Sunday, June 28, 2009

KS&L 291: Stressful Sleep

KS&L Chapter 291: Stressful Sleep
Ever wonder why sometimes you wake up at three or four in the morning with your mind racing? Perhaps it is because we are utterly bombarded with mountains of information from television, the Internet, newspapers, and magazines. You are further asked to deal with the political intricacies of the work place, churches/temples and just the day to day of family dynamics.

Kids in school are being asked to absorb and deal with more and more. Often, you find that there is so much going on that there simply is no time to process it all and you end up falling into bed exhausted and then you also wake up exhausted because you spend all night trying to sort out what you didn't get sorted out in the waking state.

What is the answer? None of the above difficulties are going to vanish any time soon, so how do you turn off the mental chatter that is now bombarding you 24/7?

You turn it off by learning an entirely new set of spiritual skills called spiritual discipline in the sleep state. Very probably, no one ever heard of this because in the past, this was not an issue. Consider that in the Sunday issue of the New York Times there is more information than a person in the 18th century would have had to assimilate in a lifetime.

Daily, you are being asked to absorb, sort out, manage, decide on and eventually take action on greater and greater levels of stressful encounters. Some people are literally going bananas because they can’t take it. If you can’t take it, you can’t sleep. If you can’t sleep, then over time, a subtle level of madness begins to seep in. Worry and fear take on a life of their own with no satisfactory resolution.

So, the answer has to be that you have to stop allowing yourself to be bombarded in the sleep state. How do you do this? Try the following steps:
1. Have a sleep routine.
2. Stop watching anything violent at least an hour before you go to bed.
3. Shower at night with salt to wash off the negativity of the day.
4. Find something to read or do that siphons off stress such as read a funny book, do a word or math puzzle.
5. Tell your subconscious that you have to have a full night’s sleep and be firm about it.
6. Tell your subconscious that you will resolve the problems in the morning, not during the night.
7. Ask for ‘sleep guardians’ to guard you in the sleep state so that you will feel safe and protected.
8. Ask your Higher Self to give you the tools to resolve the problems that you are facing.
9. Ask God to provide you with the wisdom to handle the challenges of each day.
10. Trust that this will happen.
11. Send prayers for healing the world or however you choose to do this, and then go to sleep.

This may take a week or so implement, but at some point it becomes critically important to take charge of the energies that are bombarding your subconscious and your conscious mind. It is always appropriate to ask the higher realms for assistance.

The human mind in these times is being asked to handle greater and greater volumes of information, much of it quite technical. We are making new neural networks in our brains on a now, an almost daily basis. It takes time for the physical body to assimilate this information and it cannot do this and solve political problems. Something has to give. A good night’s sleep will calm the brain down, provide a sense of confidence and help the entire body to feel significantly better. Many people are chronically tired.

It is important to help your body to calm down. There are numerous homeopathic remedies, from Rescue Sleep, to other types of Bach Flower remedies, cell salts and more. You may have to do some research to find what works for you, but you may find that it is worth the effort. A good night’s sleep is truly priceless!

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Sharing the Book

Now that the book is finally out and is beginning to ship, the next phase has started, sharing the information through speaking engagements, radio and possibly television. In other words, grief is the elephant in the room no one wants to talk about. Each of you who has followed Light Times for the last ten years knows that the message is always about helping people understand what is happening to them. This new book, The Lightworker's Guide to Healing Grief, really specifically furthers that message. So, let me make the following offer:
• If anyone knows anyone with a radio show and they need to fill airtime, I am very happy to help fill that time! I can speak in broad terms about grieving and healing, or very specifically about helping in the work place or how to help a sad and lonely ghost to move on.
• If you work for a company and would like a talk about how to help an employee who has suffered a death in their family, or perhaps how to help the family of an employee who has died, I am delighted to speak to any group regarding this.
• I can address talking to children about loss through death, disaster, and divorce.
• If anyone would like to put together even a gathering of friends and neighbors, I would be happy to speak at this type of group.
• If you would like a few of the information cards about the book to share with friends, I can send you these. Many friends are sharing them with clients, friends and family members who may be going through a grieving situation.

Each of us can help. These tough situations are all around us and perhaps this new book will be a helpful tool to have in your back pocket, there when you need it. The minimum number of people to have at a group is at least 8-10, especially if I have to travel. At this point, there is no charge for a speaking engagement unless travel outside of San Diego is involved. Please feel free to use the form to the left of this space to fill in a request. The goal of this book is to help each of us to help, to do service. Thank you all so much for your support.

