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If there is anything that scientists can agree on, it's not global warming, but that the frequency and intensity of earthquakes are on the rise. Is this a prelude to December 21, 2012: a sign that our planet is just resonating with our own individual and societal psyche? Or, just a blip on the radar screen: nothing to worry about?
At least 111 people are confirmed killed in Samoa, neighboring American Samoa and Tonga. Officials in the Pacific region have expressed fears the toll will rise as rescue workers struggle to reach outlying villages. The quake hit the small cluster of Samoan islands in the South Pacific early Tuesday.
Around 220,000 people live on the two main islands which make up the nation of Samoa. The population of the U.S. island territory of American Samoa is about 66,000.
In Tonga, Lord Tuita, the acting prime minister, said at least seven people had been confirmed dead on the northern island of Niuatoputapu. Three others were missing and four people were being treated for serious injuries, he said. "The hospital on the island is reported to have suffered major damage; telephone communications has been cut as a result of damage to equipment and facilities on the island; homes and government buildings have been destroyed; the airport runway has been severely damaged making it impossible for any fixed wing aircraft to land," a statement from the Tongan prime minister's office said.
Meanwhile, there's yet another earthquake getting attention.
A major earthquake that struck Indonesia this morning killing at least 13 people and injured hundreds more just from initial reports. The 13 were crushed when the quake collapsed buildings, said Rustam Pakaya, head of the Ministry of Health's crisis center. Hundreds more were injured, he said. The state-run Antara news agency said the earthquake "killed tens of people and destroyed hundreds of buildings including houses, shopping centers and mosques."
My take is that we're swimming in some deep waters for which there are no normalities.
About the Author:
As a spiritual-futurist, I have a BA degree majoring in history. One cannot know the future without knowing the past which holds clues to what is on the horizon. The world is in such a rapid expansion of knowledge that we are close to entering a tipping point that will forever change earth as we know it.
The species is coming alive. I am taking about homo sapien sapiens who are being transformed into something more akin to homo luminous. We are so much more than we think. What we see in the mirror is just a jumble of energy that houses the true vibrational frequency that resonates with unconditioned consciousness- God, Creator, Spirit.
In much the same way that Albert Einstein described pendulums (We don't know how or why it works, we just know that it does), we find ourselves not knowing the full ramnification os this event called 2012, which is more than the symbolic winter solistice (12.21.2012), it the passing through a thirty year window or door that leads us into a new dimension: a new "beingness."
Ellen Bass has the spirit of the process that we're experiencing as she wrote, "There is a part of every living thing that wants to become itself- the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, the damaged human into a whole one. That is spirituality." We are truly spiritual beings who have not taken notice of what that means; but, we are now for some unknown reason.
Could the anatomical alarm clock be going off?
The church has tried in vain to force feed people spirituality with fear (of hell) and intimidation (ex-communication) but what has been the results? We've seen more divisiveness, more killing, and more intolerance. Science has tried the factual way of giving us more and more technological tools with which to better life and all we've done is use those inventions for more destruction.
But NOW is upon us, and whether we're moving through some photon cloud, galactic crossings, interstellar plasma field, or not, we're being transformed, and it's becoming more and more increasingly noticable. How about you? What are you seeing when you look in the mirror these days.
About the Author:
As a spiritual-futurist, I have a BA degree majoring in history. One cannot know the future without knowing the past which holds clues to what is on the horizon. The world is in such a rapid expansion of knowledge that we are close to entering a tipping point that will forever change earth as we know it.
The events that will usher in a new era, most often referred to as 21.21.2012, is NOW, but NOT YET!
Does that sound like some Zen koan or what? We are now experiencing some of the new world that is to come but we've not seen the quantum leap
that must invariably happen in the thirty year window of 1987 to 2017 (give or take a month here or there). :-)
Stuff has indeed been
happening. If one were to look at the headlines over the past two decades the changes and transformations are unimaginable (back in the early 80's).
