Reason for Mother's Day

Mothers' Day Proclamation: Julia Ward Howe, Boston, 1870
Mother's Day was originally started after the Civil War, as a protest to the carnage of that war, by women who had lost their
sons. Here is the original Mother's Day Proclamation from 1870, followed by a bit of history (or should I say "herstory"):



Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts,
whether our baptism be that of water or of fears!
Say firmly: "We will not have great questions decided byirrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking
with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be
taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach
them of charity, mercy and patience.
We women of one country will be too tender of those of another
country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs. From
the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own.
It says "Disarm, Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance
of justice."
Blood does not wipe our dishonor nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons
of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a

great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women,
to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the
means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each
bearing after their own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
but of God.
In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a
general congress of women without limit of nationality may be
appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at
the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the
alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement
of international questions, the great and general interests of
peace.
Julia Ward Howe
Boston
1870

Bear Medicine

Bear medicine is about transformation. Bear is the guardian of the underworld while being a true giver of life. The bear, as the walker between two worlds, remains fully embedded in society as it gives rich and diverse meaning to life through language. For example, we bear responsibility, bear the love of, bear watching, take bearing, bear on, bear tidings, bear shape, bear arms, bear in mind, and bear misfortune. Within our ancestral heritage, bear medicine has been used in ceremony to seek protection from bears, to seek protection by the bear spirit, the evocation of warlike themes, to invoke healing, to welcome seasonal or fertility rites, to invoke sacred initiation ceremonies, and to support the formalities of a judicial nature.

The most venerated ceremony is that of the slain bear. As an spiritual practice following the successful kill of a bear, the spirit of the bear is honored for providing power, clothing, food, and healing gifts to the hunter. As a first kill of a young man, it is a rite of passage. As a spiritual initiation into the healing arts, it is a ceremony of gratitude to the great bear spirit for stripping off the old skins of the initiate, effectively killing the beliefs that prevented the person from accessing the powers of the unconscious for healing self and others.
Bear medicine is about going into the inner sanctum of oneself to find the wisdom of who you are. It involves going into hibernation, often called a little death, where one becomes still in the silence of oneself to more fully birth who you are. It involves surrendering to the primal instincts that know the thoughts that have yet to be known. Bear medicine can teach you to go deep within so that you can make choices and decisions from a position of internal authority. Bear medicine awakens the inner wisdom of the soul, and by bringing it out into the open and applying it, the depth and breadth of life can be known.  AHO

The Importance of A Women's Circle

The Women's Circle


You’re sitting cross-legged in a circle of unfamiliar fire-lit faces; all attention is on one woman holding a stone. You listen as she speaks your thoughts, your prayers in her own prayers for self, family, the world, then lights a candle and passes it to a woman on her left. Again you hear your own pain, joy and desires in another woman’s voice. By the time this heart and hand-warmed stone is in your hands, you feel a sense of gratitude and belonging you’ve seldom known, yet one that feels strangely familiar in your bones.
By the time the circle closes, you feel a deep sense of calm and renewed hope for yourself and the planet. You leave with more of yourself than you brought in, a little stronger with this sisterhood in your psychic pocket. You are not alone.
In a grassroots effort to create global peace and find inner serenity, women worldwide are returning to the ancient and universal practice of sitting together in circles, where they co-create a safe space to offer their joys, sorrows, hopes and dreams for the world and themselves.
In a circle, there are no cheap seats and no front row spots reserved for celebrities and the press. Rank and title are left at the door. Everyone walks in with equal status and takes a seat equidistant from the center. Every face is seen, every voice heard by all and the center is occupied by no one, as it is reserved for an altar, candle, or group intention.
In the context of our hierarchical and competitive culture, sitting in a circle can feel restorative, refreshing and a bit revolutionary. There is no goal, no leader, no agenda. For many women, it is a precious respite from a life of striving to do more, be more, get more, like sinking into a warm bath of trust, acceptance and unity after a long day of mental or manual labor.
Throughout history, the circle has been a universal symbol for unity, the cosmos and the perfection of the divine, from the Tibetan Wheel of Life to Hindu mandalas to the perfectly balanced yin yang symbol. Formed by the seamless connection of the beginning and end of an unbroken line, the circle speaks to the timelessness of life, the wholeness of the moment. In sacred geometry, the circle symbolizes the number one and is the source of all subsequent shapes. Any number multiplied or divided by one retains itself, the way unity embraces the diversity of each individual while preserving each member’s identity, the way a good women’s circle welcomes each voice as an essential link in an unbroken chain.
Even without a conscious awareness of the circle’s inherent power, the effects are felt subconsciously. According to Michael S. Schneider, author of A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe, “The message of the shape bypasses our conscious mental circuitry and speaks directly to the quiet intelligence of our deepest being. The circle is a reflection of the world’s – and our own – deep perfection, unity, design excellence, wholeness, and divine nature.” Try sitting in a straight line. Then a triangle. How about a square? Notice how you feel.
As Barbara Marx Hubbard states, circle participants tend to feel safe. Perhaps because you can see everyone; everyone is equally vulnerable. Or maybe it is because the pervasive patriarchal hierarchy is replaced with an authentic recognition of and respect for your contribution. Or perhaps there’s a body memory of childlike simplicity, when you could spend a day sitting around playing jacks, facing the game and each other, instead of the next place you needed to go. Sage Knight





