Global Vision 2022

If aging looks like this for some of us then...

I hope I look a little more like this each day. To age into divine timeless creative maturity... is magnificent. If this is what wise mature women look like, and sound like, and speak like, and give like - as they offer their gifts to the world - then I'm signing up for being as old as I can be for as long as I shall live.

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Mary Oliver

When I learned that today I got two more new 'views'...

I realised...

I only have eight followers and
I only have 8 likes according to facebook

Facebook sets the rules and dictates how one is liked and how one is followed on this virtual stage. There are other stages, and other worlds, and bigger things to think about than if one is liked or followed on FB or anywhere else.

Only those worthy of following and of being liked should be liked and should be followed. Sometimes I have parts of me that are not worthy of liking and therefore shouldn't be followed unless - they are telling the truth - and sometimes I'm not willing to listen to any of these unlikable characters.

Sometimes popular truths are not true.
Sometimes popular lies are called truths.
We must decide between these two ideas.

Our collective visions and future direction depends on seeing the truth first and then moving into what - 'could be' - greater, better, or just a little less false than reality now is.

We are all walking on this razor's edge in every moment.
To be - More human or less - is the question.
What we choose will determine the course of our lives and perhaps the lives of others - those who choose to be influenced by us - or those who have no choice but to be influenced. When we know how to - at least - fall towards our greater humanity willingly, and with humility, then we return incrementally backwards towards our divine and timeless nature.

When our lower brain says we are less than human; merely moving parts, fearful and alone; and simply surviving; then we should be truly afraid. Our animal brain is then right. That
cold-blooded reptile without warmth towards its own kind - is not us - unless we choose to devolve back - into that place.

Enough said about what we evolved from millions of years ago.

Where to now?

What vision is there beyond this increment of evolution. Should we move towards the prefrontal cortex? One eye? One Vision?

I wonder what that looks like...
To truly 'see' clearly in harmony with our collective single eye and move in one direction... towards our greater divinity through a connected humanity...
I want to see like this - and the results it can offer us.

Is it possible that we could see into the future as one interconnected being - not 8 billion cells of separateness.

Where to now then?

Sometimes it's impossible to see a path until the light shines away the fog before us.
Sometimes this takes centuries and sometimes only one holy instant of readiness.
When that path appears - it is Grace at work - no less.
If it doesn't then - pray for the light to appear first.

It feels like centuries of fog and darkness.
Perhaps it has been - literally - for me.
Sometimes I think I'm still in it.

Today I know I'm not.

Follow your path.

Try to like it.

I've discovered it's the only one I've got.
What if we all share it? ;)
What if we walk side by side even when we feel so hopelessly separate.

Check out these numbers!!!

SEPTEMBER 22

22+9=31
2+2+9 =13

1+3=4

3+1=4

2+2+7+1+9+6+4 =31
(the numbers of my Birthday added up together)
3+1=4

The numbers - 2 and 4 and 7 and 8 and 11 and 22 and 33 and 44 and 55 - are all special numbers to me, but when you add 5 and 8 together it equals the number 13 and 1+3= 4...

My lucky number -(and in numerology) - is (you guessed it ) - 4

I first decided number 4 was my lucky because it was the first time I ever won anything. Number 4 was printed on my raffle ticket. I think I was in third class; maybe 8 years of age...
3+8 =11 and

11 + 4 =15 and 5 - 1 = 4 hahaha ...

It may be time now to go in reverse and see where the numbers and our inner kids of 8 or younger; can take us.

Does any of this matter one bit to you or to anyone else but me?

Who knows?

But it's interesting to play with numbers in this way and give them meanings that we want to give to them - No?

What are your thoughts?

I turned 58 this year and I must say, my universe appears to have shifted as I've gotten more and more familiar with the children I'm now surrounded by in my work. Yes of course they reflect the kids in me. They say our 'mirror neurons' are the cause of this phenomenon.
These kids I take care of and teach, are so young and so very very precious. They've taught me some powerful lessons too, about life and about the nature of our inner children. Yes - these kids are often sneaky, and cheeky and delicate, with big fat emotions so difficult to contain, and laughter that is so very infectious.

