PLANTING TIME

It seems like a long time since I blogged. Although,  it was just Wednesday, that is longer than I like to go. It seemed longer, because everyday I wanted to blog and things got in the way. Thursday was cleaning lady day; we vacate the premises for two and one/half hours so our marvelous, magical cleaning lady can transform our dwelling into a pristine living environment. We went shopping to prepare for a party we had that evening. We had a great time! Friday there was a pile of dishes to do. Okay, I confess, Jamie did the dishes. What did I do, besides, recover from the great night I had the day before? Hmmmmm. Then came Saturday, surly I was going to blog........but, well, I was crabby. I don't know why I was crabby.

It is horrible when a negative wave comes over you and the reason is not clear. It is like fighting a negative ghost. Since it is my job to know these things, I need to explore my consciousness and understand something about it. A note of caution; often there is no ready answer and you are better off just banishing the bad feeling, just like you would expel an uninvited guest. However, many times, the bad feeling comes from saying something to yourself. You validate the self-criticism by not immediately rejecting it. It is usually connected to an old program [one of those cyst we talked about] so the bad feeling comes with full orchestration and costumes. Of course it is all disguised and fresh looking and often you are aware of no content, you just feel the awfulness. The solution is generally forgiving yourself; often, for an ancient transgression. There is help. Even if you don't believe in a higher, eternal self, pretend you do, it will still work; ask your higher self for help. Ask, "What and who do I need to forgive?" The answer will come.

 I have tons of work to do. Last Fall and this past Winter, we had several very windy, days and there are many branches that need cleaning up. There are, also two trees that blew down and need cutting up. One of the trees is crushing an ancient lilac bush. That is the first thing I need to do, so the poor bush can recover. Although, this lilac was planted about one hundred years ago, it has been pruned back many times, it is large, but not huge.

We just began our planting. The garlic and potatoes are in the ground. Peas will be planted today. We are harvesting last years parsnips. Tomatoes are in the greenhouse and will be there another month. The onions, grown from seed in the green house, are ready for transplanting.

I need to get out there, with my chainsaw, and get that tree out of the lilac bush.

Love and Peace, Gregg

THE OFF AND ON SPRING

I guess it is pretty typical for a Minnesota Spring to oscillate between warm and cold, yet, it always surprises me. It is in the 70s for a couple days and the then drops down to highs in the 50s. Currently it is 69F and it is a very beautiful day.

I am in one of these situations where I have no idea what to write about. I want to be available to help people deal with the imminent changes they will experience. As long as the Main Stream Media is controlled by money, we won't be hearing what is going on. There are rumors of great changes in the banking industry: both positive and negative. The negative, is a possible world wide collapse, that would be sudden and leave us high and dry. The positive, is a pending takeover of the banking industry by forces, backed by organizations rooted in sanity, that will prevent the collapse. Your guess is as good as mine but I lean towards the latter. Until we have a free media, we won't know. There are many dedicated reporters eager to do their jobs and bring us the truth.

We are transitioning into a glorious world. Unconditional love will be the guide in everything we do. I know, I know; it doesn't look like it, especially when you pay attention to the MSM. But the change has already occurred; a vast majority of the people just want to live their lives in peace and they wish the same for all the rest. More and more people are realizing, real happiness comes from being of service to others. The power structure, that has kept us in servitude, is collapsing. They will try to make trouble on their way down but they will not be as successful as you might think.

There needs to be some Earth Changes. The Earth needs to be returned to her pristine condition. We will be able to help with this, of course, but the Earth itself is a conscious being and she has always made periodic realignments of her land masses. Many think we are overdue. It doesn't help to be worried about this, but, it is helpful not to be overwhelmed either. In the new consciousness, every one will pull together to assist in the changes that occur; thus the disasters in Haiti or New Orleans would take on a greatly altered complexion. Those two natural disasters represent the failure and greed of our old system.

Since we don't know what we need to prepare for, it is difficult to make recommendations. I don't think we need to go overboard. Don't horde. Do have enough supplies to last in a short emergency. Some rice, dry beans and other non-perishables. If water might be a problem in your situation, a few jugs in the basement is a good idea. We will be gathering together to help each other in any emergency. Think about what has happened, in other disasters, and ask yourself, how you might best contribute to your neighbors.

