Atlantis Musing

Everywhere I look, people tell other people what they cannot do. They beleive they know better and so they seek to protect. Their compassion manifests arrogance and control. And most of the time the need to control comes from fear.

The spiritual community are not immune, and in fact, are quite often the worst offenders.

One group I am involved with has recently highlighted this. There are two main ‘courses’ that members do, a main course and an advanced course. This year, the advanced course is followed immediately by a main course, and so many of the advanced members will be able to mix with new members who have not yet done a course.

New members of the group, committed to doing the first course, but not yet having done it, are “protected” from influence by older members of the group through strict rules. This is supposedly in the best interests of the new members, but is actually based on what the group organisers fear will hurt the new members.

Older members are only allowed non-tangible support of new members. This is supposedly to protect the new members from being overloaded by the information and healing that older members may be able to offer them, being in different modalities and thought patterns than the course itself, before they have done the initial course that brought them into the group. They are thus being protected from being overloaded, confused or taken in a direction the organisers would prefer they did not go, at least not now.

On the face of it, fair enough. Surely, some may be.

However, there are a number of assumptions going on here that should be questioned.

It is assumed that all new members are at the beginning of their healing path and as such will be overwealmed if exposed to too much too fast. This is not true. I for one was one who joined this group at the end of my main healing journey, not the beginning. I was already fully in my power, as were others. People join the group at all stages of their journey, and their needs are diverse, as are their reasons for joining the group.

It is assumed that until the course is done, other things the new members may be exposed to will not be good for them. Simple arrogance.

It is assumed that new members should not exercise their own free will to explore what older members know and do, before doing the course (they have already committed to) because of what may potentially happen to them. One should not usurp free will for any reason !

It is assumed that the course is the main reason for doing the course and joining the group. For most, maybe so. But for some, their reason for joining the group is to connect to some of the older members specifically for what they can offer, and to connect to future members when they appear, and the course itself is a mechanism for communication, not a necessary teaching they need.

It is assumed that individual guidance cannot be trusted because the course has not yet been done. Also arrogance that ignores the previous part of the individual’s journey.

It is assumed that karma and life lessons go on hold as soon as you commit to the course and join the group, that until the course is done, new members should be protected from any karmic or lesson events. Karma and Life lessons will manifest anyway. You cannot protect people from their own karma and lessons, and if these should manifest through older members of the group, so be it, that is as should be.

It is assumed that a new member does not need specific healing or guidance that an older member can offer before the course. In actual fact, many new members may be in need of healing and guidance before the course that will then allow them to get the most out of the course itself. They are guided to the mechanism that joins them with those they need to seek out before the course, for their benefit for the course.

It is assumed that the new member should not be exposed to a different way of thinking before the course, which seems to ignore that everyone thinks differently already, is coming from a different perspective and thought path, has different skills already that define their way of thinking, and that not all new members will in fact have their thinking altered by doing the course. Again, some new members may need the wisdom of alternate thought before the course in order to get the most out of the course.

In allowing assumptions to make policy, we usurp the free will of the new member to make their own choices.

In allowing assumptions to make policy, we usurp the guidance of the ArcAngels, Angels and Guides, that a new member follows.

In allowing assumptions to make policy, we allow lack of control and fear of uncontrollable events to usurp karma and life lessons of new members.

Ironically, this is all exactly the opposite of what this particular course is trying to teach. One also wonders if some adjenda is in play as well, and what fears this is based in.

Seek not to control others. Allow them to interact as they choose and to choose as they are guided.

Instead, be there to support them however such interactions manifest.

(Thanks to AA’s Gabriel, Michael and Raphael for input into this article.)

I keep seeing this “Earth Changes” thing.

The Earth changes, has been now for 4.5 billion years and will continue to do so for another 4.5 billion years.

Earthquake in China. Cyclone in Burma, Volcano erupting somewhere, floods somewhere, drought somewhere, starvation somewhere, atrocities somewhere, people dying all over the place, car accidents all over the place, bush fires and house fires, drownings, shark attacks, stupidity of all sorts causing events……

This is a NORMAL year.

The only difference is people getting so caught up in the news distributed drama, that they forget this is a NORMAL year.

