Ascension Made Easy - We Are Already Gone - 2008

 

Ascension Made Easy - We Are Already Gone

In winter, the Southern California Sun shines warm across the land and sea.  Until the next rain, each sunny day seems more beautiful than the previous.  When the Sun is out, our backyard becomes a garden paradise, where we find the keys to fulfillment of our dreams. 

 

Directing one’s own ascension is a simple process.  If you are unfamiliar with the tenets of new energy, the Crimson Circle Channel Library is a good place to start.  Click on the current series to find Geoffrey Hoppe’s latest channelings of Adamus Saint-Germain.

 

Another Source of new energy information is Esther Hicks, channeling a group of non-physical entities called Abraham.  The Teachings of Abraham website is free to all. 

 

“The Daily Motivator”, from Ralph Marston, links to a multimedia slideshow that is focused on new energy.  Six days each week, Ralph publishes a short story of hope and inspiration. A full year's subscription is still only fifteen dollars. 

 

Eckhart Tolle’s classic, “The Power of Now” is a compelling read.  After completing that book, read Tolle’s “A New Earth”.  Although Tolle is human, he writes in The Masters’ voice. 

 

While reading or listening to the voices of Abraham, Marston, Tobias or Tolle, we access an evolving new consciousness.  Is it time for new energy to resonate within each of us? 

 

As human beings, we are artistic in Nature.  As we reach out with our dreams, do they manifest as expected?  That is a trick question, for the answer is always, “Yes”.  If we expect the worst, that is what we will get.  If we halfheartedly believe in our dreams, our hearts create a netherworld, without love or fulfillment.  In that sense, we are the creators of our own destinies. 

 

The artist’s role is to allow the artistic self to flourish in this life.  If we stifle human feelings and desires, our Jungian “Shadow Self” will step forward as the artist.  Law of Attraction tells us that what we think about most, consciously or not, shall manifest.  Not unlike an Ancient Greek carving that shows a snake swallowing its own tail, the protests of an “anti-artist” human become, intrinsically, artistic expression.

 

As children in the 1950s, we heard news that Watson & Crick had parsed out human DNA.  Suddenly, everyone was talking about genes.  As our inner child grew up, we assumed that human DNA was immutable.  Charles Darwin's theory of evolution reinforced what geneticists told us.  At conception, they said, chance ruled the recombination of our parental DNA.  Except for the effects of mutagens, such as radioactivity, scientists said that we would live and die with our selfsame personal genome.

 

Also in the 1950s, scientists told us that the average human utilizes only ten percent of his or her brain.  That pessimistic assessment embarrassed us into thinking that we suffered from deficient minds.  Since we manifest what we think about most, humanity’s acceptance of diminished mental capacity created for us a spiritual glass ceiling.  We started at ten percent brain-function and we expected to die at that same paltry level.

 

Since it takes only three percent of our DNA to constitute a functioning human body, scientists once considered ninety-seven percent of our DNA to be "junk".  Intuitively, it makes no sense that human DNA should waste so much of our genetic makeup.  With Her penchant for economical modeling of life forms, Nature would not carry a load that is 97% junk.  Still, most humans believe that DNA transmutation is as unlikely as increasing our brainpower.

 

Whether or not we choose our parents at conception, we arrived in our current time-space reality with a limited component of expressed DNA.  Group consciousness, which we refer to as “They”, told us that fertilization of the human egg had locked in our DNA before birth.  “They”, however, were ignorant of new energy potentials.  As we raise human consciousness, each of us may express our DNA as desired. 

 

As you read this passage, stop for a moment and gently clasp your hands over your head; then stretch your arms back to the limits of your comfort range.  Did something inside you feel good?  That indescribable feeling coincides with DNA activation, and a sympathetic release of new energy. 

 

Now, take a several deep breaths.  What, if anything, did you feel this time?  Was your incremental release of new energy higher or lower during the second exercise?  If your energy level rose, that demonstrates the optimism with which you face the future.  If your energy diminished, or if you stubbornly refused to breathe, you may still have room to improve your outlook on life. 

 

Our desire is to allow a lifting of our personal energy state.  Each day, we start wherever our point of attraction may be, then quest upward towards optimism, bliss and eternal happiness.  When we are optimistic, the artistic or Shadow Self shall flourish.  If we allow optimism, we realize that better-feeling thoughts are always available to us.  With a little practice, we begin to create patterns in our lives that lead us toward our dreams. 

