Last week we touched on the next phase of our growth – “Responsibility”; this week is about “Accountability”.

Through this part of the next phase, you will be held accountable for your thoughts and actions.

Of course, we have all been living with societal consequences and/or balances; but now, as you live your life, you will be holding yourself accountable for your thoughts (yes, even cursing at the driver who cut you off on the road does create!) and your actions and/or non-actions.

Lying, stealing, deceit, manipulation, guilt, misdirection, self-serving, hate, etc. are all going to have to be dealt with – not only through society rules, but also through your higher self.

Many are now looking into the mirror and are having trouble recognizing themselves when they look into their own eyes. If this is happening to you, what are you not being true/honest about?

I don’t know about you, but I can be pretty hard on myself – so try to remain true to me as well as my higher self.

If there is something you don’t want done to you – then don’t do it to someone else.

It’s time to do the right things.

Next week, Part III (of III) is “Being Pro-Active”

by Peter Perkins

I had a metaphysical gathering with some of my friends recently and we got to talking about the earthquakes that have been striking recently. I, like some others, feel that this is not the end of such events taking place on earth. First, we are in a time of change here on earth.

The veils between worlds are getting weaker. This can be seen with the preponderance of such television programs as “Ghost Hunters”, “The Ghost Whisperer” and othersimilar shows which show a shifting in consciousness . This shift shows a more open minded, more accepting attitude that has brought ghostly encounters from one of mere fairy tales and stories to a more personal acceptance that ghosts are real and people can interact with them. How many of you have had some experience with such entities? We have hit an age where it is ok to speak of such things.

Even as we ourselves are changing, our own vibrations rising, so too is our world increasing in vibration. I feel as some others that the earth is shaking off negative energies. It is preparing itself for the changes that are beneficial to her own existence. While some may feel these changes are something to be afraid of or perhaps they feel fears rising about 2012.

I want to remind everyone again that we are spiritual beings simply having a human experience. While we may feel loss for those who pass we are all, all of us immortal. Our spirits cannot die; only these bodies we use to experience the world. We may die in body but not in spirit. This should, I hope, remove some of the fears of the events that are occurring around us.

Our planet is indeed warming but so too are most planets in our solar system. Recently, NASA released some photo’s of Pluto showing vast changes. Even this distant planet is undergoing change. It’s not a matter of SUV’s or coal burning factories for these other planets – andyet news on the other planets heating up also seems amazingly lacking among those who are speaking of global warming. I invite you to research for yourself the changes occurring in our solar system.

So what do we do? If more earthquakes and earth changes are happening, then what can we do ? Don’t live in fear. Manifestations are occurring now faster than most times in history; so, you don’t want to focus on fear or apocalyptic thoughts.

Yes, the earth is indeed going through changes; but these changes are for the best. It might not seem that way from a limited and separate perspective. Yet from a more global and spiritual perspective, these changes are here to make it easier to transition into a new world. These new changes are wake up calls. They draw attention, they allow us to see that we are not separate from others. Compassion and a feeling of reaching out to others is something these changes are doing currently. Also these changes allow us to realize there are things we need to do; changes we may need to make as societies to adapt.

Trust that you will be where you need to be. Trust that death is only in the body not the spirit. Trust in Mother Earth.

Lastly trust in your own intuition.

Peter

Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Past Lives by Tom Shroder. © 1999. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-64-85192-X.

Reporter Tom Shroder began his exploration into past lives by wanting to write a story about Dr. Brian Weiss and his work in past life regression.

During his research on Weiss, Shroder came across an article on Dr. Ian Stevenson (died 2/08/07); interested in Stevenson’s work, Shroder turned his attention to him.

Dr. Stevenson traveled extensively to interview children claiming past life memories. Stevenson would then research the memories – either validating the claims or disproving them.

Old Souls is the journey Shroder literally took with Stevenson on some of Stevenson’s research trips; what he experienced and witnessed while he followed Stevenson. They interviewed children and adults in Beruit, India and the US.

Shroder began this journey very much the skeptic as far as past life memories. At the end of this book, Shroder’s skepticism was not so prominent.

I really enjoyed Shroder’s book – and was fascinated at the scientific approach Dr. Stevenson took working to prove/disprove the past life memories.

I highly recommend this book.

For those who have completed their work on clearing their past (Pardon Me…Your Past is Showing) and setting boundaries (Time to Draw the Line – Setting Personal Boundaries) may find they are now working on the next phase:

Responsibility, Accountability and Being Pro-Active

In this article, we will touch on Responsibility.

Most of us balk or inwardly cringe when we think of taking responsibility; it’s so much easier to blame other people or outside circumstances.

