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Strangeness Within the Shift - It's OK to Not Always Feel OK!

Wednesday, 09 May 2012 16:49 |

Written by Quirin |

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Now that I am becoming able to more consistently feel better health-wise, I am fully experiencing a good deal of strangeness these days. I have been hearing a lot of people talk about these sorts of feelings here lately, and I think it is good to talk about it when we find we are seemingly sharing these same sorts of experiences. Seems to help some of us to know we are not all nutso - or, at the very least, it helps us to feel better about being in good company if we are. ;) haha

Anyway, time has truly become utterly meaningless to me, other than the ways I have to apply it in the physical world (appointments, mostly). And I find that my normally mental self (stop laughing) is becoming more and more reliant on how it FEELS - shifting into a primarily subtle-feeling-tone real-time connection to the flows of energy around me, instead of ANALYZING them in my MIND and making a post determination of what it all means. I am feeling very free-form and 'otherworldly' pretty much consistently, even amidst and amongst all the mundane tasks I must perform every day. While the living of the life seems the 'same' in many of its activities, in other ways it seems completely shifted to something else entirely. Something somehow more refined and more focused towards a meaningfuless. Everything has simply become 'MORE'.(Would like to interject here that there are some of my teachers that would throw out that I am having the usual issues with Grounding, and that's what these feelings are being derived from - but this is not at all that disconnected sort of feeling, and it is there no matter HOW much I do grounding techniques to assist myself in the usual airy-tendency my Gemini self trends towards... Just do not think that is it. And it is persistent in its effects...)

I am opening to growing into new (for me, anyway) concepts more easily than I was finding before. I an feeling decidedly UNTETHERED - not truly tied into anything in particular, really sort of in a transition state between 'this is what reality is' and 'this is what reality COULD be'. Quitting smoking has bolstered some deeply needed recognition of the ABILITY to change, and I have even begun trying to shift our family diet a little to reflect things I am feeling about my own personal health and how we can even slightly shift things to the better in these relatively minor respects that have huge impact on end results. I am also suddenly more keenly aware of how things 'appear' or 'seem' or 'feel' in the physical world - often very intense and 'enhanced' from how I was feeling them before... colors, aromas, sensations and nuances of all sorts. I sometimes find myself within a profound sense of connectiveness, while even still just doing something as 'normal' as laundry or grocery shopping. I don't need to create a sacred space or experience to feel the flows of creative Force around and within me. Everything just seems more "ON" in so many respects.

While some of this I can most definitely say comes from within my own personal subjective experiences as I shift things materially for myself on the inner and outer planes of my own life, I can also say that as a watcher of the environment in-and-amongst my spiritually conscious friends, I can see it as a trend of sorts. I see MANY people having these increased senses of connection and flow and sensitivity - even amongst the 'uninitiated' and perviously-perceived utterly UNCONSCIOUS. I am delighted to witness it in others and to experience it for myself. It is a sign that things are materially and ACTUALLY changing IN THE WORLD - from within and from without our personal experiences. And it shows that we are slowly taking on the properties of that shiftshiftshift for which we have so long awaited and towards which we have worked so hard in achieving, individually and together.

In the midst of all this wonderful change for the better in the ways we are interfacing and thus interacting in our world, there is great turmoil and chaos in the process for many. The two definitely go hand in hand in many, many cases. While in some instances it seems that the confusion may make some modicum of sense and we can perceive some small sense of purpose in it, even those who have consciously walked the Awakened Path for many years are finding themselves confounded and demoralized in some moments. SO IMPORTANT in these times to maintain our connections to one another for support, because we are ALL going through it - redefining, realigning, shiftingshiftingshifting. When we keep our connectiions strong and clear and ACTIVE, we are more able to weather these parts of the experience with more grace and less suffering just through the sheer understanding that it is a NORMAL part of the ongoing process.

The process is happening within us (physically altering our chemistry and neural pathways and a host of other actual physical constructs within our beings) as well as in the world around us (energetically shifting the subtle nature of the very fabric of our reality and how we operate within it). There are BOUND to be times of difficulty as we adjust - or are adjusted - or have things adjusted around or within us. The process itself can be VERY uncomfortable, and that's OK!

Every single step we take on the road to Becoming is into new terrirtory. If we learn to expect that the terrain is SUPPOSED to feel strange and kind of bizarre at first, maybe we can explore with excitement instead of trepidation and we will lessen our anxiety over the actual experience itself! Embrace the new sensations that occur - they are the signs of growth for which we have so long been preparing. Whereas the old paradigm proclaimed 'There is nothing new under the sun', I am of an intense belief that we are in the process of watching everything become new under the sun. :)

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It's a Mad, Bad, Sad, Glad World

Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:29 |

Written by Quirin |

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While the brain is still functional (and God only knows how long that will be in any given day here recently with this illness – hop, skip and a jump away from giving in to the antibiotics I so desperately try to avoid...), I have an issue that has been driving me mildly insane over the last few days of thought about it, and though I know you are almost ALL going to disagree with me, I have to release it into the aethers, nonetheless.

OK. So it took me a long time to REALLY notice this, but once I did it became the prevalent theme around me. It appears to me that hardly anyone else really DOES notice it, and when they do they just try to avoid the subject. I find this utterly flabbergasting – and totally disturbing. So I am going to tell you what I have seen and you can tell me if you can understand it or not. Or, you can argue with me, as I suspect some will feel the desperate need to do.

Whereas I completely understand the ‘power of positive thinking’, I am not one whit less than thoroughly blown away by the idea that suddenly we are not ALLOWED any other emotion or expression. While I fully comprehend that sitting around doing nothing but bitching about our lives will do nothing but drag us – and everyone around us – down, I am also of a mind that the outright repression of TRUE feelings is not ever what Spirit truly intended.