Monday, June 22, 2009

FireFly Watch

Here is the link to a great site that is actually tracking Fireflies because they seem to be disappearing all over the world. How ironic that the Virginian Pilot had an article about this on June 21, the day that the Karmic Savings and Loan Chapter on Lightening Bugs came out.

https://www.mos.org/fireflywatch/understanding_fireflies

Sunday, June 21, 2009

KS&L 290 Lightening Bugs

When you live in the West, you enjoy the pleasure of low humidity, dynamic vistas, and glorious days of endless sunshine. However, when you live in the East, especially the Southern United States, there are some unique pleasures there as well once you get past the mosquitoes, the humidity and the poison ivy. The Southern United States offer the jewels of gorgeous Technicolor countryside, the ozone producing summer drama of thunder, lightening and rain, and the charming canopy affect of trees that grace every highway and neighborhood. But best of all, the South has Lightening Bugs.

Actually, without the rain, the heavy foliage and the powerful humidity, Lightening Bugs couldn’t exist. For those out West or in other countries, perhaps it would be good to describe just exactly what a Lightening Bug is. Well, what it is, is magic.

Lightening Bugs or Fire Flies as they are also known are little insects that come in at least two varieties in the Deep South, but globally there are over 2,000 species. One is a lovely light rusty brown and lives on leaves and climbs on plants during the day. When you can find one in daylight hours, they are still magic, because they crawl on your fingers and will actually do this for quite a while before they think about it, extend their charming little wings and fly off a short distance to a nearby tree. The other kind is rather black with a red head. The larvae of Lightening Bugs are known as glowworms.

Fire Flies can emit yellow, green, or pale red light. Their light is a cold light in that no ultraviolet or infrared rays are produced and 90% of the energy that they produce goes into the light, without creating heat. Contrast the efficiency of that bioluminescence to a man-made light bulb, which only converts 10% of energy into light and gives off heat.

Sometimes, even though we can scientifically identify what is happening with a creature, sometimes we forget to consider how the existence of that creature affects us: that their interaction with us, creates a karmic situation. When we become adults, sometimes we are so busy being adult, that we forget to remember what created magical moments in our lives. We also forget to enjoy the magical things around us that are often subtle, gentle gifts of nature.

The word ‘magic’ comes from the ancient word ‘magi’ which meant wise one, or in less romantic terminology, white magician. Often these priests or magi, were the ones who were revered precisely because they understood how to speak to nature, how to read natural signs and how to live in harmony with nature. We call it magic, they called it obeying natural law and they knew that obeying that law carried with it a great deal of karma, but enough history, back to Fire Flies.

Lightening Bugs start their mating ritual on sultry, Southern summer nights. They hang in the warm moist air at about four to seven feet off the ground. They are thinking carnal thoughts, so they forget to notice that they are easy to catch. Many a child has put a bunch of them in a jar with holes in the lid and hoped he or she could take the jar to bed to read by the light of fireflies. Little kids blinded by charm and innocence, forget to notice that you cannot organize lightening bugs to glow at the same time. By morning, they are released and allowed to restore their energy for mating.

Sadly, fireflies light charming Southern nights less and less as habitat and pesticides destroy their way of life. However, near wooded areas where there are lots of trees and yes, often poison ivy, we can find them. These creatures invite us to slow down and enjoy those magical natural times where we can watch them living and being at one with nature. In those precious moments of discovery we can be little kids again ourselves and delight in those wonderful memories of childhood.

Happy Father's Day!

Today my handsome husband and the father of our three children is at sea somewhere off the coast of Japan, so Happy Father's Day to Troy too. I hope that he can fully avoid that pesky typhoon.

Biology creates paternity, but it doesn't always make a great Dad. So here's to all those wonderful men who are great Dads, mentors, leaders and terrific friends to their own children and all of those around them. Here's to the unsung heroes of many a childhood. These great guys seldom know how powerful their impact is on the people whom they love, but it is tremendous! May the blessings of light always find you.

Friday, June 19, 2009

Ben Stein's Last Column of December 2003

For many years Ben Stein has written a biweekly column called 'Monday Night At Morton's.' (Morton's is a famous chain of Steakhouses known to be frequented by movie stars and famous people from around the globe.) Now, Ben is terminating the column to move on to other things in his life. Reading his final column is worth a few minutes of your time.

Ben Stein's Last Column...


How Can Someone Who Lives in Insane Luxury Be a Star in Today's World?

As I begin to write this, I 'slug' it, as we writers say, which means I put a heading on top of the document to identify it. This heading is 'eonline FINAL,' and it gives me a shiver to write it. I have been doing this column for so long that I cannot even recall when I started. I loved writing this column so much for so long I came to believe it would never end.