I promised to explain the following ideas - but - I'm not sure I actually can do them any justice... I've been guided to smoosh them together in a free-flow of writing that looks nothing like what I intended to write last night - or yesterday - or early this morning. Perhaps I'll revisit them when I get inspired to deal with each theme - one at a time. Today I'll just let the writing flow freely through me... see how that goes.

(Now... some of the themes below were not mentioned directly in this post, for example - 'Slow is the new fast' I've decided that this is my new world order. There is a lot to say about this, but if we don't slow down enough to smell that 'rose' - we lose the sweetness of the moments it gives us and all the benefits rose essence offers to the senses and to our health. The fragrance of a rose has profound healing properties we miss out on when we rush by without noticing it. Same goes for almost every other area of life - even the painful moments that we try to escape from. It heals us to move slowly with ourselves, with our kids, and with our work, so that work feels like play instead. Moving slowly with the most important things in life isn't a waste of time - in fact time itself feels stretched. We miss so much when we move too fast.
Kids have the knack of teaching us - (or forcing us) - to stop and pay attention, especially when we think life is all about getting 'important things done'. The kids in us, and all around us, the outer little children and the kids inside all the adults we see around us... need our time... They will not let us get away with ignoring them without consequences).

1. SLOW IS THE NEW FAST
2. WORK IS A HEALTH HAZARD - UNLESS IT'S FUN
3. SLUGS AND BEES 'R' US
4.THERE IS NO LIGHT AT THE END OF TUNNEL VISION
5.TAKING BACKWARDS STEPS TAKES US BACK HOME FAST
6. HUNGRY CATERPILLARS CAN BECOME FULL-FILLED BUTTERFLIES
7. LIFE SUFFERED DEFAMATION WITHOUT BEING FAMOUS

The number 7 is meant to be a special number throughout human history and it suggests -'sacred - 'important'- woo-woo' kinds of things.

Who knows - Maybe it does and maybe it doesn't.
Maybe 7 isn't magical at all ... but the kid in me likes to think it is.
Who can really prove that numbers count for anything?
Mathematicians would say - It's all about the numbers. Statisticians would agree - except in the case of numerology, astrology and other woo-woo things, that types like me like to keep account of.

Certain things about numbers however; cannot be explained.
Why Christ was the thirteenth member of his dream team surrounded by his 12 apostles, symbolising time.
Christ Himself symbolises - the Sacred Heart of Love and its Sacred Feminine energy.
The force of love stabilise time and space and is that creative intelligence so beyond our human mind's grasp.
The number 13 is - odd - but 1 and 3 adds up to the 4 refering to points of the compass, the 4 seasons, up and down and left and right. The number 7 is linked to the healing wheel from indigenous teachings - left, right, back, front, above, below, and inside. The Divine Feminine Force is associated with the number 13 - this Love that is the connective tissue of the universe. Love is God, Christ ,Holy Spirit - neither male nor female - neither odd nor even and it makes no sense to the logical brain but makes perfect sense to the Spirit of Life Itself.
Life is Inclusive. Diverse. Unpredictable. Always growing and becoming ever more complex, yet perfectly stable and in perfect harmony with its ever diversifying self.

This alive Universe is not a mess even if Chaos exists in it.
It's a living breathing thing - just like us - only somewhat BIGGER
We are less than a speck in it... yet full of its explosive power.
God Is - Love Is - Life Is - undefined and undefinable by us.
How crazy-making is this? Have you ever watched two loving, well intentioned, intelligent, resourceful parents not know what to do with their misbehaving infant or small child? That child possesses immense power and quickly learns now to harness it.
Funny huh?! Not so for the parent!
I was one of these parents once!!

Back to the numbers and how they fit into the above themes... Numbers need not mean anything - until they come to mean something to us individually or as a collective. We invented time and use it to control our lives and define past present and future. If past, present and future are all happening at once, and time really is illusory; and we're certainly in a confused mess at present... or are we?

Some say we can change the past and thus change our future by re-contextualising our past and re-framing past events mentally - perhaps in kinder, more mature ways that are closer to what actually happened, and why. A child sees and interprets events with the eyes of a child and this child still influences our perspective as adults.