I have read a great deal of spiritual material over my lifetime. Some of it fairly esoteric in nature. When you read a large volume of any one subject, you begin to see patterns within it. The pattern *I* have observed is that we are supposed to be AUTHENTIC, REAL, HONEST and TRUE. In fact, I do not see a prevalent trend towards, “Don’t ever feel anything bad – and if you do, for God’s sake don’t let anyone KNOW about it!” until much more recently. And then – it is an EXPLOSION of this foolishness.

God I hate when people take a perfectly good concept and turn it into practically the useless opposite of what it was meant to be in the first place. And especially here in America, we do it ALL the freaking time.

Remember soy? Soy came here as an ethnic food – from the Asian countries, mostly. And everyone jumped on the soy train – tofu, soy drinks, soy candles, soy supplements, soy, soy, soy – because it was claimed that it helped promote our health in various ways. Americans are so stupid. “It makes me healthier. I will eat a TON of it.” And now, there are supposedly UNHEALTHY conditions that have been borne of consuming TOO MUCH.

Idiots.

And it is just like that with everything. Someone said (actually a LONG time ago) that positive thinking would change our lives for the better. Now what do we have (mostly created on the North American continent)? The TOTAL disallowance of ANY OTHER THOUGHT. There are whole groups of people who will, at the very least, frown down sternly upon you if you DARE to entertain the slightest of negative thoughts. And Heaven FORBID you allow yourself to actually SPEAK them. Hell, in some circles, that is pretty much a punishable offense. Often the punishment is being ostracized. After all, that’s the spiritual thing to do, right?

What is the MATTER with people? I really and truly hate this Pollyanna view of existence. Just because you refuse to look at the filthy, starving, miserable child at the side of the road doesn’t mean you made something better for him. You didn’t obliterate his existence (and make your world all fluffy bunnies and unicorns with rainbows coming out their butts) because you chose to IGNORE him. And frankly, it makes me question your levels of Humanity and Compassion – both part of the BASIC tool set for even BEING here, if you mean to be ANY sort of Conscious being.

We are not here to THINK and WISH the ‘bad’ away. We are here to understand the tools of this space and to use them intelligently to achieve what we mean to achieve. AND, if we wish to actually participate within the environment in which we find ourselves, it would behoove us to freaking PAY ATTENTION TO IT. What work are you DOING if all you are doing is floating around in LaLa Land? Really, the work needs to be done HERE, in REALITY – where the MESS is.

To do anything else is to be in denial. FATAL denial.

The general consensus amongst TOO many who claim to be walking the spiritual path is that the Ascension means that we are just going to wake up one day and everything is going to be perfectly hunk-dory, perfectly to our liking, and we will never have another unhappy thought or feeling for all of Eternity. REALLY? Sounds like the ((YAWN)) oh-so-terribly-boring concept of Heaven that most people seem to hold.

GOD. If I die and go to a place where there is nothing to DO, PLEASE let me DIE AGAIN.

You know, even throughout esoteric material that describes the other planes of existence, there is still work and striving (and strife!), disagreement and working through unhappiness. There is even still EVIL (whatever the heck it is one can define THAT as) on other levels of existence. There are still relationships that require effort to maintain, there are still responsibilities that need to be attended to (MORE, in fact!), and there are still – get ready for it, you might want to sit down – IMPERFECTIONS.

Seems to me even GOD has had His bad days (read your Bible).

This Pollyannistically happy view of how things should be is so, so sad, ironically. Most of you may not be able to comprehend this, but if you were actually given everything you ever wanted and were then placed in an environment where there was no challenge, you would likely go absolutely mad within the space of a day. Think about the most boring do-nothing job you ever had. Go ahead, I’ll wait while you remember it. HORRIFYING, wasn’t it?!

But since most people cannot see beyond the ends of their noses, and all they want right now is to be happier, then their idea is that the perfect world would be one in which they were hysterically happy ALL the time and there was nothing that they needed to do (because apparently most of us are so damn lazy that we would like to never move again...)

Thing is, the Ascension is not about us becoming so masterful that we get to bypass learning and growing and go on to some state of Nirvana wherein all we do all day is OM and contemplate the depths of our navels. If we are such high masters that could achieve such bliss, that would speak VERY badly for what the Creator considers to be a “master”. Believe me – what constitutes a TRUE creational master bares not the remotest resemblance to anything we have here on Earth. The greatest (and that is SO subjective) amongst us is STILL but a squalling infant by way of comparison.

And yet ANY of us should have some idea that we have it ALL figured out and thus have some sort of a right to look down our noses at OTHERS?! LOL!! What a RIOT!!

I have had the opportunity to come in contact with several people over the years who have considered themselves ‘something other’ than the rest of Humanity, and they invariably see themselves as “better”. I can state without a single hesitation that if they actually WERE this ‘something other’ that they perceive themselves to BE, there would BE none of this “I’m better than you” crap. When you get to a certain level of understanding and masterful practice, you simply do not look at things that way anymore. And that is a perfectly achievable state, right here on Earth.

Believe me, the aforementioned behavior of feeling superior is most definitely a HUMAN trait and behavior.

I am of a mind that most of us are likely, at the basis of who we really are, ‘something other’ than JUST an Earth Human. Doesn’t make any single one of us better than any single other.