The first time I faced Responsibility (during meditation with my guides), I literally froze. I consciously did not want to accept responsibility.

As I stood before Responsibility, I did a flash-review of my youth up to that current point in my life, and discovered that I had played the victim-role quite well!

No more!

I stood tall and accepted Responsibility; and you know, I actually felt both free and empowered doing so!

Taking Responsibility for your life, your creation, is very important now. By taking Responsibility for your thoughts (creation) and actions, you can work towards creating a new reality for yourself.

I know, sounds like sci-fi, it it’s not.

The energy on Earth, and in humans, has come up so high that we each are now creating…for better or worse.

Think about:

• You
• Your Family
• Your Home
• Your Friends
• Your Job
• Your Neighborhood
• Your Hang-outs
• Your Town/City
• Your State
• Your Region
• Your Country
• Your Continent
• Your World

I’ll bet you stopped thinking/imagining at either a local, state or region – if you went that far.

For most of us, our creation (and our thoughts) do not go much beyond our local physical location. We’ve created our own little world bubble.

When you accept Responsibility, I recommend that you begin with you and your life and work your way through the list. Yes, it may take a while, but should be well worth it.

Taking Responsibility for you – your thoughts and your actions, will affect the rest of your list! How cool is that?

Now, you’re probably asking, “How do I take responsibility?”

Remember, each of your thoughts creates! It reshapes your vibration; your health; your views on life; your life, etc.

At the same time, it ripples and affects those close to you…home, family, friends, co-workers, and so on; for better or worse!

Being conscious of your thoughts and your actions can change you; once you realize this, you can empower yourself!

You created your life! And you continue to create your life!

Next week, Part II, will be ‘Accountability’.

by Peter Perkins

An excellent article was written by Andrew Gubb on Indigo’s recently. There are a great many groups out there who exhibit certain characteristics. Many are believed to be here to serve a purpose. Some are to help others and show them the way back to their own knowledge.

Others are here to help shake up the old systems which no longer work or are to corrupt to serve humanity anymore. Still others are here to help their parents and others into the changing world we are progressively finding ourselves in.

Star seeds are here helping in their own way from other star systems or dimensions. Here to aid humanity and to share knowledge and respect for other races and cultures. One does not necessarily belong to only one group as several may apply.

You may find yourself having the characteristics of one group or another and yet may wonder if indeed you are part of that group. A great deal of sites addresses the various groups of beings that are here. Sometimes you have a strong knowing or self revelation that you are part of such a group.

I myself never thought of myself as a star seed. In fact, out of all the  groups, I thought that I was certainly not one of them; even though a fellow  person into the metaphysical had asked me if I was and said they thought I was  one. It took a self revelatory vision for me to come to this realization.

Yet even with all the groups such as rainbow children, crystal children,  indigos, light bearers and one that I feel I have many things in common with the  blue rays, the star seeds and others, I have yet to come across a website for  those who have been or carry the energies of mythological creatures. While many  may be familiar with past lives – and some grasp that time is not linear and  know that we live other lives as well as this one -you may have some memory of  these past lives, co-current or parallel lives. Mythological creatures, as they  have been termed here, did and still do exist. Do you have memories of living a  life as such a creature?

Of many mythologicals, not all posses the ability to travel from world to world or between dimensions. Those that don’t  have these gifts were often assisted by those mythologicals that did such as  unicorns and dragons. Look in your hearts and memories; does the dragon song  call to you? Do you remember a time and place where you were not a human but  what mankind would term a mythological creature?

We do have a purpose. Like the other groups, we are here now for specific  reasons. Perhaps you feel you are incarnating here in human form as some kind of  punishment, or realize you are here to learn human frailties and strengths. We  all incarnate for a reason, sometimes to heal our selves, or others. Always we  incarnate to learn and grow. It is time for us to start communicating with each other.

It is becoming more acceptable for people to believe in ghosts,  past lives, psychic phenomenon and prophecy lately. Television shows and  programs even on Discovery and History channel cover such topics. Talk of  extraterrestrials and ufos is becoming more mainstream as well. News anchors may  still laugh about covering such topics, but the topics keep coming up and that  says more then their smiles and laughs ever will. Even the Vatican has come forward to speak on  the possibility of alien life.

Even with these things becoming more acceptable to talk about, we mythologicals have kept our cards close to our  chests. It is hard to say “I remember a time when…” and you describe your  memories of a life when you were not human. That does not invalidate your  memories. You are not alone. You are loved, cherished and missed.

In sharing with each other, we may come to understand we are not alone. Many times  people keep something to themselves and only when they risk ridicule and their  own internal fears do they discover others who have had similar  experiences.