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Teachings of the Crystal Skulls

Teachings of the Crystal Skulls
She is Life and Death, she is my twin sister, she helps me and you to transmute, to create and recreate, to let go and embrace a new beginning, for she is the new beginning!
She bring us Freedom, as freedom has been the way of living, for freedom has always resides in the heart of all human being as a birth right. The time has come for human being does not recognize any limitation inside of the self.
A new beginning is always at hand, is happening every day, every moment, for human beings are not bounded by time, Niquiztli help us to encounter the new way of perception.
Human being are awakening into the original self, the original vibration, the authentic DNA is being achieve to all human beings as well as all life forms on this planet. In the alignment with the Great Mother, the wrong beliefs are shaken, and a new way of thinking is being born. In this time space, faith have turn into knowledge, dogmas have gone and transmute into wisdom, and the way of perception of being human have give birth to freedom, the door where human being now stands, wondering, ready for a new adventure, ready for a new creation. The trust has become the way of being human, for just like the little turtles recognize where is the ocean, the same way, the true human being recognize how to go back into the perfect balance, how to go into the world of the enchanted flower, that a part of them, through that DNA has always been there.
The authentic creator is coming into being, for they recognize that this is the time to embrace the new creation, for they are the ones that “divinize the things” as the ancestors referred to the artist, to the creator, to the original creator, the daughter and son of the father-mother god, Mama is calling to all authentic creators, the light workers to step in, and bring the new voice, the new creations into being, the new conceptions of the self into being.
This is the time to transmute, to make the alchemy of the self, the time of changes, for Niquiztli show us, “Nothing stays the same”, this is the time of a new dance.
For long time, the flower waits for her time to bloom, waiting, knowing, realizing, wondering, and when she finally blooms, she recognize that she always have been blooming in the inside, the bliss is immensurable, she recognize herself as a part of the big orchestra of life, the orchestra of the cosmos.
Today is the day of the dead, in Mexico, as well as many other places, the day of honor our dead, we remember the death, we meditate on life and death, embracing both, we create altars, and we make a dance so slow, that to make one movement will take us the whole day; it is the day that we honor that transmutation, the alchemy of the self. Today, we encounter freedom as a way of living in the outside, as a way of living in the inside.
In lakesh
Magdala Ramirez
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Rev. Jean Holmes ( A channeling from Red Cloud)

Rev. Jean is a speaker and interpreter for Chief Red Cloud, who offers the following message:

Be wary of your intentions; they form round bubbles around you to aid you in your flow down the stream of life. But they can also form compressive square boxes with rough edges that catch on everything, totally making the flow uncomfortable. These intentions can compress you whether they are your current ones, past
American Horse and Chief Red Cloud
ones, or from others impressed upon us...clear out the field around yourselves, starting deep inside yourself. If you can't see there, because of shadows, do not think that you ARE the shadow, and thereby do not hold light...you hold love. Created in love is the only way we get here whether it is your illusion of this time to believe that or not.
I have seen into the deep shadows, and even there there is a long deep calling from love. Please listen deeply when you see shadows...there are many senses the Creator endowed you with. If one is temporarily resting, allow it and practice with another. Then you will become aware of the rainbows and butterflies and all the winged ones. -As you are, I am. True in heart, your friend and relation, Red Cloud. Whom some call Chief.

