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Denise Hale


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Gender: Female
Status: Married
Age: 49
Sign: Scorpio

City: SAN JOSE
State: CALIFORNIA
Country: US
Signup Date: 3/6/2005

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Saturday, January 24, 2009 
Yes We Can

"And this wise man asked me to stop. He said, 'Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Get involved in what God is doing -- because it's already blessed.'" ~Bono

It takes a lot to inspire me these days, as I feel a lot of my creative energy is consumed by my work and reserved for the man I love. 

But today, I am inspired by a man and a movement that I believe represents the energy of evolution and higher consciousness.  The other day I heard that the new generation following generation Y will be generation S for Service.  Whether this is true, or not, I am excited about the notion that we have a leader who has the ability to unite devisiveness, bring about peace, and to mobilize people to service at the grass roots level.

I have been saying that we were due for another revolution and nothing will shake people up more and force the shift of consciousness then crisis.  Between 2001-2004, I had to close my collectibles store, lost a house in foreclosure, got a divorce, and lost the person I was the most close to at the time, my youngest brother died of aids.

There was a period after this that I thought I fell apart. My counselor tells me not to think of it as a break down but to look at it as a break through. 

There used to be a saying that "shit happens."  Today there is a saying that "shift happens."  I had to seek out help to find new ways to cope, but the process of learning to shift my perspective was the cocoon of transformation.  I had to learn to shift my thought processes, my consciousness.  The United States is in the midst of this shift.  We must shift our consciousness.

As Gandhi said:  ""You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

With our economy in crisis, and two wars abroad, we as a country are being forced to evaluate our priorities and to put aside our partisan differences and awaken to the reality that we are all in this together.  The effects of our economic crisis on the global community shows us that this is not just a American shift but a global shift. We each have a responsibility to be better people in order to create a better world.

I have believed that the Universe/God/Cosmic Consciousness/Source or whatever else you choose to call it, in it's creative energy teaches us lessons through nature and through our bodies.  We as humans have suffered from a form of cancer.

The Definition of Cancer in the Wikipedia describes it as a class of  diseases in which a group of  cells display uncontrolled growth, division beyond the normal limits, invasion (intrusion on and destruction of adjacent tissues), and sometimes metastasis (spread to other locations in the body via lymph or blood).

Cancerhelp.org describes cancer like this:


The characteristics of normal cells


Normal body cells have a number of important characteristics

They can

Stop reproducing at the right time
Stick together in the right place
Self destruct if they are damaged
Become specialised or 'mature'

How cancer cells are different


Cancer cells are different to normal cells in several ways.
Cancer cells don't stop reproducing
Cancer cells don't obey signals from other cells
Cancer cells don't stick together
Cancer cells don't specialise, but stay immature

Bottom line? I think there is a lesson here. Cancer cells continue to multiply and divide but never mature or stick together. They show a loss of respect for normal tissue boundaries.

We have a responsibility to grow and mature spiritually or else like cancer cells we just continue to multiply and divide and crowd out and sap the energy of the healthy cells.

Cancer cells give nothing back nor contribute nothing towards the health of the whole.

I think Barack is on to something.  I feel hope. 
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Friday, March 16, 2007 
"Your job is to be a deliberate creator, and flow energy so deliberately that the vibrations of other people are uplifted by your vibration, rather than yours being brought down by theirs. Your connection to the stream is not fragile. If you get solidly connected, not only can other people not have a negative effect on you, you must have a positive effect on them. One person who IS connected to the stream of well-being is more powerful than a million who are not!" ~ Abraham-Hicks
 

 
The sun warms, flowers blossom, dew glistens, birds are pushed from their nests, and butterflies emerge from their cocoons.  New growth is everywhere.  Spring brings new life and along with it new hope.  Time to pack away the winter coats as we shake off the winter chill and awaken from a cold hibernation.  We are once again amidst the season for new beginnings.   With the budding of a new love comes a renewed creative vitality. The pregnant pause is over and has made way for the birth of invigorated inspiration.



I have not been inspired much to write over the past few weeks, but at the prodding of a few friends I decided to deal with my writers block directly.  As the Universe often provides exactly what we need when we need it, a fellow artist friend recommended a great book for dealing with artist's block.  The book is called "The Artists Way," A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron.  I am barely into the basic tools and have not even begun the first week or chapter yet, and I have already found a wealth of information.


