Preventing another Dark Age

dont be afriad...

thank you for sharing these thoughts. these are fear-based thoughts and though we like to keep most of our thought and sharings on a "high spiritual level", rational fears, if not worked out can keep us from putting our heart into a vision. and your fears are quite rational when looking at history.

have you read "utopia"? in a nutshell it is about an alternative culture that manifested a vision. they went to an island and created their utopia. in the end, just like you depicted, there were jealous others, back in the muck, who in trying to "take" their utopia for themselves destroyed it. it has been the way of history.

i have been seeking to identify and define spiritual law since new years 2000. each time i think i am getting close to identifying a spiritual truth or law i see it leads back to one truth. one. one truth: one. it is about the interconnectivity of all things. it is about an unavoidable, unchangeable truth that all things ultimately merge to the One.

i can see this law at play with the rust on my vehicle. the earth is pulling it back to the One. one day my vw van will be soil. then it will become a tree that is part of the One. then the tree will return to the ground, the One.

i can see this law at play with the polarity between earth and sky in the form of the lightening. when the two charges become too separate a magical merging of these charges happens with the lightening. the same thing is going on with the basic electricity principle in the bleeding of a capacitor. if you leave a battery sitting on the cement long enough the charges move to a oneness and the battery loses its charge.

i can see this law at play in the 100th monkey syndrome in the same way as the "venturi effect" that works with the movement of air and water.

i see this law at play in the way that the water wears the rock down. i see this law at play in our gastrointestinal process and our need to eat and poop.

i see this law at play here in santa barbara's population. we have some of the wealthiest people in the nation and we probably have more homeless per capita than any other place in the nation. it is okay to have a nice house so long as all of the other homes around you are nice too. put a nice house up in a ghetto and you better get a big fence and a mean dog and a security system and a gun and maybe bars on your windows and now you can't enjoy your nice house because you are in fear. that fear will remain until this polarity is resolved.

imagine if when the terrorist propaganda started if we had looked inside instead of outside for solutions. we were sitting at a magical opportunity in 2000 that i saw at that time. imagine if we looked inside and said, okay, what are we doing to attract terrorism? perhaps we might have considered that the US is 5% of the world's population and we we’re consuming 90% of the natural resources. and the other 95% of the world are all waiting for their turn to follow in our footsteps and "live the good american life". obviously the math does not work. what if then we announced to the world "we are declaring world peace". we are dissolving our military and inviting the rest of the world to do the same. and we are going to take half of our outrageous military budget and give it away to the peoples of the world who need it most. the other half we are gonna use in this country to right some wrongs here...wrongs to humanity and the earth. cleaning up our mess and replacing dysfunctional systems and ways with changes for a sustainable future.

the more you think on this spiritual law of oneness, the more you will see how this law prevails under everything. a pull to the oneness. here we are on tribenet trying to move toward that oneness with our embracing of the whole planet and our dreams and visions. it is an innate quality in the earth and all life.

so how is it going to be different this time? how do we manifest a higher vision in a way that will last? it must be without the polarity. it is not going to work as an exclusive club. obviously we cannot seat 6.5 billion people around our campfire. we must share our ideas of "how to fish" because we cannot feed 6.5 billion people either.

when i was on maui in 2000 i received a prophecy. it was revealed through clouds in the sky. i was aware as it unfolded that something very divine was being revealed. two cloud masses formed the perfect shape of dragons. the dragon on the left was black, the dragon on the right was white, and they were facing one another. the dark dragon was aggressive toward the white dragon. it kept making movement toward the white and the white was doing a dance, stepping backwards and then (non-aggressively) stepping back to its original place. these were not blurry clouds moving slowly mind you, they were sharp distinct dragons and they were not moving in the manner of clouds, but in the manner of dragons. this little dance continued for several minutes with pauses where they were still facing one another. after several rounds of this dance, they paused a last time and then suddenly the black dragon put "it all" into an all-out lunge at the white. the white dragon’s mouth opened wide and the black dragon entered into the white. i watched a channel of black go right through the length of the tube and belly of the white and as the black reached the backside of the white dragon (at the place of his butthole, the black just dissipated into nothingness.

