Today is a blessed day - we are being thrown a Life Line

I received this from a very good friend, a woman whom I love, adore, respect, and trust.

In the past, I focused on all the negative aspects of this on-line cyber revolution. 'Oh, it will separate us from one another' yadda yadda thoo thuh doo. And so forth and so on.

But in keeping with my recent top-down transformation (consciousness-changing), I am choosing to focus on the beautiful, positive, uplifting aspects of all things, including the Internet Revolution.

Here, below, you will find a perfect example. Without the Internet, without email, without forwarding this and forwarding that, on and on and on, friends thinking of friends thinking of friends, a message such as the one below would not be able to go very far, would it?

But thanks to this technology we have at our fingertips, I received this gift in my email inbox this morning. I read it, and now I am breathless with anticipation. My blood feels as though it is near boiling. I can't wait to leave this desk and go out into the world. The possibilities today are infinite. We will all discover our own true potential.

Today is a gift. I ask you to please read the following, and to DO IT. Not just today (but today would be very very nice indeed!), but every single day afterward.

As special as this day, October 17, 2006, is...I will always remember that every day is equally blessed. We are all blessed.

I love you all.


And here's the message--

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Hello, fellow Mysterians. I am forwarding you a message I received from a
good friend, Diana. Whether it's true or not, it certainly could be a good
thing for all of us to hold positive thoughts of peace for a day.

Michelle Eaton - here's the message:

A cosmic trigger event is occuring on the 17th of October 2006. This is the
beginning, one of many trigger events to come between now and 2013.

An ultraviolet (UV) pulse beam radiating from higher dimensions in
universe-2 will cross paths with the Earth on this day. Earth will remain
approximately within this UV beam for 17 hours of your time.

This beam resonates with the heart chakra, it is radiant flourescent in
nature, blue/magenta in colour. Although it resonates in this frequency
band, it is above the colour frequency spectrum of your universe-1 which
you, Earth articulate in. However due to the nature of your soul and soul
groups operating from Universe-2 frequency bands it will have an effect.

The effect is every thought and emotion will be amplified intensely one
million-fold. Yes, we will repeat, all will be amplified one millions time
and more.


Every thought, every emotion, every intent, every will, no matter if it is
good, bad, ill, positive, negative, will be amplified one million times in
strength.


What does this mean ?


Since all matter manifest is due to your thoughts, i.e. what you focus on,
this beam will accelerate these thoughts and solidify them at an accelerated
rate making them manifest a million times faster than they normally would.

For those that do not comprehend. Your thoughts, what you focus on create
your reality.


This UV beam thus can be a dangerous tool. For if you are focused on
thoughts which are negative to your liking they will manifest into your
reality almost instantly. Then again this UV beam can be a gift if you
choose it to be.


Mission-1017 requires approximately one million people to focus on positive,
benign, good willed thoughts for themselves and the Earth and Humanity on
this day. Your thoughts can be of any nature of your choosing, but remember
whatever you focus on will be made manifest in a relatively faster than
anticipated time frame. To some the occurrences may almost be bordering on
the miracle.


All we ask is positive thoughts of love, prosperity, healing, wealth,
kindness, gratitiude be focused on.


This UV beam comes into full affect for 17hrs on the 17th of October 2006.

No matter what time zone you are in the hours are approximately 10:17am on
the 17th of October to 1:17am on the 18th October.


The peak time will be 17:10 (5:10pm) on the 17th October.


You do not need to be in a meditative state through out this time, though
would
be beneficial. The main key time no matter what time zone you are in will be
the peak time of 17:10 (5:10 pm). Perhaps at this time if you can find a
peaceful spot or location to focus. The optimum is out in the vicinity of
grounded nature, likened to that of a large tree or next to the ocean waves.

Focus on whatever it is you desire. What is required for the benefit of all
Earth and Humanity is positive thoughts of loving nature.

We call this UV beam trigger event, "818" gateway.


Please forward this message to as many people as you know who will use this
cosmic trigger event to focus positive, good willed thoughts.


We require approximately 1-million people across globe to actively
participate in this event. Please use whatever communication mediums you
have at your disposal. Reach out to as many people as possible. We require
1-million plus people at the least to trigger a shift for humanity from
separation and fragmentation to one of unification and oneness.