Coming back to where this started with “GOD! DON’T HAVE A BAD THOUGHT OR FEELING!!” the thing is this:

We each have a full span of emotions for a REASON. And we have broad spectrums of sensing the world in which we live for a REASON. We have a mind with which to form better plans, and we have hands that are designed for service FOR A REASON. We were not given this life to eat pablum, spew Pollyannisms, ignore reality and play the bliss game. We CAME here to do the work – and the work most definitely includes a lot of negatives. If you are not encountering any, you can be sure that you are not truly showing up to your actual place of cosmic employment.

The bad stuff is here for several reasons, all this fretting about the Illuminati and reptilians out to get us, aside. (I don’t know about you, but MY Creator is FAR, FAR greater than any of THAT – and the incredible amount of attention and FEAR generated around these things only serves to FEED them – so maybe you should think about that next time you think it’s important to spew foolishness about who’s out to get us, about all the boogey men in your world.) For one thing, if there was never anything through which we had to strive, what would we learn? If there were not choices to be considered, values to be weighed, possibilities to envision and hope to be planted for the future, what would be THE POINT?

Consciousness only ever expands when it is given something different to work with. I can guarantee that if you are spinning gleefully in your gilded cage of bliss, oh trapped songbird, you are not learning OR growing. You may have some mistaken thought that you are, because you might experience some little sliver of DIFFERENT bliss than you had yesterday, but the expansion is simply not there. You can swim for a lifetime in the Ocean, and all you will ever encounter is - the Ocean.

The work requires us to acknowledge and shift the things WITHIN us that seem to be out of phase with a better plan. Yes, that is right – what is WITHIN us. So many people out in the world doing things to save someone else, when they have not spent more than a few moments in time considering how to save themselves. Many honestly believe that they can just throw out the ugliness in their lives and in the world and that it won’t come back knocking on their door someday. IT SHALL!! And you WILL be forced to DO something with it!

What a shame. So much being discarded in the name of being blissfully happy all the time. And meanwhile, nothing in the world shifts. Nothing in the world gets better. But they have no idea, because they are only looking at the pretty golden bars of their bliss cage. Go ahead, songbird. Sing a new song. Oh you can’t because you have no new experience with which to create one? Aw. Maybe you should escape the cage, then.

As we feel the negatives, as we explore their meaning, as we integrate healing and understanding, as we allow the expression of them (this is called RELEASE – and is IMPERATIVE to healing... I will tell you right now that if you think you healed something without truly releasing it – which often comes in a truly ugly form – you are fooling yourself in the worst way), we are healing the negatives of generations, and we are healing our world. To do anything less is to live in the ILLUSION that you are doing some true good – for yourself or anyone else. Sure, you can have a positive effect in the moment with your little dream of perfection, but in the end it’s just like the parent that thought their harsh discipline worked for their child because the fear made them stop what they were doing in the moment. In reality, they have only postponed the inevitable. Whatever caused the child to misbehave will resurface. And likewise, at some point the Pollyanna’s student will wake up to reality and it will be like nothing was ever taught to begin with. Because nothing WAS.

Sad. It causes everyone who travels this path to do it over and over and over again because it is not the Wholistic answer. The Wholistic answer holds ALL elements of the equation – not just the ones you LIKE. If life truly were about only encountering the things we LIKE, again – it would prove to be a LOT less interesting than we imagine. It is the CONTRAST between things that makes it so very wonderful. It is through knowing the ugly that we can even begin to perceive the beauty.

So next time you may be thinking of denying someone else – or yourself, for that matter – the negative thoughts and feelings and expressions of life, remember that you are demanding of them that they only live HALF their experience, and that only so that YOU can be PLEASED. How incredibly obnoxiously selfish and how completely unenlightened. Remember that we are not just here on a joyride. There is WORK to be done. And it can’t be DONE from LaLa Land. It really, truly has to be done right here, down in the trenches of reality. We really DO have to deal with ALL of it. And to think otherwise is just to be caught in a fantasy from which you WILL have an eventual rude awakening.

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Fire the Grid :: final suggestions

Wednesday, 09 November 2011 08:09 |

Written by Quirin |

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Dear Friends,

November 11-11-11 @ 11:11 GMT is the date of the final Fire the Grid event.

It is also a most energetic day for many energy workers.

For us, the most important thing to remember about this day is that it is an opportunity to VOTE!

( Please check our WORLD CLOCK page on the website for the exact time in your part of the world. http://www.FIRETHEGRID.org)

Say "Yes" by raising your energy on that day, in that you are indeed voting. With your intention you will open

yourself to the highest energy and say "YES" we remember who we are, we remember our collective power

and we remember why we came.

It is time to create the world intended. It is time to vote and say yes to something better we do not need

to know all the details of "how" we shall collectively make this happen we simply must desire the change

and say yes we are ready. Remember who you are then raise your hand, raise your vibration and create!

The last directives are very simple:

We do the 10 min meditation. (Just click one of the two different links of your choice).

From the main site : http://www.firethegrid.com/eng11/remember-10-min.htm

YouTube version : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri2vKHsRVnQ

Afterwards, we share our vision of our world with others, all the positive aspects we wish to see and only

those ones. By expressing our positive intentions and ideas from our hearts to others, we are actually

creating our new world in the energy. (if we are alone, we share with the Universe and the Earth)

Eg : a world without frontiers with clean air, soil and water, abundance for all. Peace, Love, Harmony,

Compassion, Respect Nature, ourselves and others etc...

The Light Beings have asked Shelley to share this with you as well.

1. Do no harm first and foremost to yourself, for until you love yourself you will never love another fully.

2. Do all that you do with honestly and integrity. It will deepen your relationships with each other and deepen

your connection to the Source.

3. Seek out your human JOY live it fully then be in gratitude for the experience. It is with this gratitude

that you will lift your personal frequency to its highest levels.