 
One of the basic tools the book recommends for dealing with artists block and to connect with the greater creative energy that connects all of us, is a tool called morning pages. It is a free hand, stream of consciousness where you write down three pages worth of everything that comes to mind.  To be most effective, it is not to be read by anyone but the writer and not even by the writer for several weeks. The purpose is to free the mental and emotional blocks that obstruct the free flow of consciousness. (There is only one man that I am close enough to inflict this mental babble on and I am still learning just how important even with him timing is ;)


I just started the process of morning pages when the words "Go with Flow" jumped out at me. I have felt blocked from this creative flow over the past weeks. I have often prayed that God would use me as a conduit, but as soon as I began to see real evidence of this I forgot its source and my ego stepped in to take credit.  Since then I have been struggling to remove the ego and allow a clean connection to the soul and to this stream of higher consciousness and creative power.  A great quote from this book summed up this creative power beautifully.

"Why indeed must 'God' be a noun?  Why not a verb . . . the most active and dynamic of all? ~  Mary Daly


This quote especially hit me because this is how I experience God most often.  As I have discussed in a previous blog about the underlying rhythm of the universe, I often feel God's presence as an energy that permeates every cell of my being and connects me to all of life.  These experiences with God often come accompanied by music, synchronicity, chanting, prayer, or meditation but are experienced as an abundant flow of energy that nourishes the very soul.  Although I have felt this energy during this time of creative block, I did not feel its free flow working through me.
 

It is when I wrote these words "Go with Flow" that I began to realize that it was my desire to control my own destiny and the course of my life that I began to realize that my block is about not acknowledging the source of  this creative power and surrendering to it.  I have to remind myself to surrender to this flow not just upon my spiritual awakening, not just when I pray, not just when I meditate, or when I am moved by this stream of consciousness within myself or reflected in another.  This flow takes conscious awareness in every moment of every day.  Today I am choosing to "Go with Flow"

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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 

Category: Religion and Philosophy


"The spiritual journey is full of paradoxes. One of them is that the humiliation that brings us down – down to ground on which it is safe to stand and to fall – eventually takes us to a firmer and fuller sense of self. When people ask me how it felt to emerge from depression, I can give only one answer: I felt at home in my own skin, and at home on the face of the earth, for the first time… I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it."
- Parker J. Palmer

 

There are days when, bubbling from us comes, the innocent child within, who giggles at the little things and wears a silly grin

 

There are days when melancholy comes to visit for a while; the mind feels tired, the body weak; we have no strength to smile

 

There are days when sorrow wraps us in its cloak of grief and fear, 'till our hearts ache to the breaking, 'till our eyes can't shed a tear

 

There are days when joy abundant grabs a hold of you and me; wraps us up in all it's splendor, lifts us up and sets us free.

 

And there are days when life rewards us and seems to make amends by granting us a marvelous gift,
the precious gift of Friends ~  Bearhugs

 

"The torment and torture of my soul soon filled the cracks, patched all the holes, So I can withstand these wicked winds. The winds they teach, blow upon me a gift  And once figured out, gives my soul a lift, So I can withstand these wicked winds.  My soul moves forward, my journey long My roots run deep, my anchor strong I will withstand these wicked winds." ~ Angel Shadow

 

As my experience has been that the universe regularly supplies that which we need when we need it most, I am not surprised that these comments appeared on my page when I found myself enveloped in another cycle of darkness. So often in the past I found these bouts of darkness to be unwelcome intruders no matter what the duration. I, like millions of other people, followed a course of anti-depressants and counseling only to find that they could only hold back these bouts of despair for a time.  As time passes, and I have learned to weather these "Dark nights of the Soul" I have found that with them often comes considerable growth in my spiritual journey and evolution towards higher consciousness.  As the ego grasps tightly to its last remaining holds upon the psyche, the dark night makes room in the cocoon of darkness for the transformation and emergence of a much deeper richer state of being.
 
"To the catterpillar the cocoon means the end, To the butterfly it is the begining."

