Take this time as a personel moment of reflection.

THINK ON THESE THINGS
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler

Happiness seems to be an ultimate goal -- but what about contentment? Is there any difference? Definitely. Happiness is a kind of butterfly thing that can flit in and out -- but contentment? It is the best for knowing peace and being able to share it.

Contentment is ease regardless of what is going on. If we ever once experience it, we want to go back to where it was. Going back isn't necessary because contentment is a part of anyone who doesn't stew and fret and stir up contention.

When we know that what others do doesn't have to change us, we feel humility, knowing that God knows us as individuals and we receive our comfort individually. Trifles should never get inside to irritate our well being and steal our freedom.                                            

As we enter into this new year of 2009, with its powerful new energies, we are facing many challenges. The old "dream" is breaking down and the new dream of Peace and Harmony seems to be not yet manifest! So, many people are experiencing anxiety and stress, often on very deep levels that they do not fully understand. So, while we are standing on the brink of great and miraculous changes for our Planet, we are also dealing with very stressful energies on a day to day basis. As I work with the Archangel Michael energy, I have been asked to convey to the "Starchild" readers this information for their discernment at this time. As the Michael energy has emphasized in the January 2009 message, now is the time for each one of us to embrace our Master energy and to accept only what feels right to us in our hearts, and so I hope that you will read this information with this discernment.

In the "Beginning"....the "Dream Machine" and the "Giza Insert"

After the fall of the Atlantean civilization, as humans began to move away from the Law of One and into greed and control and duality, those who remained of that broken civilization set up the Temple Structures at Giza in Egypt. They were still powerful and wise, and they chose this space because it was geometrically a good place to have a "Dream Machine". For that is what the Pyramid complex at Giza became. It was a Stargate or Portal from which the Holographic Dream of reality on the Earth could be centered and "spun out" to become the fabric of reality. This was done through creating a class of "priests" who were the "keepers" of the Sacred Stories or Archetypes upon which creation was grounded. In the Reality of the Law of One, these stories told of the Creation of the Earth through the Complementary energies and powers of the Masculine and Feminine aspects of the Source.

The Giza Complex at that time was very different to what it is today. At that time, it was indeed "Heaven's Mirror", an Earthly depiction of the "Lion's Gate", that Stargate or Portal through which the Cosmic energy poured and was harnessed into the Giza "Dream Machine" or Holographic Projector, which would spin out the dreams into reality. In those days, the Pyramids were covered in white marble and capped with capstones of pure gold that would transmit the highest frequencies of the Cosmic energies to the priests or the Pharaohs, who would dream the energy into reality within the inner chamber of the Pyramid. The pyramids were never burial chambers, but sacred chambers where the High Initiates would enter the Dream World to co-create with the Archetypal energies.

But, already the Law of One had broken down, for people had become accustomed to giving away their power to a class of Priests and Priestesses who undertook to speak with the Higher Energies on behalf of the people. The seeds of this practice had begun in Lemuria and Atlantis, and while much of good was achieved through this, it also meant that people became used to giving up their own connection with Source and allowing others to create that connection through the stories that they would spin out in their official capacity as priests and priestesses in the Temples. And, after a while, this practice became linked with power and greed and corruption in the priestly classes, until the Law of One was lost and the whole "dream" dropped from the higher frequencies into the lower frequencies of Duality and Violence and Enslavement. And so the "Dream Machine" at Giza became the "transmitter" for the Law of Duality rather than the Law of One. And, over the centuries, the Law of Duality became the dominant law on the Earth and the Law of One was lost.

This was achieved by skilful manipulation of the "dream" by inserting a "story" into the hologram that was not "truth" of the Law of One. It was close enough to seem truth, but it distorted that truth. And that was the Story of Isis and Osiris and the birth of the Warrior Child, Heru or Horus. While Isis and Osiris were representations of the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine energies, the "insert" story about them that entered the Egyptian consciousness and became the foundation for a "belief system" of great power, introduced the idea of Duality. In this story of supposed archetypal energies, Osiris is killed by his "evil" brother "Set" and his body is dismembered and scattered. His wife, Isis, has to recover the pieces, and by using her "magic" manages to reassemble the body and miraculously conceive the warrior child Horus. When he grows to maturity, Horus the supposed warrior of Light seeks out his evil uncles and kills him after a fierce battle, and so, supposedly, Light is restored. Unfortunately, what this "insert" did was to introduce the ideas of duality, two force of good and evil, at war with each other. The center of the story is the Male Warrior energy whose purpose is to fight and kill to "defend" the Light, and the Feminine energy is reduced to the role of "mother". And so...these energies are still playing out, most powerfully in those areas that surround the Giza "Dream Machine".

