Utah, the BLM and Uintah County Plan to Desecrate Sego or East Canyon, Utah - 2019

 

Utah, the BLM and Uintah County Plan to Desecrate Sego or East Canyon, Utah

The ancient site known as Sego Canyon is an easy day trip from Moab, Utah. The name "Sego Canyon Petroglyphs" is a bit confusing because the main panels of petroglyphs and pictographs are actually located in Thompson Canyon. From Thompson Springs, Utah, take Utah Highway 94 North, which becomes BLM 159 (Thompson Canyon Road). Accessible with any automobile, the gravel road will lead you to the unpaved parking area adjacent to the “Sego Canyon Rock Art” site, as Google Maps identifies it. You may access the main panels from the parking area at 39°01'05.3"N 109°42'37.2"W.

Sego Canyon itself begins north of Thompson Springs as a fork of Thompson Canyon. Unless you prepare ahead for off-road recovery and dry camping in the wilderness, do not drive any farther up Sego Canyon. In many places, it either crosses the streambed or utilizes the streambed as its roadway. There are no fresh water sources and the road is subject to flash flooding. The trail dead-ends at a defunct mining site, along the southern border of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation.

In the year 2014, the sanctity and solitude of Sego Canyon faced imminent demise. For eleven thousand years or more, most early human visitors either painted or carved their visions into the walls of Sego Canyon. The result was a series of interesting and illustrative panels unsurpassed in all of the American West. Undaunted by its sacred and serene beauty, the Grand County Council planned to put a stop to all of that.

At that time, all three options in the long-term usage plan for Grand County Public Lands called for a fifteen mile long, one or two mile wide transportation corridor straight up Sego Canyon. Commonly called the “Hydrocarbon Highway”, this newly paved and widened road would serve a Mecca of tar sands mines planned on property controlled by State of Utah School and Institutional Lands Commission (SITLA). Unless SITLA and Grand County agreed upon this blatant industrialization of the desert, they would have no access to the tar sand deposits that lay beyond the rim of the Book Cliffs.

Public outcry, both in this blog and throughout the country shamed the Grand County Council into abandoning their reckless plan. Even so, less than five years later, the Grand County Council has revived its draconian plan. After the embarrassment engendered by their callous and uncaring plan finally receded in local memory, several agencies charged with protecting our ancient heritage sites again wish to desecrate them. As the price of crude oil continues to rise, tar sands will become ever more competitive in the marketplace. As prices now rise in 2019, even the local Native American tribe hopes to make the Hydrocarbon Highway plan a reality.

Under the current administration, former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke laid waste to nearby Bears Ears National Monument. At its inception in 2016, Bears Ears consisted of 1.35 million acres. After Zinke had his way with it, only 201,876 acres remained under full federal protection. After disgraceful manipulation of both federal lands, and the budget of his agency, in January 2019, “Slinky Zinke” slithered away into a hoped for obscurity.

Yet, like The Terminator, of movie fame, Zinke reemerged from his lair in April 2019. This time, he was a newly minted executive and board member of Nevada based U.S. Gold Corp. Their tag line is, “World-Class Projects in Mining Friendly, U.S. Jurisdictions”. Zinke's compensation package included salary and stock valued at more than $100,000 and “expenses” of $120,000 per year. After draining his federal budget to support a lavish and questionable jet-setting lifestyle, Zinke can now spend at a similar rate in the private sector. Although forbidden from lobbying his former agency, U.S. Gold Corp. CEO Edward Karr cited Zinke’s “excellent relationship” and “in-depth knowledge of the governmental regulatory and permitting process for mining and exploration companies”. These relationships and knowledge with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Interior Department were included as justifications for his hiring.

Succeeding Zinke in April of 2019, David Bernhardt joined the current administration as its new Secretary of the Interior. After working within the Department of Interior for many years, Bernhardt had more recently served as a lobbyist for the extraction industries. During his tenure as a lobbyist, Bernhardt's clients included Halliburton, Cobalt International Energy, Samson Resources, and the Independent Petroleum Association of America.
In other words, Bernhardt is fully in the pocket of Old Energy, as represented by oil, gas and most of all, the “Clean Coal” industry. Get ready for Mr. Bernhardt to push for full-scale development of tar sands in the State of Utah. Although Zinke cannot lobby his former federal agency, there are no restrictions on his lobbying the State of Utah School and Institutional Lands Commission (SITLA).

SITLA owns thousands of acres of potential tar sand mining claims just north of Sego Canyon. If Bernhardt and the likes of Zinke find a way to collaborate tacitly on the extraction of “black gold” from the Sego Canyon tar sands, you can bet that they will. The residents of Grand County, Uintah County and the public at large must remain vigilant. If not, the priceless artifacts and ancient artwork within the Sego Canyon Rock Art site could be defiled.

The rock art images that look down from the walls of Thompson Canyon predate the construction of the Notre Dame Cathedral, which recently burned in Paris. With scientists’ inability to date the earliest pictographs at Sego Canyon, those drawings may predate all human history, including the pyramids of Egypt. No one knows for sure. Anyone who has stood and marveled at the unique beauty of Sego Canyon knows that a paved tar sands haul road would forever alter and destroy this ancient and sacred site.

