There is in man a false self and a real self. The real self contains the eternal; the false self contains the mortal. The real self has wisdom; the false self ignorance. The real self can rise to perfection; the false self ends in limitation. The real self has all good, the false self is productive of all evil. One can see both in oneself: God and the other one. By conquering the other one, one realizes God. This other power has been called Satan; but is it a power? In reality it is not. It is and it is not. It is a shadow. We see shadow and yet it is nothing. We should realize that this false self has no existence of its own. As soon as the soul has risen above the false self, it begins to realize its nobility.
In order to see this question more clearly one must picture oneself as two beings, one the king and the other the servant. When one of them expresses a wish, it is the king who wishes. And the part that says, 'I cannot,' is the servant. If the servant has his way, then the king is in the place of the servant. And the more the servant has his way, the more the servant rules and the king obeys. In this way naturally conflict arises and that reflects upon the outer life; one's whole life becomes unlucky. One may be pious or good or religious, it makes no difference. If man does not realize the kingdom of God within himself nor realize his spirit to be a king, he does not accomplish the purpose of life.
The soul of man is a dweller in heaven. It is able to see more than the eyes can see. It is able to hear more than the ears can hear. The soul is able to expand further than man can journey. The soul is able to dive deeper than any depths that man can ever touch. The soul is able to reach higher than man can reach by any means. Its life is freedom, it knows nothing but joy and sees nothing but beauty. Its own nature is peace, and its being is life itself. It is not intelligent. It is intelligence itself. It is spirit. Its nature is not human but divine. ... Man is a process, manifestation is a process through which the spirit goes from one condition to another condition, from one pole to another pole. And through this whole process the attempt of the spirit is to find itself. ... The highest perception of freedom comes when a person has freed himself from the false ego, when he is no longer what he was. All the different kinds of freedom will give a momentary sensation of being free, but true freedom is in ourselves. When one's soul is free, then there is nothing in this world that binds one; everywhere one will breathe freedom, in heaven and on earth.
It is therefore that the Spiritual Seeker seeks God as his love, lover and beloved, his treasure, his possession, his honor, his joy, his peace; and his attainment in its perfection alone fulfills all demands of life both here and hereafter.

"We all taste God, taste Goddess, taste pure Spirit in those moments of
sexual rapture, and wise men and women have always used that rapture to
reveal Spirit's innermost secrets.

- David Deida

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7cylfQtkDg
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqfvUA2vRAM&feature=related
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9piIziXU9RE&feature=related

*The 2008 Shift Report: Changing the Story of Our Future*
"We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history -- a
change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic,
political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of
mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are
changing the world."

— Willis Harman, *Global Mind Change*
http://www.shiftreport.org/

Amma says...

Chant your mantra as much as you can. It is like a cell phone that has infinite range and you will always be able to converse with the Supreme Consciousness directly.

"Abstention from injury to animals is, I think, the highest virtue. One may even
speak an untruth, but one should never kill." - Lord Krishna, Mahabharata
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

One that is able to co-create with nature and evolve spiritually. This human is
being born out of the crisis we are facing. Needed are people who choose to embrace
the invitation to be emissaries of conscious evolution. A communion of pioneering
souls who can facilitate change in all areas of life. "To incarnate the 'Essential
Self' we must first educate the local self." Barbara Marx-Hubbard.

Please take the time to recognize the energy infrastructure is changing
globally. We at MrGreenEnergy.com are working towards providing low cost
hydrogen on demand systems for vehicles, ships, homes, diesel generators
etc. Below is a link to an article on a Japanese company running a little
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shift into a new economy not based on oil will unfold. If you would like to
help our cause a vehicle donation is a good way to recycle a vehicle you
may not want to hassle with.
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I AM NAMELESS
I AM FORMLESS
I AM EVERYTHING
I AM NOTHING
I AM LOVE

SURRENDER
LET GO OF EVERYTHING
GIVE EVERYTHING TO ME
TRUST ME
BE WILLING
BE OPEN
LET GO OF ALL ATTACHMENTS
LET GO OF ALL DEFENSES
LET GO OF BEING RIGHT
LET GO OF ALL IDEAS
AND
REMEMBER

TRUTH

SEEK ONLY THE TRUTH
FOR ONLY THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE
ASK FOR PEACE
ASK FOR LOVE
ASK FOR HAPPINESS
ASK FOR JOY
ASK ONLY FOR ME
DIVINITY ITSELF
FOR THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE!

