From ReligiousTolerance.org

Overview:

Religious folk worldwide observe many seasonal days of celebration during the month of December. Most are religious holy days, and are linked in some way to the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. On that day, due to the earth's tilt on its axis , the daytime hours are at a minimum in the Northern hemisphere, and night time is at a maximum. (In the southern hemisphere, the summer solstice is celebrated in December, when the night time is at a minimum and the daytime is at a maximum. We will assume that the reader lives in the Northern hemisphere for the rest of this essay.)

People view other religions in various ways, and thus treat the celebrations of other faiths differently:

• Some people value the range of December celebrations, because it is evidence of diversity of belief within our common humanity. They respect both their own religious traditions and those of other faiths for their ability to inspire people to lead more ethical lives. Religious diversity is to them a positive influence.
• Others reject the importance of all celebrations other than the holy day recognized by their own religion. Some even reject their religion's holy days which are seen to have Pagan origins (e.g. Easter and Christmas).
• Some view other religions as being inspired by Satan. Thus the solstice celebrations of other religions are rejected because they are seen to be Satanic in origin.

What is Astral Projection? That's maybe the toughest question to answer, lucid dreaming is where your body is asleep and paralyzed but your mind is bright and awake and awareness in now in your brains own created dream world. Astral projection (out of body experience, etheric projection) is when the astral body, light body or consciousness can separate from the body and travel in the astral planes/ other dimensions.

Astral projection is seen as many to be nothing more than a lucid dream, below are three main interpretations of the term we know as astral projection.

1. Astral Projection is merely a very high lucid dream that feels like you have left your body (this is the explanation favored by classical science). Reports of near death experiences do seem to challenge this view point but it is assumed that information must be being gathered in other more conventional ways. Detailed descriptions of the operating room and procedures by the resuscitated are explained by other senses, such as hearing sounds and forming a mental picture of operating procedure etc.

Pleiadian Renegades through Amanda R. Ryan

“The coming solstice will have even you poised to gather more light, like it or not.”

Have you noticed a shift in the angle of light? Are you now able to see things slightly differently than you were just a short time gone by? The shadows are coming out, the light is at play, and your planet tilts ever so much as you careen around the sun. The season deepens and yet, what do you have to show for your journey thus far by way of a souvenir? A few memories of hope come and gone, of greater hope fulfilled, or perhaps further confirmation of fear and despair? For many, there is hope beyond anything they dared ever contemplate the possibility they’d live to see. For others there is little but preparation for the worst-case scenario to look forward to, and to these we say, prepare for joy rather than doom, for the worst can yet be altered in such a way that you will soon be celebrating. Here is the plan.

A Moment Of Happiness...

You and I   sitting on the veranda,
apparently two, but one in soul, you and  I.
We feel the flowing water of life here,
You and I, with the garden's beauty
and the birds singing.
The stars will be watching us,
and we will show them
what it is to be a thin crescent moon.
You and I, unselfed, will be together
indifferent to idle speculation, you and I.
The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar
as we laugh together, you and I.
In one form upon this Earth,
and in another form in a timeless sweet land...

~Rumi, 16th Century Poet

We know you are together again in the realms of immortals.... George and Eunice.  May your journey through the waters of life bring you beautiful memories of your physical lives here...we miss your bodies, but we continue to converse with your spirits til the end of time...until we meet again!

Pleiadian Renegades through Amanda R. Ryan

“The calendar turns, a new day dawns, and we ask you, what do you know of the power you possess?”

Yet are you polarized, dear people of Earth. How long will you fight to have your way? The highway beckons, you know. There is little left to gain of old soul value by maintaining the line of demarcation between idea and ignorance. The least you can do to heal the ancient wound that festers is to lay aside your need to be right and use your arms for embracing each other. If that thought frightens you, it is only your own fear which prevents you. Now is not the time for rekindling the flames of the fires that brought desolation to Rome, it is not the time to bring out your grandfather’s rifle, nor is it time to leave a challenge that requires more courage than war. You have an opportunity to move beyond all that has prevented you from taking the first step toward peace. Now that you hold such a precious thing in your hands, what will you do with it? Consider the possibility that you could very likely use it to create a new world without tyranny, fear, or oppression of any kind. If this is your choice, we salute you for the courage it requires, and ask that you understand that the emergence into a time of more universal peace and harmony is at hand.

As custodians of Planet Earth, we have not really being doing that great of a job!  We adhere to old ways of thinking and living, and our world is full of famine, pain, suffering, seperatism, war, strife and political unrest.  The economy is failing and life on this planet is a struggle.  Our beautiful planet, our home, our mother...requires that we WAKE UP...it's time to see that the old ways no longer serve us.  The way our world is currently set up is failing us and our people.  The ways of this world have become irrelevant....even preposterous!

