What are your thoughts on the 2012 enigma?

[Steven Burnand]

We are coming up to a unique planetary alignment in 2012 when our sun will arrive at it's solar centre.

There are many videos on YouTube about this subject and about the many social and political events now taking place, including evidence of an emerging new world order. What are you thoughts on these enigmatic developments?

For a broader perspective on 2012 and the new world order please go to -

http://2012armageddonnwo.ning.com/

This site offers a vast video library and much more on this subject matter.

Sending best wishes to all…Steve

[Zen Benefiel]

Spot On, Skip!

In a near-death experience as a teen, I was presented with the concept of 'new world order' totally opposite of what the pundits have touted and the goofy masses have continually supported in their own chaotic chatter. Enough already! Do we even notice the chasm that creates? Holy shit Sherlock... I don't mean cow dung incense, either. I've always been a straight shooter, look into your eyes kinda guy that intimidates the hell out of those who lack personal integrity. Why don't we speak up? Because we think spirituality means 'be nice' and everything will be okay. Bullocks!

I met a guy named Sheldan Nidle once. I'd heard a lot about him, but the guy could not look me in the eye. Off stage David Icke is a powder keg ready to blow the instant he doesn't get his way. Barry Goldwater treated the people closest around him with disdain.

Consciousness is a sacred thing and the more we are able to unite in it the more we are compelled to communicate honestly and openly. Sages on stage want to be the go to gurus, but the intelligence is right inside each one of us. The Intention Experiment has proven that and yet there is still so much resistance to create relationships that go beyond the context of our writing here. It is 'safe' to spew or spout, but to be active in social change is something else entirely. Oh, but I need to make a living and my job inhibits my ability to act in conscience. Then quit. Occasionally I hear my adoptive father in my ear... 'you've got your head so far up your butt that you need to cut a hole in your stomach just to see out.'

Something amazing happens when you commit. The universe realigns to support you. It may take a little time, but if you never truly commit you never know that it will. It takes strength of character and resilience of being to step out of the pack and be your own person. Skip is one of the few I've seen that stirs the pot on purpose just to see if it is fermenting or not. I hope to be able to look him in the eye one of these days. I think it will be enjoyable and we may not have to speak a whole lot initially. I met a man named Dr. Charles Brown years ago, Dela Reese's (actress) spiritual guru for her church in LA. When I was introduced we looked at each other in the eyes and all we could do was hug and laugh that deep soular laugh one has when he meets himself/herself in another. But I digress...

Back to the topic: 2012. I've been fortunate to have met another equally as vigilant in his service to humanity. We've coagulated a possibility in fulfilling prophecy that I have not seen anywhere else, which means we just may be on the front of the wave if not able to create one. The number 50 million is significant in the domino effect for 6.5 billion. We're going after 50 million subscribers at $1 a month by 12/20/2012 and an IPO to follow the next day. What? Indeed... we have the team to create a portal of stunning activity globally. Here's how... I invite you to get involved... any of you with a real commitment to 2012. This is not goofy, divisive or non-specific... we are unified. We've got the full proposal in front of several serendipitous world servers on the same page.

The neat thing is that it is self-funding after the initial 60-90 day production cycle. Once we 'click' it into 'being' the world will never be the same. Now does that sound like a determined soul or a pontificating ego or maybe a little of both? Bottom line is a presentation of exquisite quality and substance that no person can resist, sharing what can be and is being done in the world of addressing the worst first... 24,000 children starving per day doesn't get the 'news' that a high-roller celebrity's death garners for a month. That MUST change. We CAN do it. When your intent is simply to help people, the world will listen shortly.

Namaste,
Zen

[Skip Press]

If it's any consolation, movies with big star names are generally not doing so well this year. That's a good thing because story and content is mattering more than facade. I appreciate great actors, but I appreciate great stories more. I've known some of those gurus you mention and the tricks they pull, like Tony Robbins and his mass hypnosis - he uses actual techniques.

Never let a personality hijack necessary change. That's all Obama is about, and he's going down. That's all Oprah is about and her ratings have dropped for years now. The Republican party is looking for a savior right now but funny thing, the good politicians have never been about themselves. Harry Truman, for example. Ronald Reagan said you can get a lot done if you don't worry about who takes credit.

I just look for people who make sense and aren't about themselves.

[Zen Benefiel]

I'm just another you. or... In lak'ech as the Mayans would say. You might get a kick out of this, Skip... Messianic Complex.

If all the authors and talking heads were truly effective, things would have changed. The chatter they create inside their own heads is painful to listen to on stage or off. The 'be, do, have' scenario is reversed in their worlds.

I offered a prayer to begin a minority business breakfast meeting the other day. It went like this, "Thank you, thank you, thank you." The guest speaker gave me an interesting look and commented, "I like that." I replied... "any more would have just been ego."