Next year there will be earthquakes, cyclones, hurricanes, volcanos, floods, drought, starvation, atrocities, you name it, it will happen somewhere. It also will be a NORMAL year. Same with one after and the one after and the one after and the one after and hey, 2012 past and we didnt notice it because it was a normal year !

Our individual energy is changing. Thats really all that matters. Go with your flow. Pay attention to YOU. Be serene in the face of the worlds obsessions and walk your walk as an example.

The earth will still be changing when we are all gone.

If you buy the “earth changes” and “the world ends in 2012″ publicity machines, you just contribute to the worlds obsessions.

Sure, our empathy means we care. But lets not get things out of proportion.

I AM CHANGING is my perspective. What the earth does is something else.

The energy of the world changes as it moves through the cosmos, and those of us on the spiritual path feel it differently to most because of our own energies being higher. But remember that if you fixate on the “world changing”, you bring it about, and what most people mean by this is not something we want to bring about.

Detach, be serene, help.

Yes. Good advise. Something worth commenting on.

With the rise of global communications has come the advent of “the disaster junkie”.

Since man first stood upright, he was content to see what was in direct line of sight, and what he didnt know about didnt hurt him.

But with the creation of global communications, suddenly everyone is obsessed with what everyone else is doing, who is doing what to whom, whos suffering (in nortious detail) where, and are so fixated on the negative things happening somewhere else, that they can no longer see the positive things in front of them.

I turned my tv off during an election campaign about 12-15 years ago and didnt turn it back on again. I dont watch the news, dont watch current affairs, I dont read newspapers, I dont listen to the radio. The world tells me what I need to know other ways. “Wasnt that earthquake in China terrible ?”, “What earthquake” ?

I have complete faith that everything happening in the world is right for here and now, and I do not need to know about it.

Obsession with disasters has its own effects. For 2 days over Sept 11, I sat in my shop, listening to the next door ABC shop loudly broadcasting a continously repeating 20 minutes of horrific disaster, so loud I couldnt block it out of my store. I didnt get any customers for 2 days, and afterwards, because people were terrified to go into a city center in case a plane fell on them for a long time after, I lost half my sales overnight as well, and within a few months had to close. How many other businesses suffered fatal wounds, not from a disaster but because of the worlds obsession with the disaster ? Well mine led me to breakdown and then spiritual healing, so it was planned and designed for me that way. But still, the effect happened. 1 event on the other side of the world caused massive changes to so many lives, not because it happened, but because everyone went disaster junkie and hyped out on the terror of it all.

The dreaded R word. lol “The recession we had to have” as one polititian here put it a while back. The world “thought” itself into the Great Depression (as its now called) and most of the economic problems existing today exist because the people in power are terrified of another depression. So they pursue what I call “flat line economics” to ensure that the bust part of the cycle never happens, but ignore the fact that it also prevents anyone having a boom part of the cycle. So everyone now lives right on the edge and it only takes a small push to move people into hardship situations because they never got the chance to put something aside for when it might happen. The feng shui cycles adequately demonstrate that everyone has bad years. When you prevent them from making use of the good years, you make the bad ones worse. 3% growth is NOT growth, its stagnation, but the powers that be are so terrified of more than a -3% situation that they wont allow us to grow faster. 10% inflation is NOT a problem with 10% growth, but -10% would send the worlds megacorporations bankrupt over night. And thats what apparently matters. Its all fear based. The irony about the Great Depression is that in terms of money, while most people have the impression it all disappeared, the reality was that those who lost everything on the stock market had already given their money to someone else in exchange for a bit of paper that proved to be worth nothing later on. The amount of money didnt change, but the perceptions of people did. They became afraid of spending it, and because people didnt spend it, ecomomic activity slowed and people lost their jobs. Then they didnt have it to spend, and the rich ones who did have it were too scared of losing it to spend it, and so things got worse. In the end, governments changed and started spending money and things got back to normal. Trouble was, after the depression, the money was mainly spent on the military and fear of someone else sent the world to war.

When enough people fear, the world changes in a way we would prefer it didnt.

The News is the perpetuation of fear.

Turn it OFF !

When the world ends, I dont want to know. I might watch the movie if it has a happy ending, but probably not.

