Below is a final paper I wrote at the University of Chicago on social movements:

According to the political process model, social movements are likely to emerge when insurgents have adequate resources to mobilize during times of political opportunity when elites are unstable and divided (McAdam 1982). In addition, Piven and Cloward (1977) argue that instability, as a result of economic change, weakens the structures of daily life and contributes to the emergence of the collective consciousness. Over the years, the intensifying inequalities have included increasing cuts to public services, a shrinking middle class, destruction of the environment, and real wages falling. Consequently, the Occupy Wall Street Movement emerged in Zuccotti Park, New York City as a result of such an environment. The movement was able to ignite because city space provided a connection between varieties of people. The development of relationships that were created have allowed for an even greater expansion of consciousness and a national definition of conditions as being unjust and unsustainable. Additionally, technology and the media were able to expand information of the movement’s existence and mobilize more protesters.

An Environment of Growing Inequality

The deindustrialization that occurred in the 1970s and early 1980s devastated many cities in the United Sates and prompted a shift from Fordism to neoliberalism. As the Civil Rights Movement faded and competition from West Germany and Japan put pressure on profit levels, corporations regrouped to take back the acquired rights from the New Deal and the great society, through the influence of domestic politics. Corporate lobbying against civil rights resulted in anti-immigrant policies, college students in debt and unable to find a job, foreclosures on homes, a roll back of unions, taxes on the affluent, as well as a roll back on financial, environmental, and workplace regulations, on voting rights for the minorities, poor, and the young. Also, there was a spread of propaganda that claimed welfare to be damaging to the economy and character of the American poor (Piven 2012). As a result, this shift created a variety of complexities, tensions, and inequalities as wealth has been unevenly distributed, benefiting the few over the many. These practices have resulted in economic decline and a recession that hit society with an unemployment rate peaking at 10.1 percent in 2009 (Bureau of Labor Statistics). Interestingly, even during the economic crisis with wages at a low level, not indexed to inflation and the unemployment rate high, corporate productivity has increased and so have corporate profits (Piven 2012).

Practices of the Public Sector and Non-Profit Organizations

For a long time the public sector has been responsible for providing social services for the poor and the vulnerable. However, over the years it has been increasingly adopting the free-market model and placing little value on democratic ideals such as equity and justice. Consequently, the government has pushed non-profit organizations to take the leading role in providing vital human services. However, most organizations depend on the government for over half of their revenues and some need government to support their entire budget. As a result of such high dependence, the government developed competitive performance-based contracting with non-profit organizations, which discourages organizations to collaborate with one another for the benefit of civil society (Lipsky 1985). The struggle for limited resources has forced non-profits to enter relationships with for-profit businesses and adopt a corporate model that turns away from encouraging community participation and volunteerism. As non-profit organizations choose profits over public interests, they begin to look more like for-profit businesses. Competition has also encouraged non-profits to depend on entrepreneurs and executives of large companies, who take advantage of charitable causes to further their business investments, and direct organizations to function in ways that will benefit their individualistic interests. Over time, both the government and the non-profit organizations on which the public depended for getting their human needs met, adopted methods of the market that became detrimental to democracy (Eikenberry & Kluver 2004).

According to Robert Dahl (1956) the United States political system is, “among the most opaque, complex, and confusing, and difficult to understand.” Thus, the majority of the poor and middle class people act as bystanders and thus public opinion is silenced. As political engagement declined among the poor and the middle class, the government has favored economic development, targeting services to high value areas, and giving subsidies to wealthy corporations. For example, the government gave a subsidy to the development of the luxury Blackstone Hotel in downtown Chicago. This type of subsidy is usually intended to help poor communities, yet instead of addressing inequality, the attention was turned to generating economic profitability (Dietz 2011). As a result, many people began to recognize the current structure of competition and profit making as a failure of neoliberalism.

The Philosophy of the Occupy Wall Street Movement

In a pluralist model every citizen has a chance to participate and obtain a voice in politics. Citizens are expected to be active, evaluate societal conditions, and vote for those politicians who match their beliefs. However, in many cases the majority rule does not exist because those who come from low socioeconomic backgrounds with limited education tend to vote less or not at all (Dahl 1956). Those who do vote, tend to have little influence over wealthy policy entrepreneurs who greatly influence the political system by investing their resources and expecting a return on those investments (Kindgon 1984).

However, people have begun to challenge the dominant systems of authority and promote alternative imaginaries, also known as contentious politics (Leitner, Sheppard & Sziarto 2008). The current hierarchical and institutionalized system triggered indignation and spawned the Occupy Movement to develop an egalitarian structure that is opposite to the dominant norms. The movement established itself as a non-violent, leaderless, and horizontally organized mobilization of people who claim to be the 99% and who refuse to tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1% (Marcuse 2011). Horizontality is a decentralized network that aims to limit power relations by actively constructing non-hierarchical power relations that challenge inequalities between people, and embracing diversity. Therefore, the movement built a power not of domination but of collectivity also known as prefigurative power. This type of power intends to construct new power relationships and a fair world, in which people truly desire to live in, as they take control of their lives, neighborhood, work, community and education. Protesters, who engage in creating such a power, hope for it to trickle out and affect other relations on a greater scale (Maeckelbergh 2009). Further, the Occupy Movement has not mobilized around any specific issues because historically this type of strategy has not led to desired structural changes. Therefore, the movement refuses to become defined by a specific set of policy demands and fall victim to the current structures of political decision-making that supports exploitation and domination (Marcuse 2011). As one can see, the Occupy Movement does not have any specific demands and instead it is demanding a country of morality and human rights.

