There is no one who “tracks” an individual’s progress in assimilating the teachings of Lyricus. Everyone emits or broadcasts a signature vibration. This vibration is collectively woven into a species. It is this vibration that is “read” by Lyricus and it is understood in general terms what the progress of the species is based on this collective signature. There is a common understanding among the teaching core that the confluence of science, art, and religion is inevitable, and it will culminate in the scientific discovery of the human soul, and more specifically, how the human soul is designed


Where DO all our thoughts come from?

Sensory data triggers thoughts. Comparison of actions and thoughts trigger new thoughts. New thoughts trigger new actions. This cycle repeats endlessly in an ascending spiral, lateral spiral, or descending spiral. This is why sensory data quality is so critical.

For example, research has shown that the average person, by the time they become an adult, has seen 200,000 acts of violence as portrayed through media. These exposures to violence support the aggressive tendencies inherent in the human instrument’s survival instincts. This aggression manifests on all scales of human endeavor, it is not limited to the interactions of one individual to another, indeed, it manifests as international discord as well. The particle within the individuated consciousness called the human personality is constantly being conditioned by society. Intentionally or not, if this element of your identity becomes your exclusive perceptual locus, you will tend to respond to life according to the embedded program of your human personality – your instincts. There is also an embedded program within the individuated consciousness, and this program – as it pertains to the worlds of time and space – is primarily expressed through the Remnant Imprint of the Sovereign Integral.

Individuals who declare themselves an individuated consciousness, not merely a human personality, are immediately more connected to the voice of the Remnant Imprint. This simple act can rekindle the embedded program within the individuated consciousness and spark a new wisdom path. There is an unimaginable shortage of media that speaks to this aspect of the human consciousness and supports this program to emerge and express itself.

Humanity is like a vast river of consciousness that flows according to its collective will. This collective will is conditioned by First Source, the sovereign will of the individuated consciousness, and the master template of the soul carrier itself. Collectively these three elements converge and create the banks of the “river”, the topography of its journey, and the destination to which it flows.








What is the best way to obtain and experience higher powers or the 'super' human state of mind.

Align your personal objectives with the universal objectives. In other words, if you focus your efforts on finding the sensory data streams that resonate with your consciousness and lead to your self-mastery, these same data streams will illuminate the universal objectives as they pertain to the species of which you are a part and the planet upon which your species exists. Once this is realized -- even dimly -- you can align your personal path with the universal. When this done, you accelerate at the rate that is optimal for your consciousness, while remaining in balance.

Upon earth there is an order of non-physical teachers with whom we coordinate our agenda and essential objectives. These teachers are experienced in the human condition, and thus possess the critical elements of compassion and empathy of which we -- of Lyricus -- are sometimes less replete. They provide stewardship of our objectives in the context of the human condition and advise us in the matters of the emotional and mental conflicts that confound and confuse humanity.

Extraterrestrials are walking around on earth, you just don't recognize them as extraterrestrials because the human genome and the genome of many extraterrestrial races are essentially the same. There will be ETs of a different cast that will make their presence known in the next decade, but they will not interfere with the social order. When the Grand Portal is unveiled by human hands you will invoke the attention of the Galactic Federation, and humanity will be invited to interact in the affairs of the galactic family.





Evil

The Dark Lodge continues to consume and project power within the physical and emotional planes of terra-earth, irrespective of the external events of war. In other words, wars and political unrest are not barometers of the Dark Lodge. Rather, the signs of the Dark Lodge are found in the ethics of adults and children, and how, on a collective basis, these situational ethics re-direct the global culture away from the divine will-to-good. Until the Wholeness Navigator (a component of the human soul) is discovered and its practical applications employed by a critical mass of humans, the Dark Lodge will dominate in this physical realm.

