You are your own Avatar

You are your own Avatar

Oh sure, there are lots of lessons in Avatar. There are metaphors aplenty in the movie. Cameron didnt mean them all. He isnt there yet. But all we are here are representations, images of our higher self. The whole place is a game.

Lets look at some of the metaphors. Good vs. evil, young soul vs. mature soul, male energy vs. female energy, Cowboys vs. Indians, technology vs. nature, action vs. attraction. Your higher self vs. how you are here on this planet at this time.

All of these metaphors have been looked at before and done over and over and over again. I could go on and on about them. Cameron was a Calvary officer in the 1800s. He hand a hand in the killing of many Indians in his day. He knows at an essence level that he feels bad about that, so he had the Indians win here. They even do war hoops all through the movie.

The invaders are clearly young souls well versed in the art of war and aggression. They take on savages. People who they think are baby souls but they aren’t. The NavI represent mature souls, people who learn, live and love by consensus, a huge lesson for the planet. And the young souls are repulsed back to whence they came. The same will happen here unless we seek consensus.

The NavI see the power of nature and tap into it. They even tap into the Akashic record at their Tree of Souls. They dont have access to the technology. But the technology doesnt save them. The collective saves them. They flow away and band together to win. Now, they take losses, heavy losses and must regroup. Life is like that. We are in such a battle politically today and all we see from the battle is casualties. How sad for us.

The hero cannot use his legs. They only way he can be truly physical is to use a machine to connect to his Avatar to operate on the planet. This is what we all do. We are our own avatars here on this planet. We need avatars to be physical. We are all that hero. Think about that. The movie tells us we are all our own avatars having our higher self guide our physical self.

We all try to do good. We face many obstacles. We all want to connect here on the planet. Life is about managing polarity. Evil doesnt go away. Male energy doesnt win, neither does female. It is managing the tiny little fact that life is about balancing the polarities that exist.

And the only way to do that is to work with everyone and get consensus. Life has big lessons, pain happens, there is back and forth. But you can use your avatar to work through it. Your higher self cannot. It isnt physical. It can only guide you. Only your can learn the lesson here and balance the polarities that come with the game.

And, if you buy off on that you are just an avatar of your higher self, then everyone else is also. So cut them some slack. Look at who their higher self can be and how you work with that intention. You would want the same in return.

It is just a movie, sure. Looking at what enchants you or disrupts you in the movie tells you volumes about where you are in your lesson set right now. But that is true about life in general. The movie is just a metaphor of that.

You are your own avatar and so is everyone else. If we begin to see that and reflect on it as we move about this planet, well, whatever it cost to make the movie will have been worth every cent.

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Haiti and the earthquake">Haiti and the earthquake

Richter magnitude is completely misunderstood by the population. It is not a measure of ground motion. It is a measure of the energy released at the starting moment of the quake. It is also does not scale by a factor of 10. It scales by a factor of 30, more or less. So the difference between 6.0 and 7.0 is not 10 but 30 times more energy released. The difference between 6.0 and 8.0 is just above 900 times more energy.

Ground motion is influenced by the depth of the quake, the direction of the energy and the type of material between where the quake started and the surface as well as the energy released. So no two 7.0 quakes are the same. The softer the soil, the more the quake is directed upward and the shallower it is all create greater ground motion, more damage and more distress by those that feel it.

This quake had the perfect storm of bad factors. For its size, it wasn’t very deep. The soils in the area are loose to sandy and the buildings were basically brick or unreinforced masonry, a lethal combination as we have seen. Look for bent rebar in the rubble pictures, they aren’t there. Look for wood or steel framing, there isn’t much. In a large quake like this and 7.0 is pretty decent, the building break apart rather easily.

The distress among the people is also highlighted by this energy. Humans feel the energy of the quake. The more there is when it hits the surface, the more disrupted people become. A lot of energy reached the surface, so most people are in shock and will be for weeks and months.

Lastly, there is an agreement between the US and Haiti. This is a replay of New Orleans. They are connected, a decent chunk of the culture and energy of New Orleans comes from Haiti and they have common African ancestry. So now we have a chance to respond to Haiti in a way that we did not in New Orleans. We are already many days ahead of where we were after that hurricane.

There is more about this if you want to contact me directly. But Haiti needs our help, not in recovery alone but in calming the citizenry and in rebuilding. The US will respond but there are greater lessons as well. How much freedom and growth comes from this, only time will tell. But this is an opportunity to show the planet our compassion as well as giving Haitians tools to rebuild safely and establish eventual greater prosperity and freedom from this.

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Let’s hang on to what we’ve got

I’ve heard a lot of moaning and groaning about brothers, sisters and in-laws lately. Maybe because the holidays are upon us. And we all have that favorite relative to get into a political or religious debate with over the Thanksgiving turkey. Then before you know it, sensible adults are acting like pre-schoolers again…fighting over who Mom and Dad liked best. This is not surprising…many of us wouldn’t recognize a holiday without it.