The Role of Cities in Movement Mobilization

The close proximity that New York City provides, allows people from varied backgrounds to collide with one another and ignite diverse social relationships with ease and frequency. As a result of such relationships, an array of resources, ideas, and solutions have potential to emerge. Networking has occurred through face-to-face interactions as well as through virtual space, which has allowed people to share critical knowledge and develop alternative imaginaries (Leitner, Sheppard & Sziarto 2008).  

Cities also enable people to form strong tie relationships, which typically have high reciprocity as well as intimacy and trust. Such ties reduce uncertainty and inspire people to take more risks and contribute their own valuable resources to a greater cause (Nicholls 2008). Strong ties have inspired Occupy protesters to give up their time and camp out on sidewalks and put themselves at risk of getting fined or arrested. Additionally, cities can bridge people to develop weak ties, which are relationships that can be easily broken off yet allow for opportunities to access new resources and information that is outside of the close-knit networks (Nicholls 2008).

Moreover, the city was also an important factor that allowed people to develop further meanings and identities. Although the Occupy Movement is more than just about financial issues, organizing around Wall Street has become symbolic because that is where money comes from, and money is a main factor that has contributed to the many struggles. In particular, taking over a part of Wall Street’s space such as Zuccotti Park, named after a prominent real estate lawyer and power-broker, has allowed the protesters to create an identity of what they believe in and what they stand against (Marcuse 2011).

The Role of the Media

History reveals that the media can have a critical role in the success of a movement. For example, the media was a key contributor to the spread of the Piquetero’s spontaneous eruption in Argentina during the economic crisis in 2001 (Sitrin 2006). Accordingly, Occupy’s weak tie relations with the media also assisted in expanding the movement’s philosophies across the country. Nonetheless, protesters are cautious not to become co-opted and reproduce a society that endows people of power. After all, the mainstream media is owned by some of the largest corporations in the world (Piven 2012).

At the beginning, the mainstream media belittled the Occupy Movement, yet after some time, it began to take the protesters more seriously. As a result, the spread of media coverage to the front pages of newspapers and television newscasts provided legitimacy for the movement and persuaded more people to seek out information on Facebook, Twitter, and Occupy’s Web site. The creation of the Occupy website is an example of a resource that emerged and has provided aspiring participants with information about the movement and how to join. Furthermore, the social media has become important in spreading information, awareness, and gaining support across vast distances. As one can see, relations with such unlikely institutions are helpful, especially if coverage is positive.

Technology as a Means to Scale Up

The Occupy movement has been able to capitalize on its popularity in New York and reproduce in other cities. According to the Occupy Wall Street website, the movement is currently working to expand its influence and scale up to a national level by bringing occupiers from around the country to Washington D.C. The movement is organizing vehicles and their plan is to begin in Los Angeles on April 2, 2012. People will travel for one week stopping in 25 cities as they gather move participants to occupy and protest in Washington DC. However, even though the Occupy Movement is scaling up to a national level, it can still be viewed as a multi-scale movement because people continue to organize locally by occupying their city halls and universities. Evidently, the Internet has played a key role in generating networks and re-scaling the movement.

However, relying heavily on the Internet and other technologies has both costs and benefits, as it can empower some while at the same time disempowering others. Using technology to mobilize the public may create inequalities among differently positioned people, and may unintentionally exclude people who may not have access to or an ability to use technologies. Currently, information presented on the Occupy website is in English, which creates difficulties for those who are not native to this language. (Leitner, Sheppard & Sziarto 2008). Since the United States is a county of many cultures, it may be difficult and timely to uncover which languages are presently used and to develop a website that gives everyone a fair opportunity to understand and participate.

Significance of Organizations

In his piece, The Semisovereign People (1975), Schattschneider argues that as one expands his allies he also expands his opponents. Therefore, a movement that has limited resources must be careful in its tactical advancements or find methods to generate more resources. Although it is fundamental that the Occupy Movement pursues its goals through non-traditional and innovative methods, without permitting anyone to dictate an agenda or tactics, it may still be important to learn how to navigate through the capitalistic system by building partnerships with organizations that have a vertical power structure. Aitchison (2011) argues that movements become successful when they combine a variety of strategies to achieve political and social change. History has also demonstrated that movements, such as the 2006 immigration movement in Chicago, relied on the support of organizations. Although the ability and willingness of the people to mobilize proved to be the major source of capacity, the event also showed that organizations are critical in advancing the interests of a community. So, the movement gained great momentum through the use of union halls, schools, churches, and the Latino media. (Betancur & Garcia 2011). Therefore, considering the resource mobilization model and accepting support from external groups may enable the movement to have a greater influence (McAdam 1982).

