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    <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:12:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>with aloha</title>
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      <dc:creator>akai</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:12:33 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;to those who feel it&amp;#39;s been a long time - remember...there really is no such thing as time:)&amp;nbsp; - below is part of an email i wrote to a friend and realized...i wanted to share it with friends here on gaia... may you injoy...i am:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we are one&lt;br /&gt;heaven &amp;amp; earth&lt;br /&gt;aki (akai)&lt;br /&gt;___________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ok...so now let&amp;#39;s discuss life - you know - the real stuff:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is almost time. time for what? great question. time for all that is meant and will be. for those things that have waited patiently for me to walk in the wilderness knowing that i wasn&amp;#39;t wandering, but was creating a path that would lead to the joys, wonderment, greatness, and unlimitedness. slowly? my energy has been shifting, everyday i feel closer to what will be instead of feeling the weight of what has been. my since of joy is increasing, my awareness, my sight:) i know moving is connected to a ton of physical things we&amp;#39;ve longed for - don&amp;#39;t think i realized how connected to all things it appears to be. the very glorious feeling of life, real life, really living - is entering me in a way that is so magnificent! it is building daily as if it knows to join all at once would just knock me on my feet because it would be so powerful!:) but over this weekend it came to me, i&amp;#39;m ready. ready for what? for the all of it. ready for the gifts that have been storing themselves up, ready to receive and to share, ready to know and to be, ready for this phase of life,...ready.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;even more importantly, it is apparently ready for me! it has been setting me up, arranging places, people, things, ideals, energies and the party i thought i was throwing, turns out to be the one i&amp;#39;m attending - participating in, living.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;before i went to sleep last night an energy began to merge with me, one that let me know - it is now. now is the next phase that i didn&amp;#39;t even think of as one. joy. abundance. love. peace. compassion. ability. talent. knowledge. power. strength. sight. healthiness. perfection. awareness. fame. laughter. yin &amp;amp; yang.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the peace that sits within me and dwells around me, spreads beyond my sight - is the greatest lover to date:) the knowing of the power of truth, the sureness of future while not worrying, but flowing, knowing, being, seeing and emanating. without having had a session of meditation, prayer or reading - i awake into an energy that i didn&amp;#39;t need to seek, for it hath been waiting for me to awake into it. those things that seemed to be hardships, confusion, lack - they are coming to an end - this is what i thought was what i&amp;#39;d celebrate, only to awaken in the energy of the things that are now instead:) i&amp;#39;d thought i&amp;#39;d be filled with happiness for seeing things end, yet here i sit filled with happiness for the things that are just beginning - how divine. even divinity is smiling within me and it&amp;#39;s light fills my being.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;things that seemed worth stressing over have turned into pure oxygen - they have gone from seeming to be enemies to revealing themselves as friends. anya, my excitement about the now is more than i can type to you, even as i realize you&amp;#39;re the one person i want to type it all too! lol. my sense of awareness is the most awesome i&amp;#39;ve known and my guides tell me it shall increase!!! how wonderful, blissful even. there are things that increase ones ability to tap into the all that is, eating properly, exercising...clean body, clear mind, pure energy. i have not only a desire to lose some weight, but the knowing that i am about to be in the best physical shape of my life. - it is almost funny these things that have come to be with me and instead of putting themselves on a &amp;quot;list&amp;quot; of things to do, they have revealed themselves as complete. shown me that it is no longer a struggle that i shall walk through them and not even feel the workload of what is being done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;joy - unspeakable. who knew? sure we knew - lol. but, i&amp;#39;d been so busy being busy i hadn&amp;#39;t thought of when it might be? hadn&amp;#39;t wished for a date. didn&amp;#39;t look into my crystal globe:) so that is why this email is filled with my own wonderment of the joy that has revealed itself within my being. the things needing to still be done no longer seem like tasks that are daunting, they merely are crumbs on a plate - the small left overs that are so easily washed away creating a new palate to be filled with all that is filling. the junk food has lost flavor and real substance has instead replaced it. ironically the real substance is as simple and easy as air - it just is. i don&amp;#39;t have to fix it, find it, prepare it, wish for it, focus on it, wonder about it - i woke up realizing i am it. i am that i am and am one with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all is and what joy to know that all is now. oh the tingleing sensations that spread throughout me as the joy manifest itself into my reality, my consciences and subconscienous, my energy, earth, sky, water, - life. to awake and actually be awake:) i&amp;#39;m smiling a smile that is so true, divine i could sit in the presence of all that is and be content. not clock it, no mission, no begging, wishing, wanting - just being. knowing that all is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is like going from &amp;quot;seeing&amp;quot; the glorious future that is ahead of us to &amp;quot;being&amp;quot; in it. the power of the truth that it is not to come, it is already being and somehow went from coming one day to revealing that it is all days. oh the unspeakable joy of this truth, the peace that it hath filled me with is one that can only be felt even as words try to express it, yet, i am very aware that you will read these words and be in it also:) they will be experience for you too! how excellent to be in the peace of knowing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;seeing with more than eyes, more than vision, with all that i am - not having really accepted all that that actually is! lol. no more worrying. knowing that all is solved and then dancing with the solution instead of worrying about thinking of a solution. dare it be uttered from my being that this is to be in the presence of the knowledge of the truth of the power of that which creates all that is created. to be in the smile of that which is the power of god/goddess. to be in the humbleness that it is, even while it is all-powerful. to be in the light that it is, even though it is the beauty of night &amp;amp; darkness. to be fed by it, even though it is the greatest thing that all still hunger for. to be in the wonderment of it, even though it is an open book for all to know of. to be in the presence of it, even though it is all that ever was or will be - even infinity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the complexity of explaining the simplest thing ever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i thought i&amp;#39;d reach a place of writing again. channeling again. seeing...etc. but oh what little did i truly see. we hath been given physical eyes that cannot contain all of the earth even as we dwell upon it. we are part of something so massive we hath limited even our own thinking and consciousness of it just so that we could begin to reconceive it slowly, piece by piece. we hath taken a whole and chopped it so that it might be unto us like a puzzle. giving us a since of calm and ability to be able to place each piece slowly over time where it belongs. yet, even as we place these pieces, we hath forgotten how many pieces we have put into place. we hath not taken into account all the others who have been placing pieces into place also. we&amp;#39;ve been so consumed with our section of the puzzle that we sit in awe when it is revealed to us that the puzzle is indeed complete.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;oh goddess that is anya, what does it mean when the puzzle is complete? is it not what we live for? is all complete? are we done? oh the joy to come into the knowledge that completing the puzzle only means that all is beginning!!! in this truth of beginning there is no ending, no middle, no age hath power here - all that is here was always here and will always be. it was never waiting for anything to be complete, it already is completion. yet having no ending, it can only continuously be the beginning of all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;anya!!!!! the oneness that is is. oh the gloriousness to sit within it and be filled of it even while spreading it, knowing it, being one with. - hahahahahahahahahahaha it is the greatest insanity ever! it is the brilliance of the sun and the wetness of rain, it is the hardness of soft dirt - lol. it is all joy! it is the truth that even pain isn&amp;#39;t real - only an illusion we put before ourselves so that we might better appreciate joy - lol...how utterly hilarious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all that is is all there is and oh the peace, the beauty, the wonder, the calm and the excitement!!!!!!!! the realization of true unlimitedness. to dwell here and be there. to sit here and see there. to have learned this but know that. the high has no low there is only this. it was never lost, it was merely a puzzle piece of consciousness knowing it would soon be in place and instead of being just a puzzle would reveal itself as truth. that truth which is unlimited. knows no fear. lives in joy and is creation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to hath stopped to search of becoming a goddess and hath awaken to the truth of being a god. the power to do or be any and all things. the wisdom to choose wisely knowing that all is merely a choice that is consistently offered to eat of daily, nightly, lifely.:) to sit at the supper table filled will all there is and realize...there is no feeling of hunger, to hunger not - lol, lol, lol!!! to see the abundance of all there is to be consumed and then to see and know the truth that we are one with it, not consumers of it. we are not merely guest at a dinner with unlimited fillings, we are the dinner, we are the fillings, we are all that is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to know that any and all desires are merely a thought, a decision away. lol! to know that all desire only takes the thought/decision to have what is desired and then it is also received, for it has always been. all is always being. the powefullness to know one can choose whatever thy heart desires and then the peaceful calm of knowing you already have all. - lol.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this morning what a glorious one it is. they have all been haven&amp;#39;t they? even the ones we slept through! lol...even the ones we awoke to but didn&amp;#39;t really wake up. on cloudy days the sun still shines, you merely have to go beyond the clouds to see it. how divine to live there to be in the truth of the oneness that is the cloud and the sun/son:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as the power of knowledge and truth run amuck through this that is flesh and spirit and mind - it is divine. the smile that hath no reason, knowing that all is reason. the laughter that hears no joke, but knows all is joyfull. the smile that decides to not be contained but instead spread itself to those who look for a cause of it. the power of not being in a limited mind, but an unlimited consciousness. having all experiences reveal their power, their truths. knowing that all that is desired to transpire is, to just merely decide what is desired and to know that it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;lol... how glorious to be in this unexpected place that was completely expecting my arrival! lol. to have obtained a ticket, traveled and still be shocked upon arrival! lol - it is so funny because it is so joyfull that it seeps out of me even as it never runs empty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and so, that which is the most powerful is also the most peaceful. that is the key. that which would otherwise seem overwhelming cannot be so, for it is too peaceful to be overwhelmed by anything except the truth of joy. how do we get to where we&amp;#39;re meant? lol. we&amp;#39;re already there! sleepwalkers who don&amp;#39;t realize how much traveling they&amp;rsquo;re doing. who think travel is literally going from a-z, not realizing that they are the travel.!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;oh the blissfullness of awaking in joy only to uncover that you are the joy you&amp;#39;re also awaking in. there was/is will never be any separation... separation is a gift you&amp;#39;ve given unto yourself so that you might put the puzzle together again in small pieces to not be overwhelmed. welcome to that which is so beyond all the pieces even while being each piece itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so this is joy unspeakable...this is bliss...how divine. lol.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>who are you?</title>
      <author>http://acai.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>akai</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2009:Gaia-263802</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:49:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://acai.gaia.com/blog/2009/3/who_are_you</link>
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&lt;p&gt;        &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: none; "&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:448px;float:none"&gt;            &lt;img src="http://bbg-aura.gaia.com/photos/50/490390/large/north_shore__1.jpg" height="375" width="448" /&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;north shore  1&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br id="ze_clear_120210" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;are you the waters, the land, the mountain, the sand, the sky, the cloud...who are you? are you quite and humble sitting on the sidelines, being admired by those who pass by? or do you drift because you&amp;#39;re the cloud, get washed away because you&amp;#39;re the sand? do you know you hold the power to be all things in your hands? who are you? not what you do for a living or where you&amp;#39;ve traveled to, not how much money you make or the material things you think make you. when you close your eyes at night and open them in the morning...who are you then, when no one is looking, when no one is calling, it is just you in a room late night or early morning, no television and no computer on...who are you when all your friends are gone?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;maybe you&amp;#39;re not who you thought you&amp;#39;d be, or whom you have the power to become. maybe you&amp;#39;ve yet to discover you&amp;#39;re as awesome as daylight and as precious as the sun. are you just beginning or feel your time is done? one thing is for certain, nothing else will ever truly matter until you can answer - who you have become.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;when you answer this question that is so simplistic, yet divine...then he answers and she answers and everyone begins to define...maybe then we&amp;#39;ll know who we all are as mankind. we have spent so much time as man and so little as kind. but, you have to first know you&amp;#39;re the sun, before you bother to rise. know that you&amp;#39;re the sand then you&amp;#39;ll flow into and out of the ocean without a fight. know you&amp;#39;re the land, then you&amp;#39;ll stop poisoning yourself with pesticides. if you knew you where the mountain you would stand tall and help others climb. if you knew you were the ocean you would glisten world wide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the moment you uncover, admit, become or discover who you are...you will look into my eyes and know who i am also. &lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_263802" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>guidance?...as received...bliss...</title>
      <author>http://acai.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>akai</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2009:Gaia-248657</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:33:31 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;Hi Kyle - Happy New Year!!!! My apologies for taking so long to read and respond to your email...you can&amp;#39;t even imagine the things I&amp;#39;ve been up too:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hum... in regard to this entity that seems to be around your friend...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;human&amp;#39;s are very focused on &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;evil&amp;quot; it comes from religious backgrounds that play a huge part in our overall foundation of this life experience. the truth is it&amp;#39;s probably more of there being spirits around who still desire to be in flesh. they&amp;#39;ve gone on, but didn&amp;#39;t leave yet. to us it might have been years since they died, to them, no time has passed at all. this is wonderful from a spiritual perspective, that all time ceases to exist in our truest form, however,  while we&amp;#39;re still in a flesh experience, these beings can manage to take up a lot of &amp;quot;our&amp;quot; time. this is not done maliciously, they simply do not have the experience of time, that is why we must know when to say when:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this being doesn&amp;#39;t sound &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;evil&amp;quot; it sounds like a spirit that hasn&amp;#39;t gone from earth. now this is where it might get tricky but try to follow me:)... in actuality all that is and ever was still is, in that level of truth heaven and earth are not some  physical distance away, all just is and all is in all places...so, if this is true how/why do we say things like crossed over or staying on &amp;quot;this&amp;quot; side - we say that because even though spirits can be everywhere at once - when one goes from a flesh experience you spend some days here helping others cope with losing you (they can literally feel your spiritual energy/presence so even if they&amp;#39;re crying their eyes swolen, it does help) - after what is a short period of time to us, you then go to what is the spiritual realm or side of the veil...heaven...or whatever you&amp;#39;d like to call it:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you do this and go through the review of the life experience you just had, (purchase a movie called Defending Your Life) - now this movie is not exactly how it is, but i was amazed when i saw it...i was thinking wow, someone remembers and is turning it into entertainment - lol...needless to say, the movie is not famous or even popular:)...go figure, guess it&amp;#39;s just meant for those who end up seeing it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;anyway, this won&amp;#39;t show you exactly how it is, but the over concept is there in film. you &amp;quot;cross&amp;quot; over - which simply means you go on the spiritual side of all that is instead of being here on the physical - seeing spirits is merely this, allowing your eyes to see the spiritual side of all that is while you&amp;#39;re still here in the physical, that&amp;#39;s all i&amp;#39;m doing when i see:) and believe me, all is spiritual. the same way you see all these physical things...well...you can see that many spiritual things. it is only looking out of an eye that you don&amp;#39;t ususally use while you still have your physical ones open:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ok - so all that being said, what i pick up from her experience is not a guide or what some call an angel, but merely one who is still around and has not crossed. he is still wandering the earth considering the life he lived and is still in love with the human experience/world. now follow me...when you&amp;#39;re a spirit you can obviously do things you couldn&amp;#39;t do in flesh - unless you&amp;#39;re a rare one that went body &amp;amp; soul:) - you can yes, seemingly walk through walls - truth of course is there is no wall when you&amp;#39;re a spirit. you can be anyplace at any moment without a physical method of travel...but...guess what...you cannot be places that you are not invited to be or allowed to be because the human there has empowered their freewill while here on earth and sent you away or put up a protection that basically says no to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hence why you should never put a &amp;quot;welcome&amp;quot; mat in front of your door. now on the flip side even though humans don&amp;#39;t physically walk through walls (well not typical ones - lol, guru...maybe and even their spirit selves, but not their flesh self) - there are many other things we do/have that once you&amp;#39;re in spiritual form you no longer do. they are things we take for granted and see as very basic. yet, they are the only things those who do not leave earth&amp;#39;s plain are longing to have once again. they are the only things they can envy in us...what are they?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;touch, taste, smell&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;not just to move objects which yes, they can do - but truthfully usually don&amp;#39;t do in front of you as they don&amp;#39;t wish to frighten you - the &amp;quot;higher&amp;quot; ones that is:)... moving objects with energy is easy, they issues is this...they no longer feel the object like we do...there is no flesh that touches the object for them, it would be as if you moved something with your mind, you would not experience the cold or warmth of the object, the soft or hard of it, it would just be a thing that traveled from one place to the other - although you&amp;#39;d know it was you...you would have no physical experience of it....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;taste...this is a big one for spirits. one reason people have such a passion for food is because deep within them they recall not being able to eat - not being able to taste...when you have no mouth, tongue, digestives system...well...you&amp;#39;re not  going to tase anything. ever notice the passion we have for food? all the resturants? all the television shows, books...food! lol...well, that&amp;#39;s because it is something you no longer experience when you return to spiritual form. yes, it is something to easily &amp;quot;miss&amp;quot; as you look at someone eating your once favorite item and you can merely recall how it &amp;quot;tasted&amp;quot; but even though you can move it all around the room or world for that matter! lol...you cannot actually &amp;quot;taste&amp;quot; it, you have no mouth...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and alas...you see the steam and you know it smells delicious...but..that too is a memory for you can no longer do what is called &amp;quot;smell.&amp;quot; you look at the beautiful flowers and you can see them...isn&amp;#39;t that still so divine? yes...it is. you can move them if you want, for they can also see you at what is the highest of oneness connection, yet, you no longer have hands to touch them with or a nose to smell them with or lips to kiss them with...you are total energy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;even when you feel a spirit has manifested itself into flesh, in actuality it is like looking at an empty can of soda. you see the can is complete and it appears the lid is closed so you assume it is filled with soda,  in your reality...it isn&amp;#39;t. it has no organs, it will not bleed...it is just a great palor trick that spirits can do if they have your energy to help them:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;wow, they can use your energy too? yes. the same way you can feel the energy of spirit and spirits:) why would you think they cannot feel yours. the same way you can use the energy they give to cheer yourself, heal yourself, uplift yourself...did it ever dawn on you that maybe this wasn&amp;#39;t one sided? maybe, just maybe they can use &amp;quot;your&amp;quot; energy also?...hum...makes you wonder what they do with it doesn&amp;#39;t it:).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so, although one can obviously go on and on about these things, in the particular situation that you have described, it shows itself to me as a spirit who was once in flesh...hence the desire to actually be seen so completely dressed and to &amp;quot;appear&amp;quot; to be solid by moving an item while you watch...ah...the desire to be human...humans don&amp;#39;t appreciate it until they return to spirit form.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so does this make it evil? no. we give &amp;quot;evil&amp;quot; way to much energy as a concept and that in truth is what empowers it:) there it is again, the idea that the energy we have can be used for all kinds of things in this realm and beyond it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;however, although it isn&amp;#39;t &amp;quot;evil&amp;quot; what will you empower it to be? isn&amp;#39;t that the true question? for it cannot even stay in the room with you if you tell it to leave. will you allow it to spend what is no-time to it but all of you time? see, when you&amp;#39;re in human form a year is 365 days long, even a day has hours yes? and so when you spend a day with this being as it does palor tricks for you and watches you doing the simple things that it now realizes are so special because it cannot do them...the true question is...what were you going to do that day?