed in more situations where I'm shown humanity's need. Newspapers I've found like 'Positive News' (Global Unity forum) have parts which show me how I can help. Maybe it is time for me to start to develop my real Labour of Love. As many of you have said - we can cure any disease, but with much hard work, so 26, I know we can do it with enough LOVE.. just need more closet hippies, eh?!

Thanks for posting 26, you passion really came through

posted June 23, 2004 09:15 AM         

You've really gotta way with words honey, just read 'Health and Healing'

posted June 23, 2004 09:32 AM         

Our lifetime is witness to brutal beheadings, but I assure you, it is nothing unique to our history. Was it so long ago that we were witness to genocide in gas chambers?

In the Yin and Yang of Life all things will balance. As there is beauty, so there is ugliness.

Your heart is gentle, 26T, nurture it. Be aware that all that is, was created by The Loving Creator of All That Is, and as such, is worthy of its existence.

I would not encourage the darker side of life. I avoid it. But I know it is here, and I also know that ordinary people are capable of great ugliness in extraordinary circumstances.

Peace...I leave you with these powerful thoughts from over a century ago:

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way."
-- Charles Dickens (1812-70)

posted June 23, 2004 09:59 AM         

i had dinner with my 83-year-old grandmother last week, and after hearing my grandfather and i talk politics all evening she told me not to worry too much, "this too shall pass." i guess they've been through four wars now, so their perspective is a bit broader than mine.

if vibrations are quickening, as we've talked about elsewhere on this board, then perhaps the dark is being "outed" at a higher rate - so we can see it and fill those voids and hate-filled places with love and compassion. you know how a whole city can have a bad day? it's so easy to get caught up in it and get angry, too, but trying to counterbalance the short fuses also works wonders.

we're all so superconnected now - we don't just hear second-hand or read about other people's pains and plights - we SEE them and HEAR them and it goes right to our core. it makes it hard to stay positive and centered. for me that's one reason i come back to LL again and again - to gain strength from the beautiful souls who shine through these black squiggles.

i guess, taurus, i think we've always been headed for destruction - it's part of our collective and individual lessons to be learned here on earth. but it's not for everyone, and if not for the dark we wouldn't know the light. take heart and just do what you can do in your own little peice of the world - no matter how big or small it may be. and in relation to our common waitressing traumas, here's an article i read awhile ago that i'm still mulling over: http://www.ofspirit.com/johnizzo1.htm

xb

posted June 23, 2004 12:43 PM         

Ordo Ab Chao

posted June 23, 2004 12:45 PM         

Indeed the souls here have done much for me, in terms of support, love and knowledge!

Trillian and Xelena, I hear ya! Not one thing is untrue, as per.

Gotta make tracks homeward now, may log in later to the chatroom - lots to chat about on this thread!

Bye for now

posted June 23, 2004 12:53 PM         

I agree with you on embracing negative actions - exactly what I was trying to explain to someone outside of LL actually - to conquer the darkness, you have to understand it, and the solutions stem from forgiveness and of course love

Lovely to meet you, must log off now but catch you later. BTW what does "Ordo Ab Chao" mean?

posted June 23, 2004 03:06 PM         

Special, you are such a positve person, a really old soul. Ha! Ha!" I have been called a "hippie", "tree-hugger" many times. That's okay, I am, I guess. My friends are those people you see with dreadlocks and tie-dies. And I LOVE Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. I really love reading your posts and think you have much love that you should share with the world.

pixel, I knew you would be able to relate. The darkness can be overwhelming, we must keep our faith.

and Trillian, you're so wise. Deep down I know we will be alright, thanks for the reassurance. So true, about the balance of opposites. Where there is light, there has to be dark. Do you think this balance is always even? Or does it fluctuate from one side to the other? Thank you for that poweful quote.

XelenaBen, beatiful post, I also believe our vibrations are quickening. Very true that we are all so super connected now. Everyday I'm finding more and more just how true this really is. Through "coincedences", synchronicities, psychic experiences.

Also thank you for that wonderful link. I take it you read my rant in the Astrology forum (how we get angry/calm down).
I really enjoyed that story. I am trying my best everyday to "fall in love with my work". I've come to notice when I get the types of people that don't look me in the eye or bark out orders at me, I send them loving energy, and continue to be nice to them (or try to, most of the time) They in turn, sometimes seem more annoyed, but eventually they always "crack".
And start to soften up, and I can see something has changed in thier eyes. Like they realize there's no reason to be treating me the way they are, and they feel bad, and begin to be nice. I feel I have made differences in many of the people I've served lives. And they have also taught me many lessons about myself, and on being compassionate, patient, not taking things personally. I don't know what is going on in their lives, so I try to be as nice to people as possible. Treat them how I would like to be treated. I really enjoyed that article. Thank you.

