I read that a 60 year old woman is celebrating her 15th birthday today! Yes, it's Leap Day 2012, a great day to do something outside of normal space and time.
Like what? Like ending a karmic relationship attachment! Set yourself free, by completely accepting a painful situation that you were hoping would get better someday. Perhaps you've exhausted yourself trying to rescue, fix, change, teach a lesson to, guide, uplift, convince, inspire, argue with, prove wrong, fight, reform, prevent, nullify or otherwise remove yourself from the impact of another person on whom you somehow grew to depend. Or you thought you didn't care anymore, but you've forgotten how much more potential you will have to live if you not only let go better expectations of that limiting person, but actually replace them with someone else much more able AND willing (don't forget the willing part!) to supply you with your own sacred needs and wants. After all, you're the one who so beautifully hoped and chose to grow! So let's be absolutely done with supporting, helping, and enabling that opposing person in your life, shall we? It's time to support, help, and enable the most amazing precious individual on whom you can always rely to really care about what you're going through - YOU!
So say it, feel it, let it be: "This situation is already all it's ever going to be. That's it, I'm through, I'm starting a new chapter in my life! If they had wanted to do more better things with me they would have done so by now, because I made myself plenty clear on more than one occasion. And I really *like* what I stand for, I stand by what I said to them! I admire me, and if someone came to me with what I said and did, then I would have valued and adored them to no end. We would have had such fun!"
"So... I no longer judge, criticize or worry about what will happen to that other person who didn't get me now, because they have their own connection to the universe to take care of themselves. They always did and always will, and what's more I have mine! They make their own choices, and what's more I make mine! So dear Universe, I turn away from them and turn myself back to you. I create my own life with your support, not theirs! I'm done with that old dead-end relationship and situation. My own hopes and dreams, which they never really wanted but I still absolutely do, were and still are so alive, vital, and beautiful that I refuse to be affected by their limiting decisions for me anymore. I am willing to finally be free! Provide me directly and abundantly with all I need to grow more fully, deeply, rapidly and joyfully than I have known before! I am ready now, in fact I have been for a while, so watch me, here I go!"
Leap Day is traditionally a day to turn the tables on chauvanism and give the ladies a chance to speak up for what they really want. St. Bridget of Ireland, whose namesake was the goddess Bridget of the fairy kingdom, the Tuatha de Danann, struck a deal with manly old St. Patrick, charmer of the snakes. Bridget declared that every four years the women would get to propose to the men they prefer to wed. In many countries on Leap Day, men are supposed to pay a penalty or buy clothes for a woman whose proposal they refuse, and in the middle ages this was governed by law.
What this means is that Leap Day is the perfect day to let the Goddess rule from within your own soul, whose deeper love has been so often overruled in a world of might making right. Choose the mate to whom your heart really belongs. In other words, end that old karmic relationship and propose to commit to yourself, and be sure to say yes I do! More love than you've ever known will follow in the footsteps of the sacred inner marriage that only you decide.
If you live in the Boston area, you're welcome to join us for a Leap Day discussion about ending karma at the Swedenborg Chapel, see my meetup description at www.CosmicDocent.com
For more clarity on the nature of codependent dysfunctional relationships and how much you want and need to end the pain of unrequited love, check out this Feb 21 Wall Street Journal article by Elizabeth Bernstein on Why we pair up with our emotional opposites, which summarizes the points of a great new book called "Attached" by Amir Levine, M.D. and Rachel S. F. Heller, M.A. The field of attachment theory, long observed from how infants attach to caregivers and what happens when they become alienated, is now being applied successfully to adult relationships. When you don't get secure love, you become either compulsively seeking of love (called the Anxious type), or reflexively emotionally suspicious and withholding (called the Avoiding type). Stereotypes that say that's just what women and men do wouldn't be the point, unless you're an Avoidant!
Below I repeat two comments I made on the WSJ site to the article, the second being in reply to a woman named Alex who basically said (I won't presume to repost without permission) that she paid a therapist a lot of money to tell her what I said, and she wishes someone would write a book advising Anxious types to spot Avoidant types and run in the opposite direction!
Carl Schroeder Wrote:
Great article, looking forward to the book! Anxious/Avoidant labels may be just an update of the old pursuer/pursued dynamic that fuels unrequited love, but how worthwhile more study is. Reminds me of the term "limerance", invented by Dorothy Tennov for the urgent emotional state at the beginning of relationship attachment when feelings need to be reciprocated and if aren't then painful emotional coping mechanisms can set in. I know too well the codependency patterns of mismatched love temperments, so what's new to me is this encouraging idea that 50% of the population is Secure and stable and ready to give and receive intimacy just fine, hurray! I've been an Anxious type who was hurt and stuck on Avoidant types who made me feel just awful for simply being a guy who values lots of communication and affection. Forget fixing them to want what I want, I've sworn off the chemistry of opposites attracting and am switching to the happy majority that knows they're okay and just needed to find some real compatibility!
ALEX LANDRY Replied...