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and so we return to what you shared as an example to your friend - the story of those who are homeless and some even in shelters or hospitials deemed &amp;quot;insane&amp;quot; who are merely conversing with beings that humans refuse to see with the other eye. yet, they have not only seen them, they decided they &amp;quot;understood&amp;quot; them more than anyone else. they decided the could &amp;quot;talk&amp;quot; to them and get a real audience. they decided this feeling of warmth, coziness and tingling was so good they would just keep this spiritual buddy around...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and what is not even a moment for that spirit...turns out to be years, maybe even a lifetime for that human. is the spirit selfish? no, try to comprehend this...it knows no time. time doesn&amp;#39;t exist for it. you are ageless therefore it doesn&amp;#39;t identify with you aging. it is connecting to you at your highest spiritual level which to it looks the same every day. yet, it may be 20 years and the person has been considered homeless or insane all that time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the question here is not whether this entity/spirit is harmless, good or evil - the question is what will you empower it to be? see, in the truth that is, it cannot be evil, yet, if one told you that a spirit stayed around and talked to a human for over 30 years and that human didn&amp;#39;t have a life filled with family, friends, physical experiences because it merely just spoke with that spirit all the time and began to pull itself away from other people - decided they didn&amp;#39;t understand him, but this spirit loved it unconditionally...and that spirit seeing that this person longed to speak with them continued to speak with them and to listen to them and to share energy with them....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as the human&amp;#39;s life passes by, my question to you is...was that evil? evil is what is derived from a human&amp;#39;s mind. since human&amp;#39;s have the capacity to create whatever they can conceive, they have the ability to create that which they would call evil. one would certainly say only evil would watch that person&amp;#39;s entire life be spent in homelessness or a shelter or an insane asylum - yet...what would you say if you were told that to that spirit...it wasn&amp;#39;t an entire life, for the spirit is living in the truth of life never ending. to that spirit, all is still the same moment as the first day of communication - communication that is not of the person to it, but of the creator that is all. the moment when the creator spoke itself into being all else that is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;upon initial reading it first seemed to me that your friend might be communicating with death. and when death is mentioned...hairs stand up on the human arms:) yet...death is not evil. death is not evil. death is merely the same as life. it is what occurs when one goes from one experience of life to another. what most humans don&amp;#39;t know is that death - an actual death guide or some call it a death angel - comes in with you and remains with you until you join it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;does this make you feel wonderfu? it should! it should bring about a sense of peace, not fear. it should give you peace of mind to know that all is prepared for all that is. even how you will return home, your &amp;quot;ticket&amp;quot; is here with you when you are born. when a human dies it is this angel/guide that taps them on the shoulder and says did you enjoy it? was it more fun this time?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is not eiry, scrary, evil to be feared. it is your friend before you come in and when you leave here. it is what spares you feelings that you would know to be tramatic. it touches you when your car is going over a cliff and you join it long before your vehicle and body burst into flames:)...it is a beautiful process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yes, death walks with you and often when you have given credit to a guide for &amp;quot;saving&amp;quot; your life, it is truly death that is deserving of that credit. for whom else should see that you are walking into something that could lead to your demise? wouldn&amp;#39;t it make sense that this being would know when to say, &amp;quot;wait&amp;quot; don&amp;#39;t take that flight or cross the street yet. don&amp;#39;t accept that job or quit today! doesn&amp;#39;t it seem logical to the human mind that death would know how much longer you could stay? that death could say don&amp;#39;t go on that ski trip or don&amp;#39;t sail today? yes. often it is death that has kept you from dying...isn&amp;#39;t that the irony of spirit?...smile...how can you do anything else but smile when you consider that the angel of mercy that &amp;quot;spared&amp;quot; your life was indeed death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so some say why hath god forgotten me? how can god see children die? how can god see people suffer and do nothing? they say there is no god. they say this because it makes them feel better to think that there is none rather than there is one and that it could allow for such pain, sorrow, death, misery. yet it is said unto the human that what if all this time that which ye hath called upon hath always answered thee? that which ye pray to hath not let one prayer go unheard or unanswered? how doeth the human feel to knoweth that ye hath never been alone or left alone or made to suffer?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;are thou prepared to accept the powerful truth? doeth thy eyes, ears desireth to live that which is instead of that which giveth thee no power or responsibility in thy own lives? this is what is... everytime a human beit a child or a senior is faced with the possibility of death, even is faced with that which will lead to what will be it&amp;#39;s death - it is warned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ye chooseth to say there is none that is a creator, and yet we saith unto thee how then hath thou been created? why is it that man can build a building and know that it would not have come into existence without him having done so, yet he refuseth to believe that one also hath created him as even a building of flesh? and we say to thee even as they come to thy divine birthright, why doeth thy feeleth the need to therefore eliminate that which hath birthed thee? does a man saith to his friends that he hath come unto this earth with no mother or father? yet he saith to his friends that this earth hath appeared with no creator...smile. yes, even as thy are human because thy were born unto a human being, thy are also spirit because thy cometh from spirit itself. to that one who saith ye are god, he is god, she is god - is this truly a revelation for thee? is this no different than saying ye are human, he is human, she is human? for how beit that a human can be flesh and spirit unless that human have parents of flesh and a parent of spirit?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we say to thee that the wise human saith unto himself, he is the same unto god as he is unto his mother or father, born out of, conceived even within the body of, and then birth into himself. he now haveth his own flesh, mind, life and yet, he is always part of that which hath created him. we saith unto ye that ye are all god, and yet do not be confused for God/Goddess also still is. the same way ye hath been born of thy mother, yet hath not replaced thy mother with thyself but instead dwelleth as a being and thy mother continue to dwelleth also, even if she hath returned to spirit, ye did not manifest thyself into her flesh. so to is how ye manage to be gods for ye are all created, we are all created from that which is God/Goddess even the earth herself. yet, humans become lost and feel as if they hath no parent when they take their rightful place of birthright and become confused to believe they hath birthed their ownselves or have now replaced that which giveth all life, which is all life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we saith unto you that if a women walketh the earth and none other walketh the earth but she, then one is born unto her and even another and even another - there needeth not have been any man or sex for this to transpire, but it was divine that she became pregnant and did give birth several times over. then all who are born unto her call her the mother of mankind for she hath given them life. she walkedth around with them and all acknowledge her for being the giver of life. what then should happen if she leaveth that land and go unto another one far from the eyes of the children she hath given life too? will they begin to tell history differenlty? will they begin to say one to the other, i was not born unto a woman, i cometh from the ocean? another saith i cometh from the land? another saith i cometh from the clouds?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yet that woman hath only gone to another land and did also birth all that would be life there while her children saith as generations pass, we cometh here of ourselves unto this earth. yet when one challengeth them and saith from whence did thy come? if ye hath come unto this earth, where pretell were thee beforeth thee arrived? and man looketh upon this child for even man hath forgotten to ask the woman from whence did she arrive?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the man hath now created years of ignorance and untruths, fairytales and therefore hath a personal stake in all believeing what he hath conjured up and he saith to the child it is because i hath said it is. he declares that any who speaketh against his truth should be put to death. he doeth this for he hath forgotten to inquire where his mother did come from, he hath forgotten where indeed all hath come from, for albeit she hath given birth to the first order of men, was it she who hath birthed even this who is earth? he knoweth not, for his memory only travels back unto his own birth. since she was always here, he cannot say if she came first and did indeed give birth to the earth itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so mankind hath found fault in God/Goddess mankind hath decided that no mother could give birth to a child and then watch it starve to death. no mother could birth in a child and then watch it die of disease. what kind of mother/father could birth in a child and watch as his brotherin killeth him? so that woman with a big heart and even bigger compassion, empathy saith to herself and those around her, there is no god.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;others join in for they too feel none that is described of as all love, all peace, all joy, could watch these horrible things and do nothing. they come together and call themselves non-believers, atheists...spirit smiles at this. for how many humans hath had their own flesh children look them in the face and say unto them, thee are not mine mother? thee are not mine father? doeth thee then decide that that is what is true? doeth thee forget having conceived and birthed unto the earth this child that now saith thee hath not? can thee causeth thyself to forget?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;no, ye doeth not forget. and neither doeth thy God/Goddess. ye still loveth thy child even if thy child saith unto thee thy hath done them no service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so we say unto mankind, what maketh thee think thy hath no God/Goddess watching over thee? protecting thee? guiding thee? we need not hear thy answer, we knoweth thy answer - it is thee. for thee are given guidance allways. even when thy feeleth thy are sleeping thy are being guided by that which hath been sent to guide thee. consider then this. if thy God/Goddess birthed an earth, all living creatures upon it and even mankind unto it - why then would the God/Goddess no longer be that which it is...a creator. we ask thee to consider in thy own mind, doeth thy know of a creator that only created one thing? even though thy considereth thyself not to be creators we saith unto thee doeth thy hath children? doeth thy have relationships? doeth thy hath songs thy sing? words thy write? doeth thee take blank paper and fill it with thy words or empty air and fill it with thy voice? are thy sure thy are not creators?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if mankind is therefore a creator who creates every moment then what of that which created mankind? with this we give to you another world that hath been created. we give to you the answer to the question that hath been asked for lifetimes, yes, there is that which thy calleth heaven. it was created when earth was created it is. if man&amp;#39;s world and flesh is one of solid form, then we say unto you merely imagine the world that is of spiritual formlessness and ye have before ye the parallel world of that which is what man hath called heaven.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;is it above your world beyond the sky? we saith unto you that it cannot be contained to above or below your earth for it is formless. these things hath not been explained to man in detail for man hath decided to use only his mind to develop his intellect...spirit smiles at this. yet who is to say that it hath not been explained and then was changed for those whom it was later revealed to thought it too great for the minds of men and most importantly, it did not suit their personal wishes of empowerment. they could not hold something against you if you were told it already belongs to you and you do not have to earn it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we saith unto you can mankind conceive the idea of earth being inside of that which men call heaven? we knoweth women should see this easily for even she walketh the earth as an entire earth herself does she not? she walketh with the ability to feed from her own body, give drink and nurishment, without dying herself or having to be dead and then eaten from. on the contrary she carry life within her own body even as she walked upon that which is alive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so can mankind receiveth this gift that is given to you upon the beginning of thy new year? thy earth is merely a star within that which is called heaven...spirit smiles at this. for your world is designed in a way that always gives you the feeling of completion. all things have a beginning and an end, even thy own concepts will often only go so far.... yet, what if it isn&amp;#39;t so. what if ye are part of that which is called heaven, the same as the child groweth inside the mother and thinketh it is in all that is. for it at that time is all it knows of. so for nine months it sees this same interior which to it is not an interior but is an whole world. and when thy mother walketh it is unto the baby the same as when thy world quaketh. the baby feels the &amp;quot;world&amp;quot; moving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hath thy ever conceived the thought that thy are merely in the womb of God/Goddess? that thy hath not even been birth yet...spirit is really smiling at this. for we see thy eyes opening wide at the concept of this, what if thy are actually just a baby? thy stay in that state for years as opposed to thy children which stay in that state for 9 months? we say unto mankind if ye release thy mind an entire world beyond it awaits thee, one in which is not flat nor round but endless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if this is therefore an endless &amp;quot;heaven&amp;quot; that mankind and it&amp;#39;s world is in, then might there be more than one?...hath thy ever heard of a woman who hath given birth to more than one child? did she carry two or three or five or even six children? doeth woman have the capacity to do more than that which created her and all of thy world?...our typist is laughing out loud at this, for here she was lead to answer emails and hath found herself in a channeling...and what better information to give thee than this?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;kyle we saith unto you and thy friend that if ye were merely in the womb of the God/Goddess and the God/Goddess carryeth many children - which are conceived as worlds to thee - then what if one of the children bumped into you? what if this womb unlike the female human womb, is endless and therefore hath what is beyond room to spare and so in order to reach you, your sibling would have to &amp;quot;travel&amp;quot; to your world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;our typist is laughing out loud...and spirit is smiling. oh it just keeps getting better doesn&amp;#39;t it? we say that a woman might have what is called identical twins, they look exactly the same - yet they are two different beings. each capable of having their own life. albeit they are often more connected than others, they are still separate beings. so for that mother who gives birth to 6 children who are all different, but she did indeed carry. they all make different choices and have different experiences, but are all from the same mother.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we saith unto thee that those that would have you believe you are limiting your experience and mind by believing there is a God/Goddess, are actually the ones who are limiting themselves by believing there isn&amp;#39;t. for even as ye realize ye are from the God/Goddess, ye are limited to flesh and humanness - all of you. no matter how many of you, none of you can even walk in space yet without breathing assistance. so if there is only you, isn&amp;#39;t that the concept that is limiting? for if there is a God/Goddess, wouldn&amp;#39;t it be your connection to unlimitedness? for ye seem to be trapped in thy physcial world, yet the God/Goddess is all worlds and all that is, well beyond what you can see or preceive of.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so we say unto thee, did thy really think there was only one world? hath all the women of thy world only given birth to one child each? hath ye on the contrary discovered that thy women can give birth to even 17 or 18, 20? children? our typist smiles as she now sees why she was guided to know of these large families. so if thy women can give birth to so many children what praytell of the God/Goddess? and what if we said unto thee that thee are not the only children? that to that which creates all and is all, all are children. can thy conceive that the earth on which thy live is also a &amp;quot;child&amp;quot; of the God/Goddess?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...she is laughing again... it is so much fun is it not to go beyond the human mind of what is. if thy very earth is a child of the creator and thy are children of the creator...how many children hath the creator created...petter pipper picked a...spirit is smiling and our typist is laughing for it is our mission to give unto thee information that thy hath not spent thy time in thought of or concern of but that will empower thee and inform thee in a way that is necessary for us to do that which we hath volunteered for - yes humans, all have freewill, even that which thy call angels. - we hath volunteered to bring unto the human that which they calleth out for...bliss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;albeit thy hath been lead to believe that ignorance is bliss...spirit smiles at this and so does our partner...we saith unto thee that ignorance is limitation and blissfulness is when ye hath learned all ye can know and is happy because of all of it, not trying to live inspite of it all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;doeth the human feel like reading and hearing many lessons today? for we hath waited to give these things unto ye so that it might coincide with things that are transpiring with thy universe. we would care to share with thee things that our partner hath experienced over these days since we last communicated through her hands, yet, she would not care for them to be shared, so we honor this. yet we say unto those whom also went through many physical experiences before your year ended and as the new one came in, toucheth the crown of thy head and feel around it to see if it hath changed. doeth thy believe thy are hallucinating?...spirit smiles at this...all those headaches had a reason.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if ye were foretold that even thy dna was changing, what limitations did thy place upon this? are ye communicating with thy cells yet? can ye heareth thy own body maketh request unto thee to eat this thing or not to eat that one? to drink this now or that later? to walk..to walk...to walk? our partner is smiling for she hath been ignoring the voice suggesting she walk for sometime now...we know she hath been avoiding even this, yet she laughs at the idea of avoiding that which is bliss. she hath not avoided us in her being or self, yet she hath avoided these sessions...spirit smiles at this, for can ye avoid the house that thy live in? can ye walk upon the earth and avoid it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;no, ye can only ignore it. doeth thy recall what we began discussing in this experience of sharing? how can God/Goddess exist and watch mankind suffer, watch the children die? well on the greatest level of truths, there is none dead all are incapable of dying. we giveth thee this example in the trees as the leaves seem to die yet, are born again with the change of season. the leaves unto thy human eyes were dead, but unto thy world became part of the land and did help the soil which groweth the tree from which the leaves come again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ye thinketh only man and birds can travel long distances, well the next time thy seeth a leaf on a road, smile at it...it is traveling:) what maketh mankind believe it is the only communicator with nature? especially when so few humans even bother to communicate with it? nature speaks in one language, mankind knows this language, it has been being given as a gift to our partner for sometime now, slowly as not to overload her senses by hearing all speaking at once...spirit smiles at this. for she hath had the experience of this once and it did send her to her room and she chose to rest and tell all to leave her alone...spirit smiles at this even as she laughs. if thy tell a spirit to leave thee alone, doeth thy believeth that the spirit must then leave the room or even the earth?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;only mankind thinketh himself so powerful and so weak even at the same time. mankind feel he is powerful enough to say unto a spirit to go and it shall have to go, yet mankind feels she is too weak to be the one deciding who lives or &amp;quot;dies.&amp;quot; mankind can say unto a spirit to leave but not unto death?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;our partner is smiling, she knows where this heading now...if we hath said unto ye that death is merely a spirit an angel as some of ye would call it, that cometh into the human world experience with thee, then if ye can say unto an entity that annoys ye to leave, why not say unto death, not now?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;many of you have learned this seeming secret. ye hath told death not today, not this year, not now....not yet. yet we say unto thee all is and is not one way or one sided...so many of ye hath called unto death and death hath said unto thee...not yet...not today...not this year...not now...spirit smiles at this. for the human being hath misconceived that which is choice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we say unto thee that when thee goeth into a restaurant ye choseth what ever ye desire to eat. many will only choose whatever they see on the menu. others will believe if there is a chef, that one hath the ability to make other things with the ingredients they have and therefore, they ask what else is available or they make a request of what they desire that isn&amp;#39;t written down. we tell you that often their request is honored.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yet, when ye were still growing in thy mother&amp;#39;s womb, did ye not have the diet she provided for thee? yes, ye ate whatever her body did supply for thee and it was all ye knew of...our partner is typing in faith as she rarely knows where it will end up, but hath learned to enjoy the ride instead of focusing on the destination. so we say unto you that choice and freewill are possibly very simple, yet more dynamic then they hath preceived. if thy could allow thyself the knowledge of what thee truly are - which is without limitation - thy experiences on earth would change greatly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if thee are without limitation...ye say to thyself, this is simple enough to comprehend....but we say unto you that you continually only consider your world. you are always thinking within the limitation of earth and flesh and therefore you do not live these truths to the fullness of their meanings. freewill is without limitation to all. yes, even the angels, even the guides, even death, even animals, even trees, even moons and suns...spirit smiles at this as we try to expand the human mind to conceive of more than one earth...more than one child or children being within that which hath no form and no ending, no limitation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we say unto ye that ye need not fear spiritual beings or even death, even as we tell thee that all hath freewill, doeth thy know why ye need not fear? because angels, guides and even that which they call the death angel, hath chosen to use our freewill to help mankind. this is why when ye saith unto death go away, it shall not touch you. it hath no ego, no personal desires, it is not a person. it is divine and still in the form of divinty, without clouded judgement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yet, others hath said unto death to flee from me and it appears death did not listen, but awakened them anyway. unto you we say all is not as it seems. while ye are in tunnel vision - seeing the earth, flesh, desires of flesh, self - there is much more to all that is. often one will consider that he or she had so much more to &amp;quot;live&amp;quot; for. their loved one had &amp;quot;so&amp;quot; much &amp;quot;going&amp;quot; for them...so much to &amp;quot;live&amp;quot; for. we say to you that if ye could fully receive the truth of there being no death, ye would realize your loved one still does have so much to live for and is indeed living those things now. the difference is they are able to see you while they do the things that are on the spiritual plain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;albeit only a few of you allow yoursleves to see us while you&amp;#39;re on the earthly plain. are you receiving this human? are we making this clear enough, for it is so simple it is like a sunrise or sunset...easy to miss. transpiring in what feels like seconds...but the gloriousness you receive if you can catch even a glimse. while others walk around not even appreciating the sun until the cloudy days come, you will walk around with the power of the glorious sunrise/set in your spirit.  