 

One way to bring about change is by offering gratitude to All that Is.  As our emotions well up, and then effervesce, we open an energy bridge to the universe.  Since our effervescent agent is oxygen, conscious breathing provides fuel for our ascension process.  To access new energy, all that we need do is gently stretch our muscles, sit quietly and then breathe.  As we “still our minds”, our hearts become free to create in unending love for All that Is.  In accordance with the Law of Attraction, the universe reflects the love of All that Is back to us.

 

Whether taking a deep breath or stretching one’s muscles, there are several reasons that we feel our well-being.  Rhythmic breathing, combined with stretching allows our DNA to express itself within our physical, emotional and spiritual bodies.  Our vortex of expressed DNA then opens a portal to higher consciousness. 

 

As we surrender, we allow our DNA to express itself towards our fate or destiny.  Law of Attraction says that our dominant energy state, conscious or not, becomes our point of attraction.  By allowing our DNA to change “at will”, we evolve in support of our most prevalent thoughts.  Once a thought is “thought upon”, it becomes part of the universal library of thought.  The artist’s role is to venture beyond current consciousness, discovering the magic of the "now moment".  When the artist shares that moment, the cycle is complete. 

 

If the number of artists seeking change is equal to, or greater than the square root of one percent of a total population, consciousness will move towards that new mode of thought.  Enlightened thoughts carry with them a higher level of vibrational energy than do “negative thoughts”.  Because of their vibrational signature, only positive or enlightened thoughts express themselves as new energy. 

 

As more humans accept the concept of new energy, desire for positive change leads to ever-faster manifestation.  In September 2007, an energy shift created a Quantum Leap of energy on Earth.  A small number of like minded and optimistic individuals had requested that positive change.  In so doing, their individual and collective energy created a potential for change.  Since all humans are coequal co-creators on Earth, it was appropriate for that small group to lead humanity toward new energy and a New Earth. 

Watson and Crick gave us the language of DNA, with its tri-nucleotide codons, designated by the letters AGCT.  In so doing, they helped open a new field of human research.  The past fifty years of genetic science coincided with a spiritual reawakening on Earth.  On many subjects, scientific experimentation and spiritual thought converged.  Self-activation of DNA became possible for the first time since the fall of Atlantis.  No longer were we restricted to our birth-complement of DNA.  Through conscious thought, we may now experience evolution in this lifetime.

 

As we saw with the 2007 Quantum Leap, even a miniscule sample of a given population can precipitate a population-wide shift in consciousness.  Belief in the transmutability of DNA has proceeded beyond the tipping-point, thus allowing a shift in human consciousness.  As “They” say, this free-DNA information will soon become common knowledge. 

 

Credits: Sacred Geometry images are from the Sacred Geometry Oracle Deck, by artist Francene Hart.  Celestial Images are from the Astronomy Picture of The Day website.  All other photographs are by the author. 

 

This is Part 2 of the Theory of Everything. Return to Part 1 or go forward to Part 3 of this four-part story.

 

In Love, light and Life.

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Visit Atlantis During The Fall - 2008

 

Visit Atlantis During The Fall

Before we begin, there is time for each of us to take a deep breath, so please do so.

 

Did you find yourself consciously breathing, as we requested?  If so, please read on, as there may be something of interest here for you.  If not, we suggest that you move to another topic, as this information may not be timely.

 

Is it a cliché to say that we live in a time of change?  In the 1960s, young people embraced the concept of change.  With their sheer force of numbers, the baby boomers expected change.  One by one, the boomers’ heroes and leaders departed, leaving us on our own for almost forty years. 

 

Picture, if you will, a curved “energy bridge”, stretching from the 1960s to the present day.  In our imagination, the bridge looks something like Rainbow Natural Bridge, in Southeastern Utah.  If we could convert energy into an arch of solid stone, the flow pattern would follow a similar curve.  With our bridge, the complimentary curve of energy hidden beneath the Earth’s surface is its “shadow”.  As the human mind joins both halves of the energy bridge, a fossilized torus appears, half-buried in the Earth. 

 

Do extraterrestrials arrive on Earth in UFOs?  Advanced, high-vibrational entities visiting Earth for the first time would more likely arrive here as energy objects, spilling from one dimension into another.  Why waste the time to manifest as physical entities, except to let humanity know that they are here? 

