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Great Shift Update Occasional Newsletter #26
July 2008Dear Great Shifters,
No Soul Left Behind Program. I am sensing that fewer people with precognitive high sense perception are tuning into the old catastrophic timelines these days. However, I continue to see expressed on Lightworker networks/websites the view that many on Earth who remain caught up in the *old* energies will not make the Shift. Those of you who have been reading this Newsletter for a while know that sometimes I identified a predicted catastrophe-of-the-month with the recommendation that readers set the intention "not in my timeline." I invite you to do the same when you encounter information suggesting that a significant number of people will not make the Shift. To this end I have added a new page to the Great Shift website: An Invitation to Support the No Soul Left Behind Program. I wanted those who receive this Newsletter to be the first to have a chance to see this page.
Personal Update. Those of you who don't receive my Earth Energy Healing Newsletter can find a brief report of my experiences at Yellowstone over the Summer Solstice: EEH Newsletter #32. My 3D job requires periods of intense focus. After some initial kicking and screaming, I can now see the multiple levels at which this work makes sense for me to be doing at this time. Aside from the occasional Newsletter I send out, my Great Shift work seems to be in pretty much a holding pattern. My left brain puzzles about this a bit, but apparently Spirit has other priorities for how I can best be of service, which for some time now has been more in the Earth healing arena, and continuing very deep personal/transpersonal healing. One day in June, after no donation activity for the Great Shift Foundation in six months I was about to close down that page and put the Foundation into an inactive status. That day a donation came in with some very kind words about the book. I took that as a sign to leave things be and that perhaps I will be *allowed* to eventually finish Preparing Ourselves for the Great Shift. However, based on recent trends in my time allocation it doesn't look like it will be anytime soon.
The Shift is happening. Hang in there.
Blessings, Love and Light,
Russell
Great Shift Update Occasional Newsletter #25
Late-May 2008Dear Great Shifters,
I don't find much time to read channeled higher dimensional information these days, but would like to share this April 29 message from Mira of the Pleiadian High Council through Valerie Donner. This summarizes nicely the perspective that many higher dimensional sources have of the Great Shift, and its nice to be reminded that what often feel like the trials and tribulations of human existence serve a Divine purpose.
The Earth happens to be the focal point of creation. The way the Earth goes impacts the rest of us. The Earth is a wellspring of resources far beyond what you know already. The knowledge that is stored within the Earth in the libraries is more that what you would call phenomenal. The living libraries within the human bodies and the human DNA make any scientific experiment that has been completed in the 3rd dimension obsolete. You are walking, living, and breathing holograms of creative significance far beyond your brains’ capacities to understand.
We hope that you understand the significance of the impact that each of you has on a universal scale. The consciousness that you possess is activated in some and will be triggered in many more in the next few years of earthly time. The dynamics are in place for a magnificent capture of Source material that will impact all of Creation. The Earth is the melting pot for 250 different root races. The DNA within the human body is intelligence that is communicated to the central core of intelligence. Yet, as humans many of you have been taught throughout lifetimes that you are insignificant and worthless.
As this news impacts you I want you to know that the Earth is such a powerful soul that she amplifies all that we are speaking about. She wraps it up in what you call a perfect package so that future generations and new planetary systems can learn from what has happened on the Earth. Minute by minute and day-by-day you are illuminating creation and life by participating in this amazing unfolding and transformation. What is holding you up right now is a complex system of intelligence that feeds into the shift that you are making while you feed into it (excerpted from Valerie Donner's Straight From the Heart Newsletter; for full text see: http://www.thegroundcrew.com/updates/vdonner/2008/042908_print.htm.
Lightworker Cybernetworks. In Newsletter #21 (December 2007) I talked a bit about the proliferation of intenet social networks as a sign that the Great Shift is happening. I regularly receive invitations to join such networks and my own time constraints (especially now that I have a 3D job) require me to be selective in those that I join myself. However, I am happy to make information available about them to others who wish to make connections with other Lightworkers. I have created a new page on the Great Shift website for this listing: Lightworker Cybernetworks. If you are a member of a network that is not listed and would like it to be listed, either send me an invitation or send me an email with a link (jrb47@bluemarble.net).