carry with you the energy that she gives ony at these times as she comes closer to your earth...as your earth comes closer to her. hath thee ever considered there might be an importance to the rising and setting of the sun and that is why so many try to see it?...they are actually receiving it...wouldn&amp;#39;t you like to know what &amp;quot;it&amp;quot; is?...you&amp;#39;ll have to start catching them yourself then won&amp;#39;t you...spirit smiles at this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so we say to you that in the highest truth of there being no death and none dead, spirit isn&amp;#39;t watching people die and kill each other. yet, we will speak to this for it is very important it is what causes some to say there is no God/Goddess...this human suffering that ye cause upon yeselves. we bring ye back to the lesson of &amp;quot;freewill.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ye say unto us, my son didn&amp;#39;t want to die he was just a boy, my mother didn&amp;#39;t want to die, she had so much to live for. my brother didn&amp;#39;t want to be killed he had plans. my sister didn&amp;#39;t want to die especially not so tragically.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we say this to you...guides.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;what human is the power of your guides?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;did we not say even through our partner as she answered the email sent to her that ye empower those spirits around you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we ask thee a simple question, can ye empower something that we are also telling you is connected to the same power as you? to the one that is all power?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;does man-kind truly believe she hath the capacity to &amp;quot;empower&amp;quot; spirit?...spirit smiles at this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;maybe then there is something else to be learned here, something else to consider or know of. maybe...you have the ability to empower them by merely following their guidance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for if a teacher stands in front of a classroom knowing about the subject she hath been sent to teach far more than those who hath come to learn of it, and as she standeth there, the students choose to become unruly, they begin to make loud noises and listen one to the other instead of that one who hath come to teach - we give this lesson for teachers on earth hath an important mission and many of you will connect to this description in your own memories - if that teacher realizes she cannot shout over all of the voices, she might quietly sit/stand next to the few students who are listening and teach them. she might continue to teach even though you aren&amp;#39;t listening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;some might realize she&amp;#39;s speaking and have a desire to know what she&amp;#39;s teaching, but they don&amp;#39;t let it override their desire to just &amp;quot;hang&amp;quot; out with their buddies. some decide the book they&amp;#39;re reading is too interesting to put away to hear what she&amp;#39;s saying...not realizing they can return to the book, but she will not say the exact same things again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so that teacher teaches, but are you listening? if you&amp;#39;re not, how can you be learning? so we say unto thee that even though this being has all of this knowledge they&amp;#39;ve been sent to your classroom to give to you to share with you - if you do not &amp;quot;empower&amp;quot; them by hearing what they have to say...then...you have used your freewill to remain ignorant of whatever that lesson might have been.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yet, is it not true that the human school system will insist a child take a course again if they do not pass certain tests? have ye ever been faced with the exact same situations in life? and even so, doeth thy know of many students who did indeed graduate even though, they don&amp;#39;t appear to be very knowledgeable?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;when that one finds themselves in a situation where everyone is discussing the topics they managed to avoid, they have to then stand there quietly hoping to &amp;quot;learn&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;catch-up&amp;quot; or they decide they are &amp;quot;overwhelmed&amp;quot; and walk away...again...same information, different teacher trying to deliver it to them...but yet again...it is up to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we say unto thee that the difference between our freewill and yours is patience. we do not have this as an experience for we have no time, no sense of time, being rushed or slowed down, years passing by, aging...etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so if you choose to finally quiet down at the age of 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or 80 or even 12 to hear what is being taught...that&amp;#39;s just fine with us...we will still be there giving you the lesson - not upset, because we don&amp;#39;t have what are human emotions. yes, we know joy - we are joy...we wish you could understand the difference and similarities... that is for another time...spirit smiles at this, for us even when we say it is for another time we are experiencing it now. we experience all now. so for our partner it will be then but for us, it already is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we say to you that albeit we will teach you that lesson you missed when you refused to listen to guidance, chances are likely you&amp;#39;ve already been through many experiences where you could have applied it. oh how unfortunate it is when someone discovers they don&amp;#39;t know cpr when the person before them requires it to live. they think of all the times they could have taken the classes. they think of all they&amp;#39;ve seen on t.v., they figure they can at least try to mimic what they&amp;#39;ve witnessed? but oh the pressure when a life is now in the balance? yes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;of course after that experience, they take a cpr class. this is like guidance - your guides often say to you...no...this person is not in your best interest to date.... you feel it, you see the signs, you receive confirmation...then you date them anyway. when it all ends up in heart break you yell to the heavens...spirit smiles at this, for how does it feel to conceive that you are already in the heavens?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you yell to the heavens and you say, why me? where was God/Goddess? i&amp;#39;m a good person...how could this happen to me?...we say unto you....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;freewill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;your guide gave you guidance, you choose to ignore it. therefore you said to the universe, let it be. all the heartbreak that my guide sees, and is trying to prevent me from experiencing because my guide also sees that it is love my heart is seeking...well, let that heartache be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;then as you cry on your pillow, guess who is there sending you energy so you&amp;#39;ll feel better sooner rather than later...that same guide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;no ego. no selfishness. no personal mission...we are not people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all we &amp;quot;desire&amp;quot; to use a human term you&amp;#39;ll comprehend - is to guide you while you are in humanness, while your spirit is not at 100% and you are subject to tears and sorrow and flesh. all we volunteered to do is help. we are beyond what you call in love with you. if you took the strongest feelings of love for a person you know and multiply that by unlimitedness, you would begin to know the love of God/Goddess.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so you cry for a human day or 2 or 20 or even years. some cry their entire lifetime away. and the atheist says, where is God/Goddess in all of this? where are these supposed guides? why didn&amp;#39;t they encourage you to getup, move on? why didn&amp;#39;t they do this or that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we say unto you that as you ride in you car you see the suggested speed limit. you say it is not a suggestion it is mandatory, it is the law that you follow. we say unto you, if that is true, how do so many of you receive speeding tickets for going beyond it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;are you sure it is mandatory and not suggested? is it merely guidance? did someone who studies these things determine that it was a safe speed to slow down from in case of an emergency based on this particular road? that it was/is a good speed to drive at in order to not use up all of your fuel?...many of you learned this when the gas prices went up...spirit smiles this...if only the human did not live in limitation, would it even need a car to travel?...spirit is smiling, so too is our partner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we say unto you that if you go faster than the suggested speed limit doesn&amp;#39;t that increase your chances of crashing? if you crash are others involved?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yet, isn&amp;#39;t it your freewill that leads you to decide what you desire to do? if it is or isn&amp;#39;t what is best for you is irrelevant. it is your choice, it is your freewill. when you go past the 65mph at 90mph and you simply ignore it...when you crash is it really the fault of God/Goddess?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;why is it that the human chooses to blame spirit for the accident and the death of the teenagers lost, but gives not credit to spirit for sending the guidance to the one who determined 65mph was the safest high-speed to travel at? it is the same freewill of man that would give spirit credit for the crash and death but not give credit for the guidance of the sign that thousands of others have followed and did arrive to their destinations safely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;fortunately, spirit has no ego and you are not hurting spirit&amp;#39;s feelings...you my loves are spirits feelings...spirits smiles at this. our partner really likes that one as she laughs out loud.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yes, you are spirits feelings this is why it would be in your best interest to follow that wonderful feeling you get from that advice you know you should listen to. it would be in your best interest because if you don&amp;#39;t, you are also the one who will feel it. you share these feelings don&amp;#39;t you? the one car crash that killed several teenages, oh the feelings of the families, then it is told to friends and other loved ones and they feel it, then it is shared on the news and all the viewers feel it. now you have the internet so it can be told across the world in seconds everyone can be feeling sorrow at the exact same moment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;have you ever been pregnant? if not speak to a mother who has, ask her if she noticed the difference in her womb when she was sad, depressed, sick, or upset?...if she recalls or not, it affected the experience of pregnancy...being happy, joyful, uplifted or the opposite affects your world...gaia is the womb you are living in...God/Goddess is the endless, formless body that carries you:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so does God/Goddess care?...well...do you care about your womb? our partner is laughing at this, she cares about hers. does God/Goddess care? ...well do you care about your children? your loved ones?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if you can love and care for your pets and flowers why then do you think God/Goddess does not love and care for you? especially since it is that which sent you the pets and flowers to be loved by and loving to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we say this to you, as much as you love your dog or cat if you see it running into the street and you yell to it to stop or come back because you see a car is coming and it doesn&amp;#39;t listen to you so it is hit and wounded or killed, did that happen to it because you loved it less? or do you not exist now because if you existed it couldn&amp;#39;t have happened? or was it up to that cat or dog to stop? was it their freewill to listen to you or go ahead?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so too is the human experience. specifically we can break this down for you, a woman will read this who was guided not to eat a particular food. she did not listen, she ate as much as she wanted to. that woman gave birth to a son who had many medical problems. she couldn&amp;#39;t understand how God/Goddess hath forsaken her. how spirit could allow for her innocent child to be so ill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she hath decided to relieve herself of the torture of the truth, this was caused by her very diet while pregnant. so now that she is blamefree, someone else must be guilty - who better to blame than that which gives all life?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;even still this woman saith why didn&amp;#39;t spirit prevent it? and yet she has no recall of spirit saying each time before she ate of that food, you don&amp;#39;t need this, you shouldn&amp;#39;t eat this...this isn&amp;#39;t good for you...will this hurt the baby?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we say to mankind do ye still smoke even after ye see the surgeon general&amp;#39;s warning on the side of the package of cigarettes? so to do you still do whatever you wish after you hear the voice of guidance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for many to hear and ignore is still a gift for there are countless others who can&amp;#39;t even hear anymore. their heads are filled with so much noise. they hear songs, playing...how many have said &amp;quot;i can&amp;#39;t get that song out of my head?&amp;quot;...they hear the list of things they want to get done that day....they hear their fantasies as they dream of things they aren&amp;#39;t really living. then there are those who hear the television, the music playing, the game&amp;#39;s soundtrack/score, the baby crying, the children yelling, the co-workers talking, the phone constantly ringing...you name it...they hear every voice, every sound...accept God/Goddess....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as a matter of fact if someone tells you they heard that voice they get called all kinds of names, and yet, when your mother or father calls you...do you not hear them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we say to the human that it was told that God/Goddess speaks in the silence....this is true...yet we say unto you that God/Goddess speaks continuously...ye only hear when all else is silent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;does man know that she hath the power to make all else silent anyplace at anytime? it was given as a lesson to our typist just a day ago...even in the midst of chaos and noise ye hath the ability to obtain silence, peace and oneness with that with is your spiritual guide. this bringeth ye closer to the oneness that is with the God/Goddess for your spirit is not flesh and ye hath have to connect to it with thy spirit and thereby lessened thy experience of flesh and increaseth they spiritual self.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;there is God/Goddess. it is what is. it has never left you, this is impossible to do. it is why we say ignorance is not bliss. for the knowledge that it is one with, is what giveth thee power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this is what is hard for some of you to receive, but we offer it to you...when a spiritual guide saith to a young child, you shouldn&amp;#39;t go outside today, you should just stay inside...that child also hath freewill. it&amp;#39;s freewill is not what you will for it. it is no longer in your womb. it now has a womb of it&amp;#39;s own. it chooseth to go outside anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the guide knoweth the potentials of that day/moment and even while the child is outside and it thinketh...&amp;quot;maybe i&amp;#39;ll go to the park&amp;quot; and it&amp;#39;s guide says, &amp;quot;no, you should just stay here.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we say unto you who read and hear these words, you know it to be true that you find yourself in silent conversation with yourselves...doeth thy wonder how this can be? hath thy not considered it is your guide? when the guidance is not necessarily always what you desire at the moment, but is somehow what you know you &amp;quot;should&amp;quot; do...the &amp;quot;right&amp;quot; thing to do?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the child says, &amp;quot;nah, i don&amp;#39;t feel like staying around here...i&amp;#39;m going to the park.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;at that moment, all potentials for the outcome have increased. the spirit guide is speaking even faster, even louder as the child goes toward the park. the child has made up it&amp;#39;s mind and starts singing a song to &amp;quot;drown&amp;quot; the voice telling it to do &amp;quot;the right&amp;quot; thing out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is at the park having fun and says to itself (which is really to it&amp;#39;s guide) &amp;quot;see, i knew this was a good idea, i&amp;#39;m glad i came here.&amp;quot; the guide says, &amp;quot;should probably leave and head home now, it&amp;#39;s been long enough.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;what the child doesn&amp;#39;t know is that the guide is still trying to help them have things turn out in their best interest. we say to you gps.... this was a gift to the creator of it from their guide. to create that which would help you find your way to a destination and be able to do it in real time and to be able to assist you even when you don&amp;#39;t follow it&amp;#39;s instructions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;do humans not see divinity in all things? we say to you when a gps is used and you do not follow its guidance, it will often tell you of another way to go...since you &amp;quot;missed&amp;quot; the turn or the exit or the entrance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hath the human not considered this when driving, guidance...guides? your guides will also try to come up with alternative ways you can still reach the destination that you are actually desiring to travel to....yet, hath thy noticed that often the gps will have to guide you back to where you didn&amp;#39;t listen? it discovers there is no other road leading to your destination. you have to make that turn or you&amp;#39;ll be lost?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the child says...&amp;quot;heck no one has come looking for me yet, i&amp;#39;m going to stay out as long as i can.&amp;quot; the guide responds, but the child is singing again...in order to avoid it&amp;#39;s own guide&amp;#39;s voice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we send love and light to the one who reads this and thinks of their child, we give this to you as the gift that ye hath requested. ye cannot sleep in the torment of what happened to thy child and thy child saith unto us to give to you the truth of that day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is cloudy now, for even the heavens know the potential of what is to be in these moments. the other children start to go home with parents, friends... this child is just relaxing...but anxious, for it is outside without having told anyone where it was going.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;playing, swinging on swings...our partner needs a moment for as it is revealed it is seen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the child stops singing and now hears the angel that is his guide yelling &amp;quot;RUN&amp;quot; it is in fear now, for something is wrong, it has gone too far, it should have listened it should have stayed home...he should have stayed inside. he is snatched and pulled into a van and taken away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we will not tell all that is beyond this. we will say that that  child is now home in the bigger sense of home. where was God/Goddess in all of this?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the same as the guide was trying to get him to use his freewill and stay safe. another guide was trying to get his killer to not take him...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we say to the human being that &amp;quot;all&amp;quot; have &amp;quot;freewill&amp;quot; we wonder now if you will accept the unlimitedness of that. even the killer had the &amp;quot;freewill&amp;quot; to not go out that day. we say to you that they both had the freewill to go out and to meet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;where is God/Goddess in all of this. as he is terrified, tied up in this van, his guide never leaves him. his guide says it&amp;#39;s ok. it&amp;#39;s going to be ok...you are loved...your mother loves you...can you feel all the love of God/Goddess right now here with you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the irony is this, the boy is now so quiet that all he can hear is his own heart beating and the voice of his guide.  it is not one guide or two, the van is completely filled with angels. they are the guides for him and the ones for his killer. all are sending love, light...guidance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;they surround him with their energy. and as the man who hath taken him away does him harm, they take him out of his own mind so that he will not know of it. his spirit is to not be touched. at the moment of when he is killing him...his lifelong angelic guide death touches him...and he leaves instantaneously. his spirit looks into the eyes of his friend death and his friends who where his guides and they all smile, he then says i should have listened to you guys...they say...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;don&amp;#39;t worry about it...there&amp;#39;s another opportunity for you to go back coming up if you want to...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;what about on earth? his parents, his friends, loved ones...they are all pouring their hearts words to each other, hugs, love, candles being lit. it is televised - the nation sends love, feels love all over the world...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the spirit that was the little boy is watching all of it, his guides say look what you caused...he says yeah, little old me...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all of the many prayers can be heard as the world prays for the family...even the earth can feel the love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we say to the human that all outcomes are prepared for. if he had stayed home...he would have been using his freewill to stay on. there was a part of him that knew he was making a very big decision that day...it was his spirit that knew, yet, freewill to listen to guides is always yours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;can you possibly see that we have nothing to loose or gain based on outcome? we will guide you no matter if you listen or not? yes, there was the potential for him to stay on earth for many years and even have children of his own. but can you see the divinity in how he comes back and does?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in the next life experience...he will listen to his guides...he remembers their voice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we say to you that death is merely an angel that has walked with you since birth and will be with you until birth. we say that your guides are not enforcers, they can merely guide you as your speed limit does, it is up to you to follow the guidance. we say to you that there is a God/Goddess and it  chooses to not treat you like puppets having you all do whatever it tells you to do...hence the reason you have &amp;quot;guides.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;mostly we ask you to see that the same power that God/Goddess has to choose to create worlds, peoples, animals, flowers...it so gives to you the power to create what you choose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hath the human being chosen to created destruction, love, war, peace, mercy, forgiveness, medicine, disease, charity, greed....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;what are you choosing human being? who do you say you are? who shall you live to be? what do you stand for? what will you live for?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;let us know...we&amp;#39;re waiting to guide you...no matter your choice...we will support you all the way home...and yet...a few of you will have the experience of home, even now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;allow yourself to be wrapped in the blanket that spirit places upon you, it is filled with love, peace, power...and yes...you are free to not use it at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;bliss&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;these are the writings of bliss as received by that which we call aki. we suggest that you allow them to benefit you without doing anything your guide would not suggest you do...spirit is smiling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we see and know of that which our partner knows not of so we say consider all copywritten. she&amp;#39;s smiling too...it never really ends where you expect it to does it?...that is because...it never really ends, it allways is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we told our partner we would regive the lessen of God/Goddess...this is to help with the mind of mankind...that which creates all cannot be and is not limited to male or female. it is only given to you to help you accept it without question. when referred to in your writings as &amp;quot;the father&amp;quot; we say unto you that men were in rule. if it had been that women were in rule it would have been referred to as &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot; we say unto you that some saith God is the father and earth is the Mother, we saith that the Creator is both and all that is. that which hath the ability to create plant life, animal life, aquatic life...even water cannot be male or female. is not plant or animal. is not human or spirit...but is all that it always was, will be and yet...is also all that it creates. we ask the human to comprehend that if it is all that was initially then wouldn&amp;#39;t all that has been created still have to be from it? and yet...still be one with? when mankind stops seeing God/Goddess as a greyhaired man who sits in a heaven and judges you, but instead as even more than a womb that cares the earth, one of its children...man will be closer to it&amp;#39;s spiritual truth and no loner lost in a flesh based history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God/Goddess is given here so that you might identify what the term you&amp;#39;ve come to know and love, yet, even as we know of your limitations (by choice, by the way) we will not join you in all of you methods, some things just are and will not conform so that you might feel better about your choices. if that which is all is unto you God it must also be Goddess for it need none other to multiply...spirit smiles at this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yet, feel free to will yourselves into conceiving of a creator that is genderless...for on this side of the veil...we are not limited to flesh or body parts that would define what is known to man as sexuality...there is no sex here...alas...that will keep some of you on earth longer won&amp;#39;t it?...spirit smiles at this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we will leave you with this...your spiritual guide has the knowledge and power of bliss...all you ever had to do was ask and yes...it shall be given unto you...but...will you receive it?...for even reception is still up to you and your freewill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;happy new year to the human race...may you give yourselves the things you list as resolutions, we say to the human that peace on earth has been the number one request for lifetimes...maybe you should go ahead and give yourselves that one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;bliss.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>all the love i feel for you starting pouring from my hands...</title>
