Imagine a world of peace.

The astrological aspects for this New Year are powerful and dramatic.  Only the next few days will tell how these energies will play out in our world and lives.

We cannot change the events of nature or other people, that may affect us... 

but we can choose how we shall react to these events.

If enough of us think positively, we can change our world for the better,

the group consciousness will reflect these thoughts.

This approach works not just for the New Year period, 

but throughout the entire year ...

throughout our entire life.

Let us change our way of thinking, 

let us think with love, not fear,

and change our world for the better.    

    

 Never forget what the Buddha said:-                                                            

  We are what we think.                                                                                                     All that we are arises with our thoughts.                                   With our thoughts, we make the world.

May peace come in our time

Peace on Earth, Good Will to All.

May we all have a life ...

with enough food and water,

with a shelter called home,

with health

and education.

Happy New Year.

Amphibian Humans and their Soul Mates.

Our Soul Mates ... 

what is a soul mate, where are they, how do we know who they are?

When I first saw this image, it immediately caught my attention.  Each time I look at it, it triggers feelings within that are very deep seated, a sense of flying back through time as each part of me evolved. 

The C. S. Lewis quote was used to describe this image ...

"Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. 

As spirits they belong to the eternal world, 

but as animals they inhabit time." ...

So what is the 'half spirit' part of a human that C.S. Lewis talks about?   

The 'spirits' that 'belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.' 

These spirits it seems, have to be in us.

How is this possible? 

My personal belief is that they overlay us, and this is how I think it's done.

In the diagram below you see the seven layers of the aura and their connections to their chakras.  The layers are grouped into three planes or worlds.  In scientific terms, our aura is our electro magnetic field (EMF).

Just as we have a spine (a channel with nerves, carrying messages telling our body how to function) running through our physical body, so there is a channel running through each layer of the aura. These channels run straight through the middle of our electro magnetic field.  As each layer of our EMF or aura, is embedded into each other, so these channels are embedded into each other.  These channels comprise the dipole of our EMF or aura.  Each layer and its dipole is the shape of a donut.

In Downloading Spirit I liken our total being to a Matryoshka Doll, that I call Babushka.

Once we understand how to communicate through this dipole the consciousness of every layer of our EMF will be able to talk with the consciousness of every other layer.  We'll be in conscious communication with our soul mates.

In DS, I created a diagram which shows a vertical cross section of a 3D model showing how our aura is constructed.

Each layer contains a conscious being.  Only the conscious being in our physical body can be seen.

That being has come to think of their self, as being who they are.  They have become consciously separated from the other non physical beings caught in the layers of their aura.  At first this was the only way 'spirit' could come in.  I believe that their consciousness is what forms our subconscious.

It is time to remember.

I think of these beings as our soul mates.  Our aura is the energetic capsule that contains our soul.

Each of these beings surrounding us is capable of influencing us.  They form aspects of our personality, and their archetypal energies shape and influence us, how we express ourself, what we do and experience.  The voices we hear and feelings we have, are often communication with our soul mates.

Each layer of our aura is composed of a vibrational frequency spectrum.  These vibrational influences can move from high to low or vice versa.  Just as we, the physical person has light and dark within us, so, too, do the members of our soul.  We all live in electro magnetic worlds.  All of us can be nice or nasty, but we can only find expression through the physical person who is not conscious of these other beings ...  yet.

When the conscious/subconscious relationship between our physical self and our non physical soul mates becomes dysfunctional, that is when some forms of mental illness manifest.                                                                                                      

Never forget that we are layers of frequency fields.  It is possible for the conscious beings in each layer to move through the layers and communicate with us ... and we can communicate with them.

 Information, creative ideas, warnings, gut feelings, fears, all come to us this way.






These are functions of the right side of our brain, it is not logical to the left side of our brain, which organises our expression of this information, how we deal with it. 

We have been developing the left side of our brain for the last 2,000-3,000 years.  It's time to connect the right and the left sides of our brain. Positive mental conversations with our selves are wonderful tools in choosing how we shall act. 