No, this is nothing to do with the Movies of that name

Over the last couple of years and becoming more and more frequent, the term ‘New Matrix’ is being used in the spiritual community for new ways of doing things.

They are all about changing the way people think so that Law of Attraction will bring them what they truely want.

But the more I see these, and listen and read how people expound on them, the more concerned I’ve been getting about them. This finally came into focus yesterday after reading the justification for a previous post about one such ‘new matrix’ concept.

Dont get me wrong, I’m all for changing the way people think so that they concentrate on what they want, instead of what they dont have and what upsets them. This is important work. As long as its “follow my example” and not “do as I say” presented !

However…..

There are 2 things that are always in play to hold people back from walking their spiritual and healing path.

The first is the Ego. It continually tells us that the quick and easy path is there to take. That you dont need to do things the long slow way, but you can do it in one easy affirmation. That the past doesn’t matter, because you are manifesting the future. Why spend a lot of time doing the hard work, when hey, its actually easy to do in one go.

The second is the group of beings who work to hold the Earth and those on it in a state of stasis. Their aim is to prevent the Earth from ascending, keep people in a state of ‘organised’ chaos and revelling in the excesses of the 3d state of being.

This group uses the Ego to do their work through. And human nature being what it is, anything that seems an easier way to do things is seized apon.

Karma is Cause and Effect. Each thought, word and deed causes an effect. Each effect has a cause, even if you cant see what it was. Effects carry forward with the soul as it reincarnates accross space, time and dimension.

What happens to you now, is the result of what you thought, said and did in the past.

Law of Attraction is what you think will be what happens. So if you want something to happen in the future, you need to create it with your thoughts now.

So in a way, Law of Attraction is part of karma. But its only the part that is concerned with creating the future.

It tells you nothing about the now.

Many people believe that manifesting the future just requires affirmations of what you want, a positive mindset that concentrates on what you want and ignores what you dont like about now. And so it does, but only up to a point.

To understand the NOW, you need to look back for what created it. If you do not like your ‘now’, then understanding why it has come to you is important to understanding how to change it.

What is NOW, came about because you made choices. And the NOW is bound by the choices you MADE. The choices you make now will be what brings the future, but how long this takes, and what form it can happen in, depend on the NOW and the choices you make to get there. But the choices you make now start with the current situation and if that situation does not support the new choice, then it cannot manifest as you wish.

Karma is ongoing. It never ends.

Law of Attraction will help you into the future, but many people need to undo the past.

And this is where Ego and the Ones who block, sabotage people’s healing path by giving them good reasons for taking the simple easy path.

Its very easy to see this happening. In forums all the time you get people making constant affirmations about what they want in the future and how wonderful it is to be manifesting what they want, and yet these same people are also demonstrating by their constant requests for support that nothing is actually happening, or what is happening is very slow to happen.

Why is this ? They are ignoring the WORK.

Each person is born with a life contract to do certain work, walk a certain path, and may have a spiritual purpose that involves helping others. The work one must do is contained in lessons and is manifested according to karma. Even helping others may be a manifestation of ones own work needed for one’s own path.

I keep telling people the importance of walking the walk.

Way to many spiritual ‘teachers’ stand on a virtual soapbox in some forum or other and preach their message. This is talking the talk. Talking doesn’t actually take you anywhere. Its a form of “do as I say, because I think you should” and is a very Indigo trait, which is not surprising considering so many of the spiritual ‘teachers’ now are Indigo.

Walking the walk is different. Its actually walking your spiritual path, continually working on yourself as you help others, continually doing your own WORK. This includes releasing karma from past lives, forgiveness of individuals and situations, affirming love for all beings, especially the ones you dont like.

Talk doesn’t require MOVEMENT. Walking does.

Helping other people alone, is not walking your path. Its sitting on a rock helping people.

Walking the walk is being an example to people of how to do things. Your not telling them anything, your just walking past inviting them to follow if they feel guided, and then imparting knowledge and method when asked for help or clarification of what it is your doing.

Walking your path means following your life contract and doing the things you agreed to do before birth. You have freewill and freewill can choose timing and how and where to address lessons, and this is the exercise of choice.