      <author>http://acai.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>akai</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-242631</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:45:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://acai.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/all_the_love_i_feel_for_you_starting_pouring_from_my_hands</link>
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&lt;p&gt;(this was initially posted in a thread, but is also posted here because it is yours too)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it comes to me that on the spiritual plane the change in diet, lack of what used to be a real desire to consume food has been replaced with the hunger for spirit. the hunger and being fed regularly is more sustenance than any meal i physically ever ate. yes, our bodies are changing as so too is gaia herself and those of us that shall remain must be able to spiritually, physically and mentally be one with her.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; yet, having hungered for truth of the all that is for so much of life and to now be at a place where that hunger is consistently filled with the knowledge and power of the infinite - food that once seemed to be what filled a physical hunger and emptiness, no longer has a hold. eating to live instead of living to eat has become what is.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; this has spread into every aspect of my world, things i thought were my strongest desires are not anymore. the constant exchange with spirit, the guidance, the living, the results of it all have manifested themselves into all that i am and what i require for joy. it takes all i can muster to focus on anything else. i do put all into it for i recall a life as a monk in which i was allowed to only live in the spiritual plane all the time - this is not meant to be that life again, and since i truly did love that! lol...i do focus so that this life experience might be honored as the life it is meant to be.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; i send you all love, light, peace, energy, knowledge, power, kindness, friendship and my spirit, for it is the greatest of me. thank you so much for i am grateful that we are on this journey together. so thankful that you have come to a place of not being blinded by the beautiful veil, but instead keeping your promises to your spiritual self, you rise even beyond that which we thought mattered into the truth of all being unlimited/divine.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; i expressed to ariela in an email how thankful i was to have her, that friendships like these help me to not be lonely. i apologize if that seems selfish, but we are also flesh and to me that is what all these threads really are. at their highest they are within every word of advice, within each description of how we could or couldn&amp;#39;t sleep. the moon that woke us and asked us to dance in her light. the healer who says it wasn&amp;#39;t me who healed thee. the one who stops what they are doing and sends light &amp;amp; love to another. those who recognize that all are sisters, all are brothers even the plants and animals have the same parent as us. in all these exchanges some seeming extraordinary, some seeming very simplistically stated...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; there is this truth - we have decided to go. to stay. to grow. to know. to share. to care. to believe. to receive. to give. to live. to be all that we know is meant. for each other. for our world. for our creator and our creations. every single word of advice, every lol, every :) - everytime i read what one of you has written, this is the power of what it means to me...all of these things. it is the glorious reality that we are not alone and confirms on the highest of levels that...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; we are one.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; since we are one - what would i be if i didn&amp;#39;t have the part of me that is you? i wouldn&amp;#39;t be all that i am, because all that i now lack you make up for and you give to me an endless gift of this. it is my wish, hope and even prayer that i do the same for you. that when you are lonely you might find a word that i&amp;#39;m sending you and allow it to remind you that you are not alone. when you are hungry, i hope i return unto you the meal that you once prepared that i did eat of. when you are wandering, i hope to find you and remind you of home and when you need me, i hope you can close your eyes and be wherever i am, read a poem and feel the love that is sent, smile and let it resonate deep within...but most of all, i hope that you know in this life and beyond i was always and will always be your friend...for that is what you have given.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; isn&amp;#39;t it easy to understand that i love you and need not to have shaken your flesh hand? i love you because i know you, i remember you and i&amp;#39;m so thankful to be here on this earth with you.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;thank you...yes...i mean you!&lt;br /&gt; we are one&lt;br /&gt; aki&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Friday Five</title>
      <author>http://acai.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>akai</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-235746</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:59:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://acai.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/friday_five</link>
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&lt;p&gt;upon logging on to add to my blog - i discovered that i&amp;#39;ve been tagged by &lt;a href="http://meenakshi.gaia.com/blog" target="_blank"&gt;meenakshi&lt;/a&gt; for friday five. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;friday five questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  1) What are you thankful for today?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;music&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;2) What do you appreciate about the Earth? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;her life &amp;amp; the sharing of it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;3) Who is the last person you said &amp;ldquo;thank you&amp;rdquo; to? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;my daughter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;4) When was the last time someone thanked you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;today&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;5) What is your favorite way to say thank you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;it&amp;#39;s below... to: samjhana, suzy, &lt;a href="http://princesamwise.gaia.com/" target="_blank"&gt;samme&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href="http://siona.gaia.com/" target="_blank"&gt;siona&lt;/a&gt; - who all inspired me to sing the song below, each for a very different reason. (hey! i just realized all their names begin with an s :) - thank you all and may each of you know true success in your life&amp;#39;s missions.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;        &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: none; "&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:400px;float:none"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="329" width="400" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/GvE24Y712Oo"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GvE24Y712Oo" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="329" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="400" /&gt;              &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GvE24Y712Oo" height="329" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;            &lt;/object&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;aki_rainbow.mov&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br id="ze_clear_104829" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we are one&lt;br /&gt;aki&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---------&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m tagging: &lt;a href="http://shortsleeves.gaia.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Hal&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://sentientfire.gaia.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Alex&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://ch3shyr3c4t.gaia.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Ashley&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://dragonsbeard.gaia.com/" target="_blank"&gt;C.G.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; and &lt;a href="http://peggyjoycestarr.gaia.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Peggy J&lt;/a&gt; ----------&lt;br /&gt;you&amp;#39;re all it:)...start blogging:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_235746" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>the beauty of family</title>
      <author>http://acai.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>akai</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-234001</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:30:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://acai.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/the_beauty_of_family</link>
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&lt;p&gt;        &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: none; "&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:408px;float:none"&gt;            &lt;img src="http://bbg-aura.gaia.com/photos/46/451398/large/first_Family.jpg" height="500" width="408" /&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;first Family&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br id="ze_clear_104124" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;may their journey be blessed with peace, love and the power of togetherness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we are one&lt;br /&gt;aki&lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_234001" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Obama...Barack Obama</title>
      <author>http://acai.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>akai</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-233928</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:40:20 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;        &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: none; "&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:448px;float:none"&gt;            &lt;img src="http://bbg-aura.gaia.com/photos/46/451320/large/The_President_Elect_.jpg" height="467" width="448" /&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;The President Elect &lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br id="ze_clear_104097" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;OK...I don&amp;#39;t care for the McCain comment - leave the man alone - but...&lt;br /&gt;I could no resist posting this! ...LOL...&lt;br /&gt;All I could think of was a Bond movie - which is why I titled this - &lt;br /&gt;Obama...Barack Obama.&lt;br /&gt;:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we are one&lt;br /&gt;aki&lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_233928" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>what is peace?</title>
      <author>http://acai.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>akai</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-232879</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:33:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://acai.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/what_is_peace</link>
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&lt;p&gt;                                &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: none; "&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:197px;float:none"&gt;            &lt;img src="http://bbg-aura.gaia.com/photos/45/449796/medium/white_wolf.jpg" height="210" width="197" /&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;white wolf&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br id="ze_clear_103620" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;we open with this question instead of its opposite/alternative. when you have found yourself resonating at the level of one with all life and therefore not only not fearing each other, but realizing that even your mother earth is with you and not against you, what are some of the things that are capable of manifesting in your life experience? all things are possible, the difference is that all things will come from the place of peace instead of what you were accustom to being fear. the real power is in your perceptions. we have been sharing this lesson with our partner, albeit she is aware of all things being and therefore all things being possible, there is also a sense of reality that humans experience, that is what makes all around you real to you, if it were not for this ou would be in your spiritual form. know this, you are capable of reaching the level of awareness in which you see beyond what is considered your reality and still remain on earth and with flesh, it is a gift that was always there and yours for choosing, some have chosen it throughout human history, some always will but the some has been a very small number and although you believe that is because they where the only ones choosing we say to you that it wasn&amp;#39;t offered to all. it was offered to those who had the highest potential of accepting the offer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so this is to be said so that you might know where you stand and what the differences are between you and those who seem to not be accompanying you on your journey of awareness, spirituality and truth. some will be stuck in the challenge of getting others to come along, they are vibrating high and they know of joy. it is natural to desire to share this with everyone, after all charity is a gift that spirit places within the earth herself. the earth has given you food, water, shelter, warmth and even through these things and in her mere presence she shares with you her love. she is not limited in mind set as the human mind is, for she is not of flesh. she does not communicate with the same language that man communicates with, but she communicates always - the same&amp;nbsp; as spirit. those of you who have accepted the gifts being offered and have come along on this journey not completely sure of what it will lead you, but having faith in that which is more than your own mind or skin, you have come to know that spirit is, does, and has always communicated not only with earth, but with all that live upon her, dwell around her. spirit is the first communicator that was and will be the last there is...spirit smiles at this. so why then should you be surprised when you world around you, your personal world that you have created for yourself no longer feels comfortable as you begin to vibrate higher, see more clearly, love more completely, hear nature and even know thyself?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you find it amazing that the lives you&amp;#39;ve built no longer represent you and some wonder how they managed to even build that life for themself. yes there are those of you that are in your most delightful worlds within the world, but, many, many more are looking around and saying - this does not represent me - you are correct. so to is the simple example of growth that when you were a baby you drink from a bottle with a nipple or even from that of your own mother and you wore the tinest of clothes. as you grew it took more to fill you and even the clothes you wore could no longer contain who you were becoming. when that growth seemed to stop, only then did your need to buy new clothes cease also, however, did you, don&amp;#39;t you buy new ones anyway? and is this all do to vanity - no. it has many reasons, one of course is that you wear your clothes to the point of being so wore-out they are no longer &amp;quot;suitable&amp;quot; we say to you that they are no longer &amp;quot;presentable&amp;quot; they do not represent how you would like to show yourself to the world. you also buy clothing when you see something that &amp;quot;suits&amp;quot; you more and you give away, or unfortunately - throw away, the clothes that no longer say who you are. you out grow them either physically or from a place of energy connection - but you do indeed out grow them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we say to you then, why do you struggle to accept that you have out-grown some of the beings around you? it is something you struggle with the same way you struggle with giving away that jacket that use to be your favorite even though you haven&amp;#39;t worn it for years and when you put it on you you feel out of date and when you look at yourself you know it doesn&amp;#39;t look to you as it once did. you have outgrown it, it is no longer your style or - in-style...spirit smiles at this. for the human being is always giving to itself the highest of lessons in the simplest forms. you put the jacket on as you contemplate if you will give it away finally to charity, to a place that will recycle or - or even to a loved one who still admires it and whom it seems to currently fit. you may not see that it now fits them because they have reached the place that you were when you wore it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so my loves, will you return it to your closet? give it to charity? share it with a friend? or will you merely throw it away?...none of these things are right or wrong, but their level of consciousness differs. you struggle when you are reaching higher levels and yet, trying to continue to do things you did at lower levels - we say to you that the jacket will not change, it cannot grow that is why it suits you no longer - yet, it can suddenly be something new to someone else - to them it will be more than what they had...to them...it will represent a level of growth. your old, is someone else&amp;#39;s new. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this leads us to helping you define why you struggle with those around you that no longer suit you. you may try, but you just don&amp;#39;t &amp;quot;fit&amp;quot; in any longer with them. you find that the only way to remain in a place of peace is for you to be as quiet as you can or for you to speak with things that interest them, but are of no interest to you. often they are things that benefit not the masses but a self. you allow for these exchanges because you love them. they are that favorite jacket, you don&amp;#39;t want to &amp;quot;give&amp;quot; them away, you don&amp;#39;t want to &amp;quot;loose&amp;quot; them. you would like to hold on to the memory of how wonderful that jacket looked on you and you are holding on to the memory of a relationship that once was, but no longer is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we say that you cannot make your plane if you refuse to stop packing. if you are ready to go and the others in your family, relationships or not, you will have to decide if you&amp;#39;re going to continue on, or stay with them. we say to you are you hanging up the jacket? or are you going into the closet with it? for everytime you do not speak what you know to be your highest truth and you allow for something of what you know to be a low vibrating energy, transpire with you in its presence and you do nothing because you don&amp;#39;t want to disturb the waters, you are giving to it consent. you are saying yes, i agree that you may continue in the journey to now where and i will stand here by the closet to make sure we shall never be far one from the other. in doing this, many of you are in the closet with your jacket and you wonder why you feel trapped.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you are trapped between going and staying, between disconnecting from those who aren&amp;#39;t coming and connecting to those are are on the journey. we say to you that because you dwell with someone it doesn&amp;#39;t mean you have managed to save what you have with them. that divide can continue to grow no matter if you&amp;#39;re next to them or thousands of miles away. so to is the lesson of the internet...spirit smiles at this. how many of you have found that you are closer to people you&amp;#39;ve never met in the flesh than with those you see always? this we say is spiritual, not flesh and that is what makes the difference. when you connect to those on which the level you vibrate they vibrate also, distance is not reality. when you remain with those who no longer represent you, or the world you know is meant to be, you can stand directly next to each other and be worlds apart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yet we say to you this, albeit that you have managed to reach your high levels even with this jacket, with these persons right next to you, what about the next step? are you one of those who is being called to move on? to go someplace else? to meet others that are being - our partner pauses to allow for another to speak through and even through your very hands is a journey itself...spirit smiles at this. - so we say to you that if you are being guided to make new acquaintances are you making them? if you&amp;#39;re being guided to move to new places, are you moving there? what are the things that are seemingly different to you, for you to feel that you suddenly feel guided to or guided to do. be ye not fooled of your own mind and ego, for when you say to yourself you are being guided to this thing or that thing and the only benefit that can be had is one that is selfish, know that your ego is playing havoc with you - spirit does not lead you to grow in a way that only benefits you. spirit is always focused on the all, it is the saying that all is for one and one is for all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;when you decided to use your spirituality and say that it is what has lead you to this disruptive person or that horrible thing, we say to you to challenge yourself, admit to yourself if it were spirit or your own mind/flesh. for you know it to be true but choose the moments of when you will or won&amp;#39;t accept it or live it - spirit knows all that was and is and therefore need not &amp;quot;guide&amp;quot; you to something that is less than love is. on the contrary, it is spirit that speaks to you and tries to help you stay clear of these things, answer yourself honestly - do you listen? when you recall this or that negative thing that none gained from on a consciousness level, do you also recall the moment something said to you...this is not in your best interest? communicating with this person is not in the interest of where your are journeying to? leaving this place or going to that one or even staying here you maybe shouldn&amp;#39;t do?