Yes, that's all we can do seeshells - send out positive energy. And we know whatever we send out always comes back. And what we are sending "out" we are also sending "in".

Great thoughts Maven, I agree.
I beleive that the more you try to deny something - thoughts, feelings. The more power you are giving it - the more it stares you right in the face. We must immerse ourselves in the negative and positive that overwhem us. Not try to push them away, because they will come back until the lesson is learned. There is always much to be learned from these feelings.

Thank you all, you don't know how much you all help me, time and again.

"Come gather round people wherever you roam
And admit that the waters around you have grown
And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth saving
Then you'd better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone
For the times, they are a changing"
--Bob Dylan

26

posted June 23, 2004 03:19 PM         

I know they are no mistakes made..but what if thoughts invade your every action and you cannot escape them?

If anyone has an answer other than "have faith" or "it will all work out in the end" I would much appreciate it.

You try so hard not to be negative..but some days folks..you can't escape it and I suppose there is a lesson in that too.Many Blessings.....maven

posted June 24, 2004 03:55 AM         

Yang, I don't know what has to happen before these beheadings stop. So disheartening.

posted June 24, 2004 05:07 AM         

Complacency, in a word.

Unconsciously we need a crisis, a catastrophe, a disaster. Then we will "wake up".

posted June 24, 2004 09:07 AM         

hey there, maven. i'm glad you brought up the shadow. there's been a lot of work done, but we still have such a strong resistance to darkness - perhaps rightly so. i think you expressed the dichotomy of acknowledging the dark without letting it become the self in a lovely way.
could you clarify your question for me? (If anyone has an answer other than "have faith" or "it will all work out in the end" I would much appreciate it.) - do you mean a personal explanation for our beliefs in why there is so much pain and suffering in the world - man-made or not - and where it's taking us? just want to make sure i'm hearing you.

namaste,

posted June 24, 2004 09:31 AM         

We are beautiful and frail on this earth. Intellectually, we understand The Plan, that we will live, experience great joys and great pains, and that we will die, as will those around us. But our hearts are gentle and needy...we need love and rainbows and gentle mist over the clover as the sun rises. We need to believe that love transcends all...and when All seems to have been ripped away from us...it hurts.

We are compromised because although we know what this earth is made of, we are wary of turning our hearts to stone. We want to hug those we love and return balance and joy to their lives when they hurt...rather than slap them and tell them to wake up. We know that everything will be, nay, is alright...but damn if it doesn't take all we have to not wake screaming or crying some days.

There are three rules in life. The first is to Be Kind. The second is to Be Kind. The third is to Be Kind.

pixie...you know what a wondrous creature you are. You and your daughter will butt heads, and still love in the end. Some of the people I love the most, are those with whom I butt heads.

posted June 24, 2004 11:37 AM         

It is all as it is ment to be yet it still hurts so bad, frightens us, and creates a search for the underlying cause.

We must bear the pain, trust the fright to the angels and never stop seeking the divine love and understanding of the Uni-verse.

We grow one soul at a time to create a uni-versal fullness of love and divinity. Each one of us is on that path and it WILL create a better world Have faith in s-Elf.

Anyhow, thats the premise I live my personal life by.

And Pix, headbutting? I have a Scorp son with lots of Aries placements if that tells you anything

Love and Lite to our wonderful Knowflakes.

juniperb

posted June 24, 2004 12:43 PM         

26t ~ People call me a 'closet hippie'! You're passion's started a great thread here

pixie ~ How are you feeling now sweets? I'm sorry I wasn't in the thread earlier to comfort you, but the others 26, XB, trillian, juni, have done a grand job Y'know - I sensed some teensy thing the night we were on chat, and then confirmed it in your reply to Solstice. I hope you're more at ease now honey

paras ~ I guess that's one way of looking at it, and I do know what you're saying - but the global community's been through several disasters we're still in chaos in places. I don't think we can move on from any crisis if we're negative

yang ~ Hopefully not too much longer - It's barbaric

maven ~ Thanks for the confirmation of Order from Chaos - I've briefly looked into the mysteries of Rennes-le-Château and the Prieure du Sion and will read it more thoroughly when I have time. For the others who haven't read into this, it's interesting;
http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/metis.htm

Love to you all

posted June 24, 2004 01:33 PM         

And yes the Rennes is quite fascinating.Am planning a trip eventually to visit her and the Rosslyn soon enough.

Blessings.....maven