The manuscript of survival ~ part 228 Tension is Building

Tension is starting to mount in so many of you at the moment, and the reason for this is simple indeed. Your very core is almost roaring with frustration because it is longing to tear itself free from any restraints that are holding you back from thrusting yourself headlong into this immense project of immeasurable importance. You see, although you have all started to build the foundation for your new world, you know deep in your heart of hearts that your contribution to all of this will be so much larger than the one you are currently immersed in. Hence, the growing feeling of impatience in so many of you. This is only normal, because you see that your gifts are sorely needed, so the frustration of being held back as it were is only getting more and more pressing for so many of you. Again, this is only to be expected, but it is also something that needs to be endured, as you all are being kept in check with good reason. Let us explain.

All of this impatience is not anything negative, far from it, but it will feel so to any one of you feeling almost compressed by this need to literally spread out and tackle the challenges you see around you. But you must wait a bit longer before you can start to shine your true colours in earnest, and as always, the reason for this is the same: timing. We have talked about this issue before, so this will be a repetitious message to so many, but we will risk annoying you even further by saying it again. As you know so well by now, this is indeed a very complex and complicated process you are all taking part in, and even if you already by your prowess have speeded up the proceedings considerably, there is a carefully set sequence of events that needs to unfold at the right moment in order for all of this to go as planned. So yes, that dreaded word ”soon” will once again rear its head in these missives, as it is only a matter of time before you can unleash all of your powers into this process of rebuilding and redefining your world.

Time is of the essence, is an old adage many of you are familiar with. Let us rephrase that into ”time IS the essence” here, as what you are using as your instrument in this carefully planned process is indeed time, time in all of its connotation and all of its nuances. Time is as you know a very malleable and powerful source of energy on our side of the veil, and it will become more and more so on your side of the veil too. But as usual, this will be give in increments lest you should all drown if you overestimate your ”swimming abilities” and step too far out into the deep before you are fully prepared to do so. In other words, this plan is steadily unfolding according to the blueprints set up ahead, and there are a multitude of steps that needs to be taken before everything reaches 100% speed and power. So again, you must curb your impatience, or rather, accept it as a ”constant companion” for a little while longer.

And know that this impatience is nothing but a sign of your true powers slowly but surely stepping up and out into the open. And in a very short time indeed, you will be able to let it all out, and then, you will all revel in the joy of being creators in every sense of the word. Until then, know that you are already creating to the fullest of your abilities, that is, to the fullest of your current abilities. But know also that it is not you who are holding yourselves back, it is us, because we know what it takes to be standing in the full force of your light. And so, we will hold you all back until it is time for you to do so. Because then, and only then, will you all have the ability to wield this power of your light in a way that will not be detrimental to yourselves. This is in no way any criticism or rebuke of any of you. It is only a temporary measure to ensure that you all get through this amping up process unharmed and unfazed by what you are about to step into. For even if you are all magnificent already, it is nothing compared to the brilliance you are destined for.

http://aishanorth.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/the-manuscript-of-survival-part-228/

POOF for NOV 25: Thrill Seekers of Negativity

Greetings and Salutations;

Listen very carefully to the words of this song, if you can get pass needing to hear a banjo or 'spoons' in everything. Folks are out plowing thru everything said by somebody in the web. Conspiracy stories are everywhere...mass confusion. There is no need for it, just because you can't decipher the players, be cool. All is in order. Time was always on our side. The losers can always be spotted by their bad behavior. As long as the old folks stuck to the plan, they'd take a shot of oxygen and do their jobs. Who knew, it would take so many D9's to keep the runway clear? Many folks lost their power and freedom in the last few weeks, you just didn't hear about it. There are many ways to skin this cat, with out making a public spectacle of it. No need for the chaos of getting the masses all tripping when it's all being handled. Below are some links to show you where the world is going, no longer happening behind the curtains. Change is upon us, now they 'fund' it. That makes you and I, mules, to spread the load out across the planet recreating the world we live in. I recommend staying close for a spell, now. Might find a surprise at your door. Everything ends and begins in this world. See ya 'out there'.

Consultations until the door bell rings.

Love and Kisses;

Poofness

 

http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1340820786.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7dtIDBmUyc

http://beforeitsnews.com/economy/2012/09/china-launching-gold-backed-global-currency-2452362.html

Has NASA discovered life on Mars? Space agency hints at ‘historic’ discovery

By Daniel Carrington, The Space Reporter

It could be one of the most important discoveries in the history of NASA.

U.S. space agency officials reportedly are planning to announce a “major” discovery in December, leading to speculation that some form of life may have been discovered on Mars. 

