Our life is made up of individual acts and decisions that have created our current present reality. In order to create positive change on this planet we must first evaluate our own motivations and why we do the things we do.

Many people right now are undergoing a major awakening. Suddenly, everything is moving so fast. What has been hidden for so long is finally becoming revealed. We are realizing (not only that, we are understanding) that certain financial establishments, powerful corporations, and both political and religious institutions have been both destroying the planet and profiting from our own ignorance.

The old paradigm reaction is one of anger and blame. “How dare they do this to us!” Yet the new paradigm is asking for a higher level of awareness. We cannot allow ourselves to fall into victimhood. It is a program that only feeds our current problems. We are living during a magnificent time, an epoch where we have the capacity to become fully empowered and take responsibility for our own actions. Self-responsibility has tremendous payoff when we are willing to accept our own role as co-creator.

Truly, we are on the verge of ecocide. Our planet is being over-fished, over-logged, our top soil is being depleted, this list goes on and on. Yes, some people are more responsible for this devastation than others. But ultimately, when the final tree is cut down, who cares who’s fault it was?  We need to start asking ourselves, “What kind of world do I want to live in?” and “What am I doing to create this?” Our individual creations have a tremendous impact. Our thoughts and our ideas ripple out into a broader community where they transform and evolve. No question about it, we are in this together.

Currently in Southern Oregon, where I’m living, communities are popping up all over the place. People from all over the country are pouring out of larger cities in the pursuit of a more simple and sustainable lifestyle.

Community has become a buzz word. People tend to think that if they live “off-grid” with twenty other people away from the matrix, life will be easier. Far from it. Living on the land is hard enough. But living with each other, now that’s a challenge. I’ve been living in community for over a year now and the social dynamics of living together in close proximity has been my greatest lesson.

If my external world is a representation of my inner terrain then I have no one else to blame but myself when something bothers me. We are all existing as divine mirrors for one another. We tend to externalize our own behaviors and project our issues onto other people.

Life in community is a microcosm of this global community we are living in. If day after day the plants aren’t getting watered because someone hasn’t been doing their job,  it is the responsibility of the individual and the community to address the problem from a place of compassion. Creating an argument or blaming only reflects our own issues of not fulfilling our duties to our community. Before we can change these immense problems that we face in this world, we have to learn to truly work together, and the quickest way to work well with other people, is if we know how to work well with ourselves, and taking responsibility for our own behaviors.

As a community of co-creators, we are each taking on the role of being leaders and teachers for our fellow community members. Our daily decisions have the power to influence hundreds of people, all the more reason to be conscious of each moment in our day. I understand that this is easier said than done. Today’s world is engulfed in tantalizing distractions. It is easy to get swept up into someone else’s drama or find ourselves lost in the electronic void of the 21^st century. But ultimately, it comes down to this: how are you directing your consciousness? Our bodies are consciousness generators. Our thoughts create universes unto themselves.

So what are you thinking about?

It’s time we start focusing on the solution. And we can exemplify this process through our day-to-day actions. We must return to our hearts. We must align ourselves with motivations of the highest caliber, because without question, that’s exactly what this planet needs right now. The beautiful thing about aligning with our highest purpose is that endless possibilities begin to unfold. By following our passions through the most mundane of tasks we create new ways of being and new avenues of perception take place. Envision yourself living in a global community full of innovative, caring, and responsible people. Trust that you too have something to offer.

These days, it is crucial to know where we are coming from. Over the last few weeks, I have spoken with people from all over the world who are being confronted with major challenges in their personal lives. Do not underestimate this period of collective cleansing. Many people are referring to this time in history as the Great Unveiling. All we have to do is turn on the news, get online, or simply talk with our peers and we are inundated with news of corruption, scandals, and out and out crimes against humanity. Indeed, we are alive during a momentous period. Consider yourself blessed to usher in this new age – to take part in this renewal of self-sovereignty.

