As published in Robert A. Monroe's "Ultimate Journey"

A quote for those who are awakening to her -

 "My son of sons of sons, you have found joy in my winds and sky.  We have shared the excitement and peace both on my waters and deep within them.  You have reveled in the beauty and ingenuity of my other children spread across my surface.

Yet it is 0nly now that you have taken a moment in my bosom to be still and listen.  In that stillness, hold this song forevermore.

 You were born of me, yet it is your destiny to become more than I can ever be.  In this growth, I revel with you.  My strength is your strength; thus you take with you the glory of me to express in ways that I will not understand.  Not understanding, I nonetheless support and

Published on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 by the San Francisco Chronicle

We Are Doomed! Sort Of!

Earth in crisis, food and water increasingly scarce, people freaking out. Should you join them?

by Mark Morford

It would be nice to think much of the ugliness is coming to an end.

It would be lovely to imagine the era of brutal Earth-mauling technologies, coal extraction and petroleum and industrial agriculture and strip mining and clear cutting and industrial fishing and all rest, all the more rapacious and unforgiving notions of how we exist on this planet are, after an era of unchecked capitalistic greed and waste and over-consumption right along with almost zero concern for consequences and the ethics of sustainability, finally moving toward

Our Solar System is seeing vast alterations in its planets, obviously including that of Earth. As our solar system continues its swing around galactic center it has entered a higher density of energy. This higher density of energy is causing ‘transformations' of all our planets including the sun.
These dramatic changes have been and are currently being studied by top scientists around the world. Unfortunately the news media of the world refuses to run stories to educate the people of the world as to what is actually occurring. It is of extremely

Technology provides us with some answers to the environmental challenges we are facing. Hybrid technologies have recently made it to the auto market, promising more fuel efficient transportation and less greenhouse emissions. Hydrogen fuels are a very promising alternative to the dirty energies we are using today. Ultra-clean and unlimited, it is the fuel of the future.

Renewable energy sources such as photovoltaics, wind and thermal energies and future renewables we can't imagine yet, promise to someday replace the dirty energy coal burning power plants used throughout the world today, maybe sooner than later for the residential communities.

Although technological advancement does have promises, it does not and will not get us out of

Sustainability? I don't believe there is such a thing anymore. If we were to sustain our current rates of consumption, habitat destruction, emissions, etc. the Earth's biosphere will collapse within a century.

The concept of sustainability at this point is flawed. It is now not a matter of "sustainability", it is a matter of retreat. We need to drastically reduce consumption, drastically reduce emissions, halt all critical habitat destruction, reduce an exponentially growing human population, end industrial pollution, end the expense of war in both monetarily and human life, and educate the world.

We need to rebuild a vast network of environmental habitats linked continuously throughout continents. We need to dive headlong into clean

We are products of evolution. We are the result of 4 billion years of the evolutionary process. The Evolution of Life is the result of the continuing cooperation of Earth systems. Any system that does not participate in the complement of the entire system will eventually fail, without exception. This is death. Death in the natural world is not the result of competing species. Death is the necessary ingredient life needs to remain in harmony with the bigger process of life called Evolution. If death is not in harmony with the bigger process of life, it is not necessary, and is therefore detrimental to the process of evolution.

Darwin got it wrong in one important aspect: Survival of the Fittest. We have used this phrase to justify

God is the Creator, the Creation and the Created. God not only created a being in his image, but also created the natural world, the world the bible calls Creation, Adam and Eve called Eden, and we call Earth. If we are created in his image and likeness, is it not God's will that we are to be respecters of all life, of all creation? God's will is not that man is to have dominion over nature, but that man is to be good stewards of His Creation. Eden was created for man's pleasure, not for his disposal.

My dream for mankind is not just to live sustainably, but also to enhance the quality of life for all God's creatures. We are here to participate in the creative, divine process that has been guiding life since the first day of

"Given that we sit atop the food chain, nothing preys on us so there's nothing to stop our growth."

This is simply a major fallacy of our very ecologically fallacious culture. There is NO ‘top' to the food chain!

In fact, evolutionary tendency is from carnivorous to omnivorous where we see some plant eating capabilities, to exclusive plant eating capabilities and then further specialization (such as the bovine specialized stomach) adding an ability to digest much more commonly available foodstuffs, grasses.

If one looks with an accurate ecological lens, one sees that ecology itself moves towards dietary specializations that can support great herds, meaning larger and larger population numbers... and it turns out, these greater numbers are

Excerpt from Baird T. Spalding's "Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East" Vol. 3 Copyright 1935 - pg 56-60

"The cycle is fast closing in which the blind of the whole race have led the blind into a welter of ignorance, superstition, and delusion created by those who believe as human beings think, rather than that which is true and real. The civilization that has risen on the delusions and superstitions of the closing centuries is submerging itself in the welter. Through the pain and tragedy of their misappropriated creations, a new race consciousness has been conceived and is fast evolving. In fact, the door is opening wide for its new birth.

"There is no other course than to go on from one plane of consciousness to a higher and

Should you become a vegetarian?

Becoming a vegetarian stems for the most part as a result of a spiritual quest by an individual or a society who decides to stop eating meat. Progression of spirit NEVER involves BECOMING a meat eater. So, we can safely assume that consideration and implementation of becoming a non-meat eater is positive spiritual progression. As people on a spiritual path, becoming vegetarian is an unavoidable eventuality. Therefore, the sooner the better!

Now, the decision to become a vegetarian comes to the individual by two ways, one is from the IDEA that becoming a vegetarian will progress you spiritually (which is true), or the REALIZATION during your spiritual quest that you have no choice in the matter. If you are at a