It is not commonly understood in religious circles, but the major power centers of religious activity on earth each possess an inner circle of authority, and these individuals are at least dimly aware of these prophecies, and in one instance, are crystal clear about what the future holds in the 21st century. Thus, using my criteria, the year 2012 is not a particularly significant year. However, if someone is more attuned to the physical environment, the year 2012 may indeed hold some significant events. (Black Pope) - / - (Prophecy)

Among species whose religious and spiritual identities are fragmented, religious leaders are essentially in competition. That is to say, leadership has chosen to define the spiritual worlds and individual purpose therein differently. This is common among species that have partial activation of the soul carrier’s sensorial capacity. This fractional capacity is precisely the cause of discordant views by spiritual leaders, and the resulting rivalry is the primary cause of resistance expressed by spiritual leaders when the Grand Portal is discovered.

The primary concern in the universe is not evil, but ignorance. When members of a species are in ignorance of their identity as an individuated consciousness, they are more easily manipulated and seduced by the temporal illusions of MEST (matter, energy, space, time). The MEST universe is the most exterial view of the multiverse, and those who identify with it as their true home are living in ignorance. It is from this lack of knowledge that the concept of evil has propagated into an array of characters, energies, and motives. Evil, at its most distilled level, is merely partial awareness, and from this partial awareness, the soul carrier of any species is capable of behaviors that can be termed evil. Evil, as it pertains to a personality like First Source, does not exist. It is not a codified energy system or intelligence. It is a behavioral expression of ignorance and nothing more. In this context, Lyricus is concerned with evil, but does not fear its power or impact because evil is not coordinated and coherent, unlike those who are aligned with First Source. Moreover, evil is in conflict with itself more than it is in conflict with First Source and its aligned expressions. In most instances, Lyricus looks upon the evil expressions of a species or one of its members with compassion, heightening our resolve to assist a species to the Grand Portal. In Lyricus terminology, evil is resistance to the path of awareness – namely the Grand Portal. Resistance to the Grand Portal’s discovery and propagation is the primary outgrowth of uninformed entities that desire to retain the deceptions of their personal power, fearing that the enlightenment of the species will displace them. Evil lacks a root system that is fed from the depths of the individuated consciousness, and it is therefore easily eradicated once the individuated consciousness becomes the identity of the human species.




THE PRESENCE OF SOUL
The soul carrier is in a constant state of flux and development that is the result of the dance between the master template, UIS and the DNA molecule present in each cell. As the soul carrier of the species evolves, the DNA molecule increasingly activates its antenna and responds to the higher dimensional, organizing information field that enables the soul carrier to integrate soul consciousness more fully.

As the soul consciousness enters the soul carrier with greater vibratory force and integration, it vibrationally alters the soul carrier. It does this generally in three distinct ways:

1. The energy centers of the soul carrier (sometimes referred to as chakras) are the conduits of UIS energy to the soul carrier – at all levels – physically, emotionally, and mentally. This increase in UIS energy vibrationally shifts the soul carrier, causing it to have greater access to the consciousness of soul.

2. As the frequency of soul is accessed, the soul carrier gains an appreciation and growing realization that it is the carrier wave expression of a God-Fragment interacting with the worlds of linear time, crystallized matter, and three-dimensional space. This new perception portends a transformative identity and value shift.

3. The DNA molecule is both an antenna that attunes to UIS and the master template, as well as a transmitter of its transformations that are a result of its further intimate contact with the soul consciousness. This transmission is a vibrational frequency that is communicable to the DNA molecules of all others within the species, even affecting related species.

The soul is attuned to UIS and operates therein because this is the vibratory field that is native to its essence. As a greater percentage of the species embody their soul consciousness, it becomes easier for the remaining members to do so as well.

As the soul carrier strives to learn about its true identity, it begins to evolve its capacities to learn, conceptualize, create, and manifest new realities. These new realities begin to alter the vibrational density of its home planet and these in turn alter the soul carrier and its ability to perceive something of what it contains.




DEVELOPMENTAL SHIFTS

There are four developmental shifts that precede the emergence of the Grand Portal, and these generally occur within 3-5 generations of the discovery. They are unfolded in the following order:

1. A physical shift is expressed in the planetary environment and spatial surroundings. This physical shift is symbolic of the momentous changes in the virtual structures that prepare the species for the Grand Portal. The physical shifts generally take expression through weather conditions, astronomical anomalies, ethnic turmoil, technological dysfunction, and disease – all of which impact on economic and planetary stability.

