9/19/10

Ebooks, Future of Publishing & The Grid

I received this question in an email this morning:

This tribute to 13 Americans is being published on paper and as an e-book. Do you think e-books work for kids?
Knopf to Publish Picture Book from President Obama
Source: publishersweekly.com
This is what I see...

I believe as we move into the next generation, ebooks will be the way all kids read.

Yes, that is between 10 and 20 years from now, but as the phone becomes the portable computer and it begins to be the ebook reader - I see all of these tools merging in the future. Children will no longer carry big back packs to school, they will carry their computer/phone/reader (their CPR)

Today many children in North America, Europe, Australia, Japan, India, and China are using kindles for their books. That is going to increase exponentially each year because it is far cheaper to buy textbooks for kindle and so much easier to access them. There is no question that this is the way of the future.

Do you realize that there is a debate going on in the schools today to drop cursive writing because there is no longer a need to write!

Okay, for those as old as I am, this may feel awful, but so does the thought that future generations will find paper books in antiquarian bookstores only.

The world is spinning forward and in the next 50 years, we will be tapping into the grid of information without the blocks of time. It is a step beyond the internet, far beyond it.

The internet has laid out the grid in plain terms for everyone to see. Now we need to jump into the understanding that we are part of it. Not just through a computer but through our very being - our frequency, our consciousness, quite literally who we are. I am not referring to your body or personality, but who you are.

Every living thing is part of the grid! Trees, bees, man, dog, dolphin, eagle, earth, water droplet, sand, mountain, Saturn, Sun, all of us are divine energy. We all have consciousness, some more active than others. But all of us participate in the integrated web of creation.

Listen to this program where I speak with Dr. Bryan Oulette on the grid. It should help you see the bigger picture.
Eye of The Seer



11/22/09

Destined to Live - Coyote hit at 75mph

I received this story this morning from a dear friend. I do not know who to credit for it, but I must share it with you.

It will help you realize that nothing in the universes of God can interfere with your agreement to live or die. Think about this while you read this story. I promise you it will blow your mind!

The title is "Will To Live" but a better title is "Destined to Live" We all, as my husband puts it, "have an expiration date.'

Despite anything that we might think the outcome should be, when driving into an animal at seventy-five miles an hour, this coyote's date had not arrived.

On Monday, October 12th, I arrived at my office to find a car with a live coyote stuck in the bumper. I took a few photos on my iPhone, which have now been used nationally and internationally to help tell the story.

Below is the most accurate version of the story.

As told by Jeff Adams, managing partner of Willow Springs:


A full-grown coyote took a wild ride across Nevada and California this week, spending eight hours wedged behind a car bumper before being rescued, relatively unscathed.

"We're still dumbfounded," said Tevyn East, who was a passenger in the car being driven by her brother, Daniel, from Boulder, Colo., to North San Juan.

The saga began at about 1 a.m. Monday on the Utah-Nevada border, East said. The two were driving straight through from Colorado , and East was reading to Daniel to help keep him awake.

"My brother was driving and he saw a few coyotes at first, and he saw this coyote running alongside the road," she said. "It turned and darted in front of the car. We were going over 70 mph."

While East didn't see the accident, she heard it.

"It was a big thud," she said. "We were trying to figure out what we should do, stop and look for it or Daniel assumed we had done some real damage and it was instantly killed."

The two continued on, stopping several times for gas and to watch the sunrise. When they got to the Willow Springs artist collective in North San Juan at about 9 a.m., Daniel East went to check the front of the car for damage.

He saw fur and the body inside the grill," Tevyn East said. "I was trying to keep some distance. Our assumption was it was part of the coyote, "it didn't register it was the whole animal."

Daniel East got a broom to try and pry the remains out of the bumper and got the shock of his life.

"It flinched," Tevyn East said. "It was a huge surprise, he got a little freaked out."

Tevyn and Daniel huddled with Jeffrey Adams, the owner of Willow Springs,who got on the telephone with volunteers from Wildlife Rehabilitation and Release.