Who are the people or spirits represented in Sego Canyon? Over the millennia, several types of rock art appeared on the canyon walls, each representing a successive human culture. Some experts claim evidence of human habitation in Sego Canyon dating back to the Archaic Period (6,000 – 2,000 BC). Elsewhere, at the Calico Early Man Site, near Yermo, California, human made material extracted from beneath 100,000-year-old alluvial deposits include a "rock ring". The ring dates back to 135,000 years by thermoluminescence (TL), about 200,000 years by uranium-series analysis, and about 197,000 years by surface beryllium-10 dating. Since there are no adequate ways to use carbon or other dating methods on the earliest Sego Canyon pictographs, their age is indeterminate. For human safety and protection from vandalism, the BLM recently closed Calico Early Man Site to the public. Until adequate funding magically appears, the site will remain off limits to all.

Beginning in an undetermined and ancient age, what we call Barrier Canyon Style rock art panels appeared in Sego Canyon. The Barrier Canyon Style included both pictographs (painted) and petroglyphs (pecked) into the rock surface. Some appear faded and darkened with age, while others have a fresher look and appear similar to red ochre paintings of more recent vintage. The dark, faded and therefore most ancient pictographs often have subtle facial expressions and the appearance of clothing or robes.

In one image, on the far left side of a larger panel is a dark figure, emerging from a grass field. Much like an ancient Sumerian Anunnaki (436,000 BC – 3,700 BC), he wears a dark robe and a spiked or pointed helmet. Obscured by age and weathering, his shoulders and countenance depict him moving forward and to his right. Although small in scale, he represents an apparently giant figure. Scanning down to where his arms might be, he appears to have his hands resting on the shoulders of a much smaller and more humanlike figure.

The smaller figure, superimposed on the lower half of this “Anunnaki Warrior” appears to be walking straight out and into the foreground. He has dark, curly hair and wears a biblical-style flowing robe. Some writings reference the “black headed ones” whom the Anunnaki once ruled. Legend has it that the Anunnaki ruled Gaia, our Mother Earth throughout prehistory. Tired of laboring for the scant amount of gold available on Earth, the Anunnaki developed a slave class, later known as humankind. As gods on Earth, they may have experimented with genetic engineering, including the recombination of their own DNA with that of “Early Man”.

So here, on the walls of Sego Canyon, we have a pictographic suggestion of an Anunnaki god “birthing” Adam into the Garden of Eden. Above the very panel depicting this immaculate birth, are two huge portraits, carved in the stone of the canyon wall. On the left, in profile, is Mother Nature, as represented by a Nubian woman. To her right, intertwined and looking into her face is the classical, white bearded Yahweh, or the “Face of God”. Here, the contrast of a dark and a white face mimics the Anunnaki “Black Knight” and his progeny Adam, a white man with black hair.

As depicted, Yahweh and Mother Nature are in love both with each other and with All that Is. The Anunnaki god, depicted beneath the divine couple, appears to release Adam into what we now know as our own world. After genetic manipulation and creation of humans as a slave class, the Anunnaki lost their final battle in the Pleiadian or the Orion Wars, around 2,000 BC. Upon banishment from Earth, the Anunnaki absconded with Earth’s available gold and returned to their place of origin at Niburu, a brown dwarf planet (or star system) with a highly elliptical orbit around our Sun.

Niburu, also known as “Planet X”, “Planet Nine” or “Nemesis” continues to threaten Earth, as we know it. Niburu has a periodicity that is still in question. Depending on your preferred information source, Niburu returns for a near-Earth dash every 3,600 or 11,000 years. As pictured by scientists and mystics alike, Niburu exists as a huge dark ball of superheated tar. Periodically, as it passes close to the Earth, Niburu is prone to ejecting great swaths of semi-molten petroleum. Old Testament Biblical accounts of fire and brimstone raining from the sky attest to this phenomenon.

As children, we learned a myth about the origins of terrestrial petroleum deposits. Although that myth is widely believed, the petroleum deposits in our Earth did not come from dinosaurs grazing in ancient swampland. Eleven thousand years ago, or at some multiple of that time span, Niburu spewed untold amounts of boiling tar on to the upper reaches of Sego Canyon. As happened in the Bible Lands, so too did the Sego Canyon "Lake of Fire" cool and mix with the desert sands, solidifying and becoming the tar sands, oil and natural gas deposits that we know today. The original "Moabites" were a West-Semitic culture, which flourished in the Ninth Century BCE, or about 11,000 years ago. That time span would coincide with three 3,600 year circuits of Niburu or one major circuit at around 10,800 years.

Remember, the Anunnaki sought to enslave humankind and extract gold for their wealth and pleasure. Old Energy mavens such as Ryan Zinke, David Bernhardt, Edward Karr and the Uintah County Council have their sights set on places like Sego Canyon or East Canyon. Our current day “Anunnaki Wannabes” seek the black gold locked in the tar sands of Sego Canyon. If their self-serving ways prevail, they will build their “Hydrocarbon Highway” straight through Sego Canyon. If so, the ancient depictions of Mother Nature, Yahweh and the Spirit of the Ancients found there and nowhere else shall vanish from the Earth.

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In Keeping with Hopi Tribal Tradition, the Word "Ruins" Disappears From Homolovi State Park, Arizona - 2013

 

In Keeping with Hopi Tribal Tradition, the Word "Ruins" Disappears From Homolovi State Park, Arizona

In May 2008, when I first visited Homolovi Ruins State Park near Winslow, Arizona I enjoyed it for what it lacked. There was no visible water, only a few parched trees and an RV campground with few amenities. With water and electricity brought in from underground to each campsite, the place was more pleasant than it first appeared. In the heat of the day, I could retreat into my air-conditioned coach to read or watch the old analog television signal that emanated from a tower in the nearby town.

