The Meaning of Meditation and Its Purpose
by Sarah Kalvin

The serious meditator should not expect to achieve results too
quickly, because the first stages of meditation present the
practitioner with an invitation to view and become familiar with the
content of the subconscious mind. Here in our subconscious thinking
reside all the motivating forces and impatience that play upon our
emotions and lead us into action. The source of our shortcomings and
character issues can be revealed to us through an examination of the
thoughts we entertain on levels below our conscious awareness.
Thoughts are alive and often in a holding pattern, so to speak,
until an emotion is stimulated to bring them to the surface or
threshold of the aware and self-observing conscious mind.

Private meditation practice can and does assist the seeker through
his or her own personal contact with an inner self-auditing system.
As well, one can prepare oneself against further emotional
programming through the method of introducing the concept of non-
emotional response into the thinking process. This does not mean
that a person becomes cold or detached to the point of not living
life to the fullest. What it means rather, is that the emotions and
thinking are monitored by a higher and more discriminating conscious
awareness, which becomes stronger in presence in the mind, as the
practice of meditation continues daily. By slowing down the pattern
of emotional reactions, we begin to realize that we have a choice in
all circumstances. We can react to everything emotionally and
therefore give life to negative thinking or we can refrain from
making emotional judgments and observe dispassionately the
shortcomings of others and situations that previously provoked our
own negative responses.

The power to control one's own emotional reactions brings us to the
threshold of potential for expanded experience hitherto blocked from
our awareness and understanding. Life's doors of perception and
creativity open to us, and because of our new and transcendental
view of circumstances and opportunities, we can take up the
challenge of real creative living. We then give life to our own
greater inner reality.

It is the programmed, negative, and traumatic memories that get in
the path of real life growth and development. Freed of these
emotional thought forms, which haunt us from the living grave of the
subconscious, along with a preparedness for overcoming reactions to
future stress, we can finally take advantage of the promise and joy
life has to offer to the truly dedicated seeker.

Meditation is an action word, a verb, and its real path leads to the
noun of spiritual contentment and an ever-expanding state of love,
light and calm awareness.

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Girl Power

"When Danny Thomas' daughter, Marlo, was offered a starring role in a TV series, she was determined to make her character reflect the changing role of young women in the early 1970's. That Girl was the story of Anne Marie, a single New Yorker struggling to pursue a career as an actress while making ends meet with odd jobs. She resisted the producers' urges to have her character get married, and only went so far as to let Anne become engaged to her beau, Donald Hollinger. She made it clear to Donald, however, that she didn't plan to let their relationship get in the way of her career plans."
Lynne Patrice

Is it easier or more difficult for young women to make this choice now?

Have we made progress or are we backsliding?
 what do you think?

"Semitic name of the Great Goddess, possibly from Old Iranian asha, 'Universal Law,' a law of the matriarch, like Roman ius naturale. Asherah was 'in wisdom the Mistress of the Gods.' Sumerians called her Ashnan, 'strength of all things, ' and 'a kindly and bountiful maiden.' Her sacred city Mar-ash appears in the Bible as Mareshah (Joshua 15:44).

"The Old Testament 'Asherah' is translated 'grove,' without any explanation that the sacred grove represented the Goddess' genital center, birthplace of all things. In the matriarchal period, Hebrews worshipped the Goddess in groves (I Kings 14:23), later cut down by patriarchal reformers who burned the bones of Asherah's priests on their own altars (2 Chronicles 24:4-5).

"The Goddess' grove-yoni was Athra qaddisa, 'the holy place' (literally, 'divine harlot'). Sometimes she was called simply 'Holiness,' a word later applied to Yahweh. Canaanites called her Qaniyatu elima, She Who Gives Birth to the Gods, or Rabbatu athiratu yammi, Lady Who Traverses the Sea (i.e. the Moon). Rabbatu was an early female form of rabbi. Athirat, Athra, Aethra, Athyr, and Egypt's Hathor were all variations of the same name for the Goddess. In Egypt she was also a Law-giving Mother, Ashesh, an archaic form of Isis; the name meant both 'pouring out' and 'supporting,' the functions of her breasts. Her yonic shrine in Thebes was Asher, Ashrel, or Ashrelt. Some called her 'Great Lady of Ashert, the lady of heaven, the queen of the gods.'

"For a while, Asherah accepted the Semitic god El as her consort. She was the Heavenly Cow, he the Bull. After their sacred marriage, she bore the Heavenly Twins, Shaher (Lucifer), the Morning Star; and Shalem (Peace), the Evening Star. The marriage rite seems to have involved the cooking of a kid in its mother's milk, a precedure later forbidden by Jewish priests (Exodus 23:19)."

Barbara G. Walker,
The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets

A friend sent me this and i though it was cute. so i wanted to share it with the rest of you.

*DNA can Repair itself with "feelings"*
DNA REPORT by Greg Braden

Below are three astonishing experiments with DNA which proves that DNA
can heal itself according to the "feelings" of the individual as
reported recently by Gregg Braden. In his recent program entitled
Healing Hearts/Healing Nations: The Science of Peace and the Power of
Prayer, Gregg Braden discussed how in the past we lost huge amounts of
information from ancient spiritual traditions (when the library at
Alexandria burned we lost at least 532,000 documents), and that there
may be information in those traditions which could help us understand
some of the mysteries of science. To this end he reported on three
very interesting experiments. Gregg Braden started off as a scientist
and engineer, before he began pursuing these larger questions.