 

For most humans, seeing is the first step toward believing.  In times of need, the universe sends comets, asteroids, meteoroids and even human-made satellite parts to Earth.  For example, as the Moon set in the predawn sky on February 23, 2009, it formed a remarkable conjunction with Mercury, Jupiter and Mars.  The next night, Saturn and Comet Lulin converged in the constellation Leo, separated by only two degrees of arc.  At the same time that Comet Lulin made its closest approach to Earth (38 million miles), four of Saturn's moons transited the disk of the ringed planet. 

 

On March 2, 2009, newly discovered Asteroid 2009 DD45 came to within 72,000 km of Earth.  That is only twice the height of a geostationary communications satellite.  The asteroid measured 30 to 40 meters across, similar in size to the Tunguska impactor of 1908.  When The Ancients spoke about “seeing the light”, the light always shone from above, enlightening any seers gazing up from Earth.

 

When such celestial events occur in rapid succession, fearful humans often refer to end-of-days scenarios.  They believe that a wrathful God is about to put an end to the experimental greenhouse known as Earth.  A cataclysmic end may indeed be waiting for them, but such an outcome is not preordained for all of humanity.  If some wish to redeploy their spirits in a blaze of glory, such a fate is theirs to choose.  All we ask is that they depart on their own, rather than demanding that we go with them.  For reasons related to Law of Attraction, a relative few will choose to go.  Watch your local TV news for details regarding unconscious humans trying to kill both themselves and those they once called "loved ones". 

 

Returning to our stone arch torus, we see that it represents the energy signature of an ancient comet, half-buried in the surface of the Earth.  In the time of Atlantis, requests of critical importance emanated from humans on Earth.  Both then and Now, human consciousness asked for help with the future viability of terrestrial life.  As Atlantis teetered on the brink, cometary visitations coincided with a shift in human consciousness.

 

Intuition tells us that in the time of Atlantis, human-made changes threatened Gaia, our Mother Earth.  In the run-up to the demise of Atlantis, there were earthquakes, fires, famine and finally, a great flood.  The Atlantean elite, unchecked by the overall population, influenced or precipitated each of those calamities. 

 

Acting in a way that defined the word “hubris”, the elite believed that they controlled both their own destiny and the destiny of the Earth.  As they expanded their powers, Atlantian-elite belief systems challenged Gaia’s role as protector, nurturer and spiritual mother to all life on Earth.  Neglecting their feelings in favor of their overdeveloped brainpower, the smug, self-righteous elite believed that they controlled Source Energy.

 

If Galileo’s telescope had then existed, Atlantians could have seen that both Venus and Mars had once exhibited thriving physical life forms.  As the elite attempted to disrupt or re-channel energy flow on Earth, they remained ignorant of earlier cataclysms on both Mars and Venus. 

 

The sheer terror emanating from Atlantis at its time of destruction created an enduring, humanity-wide amnesia.  The Earth itself survived, but the exercise of unbridled power had destroyed Atlantis, then the world’s most advanced civilization. 

 

As the veil between dimensions now thins, we see that current human activities again risk the destruction of life on Earth.  Will our consciousness allow us to learn a lesson from what science tells us is a mythical Atlantis?  In this lifetime, most of us will participate in and witness the answer to that question.

 

Although energy has shifted and consciousness has evolved since the days of Atlantis, humans still tend toward self-delusion.  If the ongoing burning of fossil fuels will destroy our reproductive viability, why do we still discuss our choices in terms of least-cost analysis?  As the Atlantians discovered, there is only one measure of cost, and that is the cost of our human lives.

 

Today, most humans see money as both their security and their salvation.  In their unrelenting quest for more, humans injure all life on Earth.  Students of Earth sciences believe that the planet may now be at the tipping-point of its viability. 

 

Until quite recently, biodiversity mattered little to humankind.  As long as we could dominate all other species, we thought that we were safe.  Has the real endgame yet begun?  Most Atlantians believed that they too were in their halcyon days.  Their lust for power over all dominions precipitated surges of energy like none ever seen, before or after that time.  As energy bridges disintegrated under the strain, terrestrial events took over and destroyed Atlantis, casting its remnants asunder.

 

Near the end, a few Atlantians offered Gaia a heartfelt cry of love.  In response to those poignant yearning, comets rained down upon the Earth, carrying within their ethereal bodies both new water and new life forms.  Gaia engulfed Atlantis, subducting it and composting it into the very fossil fuels we now burn.  The scant amount of human genetic material that survived the flood was scattered to other parts of the world.