"We could see a little bit of blood, not a lot, and we couldn't see any wounds. We didn't know if it was suffering and we should put it out of its misery, or if we could rescue it. But we realized we were going to have to take the front end of the car off to get to it."

Volunteer Jan Crowell arrived with a kennel and equipment to help corral the coyote, including a catch pole with a loop, and the delicate operation to rescue the coyote got under way.

"When we opened the hood to look down, we could see the body but not the head; it was under the engine," Tevyn East said. "I assumed it was going to look bad. I was on edge. But when they started taking the front off, it started squirming around to get away ... We had a sense it had life in it."

Crowell was able to get the catch pole loop around its neck and used that to guide the animal into the dog carrier. She then took the coyote home, where she rehabilitates wild mammals, for observation.

"I was just amazed, Crowell said. "Quite frankly, I figured it would have broken bones."

When the 45-pound canine calmed down, the only injuries it appeared to have sustained were a scratch on one leg and a scrape on the pad of one paw, she said.

As soon as she put it in a 6-foot-by-12-foot chain-link kennel, the coyote began trying to jump the fence, Crowell said.

By Thursday, it apparently figured out its escape route before Crowell could finalize arrangements to have it shipped back to release in the wild in Utah.

The coyote found an area that could be bent back with pressure and managed to bend it about 4 inches, Crowell said. "He slipped through and decided it was time to go," she said. "Now it's a local coyote"

In trying to explain the situation, Tevyn East said, "This coyote is amazing. If you look at the front of our car, the grill broke and acted like a net to soften the impact. It's pretty insane ... somehow the conditions were just right for it to survive the trip. We're trying to tell the story to people, to family and friends back home, but people can't wrap their minds around it."

Pictures are worth a thousand words, in this case maybe a million. To see the original pictures and read more, you can go to the photographer's website, David Lovere






11/15/09

911 - Love - International Peace - The Tear Drop




Gratitude & The Art of Receiving

The majority of Americans are dependent on their televisions for news. Another group get their news from radio or podcasts of radio shows. A minority of Americans read their local or national newspaper, and an even smaller group get it from magazines. The smallest group of news hawks take the time to stay abreast of news through research on the internet, one of the greatest tools ever developed to link information from around the world.

When one person representing a nation pours their resources, creative intelligence, and their manpower to share empathy and love for another nation, that news should be covered in every form of media around the globe. Unfortunately, the incredible monument created by Zurab Tsereteli has barely been noted across the American media with few Americans being aware of it at all. What news I could find on this remarkable work of art, a generous gift from a man who gave it in the name of his nation, Russia with the full consent of President Putin, is marked by biting remarks and slurs.

Why is it that so many people must attack the gift giver as an individual with subversive motives.
Yes the cost is estimated at twelve million dollars, and that is quite a lot of money. But an artist who has such capital to gift remarkable works of art, should not be rebuffed for doing so.

It is unfortunate that human-kind are fraught with suspicion of generous acts.

To understand an artist, is to understand one's own spiritual essence. Soul is a passionate being.

Great works of art are the result of passion.

I am certain there are many artists around the world who would love to have created monuments as a result of the tragedy, the deep emotional upheaval and the humane efforts, which will forever be remembered as 911.

The bombing of the Twin Towers in New York City on September 11, 2001 stands as a turning point in American and World history. Every form of media covered the event in its most grotesque and its most humane forms. But one of the most significant monuments given to America, as a witness to the pain, love and humanitarian acts of that day has not been covered in major US media.

Internationally known, Russian artist, and Russia's President of the Russian Academy of Arts , Zurab Tsereteli, cried for our loss. He felt a need to express the empathy of humanity through a monument of a giant tear drop, representing the outpouring of the world's tears. In an incredible act of love, this artist used his own resources (an estimated twelve million dollars) to create this magnificent monument, representing the bond of humanity to defeat terror.