The Shift is happening. Hang in there.
Blessings, Love and Light,
Russell
Great Shift Update Occasional Newsletter #24
April 2008Dear Great Shifters,
In my February Newsletter I said:
At the present time I see nothing happening to change my positive view of the future, as reported in recent newsletters. I will wait until I see something that is more than just snippets of good news, some indication that the Shift is solidly being expressed in the physical plane, before sending out another Newsletter.
When I wrote that I wasn't clear in my own mind what it would take to prompt me to send out another Newsletter. Those who control the mainstream press continue to instill feelings of fear and disempowerment, and make things look worse than they really are. There is also a well-intentioned segment of the alternative news media that focuses on what I like to call the EFITLO (Earth Friends in the Loyal Opposition) that does the same, in my opinion. I'm not sure that what I report here can be considered to be dramatic signs that the Great Shift is happening, but they feel to me to be more than "snippets of good news."
Spirituality Goes Mainstream. In the first Chapter of my Great Shift book I cite Eckhart Tolle, author of the bestselling book, The Power of Now as an example of someone who experienced a spontaneous spiritual awakening without any obvious spiritual preparation. Since my own spontaneous awakening a little more than five years ago I have met many others who have had similar experiences in recent years.
In early March Eckhart Tolle and Oprah Winfrey teamed up to do a ten-week web seminar on his latest book A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose. More than 700,000 people initially registered for this seminar. The latest information suggests that millions of people have experienced the web classes (http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/webcast/ane_marketing.html). I find Tolle's writing to be profound in its simplicity and accessibility, and see him as a shining light in bringing spiritual awareness to many who are ready to awaken. He is also explicit that there are energetic encodements in his words that will help the reader attune to *higher* awareness.
Behind the Scenes. In Chapter 8 of my Great Shift book I wrote:
The ability of what I call the EFITLO (Earth Friends in the Loyal Opposition to control and manipulate the masses of humanity with deception and fear is weakening, but still strong as I write in early 2007. So far the mainstream media have only reported cracks in this facade. A major milestone will be reached when the crimes of those in the highest places in government, business and religious institutions are fully exposed for all to see, and justice is served by holding these folks accountable for their actions. Perhaps milestone is too precise a metaphor, lets say that when it is evident that this is really happening at a large scale we will be in the penultimate lap (the lap before the last lap).
Closely related to this process will be the realization that our global economic system, which has been manipulated for the benefit of the few for a very long time, is a sham. I don't know whether this will happen by a gradual process of unraveling or as a more dramatic collapse. Whichever way, there are untold thousands of positively-polarized awakened and soon-to-awaken souls who are quietly waiting at all levels of governmental and commercial institutions to transform these institutions so that they serve the highest good of all [emphasis added].
I recently learned that a key number of these souls at high levels of the pentagon thwarted the Bush administration's plans to attack Iran. While visiting my mother (one of the elders of the peace movement) last month I had the opportunity spend an evening with a remarkable woman who has spent her life working behind the scenes training military, government, and religious leaders conflict resolution skills. She has worked with generals at the Pentagon, who told her that when the Bush Administration asked them to develop plans to attack Iran, a significant number said that they would resign en masse if ordered to attack. I received independent confirmation of this from my sister, who knows a member of her Quaker meeting who has high-level contacts in the Air Force, and who told her the same thing.
Many of you may remember that there was a time last year when an attack on Iran seemed almost inevitable. So let's give thanks for the unsung heroes that we don't know about throughout the world who are taking similar courageous actions.
The Newsletter Goes Occasional. One thing that gave me a nudge to send out another Newsletter is that since I said I wasn't sure when I would be sending out another Newsletter there has actually been in increase in the number of people signing up to receive it. Today I would like to welcome the 200th subscriber.
A lot has changed in my personal life since I last sent out a Newsletter, returning to the 3-D workplace being one of the bigger changes. The Great Shift Foundation is again accepting donations, but they are no longer necessary for me to continue my work, so unless Spirit gives you a strong nudge don't go to the Donate page.