 

The deluge of Atlantis is a classic case of new energy arriving on Earth encapsulated in life-giving water.  Until then, the land area and the ocean's surface area were nearly equal in size.  After the cometary deluge, water covered most of the Earth’s surface, including much of Pangaea, where Atlantis once stood.  Today, time and the Atlantic Ocean hide any trace of its earlier namesake, Atlantis.  After the breakup of Pangaea, entire continents floated away on beds of magma, creating what we now call the seven seas.

 

As recently as the 1960s, scientists distrusted the concept of Plate Tectonics.  They clung to their beliefs, despite the fact that any school child could see that the landforms on either side of the Atlantic fit together like puzzle pieces.  Such an anomaly was mere coincidence, most scientists said.  Helping to perpetuate humankind’s collective amnesia, scientists again reminded us that Atlantis was myth, not history. 

 

In the twentieth century, humanity asked for resolution to the riddle of Atlantis and its connection, if any, to the newly discovered Mid-Atlantic Rift.  The rift is a geological feature, running north and south along the “separation zone”, between Old and New World plates.  It is also the child’s intuitive line of demarcation between the same landmasses. 

 

Answers regarding the origin of the rift and its activities came only after deployment of the underwater magnetometer; an electronic instrument that measures magnetic fields within the mantle of the Earth.  When the magnetometer matched energy-flow patterns embedded in rocks on both shores of the South Atlantic, it proved that Africa and South America shared a common heritage.  Thereafter, the concept of Plate Tectonics quickly achieved scientific acceptance.

 

At an intuitive level, a solution to the riddle of Atlantis came me.  Energy bridges may stand in counterpoint to human perception of linear time.  In early 2009, researchers found human-like footprints in Africa that are 1.5 million years old.  Stone tools from the Ethiopian Rift Valley date early human presence to 195,000 years ago.  What accounts for the 1.3 million year gap between those first stone tools and the earlier human-like footprints? 

 

During that hiatus, Atlantis disappeared, along with most other traces of ancient human activity.  After its cataclysmic destruction, Atlantis left no visible trace on Earth.  In their attempt to control Gaia, Atlantians precipitated energy surges that hastened the breakup of super-continent Pangaea.  Since the Earth’s crust is continuously recycled back into the mantle through a widening Mid-Atlantic Rift and a corresponding subduction zone in the Pacific Ocean, the energy fluxes at breakup accelerated Earth's natural recycling process. 

 

As Atlantis quickly slipped beneath the waves, the elite clung to their precious objects, in the vain hope that their rarity could buy salvation.  Holding their gold in a rising sea turned out not to be a fruitful path toward ascension.  To this day, Atlantis often feels far from our reach.  Because evidence of Atlantis is scarce and often contradictory, we treat the subject as a fable, similar to the concept of intelligent life on Venus or Mars.  Group consciousness claims that all three were false.  New consciousness knows that all three were real.

 

When Atlantis dematerialized, the Earth did not disappear along with it.  Through a process that Charles Darwin later identified as natural selection, a relative few Atlantians survived.  Taking advantage of an unprecedented influx of new energy, the survivors evolved in situ.  Since there was little time before the final sinking of Atlantis, only the more evolved individuals could adjust their DNA quickly enough to avoid physical drowning in the sea. 

 

Those, with sufficiently evolved ascension energies possessed equal measure of physical and non-physical traits.  With no apparent gap in their 3D time-space reality, they dematerialized in Atlantis, only to re-materialize in Ancient Egypt, the Himalayas, the Indus Valley and Mesoamerica, among other places.  Perhaps because of their unexpected and inexplicable materialization, they gained recognition as “The Masters”.

 

Why did The Masters survive the deluge of Atlantis, when the elite did not?  In Atlantis, The Masters had led humanity’s cry for salvation, and in so doing, they attracted new energy to Earth.  Their mastery was unique in human experience; slipping away from Earth’s time-space reality, and then rematerializing elsewhere.  The arriving comets opened energy bridges to their chosen destinations.  Large doses of new energy infused their beings, allowing them to become role models for humanity.  The visible arc of their cometary benefactors led to their other moniker, The Archangels. 

 

The Masters arrived in their new cultures manifest in what the Abrahamic Religions call an angelic state of being.  As such, their enlightened spirits outshone their physical forms.  In order to integrate with their new societies, The Masters quickly shed most of their non-physical attributes.  As generations passed, humanity forgot that a large part of its genetic makeup expressed itself as non-physical energy.