Currently the Occupy movement consists of mainly white middle class protesters, but formal organizations can provide the movement not only with resources but a connection to the poor. For example, organizations may help mobilize people who may not have access to technologies or knowledge of the English language. Furthermore, forming relationships with organizations can provide the Occupy Movement with more participants. Firstly, employers of organizations may be more receptive to the movement and allow employees to miss work in order to participate in certain events. Also, organizations can connect the poor with resources such as transportation or childcare and increase participation in that way. Moreover, organizations may provide the movement with physical space where people can gather in case of bad weather. Therefore, organizations are complimentary to the Occupy Movement and can help the movement spread information and scale up. In the end, such collaboration can help the movement to become a source support to the poor (Piven 2012).

Setbacks of the Occupy Movement

Protesters have started shifting their practices from symbolic communication of grievances to disrupting institutions. For example, about a dozen protesters entered Chase bank in Lower Manhattan and withdrew their money while 300 others stood outside shouting and beating drums (Buckley & Donadio 2011). As a result of such direct actions, officials become increasingly worried as the movement begins to change public opinion and affect electoral politics. In particular the population that is being most influenced by the movement is the same group that put Obama in office; the young. It is advantageous to have the Democratic Party in power because it is the most vulnerable to the force of this movement. The movement threatens to divide Democratic constituencies and has the potential to push politics to do what they typically never do. However, the Occupy Movement should be cautious because political worries over the 2012 elections will lead to temptations to scold the protesters and break up the movement. Clearly, president Obama will continue to pay more attention to his Wall Street and corporate supporters and try to figure out ways of silencing the movement (Piven 2012). Even if demonstrations and disruptions continue to expand the scope of conflict and appeal to the public, they may also create greater political rigidity and risks.

The climate for movements is changing and massive police repression has been a major setback for the Occupy Movement as protesters are trying to sustain against a difficult and powerful opposition. Many protesters have been arrested, fined, and pepper sprayed. For example, Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel proposed an ordinance that requires protesters to register for a permit in order to demonstrate during the NATO and G8 summits that were supposed to take place in May 2012. Those who do not obey the strict regulations will be punished with harsher fines that can cost protesters up to $1,000 (Flowers 2012). Emanuel’s propaganda and demonization of protesters have had a negative effect on participation (Piven 2012).  The growth of the movement is stalled because many people do not have the means to take risks, and most of the time the need for survival trumps the desire to make positive structural changes. Therefore, it is important for the environment to be non-threatening to people who wish to mobilize.

As a result, the Occupy Movement may benefit from modeling tactics executed by the ‘Right to the City’ movement, by establishing concrete requests (Mayer 2009). Manuel Castells (1978) also argues that making alliances and penetrating the political system permits the movement to shift from simply putting pressure to having power. Since Occupy’s demands for redistribution of wealth and universal rights are very complex and difficult to attain, it may take a while for the movement to achieve significant progress. After all, the power of money is colossal and without acknowledging that fact and finding a balance between reality and the ideal, the movement will continue to make symbolic victories that can be easily ignored (Maeckelbergh 2009). To maintain the Occupy Movement, protesters may need to be flexible and develop concrete requests that will help shape judicial rights and create a non-threatening climate that will give way to progress.

The Occupy Movement is functioning in a capitalist system, making it hard to advance without softening-up politicians. One strategy that can help alleviate the tension between the state and the people, and get elites like Rahm Emanuel to reduce risks for people to experiment with the movement, is by having legitimate leaders who support the Occupy Movement and who have connections to politicians, advocate on behalf of the movement in the political realm. Leaders from formal organizations may engage in insider tactics such as legislative lobbying, participating in government committees, or providing public testimony in order to advance a specific piece of legislation that may alleviate tensions between protesters and politicians (Mosely 2010). Individuals that are considered legitimate in the political realm may even compel politicians to change their focus from their individualistic interests to their responsibility to the greater society. Whether or not the elite politicians are able to become altruistic and receptive to a change of consciousness is not guaranteed, but it is important to make attempts and stay persistent nonetheless. However, internally the Occupy Movement must remain horizontal and maintain a power structure that is represented by the many. In addition, the movement must persist in disruptive outsider tactics such as demonstrations and boycotts (Mosely 2010). While some protesters may be resistant to organizational leaders advocating on their behalf, others may welcome the opportunity. Such conflicting viewpoints may actually create opportunity to generate innovation and new ways of moving forward (Maeckelbergh 2009).

Conclusion

The neoliberal economic and political conditions gave momentum to the Occupy Movement. Additionally, Manuel Castells argues that the city reinforced solidarity and promoted the development of the social movement or as he calls it the “Urban Struggle.” The city gave power to protest because the spatial proximity brought people together and allowed them to expose their struggles and exploitations, resulting in enhanced consciousness. Moreover, geographic location was an important factor because it permitted the Occupy protesters to develop their identities and gave them meaning and purpose. As a result, there was an increase in the likelihood of strong and weak tie relationships to develop, which helped foster a strong and resourceful movement. Just like a chameleon that can change the color of its skin; the Occupy Movement must also become changeable and flexible in order to survive in the neoliberal environment. This movement may be sustainable if it were able to change between using non-traditional means as well as institutionalized tactics to pursue its goals. As the political climate becomes resistant to social movements, connecting different approaches such as weak tie relationships with the media and individuals who can advocate in the political realm, can help the Occupy Movement become impactful. Nevertheless, Piven (2012) argues that the Occupy Movement has achieved the first phase of effectively communicating extreme inequality issues, and in phase two, it is extremely important that the protesters take action through collective forms of disruption while still maintaining internal forms of direct democracy.