2. An emotional shift is expressed in the movement of the species to more effectively manage their emotional center (heart) at an energetic, non-physical level, enabling a higher bandwidth connection between the heart and brain centers. This heart-brain connection aligns the energetic centers of the soul carrier to accept a more intense awakening of the intuitive powers innately present in the genetic mind of the species.

3. A mental shift is expressed as the genetic mind of the species is made more accessible to the species as a result of the previous shift in heart-brain integration. The genetic mind – as the repository of information defined by the species – operates independent of horizontal time flows and can provide quantum leaps in knowledge if its higher dimensional information packets are accessed.

4. A shift within the genetic mind occurs when the grid of the genetic mind becomes discontinuous, forming into multiple groupings. Members of the species will energetically reorganize into resonant groups, each accessing different regions of the genetic mind and evolving a discrete sub-genetic mind whose resonant coupling is more closely fitted to each group.

At the end of the fourth phase the energy of UIS and the virtual structures of the master template begin to “descend” within the planetary dimension of time and space – attracted by the shifting consciousness of the species. Those members of the species that are energetically attracted to the higher dimensional regions of the genetic mind will – during this time – reveal the science of multidimensional reality that has always been encoded into the master template, waiting for the resonance of minds and hearts to uncover it.

The Grand Portal is holographic, emitting from First Source and extending to UIS, embedded within the master template, conducted into the quantum fields of the genetic mind, drawn into the energetic systems of the soul carrier, and finally coiled within the DNA molecule of the species. This masterful interchange of energy, information, and expression is orchestrated by the magnetic field that surrounds the Grand Portal. The Grand Portal is similar to a gravitational field that entrains all surrounding matter to its presence. This presence is electromagnetically released into the three-dimensional realms, whereby it becomes the beckoning force that literally tows a species through time and space to the Grand Portal, and through the energetic field that it represents.




Debt Slaves - Money as debt - Scarcity Vs Abundance


Bankruptcy Statistics
On April 20, 2005, several new bankruptcy law changes were passed and they took effect on October 17, 2005 - exactly 180 days after its signing by President George W. Bush. That's good news for the credit card industry since they've been pushing for tougher bankruptcy laws for the last eight years.

For many families, filing for bankruptcy is a difficult and painful decision. If you think that many filers are wealthy families looking to beat the system, think again. According to recent studies, the vast majority of filers earn less than $25,000 a year and many of these families experience the loss of a job in the months or years prior to filing.

Recent Changes to the Bankruptcy Laws
Approximately 50% of all bankruptcies were caused, at least in part, by illness or medical debts. This means medical bankruptcy involved between roughly 2 million Americans in 2001. Credit card profits have skyrocketed in recent years. From 2000 to 2004, credit card profits jumped from $20 billion to $30 billion - a 50% increase. The credit card industry is looking to entrap many of those same individuals that cannot manage their debt, including aggressively seeking out teenagers. The average household now has more than $8,500 in credit card debt alone.


http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/

Money as Debt Sequel













Positive economy - Abundance



The Cook Plan - http://www.richardccook.com/


Cook’s articles on public policy issues appear widely on the internet and in print venues. He was an adviser to Congressman Dennis Kucinich during the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns and a contributor to the American Monetary Act drafted and currently being promoted by the American Monetary Institute. He has encapsulated his prescriptions in a concise proposal for monetary reform called “The Cook Plan.”

What I am calling the 'Cook Plan' is to pay each resident of the U.S. a dividend, by means of vouchers for the necessities of life, in the amount of $1,000 per month per capita starting immediately as our fair share of the resources of the earth and the productivity of the modern industrial economy. The money would then be deposited in a new network of community savings banks to capitalize lending for consumers, small businesses, and family farming.









