Personal Power

I was just thinking about personal power and how we often give our personal power away. We allow others to think for us because it's often easier than doing all of the work ourselves. Unfortunately, in the process, we give others our personal power - something we should never do.

I love the idea of taking in big gulps of information and then taking the time to decide which sips I actually swallow. There is so much information out there that we are constantly bombarded with conflicting data. What is truth for one is not necessarily truth for another.

What works for me may not work for you. What works for you may not work for me, but that does not negate your processes. Discernment is key. And to always remember we are all the same, one not better than another, and that each of us have our own path to follow and our own lessons to learn. 

Smart Talk

I've been following a new genre - Smart Talk Radio. That is my interpretation of alternative radio programs that allows one a break from reading. It alleviates the need to sit still! One can learn while doing other tasks. It's been the perfect avenue for me to remove myself from the chair and still absorb the types of material that is of interest to me, personally. 

Most of the programs are downloadable so you can put them on your I-Pod and listen to them while you're driving, gardening, cooking, or working on mundane tasks. I have a tendency to turn it on when I'm doing housework and especially when I begin to prepare dinner. It's like having a friend in the room that talks about the sorts of things that interest me. Have you ever noticed how much of your time is spent talking to friends and family about things that are not all that interesting to you? If I started to talk about what actually interests me, my friends would roll their eyes and think I've gone over the edge. So instead, we talk about the weather, economy, future retirement, houses, cars, children, grandchildren - well you get the picture. There is never any discourse on UFOs, physics, evolving consciousness, or the matrix of control that we seem to be caught up in. Chem Trails have never come up in polite conversation.

There are many radio programs out there. Some are better than others. I like Red Ice Creations out of Northern Europe, Veritas Radio, and Coast to Coast. They seem to be professionally produced, and have high quality sound. But there are many to choose from. You can find a radio program that follows any interest you may have. Most have a segment that is free and then for the second hour you need to be a subscriber. They usually charge $6-8 per month, or pennies a day. For the price of a latte you can have access to some of the deepest thinkers of our time. In fact the website we discussed starting last month was going to eventually have a radio segment. (It is still on the back burner.) 

I may not always understand or agree with what is being said, but I like to listen and store the information. Sometimes little bits and pieces of information can come together, completing a picture of something you may not have even known that you were interesting in knowing!

Keeping in mind that everyone needs to make a living, paying these people such a small sum to keep me entertained and intrigued seems like a good use of my time and money. Listening to these people talk before buying their book, CD, etc, would have saved me many hundreds of dollars over the years. I can't tell you how many books I've bought and abandoned.

If you have a favorite, please let me know. If I find others that might be of interest to you I will post about them. In the meantime, listen to a segment with Neil Kramer (episode number 186) on Veritas,  he is so good at verbalizing what many of us are thinking and feeling right now.

Flexibility

There is just no energy going into our new website. Trish is very busy putting some of her old books into e-book form and won't be available for several months. Jen is busy working full time, taking care of a four-year-old, and launching a new marketing company on the side. That leaves me. I have the time, but not the inclination to do it by myself. After all, collaboration is much more fun.

Flexibility seems to be the word of the day. If we cannot be flexible during these energetic times - we can literally go off the deep end. Things are changing in rapid fire - from our jobs to our government to our personal lives - everything is in limbo. Change is the order of the day and if you can't bend with the times, you run the risk of breaking.

Which leaves me to this blog. Do I continue writing here? Do I put all of my energies into The Book, or do I just remain flexible - following my intuition? I would really like to finish Seth Speaks and put all of that information onto this site. It is partly for you - because I think it is fascinating that much of what Seth channeled in 1971 is proving to be true in 2012 - and partly an exercise for myself. Synthesizing information of that depth is difficult, and I would really like to have it completed for other work I am doing. On the other hand, there is so much more going on in the world right now. Great blog fodder.

So there you have it. A crossroads. To blog or not to blog? How about you? Are you at a crossroads?