it is about letting go of our concepts of duality and embracing the oneness. it is about our dark side, in each of us and in our world. it is not working to maintain these polarities. hating, fighting, fearing the dark is part of the conscious glue that holds it together. it means letting go of our concepts of evil. it means seeing the fear of terrorism as a divine messenger that we need to change something in ourselves so we are not in that fear. if we are relating and loving the (would be) terrorist and sharing with him/her in a good way they will not be motivated to terrorize. NO ENEMIES! it is possible to actually live that way.

i am probably sounding like i am a delusional pipe dreamer right now, but i am not. this change must come. it must come in the immediate future or mankind is done. and there are powers that be who will not allow that, so long as a critical mass of us lightworkers are saying yes to that help from them. it is only through the play of ascended masters here among us on the other side of the veil that we have not had several nuclear bombs go off already. they have been meddling in a good way. they have prevented and minimized some of earth's upheavals. there is a great deal of help out there which will show up in greater force when enough of us have invited them. so pick your archangel: Sananda (the ancient spirit of Jesus Christ and the Buddha), St Germain, Archangel Michael, St Raphael, Muhammad, or the Almighty Spirit of the One. ask them for help. ask them to come help us to dispel the illusion of separateness. ask them to help dispel the illusion of duality while you practice letting go of it by remembering the All.

creator did not fuck up. creator is almighty. there is nothing outside of the all. the darkness is a part of Him. it is here to teach us. it is something to be grateful for and to be loved. i know you are probably thinking "but i am just one person". remember you are in the all and the all is in you. it is a holistic thing, like a hologram. we are so stuck in our 3d reality because of this illusion of duality. when we dissolve the illusion of duality then the illusion of linear time will disappear. we are in a field of infinite possibilities and we are co-creating with our thoughts words and actions. if we choose to be stuck in past beliefs and patterns then that is what we will manifest. let us enter a brave new world, embracing the darkness as a divine teacher. in doing this we will do what the dragons showed me in maui. And we will enter the new Golden Age.
with great love and respect, merlin

It's interesting reading a fear already answered on another site. Check out Anthropik.com. The Thirty Theses answer your worries in detail.

The key to this is the ability to move around, to be the new hunter/gatherers of the world. After all, a military would have to expend energy to 'get you'. At what point, in a collapsing infrastructure, is that wise? They are better off centralizing their power into a place that they can easily control.

Besides, that's one of the reasons that I talk about interactions between tribes within the eco-regions (like during the 10,000 Ways Conference in Ashland in August), starting now. When bad times come, if you've got allies, you've got resources that can be used against would-be dictators, who will still be trying to figure out how to live, much less how to take over.

Bottom line, check out Anthropik. They answer it better than I can.

best

Bill Maxwell

This has been a wonderful exercise in speculation. I would especially like to thank our Brothers; Merlin B, LLB, and Will. I am also indebted to our Sisters; Chanti, Wahili, Gea, and Shine Cassandra. Each of you has given from your hearts and wisdom.

When I began this thread it was in response to Brother Merlin B in another thread about his vision of an Agarian low tech society:

<This scenario gave rise to a vision that has resounded with me over many years now. It resounds in a way that almost feels like it really exists in another dimension. There is no pavement. There are not such big cities; things are much more spread out. There is no big government but a hierarchy of counsels for coordination among self sustaining communities of 500 to 5,000 or so people. Each community is unique because of its self sufficiency. The buildings are unique because they are made from what the earth has to offer right there. The food is unique for the same reason. The customs evolve uniquely because the sourcing for life is from that unique place on earth. Of course there would be trade but for non-essential items. Our safety, security and survival (fearlessness) is rooted in our self-sufficiency.

In my vision each person participates in the community by contributing in a way that is aligned with their spirit. In this way spirit evolves the culture rather than compromising spirit to fit the culture. It means each person is working for their spirit (which is what they are going to do best and most lovingly) rather than for currency. Life and culture becomes a reflection of spirit.