The Venus Project - http://www.thevenusproject.com/

A Resource-Based Economy is a system in which all goods and services are available without the use of money, credits, barter or any other system of debt or servitude. All resources become the common heritage of all of the inhabitants, not just a select few. The premise upon which this system is based is that the Earth is abundant with plentiful resource; our practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter productive to our survival. By supplying an efficiently designed economy, everyone can enjoy a very high standard of living with all of the amenities of a high technological society. In an economy based on resources rather than money, we could easily produce all of the necessities of life and provide a high standard of living for all.
In a resource-based economy all of the world's resources are held as the common heritage of all of Earth's people, thus eventually outgrowing the need for the artificial boundaries that separate people. This is the unifying imperative. We must emphasize that this approach to global governance has nothing whatever in common with the present aims of an elite to form a world government with themselves and large corporations at the helm, and the vast majority of the world's population subservient to them. Our vision of globalization empowers each and every person on the planet to be the best they can be, not to live in abject subjugation to a corporate governing body.





For-Giving: A Feminist Criticism of Exchange
by Genevieve Vaughan


The Ascent of Humanity
by Charles Eisenstein
The Age of Separation, the Age of Reunion, and the convergence of crises that is birthing the transition


Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition - (Crisis of Capital animation)
by David Harvey






Peak Oil Energy Scarcity - http://www.paulchefurka.ca/

"However, this does not mean that we should adopt a fatalistic stance and assume there is nothing to be done. In fact nothing could be further from the truth. The need for action is more urgent now than ever. Humanity is not going to go extinct. There are going to be massive and ever-growing numbers of people in dire need for the foreseeable future. We need to start now to put systems, structures and attitudes in place that will help them cope with the difficulties, find happiness where it exists and thrive as best they can. We need to develop new ways of seeing the world, new ways of seeing each other, new values and ethics. We need to do this with the aim of minimizing the misery and ensuring that as many healthy, happy people as possible emerge from this long trauma with the skills and knowledge needed to build the next cycle of civilization." http://www.paulchefurka.ca/WEAP/WEAP.html













Energy Abundance - http://www.wanttoknow.info/newenergysources


There are dozens of new energy systems. Many are viable and well tested. It offers the world pollution-free energy abundance for everyone, everywhere. Yet all these wonderful benefits that can make life on this planet so much easier and better for everyone have been postponed for decades. Why? Whose purposes are served by this postponement?

There are four forces that have worked together to create this situation. The wealthiest families and their central banking institutions are the first force. Their motivations are greed and the need to control almost everything except themselves. Their plan is to eventually control all of the resources of the world, and thereby control everyone's life through the availability of all goods and services.

All four forces are just different aspects of the same process. There is really only one force preventing the availability of new energy technology, and that is unspiritually motivated behavior. New energy technology is an outward manifestation of divine abundance. It is the engine of the economy of an enlightened society, where people voluntarily behave in a respectful and civil manner toward each other. Unspiritualized humans cannot be trusted with new energy. They will only do what they have always done, which is to take merciless advantage of each other, or kill each other and themselves in the process.




http://www.ahealedplanet.net/home.htm














Deep Ecology

Deep ecology is a somewhat recent branch of ecological philosophy (ecosophy) that considers humankind as an integral part of its environment. The philosophy emphasizes the equal value of human and non-human life as well as the importance of the ecosystem and natural processes. It provides a foundation for the environmental and green movements and has led to a new system of environmental ethics.

Deep ecology's core principle is the claim that, like humanity, the living environment as a whole has the same right to live and flourish. Deep ecology describes itself as "deep" because it persists in asking deeper questions concerning "why" and "how" and thus is concerned with the fundamental philosophical questions about the impacts of human life as one part of the ecosphere, rather than with a narrow view of ecology as a branch of biological science, and aims to avoid merely anthropocentric environmentalism, which is concerned with conservation of the environment only for exploitation by and for humans purposes, which excludes the fundamental philosophy of deep ecology. Deep ecology seeks a more holistic view of the world we live in and seeks to apply to life the understanding that separate parts of the ecosystem (including humans) function as a whole. The central spiritual tenet of deep ecology is that the human species is a part of the Earth and not separate from it. A process of self-realisation or "re-earthing" is used for an individual to intuitively gain an ecocentric perspective. The notion is based on the idea that the more we expand the self to identify with "others" (people, animals, ecosystems), the more we realize ourselves.