The question seems to be, is the Giza complex still transmitting this "dream". According to Archangel Michael, no it is not, despite efforts by some to reactivate the power of the complex. The energy has long departed. But, the "insert" has entered into the "dream" on the lower frequencies where it continues to be the archetypal underpinning of the Law of Duality on the Planet, and most strongly at that place where it was born, the Egypt/Palestine area. The three dominant religions that sprang from that area, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, share their "roots" in the stories and "dreams" of the ancient Egyptian and Sumerian priesthoods. In the last days of December 2008, a powerful surge of Christ Light or Law of One energy went through the New Earth grids to activate the next level of the return to the Higher Dimensions of the Harmony of One in preparation for major changes on the Earth. But, what also happened, is that the energy surge moved through the remains of the fast disintegrating old dream of Duality, and that surge was all that was needed to create another war, another outbreak of "male warriors" defending the "light". And interestingly enough, right in that place where the original insert was added to the "dream" to create duality and control through violence.

It was interesting to me that a few days before I started this piece I saw a movie called "In the Valley of Elah" which was made about a year ago, and is about the Iraq war and the involvement of the USA and its troops. The "Valley of Elah" is the place where David and Goliath faced each other as the Palestinian and Jewish armies camped on opposite sides of the Valley. In the story of the Movie, an returning American soldier is murdered by his "brother" soldiers and his body is dismembered.....what an echo! The "out of control" male warrior energy is seen to be part of this new American society, that has been pulled into the conflict of the "Valley of Elah". How powerful this old "insert", still playing out the duality archetypes of the Male Warrior defending the one side of duality against the other.

The Giza Insert and the Story of the Christ

The work of The Sacred Grail couple, the Twin Flame souls, was to reintroduce the "story" of the Law of One, through Unconditional Love and Peace and Abundance. The message of the Grail is Self-empowerment, the power of the Light within, and yes....the power to Dream your own Dream and not to give that power to those who demand it of you through the distorted power of Duality. You are the Grail, you are the vessel of Gold that carries the energy of the Divine Source. You are the one who can "dream" Divine Consciousness into Reality through your own ability to be a part of the hologram through active and conscious Co-creation.

The function of the "Twin Flame" energy or story is to heal the energies of duality, where the "two" were oppositional, and to allow them to become complementary aspects of the same One Energy. By experiencing that energy both within the self and through a sacred union with another person, the wounds of duality could be healed. Each person could once again find The Harmony of the Law of One within themselves again. This has been the importance of the Activation of the Grail Codes within the New Earth energy field right now.

But, to look back on history, we can see that the energy of duality and the "insert" took over the "Christ" story as well. The role of the Feminine was lost, and the Divine Feminine was reduced to a mother or a harlot. The Divine Masculine energy became a Warrior, and the central image of Christianity became a tortured man on a Cross. And so, the initial energy of the Christ was taken up into the insert story, and Heru became Jesu, the Warrior of Light who killed and perpetrated violence in the name of the "Light". And so, fast forward, through centuries of Crusades, witch burnings and inquisition, to the "Valley of Elah" in the 21st century.

But, the power of the old dream is falling away. People everywhere are waking up and beginning to feel the powerful energies of the Harmony of One, as the Law of One, which is the Law of the Higher Dimensions, is re-established on the Planet. What we are seeing and feeling right now, is the disintegration of the old "nightmare", as the duality reality crumbles away and is replaced by the Harmony of the Law of One.                                         

The Divine Masculine and Feminine and the Harmony of One

As we move into the New Earth, the New Dream is ready to flow through the New Grids that we have set up in our work with Spirit. The old will crumble, because the old "Dream machine" no longer works. We have redesigned ourselves so that each one of us is a transmitter for the Divine Light and the Divine Dream. The grids of Light that empower the dream lie in the hearts of each person on the Planet. It will never be necessary to give your power away to anyone who claims to "hold" your story for you. You are the one who creates your own story and your own truth, in co- creation with Spirit and others on the Planet. And, with the return of the Law of One and the crumbling of duality, very soon those who try to use the waning power of the insert will find that they have no power at all!

The Power is in You! You are the Grail!

Please, do not give your power to create to anyone or any being that claims to be more powerful than you and to know more than you. Do not allow the duality insert to be re-inserted by those who will try to maintain their ability to control. Do not allow yourself to be persuaded by anyone, but look inside yourself to see what is truth, in your own heart.

