Seems to me there are a couple of ways you can write a poem – take a photo that is memorable & beautiful & colourful & makes ya say, “Wow!”…or write a poem & set it to music, like Peter,Paul & Mary did in the song below, which has been part of my set over the years (I love it when everyone sings along!) Hope you had a great day – this is a beautiful way to end it!
I remember when I was a wee urchin that one of my uncles, ages ago, said to me & my fellow urchin noisy brother, “You know where it says in the New Testament, ‘suffer the little children to come to me’?”
Brother & I went to Catholic school, Episcopal church, Boy Scouts, occasional monk school & Sunday school, so we agreed we were familiar with the line.
“Well, if you don’t pipe down, you chil’ren gonna suffer! Hold it down!” Thus we understood the text & subtext & his deeper meaning.
I do not mean to suggest my good uncle was wrong, but rather would suggest that such things mean different things as we go along. Different interpretations meet different needs, on different days.
The Aramaic Bible in Plain English says that Matthew’s rendering says: “But Yeshua said to them, ‘Let the children come to me and do not forbid them, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these.’ In another spot, the Christ (via Matthew) says, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Love that.
Reminds me of Rumi:
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.
I think that’s the child-spirit – the place where the heart & soul can fill up because the ‘ideas of wrongdoing & rightdoing’ don’t filter out the love & light that surrounds us. And play. And fun. And learning (the fun kind).
Become like little children. Then lie down in the grass that the world is too full to talk about.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.
– Brother Ian
I first read Miriam Delicado’s book The Blue Star Fulfilling Prophecy a couple of years ago, and was immediately stuck by not only her sincerity & commitment to her message, but also her bravery in telling parts of her story. She is an easy-to-read, clear storyteller, with an important message from the stars.
She is now making the book available to download for free (I encourage you to make a donation) here.
Miriam’s story begins with her first contact with beings who don’t appear to be from this planet in 1988, and continues to the present. Here’s what the website description says:
How does a woman from a small town in British Columbia, Canada become involved in one of the most talked about prophecies on the planet today, the Hopi Blue Star Prophecy?
Learn how her life was completely changed after an encounter on a lonely highway with Tall Blond Aliens in 1988.
Miriam embarks on a journey into a world of secret governments, Clones, Russian Psychic Army recruiters, the Ancient Hopi People and Alien encounters.
Her path leads to the discovery of the family secret; her father is somehow involved with the Blond Aliens and has been since before her birth.
The truth that Aliens exist is only the beginning. Learn how they are connected to our world, to humanity and why they are contacting the people of Earth today.
They share warnings about a possible future in which our existence as a species is at risk. Read Blue Star to learn where the Safe Lands will be in the End Times and why the Aliens’ messages are important to all of us now!
She says: My relationship with the Hopi begins here. They are surprised by my knowledge and my presence among them. Both the Hopi and I appear to be intertwined in specific knowledge.
The journey leads me back to my hometown where both my sister and I remember an event in 1970 where the aliens gave me a gift to bury. We both remember we were to keep it hidden from our father.
Pieces of this great puzzle are explained from why the book was written to how each family member feels about my contact. I then share the messages the Tall Blond aliens asked me to tell the world.
Here’s a song I wrote years ago & sang with my friend Mary when we recorded this version – click here to listen & let me know what you think! (And you’re right, the lead part in the middle of the song is played on a bass….wahoo!)