If you think about it, if no one ever spoke of an experience with a  ghost, we might still be living in a world where people didn’t know how common  such experiences were. Certainly we would not have shows such as “The Ghost  Whisperer”, “Medium” and “Ghost Hunters”. Yet because people risked ridicule and  risked sharing, they learned they were not alone. Indeed, so many have had  experiences that one is not ridiculed anymore when one speaks of ghosts. It does  take bravery, to step out of ones comfort zone and speak truths one holds in  ones heart. Be brave my fellow mythologicals, hear the dragon song and let it  give you the strength you need to speak.

*Note* – I want to clear up something, as questions may arise from this article. There are many human myths in regards to mythologicals. What I am referring to in this article is not the version of mythologicals that are or have been portrayed for centuries. Does it make sense to you that Unicorns exist for the sole purpose of allowing virgins a ride? Or that Dragons sit on piles of human wealth? Why? It’s not exactly like a dragon is your average bank CEO of today’s era. I speak to those with memories of being these creatures and others, who recall their society, their culture and the gifts these beings have.

Most mythologicals are intensely spiritual in nature though this has been confused for a long time with them being magical.

Peter

by Andrew Gubb

I’m helping to organise a worldwide meetup of indigos and other highly conscious people. There are already meetups in Spain and several countries in South America.

Here’s the event on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=322153054332

And here’s the text if you can’t read it:

Hi guys -

Inspired by Nicholas Chirivino of http://www.indiguismo.blogspot.com, indigos around the world are coming together in reunions in each country on the 6th of March. If you want to hear more about the story, you can read my note here: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=321117886862

We already have meetups in Ecuador, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, and Paraguay. By total coincidence the well-established indigo network in Indonesia I-Nesia is having a meetup in Bandung at that time too. Now I’m doing my bit to get this into English.

Let’s make this a worldwide thing and take a day to get together, meet new people on our wavelength and send light to our brothers and sisters around the world. Let’s fight the disconnection we’ve gone through until this moment and start organising.

As I said in my note, there may be at a rough guess 40,000 indigos in Spain but we’re only going to have about 50 in the meetup. I think this is a GREAT start though. It’s a symbolic start, but we all know how little snowballs get bigger as they roll down the mountain.

Right now indigos around the world are in a large part alone, confused as to what they are, angry and hurt. As I-Nesia has proved to me, together we are happier, healthier and STRONGER to make a change like we were born to do.

Let’s make this a world of love, joy and light!!

RECIPE FOR FUN

1. Talk with your indigo friends in your country

2. Start a new event on facebook and invite everyone to it

2a. We suggest making it an open meeting, that is anyone who is interested can come. Many indigos don’t know for sure if they are indigos and there are many non-indigos in the world who are interested in helping the cause. Also, it’d be a bit nuts to exclude crystals and rainbows if any want to come along (?!?!!!)

3. Send me a link and I’ll put it up here

4. Love each other!

5. Meditate together send light to all the indigos in the world and visualise to help us connect, organise, share with each other and help each other in our mutual life’s mission. Do this (if you want of course) whether you’re meeting up officially in your country or not. I’d like to suggest a time of 12 noon GMT for all of us to do this; however I understand that this may not be practical, so we can do it otherwise at 12 noon local time, or whatever other time is most convenient for the meetup.

Imagine all the people, living for today.

Now – you may say that I’m a dreamer; but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will live as one.

6. SPREAD THE WORD!!!

Post this on online forums you frequent, send emails to your indigo friends, stick up a poster in any spiritual type place you think a few indigos might pass through… do your bit!

7. Group hug!

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Hope you join me in this!

Andrew

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This is one of those “where my thoughts took me…” articles, so hang in there with me!

Friday evening our 14 year old cat was suddenly in pain and had trouble walking. I sat on the floor with her, and had the sensation of harsh pinching in her front leg.

It was after office hours, so my husband brought her to the emergency clinic. A few hours later he returned home with a slightly woozy cat (a small dose of morphine for the pain).

The doctor told him that our cat threw a blood clot (which is very painful) and that her heart rate was 210 beats/minute and they heard a heart murmur. Our cat was sent home with heart medicine (beta-blocker / anti-arhythmic) to slow her heart rate down, to be given three times a day; and we had instructions for low dose aspirin regiment for the blood clot.

Come Saturday, I reluctantly gave her the first dose of heart medicine – everything in me screamed that this was wrong! However, I had never ‘felt’ a blood clot before…maybe the doctor was right.

Sunday morning, I gave her another dose of heart meds and a small dose of aspirin (as per the doctor’s instructions). Again, I couldn’t give her the three times a day heart med dose.