And yet we've not seen the quantum leap that invariably follows times such as these. Darwin evolutionism simply cannot account for the fossil gaps
wherein quantum leaps took over: when Consciousness interrupted life as it was known and changed the landscape of life.
There is an
evolutionary pressure building that will lead to a revolution event. Newtonian physics, or classical physics simply cannot account for quantum
physic events. While it may not be easily seen, considering current events, we are moving into an era of "right relationships" as the Hopi call it.
This will occur not just with we humans, but with plants, animals, Gaia, and the universe: Consciousness itself!
Are you ready for this?
Get ready! :-)
An ecological leap is underway. What will the world look like a half dozen years from now? Only the most visionary and
maybe even the savants can know. We're being seeded by unique children. This process to prepare us for the jump has produced children that we
call various names, such as: Indigo, Star kids, Crystalline, etc. Consciousness (God) does not follow a step by step plan. Consciousness speaks
and it is! Let there by this and let there be that and IT IS!
We're not here by accident, be it a once in a life time event or a repeated
incarnation. The Anthropic Principle was proposed in Poland in 1973, commemorating Copernicus’s 500th birthday. It was proposed by Brandon Carter,
who, on Copernicus’s birthday, proclaimed that humanity did indeed hold a special place in the Universe, an assertion that is the exact opposite of
Copernicus’s now universally accepted theory. Life is purposeful and we're headed where Consciousness is directing and in those blueprints for life
here and beyond there are LEAPS that defy logic.
We're in one of those and yet- not fully! Leap time is on the way.
About
the Author:
As a spiritual-futurist, I have a BA degree majoring in history. One cannot know the future without knowing the past
which holds clues to what is on the horizon. The world is in such a rapid expansion of knowledge that we are close to entering a tipping point
that will forever change earth as we know it.
Are there "beings"
on other planets? do you believe in UFO's? If we're the only humans (or something akin to us) in this vast universe didn't the One
who created all of this surely waste a lot of SPACE (no pun intended)? And if there are others beings "out there", do they have the
ability to transcend certain dimensions such as space, time and possibly other unknown dimensions? Ah, the multitude of questions! :-)
There's so much more to think about in our daily lives what with this messy recession and will the Red Sox be able to hold off
the high-powered Yankees. Who has time for the likes of transdimensional "anything"?
But, if there was a time to give such an
area a thought, wouldn't 2012 or the 2012 window (1986-2016) be a good time to do it? I guess a first question would be are you open
to a multi?dimensional universe? The words and the mind games can get pretty deep here. Who understands string theory, or geometric
space, or a space matrix consisting of elemental superstrings? Not I so, let's dumb it down a bit.
New words and concepts are
flying into our faces every day. One such paradigm is the "lightbody" which is poetic; however, it comes close to my Christian background
which has told me that the Creator of the world is LIGHT, that Jesus was LIGHT, and that I am a child of LIGHT (one of the trillions of
rays that make up the WHITE LIGHT! Are you still with me? :-)
Among other things light is about information and transformation. We probably have more information than we can handle, but we sure need some transformation. Transformation does not come though with more information. Enlightenment isn't a cerebral process: it cannot be "reasoned" out or drummed up with ecstatic voodoo. We must experience transformation which in part means we must BE STILL. We must simply BE. The more I BE, and AM, the more I sense that my body, actually my DNA, is being altered, reprogrammed. Sounds weird doesn't it? It even feels strange.
I am being bombarded by electromagnetic pulses being sent from the galactic center? Am I experiencing the Hebraic, or Kabbalistic “merkaba”?
I don't have any proof, but what I can tell you is that starting around the time of the Harmonic Convergence (86-87), my Spirit became restless and I began "moving out", moving WITHIN! And starting 3-4 years ago my spirit-psyche, and being shifted gears into a much more intense deeper state. Am I being connected to something else, something bigger? Quantum physics seemingly has a similar answer as the Bible: As above so, below, and vice versa. :-)
About the Author:
As a spiritual-futurist, I have a BA degree majoring in history. One cannot know the future without knowing the past which holds clues to what is on the horizon. The world is in such a rapid expansion of knowledge that we are close to entering a tipping point that will forever change earth as we know it.