Standing one hundred feet high, the impressive exterior is made of steel covered in bronze. Suspended from the center of a jagged, ripped opening in the stone-like structure, is a forty foot stainless steel teardrop.

This monument is nothing less than astonishing. It truly represents a ripping open the stone, cold, concrete world of business as usual, and the release of an international cry of pain. 

Here is a picture of "The Monument to The Struggle Against World Terrorism", and short video from the dedication. Former President Clinton made the presentation at the dedication of this monument on September 11, 2006, he said:
"I would like to thank President Putin and the people of Russia for this gift of solidarity in the struggle against terror. I thank my friend Zurab Tsereteli for his ability to catch the feelings that cannot be expressed by words." 
Please take the time to consider how you respond to people who give gifts too expensive or too generous or too ___ whatever. The joy of giving, when one has a depth of emotion or a bond to a person or event, should be considered and accepted with joy and gratitude, for what it is, a gift!


In this season of giving, let us rejoice in our ability to give 
and relish in the joy of receiving. 


I, Michele Avanti, a U. S. Army Veteran, an American citizen for more than half a century, personally want to say thank you to Zurab Tsereteli and the people of Russia for their generous, heartfelt gift memorializing the events of 9/11.









11/9/09

Belief & Fear - The Economy & Losing Your Job

Recently the downturn in the economy, both U.S. and International has caused a wave of fear consciousness around the world. This is creates the challenge to respond, not react.

We have the power to wield our worlds of creation. We must always remember that we are in this world, but not part of it.

This means that you are soul, an infinite, limitless, powerful creative being. You, the true you, has never left the world of pure positive energy. Soul is in a constant state of ecstasy, peace, and contentment.

The physical, mental and emotional states of consciousness that you adopt when you enter the worlds of matter, are yours to direct. When you understand this, you will realize that no outside force determines what manifests in your world.

Does that mean you will not get fired?

No it does not mean that. But if you have set a boundary in your universe that all things that come into your space are to your benefit, and that they only bring more knowledge, joy, contentment, security, wonder and abundance, then that is what a firing will bring.

You must cleanse all the thought patterns that come into your world. It is up to you to define your universe.

Once you accept full responsibility for your world, you can begin the process of cleaning out the old life-challenging thought patterns, and stabilizing the ones you want to manifest.

In this world of constant contact, you must stay aware of what your subconscious is taking in, and realign your thought patterns daily.

Monks in monasteries create a simple environment that allows for stable thought forms.

Individuals active in the world of chaos, are bombarded by every advertising, media, and political manipulation directed through television, radio, internet, billboard, published media, telephone conversations, workplace talk, street talk, shop talk, and even the thought forms that you do not see coming through energy fields from neighbors and traveling sound waves.

If you do not stay on top of your boundaries, you will be at the mercy of beliefs and thought forms you have not consciously chosen.

It is easy to go there. But it is not to your benefit.

A world of greed enters your home each time you turn on the television, radio or open a magazine, newspaper or the internet. We call it advertising.

Advertising is not designed to offer truth, but rather uses every form of subconscious manipulation to create an emotional desire for you to take action and buy. The only protection you have, is your own mental choice.

Children have no defense because their minds are still forming and thus they absorb the information much like your computer takes in new software. It takes the awareness of an adult to teach the child to identify truth from greed.

If the adult is unaware, the child will remain unaware.

What does all this mean?

Our subconscious mind absorbs, as facts, all the images suggesting that happiness, success with friends, family, and in love relationships, will be the direct result of whatever is advertised. This includes everything from what you drink (beer to coke), to where you eat (McDonald's to Carl Jr.), to what you wear (Old Navy to Macy's), to what car you drive (Ford to Mazda), to what cell phone you carry (AT&T to Verizon), to what computer you use, to what drug you take, and it goes on and on into every area of your life.

There is always something tugging at your belief system. And through media you have been trained to listen, and believe.

