Showing posts with label Down the Rabbit Hole. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Down the Rabbit Hole. Show all posts
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Sunday, December 21, 2014
Get Real ~ a message from Alan Cohen
Saturday, 1 November, 2014 (posted 18 December, 2014)
Sitting backstage at a network television studio in a large metropolitan city, I waited to go on the air for an interview. My segment was scheduled right after the noon news broadcast, which began with a gory account of a murder, then a rape, then war footage, followed by bad economic news and a political scandal. I began to feel depressed, but consoled myself that the broadcast would get to more positive reports. It didn’t. The entire fifteen minutes was filled with gloom and doom, nothing anyone in his right mind would want to get up in the morning and face. Eventually I just had to laugh. The news was beyond depressing. It was ridiculous. It was unbelievable. Finally, after the closing sortie of auto accidents and snarled traffic, the broadcaster announced, “. . .and now for a great new book by an author who is going to tell you how to live a happy life.”
The camera turned to me.
Suddenly I became Neo in the movie The Matrix, in which wizard Morpheus extends two open hands, a red pill in one palm and a blue pill in the other. If Neo ingests the red pill, he will awaken to his true self and the real world. If he takes the blue pill, he will remain in a familiar but oppressive world of illusions.
I sat up straight and reached for the red pill. I told the audience that love is our birthright and fear the imposter. I took a stand for living authentically in a world consumed by illusions. I told the viewers that they deserved better than the world showed them, and they held power over their lives regardless of the insanity around them. It was the only news I knew how to broadcast.
After the program, the anchor, a highly-respected lifetime journalist, took me aside and told me, “I agree with you completely. I get depressed coming to this job. There has to be more to life than the world we are telling people there is.”
The reality we have been shown by the media and other seemingly authoritative institutions has been twisted into the polar opposite of truth, championed by people more committed to bondage than freedom. You have likely told someone about a valued vision of yours, to which he or she responded, “Get real!” Suddenly your excitement was reduced to ashes and you either gave up your quest or you had to once again build up the courage and momentum to forge ahead. Take care to share your sacred visions with people who will empower you, not attempt to gobble your hopes in the shredder of doubt. If you have even one or two good friends who understand you and believe in you, that is sufficient. And if it seems that no one understands or supports you, Higher Power has your back. Even when you do not have faith in yourself, God has faith in you.
When most people say, “Get real,” they mean, “Get small. Get limited. Get stuck. I am trapped in my little fear-bound world, and your expansive vision is threatening to me. So I demand that you grovel in the mud with me. How dare you rock my tiny world with greater possibilities!” The premise is that success and happiness are unattainable illusions, while struggle and suffering are realities we must adjust to and live with.
Most planetary game-changers were told, “Get real.” They were branded insane, shamed, imprisoned, tortured, and killed. The Catholic Church sentenced Galileo to house arrest for suggesting that the earth revolved around the sun. Soon afterward Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno proposed that the sun was a star and that the universe contained an infinite number of inhabited worlds populated by other intelligent beings. Giordano was convicted of heresy and burned at the stake. When the judges issued his death decree he told them, “Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.” Jonathan Swift later noted, “When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him." Einstein echoed, “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” Every person is potentially great. Are you willing to step into your greatness, claim it, and live it?
The holiday season offers you many opportunities to get real in the presence of people who fear to get real themselves, and call you to play small with them. Regard their resistance as a call for love and an invitation for you to be authentic. When you stand for truth in the presence of illusion, you break the illusion for yourself and for everyone who subscribes to it. Your mission is to remain alive in a world preoccupied with death; to walk tall when others are compromising their integrity; to be who you are while others have forgotten who they are.
Reality is not for sissies. To live authentically in a world steeped in illusion is the gift of lifetime, spreading light in ripples from your own life to the lives of everyone you touch.
© 2014 Alan Cohen Publications - http://www.alancohen.com - Alan Cohen is the author of many popular inspirational books, including the just-released Enough Already: The Power of Radical Contentment. For more information about Alan’s other books and free daily inspirational quotes via email, visit www.alancohen.com, email info@alancohen.com, or phone 1 808 572-0001.
Monday, November 17, 2014
Cosmic Weather – 2014 Year End Review | Irma Kaye Sawyer 15 November 2014
Cosmic Weather - Year End Review | Irma Kaye Sawyer
November 15, 2014
Hello friends. At first I thought I was going to do a post on the fierce “Scorpio/Eclipse” season we are approaching the tail end of, but I then it kind of turned into a review of the entire year. One of my posts had over 170K views at Facebook which at first seemed really great until the emails started rolling in. As an empath/energy reader and not a crisis counselor or suicide hotline, it was a bit hard to handle. I had a social media hiatus planned last week anyway and it proved to be in divine timing. Yes I did let the madness of the world get to me more than a little bit, but I also learned a lot from it and I share my findings with you.