It worked well for a long time, but gradually, my changing as a person and the world's change have overtaken it On a small scale, Morton's, while better than ever, no longer attracts as many stars as it used to. It still brings in the rich people in droves and definitely some stars. I saw Samuel L. Jackson there a few days ago, and we had a nice visit, and right before that, I saw and had a splendid talk with Warren Beatty in an elevator, in which we agreed that Splendor in the Grass was a super movie. But Morton's is not the star galaxy it once was, though it probably will be again.

Beyond that, a bigger change has happened..? I no longer think Hollywood stars are terribly important. They are uniformly pleasant, friendly people, and they treat me better than I deserve to be treated. But a man or woman who makes a huge wage for memorizing lines and reciting them in front of a camera is no longer my idea of a shining star we should all look up to.

How can a man or woman who makes an eight-figure wage and lives in insane luxury really be a star in today's world, if by a 'star' we mean someone bright and powerful and attractive as a role model? Real stars are not riding around in the backs of limousines or in Porsches or getting trained in yoga or Pilates and eating only raw fruit while they have Vietnamese girls do their nails..

They can be interesting, nice people, but they are not heroes to me any longer. A real star is the soldier of the 4th Infantry Division who poked his head into a hole on a farm near Tikrit , Iraq . He could have been met by a bomb or a hail of AK-47 bullets. Instead, he faced an abject Saddam Hussein and the gratitude of all of the decent people of the world.

A real star is the U.S. soldier who was sent to disarm a bomb next to a road north of Baghdad . He approached it, and the bomb went off and killed him..

A real star, the kind who haunts my memory night and day, is the U.S. soldier in Baghdad who saw a little girl playing with a piece of unexploded ordnance on a street near where he was guarding a station. He pushed her aside and threw himself on it just as it exploded. He left a family desolate in California and a little girl alive in Baghdad .

The stars who deserve media attention are not the ones who have lavish weddings on TV but the ones who patrol the streets of Mosul even after two of their buddies were murdered and their bodies battered and stripped for the sin of trying to protect Iraqis from terrorists.

We put couples with incomes of $100 million a year on the covers of our magazines. The noncoms and officers who barely scrape by on military pay but stand on guard in Afghanistan and Iraq and on ships and in submarines and near the Arctic Circle are anonymous as they live and die.

I am no longer comfortable being a part of the system that has such poor values, and I do not want to perpetuate those values by pretending that who is eating at Morton's is a big subject.

There are plenty of other stars in the American firmament..the policemen and women who go off on patrol in South Central and have no idea if they will return alive; the orderlies and paramedics who bring in people who have been in terrible accidents and prepare them for surgery; the teachers and nurses who throw their whole spirits into caring for autistic children; the kind men and women who work in hospices and in cancer wards.

Think of each and every fireman who was running up the stairs at the World Trade Center as the towers began to collapse. Now you have my idea of a real hero.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters This is my highest and best use as a human. I can put it another way. Years ago, I realized I could never be as great an actor as Olivier or as good a comic as Steve Martin or Martin Mull or Fred Willard--or as good an economist as Samuelson or Friedman or as good a writer as Fitzgerald. Or even remotely close to any of them.

But, I could be a devoted father to my son, husband to my wife and, above all, a good son to the parents who had done so much for me. This came to be my main task in life. I did it moderately well with my son, pretty well with my wife and well indeed with my parents (with my sister's help). I cared for and paid attention to them in their declining years. I stayed with my father as he got sick, went into extremis and then into a coma and then entered immortality with my sister and me reading him the Psalms.

This was the only point at which my life touched the lives of the soldiers in Iraq or the firefighters in New York . I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty, in return for the lavish life God has devolved upon me, to help others He has placed in my path. This is my highest and best use as a human

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

By Ben Stein

Monday, June 15, 2009

Healing Lyme Disease

Chronic and acute Lyme's disease completely cleared by sequential homeopathic single remedies .
Dr. Robert Gilbert sent me this and I found it quite fascinating. It used to be that homeopathy was all people used to heal illness.

"I have been working with ill people with Lyme's disease for some eleven years now , and have found twenty-one strategic homeopathic single remedies that attack Lyme's disease powerfully - but only a selected few of these are applied for each person . They are administered to the individual sequentially , specifically targeting Lyme's and all other tick infections. I have discovered that chronically and acutely afflicted people with tick infections respond profoundly and brilliantly to the specific remedies I medically dowse for them, using their dried blood sample on unbleached coffee filter paper. I believe you recall that I employ Dr. Hazel Parcell's pendulum dowsing method to divine people's conditions and therapies . I have experimented with potent herbs, essential oils, supplements, etc. - yet the Lyme's disease would come roaring back!

