May 2011 Archives
The Rapture
This past weekend was to be our last, according to a Christian extremist in Oakland, California. May 21, 2011 was designated as “Judgment Day” when a rapture would begin and God would take with him to Heaven those he had selected to “save”.
Now that this date has come and gone, social media sites are running amuck with jokes and laughter about our impending doom that never happened. I have made a few of my own jokes as well, but to be honest with you, based on all I’ve heard myself from my own spiritual sources, along with what I’m witnessing, it is obvious to me something is going on with our planet. The Japanese earthquake, the tornadoes in the south, and what has happened in the last 24 hours is frightening.
Yes, May 21st came and went and we’re all still here, and now the man who started all of this is saying that May 21st was only the beginning of the rapture and that there would be five months of torment before the Earth is destroyed by fire on October 21, 2011. When I read this it made me think about my blog I wrote in March relative to the Earth ending in 2012, which is yet another prediction that is circling the internet. I think a few people read that blog. I’m sure there were also some who read it but put little value in it, which is fine with me. You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make them drink. I will communicate the information I receive, but I will not be using my life’s savings to create billboards or to decorate my car.
I will reiterate the channeled information I received and posted at that time. “The end of the Earth is not going to happen. It is when the Mayans ended the calendar because they had no concept of it going any further. The end of the world is not going to be a big explosion. It is going to be a change in understanding.”
So what does this mean, exactly? Here is my take on it. Human beings are a tough nut to crack. Unless they go through pain and suffering, they seem to learn at a snail’s pace. Most everyone I know that has evolved spiritually has done so as a result of some sort of challenge or difficulty that has brought them to their knees…myself included. Pain and suffering causes us to look within, to look towards God, to unite with others emotionally and spiritually, and to discover what is most important in our lives. It is not our houses or cars or boats or designer clothes that mean the most to us. It is the love of our family, our friends, our pets, and our children that bonds us to one another. Love is what matters most. Love of others, love for ourselves, and love of God. Jesus tried so hard to teach this: “Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” How did Jesus love? Unconditionally, that is how. He also did not limit his love to family, friends, pets, and children. He loved ALL of us no matter what our sins and no matter what our indiscretions. This is the missing link we continually choose to ignore.
If the information I received is accurate, then it would make sense to me that in order for a global change in understanding to occur, challenges or difficulties must arise on a global level, correct? Using only Twitter as my source of information, the following tweets have gone out since Saturday, May 21st. I find this list of destructive events within a 48-hour time frame a bit daunting to say the least.
- Powerful storm in Tennessee destroys at least 30 homes, post office, fire station.
- Flash flooding has caused a portion of Hwy 62 in Carroll Co., Arkansas to collapse this evening.
- Missing people, multiple structures collapse around Richfield, Pennsylvani, following strong thunderstorm, possible tornado.
- Line of severe storms approaching Columbus, Ohio. Damaging winds are main threat.
- Joplin, Missouri tornado, killing at least 89, is single deadliest U.S. tornado since Worcester, Mass. 1953 tornado. Update: More than 1,000 people in Joplin area have been hospitalized following tornado. Update: 116 confirmed dead in Joplin, city manager says.
- Thunderstorm warning issued for Dallas region; dozens of flights delayed at DFW.
- Storm, tornadoes in Minneapolis area cuts power to 20,000 customers.
- More tornadoes touch down: Oskaloosa, Kansas; Hickory, Oklahoma; Fillmore, Missouri.
- Tornado reported on ground 12 miles east of Topeka, Kansas.
- 5.8 magnitude earthquake strikes near east coast of Honshu, Japan.
- 5.0 magnitude earthquake strikes in Banda Sea, south of Indonesia.
- Earthquake, preliminary magnitude estimated at 6.1, strikes Kermadec Islands, New Zealand.
- Volcano erupts in Iceland, spurs 50 quakes. Similar eruption occurred in 2004.
- Landslide hits Malaysian orphanage, burying about 20 children, state media reports.
This list saddens me because I know people have lost their lives and others their loved ones as a result. But it also saddens me because no matter how much I talk or write about it, no matter how much other spiritual teachers talk or write about it, and no matter how many films are made that speak to this, people are just not paying attention. As a nation and as a planet we are supposed to be evolving, which would require UNITY and LOVE and PEACE amongst us…..ALL of us. Yet all I seem to be witnessing these days is an overwhelming amount of hatred for one another because of politics, race, religion, gender, and sexual preference. If I were God I would probably be thinking “Man, I messed up somewhere in this design. It’s time to wipe the slate clean and start over.” So if the end of the world is upon us, I so get why as a parent, he has hit his limit of patience.
Rather than focusing on the end of the world I am choosing to align my thoughts with the information I noted above about 2012. I am also going to post additional information I received a few weeks ago because it speaks to many of the natural disasters going on right now. These are not my words, but the words of an ascended master speaking to a group of individuals, like myself, who want to understand what is taking place upon the Earth right now and what we can expect in the future:
“It’s like most of the adults in the world think that if you have war then you are going to do something wonderful, that you are going to change things. All you are going to do is expedite it and make it bigger, make it worse and make the anger huge. In doing this, when you think there is a war here and this person is doing things wrong, understand that their karma in other countries is their own karma and it will be lived out in their own way. Interference is not good. Not in your lives and not in the lives of the people. That is one of the reasons you are seeing earthquakes and tsunamis because the earth and you are part of each other. It’s one growing, living thing. And when man blows off bombs and kills people, that energy is being absorbed by the earth and the earth rebels; and it rebels in that manner. Think about this. You have seen volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, storms that have killed thousands of people and war in equal numbers. It is a karmic destiny for the Earth to do one thing and mankind to do another. So it has to stop. These people are going to live the way they are going to live when the wars stop. War is not going to change them. They will return to what they believe and for them it is not wrong. Because one group of people attacked this country, it does not give anyone the right to go back and destroy three other ones. If any other country in the world did that then this country would be against it. If Pakistan went after Libya then the world would be against it. The US would be against it. If Afghanistan went after Israel then the US would be against it. Yet if they’re your friend – if Israel went after Gaza – then the US would stand back and watch. That is not balance and it is not wise. There needs to be a calming amongst humanity. The depth of the soul and the spirit in each person is not recognized. It doesn’t mean because you are a Muslim that you don’t have a depth of spirit because you do. It doesn’t mean because you’re a Catholic that you’re wrong and that you don’t have a depth of spirit, you do. Christians and Jews and Muslims are all children of the same universe, you cannot deny that. They are all part of you. If you reach out whoever you touch is your brother. You don’t have to look at them, you don’t have to desire to understand them, but that is your brother. That is your family. It’s the family of man and people have to understand that.”
There it is….LOVE THY BRETHREN. If you’re not sure how to start I suggest two things. First is to make a donation to help others in need right. You can do without your Starbucks coffee for a day or two to help a brother out, right? Second is to look within yourself for the prejudices and hatred that you might be holding onto right now and try and find the understanding you need in order to let that hatred and negativity go. As so many spiritual teachers have tried to teach, everything is energy and that includes us. So if our collective energy is negative and creating chaos upon the Earth, then it is time we work together to shift that energy in a more positive direction. We, as human beings, can do it on our own, and if we don’t, I can assure you that the continuation of these disasters all over the world will cause the shift anyway.
Namaste (The Divine in me honors the Divine in you).