TRUST

CHOOSE ONLY LOVE ITSELF
FOR THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE!
REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE!
REMEMBER TO FORGIVE YOURSELF
FOR FORGETTING,
FOR WANDERING AWAY FROM THE TRUTH

BE GRATEFUL
BE GRATEFUL FOR EVERYTHING

********************************************

The Real News Network: 'The World According to Monsanto'
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0623-06.htm

Each individual composes the music of his own life; if he injures another he breaks the harmony and there is discord in the melody of his life.
All the trouble in the world, and all the disastrous results arising out of it, all come from lack of harmony. And this shows that the world needs harmony today more than ever before. ... The true use of music is to become musical in one's thoughts, words, and actions. We must be able to give the harmony for which the soul yearns and longs every moment. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is best given by producing harmony in one's own life.

~SUFI wisdom

Consider this amazing international community/ecovillage in South India,
Auroville is focused on Unity in Diversity, Sustainability and
Eco-awareness and the Evolution of Consciousness....it is a massive
experiment in the making... visit: [http://www.auroville.org/] www.auroville.org

More than 100 whales are stranded off Madagascar, as an oil company
suspends surveying in the area.

[http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/africa/7443559.stm]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/africa/7443559

The soul is all light; darkness is caused by the deadness of the heart; pain makes it alive.
Commentary by Hazrat Inayat Khan:
Those who have avoided love in life from fear of its pain have lost more than the lover, who by losing himself gains all. The loveless first lose all, until at last their self is also snatched away from their hands. The warmth of the lover's atmosphere, the piercing effect of his voice, the appeal of his words, all come from the pain of his heart. The heart is not living until it has experienced pain. Man has not lived if he has lived and worked with his body and mind without heart. The soul is all light, but all darkness is caused by the death of the heart. Pain makes it alive. The same heart that was once full of bitterness, when purified by love becomes the source of all goodness. All deeds of kindness spring from it.

Defining the principles of light and dark:
Believe in Love!


The are many questions that arise out of the ocean of experience
And in their essence each becomes a quest for the answer
To the master the principles of light and dark
On this day so full of light
We offer a gift of truth
That can, if you allow it to
Transcend all questions, doubts, fears and broken hearts
This is the eternal promise of Creation
That Love transcends all
Love, the taste of it, the touch of it, the sound of it, the Presence of it
It is the light that out shines all truths even the most noble
Love is the essence from which creation presents itself
Love is the essence into which it dissolves back
Love simply is
Love can not become an explanation, a knowledge
Or even a wisdom
In truth it cannot be seen, heard, touched or tasted
And can yet be never avoided
For it cannot be... yet cannot not not be
And when you are ready to forget
All you know
All you count on
To perceive this world
You each see through your own filters
Then you will be love
And be nothing and everything all at once
And the questions of choice
The seeking of light
The running from dark
Will all cease
All beginnings and all endings stop
And you will be love
In a moment that never ends
Consumed by love
Never to return and never to leave.believe in Love... for it believes in You!

Defining the principles of light and dark:
Believe in Love!


The are many questions that arise out of the ocean of experience
And in their essence each becomes a quest for the answer
To the master the principles of light and dark
On this day so full of light
We offer a gift of truth
That can, if you allow it to
Transcend all questions, doubts, fears and broken hearts
This is the eternal promise of Creation
That Love transcends all
Love, the taste of it, the touch of it, the sound of it, the Presence of it
It is the light that out shines all truths even the most noble
Love is the essence from which creation presents itself
Love is the essence into which it dissolves back
Love simply is
Love can not become an explanation, a knowledge
Or even a wisdom
In truth it cannot be seen, heard, touched or tasted
And can yet be never avoided
For it cannot be... yet cannot not not be
And when you are ready to forget
All you know
All you count on
To perceive this world
You each see through your own filters
Then you will be love
And be nothing and everything all at once
And the questions of choice
The seeking of light
The running from dark
Will all cease
All beginnings and all endings stop
And you will be love
In a moment that never ends
Consumed by love
Never to return and never to leave.believe in Love... for it believes in You

watch; absolutely beautiful and uplifting song and visual:
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faZlbbRumZs&feature=related]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faZlbbRumZs&feature=related

"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe
in a fate that falls on them unless they act." - Buddha
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The Art Of Allowing (workshop) Abraham channeled by Esther Hicks
"Words do not teach. True knowing comes from life experience. We offer
these words, that they might stimulate your thinking. Truly, a teacher is a
stimulator of thought." – Abraham

Abraham's Teachings in Brief

[http://www.abraham-hicks.com/teachings_brief.php]
http://www.abraham-hicks.com/teachings_brief.php

'Let love prevail,
Let prevail good and right wisdom, good sense and mutual trust,
prosperity and weal,
Make us liberal, considerate and responsible to all,
Whatever thy name, form, or origin,
We love thee as thy name hath associated with it
Only the good and the right-doing.'

