Getting Back To Our Roots

A good many people in the US believe religion is at the heart of why people came to the New World and that our country was always a "Christian" nation, I'm not buying it. Yes, the most famous group who came over on the Mayflower, the Puritans, came over mainly for religious freedom. Most of the rest were for-profit ventures hoping to exploit potential riches in the New World and claim new territory for their respective kings. What I do believe is this: the people who settled this New World were creative, independent, and responsible and did not need help to make new lives for themselves. It is exactly these roots Americans need to get back to if we are to grow our country great again!

The United States has been hemorrhaging jobs for years now. Americans complain that their jobs are being shipped overseas because of slave labor wages in many 3rd world countries while these same corporations make money hand-over-fist and then hide their extra profits in various ways so they pocket extra money. In my way of thinking, Americans are having job problems because we have become dependent on a system that used to provide for us, but no longer does.

For me, the more recent history of the Industrial Revolution shines a light on our current problems. It was in this age of expansion that Americans began to become less independent. Instead of owning their own farms or businesses, more and more people began to be employed in factories which promised good wages. If you look around at our dying job sector, the jobs that were lost earliest were these factory sorts of jobs. As people lost these factory jobs, they could no longer pay for extra goods and services they had become used to. People who lose jobs or think their jobs might be cut next don't got out to dinner or buy that extra TV. This slows the entire economy down and small businesses begin to go under.

If you haven't figured it out already, we are now in the Information Age. Technology is where our futures lie, although not necessarily in the way people think of it. There is definitely a need to manufacture microchips and other things critical to functioning in this new age. It is no longer about the big corporations, who only know how to suck us all dry. What needs to happen is for us to use this technology to create our own jobs!!!

The United States was not great because big corporations handed Americans jobs. The US was great because we used our brains and our talents to create the lives we wanted to live. We designed products and services and businesses to be proud of!

If the United States of America is to become great again, it will have nothing to do with the big corporations who have taken our livelihoods away. It will be because We the People have created our own lives, independent and free from those who believe they are our masters! It is time to get back to creating our own unique jobs, using the technology available to us. Buy a farm! Help people disconnect from the grid through clean energy technologies! Supply your community with goods and services they can use every day!

Stop believing it is the government's or the corporations' place to get you back on your feet! You are the master of your own fate! Getting back to our roots is all about taking responsibility for our own lives and making things happen! Get up off your butt and do something about it!!!

~CSE

   

Animal And Plant Energies

I do not consider myself an animal person. While I typically like them (and they like me back), they don't seem to hold my interest for long. I do have an ongoing love affair with plants. I enjoy being out in nature, soaking in the green that surrounds me and talking to the trees. I have a fairly green thumb when it comes to gardens and houseplants. I even have a wonderful shamrock on my kitchen counter I talk to frequently. I have never really thought about why I prefer plants to animals until today, when I finally asked the question. Plant energies are much more soothing to me than animals energies.

Many people get a great deal of comfort and satisfaction from loving animals. Animals can provide unconditional love that is often lacking in the world today. That said, sometimes the energy that comes from animals can be little too intense for me. It is at times almost frenetic. It requires more interaction than I often have the energy to provide back. Consequently, I have a tendency to hold myself back from animals.

Plant energies are much less intrusive. I can go outside and interact with them when I choose. Their energies are much lower key and in that way less demanding. The interesting thing about my relationship with plants is that I talk to them, and in certain ways they talk back to me. My shamrock is always sure to remind me when he needs more water. When I am walking in the woods, certain trees come into my awareness more than others. It's as if they are calling out to me to pay attention to them specifically. For me it becomes an almost magical experience.

I'm not here to say that communing with plants is better than communing with animals. Communing with plant energies is just more soothing to me personally. I know a good many people who feel the same way about animals. It's all good! No matter what you are drawn to, understand there is probably a reason for it. Allow it to exist without judgment. It is through honoring the various energies around us that we are able to connect and remember that we are all truly One.

~CSE

 

Allowing The Pain And Sadness Of Others

I read a meme on social media that struck a chord with me. It said, "When you can't look on the bright side, I will sit with you in the dark." It dawned on me how often we look at the sadness and pain of others and immediately begin trying to comfort them and make them feel better. We give them comfort food, regale them with stories, or take them to movies--anything to distract them from the pain of what they're experiencing. The thing is, often such distraction techniques are counterintuitive. Pain has to be dealt with before it dissipates. Sometimes the best thing you can do is provide companionship to someone who is struggling so they have the added support to deal with it. 

One of the most painful things I have ever experienced was losing my newborn daughter. Regardless of the fact that she lived outside my body for less than a day, I knew her. I had spent months dreaming about how her life would go and all the experiences I wanted to share with her. I could see everything in my mind's eye--so perfectly it was almost as though it really existed. Not only did I lose my baby but I lost those dreams of her. 