Until It’s Time To Go, by Brother Ian (for you)
It’s been a long long time
Since I’ve sung a song that I could call mine
Been lost in a fog, chasing after a joke
Till the rain exploded all our dreams went up in smoke
Now all that’s over, it’s all been left behind
I’m here to serenade you, lemonade you all the time
Give you all I’ve got to give, sing you all I’ve got to say
Stay until the lights grow low, your eyes move slow and it’s time to go
Until it’s time to go
Many a song’s been sung & many a story told
All the lessons, all the pain all the gravel in the road
Behind every window there’s a door
Stay up late & sing one more
Until the time for leaving, I’m not gonna change the key
Now all that’s over, it’s all been left behind
I’m here to serenade you, lemonade you all the time
Give you all I’ve got to give, sing you all I’ve got to say
Stay until the lights grow low, your eyes move slow and it’s time to go
Until it’s time to go
The place is all empty & now it’s time to roll
I pack up my guitar but I know I’m not alone
When I come home to you & the things that you do
You sweeten my coffee with an early morning kiss
Now all that’s over, it’s all been left behind
I’m here to serenade you, lemonade you all the time
Give you all I’ve got to give, sing you all I’ve got to say
Stay until the lights grow low, your eyes move slow and it’s time to go
Until it’s time to go
The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
Kahlil Gibran
(To see more of Traci Walter‘s amazing artful photography, check out her site at traciwalterphotography.com.)
Do you get this song going when you look around the apartment you call your mansion? Yeah, me, too…singalong, now (then look at the next post down):
The crazy thing is that most Americans have no idea how the dough is distributed.
This short lesson in inequality should be required watching & learning for folks in the US (and Canada, and the world….). In the Emperor’s New Clothes section of our site we look at things that, like the story, everyone assumes is one way & it’s really completely different.
This is a good place to start.
Wealth Inequality in America from Queue on Vimeo.
We were fish swimming in the ocean,
unaware of the water and ourselves.
The ocean wanted to be recognized,
so it threw us up on dry land.
We flip after this, we flop after that,
pursuing an ever more elusive happiness.
Is the ocean tormenting us?
Rumi
If you’re like me, you may have observed the incredible technological advances of the past 150 years or so & said, appropriately, “Wow!” Electricity, space travel, medicine, ground & air travel, ways to carry goods, communications from phones to satellites & everything in between….all in a very brief span of time.
Have you ever wondered: Why didn’t people make these discoveries sooner? According to most histories, there are blips of advancement, but mostly that scene is pretty gradual & pretty quiet.
Now, according to Debbie West, there is ongoing research to show there was a lot going on….millenia ago. This is going to change the way you see the world:
Houston Anthropologist Reveals Irrefutable Proof that Recorded History Is Wrong
by Debbie West, for the Conscious Life News
Evidence Found Across the Globe of Highly Evolved Human Species from before the Ice Age, Demand Scientific Recognition of our Past that Depicts Societies of Advanced Technology and Culture
Houston anthropologist Dr. Semir Osmanagich, founder of the Bosnian Archaeology Park, the most active archaeology site in the world, declares that irrefutable scientific evidence exists of ancient civilizations with advanced technology that leaves us no choice but to change our recorded history.
An examination of the age of structures across the earth reveals conclusively that they were built by advanced civilizations from over 29,000 years ago.
“Acknowledging that we are witness to fundamental proof of advanced civilizations dating back over 29,000 years and an examination of their societal structures forces the World to reconsider its understanding of the development of civilization and history,” explains Dr. Semir Osmanagich. “Conclusive data at the Bosnian Pyramid site revealed in 2008 and confirmed this year by several independent labs who conducted radio carbon testing dates the site at 29,400 +/-400 years minimum.”
The radiocarbon dating tests of 29,200 years +/- 400 years was done by Radiocarbon Lab from Kiew, Ukraine, on organic material found at the Bosnian Pyramid site. Physicist Dr. Anna Pazdur of Poland’s Silesian University first announced the news at a Press Conference in Sarajevo in August of 2008.
Professor of Classical Archaeology from the University of Alexandria Dr. Mona Haggag called this discovery “writing new pages in European and World history.” The C14 date of 29,000 years at the Bosnian Archaeological Park was obtained from a piece of organic material retrieved from a clay layer inside the outer casing to the pyramid. It follows a sample date obtained during the 2012 dig season on material located above the concrete at 24,800 years, meaning this structure has a construction profile stretching back almost 30,000 years.