Developed decades ago as a unit of the Arizona State Park System, Homolovi seemed teetering on the brink of extinction. Rangers no longer staffed the entry booth, although a campground host did arrive to collect my money and answer my questions. Few of the campsites had occupants during my stay, yet I loved the place for its solitude and lack of activity. Later, in 2010, the park did close for a time.

As a metal sign indicated, only half a mile from the campground was “Homolovi Ruin I”. Throughout the southwest, travelers often see the remains of grand edifices created by the ancient tribes we call the Anasazi or pre-Puebloan. Unlike the great Kivas of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico or the Twin Towers at Hovenweep National Monument, Utah, only a few foundations of a once-great civilization survive as the “ruins” at Homolovi.

 

Watch the desert sunset at Homolovi State Park, Arizona

What destroyed the great buildings of Homolovi was water, rushing in the desert. Early in the Second Millennium CE, the Great Disappearance took place throughout the northern reaches of the Colorado Plateau. Most scientists agree that the ancient peoples fled south, first to places like Homolovi. At that time, with reliable flows of water in the Little Colorado River, Homolovi seemed like a peaceful and abundant place to settle and farm.

As with so many landscapes on Gaia, or Mother Earth, appearances can be deceiving. For years, and perhaps decades, the balance of nature prevailed. The new arrivals from the north built structures near the river and used irrigation ditches to water their corn and other crops. Then, similar to Superstorm Sandy flooding the subways of Lower Manhattan Island, New York, the formerly benign Little Colorado flooded much of ancient Homolovi. Without warning, the river became a torrent, liquefying the adobe dwellings and washing them away.

When twentieth century archeologists dug in the area near the river, they determined that ancient Homolovi was flooded and partially destroyed at least twice. Whether repeated flooding or an intensifying drought led the ancient residents to abandon Homolovi is unknown. What Anglo archeologists concluded, however, is that the place was a ruin.

In May 2011, when I again stopped to enjoy the solitude of Homolovi, some things had changed and some had not. Although still a unit of the Arizona State Park system, at their own expense, the Hopi Tribe now managed the park, including its museum and the campground. Among their first acts, the Hopi eradicated the word “ruins” from the park. This was an easy task, requiring only the painting-out or taping-over of the offending words.

To some, it may seem insignificant to expunge the word “ruins” from Homolovi State Park. To the Hopi it was a sacred act, honoring their ancestors and other ancient dwellers of the area. Contemporary Southwest American Indians believe that the spirits of the ancients still dwell in the areas like Homolovi. “May the spirits be with you”, is the unspoken greeting of current tribe members.

In the various legends of the Southwest, there is no other character as ubiquitous as Kokopelli, the flute playing minstrel and god of fertility. Both anecdotal and archeological evidence points to Kokopelli first appearing as petroglyphs on Hopi tribal lands. For that reason, I invited Plush Kokopelli to accompany me on my May 2013 visit to Homolovi State Park.

Upon arrival at Homolovi campground, Plush Kokopelli wanted to see the river. It was late afternoon, so I set up camp and told him that we could visit the river in the morning. As evening approached, I took still-camera shots of the setting sun. Unlike my 2008 visit, with its colorful skies, my 2013 sunset was clear and dry. The video shows the progression of the 2013 event, followed by the vivid colors of the 2008 sunset.

Some may think it is strange or eccentric to travel with a Plush Kokopelli who is about the size of a two-year-old human, but I find him quite entertaining. For the most part, he minds his manners; plays his flute and watches the scenery go by as we travel. Still, when he wants something, he somehow makes it known. Early the next morning, I awoke to the visage of Plush Kokopelli staring at me. “OK, OK, we can go to the river right after breakfast”, I said.

Viewing the Little Colorado River at Homolovi can be a risky thing. As you approach the Homolovi I trail, there stands a sign reading, “Danger Keep Out. Unstable Bank, Quicksand, Strong Current”. Plush Kokopelli was undaunted, urging me on past a washed out chain-link fence and then to the riverbank. From experience, I knew that the Little Colorado River no longer supported a perennial flow. When the snows of winter melted upstream, there was a rapid and intense flow for only a matter of weeks.

By our visit in mid-May, the flow was sluggish and diminishing rapidly. Soon the running water would become pools of standing water surrounded by quicksand banks. Having experienced the quicksand during an earlier visit, I entreated Plush Kokopelli to stay on solid ground. Almost before I knew it, there he sat, on a snag overhanging the Little Colorado River. Like a parent scolding his child, I placed Plush Kokopelli on an old railroad tie that rested on dry land near the edge of the riverbed.

When I offered to take his picture sitting on the railroad tie, Plush Kokopelli leaned forward and made a run for the river. If I had not captured his movement with my camera, few readers would believe my story. By then it was getting hot along the quicksand banks of the Little Colorado River, so I swept Plush Kokopelli up and carried him back to my truck.

If you ever want proof that the spirits of the ancients still dwell at Homolovi, just invite your own Plush Kokopelli along for a stroll by the river. If you do, be prepared for his tricky behavior while visiting the unstable banks, quicksand and strong current of the Little Colorado River.