One of the main reasons I was able to deal with my grief in a timely manner was the great support I had from friends. I had spent the past couple of years working as a residence counselor with emotionally disturbed children. Consequently, most of my friends were social workers and psychologists who were used to dealing with big, painful problems in their clients. I had people around me who were strong enough to listen, and they were strong enough to just sit with me in my pain. Having that level of support when I was feeling so much discomfort gave me the courage to face it and deal with it. 

It is not easy to allow someone else to feel pain. We are so connected--especially to our friends and family members--that we can feel their pain on an empathetic level. It is natural to want to help them stop hurting. Understand that pain is not something that needs to be fixed. Healing it requires accepting its place in your life and allowing beauty to evolve from it in its own time.

Allowing the pain and sadness of others is one of the greatest gifts you can give them. By sitting with them in that pain, you give support while you encourage healing. Do you have the courage required to be a healer?

~CSE

  

Fear And The Powers That Be

My first waking thought this morning was an interesting one. The powers that be are afraid. They're afraid because, for the first time in centuries, they are losing control. They have been losing it for quite a while now. It has just taken them this long to truly absorb the thought.

How do I know? I know because they have not given the final order for the financial collapse to begin. At various times throughout history they have planned economic implosions which are designed to pile more and more money into their hands while removing it from the hands of the masses. 

Look at the circumstances surrounding the Great Depression. The wealthiest people all of a sudden sold off massive quantities of stocks, This created a panic because other investors figured the ultra rich knew something they didn't know and began selling their stocks as well. Then there was a run on the banks. Businesses collapsed. After the masses were left jobless and penniless, the ultra rich began buying up "worthless" stocks for pennies on the dollar. This is empire building at its finest. 

I look at the world economy today. The derivatives market, which is a ponzi scheme to end all ponzi schemes, should have already collapsed. Derivatives are literally bets that certain assets are going to lose or increase value. Bets! They are not actual, buy-and-sell, tradable assets. The big banks literally have trillions of dollars worth of these bets, and the game is ready to be called. When that happens, pretty much all banks will collapse because theses bets are intricately tied together from one institution to another. All the analysts are saying it is going to happen any day, yet it has not. This situation has continued on for months now.

Why has the system not collapsed? The powers that be know that if they collapse it all now, We the People will rise up and take control. As recently as 2008, the powers that be could have collapsed large portions of it and taken what they wanted from the rubble. We willingly let them bail out the big banks at the time because they convinced us those banks were too big to fail--that everyone's livelihood depended on the big banks staying afloat. In 2016, the masses know enough to not let them get away with it again.

The powers that be continue to nurse their system along. With the help of the mainstream media, which they own, they are able to maintain the illusion that things are okay. It is precarious at best because We the People are angry. That much is obvious by the vast support that has been created for non-mainstream candidates like Sanders and Trump. The powers that be know that, if they continue with their planned implosion, all their power and substance will be lost because the masses will no longer allow them to take everything.

We are on the verge of great change. What will it take to push us over the edge? Once again, change is dependent on us. It is for all of us to wake up and say, "I am not content with the way things are. It is time to take responsibility and take control of what happens in the world." 

The shoe is on the other foot. Because we are aware, we are no longer slaves to fear. We understand we are not dependent on the system. We understand we are creators with infinite potential. 

It is the powers that be who are afraid. Their time to rule is at an end and they fear what that might look like. It is time to step into our own power and BE the change we wish to see in the world.

~CSE

Healing And Integrating The Dark Side Of Self

I believe emotions are instructional tools. When we feel strong emotions, those are signals that we need to pay attention to and deal with an underlying issue. Lately what has set my emotions off are the politics being played out on the national (US) stage. It dawns on me this morning that I need to work a little harder at resolving some of these issues with myself.

The person who sets me off the most at present is Hillary Clinton. Because of my dealings with alternative radio, I have done a lot of research into the connections between the occult and power. She has come up frequently in this research. I'm not going to detail what I believe because my issue is not something you need to add to your plate of issues. We all have our own work to do. I bring this up because I want to give you a concrete example of how I am working to heal myself through the issues that come up for me.

When I look at Hillary, I can see that I have personally put up energetic blocks between us. Much of this has been about my own protection from the forces I see around her. The other part of this is not wanting to acknowledge my own evil. The thing is, knowing what I know about Oneness, deep down I understand that Hillary and I are One. To deny her is to deny myself. To deny her is to deny what the contrast of her life has given to me. Without her, I am not able to acknowledge and learn from all that IS. Contrast is one of the best learning tools we have here in duality.

This is why Ho'oponopono is such a spectacularly helpful tool. (For more information on this healing technique, see "The Power Of Ho'oponopono" and "Ho'oponopono Revisited".) In a nutshell, Ho'oponopono is a healing technique that assumes personal responsibility for all the circumstances in our lives. Its four parts (I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you) acknowledge the role we have played in the problems that have been created and breaks down the walls we have built that keep ourselves from understanding all that IS. As we give thanks for the awareness, blocked energy is allowed to flow freely once again.