@ -- May 25 --
Human-to-human transmission of bird flu confirmed in Indonesia (APA). The mutated form of the virus is the danger that scientists expected.
The spread of the bird flu virus from human to human can claim millions of lives. According to pessimistic forecasts of the UN experts, the spread of the virus from human to human may lead to the death of at least 150 million people. Russian head sanitary inspector Gennadi Inishenko predicts 50 million and Russian Emergencies Ministry predicts 27 million might die from this virus.
The possibility of spread of the H5N1 virus from human to human was confirmed in Indonesia. The virus has been found on three children, who stayed in the same room with the infected woman.
The World Health Organization has investigated the death of six of seven members of a family, who contracted the deadly virus in Indonesia. It was confirmed that the 10-year-old child contracted the virus from his aunt and it spread to the father and other members of the family. The WHO is now conducting a large-scale investigation into the case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu.
The Health Ministry spokesman Samaye Mammadova told APA that no emergency sanitary regime is due to be held in Azerbaijan related to the investigation of new mutated form of the bird flu virus. She said precautions are being implemented.
The H5N1 virus has already killed more than 120 people worldwide since 2003. It has also devastated poultry stocks. /APA/
@ -- May 25 -- Morgellons? Me? me? The health nut? The natural healing doctor?
Yes, now I can admit it.... nearly drove me crazy for several years. It's more common than people think. Came on immediately after an afternoon of video'ng chemtrails! After a couple years of puzzling and painful skin lesions, I researched and found the Morgellons Organization which described so nearly what I was suffering. I bought a microscope as suggested by the Morgellons foundation and there they were. Weird fibers. But none appeared 'alive' or wiggly... thank goodness! Now that Morgellons is getting more respect as a 'real' disease, and not 'delusional parasitosis'. I can admit it.. before, I wanted to hide in a closet. People have actually committed suicide suffering from it. I wouldn't ever do such a thing, but I can understand the desperation. Prayer is so much better.
Mary Leitao of the Morgellons foundation emailed me to speak on television in Jacksonville, Florida a couple of years ago, but at that time I was too energyless to travel up there from here south of Miami - besides my family thinks I'm crazy enough as it is. Now, I'm almost free of it! Now getting better all the time, and looking forward to the scars fading.
It's a miracle.. Answers to my prayers. The Natural Cellular Defense drops are fantastic de-toxers! I finally got relief last year after my friend Carol strongly insisted that I check Waiora's NCD out. At first I resisted - I was tired of trying yet another useless remedy, but I finally gave in, I was desperate. I didn't believe anything would help any more -- after all that I had tried - including parasite cleanses, (which made it much worse!!!! )- infra-red sauna, which helped some..pain pills, anti-itch creams, ibupropen, herbs, homeopathic remedies, vodka, over-eating, tea tree oil, special essential oils, roseacea creams, de-tox baths, Face Doctor and Zen med, sulpher ointments,anti-mite demodex creams, etc., etc., etc. Nothing helped. Could hardly get any sleep at night for all the painful itching and burning.. and the UGLY breakouts... ewwwwww - had to use, as my husband says, 'industrial strength' make up. But theNCD stuff really works!I can hardly believe it myself..it's almost too good to be true.
I feel and look like a new person. And I continually thank God every day for these discoveries.
And I guess I'd better thank Carol for her persistance to get me to try the NCD.
I had emailed Mary Leitao of the Morgellons.org about my recovery due to the NCD drops but she has not responded as of yet.
deexxoo
@ -- MAY 24 -- From Spirit Daily.com:
COMET MAY NOT
HIT, BUT - DOES IT BRING A MESSAGE - IN A NAME
THAT MEANS - "Watchman"?
http://spiritdaily.com/prophecyesmay2006.htm
Prophecy?