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New Orleans - The Lessons of Atlantis Begin to Sink In - 2011

 

 

New Orleans - The Lessons of Atlantis Begin to Sink In

In the early 1980s, then President Ronald Reagan endorsed the idea of creating an International Space Station (ISS). At the time, it appeared to be a make-work project designed to keep the aerospace industry alive during a period of relative peace. As early as 1969, during the Apollo Program, Americans had walked on the Moon, 238,000 miles from Earth. With a planned orbit of only 173 miles above the Earth, the ISS had no such lofty goals. Instead, the solar-powered pressure-vessels of the ISS offered only slow and steady progress toward long-term human habitation in space. Commensurate with its low-key goals, was a bargain price, estimated at less than $10 billion. A lot has changed over the past thirty years. At a current running cost of $150+ billion, the ISS is now the most expensive human engineered structure, either on or above the Earth.

 

As it passes overhead 15.7 times each day, most Americans think little about the ISS mission or its cost. If they knew more about it, many would say, “Who needs an ISS?” All these years later, I now believe that the ISS program is worth its cost. Even though its useful life may be less than ten more years, the ISS serves us as a microcosmic reflection of Earth. There, on a human-created, Earth-orbiting satellite, the ever-rotating crew conducts experiments in biology, chemistry, human biology, astronomy and meteorology.

 

Back on Earth, we find the Mississippi River available for similar, if unplanned experiments. Looking 135 nautical miles upriver from New Orleans, Louisiana, we find the Old River Control Structure. Only the static backpressure of its levees and control gates maintains a precarious balance of life downstream in New Orleans. In allegorical fashion, joints and fasteners connect the various ISS modules. Stressed by the unrelenting vacuum of space, gas leaks on the ISS are potentially deadly to the crew. While the ISS relies on constant atmospheric pressure within its structure, the Old River Control Structure relies on gravity and friction to hold back the kinetic energy of the Mississippi River. Both structures experience unrelenting energy, while entropy assures their ultimate demise and destruction.

 

As Katrina approached the Louisiana coast in August 2005, the hasty evacuation of New Orleans was a debacle. At the time, each city, state and federal official assumed that someone else had called for buses to provide evacuation of a poor and vulnerable population. The public evacuation plan turned out to be a myth. Hundreds of unused school buses later sat ruined by the flood. As affluent and able citizens evacuated structures to the North, a monumental traffic jam ensued. If each bus had carried a full load that day, more people could have evacuated in far less time. As it was, no one remained to assist the most vulnerable and helpless residents. Leaving the sickest in their beds, a hospital physician may have ordered lethal injections for forty-five non-ambulatory patients, prior to abandonment of the hospital.

 

One major difference between the International Space Station and New Orleans is that NASA and the ISS crew cannot afford to employ mythical thinking. If they ran the ISS in similar fashion to pre-Katrina New Orleans, something as simple as a coolant-pump failure could result in loss of both the crew and their quarters. Effective engineering, planning and resupply are essential to maintaining human habitation in space. New Orleans, on the other hand, currently sits in a dry bowl, free from flooding. Since simulations do not work well on a grand scale, we cannot properly assess the efficacy of defenses at New Orleans. Instead, we must wait for the next great storm in order to find out. By then it might be too late for both New Orleans and the federal deficit. Yet today, we maintain the fiction that New Orleans can continue its long-term defiance of the laws of Nature.

 

NASA provided the ISS with spare coolant pumps beyond the number of anticipated failures. Will their planning be sufficient? I believe that the ISS has a better chance of surviving intact for the next ten years than does the City of New Orleans. If New Orleans, Louisiana were to flood again, the cost to revive the city would easily surpass the estimated $160 billion lifetime cost of the ISS.

 

This is not a personal prediction of death, doom and despair, but floods, fire an famine are not out of the question. Humankind has the ability use both its collective memory and its collective consciousness. If we allow a shift in consciousness, newly awakened humankind could change the future of Planet Earth. With both the profit motive and politics at play, it is hard to determine if our current plans are sound. If each stakeholder could reflect upon our overall relationship with the laws of Nature, they might see themselves as part of a larger whole. With a touch of gnost, we can understand Nature and help guide humanity’s relationship with Gaia, our Mother Earth.

 

Centuries ago, at a bend in the Mississippi River, settlers created New Orleans. From that time, forward, humans continued to build structures there with little regard for attendant environmental consequences. As hard and fast as many stakeholder positions seem to be, Nature can lift those stakes and carry them away like driftwood, to the Gulf of Mexico. Since Earth is the only permanent habitat known to humans, it behooves us to acknowledge and accommodate the laws of Nature as supreme to any laws of our own making.

 

Taking the laws of Nature into account, we should study alternate weather and flood scenarios for New Orleans and its environs. Without regard for corporate profits, property values or political gain, independent studies and their recommendations should again see the light of day. Once we understand the likelihood of various weather events, we can then proceed with plans to protect only that which is reasonable to protect. If the hubris and ignorance of our ancestors continues in New Orleans, we risk human-aided devastation and destruction unlike any seen on Earth since the last days of Atlantis.

 

 

 

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Sun, Moon and the Chakras of Gaia - 2010

 

Sun, Moon and the Chakras of Gaia

 

A recent newsletter from SpaceWeather.com highlighted two items of interest. First was the discovery of a new "Radio-Active” Sunspot. During the final weekend of March 2010, sunspot 1057 emitted radio bursts, detected by shortwave receivers all over the world. Even tabletop shortwave receivers translated the Sun's shortwave energy burst into sound energy. Some described the radio solar bursts as sounding like a roar. To me, the recorded sound clip sounded like a waterfall, crashing into a redrock alcove from a precipice above.