The Middle East and Africa in 2009

And so, it is here that I would like to introduce you to Dalry Jones, who describes herself as an "ordinary" Australian grandmother who lives in Malaysia at this time. Dalry was in Israel in 2002, and was witness to a suicide bombing. She sent me this article about her experiences and how she felt about them. I felt that this was such an absolute synchronicity with what is happening now, and so I am sharing Dalry's Story with you!          

The true nature of the Self is a matter by no means easy to
compass. We have all probably at some time or other attempted
to fathom the deeps of personality, and been baffled. Some
people say they can quite distinctly remember a moment in
early childhood, about the age of THREE (though the exact period
is of course only approximate) when self-consciousness--the
awareness of being a little separate Self--first dawned in the
mind. It was generally at some moment of childish tension--
alone perhaps in a garden, or lost from the mother's protecting
hand--that this happened; and it was the beginning of a whole
range of new experience. Before some such period there is
in childhood strictly speaking no distinct self-consciousness.
As Tennyson says (In Memoriam xliv):

The baby new to earth and sky,
     What time his tender palm is prest
     Against the circle of the breast,
Hath never thought that "This is I."

It has consciousness truly, but no distinctive
self-consciousness. It is this absence or deficiency which
explains many things which at first sight seem obscure in the
psychology of children and of animals. The baby (it has often
been noticed) experiences little or no sense of FEAR. It does not
know enough to be afraid; it has never formed any image of
itself, as of a thing which might be injured. It may shrink from
actual pain or discomfort, but it does not LOOK FORWARD--which is
of the essence of fear--to pain in the future. Fear and
self-consciousness are closely interlinked. Similarly with
animals, we often wonder how a horse or a cow can endure to stand
out in a field all night, exposed to cold and rain, in the
lethargic patient way that they exhibit. It is not that they do
not FEEL the discomfort, but it is that they do not envisage
THEMSELVES as enduring this pain and suffering for all those
coming hours; and as we know with ourselves that nine-tenths of
our miseries really consist in looking forward to future
miseries, so we understand that the absence or at any rate slight
prevalence of self-consciousness in animals enables them to
endure forms of distress which would drive us mad.

In time then the babe arrives at self-consciousness; and,
as one might expect, the growing boy or girl often becomes
intensely aware of Self. His or her self-consciousness is crude,
no doubt, but it has very little misgiving. If the question
of the nature of the Self is propounded to the boy as a problem
he has no difficulty in solving it. He says "I know well enough
who I am: I am the boy with red hair what gave Jimmy Brown such a
jolly good licking last Monday week." He knows well enough--or
thinks he knows--who he is. And at a later age, though his
definition may change and he may describe himself chiefly as a
good cricketer or successful in certain examinations,
his method is practically the same. He fixes his mind on a
certain bundle of qualities and capacities which he is supposed
to possess, and calls that bundle Himself. And in a more
elaborate way we most of us, I imagine, do the same.

Presently, however, with more careful thought, we begin to see
difficulties in this view. I see that directly I think of myself
as a certain bundle of qualities--and for that matter it is
of no account whether the qualities are good or bad, or in what
sort of charming confusion they are mixed--I see at once that
I am merely looking at a bundle of qualities: and that the
real "I," the Self, is not that bundle, but is the being
INSPECTING the same--something beyond and behind, as it were. So
I now concentrate my thoughts upon that inner Something, in
order to find out what it really is. I imagine perhaps an inner
being, of 'astral' or ethereal nature, and possessing a new range
of much finer and more subtle qualities than the body--a being
inhabiting the body and perceiving through its senses, but
quite capable of surviving the tenement in which it dwells and
I think of that as the Self. But no sooner have I taken
this step than I perceive that I am committing the same mistake
as before. I am only contemplating a new image or picture,
and "I" still remain beyond and behind that which I contemplate.
No sooner do I turn my attention on the subjective
being than it becomes OBJECTIVE, and the real subject retires
into the background. And so on indefinitely. I am baffled;
and unable to say positively what the Self is.