The most significant preparation, is how you align yourself with a world of unconditional love. Practice giving up all negative thoughts. Learn to recognize when you are listening to fear rather than love. Know that judgement is never, never, never warranted. Don't let your ego fool you. Pay attention to the energy that flows through your body {being}. It is love. Focus your love on everybody and everything.

Love and Peace,  Gregg

A RAINY DAY

We finished tilling the garden, yesterday, for the things that need planting now. We won't have to do anymore tilling till the end of May when the tender plants, like tomatoes, go in. Fencing the garden proceeds slowly. We have the gate up and we will pound in metal posts for the most part. We will put in wooden posts for the corners. It will be nice to have a deer free garden, for a change. Of course, the fence will, also, keep the chickens out. We have been able to train most of the chickens to stay out of the garden, but it takes constant vigilance. It is not good for our marital relationship, either, because when they are in the garden they are my chickens. I need to own up to some responsibility, as I have been asked [begged and cajoled] to do something about the chickens getting into the garden and I always convinced myself that my method of chasing them out was sufficient. There were only four or five hens that persisted in going in. As you might know, it only takes one hen to make a mess of a newly planted bed.

 We have four geese setting. If they have a successful hatch, we will have more geese than we need. Young geese are very easy to sell, so we will have no difficulty getting rid of the surplus. We don't make use of them for food as much as I would like. We do love roast goose; we don't particularly like plucking them. Perhaps this year; I would love to have goose for Christmas.

Have you noticed or sensed any changes in your world? I have noted a great change in attitude in the twenty to thirty age group. I don't mean they have been changing. Although, they may have; I mean their attitudes are a break from the earlier generations. They have much less prejudice. They are willing to accept people as they are, without reference to skin color, religion or sexuality. I do run into exceptions, but on the whole, this group is far freer than earlier generations.

Once you realize that the news is a managed "unreality show"; you see how bizarre it is. Of all the tumultuous changes that are occurring in the world, the main stream media spends its allotted time covering a sex scandal [The Secret Service] that is a non-event. Prostitution is legal in Columbia. They were on their own time. The president hadn't arrived yet. What is going on? Their behavior might have been tacky soo.................. who is throwing the stones; I hope they reinforce their glass houses. That is not the only example. In a half hour news show, there is only five or ten minutes that is worth watching. I don't know if any of it is truly informative.

I keep saying that, real news will emerge soon; and I believe it, but I get weary of waiting too. I remind myself that my main job is to shine as much light on the world, that I am capable of, and to appreciate my experience of the now. I do live in paradise. I am surrounded by the most loving people one could imagine and I lack for nothing. I would love to have the whole world join me.

I am enjoying a marvelous rainy day. I hope you are having a wonderful day wherever you are. Let your love show.

Love and Peace,  Gregg

EVERYTHING IS OKAY

We have Spring one day and the next day it snows; but it is time to plant. Jamie has been busy in the garden. I tilled up an area and she has formed the soil into beds for planting the potatoes. She planted tomato seeds in doors; we will put the flats in the greenhouse when the nighttime temperatures are a little more stable. It was down to 20 degrees F a few nights ago. It may have stayed above freezing in the greenhouse, but to be on the safe side, we will keep the tomatoes inside for awhile.

I planted a Siberian Stone Pine yesterday. It replaces one that got lost to the lawn mower last year. It is only six inches high. I expect to live to see it grow up. Let see; I am only 77 so when it is fifty feet high I will be ummmmmm............. that is a big number isn't it.

It would be nice if I could practice what I preach! I was crabby yesterday and this morning. There was nothing wrong with my world. Everything was fine. I was paying attention to what was passing through my alleged mind. Why do we do that? Why is it sometimes difficult to stay in the present? When I do that [bring myself to the present] I see everything is okay. I experience love. The thoughts that I was preoccupied with, had some reality; but it wasn't a present reality and I couldn't do anything about them anyway. I see, after the fact, that I could have raised my vibration fairly easily. I come to the incontrovertible fact that I was hanging on to my crabbiness as if it had value. What a trick our egos play. Well, I let my crabbiness go and bless it.  I will be able to look at those issues, that were bugging me, differently.