On Monday, I brought our cat to her regular vet. Diagnosis? Heart was fine; no sign of a blood clot.

I explained to the doctor that I had a hard time giving her the meds as prescribed by the emergency vet. She said it was probably a good thing I hadn’t.

She also said that something may have been pinched – or that perhaps she had arthritis and hurt herself when jumping down from the couch earlier, especially since she was overweight – causing more stress on her joints.

Our cat starts her diet tonight and her heart meds were donated for those who really need it and cannot afford it.

This experience led my thoughts to:

I have one leg slightly shorter than the other, so I have orthotic inserts to balance me out.

I have been doing great for over a year, and suddenly couldn’t walk right and had back and hip pain.

The wonderful man who does my orthotics asked me what have I been doing to mess my feet up? I really hadn’t a clue.

He then told me that he has found hormone imbalances can, in essence, reshape the foot.

My jaw dropped. I told him that my thyroid meds have been discontinued and this has messed me up.

That led my thoughts to:

The FDA has recently decided to ram-rod the natural pharmaceuticals. The consequences? My and countless others, meds are no longer available. The FDA has removed them.

My meds are no longer available, compliments of the FDA, and my body is not in good shape.

Why has the FDA interfered with natural pharmaceuticals? Because of the chemical pharmaceuticals. (In a very watered down version) the FDA is owned by the chemical pharmaceuticals.

Instead of making sure that the deadly stuff that did make it through to us (examples: the ‘fillers’ used in baby formulas that killed and/or damaged many infants and the prescriptions meds from China that used lead paint, fillers, etc. and damaged / killed others here in the US, etc) didn’t happen, they are turning on the chemical pharmaceuticals ‘competition’ – the natural pharmaceuticals that were actually wonderful for us and our bodies.

Because of the health-reform approaching, many cannot afford western medicine and are seeking alternative medicine (and this will increase, unless we allow the FDA to completely shut those down!).

I am not saying western medicine practices or all chemical pharmaceuticals are bad; I am saying that each of us is responsible for our bodies and must explore what we each need.

This is America! The land of freedom! What’s happening? Where is our freedom going? Why are we not taking a stand, and responsibility, for our own care?

It is our government! They work for us!

I was fighting listening to “me” about my cat’s medicines; my hesitancy and ‘compromise’ probably saved her life.

I fought the FDA to keep them from sticking their noses in the natural pharmacy’s businesses – but not enough people spoke up.

Where is the line, everyone? When will we take responsibility for our government, and our health-care?

Isn’t it time to stand up and be heard? Or will you wait to see what other rights and freedoms will we give up next?

We have the right:

• To speak up.
• To be healthy.
• To be free.

We have the responsibility:

• To speak up.
• To be healthy.
• To be free.

by Peter Perkins

First I want to start out with the concept that life is a waking dream. I know it may be a term you are familiar with. Some major religions have the same idea that life is but a dream or an illusion. The world around us is like a projection letting us learn lessons and experience things; but to the soul it is but a temporary dream. With this as the basis for how life is then what would it be like to awaken from the dream?

Indeed many religions have spirituality at their core. Sometimes it is hidden under dogma and the more earthly concerns. When one looks beyond the surface, most religions try to reveal that we are beings of spirit, a soul,luminous beings not the creatures of the flesh we think of ourselves as. While this revelation that we are spirits may have at one time been the focus of religions, a shift occurred to more physical matters. Tithes, a tie to governments, control of information and things very much away from the root that reveals we are so much more than our physical bodies. Some religions still focus strongly on the spirit and do not have as many additional trappings as others.

Science has come to a similar realization recently through quantum physics. At the smallest levels everything is not the solid physical matter that we think of it as. Everything, when scaled down to subatomic levels, is energy. So what religion knew for years that we are beings of light not of physical matter, science is now discovering. I believe this is an important turning point since western society has focused so much on science being the truth. This lends the weight of science to spiritual matters. This opens the door to many who would otherwise never think of spirituality.

So then are there indications of what it is like to awaken? Is there anything that can give us a clue as to what it is like to realize we are in a dream? I think there are.

First we have examples of religious figures throughout history who seemed to posses incredible abilities. Healing the sick, the ability to travel instantaneously, the ability to speak with people distantly and many other things we would consider miracles. Second, there is a direct experience we can have that is as close to this experience as possible; lucid dreaming is the experience in which we realize we are in a dream, but wake up. If you have ever had a lucid dream then you know exactly what I am speaking of. If you have not, I want to cover that a bit.