“This data is gonna be one for the history books,” NASA’s Curiosity chief scientist John Grotzinger, of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, told NPR on Tuesday, sparking speculation among the astronomy community. “It’s looking really good.”

It remains unclear what exactly NASA officials have discovered on the Red Planet. The discovery is reportedly the result of recent research conducted on Mars by Curiosity. The rover has spent the last several weeks roaming the planet in an effort to collect samples of soil and study the martian atmosphere. Speaking earlier this week NASA officials said the data collected during one of these missions led to the discovery.

“We’re getting data from SAM as we sit here and speak, and the data looks really interesting,” Mr. Grotzinger notes. “The science team is busily chewing away on it as it comes down.”

Over the coming weeks, NASA scientists will reportedly study the data in an effort to pin down the exact finding, according to various reports. The announcement comes just weeks after NASA said they have yet to find evidence that the planet most like Earth in the solar system has methane, a gas tied to biological processes.

That said, it has been noted that the discovery could relate to an earlier mission aimed at measuring radiation levels on the planet. Researchers announced earlier this month that data collected during a mission yielded surprising results, including the potential detection of methane. Using the car-sized mobile laboratory, NASA researchers said at the time that they had identified transient whirlwinds, mapped winds in relation to slopes, tracked daily and seasonal changes in air pressure, and linked rhythmic changes in radiation to daily atmospheric changes. The knowledge gained about these processes could have provided scientists with evidence about environmental changes on Mars that might have led to conditions favorable for life.

In between now and then, the rover is expected to continue its mission. During a Thanksgiving break, the team will use Curiosity’s Mast Camera (Mastcam) from Point Lake to examine possible routes and targets to the east. A priority is to choose a rock for the first use of the rover’s hammering drill, which will collect samples of powder from rock interiors, according to researchers.

The $2.5 billion Curiosity rover landed inside Mars’ Gale Crater in early August. During a two-year prime mission, researchers will use Curiosity’s ten instruments to assess whether the study area ever has offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life. The mission is seen as a key test for studying whether a manned mission to the planet is possible.

WVII on-air resignations spotlight media issues, journalism, broadcast experts say

By Andrew Neff, BDN Staff

BANGOR, Maine — This week’s simultaneous resignations of two local news anchors on live TV may be a first, according to two longtime broadcast journalism experts, but reflect common tensions in news operations.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if [the on-air resignations are a first],” said Barbara Cochran, former Radio Television Digital News Association president and current public affairs chairwoman of the Missouri School of Journalism. “It’s getting attention in the trade press already, and I think there is a good discussion to be had with students and professionals about what your options are and what is the best way to handle situations like this.”

Citing frustration about upper-management practices that they said they both strongly disagreed with, news director Cindy Michaels and executive producer Tony Consiglio announced they were quitting their jobs at Bangor TV station WVII (Channel 7) at the end of their live 6 p.m. Tuesday newscast.

“I’ve been in journalism for 40 years, and I’m not aware of any situation like that in my experience,” Cochran said Wednesday. She began her journalism career at the Washington Star newspaper before taking a broadcasting job with National Public Radio when the paper folded in 1979, moving to NBC for almost six years, and then to CBS for eight.

Michaels, who had been at the station for six years, said Tuesday there was an expectation by upper management to do somewhat unbalanced news, politically, in general, to satisfy ownership or advertiser concerns.

Mike Palmer, general manager and vice president at WVII and sister station WFVX (Channel 22), disagreed, saying management plays no active role in the day-to-day news operations of his station’s staff.

“I don’t go to story meetings. I don’t assign stories. I am not involved,” he said Wednesday.
Bob Steele, a former University of Maine journalism professor who went on to spend almost 20 years at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., and build the journalism school’s ethics program, said while the joint resignation of Michaels and Consiglio on live TV may be new, their struggle with higher-ups is not.




“Tensions between management and newsroom journalists over values are not new. They’ve always existed in TV, newspapers and radio, and in this digital era as well,” said Steele, who is now professor of journalism ethics at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., and director of the school’s Prindle Institute for Ethics. “They can often involve competing purposes and loyalties.

“The key is to protect the journalistic independence of the newsroom to make sure the legitimate business values of an organization do not undermine, nor conflict with the journalistic values of the newsroom.”

And do so in a way in which the station or paper’s ability to make money isn’t compromised or harmed.

“This era is one in which the business models for newspapers have shattered and the models for network and local TV have also changed dramatically due to the Internet, changing consumer habits, and a different ad mix and base and how advertisers use the media,” Steele said. “So it’s a very challenging period, but that is never an excuse for compromising the journalistic ethics and quality of the organization and the work it produces.”