 

Within an energy bridge, there are no physical impediments or time limits.  For example, consciousness from the 1960s finds its way to our present day, manifesting as new energy.  Likewise, new energy found its way from Atlantis to Ancient Egypt.  As we approach another crossroads for humanity, we call upon the Masters in each of us.  As descendents of the original Masters, our human DNA still contains the code for inter-dimensionality, time travel and the full expression of our souls. 

 

Beware of any “Master” who wishes to sell you a new belief system.  If your salvation costs money, you are dealing with a commercial religion, set up to arbitrate the relationship between you and Source.  As we know, there is no separation between you and Source, so association with such a group will not guarantee ascension or salvation.

 

It is not that new energy and money are anathema.  In fact, new energy can spawn an abundance of ideas, any one of which could “make money” while simultaneously serving All that Is.  Although cash may change hands in the process, it does so as a two-way gift, honoring both buyer and seller.

 

As humanity creates new consciousness, we spontaneously emit requests for divine inspiration.  As descendents of The Masters, we are inheritors of the ability to disassociate from the time-space continuum.  In order to discover our own potential, all we need do is to formulate, then ask our questions.  The poignancy of our questions determines how strongly they will lead toward manifestation.  Through this process, we shall receive necessary guidance to live, love and prosper on Earth. 

 

Credits: Sacred Geometry images are from the Sacred Geometry Oracle Deck, by artist Francene Hart.  Celestial Images are from the Astronomy Picture of The Day website.  All other photographs are by the author.

 

This is Part 1 of the Theory of Everything. Read Part 2 of this four-part story.

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Moab Airport - Canyonlands Field, Moab, Utah - 2008

 

Moab Airport - Best Little Airport in the Four Corners

While visiting Moab, Utah in September 2008 I had many great experiences.  One of the best was a visit to Canyonlands Field, better known as the Moab Airport. That the regional airport serves Moab and all of Southeastern Utah.  With its internationally assigned airport code of “CNY”, one might think it was the “City of New York” airport, but the acronym is equally descriptive of CaNYonlands.  The more logical “CAN” designation disappeared early on to the Baiyun Airport in Guangzhou, PR China.  Does the acronym “CAN” stand for “Canton”?

 

Regardless of its moniker, CNY is a rare hybrid airport, serving both general and commercial aviation on the same field.  As long as there is no commercial flight in the vicinity, citizens may visit the hangers and the open tie-down area.  Throughout normal business hours, the terminal is open to all.

 

On the day I visited, I met first with my friend and Great Lakes Airlines employee, Ms. Tiger Keogh.  Great Lakes Airlines holds the contract for daily passenger service both “To” and “From” Denver, Colorado.  Because of CNY’s relatively low passenger volume, Tiger and her counterparts must wear several hats.

 

That day, I found Tiger checking in two passengers who were heading for the Upper Midwest.  Once they received their tickets, they proceeded to the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) area, where they received a security screening identical to what one finds in larger airports.

 

Mr. Terry Carlson, Manager for TSA at Moab told me that with the help of a federal government grant, his department operates a full security screening facility in Moab.  If every “earmark” that the U.S. Congress passed was as worthy as this one, it might restore our faith in government.  Terry went on to say that if you check in through TSA at Canyonlands Field, you can fly from Moab, through Denver and on to destinations that are as far away as Dusseldorf, Germany, all without any further security screening.

Next, Terry offered me a walking tour of the airfield, including a close-up look at the airplanes parked on the tarmac.  As soon as we walked on to the field, I spotted a bright red and white Cessna 182, parked in the front row.  Beyond its eye-dazzling paint job, there was something different about this Cessna 182.  With its high stance and longer wings, I would say, “it had attitude”.

 

Standing beneath the wing of this beautiful aircraft was its engineer, manufacturer and owner, Todd Peterson.  Todd is a principal at Peterson’s Performance Plus, based in El Dorado, Kansas, not far from Cessna’s home in Wichita, Kansas.  You can read all about Todd’s company at the company website.  Todd has experience as both a back country pilot and an aeronautical engineer.  This rare combination of experience allows him to create unique and functional “off-road airplanes”.