Update

I'm starting to emerge from the wall of boxes! We've moved from a big house back to our small house at Lake Tahoe and we couldn't be happier. A friend once said that your home should fit like your clothes - not too big and not too small. So now we know 5,000 sq ft is too big and our condo at 1,400 sq ft is a bit tight, but workable. So until we find the right fit in the place we want to retire, we will stay here in the mountains.

It has been a busy time with moving, graduations, and all of the details that go along with life in 2012. I'm off to Portland tomorrow to care for my grandson for several days while his parents take a little vacation, and then I can begin to think about the new website. We've changed the launch date from June 11th to June 27th. I'll spend some time with my daughter this week learning the new technology.

Hope all is well with you regarding all of the new energy swirling and moving, twisting and turning. We live in interesting times, don't you think?

Special thanks to all of you that continue to stop by and check out this blog. I'm always amazed when I look at the site statistics and see that many of you are still with me - thank you so much.

More info to follow soon. 

Seth Speaks, to be continued...

This series begins here:

Unfortunately, packing and moving is taking precedence. (It's all those spatulas I can't seem to part with...) I was hoping to finish this book before the movers arrived. Now, it feels like time is moving faster, and I must concentrate on matters at hand. I do hope you liked the first nine chapters of Seth Speaks. It is a book that changes lives and I hope it rang a bell somewhere along the line for you.

I would love to exchange thoughts with those of you still reading, by the way.

Seth Speaks, Chapter Nine

Begins this series here.

Chapter Nine:

Death is what we make of it. Just as in life, we create our own scenes and stage settings, so death is also what we expect it to be. If you are deeply religious - then that is what you find on the other side of life. Your particular guides will look like angels. If you believe in Allah, then it will be that particular scenario that will greet you. If you are attached to physical life, well, then you may have a harder time separating yourself from life, and may find yourself clinging to your body. These hallucinations begin directly after death, but only last a certain amount of time. But in every case - the after-death experience is unique to the individual.

There is no separate, indivisible, specific point of death, instead, just as life is in a state of becoming, death is also part of the state of becoming. Just as the cells in our body die and are reborn on a daily basis, without our realizing this is happening, so, too, are we dying and being reborn. If our cells did not die and be replenished our physical image could not continue to exist. At the same time, consciousness, as stated previously, flickers and blinks on and off. In fact our bodies are completely replaced over periods of time. We do not have have the same body that we did ten years ago. Everything has been completely replaced over time. Every cell, every membrane. So we are alive - even while we are dying.

Our consciousness may withdraw from our bodies slowly or quickly depending on many variables. We are not left alone - there are guides and teachers to explain the conditions and circumstances. The after-death experience is anything but somber, on the contrary, they are generally far more intense and joyful than the reality we now know. We will be learning to operate in a new system with different laws. These laws are far less limiting than the ones we operate under now. We need to learn and understand these new freedoms, including the creative potency of thoughts and emotions. An individual may find themselves in ten different scenarios in a blink of an eye, not understanding they are doing it themselves.

You may, or may not, meet friends and relatives on the other side depending on personal preferences immediately following death. You may find yourself far more interested in people that you knew in past lives than those you were close to in this life. Your true feelings towards relatives that have already passed over are known to you and to them, by the way. There is no hypocrisy on that side of the veil. Your own motives will also be crystal clear. You will not be automatically wise if you were not so in life, neither will there be a way to hide from your own feelings, emotions, or motives.

You examine the fabric of the life you have left and you learn how your experiences were the result of your own thoughts and emotions and how these affected others. (Sounds like the "life review.") After you work through this life you begin to be aware of all of your other lives, and begin preparations to return to your next physical existence.

