Sunday, August 31, 2008

The Democratic National Convention: All the Right Things for All the Right Reasons

Hello Everyone,

Wow, talk about an inspirational week! I was simply captivated by the Democratic National Convention. Not by the words, but by the energy. Hopeful, positive, uplifting and determined.
Yeah! Doing and saying all the right things; for all the right reasons - it feels Good.

By the way, I was able to watch it on my laptop! After downloading a few things, I watched right from the DNCC site. This, as you know, because I don't have commercial television access.

I wrote somethings down while I was listening:
Jesse Jackson, Jr. said something cool, "What Unites us is greater that what divides us." Well said, Jesse! And that thing that unites us is...our Godchip. Same for each of us, and in equal measure.
Here. here.

"We are all called to a better country." Ted Kennedy. We certainly are. We deserve a better country, and we can make it happen, to be sure

"The Dream Lives On." Ted Kennedy. It's the dream we all dreamed before we came in, the dream of knowing the abundance we already live in, remembering Who We Really Are right here, right now, to choose again what is next and create in Love.

Claire McCaskill, "Anyone can accomplish anything!" Of course. We are God having a physical experience. Once we learn to focus that Source energy with persistent focus, we got it!

Michelle Obama, "We listened to our hopes instead of our fears; we started dreaming, instead of doubting." Like Rip Van Winkle, John and Jane Does across America are awakening from their slumber. The distant strains of a very familiar tune are stirring deep within. "Yes, I AM."

Barack Obama says with "hard work and sacrifice" we can do anything. Almost, Barack, try this one on:

with our consistent and persistent focus of our individual and collective Source Energy we can create the Dream into our physical Reality: heaven right here, on Earth.

By Jove, I think we're starting to get IT! We're beginning to apply our Spirits - consciously!

Thanks for reading! (I'm an Independent, by the way - and former Republican)


Kath

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Frank Capra Is Smiling

Hello Everyone,

For forty years now we have been on a journey, a spiritual, consciousness raising journey, here in
America. For forty years we have individually and collectively sought to bring to main-stream consciousness the power of the individual as commonly accepted, acknowledged, and realized thought.

Frank Capra posed this idea in his films for years. He called it the "human spirit". He called on every John and Jane Doe, as those who has built the pyramids and done the lRight now let me direct you to view Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Meet John Doe.

Until the common man/woman understands and realizes his/her own power, importance, and value, nothing changes. But the signs are there, now, that this is indeed happening. Amen.

I was watching the DNC Convention on Monday evening and was struck by how different this convention is from any I've ever seen before. Ordinary people are on stage talking about the nominee, Barack Obama. The speeches are less "structured" and more Real. The music is our music, the message: you matter, your voice counts. Change must start from the ground up, not from the top down, as in previous decades.

This issue is not about conservatives or liberals, democrats or republicans, but rather is reflecting the rising consciousness of individuals, that they are, and always have been, the masters of their fate and captains of their souls. (William Henley, Invictus).

Slowly, inch by inch, one by one, in one way or another, each individual is becoming aware of the innate power of himself. This Innate is our individual Godchip, our true Self. But until each individual has started to awaken to it, listen to it, and realize their Oneness with It, nothing changes.

I am an independent, because I hold the space of the best of both ideologies. When I hear the Democrats talk about the "downtrodden" and "disenfranchised", I cringe, because this is never True of any individual. This only applies when one believes they are separated from Source and powerless. The lie of all lies from which we are awakening. I cringe when I see the Republicans turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the common people and what they want and think is important. But the beautiful part of all of this is that the same Godchip that lives and enlivens and quickens me, enlivens and quickens everyone.

We are on a new path, whether or not it is reflected in the outcome of this election or not, because the human Spirit has been raised up in our consciousness. We are beginning to actually believe that we are God, that we are powerful, that indeed, we are Good. When we do this, we are applying our spirituality. The prodigals are coming home!

Thanks for reading!