 

As humans, are we ready for what some call “Contact”? The subject of extraterrestrial or nonphysical-contact with humans on Earth looks great in the movies. Too bad Hollywood has elected to portray those who might contact us as evil and destructive. Despite my belief that there is nothing to fear in contact, would I rush out to welcome ET if he or his spiritual cousins landed in my backyard? If direct, large-scale contact occurred, would pervasive human fear lead to chaos on Earth?

 

What if our non-physical friends and spirits were hosting shortwave radio broadcasts targeted toward amateur radio enthusiasts here on Earth? Even if widely publicized on scientific websites, such events would raise only a ripple in the great unconscious. If such a contact did recently occur, what might be the message to Earth or its people? Alternatively, might these shortwave bursts be a nonphysical "conditioning exercise", allowing humanity time to prepare for contact that is more meaningful? Perhaps The Masters bypassed humanity in favor of direct radio communications with Gaia, as we call the Earth when acknowledged as a living entity in her own right. Across her surface, the Earth can accept, bend and reflect radio waves. For example, shortwave radio energy bounces off of both the Earth and its electrically charged ionosphere. This skywave phenomenon allows humans on one side of the Earth to use low energy, two-way, wireless voice transmission to converse with similarly equipped humans on the other side of the world. It is like having a mobile telephone with nearly unlimited terrestrial range.

 

After the recent radioactive sunspot event, former enthusiasts all over the world are dusting off, and tuning in their old shortwave receivers. If the Earth receives another radio show featuring that big star, our Sun, will they be ready to listen in? If collective consciousness on Earth mimics the ways of the superorganism (an organism consisting of many organisms), we might yet crack the Sun/Gaia code and discern its message and meaning to Earth and humanity.

 

Also from SpaceWeather.com was an explanation of the first full Moon of springtime in the Northern Hemisphere. According to folklore, this full Moon has a special name - the Worm Moon. It signals the coming of northern spring, a thawing of the soil, and the first stirrings of earthworms in long-dormant gardens. In the reflected “Worm moonlight", we can see the awakening of the landscape. If you click on the accompanying image of the Moon, you will open an alternate, larger image. There, one can see evidence of the Moon Chakras, each one seen in reflected earthlight. In the lower right corner, we see humankind, as represented by an airliner in the evening sky.

 

According to one website, the Earth exhibits both a physical body and an energetic body, complete with a chakra system identified by ancient mystics and modern scientists alike. She has her own life force and her own path of unfolding, separate from us, but including us. There is general agreement that Gaia has seven major chakras distributed evenly across her body and connected to one another via two lines of energy that intersect at various points on the earth. Earth's First Chakra is located at Mount Shasta in Northern California; the second is beneath Lake Titicaca in South America, and so on across the face of the Earth.

 

Often, I travel on Interstate I-5 from Southern California to Southwestern Oregon. Even during drought years, Mt. Shasta retains a high mantle of white snow. Its position as home to the First Earth Chakra parallels and reinforces its role as a terrestrial weather creator.

 

On one visit, clouds shrouded Mt. Shasta down to its flanks. Otherwise, on each visit, that sacred mountain has always shown me something new. To view the Mt. Shasta as I saw it on three different visits to Mt. Shasta, click on her individual thumbnail images. Larger or alternate views will open in a new window. The first pair of images shows a cloudbank rolling toward the mountain, and a view of its peak, levitating above the cloud tops.

 

The second pair of images shows Mt. Shasta on a clear winter day. If you look closely, you will see a dark green energy being emerging from the forested area. Look for a character similar in appearance to Oscar the Grouch, just behind the tip of the tall pine tree in the foreground. The being’s snow-white right arm extends down to a hand. Its three fingers form a cursive capital “M”. Perhaps one of our astrologer friends can help us understand why an energy being is emerging from Mt. Shasta and making the sign of Scorpio with his right hand. Do energy beings even have hands? Some viewers will see a mountain, snow, rocks and trees. Others will see new energy, as it exists all around us.

 

In the third pair of images, we see a ring appearing on the snowy slopes above the tree line. Had it been a lava vent, ejected material would have accumulated at its lower rim. Instead, its circular structure and slightly raised center suggest a meteorite or comet strike. If comets, asteroids and meteors carried water and life to Earth, might they also supply vortexual energy to the Earth Chakras?

 

In addition to her seven major chakras, Gaia has minor chakras and other vortices of energy, all of which are significant to her life-energy system. As with any living thing, all these energy centers need caretaking. Just as we may heal ourselves through our own chakras, we may heal and support Gaia through hers.

 

According to Wikipedia, the Gaia hypothesis is an ecological hypothesis proposing that the biosphere and the physical components of the Earth integrate to form a system, which maintains both climate and biogeochemical conditions on Earth in a preferred homeostasis. The hypothesis promotes viewing the Earth as a single super-organism. Having already passed many predictive tests, Gaia theory now moves from pseudoscience into the realm of scientific theory.

 

As the weather warms in spring, honeybees may swarm from their nest or hive. After laying eggs in a number of specially prepared “queen cups”, the old queen leaves the nest. Soon, she and her escort of scouts and workers alight upon an area of nearby foliage. As the swarm protects the queen beneath a blanket of their bodies, scouts confer on the best place to start a new hive. Using a form of dance, individual scouts tout the worthiness of their preferred new sites. Scouts visit each of the competing sites, then return to promote the one that they determine is best. The selection process may take days, hours or mere minutes, depending on the level of scouting completed prior to emergence of a swarm from the nest.