Carl Schroeder Replied:
I totally appreciate your reply and your experience Alex, thank you! And I am writing a book about these kind of relationship issues, but it's a little more complex and spiritual than simply advising Anxious types to run from Avoidant types, which is many books on unrequited love do say. I say that relationships are transcendent and there are people we are destined to meet in life, so running from these soul connections is what Avoidants are doing and we don't want to just sink further to their level of injury/injuring. Anxious types know what love is but haven't had a consistent source, so that is what they are needy to cultivate, while Avoidant types have been directly abused by those they love and are threatened by intimacy, so the love they seek needs to be controlled. The trick is to find a healthy right relationship with everyone we are meant to love in life, reserving our full vulnerability for the most reliable secure individuals. We actually all have inner Anxiety and Avoidant personalities for different situations in which we still need to master personal success. Anxiety types when in the desperation of getting someone to love them can become extremely avoiding and escapist of the rest of their life, and like the article said they can then become Avoidant and uncaring of the spouse who gets "secured" in marriage but remains emotionally distant. Ultimately, everyone decides how much they want to get from their own life, and will find support to match, for good or ill. Hope these ideas help!
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Reincarnation Coast to Coast
Tonite my dear friend Dr. Walter Semkiw will be on Coast to Coast AM radio, interviewed for 4 hours about his reincarnation research and new website at IISIS.net! This is very exciting as the station is a phenom of alternative thinking and spiritual culture, with millions of live listeners and online archives for later listening. Walter wrote "Return of the Revolutionaries", helped to found the United States as President John Adams, and is the greatest champion alive for the new global society that will welcome and nurture the return of souls and their immortal destinies. Walter's validations have been vital for launching my career as a spiritual writer in more than one lifetime, so I'm incredibly grateful to his vision. Three cheers for Walter, You Genius! :-)
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
In Praise of Conditional Love
On One Condition
Just don't abuse me,
and I will love you forever.
Please don't abuse me,
so I can love you forever.
A part of me was made specifically for a part of you.
But if you try to kill another part
to which you have no response
just because it makes you fear
that I will leave,
then I will have to go.
You are not the only one I love;
that's why not all of me belongs to all of you.
But our love is unique in all the universe,
so please please let me forever give
that part of me that's just for a part of you.
by Carl Johann Schroeder, Jan 11, 2012,
you may share with credit given.
And just to be clear so there's no undue concern, the poem came to me from thinking about relationships that were unsupportive of my potential so I couldn't feel safe and had to leave to be and explore more of my true self, a situation that's often felt in families of various kinds where there are psychic contracts to not go outside the box. I share the words to resonate with many kinds of emotional unsafety, and give strength for making better boundaries like we all need for the changes of 2012. No one's growth should suffer from another person's problems that they need to solve for themselves.
Monday, January 2, 2012
the sister world
Here is a fabulous video lecture on youtube, a summary of state of the art research into the sister world as Merlin calls it affectionately. I've met the beings there, they were nice to me, but since they're wary of humans (for good reason) not everyone finds them so friendly. Note that I met them in dreams and meditations, so you definitely don't need to do radical shamanic potions that can hurt your body and land you in jail.
Graham Hancock: Elves, Aliens, Angels and Ayahuasca
Graham Hancock: Elves, Aliens, Angels and Ayahuasca
Sunday, January 1, 2012
a song for 2012
Happy New Year! Here's a hopeful song that came to me for 2012, may it bring you the peace and joy of "Heaven Now"
I didn't make a post for Christmas, I hope that time of the return of inner light found its blessings for you. The song is from the winter solstice 2 days before, so I think it carries some of that energy forward now.
I didn't make a post for Christmas, I hope that time of the return of inner light found its blessings for you. The song is from the winter solstice 2 days before, so I think it carries some of that energy forward now.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
meetups and 2012
Friends and I have been enjoying community meetings through meetup.com for a few years now. Did you know that the service started as a response to the 9/11 tragedy in New York City? Some visionary good folks created it to enable grassroots groups to organize and comfort each other. Since then it has grown into a worldwide system for introducing people of compatible values to each other in regular meetings on all manner of topics. Distance tools like online forums and phone conferences are certainly valuable and often necessary, but there's no substitute for the kind of local face-to-face time that meetups can offer to the spirit in a body. It's easy to sign up, pick interests, and get notified about groups as they form in your area.
This month I wrote the announcements for two meetups, my own that I've been running since July to field-test ascension ideas for my book that I'm writing, plus the dream sharing group that I've helped a friend run since early 2009. Below I'll post each description starting with my sassy introduction to 2012, and encourage anyone with a vision to consider using meetup to create their own group support experiences. People need to share and build their values with each other in like-minded communities. The recent Occupy movement has shown the power of coming together to validate each other, and now as these social justice camps are being disbanded the energy needs to continue in places like meetup. Group sharing and encouraging is a vital part of living that has always been at the root of civilization, from churches and esoteric societies to pubs and clubs of all kinds. As humanity evolves to empower itself with more specialized interests from awakening people, a tool like meetup.com can literally help us all save the world one heartfelt gathering of visionaries at a time.