 

Learning to give into the dark cycle of light and dark has been a painful but worth while journey. This most recent bout of melancholy and the strange peace which follows has led me to begin to question if we should be viewing these dark nights as experiences to be completely avoided. Many great men of history suffered from severe bouts of depression but out of it came unusual clarity, humor, perspective, creativity, wisdom, and compassion.  Winston Churchill nicknamed his dark days the "Black Dog."  A rich metaphor for an affliction which is familiar to the afflicted but capable of being mastered. The dog can be dangerous when feared but managed when understood and coaxed into service for it's master. Abe Lincoln used humor, satire, poetry and scripture to battle his melancholy, giving him a warmth and compassion much needed for his role in history. Even in his battle with depression, he believed in fate and had hope for the future of humanity.

 

A friend of Ludwig Beethoven commented: "He composes, or was unable to compose, according to the moods of happiness, vexation or sorrow."Haydn at the beginning of Beethoven's career said, "You have thoughts that no other has had. You will never sacrifice a beautiful idea to a tyrannical rule, and in that you will be right. But you will sacrifice your rules to your moods, for you seem to me to be a man of many heads and hearts. One will always find something irregular in your compositions, things of beauty, but rather dark and strange." Beethoven's music was unlike anything that had been heard before, beautifully woven melodies which represented the constant struggle between the light and darkness of the soul and the ego.  Goethe, Schumann, Luther, and Tolstoy also suffered from recurrent depression.

 

Depression is amazingly common and society has to be educated that is not a weakness or a character flaw. Of course we have lost many great people to suicide over the years.  I advocate treatment of depression when it becomes life threatening or de-habilitating but question if along with the purging of such deep and painful emotion we aren't losing something very valuable in return. Vincent Van Gough painted his famous piece "Crows in the Wheatfields," an ominous legacy of a man in the midst of giving up all hope right before his suicide. We have lost to many great artists to suicide that perhaps education and treatment could have saved. Some of the most creative minds of history suffered from bipolar disorder. Both a gift and a curse. We must learn to embrace the darkness just as we have learned to embrace the light.

 

When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

 ~ Edward Teller


Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come ~ Harrison Ford

To rid ourselves of our shadows - who we are - we must step into either total light or total darkness

 ~ Jeremy Preston Johnson

So we follow our wandering paths, and the very darkness acts as our guide and our doubts serve to reassure ~ Jean-Pierre

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion
~ Carl Gustav Jung

Affliction comes to all not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but wise; not to make us despondent, but its darkness to refresh us, as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plow enriches the field; to" ~ Henry Ward Beecher


Without darkness there are no dreams ~ Karla Kuban

We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness"

 

"In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
-- Albert Camus

"Whenever someone sorrows, I do not say, "forget it," or "it will pass," or "it could be worse" -- all of which deny the integrity of the painful experience. But I say, to the contrary, "It is worse than you may allow yourself to think. Delve into the depth. Stay with the feeling. Think of it as a precious source of knowledge and guidance. Then and only then will you be ready to face it and be transformed in the process."
--Peter Koestenbaum

 

For More reading on The Dark Night 


 
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Friday, January 05, 2007 

Current mood:  artistic


Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. ~ Angela Monet

At the core of the Universe is a frequency that connects all of us with its dual steady base but yet complex musicality.  A current that beats within every heart and which lives within every breath.  We can find it in the steady rhythm of a melody, in the nuances of an exquisite piece of art, in the resonating raw truth of good literature or poetry, and in the graceful sensual moves of the great dancers.
 
This harmonic concept of the universe was expressed in ancient philosophy as "The Music of the Spheres" and beautifully resonated in Dante's "Divine Comedy."  In the Indian language Sanskrit this vibrating current is called "Shabd" or "Shabda" which means sound or word. In the Christian religion it is referred to as "the Word," "Logos" or "Holy Spirit."  It is known as "Kalma" and "Kalam-i-Qadim" in the Qur'an; as "Naad", "Akash Bani", and "Sruti" in the Vedas; as the Tao in Taoism, "Sraosha" in Mazdaism;  and Naam", "Akhand Kirtan"; and "Sacha ('True') Shabd" by Guru Granth Sahib. 
 
In Hinduism, spiritual enlightenment leads to the merging with the Shabd (the "Word made flesh"). In Christianity this merger takes place in the revelation as the merger between Christ and his bride the church.  In many spiritual practices this vibration of eternal unity or merging with divinity or spirit is practiced through meditation and chanting.  On a smaller scale it is at the root of the merging and unfolding that happens in spiritual or tantric sex.
 
