A reader of my book, Looking Seeing & Knowing, wrote in saying:
"On page 55, you say that the Earth is scratching at disharmonious parts, but when natural cataclysms happen, they seem to happen to all types of people, and often in parts of the world where people are rather innocent and living close to nature."
Good question! After writing her a reply, I decided that this is a point in which others may be interested.
First of all, I've noticed that when Rasha talks about future events, he often sites some spiritual reason for their occurance. Sometimes, he'll comment on how the affected area is out of balance or out of harmony, and why it needs to be impacted in some way before our transition to the new beginning after 2012 can take hold.
Basically, we've been told that the reason we have to have the destructive earth changes is because of the negativity that needs to be purged. That's not just because of the people currently living in an area. Negativity has been building up in some areas for over 5000 years.
People currently living in an area can mitigate that historic negativity. However, it's more likely that they were attracted to the area in order to participate in it for the purpose of righting some wrong they feel on a deep level. Also, just because people live "simply" doesn't mean that they live close to nature or in harmony with it. Look at all the poor farmers who keep slashing and burning the rain forests.
Anyway, something my higher self said to me once comes to mind whenever I try to pin down an absolute ruling principle to explain how things must always have a divine order despite the appearance of things. I know many popular spiritual gurus proclaim that nothing ever goes wrong, and I'd agree in that broad principle. However, I'll just say that some major misconceptions abound in the understanding of this principle (just as they do with just about everything else we often think we know.)
Taking responsibility for our lives while humbly admitting that we're human and, while part of God, we ARE NOT the totality of God, is a big step over the erroneous belief that we have direct control over everything that happens in our life. (Read my blog on Magic versus Mysticism on Sept 18, 2009 or my April 18th Rant on the Secret in the middle of this page for more on that.)
Anyway, once when I was whining to my higher self about my life down here, he said, "It's not supposed to be perfect."
If we wanted perfect, fair and comfortable, we'd stay in heaven. It balances out eventually - when you consider our multiple lives here. Still, taken one life at a time, things can seem so unfair and wrong that we feel compelled to come back to settle the score. Actually, that's the essence of the principle of karma.
In Magical Mechanisms, I tell how the Hopi say that during these times of earth changes the land under those living in harmony with the Earth will raise into plateaus above all the problems, and how Edgar Casey also once said that our consciousness affects the land around us. Still, does that mean that good people won't ever be caught up in catastrophes? Well, according to Hunt anyway, absolutely not.
We definitely affect our environment, but in order to make karma the perfect system it is for testing our commitment and discretion, we simply need interaction with other forces here on earth. It IS a perfect world! However, perfection in a 3-D world just isn't what you might think!
Blessings & Peace,
Hunt
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Saturday, October 10, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Oneness & THE Most Important lesson during this time of transition
Yesterday, the death toll for the Indonesian Earthquake reached 777. I also received an email using the quake victims as examples of how our belief in separation from God causes needless suffering -- proving again the old adage, “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.”
While it may be ultimately true that personal suffering is a reflection of a person’s belief in separation from all that’s good, it's also true that no one’s personal belief is the only force in the universe. This would seem intuitive, but as we transition into our new beginning, the understanding of our mystical connection with our environment is a very important lesson. So it’s being stressed – sometimes when it’s not really appropriate.
The principle of oneness is so important that many people these days are promoting it as the ONLY principle that really matters. However, during this time of transition, which necessitates many people being displaced from their jobs, marriages, health, or perhaps even their lives (as in the case of the Indonesian earthquake victims), saying that their suffering is only caused by their beliefs just adds undo insult to injury.
We asked in channeling if some of the predicted earth changes and resulting suffering could be avoided if we all became suddenly enlightened. The answer, reluctantly, was “No. The Earth needs to purge itself of all the negativity.”
When you’re sick, you may run too hot or too cold. You may shake or shiver. Any number of reactions may occur as your body tries to rid itself of the problem. The earth isn’t sick, but it does need to purge, and no amount of positive thinking is going to change that. These times are difficult enough without carrying responsibility for the whole world on our shoulders!
Again, the understanding that we tend to reflect what we believe in our environment is a really important lesson. Still, people are suffering needlessly right now with guilt about the state of their lives, communities and the world. What everyone has to understand is that we can’t always blame ourselves for what’s going on right now.