This is not so, with the specific homeopathic remedies I have over the years applied and experienced, that treat and allay the crippling disease quickly and thoroughly! The remedies in {somewhat} order of immediate action and importance are:
Ledum palustre,
Aurum arsenicum ,
Lachesis {Bushman snake nosode },
Syphilinum {human nosode },
Apis,
Tuberculinum { human nosode },
Mercurius vivus,
Arsenicum album,
Eupatorium perfolatum,
Thuja ,
Bryonia,
Causticum,
Sulphur ,
Baptisia ,
Tellurium,
Silicea,
Gelsemium,
Echinacea angustifolia,
Argentum metallicum,
Chininum sulphuricum,
Lycopodium.
All potencies I normally recommend are : 30c and 200c .

Two other homeopathic remedies that I have never used - but other homeopaths have recommended I look into are :
Hedeoma { homeopathic Pennyroyal} and
Carcinosin { human cancer nosode }.
So, I hope this information will help others that you come in contact with in the future ! I need to subscribe to your newsletter soon."

Comment from the Urantia Book.

And this intense striving for the attainment of supermortal ideals is always characterized by increasing patience, forbearance, fortitude, and tolerance. [The Urantia Book, p. 1100, par. 6]

Sunday, June 14, 2009

KS&L 289 Processing Catastrophic News

Every single day there is news of a catastrophe: a ship sinks, houses burn down, or there is a hurricane that wipes out whole regions. We hear about people who are murdered, or who die suddenly of a thousand different things. There are crane, train and plane catastrophes as well. Then there are sudden accidents, divorces, job losses, economic news, changes in life situations, kidnappings and child abuse cases. In an instant lives are changed forever.

Military people in war are feeling greater and greater levels of stress. Is it possible that their stress is not just their location alone, but their connection to the volume of events happening at home as well?

How do we as humans begin to process not just each individual case, but frankly, the sheer volume of astounding, heart-wrenching information day after day?

How do we as caring souls offer compassion from our internal well, without wondering sometimes, if that well is becoming dry?

How do we balance the sadness with happiness? If something bad happens to us personally, how does one ever feel that they can be happy again?

It used to be that only caregivers, and professionals in certain fields had to face these sad things day after day. No more, with the Internet, and other instantaneous methods of communication we are now no more than a moment away from being horrified, astounded and outraged.

One of the elements to all of this is the concept of being connected, psychically with all that is happening. The Hawaiian Huna tradition, explains that we are connected to everything we have ever seen, touched or been a part of as well as everyone we have ever met and every place we have ever been, through something called ‘aka’ cords. Aka cords are thin blue strands of energy that emanate out from our solar plexus, just beneath the breastbone. The more we are electronically connected with people, places and things, the more we are energetically and psychically connected. Literally, we are all becoming more and more linked to the tragedies and the catastrophes that we see. All of these things are affecting everyone on the planet, whether they want to be connected to them or not. Perhaps that concept of five degrees of separation is now reduced to a threadbare, three or four. What we will eventually realize is that to maintain our emotional well being, we have to maintain something called karmic balance.

So, how does it work, this concept called karmic balance? How can we bring meaning to what appears to be senseless death, bizarre violence or nature’s fury? We find balance by focusing on things to be happy about and grateful for what already exists in our lives. We can also focus on truly enjoying the moment we are in for often each of these wonderful moments will eventually become precious memories. We must also learn to practice detached compassion. We can send prayer without attaching to the emotion of the situation. This goes a very long way in helping all of us to maintain mental balance.

Ultimately, however, we need to remember that karma is always fair and that just because we cannot see the big picture regarding this tsunami, plane crash or murder, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. We never know what karma any type of death or destruction is satisfying, group karmic disaster rebalancing, or what lessons there are for all the players to learn. Perspective, non-judgment and patience can get us through the roller coaster of emotions many of us are seeing each day.