EXPERIMENT Number 1

The first experiment reported was done by Dr.Vladimir Poponin, a
quantum biologist. In this experiment, first a container was emptied
(i.e. a vacuum was created within it), and then the only thing left
photons (particles of light) they measured the distribution (ie the
location) of the photons and found they were completely random inside
the container. This was the expected result.

Then some DNA was placed inside the container and the distribution
(location) of the photons was remeasured. This time the photons were
LINED UP in an ORDERED way and aligned with the DNA. In other words
the physical DNA had an effect on the non-physical photons.

After that, the DNA was removed from the container, and the
distribution of the photons was measured again. The photons REMAINED
ORDERED and lined up where the DNA had been. What are the light
particles connected to?

Gregg Braden says we are forced to accept the possibility that some
NEW field of energy, a web of energy, is there and the DNA is
communicating with the photons through this energy.

EXPERIMENT Number 2

These were experiments done by the military. Leukocytes (white blood
cells) were collected for DNA from donors and placed into chambers so
they could measure electrical changes. In this experiment, the donor
was placed in one room and subjected to "emotional stimulation"
consisting of video clips, which generated different emotions in the
donor. The DNA was placed in a different room in the same building.
Both the donor and his DNA were monitored and as the donor exhibited
emotional peaks or valleys (measured by electrical responses), the
DNA exhibited the IDENTICAL RESPONSES AT THE EXACT SAME TIME.
There was no lag time, no transmission time. The DNA peaks and valleys
EXACTLY MATCHED the peaks and valleys of the donor in time.

The military wanted to see how far away they could separate the donor
from his DNA and still get this effect. They stopped testing after
they separated the DNA and the donor by 50 miles and STILL had the
SAME result. No lag time; no transmission time.

The DNA and the donor had the same identical responses in time. What
can this mean? Gregg Braden says it means that living cells
communicate through a previously unrecognized form of energy. This
energy is not affected by time and distance. This is a non-local form
of energy, an energy that already exists everywhere, all the time.

EXPERIMENT Number 3

The third experiment was done by the Institute of Heart Math and the
paper that was written about this was titled: Local and Non-local
Effects of Coherent Heart Frequencies on Conformational Changes of
DNA. (Disregard the title! The info is incredible.)

This is the experiment that relates directly to the anthrax situation.
In this experiment, some human placenta DNA (the most pristine form of
DNA) was placed in a container from which they could measure changes
in the DNA. Twenty-eight vials of DNA were given (one each) to 28
trained researchers. Each researcher had been trained how to generate
and FEEL feelings, and they each had strong emotions.

What was discovered was that the DNA CHANGED ITS SHAPE according to
the feelings of the researchers:

1. When the researchers FELT gratitude, love and appreciation, the DNA
responded by RELAXING and the strands unwound. The length of the DNA
became longer.

2. When the researchers FELT anger, fear, frustration, or stress, the
DNA responded by TIGHTENING UP. It became shorter and SWITCHED OFF
many of our DNA codes! If you've ever felt "shut down" by negative
emotions, now you know why your body was equally shut down too. The
shut down of the DNA codes was reversed and the codes were switched
back on again when feelings of love, joy, gratitude and appreciation
were felt by the researchers.

This experiment was later followed up by testing HIV positive
patients. They discovered that feelings of love, gratitude and
appreciation created 300,000 TIMES the RESISTANCE they had without
those feelings. So here's the answer to what can help you stay well,
no matter what dreadful virus or bacteria may be floating around. Stay
in feelings of joy, love, gratitude and appreciation!

These emotional changes went beyond the effects of electro-magnetics.
Individuals trained in deep love were able to change the shape of
their DNA. Gregg Braden says this illustrates a new recognized form of
energy that connects all of creation. This energy appears to be a
TIGHTLY WOVEN WEB that connects all matter. Essentially we're able to
influence this web of creation through our VIBRATION.

SUMMARY:

What do the results of these experiments have to do with our present
situation? This is the science behind how we can choose a time line to
stay safe, no matter what else is happening.

As Gregg explains in The Isaiah Effect, basically time is not just
linear (past, present and future), but it also has depth. The depth of
time consists of all the possible prayers and time lines that could
ever be prayed or exist. Essentially, all our prayers have already
been answered. We just activate the one we're living through our
FEELINGS.

THIS is how we create our reality - by choosing it with our feelings.
Our feelings are activating the time line via the web of creation,
which connects all of the energy and matter of the Universe.

Remember that the law of the Universe is that we attract what we focus
on. If you are focused on fearing whatever may come, you are sending a
strong message to the Universe to send you whatever you fear. Instead
if you can get yourself into feelings of joy, love, appreciation or
gratitude, and focus on bringing more of that into your life, you are
going to avoid the negative stuff automatically.

You will be choosing a different TIME LINE with your feelings.

You can prevent getting anthrax or any other flu, virus, etc, by
staying in these positive feelings, which maintains an incredibly
strong immune system.

So here's your protection for whatever comes: Find something to be
happy about every day, and every hour if possible,moment-to-moment,
even if only for a few minutes. This is the easiest and best
protection you can have.

 

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May the light shine with in and around me.