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Chapter Twenty- Seven: The Anomaly

Excerpt from book, The Ringing Cedars of Russia

“Little Anastasia attempted to stand on her little feet. She stood there swaying back and forth, stretching her arms out a little to each side, and finally took her first timid step. Her little feet got mixed up in the grass and her little body lost its balance and started to fall. But the fall, well, there was something quite unusual.

At the moment she fell, a barely noticeable bluish glow came flooding over the glade, and changed the Earth’s laws of gravity just on that particular spot. It touched us too with some kind of mellow languor. Anastasia’s body didn’t fall, but gradually and smoothly descended to the ground. Once she got up to her feet again, the bluish light disappeared, and the normal gravitation field was restored. With careful and hesitating footsteps, Anastasia went over to a little branch and started cleaning up the glade. But once again she lost her balance, began to fall and dropped the branch.

During the fall, once more the bluish glow sparked into life, changing the Earth’s gravitational field, and the branch flew over to the little pile of dry branches lying at the edge of the glade.

Anastasia got up, and throwing up her little hands, with shaky steps she slowly made her way over to another branch. No sooner had she started bending over to pick it up that the branch itself began rising from the ground, as though a breeze had blown it to the edge of the glade. Some invisible presence was carrying out little Anastasia’s desires.

But she wanted to do everything herself, and no doubt in protest against this help from her invisible ally, she thrust her little hand into the air and waved it gently above her head.

Over the meadow we saw hanging a small spherical mass, pulsating and glowing with a pale blue light. We could see a whole multitude of fiery discharges inside its transparent covering, giving the effect of multi-coloured lightning. Indeed, it was very similar to a large ball of lightning. But it was intelligent! We could not tell what it was made of and what kind of intelligence we were dealing with. We could feel some kind of unknown and unseen power in it. But there was no sense of fear of this power. On the contrary, it seemed to be radiating a pleasant, languid grace. We didn’t feel like moving, we just felt like being.

Even thought it was a bright and sunny day, the leaves on the trees and petals on the flowers turned in its direction. In its bluish glow there was more power than in the Sun’s rays. And it could change the Earth’s gravitational field at the moment Anastasia fell, just in the right time and just at the right place. The change was so precise that her body descended smoothly, but yet was not torn away from the Earth.

As Anastasia continued to pick up branches, the fiery sphere was still pulsating, hovered over the wee little one. But it no longer helped her pick up the branches. The powerful fiery sphere seemed to understand the gesture of the little hand and obeyed it.

Expanding and dissolving in Space, contracting and producing internal discharges (like flashbulbs) of some kind of energy from goodness-knows-where, the sphere would momentarily disappear and then reappear, as thought it were somehow excited, and this excitement caused it to sweet through space at incredible speed.

This time Anastasia went to the spot where she was used to sleeping during the day with her mother. She stood and looked at the place where she had always slept with her Mama, but there was no Mama around. It was not clear just what she was thinking at the moment, only once again a tiny tear glistened in the sunbeam on her face. And right away the bluish glow came pulsating across the glade, flashing at irregular intervals.

Anastasia raised her little head, saw the pulsating mass of light, sat down on the grass and began staring at it continuously. It remained still under her gaze. Then she held out both her little arms in its direction, as she was to do when summoning one of the creatures to her side. At that point the fiery sphere sparked up in a multitude of powerful lighting bolts, reaching out beyond its blue covering, and made a dash for her little arms like a fiery comet. Looking as though it had the ability to sweep away everything in its path, it took only a split second to reach her face, start rotating and with one of its lighting flashes wipe away a tiny tear glistening on her cheek. And at this point it extinguished all the discharges and became a pale blue, faintly glowing sphere in the arms of the little one sitting on the grass.

For a time Anastasia sat there holding it, examining it, and stroking and caressing it with her little hands. The sphere took up a position on the ground and pretending to doze off, just as Anastasia’s mother had done. And the little girl lay down beside it. She fell asleep. The sphere took flight, disappearing into the heavenly heights, then spread itself over the glade, as thought it were a blanket. Later, once more contacting into a small, pulsating ball, it took up a position next to Anastasia, who was sleeping on the grass, and began stroking her hair. It was a strange and unusual caressing. With the most delicate luminescent and flickering threads of lighting, it took each individual strand of hair, lifted it up and caressed it.

Later Anastasia had conversations with it, just as she did with everything else around her. But it was evident that she made a distinction between it and the other things in her environment. The distinction was not too noticeable in terms of outward expression, but there was a definite impression that she treated it with just a little more respect than other things, and sometimes would even play up to it. She never played up to anyone else, but for some reason she allowed herself to behave this way with the sphere. It reacted to her mood and even played along.

The morning Anastasia turned four, grandfather continued, we were standing at the edge of the glade waiting for her to wake up. We wanted to quietly watch and see how she would delight in the new spring day that was unfolding. The sphere appeared just at the moment before she woke up. It glistened faintly with its bluish glow, either spreading itself in a shower of light or dissolving over the whole Space of the glade. And we beheld a natural living picture made by no human hand, it was charming and magnificent.