Meanwhile there are people who look upon the foregoing
speculations about an interior Self as merely unpractical. Being
perhaps of a more materialistic type of mind they fix their
attention on the body. Frankly they try to define the Self
by the body and all that is connected therewith--that is by
the mental as well as corporeal qualities which exhibit
themselves in that connection; and they say, "At any rate the
Self--whatever it may be--is in some way limited by the body;
each person studies the interest of his body and of the feelings,
emotions and mentality directly associated with it, and you
cannot get beyond that; it isn't in human nature to do so.
The Self is limited by this corporeal phenomenon and doubtless
it perishes when the body perishes." But here again the
conclusion, though specious at first, soon appears to be quite
inadequate. For though it is possibly true that a man, if left
alone in a Robinson Crusoe life on a desert island, might
ultimately subside into a mere gratification of his corporeal
needs and of those mental needs which were directly concerned
with the body, yet we know that such a case would by no means be
representative. On the contrary we know that vast numbers of
people spend their lives in considering other people, and often
so far as to sacrifice their own bodily and mental comfort and
well-being. The mother spends her life thinking almost day
and night about her babe and the other children--spending
all her thoughts and efforts on them. You may call her selfish
if you will, but her selfishness clearly extends beyond her
personal body and mind, and extends to the personalities of her
children around her; her "body"--if you insist on your definition
--must be held to include the bodies of all her children.
And again, the husband who is toiling for the support of the
family, he is thinking and working and toiling and suffering
for a 'self' which includes his wife and children. Do you
mean that the whole family is his "body"? Or a man belongs
to some society, to a church or to a social league of some kind,
and his activities are largely ruled by the interests of this
larger group. Or he sacrifices his life--as many have been doing
of late--with extraordinary bravery and heroism for the sake
of the nation to which he belongs. Must we say then that
the whole nation is really a part of the man's body? Or again,
he gives his life and goes to the stake for his religion. Whether
his religion is right or wrong does not matter, the point is that
there is that in him which can carry him far beyond his local
self and the ordinary instincts of his physical organism, to
dedicate his life and powers to a something of far wider
circumference and scope.

Thus in the FIRST of these two examples of a search for the
nature of the Self we are led INWARDS from point to point, into
interior and ever subtler regions of our being, and still in the
end are baffled; while in the SECOND we are carried outwards
into an ever wider and wider circumference in our quest of
the Ego, and still feel that we have failed to reach its ultimate
nature. We are driven in fact by these two arguments to the
conclusion that that which we are seeking is indeed something
very vast--something far extending around, yet also buried
deep in the hidden recesses of our minds. How far, how deep,
we do not know. We can only say that as far as the indications
point the true self is profounder and more far-reaching than
anything we have yet fathomed.

In the ordinary commonplace life we shrink to ordinary
commonplace selves, but it is one of the blessings of great
experiences, even though they are tragic or painful, that they
throw us out into that enormously greater self to which we
belong. Sometimes, in moments of inspiration, of intense
enthusiasm, of revelation, such as a man feels in the midst of
a battle, in moments of love and dedication to another person,
and in moments of religious ecstasy, an immense world is
opened up to the astonished gaze of the inner man, who sees
disclosed a self stretched far beyond anything he had ever
imagined. We have all had experiences more or less of that
kind. I have known quite a few people, and most of you have
known some, who at some time, even if only once in their lives,
have experienced such an extraordinary lifting of the veil, an
opening out of the back of their minds as it were, and have
had such a vision of the world, that they have never afterwards
forgotten it. They have seen into the heart of creation, and
have perceived their union with the rest of mankind. They
have had glimpses of a strange immortality belonging to them,
a glimpse of their belonging to a far greater being than they
have ever imagined. Just once--and a man has never forgotten
it, and even if it has not recurred it has colored all
the rest of his life.

As humans, we all have anger, sometimes more than others. A healthy way of purging our anger from our bodies is to give it to Mother Earth. We can imagine ourselves being grounded as the electrical energy passes from us into Mother Earth below. We can see that energy go straight to the earth’s core where it becomes part of the continuous growth process of our planet and is transformed from negative to positive, from dark to light. When we choose to give our anger to the earth, we trust our connection with the natural world we live in and the great universe that fuels it all. Mother Earth will lovingly transform your anger into light so no need to feel guilty about unloading to her.

We can make this offering of our energy from any location, whether many stories up or on a ship at sea. We know the earth is below us, supporting us and sustaining us. If we have the opportunity to physically connect to the earth by going outdoors and touching unpaved ground, we may find it easier to connect to nature’s energy flow. It may also be easier to receive the flow of positive, calming, healing energy that comes to fill our bodies when we have emptied ourselves of our anger. To begin, sit and breathe deeply, ask Mother Earth to accept your anger, and imagine it coming down your spine out of your tailbone, and into the earth’s deep core. To finish, be sure to honor and thank the earth for her loving service.