Each choice you made led you to where you are now. The now is bound by the choices already made. To change the now, you must first change the choices.

The ‘New Matrix’ would have you believe that simply changing the choice is all you need. In affirming a changed choice, so will it be. (Dig hole in sand, insert head here).

“You are the architect of your own imprisonment.” (Raymond E. Feist). Your choices had effects and the now you are stuck in is the result of those choices. To get unstuck, you need to change the choices AND change the effects.

I see this in feng shui consultations all the time. People choose a house that manifests the lessons and karma they need to work on. But until they have learnt the lesson and released the karma involved, they will not be able to manifest anything different. Only after they have finished the reasons for the choice, will they be allowed to make the changes they need to manifest something better. In many cases, they need to move house first. And the difficulty of doing that is often specified within the feng shui of where they want to leave.

If the “New Matrix” works for you, follow it.

But if it doesn’t work as advertised, then you need to look at what your life contract is asking you to do and instead of getting on the transport device and teleporting from A to Z in an instant (and how disappointing it is when it doesn’t engage), put on your walking shoes and walk the walk, doing your work while you walk.

I’m not asking you to accept “this is the way its always been done”, because I dont accept it myself. I’m saying that “nothing beats good old fashioned hard work” and our spritual healing journey is no exception.

The choice is yours.

Here is the basic changes to annual feng shui for 2008. Some of these will have begun to manifest in November 2007, and can affect people until the end of January 2009.

Year of the RAT.
6-2-08 to 25-1-09

Annual Afflictions.
Serious Loss Affliction (5 Yellows) : South
Zodiac Affliction (Grand Duke) : North 2 (Due north and 7.5 degrees each side)
Argument Affliction (3 Killings) : South.

Extra Elements for the year
Water and Earth.

5 Yellows in the Bedroom can bring serious illness of a kind that you are pre-disposed to. If you get really sick then you should sleep in a different room, and avoid sleeping in the south of a room. When in the kitchen it can bring general sickness, but the average kitchen nowadays is well cured. When in the front door, the 5 yellows brings sickness and financial loss to the whole house. The cure is metal, so lots of white and natural metal in the South room, and in the south of a room. Also silver and metallic gold. The best form of cure is metal 6 hollow rod windchimes. Hang small ones inside, and in the case of the front door, a large one outside. However, we do not want noise from them, they should hang silently.

Grand Duke in the North means do not face north this year. Think old style Japanese Shogun, where if you look him in the face, a guard chops your head off. Facing the Grand Duke invites his wrath, and chaos follows. Making noise in that sector also does this. Effects can vary a lot, but things getting broken or stopping working is common. The Grand Duke seems to act as a Karma manifestor. Those born in the Year of the Horse automatically “face” the Grand Duke this year and it tends to be a year of “karma in the face” for a lot of people. The worse your overall karma, the more chaotic this year will be. The cure is a Pi Yao, or celestial protector, but if your karma is bad, nothing can really protect you. For those born year of the Horse, its a year of confrontation designed to let you see where you need to change your thoughts into something that causes less effects.

3 Killings in the South reacts to noise and activity and brings arguments. Do not turn your back on the 3 killings. This is good this year since you should not face north. Cures for the arguments of this year are crystals in the south, or a large area of still water.

Things to do :

Move your bed so its not in the south sector of the room.

If you sleep in the south room of the house, and cannot change rooms, then bring lots of metal into the room, particular in the south corner. If you get sick, add more metal. If you still stay sick, contact me !

Hang 6 metal rod windchimes in south sectors.

If the front door is in the south, hang a 6 metal rod windchime to one side of the door inside, and a large 6 metal rod windchime outside as close to in line with the center of the door as you can (such as hanging from the gutter or pergolla).

Shift chairs so you do not face due north.

Re-aline any bed facing due north. (The direction the crown of your head points as you sleep).

Spamblocking is becoming very common now with major ISP’s.

This is the practice of compiling lists of where spam comes from and then using these lists to block any email coming from the same place.

There are sites out there who’s sole function is to gather spam originators and compile lists so that ISP’s can subscribe to the list and use it to block spam with.

Well, thats the theory. Nice idea.

But what a Nightmare, what total madness its become.