Kath

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Friday, August 22, 2008

Personal Consciousness, Common Sense and Current Events

Hello Everyone,

Just when you think you've seen it all as far as lack of common sense, you can be stunned by the latest current developments. One thing that is clear to me: personal development requires conscious application.

Yesterday the New York Times published an article announcing that the FDA will now start irradiating some foods. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/health/policy/22spinach.html?ref=us

First of all, not enough people die per annum from E Coli or Salmonella poisoning for us to even be concerned about this issue. So why then would the FDA be so quick to want to start such an over kill program of irradiation? This gives one pause to consider such actions. We're going to nuke our food just in case? What I wonder is how much this adds to the price of food, for one. And what does this do to the food, itself, never mind the pesky pathogen.

You know, it seems a bloody miracle that any of us has lived to be the age that we are. I mean when I was growing up nobody had seat belts, everyone rode around in the back of a pick up truck; kids didn't have helmets and knee pads. People canned their own food. Somehow we grew up and lived to tell the tale.

Similarly, for all these years we've been eating dangerous spinach, broccoli, cabbage, tomatoes, peppers, etc. How astounding this is; so much so that the population has grown to the largest numbers ever. E Coli is no threat except as magnified in the media.

Let's have a simple lesson on E Coli. According to Wikipedia:

Escherichia coli (commonly E. coli), is a bacterium that is commonly found in the lower intestines of warm-blooded animals. [including humans] Most E. coli strains are harmless, but some can cause serious food poisoning in humans, and are occasionally responsible for costly product recalls. The harmless strains are part of the normal flora of the gut, and can benefit their hosts by producing vitamin K2, or by preventing the establishment of pathogenic bacteria within the intestine.

E. coli are not always confined to the intestine, and their ability to survive for brief periods outside the body makes them an ideal indicator organism to test environmental samples for fecal contamination. The bacteria can also be grown easily and its genetics are comparatively simple and easily-manipulated, making it one of the best-studied prokaryotic model organism and an important species in biotechnology.

This leads us to the source of an E Coli contamination: shit. The contamination of watershed from cattle feedlots. Improper fertilization. Why do you think you wash your hands after you go to the bathroom? E Coli.


We do not need our food irradiated. The biggest question I have about this methodology is what does exposing LIVE food to radiation do to the LIVE FOODS? Those foods are our source of nutrition. Many of those foods contain important phytonutrients that protect us from other diseases, like cancer. So now the FDA wants to nuke our green foods, because 12 people a year die from E Coli or Salmonella poisoning. This, is fishy business to me.

Wake up people. It's trendy and quite the thing right now to be identified as "green". Do your part to recycle and walk to work. But the substance and essence of "green" is chlorophyll, Life and the nutrition that is imparted to our bodies by the foods we consume.

Already Industrial Farming has lowered the nutritional content of our foods by as much as 60% with practices that actually weaken our food, i.e. genetic engineering, chemical pesticides and fertilizers. Now, they want to irradiate the food, for 12 deaths a year. If you don't think this sounds fishy, you're not paying attention with your Knowing or your Godchip, otherwise known as your Good Common Sense.

Stand back and look at the bigger picture, folks. "Those people" that you voted for and trusted your well being to have gotten us to where we are today. We are sicker than ever before, we are poorer than ever before, and they are promising you what? They throw you an "economic stimulus" check and how far did that go?

If you think - or are you even thinking at all - that "they" have your welfare in mind, you have another thought coming. They are only interested in big business, power, and the John and Jane Does of America are the pawns. You can only be a pawn if you choose to be one. If you allow yourself to be led down a path like a sheep. Sheep, you may or may not know, are really stupid creatures.

They are not interested in fixing something; they are only interested in making you afraid of something and then finding somebody else to blame it on; all the while behind the scenes doing the exact things that will enhance their own private interests. They are not public servants interested in our welfare; they serve power and money and themselves.

So, you're afraid of so many things? That's how you are easily led, by your fears. Let there be an unexplained and difficult to find source for an E Coli outbreak, they ruin the tomato farmer for this year, and then, oh dear, sorry, it was the peppers. Don't you ever question what "they" are feeding you day in and day out? Look here, this is scary. Oh, look there, that's really terrorizing.

