[Dakini]

Originally Posted by sun-toon´

I hear the growl, but not constriction. All this peace, light and love stuff we're constantly exposed to in the name of higher consciousness tends to cloud the concept that we just might need to be warriors...perhaps of a different sort than has been in the mix before, but warriors nonetheless.

Tend to agree that in the process of all the kicking up of dust - the talk all over the place of one's expansion or how to do it, or best things to focus on etc., etc., it is all diversion - it can cloud the inevitable of just plain doing the Work. Well, I'm OT>
Ok - yes, And warriors have always been needed; we each have our place in the Scheme. Even Joan of Arc, mythical Athena - warriors. Some fight with swords, some with minds, some with other mechanisms.

Originally Posted by sun-toon´

If you look further into her writing the issue of fear is addressed, as well as a lot on the law of attraction, and how she believes we can manifest reality through personal empowerment.
Dakini, I don't think it's her fear you're seeing, but more likely your own. Please don't take me wrong, I see you as owning a very evolved consciousness, but I've been outside of the traditional spiritual paradigms for some time, and I do understand where fear would come from. I think it should be there. I've experienced it every time I expand, and almost every time I've been threatened with expansion. I've experienced it over this very issue, and at more than one level. ....The idea that we should be beyond fear is BS. It's a tool for exploration and growth and a necessary one.

Well, I totally agree that fear presents itself for the ones who are choosing to participate in active expansion. And because of that factor, one must be courageous in its face if one is to progress. So have I felt fear? Abso - fricking - lutely. I'm glad you brought this up!
Here is something I keep bookmarked from "Will and Spirit" by Gerald G. May to remind me...

"The 'knowing' of divine love occurs only in the atmosphere of 'unknowing.' The conclusion that must be drawn here is that spiritual seekers are in a no-win situation with regard to fear. I think this is totally accurate. There is no way to avoid fear, GREAT fear, in the course of spiritual growth. The only saving quality is that in an atmosphere of willingness the experiences of love and fear come together. Where terror is encourntered, the sense of divine love is always available. If it were not for this, our spiritual journeys would invariably be short-lived and abortive."

Originally Posted by sun-toon´

I think it's safe to start with the premise that something is very, very wrong here on planet earth and with the direction of the evolution of consciousness of its principle freewill species. The "old means" was fine back before we were on the brink of global annihilation. There was plenty of time to sit in caves or monasteries and contemplate the nature of Being. I'm sure it seemed to those mystics that there was time for everything...another thousand lifetimes perhaps, and who cared if they were being siphoned, if it was the Way.

Time was not the essential thing to them - Divine Union was the thing; and they made great sacrifices for it; throughout history the greats were killed when they spoke out about visions, worked miracles, etc. Is it any wonder that gifted people today stay silent, make up screen names, and don't show their faces when they express their intuitions or visions? True, we live in a different time, and will we ever have many Mystics of this ilk on the face of the earth again? It is very rare, and so a new paradigm is emerging and within that, the new consciousness is evolving. We know this. It is supposed to be so.

But I would interject that even in this new Earth time, there are still some mystics here, who have not particularly elected to 'sit in caves or monasteries and contemplate the nature of Being,' but have found themselves instead chosen by something Bigger, and have in fact been taken out of their ordinary lives by its power, have spent much time in an alternative, non-mainstream spiritual way of life that they would otherwise not have chosen because of its sacrifices.

Originally Posted by sun-toon´

It's clear that this is no longer the case. We're on the cusp of something profound, and at the least this is a gigantic opportunity for the discovery of the true nature of our selves. The idea that such a discovery might include the knowledge that there is a matrix here on the physical plane (indisputable at this point), and that it's an extension of an astral plane matrix, which is an iteration of what the mystics believed was the whole of existence, and that the Whole is an iteration of...the Real Universe...
Is this really such a stretch?
(OK it is, give it time to integrate...I have a feeling that there's much more stretching to come.)

No stretch. Some are beyond this cusp; the Matrix - you may have in fact seen it, felt it, tasted it already...

Let's be done discussing Baxter - she can and all of us can manifest away; those techniques are ancient and for reasons are being dug up again.
Sometimes I think manifestation itself is needed so humans can see the potential of what our small minds can deliver.