The Shift is happening. Hang in there.
Blessings, Love and Light,
Russell
Great Shift Update Newsletter #23
February 2008Dear Great Shifters,
As the "deadline" approached for sending out this newsletter I experienced some anxiety as to what I would say. Finally, I realized that if I have nothing new to say, I don't need to send out a newsletter, except to say that you will hear from me again when I feel there is anything significant to report.
I thought I might give an overview of what higher dimensional sources are saying about the upcoming year but didn't find anything that felt "new." There are some predictions that by mid-2008 or later we may see some political events in the United States that signal the beginning of profound positive changes.
At the present time I see nothing happening to change my positive view of the future, as reported in recent newsletters. I will wait until I see something that is more than just snippets of good news, some indication that the Shift is solidly being expressed in the physical plane, before sending out another Newsletter.
Until then: anticipation, not expectation!
The Shift is happening. Hang in there.
Blessings, Love and Light,
Russell
Great Shift Update Newsletter #22
January 2008Dear Great Shifters,
As I report later in the Newsletter, work on finishing my Great Shift book has been halted for the indefinite future. I am including an excerpt from updated Chapter 1 which provides evidence that the world is becoming a more peaceful place.
Recent Decline in Number of Armed Conflicts (Section 1.2.3)
As a teenager I opposed the war in Vietnam. As a young parent I opposed this country's covert war in Central America. In early middle age I opposed the first Gulf War. Now in late middle age I find myself opposing the second Gulf War. I suspect that a lot of people are ready for the violence and killing to stop, and I see some concrete signs that merit cautious optimism.
- The National Defense Council Foundation (NDCF) has tracked major conflicts since the early 1990's, and their graphs show a general downward trend since 1993 (world conflict lists from 1997 to 2002 can be found on their website: www.ndcf.org). In 1997 NDCF identified 67 major conflicts around the world which decreased to 53 in 2002 (a 21% decline). In 2003 the Foundation stopped tracking major conflicts because the threat of terrorist violence now means that no place on the planet is free of the threat of a terrorist attack.
- The German Arbeitsgemiehschaft Keriegsursachenforschung (AKUF Working Group on War Causes), a conflict research group at the University of Hamburg, annually updates statistics of wars and armed conflicts. Both wars and violent conflicts peaked in the early 1990s. By the criteria this group uses, armed conflicts declined from a high of 55 in 1992 to 27 to 28 since 2003, a drop of around 50%. The number of wars dropped 31% from 62 in 1993 to 42 or 43 since 2003 (Worldwatch Institute, 2007).
- The Center for Defense Information (Defense Monitor, January/ February 2003) reports that the number of major conflicts (defined as conflicts with more than 1,000 casualties) declined from 38 at the end of 2001 to 30 at the end of 2002, a 21% decline).
- The Swedish International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reported a decline from 24 to 21 major conflicts (a 12% decline) during the same period reported by the Center for Defense Information (SIPRI, 2003). The downward trend in major conflicts has continued since 2003, with the years 2005 and 2007 seeing 17 major conflicts, a 29% reduction since 2001 (SIPRI, 2007).
- Jerry Mark Silverman in an analysis of a wide range of statistics related to terrorism and conflict found all trends, except for Iraq, to be stable or declining. For example, using another set of data on major inter- and intra-state conflict for the period 1945 to 2005, Silverman found that inter-state conflicts peaked in 1987 (a significant year-see Section 7.4.4) and dropped to 2 in 1992 and have remained around that low level since. Combined inter- and intra-state conflicts since 1945 peaked at 57 in 1991 and declined steadily to 26 in 2005, a declined of 54% ("Real Intelligence Estimate, By Numbers: Terrorism and Conflict Not Up Worldwide," National Interest Online, October 3, 2006, http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=12358).
I find it encouraging that five different organizations, each using slightly different methods for defining major conflicts, suggest that we are moving slowly towards becoming a more peaceful world.