What we’re currently experiencing is NOT life as usual. It’s simply a transition, and during this time we’re only responsible for our own reactions – not the actual events that are being orchestrated by a higher power.
We can let go of the responsibility of shaping this world into what we believe it should be. We can let go of the guilt of for not having picture perfect lives, and we can begin by letting go of the need for approval by those semi-enlightened souls who misapply higher principles of oneness to our dynamically transitioning dualistic world.
Hunt Henion
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While it may be ultimately true that personal suffering is a reflection of a person’s belief in separation from all that’s good, it's also true that no one’s personal belief is the only force in the universe. This would seem intuitive, but as we transition into our new beginning, the understanding of our mystical connection with our environment is a very important lesson. So it’s being stressed – sometimes when it’s not really appropriate.
The principle of oneness is so important that many people these days are promoting it as the ONLY principle that really matters. However, during this time of transition, which necessitates many people being displaced from their jobs, marriages, health, or perhaps even their lives (as in the case of the Indonesian earthquake victims), saying that their suffering is only caused by their beliefs just adds undo insult to injury.
We asked in channeling if some of the predicted earth changes and resulting suffering could be avoided if we all became suddenly enlightened. The answer, reluctantly, was “No. The Earth needs to purge itself of all the negativity.”
When you’re sick, you may run too hot or too cold. You may shake or shiver. Any number of reactions may occur as your body tries to rid itself of the problem. The earth isn’t sick, but it does need to purge, and no amount of positive thinking is going to change that. These times are difficult enough without carrying responsibility for the whole world on our shoulders!
Again, the understanding that we tend to reflect what we believe in our environment is a really important lesson. Still, people are suffering needlessly right now with guilt about the state of their lives, communities and the world. What everyone has to understand is that we can’t always blame ourselves for what’s going on right now.
What we’re currently experiencing is NOT life as usual. It’s simply a transition, and during this time we’re only responsible for our own reactions – not the actual events that are being orchestrated by a higher power.
We can let go of the responsibility of shaping this world into what we believe it should be. We can let go of the guilt of for not having picture perfect lives, and we can begin by letting go of the need for approval by those semi-enlightened souls who misapply higher principles of oneness to our dynamically transitioning dualistic world.
Hunt Henion
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Magic versus Mysticism
As we look for ways to expand our awareness of how things work these days; positive thinking, the law of attraction, and similar “mind over matter” concepts are being sold as the new Messiah. Motivational gurus make some good points about human potential. However, it seems to me there are some wrinkles in this new religion.
My parents visited from out of town the other day, and they tried to teach me how to play cribbage while they were here. My mom was explaining the strategy and told me once that we wanted to draw a 5. So, I cut the deck and got a 5. It did help us, but it helped my son and father even more, so we lost that hand. Next, Mom told me we were hoping for a 6, so I cut and we got a 6. Same thing – we got a couple points but our opponents got even more, so we lost again. This little game reminded me why I stopped following conventional guidance many years ago.
Lately, the current wisdom that most of us hear says “Take control of your life. Manifest what you want to happen!”
Sometimes, people ask “Does it work?”
Yes! Of course it works!
The question we should be asking is “Is it in our best interest to work that magic?”
Like those hands of cribbage I lost when I made things happen that I thought I wanted, it’s incredibly easy to force the wrong situations into our lives. During these times of change (i.e. destruction, and the threat of destruction, of just about everything in our lives) pulling a rabbit out of a hat could be really handy! Still, it’s really important to learn to rely on the only thing that is really reliable, and destroy all of our other illusions before they try to destroy us.
Learning to harmonize rather than using all the forces at our disposal to force our own way is the difference between mysticism and magic. Magic make things happen that we want to happen. Mysticism puts our desires and energy in action but leaves us detached from the results, placing our faith instead on the intelligence of the universe.
Those who are religious might want to remember Commandment #1. Reliance on the wisdom of our own ego instead of on our supreme source is a violation of that commandment. The rest of us pragmatic types probably just need to realize that whenever we try to take complete control of a situation, we’re on thin ice. We need to take responsibility for our lives, but that’s entirely different from taking control away from the intelligent, mystical force around us.