If everyone applies those simple principles in his/her everyday life, the world will definitely be a better place.

Also you'll be inspired by Shelley's conference in Montreal last Oct. 28th 2011.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5hZO8swjYkM

And if you haven't register your group on our free platform FTGI-Meetup Everywhere group

you can still do it here : http://www.meetup.com/Fire-the-Grid-I-Become so people that

want to be part of a group can find you more easily.

We encourage you also to share your experience of the final meditation with others by submitting it

on a brand new page which will be added to the site this week. As we have done in 2007 and 2009,

we will share your testimonials with the world. It is simply amazing to see the countless syncronicities!

Let's make a positive difference and create our new world.

Thank you all

Namaste

Shelley, Annie & Bradfield

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Judgement, Discernment or maybe something else entirely??

Monday, 15 August 2011 11:52 |

Written by Quirin |

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Vito Mucci also commented on his note "Judgment . . . keep an open mind ya silly fucks.".

Vito wrote: "My guilt is my responsibility. Im fine with that . . And I asked you not to jack up this note with something that it is not related to. As I have a responsibility to temper my perception of words, which I do, EVERYONE HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO UNDERSTAND THE WAY THE THINGS THEY SAY AFFECT PEOPLE."

(original thread: https://www.facebook.com/notes/vito-mucci/judgment-keep-an-open-mind-ya-silly-fucks/126923114069509?ref=notif&notif_t=note_reply)

So as not to 'jack up' Vito's note (??? I have never considered any conversation on any of my notes - related or otherwise - to be 'JACKED UP' but different strokes for different folks, I guess), I will write my OWN note to reply to this, because this is one of the BIGGEST obstacles to our joining together as a cohesive and functional WHOLE.

EVERYONE JUDGES to some degree. We are all making determinations about everything around us ALL THE TIME. However, SOME make judgments based on DIFFERENCE (which ends up being a distancing mechanism) while OTHERS judge based on SIMILARITY, attempting to employ DISCERNMENT in order to decide if a person or situation is correct for them or not (an attempt at an embracing mechanism). Judgement is not a dirty word OR a dirty activity. It is often the act of JUDGEMENT that keeps a person alive and well in a questionable situation.

Now - as to this idea that everyone has to be PROGRAMMED to speak in a way that does not OFFEND - This smacks dangerously of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS to me, and that means that ALL language is distilled down to meaningless drivel so that no one gets upset over this or that word or how those words were strung together. I happen to think POLITICAL CORRECTNESS is one of the most EVIL things that has ever occurred in this world. It stifles truth and it makes everyone feel they all have to think and feel the same exact things, not express themselves TRULY and AUTHENTICALLY. HOW BIZARRE AND UNREASONABLE AND DANGEROUS!! Has it occurred to anyone that if we were all MEANT to think the same, exact ways that there would only have to be ONE of us??? Good God.

You cannot tell people HOW to express themselves. You CAN reach out and try to UNDERSTAND them instead of jumping their shit because of YOUR (likely mis)interpretation and JUDGEMENT (aimed to undermine). Nine out of ten times, it is NOT what the other person SAID, but how it was INTERPRETED (badly) that is the issue at hand. In the case of this ONE sentence comment that was attacked, I truly believe that it has more to do with interpretation than ANYTHING to do with expression. You can investigate yourself, and see if YOU can understand where all the negatives were sourced. Because I sure as hell cannot:

https://www.facebook.com/quirin/posts/233827059988636

Ironically, an article by Shannon's husband on the subject in his blog:

http://tinybuddha.com/blog/why-judging-people-makes-us-unhappy/

When we start to feel that people are saying things about us, pointing fingers and laughing, whatever - the first thing to do is LOOK WITHIN. WHY do we feel this? In THIS case, NONE of what was SENSED was presented in the statement. It ALL came from within. So - if this is the case, HOW do we legislate SPEECH so that it does not offend, when the offense has NOTHING to do with the SPEECH to begin with??? This is a waste of energy and time. If we feel attacked, the first place to look is at OURSELVES. THEN we take it up with the person who may (or may not) have meant to offend us. THEN, if we realize that THEY had nothing to do with our FEELINGS, we need to dig deeper to find the source of our pain and outburst.

The GREATEST judgment we will encounter is our OWN. Whether aimed within or without, it is one of the most destructive forces we have at our disposal. We can either use it with compassion to determine the correctness for ourselves, or we can use it in fear and start calling out everyone around us who does not think and express exactly the same as us. And I think it's REALLY important for those of us who claim to be CONSCIOUS to make this distinction. It is one of the most DIVISIVE elements in our midsts - this thing where we think we all have to think, feel, experience and express exactly the same, or else we are enemies of one another. It simply is NOT TRUE! And we need to be EXTREMELY careful that what we are feeling even has ANYTHING to do with what we think we are being offended by. In this case, I am feeling that what Vito experienced with Shannon's comment was already a raw spot within him that had NO connection to her comment. And I think it is an injustice to self and to others to float these sorts of campaigns without first identifying where they are truly sourcing.

As so beautifully said by Shelley Yates of Fire the Grid, "We must unite in our similarities, instead of dissolving in our differences."

And to be clear here (because I really hate to be misunderstood): this whole conversation was PUBLIC on MY PROFILE , and there is no attempt to do anything other than to highlight something that I have been witnessing as an epidemic amongst Lightworkers nowadays - myself even being a victim as well as a perpetrator, in moments. There is a LOT of foolish drama going on 'in the ranks', and frankly I am surprised by some of those who are most affected and distracted by all of this. We should ALL know better!! This is yet another thing to keep us from the deeper work... now we are attacking each other over nothing. And feeling attacked over nothing. HELLO! WAKE UP AGAIN!!