This underlying current that connects all of us in profound ways beyond the subconscious is the language of the Collective Consciousness, and lies at the heart of every great artist who has learned to tune into this stream of consciousness.  Some of us find ourselves more connected to this universal current than others. It is underlying all great passion and we can learn to tune into it with our spiritual ears.
 
Recent developments in string theory theorize that at the most base level of all matter are vibrating strings of energy.  According to this theory, all strings of matter are the same. What differentiates matter is the resonant pattern these strings vibrate to.  The question is, do we choose to march to a different drum or tune into this incredibly complex symphony?
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006 

John Welwood quote: "The experience of soul always contains this double yearning: to feel the meaning and beauty of our individual life, and connect with the larger, universal currents of life flowing through us."

Rumi describes this two-way flow: 'Do not think that the drop only becomes the ocean. The ocean too becomes the drop'

Yunus Emre quote "I am the drop that contains the sea. How beautiful to be an ocean hidden within an infinite drop ..."

Tagore quote: "The infinite seeks the intimate presence of the finite, the finite to disappear in the infinite. I do not know whose scheme this is ...that the bound should be on a search for freedom--freedom asking to be housed in the bound."
 
Within all these quotes is the yearning for union with the ocean of collective consciousness.  Recently, I read a friend's blog 8®?H?¥‡8 aka Mark about inner illumination and 'Death to the Self.'  The blog really struck me and inspired deep contemplation /meditation of the topics which in turn were inspired by Kristine's blog  on meditation.  See how interconnected we are?
 
In digging deep beyond excruciatingly painful emotions and heavy contemplation, I have found the place where love and compassion dwells at the root of all pain.  Like the water that carves its way through stone and creates depth, so to the embracing of our emotional experiences carves depth into the soul. Through this process, I have had some experiences with the coming together of all that I have known in infinite moments of inspiration and enlightenment that bring me fully into the present, fully into the now.  Although these moments are not common place for me as yet, they are beautifully spiritually affirming and coming together at more regular intervals.  Sometimes these moments will come during a wonderful moment of synchronicity, sometimes within an epiphany, often accompanied by music, but always beyond words, beyond space, and beyond time.  They bring me evidence of that which exists beyond the mind. 
 
Mark said in his blog "The Sages say that the lusting after life, the sublimation of the Ego to the search for passion and fulfillment, is but a shadow of the true ecstasy possible in the spiritual realm. That a sexual orgasm is a pale rendition of the sublime rendering of ecstatic union, as is experienced by Spiritual Devotees of eternal parentage, throughout Time and across Space."
 
My personal experiences in these moments, tell me this statement is very true.  I can find nothing else to compare them too but the sexual orgasm.  I once heard an interview with Carlos Santana about an experience he had in concert.  He touched the collective consciousness during this concert and described it as a spiritual orgasm.  The announcers after the interview were making fun of the comment, but I have no doubt that Carlos was dead serious about this experience.  People who have not touched this depth of spiritual connection just don't get it.
 
Mark also spoke of a "Death to self" which brought to mind the term "Little death" (which synchronistically showed up in a recent blog).  "Little death"  which is a translation from the French "la petite mort" (Le Petit Mort/Le Petit Morte/La petite morte), a popular reference for a sexual orgasm.  Wikipeida  refers to it as the "spiritual release that come with orgasm, or a short period of transcendence, an expenditure or spending of life force"
 
In the experiences of both physical and spiritual release is an incandescent surge of pleasure, in this moment nothing else exists, nothing else matters. It is the moment of ultimate release, of ultimate surrender, of oblivion.
 
So as I contemplated this "Death to Self," this is when I began to make the connection of what it must be like to ultimately surrender into the abyss of the whole or the collective consciousness.  Like the elusive experience we may touch at the height of spiritual union, or sexual release is the ecstatic sense of a loss of boundaries, of losing the sense of self and merging with other, with the whole.  These spiritual experiences give us a heightened sense of unity with all people, with nature, with the Universe, with God.  It is the ultimate union with cosmic consciousness.
 