But this unveiling comes at a cost, and for some it is the most terrifying thing imaginable: the true knowledge of self. We are learning through this process, that we are incredibly powerful beings. Scientists are beginning to uncover what spiritual masters have known for millenia, that thought creates reality, that all is connected, that consciousness permeates every cell within our being, every atom within every stone.

More and more people are waking up. And they are emerging from the most unlikely of places. People who you would never suspect to collect their senses are beginning to see that there is more to this great mystery than what mass-produced society proposes on the nightly news. It is only in the face of great challenge that we are forced to rise to the occasion – make no mistake about it, we are on the verge of a collective evolution, a leap in human consciousness.

And human consciousness is coming to a great understanding, that all that exists before us is a physical representation of what lies within. But take a look around and we see that our planet is in a state of turmoil. What is this if not a wake up call, that we creators have been asleep and in our sleeping state have confronted our nightmares. But there are no victims here. We have the power to rouse ourselves from our sleep and take control of our lives. No longer can we blame anything external. If we truly want to heal this planet, we must learn to heal ourselves.

Many of us are being challenged to heal the traumas of the past that arise unconsciously in the present. I don’t know about you, but my personal shit is coming up in a variety of ways, be it physical illness, conflict in relationships, or out and out rage. Consider the analogy that we are a computer with programs constantly running, 90% of which are doing so without our knowing. Many of these programs were created in early childhood. When a trauma is formed we create a cocoon of security. We protect our true nature from further damage and in the process we create a false core identity. We protect the false core identity with mantras and affirmations like “I’m not unlikable, I’m attractive, I’m smart,” only perpetuating the false core identity further.

The reality is, we still contain the innocence of our truest nature. It is still alive within us. At times, we rediscover this childhood connection – it occurs in the wildness of nature or in the appreciation of beauty and art in the company of good friends. . .  and in the solitude of our inner silence.

Our highest self speaks through us when we are in connection with our divine purpose. Don’t forget, we came here for a reason.

Feel at peace that you are not alone in this processing. If you find yourself struggling with your own inner demons, rejoice that you are meeting the challenge head on. Forgiveness is a POWERFUL tool. Forgive those who have wronged you, let go! Most importantly, forgive yourself. The attitudes of retribution, guilt, or feigned ignorance only perpetuate the problems further. Call in your highest self and ask for guidance. You alone have the answers. Everything else is merely anecdotal.

As we change our inner landscape the outer too will transform. Coincidences and synchronicities will be the norm. At times it is daunting, the work that must be done. But the payoffs are immense. We are a uniting collective, shirking off the weights of the past and false beliefs of unworthiness. Most importantly, share your progress with others, for it is in this act that enables our co-creators to gather courage for their own inner terrain. 

It is not commonly known by most Americans however that the real reason we went to Libya was not to “liberate” its citizens but rather because Muammar Gaddafi was in the process of changing his nations currency to GOLD. Taking a look on the American dollar bill, we no longer have money supported by gold but rather we carry “legal tender.” The parallels between Libya and Iraq are staggering.

I implore you to watch this video and share it with everyone you can. Critical mass is coming, but we must take action of our own to ensure a global network of intelligent, peaceful, enlightened individuals.

In my own life I’ve been feeling the pull to do whatever it is that I do. For many people in the younger generation, myself included, we are no longer defined by a single idea, field of study, or job description. We are not bound by the dogmas of one political party or religious institution. We of the younger generation are a conglomerate of world ambassadors living in the Age of Information. Yet this vague identity is often very confusing both for us and for former generations. From their perspective we are the generation reaping the benefits from their labor and dogma.

From our perspective, their labor and dogma got us into this mess in the first place.

Many young people today are wondering where their place is. Not because they aren’t necessarily qualified or talented, but because this place is terminally ill. We don’t sense it – we know it. Something is seriously wrong with society. A 24/7 sermon from preachers, politicians, and pundits keep the masses on track. But this culmination of greed and ignorance is coming to a head.