It is up to the individual to examine what is being fed to their subconscious mind, to eliminate the trash, and strengthen the boundaries.

If you want to achieve anything, you must believe it first.

When was the last time you examined what you believe?

Take the time at least twice each week to examine decisions you have made, and actions you have taken. Ask yourself; "Why did I choose to say that or do that?" Be completely honest with yourself. No one is watching you. You can honestly say, I felt pushed, I was tired, I was afraid, I was ashamed, I was...

Then take the time to assess your fears, your strengths, your energy, the degree you feel confident and proud of yourself.

Now you can start to uncover your beliefs. When you can look at your fears, you can examine what you believe. It is at this level you can find the hidden beliefs that drive you to react instead of respond to life.

Let's look at an example to help you clearly understand.

Looking back at the week, you find you still feel angry at yourself because you went out to lunch every day when you promised yourself you would not eat out more than once each week to save money to pay off a bill.

First observation, is you are angry with yourself. Second observation is that you did something you promised yourself you would not do. Now you must determine why you did not respect yourself enough to follow through. So you ask yourself, did I feel ashamed to say I was saving money? Did I feel pressure to show my co-workers I have as much money as they do? Did I feel a need to be seen out because of someone? Did you just feel the bill would get paid some other way? Or is there another motive that drove you to go against the promise you made to yourself?

Once you find the reason or reasons, you can unravel the fear that drove you to hurt yourself.

The fear is bound up in a belief.

It is most likely a belief that comes from your childhood. It can be that your parents only took you out to eat when they had extra money, but your friends parents took them out to eat every week, and you felt poor. Thus going out to eat each day is a sign to you that you are not poor, that your are proving to yourself you can have it all. So this creates a belief system that says I am rich if I can eat out every day. Of course that is both false and forced. The feelings of being poor, were born out of comparing yourself to others. It has nothing to do with what being poor or rich is really about.

This is what I mean by digging into your belief system, clearing them out and reconstructing them based on what you want in your life.

Many people are 'packrats' not because they will ever use all they pack away, but because of a deep fear they will not have something they may need, when they need it. This goes to a belief system based on fear instead of a system of abundance.

Take the time to review each week and you will start to unravel the secret subconscious drives that cause your life to be fraught with fear, or full of joy and abundance.

Here is a note I recently wrote to a friend who is the main bread winner in her family, and is currently experiencing the fear of losing her job.

Please work with some EFT to calm your nerves. Fear is a magnet for things you do not want. It would be best for you to take 15 minutes to meditate each day to connect with the God force in you that manifests everything you desire. You need to come to that peaceful state, which knows you are secure and safe and that Spirit will put in your path everything you need and desire.


Using a prescription drug is fine for a temporary fix, but it is best to breath and do some kind of exercise to maintain balance and health. Being the bread winner in a difficult economy requires a steady mind and knowledge that you are always safe and protected. Practice knowing this. Go to a peaceful place inside where the angels embrace you and whisper all you desire is on its way. Feel it, breath it, know it. For what you believe you will achieve. You know this. But sometimes we all need to be reminded.


If you allow the turmoil of the current world economy to fill your life with fear, you join that belief system and open the door for loss. Let that belief system stay on the television, outside your door and in the hands of others at work. Remain knowing that each day is perfect. That changes that take place in your world will always be to your benefit. Loss of one job leads to a better job, and more happiness. You must take this in as you take in each breath. Breath it and know it.


To join the current frenzy is to join an illness and to build internal stress because of it can create illness. When we realize we are limitless, powerful, infinite, soul simply driving a human vessel, we free ourselves from the world's illusions.


Promise me you will take 15 minutes each day and allow the angels to embrace you and fill you with all the joy of knowing you are safe, protected and that all that is good and perfect is constantly provided for you.


With love to everyone - May you see the light in your own reflection and carry it to illuminate all you encounter.


Michele

10/31/09

Do you give away your power?

A little while ago, my dear friend Allie Cheslick posted this comment by Dr. Wayne Dyer:

"If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you."