This entire last 7 years has been led with one thing at its base: FEAR.

America, we have a heritage of brave and courage people, like you and I. Are we sheep? Can we not think for ourselves and reason for ourselves?

How many people in your own private world do you know are on pharmaceutial drugs of some sort now? Don't you think there's something really strange about that? And why are so many on drugs? They are sick. Why are so many so sick? The FOOD, people, the FOOD!

We'd all best start thinking for ourselves and realizing that WE ARE GOD, NOT 'THEY'.

We have the Knowing, the Intuition, the Source within each of us to chart us a better course, but only once and for all, when we, the people, take back our power by Remembering Who We Really Are.

Wake Up America. For God Sake, Wake Up. I'm hoping we awaken before the November election. Feel the Truth of something, people. Feel the rightness of something. They have told you that you need protection, you don't. They have told you to be afraid. You have nothing to fear. They have told you, "they" know best. They do not.

If you don't want more of the same, You have to awaken and take up your own bed and walk.
Fearlessly. Consciously. It is TIME.

Thanks for reading!


Kath

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Sunday, August 17, 2008

Olympic Heroes: So Are You

Hello Everyone,

During the Olympics is when I truly wish I had television. I get snippets on the Internet, but it's not the same.

Today I want to talk about the "heroes" of the Olympics. Every single one of the participants from every country is certainly, in my mind, a true hero.

We thrill at their achievements! Watching Michael Phelps and Nastia Liukin actually makes me cry and cheer for them sitting here viewing it on my laptop.


And then this morning another beautiful news item is Dara Torres http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/olympics/cs-080816-dara-torres-silver-medal-olympics,0,2490695.story?track=rss
a 41 year old Mom from Michigan who took a Silver Medal.

All heroes. Everyone of them. But so are we! Or we can be!

Each of us is the hero or heroine in our own life. What makes them stand out by contrast is that they are so publicly acknowledged.

What makes them so successful is their self-mastery of their focus on something they LOVE to do.

When you love what you're focused on; it's not work, it's your play. And if it is work, it is your labor of love. They have nothing more than we do: a Godchip and a body. With those two things they have focused their Source energy so single-mindedly and so devotedly to their labor of love, that they have become genius at what they do.

So can we. We thrill at what they have accomplished - being Who They Really Are, God having a splendid experience. So mirror mirror on they wall: you're looking at You, kid.

Thanks for reading!

Kath

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Friday, August 1, 2008

Politics, Racism, and Fear

Hello Everyone,

I know that I am an innocent. I just am, and frankly, glad of it. What has sort of jolted me out of my pink bubble is the myriad political ads that friends and family forward to me as the election draws closer. America, there is a giant elephant in our living room. It is fear. It takes the form of racism, sexism, lying, cheating, name-calling, rumor and innuendo. It's ugly and it does not become us.

Just so everyone gets a clear picture, I used to be a registered Republican, because to my mind, the principles of the Republican Party were closest to what I believed: in the absolute and sovereign power of the individual. I believe that with every fiber of my being, because I know Who We Really Are: God having a physical experience on earth. However, as human mind has so twisted the tenets of both parties, I confess that for awhile there I really couldn't tell which party was which anymore. I still can't.

So I shucked the labels and registered myself as Independent. That feels more like me, anyway. I'm free to choose from the myriad candidates and myriad ideas, and I vote where it feels correct. I loathe the labels of left, right, conservative, liberal, democrat, republican, middle of the road. Labels are for those who can't think independently. Labels are for lemmings.

Once someone says they are "liberal" or "democrat", someone stops listening altogether. Not another word of what they have to say is given any listen by the closed mind and locked heart of fear. And this is what I see happening in my inbox. Friends and family send these political missives; the latest one today was from a friend in Virginia. The e-mail was a compilation of the best bumper stickers - all of which were defaming Obama and the Democrats. As I read them, I realized that he is afraid. Only fear can make people attack another on such grounds.