We did not come all this way just to hang out.

In the midst of the madness, an amnesiac society, a teetering ecology and economy, one can’t help but wonder if this is really why we came all the way to planet earth. There are times at night when I wonder what the hell I’m doing here, alive in this body. Sometimes when I wake up I feel that I should have woken up hours ago, before it’s even light. I feel the need to do something, anything. There is a need to believe that my creation has a place and a purpose.

Yet that is the reason we are here!

 We are here to change the very definition of what it means to be human. We are not consumers. We are not republican or democrat, Christian or Hindu. Those are merely identity codes in this matrix of reality-belief.

Reality is a program and we are the programers

We all want to be accepted. As individual parts of a much MUCH greater whole, our contribution can appear to be miniscule at best.

“Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.” Gandhi

The fact that life even exists in the first place, in this moment, is a miracle.

The best way to accelerate this miracle is get outside. If you ever need  something to tell you what to do, just look to nature – it’s doing it all the time. In these days of heavy external programing from outside sources like public school, religion, media, or grandparents,  the surest way to reboot is to go for a good long hike.

“Successful navigation of this most perilous time in human history requires psychologically and spiritually mature men and women who can engender a mature human species. For nature-based people, initiated adulthood is developed in intimate relationship with the earth, the larger organism who births and sustains us. For contemporary people whose culture discounts or even disdains an intimate relationship  with nature and soul, reaching psychological and spiritual maturity is challenging but possible, and never more necessary than now.”

-Bill Plotkin  Soulcraft

There is a divine creativity that nature expresses in the essence of Her being and she is a very willing teacher. There has never been a more crucial time for the emergence of creativity on large scale. Find the seat of your soul underneath a tree – meditate, breathe; call in your highest self and request guidance. Surrender.

We are the new leaders in this Great Shift. We came to participate, to co-create and to inspire. For all of us, there are times when we doubt our own divinity, or we worry the value of our seemingly small contributions. This is ok. This is part of the journey. Trust that the place where Spirit most needs you is where your greatest passions flourish. Celebrate in the infinite potential that your soul harbors. Be creative and don’t worry what comes – for our ripples travel vast distances, arriving in great waves along wide shores. We must believe that our value cannot be defined, for it is in that belief where our truest power and greatest contribution lies.

More to come…

Among it all is great challenge. We are being pushed to see past the catastrophy of unbridled greed and its effects on the planet and its people. Now, more than ever, we are being called upon by our highest selves, to connect with our truest nature, and fully own the very reasons why we came to this planet in the first place.

Feel blessed that the opportunity to step into our power has never been greater. All around us are the resources to truly know our greatest potential. Everywhere we look we may see that life is fast emerging out of the fire that engulfs our planet. It is time to envision the world we wish to inhabit. We can do this at the smallest levels. NEVER underestimate the power of thought. The alignment of thought with intention can do miraculous things. Science now proves that we change our very DNA – with our emotion!

The smallest strands of life that make up the physical essence of our being, obey our every wish and desire.

So what is it that we wish and desire? The capacity to change the world exists within our hearts and minds. No longer are we the victims of our fate but the weavers of our life-craft.

Please visit this blog often, as well as our website: www.themapmakers.org. Watch our videos. Share your thoughts with us. Sign up for our newsletter. This is a small piece of a much larger movement. Together we are powerful. Let us unite, discover our gifts, share our inspirations, and change the make-up of our being.

Further research and soul candy can be found here: http://www.in5d.com/spontaneous-evolution-has-arrived.html

The main focus is not necessarily the UFOs, but the self mastery one gains when one’s perception shifts and expands.

However, there is plenty of activity taking place and I would like to share with you a short video we made today involving military jets and an unidentified flying object. Things are changing rapidly in this world and we are the ones who will foster this change.

My outlook will be different now, there’s no turning back.