If you are looking for one of the more bizarre weeks of the
entire year, it's just arrived with a vengeance. By Friday June
20, the center of the solar system (the Sun) and the outer
regions of our celestial home (Pluto) will form their annual
polarity on the day of the Summer Solstice in the Northern
Hemisphere. This extreme energy-field is preceded by Mercury
shifting into direct motion on Thursday morning June 19. However,
as early as tomorrow night, Venus opposes Pluto followed by an
awkward, 150-degree tie between Mars and Uranus on Wednesday
night June 18. Even though all these celestial events are going
to happen in the near future, they are also all approaching their
exactitude today. In the field of astrology, any closely
approaching alignment actually has an impact now as well as when
it is precise. Therefore, if you are feeling unusually burdened
and overwhelmed with worry or responsibilities that are difficult
to handle, chalk it up to the potency of celestial ali gnments
about to manifest in the coming days. Meanwhile, the Moon leaves
void status at 2:21AM PDT and happily enters Sagittarius. It's a
good day to aim your arrows of idealism and devotion toward truly
genuine goals.

Rebecca Solnit | Revolutions Per Minute: Radical Transformation Is All Around Us
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/14/9620/

Don't Wait To Find Solid Ground
Dance In Emptiness

~ Lama Surya Das

The final victory in the battle of life for every soul is when he has risen above the things which once he most valued.

Commentary by Hazrat Inayat Khan:

The final victory in the battle of life for every soul is when he has abandoned, which means when he has risen above, what once he valued most. For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing. It is like looking at the scenery on the stage and taking it for a palace. Such is the case with all things of the world; they seem important or precious when we need them or when we do not understand them; as soon as the veil which keeps man from understanding is lifted, then they are nothing.
Do not, therefore, be surprised at the renunciation of sages. Perhaps every person in the spiritual path must go through renunciation. It is not really throwing things away or disconnecting ourselves from friends; it is not taking things to heart as seriously as one naturally does by lack of understanding. No praise, no blame is valuable; no pain or pleasure is of any importance. Rise and fall are natural consequences, so are love and hatred; what does it matter if it be this or that? It matters so long as we do not understand. Renunciation is a bowl of poison no doubt, and only the brave will drink it; but in the end it alone proves to be nectar, and this bravery brings one the final victory.

Knowing myself.
Asking for help when I need it and acting on my own when I don't.
Admitting when I'm wrong and making amends.
Accepting love from others, even if I'm having a tough time loving myself.
Recognizing that I always have choices, and taking responsibility for the ones I make.
Seeing that life is a blessing.
Having an opinion without insisting that others share it.
Forgiving myself and others.
Recognizing my shortcomings and my strengths.
Having the courage to live one day at a time.
Acknowledging that my needs are my responsibility.
Caring for people without having to take care of them.
Accepting that I'll never be finished -- I'll always be a work-in-progress.

~ adapted from "the courage to change one day at a time"
AL ANON,

"The more you love humanity, the greater would be the happiness that you experience.
On the other hand, if your love is feeble, then so will be your sense of joy. Therefore,
love all. What do you lose by loving all? Nothing whatsoever. Love can confer so
much joy. If you smile, others would do the same. Therefore, all of you must go
through life with smiles and joy. When someone scolds, one normally feels hurt,
while the person who is scolding gets some satisfaction. Don't feel hurt when you
are criticized or abused. Instead, react by just smiling. You may wonder, "Why should
I smile when that person is saying so many unpleasant things about me?" The answer
is simple. You must smile because you have given the other person a chance to derive
some satisfaction, even if it is by hurting your feelings. Be happy that you were
an instrument to make the other person happy. This is the positive attitude and
sense of love that you have to develop." - Sathya Sai Baba
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"The Hindu teacher Swami Muktananda was once asked why he didn't
work miracles. He replied, 'I have no need to work miracles. The circulation
of blood through my body is enough.'"