 

Southwestern Utah is peppered with old airstrips, most of which date back to the uranium boom of the 1950s.  When prospecting and mining folded in the late 1950s, so too did maintenance on most of these airstrips.  Today these fields often receive their maintenance from volunteers, if there is any at all.  With the area’s extreme variability of wind, weather and terrain, it takes a plane as capable as Todd Peterson’s King Katmai 300 SE/STOL to utilize these fields. 

 

When we expressed interest, Todd offered to take Terry and me on a guided tour of his exceptional aircraft.  As you might expect Todd’s personal plane is an experimental model, featuring a 300 horsepower turbocharged engine.  As Todd spoke, I realized that this red and white beauty looked brand new.

 

Todd’s version of alchemy is to take a small airplane originally manufactured thirty years ago, and then completely transform it.  The result is an aircraft featuring safety and performance that were unimagined in the past.  To do this, Todd and his team start with the best airframes available, and then accomplish a complete “frame-up” restoration.  A peek through the open door to the instrument panel shows that the panel and all of its components are brand new.  The details include Katmai’s trademark bear paw logo in the center of the wheel.

 

Since continued use is all that keeps some remote airstrips open, strong landing gear is essential for “ironing out the rough spots”.  In the late spring, it is common to make a final approach on a one-way airfield, only to find tumbleweeds encroaching on to the edges of the airstrip. 

 

A look at the Katmai’s main landing gear strut shows how “beefy” it is, when compared to original equipment.  The stainless steel leading edge acts as a brush-cutter, should errant foliage make its way on to a landing strip.  To create an extra safety margin on rough fields, the King Katmai also features oversized balloon tires, designed for rocky or rough terrain.   

 

In order to create additional lift and increased airworthiness on short fields and hot days, the King Katmai features beautifully integrated wing-extensions.  The extra wing surface and their flared tips help to create a slower stall speed and greater overall lifting capacity. 

 

Up front, the King Katmai sports two airfoils known as canards.  Sprouting from the belt-line of the engine cowling, these mini-wings add lift at the front of the plane, where one often needs it most.  By adjusting the canards’ angle of attack, the pilot can trim the plane for slow speeds and level flight, thus providing better forward-vision during a landing approach.

 

After our visit, Todd graciously offered me a DVD, which shows takeoffs and landings at many remote airstrips in Southeastern Utah.  For a novice flier, an airstrip with a steep drop-off or a cliff-face at the end of the runway might seem daunting.  For Todd, it is all in an afternoon’s fun. 

 

Utilizing a dashboard-mounted camera, the viewer sees exactly what the pilot sees as he maneuvers the airplane.  Todd offers live narration on approach, landing and takeoff at each field.  If there is a nearby archeological point of interest, Todd takes you on a tour of that, as well.  On his website, both the Utah DVD and a new Idaho DVD are for sale at a reasonable price.

 

For most Americans, the archetype of a bush pilot is a man flying a float-plane, somewhere in the wilds of Alaska.  Now there is a new breed, using wheeled aircraft to access remote and exotic sites.  Although the price tag for this back country access by air is not low, an expenditure of less than $400,000 gives any intrepid pilot the best “off-road airplane” in the sky. 

 

Immediately, my daydreams went to a seldom-seen airstrip in Canyonlands.  There, the love of my life sits to my left and my King Katmai sits a little farther away to my right.  Alone together, my love and I toast the sunset with chilled champagne in crystal.  After dinner fresh from our grill, we stop to view the night sky, and then retire to our tent.  Our accommodations include a queen-sized airbed, with luxury bedding.  There is a hot water, enclosed shower just outside our door. 

 

Respecting the peace and quiet of our unique campground, we use battery power for lights and refrigeration.  With the huge cargo carrying capacity of our King Katmai, we can “pack in” almost anything that we want and still not exceed our aircraft’s safety margins.  Before turning in, we plan a day hike up an untracked canyon.  To keep the terrain untracked, we will use its dry stream bed as our trail.  When the planning is done, we slip between clean sheets and dream about this little adventure that we are living.  What is it that “they” say?  “If you can dream it, you can do it”.

 

As I returned from my reverie, activities picked up elsewhere at CNY.  The afternoon flight from Denver was about to arrive.  When a commercial aircraft is approaching, the public must leave the field.  Thus I missed getting a picture of Tiger out on the tarmac, as she provided ground and parking control for the pressurized sixteen-passenger, twin-engine turboprop. 