Vito has since removed himself from my friends list, likely feeling this as some sort of attack against him. No - he was just the latest example, on MY VERY PUBLIC PAGE. If anyone wishes to enter into my space and sort of cut loose, they can expect that I will reply. I am no shrinking violet in this respect. There is no intention to make VITO look bad here - because, as I have said already, this is an EPIDEMIC amongst us, myself included. We ALL need to remain vigilant over this ridiculousness and remember WHAT we are healing as we process Ascension.

We are ONLY ever healing OURSELVES. Every outer thing for which we seek wholeness is a healing of a wound within. When we point fingers and say "YOU YOU YOU!!" it is because something deep within us recognizes something within the situation that is a threat to US. It is WITHIN US. It is ALWAYS about US - not the other guy. To accuse and blame others is nothing but denying our part in things. And as for whether it should be in public or not, I suppose at some point Vito felt not. I, on the other hand, will be transparent in my flaws. Because I am trying to heal and grow and overcome as many of them as possible. And there are MANY. I feel that in the process of being open and honest with each other - and not being so hung up on OFFENDING each other so that we are frozen in space, unable to even express properly - we teach each other, proof each other, support each other through these difficult transformations and transitions - and unhappy discoveries within ourselves, in moments.

It is only when we have nothing more to hide that we can say we are truly being ALL that we truly ARE. THAT is why I share what *I* share. And again - ALL of this was public before Vito removed himself from my list. And I wish him well in all his further endeavors, I have no ill will towards HIM. ONLY a deep concern for ALL of us as we traverse this space together.

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To Use a Shield or to BE a Shield... a Matter of Perspective and Deeper Understanding

Friday, 20 May 2011 00:43 |

Written by Quirin |

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To Use a Shield or to BE a Shield... a Matter of Perspective and Deeper Understanding

A response to a post made in this group to be found at: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_41935399608&view=permalink&id=10150205794079609

Shielding. What a conundrum... since we DO live within a realm of Duality. (Pun intended. I will wait for you to pick it up.) And there will likely be a document concerning Duality at some point, as well – but for now, we are going to mostly focus on shielding, because we are on the cusp of two paradigms that makes the concept a little bit of a hazy one in some respects. I will do my over-inclusive, disorganized best to bring some elucidation to the matter that I think is important.

I may not even have tried to broach this subject, since I am still working with the particulars of it myself – and for God’s sake don’t mistake me for an expert on ANYTHING! - but the subject is coming up more and more amongst those I know, and I am thinking it is time to revisit the concepts to some degree. Again, no expert am I – but I am someone who has studied a LONG time and analyzed a lot, while also being VERY open and quite certain at times that I am channeling something a bit more ‘in the know’ than my Human portion can achieve.

Anyway, again, I have been upon this path for a long, long time (this lifetime, anyway). Nearly 30 years now. A lot of the material that is just now (within the last 10-20 years) becoming more popular, I was reading back in the day when it was still being (laboriously pre-internet) self-published and disseminated throughout obscure (usually hard to find) New Age bookstores instead of Barnes and Noble. I was reading Kryon as soon as it appeared in the public. I was immediately struck by the tone of TRUTH throughout, and I can tell you that I do not feel that with all channeled material. Damn little of it, actually. While there can BE truth within a channeling, there is simply a different sensation to hearing what IS Truth. When every single word of it rings true, you just FEEL it. Kryon is such for me. I believe I own just about the whole library (books, anyway). Would love to one day attend a live channeling – I hear it is quite the experience, energetically. Maybe someday I will attend one of Lee Carroll’s cruises (and brave the dreaded infamous Cruise Virus everyone always gets on those things) just for the adventure.

I have long (though, not for some time now, consistently) recommended the Kryon writings to others. I believe, in its deceptively simple delivery and format, it is some of the most advanced information being delivered and that we have in our hands today. I have a sort of archiving category system in my head, and Kryon falls into the same slot as Jane Roberts’ Seth, Edgar Cayce, and others who have that same sort of feel about them to me – as though they were sincerely directly PLUGGED IN. Like I said, it is a sensation in the body for me. I tingle from head to toe, and I feel like I am being ACTIVATED by the material. Again, not a common thing in the sea of information and concepts through which I just about continually swim. It is extraordinary for me to sense such a thing concerning such material.

Now, as concerns shields. I just recently shared a shielding technique from a teacher of mine – one that I have found works dramatically well in many situations – Archangel Michael’s Diamond Shield. One would perhaps think that an article such as this one concerning the dual nature of shields and that perhaps they should not be necessary would play in opposition to such a thing. I say absolutely NOT. This is but an additional concept, which is actually a fairly advanced one. I am going to attempt to explain how it is that both viewpoints are absolutely viable and necessary– even for those consciously working through the Ascension process and feeling a ‘stronger’ resonance to this concept being presented by Kryon, while feeling sort of put off by the ‘dual’ nature inherent in the shielding techniques themselves.

FIRST of all, let’s address something that we humans do that is a serious disservice to our ongoing process of trying to embrace the ALL.

Duality IS. We live within a paradigm of Duality. And let me tell you, if we did not – life would not be nearly as interesting as it is (another paper, another time... but still). There is MEANING and PURPOSE to the Duality. It is not a ‘bad’ thing. Duality is not our enemy – it is our tool, in this particular here-and-now. And it is an advanced tool at that, a tool that takes advanced training to be able to use properly (we wouldn’t even BE here, were we not SOME level of advanced - it is that profound. It is not for the simple in spirit.) The Duality is a Divine paradigm creation. It is a set of limitations geared to produce a likelihood of a certain set of situations, actions and responses through which we are then expected to try and navigate in order to find the graceful pathway through by way of using our energy correctly.

