I have been reading "2150 AD" by Thea Alexander this week while I was traveling around the Amazon. It is about Macro consciousness in 2150 AD (aka unity consciousness) and how we can reach this level of awareness now in 2011. One of the Macro powers is that thoughts become things, including our financial reality. I have experienced this myself when doing holographic healing on my money beliefs and seeing results in my 3D world. So this week's Wednesday gathering with Sand boxer Joel Hamaker on consciousness and cash flow is interesting to me.

Here in Bolivia I have been traveling in the Amazon near Rurrenabaque for the past week. I went on a tour of the Pampas (aka tropical water meadows) and river seeing many crocodiles (even petting one friendly one) and capybaras (a water rat as big as a dog). Also birds and monkeys. And I trekked in the jungle. The energy here is very primal Mother Earth - I felt my root chakra being healed just being here. Back in town the internet cafe was packed yesterday with Israeli travelers calling home before Rosh Hashanah - much Israeli travel for 6-12 months around South America after their army conscription has ended - so much so that there are restaurants with signs in Hebrew here and the internet cafe had Hebrew keyboard software. I have to say that using Skype with Hebrew menus was a challenge for me!

Another thing I liked about Rurrenabaque was the small airport - no security check, no full body x-ray scanners, can keep your shoes on all the time and even carry liter bottles of water on board that you have bought in town. Partly it was because the plane was a 19 seater turbo prop. But actually even at large airports here in South America there is not the security hassle that I experience in USA or UK. I like that! And to be honest I feel just as safe flying here.

Next week I am off to Paraguay again, then to Brazil to visit the Iguazu Waterfalls and Sao Paulo. If you know someone in Brazil or have suggestions for activities there please let me know!

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Barry and Cathy for many years presented all sorts of community events in the San Francisco bay area. Since moving to the mid-atlantic two years ago they have been offering similar activities here, including a monthly open relationship discussion group, quarterly Deepening Connections erotic touch events, workshops with national leaders, and more. They are members of the Polyamory Leadership Network, served on the final Board of Directors of the late Chesapeake Polyamory Network, have led workshops for groups and conferences, and are active with BmorePoly (http://www.meetup.com/BmorePoly/). 

They can be reached at polyjunction(at)gmail.com)

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Trauma can be hard to get over - whether it is abuse, war PTSD, rape or other the emotional scars can last a long time and affect all parts of your life. I remember being hit by a classmate when I was 8 years old just because he could, and I was afraid of people who looked like him for years. I also got teased for being effeminate at high school - which took me until I came out trans about ten years ago to deal with. Maybe these are small trauma compared to what others have and they affected me a lot, living in fear. Living in love space is much better. So this week’s Wednesday Gathering on new research on healing trauma is interesting.

Here in Chile I traveled to Iquique in the north coast near Peru. The land here is a desert right up to the beach - in fact I think that nearby is the driest place in the world. It is weird driving by sand and rocks with no plants and yet all that water is right next to it. I thought that might be how the Earth looked billions of years ago before plants and animals moved from the oceans to the land... or how Mars with water might have looked as the sand was red in color.

I have been practicing living my life with ellipses (...) - that means I don’t plan out months in advance but leave space (the ...) in my life story for new stuff to occur. Often chance meetings and synchronicities lead to exciting new things. I think in these times of changes and chaos leading up to 2012 this is a good way to live. Be flexible and follow your heart over your head - intuition is much better at dealing with chaotic times I feel.

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This Wednesday gathering we learn about the latest research on emotion and psychological trauma and how to heal from it with Deborah Hughes MA.

In his poem on Healing, D. H. Lawrence writes:  "I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections.  And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill.  I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self....." 

Each and every day we are confronted with images and stories of overwhelming emotional, physical and psychological experience.  And many of us have had encounters with that which disrupts or overwhelms our capacity to right ourselves, to resume normal living, to form new connections.

What can we do to meet these experiences, contain their impact and transform that which otherwise might leave us lost, wandering, or diverted into meaningless activity, acting out or addiction?  Our responses to trauma are not indicators of a broken mechanism but of one adapting to survive.   How do we--individually and in community--begin to reclaim agency, direction, and meaning after catastrophic encounters with what is far beyond our immediate capacity to metabolize?

Please join us for an introductory exploration of the juncture formed by weaving together some of the earliest and the most recent developments in the study of neuroscience, traumatic injury, and attachment. And then a discussion of how they are being re informed by understandings--ancient and new--of the power of relationship, of certain alternative healing modalities, of yoga, of meditation and of the stories we tell ourselves about our experience.