This is your opportunity to take back what is rightfully yours i.e. Peace
and Prosperity for all Earth and Mankind.

This is a gift, a life line from your universe so to speak, an answer to
your prayers. What you do with it and whether or not you choose to
participate is your choice.

It's working

I believe. I believe completely.

There are no words to express the joy that I feel right now, at this moment, which believe it or not is about 10 million times the good-feeling I had this morning, when I first woke. And at the moment that I woke, understand that I was exhilarated, and rushed out of bed to sit and type my dream recollection. I was breathless and still half asleep; I keep wanting to memorialize the details, but the feeling of it, during the dream, and especially after, is indescribably uplifting.

Look, you've got nothing to lose by trying this. I'm telling you that I found this path, and it is changing my life. Blessed things are whizzing into my life, left and right. Why don't you try this? Go to Steve Pavlina's website. It's useful in a million different ways, so you don't have to focus right away on Intention Manifestation if the concept as you presently understand it is way too 'out there.'

That's how I felt, initially. I did offer resistance. But thank GOD I let that go. Thank GOD I went to get "Ask & It is Given."

As for that saying, "I've got a new lease on life"?...well, that doesn't even begin to cut it. That doesn't even come close to describing this new lens I've been granted, this joyful perspective that is strengthening my heart, soul, mind and body.

I'm here to tell you that it's working.

PART 1


There are two parts to the book "Ask and It is Given."

The first part is subtitled, 'Things That We Know, That You May Have Forgotten, Which Are Important for You to Remember." It may be important to note here that the 'We' being indicated means the Non-Physical Entity named Abraham, which is really sort of a Collective Consciousness, speaking through the physical medium of Ester Hicks. The 'You' is me, you, all of us humans.

This first part will tell you everything you need to know about bettering your life. But that is not nearly a strong enough word. Let's try again:

This first part will tell you everything you need to know about getting what you have always desired.

D-e-s-i-r-e. Now, that there is a word that sets everybody's tail wagging. We all know what an overwhelming state of being that is. We live in a society that is uniquely aware of the transforming power of Desire. But we have been conditioned to associate Desire with fear.

Advertisements, commercials, Us Weekly, storytelling media on TV and film are interlocking pieces of a self-rejuvenating market which is forever seeking to create new desires in us (their target market) and hence to spur more and more consumption. But this Desire, if we look closely enough at it, if we were to peel away at its outer layer, feels more like Fear of Lack.

It IS Fear of Lack.

We see billboards for Calvin Klein on the freeway, and the models in it make us feel fat, unattractive, unsuccessful, undesirable, alone, unloved. The primary driver here is Fear of Lack, the secondary result is Desire (for a state of betterment, which can only come about if you purchase CK Eternity!).

And it is this revelation that I found most transforming in Part 1 of "Ask and It is Given": that although we have been conditioned by our society to associate Desire with bad feelings (with a sense of inadequacy, desperation and hopelessness, with fear of lack) what is in fact true is,

Desire is our natural state of being!

It should NEVER feel bad.

It should feel like electricity and light coursing through our veins, for this is what being truly alive feels like. Being alive, truly being alive and awake, feels joyful, and so should Desire.

As Abraham tells us (and Ester Hicks translates), "There is no feeling of lack in pure desire."

We came into this world, we chose to inhabit our Physical Bodies, in joyful anticipation of living the indescribable variety of this Physical World, which would help us to focus our energy, develop our unique personal perspective, and fulfill desire after desire after desire after desire. It is the wanting of some Thing, some One, some Place, some Feeling, that keeps us moving up, and up, and up.


PART 2

Now, although I'm currently a restaurant worker, I fully intend on achieving all that I have ever desired, with respect to everything, which means eventually, very soon, I will no longer be a restaurant worker. I will be a storyteller. I will earn a very nice and comfortable income as a storyteller. Sky's the limit.

I imagine that some day soon I will be a filmmaker. I have always wanted this.

As a storyteller, it is very empowering to study mythology. It is very assuring to know that we all share a common humanity with ancestors long, long gone. How do we know this?

What moved them, so long ago, in a story, can move us today, still.

I've read somewhere, and it's true, that the B-E-S-T part of any film which involves two people falling in love or getting together is this:

the part BETWEEN the moment when they first realize that they want each other and the moment when they finally do get together.