They also re-unite and unify our brain.  

They put us in touch with our soul and our source.     

Four things move energetically and magnetically, through us.  

The energy of the Sun, the Moon, the Planets and Music or Sound, 

the

Music of the Spheres.

Music and the lunar energy move through us at an emotional level
triggering memories and feelings which move up through our subconscious.
These come up from within through our cellular memory (more about this in my next blog).
The energies from the Sun and the Planets overlay us, moving into our human energy field.

Let us first consider how the Sun affects us.                                                                                           The magnetosphere of the Earth both shields us from the Sun's energetic eruptions, 

but it also allows a certain amount of the particles and energy to move into our world.

This photo shows the interaction of the Sun's energy field as it overlays the Earth's Magnetosphere.
I think the spider like Magnetosphere is what gave rise to the Myths about spiders -
especially the Indian  Spider Grandmother Myth

To see a video explaining how the Magnetosphere and its relationship with the Sun works, just click on this link ...    Mysteries of the Sun.

Just as the Sun influences us, so do the Planets.  We are all part of the same system, just as our physical body is a part of our EMF.  Members of the same system overlap and influence each other.

It is the science of Astrology that gives us the means to understand not only how the Sun and the planets magnetically imprint their archetypal energies on our EMF.  This enables us to access a guide to our personalities and our lives; a road map, if you like.

It doesn't tell us what will happen or what we will do, but rather the energetic probabilities of the situation or our behaviour.  This then enables us (if we are aware) to make the best choice as to what to do or how to respond.

The expression of the archetypal energy of our soul mates' personalities is conveyed to our personality through the magnetic imprint of the planets in our birthchart.  

It's sometimes a bit like we're the ventriloquist's dummy, at other times we're the ventriloquist.  However, most of us are oblivious to this.  It is time to become more aware.

The influence of the Moon is that of a reflective mirror.  I shall talk about this more in the next post.

Music plucks the strings of the soul.  It brings up memories of which we're not even conscious, even though a tear is rolling down our cheek.

Indeed these 'spirits' inhabit us, and so inhabit time.  We are Time Lords, as Dr. Who would say.

We are self conscious, but to become so, paid the price of losing touch with all we are.              

It is now the time to become soul conscious.  We don't have to be frightened, the self is fully  conscious of its being whilst embedded in the soul, as a drop of water is in the ocean.  Now we have the potential to consciously incorporate the one with the all.   Now, we have not only the potential to be whole, and know who we are ... we have the ability to make it happen ... if we are not frightened.

We are immortal ... not in a physical sense ... 

but

in the non physical universe of consciousness we are immortal and individual.

This is how consciousness, awareness, knowledge and the universe expand.

We don't inhabit one world.  We inhabit many worlds.  

We are multidimensional beings and it's time to remember who we are.

Metamorphosis happens not just in the insect world, or the amphibian world, 

but also in the human world.

The difference is that we're not looking to transition and staying alive in the physical world ...

We are looking to transition and stay alive in many worlds.

The key to these "modes of existence" is meeting our  soul mates,

the aspects of our self, and knowing we are one with them.  

We are one with everything.  

Tune in ... you'll like the music.

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Don't Worry Be Happy.

It's Christmas.
There are two blogs I said I would write next, but they will come after this one.

I think I need to get a blog where I just write what I feel is important in the moment ... 

and keep this for Downloading Spirit.  

While I get this organised, I still feel a need to write this blog.

The two I said will come next, will ... but after this.

Yes, it's Christmas.  

For me, a time of so many memories.

My Wedding Anniversary is Christmas Eve,
Christmas with our children and family, 

and then the day after was my husband's birthday.

He died when I was 45.  Long time ago now.

During the time he was dying,
one of my sons brought home this piece of music.

It created a very special moment.

Let us never forget ...

Life is a moment, a blink ... and it's gone.  