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ask and answer to yourself what is true, you will recall the moment, the quick but memorable second that spirit whispered these things to you. and how did you respond? did you say - oh but i&amp;#39;m vibrating so high i can take this person with me? i&amp;#39;m so spiritual now i can stay at this place and raise it? i&amp;#39;m so aware i can go there even though something says stay, because i am one with gaia and my footsteps are anointed...spirit smiles at this. yes, all is divine, yet is all showing its true divinity? are all having a joyous experience? - we say to you that when even spirit guideth you to stay, go, befriend, disconnect, - when you respond that you are up for the challenge, it is indeed a challenge you will get. for it is spirit that sees what is ahead and that it is unnecessary for you to know this person, or stay in this place or travel to that one. spirit sees that it is not what you are desiring and speaks to you so that you will not encounter it. but, when you override that voice, yes, even many doing so from a place that they believe is their &amp;quot;enlightenment&amp;quot; and you say, i don&amp;#39;t have to disconnect from this person, i will bring to them the gift of enlightenment, i will raise their consciousness - you say this not often in a plain way, but moreso in a way in which you have concluded that they are seeking this from you and will be the better for it once you have given it to them...spirit smiles at this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for yes, it is natural to be asked of things on a spiritual level from another&amp;#39;s spirit, but be ye not confused of when it is spirit spirit&amp;#39;s self saying to you, that this is not your battle. be ye not confused and decide that this is the best for the other person and you are the best to deliver that to them, for in doing so after hearing the voice and receiving the initial intuition of walking away, you have just stopped listening to spirit and have started following ego...spirit smiles at this. for even you have created what is called ego, so, is it not then also divine, as all else is, yes! and that is the dynamics of all of this experience. the key is, it is not as enlightened as your spirit and it is normally created for low vibrating reasons, out of fear, jealousy - things that aren&amp;#39;t your highest feelings or choices. so is there a mandatory process that you must do this or that - of course not. the fact that there isn&amp;#39;t, is the only thing that is mandatory, that is, the fact that you are not made to do anything is the one thing that spirit makes sure of always.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all is choice and when you wonder how such seemingly horrible things can happen to you, we ask that you rethink this and ask if there is the possibility that you are playing a role in these happenings. you individually affect the collective...spirit smiles at this for it is the foundation of the life of mankind. those choices you feel are yours to make and will affect you alone are never that way. every choice you make from what you eat, how often you exercise, the people you spend time with, the projects you put your energy into, what you share with your children...when we say you and your, it is all of you for if you decide to put poisons in your body, when your body becomes ill, are you the only one affected? no, you are not. those who love you personally are now concerned and those who you don&amp;#39;t know by name - yet you all know each other on the highest level- they are subjected to outcomes that began with your health also. this is why - if you do not take care of yourself, you will be one less being around to help everyone else make manifest on your planet that for which you have stayed around for, that which you hoped to achieve before going to earth initially.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;on a more basic human level, you cause for doctors to come and test you or hospitals to admit you - these things involve other beings do they not? so even something as personal as your diet contributes to the whole. when you allow for yourself to be ill, you also contribute to the growth of the medical industry, some will be in light and others will be in ego. so some will spend their time and energy on curing while others spend time, energy and money, on treating. they cause a dependency on them and their drugs, they create within you fears of what would happen if you stopped taking this or that and instead, ate properly, exercised regularly and raised your vibration beyond illness...spirit smiles at this. so just in your deciding this is my body and i&amp;#39;ll put in it what i choose, it&amp;#39;s not so and so&amp;#39;s problem...well my loves this is just not a truth. this is ego talking to you. for spirit would never say to you, please posion that which i hath created, make it heavy to carry, make it awake and sleep in pain, make it uncomfortable and create within it imbalance - no...spirit never says these things. for it is spirit that saith unto you, be ye keepers one of the other and of the earth that keepeth thee fed. be ye keepers of that which giveth thee the ability to have what is a human experience, keepers of thy flesh and the flesh of the animals, polluteth not thy skies for it is thy sky that giveth the light, air and the presence of knowing there is more to thy world than the land that thy feet walketh upon. even thy trees giveth to thee the ability to breathe, while thou would chop them down for profit? how then can ye profit if thy killeth that which help giveth thee life? does ye yet not knoweth the difference between when the spirit hath guideth thee and when thy own mind hath said unto thee that thee need not worry about any life for all that matters is ye to whom it speaketh to?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;do ye not knoweth the difference bewteen love and fear? are ye unaware of what it is to be a giver or a taker? doeth thy acts blesseth those around thee or do thy cause harm? and wouldn&amp;#39;t thou have to knowest what harm ye might cause in even the acts thy feel are only affecting you, that are affecting the whole? this is what is given unto you in the example of your own diet, that ye feel it is your body and spirit say unto ye that yes, this is thy temple. ye feel that this is your food and spirit saith unto ye that yes, let this that groweth be of nourishment to thee for thy livelihood. ye saith unto spirit this is mine earth. and spirit saith unto you, yes, let this be thy home on which they flesh may breathe and know humanness. and with every yes that is said unto ye, spirit saith this, ye hath pointed out all that is thine and what all of thine rights are as a being of thyself, and spirit saith to thee, yes for it is spirit that loveth thee more than thee hath the comprehension to know. yet, spirit smiles at thee as thee maketh thy properties known to spirit, as ye maketh thy demands known unto spirit, as ye maketh thy will a living thing. spirit smileth at thee the same way thee smileth at thy children who saith to thy parents, who feedeth them, who clotheth them, who provideth shelter for them, who hath made plans for their future and hath loved them even before they came unto being an animal that breatheth air - spirit smile as these parents smile at their children. spirit smiles when you doeth and have doneth these things even in your childhood. for spirit is that parent. that parent smileth at ye and thinketh to itself, mine child is growing and hath decided what she will or will not do, who she will or won&amp;#39;t be, what is and isn&amp;#39;t her&amp;#39;s...even to me she hath told her own rights as a human being.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and spirit smiles for spirit is like all of you what this parent is to the child and ye are like children unto spirit. and spirit doeth as a good parent doeth by offering guidance to the child. but, knoweth this, spirit is not human, spirit is not limited to flesh and spirit hath already see that which was, will be and is. ye may moveth out of thy parents house and buyeth for ye sleves one of thy own and say to thyself, i hath done well. yet spirit say unto you, that as far as you can see and further than thy technology alloweth thee is all spirit. ye cannot leave this home. for even if thy leaveth thy own earth only unto spirit purely would ye return. so spirit knoweth that none horrible thing is happening to thee, thee are perceiving this and that, this lesson hath been given to even she who typeth these words. for in all there is one truth, spirit is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;therefore ye may and should find peace in knowing that all is experience, yet, doeth thou seeketh thy highest experience? doeth thou seeketh thy greatest joys? doeth thou desireth thy own spirit to liveth in a human world and showeth unto thy humanness all that spirit hath on earth in store for ye? if ye chooseth these things, then spirit saith unto ye, walk with me, for i am the light that guideth thee to green pastures. talk with me, for i am the voice that speaketh peace unto thy being. give unto me that which i hath shown you is what is to be given and recieved one to the other of all of you. can ye giveth to me that which is already mine? doeth thy come into a home findeth a spoon and saith to the homeowner, here i giveth to thee the gift of this spoon? doeth thy anticipate that the owner will rejoice in this? spirit smiles at this, for man doeth these things daily.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so what is the myth that thy are seeking to unravel on what thy can give to spirit? spirit saith unto ye that of all things given to thee there is only one thing that thy own, which even spirit saith to thee is thine alone. that even spirit itself will not claim. it is thy freewill. spirit saith to thee that when spirit guideth thee to do that which is of thy highest selves and ye saith, yes spirit i seeth how that shall helpeth my brotherin or my sisterin. yes spirit, i seeth how that shall assist me, and how since we&amp;#39;re all connected, it shall automatically be of good beyond my flesh. when ye saith spirit, i feel that thee are guiding me to do this, i know thy voice, i feel what is intuition which thy hath given as a tool unto me. and yet, i seeth not how or who shall benefit from it, but with mine faith in you and your sight which is beyond mine, your guidance which is beyond human, your love which is beyond mental conception - it is in and with the faith i instill in you that i shall follow what ye hath asked of me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this is all that ye can actually give to spirit. the letting of thy will become one with the will of that which hath created even the heaven and the earths, that which conceived of you before you were conceived. that which loves you even as you deny its existence. that which hath given you peace and ye hath claimed it in fear. all ye can give unto spirit is thy will to see the love, peace, charity, joy, abundance, healing, glory and even bliss, all ye can give is to offer even thy own will in making all of these things manifest. and when ye doeth these things spirit shall surely bless thee even the cells of thy body spirit hath count of. the very pores of thy skin spirit knoweth how many there are. spirit createth for you beauty that yee hath yet found ways to create again, things that for you would be timeless. that one glance at, one touch of, one sniff, one taste even merely to listen, would, could and does bring unto you peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in what hath spirit given thee these great things saith thee? spirit asketh that thy looketh at the flower, the tree, the sky, the stars, the moon, the oceans, the seas, looketh at the elephant, the lion, the zebra, the tiger, the bear, the lady bug, the butterfly. toucheth thee cotton as it groweth from the land, toucheth the the pedal of a rose, toucheth thee the fur of an animal or the skin of it or the shell. walketh thee in the ocean, walketh thee barefoot on the soft grass, runeth thee thy feet within the sands, playeth with thine children in the mud, oh ye hath no idea all the things spirit giveth to thee for thy peace. even these are multiplied beyond writing to you. listen to the sound of a dolphin laughing, listen to the sound of birds singing, listen to the sound of the waves dancing, (our partner has become overwhelmed...we wait)...listen to the glorious water pouring from a fall, closeth thy own voice, thy electronics and listen to the wind, the breeze whispering a gentle tune. listen to the barking of a happy dog and the meow of a content feline, hear the oink of a pig playing - for that pig hath found joy in even the dirt of the land. listen to the leaves blowing as you watch their colors change,...we wait...listen to a hawk&amp;#39;s high pitch - letting you know he&amp;#39;s soaring again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;taste the raindrops falling as they cleanse away your pains, taste the apples and the melons...oh how sweet it is. taste the snowflakes and let them melt upon your tongue...spirit saith unto you, man thinketh he can tell spirit all that man hath done?...spirit smiles at this for did man maketh the berries sweet and sour? did man maketh the thorn grow on a beautiful flower? did made create the fruits or vegetables just right for the human tongue? or hath spirit created all these things for man? what can ye do for spirit? what hath thee done for all that spirit hath put thee over? what doeth thy for all the love spirit hath poured into every inch of thy surroundings?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hath thy smelt the beauty of a rainforest? do ye knowest the different scents within the flowers? did ye put a pine to thy nose and know that spirit hath put within it the smell of pine? oh man hath no idea of what is divine. even as man seeketh divinity, he walketh upon that which he seek. he toucheth that which is, he seeth and is yet blind...we wait...how beit that man can love and not feel?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;doeth man love thy own creator? does man showeth by loving that which the creator has created? spirit showeth what loves does...we wait...with every wing on every dove, with every leaf on each tree, with each pedal on a rose. spirit shows how to love with each cry a rooster makes, with each egg a chicken doeth hatch, with the whales that swim in the waters and the eagles that fly above. doeth thee saith to spirit that thy know not what love is? doeth thy saith to spirit thy knoweth not how it feels? doeth thee saith to spirit thy knoweth not what love does? doeth thee saith to spirit that spirit hath left thee in a horrible world? how can this be? thy cryeth unto spirit how doeth spirit let this child die? how doeth spirit let this war go on? how doeth spirit let this disease be...we wait...breathe aki...close your eyes and let it reside within and throughout your being...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ye cry in the day, ye scream out in the nights, ye drug thyself, thee killeth one another and thy mother&amp;#39;s wombs yell out to the heavens - taketh not my child! returneth mine baby to me! the wombs, the very wombs have voices that speak directly to heaven and they demand to be heard by spirit they demand to be answered, they demand to know how spirit can do this and still be...we shall wait... ye knoweth not of the men who cry in their showers so their&amp;nbsp; wives and children will not hear...oh...but to them i saith...there is no where that thy might cause for a tear to fall and spirit not know. ye saith ye are anti-war and ye yell at the soldiers who kill thy brotherin and thy sisters...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;oh...but my, my...i saith unto you that they appear strong in your eyes, but in the silence of their rooms they cry. they cannot wipe the blood from their hands and they cry unto me in the closed bathrooms, standing over their sinks - they screameth to the heavens with their hearts, their tears raining from their eyes, even silently they beckon unto the angels to hear their cry...end the war....that&amp;#39;s what they scream to me...bring me home....that&amp;#39;s what they pray....forgive me...forgive me....forgive me....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;help me. please help me. who am i but just a soldier doing that which he hath promised to do...but you...you are almighty, you can help me, you can stop all of this can&amp;#39;t you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;who told thee that God was dead, surely told ye a lie, for even thee sound of a silent tear is magnified in the ears of heaven. how can spirit loveth thee and leaveth thee to suffer upon this miserable earth? ye asketh spirit why man hath done that which was man&amp;#39;s choice to do? did spirit create a tree that fighteth with another tree beside it and saith to man be as this in war one to the other? or did spirit create entire forests of trees that share the land and giveth the air to breathe?...we wait...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;did spirit create famine and disease? or hath spirit created unto thee all that can be eaten from the earth and the trees? isn&amp;#39;t spirit the one who hath put a cure for all of thy disease and the prevention of each within the land, the berries, the fruits, the trees, the leaves, the very air you breathe and the sun you walk beneath hath the power to heal thee, the water you drink can cure ye...did spirit pollute these things? or did spirit giveth them to thee and say be ye caretakers of that which is the source of your life?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and spirit gaveth to you, your family, your friends, your neighbors, your siblings, your heart, your brain, spirit gaveth unto you a human body and created for you each organ within and you screameth to the heavens how can spirit be so horrible to man?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and spirit saith unto thee, how is it that man can be so cruel unto his world, the land, the oceans, the trees, the insects, the animals, the sky...spirit asketh man how can man doeth all these cruel things? spirit asketh man how man can killeth his own source of nourishment? how can man look into the eyes of another man and taketh his life? spirit is the one who hath given life unto each and love none more or less but all equally and ye saith unto spirit bless me so that i might kill my sister before she seeth my riffle and killeth me?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;would ye giveth to thy own children guns and telleth to them may the best child win? then burry the other and shead no tears? yet ye asketh spirit to do this each time ye fight in thine wars. ye asketh spirit to helpeth thee kill the other which is thy sibling and ignore that spirit hath created you both.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;might you be asked a few things? why do you pollute the land and the sky? why do you kill the animals? why do you walk on top of the insects? why do you hate? why do you take? why do you act like its not you doing these things but that it is somehow spirit and spirit&amp;#39;s plan that it be done. giveth to spirit the credit that spirit has deserved and giveth to man that which is his own. spirit made the forests...man burned them down, chopped them down and pollutes them. spirit made the sky...man pollutes it, explores within it and leaves his garbage even upon high. spirit made the animals, made found them fit for consumption, mistreats the ones he doeth not feel are beautiful and slaughters them after giving unto them horrible lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;spirit saith unto you...spirit hears the horses cry, the pigs no longer playing, the cows not understanding, the chicken&amp;#39;s fears of dying, the mother duck crying, the sheep as they moan. even the dirt saith to spirit man is meant to be more evolved? spirit hears the trees as they scream that they are falling. the grass as it yells it&amp;#39;s burning. the waters as they are choking. spirit saith unto man that is suppose to be man-kind. unto humans that are suppose to be humane - when did spirit giveth to thee the example that ye should be all of these murderous things? when all that spirit hath given to thee is life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you wonder where spirit is, listen to the sound of a child&amp;#39;s laughter, listen to the sound of running feet in a sand box, listen to the voice of a singer who can bring tears to your eyes and make you feel alive. lay thy head upon the chest of that human ye love the most and listen to the sound of their heart beating. look into the eyes of a new born baby, look at the hair of an elder lady, look at the beautiful shades of skin you all are, look into your own eyes - and look into mine. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;howeth then can spirit giveth unto freewill and saith to man, of this i shall never take from thee. then spirit stop all that man decides to do freely? spirit is not less than what spirit says it is, but is more than man can conceive. so spirit says to you all, that the only way spirit can dry your tears as you break each other&amp;#39;s hearts, silence the screams of thy wombs as thy children die in wars, heal thy earth from the pesticides you spray upon her, cleanse thy sky, cure disease, thy create and save thee from the horrors of which thee cry - is you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;did you sign up yet? are you in line? are you living the life of one who is solutions or are you still creating strife? do you, will you, have you come to realize that spirit cannot save you from yourselves and not do which spirit said it would never do which is take away your freewill, but that spirit surely can work with you, through you, on you, speak for you, to you, through you, walk with you, hold you, fight with you and most of all love you. spirit has all ways done these things for mankind, for man cannot change the will of spirit either...spirit smiles at this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and it is spirit&amp;#39;s will that there be peace on earth. that the cries to the angels be tears of joy. that the children never hurt anymore. that ye stop killing and end wars. that ye feed one another, shelter and cloth thy sister and brother. that ye soar with the birds. spirit saith unto those who seeth that the world needs more love...will ye be the love the world needs? spirit saith unto those who pray and knoweth that the world needeth more peace...will ye be more peaceful? spirit saith unto those who cry for cures to disease...will ye findeth the cure? for surely spirit hath already planted them for thee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;spirit saith unto you that when ye hear the voice of that which guideth thee and thy intuition telleth thee it is the highest voice thy are hearing. thy feel it and cannot intellectually explain it, but thy know it is what thy should do - maybe if thy follow this voice, thy will be helping spirit do that for which you have asked, prayed, begged...maybe ye can help spirit work with the freewill of human beings, by listening to spirit as you are guided, have faith, love all and know peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you are all on earth at the same time, yet ye are not all having the same experiences. ye are not all doctors, lawyers, politicians, dancers, singers, painters, accountants, bakers, home makers - no. ye vary in what occupation ye have, thy works vary one from one. so why then doeth thy think that spiritually this is not also the case? some of you hath said unto spirit leadeth me and i shall follow...spirit smiles at this. and each time spirit guideth thee and thy&amp;nbsp; know it is spirit and thy follow, thy grow stronger in thy communications with spirit and hear spirit more clearly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;some of you hath said, i wish not to go anyplace, but giveth unto me guidance to maketh my home better than it is...and spirit hath done this also.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;none are the same for humanness alters that which otherwise plays the perfect song all knowing its own key and joining in for symphony...spirit smiles at this for it was given to our partner by a fellow traveler. spirit guides you one to the other so that ye will not be lonely on your journey. spirit saith unto ye, that ye hath all thy need to have, bliss for all thy ever needed was given unto you. so the power and choice is yours. some of you have chosen and ye hath made your choice so high that even the earth rejoices. if ye hath taken upon thy plate the path of leadership, now is not the time to give up or give in, now is the time to know that you are about to see that which you dreamed you could be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you are on the verge of the greatest of all things and yet, it is you who will use your freewill to decide, what will happen next. those who are in-lightend...we saith unto you, be ye not distracted by those who have not risen to the occasion, offered unto to them. for they seeth your light and are jealous of it. this doesn&amp;#39;t make them evil or mean this only makes them human...spirit smiles at this. this makes them humans who are listening to their own ego the same as you are putting energy into listening and hearing spiritual guidance and growing spiritually. they are using their freewill to do whatever their ego says. you may feel the need to convince them to come along, but spirit saith unto you when you are guided to walk away do so, for in staying you too are following their ego and by doing so increase the ego within thyself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now is the time that the peacemaker will standout and so will the one creating disturbance, it is up to you to discern when to stay and when to leave, it is the power of the change that will surely be. yet we say unto you that this opportunity only is here because of you. because of those who do not focus only on themselves and what they are wearing, what their words sound like, how they feel about this or that, but those who care about all else. the few who have strong powerful lights can make up for the many who don&amp;#39;t even know there is a spiritual awakening going on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we say to those that are elevating daily, loving more and more everything that hath life, desiring more and more to help change things for all to have joy, know that you shall be the ones that those who fear change, are lost in old energy and know not what they are doing - come toward. they shall come to you and you shall know them and they shall do you no harm for you are within the power of the knowledge of fearing not for spirit is with you. yet we say unto you, careful that ye are not delayed and thy focus isn&amp;#39;t transferred from the many to that one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so many of you will experience this with families and loved ones, not so much them, as you yourselves desiring to get them to &amp;quot;see&amp;quot; the light. getting them &amp;quot;healed&amp;quot; we say unto you that if ye continue on thy journey...ye shall know of a reward that no suffering can diminish. ye shall know that ye hath contributed to man finding and being his kindness and when peace doeth come unto your world, ye shall have the joy of knowing you did not just call upon spirit, but that ye also allowed thyself to be called upon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;let not your hearts be worried, eliminate your fears, reach into the fullness of your spirit...for that which hath created all that is peace, joy, kindness, friendship, abundance, sky, earth, oceans, animals and even the human being - stands with you, beside you, loves you and will guide you and reward you in a way that you cannot put a price on. be ye doers of your highest will and may that will be free to love at the level that you have the capacity to love. may that love spread even faster than any disease could ever know. may that love heal your hearts, bless the earth and end your wars. may that love be the very love that you cry out to the heavens for, not knowing that it was yours all along.