Newsletter 2012

1st February

 
     All is well here at the ashram and there will be one more short retreat here from 9th - 12th February. This will be a mostly silent retreat around the subject of the physical death process and awakening. It is not the Dying for Truth program. There are still places left for anyone interested in joining us.
We finished the 9 day silent meditation retreat and amost immediately afterwards started a 3 day retreat entitled In the world but not of it. This seemed like a very appropriate title as we move into 2012 which looks as if it will be a challenging year on many levels, Astrologically it looks like there are still many earth shakes and quakes to come and that there is still much unrest as many continue to battle the old system and many who are identified with their belief systems continue to wage war against those with other belief systems. However there are also aspects for the year that suggest that those who are living from the heart and are living their spiritual understanding will feel much grace flowing through. Many of us are holding a vibration that supports the transition to a more enlightened society. All we can do is to continue to hold this vibration as the old movie plays itself out. Here ia a fitting quote from a book I read recently:

   "If you are not giving the world the best you have, what are you saving it for?"

   It is truly an amazing time we are now passing through and, if enough people are willing to use the awareness and understanding they have to take a stand for what needs to be done to create changes that will pave the way for a more enlightened society, perhaps we have a chance to create a more just and compassionate world. Below I bring a part of David Icke’s latest newsletter – see more on www.davidicke.com The subject of the economic system is close to my heart as I spend much time near a village in India and experience first hand the effects of poverty, greed and corruption. Here is a shortened version of what David writes: 

   It’s Time To Choose
   Any protest, change or revolution not founded on the list below has no chance of changing anything. These very pillars of the system must fall or they will block any transformation of the human condition.

1. An end to creating money out of thin air on computer screens and charging interest on it.
2. An end to governments borrowing money that does not exist from private banks and the people paying interest on it. Governments can create their own currency interest free.
3. An end to private banks issuing non-existent money called credit and thus creating money as a debt from the very start.
4. An end to casinos like Wall Street and the City of London betting on the financial and commodity markets with the lives of billions around the world.
5. An end to all professional lobby groups that earn their living and their client’s living from corrupting vast numbers of world politicians and the majority on Capitol Hill.
6. An end to no-contract government where politicians can promise people they will do this and that to win support and then do the opposite after they have lied themselves into office. 
7. An end to the centralisation of power and a start to diversifying power to communities to decide their own lives. This ensures there are too many decision makers to allow any cabal to centrally control.

   David goes on to say that this is just a start and that it will do no good to simply rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic, As he says, the banking system does not need to be changed – it need to be gone. It is a criminal activity based on fraud, extortion and, through its effect, on worldwide mass murder. He also says its replacement needs to be decided by the population and not by the very people who created it in the first place. The latter, he says, are covertly manipulating a new global structure of financial control based on a world central bank. 

   I also saw a fine interview on BBCs Hardtalk with Steve Keen, a well respected Australian economist. I really recommend this interview if you have the opportunity to see it. He says we are already in another Great Depression and advocates bankrupting the banks, nationalising the financial system and paying off people’s debts. He says we need a new start. I totally agree!

       My webmaster has uploaded a new movie, my "Namaste Rap" recorded in Sweden. See it here in our video section

   I recommend Danish speaking visitors to this website check out this link:  http://youtu.be/vHFGTdmrBhE I experience this short documentary on what really happened on 11th Sept. 2001as sensible, non-sensational and made and with good intentions. For non-Danish speaking people I recommend this 2 hour film that I believe has just been released:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw-jzCfa4eQ

   I have been asked to put something on the website about a special phase of the Mayan calendar that starts on 28th October this year. As I said during the Aquarian Bodhisattva retreat this could be the beginning of a very significant shift in consciousness for us on this planet. As many know, according to the calendar used by Carl Johan Callemann, on the 28th October this year we will enter a 260 day period of "enlightenment" where there will be nothing to block a powerful enlightened vibration pouring onto the planet.This is a window of opportunity and people have asked how to prepare for this. I would say that many are already very well prepared, so just stay tuned in to the highest vibration you can hold. Here are a few other reminders that might be useful.
 

1. Experience whatever is passing through you and stay in touch with the heart at the same time. The vibration of love is a much higher vibration than that of fear. Studies at the Heart Math Institute in California have shown how the energy of love triggers far more potential on your DNA than the energy of fear does. So if you can stay in the vibration of love you are simply more switched on and more powerful.
2. Drink lots of fresh water and eat lightly. Perhaps some physical purification is needed - detox, fasting or other forms of cleansing can be helpful. 
3. Take your difficulties as lightly as possible. Even great suffering can be carried lightly and gracefully. 
4.  Many people have difficulty sleeping these days and can be over stimulated energetically. Even if you don't sleep much it can be deeply refreshing to lie down and just space out for a while.
5. Drop heavy judgements and remember the fine line from Rumi: "Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field - I will meet you there."
6. Realise that guilt and self judgement are heavy, destructive energies. Live with integrity and accept the fact that it is not always easy to live your highest truth. So be gentle with yourself and with others. 
7. Take time to tune in to the deeper aspects of yourself and create space to listen to your inner wisdom.
8. Longer periods of meditation are useful for many now. Use opportunities to open up to hold a higher frequency.
9. Breathe deeply.
10. Choose consciously who you are with and who you share your deeper energies with. If you are in a close relationship with someone try to let go of old patterns of attacking each other and creating dramas. Practise being very aware and witnessing as the tendancy to create a drama arises. Ask yourself if it is really worth following this old, destructive tendancy. Practise letting go of that which does not serve you and your relationships. 
11. There is not time to analyse everything. Taste what comes and goes and practise letting things go again. Practise letting go of whatever seems to be disappearing from your old movie. Carrying heavy baggage is not the way to travel right now.
12. Several I have spoken with recently say they are feeling okay but a little strange. So much is happening energetically both individually and collectively and it can be a challenge for many people to stay in balance. For others it gives a strange feeling that is not so easy to describe. I am sure many of you remember I have often talked about being centered in nothing. Not being attached to old identities is a fine way to come closer to this state. This is the challenge facing many right now and when you can be centered in nothing things will not feel so strange any more.
13. Enjoy the support of groups who celebrate, sing, dance and share silence together.

   All for now - blessings for today.