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It’s vacation time isn’t it. If you are going on holiday, you will be thinking of packing. This channelled message was timely, and it is about unpacking what does not serve…

Specifically, let’s discuss judgment. Now, many cultures are rife with judgment and emphasis on respect being shown as a matter of course due to a person’s wealth, status in society or in a family or age. Essentially each of us feels the artificiality of such expectations and they leave us empty, but we consider to be a normal state of affairs and fail to question what is real.

True respect starts with self-respect, and when we respect our own intrinsic worth that is independent of external factors such as wealth or standing, we simultaneously feel respect for others innate respectworthyness. This doesn’t mean we like everything or everyone, but we do not judge. There is a difference.

Let me say it further with excerpts of a channelled message that came into my Inbox this morning:

“The sands of time have nearly run out, and unlike when you prepare to go on vacation and sort out what you want to take with you, Ascension is quite the opposite. You are instead sorting out what you cannot take with you, but of course we do not mean physical objects. It comes down to any attachments that are of the lower vibrations, that cannot exist in the higher vibrations. As part of your life plan, you have arranged that they present themselves to you for cleansing. Many of you have come into life with a dark side, but that should not dismay you as you will have every opportunity to deal with it. Reflect on what it is that does not serve your higher good, and move it out of your life. Let us take the example of pornography because it feeds your lower instincts. Instead of seeing people as objects to satisfy your lust, you could try seeing them as fellow travelers on a journey like yours, and focus on all that is of beauty and love. Clearly this is only one area of life that will prevent you from uplifting your vibrations, and if you are serious in your intentions to ascend you must cleanse yourself of such energies.

Other problems may be relatively easy to deal with, and many arise from disrespect for others. An aggressive attitude is one, and the longer it persists the longer you will attract like situations to yourself. Perhaps being judgmental is a more general problem, because it is looked upon as quite normal and promoted by the media in many different ways. Let us say that having an opinion is one thing, because it does not necessarily carry emotional energy with it. However, when it does you are projecting it to the object of your attention and far from helping, it actually adds more negative energy to it. There is an exception where someone is well advanced and has evolved into the Light, as it serves as their protection and will simply return negative energy to the sender.

The battle is often between you and your ego, that can rule your life if you let it. It does it with your permission, because it is you who has put that mindset into place. It represents what you believe you are, and often relates to you in terms of how much “respect” you demand from other people. You probably know someone like that who is inflated with his or her own importance, and expects it to be acknowledged. The seven deadly sins summed it up very well, and they give you an indication of what may be holding you back from evolving. If you have the desire to ascend and move into the dimensions of Light, then clearly you must begin to live your life as one who wishes to emulate on Earth, what you believe it is to be an ascended Being. We do not mean you have to reach a level of perfection as that would be extremely difficult, but with the intent to do so you will attract the higher energies to yourself and make progress. Once you understand where you need to bring changes into your life, you will focus upon them and can expect to be successful. On this subject, let us finally tell you that if you live as a Being of Light you will have no such problems, because your life will be one that is a true expression of your love for all.

At a time when Ascension is uppermost in many people’s thoughts, there are many distractions. They do not necessarily have to occupy your time, but do see what is happening around you as signs of the changes that must take place. As always keep your vision on the future and you will cut your ties with all that is of the old paradigm. You cannot continue as it was before and indeed we doubt that many of you would, as the new times promise all that offers a totally harmonious and happy life. You ask us to free you from the designs of the dark Ones, and that call is being answered. Together we are going to establish the new paradigm with all of the attributes of a Golden Age. No more shall you be kept from your divine heritage, and your freedom will be returned so that every soul has an equal opportunity to ascend.

I am SaLuSa from Sirius, and now you know that the Galactic Federation is a peace-keeping organization, which is why we sometimes refer to ourselves as Galactic Policeman. In your terminology, it is probably more accurate to call us Galactic Trouble Shooters. At the heart of our operations is the desire to see all civilizations join us, so that all can become One in the Love and Light. Life does not have to continue as you experience it, and we will ensure that you leave it behind with the coming of the end times. The solar cycle is ending and cannot be prolonged, and will not result in the destruction of the Earth. A new Earth is to arise with all souls that are ascending with it.”

(SaLuSa 26-July-2010, Channelled by Mike Quinsey. To subscribe to the ET First Contact List click here.)

To Mutual Respectworthyness,

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I was about to write a blog about what it means to be truly conscious, as opposed to unconscious, when a friend sent me this video, which is in the box to the right (click post title first).

It’s a great video, challenging, honest in a raw way – do watch it.