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;when you walketh away from these words today and out into the outdoors...spirit smiles at this.... look into the sky and know it is a gift to you from spirit. walk upon the land and know...she can actually feel you...spirit smiles at this...feel the air, sun, rain - remember to be that which is alive. let that which hath been given to you to ease your human minds be that for which it doeth exist. play with your pets, swim in your oceans, sing your songs...never think that these things are keeping you from studying and becoming &amp;quot;enlightened&amp;quot; know that these things are containers of the light you&amp;#39;re seeking to be in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and when you&amp;#39;ve filled yourself with joy, that is when you should think of the child with no food and send her your loving energy and give unto spirit your request to please feed her. do you know how it shall be done? aki you know this...it shall be done by yet another who saith unto spirit use me, to feed a child who is hungry. when ye consider one and the other, ye sendeth help from one place to the other. even the earth heareth you and respondeth to one who is far from you and yet, all are on the same earth...spirit smiles at this. when ye see the signs of peace do not say we shall wait and see if peace comes, no, be ye beings of peace and join in to help peace resonate at it&amp;#39;s highest across your world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;do not sit and complain and ask why...be ye joyful beings seeing all that ye hath to be thankful of and answering your own calls by ceasing to hurt one another. and when you see a child thinketh to thyself, that is my child, we are one...and so she (aki) finally smiles a big smile...spirit smiles at this. when you see a tree along your walk or ride say to that tree i am yours tree...we are one...when you see someone protesting what you&amp;#39;re trying to make happen smile at them&amp;nbsp; and know the truth...spirit loves us equally...because we are one. and when someone else is declared the winner and you labeled the loser - you don&amp;#39;t have to feel down look them in the eyes and smile knowing that you have won too because...they are one with you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and the next time you find yourself crying to spirit, praying to spirit, meditating, begging, hoping, hating, having faith in or against...consider what you can be doing to help make joy manifest as you say to spirit this and that and this...say unto yourself even these same things and before you walk away say unto spirit...what shall i do in this...for i know that it is not up to you as you have given me freewill, yet i stand in the power of your knowledge, guidance and healing because i know that with you all can be accomplished...yet i also see now, that it will be up to man to work with you, to love as you do and to finally realize that we are not enemies of each other nor competitors, that when it comes to this experience and when we are not in it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we are one...spirit smiles at this knowing that aki was unaware that it was to be mentioned throughout...and yet...where does she think that motto came to her from....spirit smiles and she does also. what about you? are you smiling yet? don&amp;#39;t focus on your economies negatively - know that you have uncovered the problems so that you might apply solutions. even as you fight unfairness and corruption on the earth we say to you, remember to eat properly, to exercise your mind, read uplifting things, become more informed, more aware...and love each other as if you were related...because indeed you are. treat your earth as if you created it with your bare hands and with the power of love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in the end you will see, the reward is for all...and that there is no ending...only something else that manifests out of love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;bliss&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and so it is added to this channeling as my partner does run a spell check and seeth the picture she placed in the beginning of this...spirit smiles at this...for she thought she would be writing a cool and exciting blog to all of you telling how see was guided to go walking this morning, even from last night. the guidance was so strong that she was tempted to sleep in her walking clothes so that she would recall to go as soon as she awoke...spirit smiles at this... during that walk on which if she went she was told would hold a blessing for her that she couldn&amp;#39;t imagine. she was near a mile in length when she noticed a beautiful white dog across the street and up the way from where she was. and she continued to walk peacefully when she noticed that it too noticed her and was heading toward her. how divine she thought, i shall pet it, it&amp;#39;s fur is so wonderful. the dog crossed the street in her direction with his head down and when he was within a few feet of her he raised it and it was at that moment that she realized, it was indeed a white wolf. no collar, no human owner...a wolf for sure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she immediately thought...oh my god...it&amp;#39;s a wolf not a dog. she could only smile because there was nothing to do except continue to walk...and what else aki? what did we say to name this blog? to be what peace is...yes...she&amp;#39;s smiling now. the wolf walked directly to her, sniffed her hand and her leg and approved that she was no threat to him...spirit smiles at this for isn&amp;#39;t man the number one predator yet he fears other animals?...so the wolf walked by her side and in order to keep her mind from going wild and to stay at a place of peace she said - the same spirit that made the grass and the trees made me and made this wolf that is walking next to me and so spirit as you have been talking to me all morning, i am figuring you&amp;#39;re also talking to it. ..spirit smiled at this, for of course who else would send you such a beautiful gift to accompany you on your journey to know what it really means to be that which peace is?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for if ye where filled with fear, the wolf would have known it and acted defensively, if ye would fill with hatred the wolf would have known it and possibly thought you were a man to be feared. so what did you have to be? you said it a few times this morning....spirit smiles at this...you had to be in the full knowledge and acceptance of practicing and believing what you preach, you had to know in your fullness of self that all is as you know in your heart...one. you said to yourself as you walked with the wolf this wolf and i are one. and the lesson of peace is this, when you are at peace you may also attract that which is peaceful, yet is also known to be violent. how you respond to its presence will be how you manage to direct which outcome you shall get. at no time does hatred or fear have more power than peace and love. for if you ran out of fear that same wonderful, beautiful wolf would have taken chase, caught you and ripped you a part. so know this too of those you think are enemies, handle them with peace - and love them with a peace that is so strong, they too can&amp;#39;t help but be at peace with you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;these writings often taken hours to be done and our partner has had quite an exciting day...spirit smiles at this....so we say to her and to you...follow your hopes and dreams, your faith, follow the trees as they grow higher and higher, flow the bird that soars and knows when to fly and when to rest. most of all follow your hearts, spiritual guidance, examples of peace and know what it means to be all of these things. for in doing so you are only seconds away from spreading across your species that which is known to the heavens as bliss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;these are the writings of the days of bliss on the earth day of 11.9.08 at 3:35.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;bliss&lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_232879" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>now you're feeling it...</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:07:05 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;and so my partner says can we just repost an earlier blog - reorder them so they can be read again, but she smiles knowing what the answer is. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have sought and found, fought and won, do celebrate it is a celebration you have earned. even in those that felt they could loose, no one has lost for all have gained. stay in a place of the peace you are experiencing - dare i utter it...does it resemble what might be bliss? has anyone noticed that the war hasn&amp;#39;t ended yet? the economy is still as it was? as a matter of fact the new owners have yet to move into their new home - the white house - but this does not stop you from feeling the shift of change, it doesn&amp;#39;t stop you from knowing true joy, it cannot because these things are not the keepers of your joy - you are. you always in all ways have been. the secret is simple, you are the keepers of each other&amp;#39;s joyfullness. learn this today, that merely having hope can give you the incentive to do the things you&amp;#39;ve been waiting to be done by another. it can foster within you the reminder that you have the power to accomplish anything you desire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so we said to you in august the 8.8.08 you would come to know what it felt like to be blissfull and here we are only a few months later and you have shown up to be what is bliss with us. did you think we&amp;#39;d gone away? no of course not, we have been working with you to accomplish that for which you have come. all things have reason even that which you consider to be your suffering is working on your behalf. we chose the partner we have because she would be willing to go out on a limb. not care about the popular vote or what might be said, she would stay true to the messages being sent thereby allowing for them to be received as they are meant to be from one being to another, heart to beat, eye to sight, flesh to land - with that as the catalyst we say to you this...would you have allowed for this change to transpire if you had not gone through the past eight years?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we know there are the number keepers out there who are decoders of spiritual things do you have it already? 8 years of what you&amp;#39;ve been through have also been the same 8 years you&amp;#39;ve given yourself so that you might be at a place of willingness for ...change. how is it that one can love even their enemies? we shall tell you this choose to or not to believe, you have no enemies only roles that each play. every role has its importance and serves the greatest good for all playing. so for those of you who despise the current president, we say you owe him a thank you. for he played the role necessary to get you to grow to the new level of consciousness that you have grown to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and now it can be heard by those who read our partners words, these must not be her own - no, they are not this is a channeling from the bliss of oneness. because she too is not a fan of president bush, yet we say to you and to her that what he gave you was truly a grand gift. he stood up and took the role of playing the villain, in doing so, he reminded you of who you are not and thereby leading you to have to choose who you are, what you will or won&amp;#39;t stand for and what you&amp;#39;d be willing to do to heal your own world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you say to us this is not a gift? but we say to you this, even before this president you were merely existing along, some becoming enlightened, meditating, vibrating higher, but the majority - no. as long as you were in a neutral place your experience would remain neutral. if you begin to ask to live the lives that you came to experience in human form, what would be that which would lead you to actually do so? this is what. not just another election, but a stolen one. not just a bad decision, but war. you needed to reach&amp;nbsp; a fullness of what you would no longer stand for in order to stand for what your presence was and is needed to make manifest - peace, love, abundance - these things are a change from even before bush&amp;#39;s time. these things have not been celebrated in the spirit of oneness, openness in parks and on streets since the 60&amp;#39;s of your time. so even when your economy was doing well and you weren&amp;#39;t in war, you still weren&amp;#39;t at the level of love or peace that you have the capacity and desire to be at.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;welcome to the shift. welcome to what is bliss. we have said this before that these are the beginning times for which you surely have come to earth to create. we did not say the path would be smoothly paved, we didn&amp;#39;t say there was pavement on the path at all...spirit smiles at this. maybe just maybe the path isn&amp;#39;t a land idea, imagine if you can a path that is in the air that has no wrong sides that is as wide or narrow as you make it with each step you take. once you have this picture in your mind, erase it. eliminate the idea of a path altogether and just soar. my partner is fond of paths...spirit smiles at this. we say to her as we say to you, the real power you seek sits within you and only hides where you have hidden it. if you let go of what you believe is the all of something, you can then receive the all of what it really is. how can you know enlightenment when it shows up if you insist that you are it?...spirit smiles at this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yes, you are what you&amp;#39;ve been seeking so how can you still be lost? how can you know exactly where you are and be looking for yourselves? you are seeking us. we are the other part to what is one. some of you go to churches, some go to quiet rooms some turn to drugs others to love, searching, searching then finally you realize you are what you&amp;#39;re searching for. yet, if you&amp;#39;ve found that you were all you were looking to find, how can you manage to have such highs &amp;amp; lows? why do you feel a shift at all? what you are experiencing is the rest of oneness, our energies and yours combined with all you know of and the creations that you don&amp;#39;t. it is like the weather as a friend of aki&amp;#39;s has written to her...spirit smiles at this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have been seeking the best in yourselves and the rest of the all. it is why you pray and what fuels your hope that there is surely more than this world you see around you, albeit a beautiful world indeed, you cannot stay in a game of hid and seek, you demand to be found even when you are searching for what you consider to be invisible...spirit smiles at this. so since what you are seeking is invisible to you, you merely seek with something other than your eyes - you&amp;#39;ve been searching with our hearts, with your feelings, with your very spirit - oh yes! that was the key all along. if you are searching for something spiritual, use the spirit it knows exactly where to look.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we say to you that what you consider to be the logical way is not necessarily the road that will lead you to your destination. so back to the math lovers, 2 terms 4&amp;nbsp; years each equals 8. the elected candidate to bring about the change in shift...spirit smiles at this. is the 44th of his country - we know this game yes? 4+4=8. we came to you as you knew we would 8.8.8. oh if only you knew this four years ago yes? you would have known you had four more to go.&amp;nbsp; you can ask why does spirit allow so much suffering in the world? and may we ask...why do humans allow so much suffering in the world? as it dawns in you in the dawn of what is new let it be the truth that there is no suffering in spiritual form, we cannot say in the spiritual world because my fellow love...spirit is not limited to a world - this one nor any others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so let us rejoice today and remember to do so tomorrow. we ask you, have you learned a lot in these past human years? have you decided what does or doesn&amp;#39;t represent you? it looks as if you have chosen to move ahead, the most important thing about that is to move. this is an action word. you have agreed on many levels to be the change that you are seeking in the world...spirit smiles at this...so we say to you do not sit in front of television watching your own lives unfold, be the life that is unfolding, choose and do not allow for others to choose without your permission. hold yourselves accountable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;did you not see it clearly as it presented itself? the two dominate opposites on the planet that seem to be at the other of each spectrum&amp;#39;s - black &amp;amp; white is what you call it...spirit smiles at this...how do you heal such wounds? how do you remind the two that they are indeed one? you of course meld them and let that one be the one they both choose. for none can say, he loveth me more than thee or he hateth me for what i hath done to him...all that can be said is he loveth me for i am like unto him that which his own mother was and the other saith he loveth me for i am like unto him his own reflection. and he saith to himself i and all of these people are only one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;welcome to what hath not been told in prophecy of old, that which you hath come for many times before and returned home smiling at even your own inability to get it done. we say to you that this is what you hath been seeking, the sign you&amp;#39;ve been looking for, the hope you&amp;#39;ve been longing would come and yes, the leader of what is to be your new world. we saith to you that feareth not the things that shall come, for these things are the healers of what has been. respondeth to all things first with love and then with your intellect, let thy spirit guideth thee and thee will know joy like none before. even the plants and animals know that change has come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is so easy that you have missed it, doeth unto those around you, as you would have them do unto you. you believeth that we mean those that siteth beside you, work with you, live amongst you - yet we say to you this to doeth unto those around you means those that are within the roundness that is your earth - all places, all ages, all heights, weights, shades. can we challenge you to love those who are your opposite? if you love even those who breaketh the laws of your land and would cause harm to another, have you done only that which shows them what it is to be love? are you willing to be that reminder?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;our partner is fidgety...spirit smiles at this. the cause in vibrational shift affects even the cells of the human being - those that are feeling as if their skin is alive we say to you...it is...yes...we are smiling. even as our partner rubs and hits herself, we say welcome to what knowing that you are alive is. those of you who have come searching hope to find the thing that you know is, we say to you yes - you already know what is. the question is not will we give to you a secret, it is will you live answers? you already know all of the ingredients and who is invited, we saith to you that this is a celebration that need not end, for it is the beginning of what within and beyond you has been in the works for so long. enjoy this day, and when you return to the spiritual work to be done, remember to enjoy that also.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;smile at yourselves as you pass even your human reflection, give yourselves a spiritual kiss for a job well done. we will say to you this, it gets easier...after all, we are heading to bliss. let the love in your heart today, be there tomorrow, let the joy you share today, be given always and keep your hope in the form of an action word, never past tense - for we say to you&amp;nbsp; now that this is the closest you have come to what is to be the oneness of bliss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;with this we now let our partner go, even as she continues to rub her head and skin...spirit smiles at this - she is finally feeling like an alien...yes...we are smiling&amp;nbsp; at this most of all. it is interesting to become aware of ones own skin, to feel it living...our partner is not smiling in return...now she is. you are all from the source visiting what is an earth that is also yours, you are becoming one with your surroundings, your fellow beings and even reaching back home to be one with that which is all...and you wonder why there is so much to be done?...spirit smiles at this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we give to you the greatest gift of all...yourselves. if only you would love yourselves each one to the other as spirit allways does.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;bliss&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>What it meant for me to vote...</title>