Deborah S. Hughes is a Librarian and Information Specialist, a storyteller, a yoga teacher with certifications that include Yoga Nidra/iRest and Trauma Sensitive Yoga, a long time student of Jungian and Archetypal psychology and a Site Coordinator for the Traumatic Stress Studies Certificate Program of the Trauma Center at JRI (the Justice Resource Institute).  And she is most deeply committed to synthesizing the work of those teachers whose lives and work keep saving her body, soul, and imagination.

You can contact her at deborahshayne(at)aim.net

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After the Mark Dunn workshop in April I did some playing with disconnecting myself from the morphic field of the USA. Felt the pattern and how my pattern was connected, then asked them to separate out. I felt them shift after a little while. I felt good about it and didn't seem so attached to news about USA. Nothing much else seemed to have changed until I returned from my Peru trip to USA. Then

•US immigration quizzed me aggressively for about 20 minutes before letting me in (I am US citizen) 

•US custom sent me through red channel for bag search

Anyway throughout the process I just kept going low, worked on the pattern in front of me and was friendly and helply to the officials. It all worked out fine. (My bags were delivered a few days later). And then in line for TSA security I worked the pattern for somehow making my connecting flight even though I was about 15 minutes after takeoff time and feeling anxious. Well the flight was delayed for 45 minutes and I caught easily!

After this experience in 3D I decided to do some smoothing out of my field and USA field and last time I entered the country it went as smoothly as for the other US citizens in line (still got 5 minutes of immigration quiz but at least everyone did too - and that is a topic for another day)

I am wondering if anyone else has had experience with disconnecting from a large morphic field and what happened for you?

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The image above is a seismograph from Washington and Lee University http://www2.nbc17.com/news/2011/aug/23/13/59-earthquake-rocks-virginia-ar-1324668/ (similar one found on http://www2.tricities.com/mgmedia/image/0/354/168872/virginia-tech-seismograph/  website) about 85 miles southwest of the earthquake’s epicenter in Mineral.  The green lines indicates the tremor that was felt in Washington DC which caused damaged to the Washington Memorial and the Washington National Cathedral.  The black lines is a transparent overlay of a seismograph from a pdf file from Virginia Division Mineral Resources on Earthquakes.

That file describes a typical natural occurring earthquake as:
“When a fault ruptures, energy is released in the form of seismic waves. The first waves to reach the earth’s surface are primary or “P” waves (Figure 2). P waves are compressional waves that travel at a speed of about four miles per second near the surface – faster as depth increases. The next waves to reach the earth’s surface are secondary or “S” waves. S waves are shear waves that move at a speed of about 1.5 miles per second. P and S waves are body waves that travel through the earth much like sonar waves travel through water. Surface waves, which are slower than S waves, travel along the surface of the earth much like waves at the surface of the ocean. S waves and surface waves cause the most destruction at the earth’s surface.”

What is missing from the seismograph for the Washington DC area 5.8 magnitude earthquake are the primary or “P” waves.  All earthquakes that are the direct result of fault rupture have these primary or “P” waves.  Nuclear detonations do not.  Underground nuclear detonations are very violent and immediate with no forewarnings whatsoever. An underground detonation would account for the missing “P” seismic waves for the Washington DC 5.8 magnitude earthquake.  If you’ve ever witnessed a controlled demolition of a building you would no doubt describe the earth tremors as millions of people are now describing what it felt like on August 23, 2011 all along the East coast.

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I found these affirmations really powerful - seems to get behind the issues I sometimes have with accountability/ integrity. And how perfectionism and fear of otehrs reactions can get in my way of seeing and telling the truth. What helps you with integrity?
love
M/M

Carol Tuttle wrote:

I am ready, willing and able to look, see, and tell the truth.
I am ready and willing to assume responsibility for my life NOW.
I love and accept myself.
I trust the choices I make.
I trust that others have their own answers for their life.
I choose to live and I accept love, help, and healing.
I am worthy of having what I want, my needs matter.
I do my best and my best is good enough.

These affirmations address the core issues that most people struggle with at a deeper level of their being.
Putting a daily focus on these truths will shift your core vibration which allows greater shifts in your life.

God Bless You,
Carol Tuttle

www.youremotionalhealing.com

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The Wednesday Gathering is not just another dinner party, though it does include a good meal. This is a unique social gathering for people involved in Tantra, Radical Honesty, The Lord's Chapel, Beltane, Community for Spiritual Living, Shalom Mountain, polyamory, Paganism, BEST Events and other groups dedicated to openness, authenticity and integrity. It is an adult only event (18+).

In a magical environment full of great music, candles and in a truly sacred space, we chill out and relax and just see how much we can really show up.

Bring your joy, your sadness, whoever and whatever you are and just be in a place where love and acceptance reign. It's a great place to meet a new friend or see an old acquaintance in a new light.
 
More details on the Wednesday Gatherings at
http://www.abundantmichael.com/blog/page.cfm/SandboxGathering

DIRECTIONS
The gathering is at

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