Transition Towns - Local Resilience - http://www.transitionnetwork.org/

The main aim of the project generally, and echoed by the Towns locally, is to raise awareness of sustainable living and build local resilience in the near future. Communities are encouraged to seek out methods for reducing energy usage as well as increasing their own self reliance—a slogan of the movement is "Food feet, not food miles!" Initiatives so far have included creating community gardens to grow food; business waste exchange, which seeks to match the waste of one industry with another industry that uses this waste; and even simply repairing old items rather than throwing them away.

Central to the Transition Town movement is the idea that a life without oil could in fact be far more enjoyable and fulfilling than the present "by shifting our mind-set we can actually recognise the coming post-cheap oil era as an opportunity rather than a threat, and design the future low carbon age to be thriving, resilient and abundant – somewhere much better to live than our current alienated consumer culture based on greed, war and the myth of perpetual growth."

An essential aspect of Transition in many places, is that the outer work of transition needs to be matched by inner transition. That is in order to move down the energy descent pathways effectively we need to rebuild our relations with our selves, with each other and with the "natural" worlds. That requires focusing on the heart and soul of transition








The Chaos Point by Ervin Laszlo - The world at the crossroads - Devolution or Evolution
Club of Budapest - http://www.clubofbudapest.org/



At the dawn of the twenty-first century we can no longer ignore that current trends are building toward critical thresholds. As we move toward these limits, we are approaching a point of chaos. Chaos theory shows that the evolution of complex systems always involves alternating periods of stability and instability, continuity and discontinuity, order and chaos. We are living in the opening phases of a period of social and ecological instability, at a crucial decision-window. When we reach the point of chaos, the stable "point" and "periodic" attractors of our systems will be joined by "chaotic" or "strange" attractors. They will drive our systems to the crucial point where it will select the one or the other of the paths of evolution available to it.

In the current decision-window our world is supersensitive, so that small fluctuations produce large-scale effects. These are the legendary "butterfly" effects. In periods of relative stability the consciousness of individuals does not play a decisive role in the behavior of society, but when society reaches the limits of its stability and turns chaotic it becomes supersensitive, responsive even to small fluctuations such as changes in the values, beliefs, worldviews and aspirations of its members.


We now live in a period of transformation when a new world is struggling to be born. Ours is an era of decision - a window of unprecedented freedom to decide our destiny. In this decision-window , "fluctuations" - in themselves seemingly powerless actions and initiatives pave the way toward the critical "chaos point" where the system tips in one direction or another. This process is neither predetermined nor random.

As consumers and clients, as taxpayers and voters, and as public opinion holders we can create the kinds of fluctuations - the actions and initiatives - that will tip the coming chaos point toward peace and sustainability. If we are aware of this power in our hands and if we have the will and the wisdom to make use of it, we become masters of our destiny.

Societal evolution is a long-term process, with roots extending back to our species prehistory. It is on the whole irreversible, and it is nonlinear, beset with periodic bifurcations. The current bifurcation takes human community-building from the nation-state to the planetary level. It is as profound as any evolutionary process in history, but it is incomparably faster than anything that went before. It means a shift from Logos, today's economically, politically, and culturally fragmented civilization, to Holos, a global civilization that possesses the will and the vision to acheive solidarity and translate it into international and intercultural coexistance and cooperation.







Perfect Government - John Hagelin Ph.D http://hagelin.org/

In 1960, Maharishi Yogi predicted that even a small number of individuals experiencing and enlivening pure consciousness through meditation - approximately one percent of the population - would create a measurable influence of orderliness and coherence that would spread throughout the surrounding society. This predicted influence of social coherence has been tested by over 40 studies on crime and a variety of social indicators.

The implications for society of a highly-effective and simple technology, which requires direct participation by a relatively small number of people, for reducing social stress, increasing social coherence, and bringing national life into accord with natural law are clearly far-reaching. Reduction in crime rates alone would justify its immediate application. Research predicting a reduction in crime of over 40%, if implemented on a nationwide scale, would constitute an annual governmental savings of over $100 billion.