The Method and The Madness
Buy the ticket, take the ride…and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I discovered there’s a difference between a little Alice – down the Rabbit Hole adventure and adventures of a more dark and threatening variety. In times of great cosmic stress there is also an increased level of “offloading” or psychological projection going on and that can make things even more confusing and sticky. The Plutonic nature of the energies of October and November have served exactly in that capacity. Just as my forecast for November indicated, our FEARS have been front and center for many people and the results have not been pretty; especially for my fellow empaths/sensitives. On some days you could cut the astral tension with a knife and freaky started looking like the new normal.
The purpose of the ferocity of the Scorpio/Eclipse portal was to level up, so to speak. Actually if your challenges were great this is a good sign spiritually. You are utilizing the energies accordingly. A coping mechanism when the energies are “thick” is to put up more walls metaphorically and energetically and get into resistance. It has been said, “Resist not evil,” and there is a great teaching in this. Let energies flow past you and they will not “stick.” To side step, deflect and chose one’s battles are tools of the Spiritual Warrior. – The Keepers, 11.14.14
Robert Moss described this Scorpio Season as a collective “negative hypnotic trance,” and I feel this is highly accurate. With Neptunian and Uranian elements traveling with the other energies at hand there have been plenty of twists, turns, illusions and downright shocks. It was rather like being knocked down by a large oceanic wave and then right when we got our footing again, another would come along. No wonder frustration and fatigue levels reached fever pitch, especially during the first two weeks of November.
This year definitely lived up to being a “7” Universal Year in the Chinese “Year of the (Green) Horse.” There has been much movement, change and consciousness expansion all around. Since change can be tough and scary, this has contributed to the general vibe of anxiety that has pervaded the atmosphere.
Collective Initiation
Both the Keepers and the astrology of the year have indicated that we have been in a collective initiation and to pull from the Hunter S. Thompson quote above, a “forced consciousness expansion.” Though on one level it’s not really forced as the Universe doesn’t exactly play that way as free will is involved, but let’s just say she’s more than happy to light a little fire under our butts when necessary.
I was shown that these were the main areas in which many spiritual aspirants were put to the test this year: death, loss, separations of all kinds including divorce and financial shocks. With Saturn in Scorpio until 12/23 of this year we’ve ALL been feeling the pinch but those with strong Scorpio and Capricorn planets have been feeling it the most. I was joking with a good friend who is an astrologer about going out for cocktails to celebrate Saturn’s movement into Sagittarius and he said, “I want to go drink with you, and I don’t even drink!” Yes folks, it’s been pretty tough. The challenge I feel in any kind of tough cosmic initiation is to not get into what I have called “cosmic whiplash,” and remain fearful and energetically and psychologically injured. I’ve been looking ahead at the energies of 2015 and we definitely do not want to start the year on a low note. Please be kind to yourselves now and do whatever you feel is necessary to restore yourself and get back to center.
Higher Ground
Despite the reports of madness and mayhem, there have been people able to tap into the higher octave of these energies and have been having a different, less upsetting kind of experience. These people are most likely not empaths and if they are, they have perfected their Empath Ninja Warrior light skills to an art form and I am genuinely impressed. ;) It helps if we remember that there IS a purpose during periods where there’s a whole lotta shakin’ going on and the more we can stop the resistance and LET GO, the better we will fare in challenging times of all kinds in our lives.
Another important thing to remember is that our own Guides and Angels are always with us, but especially in times of trouble or stress. We are definitely not alone in the Universe, despite what the rantings of our ego/ordinary mind would like us to believe. Breathe. Tune in. Reach out. Receive.
Accept, then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. This will miraculously transform your whole life.- Eckhart Tolle
Boundaries and Game Changers
One thing that I’ve noticed that is simply not going away are the growing discomfort levels in the Collective. People that are in service especially in the healing and/or counseling fields have defintely noticed some big changes and the need for loving, but firm boundaries. When the cosmic heat gets turned up, people want out of the kitchen and they are looking for answers and sometimes through inappropriate means. If you are in service to the public I see the “game changers” being in the areas of self-care and in a pretty big way. Please don’t wait until you are approaching dangerous levels of personal burnout before you go on a vacation or at least step away for a little while. It will make all the difference.
What I will say in looking at the energies of 2015, it’s definitely a “come clean” kind of energy. The “8” Universal Year energies are about karmic manifestation and also magnification. As I’ve mentioned before, whatever you would not like seen magnified 50 or 100X may have been at the forefront of your consciousness this year. This is actually for a divine purpose and I will explore that more in depth in the 2015 Yearly Forecast coming up at the end of December.
Looking ahead, we have the movement of the Sun, Venus and Saturn moving from the depths of Scorpio to the lighter more expansive energies of Sagittarius over the next few weeks. This however, is not without it’s shadow material also – namely in the form of preaching, dogmatism and Jupiterian over-the-topness. With SO much deep underworld activity this Fall however, for many it will feel like sweet relief and the return of an old, beloved friend.
Thank you for reading and remember to keep it Cosmic!
Categories: Cosmic Keys Blog
Tags: 2014 Year End Review, Akashic Wisdom Keepers, Cosmic Weather
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