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2012 is coming to town!
Let's have fun with the last meeting of the year by making our resolutions to go into the big 2012!
What's all the fuss about, should we be worried, excited, a little of both? Ok, so the big event, when the "shift hits the fan", isn't due til the end of next December, but you just know the self-fulfilling prophecies and tensions are going to keep rising all year. As ascenders, people are going to be instinctively looking to us for answers and strength! Meek inherit the Earth, baby!
Some say there will be Earth changes, from magnetic pole reversals to solar flares. As I understand, magnetic reversals have already happened many times in history, they're gradual on irregular schedules and don't have to be too meaningful or that big a deal. But solar changes can cause little ice ages like the one between 1550 and 1850, when all the classical paintings showed ice skaters on the Thames and Rhine. So who knows, maybe an antidote to global warming? I say that with all due respect, because Gaia and the Universe will help us fix anything if we let them.
Others talk about the end of the Earth experiment when the results will be graded, or the opening of the chakras. Well from what I hear, our planet has already passed with flying colors, so entrance into the Galactic Federation or whatever is assured. Check out Steven Pinker's new book for example if you don't believe it. "The Better Angels of our Nature" is a revelation for how much humanity has actually been breeding out violence for millenia, despite the invention of weapons both technological and idealogical which can make it seem otherwise. I can personally attest to the difference, as in a recent lucid dream visit to my lifetime in the Middle Ages I was shocked at the brutal vibes there.
As for opening of the chakras - hmm that could get messy couldn't it. Which is why I'm predicting and giving tips for the Lovacalypse! Uncontrolled hugging everywhere, so learn your types of love now and don't fall too hard for the big puppy eyes. :-)
Come share your hopes, rumors, and plans! Good snacks provided for festive atmosphere, bring instruments if you want to play a song.
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Interpreting Characters in Dreams & Dream Sharing
This month we'll continue our open door policy for dream sharing, which has been so very valuable for our community of dreamers. Additionally, Carl will present some ideas for how to interpret the characters in our dreams. Dream Dictionaries can give us some good starting points for what places and things may symbolize, but what about people? You can't just look up Aunt Mabel or that ex from high school, except in the most general of ways as a role. Dream characters make it clear just how very personal and rich with emotional associations are our own dreams.
Some traditions say to interpret all characters as sides of yourself, which can be a good place to start, but this excludes the fabulous mystical possibility that we really do dream of each other as well as nonphysical beings and higher friends. In fact, dreams are most useful to guide our lives when we don't just dream about ourselves, but see how we are interacting with the hidden unspoken energies of the actual relationships that are important to us.
Carl has many years of experience in navigating the continuum between sides of ourselves and aspects of others that can and do show up in dreams, so he'll present some perspectives and examples that could help you crack the riddle of recurring dream figures. Hints: someone you know in a dream often isn't that person, but someone in that role energetically, and how much it is you or another person can change from night to night, depending on what you're working on during the day, with clues to help you sort out possibilities including boundary symbols, sidekick characters, replays, and how much you can see and feel from the other's position.
As always, you're welcome to bring a dream to work on, or just come to listen to other people's processing. Dream sharing is never required to attend, only encouraged. Sharing dreams in a group provides a rich validating resource to understand the many layers and facets of subconscious communication. It is always helpful to gather together and share dreams with others, to get ideas on what our dreams tell us about ourselves and our lives, and what they foreshadow of the future.
Come, share, explore, learn, and grow with the knowledge and wisdom of our bold and adventurous dream explorers.
This month I wrote the announcements for two meetups, my own that I've been running since July to field-test ascension ideas for my book that I'm writing, plus the dream sharing group that I've helped a friend run since early 2009. Below I'll post each description starting with my sassy introduction to 2012, and encourage anyone with a vision to consider using meetup to create their own group support experiences. People need to share and build their values with each other in like-minded communities. The recent Occupy movement has shown the power of coming together to validate each other, and now as these social justice camps are being disbanded the energy needs to continue in places like meetup. Group sharing and encouraging is a vital part of living that has always been at the root of civilization, from churches and esoteric societies to pubs and clubs of all kinds. As humanity evolves to empower itself with more specialized interests from awakening people, a tool like meetup.com can literally help us all save the world one heartfelt gathering of visionaries at a time.
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2012 is coming to town!
Let's have fun with the last meeting of the year by making our resolutions to go into the big 2012!
What's all the fuss about, should we be worried, excited, a little of both? Ok, so the big event, when the "shift hits the fan", isn't due til the end of next December, but you just know the self-fulfilling prophecies and tensions are going to keep rising all year. As ascenders, people are going to be instinctively looking to us for answers and strength! Meek inherit the Earth, baby!
