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2012

Oct 9, 2006
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I noticed someone mention the year 2012 and "the great shift." Not wanting to look too foolish (since I am supposed to be so hippie enlightened and should probably already know) I ran off to Wikipedia to see what I may be missing.

Generally I suppose the gist is that some people feel in the year 2012 a great shift in mentality will occur. And a large amount of people will change the world for the better, while stupid hypocrites running our current broken systems will just fade away. It was interesting looking at both the predicted and factual events that are supposed to happen in 2012. All very change worthy events and anniversaries of things. Lots of planetary activity. It would be an interesting year, great shift or not.

What I've noticed is a great shift this season. So many people are waking up to change their lives on a personal basis and even on a larger scale. It could be a touch of hopefulness within me that makes it seem like more people than it is. But I don't think so. There's just this great awakening in so many of us to find where we belong on a sort of spiritual cosmic level.

Even within myself there are great changes being made. And I'm one of those people who felt their shit was already together. It wasn't in the slightest. While trying to collect myself into an appropriate pile on this planet I had ironically lost myself. The who am I was temporarily put to the side and slowly got buried under lots of things that didn't matter anymore. Now I'm finding me again. Finding who I really am and what really matters. I'm trying to feed my mind as quick as I can. I want to get to the level I need to be at. I've changed so much in such a short time. Of course I was in a cocoon of depression for so long which could be considered a growing state, so perhaps I've been changing very slowly for a very long time.

Things are different now. I'm getting the connection to the universe back. I'm meditating in deserts and talking to lizards, for crying out loud. Things are changing. With all of us. It must be very important right at this time in "the big picture" to have the wise people wake up. So many of them are. They're finding their voices again by finding their souls.

Peace is Just a Word

Sep 30, 2006
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I was talking to someone about meditation and the quiet that can only be found in the desert. They have yet to experience it and said that a friend of theirs mentioned that, "the silence is so scary in the middle of the desert." I went on to tell him how beautiful I thought it was. Not scary.

This reminds me of how disturbed I am over people in the quiet desert areas. I'm talking about the places you can go where there's not a soul around. The places an hour away in the middle of nowhere. People don't live there and you'd hardly be lucky to even see an animal. The places that some tourists go for the cheap thrill of "seeing nature as it is." When I go to these places and they are filled with tourists hiking about I am always amazed at how they are acting. They have their IPODS or their children with them. Even people who are alone usually hum to themselves. Whatever they're doing is making a lot of noise. They can't be quiet.

I think that is a major problem with people today. So few people can't shut their mouths for a bloody second! The root of our confusion is the simplest thing. I've heard that sometimes the simplest explanation is the right one. In this case I am quiet certain that the simplest thing is a great problem solver for these high octane culture's (like ours). That being meditation. Silence. Nature. Until I spoke with this friend who was scared of desert silence I never really thought about how many people are scared of it. I don't think most people could handle it. And that's an earth shattering idea. What have people become if they can not sit in silence and know that they are hearing nothing? Not nothing but hearing their inner selves. I think that is what freaks them out into being loud. They've never heard their soul without interference.

Then just now as Greg the Monkey was making me think about people in general. I made the statement that I'm not even sure if most people would recognize their own decision if they made one. What I mean is I don't think most people (those we may refer to as "sheeple") really make their own decisions anymore. When was the last time a "normal person" did something major that wasn't pushed upon them by a book, a rule or a news report? Every decision they make is really heavily influenced by something or someone else. And when it is their own idea, by the time it gets out of their heads it has been filtered like water through a coffee filter.

So here we have, in my not humble at all opinion, several intelligent countries filled with people who have never heard silence and probably very rarely ever made a decision that came directly out of their head without any influence from their peers. I'd say that one leads to the other. If you had silence and found your connection to the Universe, perhaps your head would clear and you'd see something besides what is in front of our faces.

Silence is good. It's not the silence you hear when you lock yourself in the closet. It is not the silence a prison provides. It's silence you hear when all there is to hear is air and gravel or grass shifting under you. It's the silence you get when you're temporarily free of everything that is holding your spirit down. When the only person you can see around you is yourself. And it's what you do with that silence when you get it that matters. Do you pray? Do you chant? Do you remain silent? Our inner truths are buried within and can only be brought out when you are left with yourself and nothing to do but focus.

Find your center in your silence. I took this picture while I was meditating in the desert. It is a lizard that struck up a conversation. He was comfortable enough to let me take his picture. You should talk to the lizards. That helps too.