 

In 2007, I had flown from Moab to Burbank, California.  In order to do so, I first flew on a smaller turboprop to Salt Lake City, Utah, then another flight to Phoenix, Arizona and then a final flight to Burbank.  At the time, the only way to fly to Denver was first to drive ninety miles to Grand Junction, Colorado and then take a flight from there.  Last year, it took me over eight hours to reach my destination.  Since then, Moab’s air service has markedly improved. 

 

Great Lakes Airlines, a well-recognized regional carrier, with an excellent safety and maintenance record, took over the Moab scheduled-service contract in 2008.  The new twice-a-day flights to Denver improve convenience, since Denver is the largest hub in the Mountain West Region.  The Moab to Denver service allows one-stop service to Burbank and many other regional airports. 

 

Additionally, each Great Lakes Airlines flight out of Moab Airport shares flight codes with the regional carrier, Frontier Airlines and with United Airlines, which is the largest carrier serving Denver International Airport.  This new service is another great example of U.S. federal grant money going for the public good.  Now, Moab and the fast-growing Southeastern Utah area can enjoy the highest quality service and security available, right there at Canyonlands Field, just a few miles north of town”.

 

On that September afternoon, the Great Lakes Airlines Pilot finished his post-flight checklist and then came out to enjoy the fresh air at Canyonlands Field.  Having helped remove the checked baggage from the plane, Tiger could once again go inside and resume her ticket counter duties.  Ever vigilant, one of Terry Carlson’s TSA staff members entered the airliner cabin to conduct a routine check.  At the same time, Tiger’s smile tells us how much she enjoys her job.

 

Tiger, a native of Moab, grew up believing that a woman could do any job, if given the opportunity.  These days Tiger works four days each week in downtown Moab, where she handles administrative duties for Cloudrock.  Author's Note - Cloudrock was a luxury residential development that received first-phase approval by Grand County, Utah in 2008.  Located at  Johnson’s Up-On-Top Mesa the company pledged to respect the environment as it developed $million homes, almost in the shadows of the La Sal Mountains. With the economy for luxury second homes drying up like the aquifer it might someday straddle, Cloudrock closed their website and their office on Main Street, Moab, Utah in early 2010. 

 

As a break from the land development business, one day each week Tiger enjoys the physical and intellectual challenge of balancing ticket agent, ground crew and baggage-handling duties for Great Lakes Airlines.

 

After my visit to Canyonlands Field that day, I had to tell the world that this is one of America’s great places.  If you think that all government projects are a waste of money, come to Canyonlands Field and experience the excellent services available to Moab residents and visitors alike.  Now that more corporate executives and government officials will be “flying coach” to their second homes or vacations in Moab, we are sure that they too will appreciate the new amenities.  Rather than driving to Moab the next time I visit, I plan to fly.

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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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Navajo National Monument - Harmony With the Natural World - 2008

The Magic Gate - Part 5

Living in Harmony With the Natural World

 

Navajo National Monument

 

In Northeastern Arizona, fifty miles south of Kayenta, we stopped at the lightly visited Navajo National Monument.  Even today, with the lure of free camping, it rarely draws a crowd.  Leaving Highway 160 during our 1965 visit, we encountered a newly paved road covering the thirteen miles to the monument.  Like most National Park Service (NPS) roads of the era, the engineers designed it for minimum impact on its environment and for speeds of less than forty-five miles per hour.  Upon arrival at the monument, we found a new visitors’ center and a campground with about thirty spaces.  The older, more rustic campground remained unimproved.

 

Navajo National Monument is a misnomer, honoring the fact that early Anglo-American visitors associated its ruins with the Navajo Nation, within which its boundaries lie.  Craig Childs, in his 2007 book, House of Rain, identifies the area’s early occupants as the “Kayenta Anasazi”.  By 1300 CE, after only fifty years of occupation, the Kayenta Anasazi abandoned these, among the last of their alcove dwelling sites.  Thus, the monument’s Betatakin and Keet Seel ruins rank with Mesa Verde and Hovenweep as the last redoubts of a vanished culture.  The spring-fed, relict forests in the monument’s canyons attest to the relatively recent drying of a once abundant environment.