Some say there will be Earth changes, from magnetic pole reversals to solar flares. As I understand, magnetic reversals have already happened many times in history, they're gradual on irregular schedules and don't have to be too meaningful or that big a deal. But solar changes can cause little ice ages like the one between 1550 and 1850, when all the classical paintings showed ice skaters on the Thames and Rhine. So who knows, maybe an antidote to global warming? I say that with all due respect, because Gaia and the Universe will help us fix anything if we let them.
Others talk about the end of the Earth experiment when the results will be graded, or the opening of the chakras. Well from what I hear, our planet has already passed with flying colors, so entrance into the Galactic Federation or whatever is assured. Check out Steven Pinker's new book for example if you don't believe it. "The Better Angels of our Nature" is a revelation for how much humanity has actually been breeding out violence for millenia, despite the invention of weapons both technological and idealogical which can make it seem otherwise. I can personally attest to the difference, as in a recent lucid dream visit to my lifetime in the Middle Ages I was shocked at the brutal vibes there.
As for opening of the chakras - hmm that could get messy couldn't it. Which is why I'm predicting and giving tips for the Lovacalypse! Uncontrolled hugging everywhere, so learn your types of love now and don't fall too hard for the big puppy eyes. :-)
Come share your hopes, rumors, and plans! Good snacks provided for festive atmosphere, bring instruments if you want to play a song.
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Interpreting Characters in Dreams & Dream Sharing
This month we'll continue our open door policy for dream sharing, which has been so very valuable for our community of dreamers. Additionally, Carl will present some ideas for how to interpret the characters in our dreams. Dream Dictionaries can give us some good starting points for what places and things may symbolize, but what about people? You can't just look up Aunt Mabel or that ex from high school, except in the most general of ways as a role. Dream characters make it clear just how very personal and rich with emotional associations are our own dreams.
Some traditions say to interpret all characters as sides of yourself, which can be a good place to start, but this excludes the fabulous mystical possibility that we really do dream of each other as well as nonphysical beings and higher friends. In fact, dreams are most useful to guide our lives when we don't just dream about ourselves, but see how we are interacting with the hidden unspoken energies of the actual relationships that are important to us.
Carl has many years of experience in navigating the continuum between sides of ourselves and aspects of others that can and do show up in dreams, so he'll present some perspectives and examples that could help you crack the riddle of recurring dream figures. Hints: someone you know in a dream often isn't that person, but someone in that role energetically, and how much it is you or another person can change from night to night, depending on what you're working on during the day, with clues to help you sort out possibilities including boundary symbols, sidekick characters, replays, and how much you can see and feel from the other's position.
As always, you're welcome to bring a dream to work on, or just come to listen to other people's processing. Dream sharing is never required to attend, only encouraged. Sharing dreams in a group provides a rich validating resource to understand the many layers and facets of subconscious communication. It is always helpful to gather together and share dreams with others, to get ideas on what our dreams tell us about ourselves and our lives, and what they foreshadow of the future.
Come, share, explore, learn, and grow with the knowledge and wisdom of our bold and adventurous dream explorers.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Thrive
Sunday 11pm:
"Thrive" is a new must-see documentary that I just loved, all about the past and future of the human potential. I write this praise at the end of a long day which began with a friend's email recommending that I watch the film on youtube, where segments are being allowed to post.
I did not intend to spend the precious time as I've been working hard journaling and writing all weekend from my own guidance to finish my book asap about the spirituality and psychology of relationships, in addition to my responsbilities for job and family. So I'm already full busy but the energy was right, I now can admit. I've been experiencing profound effects of releasing the past and balancing the masculine/feminine energies within myself, resulting in sensations of increased divine bliss and communication with angelic extraterrestrial beings. Suddenly this morning I found myself working up to watching this two hour documentary, by writing the blog entry below which processed a little more of where I was coming from. After appropriately enough bagging leaves with the kids and becoming quite tired, I still felt guided to make time to see "Thrive" tonite, and I'm so glad that I did!
My personal priorities to not get caught up in frightened judgmental thinking (what inspired my pre-viewing blog entry) are addressed in the movie, despite its recapping of many conspiracy theories after a soaring inspirational beginning. This approach has caused some love-hate reactions in audiences and worried me when I read some online critics. Yes, "Thrive" builds the view of a global elite that is manipulating humanity into poverty and slavery, but it has reason to even when it overly connects the dots, engages in some weak self-justifications, and entertains sound bites from sensational psuedo-experts.
For example, to suggest that the evil of banks lies in fractional reserve lending is sensational, since that's what a bank is: they keep a fraction of your money and loan the rest out so you can make interest and they can run a business. The alternative is full reserve banking, where you'd have to pay to keep your money locked up in a safe even as it could lose value to inflation. Of course, as today's highly profitable megabanks increasingly charge us for every fee they can invent, and interest rates are abysmal because the economy has been manipulated and mismanaged by those banks, then we get the worst of both worlds and reason to be paranoid! Good advice is given to put your money in local banks and credit unions who are more likely to be honest and motivated to manage fair returns to attract customers.