In practice, spammers are very good at faking headers on emails. They use any reply-to address they can get away with so that complaints never gets back to them. They fake other parts of the header information to disquise where they are sending from. And as far as I can see, they can also fake the origin IP address of the spam as well.

So, where is the madness ?

The spam lists are being compiled 2 ways. By direct complaint. And by email checking programs that look for “spam like behaviour” in emails. The trouble is, spam is clever enough to emulate normal email, and so the programs really cant tell the difference.

You may not even know that a good percent of your email is not getting to you ! Unless you are expecting it, and it doesn’t arrive, you wont know.

Emails that come from common software like forums, blogs and shoppingcarts are routinely blocked from getting to the person who requested the emails on the basis that it is spam. No-one asks, no-one checks, they are doing you a public service that I for one, would rather they stopped doing !

If you use a Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo email address, I can guarentee your not getting a lot of your email. These 3 sites in particular appear to be rabid about spam, and at the same time wouldn’t know spam if it bit them on the leg, and don’t care that a high proportion of what they block is actually genuine email that was requested by the addressee.

Many forums (mine included), to prevent junk postings, require that you validate your email address by clicking on a link that you receive in a registration email from the forum software. But if you do not receive the email because a spamblocker refuses to deliver it to you, you cannot ever log in. Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo members must get pretty frustrated in being locked out of so many forums, blogs and shoppingcarts simply because of the email address they use and the spam policy of its hosts. I dont know why anyone bothers using them anymore, as to my mind, they are sabotaging their own members by preventing genuine email from being recieved, and as such, why would anyone wish to use them ?

Why do invoices from shoppingcarts get routinely spamblocked ? This is total madness ! What sort of spam sends people a genuine invoice for something they just genuinely purchased ?

Sadly, this spamblocking madness is widespread.

The number of sites that I get bounced forum and shoppingcart emails back from is growing rapidly.

I’ve also noticed that some forums I have requested notifications of postings from, never seem to send me any. I suspect that spamblockers on the flow lines that email travels along to get to your ISP are intercepting and blocking my genuine emails, without my knowledge or permission.

Who asked ISP’s to be the guardians of email ?

Who gave them the right to stop an email I have requested to be sent from getting to me ?

What madness is this that people and organisations I have never heard of take it apon themselves to block my genuine email from getting to me and justify it as a public service ?

I’m actually amazed that someone in the US hasnt taken all the organisations that spamblock to court to get an injunction to stop this practice. It is after all, stealing our email. If the post office didnt deliver a letter because its return address was someone they didnt think should be sending me a letter, they would be sued really quickly. Why hasnt it happened with email ?

Let me just say, I do not approve of spam. Its a damn nuisance. But…..its a fact of life on the internet. If you display an email address on the net anywhere in order to be contactable, it will attract email you didnt want. Fact of life. Deal with it.

I personally enjoy deleting most spam. Its become a daily ritual. Do I want…..No thanks, bugger off ! Would I like to……No thanks, I’m quite happy as I am. Do I want to look like this bozo ? Are you mad, of course I dont !

Sometimes, genuinely useful spam comes in. Sometimes someone has actually sent me something I want to know about.

What gives anyone the right to censor my emails without my permission ?

Ok, so spam is a problem. But trampling over my right to recieve my email is NOT an acceptable answer.

I say ban spamblocking at the ISP level and lets find a better way of dealing with the problem.

Afterthought : Why hasn’t someone written a web spider/robot that trawls through the net looking for spam evidence, like hacked files recoded to send out spam or phish schemes ? Or a run yourself program that searches your domain for evidence of being hacked for spam or phish purposes ? Its known what to look for, so why isn’t there any way ordinary domain owners can check to ensure they are not unknowingly sending out spam ? Why isnt there a program that ISP’s can run that hourly check all files on their servers for evidence of spam and phish activity ? Pretty obvious need, why dont we have the products ?

St. Theresa’s Prayer:May today there be peace within. May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.. May you be content knowing you are a child of God…. Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us.In case anyone is not aware, Saint Theresa is known as the Saint of the Little Ways. Meaning she believed in doing the little things in life well and with great love. She is also the patron Saint of flower growers and florists. She is represented by roses. May everyone who receives this message be blessed.