The whole glade was transformed, the surrounding trees, the grass, even the bugs. The needles of the cedars began shining in a host of soft hues. Behind the squirrels springing from branch to branch could be seen rainbow trails sparking and dissolving. The grass was lit up in a soft green glow. And even more pronounces multicolored glow emanated from the multitude of bugs scurrying through the grass, forming an unusually vivid and beautiful carpet spreading its way across the glade, constantly morphing itself into new intricate and marvelous patterns. Upon awakening, Anastasia opened her eye to behold an extraordinary panorama, full of enchantment. She jumped up and gazed around. She smiled, as she always did in the morning, and everything around her responded to her smile with an even brighter glow and accelerated movement. Then Anastasia carefully knelt down and began meticulously examining the grass and the shining, multicolored bugs scurrying about. She looked up and stretched her little arms to the sky. All at once the still air stirred, and in her hands appeared the bluish sphere. She held it up to her face, then put it down on the grass and tenderly stroked it. And we could hear the conversation. Anastasia was the only one who actually spoke, but we had the distinct impression that the sphere was understanding her and even silently responding. Anastasia spoke with it tenderly. “You are good. You are very good. You want to delight me with your beauty.”

The blue sphere emitted another pulse, then lifted slightly off the ground, and the lightning discharges flashed from within. The glowing scene did not fade. Once again it descended to Anastasia’s feet. She stroked it and offered a ‘thank you.”

She stared silently at the sphere for a while, and when she spoke, her words really impressed us. She told it:

Do not come to see me again. I like being with you. You are always trying to do only what is good for everyone, always trying to help. I know you have a very large glade of your own. You think very fast, so fast that I cannot understand all at once. Only later shall I understand a bit. You move faster than everything else. Much faster than the birds and the breeze. Go away. You need to take care of the large glade.

The blue sphere contacted into a little lump, and took off way up high. It began sweeping though space, sparkling more brightly than usual, and once more plunged down like a fiery comet to Anastasia. It stayed still by her head for a while, then a multitude of tiny flickering rays reached out to her long hair and stroked each strand individually, right down to the tip.

What are you taking your time for? Anastasia said quietly. I will make everything all right here myself. The blue sphere began ascending, but not with its usual carefree bounce. It rose from Anastasia in a fitful bursts, and finally disappeared into space. But it left something invisible all around. And each time something happened that affected her negatively, the surrounding space would grow still, as though paralyzed. She was always protected.”

“Harmful feelings like anger, hatred, irritation, jealousy, envy. These feelings make humans weaker. The physical disease is nothing compared with mental torments. Diseases happen as a result of self-withdrawal from from Nature around him, and as a result of dark feelings which he allows himself to take. Treating the soul is what is important. Diseases are one of the devices or means of communication between Supreme Intelligence (God) and Humans. Throwing into your stomach all sorts of harmful stuff and swallowing painkillers is not going to help.

First one must gain an understanding of the origins of the disease. Humans need help in discerning what the Supreme Intelligence, God, desires to say to him.

Doctors and career scientists know about it. Or at least they feel its beneficial effect. It is difficult to cure their disease, while if you treat a patient with love, the disease will go away more quickly.

There are several main causes underlying the disease of the human flesh, namely; harmful feelings, emotions, and artificial dietary regime- an unnatural meal schedule and food composition, and misapprehension of one’s essence and purpose in life. Positive emotions, a variety of plants and a reappraisal of one’s essence and purpose in life- all these are capable not only of counteracting diseases but also significantly enhancing one’s physical and mental or emotional state. Under the conditions of your world, Humans have lost connection with plants. The Ray of Love, too, is capable of curing many diseases of one’s fellow Man and even prolonging his life by creating around him a Space for Love. Humans can extinguish pain and cure the diseases of the flesh- even the effects of poison.

How can one think good thoughts if one has a toothache or stomachache?

Pure, clear moments of life, positive emotions, like guardian angels, will overcome pain and disease. This happens when people around you treat you with genuine Love. This can be done through reminiscing. Recall something good, something pleasant from your past. With the help of the image feel the soft and pleasing state of mind you experienced back then.” –Anastasia

Pure Love

Lions roaring and eagles glide

Dogs are barking and bees are in a sugar plunge 

So mysterious and great

Captivates my energy waves 

Staggering and flying through,

like Tornadoes from the Blue

Filled with streams of Ruby light 

Everything is purely bright

All are happy and alright 

Knowing that we are all supremes,

I shall breathe out all of the extremes

Finding harmony and might

Love is what will fill our life’s flight 

Advance

Infuse the Muse-in Sunlight

Warm Heart -Emanates Rose light

Bright Sun

I Am really Bright

I Clear away the grey Cloud Quickly

I would Love it for the darkness to be gone Completely

White fire light shines sweetly!

Love is freedom not possession, such uncertainty and passion, anxious heart is free at last, bless benevolent souls for they are true and fast.

Rose Reality with Aroma of Quality

Purify Duality and Invoke Immortality

I’m editing my book at my “office” and a dove just flew over my head and landed in a nearby garden. It is really important to listen to your intuition. Only work with people who are for your highest good. Be patient. Be true to yourself. Trust in Life.

It is important how we communicate with others. If you get verbally attacked or challenged, remind yourself to respect and love others, even when they forget to respect you. It is not easy but it is the only way to neutralize negative energy.