 It rained all last night and now it is quite pleasant. It is 60 degrees and the Earth is giving off that wonderful earthy smell that one associates with a wet Spring day. I have some rose bushes to plant and I need to help Jamie with some garden chores.

Love and Peace,  Gregg

THE CHANGING EARTH

I came across a video describing the geologic events that occurred April 11. {Depending on your time zone- some of the events were still happening yesterday} It is quite phenomenal and I will include a link to it at the end of this message. It appears that things are cranking up, as predicted. Watch the video and come to your own conclusions.

It is a little tricky, warning people of potential catastrophes, and at the same time, telling them they must stay calm and know that everything will be alright. Yet that is what I am doing. We are in for some great changes, in every sphere of our experience, here on planet earth. We should be prepared for some temporary interruption in the usual flow of our lives. It wouldn't hurt to have a few days supply of food and water in your basement. Yet, I feel there is a great love welling up among our people and I feel confident that we will take every opportunity to help each other, and any net result will be very positive.

The old structure must come down. Our political system, our economic system, our social systems etc. must all collapse and be rebuilt with unconditional love. This is not likely to happen without some help from geologic and weather changes. The power structure, that has represented domination, must be completely dislodged.

In the meantime, we wait. Fill the waiting time with love. Work on yourselves. Eliminate those little negative tendencies that are expressions of fear; irritation, impatience, jealousy, judgement, pessimism, garden variety jerkiness, etc etc. Perhaps, I shouldn't say "work on yourself". You don't want to focus on yourself, and any self improvement needs to be lighthearted and fun. We, always, do much better focusing on helping others; but when those little irritations come up recognize them and let them go.

Enjoy this youtube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmk35ujmyog&feature=player_embedded

Love and Peace,  Gregg

P.S. Sorry if you can't click on link. It is worth it to copy and paste.

The Real Spring

A normal spring came back a few days ago and gone are the balmy temperatures. It got down to 20 degrees F last night. It is 43 now.

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter Holiday. Mine was a little different. We planned to get together with relatives; we didn't make it. I had a stomach ache during the night and in the morning I was on the toilet, with a bucket under my chin. A familiar pose to many of you, I am sure. It seemed like food poisoning, but it was probably a virus. I didn't eat anything we all didn't. I was sickish during the day, but recovered by bedtime.

Of course, I have to look at why I chose to be sick. I believe, at some level [and it may be well hidden], we orchestrate everything we experience. I don't have any problem with this hypothesis and I generally see connections. However, while your sick, it is not a good time to speculate on the reason why; then is the time to surrender to 'the now' and the healing that is there. When you have processed things correctly, you realize everything is a blessing.

A week ago, I began a discussion about perception and I intend to expand on it. In the coming days I will come back to it, frequently. On one hand it is simple; we see what we expect to see, according to our past experiences, and the thoughts we hold in our mind. When we look at it closer we find many differences, from person to person. Many people have, what I think of, as little emotional/mental cysts that were created by some unresolved hurt they experienced. These act as negative thought/feeling generators. When they are triggered by some outside event the person is flooded with negative feelings that color everything they see and think. Thus, people can experience the exact same event and have entirely different interpretations about what they experienced. This difference in perception can be subtle or extreme. It is safe to say, that no two people see anything alike. It, also, raises the question, is there a reality? A reality independent of perception; we will find out.

So how can we perceive what is? What is there to see, if we could see without our colored perception? The first thing we need to do, is look at ourselves honestly. What kind of ideas are we hanging on to, without any basis in truth? What ideologies are we adhering to. Most importantly what painful memories do we still have; have we buried them so they have made little cysts?

There is a reason forgiveness is stressed in spiritual literature. Your mind can not be free of the past, without forgiveness. Everyone of those little painful cyst has a person our persons connected to it. FOR YOUR SAKE,  you need to forgive them. The cyst will dissolve, in that area, your perception will change. As we learn to clear our perception of past influences, we will discover that forgiveness is our greatest tool. We will learn to practice it constantly.

Eventually we will learn to see what is there, without changing it in our mind. I believe we will see a world of love.