But more recently, as the idea of Duality (and its nemesis ONENESS) became ‘faddish’ in the New Age movement (which is QUITE fond of its fads, let me tell you!), what has happened is that there have been created camps “FOR Duality” and camps “AGAINST Duality”. And this is great irony, isn’t it? (Down with Duality! Haha) How DUAL of us. How HUMAN of us. WE are the only ones who have something AGAINST Duality – and that makes the whole Multiverse giggle with glee at our inherent silliness in these things. In everything we are coming to know, this making of camps of the ‘for or against’ is antithesis to how the True Reality ACTUALLY operates. And yet – we continue to do it.

ONENESS is not an easy concept to grasp.

So, first thing we have to all do together is to become friends with the Duality in this particular paradigm. You know – when ‘we’ advance beyond ‘it’, ‘IT’ will still ‘exist’. ‘3D’, ‘Duality’, and ‘everything’ attendant to its effects will STILL ‘be here’, long after ‘we’ are ‘not’. (NOTE: Point being, the whole PHYSICAL paradigm is a CONSTRUCT to begin with...) We are not EVER going to obliterate it, because it was created for a REASON – far beyond anything WE think we know about it. So, we might just as well make peace with it and stop trying to DENY it so much.

It is much like this other common New Age thing that we have to get away from our bodies in order to be ‘more spiritual’. I have NEVER understood this. Our bodies are some of the most Divine creations there ARE in ALL of Creation! How on Earth (or anywhere else) could we feel that it is somehow lacking and ‘impure’, and that we have to get OUT of it to be with God? Oh, how very, very sad. God himself probably cries Himself to sleep over that one every night. I mean, He would - if He slept, and all...

So Duality is not our enemy, not something we have to fear, not something we have to fight against, not something we have to change or obliterate – but, rather, something we are in the process of TRANSCENDING. That doesn’t mean we kill it. I mean, we outgrew our old clothes, but we didn’t feel a desire to set them on fire as we grew larger (or, well, most of us didn’t, anyway). We outgrew relationships and situations, but we never had to demolish all signs of those personalities and circumstances in order to move forward. We can do the one forward-motion thing WITHOUT some corresponding attitude of destruction towards the things we leave behind.

We Humans seem to have a hard time with this concept, too. So silly!

So we have Duality, without a doubt. I don’t know about you, but I still see it at work in almost every single moment of my life. ONENESS IS – but it ain’t exactly roosting on this planet. We all still have separate identities, we all do different things, have different thoughts and feelings.... yes, as long as we are able to look each other in separate FACES, we are likely to be able to count on the fact that we still exist within the paradigm of Duality. So get used to it and work within it and quit your sniveling.

Another New Age popular concept that I think is often misinterpreted into uselessness is this one that we are ALREADY PERFECT. Again, I don’t know about you, but I do not know, nor have ever known, ONE SINGLE perfect person. Even in stories. Jesus wasn’t even perfect. Or Buddha. Or... well ANYONE. NO ONE IS ALREADY PERFECT.

What is already perfect is our DESIGN TEMPLATE. Say, for instance, you printed out the blueprints for a house and then handed it to a normal 5 year old. There ya go. Only I am not so sure that Humanity is even 5, yet. No – WE are not perfect. We are still attaining to our original Design Template. That could take EONS. Literally. We are NOT going to wake up tomorrow and be ALL PERFECT. The Universe just doesn’t WORK like that. There is, however NO untruth in the fact that we can do/be/have anything without limitation – just that we WILL have to EARN it through the process of proper energy use. And that is also a rather LARGE subject that I will not even attempt to begin at this juncture. Let’s just say that most of us still aren’t doing it right – EVEN those of us who supposedly ‘know better’.

NOW. Let’s continue this with the basic concept – that of shielding, itself.

The by far vastly larger number of souls on THIS planet right now are not very advanced in spiritual understanding. Or, at the very least, if they are sleeping Masters, then they are still SLEEPING - and this impairs their ability to call upon their Greater Portion and to KNOW themselves. So, not very advanced in practice, if nothing else. (Doesn’t do anyone any good if you have an advanced degree in Medicine and you are flipping burgers as a vocation.) So, most of the people on this planet RIGHT NOW are not even materially aware of what their ‘soul’ IS, whether they actually HAVE one or not, what sort of energy system they have and how to use it, or the very simple fact that every single thing imaginable is comprised of energy and that they and everything else are intimately interconnected and constantly interacting and affecting each other. No, most people – like 90% - do not even know THIS. And this is the BEGINNING of learning about energy work.

Amongst those who DO know, there are varying degrees of understanding and varying degrees of practice and expertise. There are widely disparate and sometimes conflicting teachings on the matter (all part of that duality template thing – and as you recognize this, you begin to realize that nuggets of truth exist within ALL things, and you start to see the patterns of Wholeness throughout). And in this New Age of Enlightenment, with all our fancy technology and with everyone thinking they are all experts in something, there are endless ‘New and Improved techniques’ to teach us all so much better how to access this energy and how to USE it for our slightest whim (supposedly).

Thing is, you cannot improve upon water. You cannot improve upon air. They are already perfect in their most basic forms. Same thing with energy work. There is no way to ‘IMPROVE’ upon it, as it is as basic as any element here on earth, a PRIMAL Force, a singular strand of Truth of its own. Now what we CAN do is teach things that assist in the basic (elementary) understanding of a thing, teaching as if to children, and then also, teaching for situation and circumstance so as to subdivide (DUALITY! DUALITY!) the concept into more manageable forms with which an individual may work and come to comprehend.

