Twisted  Hair

Robbie  Robertson

This was the way of it
Let the story fires be lighted
Let our circle be strong and full of medicine
Hear me
This is my dream song that I'm singing for you
This is my power song that is taking me to the edge
This is rock medicine
The talking tree
The singing water
Listen
I am dancing underneath you

This was the way of it
It is a river
It is a chant
It is a medicine story
It is what happened long ago
It is a bead in a story belt
It is what has been forgotten
It is the smell of sweetgrass and cedar
And prayers lifted to sky father
It is a way, a tradition
The way it was always done by the people
It is a feeling of warmth
The sound of voices
Listen
I am dancing underneath you

Songwriters: David William Carson / William James Wilson

Twisted Hair lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

in  the  spirit  of  the  blessingway

may the long time sun of the great mysterious

shine

eternally pure

with crystal radiance

both upon you and through you

to the singing earth

and to all

the people of the earth

 david barnes

the  sun  stands  still 

solstice

the sun stands still inside me now

wonder finds rest inside me now

all creation stands transfigured

by the radiance of an inner light

the light within the light

without

the luminous landscape opening

listen

the eternal heartbeat

look

a wondrous woman appearing

clothed with the radiance of the sun

with the full moon in her belly

and twelve nations gathered round

bearing gifts from the past

promises for the future

does she approach from without

or does she approach from within

solstice

the sun stands still

inside me now

wonder finds rest

we journey long and long together

knowing

the space within the space

without

planetary beings in spiral dance

within

the living body of the sacred sun

david barnes

The  Immediacy  of  His  Presence

David Barnes   December 16, 2018

evening  meditations  with  a  few  friends

Here are some words from the transcript of a morning service by John Gray, titled Rain Words, where he speaks of the firmament which unites the waters above and the waters below, the heavenly design above and the heavenly design below. John says,  “I am profoundly thankful for the immense divine presence that surrounds and enfolds and covers the human world in love and glorious light. Let's each of us in our own way continue with every breath to give ourselves wholeheartedly into the creative process by which the actually rather small gap of connecting heaven is infilled, and the world is made whole. Substance rises when we worship like this. A cloud of glory forms, and for this little while we’ve just shared, precipitation comes in the form of rain-words, falling gently from heaven.” [archangelicbody.org] This rather small gap is the firmament, the atmosphere, the vibratory medium that becomes so substantial and clear that the design of the seven-dimensional world, which is currently invisible to most human beings because of the veil, begins to become apparent because of this transparent heavenly substance provided by those who live on earth—men and women who now are generating a clear medium through which the invisible design and the spirit of it can flow into outer world circumstances and bring about a transformation. This creative emergence, moving from above down, has been happening on earth in a deliberate and focused way for a considerable period of time.

It may be useful to take this hour to highlight a few of the things which we have been privileged to know—expanding and clarifying the understanding which has brought truth more clearly to remembrance by the Comforter, that it may be a vibrant truth living within us, so that we know personally from the inside out. This is an interesting and vital point to think about because it can easily be seen that most of the creative thinking that has bathed and blessed us has come though other people—and this as it should be in the beginning, that we all have been blessed by an increase in spiritual understanding because of close association with the creative genius of others. Their spirit, their depth of feeling, their clear thinking, their articulation of the living truth calls for us to do likewise; for each of us to be humble, but bold in our spiritual thinking, feeling and expression, to let that same quality of spiritual ingenuity come through each of us as well. Ingenious creative expression has been left to a few who have shared abundantly, but the time has come for each of us to come forth in this same way with one another, and in the world with which we interface.

We are in the Solstice Cycle, and the period that Christianity calls Christmas and names as the time for a celebration of the birth and life of Jesus, and the calendar New Year approaches as well—events of both Cosmic and human significance. Christmas in the world in general is a very childish affair—for the most part, an immature celebration of what is imagined to be the story of the birth of the baby Jesus, the Christ child. So it is a story about a baby archangel (if there is such a thing) coming into the world, and the story bears all the trappings of human perception laid upon an imagined Christ figure. No doubt, in some considerations of the Christ story at Christmas-time, in churches and at musical events, and in homes and in family gatherings, there is some touching of the grandeur of the Spirit of the One who was born. Something of the greatness of His Spirit does begin to ascend in the heaven that opens, and that people share at such times—and there is a feeling of being deeply moved by the music and the stories, and the communion shared in the Archangelic Spirit that is drawn to remembrance. And it is a wonderful thing, when this begins to happen.

The thing that is wonderful is that this touching happens in the present moment. On such occasions it is not a remembering of something that happened in the past, it is a touching of the living spirit of that Great One, right now. It is being experienced in this present moment, and it is deeply moving. We have been in gatherings where the reality of His Spirit is vividly present in the atmosphere and we experience hearts and minds being changed—our own hearts transformed, humbled, softened, enlarged; and the arrogance of the mind’s perceptions of things, and its goals, dissolves in the Presence of the greatness of His Spirit. It is easy to feel the expanding experience of Oneness, of fusion, of love where that Spirit begins to rise in the heaven, when music and song and story are shared, bringing the spirit more vibrantly into expression in the room where people meet.