We're not gone, but the body we inhabit has.
It could not continue any more.

While we are here in this body, let us live our life to the full.  

Let us be happy.

It's time to understand just how important each of us is, 
what we are here to contribute.

A flower blooms ... what can be more beautiful ... a work of art.

A flower dies ... but ... every bloom contributes to the next blossom.  

Every bloom is the grounding for the next generation.

Every bloom has the potential to expand the consciousness of beauty and love.

Live your life to the full.  

Don't worry be happy.  

Find joy and love ... share these gifts throughout you life.  

As you expand and grow everything expands and grows.

Live, Love, Laugh, Learn.  

Not sure of the right order of these experiences.

 I have a sense they happen as we experience each of them.  

They overlay each other, as life overlays us.

May this be a special Christmas for each of us.  

One when more and more of us not only understand, 

but consciously act to spread 

Peace on Earth, and Good Will to All.

Nama Amida Butsu.

Humans are amphibians - we are spirit, body, soul and personality.

Over the life of my blog the post most read by my followers is "Voices ... are they real?"  

This doesn't surprise me.  Hearing voices is, I believe, a phenomenon that happens to everyone, if we're honest with ourselves.  Even if we only hear one voice consciously, our conscience - our inbuilt guide that tells us right from wrong. 

But, I believe, there's more.  How often do we hear someone say:-

"Something tells me that won't work" or "Something inside is saying ... this will be good".  

I believe this both fascinates and concerns people.  

In my book, Downloading Spirit, I put forward the idea that these voices could be those of our soul mates who like us have positive and negative (and all shades of grey in between) characteristics.  I write:-

"These voices in our head, these feelings in our guts, our heart, desperately want to communicate with us.  Sometimes, because they're so frustrated, they're like gremlins and goblins, our demons.  Other times, when they're wanting to help us, like elves and angels, our guides.  Mostly they're so unsettling or frightening we just don't want to hear them, so we block them out."

We only allow ourselves to hear our conscience.  It would be good to learn to have a positive two way conversation with our voices, so we can incorporate their knowledge and enhance our performance ability.

I believe today, more and more people are wanting to understand what a human being is.  Having to deal with mental health issues opens us to the inescapable realisation that there is more to a human being than just our physical body.  There is our consciousness, and it is multifaceted.

"Hearing voices ... " can be a symptom of mental illness.  However, more often than not, it has nothing to do with mental illness.  Notwithstanding, how many of us are frightened of "hearing voices"?  We need to realise that hearing voices is normal.  There is nothing to be frightened of.  Even if what we hear is negative, we can use it positively to make good things happen.

Again I refer readers to a book by John Watkins, called, Hearing Voices - A Common Human Experience. It is published by Michelle Anderson Publishing Pty. Ltd., and its ISBN is 978-0-8557-2390-3.

It is excellent and helps people to understand that hearing voices is more often than not just a normal part of living.

Psychologists are also learning to help people to work with their voices - Voices inside us.

Coming back to what is a human being?

Without a doubt we are an animal.  However, we are different to other animals ... we are self conscious.

But were we always self conscious?  No, that really only happened somewhere between 3,000 and 3,500 years ago.

So what type of consciousness did we have before that?

It was called the Bicameral Mind.  This  theory was put forward first by Julian Jaynes .  Since then it has become part of psychological theory.  A  brief definition is that:-

Bicameralism is a hypothesis in psychology that argues that the human mind once assumed a state in which cognitive functions were divided between one part of the brain which appears to be "speaking", and a second part which listens and obeys—a bicameral mind. 

For more information see:-

Bicameral Mind

definition of Bicameral mind .  

or watch:-

So in 3,000 years human beings have gone from people who heard voices, belonging to non physical beings we called "Gods",  to self conscious people who have a conscience and, for the most part, a "God" or a religion that tells us what to do.  Some of us have come to a point of knowing that "I am that I am."  We take responsibility for ourselves and all we do.  As Moses answered his people, when he brought the 10 Commandments down from the Mount, and they asked him who was he talking with, he said "Yahwey", which translates as "I am."  Moses took responsibility for bringing his people the 10 Commandments, as Jesus did when he told his followers to "Love one another as you love yourself."