Ancient Teachings Lesson Six

Indonesia the Cradle For Civilization

It was in Indonesia and the neighboring lands that Man, after migrating from the semi-desertic savannas of Africa, first found the ideal climatic conditions for development, and it was there that he invented agriculture and civilization. All this took place during the Pleistocene, the last of the geological eras, which ended a scant 10,400 tuns ago, approximately (8400 BC.)
The Pleistocene – a name which is Greek for "most recent" is also called Anthropozoic Era, or Quaternary Era, or yet the Ice Age. During the Pleistocene and more exactly, during the glacial episodes that happened at intervals of about 20 thousand years, sea level was about 100-150 meters (330-500 feet) below the present value. With this a large coastal strip the so-called Continental Platform with a width of about (200 km. = 120 miles) became exposed, forming land bridges that interconnected many islands and regions.
With the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age, the immense glaciers that covered the whole of the northern half of North America and Eurasia melted away. Their waters drained to the sea, causing sea levels to rise by the estimated amount of about 100-150 meters. With this rise, the majority of Atlantis disappeared along with most of its population, which we estimate based on Plato’s data at about 20 million people, huge for the epoch in question.
Lemuria (Australia and New Guinea) was the larger of the two Atlantis’s mentioned by Plato. Atlantis (Indonesia) was the vast prairie which the Greeks called Elysian Fields and which the Egyptians named the Field of Reeds (Sekhet Aaru) or yet the Amerindian’s ancestral land (To-wer,) the overseas Paradise where they formerly lived in "Zep Tepi" (Primordial Time.) The partially sunken continent became the "Land of the Dead," the dreadful, forbidden region where no mariner ever ventured to go, for it was "The Land of no Return."
Interestingly enough the name "Ancestral Land" or (Serendip) is precisely the Dravidian name of (Taprobane, Sumatra) the island where the Hindus placed their pristine Paradise, likewise sunken in a cataclysm. The gloomy, pestilential place that remained above the water was named "Sheol" (Hell) by the Jews, and in the spared spots, "Island of the Blest" (Makarion nesos) or "Hades" by the Greeks. "Amenti or Punt" by the Egyptians, "Dilmun" by the Mesopotamians, "Hawaiki" by the Polynesians, and "Svarga" by the Hindus.
The Celts - whose legends are perhaps the best recollection of the sunken golden realm – called the place Avallon, Emain Abbalach or yet, "Ynis Wydr" (Island of Glass.) They also associated the eerie place with the Holy Grail and the resurrection of their dead heroes.
The Seminal Exodus
The greatest of all Lemurian colonies was Atlantis. Atlantis and Lemuria had prospered for a full zodiacal era 2,000 years, when the Cosmic Fireball initiated the great cataclysm that destroyed their common world at the end of the Pleistocene, (8400 BC.)
The scant survivors of the cataclysm that partially sunk Atlantis away were forced to flee their destroyed Paradise, moving first to Lemuria, which had been spared in its northern, loftier portion. But the global catastrophe had also caused the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age, and the melting of the Himalayan glaciers caused huge floods of the rivers of Asia, rendering the region unfit for human habitation. These floods and the plagues ravaged the remainder of Atlantis; already greatly destroyed by the original cataclysm, the conflagration of the Indonesian volcanoes and the tsunamis they caused.
Again these doomed people were obliged to flee, migrating along the ensuing millennia to remote places such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, Palestine, North Africa, Europe, North Asia, the near Orient and the Americas. Some came on foot in huge hordes like those of the Israelite exodus. Others came by ship, like Noah in his Ark or Aeneas with his fleet to found the great civilizations of the ancient world.
The great civilizations that we know of in the Indus Valley, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, Greece, Rome and Mexico were originally Atlantian colonies founded by the survivors of the cataclysm that destroyed the twin Paradises of Atlantis and Lemuria. These colonists the (Original People) of course attempted to recreate their Eden in their new homeland.
The Original People named each topographical feature after the archetypes of their pristine abode, just as immigrants will do the same nowadays. Such is the reason why we keep finding vestiges of Atlantis everywhere, from Brazil and North America to Spain, Crete and even Africa and Northern Europe. All these ancient civilizations spoke of civilizing heroes such as Manu, Noah, Aeneas, the Oannz, Hotu Matua, Quetzalcoatl, Kukulkan, Bochica and of course Atlas and Hercules, the omnipresent Twins that founded civilization everywhere.
Interestingly enough the only place so far unclaimed among the literally hundreds of sittings of Atlantis is Indonesia. Of course no solid evidence of the existence of Lemuria and even more so Atlantis has ever been found. The reason for this absence is easy to explain: the experts have all been searching for Atlantis on the wrong sides of the world.