Hunt Henion
www.shiftawareness.com
My parents visited from out of town the other day, and they tried to teach me how to play cribbage while they were here. My mom was explaining the strategy and told me once that we wanted to draw a 5. So, I cut the deck and got a 5. It did help us, but it helped my son and father even more, so we lost that hand. Next, Mom told me we were hoping for a 6, so I cut and we got a 6. Same thing – we got a couple points but our opponents got even more, so we lost again. This little game reminded me why I stopped following conventional guidance many years ago.
Lately, the current wisdom that most of us hear says “Take control of your life. Manifest what you want to happen!”
Sometimes, people ask “Does it work?”
Yes! Of course it works!
The question we should be asking is “Is it in our best interest to work that magic?”
Like those hands of cribbage I lost when I made things happen that I thought I wanted, it’s incredibly easy to force the wrong situations into our lives. During these times of change (i.e. destruction, and the threat of destruction, of just about everything in our lives) pulling a rabbit out of a hat could be really handy! Still, it’s really important to learn to rely on the only thing that is really reliable, and destroy all of our other illusions before they try to destroy us.
Learning to harmonize rather than using all the forces at our disposal to force our own way is the difference between mysticism and magic. Magic make things happen that we want to happen. Mysticism puts our desires and energy in action but leaves us detached from the results, placing our faith instead on the intelligence of the universe.
Those who are religious might want to remember Commandment #1. Reliance on the wisdom of our own ego instead of on our supreme source is a violation of that commandment. The rest of us pragmatic types probably just need to realize that whenever we try to take complete control of a situation, we’re on thin ice. We need to take responsibility for our lives, but that’s entirely different from taking control away from the intelligent, mystical force around us.
Hunt Henion
www.shiftawareness.com
Monday, September 7, 2009
Intentions: The Building Blocks of a New World
After asking Rasha personal questions for ourselves and others in a channeled session, I mentioned that a lot of us are having some serious challenges with health, finances, and just about every aspect of our lives. This is what he had to say:
"Everybody’s adjusting to the energies. You’re having growing pains. Know that everything is happening for a reason.
In these times of turbulence, don’t take yourself so seriously! These things do pass. Take time out for yourself. Take a walk and do other things to relax and you’ll wear through this better.
I do see chaos, but there is calm after that. It’s going to be wonderful! People are going to come together in a way they haven’t in a long time. People will come together and stay together."
At one point, after I asked about the particulars of the “chaos” and the “wonderful calm after that,” Rasha responded, “You think too much.”
That comment sparked the memory of a vision I have a few days ago. I was stressed and sat down to do a contemplation – in order to get myself together so I could be more productive. During my little time out, I saw a circle spiraling inward. My guide said, “Productivity is like that.”
I knew instantly that I had to find my center and forget everything else. No matter what happens, there’s always a profound calm deep at our core. Some call this the “seat of soul” or the “heart of our heart.” Still, whatever you call it, when enough people start going there regularly enough to quiet their own personal chaos, the social chaos that most of us get caught up in, at least occasionally, will also have to quietly give way to a new and better order.
This awareness of an underlying stability within, despite the outer chaos, is the building block out of which our new world is being constructed. As more of these blocks are built, more and more people are talking about how to add to this wonderous construction. A sort of spiritual conspiracy is percolating within all established orders as each of us answers the call of soul to do what we can, each in our own way.
As this energy builds, more people, in all walks of life, are holding more strongly all the time to a positive intention, regardless of what they can or can’t actually do about what’s wrong with the world. Just watching people hold to the vision in their hearts and seeing how it feeds the global intention for a better world gives me faith to hold to my vision! This buzz is snowballing now and people all over the world are waking up and putting energy into the prophesized new beginning after 2012.
What we actually do about our intention doesn’t really matter nearly as much as most think. What matters is that we continue to feed that intention with energy by doing SOMETHING. This brings the power down to Earth, and in one unseen way after another puts all of our personal visions, each of our own individual building blocks for the new world, in place.
So don’t be like me and think too much. Seeing things in a spiritual light corrects our thinking and is slowly transforming everyone and everything around us, lending understanding and peace to more situations all the time. So, trust the power of your intentions and keep on doing whatever seems like the right thing – regardless of your initial realistic hopes for success, because all those unrealistic hopes are going to be rewarded in a greater way than anyone can even imagine today!
Many Blessings!
Hunt Henion
www.shiftawareness.com
"Everybody’s adjusting to the energies. You’re having growing pains. Know that everything is happening for a reason.