The presidential race should be all about the issues; rather it is reduced to slurs around rumor and innuendo. Another friend forwarded to me an e-mail that was reportedly written by a soldier in Afghanistan recounting that Obama had snubbed the troops. This e-mail is not verifiable, nor does it trace back to his e-mail address for veracity. It just gets forwarded on, like it's Gospel truth...out of fear.

I trust that Americans can figure out for themselves what is True and not True; but the catch to this is that you have to come to the table with an open mind and an open heart. You have to come to the debate with the attitude, "Tell me who you are." You can't come to the table with fears like racism, prejudice and preconceived ideas that obscure you from ever hearing what they have to say, let alone giving yourself the opportunity to FEEL the truth or see their beauty.

Fear is irrational. It has no reason, it just lurks within a heart and obliterates the Light. Fear is why we are at war. Fear is why we fight with each other. Fear is why we are sick. Fear is why people pass on information that is without verifiable truth, because it supports your fear.

If you want a safer, better, and happier America, then each of us, every single one, had better take a good hard and honest look at who we are as individuals, first.

No one need know what goes on in that conversation between you and YOU. But we each had better have that conversation. Because it is we, the people, that make up this country. You, me, the John and Jane Doe's all across these 50 states. However much fear and hatred we harbor in our hearts, that's what we are going to experience as a country in this world.

It's time for some individual house keeping. I challenge you to have that conversation with yourself. Come to terms with the fact that you are afraid of those of different colors, different creeds, different ideas. Now, I challenge you to love them. I challenge you to listen with an open mind and open heart.

This is no airy fairy exercise, my friends. This country is only as good as the people who comprise it. If you love America, but clear hate certain Americans, how can this Nation stand? It won't. It will crumble from within; it won't take any foreign enemy to bury us.

This country is advanced citizenship. It takes clear hearts and clear minds to deal with serious problems. To be a citizen of America means you must defend the right of someone to voice their opinion about something you would spend your life trying to defeat. It means you will disagree with that person vehemently on the issue; but you will respect that person as an equal citizen and worthy being. These are not oxymorons. You can disagree with someone and still respect their right to their opinion. And if you respect their right to their opinion, you will not defame, slur or disrespect someone by making a political argument into a personal slur. That is spiritual immaturity. We are called to become spiritual adults.

It's time to grow up America. We can conduct healthy, spirited debates and actually learn from each other. Only fear closes our ears to what someone has to say. It costs us nothing to listen, not just with our minds, but also with our hearts. Times are changing, as they always do. It just feels so much better when you listen with your heart open, even to something you don't like. It's the idea you disagree with; the person is just like you: God having a physical adventure.

We have a duty as Americans to be very good stewards of democracy. Democracy is a place where everything, every idea, every people get to be here, much like the books in a library. The books in the library sit side by side offering their unique and individual thoughts for those who wish to read them. Those books don't hop off the shelf at night and duke it out. So it is in this wonderful place. We all get to be here. It takes advanced citizenship to fully grasp what this really means and how great a challenge this is to each of us every day of our lives.

We have nothing to fear, except fear; because fear will undermine us and crumble us from the inside out. Next time you see someone whose political views you think you hate, try this: take a deep breath. Acknowledge that he/she is a unique individual with unique things to say, just like you. Acknowledge that you might be afraid of some of the things they might offer. Now, listen to them with your full attention and respect. Breathe in again, breathe out. Now, realize that you are in no way diminished because they have that idea. You can thank them for sharing. You can chew over what they had to say. You can discard all of it; some of it; non of it. Nothing bad is going to happen just because you listened with an open mind and an open heart. The only time something bad can happen is when you fear it, then, my friend, you will attract it.

This Universe can supply every one's needs at the same time. There's enough for everyone. America is the place on Earth where we are either going to learn to do that in the physical; or we will go the way of all the other civilizations that came before us. We can trust in the Good in each of us. Speak to that. Listen to that.

Everyone is God at center. America is the great experiment. Can we learn to live with all those different Gods in the same place and know that each of our Good is always at play? I say we can. That is applied spirituality in action.

Thanks for reading!

Kath

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