Your consciousness may leave your body before physical death. The simple consciousness of atoms, cells, and organs can continue to exist for some time after the main consciousness has left the body. There may, or may not, be disorientation according to our beliefs and developments upon death, but often there is immediate recognition of the situation. In fact it was stated that there are many deceased that attend their own funerals. Many of us are overjoyed to find we still have consciousness after death, and some are fully aware of their circumstances because of previous training and development and are ready, after a brief rest, to progress to other stages.

For those who are firmly fixed in illness there may be hospitals and rest homes, with the patient not yet realizing there is nothing wrong with them. There are also training centers, whereby the nature of reality is explained in accordance with the individual's ability to understand. These training centers contain certain classes in which instruction is given to those wishing to return to the physical environment. (Hmmm, classes, I think I'm going to like this place...)

There are those that are so thoroughly focused in this reality that they refuse to believe they are dead and may continue to focus their attention on those they knew in this life. There are those that are so engrossed in a particular project that they may try to complete it. Some who have hated their body are strangely drawn to it after death. You also may be able to become whatever age you imagine yourself for a certain period of time. An old woman may find herself young and vital, finding her form corresponding with an inner image she carries of herself. Others may take the form where they had a particular point of greatest mental or emotional height, regardless of age or beauty. You will feel comfortable in the form that you choose.

We react to a certain set of assumptions that we have all agreed upon in this reality. After death we merely divest ourselves of physical paraphernalia, tune into different fields, and react to a different set of assumptions.


Up Next: "Death" Conditions In Life

Seth Speaks, Chapter 8

This series begins here.

Chapter Eight:

This chapter begins by saying each individual needs varying amounts of sleep, and that no pill will ever replace sleep because too much work is accomplished in the sleep state. That being said, people vary in the amounts of sleep they need. But in all cases people would be better off with two periods of sleep rather than one long period. Ten hours of sleep, for example, is actually a disadvantage because it leaves the person sluggish, both in mind and body, simply because spirit has been away from the body too long, resulting in a loss of musculature flexibility. Two, rather than one long sleep period, is actually better for the mind and body. Two periods of three hours is usually enough for most people if the proper suggestions were given before sleep - suggestions that insure the body's complete recuperation. (I'm not sure what these suggestions actually are - I'm hoping this information will come in a later chapter.)

Animals sleep when they are tired and awaken in a much more natural fashion than we do. There are many variations to how you could design this new sleep system, with ideally having five hours at a time in the sleep mode would gain the maximum benefit. Those who require more sleep could take a two-hour nap, for others a four-hour block with two naps would be best. Six to eight hours of sleep would be sufficient with naps included and those that think they need more sleep would find that they did not. The entire system would benefit - physical, mental and psychic.

He goes on to say that many light snacks would also be more beneficial rather than stuffing ourselves three times a day and then starving for ten hours. The benefits of this new sleeping and eating schedule would include, but not limited to, physical and mental work being easier, creative abilities would be quickened, better understanding of the nature of self, the functions of hormones, chemicals and adrenal processes would function with far greater effectiveness, wear and tear on the body would be minimized, psychic centers would be activated more frequently, increased conscious concentration, and fatigue levels would always remain below danger points.

One of the more interesting points he made about being in the sleep state too long had to do with people who are extremely ill. Often they are given sleep medication in the hospital, meant to give them a good night's sleep, yet these sleep aids hinder certain necessary dream cycles that help the body recuperate and leaving their consciousness highly disoriented. On the other hand, too much wakefulness is also detrimental as chemicals build up in the blood that are discharged in the sleep state.

In some cases we literally force ourselves to go to bed when our consciousness is in a maximum state - which is in the pre-dawn hours, incidentally. A clear, uncluttered, consciousness that is powered up needs frequent rest periods if its efficiency is to be maintained. Otherwise it distorts the reality it perceives. (Anyone who has been dead tired can relate to this last sentence.)

In the spirit of being as brief in this posts as possible, I will stop here. For those of you reading this book I think the additional information on how consciousness operates outside the body is of significant importance.

Up Next: Part Two - The "Death" Experience