      <author>http://acai.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>akai</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:20:25 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;today i stood in line...&lt;br /&gt;dr. king was by my side&lt;br /&gt;he said &amp;quot;i have a dream&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;i said, &lt;br /&gt;you made it my reality&lt;br /&gt;today i stood in line&lt;br /&gt;my grandma was by my side&lt;br /&gt;she said &amp;quot;knew this wouldn&amp;#39;t happen in my lifetime&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;i said,&lt;br /&gt;but you made it happen in mine&lt;br /&gt;today i stood in line&lt;br /&gt;my father was by my side&lt;br /&gt;he said &amp;quot;if i could have just lived a few more years&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;i said, nothing&lt;br /&gt;my eyes filled with tears&lt;br /&gt;today i stood in line&lt;br /&gt;with all those who gave their human lives&lt;br /&gt;so that i could stand in line&lt;br /&gt;so that i could stand in line&lt;br /&gt;so that the vote that would count&lt;br /&gt;would also include mine&lt;br /&gt;and as i walked to cast my ballot&lt;br /&gt;the others in the room may not have noticed&lt;br /&gt;but that place was ever so crowded&lt;br /&gt;because today, when i stood in line&lt;br /&gt;i invited every single spiritual being&lt;br /&gt;who helped this day arrive&lt;br /&gt;and i said to them&lt;br /&gt;come cast this vote with me&lt;br /&gt;as a thank you for all you&amp;#39;ve done&lt;br /&gt;for humanity&lt;br /&gt;i hope we&amp;#39;ve made you proud&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;today i stood in line&lt;br /&gt;and i stood in slaves feet&lt;br /&gt;i stood in peacemakers bodies&lt;br /&gt;i stood in the revolution of a man-kind&lt;br /&gt;i stood in love with the divine&lt;br /&gt;today it didn&amp;#39;t matter how long i had to wait&lt;br /&gt;because i stood with rosa parks&lt;br /&gt;i stood there all lit up&lt;br /&gt;in the power of light&lt;br /&gt;that they sought&lt;br /&gt;yes, i am happy to be alive&lt;br /&gt;thanking all of those one more time&lt;br /&gt;who fought, killed &amp;amp; died&lt;br /&gt;to give me the right&lt;br /&gt;to stand in line.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we are one&lt;br /&gt;aki&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title> Obama's grandmother dies after battle with cancer</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:39:03 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;strong&gt;(CNN)&lt;/strong&gt; -- Sen. Barack Obama&amp;#39;s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died following a bout with cancer, Obama and his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, said Monday.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!--startclickprintexclude--&gt;     	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 		 			 		 		 	 	 		 			 				 			 			 				 			 		 	 	 		 			 		 		 		 	 	 	 	 	 		 			 		 			 		 			 		 			 		 			 		 			 		 			 		 			 		 			 		 			 		 	 	 		 				 			 				 				 					 						 							 						 						 					 				 					 			 				 						 			 				 				 			 			 			 		 	 	 	 	 			 			 			 				 					     												 					&lt;!-- PURGE: /2008/POLITICS/11/03/obama.grandma/art.grandmother.ap.jpg --&gt;&lt;!-- KEEP --&gt;&lt;div class="cnnStoryPhotoBox"&gt;&lt;div id="cnnImgChngr" class="cnnImgChngr"&gt;&lt;!----&gt;&lt;!--===========IMAGE============--&gt;&lt;img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/POLITICS/11/03/obama.grandma/art.grandmother.ap.jpg" border="0" alt="This photo provided by the Obama campaign shows Obama in 1979 with his grandmother Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham." width="292" height="219" /&gt;&lt;!--===========/IMAGE===========--&gt;&lt;div class="cnnStoryPhotoCaptionBox"&gt;&lt;div class="cnn3pxTB9pxLRPad"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;!--===========CAPTION==========--&gt;This photo provided by the Obama campaign shows Obama in 1979 with his grandmother Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham.&lt;!--===========/CAPTION=========--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="cnnWireBoxFooter"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/2.0/mosaic/base_skins/baseplate/corner_wire_BL.gif" alt="" width="4" height="4" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- /PURGE: /2008/POLITICS/11/03/obama.grandma/art.grandmother.ap.jpg --&gt; 				 			 			 			 		 	 	  &lt;!--endclickprintexclude--&gt;&lt;p&gt; She was 86. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &amp;quot;She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength, and humility,&amp;quot; their statement said. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &amp;quot;She was the person who encouraged and allowed us to take chances. She was proud of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren and left this world with the knowledge that her impact on all of us was meaningful and enduring. Our debt to her is beyond measure.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Obama and Soetoro-Ng asked that donations be made for the search for a cure for cancer in lieu of flowers. A small private ceremony will be held &amp;quot;at a later date.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Dunham passed away peacefully at her home shortly before midnight Sunday night (5 a.m. ET), campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki told CNN. She said &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/candidates/barack.obama.html"&gt;Obama&lt;/a&gt; learned of her death around 8 a.m.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; The Democratic presidential candidate left the campaign trail on October 23 and flew to Honolulu, Hawaii, to spend the day with Dunham, whose health deteriorated after she suffered a broken hip. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; His wife, Michelle Obama, filled in for him at events in Columbus and Akron, Ohio, on October 24.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Obama said in an interview taped for that day&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Good Morning America&amp;quot; that Dunham had been &amp;quot;inundated&amp;quot; with flowers and messages from strangers who read about her in Obama&amp;#39;s 1995 book, &amp;quot;Dreams From My Father.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &amp;quot;Maybe she is getting a sense of long-deserved recognition toward the end of her life,&amp;quot; he said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; The candidate resumed his campaign on October 25.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Obama has spoken about his grandmother often on the stump, talking about what an integral figure she was in his youth and how she struggled against the glass ceiling in her career. He and his family traveled to Hawaii in August to visit her.&lt;/p&gt; &amp;quot;She&amp;#39;s the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life,&amp;quot; he said in his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. &amp;quot;She poured everything she had into me. And although she can no longer travel, I know that she&amp;#39;s watching tonight, and that tonight is her night as well.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Get Inspired...Decide to Be Great Today!</title>
      <author>http://acai.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>akai</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-230532</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:12:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://acai.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/get_inspired_decide_to_be_great_today</link>
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&lt;p&gt;        &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: none; "&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:400px;float:none"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="329" width="400" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/PbUtL_0vAJk"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PbUtL_0vAJk" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="329" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="400" /&gt;              &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PbUtL_0vAJk" height="329" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;            &lt;/object&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;Martin Luther King "I have a dream"&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br id="ze_clear_102390" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;Great Men are great because they decide to be great everyday...What will your legacy be? Live it now!&lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_230532" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Before his run for presidency...Barack Obama showed he cares.</title>
      <author>http://acai.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>akai</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-229375</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:36:37 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;         &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: none; "&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:400px;float:none"&gt;            &lt;img src="http://bbg-aura.gaia.com/photos/45/444428/large/get-attachment.jpg" height="267" width="400" /&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;get-attachment&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br id="ze_clear_101818" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oct 05, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Norwegian newspaper VG has reported a truly amazing story about a newly-wed trying to get to Norway to be with her husband, and the stranger who helped pay an unexpected luggage surcharge. The blog &amp;#39;Leisha&amp;#39;s Random Thoughts&amp;#39; has translated the story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was 1988, and Mary Andersen was at the Miami airport checking in for a long flight to Norway to be with her husband when the airline representative informed her that she wouldn&amp;#39;t be able to check her luggage without paying a 100 surcharge:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When it was finally Mary&amp;#39;s turn, she got the message that would crush her bubbling feeling of happiness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- You&amp;#39;ll have to pay a 103 dollar surcharge if you want to bring both those suitcases to Norway , the man behind the counter said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mary had no money. Her new husband had travelled ahead of her to Norway , and she had no one else to call.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- I was completely desperate and tried to think which of my things I could manage without. But I had already made such a careful selection of my most prized possessions, says Mary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As tears streamed down her face, she heard a &amp;#39;gentle and friendly voice&amp;#39; behind her saying, &amp;#39;That&amp;#39;s okay, I&amp;#39;ll pay for her.&amp;#39;&lt;br /&gt;Mary turned around to see a tall man whom she had never seen before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- He had a gentle and kind voice that was still firm and decisive. The first thing I thought was, Who is this man?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although this happened 20 years ago, Mary still remembers the authority that radiated from the man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- He was nicely dressed, fashionably dressed with brown leather shoes, a cotton shirt open at the throat and khaki pants, says Mary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She was thrilled to be able to bring both her suitcases to Norway and assured the stranger that he would get his money back. The man wrote his name and address on a piece of paper that he gave to Mary. She thanked him repeatedly. When she finally walked off towards the security checkpoint, he waved goodbye to her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who was the man?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barack Obama.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Twenty years later, she is thrilled that the friendly stranger at the airport may be the next President and has voted for him already and donated 100 dollars to his campaign:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- He was my knight in shining armor, says Mary, smiling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She paid the 103 dollars back to Obama the day after she arrived in Norway . At that time he had just finished his job as a poorly paid community worker* in Chicago , and had started his law studies at prestigious Harvard university.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mary even convinced her parents to vote for him:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the spring of 2006 Mary&amp;#39;s parents had heard that Obama was considering a run for president, but that he had still not decided. They chose to write a letter in which they told him that he would receive their votes. At the same time, they thanked Obama for helping their daughter 18 years earlier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And Obama replied:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a letter to Mary&amp;#39;s parents dated May 4th, 2006 and stamped &amp;#39;United States Senate, Washington DC &amp;#39;, Barack Obama writes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;#39;I want to thank you for the lovely things you wrote about me and for reminding me of what happened at Miami airport. I&amp;#39;m happy I could help back then, and I&amp;#39;m delighted to hear that your daughter is happy in Norway . Please send her my best wishes. Sincerely, Barack Obama , United States Senator&amp;#39;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The parents sent the letter on to Mary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mary says that when her friends and associates talk about the election, especially when race relations is the heated subject, she relates the story of the k ind man who helped out a stranger-in-need over twenty years ago, years before he had even thought about running for high office.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Truly a wonderful story, and something that needs to be passed along in the maelstorm of fear-and-smear politics we are being subjected to right now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UPDATE: Thanks for the recommends, folks! Also, remember this was 1988, when 100 dollars was quite a bit of money, compared to today&amp;#39;s value.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, this would be the perfect antidote to the Smear E-mails going around. If anyone has a good long email chain list, shoot it out, and let it be passed along.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_229375" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>how the rich get richer...</title>
      <author>http://acai.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>akai</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-228032</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:32:05 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;Since George Bush became President in 2001, the top five oil companies in the United States have recorded profits of $464 billion through the first quarter of 2007:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ExxonMobil: $158.5 billion&lt;br /&gt;Shell: $108.5 billion&lt;br /&gt;BP: $89.2 billion&lt;br /&gt;ChevronTexaco: $60.9 billion&lt;br /&gt;ConocoPhillips: $46.9 billion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;keep in mind...these are profits - the money after expenses are paid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so are all of their employees wealthy now? of course not, when we say companies have top oil companies have recorded profits...we mean the top executives of those companies...and that is how the rich get richer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we are one&lt;br /&gt;aki&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>This might not make you my friend...but I'll still love you.</title>
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      <dc:creator>akai</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-223726</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:52:28 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;The (Potential of) the United States Becoming a 3rd World Country&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;&amp;amp; China The New World Leader &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;(by aki)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Former President George Bush was elected for 2 straight terms. Many will argue that the election was fixed, unjust, rigged, but none of those things matter, because they allowed for him to be president anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before him was President Clinton who although was in the media for many personal and sensational things, manage to get the US debt to $0. There was an increase in jobs and morale was high. Since so many were doing well financially, an unprecedented amount of homes began to be purchased and the rates dropped making them even more affordable. I myself remember working for so many companies that I often forgot to cash checks. It wasn&amp;#39;t bliss, but the country wasn&amp;#39;t broke or dying/killing by the thousands in war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now for those who believe in signs, good-luck, bad luck any sign - the first really bad sign of things to come after Bush&amp;#39;s election was 9/11. The tragedy of 9/11 took place shortly after Bush took office. It was an event we shall never forget. Being on a consulting assignment only 4-5 blocks away from the Towers, I was expected to be in the area that day and would have been, but the evening before I had an incredible urge to leave NYC and return to Virginia. Trying to ignore the feeling I changed clothes and went to sleep. At 12 midnight I awoke in a cold sweat with a stomachache. I got dressed and was on the last train out of Mount Vernon NY heading to Manhattan. By 3AM on 9/11 I was on the last Amtrak train leaving NYC going to Virginia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although that sign made sense to me hours later when friends called me in a panic thinking I was downtown, I didn&amp;#39;t realize just how bad things would become for the US. Within a short amount of time, prejudice against Muslims and those from the Middle East was seemingly acceptable. People began to live in fear; everyday we were given the level of threat to our country. You could not fly on a one-way ticket without being searched (believe me, I flew over 100 times that year, I know!). It was the beginning of something not more, but less.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;War was next. Somehow our search for the man who had done this to our beloved country and all of the innocent people - Osama Bin Laden (of Afghanistan) - turned into an excuse to go after Saddam Hussein (leading to his death) and engaging in a war with Afghanistan - oops, no I mean Iraq. Osama Bin Laden and his country seemed to have been forgotten by the US president and instead this became an opportunity to go after what appeared to be his father&amp;#39;s enemies. Seeing how the entire country and the world is designed for the few instead of the masses, this appeared to be fine with the US citizens and I watched the Dixie Chicks be ridiculed and insulted because they openly disagreed with the President and the war. I openly disagreed also, but was not popular enough for it to matter, nor wealthy enough, nor the right complexion - hey, its true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, we slowly but surely began to see many other natural and man-made devastation. For those dealing with signs, they still weren&amp;#39;t good. Katrina showed up and so did a few other major storms, but in the midst of war, natural disaster, and mourning, something else was happening. Bush had long since given tax and other incentives to corporations if they gave jobs to people offshore, which became the term for non-American. This was somewhat ironic seeing how he too was American and happened to be the President of the United States. Yet, many don&amp;#39;t understand that the term President is used to be over a company. Bush ran the US as if he were over the corporation and that corporation was limited to those in office, his family (since his father&amp;#39;s enemies were taken care of and the Bushes&amp;#39; made a ton of money during the oil crisis) - like a corporation as in the top Execs see all the money while the lower departments see their jobs go off-shore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So he did things that would bring in revenue, but not nearly as much as it would take away revenue from the people. He also went after his father&amp;#39;s enemies instead of the country&amp;#39;s - oh, already mentioned that. In doing this, many factories closed in the US and the products the country use to produce were now being made in China. While most of its technical/computer &amp;amp; customer service was being handled in India. A company called Wal-Mart had lost its leader - the legendary Sam Walton. A man who knew the importance of not taking over, but joining in and the new leader seemed to want to &amp;quot;take over the world.&amp;quot; Some stores became as big as a football fields and sold everything from apples to guns, from detergent to zippers - you name it. When they moved in the smaller businesses that sold these items were forced to shut down. Although they advertised about how much money they saved Americans and how many jobs they bought into the area, all of their items or at least over 90% were made in China. So, the few jobs they gave to in-store employees and the corporate office(s) didn&amp;#39;t compare to all of the companies that use to make these items in the US or to those who use to employ people and not make them work just under the amount of hours for benefits - hmm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although Wal-Mart had developed a bad reputation in regard to how it treated its staff and didn&amp;#39;t contribute to any production in the us, but did - as most us companies - contribute to the bad working conditions in China, Americans continued to shop there. While the oil became a crisis within itself, people began to pay less and less attention to how many jobs were being lost daily. This is not a book, so I will only show examples of a few companies: Delta closing its on-campus call center Weber State University - 162 students loose their jobs. Delta closed a 500-employee call center in Miramar, Fla., and a 150-worker center in Montgomery, Ala. &amp;ndash;- moves company officials said would save up to $2.7 million a year. Some work from those call centers will shift to other Delta facilities in the United States, but a Delta memo indicates some positions could be moved offshore -- possibly to India, Lithuania and Jamaica - take my word for it, they have moved to India and Jamaica, I&amp;#39;ve called several times and only got one or the other (especially after 5 and on weekends). Delta also closed its reservation call center in Huntsville in May (2008), leaving the 170 employees with the option of transferring or accepting a severance package. Delta closed its call center on Northern Kentucky University&amp;#39;s campus effective immediately, leaving its 127 part-time employees out of work. The 127 former employees of the NKU campus call center will get two weeks&amp;#39; severance pay, Kurczewski said. The cuts are not part of the 13,000 system wide job cuts that Delta announced previously, she said. The cuts also do not impact the airline&amp;#39;s major call center downtown, which employs more than 900 people. Delta Air Lines plans to close its Boston reservations call center, a move that will eliminate about 353 positions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About 50 jobs returned for the travel season? OK - its just too much even for one company, you can actually research this yourself. So ultimately...162+500+150+170+127+353++++ =? A lot of people who probably won&amp;#39;t be able to pay those mortgages they got when Clinton was in office? All along while Americans are being let go because as the president put it - they are giving jobs to other countries that Americans don&amp;#39;t want to do - I actually saw him say that, I watched that speech - everything is also still being made in...China. Not only everything in America, but in many other countries too. But this is good because China is known for their high standards and working conditions?...right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toys &amp;quot;R&amp;quot; Us Recalls Elite Operations Toys Due to Violation of Lead Paint Standard&lt;br /&gt;May 2007&lt;br /&gt;Name of Product: Elite Operations Toys&lt;br /&gt;Units: About 16,000&lt;br /&gt;Importer/Retailer: Toys &amp;ldquo;R&amp;rdquo; Us Inc., of Wayne, N.J.&lt;br /&gt;Manufacturer: Toy World Group Ltd/Chun Tat Toys Factory Ltd, of Guangdong, China&lt;br /&gt;Hazard: Surface coatings on the toys contain excessive levels of lead, violating the federal lead paint standard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;August 2007&lt;br /&gt;Toys &amp;quot;R&amp;quot; Us has recalled 27,000 crayon and paint sets made in China because the packaging of the wooden box contains lead, as does some of the watercolor paint within, company and government officials said Thursday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;August 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fisher-Price Recalls Licensed Character Toys Due To Lead Poisoning Hazard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firms named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.&lt;br /&gt;Name of Product: Sesame Street, Dora the Explorer, and other children&amp;#39;s toys&lt;br /&gt;Units: About 967,000&lt;br /&gt;Importer: Fisher-Price Inc., of East Aurora, N.Y.&lt;br /&gt;Hazard: Surface paints on the toys could contain excessive levels of lead. Lead is toxic if ingested by young children and can cause adverse health effects.&lt;br /&gt;Incidents/Injuries: None reported.&lt;br /&gt;Description: The recalled involves various figures and toys that were manufactured between April 19, 2007 and July 6, 2007 and were sold alone or as part of sets. The model names and product numbers for the recalled toys, which are all marked with &amp;quot;Fisher-Price,&amp;quot; are listed below. The toys may have a date code between 109-7LF and 187-7LF marked on the product or packaging.&lt;br /&gt;Sold at: Retail stores nationwide from May 2007 through August 2007 for between $5 and $40.&lt;br /&gt;Manufactured in: China&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 2007&lt;br /&gt;Toys R Us recalled about 16,000 Chinese-made Elite Operations toys because of lead contamination, the Consumer Product Safety Commission&lt;br /&gt;This is the second recall of lead-tainted children&amp;#39;s products for Toys R Us this month. On Oct. 4, the company recalled about 15,000 Totally Me! Funky Room Decor Sets because surface paints on the back of the decorating kits&amp;#39; mirrors contained high levels of lead.&lt;br /&gt;The commission also announced recalls of 380,000 Galaxy Warriors figurines and 1,500 Simply Fun Ribbit board games, both for lead-contaminated surface paints.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The figurines were manufactured in China and distributed by Henry Gordy International. The board games were manufactured in China and imported and distributed by SimplyFun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 25, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Major Crib Recall: 320-Thousand Jardine Cribs Sold at Babies R Us Recalled for Entrapment &amp;amp; Strangulation&lt;br /&gt;Jardine Enterprises has worked with the CPSC to recall 320,000 cribs sold at various stores.&lt;br /&gt;The wooden slats in the cribs can break. This creates a gap that causes a serious strangulation and entrapment hazard for infants. So far there have been at least 42 reported occurrences of the slats and spindles breaking in these recalled cribs. Several children have already been trapped in the space created by the broken piece of wood, although - thankfully - none suffered from serious injuries other than bruises and abrasions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These cribs were made in China and Vietnam and sold at various retail locations throughout the United States and other countries. If you have any of the cribs listed below, stop using them immediately and contact Jardine&amp;rsquo;s hotline to receive full credit toward the purchase of a new crib: 1-800-646-4106.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;September 17, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CPSC also reiterates bassinet recall&lt;br /&gt;-- Kids Today, 9/17/2008 12:03:00 PM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled about 600,000 Simplicity drop-side cribs.&lt;br /&gt;This comes on the heels of a recall of about 900,000 Simplicity co-sleeper bassinets in late August, after a second infant was strangled to death in the bars. The CPSC last week announced that the bassinet recall does include the Graco logo and &amp;ldquo;Winnie the Pooh&amp;rdquo; motif licensed by Disney Consumer Products.