Some people may not agree with you and may speak their views in a patronizing way. I am almost certain that it is not their intention to be patronizing, however I can’t deny the energy that I sometimes feel that’s directed towards me. I observe that some people who have strong beliefs become defensive, reactive, and upset. That’s okay! Mindfulness takes time to develop, we will all get there eventually.

However, it’s important to think about how you communicate with others. If a topic of discussion is something dear to you and something that evokes a lot of emotion, think before you speak or write, or maybe and don’t discuss it with just anyone. 

When you communicate you send out energy. Everything is energy. Thoughts are energy.  Communicate through your heart and not the ego. It is okay to have different opinions. We are all here to learn from one another. The key is to experience and let go. Please be mindful of the energy that you attach to your words. Many times it is not  even what and how you say it, but what is happening to your vibration when you are saying it. Self refinement is tedious work, but that’s why we are here. We are here to evolve and serve others so that the collective consciousness can step into the Golden age era. Some think it is heaven, but it is simply collective consciousness refining to become balanced and kind.

Check out a quote/ idea from the bible:

“Sounds from outside your body will stimulate the sympathetic vibrations inside your body. The pitch and rhythm affects the limbic system, affecting our emotions. Ancient civilizations used sound to transmit sonic frequencies to harmonize the mind, body, and spirit. It the bible David played the harp to lift the king’s depression. Egyptians used incantations, particular melodies, and rhythms as cure for many diseases. The ear controls the body’s sense of balance and it is the conductor of the nervous system. The inner hear is connected with a variety of organs including the heart. Frequencies affect cognitive function. Sound is used to enhance neural developments and intuitive leaps in students. The human heartbeat tends to match the sound around. If there is music with 64 beats per min (the rate of a resting heat beat) it will slow our breathing and our heat rate and change our brain wave pattern from beta to alpha (a more relaxed learning pattern). Sounds change electrical patterns in the brain. New neural connections are made aka whole brain functioning when sounds are high frequency. Pleasing nature sounds and positive affirmations reduce pain and anxiety.” – Paul R. Scheele.

“When you allow sound to move through you, it unlocks a doorway and allows information to flood into your body. Sound creates a rearrangement of a molecular alignment to take place. Sound can penetrate any substance, move molecules, and rearrange realities. Sound carries a certain frequency, and the body recognizes the frequency. The body is keyed to respond to the acceptability of the frequency. The great master musicians such as Beethoven and Mozart were coded to bring in information of a stable nature, for they received the harmonics of sound at the time when there was great darkness over the planet. It is important to have clear intentions on what you want to do with sound. Sound stirs energy up. It creates a standing columnar wave, building frequency upon frequency. Misuse happens through intent. Some have discovered the power of sound and then misuse it to manipulate others. What do you experience when you live in a city and hear sirens? That is a misuse of sound, and it is altering your frequencies. Those who make sound know the results of it on the human psyche. It is jarring and disturbing and keeps you from placing your attention somewhere else. That frequency is like a lock, it is hypnotizing, and it captures your consciousness and intelligence. It is like being in a prison because sound imprisons your awareness so that it becomes addicted to or locked into a vibratory rate and does not seek anything else. Think of your televisions or sound coming from other electrical devices Be aware of how frequency control is used to control you and manipulates your consciousness. You must realize that you are not powerless. Those who act in their own reality with impeccable guidance, commitment to harmony, and commitment to light align themselves with their dimensional counterparts who are doing the same. You make bridges of light and hold light-encoded filaments as pillars and open portals. Those who are rewarded with the understanding  are called to use sound as part of their work and recognize that call and respond to it will evolve at a rapid pace. Those of you evolving at this rate will be called one day to represent many people, represent world gatherings of consciousness, and to change the available frequency with sound.” From Bringers of the Dawn, Teachings from the Pleiadians.

Do you ever google the lyrics and find out how negative they are? Be aware what you expose yourself to because these transmissions affect you more than you realize. Even if the lyrics are positive, do you know what type of consciousness created this music? So please use sound wisely. Stop being addicted and start being liberated from all programs. Affirm to yourselves, “I AM free.”

Some Classical Music:

Edward Elgar

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

Essence Definition:

1. the basic nature of a thing; the quality/qualities that make a thing what it is and determines its character.

2. a substance obtained from a plant, drug, or the like, by distillation, infusion, etc., and containing its characteristic properties in concentrated form.

3. one that possesses or exhibits a quality in abundance as if in concentrated form  <she was the essence of purity>

4. the most significant element, quality, or aspect of a thing or person <the essence of the issue>

Many times women feel worried about getting pregnant when they are not ready. Some women unfortunately, take risky synthetic hormones to get rid of that worry. However, according to research and case studies, birth control is not the solution because it causes many problems like depression, weight gain, infertility, and possibly cancer. It is important to improve male/female communication so that everyone feels safe, empowered, and respected. It is best to wait and take your time. Communicate a lot. Do not do anything your intuition is telling you not to do, you are not obligated to do anything. Become aware and take care of your mind and body.

The female energy is very intuitive. Be honest with yourself and what you want, and stay true to that in all situations. According to ancient higher wisdom, humans work best in a committed monogamous relationships. Releases any co-dependency. Surround in light all your soul extensions, soul fragments or splintered aspects of your being that are in trauma, fear, or any other negative energy, or that you have disowned. Avoid toxic foods, toxic thoughts, alcohol, cigarettes, toxic body care products, GMOs, unclean tap water, sugar, and anything synthetic. Find contentment every second.