I’ve been doing work trade on a permaculture farm for almost a week … and I’m hooked. Perhaps it’s the delicious food I pull right out of the earth, or the abundance of wildlife outside my doorstep, or the fact that the matrix is currently nowhere near my reality. Where I’m at, has something very important to teach me.

Aprovecho, a sustainable learning center, sits on a modest 40 acres in the hills of west central Oregon, outside Cottage Grove. Here, people from all backgrounds come to learn a variety of sustainable practices such as aquaculture, proper water harvesting, practical building design, and even pedal powered technology – ever grind your own wheat with a bicycle?

Before I came, I had only once before experienced permaculture while traveling in Ethiopia. I was staying at a small hostel which had transformed dead earth into a thriving oasis by mimicking nature through sustainable land use design. I watched as the owners took awe-struck villagers through the property, showing them innovative yet simple practices that obviously worked.  It was an incredible experience to witness the children process this new information like thirsty sponges. The term sustainable education sprang to mind.

On the other side of the planet, outside Cottage Grove, OR, Aprovecho has been working as a permaculture education center for over ten years. Ironically, many people who read this article have probably never even heard of permaculture before. But soon, they will. The concept and philosophies of permaculture are catching on fast, and the movement, is becoming a revolution.

The foundation of permaculture relies on the observation of patterns and systems and an understanding that nothing is independent.

This is useful wisdom for an expanding planet. More and more people are beginning to understand that their everyday actions are having great impact on other people halfway across the planet. For those seeking true sustainability, daily micro-management becomes essential. The processes that make up our day must be done consciously if we are to create a healthy future for the individual and the collective, which these days are one and the same.

Sustainable is a tricky word to define, especially in today’s green-market driven economy. Linguistically appealing terms such as all natural or self-sufficient have all but stigmatized historically traditional methods of conservation and practical science. The push for low-impact practices like car-pooling and water conservation have been obvious for years, but today have become synonymous with emotionally charged advertisements for hybrid cars and the monopolization of utility companies. A new earth conscious mind-set from society has been needed for decades, but only recently has our government seen the economic opportunity  to implement/sell these eco-friendly technologies to the public.

Hippies on the other hand have been screaming sustainable practices and “community mentality” since the 1960’s yet have been demonized as out-of-touch, impractical, and idealistic misfits in a consumer driven society. This same consumer driven society has brought us to where we are today, completely out of touch with our natural environment. The majority of us no longer grown our own food or even understand how it gets to our dinner table. The complexity of natural systems and cycles evades the general public. This results in a poor understanding of the earth we were once a part of.

In Oregon, over 90% of old growth forest has been clear cut. This has resulted in a huge explosion of blackberry bushes which grow best in areas with disturbed soil – another reason they are seen so frequently in ditches and vacant lots in towns and cities in the Pacific Northwest. One of my main duties as a work trader at Aprovecho is blackberry maintenance. Long tedious days of clipping, pruning, and de-rooting yield piles upon piles of blackberry vines.

Today, blackberries are considered an invasive species, much like scotch broom, a large yellow-flowered bush that grows throughout the country next to roads and highways. Both plants are soil rejuvenators, providing much needed nitrogen into the damaged soil for re-growth. Yet because of their invasive nature, toxic chemicals are being used to eradicate them, furthering damage to the soil.

Blackberries are but one example of the many problems we face and the impractical solutions we have created for solving them.

Sustainability is a mind-set, an evolving practice that encompasses all aspects of one’s lifestyle. External observation is paramount to understanding what actions we must take and why we must take them.  It’s not simply buying locally, it’s understanding a neighbor’s needs and lending support when possible. Going green isn’t just recycling, it’s rethinking.

Solutions are rarely arrived at before the problem becomes too big. Suddenly, the problem is much too big.