- Wes Nisker, *The Essential Crazy Wisdom*

Recently, I sent you a post about Germany's emergency measures to
protect bees by banning certain chemicals. These are mostly chemicals
used in connection with genetically modified crops, which probably
include all the plants grown to produce biodiesel fuel. The
discussion can be found here:

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/honeybeePesticideBan.php

Switzerland has gone one step further and extended its ban on GMO
crops until the year 2012 because it is believed that it will take
years to determine the safety or lack thereof and, as we know, the
Swiss tend to err on the side of caution.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_12591.cfm

It might be time to ask who is served by fast tracking approval of
untested new technologies.

June 9, 2008
~ Sardines With Your Bagel?
By TARAS GRESCOE

Montreal

THE first chinook salmon from Alaska's Copper River arrived in Seattle
last month, for shipment to fish counters throughout the country. With
the commercial chinook season in California and most of Oregon canceled
for the first time in 160 years, Alaska chinook were going for record
prices: $40 a pound for fillet.

There was a time that the thought of a good salmon meal would leave me
feeling faint with desire. Just imagining a toasted bagel papered with
near-translucent slices of lox, a roll of vinegared rice stuffed with
crispy salmon skin or a thick steak of lightly grilled chinook would
have me searching for the nearest deli, sushi bar or bistro.

It was an impulse I never hesitated to indulge. Salmon — so low in
saturated fats, so high in brain-protective omega-3 fatty acids — was
that rarest of commodities: a guilt-free, heart-healthy
self-indulgence, and one of the cleanest forms of protein around.

Not any more. Wild Atlantic salmon are commercially extinct, and runs
of Pacific salmon south of the Alaska panhandle are experiencing
catastrophic collapses. This year, for the sake of the remaining wild
salmon on the West Coast, as well as my own health, I'm changing my
diet. Whether it's wild or farmed, I'm swearing off salmon.

It's not a decision I make lightly. I grew up eating wild salmon. As a
boy, I was given my first chunk of maple-smoked salmon at a dude ranch
in northern British Columbia by a crusty old lawyer from Tennessee
named Lucius Burch ("better than candy," he cackled — and it was). Wild
salmon is my madeleine: it is the taste of my childhood.

Until recently, it was something for which I was willing to pay a
premium. But with so many fisheries closed this year, I can no longer
afford to splurge on sustainably fished salmon. It's just too scarce
and too expensive.

What happened to the mighty chinook of the Pacific Northwest? Regional
fisheries officials have blamed ocean conditions for a temporary
decline in the plankton and small fish that juvenile salmon feed on.
But most of the problem is man-made.

Spawning salmon need gravel streambeds and cold, fast-running water to
lay their eggs. Giant pumps have been piping water from the
Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to towns and farms in California's
Central Valley, degrading river habitat and even sucking up young fish
before they reach the sea. Farther north, dams on the Snake River have
prevented egg-bearing fish from reaching streambeds inland.

Overfishing is also a factor; too many nets have been scooping up too
many fish for too long. What's more, higher water temperatures brought
on by global warming prevent the eggs of spawning females from
maturing. It's not surprising that the only consistently healthy salmon
runs left are those in the cold waters of Alaska.

The fact that salmon is still available in supermarkets, and is cheaper
than it ever was, is no comfort. Ninety percent of the fresh salmon
consumed in the United States is from farms, and I have come to believe
that the farmed product is not a healthy alternative to wild.

Three Norwegian-owned companies dominate the salmon-farming industry in
North America, and their offshore net-cages dot long stretches of the
west coast of the Americas. In Chile, overcrowding in these oceanic
feedlots led to this year's epidemic of infectious salmon anemia, a
disease that has killed millions of fish and left the flesh of
survivors riddled with lesions.

The situation in Canada, which supplies the United States with 40
percent of its farmed salmon, is not much better. In British Columbia,
offshore net-cages are breeding grounds for thumbtack-sized parasites
called sea lice. In the Broughton Archipelago, a jigsaw of islands off
the province's central coast, wild pink salmon are infested with the
crustaceans. Scientists think that the tens of millions of salmon in
Broughton's 27 Norwegian-owned farms are attracting sea lice and
passing them on to wild fish, killing them. They say that this
infestation could drive Broughton's pink salmon to extinction by 2011.

To rid salmon of the lice, fish farmers spike their feed with a strong
pesticide called emamectin benzoate, which when administered to rats
and dogs causes tremors, spinal deterioration and muscle atrophy. The
United States Food and Drug Administration, already hard-pressed to
inspect imported Asian seafood for antibiotic and fungicide residues,
does not test imported salmon for emamectin benzoate. In other words,
the farmed salmon in nearly every American supermarket may contain this
pesticide, which on land is used to rid diseased trees of pine beetles.
It is not a substance I want in my body.