Childhood stories get trapped in our heads, and take on a life of their own. We make them up to a large extent, then believe them to be true for a lifetime until we examine them from a clearer more mature view. What a pity. If only we knew we could script a happier story for ourselves and our loved ones than the one our scared little inner kids made up.

Oh well!
Some suggest we get to do life over and over again until we finally grow out of the immature stories we play on repeat - like kids who love to hear their favourite fairy tales again and again and again. Sometimes these stories are scary - and sometimes they're so sad and very dramatic. If you believe in the story of reincarnation you'd better get to writing a better story - fast.
Maybe believing in heaven and hell is less threatening.

We can even choose what we believe to be real in this lifetime... and it really does becomes reality for us.
Isn't THAT clever!!! Are we not incredibly powerful - like Gods on Earth!?! Only problem is - we often work against our own health, wealth, happiness and wellbeing. Oh well. There's always the story of the next life... or heaven... or hell... or pergatory... or a sea of virgins to... get to know when you're no longer in a body that cares.

This reverse engineering idea gives a new meaning to "Kinder Surprise" It may be the sweetest offering our inner children can give to us, to finally free us of their stories so we can be happy now, and settle into our own inner parent's loving arms.
If we believe we are still run by our hurt inner children (and psychology suggests we indeed are) then there is a part of us that is 'all grown up' too and able to take care of them - perhaps even better than our biological parents could.

However, we get stuck in times past, and blend with our wounded children. These wounds fester until we reach back to that place and say... it time to heal sweet pea... there's no boogie man or woman) who can hurt us now. Chances are the boogie men and women were scared inner kids too - who misbehaved because they were so scared-to-death of this life.

Even though this is not the post I planned to write today; I'm allowing whatever it is to be. It was meant to be writing full of polished wisdom that could become chapters in a book on these topics... Some day... maybe... life will allow that.

However - Methinks - life has many more curvey twists and turns on my journey with it. If life for me - is a game of snakes and ladders then - so be it.

But I suspect life is nothing like what we define life as. Its infamous cruelty may be our little child's frightening projections. Maybe life loves us beyond our most crazy childhood fantasies... Maybe it's mission is to help us in every way to come home to ourselves and into its loving arms .
What do you think?

Until next month...

Love Always.

INSIGHT 7

WHO TO FOLLOW... is a tricky decision.

Let's take a look at Alice's reasoning in Wonderland.

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where--" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. "-so long as I get SOMEWHERE," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."

..it's a tricky decision... knowing which way to go or who to follow... and that decision stems from our level of maturity and life experience.

I was told often by reasonable people that I move way too slowly and consider which way to go - for far too long.

I know.

However; I wish I took more time, more often, when it mattered most - before I went in the wrong direction and had so much trouble getting back to the start.

And I wish I looked more carefully before falling down rabbit holes when I saw fluffy cute white things.

And I wish I knew my true self better - took more time alone - so that other's couldn't tell me who I was, and so that I didn't lose myself even more by believing what they said as they led me further and further away - from me.

But I don't regret the lessons learned along these pathways.

The greatest one is this...

When you smell a rat - take notice -
When something sounds wrong - take notice
When someone behaves badly in small things - take notice

When you see a little red flag - it ain't white...

White rabbits are cute but they shouldn't be followed.

Alice has finally found her way out...

Now she's taking even more time to be led by her higher instincts... 'YOU HAVE NO WAY'... is no longer her truth.

At least she is now not cleaning up the mess of the past decisions to be led astray simply because she wanted to act quickly - out of fear of missing out - or for any other reason really.

I've learned that stillness is quicker by far than going in the wrong direction in the first place. Simply because you take time before you follow others who go down rabbit holes, and over treacherous cliffs, or jump into murky waters, doesn't mean you're a loser in the game of life. Perhaps the mess you avoid falling into - saves you the time it takes cleaning yourself up.

Love Always

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znrlLDG0ynU

INSIGHT 6:

FREEDOM AND TRUTH - ARE NOT UNDERSTOOD BY EGO

When we look at reality through the ego's eyes we can only look at the illusions it creates for itself. The ego fabricates a mental reality and sees only the reality it projects - and then totally believes in its own BS.