A ballooning global population is no longer upon us, it is us. We now find ourselves looking squarely in the face of some pretty disturbing realities: diminishing food chains, the end of oil as we know it, global drought, and an ever-broadening of the social classes.  As  time and globalization march ever forward, no longer  can we elude responsibility. There are no islands to escape to, save mars.

Aprovecho is the first stop of many. For the next 6 months, my partner and I will be visiting multiple alternative education centers and sustainability  programs in the United States – the end product, a documentary about sustainable education.

As a former educator, I believe that holistic education, above all else, is the foundation for a sustainable society and planet. As we collectively move into a new understanding of humanity’s role on Gaia, we must be certain that our youth are not only understanding this change, but are also spearheading it. New insights in education are being made every day. Teachers are coming forward with innovative new ideas and for a healthy planet to grow, these ideas must be shared. Students must be encouraged to think outside the conventional, because our future will be anything but.

The way I figure it, if society is doomed to collapse, then all me and my friends gotta do is hold out until the shit has come off the fan. But then my friend Kenny was like, “Stupid, the apocalypse is forever, man!”

That really got me thinking. Will there even be food during the apocalypse or will everyone have to grow their own food, and how the hell do you even GROW cereal?

So I started writing down everything that came into my head, ideas and preparations for the time to come….let me know if i missed anything.

revelations:-

-It will be harder to find friends on facebook after 2012

-There could be massive unemployment because everyone is trying to grow cereal and they won’t have enough time to go to work because they will be too tired from all their sustainable living.

-cars will be replaced with horses.

-it will be harder and more expensive for the average person to rent barns for their horses.

-In the case of total economic collapse, there could be strikes. NFL and MLB teams refusing to play could lead to major suicides in Chicago.

-people who are not ready to enter into the 4th dimension may very well get trapped in the 2nd dimension.

-pole reversal could put a permanent end to American Idol.

-California will be totally fucked.

-So will Paris Hilton.

-Solar flares will wipe out the power grid, which will wipe out the internet, which will make everyone stupid again.

-Stupid people get angry fast.

-Statistics say that dumb people have way more babies than not so dumb people.

-Population explosion!

-Too many people + no electrical grid=boredom=more sex=more people

-Population explosion times 10 million

-scientists won’t know what to do with all the new people and they will give up being scientists.

-life will become more confusing because scientists won’t be around to tell us how the world works.

-Jihad.

-When Jesus comes back, he’s probably gonna be pretty disappointed in a lot of people.

-Life goes on.

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A new reality is smacking us in the face.

After a three day trip to Trout Lake, WA, which encompassed more than a dozen first-hand UFO sightings as well as a tangible introduction to the “Orb Phenomenon“,  I am once again in a state of questioning everything I once knew to be real…

Since my visit away from assumed normality, I have been bombarded wtih synchronicities, radical insights, glimpses into the multi-verse as well as a new understanding about myself as a multi-dimensional being. Newness abounds and the clutches of a once fear-attatched reality becomes ever-looser.

Energy is everywhere and everyday we are understanding more how our own energy affects that which is around us.

The shaman’s science is creeping ever-closer in conjunction with modern day quantum physics. Spirits and light-beings pass through the fourth dimension like electrons in two places simultaneously – eager for the subjective observer with camera  - clear mind and intent.

Deep meditation reveals collective secrets withheld for millenia and web bot predictions laugh in relation.

We are in this karma clearing phase which is good news for those of us on Humanity’s bandwagon, bad for those who deny co-creation. The Creator Gods are beginning to wake up and life is about to take on a whole new meaning.

We are undergoing a massive healing transition, one that is undeniable, unavoidable, -

Everything about us, our very concept of who we are and why we are here is being challenged. We go deep, deep into the seat of the soul and sit in the silence of who we REALLY are and consciously choose how we will, from this moment on, create anything we can possibly imagine.

We choose not enslavement but empowerment – sovereignty from system, communion with community, delight in divinity. This new reality is rapidly RAPIDLY emerging.