It's the in-between stuff that we love the most. Think about it. Think about watching with gleeful anticipation the dawning of the characters' desire; remember how you felt, as you commiserated and empathized with that desire, as you waited with baited breath to see when and how the characters would overcome the requisite hurdles. You always recognized this:

It is necessary. There is nothing else to do but to get what you desire.


PART 3

Yesterday I started this blog, half not-knowing what I was doing. I think, if you go back to that first post and read what I've written about "Ask & It is Given," you'll detect something of a hint of skepticism. Something along the lines of, "Will this really work?"

Well, I can't do that, and so I won't. I can't doubt. I don't have the luxury of doubting. It doesn't feel good. What feels good, and what feels right, is that I capitalize on the luxury I have to believe.

For when I believe, all manner of good, great, things happen.

For instance, in Part II of "Ask & It is Given" you will find a section on evaluating and interpreting your dreams. Now, I have rarely remembered my dreams, and all throughout my life what I have remembered have been nightmares, things that scared me. If ever I was on the verge of a good dream, if for instance someone I was crushing on would appear in my dream, it was as if some higher power were dangling the carrot in front of me just to infuriate me: I would rush forward in my dreamscape, to try and meet my loved one, but they would disappear, or morph into something else entirely. Not once in almost 29 years of living have I ever been able to kiss anyone in my dream in a way that was even remotely satisfying. Foiled, always foiled.

After reading the section on dreams in "Ask & It is Given" I had new light regarding my 'inability' to dream good dreams.

I realized, and for the first time recognized, that dreams are a pure reflection of my thoughts. Indeed, there is no higher power trying to mess with me in my dreams, dangling the carrot and pulling it away - I was messing with myself, or more accurately, my dreamscape was an accurate mirror of what was happening in my reality/my awake state:

I was getting in the way of myself. I was sabotaging myself.

How utterly true. So many times the carrot I desired was within reach. The girl I wanted so badly (ah! what a telling choice of word, the desire that self-destructs, rather than replenishes) was there for me to take, and love, but my fear overrode every last bit of beautiful potential.


PART 4

I rushed to the computer this morning, excited to share this with you: I had wonderful, amazing dreams last night. No, I don't remember every detail, but what I do remember is how I felt. And I felt strong, confident, sexy, desirable, purposeful. Because my dreams purely reflect my thoughts, which in turn are creating my reality, I know I am in the process of creating something joyful. I got a sneak preview last night.

This is unprecedented in my life.

The floodgate has opened.

And I believe this is just the beginning.

PART 1


Yesterday I ran across this neat saying while I was in a bookstore.

'You don't read a book. The book reads you.'

Ain't that a fact - whether it's a book, or a movie, or a song, or even a person.

Your first encounter with a book: you may come to it with great expectations; you read it; you yawn and think Is That It?

Years later, for some reason, you return to that same book. This time when you finish reading you know that it's changed your life.

The book didn't change in the least, but you certainly did.

So simple, yet so...comforting.

Isn't it good to know that no Conclusion Drawn is ever final?

Lately, I've been thinking about the wondrous, resilient nature of relationships.

On Monday, I may argue with my co-worker and conclude that she is an impossible bee-yatch.

A month later, without any conscious effort on my part, I am conversing with my co-worker, and she is being funny, and making me laugh, and she smiles to see the effect she is having on me, and I notice that she has a beautiful smile.

I suppose in this scenario, both of us have changed. But it was effortless.

Haven't we been conditioned to think, a la movie montages where the protagonist is training for the Big Fight, that change is a Big Deal? That Change can only come about through blood, sweat and tears?

How comforting that Change, small- and large-scall, can go on auto-pilot.


PART 2

I have been very resistant to blogging. Again. I tried it once on myspace, and got that it was really nice to have strangers read your words, and even better, to have strangers feel that what you've written is interesting, and funny, or applicable to their lives.

Part of me thinks this is the ultimate in ego gratification. Because I am very aware that to the outside observer, nothing much would appear to be happening in my life.

Simply, I've been in a funk for, oh, six years.

The end of this month I turn 29.

Yes. What I mean to say is that I have been lost, completely, since I was 23.

What happened?