 

Once they reach consensus, the scouts and workers escort the queen to her new home. Meanwhile, back at the old nest, the forty percent of honeybees who stay behind elevate a new queen and carry on. Upon final departure, the swarm disentangles itself as each individual bee takes flight. In an aerial ballet that looks like pure chaos to a human observer, the mass disperses rotating vortex of bees. Soon, they are gone, spiraling away toward their new home. Using creative intelligence and some good dance moves, one super-organism of bees gives birth to another, right before our eyes. into the air, and then comes together again as a

 

In concert with Nature, the swarming of honeybees often coincides with the Worm Moon. The Sun’s rays warm the springtime air by day. Bright moonlight illuminates the pathway of those still traveling to the new nest at night. After watching a swarm of honeybees morph into a super-organism before my eyes, I believe that such events reflect the beneficent vortexual energies of our Sun, Moon and the Chakras of Gaia.

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Access New Energy Now - 2008

 

Access New Energy Now

Over the past year, the wireless mouse that goes with my computer became recalcitrant unless I used every day.  Typically, it would freeze up and refuse to connect until my vibrational alignment was compatible with my computer work.  Monday was one of those days.  At about 11:00 AM, I finally took a deep breath and relaxed.  That is approximately when the mouse started working again.  Of course, my issue with the mouse was vibrational.  I had not cleared its energy or mine for almost two days.  The mouse needed a hard shutdown and restart to bring it back to life.  I needed some yoga and stretching to calm my mind in a way that some call meditation.

 

Attending to my personal and spiritual needs was nice to think about, but I had just put myself through a weekend without a conscious pause.  Feeling wide-awake as I lay in bed that night, I realized that other than sleeping, I had not stretched my muscles or relaxed my brain in almost two days.  Over the past couple of months, I had started a daily stretching routine.  Now, such previously frivolous activities are necessary for my continued good health.  More than any other personal issue, a good life flows from good health.

 

Getting up, I went into our exercise room and settled down on my yoga mat, and then breathed in as necessary for a full energy clearing.  Over the years, I have noticed that creative ideas happen often while I am meditating and doing yoga.  It is like a game, where I can hardly wait to see, feel and become whatever it is that my subconscious has put in store for me now.

 

There I was, posed on my yoga mat, feeling the energy clearing all around me, then leaving me in a bubble of enlightened energy.  This is not me bragging about my personal enlightenment.  The Energy Bubble was the Enlightened One, leaving me wanting ever more of the same.

 

On November 19, 2007, a hearty band of 325 human souls in Taos, New Mexico celebrated a Quantum Leap in energy .  Although appearances tell us that we had a slow manifestational start, new consciousness orchestrated changes in events that opened many of us up to the potential of new energy realities.  It does not take millions of people to change the course of history or help to create a better outcome for Gaia, our Mother Earth.  According to scientific evidence, it takes as few as the square root of one percent of the affected population to shift energies to what computer scientists might call a “new platform” or physicists would call a “new state”.

 

I will not endeavor to tell the whole story of new energy here.  For easy listening or reading on that fascinating subject, check the Crimson Circle website.  Register for the free “Channel Library” and then tap in to this valuable information. 

 

Before I give examples of access points for new energy, may I remind you that new energy is available free of charge and in unlimited supply for all?  In the new energy realms, the concept of shortage is unknown and in fact does not exist.  “Shortage thinking” is one of the longest standing and strongest old-energy precepts.  It resides near the foundation of both our capitalist system and many of today’s organized religions.  The old-energy maven would say, “There is not enough of this old-energy to go around”.  Then, in unspoken collusion with other old-energy mavens, he tries to create artificial shortages of old-energy supplies whenever he can.  This drives up all old-energy prices and allows the old-energy maven to keep more of the old-energy supply, or money for himself.  The old-energy mavens think little about wrecking the world economy, starting or encouraging regional wars and generally wreaking as much havoc on the world as they can.  During the Vietnam War, there was a cynical, but all too honest appraisal of what was necessary for victory there.  “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”

 

If the old-energy mavens had their way, they would suck, crush, blast or strip every old-energy resource from the Earth before they go.  The only problem with that concept is that the old-energy mavens are the least likely to escape their self-created and incipient ecological Armageddon.  Not known for their lighthearted approach to life, few old-energy souls would dare to dematerialize here or re-materialize on some New Earth.  More likely, they would hunker down and be the last to enjoy their fossil fuels, even as they, the last of the old guard spontaneously revert to a fossil-state themselves.

 

When comparing old-energy to new energy, an interesting fact emerges.  Some humans can bridge the energy gap by taking a leap of faith that there will always be a new and wonderful tomorrow, right here on Earth.  Old energetics will try to hold or pull us back to fear and shortage.  However, those who are able to rapidly access new energy shall just as rapidly break free of their old-energy bonds and habits.

 

New energy is not all about “solar, wind and biomass”.  Those were necessary and once novel approaches to energy production.  Their fatal flaw as “new energies” is that they are connected to the old-energy grid every bit as much as a "belch-fire", like the coal-fired Navajo Generating Station.  For many years, it held the record as the undisputed largest single source of old-energy gas emissions in the Four Corners region.

 

Luckily, new energy is much more whimsical than old-energy, with its connection to ancient conflicts and conundrums.  New energy is everywhere, waiting like Easter eggs to be found by us, the children of the Earth.  New Energy is abundant in water, light and in the air that we breathe.  Only our preconceived notions and fixed belief systems keep us from seeing or feeling that new energy is ubiquitous in Nature.