In these times of turbulence, don’t take yourself so seriously! These things do pass. Take time out for yourself. Take a walk and do other things to relax and you’ll wear through this better.
I do see chaos, but there is calm after that. It’s going to be wonderful! People are going to come together in a way they haven’t in a long time. People will come together and stay together."
At one point, after I asked about the particulars of the “chaos” and the “wonderful calm after that,” Rasha responded, “You think too much.”
That comment sparked the memory of a vision I have a few days ago. I was stressed and sat down to do a contemplation – in order to get myself together so I could be more productive. During my little time out, I saw a circle spiraling inward. My guide said, “Productivity is like that.”
I knew instantly that I had to find my center and forget everything else. No matter what happens, there’s always a profound calm deep at our core. Some call this the “seat of soul” or the “heart of our heart.” Still, whatever you call it, when enough people start going there regularly enough to quiet their own personal chaos, the social chaos that most of us get caught up in, at least occasionally, will also have to quietly give way to a new and better order.
This awareness of an underlying stability within, despite the outer chaos, is the building block out of which our new world is being constructed. As more of these blocks are built, more and more people are talking about how to add to this wonderous construction. A sort of spiritual conspiracy is percolating within all established orders as each of us answers the call of soul to do what we can, each in our own way.
As this energy builds, more people, in all walks of life, are holding more strongly all the time to a positive intention, regardless of what they can or can’t actually do about what’s wrong with the world. Just watching people hold to the vision in their hearts and seeing how it feeds the global intention for a better world gives me faith to hold to my vision! This buzz is snowballing now and people all over the world are waking up and putting energy into the prophesized new beginning after 2012.
What we actually do about our intention doesn’t really matter nearly as much as most think. What matters is that we continue to feed that intention with energy by doing SOMETHING. This brings the power down to Earth, and in one unseen way after another puts all of our personal visions, each of our own individual building blocks for the new world, in place.
So don’t be like me and think too much. Seeing things in a spiritual light corrects our thinking and is slowly transforming everyone and everything around us, lending understanding and peace to more situations all the time. So, trust the power of your intentions and keep on doing whatever seems like the right thing – regardless of your initial realistic hopes for success, because all those unrealistic hopes are going to be rewarded in a greater way than anyone can even imagine today!
Many Blessings!
Hunt Henion
www.shiftawareness.com
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Discovering Life's Purpose
Looking everywhere for the purpose of life is like pushing on a door that actually opens inward in a very natural way. You can push forever and never open a door that opens inwardly! It’s really sad that many very enlightened people push so hard and finally end up only with glowing generalities about their life's purpose, which often don’t have any particular personal applications.
No spiritual guru, besides the one that resides within, can tell us our soul’s intention. However, the good news is that since it’s between us and our higher selves, we aren’t just objective bystanders trying to discover something objective. In fact, when it comes to ourselves, there really is no “objective” reality!
After pondering Soul’s intention my entire life, what I came up with was that our desires and preferences are about as good an indication of what direction we’re supposed to go in as we can get. If you think about it, the desires we had when we planned our life contract are probably very similar to the ones we feel most strongly today. So, instead of spending so much effort searching for some hidden meaning, maybe we should quit fighting ourselves and just give into our hearts desire.
Still, what about our higher purpose? This is where people get hung up. “I know what I want to do, but I want to know what I’m supposed to do?” I felt that way my entire life until a prelife channeled experience revealed what my higher self wanted for me for this lifetime. It was simple. My higher purpose is to help anchor the rising energy of the earth and those on it, so we can all get through this transition (which lasts from about the time I was born until about 5-6 years from now) as easily as possible.
When I asked how I could do that, the answer was basically to stay happy. When I’m happy, my energy is up and I’m fulfilling my higher purpose. How do I keep my energy up? That's the interesting part -- by trusting my deepest inclinations and doing what I want to do. Doing waht i want to do fulfills my personal purposes and staying in a positive, energetic frame of mind fulfills my higher purpose.
This isn’t a coincidence! Life isn’t the battle between good and evil that most of us were taught. Conflict is real. Still, the solution of killing all the bad guys is obviously an illusion. Learning to rise above dulaity is simply a matter of reconcillation and cooperation.
We all really need to find harmony within ourselves NOW and do our part to help create it within our society every day from now on if we hope manifest the new world we all want. We all know that the ancient Mayans forecasted that this new beginning would start after 2012. However, what many don’t know is that they also described how it would take place.