Ancient Ones Teachings...Chapter Five

The Elusive Sunken Atlantis Revealed

For anyone, who inspects a chart of the oceanic bottoms in the region of Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea and Australia such as the Ice Age Map of Indonesia, they will readily concede that the South China Sea encircled by Indonesia indeed formed a continent during the last glaciation; that ended some 10,400 tuns ago; (1 tun = 360 days.) This chart clearly shows the partially sunken continent of Lemuria (New Guinea to Australia,) as well as the extensively sunken strip of Atlantis (Indonesia.)
The map leaves no room for doubt about the reality of what we are affirming concerning Lemuria and Atlantis, one almost wholly sunken and the other sunken to a very considerable extension. We remark that this map – in contrast to most others presenting proposed sites for Atlantis and/or Lemuria – is purely scientific, rather than an invention of ours or of others. It is based on the detailed geophysical reconstruction of the sea bottoms in the region in question and portrays the areas of depth under 100 meters, which were obviously exposed during the Ice Age when sea levels dropped by that amount and even more.
One of these maps was published in the National Geographic Magazine (vol.174, no.4, Oct.1988, pg.446-7.) It shows the world, as it was some 18,000 solar years ago, at the peak of the last glaciation of the Pleistocene Ice Age. In particular, please note the huge chunk of land of continental dimensions to the south of Southeast Asia, which became sunken when sea levels rose at the end of the Pleistocene. This sizable piece of land is Malaysia, the site that disappeared likewise at that occasion. No other regions of the world display a similar event, including the Americas. The conclusion is that Atlantis, if Plato was in fact speaking truthfully, could only have been located in that region of the world.
A huge extension of continental size prolonged Southeast Asia all the way down to Australia. This continental-sized landmass was indeed larger than Asia Minor and Libya North Africa put together, exactly as Plato affirms. It was seen to have been about two or three times larger than continental-sized India.
The Indonesian Islands and the Malaysian Peninsula that we nowadays observe are the unsunken relicts of Atlantis, the lofty volcanic mountains that became the volcanic islands of this region, the true site of Paradise, in all ancient traditions. The sunken portion of continental extension now forms the muddy, shallow bottoms of the South China Sea.
Then as now, Indonesia formed the divide of the New and the Ancient Worlds; what the ancients called Ultima Thule (Ultimate Divide.) Thule also corresponded to what our elders named the Pillars of Hercules, which according to Plato, were placed just in front of Atlantis (hyper ten Heraklei Nyssai.)
The Pillars of Hercules was also the impassable frontier between the Old and the New Worlds, also called Orient and Occident. These two are sundered by the volcanic island arc of Indonesia, truly the boundary of the Tectonic Plates that form the Ancient and New Worlds. This barrier to navigation in the region of Atlantis is also insistently mentioned in Plato and other ancient sources on Atlantis.
The History of Atlantis
The cataclysms of fire and water of worldwide extent of which we speak of in this text are strictly scientific. They are widely attested to in the geological records, being generally accepted by modern Geology. So are the massive extinctions of all sorts of species, and particularly of the large mammals, which took place at the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age. This was also the end of the World Age of 4 Rain and the beginning of the World Age of 4 Water. 10,250 years ago some 70% of the former species of the great mammals, which existed in the former era, became extinct in this epoch.
The mechanism that initiated the end of the last Ice Age was a Cosmic Fireball that collided with Mother Earth some 13,000 years ago. This is a key element for mass extinctions; the extinction of the dinosaurs 64 million years ago was also caused by a Cosmic Fireball. This cosmic collision with our planet 13,000 years ago activated volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis that ravaged the entire planet. This earth shattering event activated great explosions of the many volcanoes of Indonesia. A huge explosion of the Krakatoa volcano opened the Strait of Sunda, separating the Islands of Java and Sumatra.
This giant explosion is widely attested to in all sorts of myths and traditions such as universally remembered as the explosion of the Mountain of Paradise = (Mt. Krakatoa, Mt. Atlas, Mt. Meru, Furnace of the Gods) and of the deluge it caused, of which they all speak obsessively as the Universal Flood and the Universal Conflagration.
The explosion of Mt. Krakatoa caused a mega tsunami, which ravaged the lowlands of Atlantis and Lemuria. It also triggered the end of the Ice Age by covering the continental glaciers with a layer of soot (fly ash) which precipitated there melting by increasing the absorption of sunshine. The melt waters of the glaciers rushed into the oceans raising sea levels by about 100-150 meters, which caused tremendous strains and stresses in the crust of the earth. This cracked open in the weak areas, engendering further volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and mega tsunamis that feedback positively the process, furthering it to completion. The result was the dramatic end of the Pleistocene Ice Age and the Quaternary Extinction’s.
All nations of all times, believed in the existence of a Primordial Paradise where Man originated and developed the first civilization ever. This story real and true is told in the Bible and in the Hindu Holy Books such as the Rig-Veda, the Puranas and many others. That this Paradise lay towards the Orient, no one doubts this except some die-hard scientists who hold that different civilizations developed independently from each other in such unlikely places such as Europe, the Americas or the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
It was in the Orient and beyond that agriculture of (rice and grains) and animal domestication was invented. These two inventions allowed man’s fixation to the soil, and the resulting prosperity led to civilization and the founding of the first city called Henok or Chenok, (the Abode of the Pure) in Dravida – to Cain; Genesis 4:17:
This name (Pure Land) of the very first one of all cities is the same in Hindu traditions (Shveta-dviSukhavati, and Atala.) In the Amerindian traditions (Yvymaraney) the Land of the Pure, is the legendary birthplace of the Tupi-Guarani Indians of Brazil, and the Ancient Maya of Mesoamerica. Man or more exactly, the anthropoid simians that were are ancestors in fact rose in Africa some 2 million years ago. But these anthropoids soon spread all over Eurasia and beyond, reaching the far Orient and Australia inclusive by about 1 million years ago.