 

Relatively high rates of old-energy usage are locked into our current Earth-management system.  Here in the U.S., we must admit that old-energy helps us keep warm in the winter and allows us to travel across the landscape in our formerly beloved automobiles.  Because change does not manifest overnight, we shall live with gradually declining remnants of old-energy and old-energy thinking throughout the transition period.

 

Since the Quantum Leap in 2007, the new energies have more frequently shown themselves to me.  If you are an “old-energy reader”, you can stop here, because the balance of this article will not make any sense to you.  For those of you who are more curious than the typical old-energy maven, please read on.

 

Easy Access to New Energy

 

1. Find a quiet place to lay out your yoga mat.  If possible, play some soft instrumental music in the background.  Sit on the mat, preferably facing towards a full-length mirror.  Assume your own personal version of the lotus position.  With your derriere planted firmly on the floor, touch middle fingers to thumb and point your palms to the sky.  Take in a deep breath and then let it out.  From there, breathe normally, but deeply as you go.  Time the duration of your inhalations to match that of your exhalations.  Count quietly or aloud, “One, two, three, four, five” on each inhalation and the same on each exhalation.  Over a period of time, you will intuitively learn to count at the same rate as your heartbeat, thus linking your heart rhythm to your breath rhythm.  We call that “Heart Breathing”, which is one portal into the realm of new energy.
2. As a variation to what you just experienced above, assume your lotus pose, but this time place your palms and fingers together as if in prayer.  The prayer itself is optional.  Still, you might find that just sitting there in that pose and breathing deeply, you will naturally put out a prayer, offering your love to All that Is.  If so, do not be alarmed.  It is just You getting back in touch with your own Divinity.  Recognizing one’s self as part of The Divine is a second and very easy way to access the realms of new energy. 
3. As you sit, be sure to place your hands together, first at your heart, then in front of your face and finally above your head.  Notice how your energetic offering and acceptance changes with the position of your hands.  Raising your hands while in the prayer position symbolizes your own personal offering of love to All that Is.  Alternatively, with palms up, you open yourself to receiving new energy from the universal Source.  Note that new energy actually works in all directions simultaneously.
4. Over many years, I craved for revelation, which I hoped to receive from outside forces of a godly nature.  Imagine how funny it was for me to find that the key to unlocking what some would call “the secrets of the universe” is self-love.  Regardless of your current pose or bodily position, take a few moments and admire your reflection in the mirror that is before you.  Yes, initially it may be hard to look yourself in the eye, if only for the truth that your eyes might reveal.  Sitting quietly, breathe and allow yourself to love that person who shimmers there in front of you.  In so doing, you will discover another portal to new energy and universal love.  
5. For humans, love and intimacy go hand in hand, so give up denial and learn again how to love yourself in all of the ways that you desire.  Now having learned that it is always good to love yourself, take a good meditative look at your life and realize that all of your dreams really do come true.  This is yet another way for humans to open to new energy.
6. As long as you are still sitting on your yoga mat, be sure to stretch your muscles and twist your torso around your spinal column.  In order to prevent injury, use care and proceed slowly.  Yoga is not a “weekend warrior’s” sport.  It takes time, perseverance and a desire to experience progressively more pleasurable emotions and feelings of your physicality, mixed equally with your own spirituality.
7. On the concept of spinal rotation… often the athlete with the best-developed torsional-rotation around his or her spinal column is the most successful in their sport.  Picture a golf professional or perhaps a baseball star as they make their perfect swing.  Only here and now, All that Is asks you to be the star.  When you rotate your spine, you might hear and feel something in there go “pop”.  Traditional theory says that you are realigning your vertebrae and that your body does so with a mechanical “pop”.  In the era of new energy, we are coming to realize that the “pop” is the opening or reopening of our spinal cords to new channels of energy, as received from the universe.  In return for sharing our physicality with a largely non-physical universe, we receive a corresponding update to our DNA.  Think of it as similar to downloading a new operating system to your smart phone.  Suddenly, the whole device works better and you are startled to believe that it is true.  Soon, you accept this increase in functionality as an entitlement.  In the case of the human being, the irony is that you are both the updated device and the one who must judge its new effectiveness.  In a way, it is akin to asking a computer to think for itself. 
8. Either way, if you “Twist again, like you did last summer, twist again like you did last year”, you will take another peek at what is available in the realms of new energy.  Is it any wonder that Chubby Checker introduced “The Twist” dance craze in July 1960.  If you remember the 60s, you know that when people everywhere began to twist, there was change in the world.

 

We could go on and give additional examples about access to new energy, but it is time to try it for yourself.  This is not the stuff of training programs and memorization.  It is personal, powerful and loving in Nature.  All you need is a relatively quiet place, a yoga mat, some free time and a desire to create your own future as you wish it to be.  Remember that new energy is fun, so smile as you contemplate your future, either here or on a New Earth.

 

Happy New Year 2009 to all and to All that Is.

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"They Took Out All The Trees and Put Them in a Tree Museum" - 2008

"They Took Out All The Trees and Put Them in a Tree Museum"

 

On July 21, 2008, a dry lightning storm of unprecedented size and activity swept over much of Northern California, igniting over 1000 separate wildfires throughout the area.  Within two days, the smoke had drifted as far south as Los Angeles and affected air quality throughout the Western U.S.  By July 25, 2008, there were over 12,000 people working to suppress these fires.