The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and life and others is largely a fabrication of that part of us that is afraid.
The ego is sustained by and surrounded in a culture of fear.

What a culture of fear does is to create a fearful reality.

The culture of fear is different to the culture of love.
So when we choose to think with the power of love - beyond and beneath - the ego's interpretations of it - we get to see a different reality.

When more of us see that the universe isn't a 'Boogy-Man' out ot get us - but a friend - then all fear-based realities can cease to be...

Until then - all we can do is say -
"Hey ego... I don't believe you".

When we talk down to ourselves or try to intimidate others into less than who they really are; we are buying into the ego's world view. The illusions compound into a pile of BS that is as easy to topple as it is to build.

Whether we bully ourselves or bully others or allow others to bully us or all of the above... it's the ego's insanity at work.

Our survival fear kicks in and causes our nervous system to do 'flight or fight' and bypasses the reason and logic of our human advanced pre-frontal cortex. Our animal instinct to survive kicks in, and we are totally controlled by a lesser part of ourselves... until we realise the threat is over, and we can return to our higher reasoning. Safety, love, and higher reasoning go hand in hand

When we are not under real threat but one our mind fabricates :

Just say - "Ego - full of fear - You're a liar!

And it's house of cards will fall.

It takes just one voice that's this clear.

That voice is the one we were born with... and the one the world drowned out with its fears.

Tell the truth.

Or be willing to find it under the BS of the world.
Freedom lies here.
Think freely.

Simply...

Love Always

No direction home ending scene I don't believe you. You're a liar.

INSIGHT 5:

IS DEMENTIA SIMPLY A DISINTEGRATION OF MENTAL GENERATIONS?

When we degenerate mentally are we really losing our mental capacities or are we attempting to return to our true nature?

When older people go senile or lose their memory - is it something that happens without their permission or is it a deep desire and longing to simply let go of the silly programs handed down from the generations?

What if we were never mentally burdened in the first place by all the mental heaviness of past generations?

If we were never taught how to worry - would we remain like kids all of our lives? Would we never need to do the strange mental tricks of forgetting what we were taught by our culture, parents and problematic human experiences - later in our lives?

Why do older people seem to go back to their childhood selves in so many ways?

My mum is losing her awareness of the things she was so aware of as a responsible adult that burdened her so much throughout her life... But she hasn't forgotten her faith. She hasn't forgotten her childhood trauma and her need to please someone - even if she cant - and her fear of abandonment.

As her mind unravels and becomes less complex and more childlike - I wonder - if her mind is simply letting go of some of the crap it carried and was weighted down by; and is simply letting go a bit. Perhaps it finally has permission to leave some of who she never was behind; leave behind what she doesn't want to know, and who she doesn't want to take into the next phase of her life.

As competent people - we strive to become people who fit into the world - even if the world is crrrrrr.....aaaa....zzzz....yyyy!!! My mum was no stranger to a world gone nuts when she was growing up. Maybe her mind is now so tired of keeping up a facade of bravery, and competence, and sanity that fits with generations of fitting in with a world gone nuts.

What do you think?

Is dementia a disease we don't want? Or is it an early escape from the mental prisons we've accepted as - life - all our lives?

Love Always

Insight 4:

IT'S A TYPICAL LOVE STORY - NARCISSISTS AND EMPATHS

The tip of an iceberg may look very much like a mountain of sugar, however; looks can deceive.

The difference between them is vast and is deep.
Sugar melts even in icy water but the tip of an iceberg hides the depth of its cold iciness. Colder water only make it grow bigger and wider and deeper and more threatening to softer things. It even takes out luxury ocean liners, submarines and the best war ships - if they get too close.

When anyone reveals a lack of empathy - or tries to fake it - be warned. A cold heart may lay beneath the surface that will take centuries to melt down completely.

Most likely it also took centuries to form under long, icy, emotionally cold surroundings.

One lifetime may not be enough to melt away a cold heart - so stay away even if it reflects the sun's brilliance, and glides with a powerful cool clarity.