We can all have our own personal conversations with God.

Now we are hearing voices again.  We're still self conscious, we know these voices are not "Gods", unless we are mentally ill.  

What is happening here?

Is it possible that we could be evolving to another, higher functioning, more inclusive level of consciousness?

Could we be becoming Soul conscious; could we be meeting our soul mates who are not physical? Could we be accessing our Cellular Memory?

In this blog, I deal, superficially, with who we are.  In the two that follow, I'll deal with our Soul Mates and our cellular memory.

Relative to all 3 posts is the following C. S. Lewis quote ...

"Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. 

As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time." ...

which describes the following image.

A human being is spirit (all that ever will be), 

body (all that is - for a moment in time) and 

memory (all that has ever been).

The spirits inhabit us.  They surround us in our matrix of consciousness which surrounds our physical body in layers of different frequency ranges.  Downloading Spirit - Chapter 8.

The animals not only inhabit time, they and all our ancestors, also inhabit us via our cellular memory.  Downloading Spirit - Chapter 9.  They do not surround us, they are within us.  We have adapted and evolved from them. 

Our present brain is built on the brains of fish, reptiles and all animals that have preceded us, as well as our bicameral brain. Downloading Spirit - Chapters 9 and 10.

We do indeed inhabit both the eternal world and the world of time, and like a library, we hold all this knowledge within us.

As we move from self consciousness to soul consciousness, we shall not lose our Self, just as when we moved from the Bicameral Mind to Self Conscious Mind, we did not lose our Soul.  These levels and aspects of consciousness are what make up every human individual, every human being.  We are one and part of everything, a drop of water and an ocean.

As we become more and more soul conscious, 

we shall lose our fear of our own power and magnificence, our fear of not surviving.  

We shall become multidimensional, capable of time travel, moving between dimensions and lives.  

We shall stop handing our power to money and power hungry people who have realised that they can control us through our fear.  When we do this, we enable them to acquire more money and power, and desecrate our extraordinary and beautiful planet.  As we walk through our fear, our world will heal itself, we shall heal ourselves, and we'll re-create the Garden of Eden that Spirit intended our world to be.  As we walk through our fear, the money and power hungry ones will change, or leave.  

Animals are frightened because they need to survive, humans are frightened because they know they will die, and they will lose their self, spirit is not frightened because it knows it is light, eternal.  

We are spirit/human amphibians, the changelings of our physical world.  We can live in time for a limited time learning how to remember who we are.  When we do remember, we can knowingly cross between the timeless, non physical world of consciousness to the physical world of time.

When that happens, the amphibian, changeling human has become a multidimensional, 

soul conscious spirit being - 

a Time Lord

Let us all walk through our fear and remember who we truly are.

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Stop and Hear the Music - Our physical life has an expiry date.

It's been a while since I posted my last blog, almost five months in fact.
I've let go of being a "Grey Nomad".  It was fun, challenging, definitely worth doing, but in May the time had come to move on.  It was time to begin my next stage of being.
I was missing a base, my own home, and I finally accepted that I was missing the land.
I'd turned 70, and, for the first time in my life, was actually contemplating my own demise, wondering what the experience of leaving my body would be like.
I still feel timeless.  I know when I die physically, it will only be my body that changes and will turn to ash.  The essence that is me is not a physical reality, though, for the moment, I express myself in a physical milieu (more of this in my next blog).
So wondering if I was mad, I found myself drawn to two small acres in the country, a place called "Always".
For some time I had known that somewhere in the time between February, 2013 to April 2014, I'd find the place where I would spend the rest of my life.
I'd expected it would be in a village like Leura.  This was where I was looking.  I was being sensible, acknowledging my age, and my "Grey Nomad" period had made me appreciate everything I'd had living in Leura for the last twelve or so years.
But I couldn't escape a feeling, deep in my heart, that I wanted to have Orlando, my horse, come and live with me again.
I checked out a nearby area, very similar in climate to Leura, where I could have a few manageable acres; where I could be with Orlando.