 

On July 28, 2008, we headed north from Simi Valley, (home of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library) to Red Bluff, California, a distance of 500 miles.  While descending “The Grapevine” on California Highway 99, we encountered smoky haze far thicker than that we had seen in L.A.  As we transitioned to Interstate I-5 North, the visibility dropped to less than ten miles.  The farther we traveled, the thicker the smoke became, reaching as low as three miles visibility.

 

The following day our eyes were dry and our throats felt like we had smoked cigars all night.  Reaching Medford, Oregon in the afternoon, we discovered that the smoke had preceded us there, as well.  When, we asked, would our lungs get the opportunity to breathe freely?

 

Later that day, we proceeded southwest on U.S. Highway 199, heading back into California, as we traveled.  By early evening, we had reached our destination, Jedediah Smith Redwood State Park.  

 

Jedediah Smith was a mountain man and explorer of what later became known as the Spanish Trail, crossing the Mojave Desert at Needles, California.  On his 1827 trek, before reaching Los Angeles, Jed turned north and explored the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys, both of which we had traveled through just the day before.  Smith’s status as the first white man to explore the Oregon, California border area earned him such immortality as the naming of a state park affords.

 

The Smith River, which is the last major free flowing river in California, bisects the park’s old growth coastal redwood ecosystem.  Almost all of the parkland is watershed for the Smith River and Mill Creek, one of its major tributaries.

 

Upon arriving at the park our first feelings were of relief.  The dense redwood forest limits one’s view, so if there was smoke in the area, we could not see it.  It was a case of “Out of sight, out of mind”, as the saying goes. 

 

Unlike other more arid western forests, a coastal redwood forest retains a great deal of moisture.  Although little rain falls in summer months, fog often envelopes the coastal valleys and river canyons.  Directly absorbing much of that moisture, allow coastal redwoods to grow taller than capillary action alone would allow.  Some of the moisture that is not directly absorbed by the redwoods drips from their branches, thus replenishing the local groundwater.

 

Another factor in our respiratory relief was the effect of photosynthesis, which removes carbon dioxide from the air and replaces it with life giving oxygen.  When one reflects on the sheer mass of plant life in an old growth coastal redwood forest, it becomes obvious that it is a very efficient scrubber of what we call “greenhouse gases” and an equally proficient oxygen generator.

 

According to scientists, the oxygen content of Earth’s atmosphere peaked at around 35%, during the Permo-Carboniferous period.  With current oxygen levels at around 21%, one wonders how much oxygen depletion may have occurred on Earth during our current industrial age.  Although my evidence is anecdotal, the sweet, clean air of this forest elevated our moods and made everything seem all right with the world.

 

Unique to the Northern California coastal strip, these redwoods are a relic of vast forests that covered much of the temperate zones of the U.S. West Coast and Asian East Coast.  As such, they are a living museum of the way life used to flourish on Gaia, our Mother Earth.  Older than any living thing, other than the ancient Bristlecone pines of the White Mountains in Eastern California, the coastal redwoods appeal to us visually through their magnificent size.  Not only among the oldest living things, at up to 378 feet, they may also be the tallest trees on Earth.

 

Although the battle to save the redwoods is not a politically hot topic today, when Ronald Reagan successfully ran for Governor of California in 1966, it was.  Although he did not say, “When you’ve seen one redwood, you’ve seen them all”, he did say, “I mean, if you’ve looked at 100,000 acres or so, of trees – you know, a tree is a tree; how many more do you need to look at”.  In 1967, as governor, he visited an old growth coastal redwood grove and said, “I saw them; there is nothing beautiful about them, just that they are a little higher than the others”. 

 

The king of the conservatives was obviously not the darling of conservationists.  With Reagan’s stubborn refusal to help protect these unique and special trees, loggers felled all but the last three percent of the old growth coastal redwood forests during the balance of his life.  Although his lack of environmental consciousness does not make him a villain, I would like to know what we gained by destroying most of that unique environment, other than some nice looking redwood decks some short-term profit for the forest products industry.

 

As Joni Mitchell sang in the 1970 song, Big Yellow Taxi,

• “They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum. 
• Then they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em. 
• Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you’ve got ‘Til it’s gone?”. 

As it turns out, the coastal redwoods are not all gone and it is free to see these forest giants at Jedediah Smith Redwood State Park.  Its verdant groves are the best place on this Earth that I know to take a deep breathe and feel at peace with All that Is.

 

As it turned out, the coastal redwoods are not all gone and it is free to see these forest giants at Jedediah Smith Redwood State Park.  Its verdant groves are the best place on this Earth that I know to take a deep breathe and feel at peace with All that Is.

 

As a postscript to this article, The Los Angeles Times reported on July 31, 2008 that "the Mendocino Redwood Co. (controlled by the founding family of Gap Inc.) paid more than $550 million to creditors (of Maxxam Inc.) to gain control of 210,000 acres of timberlands in Humboldt County, California and a sawmill owned by (Maxxam's subsidiary) Pacific Lumber, which filed for bankruptcy protection in January 2007".

 

In 2008, the Gap Inc. website declared,  "Our business operations rely on our planet’s natural resources. We believe that our success should not come at the expense of the environment, so we strive to operate in a way that is mindful of long-term environmental sustainability."  

 

Author's Note: By 2015, the above quote had disappeared from the Gap, Inc. website. Has a gap developed between Gap Inc.'s founding family's promise to "walk the walk", or will they simply "talk the talk". 

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