Other Positive Signs That a Shift is Happening. Although a few new hotspots have erupted, overall, I have seen an increase in "good news" from BBC News, the one mainstream source that I monitor regularly. I include as good news reports abuse of power being made public in the mainstream press (although it is not new news for those who rely on other sources of information) and abusers of power being held accountable. Here is a summary of notable headlines:
'Dramatic" Fall in Measles Deaths (BBC News 12/3/07)--measles death in Africa fell by 91% between 2000 and 2006 reaching the target goal of a 90% reduction by 2010 four years early.
US Report Cools Crisis on Iran (BBC News 12/4/07)--The US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran has acted like a safety valve, letting off the steam that had been building up over a possible American military attack. See, also another article on the same day titled Iran Report Frustrates US Hawks--In an abrupt change of position, the US intelligence agencies now say they do not know if Iran intends to build a nuclear weapon.
CIA Destroyed Interrogation Tapes (BBC News 12/7/07)--The CIA has confirmed that it destroyed at least two video tapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects. See, also, CIA 'Kept' Tapes from 9/11 Probe (BBC News 12/24/07)--A leaked memorandum from the former 9/11 commission says it made repeated requests to the CIA for information on the interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects.
Sudanese Peace Deal Back on Track (BBC News 12/12/07)--Sudan's southern former rebels have said they will rejoin a national unity government in an apparent end to the two-month political crisis.
Fujimori Jailed for Abusing Power (BBC News 12/12/07)--The former Peruvian President, Alberto Fujimori, has been sentenced to six years in prison and $92,000 for abuse of power.
General Jailed for Sarajevo Siege (BBC News 12/12/07)--The UN tribunal in The Hague has jailed a former Bosnian Serb general for 33 years for attacks on civilians during the siege of Sarajevo.
Japan Drops Humpback Whale Hunt (BBC News 12/21/07)--A controversial Japanese mission to hunt humpback whales in the Antarctic has been temporarily abandoned, a top government official says.
Ivory Coast Disarmament to Start (BBC News 12/22/07)--Rebels and government militia in Ivory Coast are expected to start to disarm more than five years after the start of the civil war.
China and Japan PMs Hail Progress (BBC News 12/28/07)--China and Japan PMs hail progress. (Anyone who know the twentieth century history of interactions between these countries knows that this is not a trivial headline).
Middle East Conflict Toll 'Falls' BBC News 12/31/07)--Israeli human rights group B'Tselem says that the number of death in the Israeli-Palestinian violence fell sharply in 2007 as compared to 2006.
Spirit Throws me Another Curveball. I will not bore you with the details of the frustrations I have had with having completed Chapters 1 and 2 and being prevented from creating the PDF files so that I could send them out. Usually I am able to interpret the signs I receive from Spirit and not waste much time trying to move against the flow, but I was feeling so close to being finished with this project I kept thinking, surely one more try and I will be able to move forward again. The upshot is, except for continuing to send out this Newsletter, work has stopped on the Great shift book for the indefinite future, and the work of the Great Shift Foundation has been put on hold, symbolized by the fact that I am no longer accepting donations to the Foundation.
My January Earth Energy Healing Newsletter provides further explanation as to where Spirit is placing priorities for my time: EEH Newsletter #26 in the section titled The Dark is Rising.
The Shift is happening. Hang in there.
Blessings, Love and Light,
Russell
Great Shift Update Newsletter #21
December 2007Dear Great Shifters,
Appendices A (Criteria for Evaluating Information About a Larger Reality), B (Kinesiology as a Means to Obtain Information from Higher Dimensional Sources) and C (Prophecies of Catastrophic Earth Changes and Other Scary Things) are finished and available to donors to the Great Shift Foundation. Spirit has finally placed finishing the book as a top priority on my "To Do" (coequal with several other projects) so we'll see how fast I can complete final revisions to Chapters 1 through 5. You can read an excerpt from Chapter 8, published in the December issue of the eMagazine Cosmic Lighthouse: http://www.cosmiclighthouse.com/dec07/articles/eyes_of_cosmos_upon_us
Connections, Reconnections, and Intersections (1). This past month I have somehow found myself caught up in the world of internet social networking which has been alternately exciting, exasperating (I have a slow land line internet connection), uplifting, frustrating (it can be extremely time-consuming even with a fast internet connection which I had access to for a few days), and entertaining. I see the connections, reconnections and intersections that are happening at an accelerating rate on the internet as a sign that the Great Shift is happening, although it offers mixed blessings. For the addictive personality it can become all-consuming, such as this comment I found:
I'm a member of so many social networks and I have so many "friends" that sometimes I feel like these sites enslave me.