I have been doing a lot of thinking about the ego lately that led me to this place and to this realization.  For it seems that it is in the struggle over the ego that a deeper understanding of self occurs.  As we learn to observe the ego and detach from it, we find that although the ego always wants to be in control, it is not, and cannot be. 
 
Unlike some schools of thought, I do not believe the ego has to be destroyed to obtain spiritual enlightenment, at least not in this life form.  I believe it is a necessary tool in our growth and process of evolution. It is in the struggle with the ego, that we learn to detach from it, we learn to identify with the observer, and we find our true being, the eternal, the soul. Ego death for me is not about the destruction of it.  It is about letting go, surrendering, and detaching from it. It is about bringing the ego out of the darkness and into the light. 
 
Jesus said in Luke 9:23-24 (NIV) Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it."
 
Joseph Campbell said "The mentally ill are drowning in the water that the mystic swims."  The mind of the mystic learns to use the ego for growth and development. The mentally ill try to destroy it and lose the ability to use it for enlightenment.
 
Alan Watts taught us that enlightenment can be found in the frustration and poor self control over ego. It is in this struggle where we began to recognize that there is a higher power at work, and that we can release control to this higher power, collective consciousness, the Universe, God, the Force, Mohammad, the Tao, the Goddess, the Atman-Brahman union, Samadhi, satori, moksha, the harmony of the spheres. The names seem endless but the concept is innate. 
 
Spiritually, as we learn to let go and trust that all works for good, and when we choose to release control of the ego and no longer resist the greater good, than we experience the "Little Death."  And perhaps someday, when we experience death of the physical body, that is when we will experience ecstatic union of the ultimate surrender into the ocean of collective consiousness.
 
Resistance is Futile :)
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Friday, December 01, 2006 

World AIDS Day: Dec. 1, 2006

none World AIDS Day 2006: Calling everyone to account

In 2000, heads of state made a promise to halt and begin to reverse the spread of AIDS by 2015. New reports by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO) indicate that, as of 2006, the epidemic continues to spread in every region of the world. By now more than 65 million people have been infected with HIV and well over 25 million people have died of AIDS since 1981, 2.9 million in 2006 alone.…

In honor of my brother Scott who I lost to AIDS in 2003, I would like to acknowledge Worlds AIDs Day today and remind everyone the epidemic is not over:  If you would like more information go to AIDS Educator

Today I remember your mischievous smile, your warm heart, your quick wit, your ability to cut to the chase, your incredible creativity, your contagous laughter, your insightful mind, and all the good times we shared.  I miss you Scott. A part of you will always remain a part of me.  I look forward to the day we will be reunited in spirit once again.

Click her for Memorial Video of Scott

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 

Current mood:  contemplative
Category: Religion and Philosophy
FEAR:
F--FALSE
E--EVIDENCE
A--APPEARING
R--REAL
 
So often we give up our peace because of a fear of loss, of not being or having enough, humiliation, pain, lack, loneliness, sickness, death, and the list goes on.  We waste so much of our lives worrying about things that may or may not happen.  Most often they don't.  Our worry does not prevent negative things from happening to us but it can certainly prevent us from enjoying all that we already have.  What good is it if we strive to achieve something but once we have it we cease to enjoy it because we fear losing it? 
 
Michael Pritchard said "Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed."  If we are busy looking at all the negatives that happen to us or could happen to us, when will we have time to enjoy all the positive or good that already exists?
 
To often our tendency is to resist that which we fear. We hide from it, we maneuver around it, we attack it, and sometimes we out right run from it. Marcus Aurelius said: "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." Einstein said "Peace cannot be kept by force only by understanding."     
 
Just as we must learn to acknowledge and embrace the pain in our lives we must also learn to face and embrace that which we fear.  In directly facing our deepest fears and insecurities,  we can learn to look beyond our fear, have compassion for ourselves, and take away the power of that which we fear.  The importance we place on attachments or outcomes is what gives them the power over us.  Fear lives in darkness.  When we shed light on what we fear, we find only it's shadow. We are the one's that give our fear substance and we have the power to take it away.
 
As we learn to let go of fear, we learn to truly surrender to the present. In the present exists all of eternity, for we can only experience our past and future in the present moment.  We are now what we strove for yesterday. We will be tomorrow what we strive for today.
 
We create the energy which envelops us. Our energy is a projection of our beliefs, our hopes, our dreams, our doubts, our fears, our love, our hate.
 