In this vision I find myself a traveler and a trader. I am greeted by a great welcoming in each community because I bear great stories from my travels. I share knowledge about the other communities and their ideas. I share the fruits of spirit from other communities in trade items from a different eco-system or biosphere of earth. I am traveling by horse and wagon down dirt roads. I might travel only 20 miles in a day but I find myself in a very different world, as different as going from Disneyland’s frontier land to fantasy land. I can see a future land too, where things may be happening with discovery of alternate energy sources and alternate technology in a good way that is guided by spirit.>

This is a beautiful and heartfelt vision that has much to commend it. I even got into seeing myself in that kind of world; being a Healer, Mystic and Teacher. It was when I attempted to see the transitional stages of moving our world into that one that I began to see the dangers of descent into Feudalism and a Dark Age.

Brother Merlin pointed out: <Then my contemplation is interrupted by a reality check. I just don’t see humanity as being quite ready to give up their television and Cuisinart.> And therein lies the problem. For us to abandon our cities and "high" technology won't be voluntary. To get to that Bioregional paradigm implies by its nature either a Quantum leap in Human Consciousness (Ascension) followed by 2 generations of organized Decentralization or a Cataclysm/Catastrophe and subsequent breakdown of the system. I believe that the latter is at this time more likely. Now this belief doesn't mean that I am living in fear or that I am not commited to working toward Ascension. I pray for and project all the energies that I can to bring about that Quantum leap and Paradigm shift. I will continue to do so until my dying breath. I see the on-going destruction of the Biosphere and the Militarization of the US and many other industrialized states and how little time we have left. That is why I believe that we must think in terms of Survivability and Conservation of as much of Society as we can.

Brother Will contributed: <The key to this is the ability to move around, to be the new hunter/gatherers of the world. After all, a military would have to expend energy to 'get you'. At what point, in a collapsing infrastructure, is that wise? They are better off centralizing their power into a place that they can easily control.>

With all due respect Will, that is what the Military mindset is organized to do. They (the Military) are parasites. When they have absorbed/consumed all local resources they use their last energy and fuel to spread out and seek new hosts. In the "Doomsday" scenario they will be based in the ruins of our cities, after enslaving the surviving population they will attempt to "organize" the adjacent region to exploit its potential for food and energy production. Eventually the resources begin to fall short of need and they are required to search further and further afield for new resources. They will be limited by only 2 factors; their ability to maintain supply lines to their frontline forces and the eventual contact with other Militant forces of comparable size. The surviving Tactical Nukes (and who possess them) will determine which citystates become predominent. The US would be Balkanized and Alliances will coalesce around the cities with the highest level of surviving infrastructure and the closest proximity to the remnants of the Federal Nuclear Arsenal.

So as Elders we must prepare ourselves to work toward Ascension and Enlightenment now and Survival if necessary later. To turn away from the face of this beast because it is so horrible is what I consider to be fear. To examine the probabilities based upon common history is only caution. We can still effect positive change NOW and prevent another Dark Age. That is why I started this thread with the word PREVENTING!!!

aho

Blessings My Brothers and Sisters
Yes this is a hard subject to talk about as I think most of us believe in peace and love, but we have to face it there will be at some point in time (the haves and the have not), what do we do about this when someone comes up to our road/gate/door and ask to live with us or for food. I know here as long as they do it in a peaceful way I will share what can be shared.
If they want to take over CTMT then I will have to stand out and say no in any way that they will listen to. I would love to be ale to just talk it out with who ever shows up and I pray this will be the case, but lets get real and say they are going to take all our food here at CTMT and leave us that are living here nothing. I don't think so. As someone who spirit has led on this path of setting this land up I am here to also take care of the people who live also.
I hadn't had any guns in many years and spirit led me to buy one and then another for later on and for now as a single female at the end of a road out in the middle on no where, it just makes sence to keep one on hand. As truth be told I have had training to do things I hope never to do again.
Just my $.02
At this time I am getting things done a little at a time. A lot of the things that need done will take more them one person doing them. So I am open to who Spirit sends this way to live and help out.
In Love & In Light
Crystal Mother

''I feel we are coming out of a Dark Age. ''

I like that line!

You all posted wise words & visions.

My simple version is that 'we'll' reclaim 'our' planet,
& have those 'weird souls' go back to theirs (hopefully in a far-distant galaxy...)!

I'm feeling 'kinda funny' (yet realistic!)

Love,

ML.