This  is so true..it is the way of this time in history, more than any other time, that we give away power in so many ways, it is a wonder that people are not sick all the time. 

Our personal power is centered through the choices we make. Every single time we choose we either strengthen or shrink our power. 

To make this as plain as possible, when you say, "Yes." to anything half-heartedly, you have given away your power. Consider when someone asks you to go somewhere, or you mate asks you to get them something. If a part of you says "I don't want to," but you do it anyway, you have given away your power. 

The key is to be aware. Then internally say, I choose to do this because I love this person. I am happy to do this because I love this person. 

When you make a conscious choice, you center and empower yourself, while still doing something for someone else. 

Hope that makes it clear. Comment below or write on my facebook wall - Michele Avanti, and I will help you with any mundane situation you want to discuss. I always keep people's situations anonymous on my blog. We all have challenges in our lives, but when we work together, we can work them out.

Hugs to all, we need to love ourselves and learn to be cause in our lives. When we do, we empower ourselves and thus strengthen the whole grid of life on the planet. 

Yes, your smile, your love, your joy adds strength to everyone and everything.


Here is the first of a set of videos from Wayne Dyer's seminar on the Power of Intention


Wayne Dyer - Power of Intention (Part 1/14) - Free videos are just a click away

10/10/09

Can Astrology Identify a Collector Of...

Collecting & Collectors

2nd & 5th House Give Clues

Recently a Facebook Friend asked this astrological question.

"I love to collect beautiful things. Where do you find this in a chart?"

The chart always tells us what a person likes, what they will spend their money on, and what they value most. Additionally based on the signs involved, we can see if they like to collect these things, give them away, or hoard them.

So let's take a look at this chart and see what kinds of collecting, this FB friend may enjoy and why.



The second house has Gemini on the cusp indicating the individual values ideas, communication, and anything that communicates. This will usually include; people, books, and various forms of art.

Gemini is a Mutable Air Sign, and it does not hoard.


But we must look to the ruler of Gemini and its placement to learn more.

Mercury is the ruler of Gemini and we find it deposited in 7th house in Scorpio.

Scorpio is a Fixed Water Sign, and can be a collector, and may even be a hoarder of things. But it must be something the holds some mystery for the individual. Something that reveals a deeper meaning, or that transforms in some way would be valued by the individual.

Now let's look at the 5th house. This is the house of hobbies, and investments. Here we find everything that a person loves, from people to things.

The 5th house has Libra on the cusp, while Pluto is very close to the cusp, and Uranus is deposited here in Libra. (Also note it is at 22 degrees trining the cusp of the 2nd house.)

Libra indicates the individual falls in love with beautiful people and beautiful things. They also invest in beauty that builds conversations and relationships.

Libra is a Cardinal Air Sign, and is not known to hoard or collect specifically.

But when we look to Venus, the ruler of Libra, we note it is deposited in the end of the 6th house close to the 7th house cusp, and it is in the sign of Scorpio. So it reinforces the Mercury's trend from the 2nd house, and indicates the individual will be drawn to collect beautiful, intriguing, transformational, mysterious art.

The influence of Uranus adds a sudden fallen in and out of love with things. So from time to time the individual may find themselves releasing, or giving away, collections, as they suddenly fall in love with new ones.

The fact that Mercury is in the 7th indicates that they may be influenced through one-on-one conversations.

The fact that Venus is in the 6th indicates that they may find some of their collectibles through the workplace, or socializing with co-workers.

So after viewing all of this, I was not surprised that this FB friend enjoys Hatchlings & has beautiful apartment in Yoville!

With this information, now you can take a look at your chart or the chart of a friend, and discover if they are a collector and what they may like to collect. This of course can be very useful if you are buying presents.

If you have questions, please feel free to connect with me on Facebook (Michele Avanti), or on Twitter (@tamoor) and when time allows, I will add your answer right here on my blog, anonymously of course!