No matter what I googled, "Always" kept turning up.

It kept saying: "Come and see me."

My head kept hearing a voice saying:

"You're too old to do the work even on a small 2 acre property."

My heart kept saying,

"You are meant to be here."

Finally I gave into my impulse to go and see "Always".

It had a stable and paddock for Orlando.

The house was the perfect size ... double brick.  It was warm in winter and cool in summer.

But most important, it had beautiful energy, and I felt her from the moment I stepped onto her land.

     

What decided me once and for all was the fact that "Always" had a conservatory; something I have always dreamed about having in my home.  A warm, sunny, peaceful place where I could curl up with a book.  

So I battled the mind/heart from 29th May and made an offer for "Always".

Contracts were exchanged on the 11th June.

Orlando and I had always had a special bond, from the first time I saw him at two months of age, but life's circumstances meant we had to live apart.  
At 55, I sold Killibinbin where I'd farmed, taught horse riding, bred and broken in horses, and run a farm holiday retreat for twenty eight years.
I did not want to sell Orlando, my straight Egyptian stallion that I'd imported from Germany.
This meant that he would spend the rest of his life at different, carefully selected studs covering purebreds, straight Egyptians, part bred and unregistered mares.  I always knew if he was all right or not, as he'd come to me in dreams.  I always knew if it was time for him to move.


The separation from my horse was very painful for me, particularly having to entrust Orlando to others.  I always dreamed that one day we would be together again.

One stud where he was particularly happy was Ralvon.  Whilst at Ralvon with Ron and Val Males he also had many successful competition years, trained by Ron under saddle and broken to harness.  He also served more than 60 mares during this time.

In his entire career he sired well over 100 foals ... producing halter and performance champions, Australian champions, horses of exceptional type and temperament.

These two photos are a purebred son and partbred warmblood daughter, and below right, is a copy of an email sent to Val Males from a satisfied breeder.

Val ... Subject: Orlandia
Hello Val and Ron,
Thought you might like to see my stunning mare - she is doing hunter classes
with my niece on board - wouldn't mind breeding another one however Orlando isn't here anymore is he?






Without a doubt, he was much appreciated and nurtured during the time he was with Ron and Val  at Ralvon.

Whilst here Orlando and Ron won Reserve Australian Champion in both harness and stock horse classes and Australia Champion Endurance Horse.

He was a registered endurance horse and had a heart rate of 44.

I shall always be grateful to Ron and Val for the effort and time they gave to Orlando.








One of the outstanding things about Orlando was his temperament.  He was a horse who gave his all no matter how he was challenged.  He was gentle and beautiful with people, with his mares and with other male horses, geldings and entires.
Mostly he ran free with his mares, but was easy to manage in hand service and efficient at mounting a dummy for semen collection.  He passed his wonderful temperament on to all his progeny together  with many other attributes such as superb hindquarter, long, elegant neck and overall soundness and type.

Then in 2012, just before I went overseas, he came to me in a dream and said:

"I'm caught up, and I can't get to Egypt."
  
I knew something was wrong, so rang the stud where he was to learn he'd had an accident in the paddock with two straight Egyptian mares.  He had become caught in a fence whilst serving.
The injuries were severe and there were complications.
He was moved to an Equine Specialist, Ross Pedrana, in Dubbo.
We were never sure if we could save him, but he never gave up fighting to live.  Consequently, we never gave up either.  He battled his almost impossible injuries for more than twelve months.  A lot of my "Grey Nomad" days had been spent out at Dubbo being with him.
Ross was doing an amazing job.  He and his wife Gill were wonderfully supportive during that time.
We thought we were winning.   Now it seemed possible.  I began to believe that once he was healed enough to leave Ross's place, he could retire with me, and we could grow old together.