According to Cochran and Steele, management shouldn’t be heavily involved in the day-to-day news operations.

“Certainly a GM has overall responsibility for the station and is the supervisor of those who they hire for the newsroom, but he or a publisher shouldn’t unduly influence the news coverage of their newspapers or stations,” said Steele, who was WVII’s news director for three years (1976-78) after being a reporter at WLBZ (Channel 2) from 1973 to 1975.

Palmer, however, has become directly involved in the station’s news operations more than once, calling a meeting to emphasize balance when reporting, particularly on controversial issues such as gay marriage and politics.

Peter Farrar, a master control operator at the station for the last year, says he has no personal experience with Palmer being involved in the news operation, but did say that regarding the few instances he’s aware of, Palmer only became involved to stress and promote balance.

“I never saw it. I never heard of it, really,” Farrar said Wednesday. “And Cindy never said anything to me in relation to feeling like her hands were tied journalistically here. I never really talked to Tony.”
Another current WVII employee, who asked to remain anonymous, supported Farrar’s position, noting in an email to the BDN on Wednesday that, “The only time there were issues with politically motivated stories was when the reporters were presenting stories with only one side of the issue being represented, and they were told that BOTH sides needed to be presented.”

David Esch, a former producer who worked at WVII for three months last year, said Wednesday that he had resigned because of what he considered questionable journalistic practices, citing one story involving a political candidate talking about the candidate’s views on gay marriage. The day after the story aired, Esch said Palmer called a meeting to tell staff members that any story including a controversial subject like gay marriage would not be run without including representatives of both sides giving their takes on the issue.

While she didn’t disagree with the reason for the meeting, Cochran says it could have been handled much better.

“That should ultimately come from the news director, and not the GM, who could have talked to [the news director], and then she could have talked to her staff,” Cochran said. “At any TV station, the GM and news director have to be able to communicate and get along.

“The news department should be protected from those outside pressures in order to safeguard its credibility. If she felt like she was constantly undercut and just not able to carry out the editorial mission as she thought best, she was just in a bad situation.”

Steele said that while he had read BDN stories about the resignations and an online MPBN story citing another disagreement between the anchors and Palmer, who disagreed with their choice of an openly gay man to moderate a gay marriage debate, he couldn’t comment specifically about the situation until he knew more details.

“Certainly people have their ideological beliefs, but the GM or manager shouldn’t push their beliefs on what is covered, how it’s covered, or the content of news stories,” said Steele. “There’s an inference that the GM was wearing big shoes and intruding on the journalistic news operation. If that was happening, and I can’t judge that, then you have a serious ethical problem.”

Consiglio said he’s hopeful that, at the very least, some thoughtful discussion and debate results from situation.

“I’ve always been one to take journalism ethics seriously, and if this becomes some sort of teaching point or lesson, I hope that it can be a valuable learning experience,” Consiglio said.

Source: http://bangordailynews.com/2012/11/22/news/bangor/wvii-on-air-resignations-spotlight-media-issues-journalism-broadcast-experts-say/

Doing Time, Doing Vipassana

Documentary on Vipassana meditation in prisons in India. Check the following link for the schedules of the courses around the world http://www.dhamma.org/ There is another documentary called The Dhamma Brothers, here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgfVLXMqLpQ

Michael Stone on “the gift of our wounds”

Michael Stone - The gift of our wounds from Ian MacKenzie on Vimeo.

“What if,” asks Michael Stone in this new video teaching, “somebody who suffered from an eating disorder, or someone who suffered from depression, or someone who suffers from anxiety, recognizes that the way they work with their anxiety, the way their practices help them overcome depression — what if they see that that process of working with their woundedness actually gives them real tools to take positive and creative action in the world?

Transcription:

"When you see an image of Guanyin, when you see an image of Kannon, when you see a sculpture of the Bodhisattva, she has a thousand arms. And in every arm, in every hand, there is a different tool.
One arm might have a rake, one arm might have a rope, one arm might have an image of an awakened Buddha, one arm might have an iPhone, one arm might have another app. And these thousands of arms have different kinds of tools. And it’s said that if you want to really put love in action or compassion into action, you need many kinds of tools. So when you go to temples where the centerpiece of the temple is a Bodhisattva, or is Guanyin, or a Kannon, you see an image of a woman or a man with a thousand arms.

I think about this in my life: what does it mean to have tools of compassion? It seems, in my life, having tools of compassion has everything to do with my own woundedness. To be able to take places where I’ve been wounded and recognize that instead of seeing those wounds or those scars as kind of places that hold me back or stop me, maybe my woundedness is also a tool for connecting with others.