 

In 2008, I again visited Navajo National Monument.  While camped there, I reflected on Edward Abbey’s words about the place, as written in, Desert Solitaire.  At the time, Abbey decried what he identified as the destruction of primitive areas throughout the Southwest.  This he blamed on the U.S. Department of the Interior, which had opened many new areas to automotive visitation.  Here are his words:

 

“Navajo National Monument.  A small, fragile, hidden place containing two of the most beautiful cliff dwellings in the Southwest – Keet Seel and Betatakin.  This park will be difficult to protect under heavy visitation, and for years it was understood that it would be preserved in a primitive way so as to screen out those tourists unwilling to drive their cars over some twenty miles of dirt road.  No longer so: the road has been paved, the campground enlarged and modernized and the old magic destroyed.”

 

Times change, people change, but after his death in 1989 at age 62, Abbey's consciousness on earth evolved no further.  Abbey was both a naturalist and a sometimes naturist.  His gift was an ability to describe for his readers the natural wonders of America’s deserts and the Colorado River.  As a self-proclaimed anarchist, he waxed poetic in his fight with the federal government, which he saw as either disinterested or incapable of conserving those unique and unspoiled natural resources. 

 

Although his only documented anarchistic act was to pull up some road survey stakes at Arches, Edward Abbey often receives credit for inspiring such troglodytic and destructive groups as the Earth Liberation Front.  The counterculture energies of the 1960s coalesced around protest, as exemplified by the movement against the Vietnam War and “tree-spikers” in the Northern California Redwoods.  It was an age of “pushing against”, whose legacy is with us still.  Our “wars” on poverty, terror, drugs and teenage pregnancy are but a few examples of our vain attempts to fight against that which is intangible.

 

That morning, I sat quietly in the campground that Abbey decried as a modern abomination.  There, I opened a channel to Abbey’s non-physical consciousness.  Feeling that angst and anger at the time of his death may have trapped him in the near-earth realms, I asked his spirit to accompany me on a tour of the area.  Although there was no verbal or visual communication between us, I like to think that I allowed his spirit to see Navajo National Monument as I knew and loved it.

 

Bypassing the visitors’ center, we walked along the pathway towards the Betatakin (ledge house) Ruin, about a mile away.  In an attempt to protect these fragile alcove dwellings, the NPS placed its only Betatakin viewpoint on the rim of the canyon opposite the ruins.  If you visit, remember to take your field glasses.  Since Betatakin’s natural amphitheater amplifies sound energy, signs admonish visitors not to make loud noises.  As with the Walls of Jericho, a single loud noise could weaken or destroy this well-preserved pre-Puebloan settlement.

 

Returning on foot to Abbey’s despised campground, we found its thirty spaces artfully sited near the western edge of Sunset Mesa.  From its 7500-foot elevation, the terrain falls away gently for fifty miles, all the way to Lake Powell, Arizona.  The aptly named Sunset Campground provides among the longest views in the Four Corners.

 

Even today, the campsites accommodate rigs no longer than thirty feet, so the larger RVs must go elsewhere.  Tap water is available, but there is no store, public shower or RV sanitary dump.  During his two summers at the old Arches National Monument, Abbey lived in a thirty-foot house trailer.  I smiled in disbelief that his spirit might wish to deny others a brief but similar physical experience in this beautiful place.

 

Later, as I drove away from Navajo National Monument, I reflected on the term “arrested decay”, coined to describe preservation activities at Bodie, a ghost town in California.  By limiting direct access to these sites, the NPS has done what it can to arrest the decay of ruins at Navajo National Monument.  From its visitors’ center to the roads, trails and campground, the NPS seems to have listened to Edward Abbey’s spirit.  After its 1960s improvements, the monument has changed very little over the past forty-five years.

 

As I departed Navajo National Monument, I found myself in agreement with Abbey on one thing.  Despite its supposed ruination in his time, I hoped that this serene and beautiful place would enjoy its current state of arrested decay long into the future.  Thank you, Edward Abbey for the true spirit of your work

 

The Magic Gate

 

In 1965, after two weeks in the Four Corners, my father and I again crossed through the magic gate, represented by the Santa Fe Railroad grade crossing at Flagstaff.  From there, we retraced our route back to Los Angeles.  After returning home, I entered my senior year in high school, then on to college and work life.  For the next forty years, as did our old snapshots, memories of the Four Corners faded from my mind.

 

Each year since 2004, I have made it a point to travel and live for a time somewhere in the Four Corners.  While writing this personal history at my home, near Los Angeles, I could feel the Four Corners calling to me.  Three months from now, I shall pack my belongings and enter again through the magic gate to what some call Indian Country and others call the Four Corners.

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