If I hand the 5 year old the blueprints to the house, he is likely to be disappointed in his ability to build it. But if I give him a few blocks and a simple drawing of a house, he will be able to create for himself and also build that all-important sense of self confidence – and he has every potential to grow up and become the architect that builds that house in the blueprints, especially now that he has been taught how to build a house out of blocks from a simple drawing.

Shielding has always been known to be IMPERATIVE to spiritual work, and that has been handed down from spiritual time immemorial. It is NOT because our spiritual portion is so very fragile and vulnerable and needs to be armored for protection – it is because our HUMAN portion is. We are Human living in a Human paradigm of DUALITY, wherein exists potential for energies to be used consciously or utterly inadvertently AGAINST us. (Generally speaking, it is a wholly unintentional exchange – based on lack of consciousness. It is far rarer for it to be a conscious act.) Remember – since we all still have individual names, bodies, addresses, cell phones, and all that, we are STILL alive and well within the Duality realm... We cannot deny it just because we do not like it.

ONENESS IS – over there somewhere.

I have found in my personal explorations that there is NO SUCH THING as an external Evil. I heartily do NOT believe in a ‘Devil’ or any such personified entity of evil. However, I just as heartily believe in Evil as a force amongst Mankind – a thought form that most definitely has substance. It exists in consciousness and it exists in the ambient energy of this planet – because its creation has been so strong in the minds of Humanity for all of the years of its ability to conjure. We CONTINUE to create it, again and again and again – in the new ways we devise or accidentally discover to harm one another.

So, we are on the cusp of Change now, and what we have previously learned of energy has well served us. But there are new ways of relating to the process of energy exchange and interaction coming into view (we are finally getting to go to first grade!!). So there is definitely an overlap going on in many senses – our Astrology is shifting, so we have those on the planet with the old template and those on the planet with the new; our poles are shifting and so everything related to the magnetic grid of the planet is shifting also, we are in some instances straddling 3, 4 and 5 D all at the same time. And far, far more, besides. It’s like several bubbles of energy are intersecting and they coalesce together in the one space where they all meet. In fact, that is EXACTLY what it is like.

So, what we have is several things happening all at once. We have Old Paradigm stuff still occurring and causing effect. We have New Paradigm energies coming in and changing the way EVERYTHING works (so we cannot even trust all the old understandings of the OLD Paradigm. And – it is good to remember that this is NEW energy here... NO ONE knows how it operates. NO ONE is an expert in the New Frontier we are facing in these moments.) Meanwhile, because of the comingling of these energies and its attendant effects, most everyone is going crazy in some form or another – and let’s just say that doesn’t bode well for ambient Earth energy.

YES. As Beings of Light, we DO NOT NEED shielding. We ARE shields against darkness. BUT – we are also not ONLY Beings of Light here on this planet. We are HUMAN, being trained in the proper use of energy (which, again, most of us are not getting terribly well – and even the most trained and practiced among us are not PERFECT Masters at their craft. We are STUDENTS in this paradigm. Masters in some other, or not.) So we exist within these limited vessels, to operate within limited constructs within which we exercise our energetic prowess to our benefit or detriment, hopefully within which to LEARN. So, as consciously existing Light Beings within HUMAN vessels, we would do well to learn the energy exchange of the HUMAN Paradigm, here on Earth.

For whatever reasons – and God, if you read the blogs, there are dozens of them – we have found ourselves in a situation where we have come to develop some sense of powerlessness within ourselves. I do not believe we were always like this. I think at one time we had full cognizance of our inherent power and capability. I believe that there was a time when we REMEMBERED the game we were playing and the reason we were doing so. That was, apparently, an incredibly LONG time ago, and now we are operating on half-baked suppositions that we are just now getting around to testing for ourselves (and which are FAR from being proved to be exact sciences, in relation to the PHYSICAL PARADIGM in which we find ourselves.)

In the interim, we have developed methods of gaining power. If you have read the Celestine Prophecy, you understand some of these principles (and if you have not read it, I highly suggest you do. I also highly suggest you do NOT watch the incredibly BAD movie. It does the book all kinds of injustice...) One of the most common ways that we obtain power (energy) for ourselves is through taking it away from someone else. We ALL do it, at some point in our lives. Some go on to do it more than others, some more consciously than others. The REAL trick is teaching yourself to STOP it.

Anyway, without the benefit of the book or the movie for those of you who do not know of them, the ways we do this is through our behaviors with each other. When we are trying to gain the ‘upper hand’ in any given situation, we are in reality trying to siphon energy off the other party to replace what we sense as a lack of our own. This is a PHYSICAL exchange with each other, which could likely be measured if we knew HOW. We can feel it in the exchange – if we are on the ‘upper hand’ end of things, we feel more powerful, in control; if we are on the end of the one being siphoned in some manner, then we feel diminished, lacking ability to manage the moment. Because the ‘upper hand’ guy sucked the very essence from us.

This ACTUALLY happens – though it is not likely often to be conscious on the parts of either party. If we become aware of how energy moves within and around us, we come to FEEL it happening. And even in instances where we do NOT mean for it to be happening – say, in a healing session, where a healer takes on the energetic attributes of the one they are healing – it still CAN and DOES occur. Not because we are so lacking in ability, not because we don’t know how to access our inherent protection mechanisms as Light Beings, but because WE EXIST WITHIN THIS PARADIGM OF DUALITY, and that is JUST HOW IT WORKS HERE.