If you see the Buddha on the path... kill him, but only after embracing.

[Skip Press]

I like that attitude, Zen. The Buddhists have another saying about how far someone can fall. They see a leper walking by and say "There goes the Buddha."

Here's a long piece I posted to friends and on my Facebook page. It's about a method that actually works and helps achieve the kind of connection we all wish to bring about. I called it "There's something you can do."

8/21/09

When I graduated the third grade, we had to move from a house I'd been happy in since the first grade. My father had been a principal and coach at a school in Palmer, Texas and he lost his job. It was 1959 and he had a hard time finding a new one, particularly around that small town in Texas.

We moved to a place outside of town and I loved that house even more. It had a stock pond with frogs and fish and cattails growing along the bank. There was a long sloping hill where my brothers and I could roll down in round cardboard moving bins. A grove of trees fronted the place and I thought it was a genteel and lovely place. I missed my friends in town, particularly my girlfriend Diane, who had been my best friend since the first grade. But I managed. We weathered a tornado in the new house and that summer I played around my country home and started reading the newspaper, which was delivered every day. The only negative thing I remember about the time was one day when my father came in with some goat milk. I learned that he had stomach troubles and it began to dawn on me that he had problems he could not handle, which was a bit troubling.

Even more troubling was when we had to move from the new place, because we couldn't pay the rent. I don't remember the details, only that we were soon living much further out in the country, in a weather-beaten house next to a cotton field; so weather-beaten the paint was gone. It had a well for water out back and was very rundown. It might have been abandoned, I'm not sure, but it was obvious we were barely able to subsist, a family of six with four little boys under the age of 10. I remember going with my mother and father one day - he was going to mow someone's lawn to make money. This for a guy who had been the school principal only months before. The mower banged into the side of the house and set loose a wasp's nest - they swarmed and stung my father and he abandoned the job.

We soon ran out of credit at the store, and my father was having no luck finding another job. He was offered a coaching position in east Dallas at a black school but wouldn't take the job, worried about me as a white kid being beat up at school. I urged him to take it, that I'd be OK. I was willing to endure anything so our family could make it.

My consolation during this time was the newspaper. I would walk about half a mile to the highway each day to pick up the paper from the place where it was delivered, near the mailbox. I felt like, no matter what bad things were happening, I was still connected to the world, that things would improve if I just persisted. I felt a part of the world, no matter how insignificant.

And then the newspaper stopped. We could no longer afford the subscription. There was nothing I could do about it. I felt crushed, stuck in a horrible situation that got worse. We could barely afford anything to eat. We had only white bread sandwiches of butter and white sugar, with milk to drink. And then we ran out of milk and couldn't afford any more.

My father was pretty absent during this time. I'm not sure what he was doing, but he wasn't earning a living. Finally, my mother walked up the road to a farmer's house, asked to use the phone, called her father, and he and two of her brothers came with a flatbed truck and moved us and our meager possessions many miles away to another small town, giving us a place to live in a rental house my grandfather owned. My father was given a job doing construction with my grandfather, working with the two uncles who moved us. On the way to the new house we stopped at a diner and I got to order a cheeseburger and fries and a vanilla shake. It was the best burger I'd ever had.

That fall, I was in a new school in the fourth grade and learned something new; if you did a little something extra, my teacher said, you could get an A+. I'd always gotten an A on everything in school, so this was great news to me, to be able to achieve more. Funny thing is, I didn't take such delight in reading the newspaper.

I didn't know why until today.

And then in the spring, my mother left the two youngest boys alone in the house for a few minutes as she walked across a gravel road to the local store to get a couple of things. They were 3 and 4. The oldest decided to burn a lead pencil on the old stove, and it really flamed up. The youngest grabbed it and threw it in the trash, which caught on fire, and flames soon raced up the wallpaper, which had been covered with grease from years of cooking.

I was taken out of school to watch our house and all our possessions burn down. It was the only time I ever saw my father cry.

I've had similar horrible things happen to me in my life but not with my kids. By the grace of God, I suppose, they were spared the troubles my father gave our family, and other than a divorce heartbreaking for everyone except (apparently) their mother, we've come through all right. And from that time almost five years ago, I've delved deep into religious and spiritual studies and psychological tools to help improve things. I've learned a great deal.

One thing I've found particularly helpful is something developed by Dr. Kam Yuen (see www.yuenmethod.com for details). It's a way of correcting bad energy patterns that can be carried around for a lifetime.

Today I found one of those patterns, from the time when we lost the newspaper subscription when living in that shack in the country.

I've used the Yuen Method to help myself and others almost without fail. Inevitably, at the root of a problem that someone's been carrying forward, the person will say, "There was nothing I could do." And what happened at the point was that they flipped their own "energy switch" off in connection to that particular area of life.

