Truth in a Nutshell

[Spiritwind]

So, I asked myself this morning why I feel like a grumpy goose. And I realized that some of it has to do with feeling like a circus monkey who is being trained to jump through hoops. I don't want to be a circus monkey.

It's not that big of a deal, really, but on a very deep level it is always interesting for me to take a closer look at what triggers me. My oldest son has got himself into a bit of legal trouble and I have been having to handle some of his affairs. Shouldn't be that big of a deal, really, either. But then, sometimes.....

Here is just a brief example of some of what gets me stirred up. Evidently his account kept getting overdrawn, and, because his wife was not on the account, she was struggling to keep up with overdraft fees she couldn't talk to anyone about. So it was decided it would be best to close it. No big deal I thought. Just stop off on my next trip to the city, an hour away, with my power of attorney paperwork, and close it.

First stop at the bank, which just happens to be a bank I particularly find distasteful because of their overtly greedy ways, I find that I would have an at least 40 minute wait or make an appointment. So, I make an appointment for the next day.

I come back the next day, early for my appointment, and was finally called over about ten minutes late. No big deal. But then, after almost a half hour of her explaining to me that the power of attorney paperwork has to be faxed and approved by someone higher up, I discovered they wouldn't accept the paperwork at all. Because, on the bottom of each page it had which number of page it was out of four pages, and the last one was not included. The third page had the notary stamp on it. So I made another appointment for the next day and then proceeded to go to the attorney's office to retrieve the missing fourth page. As I suspected, it had nothing of import on it, but you know, rules are rules I guess.

I go to the city again the next day, and I have to admit they were very prompt and within about forty minutes I was on my way out the door with mission accomplished. But this kind of stuff makes me shake my head side to side with a feeling that is hard to describe. First thing I realize is that this event has triggered my deep reservoir of emotion I have accumulated about the way the system and our so called legal system works. I realize, that although I can logically follow why I feel the way I do, it really doesn't serve me to have this deep reservoir hanging out in my energy field to be triggered in the first place. I realize I have some work to do. And it would be oh so easy to just stop right there, in my righteous indignation about how messed up the system really is. I mean, I could go off on a tangent that would make most people's head spin. But hidden anger is not my friend. And I must take responsibility. And I am writing more for myself than anyone else. Cause, damn, I don't like feeling uncomfortable inside, and I just can't blame anyone or anything else anymore. And there you have it, the truth in a nutshell. Not always an easy nut to crack though.

[Naga_Fireball]

Dearest Spiritwind, jeez I know how you feel, so does my spouse.

First off, I'm glad you posted and I dont think it's whiny or grouchy, this is serious $***...

It is good to hear from you because i don't like the
idea of the system winning. I dont like seeing real people get lost while others go on about the virtues of some higher plane. Really we are all riding around on these impossible little vehicles called "Luck", and some luck = lemons.

My own son is in a troubling situation as he cannot share his version of the story leading up to the loss of his placement

Hug

[Edythe]

Amen to that, Naga! I am a believer in the concept of righteous anger. I think that a righteous anger is aimed at the 'big picture' and not a personal anger. We need to stand up for our rights and speak out. We MUST stand up for ourselves and say NO.. to poverty, homelessness, hunger, corrupt government, banksters, big pharma, GMOs, child abuse, and the opportunistic war-mongers (such a long list that goes on and on) There MUST be accountability and a reckoning.

The hard truth is, is that we in the spiritual truth community (for lack of better words) cannot sit quietly and wait for change. We cannot spout fluffy word of love and light and expect anything to change. Change involves movement and movement is energy. We can create a tipping point with mental and physical movement. Planting seed requires movement.. no one ever planted a seed by sitting peacefully and looking at it and wishing it to send its roots into the Earth. Sometimes you just have to be a tenacious pain in the ass!

We, in this community have the advantage. We are AWAKE and we see the truth of what is happening on Earth at this time. It's time to UNITE and STAND! I know that some will read this and other posts of this nature and think that its inflammatory and not to be tolerated in this environment..But, what better way to take a stand than a calling to arms to people who are already awake and aware ?

Very wordy way of saying..Spiritwind, people in authority always make us jump through hoops.. This is how the "higher up" have set up the system. The more difficult they can make it, the better. If a thing is difficult, most people will give up and feel powerless and defeated... even if its for just a brief time. The snares and traps are becoming easier to see and these system are becoming obsolete because they are no longer hidden.. Well, there I go again... I'm stepping down from my soapbox!!!