Note : This came in an email today. I have chosen to break its chain mail nature by removing the chain part of the message, failing to email it on, but instead honouring the message itself by posting it for everyone who is attracted to it to read. We do not need to be email robots to receive a blessing and we do not need to pass it on a set number of times to receive a reward we can manifest anytime we wish to anyway.

Such messages as this should be shared how we feel is the most appropriate for us and those we feel will benefit from it.

Reading a post on AT has brought up all my old ideas for Spiritual TV and Movies, that I havent looked at in 18 months but still slosh around my brain at odd times in one form or another.

I’ve had the thought pop in to just send the information out to the cosmos through this forum a few times now.

So here they are. My ideas for Spiritual TV shows and Movies.

Since the document is pretty long, I’ve put it on a webpage so it doesnt use space here, and only those who want to read them can link through to my ideas.

http://circleofatlantis.com/tvmovie.html

One of the things I’ve been manifesting for years is to work as a creative consultant on Spiritual TV and Movies. I’m still waiting for the opportunity to connect with the right people.

So here I am, releasing all my best ideas to the cosmos and giving them to the Divine and the Angels to use as they feel is appropriate.

I am looking for people who have ebooks, books, spiritual products and services to JOIN ME in an online Mall project.

In early January, I was reading a forum as I normally do each day, and the thought popped in that there are so many Lightworkers out there who have written books and self published them or released them as ebooks, and like me, are having difficulty in getting them noticed by enough people to get many sales. This was followed by the realisation of other products as well, artwork, sprays, cards, jewellery, and then services as well, such as card readings, photo and aura readings, workshops and courses, and even spiritual themed travel groups. Also, many people do not have any facility to accept credit cards but have clients and customers who prefer to use them.

So much is out there, and so hard to find and be found !

The idea then popped in to start a shoppingcart site where they could all be listed in one place. And where the combined advertising of all would bring more people to everyone’s products and services.

I started a thread about the idea and got a lot of positive support and a lot of feedback. I went off and researched shoppingcarts and discussed what I found.

I’m now ready to create a Spiritual based Shopping Mall.

I have found a shoppingcart system that allows each member of the site to have their own virtual store, do their own product maintenance, have their own individual tax and shipping requirements, and most importantly, be paid directly into their own individual paypal accounts. Customers will see a single mall of products, be able to search on categories, search by member, see members websites, add any product from any member to their shopping cart, and on checkout, the sale is broken down so each member receives a copy of the invoice and an individual payment.

Mall membership starts at US$50 a year to list up to 5 products or services. This reflects that many Lightworkers only have a few products or services to list, and attempts to keep membership costs down. For those with more products or services, there is a sliding scale of membership fees, and also a commission based option.

For further details, Membership fees, and a list of potential product/service categories, please see http://circleofatlantis.com/mallmember.html

I need the support of between 10 and 16 people to get this started.

The mall will be set up under my exisiting Circle of Atlantis website. I will be buying a commercial Mall shoppingcart system with custom modifications. It will take about 3 weeks after ordering for the modifications to be made and the Mall installed, then I anticipate another week for me to set up defaults and customise the look and feel of the Mall.

I need at least 10 people who are prepared to pay now, in advance of the mall going live, in order to justify purchasing the software. 16 people in advance will cover the full cost and allow me to pay by paypal in US$ instead of using my credit card.

I have been guided to seek support to do this in advance, rather than going ahead and doing it by myself. It makes sense to get support first. 10 to 16 members and 30-50 products when the mall opens makes it look much more viable to customers than 1 member and a handful of products. And 10-16 people doing their own advertising from day 1 will bring in many more people to looksee than 1 person will.

Are you interested in joining me in this exciting venture ?

If so thankyou Click on the link above for further details and the procedure for membership.

Do you know someone who might be interested ?

Please send this on to anyone you think might be interested. Please email it out to your own email lists. Help to spread the word any way you feel is appropriate. Thankyou !

Hi, I’m Timothy Ellis, aka circleofatlantis, circleofatlantisau and CoA.

Well finally I am doing something about my own Blog. Welcome to it !

Bare with me as I work this all out, and get some thoughts in order for posting here.