Do inner child meditation. Give yourself a salt bath. Use Rose water.

Wear Crystal jewelry and Rudraksha beads.

Thoughts can be like a wild horse, so be gentle with yourself and simply say “cancel, clear, delete.”  With meditation and dedication we learn to tame the “out of control” thoughts and create a divine reality of abundance and true love.

Check out this article by a girl named Carly:

“So, you’ve been on birth control for some time. Either you’ve gained weight, you’ve lost your sex drive, you’ve taken on some digestive difficulties, or you just have a feeling that somethings off. Here’s the deal: I was in your place.

To give you a glimpse of my past, I was put on birth control in grade 8 (think::this was way before I had ever even had sex for the first time!) I had real awful period cramps at a young age, and that’s the only thing the doctors recommended. So, my journey begins. I start birth control, and it seems like things regulate. Oh, cramps get less. My period comes once a month. This is magic, right?

Anything but that. You see, the pill covers up any underlying hormonal issue, and then adds to the problem after that.

Because I had awful cramps and an irregular period, THAT was the sign that I needed to really regulate- not cover up the issue!

So, I want to share with you what the pill can do to your sacred vessel of a body, and then I’ll end the post with the rest of my story- what it’s been like since getting off.

Here are the top real detrimental side-efects of taking the pill, ladies:

It’s Covering Up your Already-Hormone Issue

It’s been estimated that more women go on the pill for reasons other than actual birth control: headaches, PMS, acne, cramps. Basically, oh- you have an endocrine issue? Take the pill! Here’s the thing: the pill doesn’t solve anything. It puts a mask on what’s already there. And the longer you cover up what’s already there, the longer it will take to fully heal

It’s causing Candida

Candida is something that we all have. But, in a modern society where common lifestyle choices for women include birth control pills, antibiotics, a highly refined bread and sugar diet, coupled with high stress levels, candida overgrowth can have wide-ranging effects. Because the pill has to be processed by the liver every single day, it can work to throw things off in there, causing an overgrowth of candida. This is where the digestive issues, cramping, and bloating begin. Symptoms ranging from migraines to infertility, endometriosis, psoriasis, PMS, depression, fibromyalgia, digestive disorders and many other seemingly unrelated health problems have been attributed to yeast overgrowth.

It causes estrogen dominance.

A woman’s natural cycle is composed of rising and falling levels of estrogen and progesterone. Birth control pills work by keeping estrogen at a sufficiently high level that they fool the body into thinking it is pregnant, therefore another pregnancy cannot occur. The problem? Estrogen dominance has been known to also increase acne, mood changes, migraine, liver and gallbladder issues, and weight gain. It may seem difficult to believe, especially if you’re a young healthy woman, but high estrogen levels are closely linked to diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. Using the supplement estroblock has had many amazing benefits for some people, although I personally don’t use it.

It’s robbing you of your vitamins

Birth control robs you of many of your B Vitamins, C vitamins, as well as magnesium and zinc. Here’s the thing- we need these. For everything. If you are still on the pill, I recommend you supplement with some good quality supplements, and if you’re coming off of it- you probably need to focus on these as well. Sea vegetables, camu-camu, and a  mineral supplement like shilajit are my recommendations here, although further supplementation may be necessary here too.

It’s attracting you to the wrong person

This is a huge one! Listen, our hormones dictate the people we are attracted to. So, when our hormones are all messed up and synthetic, we are going to be attracted to someone who doesn’t really serve our highest good. I am a classic example of this, and can attest that today, I would absolutely never be with the type of guy I was attracted to back in the day.

It’s changing your mood (hint: not for the better)

Birth control has been known to mess with our “ups and downs.” I know you’ve been the girl or heard a story of someone switching to a different birth control pill and feeling completely depressed, or anxious, irritable, or just flat out “PMS-ey.” Am I right? These pills are going in and disrupting the natural endocrine system of our bodies (which could already be depleted and destroyed due to living situations and patterns). Our endocrine system is the system that governs our hormones, yep, and our hormones- guess what- they govern our mood, our weight, our aliveness. Feel tired, down in the dumps, and negative? Take a look at this.”

Source:

http://naturalhealthwarriors.com/how-to-get-off-of-birth-control-why/#sthash.8HkFJITf.dpuf

Happy mothers day to all moms, including moms to be, and all moms in all timeframes and dimensions. Rose quartz beauty and peace activate now.

Below are quotes from book “Bringers of the Dawn, a message from the Pleadians”:

“The discovery of the highest frequency of sexuality arises from the love experience.

Thousands of years ago, when society had a more of a matriarchal view, Goddess energy ruled. The female understood her power, her intuition, her feeling center, her connection, and her desire to create life. In order for patriarchal society to come full circle and prepare Earth for this shift in consciousness, female energy needed to take a back seat. The patriarchal society has been run by the male aspect. So female power, energy, and understanding of sexuality were suppressed. In modern times-the past two thousand years- it came to be upon the planet that women believed they had no control and sex was taught to be performed only within the rights of marriage. This was a marketing program. The churches came about as organizations- business to control spiritual development, to create hierarchy, and to create a club. Very few churches came about with the idea of bringing information to people. You have been told that you procreate and have orgasms with sexuality, but you have not been told that you can alter vibrational frequencies with your body and enter new dimensions.