When we work with our anger this way, we acknowledge that like everything else it is merely energy that can be used positively or negatively. During our grounding meditation, we may be given direction to channel this energy for its best use. We may find that the earth can help us cleanse misplaced energy to use for its rightful purpose. When we do this with gratitude, we know that we are not misusing the earth for our own selfish purposes. Instead we are connecting ourselves with the energy of our homeland, and when we do this we nurture the earth as it nourishes us

A Butterfly Is Born

The butterfly is a resilient role model that can teach us how to be soulful, determined, and courageous in times of change.

BY: Ptolemy Tompkins

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Change, runs the cliché, is good. But it’s also difficult. To lose a few pounds, break a bad habit…those things, for most of us, are pretty doable. But to change on a deep level—to really and truly become different from what we were before—that’s another matter entirely.

That’s why, when discussing spiritual transformation—the most difficult, most challenging variety of change there is—people have so often brought up the most singularly miraculous transformation in all of nature: when the humble caterpillar becomes that airy, flower-flitting, nectar-drinking, quintessentially heavenly creature called the butterfly.

But that, of course, is just the point. One day, after weeks or months of crawling around, eating, shedding its skin (caterpillars normally do this five times), and avoiding being eaten (a daunting task, as countless birds and animals depend on them for food), the caterpillar gets a courageous new inspiration. It finds a safe, secure spot—the branch of a tree perhaps, or the ceiling of a back porch—and hangs itself from a little anchor of silk. It then sheds its skin for the final time, and turns into a hard, peapod-shaped object called a pupa (from the Latin for “doll,” a reference to the object’s resemblance to a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes.

In many species, as the pupa hardens, small, golden spots appear on its surface, spots which give the pupa its other, more familiar name of chrysalis (from the Greek word for gold). Within the chrysalis, a genuine miracle occurs. Over a matter of days or weeks, depending on the species, the caterpillar literally disintegrates. Then, out of that pulpy, formless mass, a new creature coheres. A butterfly is born.

It’s a transformation that is as mysterious now as it was in the ancient world. “Most people," Eric Grace writes in his book “The World of the Monarch Butterfly,” “imagine the transition going on in the pupa as a steady merging from one form or the other, with a part-caterpillar, part-butterfly stage halfway. In fact, during the chrysalis stage, the caterpillar is almost completely broken down in a soup of cells before the butterfly becomes built up.”

The caterpillar that wrapped itself up in its chrysalis and the butterfly that ultimately breaks out of it are both the same animal and not the same animal at all. It’s this paradox that makes the miracle of the chrysalis such a vivid metaphor for the transformations of the spirit—that myriad of impossible changes which the soul must undergo on its own journey toward perfection.

According to the Catholic scholar Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, the chrysalis is an “image of the human being that has separated itself form the agitation, noise and anxiety of ordinary life to transform its inner state into a more perfect one.” The caterpillar-into-butterfly transformation can symbolize the change which occurs when a person goes from being an earthly minded unbeliever to a heavenly minded believer. It can also point to the ultimate spiritual transformation we undergo at death, when we leave our earthly bodies behind and receive heavenly ones. The ancient Egyptians sometimes decorated the cocoon-like sarcophagi that housed the bodies of their dead with images of butterflies to suggest this ultimately transformation.

In ancient Greece the same word—psyche—was used to signify “butterfly” and “soul.”

What is the ultimate lesson hiding behind all these varied images? Perhaps the 16th-century Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila said it best in her classic spiritual instruction manual “The Interior Castle.” “The silkworm,” she wrote, "is like the soul. When it is full-grown, it starts to spin its silk and to build the house in which it is to die. Let us hasten to perform this task and spin this cocoon. Let the silkworm die--let it die, as in fact it does when it has completed the work which it was created to do.”

The silkworm Teresa talks about here is our smaller self: that part in each of us that is afraid of change of any kind. The self that bumbles and gropes along, intent on its appetites, earthbound and entirely oblivious to the larger, heavenly world above it: our inner caterpillar.

To become what it is destined to be, the caterpillar cannot change a little here or a little there. It has to transform completely. It was Teresa’s understanding of this—her willingness to sacrifice that ever-hungry, earthbound aspect of herself—that transformed her from a humble Spanish nun into the leader of a religious order and one of the great religious geniuses of all time.

But even for those of us who are not up to such heroic standards of sanctity and holiness, the miracle of the chrysalis is one we can take to heart just the same. Whether we are a great mystic, change always means dying a little. Like the lowly caterpillar, all of us are humble and flawed. But also like the caterpillar, we are built for transformation, creatures capable of metamorphoses more wonderful and surprising than our wildest dreams. All we need is the courage to allow them