However, humanity is rapidly awakening to their personal creative power and each day another lost fragment comes home to find Unconditional Love is all there is and that we are Divine Creators of what we experience here....each and every one of the 6.5 billion humans here is a divine creator being, an indivisible part of God.  We are One Universe, One immortal being and One Lightbody Dreaming.  Together as a single entity we can recreate our world and our experiences here.  We can make a consciously aware choice to change our world for the better.  The current system of institutions set up to control us and our thinking and the Monetary system set up to cause division are becoming irrelevant.  The system is falling down around us and creating more money (inflation) is no longer working.  We currently are in a state of flux, we are in the hallway between 2 doors. One door goes back to the old ways which no longer serve, but are comfortable and known to us.  The other door takes us into a whole new paradigm of life on this beautiful blue planet.  A new paradigm where people know they are one being, where everyone realizes in their heart that we are the Human Race who live on Planet Earth...why have borders, countries, seperatist religions and political states of control....when the borders are only an illusion, and the system is a lie...  It's time to wake up Humanity.

Pleiadian Renegades through Amanda R. Ryan

“Everyone wins when all are seen as divine.”

For most of the world, the election of Obama is cause for a big sigh of relief, if not outright jubilation. For most of the people of the country he will hold office in, however, there is confusion. You have never been in such a position before, have you? No more awkward separation, no more guilt, no more reason to fear. What a strange place to be in. The future strangeness is yet stranger, however, so best to deal with the strangeness now before you. Looking at this now will make what soon will be a lot less strange. For the world is about to have a new gameboard, a new set of rules, and a new broadly defined game to play, and this one ensures that everyone wins.

CHAPTER NINE: Tantra and Taoist Cosmic Connection.

From " The Jack of All Subtle Energies" Author: Keith Darwin Rector

Love is all you need. Perhaps the greatest subtle energies are those that circulate within the body. The advantages of cultivating and circulating them are tremendous. Ancient secrets used by the great mystery schools are now becoming available to the public, which we can take advantage of them in our daily lives. You may harness the powerhouse in your body to create much more pleasure in your sex life, and to improve your spirituality. Few know how to change sexual energy into spiritual energy, but you will by the end of this chapter. Best of all, the cost is only how much of your time you wish to invest. You won't have to purchase new bedroom toys or approach your mail box furtively.

If I said you could improve your sex life by having multiple orgasms, more sensitivity and longer periods of lovemaking you might be interested. You may find this new path you are embarking on will give you far more intense romance with all your partners in the future, and also bring improved health. This is often how Tantra is sold in the western world. It carries the connotation of intensifying sexual pleasure. Most who first encounter this see it as "SEX" only as they have never thought of sex as a powerful path to spirituality.

Allowing Your Soul to Shine

From the Daily OM 

At times, we’ve all wanted to crawl under a rock and hide away from the world. We may have preferred to be invisible rather than let other people see us or notice that we exist. This desire not to be seen often happens when we are feeling very hurt, angry, or simply weary of the world. And while we may console ourselves with the defense that we are shy, an introvert, or a loner, we may actually be hiding.

By Melanie M Metzger (Annu)

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I remember growing up, being fascinated with space and the universe.  I felt a large part of me was drawn to live in this vast universe, rather then the little human body I inhabited.  The universe to me at the time was finite, because it encompassed the Milky Way, the known planets in our solar system, our Sun and our Moon, then all the constellations symbolized by pictures of crabs and hunters and such…that to me was the entire universe.  As I grew up, the known universe remained rather small in my mind.  After all, we are the only living beings in the universe, why should it be any bigger than it is?

Of course, like many, I was brainwashed into thinking and believing that the universe is finite and that we know all there is to know about it.  I was also led to believe that if there is other life out there…it would be NOTHING like life here.  Life here is unique, because God made it so.  Life “out there” would be frighteningly unrecognizable to us and absolutely foreign….even dangerous….yes, any life out there would be very “alien”…to life here.....right?
 

By Daniel Jacob

What does it actually mean to be "Multidimensional?" Is it something strange and wonderful, or could it just be some rationalization someone is using to explain his or her latent schizophrenia? <s> Well, I suspect it's probably a bit of both. But it's also surely a whole lot more.

The first discussions about Multidimensionality came through Seth, an entity who was channeled by Jane Roberts back in the 70s. There were other references, I'm sure, but Seth was the one who took the whole topic of Multidimensionality mainstream. At the time, though, it seemed that humankind was ready to deal with the matter *only* in an intellectual way, and not very easily at that. Now, 20-some years later, we are on the brink of discovering exactly what Seth was talking about, and a whole lot more!