SO. Yes. As Beings of Light, we are what we are in our totality, and when we are free of the realm of Duality, we know of our identity in ways we cannot even conceive while we exist in this physical vessel which is part of the mechanism that holds us within this construct of limitation. But we ALSO *NOW* exist within THIS space, this set of rules. So we cannot spend all our time and energy on discounting it. It IS. We ARE. We are straddling the paradigms, and we are doing a mighty fancy dance as we determine our new places on the New Stage. One of the things we need to try to embrace is the malleability of the energy in this particular time.

We are wanting to walk around in our Light Armor, being impervious – yet, even amongst our greatest Teachers and Masters, we have seen how we and they are NOT. Not a single one of us is incapable of being harmed. I think even Superman actually got shot in one of the movies... My point being that, wish for being NOTHING but Light Beings all we like, we HAVE this apparatus that interacts with the environment and those others within it in this certain way (by way of physics of which we are just barely becoming aware), and we would do ourselves great service to not only understand HOW the energy is flowing (or not), but also how to maintain our own proper proportion of it. Because the apparatus and the environment and the constructs and the actual experiences are ALL part of what is TRULY going on.

You know how you can tell? Do you get your feelings hurt? Do bad things still happen to you? Do other people’s behavior still impede upon your space? Are you still struggling in moments? Are you still AFFECTED? Yup. Then you’re still here with the rest of us in the 3D construct, and learning how to use MATERIAL energy shields can be very helpful to you.

So that brings me back to the original post of the Diamond Shield. I can tell you from experience that it is a valid method of shielding that works rather surprisingly well in comparison, if you have used other forms of shielding.

Not a single person I know is in control of their energy at all times. Again, even the most practiced amongst us have VERY Human moments, whether it is in action or reaction. Whether it is within our own systems by way of belief patterns that move energy in certain ways within our bodies, or whether it is out into the world where we can pick up energies that are not compatible in whatever ways, we must be at least some sort of mildly vigilant – and I would advise more so, for those of us who would consider themselves to actually be Lightworkers, who are the forerunners, explorers, systems busters and wayshowers of the New Paradigm into which we are ALREADY entering – about how we are protecting ourselves in the midst of chaos, and how we are conducting ourselves so as not to create even more disruption in an already volatile environment as the one we find ourselves within.

An evolving Universe can be a sometimes somewhat dangerous thing. Relative to our understanding within any given construct, of course.

In the end of all things, energy cannot be destroyed. What makes us able to BE is indestructible and inviolate. Yes, I do believe that we will one day retake our proper energetic form and full consciousness. But we have not yet done so. We are still here-now. And here now has its pitfalls. Have you noticed? You will KNOW when you are residing in the Oneness. You will no longer require a name, an identity, a personality, a separate ANYTHING – because so long as there is division in ANY sense, there is not true ONENESS. We are not yet THERE, people, and we need to remember that as we progress along this CURRENT portion of the path. To try and ignore Duality is to be in denial of what actually IS.

Now, if you can say that nothing affects you, that no one can harm you with their words and actions, that nothing ever upsets or distresses you, if you never walk into a room and feel a sense of something you’d rather not encounter, or never been afraid, or never felt you picked something up from someone you would have liked to have avoided, then perhaps learning to shield is not something you have to be concerned about. But if you HAVE felt any or all of these things, then perhaps consider that it may well be a tool of good use for you.

In learning to shield, we prevent these things, on many levels. NO – no amount of shielding will EVER make us impervious in THIS plane of existence. It is simply not designed to be so. DUALITY exists here for a reason, and as such, there will ALWAYS be the extremes that seem to ‘battle’ each other – consciously or otherwise. And so long as we exist within this paradigm, I am absolutely sure that developing strong practice and techniques – and REMEMBERING TO USE THEM when appropriate – enhances our overall success of performance. I have found it to be such for me. And I DO believe in my ultimate inability to be harmed, I DO believe that I exist as a Being of Light that cannot be undermined – but I ALSO know that I CHOSE this experience, and within that construct of experience I know I will be expected to conform to the physical rules and use the tools at my disposal to make it the best experience it can be, and to properly teach me how to use this magnificent ability I have to move energy. That you have. That we all have.

Up to you how you see it. Hurts none to try it and see how it works for you. I guarantee, though, that if you work with it and develop it and use it at the appropriate times, you WILL see improvement with how you manage YOURSELF, even in times of great difficulty. Energy MOVES, and we are not always in control of how that occurs. Energy in or energy out. Shielding gives us another opportunity to keep ourselves from being negatively impacted by that which does not serve us well. I have seen it at work in my own life – skeptic that I can be. I have had others witness to the same effects. So, I will not go to the trouble to try and convince you – it is our own job to convince ourselves of our own ideas. But I will lay testimony to the fact that I have added active shielding to my personal tool box, because I find it a VERY useful tool. It has transformed some situations in my life, and it continues to support me in a very difficult ongoing process.

Again – hurts none to try it. But may be just the tool you need in this VERY DUAL place in which we find ourselves. I don’t know about you, but I like having options at my disposal to use when I am in need. Even Jesus called upon the angels. Even He prepared in the wilderness for his ordeal with the force that called his own integrity into question (No – I STILL don’t believe it was ‘the Devil’...) I do not for a moment believe that Masters do not practice shielding. What I DO believe is that, as Masters, they do not need to make some show about it, and it is a wholly different thing than what we are discussing here. But since none of us are Masters, I don’t think we are ready for that information yet, anyway.

In the end – make choices that feel correct for YOU. But do not reject something just because it seems odd. You may be VERY surprised to find what works for you, what aids you in the trek down the path. Don’t be afraid to try new things and see what works and what doesn’t. THAT is part of WHY we are HERE.

Namaste.

-Quirin

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