What if I can use the ways that I’ve been scarred? What if we can use the ways that we’ve been wounded? As the springboard for action? What if our wounds are actually tools. What if somebody who suffered from an eating disorder, or someone who suffered from depression, or someone who suffers from anxiety, recognizes that the way they work with their anxiety, the way their practices help them overcome depression -- what if they see that that process of working with their woundedness actually gives them real tools to take positive and creative action in the world?
In a way, this is what the Bodhisattva represents with all her arms, and with every hand, in all her different tools: is taking the places we’ve been wounded and using those wounds to become real tools for real action.

That’s how it works at an individual level. We all know that when we’re wounded, if we see our wounds as positive, it allows us to connect with others who have the same wounds.
But what about this at a collective level? What if we look at the situation in our rivers? What if we look at the shadow side of nuclear power? What if we really see what we’re doing to the environment, and the disparity in our economic system, and we see this kind of woundedness, and we open to the suffering in what we’re doing, and the suffering we all cause, and instead of being overwhelmed by it, we see it as a place to take action? We see our woundedness as a tool and we’re able to use those tools to effect positive change. Anybody who has an answer for the complexity of our problems right now isn’t telling the truth. There is no one answer that’s going to solve our problems right now. We all need to look deeply at our woundedness and from that woundedness, take action."

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About Michael Stone

Michael Stone leader of Centre of Gravity, is a psychotherapist, Yoga teacher, author and activist, committed to the integration of traditional teachings with contemporary psychological and philosophical understanding. The components of his practice include Yoga postures, breathing technique, meditation and textual study. Over the years, his goal has been to cultivate long-term relationships with people who want to deepen their understanding of Yoga and Buddhist teachings and practice. He also maintains a dedicated workshop and retreat schedule in communities in Canada and abroad. Michael is a father and lives in Toronto with his partner Carina Lof and his 9 year old son Arlyn. These days you can find him working on a documentary film called "Reactor," a new book of the same title, teaching, and also giving talks at conferences and in community.
centreofgravity.org

Thanks to Michael and to Ian MacKenzie, who shot and edited this video, for sharing. You’ll find more from Michael on SunSpace here. And for more on the work of the bodhisattva, see Pema Chodron’s “A Greater Happiness,” from our current issue.

Shot & edited by Ian MacKenzie
Support the REACTOR project. ianmack.com/reactor

Source: http://shambhalasun.com/sunspace/

UFO Activity Hovers around the International Space Station

A recent video of a brown coloured orb seen near the Earth’s Orbit on the International Space Station on the 16th of November was launched on YouTube by Streetcap1. The International Space Station on a daily basis receives such UFOs that regularly visit the area and can be easily caught on your screen recorder near the ISS if you look for them. There have been several sightings of UFOs near the ISS and though many sightings can be viewed in the form of pictures, there is still no video evidence of these UFOs and hence commenting any more on their appropriate size or speed is impossible.

With the help of screen recorders you can actually catch a UFO in action. In this particular incident we initially had photographs alone that were taken on through live cam. Another photograph which was released earlier on and is said to have been taken from the Earth’s Orbit on ISS by an astronaut earlier this month using the high end cameras that are available on the satellite may help in describing the UFOs to an extent. This particular photo of the UFO was also posted on a NASA site and the details it shows is simply mind blowing.

Scott C. Waring (author of UFO sightings daily) interpreted the pictures that were received from near the ISS in an article in the ‘Before it’s News’ and a post on his personal site.

“The Flying Object or UFO resembles somehow to the spacecraft that is shown in the movie Farscape. The photograph also shows a light at the belly of the craft which is a common reporting in UFO crafts that are triangular shaped.”

These triangular shaped crafts have been sighted several times in different places in the past and some common description that is almost always received from witnesses is the colour of the craft which is most of the time black. There tremendous speed is also worth mentioning as they travel at an incredible speed and appear and disappear all of a sudden from and to nowhere. Their presence and absence is seen and judged within a blink of an eye.

The sighting history of these triangle shaped crafts has been dated back to the 1950s, and to many people these crafts were military projects that were kept secret. These beliefs were not only present at that time rather even today many people believe in them. The question here is if these crafts are secret military projects what are they doing in space ( near the ISS specifically), and if these projects are next generation aircrafts how come no development or technology advancement has been made in the past years as these crafts from the 50’s and 60’s have been flying in the same way.

Whatever these objects may be, their purpose is unknown to the public as a whole, but there have been a lot of such sightings coming from the most unusual of places lately.  Are the days of realization  coming very near?

Source: http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/ufo_extraterrestrials/2012/11/20/4903.html