It’s not just a matter of astronomical alignments. They described this current cycle as a time when communication within ourselves and between all of us would become much better. They knew how this new level of honesty and communication would build the foundation for our new world.
Yet, even though this new foundation is part of our forseeable, natural human cycle, foundations don’t just lay themselves. We all need to learn to listen to our hearts and trust our divine desires.
Once you really accept that you are the originator of your purpose, you stop looking outside yourself for that answer. I’m probably a little lazier now than I used to be, but I think that’s part of the plan too. As we run out of energy to search the world for purpose, we discover that our answers are (as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz put it) “…in our backyard,” and “There’s no place like home!”
Hunt Henion
www.shiftawareness.com
No spiritual guru, besides the one that resides within, can tell us our soul’s intention. However, the good news is that since it’s between us and our higher selves, we aren’t just objective bystanders trying to discover something objective. In fact, when it comes to ourselves, there really is no “objective” reality!
After pondering Soul’s intention my entire life, what I came up with was that our desires and preferences are about as good an indication of what direction we’re supposed to go in as we can get. If you think about it, the desires we had when we planned our life contract are probably very similar to the ones we feel most strongly today. So, instead of spending so much effort searching for some hidden meaning, maybe we should quit fighting ourselves and just give into our hearts desire.
Still, what about our higher purpose? This is where people get hung up. “I know what I want to do, but I want to know what I’m supposed to do?” I felt that way my entire life until a prelife channeled experience revealed what my higher self wanted for me for this lifetime. It was simple. My higher purpose is to help anchor the rising energy of the earth and those on it, so we can all get through this transition (which lasts from about the time I was born until about 5-6 years from now) as easily as possible.
When I asked how I could do that, the answer was basically to stay happy. When I’m happy, my energy is up and I’m fulfilling my higher purpose. How do I keep my energy up? That's the interesting part -- by trusting my deepest inclinations and doing what I want to do. Doing waht i want to do fulfills my personal purposes and staying in a positive, energetic frame of mind fulfills my higher purpose.
This isn’t a coincidence! Life isn’t the battle between good and evil that most of us were taught. Conflict is real. Still, the solution of killing all the bad guys is obviously an illusion. Learning to rise above dulaity is simply a matter of reconcillation and cooperation.
We all really need to find harmony within ourselves NOW and do our part to help create it within our society every day from now on if we hope manifest the new world we all want. We all know that the ancient Mayans forecasted that this new beginning would start after 2012. However, what many don’t know is that they also described how it would take place.
It’s not just a matter of astronomical alignments. They described this current cycle as a time when communication within ourselves and between all of us would become much better. They knew how this new level of honesty and communication would build the foundation for our new world.
Yet, even though this new foundation is part of our forseeable, natural human cycle, foundations don’t just lay themselves. We all need to learn to listen to our hearts and trust our divine desires.
Once you really accept that you are the originator of your purpose, you stop looking outside yourself for that answer. I’m probably a little lazier now than I used to be, but I think that’s part of the plan too. As we run out of energy to search the world for purpose, we discover that our answers are (as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz put it) “…in our backyard,” and “There’s no place like home!”
Hunt Henion
www.shiftawareness.com
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Caring, The Cure for Depression
A recent study discovered that the numbers of people on antideprressents has more than doubled in the last nine years: “About 6 percent of people were prescribed an antidepressant in 1996 -- 13 million people. This rose to...27 million people by 2005…”
Any guesses about how many people are on antidepressants this year? Any guesses about how many people would be on them if they could afford, or were more inclined, to seek professional care?
Today, most people see human reactions as either good or bad – constructive, or something to suppress. We all know that there are underlying causes, but there’s no time to think much about that. We have goals and responsibilities. So, we push on pretending we’re more machine than human.
The report goes on to say: “The rise in antidepressant prescriptions also is seen despite a series of public health warnings on use of antidepressant drugs beginning in 2003 after clinical trials showed they increased the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in children and teens.”
So, more people are depressed than ever before, and more people are turning to suicide as their final recourse. Sadly, this trend is most prevalent among children and teens. Is that the legacy we want to be remembered for?
We live in a world of individualists. We each have our own path, and for the most part we’re all walking it alone. Sure, we work and walk along with others, but when one falls by the wayside, we just focus harder on our goals. We have to! We have rent and mortgages – and suicidal kids to take care of.