Traditionally when a man and woman get married, the woman’s father has the role of giving her away. In other words, a male figure hands her over. GET CLEAR about your idea of what relationship is. Just as there is no ownership with parenthood, there is no ownership in a relationship.  You all need to become sovereign. You must operate without feeling obligated to someone else. Relationship is cooperation. It is agreed cooperation of frequency or frequency modulation blending.

Male vibrations came into power in the recent times some five thousand years ago. Males have also been carriers of intuition and feeling a multitude of times, but in this recent separation they did not carry feelings with them. Men tend to have greater blocks in their feeling centers than women do. Energy in the male has been very stuck. The female energy, which feels and brings life onto the planet and represents creativity, moved into a submissive state in order to let the male vibration run the world without feeling. Females are stuck in their throat chakra and agreed to be silent about the magic and intuition of what they represented and knew.

Certain mystery schools have held some of the knowledge about the potential uses of sexuality in secrecy. You are electromagnetic beings, and when you come together physically, your frequencies are attuned and incredible things can occur. There are vistas awaiting you that are beyond your imagination. First you must discover that you need your femininity and masculinity lit up inside you.

If you are having difficulty with love and feel lonely, you are looking for love outside of yourself. You are looking for someone else to put meaning in your life and validate you. You keep looking for the next relationship to make you whole and complete. The truth is, the most important thing you can do is love yourself and honor Earth. It is imperative that you love yourself so that you do not settle for a love disguised. When you give yourself the dignity of your own love, as if you were royalty, everything changes. Strength and integration become yours because you believe in and love who you are. Everything starts to go your way.

Sexuality can be very confusing as you are raising and studying your frequencies. When you join bodies, even when you hug another, you exchange frequency. When you have a sexual experience, there is a hormonal release inside the body. The hormones awaken certain energies inside the cells, and there is a transference of one person’s essence onto the other.  So if you are bonding your self and chemically exchanging with a person who is not of your likeness, you are taking on their garbage because you are exchanging energy quite intimately. That is why when you have a sexual experience with someone you may feel that you cannot get their energy off you. Even though you don’t want to be with that person, the sexual experience stays with you because you have had an electromagnetic exchange.

Sexuality is so misunderstood on this planet, very seldom is there an intent to connect spiritually with it and take you to higher levels of consciousness. It is more than body aerobics, it is about the aerobics and contortions of the soul.

During the process of evolving the self, very often a period of dormancy in sexual activity occurs.

The twin flame is the male and female existing in one body, whether you are physically male or female. You must understand that for the flames to be lit together, one must not seek a partner outside of themselves.

After you integrate the male and female within yourself and activate your own twin flame, then you can seek a partner. You will want someone who is also complete, not someone to fill the need that you have not acknowledged or that you have not filled yourself.  When you become whole and complete only then will you be ready for a bonded relationship with another who is  also complete, and that relationship can take you into unexplored realms! As this electrical current is raised higher and higher, there are greater heights of orgasmic experience that the human body can receive because the nervous system is able to handle the higher ecstatic frequencies. Eventually, you will not be able to get close to or be with someone who is not operating at the same voltage as you are. You will eventually understand the importance of vibrational nourishment as you begin to link sexually. Linking sexually is a way of merging with people who are moving at the same or a compatible voltage rate.

Who has created the separation between men and women?

This planet has been subjected to all kinds of plans orchestrated to create greater emotional turmoil. There was a huge schism, and the males and females on this planet came into great conflict. You were set up against each other by entities who raided this reality in order for them to keep alive and feed themselves off the low frequencies that are created by emotional turmoil.

Now it is time for a whole new revolution, a new movement based on the desire of understanding yourselves. It is essential to know who you are, what you are doing, and when you are doing it.”

“Self-discipline burns away impurities and kindles the sparks of divinity.”

“The higher frequency you become the less dense you become, therefore you will eat less.”

“I AM Now.”

“AUM”

You can be mindful when you walk

You can be mindful when you talk

You can be mindful when you brush your teeth

You can be mindful when you eat and drink

You can be mindful in the shower

You can be mindful any hour!

Just pay attention to your breath

Always bring your awareness back to your breath

1. Eat green chlorophyll rich vegetables.
2. Move your body, take a yoga class, dance, go hiking, go swimming in the ocean.
3. Be mindful about what you  put on your skin. Skin is your largest organ and it absorbs what you put on it into the body. Read labels, read ingredients. Keep it pure. Listen to your intuition.
4.  Meditation, deep breathing, singing, play a musical instrument.
5. De-clutter your home or office from junk
6.  Drink lots of pure water. Hydration is key.
7. Use positive affirmations such as “I AM a natural and live person. I AM sovereign.”
8. Visualize a peaceful beautiful soft violet flame in your aura and the entire planet Earth.

You can live within the illusion but hover above it and make choices to not participate in it at the same time. We are infinite pure beings with free will. Some ways to detach from illusion is to turn off the tv and go for a walk in nature. Stop wasting your consciousness and emotions paying attention to energy sucking entertainment. Have you heard of Plato’s allegory of the cave?

Love yourself, take care of your body, eat healthy, think clearly, breathe deeply.