As painfully hard as it frequently is, step back from any of these events and look for the obvious and the peripheral lessons everyone is going to learn. If there were no lessons to be learned, then human beings would not have any of those experiences in the first place. We are here for experiences and often these poignantly precious lessons are powerful karmic balancers. In the schoolhouse that is mortal life on Earth there are many degrees of experience to acquire and karma has a tremendous responsibility to provide all of them to us throughout all of the lives we will eventually live, including the really hard ones. The more fully we embrace each experience, learn each lesson and then grow, the fewer difficult experiences we will see repeated in our lives. It is this perspective that will ultimately enable us to observe what is happening around us, with a greater degree of wisdom and compassion.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Biogometry

Many people have asked me about Biogeometry. I have often referred them to the Vesica.org website and the Biogeometry.org website, however, now Dr. Robert Gilbert, Ph.D has made some wonderful video's available to help anyone interested in this topic have a better understanding of what this is all about. If you have any interest in Nature's own design language, the essence of Biogeometry, you will really enjoy these videos. Be sure to check out the Vesica website to learn more about their classes in gorgeous Ashville, North Carolina.

www.vesica.org/main/biogeometry/biogeometry-videos.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

KS&L 288 The Byproducts of Studying Death

Why study death? Isn’t it morbid? We cannot appreciate life until we can appreciate death. One cannot exist without the other.

The study of death has, in the past been the purview of the scientist and the religionists. But death encompasses both, the science of dying and entering the afterlife and the mechanical/spiritual aspects of the shut down of the body so that the soul can leave the mortal realm. For some, this concept of death means that a person has to come to terms with themselves and that can be a really scary place to be! Fear of death creates anomalies and imbalances in the body.

Embracing death does not mean a person is suicidal. It means that a person has to know what is going to happen so that they can easily go with the flow when the natural end of mortal life actually comes.

If we do not die in fear of death, then we come much closer to dying in a state of grace. The closer we are to a state of grace or being in Grace, the higher will our frequency be. The higher our frequency, the higher the level of dimension we can enter after the vital heat has finally left the body and the soul exists the mortal shell.

The seed atom of the soul lives in the center of our heart. That is also where the silver cord is fully attached. When the final vital heat leaves the body and all the systems are shut down, then the soul can feel that the silver cord, is cut and the soul then exits the body. Often a person does not know that they are dead. They only know that they do not really feel any different and yet they are different. If they were in physical pain, they are not in pain anymore. Once the understanding comes that death is upon them, then they must look for and/or request angelic assistance.

At death, several things happen, but one of the most significant is our disconnection from all we have ever known in mortal life. The grasping heart has to finally release its attachment to people, places and things. We cannot drive our favorite car anymore or walk the floors of our beloved house.

We will no longer taste the lusciousness of food or feel the fur of our precious pets.

As our friends and families grieve the fact that they can no longer hold or hugs us, so once we are out of our body, we will not be able to feel physical touch again either.
This realization causes us, the dead to grieve own passing to the degree that we have held on to things. If we did not have a grasping heart in mortal life, then we may quite readily release the physical aspects of our lives.

When we study death, we learn this and it is precious in its insight. It teaches us to let go, to recognize that we do not control anything in mortal life really, except our thoughts. The more we discipline ourselves to let go, trust and forgo the grasping heart, the more gentle will our transition be to the afterlife.

The study of death reminds us that the only constant in mortal and immortal life is change. As we change, we release the old and embrace the new experiences - in any dimension.

We evolve as souls when we cherish the old experiences, learn from them and then embrace new ones.

The study of death allows us to embrace the physical and spiritual reality of life and death. It teaches us to be purposeful in our conscious decisions to embrace all that life has to offer.

Finally the study of death removes fear from our lives and offers us the supreme opportunity to consciously evolve as souls.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

A Comment on the Urantia Book

Dear Readers, I received this comment and found it most interesting. The website mentioned is fascinating.

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If you are not aware, perhaps you and your readers would be interested to know about the UBtheNEWS project. This project documents how new discoveries and scientific advances are catching up to the Urantia Book's statements about history and science that were either in conflict with scholarship when it was published or not yet even considered. This objectively verifiable and unique quality of credibility is made available as a free service at UBtheNEWS.
Namaste,
Halbert

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Urantia comment

The Urantia Book is an amazing book which explains the organization of the Universe and all the seven Super Universes. Every now and then, one of the interesting quotes from the book will be included on this site.

"Do not be so slothful as to ask God to solve your difficulties, but never hesitate to ask him for wisdom and spiritual strength to guide and sustain you while you yourself resolutely and courageously attack the problems at hand. [The Urantia Book, p. 999, par. 8]"

Steve Jobs' Commencement Address at Stanford

As I am creating this blog entry on my MacBook, I find it poetic to offer you this commencement address that Apple Computer's founder Steve Jobs gave at Stanford University. It will take 15 minutes of your time. Enjoy.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/26/One-of-the-BEST-Commencement-Speeches-of-All-Time.aspx