Such experiences are worthy of deeper meditation after events which catalyze such intensification, after people go home and find a quiet place to reflect on what has occurred, having been touched by the atmosphere and the Spirit of His Presence. Whoever evokes that Spirit through music or word or song, is enabled to do so because they are expressing that One Spirit in a unified way, increasing the atmosphere of heaven and the greatness of it—and such spiritual expression transforms, at least for the moment, those who are in the immediate vicinity and who are open to what is being offered. For a short while people go away changed, and something of a promise lingers kindly in the invisible surrounding field.

It is not hard, then, to understand that even with a small increase in the clear, rich, true expression of His Spirit, in the darkened room of world consciousness, that the light may be turned on, so that people experience, see, hear and feel more of the greatness of what is always at hand without necessarily understanding it. And in those moments, in a very real way, His Presence is touched—and it is immediate, it is here and now. He, by reason of His Spirit is present in the room. We have called it an upper room, and that is accurate. There are stories in the New Testament, at the beginning of the Book of Acts, after the crucifixion and before the complete ascension, where it is said that Jesus would mysteriously appear in a room where before it seemed that He was not present. This illustrates something significant for us now—that though He may not be physically present in a given room, the light of His Spirit may be present in any room, or in the one room of human consciousness, all the time, by reason of those who provide the quality of heaven through which that Great Spirit is expressed and brought into the here and now.

Awareness of these things, the expression and experience of them, is the only way to live a life of prayer—really. We can take a few moments and speak words of prayer, words of thanksgiving, words of devotion, and have them be genuine, and expressed as a means of focalizing the current of spirit in the moment to the degree that we actually have the experience of living a life of continuous prayer—which is a consciousness of His Spirit and therefore the immediacy of His Presence, all the time, so that we are never outside of that, even in the darkened room of the world soul as it now is. When the Word is spoken in that darkened room, the light begins to glow, the immediacy of His Presence is felt, and behaviour changes, as it must within that transformative influence. The quality of thinking and feeling changes—it becomes devotional; devoted to something higher and finer than that to which it had previously been given—a change in the orientation of devotion. And in this way, into the darkened room of world consciousness, He is coming, He is walking, His light is appearing, and of course this is changing everything, everywhere.

We are full of gratitude for the release and the increase of light through each of us now. The Presence of the Greatest One, Whose birth we acknowledge in this season of the year, and Whose Spirit in mature expression of Manhood allowed a conception to occur in the womb of the unconscious world soul, is keenly felt now. He initiated an archangelic conception and development which has been carefully tended by the Mother and the Father; and by devoted Sons and Daughters, throughout these past 2000+ years—those men and women who were at least somewhat aware of that conception and continuing incarnation, which is now more directly brought to remembrance and into current understanding, into the early morning light of this day. So we assume our responsibility for the greater coming forth, for welcoming His Spirit and His Presence in the unified substance of heaven. We may be a reminder of the enduring vibrancy of all life present in and on the earth, providing a sanctuary womb for the ongoing transformation of the world soul—and the eventual transmutation that we know is inevitable.

O LORD, we are so very thankful for the gift of light and for the comforter Who has come into our lives: into our hearts through Thy Spirit of love, into our minds through Thy Spirit of light, and into our bodies through Thy Spirit of life; and into our spiritual awareness as the truth of ourselves, so that the three comforters of Thy Triune Spirit, the great Archangelic Spirit, is found to be our own spirit and our own identity—each of us as angels once more coming into living, creative expression as a part of Thy Great Body, in this second coming of the Christ Presence. Even as You came and presented yourself as a Man in a human body, so the Christ Presence comes again through the angels that we are, with others, who compose Thy heavenly host on earth. We are the evidence of the Presence of Thy Christ Body once again coming into form on earth, light in the remaining darkness of the world soul, rising as the Morning Star begins to rise at the dawning of every new day in the springtime season of this new age. We keenly feel Your Presence through the intensifying Spirit that we feel moving in the heaven of our own body temple, and the increased clarity of the light coming through the truth of who we are, and being expressed in the world. And so we are thankful for this protected place, this holy place, the sanctuary which has been provided, and which we help to sustain, with others, on earth, a womb through which the greater coming forth may occur in your appointed times and seasons. We are most thankful, O LORD, for the opportunity that we have had to sit together tonight, representing many. And we remain close with Thee, even as we feel You close with us, always.

© lighttouchventures

I have posted this before but it is clearly pertinent for meditation now

The  One  Pure  Tone  of  Creation

Dr. Steven Greer

from  Hidden Truth — Forbidden Knowledge

At that point, I went into a state of meditative awareness and transcended into unity consciousness; I was infinitely awake and the entire cosmos was awake and perfectly synchronized as one. As I entered that state I began to gaze around the solar system and saw that every planet was surrounded by space which was filled with infinite energy and light. The empty space was actually teeming with light and energy. I could directly see the baseline energy of the universe — the field of energy and light from which the entire material cosmos emerges from Infinite Mind — from the Godhead.