In lucid dreaming we realize at some point within a dream that we are dreaming. This realization often leads us to feeling unlimited. We know in a dream anything is possible and since we are dreaming we can do whatever we desire. In a lucid dream if you want to go somewhere you could just fly off to wherever you wish to go. You could simply teleport from where you are to where you wish to be. Also, if you desire something within the dream you simply have to think of it and it manifests. This isn’t just objects but settings and situations.

If you were having a nightmare and suddenly you become lucid you could change the whole nature of the nightmare in a heartbeat.

As a personal example one of my lucid dreams I realized I was dreaming and found myself in a school-like setting. What a school though! The halls were filled with light and people were walking or floating down the halls. I realized I could float if I wanted to as well and soon I was floating down the hall with the others. After a while I felt like I was to learn something and found myself before a room. I went into the room and it was open to the sky. A beautiful noonday sun shined above me. I looked up and just basked in the light. Suddenly, I concentrated while looking up and the sunset and the moon rose above me. I kept doing this making the days pass within seconds. I knew this was but one of the lessons I could learn here.

So if Ascension is like this; if realizing we are in a dream is like a lucid dream, then how come more people aren’t flying around, or teleporting or performing what we would consider miracles?

In some ways people are doing these things. Stories of energy healing are becoming more common. Going out of body lets us travel to other locations and fly, and manifesting is happening, though it is not instantaneous. I think the reason we don’t see more overt examples of these things is because our higher selves know more about the impact we would have on others. We are still living in a world with others, and inadvertent manifestations, or an errant thought while driving sending us off to our destination would be disastrous to others – our higher self realizes this. I think there are many people awake or awakening. Yet we need to evolve, not only spiritually but mentally.

If we awakened without the mental capacity to understand the impact we would have on others it could lead to many situations where problems arise. Our higher selves know this and though we are not put back to sleep. the abilities come to us as we need them and with that aspect of our higher selves knowing what is best. I know it may seem frustrating to seek out ascension to want to awaken and realize our full unlimited potential but it is good that our higher selves are patiently watching and making sure we utilize our gifts in a way that will not bring harm.After all one could just as easily awaken and realizing it is all a dream wipe out a nation with an errant thought as they could provide food and shelterto many in need.

I think when we are mentally capable of handling these awakened gifts our higher selves will open those floodgates to full awakening and ascension.

Peter

Over the last few months, I have been having some difficulties with a local business that I frequent. I had tried to correct the situation myself, but had no success. Frustrated, I sent a letter of complaint (email) to the upper management. Within minutes (literally – about five minutes after I sent the email), I received a phone call; I spent the next few, unrushed minutes pleasantly surprised at the compassion and caring from the management.

I am pleased with the way management worked to resolve my issues and there was no apathy, hostility, or aggravation from them; major Kudos to them!

This experience led my thoughts to how, for the last two years I have been working locally attempting to bring cohesion to the mind/body/spirit community practitioners.

When I started, many saw me as a competitor and was often (but not always!) met with disdain, hostility or just downright ignored.

I am now beginning to see cohesion beginning to develop. I cannot take credit for this – but it is very exciting nonetheless! And it is happening all over, not just local to me!

We each have an ability and/or skill, and we are each unique individuals. This means we each bring our own touch, technique, and/or energy signature to whatever it is we each do; in a nutshell, there is no competition!

People who resonate with your energy, skill, and/or technique will be drawn to you; again, no competition!

For those of you who know me, you know that I try to get others to write and post metaphysical-related (mind, body, spirit) articles on my blog. I do this because ‘my way’ is not the only way; ‘my messages’ aren’t the only messages. I try to offer other views and/or messages to the public.

I also promote others books, businesses, sites, etc. (within available time) – again to offer you a variety or choice.

Though the two topics – local business issue resolution and metaphysical community cohesion – are not, on the surface, related – they are both about working with others without hostility, apathy, competitiveness, etc.

It is about working with one another; complimenting each other; and about working in harmony and Light in every situation.

I wish you each harmony and Light!

Picture Yourself Capturing Ghosts on Film by Christopher Balzano. © 2010, Course Technology/Cengage Learnings. ISBN 978-1-4354-5483-5.

A paranormal investigator and author, Balzano shares tips, guidance and ideas about taking photos and videos in the course of a paranormal investigation.

Balzano goes a bit into: the workings of cameras; equipment prep before an investigation; the investigation; evidence review and software for digital photos review. He also goes into faked photos and more.

Balzano devotes a chapter to “The Great Orb Debate”, including comments on orbs from Gene Lafferty (another investigator).

The author presents the information in a clear, direct manner – and includes some of his experiences in photo review as well as photo examples throughout his book.

I recommend this book for those interested in paranormal photography.