You've come to the right place. Discernment? You'll excuse a measure of
skepticism.
Right now the rage is
comets.
The internet is abuzz
with those who believe, based on one prediction, that a comet known as
Schwassmann-Wachmann, which has broken into pieces, will send one of its pieces
into the ocean, causing a tsunami.
This has reached fever
pitch and was even in a major U.S. newspaper, The Houston Chronicle, which reported that
"Eric Julien, former military air traffic controller,
twin engine jet pilot and former instructor at astronaut Patrick Baudry's Space
Camp -- Discovery Shuttle flight -- has written four articles covering the high
probability of a giant tsunami in the Atlantic Ocean caused by the impact of a
comet fragment near or on May 25."
"Responding to NASA's press release stating the innocuousness of the
fragmented comet 73P-SW3 with regards to the Earth, the French author of The
Science of the Extraterrestrials indicates that numerous scientific data
attest to a real danger as was laid out starting with his first article of early
April, namely that a small-sized fragment, still unobservable and distant from
the principal fragments, could hit the Atlantic Ocean, bringing about the
awakening of the volcanoes of the mid-Atlantic ridge, with these being the
origin of a possible tsunami with waves two hundred meters high," added the
article.
We are certainly not
ones to discount warnings but urge extreme caution when events are presented
with such specificity and pegged to dates, along with an unlikely chain of
events.
In this case, we see
upon further inquiry that Eric Julien is obsessed with "extraterrestrials" and
says that his information arrived "psychically," in large part.
That's enough for us to
discount it. Then there's the science of it.
The closest pass of one
fragment has already come and gone. We are talking about chunks millions of
miles from earth.
The
excitement exploded because Schwassmann-Wachmann, or Comet 73P, was photographed
splitting apart and could be seen in the night sky. But the chunks would not hit
earth, NASA assured the public last month, nor will it spawn killer tsunamis and
mass extinctions -- quashing claims that a fragment would slam into our planet
before Memorial Day, indeed on or about May 25, which of course is this
week.
The prediction
nonetheless sparked fervid interest in the website of a former nightclub owner,
Ned Dougherty, who returned from a Catholic near-death episode with alleged
messages about the future and whose website is now inundated with those who
believe that he has confirmed the prediction of a tsunami.
"In the past six days, my website has been experiencing an average of
30,000 hits per day and I have been overwhelmed with e-mail requests primarily
from Europe and Canada requesting that I respond to warnings that have
been emanating from several websites and media sources in Europe predicting that
a U.S. East Coast tsunami may occur specifically from May 18 to May 25,
2006," he wrote last week. "In addition to posting these warnings for this
specific time period, these websites have made reference to my books in English
and French respectively, Fast
Lane to Heavenand Voie Express
pour le Paradis. Inferences have been made that I have concurred with the
prediction of this potential event in May 2006.
"First of all, I have
not made any predictions that such an event may or may not happen during this
specific time period, nor have I been disseminating such information. Secondly,
there is no basis for me in my experiences to assume that I may be given actual
times or dates that specific geophysical or geopolitical events will definitely
occur or that I do have, in fact, the ability to predict future dates. Finally,
I have not received any information from any source that indicates to me that I
should post a warning for this specific time period."
Dougherty is singled
out as a point of interest because he appeared to foretell the terrorist attacks
in New York and Washington, D.C. and had visions of a massive tsunami that one
day might affect the coast from New York City to Florida. His own speculation is
that such could occur from the collapse of a volcano -- which may be why it was
tied to the Julien prognostication.
Wild territory this is.
And there is the matter of dates. While some secrets at apparition sites may
have dates for future events, such have not been publicly released in the
history of mystical theology. At Fatima, Portugal, the Blessed Mother foresaw an
incredible display of the aurora borealis, but she did not give an exact day or
even a precise year. She did mention the specific date of October 13, in 1917,
for a great miracle, but that was not a natural calamity.