In my case, it was complete success in writing. That's what the newspaper represented to me at that time. I knew I’d be a writer from the time I was in the second grade. By reading the newspaper as a kid, I felt connected to the world, like I truly belonged, that there was hope for achieving great things no matter my current circumstances. With that daily newspaper gone, however, I felt like my energy connection to the world was gone.

Only it wasn't. I just decided it was and so disconnected myself from reaching what I might consider the ultimate success.

That's how the Yuen Method works. The idea is the body is like a biocomputer and the switch is on or it's off. When you flip it off (mentally), that decision lodges in your subconscious and from that point forward when you encounter something similar, that old command of "there's nothing I can do" subverts your effort.

In my case, it's made me feel like I could never be fully a part of the world, that circumstances were out of my control if I reached for the top, that I couldn't achieve the ultimate in writing (what the newspaper represented). Might sound odd coming from someone who's achieved as much as I have in writing, but I'm not up to my own standards. Friends have made millions writing, former friends have written Oscar-winning movies (and I helped get a couple started). It’s frustrating that I have written only “midlist” best-sellers, not the huge hits of people I know, because I have the capability of achieving the ultimate.

Funny that I should figure this out today. Propitious and to me it seems God-given, last night I met a legend who has a script of mine. If he buys that script and makes that movie, it changes my life forever. I've been very close to that type of thing many times, but the funny thing about it now is, I'm neutral on it. The quality of my writing is up to that level. I now feel like I can achieve that "ultimate" that I envisioned so long ago, standing on that dirt road reading that newspaper so happily as I walked back toward the shack. I no longer have that nagging feeling I get some times that something will go wrong, that I'll be frustrated so close to the ultimate, once again.

And that’s how you’re supposed to be about such things normally, neutral, take it or leave it, let it flow as it should.

I used the Yuen Method on myself to figure this out because I'm working on a different new script that could turn into a very successful independent movie. For days, I've had low energy, just struggled to get anything done, very unlike me. I work a lot - as a friend who's one of the governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences told me recently, I'm a "writing fool."

Likely, this means this movie will get made and be a hit. The books of mine that I’ve had the hardest time getting done always turned into the biggest sellers. (From today’s point of view, I imagine it’s because of that subverting subconscious “switch off” from so many years ago on that country road.

It's odd how many subconscious decisions fell into place back in that time when I decided there was nothing I could do. I couldn't be with my girlfriend and best friend, the one I thought was perfect. I couldn't be with the people I felt like I belonged with. I couldn't help my family. Echoes of these things have flittered into place in times of stress and turmoil throughout my life. It has seemed like the old Aesop tale with the man floating in the water, rising up, but never able to reach the luscious grapes above.

Now I think those grapes are not only within reach, but that I can turn them into the most delicious wine ever.

There's something even more important. As I reached this epiphany today, I looked back at that wide-eyed little kid, so in love with the world and words, willing to endure anything, knowing even then that great things were ahead in life. I think of people who write me all over the world with their writing dreams and how they’re like I was then. I think of how I've been told repeatedly that I'm kind of their only hope, that a book of mine has spoken to them so personally, helped them so much.

I feel incredibly connected to them now, because I know how much those words I've written and often forgotten, like those articles in those Texas newspapers that lifted my spirits daily and made me feel connected to the world, can do for others. And I want to do everything I can to get more words to people, to reach out to those who are feeling they are standing in the darkness of nothing they can do, because it's not really that way, and they don't need to flip that dark switch and alter their life for the worse.

There's always something you can do, if you don't buy the shadow, and I want to tell people about that, as much as I can.

That’s one of the reasons why I’m here.

[Steven Burnand]

Hi Skip, thanks for the information, I have just written off to someone in East Sussex that teaches the Yuen Method. You are sure right, the internal dialogue has navigational qualities and these either work in our favour or not in our favour. I tend to look at this effect as directional as opposed to on or off. The more I learn to switch off the auto pilot and become my own navigator the healthier I become.

My feelings are that communication is far more than language, its an energy flow, that has under the right conditions has self organising qualities.

Fear has tendency to shut down communication, leaving the energy going in endless loops.Facing a fear, brings the senses into play.

Emotions are our inner senses so its of great advantage to stay in touch with them. The language of the emotions is the second language that has been lost.

To move onto the next level of conciousness there is a need to learn how to communicative openly and accept that others do both physically and mentally have different points of view. The all round perspective is key as this is using 4D space to its optimum. In storage medium the sphere is the most efficient surface.

Open communication with others allows us to mentally see around corners and into what would otherwise be a blind spots.

Each of us appears to carry different parts to the puzzle due to our personal and unique view on life.

Being able to share these unique views and fill in other people blinds spots and missing pieces creates pockets of negative entropy and states of order.