Love E

[Hermit]

Is it anger or frustration?

I get why there's an issue on the last page just with numbers. They have make sure it conforms so there's no suspiciousness, yada yada. The reason it is this way, and it gets this nit picky right across the board, is because there have been so many people who have learned how to take advantage of the systems in place that new rules are created and function until someone figures out how to jump over/through those rules to get what they want with as little effort as possible. If we could find a way to get people to understand that with great freedom comes great responsibility (and that, unfortunately, in most cases means you have to end up doing something unpleasant because it's just the right thing to do)....we wouldn't have to stand up, unite, say "NO" and then have to figure out what to do next.

By the way Edythe? I completely agree with your sentiments. As an addendum though? I need to point out that historically, revolutions have only lead to a different kind of tyranny that usually takes a few years to see. So what kind of constructive things can we each do in our own communities to help change the problems of poverty, homelessness, hunger?

I get accountability. I get reckoning. But what safeguards are then in place to stop the next dictator from simply taking the last one's place? I keep thinking about the noble ideals of the Communist revolution, China is a great example of how one imperial court was simply replaced by another Imperial court. We in the west are also finding the same symptoms of corruption, but what puzzles me is how we in the west tend to lean towards something different, something liberal (or left leaning up here in Canada) that clearly doesn't work! That's not revolution, that's insanity isn't it?

I'm drawn back to asking: what can we do locally, in our own communities, in our own families, to help the poor, the hungry, those who are suffering. Instead of standing on a soap box, would it not be more productive to fill that box with food, with clothing, with a sympathetic ear? Anger is dangerous because in the hands of an unbalance human being, someone who does not truly know them selves, it becomes a raging destructive force that ends up destroying rather than creating. Is it justified? Absolutely. But I think it needs to be tempered with compassion and understanding. And my best example is my own tradition: Jesus preached to turn the other cheek, but take a look in the gospels and see what he did after he was struck on the face during his passion.

It's easy to step up on a soap box. It's a lot harder to walk into a slum and ask people on the street what they need. Righteous Anger is a concept that I am uncomfortable with simply because Righteousness is a concept far too many people seem to think they have a solid grasp on. How many have acted in Righteous Anger only later to discover they were in error. Capital punishment? People have behaved righteously in the court system and it's failed. People are wrongly punished and exonerated years, if not decades later. I would be more comfortable with Righteousness as a concept to strive for using compassion, understanding, personal discipline, and mindfulness. This has the disadvantage of taking time, a long time, to achieve. But working for something makes it worth while in achieving does it not?


Pax,

Hermit

[Hermit]

I could've stated it a lot simpler. I should've just quoted St. Francis of Assisi who said "Preach the gospel at every opportunity, and use words when necessary."

[Edythe]

Hello again, Hermit,

I agree that historically, revolutions, in the long term, have only brought about more of the same. I think you will agree that never before on Earth have so many people been able to see behind the masks of the modern day tyrants. In past revolutions, everyone was sure that the divine right to rule was ordained by god.. I used a small "g" on purpose. It is my belief that the true Creator of this Universe does not concern itself with such mundane things a the divine right to rule on some obscure planet in the Milky Way. We have been brain washed and conditioned for thousands of years to accept the "divine right to rule" as an inescapable fact of life. Thousands of years ago up until recent memory, the divine right to rule has been a "fact". Nowadays, the "divine" aspect has been removed from our psyche, but, the "right to rule" remains firmly embedded. I believe that this glitch in our reasoning applies to not only government officials, but, also to the banking industry, the pharmacological industry, organized religion, as well as mainstream science.

The "right to rule" has made most people docile and mentally incapable of question the 'authority'. The elected official, therefore, is rarely held accountable for bad decisions and criminal activity. I say righteous anger is a good thing.. self-righteous anger is an ego thing. In my way of thinking, righteous anger does not tolerate 'mans inhumanity to man'. I think that this type of anger should not be lumped in with the baser human emotions, because it is an anger that promotes movement and change. The word 'righteous' has been hijacked by Christianity and Islam.. etc. I don't give that word any religious connotation in this frame of reference.