Icebergs are dangerous to soft hearted beings and best to avoid in any lifetimes... their power to tear and crush and sink is famous.

Much Love

INSIGHT 3 :

WE ARE TREATED THE WAY WE TREAT OURSELVES

We cannot be treated any better than we're willing to treat ourselves;
We cannot be given more than we're willing to give to ourselves;
We cannot become anything more than we're willing to be;
We cannot have anything better than we're willing to receive.

And the list of reflections goes on...

The popular and very famous therapist - Dr Phil said it best... "we teach people how to treat us".

But how do we do this exactly?

I'd go a little further and say: - We teach the universe how to treat us, and it follows our guidance and sets up our life to reflect that.

In short - Life gives us what we are willing to receive.

Does this mean there are no victims? I don't know. Victims seem to be everywhere and to deny anyone's suffering is not appropriate - ever. But to dig deep into how we contribute to this suffering is a worthy thing to do; especially if we're tired of the suffering.

The truth is that we actually are not aware of just how badly we treat ourselves at the deepest and most important level of awareness. It takes time to discover how we set ourselves up for being treated by life in ways we may not like, nor even wish for on our worst enemies.

This journey into self love on every level and degree is a big one. I believe it takes lifetimes and many others to reflect our level of self love back to ourselves. I believe this is true in all relationships and not just on an individual level but also as - a family, a nation, a collective human consciousness.
If even one of us is treated poorly; then the whole is a little less well - a little less than the best it could be.
These thoughts come to me out of the blue.
These 'thinkings' seem to come on their own like gentle helpers on this journey. They may not be from me... but maybe over time, my ears have become sensitive enough to receive them from the early morning silence I'm committed to listening to.

What do you think?
Is life treating you well or poorly?
Is it time to show life how to treat you?

Love Always

INSIGHT 2:

THE POWER OF FLOW AND FUTILITY OF FORCE

An oldie but a goodie - "Power Versus Force" by David Hawkins; describes what true power looks like.

To flow with power rather than fight with force is key.

The way we perceive time is about to change forever if 'flow' becomes a thing the world embraces as something to do more and more.

Do we know why water only wants to flow downhill?
Some say it's due to gravity.
I say it's because - gravity requires something new... something different to it's heaviness...
Ease...
Flow...
Serenity...
Absence of resistance...
Water eases the gravity and soothes resistance.
Water moves around obstacles rather than forces its way through them. Yet gravity works hand in hand with water droplets to break through rock over time. It's the same process that brings mountains to dust and washes them into the rivers and the oceans over time... Those big powerful mountains stand tall for a time - but will be brought to dust by the energies of flow, and gravity, and forces unseen, and not under the mountain's control. Gravity and water work together - both for the good of all - even if they feel heavy together at times.

Yes time... sometimes seems to work against us but it also works with us, and for us, as does water and gravity and - flowing with what life places before us.

These obstacles need not be so hard to flow around if we ask to flow - with life - rather than against it's wisdom as it shows up in each moment.

What do you think?

Are the gentle forces powerful for you?
Or do you not feel or see or know them at all?
Can love be forced and controlled?
Or is it best to learn to flow with it?

Love Always...

INSIGHT 1 :

FINDING CLARITY

The quality of life boils down to only one thing with four layers

OUR RELATIONSHIPS

Relationships are layered.

The first and core layer is with our Person
The second is with our Persona
The third is with our Psyche
The fourth and last layer is with Physics - our physical body and the physical world. To begin at level four is to live without understanding the ground we stand on and from where everything stems from and grows from.

The relationship with our self informs relationships with - all people and all physical things outside us.

How we relate to our person, our persona and our psyche, directly impacts our physical body, our physical space, and our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual experience with other people and the physical world.

OUR PERSON
OUR PERSONA
OUR PSYCHE - aka - INNER PEOPLE

is what we see outside ourselves - in our body, other people and the physical world.

As above - so below
As within - so without
As inside - so outside
As reflector - so the reflection - appears.

As we measure others - so we are measured.
Measure for measure...
As we give we receive.

