Hi David. Those are a lot of thoughts/worries to navigate through, aren't they? In this age of "information overload" we are exposed to so many ideas and possible scenarios that it can make a person dizzy.

But, these are the kinds of worries and thoughts that have occupied people since the dawn of time. Picking our way through these issues can develop our character, can help us to figure out what we most value in life, to a certain extent. Beyond that, such thoughts can simply paralyze us and keep us from experiencing our true freedom.

So, it is sometimes helpful to picture the big bag of worries that you are carrying as something which you can just as easily release. Just let it go and put it on the ground. You can pick it back up later, if you want to do that. But, you may find that freedom is a wonderful feeling.

We each have this day to do what is important to us on this day, to feel what is important to us on this day. I like to stay in this day.

I tell myself, "I am safe, I am safe now," repeating this thought to myself. I tell myself, "I am enough, I am enough for now," repeating this thought as well. I tell myself, "my best is good enough, the best I can do is good enough," repeating this thought when I hear myself doubting if I am "enough" for what is ahead.

People have often thought, through history, that there must be a "significant" reason that "bad" things happen to them, and that they could ward off "bad" things by being more "acceptable" in some way. I have come to believe that it is just this simple: things happen.

But we always have the choice to be ourselves in any situation. And we will be ourselves, no matter what. We may receive help, or we may not. But our uniqueness, the "specialness" of who we are as individuals, cannot be destroyed, I believe, by anything that "happens" in this life or the next.

Others may have a different point of view. And that's wonderful, really. A world of identical "humans" would be...hmmmn...I don't know.

I'm sorry you lost your friend recently, but happy that you are exploring a way to realize his existence in other ways. And it's great that you are practicing feeling love, as you mentioned in your other thread. Bruce says love and fear cannot exist at the same time, and it's true.

Sometimes fear seems useful. It may keep us from running into the street and getting run over by a car. But, sometimes, it's the thing that is out of control in our lives.

Well, I didn't mean to write this much. But I like the idea of the bags we all carry with us. Why are we carrying them? Do we really love the "stuff" we are carrying? If not, I think it's perfectly okay to just lay that "stuff" down and go on our way.

Life is kind of like a big "scary" dream sometimes. And I think we are drawn to the "scary" "exciting" things around us. We watch others encounter dangers, and perhaps it causes us to feel a bit safer. After all, they are the ones facing danger, and while they are doing it, that must mean we aren't. That must mean we are "safe" for now. Even in dreams we put ourselves in "scary" situations, practice runs for "whatever". While we're snug in our beds. It's part of our makeup.

But, like I said, this is our day. We've got this day, so what is really important to us, today?

Thanks for the responses. They have definitely been helpful.

Isee: I definitely needed that type of message and approach. I have OCD so I tend to get stuck on these metal loops. I am trying to do more affirmations or to even use some energy channeling exercises and then imagining a bubble of protective energy surrounding me. Sometimes things like that actually seem to help, or maybe they actually do that I'm not aware of.

Rondele: I like the humor and the advice! I definitely do that as far as taking small nibbles out of goals. I don't know. I guess I'm a bit of a dreamer. I have big ideas, but like everything all of them have to start out with single steps.

Hey Albert. Thanks for the read. It was helpful. I am sensing an awakening to higher consciousness in more and more people that I know gradually. I think that does resonate with some of what you've written about.

I believe the Mayan Calendar/2012 issue has been misinterpreted.

The fact that the earth is still turning and filled with people and animals means nothing.

Nothing.

The Maya view this as the beginning of the 14th baktun. It could very well be "the beginning of the end."

Or it could point to new human evolution.

I have no doubt that the Maya-as well as other civilations and groups-knew a great deal more than we "educated" Westerners know.

There was no single December 21st. Our perception of time is based on the motion of the earth in relation to the sun.

A clock/calendar in Los Angeles will represent midnight at a different time than one in London. There was never any "event" predicted for 12:01am on the 21st.

Celestial movements are motions. Just as in astrological observations and interpretations, it is the general movement and proximities that are important.

We may very well be in for a cataclysmic upheaval. It may have just started...

I downloaded several tape sessions from TMI last night. Some describe pending catastrophes. I haven't listened to those particular recordings yet, but I will in the next few days.

It is important to understand that the earth itself (herself?) may be pivotal in the change.

We humans have done a lot of damage to our planet in the decades since Monroe began his OBE work. The planet may be angry with us.

The Toltecs state that the earth is a living being. A living being. That the earth has its own "luminous cocoon" and its own awareness.

Merilyn Tunneshende wrote, in "Don Juan and the Art of Sexual Energy" that the earth is unhappy with us and may be "sharpening her claws."

TMI content describes that the earth is or was (at the time the recording sessions occurred) in the 4th of 7 evolutions.

Is the 4th or 5th evolution associated with the baktun cycles? I don't know.

Here are some things I am convinced of:

The celestial bodies aren't simply the result of accretian and collision. There is some celestial machinery in place and at work.

You can actually feel something from the moon, at times. I have experienced a bond or communique from Luna once, perhaps twice.

I really can't explain it in words. It was an immediate "knowing."

I stood on a cool night in the woods with no light pollution to intrude upon the setting.

The full moon suddenly had a presence and forcefulness impossible from a barren rock. I somehow knew at that moment that the cosmos and celestial bodies were "at work."

I was immediately aware of some cosmic mechanization and plan in general, but with no details.

It was as if the moon grabbed me, shook me and said, "Wake up. There is more out here. There is a system unrecognized by most humans."

I feel that some change is pending on the planet and with humanity. I have no idea if this change will occur this year or in this millenia. But something IS changing.

Can't you feel it?