I avoid farmed salmon for other reasons. It takes four pounds of small
fish like sardines and anchovies to make a single pound of farmed
salmon, a process that deprives humans of precious protein. (Feedmakers
have lately increased the proportion of soy in the pellets, which means
the fish have even lower levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids.)
Organic farmed salmon would be a good option, if the term meant
something — outside Europe, there is still no credible, widely
available eco-label for responsibly raised farmed salmon.

Fish farming is an essential industry, but it must be sustainable.
Striped bass, trout, Arctic char and even ocean species like halibut
and cod are already being raised in concrete tanks, which prevent the
transmission of disease and parasites to wild fish. A few pioneering
companies have started raising salmon the same way. Such techniques
have to become the industry norm.

In the Atlantic, overfishing, habitat destruction, disease and
parasites from farms have left only struggling remnant populations of
the ocean's original salmon stocks. If we don't want the same thing to
happen in the Pacific, we need to give the salmon a break. Legislators
could start by calling on companies to remove net-cages from migration
routes, dismantling superannuated dams, reducing fishing quotas in
rivers and oceans and committing money to habitat restoration.
Consumers can help by looking at salmon as an occasional luxury, rather
than expecting it as an alternative to chicken or beef in in-flight
meals.

If my hankering for salmon gets the better of me, I suppose I could eat
wild salmon from Alaska. The state does not permit salmon farms in its
coastal waters, and its cold rivers still teem with healthy salmon
runs. But as much as I'd enjoy a fresh chinook fillet from the Copper
River, at $2.50 an ounce this summer, I just can't afford it.

So, I'll wait for next year and hope the West Coast fisheries show
signs of recovery. Until then — or until salmon farmers convince me
they've cleaned up their act — I'll be eating closer to the bottom of
the food chain.

Sardines, it turns out, taste pretty good barbecued.

~Taras Grescoe is the author of "Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood."

special bulletin issue:

During June 6th to June 13th, the northern node of the Moon, Rahu, will
aspect Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, and Venus.
Rahu is the planet causing eclipses and all unexpected events.
It represents worries, fears, phobias, separations, over ambition,
all deception, grand manipulation, drugs, immorality, overeating, psychic
disturbances, alcoholism, insomnia, compulsion, etc.
So, it would be prudent to exercise more care and extra patience over the next
seven days, do slow down to avoid accidents and calamities, and take time to
be on the alert for strange circumstances. Be gentle with your self and others.
Just simple awareness of this is a preventive measure. Practise the Rahu mantra.
Take very good care with your partner, friends and families and best wishes for smooth sailing.
Most of all do not go overboard on anything or with anyone - prudence is advocated.

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The exact new moon occurs on Tuesday, June 3, at 3:24 pm EDT in
Toronto, and in Gujarat, India it will be on June 4 at 12:54 am, IST. The
new moon occurs in Gemini in Line 5 of the I Ching hexagram
"Possession in Great Measure". The image is fire in the heavens, clarity
with strength. Here the mind is very active and possesses many
thoughts. The thoughts are strong. The mind is active. There is a
distinct need for inner receptivity and silence, but the tendency is to
push one's ideas forward and act quickly, without reflection or
consideration. The challenge here is to make a strong effort to control
the mind and direct one's thoughts towards the inner light.

Attitude is the principle thing in life. It is not the conditions in life which change life for us, but mostly it is our attitude toward life and its conditions upon which depends our happiness or unhappiness. ... The attitude becomes high and broad when one looks at life from a higher point of view. When the point of view is not high, the range of man's sight becomes limited; man becomes narrow in his outlook on life, and in his feelings, thought, speech and action the same is expressed. Why is God pointed out on high, toward the sky? Why not toward the earth, for God is everywhere? The reason is that within the range of God's sight the whole universe stands as a little grain of corn, as to one that flies in the balloon and looks down from high the whole city comes within the range of his sight, when he stands on earth he sees no further than the four walls which keep the whole world covered from his sight.

What does it mean to become spiritual, or godly? It means to have a higher view of life, to look at life from a higher point of view. It is the high point of view in life which ennobles the soul.

Be mentally tough;
Your resolve and determination
Will overcome great obstacles along life's path.
But let your heart be soft;
Your compassion and love
Will make the journey worth it.

~ Steve Goodier