Through every conspired crisis, whether under or over stated, the narrator is gentle and caring. The context is one of increasing awareness and holding conviction that things didn't have to be this way. The film begins with poetic visions of Earth's majesty, human brilliance and beauty, and fabulous graphics of sacred geometry including the torus and flower of life. So there's plenty to react to for your own tendencies toward fear or inspiration. Viewers who get stuck in depression or cynicism simply have those energies to work through, and do well to not just shoot the messenger.
Through the whirlwind tour of conspiracies and fantasies that dog the human potential, the point remains that we have sufficient evidence of unecessary tragedy, both historical and personal, that the heart of the open mind can forgive leaps of logic to experience deeper emotional validations. For me, I was surprised at how suddenly and intensely I cried when the domination of native america was mentioned to make clear that the course of freedom in this country has been long corrupted and threatened. I was also deeply moved when the narrator's wife spoke of the more recent apparent suppression of cancer cures which could have saved so many people she loved. I too have lost many to cancer.
The film was financed by a rich white man, Foster Gamble of the Proctor and Gamble fortune, who at an early age was guided by mystical experience to make a bigger difference for humanity than to just join the elite to which he was born and raised. Foster is sincere and makes that difference now in this crowning achievement, a film which leads the viewer through sobering realizations of current perils into the hope, inspiration, and profound recommendations for life-long action that contribute to realizing the dream of Heaven on Earth, as I work for and call it. Foster never actually mentions the word God but has plenty to say about the spiritual, intelligent, living universe which is abundant and giving, just waiting for us all to rediscover and tap its wisdom and power for eternal love, life and liberty. So the sacred origins of his mission are clear! A large website of links and information backs up the movie for your further study, so this is a deeply committed resource for your own entry into the awakening tomorrow.
Thank you Foster and all who support you! I'm honored to welcome you into my own heart and visions for the future. I like to think he would appreciate my path of ending the reactive judging mind beginning in the self, because his movie also encourages people to work together in non-violence and stop demonizing each other to see the real problems and solutions we face today. Turning human beings against their own interests by various fear mongering schemes to divide and conquer is one tool of the real predator, both inside and out.
Thanks again to the friend who insisted that I should watch the movie, because I'm glad I did, and by my own path of the earlier reactions I had in the blog entry below. It may seem peevish and overly personal in retrospect, but I stand by what I wrote as part of honestly working up to letting more in. I like to think that we can all respect to share and learn from the processing that is humanly needed to grow into new levels of spiritual family connection, for that is what I feel is a gift of the movie. We all have our stories of humbling paths to follow in order to reach the greater vistas together.
I wish much peace and joy to all who celebrate this week of Thanksgiving! May the new world and old come together in a time of goodwill and feasting.
Carl
ps - tip: if you try watching the movie on youtube and one version gets stuck, just keep scrolling for another that works, as I had to. Perhaps Foster is so wealthy and idealistic that he is allowing some free viewing, but it's also only $5 to stream it from the official website, or $20 for dvd, at http://www.thrivemovement.com
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Sunday 11am:
An interesting new film called "Thrive" debuted on 11/11/11, a date which due to a preponderance of 1's was supposed to be more magical than any other day in which you decide for yourself to change your own life forever.
I hadn't heard of it. I was at an 11/11/11 concert and guided meditation at which I was insightfully miserable and alienated, seated in the back of the room by myself looking over occasionally to a whole row of serendipitously contiguous exes who had no place for me in their life that evening or possibly ever, but who seemed to be all getting along rather splendidly. Ex-whats I can't say exactly, some sort of soulmates, you know how with past lives it can all get so complicated? It's sweet really, to be on the journey of finding the right relationships with each other, so I'm not bitter, I'm grateful, just confused and confounded at times.
There was only one friend who happened to be sitting near me, and she described her recent trip to Turkey, it was great, how did mine go for that world reincarnation conference I was looking forward to on my birthday? Oh, thanks for reminding me, that was one of my broken dreams involving the exes. So I was not just imagining the theme of the evening! It was uncanny, and I could feel the effects of some conspiracy. Later another friend told me she saw me and considered saying hi, but something kept her away. My energy was off and people could feel it!
So a week later I'm feeling much better and reconnected with my friends. This morning I was notified by another ex-something who is very excited about the anti-poverty Occupy protest movement and the recent crackdowns against it, about this movie called Thrive. Apparently it's a major inspirational big-budget new age revelation about how humanity would thrive if only there weren't all these conspiracies working tirelessly against it. The ETs tried to give us free limitless energy technology but that got suppressed, GMO foods are making us slaves, illuminati bankers rule the world with the money they print for themselves, the flower of life is everywhere but constantly discredited, helpless people and nature are suffering in a closed system, etc. I watched the trailer and cried, because the human potential is so close, real, and sacred.
Then I looked on the internet at what people were saying about Thrive, because I'm trying to write my own book on how to make the world a better place and don't have much time to watch movies. Secondary and tertiary sources have their place after all!