No wonder those that control do not teach communication skills and propagate the stranger danger mentality.

Even the Greeks that gave us logic realised that logic had serious flaws and used it mostly as a language of control.

The ruling class of that time used Socratic Dialogue (an advanced method of question and answer techniques) to explore life's enigmas.

Needless to say this part is little known and taught in today's educational system.

Steve

[oceanick6]

Hi Skip, I noticed there is going to be a Hollywood movie coming out called "2012". John Cusack is starring in it. I don't expect it to be too moving, or intellectually precise. I only expect it to be entertainment. love and peace, cathyg

[Skip Press]

I expect it to be apocalyptic. There are quite a few Hollywood apocalyptic movies coming out, actually. They reveal the souls of the writers and moviemakers, which are largely a wasteland.

[Tom Flower]

I saw the trailer to the 2012 movie. The movie seems to be designed to create fear and to trigger the fight or flight response. Another "program" to keep a person dis-empowered.
Gregg Braden has said in an interview the movie had a fear based intepretation of the 2012 date.
By the way...Skip...That story of your early years was fantastic. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I like it when you say not to "buy the shadow". I agree. We are only subject to what we hold in mind.

[Sandra]

Hi Tom,

Please do not refer to yourself as a poor hapless soul! It's your right to be free and happy and yes, you can. And, yes - every path has to have Heart. So focus on YOUr path and YOUr heart's greatest desires. It doesn't matter what other people think. Spread your joy and your love and those who resonate will be inspired to do the same. Be who you are and allow yourself to flow with the new energies. Raise your vibration above world views and focus on the life YOU want to experience.

Let people talk and have their own beliefs for we create what we believe. Keep this important fact in mind. Detach from thoughts and beliefs that do not resonate with what YOU want to create and experience in YOUr life. Focus on what you want to create and experience and allow the Universe to support you. For the Universe gives us what we focus most on. The Universe gives us what we are most passionate about. It doesn't matter if we focus on the so-called good or the so-called bad. Where our passions live is what the Universe responds to. So, where is your passion? Where is your focus? What do you wish to create for YOU? What do you desire to experience in YOUr life?

Remember: you are what you think. Thoughts create. You are the master of your mind. Use it to benefit YOU. Use it to create your life as you want to experience it.

As for the Illuminati, world order, etc. yes they exist because it was created with thought. The thought to control the masses, greed, etc. And all those who give it attention are contributors to its power. So if you want to weaken it, stop giving it power with your thoughts. The key to disarming the so-called enemy is to - not give it power. Simple. The more you think about what you don't want, the more you create it. So, use your time and energy thinking about what you DO want.

Rise above it all by taking your attention out of the lower vibrations. You will rise with the new energies and those who remain in the lower energies will continue to experience the fear and control of those energies.

Does this help?

[joe weaver]

Seems to me, that we are all saying the same thing but in different ways. I guess every once in awhile we have to be presented with indifference in order to see how we are all alike,

Peace, Joe

[Steven Burnand]

Hi Joe, I agree, most of the time we are seeing the same from different directions, so the differences are subtle, but they do contain pieces and clues to an all round perspective.

Logic appears to block this natural process and divides a unified system that has biases into two distinct and separate parts.

Life appears to be working between the parts and with the gaps and creating movement and flow. I wrote a paper called Gapology back in the eighties to explain how this effect worked when driving a car.

Asking many question and observing my students I found out the more nervous ones looked at other cars and obstacles, so literally could not see their way through, as the way ahead to them appeared blocked and the less nervous and relaxed students looked naturally into the gaps. Looking into the gaps the student was able to see their way through the obstacles and feel more relaxed as a way through was in mind.

Training my students to look into the gaps had some remarkable effects and those that had been clumsy became able to do things without clumsiness. This was so apparent I had many of their partners coming out to the car to enquire how I had changed their partners behaviour so radically. The knock on effect of not being clumsy was confidence.

Language travels through both physical and metaphysical gaps and it's a navigational tool for thought. Should, musts cant's and other absolutes are obstacles that block thoughts from flowing naturally through the gaps.

Open questions naturally gravitate towards the gap and find their way through, over or around the real or imaginary obstacle. What I find fascinating is an imaginary obstacle or an imaginary line drawn down a snooker table acts very much like a real obstacle or line and effects behaviour in the same way.

Openly communicating with others and ourselves frees up the thought energy to flow enabling it to self organise.

Peace, ....Steve

[Lynnette]

2012? I like a beautiful ascension scenario. I'll go with David Wilcock and a lot of other people who view this as a great evolution from the old way of living to a new a beautiful way of living. i am intending it everyday. I live in a beautiful world full of loving people who are evolving into a new earth. Everywhere I go I see God reflecting back at me.Namaste, Lynnette