“The ancient people who built these pyramids knew the secrets of frequency and energy. They used these natural resources to develop technologies and undertake construction on scales we have never witnessed on earth,” said Dr. Osmanagich. Evidence clearly shows that the pyramids were built asancient energy machines aligned with the earth’s energy grid, providing energy for healing as well as power.
Ancient historians in the US have news just as astonishing as anything found in the far corners of the globe. For instance, the Rockwall discovery outside of Dallas, Texas, is only one example of how we are now re-examining ancient mysteries to reveal more about our past, right in the United States. H2 (History 2) popular series Unearthing Ancient America recently filmed an episode about the Rockwall that will air later this year. The Texas site is a complex and massive wall ten miles in diameter built over 20,000 years ago and covered by soil seven stories below the ground. The question is by whom was this structure built and for what purpose and, most importantly, how can knowledge left by these past civilizations help shape our future?
Newly-revealed or rediscovered traces of ancient civilizations have ignited an innate curiosity about human origins as reflected by recent coverage in mainstream media and TV. The November 2013 issue of National Geographic: 100 Greatest Mysteries Revealed-Ancient Civilizations Unearthed says,
“Sometimes cultures leave behind mysteries that baffle those who come after them, from standing stones to coded manuscripts, indications that ancient people indeed had a profound purpose.”
Forward-thinking scientists continue to pursue knowledge from our past that is useful to determine a better future. Renowned author Michal Cremo in his book Forbidden Archeology theorizes that knowledge of advanced Homo-sapiens has been suppressed or ignored by the scientific establishment because it contradicts the current views of human origins that don’t agree with the dominant paradigm. Cremo’s body of work has been described as “a useful teaching resource, raising a wide range of issues covering aspects of knowledge transfer, sure to be provocative in the classroom.” It has been reviewed with widespread appraisal by hundreds of academic journals.
Gobekli Tepe in Eastern Turkey
Results clearly indicate that similar advanced civilizations of humans were present all across the globe at that time in history. For example, Gobekli Tepe located in Eastern Turkey, is a vast complex of enormous megalithic stone circles with a radius of between 10 and 20 meters, much larger than the well-known Stonehenge in Great Britain. Excavations at Gobekli Tepe that began there in 1995 revealed radio carbon dating at least 11,600 years. German archaeologist Dr. Klaus Schmidt from the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany, with the support of ArchaeoNova Institute from Heidelberg, Germany, has led the excavation of these recently-discovered pre-historic megalithic circles at the Turkey location.
“Gobekli Tepe is one of the most fascinating Neolithic locations in the world,” Dr. Klaus Schmidt claims. But as he explains in a recent report, to understand the new finds, archaeologists need to work closely with specialists in comparative religion, architectural and art theory, cognitive and evolutionary psychology, sociologists using social network theory, and others.
“It is the complex story of the earliest, large settled communities, their extensive networking, and their communal understanding of their world, perhaps even the first organized religions and their symbolic representations of the cosmos,” as reported by Klaus Schmidt.
In addition to the megalithic structures, figures and carvings have been discovered, depicting animals of pre historic nature such as dinosaurs and other wild life. Since excavations started in 1995, four of the circles have been partially cleaned, but it is thought that there are a total of up to 50 circles hidden underground. These vast monoliths, soaring seven meters in height and 25 tons in mass at Gobekli Tepe, are situated right in the heart of what we perceive as the origin of civilization. This find offers new guidance to the true history of earth and our ancient civilizations.
“Our archaeological research goal is not to simply uncover all of the megalithic circles but to try to figure out their purpose,” adds Schmidt.
The Bosnian Valley of the Pyramids now in the eighth year of excavation spans six square kilometers in the Visoko River Basin 40km northwest of Sarajevo. Comprised of four ancient pyramids almost three times the size of Giza and an extensive subterranean pyramid tunnel complex, new discoveries each year continue to reveal proof of a much different history of mankind on earth. The central pyramid of the Sun rises a colossal 420 meters in to the air and has a mass of millions of tons. By comparison the Great pyramid of Cheops (Khufu) in the Giza plateau is 146 meters high, making the Bosnian Pyramids the largest and oldest known pyramids on the planet. Since research began at the Bosnian site, Dr. Osmanagich has amazed the scientific and archaeological community by gathering a team of interdisciplinary engineers, physicists and researchers from around the world to conduct open and transparent investigation of the site to try and discover the true nature and purpose of this pyramidal complex.