This year, why don’t we try looking at those sibs and in-laws in a different way? They’re just fellow flawed humans doing the best they can with whatever inner resources they’ve got. How about cutting them a break? They may surprise us and be less oppositional if we don’t flaunt our own positions. And as my Granny used to say…We’re what we’ve got! They’re no better or worse over there…just different…

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Everyone, everyone, all come free

The sun is playing hide and go seek more and more. That usually seems normal now.

Maybe think about this.

Life is like hide and go seek. Opportunity seems to appear and vanish. Perhaps that is because our perception of what opportunity is may be limited. Not every thing we want appears right away. Many things we cannot live without show up when we least expect it.

The whole purpose of being here is to come free. Only humans create rules for daylight and nighttime versions of the game. How silly is that?

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Obvious is good

So a big lesson right now is just do what is obvious. I love the I Ching. This comes from that and my friends Volker and Sanford.

We are in a position to stride forward. So how do we go? The simple path is to do what is obvious to you to do next.

Humans loves to go to the end. We all start at Go but want to get to Boardwalk. The way one has lasting success is to just focus on what is in front of us now.

We are all processing fear now. We want to be safe. Safe doesn’t mean getting to the end. Safe means doing what is obvious now.

The I Ching says “life is not about getting from A to E, it is about getting from A to B”. Not sure what to do, choose the obvious and then let the good times roll from there.

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It’s another Tequilla Sunrise

We are about to come out of our funk. The last 18 months or so have been about being present, to the point of exhaustion. That was the initial point of Don Henley’s lyrics of this song.

Maybe it meant we all do what we have to do to get thru it.

I suggest we focus on the sunrise and not the tequila. We have all really tried to just survive for awhile. That never lasts forever, even when it seems like it might. The last line is the song is..this old world looks the same, another frame.

It won’t look the same soon, in fact it shifts within a week. Actually it comes down to dealin’ friends. We all dealt extremely well. The shift starts on Thursday, you’ll feel it by Monday.

Try starin’ across the sky and say goodbye to those hollow feelings…

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Fungus Among us!

It’s getting colder here, but also wetter and muggier. The latest space invaders are fungi and mold…not my favorites. it seems to be an uphill battle daily to keep the windows, walls, bathrooms, and kitchen free of mold…let alone my lungs!

Thank goodness the autumn also brings me lemons….they grow everywhere around here and I use their juice, peel and pulp for practically everything. I know, I know…there’s a lot of specialty products, but the older I get the more back-to-basics I go. I feel like the Dad in My Big Fat Greek Wedding with his Windex bottle….look…it fixes everything!

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Daylight…yawn…Savings Time

One of the peculiarities of living in California rather than a more civilized place like Hawaii or Arizona, is experiencing a one hour, artificial change in our clocked time twice a year. Here I am bopping along through life, fairly well-adjusted, when….Wham! Suddenly I have to convince my body to change its schedule to an hour earlier or later, and all hell breaks loose….

No…it doesn’t matter if it’s spring or fall, my body absolutely loses its internal compass, and for days I can’t tell if it’s morning or night…time to be awake or asleep. Suddenly I’m raring to go at 4am and sleepy five or six hours later, only to really perk up about 8pm and be wide awake at bedtime. We are no longer an agrarian society or fighting WWII….let’s stop the madness!!

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Just push in the clutch

The energy will shift next month. Right now, things seem a bit instinctive. The world seems to be pressing in on you just a bit. But after the 5th, we expect the energy to shift and everyone to try to move beyond where we are now and put the last 18 months behind us.

This will be very liberating. It really does happen that we move on. We have been living in the present for so long, it almost seems normal. Those days are coming to an end. Think of it as a graduation.

Right now, you probably are looking at your past and seeing if your ancestors have tools for you. That could be in meditation or in dreams.
That will shift soon and we can use awareness to integrate our new wisdom and start planning ahead, execute new plans and get the lead out.
It is time to move on up. By Thanksgiving your only question will be what floor do your want to go to now.

Go ahead, start thinking about what new floor you want to set for yourself. Gloom lasts just as long as bright times, time for a shift

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Happy Halloween

What a whirlwind Halloween! With all of the emotional disturbance in
the wind, I juggled emergencies with family and friend frolic for a
wild Friday and Saturday. Five young adults and…ahem…me, stayed up
watching scary movies, drinking hot cocoa, and playing computer games
until long after midnight.

Then magically, Sunday morning
after breakfast, the youngsters rushed off to Beach Blanket Babylon and
I found myself with the precious gift of solitude! Amazing how
enjoyable a day alone can be for a confirmed extrovert. Quiet,
meditation, bird song, squirrels chattering and cats purring….the
hours fled by. How wonderful to take a day of silence! I recommend
it….

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