So I replied to my friend's email with the following points, which I then embellished for this blog:
Fascinating... there are anti-conspiracy people who are against this movie
because they say it is anti-anti-conspiracy as it promotes hopelessness. The film really just convinces you of your weakness against the powers that will hunt you and stop you, offering only vague rebel cheerleading designed to go nowhere.
http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.com/2011/11/thrive-movie-is-not-about-thriving-at.html
And then there are anti-anti-anti-conspiracists who are against this movie
as well as freemasonery and other popular scapegoats villified by the
conspiracy.
http://helpfreetheearth.com/news461_thrive.html
So who is the elite controlling our lives? Republicans, bankers, jews,
freemasons? Depends on who you talk to, doesn't it. I can tell you right now that it was my grandfather. They say he was evil and abused my mother who neglected me in her PTSD which made me compulsive for the love of emotionally unavailable hurt angry women, instead of loving and balancing myself to do more of my life's purpose on this planet without the fear of someone controlling me.
Unfortunately, my conspiracy theory hasn't proved to be popular with many
other people, though my sister agreed with it, and she died of cancer that started in her breast just like my mother, which I know for a fact is an effect of the conspiracy. But most people think my grandfather just wasn't that powerful, and one of the only people who says that he was, my therapist, then questions who controlled and abused him.
So the problem I really see is the anti thinking that thinks in conspiracies and
enemies. The link we saw recently about how a scientific proof has been
made that a small number of elite really do control the world's money did NOT prove intent, in fact it said otherwise. It said that what they observed was
consistent with a phenomenon seen in all of nature, that specialization and
centralization of functions will evolve.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/333389/title/Financial_world_dominated_by_a_few_deep_pockets
That a small number of elite will direct the flow of the world's money may be inevitable, and doesn't have to be a bad thing, even if that destiny has been currently stolen by a few opportunists and engineers of domination. So who would be right for the job? The same human beings only awakened perhaps? That would be the most elegant and efficient solution, to change people in place, to trigger an overthrow of the mind by the heart of humanity. What would it take to awaken us all together to the incredibly preferrable and infinite potentials of sustainably loving and thriving? After all, healthy customers and a bountiful planet are just plain good for business.
It is fear and paranoia in the poverty of imagination that is the enemy. There is no monolithic conspiracy out there, only in here. Oh sure there are some seriously dangerous directions to watch out for, but the more that we judge and separate the world into good and evil intentions, the more we are an expression of the evil forming intention which remains unconscious in everyone. No one is trying to control and destroy the planet, but everyone is trying to control the planet to make it a better place for themselves, and everyone needs to learn self control to work with others so we don't destroy our humanity and the planet together.
There is much talk of ending the conscious elite conspiracy who rule us, by trusting and following an unconscious decentralized opposition movement. But the unconscious decentralized opposition movement is already here, it always has been, and it is what is killing us. It is the enemy, the satan, the fallen angel, the negative ego. The unconscious decentralized unity movement is what we are really seeking, beginning in the inheritance of our own souls in bodies.
All those people who come together spontaneously to rage at the system, who would rather demonize and thus empower the bankers and politicians and whatever enemies instead of considering they're just misguided people with roles to play better, and all those who cannot feel the compassionate love and wisdom of God, who quote the need for non-violence in their passive aggression as they become increasingly violent, whose lives are a mess and not getting better because someone else did it to them (they're correct but then they're not looking to leave the abused feelings either), then they are showing the problem and not the solution.
Everyone needs to stop and look at their own living more closely to find the root causes in HOW they do everything they do, not just what they did or didn't do and what was done to them. When we get the balance right, then we feel the peace of God as we find effective action, to change and love the world which begins within the self. The rare evil-acting individual out there is supported and given opportunity to function by the far more common evil-reacting individual in here. The blameful fear-driven over-reactions and under-reactions by the vast good majority are manipulated by those few idiots who conspire to frighten and dominate.
Protest movements are wonderful, especially when the people in them learn to create new ways of doing things. There is almost certainly something to protest, and how it is done makes all the difference. Sensational conspiracists on all sides are not making contributions to change, in my opinion.
"Thrive" is a new must-see documentary that I just loved, all about the past and future of the human potential. I write this praise at the end of a long day which began with a friend's email recommending that I watch the film on youtube, where segments are being allowed to post.
I did not intend to spend the precious time as I've been working hard journaling and writing all weekend from my own guidance to finish my book asap about the spirituality and psychology of relationships, in addition to my responsbilities for job and family. So I'm already full busy but the energy was right, I now can admit. I've been experiencing profound effects of releasing the past and balancing the masculine/feminine energies within myself, resulting in sensations of increased divine bliss and communication with angelic extraterrestrial beings. Suddenly this morning I found myself working up to watching this two hour documentary, by writing the blog entry below which processed a little more of where I was coming from. After appropriately enough bagging leaves with the kids and becoming quite tired, I still felt guided to make time to see "Thrive" tonite, and I'm so glad that I did!