Events will, soon, come fast and furious to challenge everything we now believe. The more we can perceive love and empty our minds the better we will be. Instead of feeling stressful, focus on how you can be of service to those around you. Resist all fear thoughts; replace them with love as fast as you can.

Love and Peace, Gregg

GOOD FRIDAY

Our family always got together, this evening, to make the Easter Eggs, the Bunny would bring Easter Morning. We would make them the old fashioned way. We would wrap eggs in a piece of cloth, with onion skins and colored pieces of cloth pressed to the egg. The eggs were tied up in the cloth with string. The eggs would then be boiled for several minutes. We would save cloth that we knew would give up its color to the eggs and favorite bits of cloth might last several years [one piece can be used only once]. The real magic occurred when the eggs were unwrapped and we oohed and aahed at the magnificent patterns that were transferred to the egg shell. Onion skins created a beautiful veiny pattern. As a child I knew our eggs were brought by the Easter Bunny and no other kids, on our block, received eggs like we had.

I suppose Good Friday is a sombre day for some folks. Although, I was brought up in a Catholic family, more or less devout; it was not a sombre day for us. Lent was almost over and that was reason to celebrate. Years later, it occurred to me that Jesus would not want his death to be viewed as a sacrifice. A loving God would not ordain such nonsense. The idea must have been introduced by religion, to control people through guilt. What a horrible thing! Fortunately, my family must have resisted the worst of the guilt inducement. They certainly didn't escape all of it.

In so many situations, truth is the opposite of what religion teaches. In truth our reality lies in our complete innocence; religion stresses guilt. Truth is, we are already perfect, having been created in unconditional love. We need to do nothing to realize this. Religion teaches the abomination of original sin; which tells us we are evil until we are saved, somehow. How can one discover unconditional love under such condemnation? Truth is, only love exist; all else is mis-creation.

As we are all aspects of the creator; we create individually and collectively. We exist in an illusion of mis-creation. We perceive the world according to our thoughts and thus we have this sad, old world, bereft of love. Any individual can escape the illusion and a few have. Most of us try to make the best of it. We are now at a pivotal time in our evolution where we can see that we can have a world of love. It is time to give up all that we have been taught; embrace the truth, we are all beautiful, innocent children of God. Look through the eyes of innocence. See only Love. Only Love exist.

Read or re-read my last message, titled Wednesday. I will expand on it.

Love and Peace, Gregg

Wednesday

Good Morning. I sit here this morning knowing that I live in Paradise, except what goes through my mind. Thoughts of a less than positive nature can ruin an amazingly perfect environment. Our minds are over rated. Sure they are good at figuring things out; at least things that have a logical basis. Our real source of knowledge is our heart; where love flows. Our minds are rich in data but dry, when it comes to real substance; which, of course, is love. Creativity occurs when the heart drives the mind. That is, the mind is a servant of the heart. The other way around and you have chaos disguised as logic. It can be painful.

So if I sit here listening to my heart, I see the world is perfect. Love is. If I lapse and pay attention to an untethered mind; I well might add emotion to one of those errant thoughts and thus end up in a hell of my own making. I have enough experience observing my mind, that I don't do that, much. I can't say never. How we evolved to let our sterile minds rule our hearts; I don't know. Minds cannot love. Without the heart, the mind will lead towards violence and chaos.

We have discovered our mistake. More and more of us are recognizing that we must stay centered in our heart and use our minds, instead of letting our minds use us.When our hearts are in the lead; does duality end?

It is difficult living in this world and stay heart centered. The world, as we have known it, constantly invites fear, which destroys your loving feelings. Note the past tense {the world we have known}. You might not realize it yet; but, that world is done; done and gone. The forces of darkness can no longer keep that old world afloat. So our mind/heart struggle is now only habit. Without the dark impinging upon us, we will soon learn to stay in our hearts. That will be the end of duality.

We will still struggle a little while. Habits are hard to break. There is support now for us, to give up the old habit of paying attention to thoughts, that are not loving. The universe of love is beckoning to us. The unity of Love is drawing us closer.
Relax. Center on your heart. Let love flow through you.

Love and Peace, Gregg