IMO, people who are awake and aware would have to organize on a grass root level. We have forums and groups.. online and offline, but, most get infiltrated by trolls that try to subvert good intentions. Laffing.. we all know that! The thing is, many well-intentioned awake people are distracted and run off the rails by trolls and other people who join these groups for the purpose of debunking and their own twisted amusement. I think as more time goes by and the masks slip off the faces of the powers that be, more and more people will reclaim their sovereignty. The "right to rule" will no longer exist.

It's my belief that, for now, grassroots starts with volunteering. It start in our communities. I know this is vague and it has been going on for a long time. But this time around, our goal is not just to feed the hungry, etc. The energy of intention is a powerful weapon.. and I know that some will have a problem with the word weapon, but, we still live on Earth with a limited vocabulary for explaining a new paradigm.. and weapon is the word I am choosing to use. Anyway, this time around at this very important time for Earth and its people, our weapon is intention. By volunteering in our communities TOGETHER and with intention, we can wake the people around us with the energy of our intention.. call it a silent revolution that will end with us being able to move on from here to a place where there will be no tyrant to replace the old.

The idea of "intention" is old, but, this time around, I believe our intention is getting closer and closer to manifestation (because we are moving back and forth between dimensions, Hermit!) Matthew 20:18 "For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them", I am non-religious, but, I have always liked this passage. To me, it means that 2 or 3 like minded people with the same intention can manifest a new paradigm. This has never been truer.

I just re-read this post and it does sound a bit rambling, sometimes it hard to pin it all down with words.. because we need new word for the coming world! Or maybe we won't need words at all. Ok.. in a nutshell.. nevermind.. it's impossible for me to put things in a nutshell!

I hope that on some level, someone will understand what I'm trying to say.. so please don't go cross-eyed and scratch your head and wonder "what the hell is she getting at". I've been trying to find the right words for this subject for decades... so.. there ya go! Wow that was a lot of words!

Love E

[Blue Rising]

I have been thinking about you, Spiritwind. My thoughts are kind and loving, hoping to send you support. I posted on April 2 that I had been encountering a sort of resistance in life. Energetically, it felt like walking into a headwind. This is what was called to mind when I read about your banking adventure. I don't know if it is the same thing, of course.

But this is what your three-days-to-accomplish-a-10-minute-thing reminded me of. Em had been enrolled in drivers education and gotten to the point in the course that she had passed the written test for her permit. All we had to do was take the test results to the DMV with some other documents, and they would take her picture and issue the permit.

There is a DMV office 30 minutes from here, that is the one I usually go to. But I had found out there is one only 15 minutes away. We decided to go to the closer one.

We set out at about 12:30 because I usually allow extra time...thinking we would get there about 1. Something or other happened along the way, and it did take the 30 minutes to get to the office 15 minutes away. When we got there, we found a handwritten sign on the door that this office was closed on Thursday afternoons at 1:00. Guess what day it was.

So Em was disappointed. I had already been encountering this resistance for weeks. So my approach was to keep moving forward toward the goal. We continued on the trek. We drove the 45 minutes to the other office. Only to find they wanted a paper bank statement to prove residence. So we left the office, drove to the bank, only to speak to a wide-eyed young person who had never seen a paper bank statement. And printing off a banking history was not acceptable to the DMV. Twenty minutes later, an older teller had figured out how to print something that would work.

So we finally got to the DMV to produce the test results, Em tired and hot and hungry, as we had been at this for hours. We found a line of about six people, where I had never seen a line here before. We waited another 30 minutes, but when it was our turn, it wasn't five minutes and she had her permit. I think we were done at around 4. Just in time to grab something to eat and deliver her to the next drivers ed class.

I understand what everyone's talking about, with the (stupid) last page of the document you needed. I just saw a different aspect to this and thought...well hell. If you are encountering this type of crap too, I wanted you to know you aren't alone. (Although you already knew that.)

Much Love,

[Phil]

Instead of standing on a soap box, would it not be more productive to fill that box with food, with clothing, with a sympathetic ear?

The cycles of abuse will continue until the collective mindset changes. The complexity built into the system is the manifestation of the value of ownership. Until people believe it is more worthwhile to make sure all (local) humans have what they need, is to get people to understand that "authority" has created "civilization" around making people feel entitled to have (and protect) what they want.

All issues lead back to this mindset, which has been captured by authority by demonizing "communal" mindsets with generalizations like/about socialism while glorifying competition and individualism. We live in an era where the information broadcast is usually geared to normalization of extremes, eliminating the gray (rational) areas of discourse.