We’ve all had some great successes! Yet lately, life just isn’t working the way it used to. At some point before antidepressant usage reaches 100% (of those who don’t opt out via suicide), we’re going to have to wake up to the shift back to the old, simpler priorities of really caring about those around us enough to stop what we’re doing and help – or at least show them that they’re not alone.
This may not seem relevant to those of us who are scrambling for survival right now. Everyone has important, personal reasons to keep doing their absolute best to make a way in this world! Still, while we do what we have to do, we also need to learn to shift our priorities and expand our awareness to the needs of others around us. When we do that, others might do the same and for us and we just may be on our way to building the world we all want.
Humans weren’t made to do everything all by themselves. Yet, that’s how we live. Communities break up and scatter as people move on to “better opportunities” elsewhere. Extended families split up, and lately most of our isolated little core families break up too! People grow apart and go their own ways and then need therapy, or at least antidepressants to keep on going.
Isn’t it maybe time to rethink this system? The problem is partly solving itself as kids move back in with their parents after they lose their jobs and/or marriages. Still, others aren’t so lucky and end up under overpasses. These are the humans that the system has used up and spit out, and it’s depressing to live in a world that does that no matter how we’re personally doing!
As we move into the 2012 era of endings and new beginnings, many of us are very aware of what we don’t want in our world anymore. Still, it may seem like a big leap of faith to begin building the foundation of our new world by taking our attention off of our personal priorities and giving it to those around us.
Yet, as we each do what we have to every day, it might be worth investing a little conscious attention on the needs of others. It doesn’t take any time at all to really look into the eyes of the person who’s talking to you. It just takes a minute to really listen and care.
Community is built one conversation and one concern at a time. It’s not really that hard, and reaching out is a proven cure for depression. Besides, those caring conversations may very well end up saving lives – maybe even your own.
Hunt Henion
www.shiftawareness.com
Any guesses about how many people are on antidepressants this year? Any guesses about how many people would be on them if they could afford, or were more inclined, to seek professional care?
Today, most people see human reactions as either good or bad – constructive, or something to suppress. We all know that there are underlying causes, but there’s no time to think much about that. We have goals and responsibilities. So, we push on pretending we’re more machine than human.
The report goes on to say: “The rise in antidepressant prescriptions also is seen despite a series of public health warnings on use of antidepressant drugs beginning in 2003 after clinical trials showed they increased the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in children and teens.”
So, more people are depressed than ever before, and more people are turning to suicide as their final recourse. Sadly, this trend is most prevalent among children and teens. Is that the legacy we want to be remembered for?
We live in a world of individualists. We each have our own path, and for the most part we’re all walking it alone. Sure, we work and walk along with others, but when one falls by the wayside, we just focus harder on our goals. We have to! We have rent and mortgages – and suicidal kids to take care of.
We’ve all had some great successes! Yet lately, life just isn’t working the way it used to. At some point before antidepressant usage reaches 100% (of those who don’t opt out via suicide), we’re going to have to wake up to the shift back to the old, simpler priorities of really caring about those around us enough to stop what we’re doing and help – or at least show them that they’re not alone.
This may not seem relevant to those of us who are scrambling for survival right now. Everyone has important, personal reasons to keep doing their absolute best to make a way in this world! Still, while we do what we have to do, we also need to learn to shift our priorities and expand our awareness to the needs of others around us. When we do that, others might do the same and for us and we just may be on our way to building the world we all want.
Humans weren’t made to do everything all by themselves. Yet, that’s how we live. Communities break up and scatter as people move on to “better opportunities” elsewhere. Extended families split up, and lately most of our isolated little core families break up too! People grow apart and go their own ways and then need therapy, or at least antidepressants to keep on going.
Isn’t it maybe time to rethink this system? The problem is partly solving itself as kids move back in with their parents after they lose their jobs and/or marriages. Still, others aren’t so lucky and end up under overpasses. These are the humans that the system has used up and spit out, and it’s depressing to live in a world that does that no matter how we’re personally doing!
As we move into the 2012 era of endings and new beginnings, many of us are very aware of what we don’t want in our world anymore. Still, it may seem like a big leap of faith to begin building the foundation of our new world by taking our attention off of our personal priorities and giving it to those around us.