My personal priorities to not get caught up in frightened judgmental thinking (what inspired my pre-viewing blog entry) are addressed in the movie, despite its recapping of many conspiracy theories after a soaring inspirational beginning. This approach has caused some love-hate reactions in audiences and worried me when I read some online critics. Yes, "Thrive" builds the view of a global elite that is manipulating humanity into poverty and slavery, but it has reason to even when it overly connects the dots, engages in some weak self-justifications, and entertains sound bites from sensational psuedo-experts.
For example, to suggest that the evil of banks lies in fractional reserve lending is sensational, since that's what a bank is: they keep a fraction of your money and loan the rest out so you can make interest and they can run a business. The alternative is full reserve banking, where you'd have to pay to keep your money locked up in a safe even as it could lose value to inflation. Of course, as today's highly profitable megabanks increasingly charge us for every fee they can invent, and interest rates are abysmal because the economy has been manipulated and mismanaged by those banks, then we get the worst of both worlds and reason to be paranoid! Good advice is given to put your money in local banks and credit unions who are more likely to be honest and motivated to manage fair returns to attract customers.
Through every conspired crisis, whether under or over stated, the narrator is gentle and caring. The context is one of increasing awareness and holding conviction that things didn't have to be this way. The film begins with poetic visions of Earth's majesty, human brilliance and beauty, and fabulous graphics of sacred geometry including the torus and flower of life. So there's plenty to react to for your own tendencies toward fear or inspiration. Viewers who get stuck in depression or cynicism simply have those energies to work through, and do well to not just shoot the messenger.
Through the whirlwind tour of conspiracies and fantasies that dog the human potential, the point remains that we have sufficient evidence of unecessary tragedy, both historical and personal, that the heart of the open mind can forgive leaps of logic to experience deeper emotional validations. For me, I was surprised at how suddenly and intensely I cried when the domination of native america was mentioned to make clear that the course of freedom in this country has been long corrupted and threatened. I was also deeply moved when the narrator's wife spoke of the more recent apparent suppression of cancer cures which could have saved so many people she loved. I too have lost many to cancer.
The film was financed by a rich white man, Foster Gamble of the Proctor and Gamble fortune, who at an early age was guided by mystical experience to make a bigger difference for humanity than to just join the elite to which he was born and raised. Foster is sincere and makes that difference now in this crowning achievement, a film which leads the viewer through sobering realizations of current perils into the hope, inspiration, and profound recommendations for life-long action that contribute to realizing the dream of Heaven on Earth, as I work for and call it. Foster never actually mentions the word God but has plenty to say about the spiritual, intelligent, living universe which is abundant and giving, just waiting for us all to rediscover and tap its wisdom and power for eternal love, life and liberty. So the sacred origins of his mission are clear! A large website of links and information backs up the movie for your further study, so this is a deeply committed resource for your own entry into the awakening tomorrow.
Thank you Foster and all who support you! I'm honored to welcome you into my own heart and visions for the future. I like to think he would appreciate my path of ending the reactive judging mind beginning in the self, because his movie also encourages people to work together in non-violence and stop demonizing each other to see the real problems and solutions we face today. Turning human beings against their own interests by various fear mongering schemes to divide and conquer is one tool of the real predator, both inside and out.
Thanks again to the friend who insisted that I should watch the movie, because I'm glad I did, and by my own path of the earlier reactions I had in the blog entry below. It may seem peevish and overly personal in retrospect, but I stand by what I wrote as part of honestly working up to letting more in. I like to think that we can all respect to share and learn from the processing that is humanly needed to grow into new levels of spiritual family connection, for that is what I feel is a gift of the movie. We all have our stories of humbling paths to follow in order to reach the greater vistas together.
I wish much peace and joy to all who celebrate this week of Thanksgiving! May the new world and old come together in a time of goodwill and feasting.
Carl
ps - tip: if you try watching the movie on youtube and one version gets stuck, just keep scrolling for another that works, as I had to. Perhaps Foster is so wealthy and idealistic that he is allowing some free viewing, but it's also only $5 to stream it from the official website, or $20 for dvd, at http://www.thrivemovement.com
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Sunday 11am:
An interesting new film called "Thrive" debuted on 11/11/11, a date which due to a preponderance of 1's was supposed to be more magical than any other day in which you decide for yourself to change your own life forever.
I hadn't heard of it. I was at an 11/11/11 concert and guided meditation at which I was insightfully miserable and alienated, seated in the back of the room by myself looking over occasionally to a whole row of serendipitously contiguous exes who had no place for me in their life that evening or possibly ever, but who seemed to be all getting along rather splendidly. Ex-whats I can't say exactly, some sort of soulmates, you know how with past lives it can all get so complicated? It's sweet really, to be on the journey of finding the right relationships with each other, so I'm not bitter, I'm grateful, just confused and confounded at times.
There was only one friend who happened to be sitting near me, and she described her recent trip to Turkey, it was great, how did mine go for that world reincarnation conference I was looking forward to on my birthday? Oh, thanks for reminding me, that was one of my broken dreams involving the exes. So I was not just imagining the theme of the evening! It was uncanny, and I could feel the effects of some conspiracy. Later another friend told me she saw me and considered saying hi, but something kept her away. My energy was off and people could feel it!