The contracts for "Always" were signed on the 11th June.  There was no turning back.

Orlando died on the 13th June after a sudden and unexpected complication.
Looking back, I think he stayed with me until finally I did what I was meant to do.

Did I regret buying "Always"?  No.                   Did I cry?  I'm still crying.  

I moved into "Always" on the 2nd of July.

The day I moved in I saw him, in my mind's eye, standing at the fence of his paddock calling me ... there are moments that stretch beyond the temporary physical world.

Sometimes we are more alive in these moments.  These moments are the essence, the reality of being, our physical life is but an illusion, a wonderful movie which we create ourselves, so we can learn and grow.

When I started writing this post, I had no idea what I would write.  There is relief now.
As I've written, I've thought, as I often do these days, how important it is to stop and hear the music of life ... to appreciate how wonderful it is.

In conclusion, this twigged my memory to an email from Colleen Khoury,



who bred my black pug, Gloria Greasemonkey.
















It had a link to a Youtube video.  Most appropriate to this post.

The following article tells the full story:-

Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com



                                                                                   I am so happy here at "Always".  Gloria and Monk love it.

Travelling is great, but having roots again is so good.

I haven't posted on my blog for so long, because I have been busy getting re-organised; re-thinking how I'll live the rest of my life, and working through what I'll write next.
I think I'll finish the 2nd book of Downloading Spirit.  There's only a few chapters to go.

But more and more Orlando is calling me to finish writing a book I started a long time ago.  It's about me and my life with my horses, about Horseriding and Spirituality.

Stayed tuned as this progresses.

I expect to be blogging again quite regularly.

Until next time ...

Life.

So often in life we realise we have to let go of what has been so that we might become ...

For the last 3 years my life has been in a spin.  

A vortex of finalisation of a project, and the preparation for the next stage.  

A vortex of letting go that which is not important to my life, of freeing whatever needs to be freed and even that which  doesn't wish to be freed, whether it be yourself, or whatever.

It has been a time of living in "the eye of the storm". 

In this place we begin to understand that:

At each stage in our growth, before we reach the moment of belief and commitment, 

we have to journey through our stormy emotional and mental processing.  

That is a personal journey.

Only one person can do this ... yourself.

This doesn't stop, whatever age you reach.

Many young people think that once you reach a certain age, or stage, you've made it.  

That's when they usually start asking ... "What's it all about?"

That's when it's time to discover ...

I've gone through some of those stages.

Last week I talked a little of this in the blog I called Milestones.

I have found that my last two decades of life have encompassed 

the most consciously aware growing I have ever experienced.

I find as your awareness and consciousness of this growing increases, so does your pain.  

For you see the things you've done well ... not so well ... and ...

you realise that the "not so wells", are you greatest teachers.  

So often we have to thank most what we like least about ourselves.  

I learn most when I am least successful.

That hurts because I seriously need to do the very best I can. 

 Each time my ego, my Self, is confronted ... never destroyed ... but expanded to my Soul level.

This journey is still evolving, and will continue for some time yet.

For the last eighteen months or so, I have been distracted from my purpose, 

to undertake journeys, 

both internal and external, to prepare me for my next stage.  

It has been a time of travel and change enabling me to resolve and clarify many issues from the past with people, family, my animals, particularly with my horses, my teachers.  

This has been necessary to establish boundaries, to learn to say "No", and yet, ironically, 

enable a greater merging with all that is.  

To begin to understand even more the extraordinary will to live and love.

This next stage involves many decisions.  

The moment of these decisions is at hand ... and what a relief.

This space I have been inhabiting is not an easy place to be.

Now I can get on with living, and embarking on the final stages of my life's journey, 

of fulfilling my purpose.

I just needed to understand (yet again) what I was living for.

So often we do not understand until we come close to the final stages - 

and every stage brings such a moment.  