Yet, as we each do what we have to every day, it might be worth investing a little conscious attention on the needs of others. It doesn’t take any time at all to really look into the eyes of the person who’s talking to you. It just takes a minute to really listen and care.
Community is built one conversation and one concern at a time. It’s not really that hard, and reaching out is a proven cure for depression. Besides, those caring conversations may very well end up saving lives – maybe even your own.
Hunt Henion
www.shiftawareness.com
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Love & Guidance from Mother Earth
When we channeled a few days ago, Rasha tried to reassure me about the future. Unfortunately, I’ve gotten myself in a predicament again where there isn’t anything concrete just around the corner he could point to as a positive development to alleviate my concerns. He ended up reminding me of the “new dimension” that’s developing.
Even though I keep getting glimpses of it and how things will be when we cross over to it with Mother Earth, it still seems like a remote possibility when I come back to my logical mind. In actuality, I can’t dismiss the visions I keep getting about it, but not really knowing why such a thing would happen, keeps throwing me back into a reliance on my human consciousness. Still, that question of why such a thing would happen has been hanging around in my mind for a while now, and yesterday Mother Earth made herself known and felt deeply to help explain it.
I’ve only had a few conscious contacts with that great soul. Usually, when I think of her and wish we could talk, I sense her all over the world scanning and experiencing the emotions of her people. I’m just one – like one ant in a colony of 6.8 Billion! Yet, on several occasions now her focus has found me. We’ll blend a little, and she’ll share images and feelings with me.
Yesterday, she came to answer my discouragement with her great happiness and relief to be so close to the ascension that can save us all! Even as I say that, she reminds me that most will probably not choose to make such a drastic shift. Still, everyone’s lives will be better by the time the shift comes. (I write about how and why in Looking, Seeing & Knowing.”) Still, that’s not the point for today.
Mother Earth came to share her joy and some images to put the state of the world in perspective for me, and I’d like to try to pass some of that on to you. Still, before I share the individual earth images, I want to try to convey the first image of Mother Earth I got, because after it was all over, that’s still the most powerful of them all.
We know that Mother Earth isn’t really a woman, but that’s how she presented herself to me. Her energies coalesced from all over the globe manifesting into a beautiful, energetic, greatly excited and delighted woman in her 30s-40s. Still, as I continue to contemplate the experience a day later, the single prayer that reaches up out of all of my confusion is that my life be guided in harmony with her vision and that I might somehow grow to reflect her great joy.
My first question after seeing her like this was “Why…?”
She planted the image and excitement of the pilgrims venturing out to the new world. She reminded me how I felt after graduating high school and then college. She showed me how I looked and inspiration and infinite hope I felt when I got married the first time. With those great transitions in mind, she showed me an image of the actual event that excites her right now.
First, I saw her showering in a sparkling light that washed away the negativity she carried. This is currently lightening her load each day, and would explain her boundless joy. Still, her joy is for us too. She showed me how people will focus on her sparkling presence after she’s been cleansed of all the negativity she’s taken on over the past 15,000 years or so. I saw how people will focus on the luminous, twinkling new reality and just walk through into to a new world once she had gotten settled and solid again.
I asked how she saw the condition of the world right now. She replied by showing me scenes of largely peaceful civilizations during the last 100 years and comparing them to scenes throughout the last 5000 years when pockets of peace were the exception. Yet, as I pondered the progress we’ve made, she showed me scenes of situations that hurt her heart the most: Cold, calculated cruelty to animals and calloused disregard of the needs of children.
I was impressed by how much these issues bother her. Then, she showed me the progress we’re making in learning to see the true motives of our leaders. Mass realization of how public opinion has been manipulated will undoubtedly cause chaos before too long. Still, purging that popular illusion will be like untying a huge weight from the consciousness of the world’s people, so we can rise like balloons above all the troubles we’ve known for so long.
Many images of progress of the grand plan floated through my mind as the beautiful and deeply encouraging presence of Mother Earth looked on. I hope I’ve shared the ones that best describe the general situation we all face moving into and through the “ending times” of 2012. Still, each of our relationships to life and the earth is a personal one, and a personal understanding simply has to involve a personal experience.
Mother Earth wants me to assure you that such a personal experience is as easy as walking on the ground with awareness of the life that courses under our feet. Seeing what she sees is as simple as looking into the eyes of those around us with love and acceptance. We are in the midst of a tremendously exciting shift that we may never intellectually understand. Still, a working understanding of the miracle of ascension is as easy as giving or accepting a hug with an open heart.