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Simplicity drop-side crib&amp;rsquo;s hardware is sized incorrectly, enabling the drop side to come off the tracks, creating a gap, which can lead to infant entrapment and suffocation. While nine incidents have been reported, there have been no injuries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cribs, manufactured in China, were sold in the following stores nationwide from January 2005 through August 2008 for $150-300:&amp;nbsp; Babies &amp;ldquo;R&amp;rdquo; Us, Target, Wal-Mart, Burlington Coat Factory/Baby Depot, Nebraska Furniture Mart, AAFES, ShopKo, Meijer Distribution, and K&amp;rsquo;s Merchandise, which is now out of business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------------OK ------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get the point yet? This could go on and on and on - but I can&amp;#39;t so, let&amp;#39;s make the point, any country that is more concerned with its money than it&amp;#39;s children...hmm. I bet you&amp;#39;re wondering what you may have in your home or on your body right now, made in china...is it lead proof?&lt;br /&gt;Some Dental Work May Contain Lead, Tests Show If you&amp;#39;re getting dental implant work done, you may want to ask if they outsource to other countries. A KPHO investigation bought 13 crowns from labs in China, Thailand and the US. Ten of them came back positive for lead, with levels from 110 parts per million to 240 parts per million.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PEOPLE IF YOU DON&amp;#39;T STAND FOR SOMETHING YOU&amp;#39;LL FALL FOR ANYTHING! So, now that jobs were being outsourced there&amp;#39;s more revenue right? Hmm that would be impossible - only companies could see more revenue but someone must have forgotten - People without incomes cannot travel on planes. They cannot buy your merchandise, and they surely cannot pay their mortgages. But, at least the US now had excellent customer service and quality merchandise being made for them...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So while Americans were faced with gas prices so high, many with jobs could barely afford to go to them. They continued to increase the wealth of China and many other countries while decreasing their own factories, call centers, computer centers, etc., etc. It had finally reached a point where even their medical records were outsourced. Although they&amp;#39;d supposedly created &amp;quot;homeland security&amp;quot; in reality several countries were the keepers of their full names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, medical records - everything. It wouldn&amp;#39;t be far fetched for another community to be able to come over and completely replace one in the US - however, this was not logical since all of the US jobs seemed to be offshore - not in Hawaii - why would they bother to come to the US?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There were many other things transpiring that would affect their economy, but since they were a nation that believed they would hear about it on the news if it were true or important, they didn&amp;#39;t research things for themselves. Another random thing this writer noticed was someplace as simple as Hawaii. Honolulu, the high priced city to live in - yet, paying its employees barely enough to live on? When a city has a high cost of living, they tend to also have high salaries, but while rentals are similar to NYC &amp;amp; LA $900+ for a studio, over $1,000 for a one bedroom. A legal secretary in NYC or LA can see salaries from $55k-$75k while one in Honolulu is lucky if she sees $30k-40k.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No one wonders why Paradise is filled with homeless people and the natives are poor? Well, how do you do, guess that makes this writer someone. I began to investigate this phenomenon and learned that most of Hawaii is owned by Japan - oops, I mean the Japanese. But since they tend to do their banking with Japan, I guess the money goes there instead of contributing to American&amp;#39;s bottom-line. Instead of going back into the Island(s) and its people, it&amp;#39;s probably ...Yen?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So with even just these few items, war, outsourcing, non-existent manufacturing (no export), and amazing amounts of the US being owned by foreign countries...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 18, 1988&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...So far, the brokers say, Mr. Kawamoto has bought 113 single-family houses...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No one knows the full extent of the Japanese purchases, but a local real-estate research company estimates that last year Japanese nationals bought at least 27 percent of the houses sold in the Kahala area and 40 percent of the condominium apartments sold in the Waikiki Beach area.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The buying spree has created a new class of homeless people, the &amp;#39;&amp;#39;Kahala refugees.&amp;#39;&amp;#39; They are displaced families who, after accepting cash offers for their houses that they considered too good to refuse, have had scurry to find new dwellings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Japanese companies began to invest heavily in Hawaiian real estate during the late 1970&amp;#39;s, when they bought several major resort hotels along Waikiki Beach.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What had been an investment trickle became a torrent in 1986 after the United States and several major trading partners had agreed to allow the dollar to decline relative to other currencies, including the yen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Initially, real estate specialists say, Japanese investors concentrated on buying the more prestigious hotels and resorts in the islands. Now, with a handful of exceptions, they own virtually all the major Waikiki Beach-front hotels as well as most major resorts on other islands in the state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last month, for a reported $315 million, Japan&amp;#39;s Seibu Railway bought the 310-room Westin Mauna Kea Beach Hotel on the island of Hawaii, a resort built in 1965 by Laurence S. Rockefeller and subsequently owned by United Airlines that has long been considered by many the most prestigious hotel facility in the state.&lt;br /&gt;... In an interview, Gov. John Waihee said that for the most part, he thought that huge Japanese investment had been good for Hawaii because it brought in capital. However, he said, there was growing concern over speculation because it threatened to price more Hawaiians out of the housing market.&lt;br /&gt;Already, Mr. Waihee said, a shortage of affordable housing was one of the state&amp;#39;s most difficult problems...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 10, 2008&lt;br /&gt;Spurred by the weak dollar and the strong euro, European travelers to the U.S. have been lapping up everything from Gap boxers to iPhones to luxury condos in Palm Beach, Fla. Now a top Italian real estate investor has nabbed one of the crowns of New York City property, a sale that echoes the Japanese purchase of Rockefeller Center in 1989. Valter Mainetti has confirmed to TIME that his company, the Sorgente Group, has acquired a majority share in Manhattan&amp;#39;s historic Flatiron Building.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 9, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The government of Abu Dhabi bought a 90 percent stake in the Chrysler Building on Tuesday for $800 million from German real estate investors and Tishman Speyer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But while it might seem that the buyer, the Abu Dhabi Investment Council, got a controlling interest in the Art Deco tower, a landmark, for that kind of money that was not the case.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite having only a 10 percent holding, Tishman Speyer Properties will continue to control the property and manage it, much as it has since 1997, because it controls the land beneath the 77-story tower, with its trademark stainless steel crown, gargoyles and elevator cabs that evoke the chrome-laden autos of the 1930s.&lt;br /&gt;------OK------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So while American&amp;#39;s watched reality TV shows, pay close attention to which star has an eating disorder, what celebs are wearing on the red carpet and of course some serious tuff too - the rest of the world&amp;#39;s currency was increasing in value while theirs decreased.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The president&amp;#39;s solution was to print up $700 Billion to give to companies to &amp;quot;save&amp;quot; the markets? Which makes you wonder - wasn&amp;#39;t their money like monopoly money by then?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 12, 2008&lt;br /&gt;...Fannie and Freddie aren&amp;rsquo;t just &amp;ldquo;too-big-to-fail&amp;rdquo; US financial institutions. Not anymore. They are now global financial institutions. They have been central to the process that has turned US mortgages into securities held by the world&amp;rsquo;s central banks. Official &amp;mdash; meaning central bank &amp;mdash; holdings of Agencies have soared over the past two years. The US &amp;ldquo;TIC&amp;rdquo; and survey data suggests that central banks now have at least $925 billion in &amp;ldquo;Agency debt.&amp;rdquo; That is almost certainly an understatement: the monthly TIC data tends to understate official purchases, leading to large revisions when the more accurate survey data is released in June. Total official holdings are likely above a trillion &amp;mdash; or about 20% of the $5 trillion or so in Agency debt outstanding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;....Consider the following:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China, according to the US data, has $422 billion of long-term Agency bonds. That is roughly 10% of China&amp;rsquo;s GDP. It is also almost certainly understates China&amp;rsquo;s holdings. Based on the pattern of revisions in past surveys and the scale of China&amp;rsquo;s foreign asset growth, I would guess that China now holds between $500 and $600b of Agencies &amp;mdash; or about 10% of the outstanding stock.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Russia, according to the US data, holds $90 billion of long-term Agencies. Russia also has a large portfolio of short-term Agency bonds (with a maturity of less than a year). Based on past survey data, I would guess that almost all of Russia&amp;rsquo;s holdings of &amp;ldquo;other short-term negotiable securities, negotiable CDs and other custodial securities&amp;rdquo; are short-term Agencies. That brings Russia&amp;rsquo;s total holdings of Agencies up to $156 billion &amp;mdash; or roughly 10% of Russia&amp;rsquo;s GDP (a bit more actually).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Japan, according to the US data holds $251 billion of Agencies &amp;mdash; but not all of these are held by the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan. Japan started shifting from Treasuries to Agencies in late 2005 or early 2006 (see the technical notes below, and note that official holdings start to grow faster than the sum of Chinese, Russian and Asian NIC holdings around this time). Japan still has far more (relative) exposure to the Treasury market than the Agency market. But Japan&amp;rsquo;s government also likely has around $150 billion of Agencies, a sum equal to about 3% of Japan&amp;rsquo;s GDP.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China&amp;rsquo;s exposure to Blackstone (bought for $3 billion, now worth less) and Morgan Stanley (bought at $5 billion, now worth less) pales relative to its exposure to the Agency market. China undoubtedly would view Roubini&amp;rsquo;s plan to force holders of Agency bonds to accept a haircut in return for a government guarantee as a policy directed at China. Sure, China would get a mark-to-market windfall if its Agencies became Treasuries (i.e. backed by the full faith and credit of the United States), but SAFE would argue that it plans to hold its Agencies to maturity in any case, so it won&amp;rsquo;t get more than the bond&amp;rsquo;s face value. I would certainly expect that Vice Premier Wang is on the phone to Paulson this weekend, politely asking how exactly the US plans to backstop the Agencies.&lt;br /&gt;-----OK-----&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was only a matter of time before America became a 3rd world country and in doing so, - no longer being able to afford gas, no longer producing anything, just no longer #1. And at the same time, insured that China would become the new world leader.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---China is expected to reverse the findings of lead paint, after all, its cheaper - who really cares about those Americans and their children - heck they don&amp;#39;t. They don&amp;#39;t care about the Chinese workers who are slaving away in poor conditions making barely anything. They pay $150 for sneakers that cost $5 to make. They don&amp;rsquo;t&amp;#39; even realize the price only goes up because their country taxes them - import taxes still don&amp;#39;t make them $100. And they don&amp;#39;t even fight to make these things in their country?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The US, according to Bush&amp;#39;s plan, had the ability to come up with $700 billion dollars for it&amp;#39;s financial instuitions, there are less than 700 billion people in the world - does that mean they could have ended worldwide poverty? Read this piece, all of our countries have always had enough money to end poverty - we just haven&amp;#39;t made them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If only the US president had the foresight to make all of the US citizens millionaires, thereby immediately earning interest on the deposits of their checks. Earning years of interest off of the children&amp;#39;s checks (not able to cash until age 21). Allowing them to pay off debts, mortgages, car notes, student loans, credit cards, etc..Enabling them to travel and save the airline industries. Entrepreneurs could afford to hire employees, build new industry and maybe actually manufacture something. Crime would most likely decrease to an almost stop. The generations of Americans that would have continued to be wealthy after this one would have secured their country for many years to come. Even if some blew all of their money, it would still be someplace in their economy. Maybe, just maybe if their government were actually by the people and for the people, they would do that which was best for all people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But this was a country that said it was democratic while all along putting presidents in office who didn&amp;#39;t when the popular vote - meaning he wasn&amp;#39;t the person all of the American&amp;#39;s voted for - but since he won enough &amp;quot;electoral votes&amp;quot; he was put in office. They tried to force upon other countries a democracy that isn&amp;#39;t even real.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All paths lead someplace, are we heading down a path that we want to see through to the end? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The title of this piece is meant to make you realize what could be...if we don&amp;#39;t change. Wow, I didn&amp;#39;t even mention the damage we&amp;#39;re doing to the environment! ...most people won&amp;#39;t read all of this - because it will be too long - I wonder when it will be too late - which one of us do you think the government would prefer? Stand for something...or look around on the ground to see what you&amp;#39;ve fallen into.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we are one&lt;br /&gt;aki&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;aki (c)2008 rich by choice productions/jaki rich.&lt;br /&gt;Please click on blue text (especially dates) for actual online reference/url. Credit for specific information is given to sites linked to. - oops the links didn&amp;#39;t stay! OK, copy and paste and google... ETC., ETC., - Let&amp;#39;s save the world already.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>when u use more than 10% of your brain...you want to go home.</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:01:59 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;can i even begin to comprehend&lt;br /&gt;the US could give 700billion&lt;br /&gt;and not make all of its citizens&lt;br /&gt;millionaires with it?&lt;br /&gt;what am i missing?&lt;br /&gt;we don&amp;#39;t have 700billion people&lt;br /&gt;so...hmmm, we could have ended poverty in this country?&lt;br /&gt;just imagine... every citizen made an instant multi-millionaire,&lt;br /&gt;wow there would still be billions of dollars to spare!&lt;br /&gt;then guess it if you dare...they would...&lt;br /&gt;DEPOSIT the checks...yes, they would have to do that right?&lt;br /&gt;then...the banks could hold them and...hmmm&lt;br /&gt;GET INTEREST for what 7-10 business days?&lt;br /&gt;Talk about a stimulus!!!!&lt;br /&gt;Now, what would we do with that money...?&lt;br /&gt;pay mortgages?..YES... buy houses...YES&lt;br /&gt;pay car notes...YES... pay off debts...YES&lt;br /&gt;go on vacations - hey, that might save the travel industry too!&lt;br /&gt;oh the places we could go - after everyone paid off their&lt;br /&gt;student loans! Even shopping, heck let&amp;#39;s save the stores, manufacturers? Restaurants? Let&amp;#39;s even save the children!&lt;br /&gt;everyone in the US could have been made a multi-millionaire and there would have been billions to spare?&lt;br /&gt;but then that would have...ended homelessness! Yes, that&amp;#39;s right, for those with no home, go to ... and pick up your checks...hmm&lt;br /&gt;wonder if they&amp;#39;d Buy a Home with some of it? Start new businesses? Create? Build? Give? and can you even imagine what we&amp;#39;d still do with most of the money...that&amp;#39;s right - LEAVE IT IN THE BANK. - That&amp;#39;s how you save EVERYONE AT ONCE!&lt;br /&gt;And that ladies and gentlemen is how you solve financial times like these!!!! But alas... no one asked me.&lt;br /&gt;And why would they, we have so many wonderfully intelligent beings in office who got us to this place to begin with - yes, we should continue to rely on their experience. Afterall it is the I thinking instead of We that we&amp;#39;re here for right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Forgive me - I&amp;#39;m so home sick... What happens to our amazing spirit when it merges with humanness? I can barely breathe the air here. I&amp;#39;m just barely breathing the air. Why can&amp;#39;t everyone see clearly yet? We could have saved every child in our country, every home, every job, every company everyone...and the sad thing is...we could have helped save everyone in so many other other countries too. I&amp;#39;m home sick and I wonder how are we going to achieve these grand things we came to earth to do, if we still haven&amp;#39;t even reached the place of being responsible for one another. I can barely breathe the air here spirit...i can barely breathe the air...it&amp;#39;s so congested with greed... i can barely breathe.&lt;br /&gt;aki&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- for those asking credit is &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;aki (c)2008 rich by choice productions/jaki rich&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;feel free to email it, i already have -&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;em&gt;BTW: U.S. Census Bureau (current population &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;01:26 GMT  (EST+5) Oct 01, 2008)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;U.S. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;305,302,825&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;World &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;6,727,107,700&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>What would have to change for there to be no war?</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:34:31 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;Admitting to and purposely reducing ego. If this were initiated perhaps the heart &amp;amp; Spirit of those in &amp;ldquo;I declare war&amp;rdquo; position, could come to the revelation that we are not different races but one, - human. If ego were lessened apologies &amp;amp; negotiations similar to those taught to children when fighting over toys could prevail over genocide. Which is what war is since we are all a &amp;ldquo;group&amp;rdquo; of humans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is ego &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;fueling&lt;/span&gt; (pun intended) the hypocrisy which enables us to tell our young no-thing is worth dying for, then send them to kill for what we &amp;quot;deem&amp;quot; worthy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If ego wasn&amp;rsquo;t the foundation for our leader&amp;rsquo;s actions &amp;ndash; they might hear the soft wisher of Spirit reminding them of who they are &amp;ndash; no less, no more, than those with whom we are killing and dying at the hands of. Thereby, alternating their propaganda to convey the message of Oneness to all. Then we&amp;rsquo;d realize all sons; daughters, mothers and fathers are we. That we are not fighting enemies we are causing the extinction of our species. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since ego &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;fuels&lt;/span&gt; selfishness, greed and ignorance, riding ourselves of it might make room within our being to live the truth of the knowledge that without each we are none. Thereby freeing us to come from a place of love instead of brawn. These things may not be the solution, but lessening ego would help us admit our wrongs &amp;ndash; how much have we evolved if instead of fist fighting as children we now kill when we don&amp;rsquo;t get what we want? Maybe ego is what prevents our growth, lying to us convincing us that when we can no longer argue our point use guns, instead of tolerance, forgiveness &amp;amp; love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How many have already died because leaders can&amp;rsquo;t say, &amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;m apologize, I was wrong!&amp;rdquo; How many have already died because someone said &amp;ldquo;it&amp;rsquo;s us against them!&amp;rdquo; Ego has convinced us that we have the right to kill those who would dare disagree with out doctrine, not give us what we want but it&amp;rsquo;s ok to kill &amp;ldquo;them,&amp;rdquo; they&amp;rsquo;re not one of us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do we even arrest murders? At least they have a personal reason for what they&amp;rsquo;ve done. While we send strangers to kill strangers because it&amp;rsquo;s protocol if the CEO says go. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So maybe we should either stop war or start teaching our children to fight that other child to the death for your toy! Then they will be prepared for the un-evolution of man, when by the age of &amp;ldquo;adulthood&amp;rdquo; we send them off to kill or die &amp;ndash; ooops I meant to war &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;(Marketing 101 &amp;ndash; get people to forget the truth by changing all honest descriptions to catchy names - i.e., not cancer causing sticks, cigarettes&amp;hellip; not fried strips of a murdered pig, bacon&amp;hellip; anyone ever die of marajuna, which you go to jail forever for selling in the US? Yet, people die daily of cancer &amp;amp; high blood pressure but smoking &amp;amp; animal slaughter is legal unless it&amp;#39;s one we like like cats or dogs...wait&amp;hellip;that&amp;rsquo;s another blog:).&lt;/span&gt; Ah...humanity. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey! We have matured since childhood! We don&amp;rsquo;t fight over toys! Now we&amp;rsquo;re killing over important things! Our CEO makes money from&amp;hellip; What&amp;rsquo;s it called again? Big business? No&amp;hellip;liquid greed&amp;hellip;No&amp;hellip; Oh Yes! Oil! You know the stuff that fuels our toys! When you were a child didn&amp;rsquo;t you want to grow up to kill and die for oil? We&amp;rsquo;re so like evolved for sure dude&#9786;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we are one &amp;ndash; yet when ego tells us we are the &amp;ldquo;only&amp;rdquo; one that matters we create a war within ourselves that spreads to a war amongst us all.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;copy;2008 jacqueline rich&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we are one&lt;br /&gt;jaki&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Journey off while on-line</title>
      <author>http://acai.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>akai</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-200968</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:07:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://acai.gaia.com/blog/2008/6/journey_off_while_on-line</link>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;div id="AOLMsgPart_0_44192848-0d49-468c-a7fd-48e20e278e6b" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff"&gt;  &lt;pre style="font-size: 9pt"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ashesandsnow.org/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.ashesandsnow.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>When was the last time you felt at peace?</title>
      <author>http://acai.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>akai</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-199271</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:39:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://acai.gaia.com/blog/2008/6/when_was_the_last_time_you_felt_at_peace</link>
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&lt;p&gt;When was the last time I wasn&amp;#39;t?...I&amp;#39;m at peace 99.9% of the time, this is wonderful for me - but others seem to have an issue with it at times. They think I should be upset or &amp;quot;serious&amp;quot; or more concerned - they don&amp;#39;t realize that through peace you can solve anything and enjoy the process from beginning to end. Of course that .1% does happen...and within a minute or two I laugh at myself for letting my ego take over, I remember what really matters and I&amp;#39;m back at 99.9:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we are one&lt;br /&gt;jaki&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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