Taking Up Where I Left Off

A little less than a year ago, I was jarred by receiving feedback on the last Blog piece I had written.  It came from a long-time friend in Oregon who said he thought surely I would end the post with a different phrase than I did.  I was quoting Pogo: "We have met the enemy and it is US!" 

He said he thought I would have said: "We have met the savior and it is US!"  His reference was to the years of friendship in which he and his wife and I shared our spiritual journeys and he knew that I believed - I KNEW - with all my heart that his statement WAS true (as well). 

After responding to him that, of course, I agreed, I came back to the Blog and said to myself:  "Now how do I get from here to there in my writing?"  After making several initial attempts at expressing myself, I realized that I needed to take a break.  Not only was I readying myself to re-enter a time where I needed to earn money again, but I kept stumbling over which way to turn and which path to take. 


It has been that kind of a year for me - trying to bridge the chasm of "before" and "now" in many arenas (from 2010 to 2011 and from 1999 to 2011).

Reference: Before   I took a dozen years off from my consulting when I went to work for the Mayor of Kansas City in her first term in 1999.  I served with her through 2007 and expected to continue working with the KC Safe City Initiative after she left office.  The project was funded and since we were setting up a new endeavor - a Public Safety Community Research Center - we were preparing to add staff and set up a GIS Mapping System that would allow neighborhoods to see at a glance what was happening in their immediate environs  (related to crime, city services, housing, etc.) in order to help them set priorities for action.

In October, after waiting 6 months for the City Manager to give us the go-ahead, it was decided that our funding would be cut and used elsewhere.   Talk about a jolt then!  I tried to continue without pay and worked for about a year to try to secure funds for the Center and for a couple of other small projects.  Nothing materialized, so I began to tackle self-publishing a Body of Spiritual Teachings that had been entrusted to me in 1993. 

From 2008-2010 I was able to pull together 8 years of experience from 1985-1993 into 4 books.  Two were filled with Discourses from the Universal Teachers and the Brotherhood of Light that were trance-channeled during 1985-1987.  One was a telling of the Story behind what came to be called (from the very beginning) The Aquarius Materials during those two and the next six years.  And one is a Guide to "Living From the Soul..."  - the title of the book.

The friend, the one who jolted me last January entered my life in 1988.  He is a Sufi minister, writer, publisher, and former New Age bookstore owner and he and his wife were close pilgrams-on-the-Road during that time.  They, too, had experienced a time of listening to channeled messages that were coming through a woman in their town about 40 miles away - at the same time - and they were stunned to see how parallel the messages were that had come through the Aquarius channel.  (no accident, I now know)

Self-publishing was a delightful and diligent process and I was fortunate to feel the "presence" of the Universal Teachers during those years as I tried to work with the archives of that time, the hundreds of photos, and all of the channeled Teachings.  They became my companions and partners.  Linked closely through mind and heart, they helped guide me through the process.  I continue to communicate with them to this day and simply dialogue on the computer with "TT: The Teachers."

Reference: Now  The last book was published in December of last year (2010) and is called "Let LIGHT descend on Earth."  I began this year, 2011, with high hopes and excitement about getting back to consulting.  I've had one six month contract which allowed me to return to "the neighborhoods" (the 'hood': the urban core) and plan on focusing my "social entrepreneur business" attention in the Public Sector dealing with all its complex and persistent urban realities. 

At 74, I know that it is time for me to move straight ahead with what I believe is my Soul's purpose for this lifetime and am still trying to get my arms around how I can "live my Truth" in today's world.  So I'm having to open myself wide to think beyond my "professional experience," beyond my multiple areas of expertise.  Instead of only thinking about what I have to  offer to Public Sector systems as a consultant or to places that will hire me to use my skills, I have to ask myself: What do I have to offer the world? 

This is a pivotal time in American culture.  It is a crisis time for countries all over the world in terms of every facet of human life and the Life of Earth.  It is a Time of Choice of all humanity.  Do we continue on as we have before in brutal wars, slavery of whole peoples, inequities in almost every area of life, and continue to be separated by artificial boundaries that separate us into "us" and "them"?  Or do we examine again the roots of our humanity and the potential of our spiritual natures in order to come up with a New Way to Live together on the planet?  This blog is a step in that direction: to widen my efforts to share what I've learned that relates to our times.

Full circle, don't you think.  Yes, it is possible to see ourselves as both the "enemy" and the savior."  And when we do, we have to recognize the error of thinking in either/or terms and conclude that we are dealing with a both/and experience of life.  We have to make our peace - as I have worked to do so over this past year - to sort it all out and commit to finding our way to heal ourselves, heal our communities, and heal our world.  

That's the AGENDA for this blog in the coming year, so please join with me and let's form a circle that explores this together.  

P.S. As my vison quest name has been "Truth-Seeker," I find that I'm being called to be a "Truth-Speaker" as well.  Sharing my one voice to add to many others who seek to bring in The New Heaven and The New Earth.

Namaste to All
"my god-self recognizes and honors the god-self in you"