This great smiling soul ended with this instruction for all of us: “Work on it.”
Pass the word: It’s time to take shelter in our heart.
Many Blessings and hugs,
Hunt
Previous messages from Mother Earth here.
Even though I keep getting glimpses of it and how things will be when we cross over to it with Mother Earth, it still seems like a remote possibility when I come back to my logical mind. In actuality, I can’t dismiss the visions I keep getting about it, but not really knowing why such a thing would happen, keeps throwing me back into a reliance on my human consciousness. Still, that question of why such a thing would happen has been hanging around in my mind for a while now, and yesterday Mother Earth made herself known and felt deeply to help explain it.
I’ve only had a few conscious contacts with that great soul. Usually, when I think of her and wish we could talk, I sense her all over the world scanning and experiencing the emotions of her people. I’m just one – like one ant in a colony of 6.8 Billion! Yet, on several occasions now her focus has found me. We’ll blend a little, and she’ll share images and feelings with me.
Yesterday, she came to answer my discouragement with her great happiness and relief to be so close to the ascension that can save us all! Even as I say that, she reminds me that most will probably not choose to make such a drastic shift. Still, everyone’s lives will be better by the time the shift comes. (I write about how and why in Looking, Seeing & Knowing.”) Still, that’s not the point for today.
Mother Earth came to share her joy and some images to put the state of the world in perspective for me, and I’d like to try to pass some of that on to you. Still, before I share the individual earth images, I want to try to convey the first image of Mother Earth I got, because after it was all over, that’s still the most powerful of them all.
We know that Mother Earth isn’t really a woman, but that’s how she presented herself to me. Her energies coalesced from all over the globe manifesting into a beautiful, energetic, greatly excited and delighted woman in her 30s-40s. Still, as I continue to contemplate the experience a day later, the single prayer that reaches up out of all of my confusion is that my life be guided in harmony with her vision and that I might somehow grow to reflect her great joy.
My first question after seeing her like this was “Why…?”
She planted the image and excitement of the pilgrims venturing out to the new world. She reminded me how I felt after graduating high school and then college. She showed me how I looked and inspiration and infinite hope I felt when I got married the first time. With those great transitions in mind, she showed me an image of the actual event that excites her right now.
First, I saw her showering in a sparkling light that washed away the negativity she carried. This is currently lightening her load each day, and would explain her boundless joy. Still, her joy is for us too. She showed me how people will focus on her sparkling presence after she’s been cleansed of all the negativity she’s taken on over the past 15,000 years or so. I saw how people will focus on the luminous, twinkling new reality and just walk through into to a new world once she had gotten settled and solid again.
I asked how she saw the condition of the world right now. She replied by showing me scenes of largely peaceful civilizations during the last 100 years and comparing them to scenes throughout the last 5000 years when pockets of peace were the exception. Yet, as I pondered the progress we’ve made, she showed me scenes of situations that hurt her heart the most: Cold, calculated cruelty to animals and calloused disregard of the needs of children.
I was impressed by how much these issues bother her. Then, she showed me the progress we’re making in learning to see the true motives of our leaders. Mass realization of how public opinion has been manipulated will undoubtedly cause chaos before too long. Still, purging that popular illusion will be like untying a huge weight from the consciousness of the world’s people, so we can rise like balloons above all the troubles we’ve known for so long.
Many images of progress of the grand plan floated through my mind as the beautiful and deeply encouraging presence of Mother Earth looked on. I hope I’ve shared the ones that best describe the general situation we all face moving into and through the “ending times” of 2012. Still, each of our relationships to life and the earth is a personal one, and a personal understanding simply has to involve a personal experience.
Mother Earth wants me to assure you that such a personal experience is as easy as walking on the ground with awareness of the life that courses under our feet. Seeing what she sees is as simple as looking into the eyes of those around us with love and acceptance. We are in the midst of a tremendously exciting shift that we may never intellectually understand. Still, a working understanding of the miracle of ascension is as easy as giving or accepting a hug with an open heart.
This great smiling soul ended with this instruction for all of us: “Work on it.”
Pass the word: It’s time to take shelter in our heart.
Many Blessings and hugs,
Hunt
Previous messages from Mother Earth here.
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