It shows you what your ego is – the monkey mind. This is that impulse in you that…


- Talks when you have nothing much to say

- Shows off in a desperate attempt to get approval

- Spends money on keeping up with the Jones’s that could be used in better ways (did you know the Jones’s actually don’t care about you, they’re too busy keeping up with the Smiths)

(No offense to those with such names LOL)

- Worries about self-image and constantly tries to perfect it

- Loves drama, even when events are excruciatingly painful – loves (ie knows, is familiar with) pain and suffering at some level

- Is self-obsessed and has a very short ‘listening to others’ span, it spends a very large part of the day thinking about itself, mostly unconsciously

- Is pretty boring to others because what it talks about is all rehearsed and already old, it is no different essentially than the next person’s conversation, and the spontaneous freedom to speak engagingly from the heart and in the moment is an alien concept

- Doesn’t want you to be happy and at ease

- Is never EVER at peace, even if all goals etc are achieved – the peace IN THE MOMENT IN ACTUALITY is always lacking

- Is hung up about the past, and regurgitates old memories consciously or sub-consciously, feeling hard done by, insecure and other intense emotions

- Will rarely show what its real feelings are, and may have managed to totally obscure these from view

- Doesn’t know what love is and cannot truly show it, only intellectualize it. If love does sneak out, it is quickly quashed due to embarrassment

- Is more at home with an overall negative frame of mind, as a positive one is another alien concept

- Will do whatever it takes not to lose face rather than admit responsibility and hold its hands up

- Lives a double life – what is real as opposed to what is projected for others

The list can go on. Sounds very harsh, right?

But nonetheless it is so.

And we’re all the same.

But in truth what we are is not the above, but shining Divine Sparks who hide our Light underneath the above monkey traits, which are in fact BOGUS (unreal) aspects of a fictional person that does not exist in reality, only in our perception.

Then, one day, Life comes knocking at our door, and says:

“Oi you, I am the one you’re supposed to be living, not some twisted, confused, painful concept you have in your mind.

And Life says some more:

“THIS is where you find that love and fulfillment you have been craving in that desperate, confused way all this time. I’m here, so let all of that go, it doesn’t work for you – and never did. You can finally relax now.”

So to go back to my inspiration for the blog – what it means to be conscious is to say Yes to Life each time it comes knocking.

This is done by seeing the ego at play within our own life.

When I saw my own ego – all of the above goings on for sure! – at play within me, albeit painful for a time, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. It provided the freedom and peace I had never known, and yet had sought high and low for.

One point on this is that we can only fully enjoy what we consciously know. So having searched for peace and freedom yet not known or understood it, how could I ever experience it fully? It was when I came to know that peace and freedom are already present, that those were suddenly there for the taking. Thus knowing is not an intellectual process, but really a revealing or allowing of whatever is present to just be. It is in other words, removing ourselves out of the way of what is.

If you’re in a place of conflict (and if you’re honest, you will see that you are to some extent or other), then watch this video and apply it to you. Then take heart, take courage, and give that chimp a spanking and put it in its rightful place!

And what’s its rightful place? Well, the chimp’s role is as follows:

- To give us a laugh – first and foremost, we need to laugh at all of what it has been trying to do. It’s an insane ape! Your inner monkey is a total nutter! As such it provides us with the comedy to take life less seriously

- To ensure we don’t get ourselves – or others – injured or killed – it helps us to function in this world of physical form

- To ensure we get stuff done – it helps us to keep on top of what needs to be done according to what we choose to focus on in our daily life and goals.

You get the gist….it is useful, functional. But that’s it.

Of course we don’t actually have a monkey inside us (no, really?), but a metaphor like this is very effective in distancing ourselves from the impetus in us that has us behaving and thinking in the above ways. We are ordinarily too identified with the self-image to notice the difference between reality and non-reality.

And you may ask – but how will my life be if I don’t have the usual definitions and identities that I am used to?

Ah, now, that’s what you need to discover! I cannot tell you that. That’s when life comes alive, and you enter into the exciting unknown, where the goalposts have moved. That’s called awakening. And that’s called a sigh of relief.

In this new paradigm, now it’s you who’s kicking that ball, not watching some chimp make an ass of it. And if you make an ass of it? Well, you just get behind the ball and kick again. What’s the big deal? Who cares what they think? Does it make any difference at all in reality what they think? They’re going to think it anyways!!

Where we face real challenges in daily life, with the monkey put in its place, solutions too are easier to put into place.

Or maybe you choose a different game to play – how about lacrosse?

So the moral of this blog post is: Make sure you give your chimp a good spanking today!

To your peace and freedom in the Now,

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I received this from David Spero, whom I consider a friend, as well as being a spiritual teacher in California:

I want our government to emerge from the Gulf oil disaster with a powerful and unmistakable lesson: to end the era of oil and transition to sustainable sources of energy.

That’s why I signed the Gulf Declaration, which was started by people like Deepak Chopra, Jack Canfield and Michael Bernard Beckwith.

Click here to read and sign this petition: http://www.gulfdeclaration.com; it only takes a few seconds to add your signature, which lets our government know that you want real governmental policy changes NOW.

I hope you can join me in taking a stand.

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Hear, hear.

There is no doubt that governments need to take a far firmer stance towards the very grave problems that oil presents, and transition to sustainable sources of energy.

So do sign it…It is in the end People Power that will change this world.

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