If we can't people to stop seeing in black and white...your charitable efforts look like one of them to whoever's looking, depending on their perspective. it should be common sense, not some godly act, to help our fellow humans (before buying that Benz).

[Spiritwind]

My body and outer world keep trying to demand my attention. I either suddenly have an acute itch that wants scratching, I realize I'm hungry, I have to go to the bathroom, or my nose starts running. Or it could be the goats making a racket because they want grain, or my cat wants his favorite food or my lap.

How does this relate to gun control? And mass tragedies? Well, there is always something trying to get our collective attention. I guess it comes down to how you see yourself. I know I am not just my body, and I know I have to set boundaries for what I am willing to do for anything demanding my attention. It often seems to happen most acutely when I am trying to do something else. Something another part of my being is trying to accomplish, such as focusing my attention in a deep way to ascertain as clear a picture as I can, so as to interact with my reality experience with as much true understanding as I can muster up.

This reality seems to be designed this way, to keep us distracted from really being able to pay attention to what matters. What is coming to me now, as I push all the distracting energies aside, is that interacting in this reality is much like learning to stay awake in the dream state. I have had dreams where I suddenly realized I was dreaming, and remember how impossible it was to maintain my conscious awareness. My waking reality is much the same. How to stay aware when there is so much pulling my attention away from what is really important, and that is this. I now know that this reality is all about deception. I daily swim in a sea of deception, and its goal is to consume me. This is not the only motive of the game, but it is a primary component, from what I can tell.

I wrote the above a few days ago, when Hermit started his thread about the recent happening in Orlando. I have reflected on everyone's comments, and thought deeply about how much I have changed in the last five years since I joined my first forum. I can remember posting my views about the push to disarm the American public back then on Avalon.

You see, everything has changed for me in the way I view things since that time. I learned things about myself I did not remember. I learned things about the being(s) behind the curtain and the strings that get pulled to make up the reality that we each experience. So I can relate to all points of view now, but cling to none.

My husband was in the military off and on from Vietnam until he got out for good in 1996. He was a musician and could have even made a career doing what he loved back in the day. Instead he became very good at killing people. That is what war can do to you. Does that make him a bad man? Because he managed to survive being a POW for ninety days, being tortured? See, these questions and more cannot be answered easily, can they?

And I have pondered deeply about this "right to bear arms". My husband and I have had many conversations. If you look at the question as asking whether we have the right to defend ourselves against our oppressors, whoever they may be, the answer will always be yes, whether we have a gun or not. I am very solution oriented, and have already found myself in situations where I did have to defend myself. Actually, ever since I was about 6 years old, that I recall. For me, it is instinct. I will do it whether I should or not, and no government can regulate my will to survive. And that is what it comes down to, really, for me anyway.

As far as the Orlando shooting, you would have had to look a bit deeper and take an honest look at what we have been told by the media and the so called authorities, and what your eyes, and intuition are telling you. For me, again, something does not add up with the official story. Look how many distractions have been provided through this one incident alone. And then when you add it to the growing number of so called tragedies over the last few years, especially since 9/11, it is not hard at all to see the framework of the agenda just below what we, the public, are being shown and told. But that does not negate the issues that arise between the high emotional impact of pitting different types of people against one another. That is how this war is being fought. Not just with guns, but with a total mind fuck agenda. That is what I would like people to really understand. All the weapons in the world will not win this war for our minds. Not until we reclaim the right to even think for ourselves.

I am tired of all the distractions going on in my personal life, as well as in the larger world I am a part of. It does indeed feel like I am facing into the wind. Even now, those outer distractions are calling me away, and I must go for now. Don't know if this will even make sense to anyone, but felt compelled to try and write it out anyway.

I had a realization on my way to take care of business a couple days ago. And it was this. You are ALL MY PEOPLE! There is no you and me, there is only us and we, and I love you all.....

Even those who harm have been manipulated. All of us have been the victim, the perpetrator, and the rescuer. Time to move beyond that. Otherwise, we'll all just keep getting played.

[Christine]

To which I would add, use words only when necessary ... actually I would say speak Your Truth with the conviction of it, out of the shadow of doubt...

I could've stated it a lot simpler. I should've just quoted St. Francis of Assisi who said "Preach the gospel at every opportunity, and use words when necessary."