As I look at my own personal hangups with Hillary, I am able to see where my putting her in the "evil" box has had the effect of keeping her there. She is trapped until I understand what I need to see about her, the world, and myself. As I pray and meditate, I apologize for my role in the problem and ask for forgiveness. I thank her for her willingness to help me learn what I came to Earth to learn, and I acknowledge our Oneness through love.

Healing does not come from winning the fight. It comes from letting the fight go and allowing awareness to once again become part of self. As parts of Oneness, Hillary's struggle is my struggle, just as my struggle is hers. By acknowledging the roles of others, we allow what IS to exist freely in flow. We are able to integrate and heal the darker side of self.  

~CSE

The One Thing That Will Save Us

The savior mentality. It's pervasive in the world today. People are convinced one change will be the catalyst that will start us back on an uphill path. The thought is that, if we change to this different system or ask one certain person to lead us, the problems will begin to work themselves out. Therein lies the problem. No one institution or person can fix anything. Our problems are collective and require a collective solution.

I look at the Christian community from which I came. People there are waiting for Jesus to come back and save the day. He is supposed to gather up his elect and judge and punish those who persist in their evil. The problem as I see it is twofold. First of all, as humans we are all equal parts good and bad. How will that differentiate one group from another? (And don't use the programmed answered that only God or Jesus can judge!) This thinking is separation in motion. The second part is the fact they are counting on something outside themselves to save them rather than taking personal responsibility for the world's problems.

People also believe politics and politicians can save us. To me, this is the most ludicrous idea we've ever come up with! When have politicians or their political systems ever been solutions to the world's problems? Believing that capitalism will save us or socialism will save us is problematic because the perspectives are limited and don't take all angles or facets into account. If a politician does happen to have integrity, what he/she can do is limited because no one else does. Politics is a cooperative effort if anything is to be accomplished. Finally, we are once again looking for solutions to come from somewhere outside ourselves.

I honestly do believe there is one thing that will save us. What is that one thing, you ask? The one thing that has the potential to save us all is to learn to connect to all that IS--Oneness--by connecting to our hearts.  Oneness IS the collective consciousness. Consulting Oneness is about dropping our own personal egos and allowing ourselves to function in the collective. This Oneness will then allow us to understand what we can personally do to benefit the collective. It is when we act from this place that the magic will happen.

Direction from Oneness does not necessarily "make sense" to our programmed minds. Often what seems ludicrous to our rational (programmed) minds will eventually take us to the place where our actions benefit the collective. It is a very different way of thinking and acting, and one that most of us have been afraid to try (even though we do occasionally get inspiration from Oneness and act on it).

When we are finally willing to drop our egos and connect to Oneness, we work together in harmony. Our hearts and minds sync up as we allow ourselves to become One.

~CSE

    

Welcome To The Dog And Pony Show!

Politics are running hot and heavy here in the United States, and I am amazed at the vast numbers of people who are so preoccupied with them. Like countries all over the world, our economy has taken a nosedive since the crash of '08. Politics are thought to play a key role because of the supposed power politicians have to make or break a country's economy depending on laws they create. Personally, I am convinced this charade is nothing more than a dog and pony show--entertainment for the masses to distract them from those in the background actually making the decisions.

The Presidential race is particularly entertaining this year. There is a whole lineup of Republican wannabe's. Current and former governors and senators. A big-mouthed businessman. Even a medical doctor. One of them I would call a pretty boy. Another is a bigger liar than all of them combined (which is saying a lot in a group of politicians). None of them make me want to break down the doors of my city hall to go vote for them.

The Democratic side contains a wishy-washy (and evil) woman and an older politician who may have some integrity, but I still have a problem with the fact he has been a successful politician as long as he has. It's hard to make it to that level of politics without having compromised your soul in some way.

The best part of the show is the actual voting process. This is the part of the spectacle where the general population becomes convinced they actually have a say in the way it all turns out! We watch as individual states caucus or vote their way into choosing a candidate to represent their states--and we believe the tallies are accurate!!! This process I equate more to a very skilled magician, distracting us with one hand while the other hand screws with the totals.

All this happens because we still naively believe the people in power are basically just like us--imperfect people living the best they know how. What we fail to recognize is that most of the people we believe we have put in power sold us out to wealthy influence peddlers a long time ago.

So go ahead...play your little games. Debate the supposed issues of the day! Unfriend your brother-in-law! Repeat the talking points of your favorite candidate! Ponder and argue, then argue some more! Continue to revel in your separation!!! The end result will always be the same muck we continue to roll around in. Welcome to the dog and pony show!

If you ever decide to leave your seat at the circus and enter the real world, you may just discover you have the power to solve the problems that face us today!

~CSE