“This is an unknown culture presenting highly-advanced arts and sciences, technology capable of forming truly massive structures and we believe in that process demonstrating an ability to harness pure energy resources,” comments Tim Moon, who has recently joined Osmanagich as lead archeologist at the Bosnian site.
The archaeological project delivered another significant finding this year in the pyramid tunnel complex known as Ravine. Tunneling deep into a ridge line leading toward the Pyramid of the Sun the team has unearthed several megalith stones. In August an enormous stone estimated at 25,000 kgs was uncovered approximately 400 meters into the labyrinth. “This is a hugely significant find,” comments Moon. “Here we have a massive stone, possibly a constructed ceramic, buried under hundreds of thousands of tons of material. We are locating foundation walls around its perimeter and cut stone blocks.” Large quantities of artifacts have been recovered from the associated tunnels leading to the site, including effigies painted on stone, art objects and a series of hieroglyphics or ancient texts carved into the tunnel walls.
Dr. Osmangich stresses that it is time for open sharing of knowledge so we can understand and learn from our past.
“It is time for us to open our minds to the true nature of our origin and destruction of each other as a civilization on this planet. Our mission here is to realign science with spirituality in order to progress as a species, and this demands a clear path of shared knowledge.”
Visitors are welcome to the Bosnian Valley of the Pyramids and its Foundation offers a volunteer program each dig season, running June to September.
To hear Dr. Sam’s interview on Lost Knowledge go to: http://theilluminatinetwork.com/2013/09/lost-knowledge-3773/
For more on the Bosnian Pyramids go to www.icbp.ba.
Deborah West worked in corporate public relations and media for over 20 years and is currently a freelancer, reporting on a wide variety of topics including disclosure, ancient and multidimensional civilizations, the the shift in humanity’s consciousness and brings truthful reporting to topics ranging from healthcare to energy.
She writes a column called Lost Knowledge at The New Era Times and has a weekly radio show called Lost Knowledge on Tuesdays 3-5pm CST. To see her articles go here.
This article is offered under Creative Commons license. It’s okay to republish it anywhere as long as attribution bio is included and all links remain intact.
Re-posted from our friends at The Conscious Times – check them out!
One of my favourite songs by The King, with gospel overtones & a refreshing belief in the power of dreams:
There must be lights burning brighter, somewhere
Got to be birds flying higher in a sky more blue
If I can dream of a better land
Where all my brothers walk hand in hand
Tell my why, oh why, oh why can’t my dream come true, oh why
There must be peace and understanding, sometime
Strong winds of promise that will blow away
All the doubt and fear
If I can dream of a warmer sun
Where hope keeps shining on everyone
Tell me why, oh why, oh why won’t that sun appear
We’re lost in a cloud
With too much rain
We’re trapped in a world
That’s troubled with pain
But as long as a man
Has the strength to dream
He can redeem his soul and fly
Deep in my heart, there’s a trembling question
Still I am sure that the answer gonna come, somehow
Out there in the dark, there’s a beckoning candle
And while I can think, while I can talk
while I can stand, while I can walk
While I can dream, please let my dream
Come true, right now
Let it come true right now
This first video – a pilot over Canada sees seven objects flying along with his plane. He said the passengers were interested, naturally.
And later:
Same year – a sighting over Staffordshire, in the UK – here’s more from the BBC:
Over the centuries, Brother Ian has been collecting stories & information & discourses for the purpose of elevating the human condition as needed, dissecting it when necessary, and building the case for hope.
In the spirit of noting that organized crime, organized baseball, organized labour, and organized religion tend to engender controversy & occasional discord, I promise to be neither organized or critical of those who are.