Instead of the darkness between stars and planets, there was an enormous light and energy with solid planets moving as islands of energy in this field of energy and power. Then, as I gazed at each planet, I directly perceived that each one was awake and conscious and had a specific tone and personality. Each created sphere had a very specific tone — and if I were more musically inclined I could recreate it. They were all pure tones and very specific. As I looked at Mercury I saw he was rather androgynous but more male; Venus was definitely female. Jupiter was just fantastic. And Mars is definitely male. The Earth: Definitely female.

As I gazed at Earth, there was a very beautiful tone emanating from her. Remember, each planet had its own tone of creation — no two tones were alike. Some much higher and some very deep and baritone, but all were beautiful tones. As I gazed at the Earth, I connected with her as an awake conscious being and she communicated to me this infinite and crushing — I use the word crushing because I couldn't tell the story for years without weeping — love. And there was a sense of melancholy also, for what was happening to her and the damage being done to her and the suffering of humanity upon her. It was profound and beyond words. It was one of the most emotional and moving experiences of my life.

Earth was very clearly saying how great her love was for her children and that her purpose was to be the womb for creating life that could become enlightened and grow towards Divinity. But she was also suffering tremendously from the recklessness and selfishness of her children. So there was this enormous melancholy — a sadness beyond my ability to convey in words. And yet, towards the end of our communion, she made it very clear that this suffering would not continue for much longer. Earth made it clear that this burden would be lifted suddenly.

By now I was in such a state of deep love and emotion that my heart chakra opened fully and an enormous love and celestial perception dawned. This celestial perception of the cosmos caused me to see the light of creation and all things suffused in love — the pure love of God. And as I went into that state, I heard all the distant worlds, every star and planet and the entire creation, singing as one — like a trillion tones blended into the one pure tone of the creation.

At that point, I transcended into a state that I cannot describe. It was a state where I heard a singular tone that was the perfectly harmonized tone of the entire creation humming, singing. It was the primal tone emanating from the earliest manifestation of relativity out of the infinite mind of God that maintains creation. It was the most beautiful experience of my life. As I transcended into that — I became one with that state and stayed within that state of Being. I don't know how long I was in that condition. But know that this is what is all around us. The music of the spheres is a reality — and within the tone, one can transcend to the infinity of the cosmic Being.

This primal tone wasn't Om, per se. I believe that is a human attempt to reproduce this ancient experience that is the perception of the sound of the primal thought emanating from the Infinite Being that creates the entire creation. It was on the level of the near death experience in terms of the transformative effect it had on me. After I stayed in that state of complete unity consciousness and God consciousness, my individuality dissolved. All that existed was infinite Being — and even the creation and Creator were one, the same, infinite awake-ness. I stayed in that state with it vibrating through me — just permeating me — for what seemed like eternity. Because I was beyond space and time, it is meaningless to talk about it in terms of how long it was.

We  Are  the  Generation  of  Transformation

Dr. Steven Greer

from  Hidden Truth — Forbidden Knowledge

 

Never be discouraged by this transient time of chaos. Keep your sights fixed on that far horizon—knowing the far horizon is not really that far. For it is already here, folded within us. So we should not worry if in the coming days or years or few decades there is difficulty and darkness and chaos. Because this vision that we are seeing is already assured. No matter what anyone tries to do, the Divine Plan and the destiny of earth and humanity will be fulfilled. This reality exists already. Forget about time for a moment. Forget about the amount of time. See that on a deep level of creation that this plan for humanity exists — for universal peace, abundance, the abolition of ignorance, the end of disease, and the growth of enlightenment in every person on the planet ...

We are, in a sense, the children of the half-light. The light is there — but it is only half there, hidden in all the current darkness. But “God loves those who work together”. We can join with people and spend time with people who share this vision and are working in some way to fulfill this good future.

We have to be aware of the chaos, but we should not only focus on that. It's easy to dwell on the negative. But there's so much that's beautiful that's all around us and there's so much that's happening that's positive. We can discipline ourselves to dwell on that which is good and beautiful and draw that to us and bring it into the world. It isn't easy, because we live in a world that's increasingly harsh and destructive. But this propels us all the more to connect firmly to truth and to a deeper vision. We must have the courage to choose enlightenment, and take responsibility for our own evolution and the progress of humanity.

We live in the most interesting of times. We're the last generation that will fully have the experience of both the old world and the new era. We're too close to it to really see it, but we have a beautiful station that is pivotal. It is unlike any generation before or that will come after. We are the generation of transformation. It is at once overwhelming and beautiful. We should be joyous and amazed at the extraordinary time we are in and the unparalleled opportunities we have. Efforts expended through the difficulty of this time, for this purpose — for the establishment of universal peace — will be honored and remembered for thousands of years. If we seize the opportunity, we are providing a service to humanity that no other generation could provide — and that's why we're here.