| Last week I heard from almost everyone I spoke with | | | | no fight with Polaroid - why bother? It just came out |
| here on Oahu that they were tired, or they felt ill or | | | | and poof - Polaroid was outdated, and a couple years |
| nauseous, had herpes breakouts, felt down or | | | | later folded. No fight. |
| disillusioned, depressed, exhausted. | | | | So how can we bypass this disgusting travesty that is |
| I was stunned to see so many people down at the | | | | going on? It'd be easy to say "those people" and do |
| dumps. But when I spoke with my health coach on | | | | the blame-blame shame-shame game. The question is, |
| Saturday, I got an answer. | | | | how can a consciousness and way of life where this |
| She told me her 'inside info people' had told her that | | | | kind of violation is possible be, much less even thought |
| the military base here in Kaneohe had been dumping | | | | of? |
| something like 2.5 tons - not pounds, tons - of aluminum | | | | I believe that the answer lies in being as conscious as |
| powder into the air during the last week. When I heard | | | | we can in our own individual lives. One person can |
| her say that I flashed on how I had distinctly heard | | | | literally change everything through the choices s/he |
| planes several nights in a row that seemed to be flying | | | | makes. There are too many examples of that to cite - |
| lower and louder than usual. | | | | Ghandi - etc. - you know who they are. And most of |
| Now, in itself, alone, having that stuff dumped into the | | | | the life-changers we know of did so at huge personal |
| air is a drag. But then she went on to say that the | | | | peril. |
| aluminum was coated with stuff like e-coli, herpes | | | | I don't think most of us need to do make such |
| infectants and other great, healthy stuff (am I being | | | | grandiose changes, but I do think we need to make the |
| cynical here? Oh yes.) | | | | small choices that add up to a big change in how we |
| She went on to say that her sources said it was being | | | | treat the earth and the people and other living things |
| done to 'see how the winds flow, and how many | | | | upon it. |
| people would get sick, so we can see how to protect | | | | So by our own choices we bypass what we might |
| the area.' That this was being done in the sake of | | | | call evil, and use the energy we might have wasted |
| "national security." Right. Make us sick so we can be | | | | dwelling upon and spending energy fighting it. For |
| safe. | | | | making new, more conscious and higher choices. |
| Frankly, it's freaky talking about stuff like that, but I think | | | | How do you not fight? How do you bypass evil? By |
| it's so important to remind you that if you're feeling | | | | focusing on and living your heart's deepest desires, |
| down and out or sick and tired and depressed, IT | | | | your Dreams, your highest purpose. |
| MAY NOT BE YOU. | | | | Even if you don't know what those are - constantly |
| We are so accustomed to self-blame - "you created | | | | clearing the path to find out, constantly intent on |
| it" "take personal responsibility" - that we forget to take | | | | attempting to live a high-vibration life - keeps you |
| into account the great mystery of Other. | | | | focused on the higher intention, the higher vibration. |
| Yes, you might have created your experience in life so | | | | Just as you cannot fight your shadow, and the more |
| that you live in an area where military or other forces | | | | you focus on it and try to eliminate it, the more |
| do experiments - but is that your fault? No. | | | | frustrated and helpless you will feel. |
| You just don't know what you don't know. Quit using | | | | But the instant you simply turn toward the sun, your |
| up valuable energy kicking yourself black and blue. | | | | awareness and energy is now directed in a higher, |
| But once you do know something new that sheds light | | | | more beneficial direction. The fight is gone, the shadow |
| on a problem or challenge, that's where responsibility | | | | is where it belongs and can no longer rule you, and you |
| comes in - the ability to respond to the situation and | | | | are free to create again. |
| make a clear, conscious choice. | | | | Here's to consciousness! Knowingness, |
| So now I know that not only does the military dump | | | | choosee-ingness, deciding-ness, BEingness! |
| stuff into the air at quite regular intervals (yes, those | | | | The Real Work |
| light, fluffy-looking jet-streams, con-trails, etc.), but also | | | | It may be thatwhen we no longer know what to dowe |
| that Hawaii also has one of the highest amounts of | | | | have cometo our real work,and thatwhen we no |
| depleted uranium (thanks again, military) in its soil and at | | | | longer knowwhich way to gowe have come to our |
| the beaches. | | | | real journey. |
| My choice could be to go or stay, and any number of | | | | The mind that is not baffledis not employed. |
| permutations - like, if I stayed, would I fight this | | | | The impeded streamis the one that sings. |
| amazingly unconscious violation of health that these | | | | ~ Wendell Berry (Collected Poems) |
| people are doing? Would I keep quiet? What? | | | | Keep singing, keep knowing, keep discovering. I support |
| No. I don't fight. To me, resisting is as much an error as | | | | you in that and send you my heart's deepest love for |
| the thing I might fight. | | | | it. |
| But I do believe in bypass. Like digital filmography had | | | | |