With all the apparent craziness going on in the world, we might often wonder:  “What is going on?!”

Here is  my answer to that question.  We are being pushed to the point that we will collectively choose to be aware of what is in front of us to see: that we are ruled by banks via a puppet government, that the religions so many of us subscribe to inhibit our deepest, loving expression, and that the popularity of these religions means we have put a large part of our faith in false gods while we have lost faith in our own selves, in our own power.  As a world civilization, apparently, we are not yet willing to see what is right in front of us.

How far are we going to collectively put our heads down the rabbit hole?  We are going to find out this year.

We are in the middle of a collective game in which each of us is a player.  This is the game: We, as the powerful beings that we are, get to decide whether we are, indeed, powerful beings or if we are the insecure, fearful ego that pretends to be us. 

And it is the answer to this question that will decide whether our transition to creating a more loving world will be a graceful one or a harrowing experience.

It appears, for the moment, that we have been defining ourselves as our fearful, avoiding, limited selves.  It appears that, despite the warnings we have been given, despite the numerous creative ways that the Universe (maybe God?!) has been attempting to wake us up, that we are for the moment, more comfortable
in a state of blindness.

We see all the signs of a collapsing economy, but rather than look at it with clarity, we are preoccupied with our soap operas, with which team will win the football game, with our beer and our artificial comfort foods, and with our own petty ways of finding apparent differences between each other,.

What we have shown more clearly recently is that we, as a society, are completely asleep.  The Universe---God, if you will--is giving us wake-up calls.  We are so busy bailing water out of our personal sinking ships that we are not
seeing that the larger ship we all sail upon is sinking.  And that the only reason it is sinking is that we refuse, collectively, to see that it IS sinking and that we, the People, have the power to make it much more buoyant, light, alive: a true expression of our Loving Power.

The Shift that we are in the middle of is a shift of loving power: no blood need be shed, no violence need be wrought.  All that we have to do is wake up to our power, a power much greater than those who sometimes seem
to be calling the "real world" shots right now.

While I have been surprised by the basic silence after the recent landmark decision by our so-called "Supreme Court" to allow corporations, both domestic and foreign, to basically buy our governments, I am very clear that if this wake-up call is not heeded, then the Universe will find other more creative, more painful ways of attempting to wake us up.  If the very real prospect of being governed by the will of the corporate money interests is not enough to wake us up, I wonder what the next raise will be in this poker game.

All the truly strange things we have been witnessing on the part of our government, our financial institutions and our geophysical environment are all wake-up calls.  Let's wake up!

We are being asked to see that our governments are largely false: they and the media are basically owned by the bankers.  If you do not see this, you are not paying attention.  We are being called to see that our organized religions are mostly false, that they, too, are run by people whose agenda is counter to the true loving nature of their sheep-like flock.  We are here to become united in love. 

Most religion---by design---divides us, yet almost no one will stand up and speak this truth.  Mohammad was a gangster.  Read the history.  The most beautiful and touching stories of Christ's life have been largely deleted from the bible to serve the interests of those concerned with money and power.  Wearing the mask of righteousness, most organized religions betray the faith of their blind flock.  Please open your eyes.  Use the Internet to do a little research.  Search terms like "Bible contradictions" and "Qu'ran contradictions".

To suggest that the words in these books are the word of a Supreme Being is to suggest that the Supreme Being is  quintessentially and dangerously schizophrenic.  Really.  Search.  Investigate.  You will be amazed.  The so-called faithful can have no meaningful reply.  None.  They simply suggest that you ignore proven facts in favor of unconscious story.

This has been staring you in the face and you have not wanted to look. You have feared the judgment of your peers and the judgment of a false god who does not exist.  There is no All-Loving god who would condemn his people to
an eternity of torture.  To believe such a thing is the ultimate act of spiritual stupidity and fearfulness.  If we are, indeed, smarter than the apes, then we are too smart to believe such ignorant ideas.  But it seems that we communally sit here like stupid monkeys and accept that the highly-edited words of men who lived thousands of years ago are somehow the word of God.  How smart are we going to choose to be?

I do not call for your anger or violence in any way.  I do suggest that you call upon the innate courageous, loving being that you are at depth. Ask your heart about who you are and whether you are truly a deeply loving being.  Then simply be quiet and listen to your inner callings.  Do this as a gift to your Self and a gift to your world.

So what will you do and think now:  Deny?  Delude?   Distract?  Consider me a quack?  Ask your heart how you might best respond.

Time is short.  Please do not be wasting too much time thinking about it with your fearful head.  Please, rather, listen to your heart.  Let it guide, calm and empower you.  It IS a facet of who you really are.

And calmly let your elected representatives know what you are no longer willing to put up with.  Calm wins the day.

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