So a week later I'm feeling much better and reconnected with my friends. This morning I was notified by another ex-something who is very excited about the anti-poverty Occupy protest movement and the recent crackdowns against it, about this movie called Thrive. Apparently it's a major inspirational big-budget new age revelation about how humanity would thrive if only there weren't all these conspiracies working tirelessly against it. The ETs tried to give us free limitless energy technology but that got suppressed, GMO foods are making us slaves, illuminati bankers rule the world with the money they print for themselves, the flower of life is everywhere but constantly discredited, helpless people and nature are suffering in a closed system, etc. I watched the trailer and cried, because the human potential is so close, real, and sacred.
Then I looked on the internet at what people were saying about Thrive, because I'm trying to write my own book on how to make the world a better place and don't have much time to watch movies. Secondary and tertiary sources have their place after all!
So I replied to my friend's email with the following points, which I then embellished for this blog:
Fascinating... there are anti-conspiracy people who are against this movie
because they say it is anti-anti-conspiracy as it promotes hopelessness. The film really just convinces you of your weakness against the powers that will hunt you and stop you, offering only vague rebel cheerleading designed to go nowhere.
http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.com/2011/11/thrive-movie-is-not-about-thriving-at.html
And then there are anti-anti-anti-conspiracists who are against this movie
as well as freemasonery and other popular scapegoats villified by the
conspiracy.
http://helpfreetheearth.com/news461_thrive.html
So who is the elite controlling our lives? Republicans, bankers, jews,
freemasons? Depends on who you talk to, doesn't it. I can tell you right now that it was my grandfather. They say he was evil and abused my mother who neglected me in her PTSD which made me compulsive for the love of emotionally unavailable hurt angry women, instead of loving and balancing myself to do more of my life's purpose on this planet without the fear of someone controlling me.
Unfortunately, my conspiracy theory hasn't proved to be popular with many
other people, though my sister agreed with it, and she died of cancer that started in her breast just like my mother, which I know for a fact is an effect of the conspiracy. But most people think my grandfather just wasn't that powerful, and one of the only people who says that he was, my therapist, then questions who controlled and abused him.
So the problem I really see is the anti thinking that thinks in conspiracies and
enemies. The link we saw recently about how a scientific proof has been
made that a small number of elite really do control the world's money did NOT prove intent, in fact it said otherwise. It said that what they observed was
consistent with a phenomenon seen in all of nature, that specialization and
centralization of functions will evolve.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/333389/title/Financial_world_dominated_by_a_few_deep_pockets
That a small number of elite will direct the flow of the world's money may be inevitable, and doesn't have to be a bad thing, even if that destiny has been currently stolen by a few opportunists and engineers of domination. So who would be right for the job? The same human beings only awakened perhaps? That would be the most elegant and efficient solution, to change people in place, to trigger an overthrow of the mind by the heart of humanity. What would it take to awaken us all together to the incredibly preferrable and infinite potentials of sustainably loving and thriving? After all, healthy customers and a bountiful planet are just plain good for business.
It is fear and paranoia in the poverty of imagination that is the enemy. There is no monolithic conspiracy out there, only in here. Oh sure there are some seriously dangerous directions to watch out for, but the more that we judge and separate the world into good and evil intentions, the more we are an expression of the evil forming intention which remains unconscious in everyone. No one is trying to control and destroy the planet, but everyone is trying to control the planet to make it a better place for themselves, and everyone needs to learn self control to work with others so we don't destroy our humanity and the planet together.
There is much talk of ending the conscious elite conspiracy who rule us, by trusting and following an unconscious decentralized opposition movement. But the unconscious decentralized opposition movement is already here, it always has been, and it is what is killing us. It is the enemy, the satan, the fallen angel, the negative ego. The unconscious decentralized unity movement is what we are really seeking, beginning in the inheritance of our own souls in bodies.
All those people who come together spontaneously to rage at the system, who would rather demonize and thus empower the bankers and politicians and whatever enemies instead of considering they're just misguided people with roles to play better, and all those who cannot feel the compassionate love and wisdom of God, who quote the need for non-violence in their passive aggression as they become increasingly violent, whose lives are a mess and not getting better because someone else did it to them (they're correct but then they're not looking to leave the abused feelings either), then they are showing the problem and not the solution.
Everyone needs to stop and look at their own living more closely to find the root causes in HOW they do everything they do, not just what they did or didn't do and what was done to them. When we get the balance right, then we feel the peace of God as we find effective action, to change and love the world which begins within the self. The rare evil-acting individual out there is supported and given opportunity to function by the far more common evil-reacting individual in here. The blameful fear-driven over-reactions and under-reactions by the vast good majority are manipulated by those few idiots who conspire to frighten and dominate.
Protest movements are wonderful, especially when the people in them learn to create new ways of doing things. There is almost certainly something to protest, and how it is done makes all the difference. Sensational conspiracists on all sides are not making contributions to change, in my opinion.
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