It is the moments in between the knowing that are so painful.   

How often do we think life is too painful.  How often do we wish it would release us.  

Yet we forget we never die.  

We need to remember we are here to live our life to the full ... and ... enjoy it.

Yes, we are meant to enjoy life.

Myself, I wish finish this life incorporating and fulfilling all that I have learned.  

May I pass on these things to anyone who will gain benefit from my experiences.

I gives thanks for my life, and do everything I can to conclude it so that its reason for being is fulfilled.

I have no idea how much time is left ... but I shall live it with less fear, greater joy, and dedication to fulfilling my own truth, and walking my talk, than ever before.

When I was 50, I leapt off the 33rd floor consciously knowing what I was doing.  

Actually, I did this the day I was born ... just like this young chick when it was time to fly ... 

but did I know ... or did I have to go through my life to reach the point where I could remember?

OMG - here I go again.

I love it.

I love life.

We do live forever - we're just beginning to understand this in this life.

We just don't stay in this form.

We are the shape shifters of being

and ONE with ALL that is.

Milestones.

At 6.00 am tomorrow morning I shall officially be 70 years of age.

Three score years and ten.

According to the Bible ... I have lived a full life. 

What do you say?

it's time to die ... to throw in the towel.

No ... I still have a lot to do.

I have at least another two books to write.

At this moment I remember Jessica ... 

I included this video in one of my first blogs ...

You guessed it ... she reminded me of me as a child.

I still feel young and vibrant ... 

even though my body is different ... I have a different perspective ... 

a broader view of life ... 

but ... 

I'm seriously alive.

This joy of life will never be diminished ... no matter how much I ... hurt ... suffer.  

I love life.

I still feel like Jessica feels.

Whether I'm in this body ... which I look at every morning in the mirror ... 

with its wrinkles.

It's a really beautiful, very highly valued ...  exceptional vintage car ... 

that has carried me through so much.

No longer beautiful ... 

once I was ...

No longer physically able to do all I used to do ...

That's not important.

Whether I have this body or not ... I shall always be alive.  

I AM.

I shall always be vibrant and full of life ... loving being ...

even the day I die ... 

for I shall continue to be.

Wherever I go from here I do my human (my animal's) best to go with love.

My animal, to whom I shall always be so grateful for physical life, is not perfect.

It, she, I, have been shaped by genetics ... inherited ... conditioned behaviour ... 

shaped by all that my parents, and their parents inherited ... 

shaped by my experiences ... shaped by my parents and loved ones experiences ...

both good and bad ... in my life of learning.

As the Bible said ... "the sins of the fathers" ... are visited on us ...

BUT ...

let us also remember the beauty, the joy, the positive achievements that our forebears ... 

and we ... 

have achieved ...

Let us aim to put the "sins of our fathers" behind us.

Let us not dwell on the negative, instead acknowledge and 

retain all the good that has been done.

Let us consider where this prehistoric, stone age homo ... 

who became home sapiens ... who became homo sapiens sapiens ... 

has brought our species ... and our world.

It's amazing.

However, some of it is horrible ... not good. 

Our Mother Earth is screaming at us now ... to wake up, to change.

In the past we have always risen to the occasion.

WE CAN DO IT AGAIN.

Let us aim to put the "sins of our fathers" behind us.

Let us put our negative animal instincts behind us.

BUT  ... Let us keep our positive animal instincts.

May LOVE ... UNCONDITIONAL LOVE ... enter and

 take over our extraordinary animal being ...

May our SELF conscious human become 

SOUL conscious and 

fulfill our destiny not just as an animal species

but as a SPIRITUAL being.  

Let us awaken to the fact that we are not separated from God ... 

we are One with God.

Let us become fully conscious ... love our Mother the Earth, care for her.

It is time to awaken to the fact that we are ONE with EVERYTHING.

This is my wish on the eve of my 70th birthday.

Nama Amida Butsu.

I love life.

Live - Learn - Laugh - Love.