To be clear about how this works however; is a bit of a journey.
It takes a lifetime and my journey through this lovely clear and happy place has begun... I know that there's so much more to discover.
And I'm so looking forward to what this clarity brings.

Love Always...

truly

and you'll always be - loved - it seems!!!

But the opposite must also be true -
That's why true love begins within - YOU

To GROW and FLOW
... is Now Imperative For Us All ...
(A Drawing Activity is at the end of this post)

Soon I turn 58
54 years ago...

When I was transplanted into Aussie soil, the work of growing up as a Croatian plant in unfamiliar soil was not comfortable.

I've been told I experienced extreme growing pains in my little 4 year old's legs. My family worried about the pain I was in.

I'm in pain - no more.

I love Australia and all it offered to our our family.
We survived - at times even thrived. From a family of 5 we multiplied to many many many more direct descendants.

Now I'd love to thrive and flourish and grow strong like never before. I'm ready to flourish as an individual plant in an ecosystem of thriving plants surrounding me.

No soil is perfect for humans to grow in anywhere on the planet. But was any soil ever perfect in every way?

No environment meets all the needs of all of its native plants, let alone its foreign ones who happen to be transplanted there.

To survive this harsh world climate, some of us must leave home, some must adapt to ever harsher climates, and persist because they don't want to leave home, or they have no means to go anywhere else, or no place to go to that will take them in.

To adapt however is imperative whatever the situation, or decision to stay, or to leave home, for a better version of it.

I definitely had physical pain when I first arrived here as a 4yo.
Emotional pain was certainly present. But emotions were not as 'real' then as they seem to be these days. And let's not mention psychic pain - soul pain - heartache - loss - that can and does cause all kinds of illness and disease on all human levels. Back then it was a blessing simply to survive. Such a thing as emotional, psychological or soul dis -ease wasn't - 'real' let alone acknowledged.

I was; like all migrants; uprooted and would like to think that the reason for my physical pain was because my legs were struggling to send their energy into Australian soil. At that tender age what's needed most is the earth's support and her vital nourishment on a very physical level.

Perhaps I resisted sending my roots into a place that didn't feel like home to me. Who knows why the pain was so intense.

At the moment, many of us are feeling that the world environment is hostile... and there's nowhere to run or to be transplanted into as a human race. Most of us are stuck here and need to make the most and the best of a planet that feels more and more hostile towards us.

Floods, Fires, Pestilence, Wars ... etc
The earth has done this kind of thing before to it's inhabitants but we're still here doing the things we've always done with greater and greater intensity, but less and less wisdom to take care of the home we live on.

What do we do with a world we have changed to suit our strange and unnatural collective objectives that may not be so good for us on so many levels? What we've created of our home - we may not survive let alone thrive - in safety or feel at home inside of.
However -
The earth will survive - US - for sure!

What to do?

I'm choosing to flow with the messages of the earth, the sun, the wind, the air, and the sky. The moon and the stars also speak to me sometimes... but the voice of life itself says ...

FLOW with me... and GROW

F - Flourish

L - Live and Love as

O - One

W - Willing ...

To GROW UP and UP and UP ...

into more of who you are, even as the world turns into something less and less like home.

Adapt or die.

You've done this over and over in this life and over lifetimes.

You and human kind are still here. The soil is new in you now.
You've done some work tilling the inner landscape and cleaning it up and filling it with nourishment to support your growth...
Now grow, thrive, flourish, and bear good fruit too as you flow with the energies of love and life.

Over the next few days as my birthday approaches I'll let go of the little seedling who struggled to send roots into the new earth she had to survive in. I'm a strong tree now and my roots are stable. I'm not so tall but am willing to grow up and up as high as I can grow in this lifetime. I'm willing to be one with life and fully flourish and fulfill the growth potential of this plant I always was.

If you were a plant - or seedling - or tree
What would you be right now?

Draw this version of you as a symbol.

Then - draw - yourself as fully grown, flourishing and fruiting.

So will I

I'll post it when I have a moment.
Your turn to FLOW and GROW

Allow the energy of life that is feminine in nature to support you.
I invite you to take this step into envisioning your fulfilment now.

Love Always