In evil, fear exists: anger, revenge, worry, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, hate.

In good, love exists: joy, peace, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, faith.
 
I have heard it said that the antithesis of love is fear. Where fear exists love cannot flourish.  When we feed fear we imprison the heart; When we feed love we set the heart free.
 
 
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 

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Extroversion:



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You are outgoing and engaging, with both strangers and friends.

You truly enjoy being with people and bring energy into any situation.

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In life, you tend to be an early adopter of all new things and ideas.

You'll try almost anything interesting, and you're constantly pushing your own limits.

A great connoisseir of art and beauty, you can find the positive side of almost anything.

 

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Bare
By Annie Lennox
Release date: 10 June, 2003
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Sunday, November 05, 2006 

"The meeting of two personalities are like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." ~Carl Jung

Recently a wonderful friend "Kristine" posted a blog about the loss of a cyber friend and a great discussion transpired in Kristine's Blog about cyber connections here in MySpace. It got me to thinking as to why it is that lately my cyber friendships seem to affect me more than my real life friendships.  Not everyone gets this and now in fact there are articles about Internet Addiction that even belittle the time that is spent here in our cyber world. 

I tried to explain to a real life friend today that my cyber friendships are just as real to me and mean as much, if not more, than my real life friendships.  I know he didn't get it but I know most of my cyber friends will.  We find kindred souls here in cyber space that we may never have the opportunity to meet in our everyday lives.  I also realized that if we did meet them in real life we may never have the opportunity to connect with them in the way that we do here.  I tried to figure out why that is.  There is often a willingness to be more open here than we might be in our everyday lives.  There are issues of body language, preconceived perceptions based on physical appearance and mannerisms, social training as to what is appropriate to discuss with a stranger and what is not.  Communication styles (some individuals tend to dominate conversations).  There are many dynamics that may contribute to this but the bottom line is that I have found that I am not the only person who has experienced this.

Here in MySpace we all get the opportunity for full expression.  The only one to cut us short or derail us from our thought process is ourselves. So we are more freely able to see a thought through to it's end point.  In the discussion on Kristine's blog another wonderful cyber friend; Robert, made an excellent observation. Maybe our cyber connections are a prelude to what it is like when we are in spiritual form.  This thought profoundly affected me .  When all we will have to connect is our souls, our minds, we do not have the constraints of the physical body and social training.  It is only with an open heart and a willingness to expose the soul that we are really able to touch another at the deepest parts of ourselves.

These soul connections change me.  Larry once said to me that if you give a friend and apple and they give you an apple you each only have one apple but if you give a friend a thought and they give you a thought you each come away with two thoughts.  Our thoughts here in cyber space create chain reactions.  I am so fascinated to watch how one blog will inspire another and before long an entire group of friends will be blogging and exchanging thoughts on the same topic.  Each individual brings their own unique style and perspective into the mix and we are all transformed.  Cyber Space in someway is what I believe the Collective Consciousness is like. We all bring a piece of ourselves to this melting pot of MySpace.  As we interact and exchange, share our friendship, love, thoughts, and parts of our souls; none of us leave unchanged.

 

 

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Weathered
By Creed
Release date: 20 November, 2001
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Friday, November 03, 2006 
A Dear friend sent this to me in an e-card today and I thought I would share it with you :)
 
A Poll Prayer
from Father Daniel
Church of the Mighty Angel
Morgan Hill, Calif.

Dear Lord and Buddha

May all Democrats and Voters of Good Intentions
and People of Peace, Love, and Prosperity
The Intelligent and the less intelligent
The Richer, the Poorer, and
All those in the Middle
Make the wisest decision in their Life
or at least in 2006
and Vote for
Peace
Love
Prosperity
Less Corruption
More Moral
More Capable
More Flexible
More concerned Politicians
with the Fortune and Happiness
of all of US in their Hearts

Now, and Forever
in Peace
Amen
Alleluja
Yahoo
Om
Right on Dudes
etc.

and may those who choose to follow the path on war, terror, and unhappiness, receive a tap on the shoulder
in their polling booth, from the Mighty Angel
to remind them why they were sent here
to be on Earth.....

Vote as Smart as You can Nov. 7
8:56 PM 
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