The presence of a coherence-creating group functions essentially as a "washing machine" for the entire society. It purifies collective consciousness daily, by diffusing the buildup of social stress caused by violations of natural law by the whole population. Individually as subjects gain greater familiarity with the subtle and intricate laws governing the mind and physiology, they spontaneously take natural advantage of these laws of nature to enjoy better health and accomplish their aims more effectively. Over time, as the experience of the total potential of natural law in pure consciousness becomes neuro-physiologically stabilized then according to theory and extensive research, thoughts and actions become fully in accord with all the laws of nature and thus of maximum evolutionary benefit to the individual and society.



Government : Innocent Mirror of the People
When the collective consciousness of society becomes more coherent, political infighting is reduced, and the functioning of government is more coherent. This has profound and far-reaching implications. It implies that the government "mirrors" the collective consciousness of the people. Incoherent national consciousness - criminal, stressed, conflict ridden, scandal-prone - breeds similar behaviour in government.

In effect governments do not lead. Governments are themselves governed - ruled by the collective consciousness of the people. Government leaders cannnot implement new legislative initiatives, or innovative solutions to national problems, that are too far ahead of the comprehension and/or deservability of the people. To even propose such initiatives invites criticism, popular resistance, and politically motivated opposition. Thus while the government appears to lead, in reality, it does not, it is ruled by the collective consciousness and the collective destiny, of the people.

This, one could say, is the "catch 22" of government. The citizens expect the government to lead, to raise the standard of living and to solve national problems, but the governments ability to act effectively is obstructed by the quality of collective consciousness. Thus a government can only lead by raising the quality of collective consciousness, and the deservability of the people. Without this basic ability, government is powerless to lead and truly has no sovereign status.









God and the particles of doom - Second chance for Large Hadron Collider to deliver universe's secrets

Worlds First Time Machine - through the 5th dimension


Discoveries would include the God Particle, a tiny entity also called the Higgs Boson, which is believed to give objects – including people – their mass. In addition, dark matter, a mysterious, invisible form of matter that permeates the universe, would be uncovered, along with a host of other revolutionary discoveries.
More than a year after an explosion of sparks, soot and frigid helium shut it down, the world’s biggest and most expensive physics experiment, known as the Large Hadron Collider, is poised to start up again. In December, if all goes well, protons will start smashing together in an underground racetrack outside Geneva in a search for forces and particles that reigned during the first trillionth of a second of the Big Bang.
Then it will be time to test one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science. I’m not talking about extra dimensions of space-time, dark matter or even black holes that eat the Earth. No, I’m talking about the notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.
Cern almost succeeded last year. Now it is convinced that it has got it right this time. "All I can say is that the LHC is a much safer, much better understood machine than it was a year ago," said Myers. Most physicists believe he is right. "If it works, we will have built the most complex machine in history," said one. "If not, we will have assembled the world's most expensive piece of modern art."

BBC Horizon - What is Reality - http://youtu.be/Xr5nWRE-LAE






Albert Bartlett - http://www.albartlett.org/

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."


THE SOLUTION
A spherical earth is finite and hence is forever unappealing to the devotees of perpetual growth. In contrast, a flat earth can accomodate growth forever, because a flat earth can be infinite in the two horizontal dimensions.

If the "we can grow forever" people are right, then they will expect us, as scientists, to modify our science in ways that will permit perpetual growth. We will be called on to abandon the "spherical earth" concept and figure out the science of the flat earth. We will be called on to explain the balance of forces that make it possible for astronauts to circle endlessly in orbit above a flat earth, and to explain why astronauts appear to be weightless. We will have to figure out why we have time zones; where do the sun, moon and stars go when they set in the west of an infinite flat earth, and during the night, how do they get back to their starting point in the east. These and a host of other problems will face us as the "infinite earth" people gain more and more acceptance, power and authority. We need to identify these people as members of "The New Flat Earth Society" because a flat earth is the only earth that has the potential to allow the human population to grow forever.



Exponential Growth by Albert Bartlett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&feature=related





Disease
Also, it is a false assumption that disease is “karmically engendered”. Disease is an outgrowth of many things, sometime it’s karmically related, but more times than not, it is an outgrowth of a deeper purpose: in this case, the discovery of soul. Without the medical technology that disease demands, the human soul would remain a fixture of faith and therefore it would find its way into a subset of a species, but not carry the powerful import as when it is proven to exist by science.