Predictions are usually
overly specific when they come from the brain or from a deceiving spirit instead
of the Holy Spirit. But that's not to discount some peculiar aspects of the
comet.
First the name
Wachmann means "watchman"; Schassmann means "silent" or
"voiceless." Silent watchman. We are certainly in a time of vigilance. Moreover,
the closest fragment to earth was one that was curiously heart-shaped; the comet
itself was discovered in 1930, on the eve of the Divine Mercy
revelations.
As a friend of ours
notes: "It is fragmenting just as it prepares for its closest encounter with the
earth on May 25th. It is not a coincidence the comet is disintegrating as
it closes on its encounter with earth. It is green in color which is
unusual for comets and the color of St. Michael. Thirdly, it is exiting
from the Ring Nebula, M57, also known as the "Eye of God" [left].
We consider such
things. We are interested in coincidence -- all kinds of them. We are especially
interested in the concept of "watchmen." In all the hullabaloo, perhaps this is
what we can take from it all: that whatever the merits of particular "words," we
are all called to the tower of Jezreel. It is a time for vigilance.
As for comets and
asteroids: sure. There are so many and there is so little knowledge that
anything could happen. There is a major belt of asteroids between us and Mars
and even asteroids between our planet and the sun. Much farther out, from
Neptune beyond Pluto, are countless millions -- one of which might one day wing
our way. The most likely scenario for disaster, NASA experts told us, was that a
long-term comet would suddenly appear undetected from behind the
sun.
But it is often
hundreds of thousands of years between the major strikes of
asteroids.
NASA is concerned about
an asteroid that could strike in 2036 on April 13 --
which would be Easter. The odds of a
collision are 1 in 6,250. While that's a long shot at the racetrack, notes one
newspaper, the stakes are too high for astronomers to ignore.
What to make of other
predictions? Across Christianity, from Catholics to Evangelicals, is a
heightened sense of expectation and increasingly bold projections of major
events, especially ones that will affect America. There is a sense that we are
approaching a catastrophic turn. Without becoming immersed in detail, we search
for the truth of such a prophetic pulse.
"Judgment shall begin
to fall upon the unholy in high places," says a major non-Catholic one that is
representative of many others. "My Hand of mercy shall be lifted in many lands
and yes, even in many places that call Me 'Lord.' My truth was once planted
into the heart and spirit of My people but many have entwined it with the ways
of man. You cannot separate Me from your land and expect to reap the reward
of My blessings forever. Calamity shall come across unexpected places and many
shall know sorrow that has not touched them before."
Notes another on a
website that even uses "alarm" in its name: "I am aware-- right now-- our God,
the Holy Father, is garmenting Himself in a cloak of vengeance and zeal. He is
about to judge a nation. We stand on the very edge of a holy act of God."
"I have previously
prophesied that we will see a great calamity in 2006," says yet another. "This
countdown from 2001 to 2006 is just another confirmation of that prophecy. How
many more prophetic words does anyone need to hear? But the Lord is good
to confirm things over and over again," claims one more, pointing out that a
friend who gets prophetic words had called this "The Year of The
Watchman."
We certainly don't
think any cataclysms will occur this week, but we are on the lookout always as
everyone is watching the beauty of the way God purifies at the same time that we
warn of errant and even occult predictions.
It is a struggle for
all of us at a time when prophecy has been relegated to the dustbin of religion.
The end of the world?
No.
The end of an era?
Yes.
There are those who
believe they can see the notation of "EZ 3" as if referring to Ezekiel
Chapter Three in the Shroud of Turin and at the least let us note that this
passage which comes to us at the same time as the alleged prophecies contains
the words, "Son of man, I have
appointed you a watchman to the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from
My mouth, warn them from Me."
We are called to be
watchmen. That message we will accept.
Fire from the sky? One
day before the end of our era there will be fear of fire from the sky.
That's our prognostication.
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