1) Drugs happened. Ecstasy, GHB, ketamine, lots of marijuana, cigarettes, a bit of cocaine and crystal.

2) Oh, and I fell in love, and my worst fear was realized - I was no longer the woman she fell in love with; I turned back into the person I really am, and though she stuck it out because she couldn't shake the memory of the woman who swooped her off her feet, I hated her but especially myself for treating her so badly. I was ashamed of myself, so ashamed I couldn't bring myself to return her love. Couldn't even look at her, much less be with her.

The absolute worst was the night of her birthday, when she begged me to make love to her. Our relationship was long over by then, but it would be a couple more years before we could admit it.

3) The auto-pilot got switched off. (See #1 as to why.) I woke up and so much of my life was alien to me. How had I ended up here? Fear had got me settling for the factory default settings.

But then a new fear developed, and it was an even bigger fear - I saw where I was headed in my life, and I knew I didn't want to end up There, but I had no idea how to get on the right path, had no idea WHAT the right path even was, and so I did the only thing I could do in my drug-induced mental haze: I just STOPPED, stepped off the path completely, and curled into the fetal position.

I've been in that position, more or less, for the past three, four years.

Of course, there were times, brief moments, when I thought I was ready to change. I suppose I would uncurl a bit, lift my head slightly, and take a peek out, but what I saw and felt would inevitably scare the bejesus out of me, and there I was, hiding again.


PART 3

Am I ready to come out of hidiing now?

I think so.

Why do I think so?

Synchronicities, piling up, everywhere I look.

A web of synchronicities led me to Steve Pavlina's website, which is where I first read about Intention Manifestation. Which in turn led me to the book "Ask and It is Given" by Jerry and Ester Hicks.

Now, I am not one who is usually drawn to the Metaphysics section of the bookstore.

It's just that, after my first exposure to Intention Manifestation, strange things began to happen.

I kept encountering MY number(s), my birth date, in all sorts of contexts. I imagined that I had doubled my monthly income. I then imagined what my monthly expense would be, and I subtracted those imaginary expenses (which included such fancies as a $600 car payment--for a brand new BMW) from my imaginary monthly income, and the number I got had both my birthday and my birth year in it.

A co-worker who was at most on the periphery of my awareness brought me a single sunflower he had purchased at Union Station. He said simply, 'I noticed you were looking kind of stressed on Friday. So I bought you a sunflower.'

At the restaurant where I work: it was Sunday, and an unusually slow one at that. I had no customers and therefore nothing to do, absolutely nothing to do. And then he came in, an older man, probably in his late forties or early fifties, and when he entered the restaurant, a small commotion ensued. Turned out that the two men sitting at the table near the window recognized him. They called out greetings, and the two men moved from their window seat to the bar where this man was planning to have his dinner. 'So how's it going?' they asked, casually. 'Going through a messy divorce,' this new diner replied, and when I heard that, I felt pity, and I also felt bored. I took his order, felt bored. I watched his two friends get up and leave, felt bored. And then I went over to do the obligatory, 'How is everything?' and with that began a conversation that became in short order, lively, engrossing, connected.

I was enjoying the interaction very much. Eventually, he asked me out, gave me his business card. I don't think I'll call him. But I am incredibly grateful for the rare opportunity to connect with a complete stranger, who initially held no interest whatsoever for me.

In the span of thirty minutes or so, it would seem I changed.

PART 4

I want to believe in Change.

I don't want to follow blindly, to put all my eggs in one basket, but I think there is incredible value in seeing where all this -- Intention-Manifestation/subjective reality/"Ask and It is Given"-- leads me.

What else do I have to do? I'm not busy. I'm still kind of lying there, on the side of the road, watching others whiz by, trying to stretch my atrophied muscles after being in one position for so long.

I was drawn to blogging again. But I suppressed the itch, because, Why is My Life Worth Reading About?

But then today, I logged on to my myspace account, and there was an email from a perfect stranger. We've never met, but he had read my previous myspace blogs, and had liked them. He wrote me an email to tell me, 'I don't generally write, but I do read, and I liked reading your stuff.'

I felt so grateful.

And this is a wonderful feeling to have.

So here I am, blogging out of appreciation. I am trying to Change my life, and I want to write about it, and I even hope that I will discover that Change, great, big, gi-normous, miraculous, unbelievable, Change is possible.