Disease serves a purpose for the broader species even though it seems absurd in the context of the individual. The medical technology that a species develops to combat its own mortality, is precisely the technical footing required for science to prove the existence of soul (Grand Portal).

Forgiveness - Peter Russell - http://www.peterrussell.com/index2.php

The conventional understanding of forgiveness is of some absolution or pardon–something along the lines, "I know you did wrong, but I’ll overlook it this time." But the original meaning of forgiveness is very different. The ancient Greek word for "forgiveness", is aphesis, meaning "to let go." When we forgive another we let go of the judgments we may have projected onto them. We release them from all our interpretations and evaluations, all our thoughts of right or wrong, of friend or foe.

Instead we see that here is another human being caught up in their own illusions about themselves and the world around them. Like us, they feel the need for security, control, recognition, approval, or stimulus. They too probably feel threatened by people and things that prevent them finding fulfillment. And, like us, they sometimes make mistakes. Yet, behind all these errors, there is another child of God simply looking for peace of mind.

Even those we regard as evil are seeking the same goal. It is just that for one reason or another–who knows what pain they may have endured in their childhood, or what beliefs they may have adopted–they seek their own fulfillment in ways that are uncaring, and perhaps even cruel. Deep inside, however, they are another spark of the divine light struggling to find some salvation in this world.

Forgiveness is not something we do for the other person so much as something we do for ourselves. When we let go of our judgments of others, we let go of the source of much of our anger and many of our grievances. Our bad feelings may seem justified at the time, but they don’t serve us–in fact, they usually cause more damage to us than they do to the other person. The freer we are of our judgments and grievances, the more at peace we can be in ourselves - http://www.peterrussell.com/SG/Ch7.php#Forgiveness

Eating Fossil Fuels - http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/100303_eating_oil.html

At present, nearly 40% of all land-based photosynthetic capability has been appropriated by human beings. In the United States we divert more than half of the energy captured by photosynthesis. We have taken over all the prime real estate on this planet. The rest of nature is forced to make due with what is left. Plainly, this is one of the major factors in species extinctions and in ecosystem stress.

Between 1950 and 1984, as the Green Revolution transformed agriculture around the globe, world grain production increased by 250%. The energy for the Green Revolution was provided by fossil fuels in the form of fertilizers (natural gas), pesticides (oil), and hydrocarbon fueled irrigation.

In a very real sense, we are literally eating fossil fuels. In their refined study, Giampietro and Pimentel found that 10 kcal of exosomatic energy are required to produce 1 kcal of food delivered to the consumer in the U.S. food system. This includes packaging and all delivery expenses, but excludes household cooking). The U.S. food system consumes ten times more energy than it produces in food energy. This disparity is made possible by nonrenewable fossil fuel stocks.

GasLand - http://youtu.be/phCibwj396I



The Ethics of Eating Meat: A Radical View - By Charles Eisenstein http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/

In order to feed modern society's enormous appetite for meat, animals endure unimaginable suffering in conditions of extreme filth, crowding and confinement. Chickens are packed twenty to a cage, hogs are kept in concrete stalls so narrow they can never turn around. The cruelty is appalling, but no less so than the environmental effects. Meat animals are fed anywhere from five to fifteen pounds of vegetable protein for each pound of meat produced--an unconscionable practice in a world where many go hungry. Whereas one-sixth an acre of land can feed a vegetarian for a year, over three acres are required to provide the grain needed to raise a year's worth of meat for the average meat-eater.

Hundreds of different studies concur, showing that vegetarians who eat balanced diets have lower rates of coronary artery disease, hypertension, obesity, and certain cancers. In 1999, a meta-analysis of several vegetarian and vegan mortality studies was conducted. The results of these studies were compared together and re-analyzed. The researchers concluded that even reducing meat in your diet had a significant effect on lowering your rate of disease. People who ate meat just once a week had a 20% lower rate of dying from heart disease, and their over-all mortality rate was reduced by 10%.

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