Her solution was a desktop profile aggregator that calculates your top friends from the popular networks Facebook, Flickr, Myspace, Twitter and Youtube and sends live notifications whenever there is something new on one of your profiles.
In sacred geometry the many intersecting circles in the Flower of Life symbol serve as a metaphor for the connectedness of all life. I see the proliferation of internet social networks with many people participating in multiple networks as creating the energies of the sacred geometry of the Flower of Life. I see this effect exemplified in the Ning Networks, which makes it relatively easy for anyone with a little bit of computer savvy to create their own network. I spent a fascinating day browsing through pages and pages of links to the tens of thousands of Ning Network that have been created (http://www.ning.com/home/networks--you can do word searches to narrow the focus) finding some network pages with no more members than the person who created it, many with tens to hundreds of members, and a few with thousands of members. Ning Network Creators network (http://networkcreators.ning.com/), for those who have created Ning networks, has more than 6,000 members. These networks range from the good, to the bad, to the ugly. There is the ScrewSocialNetworking Ning (2 members), and then there is the Meta Network Ning that gives you this message:
Sorry, membership of The Meta Network is by invite only! If you received an invite, sign up or sign in! Didn't receive an invite to this site? Get your own invite-only group site!
This one tickled my fancy, but not enough to sign-up:
MySpade (http://myspade.ning.com/), with 70 members: tired of social networking sites that don't cater for your garden implement needs? Then be tired no more with MYSPADE. A site where people can share photos and stories about their favourite spades and also leave their best spade based puns.
A nice thing about the Ning Networks is that when you join a new one, any friends from other networks automatically appear as friends on the new network. I got my feet wet by joining and relatively small network (less than 100) and when I joined a second network with hundreds of people, I already had ten friends on the new network. For anyone reading this who is not already hooked on internet networks and would like to explore a few, I have listed a few below with links.
New Earth Soul Family Communities (http://newearthcommunities.ning.com) has 31 members, created by Jody Howard.
Children of the Sun (http://sunchildren.ning.com/) has more than 490 members, created by Tiara Kumara.
The Intention Experiment (http://theintentionexperiment.ning.com/) has more than 3,500 members and Living the Field (http://livingthefield.ning.com) has more than 1,900 members and 120+ groups, both created by Lynn McTaggert.
Lightworkers http://lightworkers.org/node/224--not part of the Ning Networks, but another large network for Lightworkers with more than 3500 members.
Catastrophe of the Month. Those of you who have been reading this Newsletter for a while know that sometimes I identify a predicted catastrophe-of-the-month with the recommendation that readers set the intention "not in my timeline." None of those that I identified in the past came to pass. In this newsletter I would like to comment on information from the Hathors channeled by Tom Kenyon which has had wide circulation (http://tomkenyon.com/transcend-and-transform-your-world/) and was forwarded to me by several people. First I want to say that I have a great deal of respect for Tom Kenyon's work (I cite his book The Hathor Material in my Great Shift book as an example of high-quality channeled material). and appreciation for the Hathors (a civilization on a higher dimensional Venus) who have come into my Earth healing work in a supportive way. In this latest message, which is consistent with messages they have been giving for several years, they say:
We wish to speak with you about a perilous passage in which you now find yourselves. This shall extend throughout the rest of this year, as well as into and through 2008.
They go on to speak of difficult financial times and continued intensification of "Earth changes, climatic alteration, geopolitical destabilization, and threats to the ecosystem." I have encountered other higher dimensional sources that I cannot discount saying similar things. I would like to respectfully disagree with the Hathors, and offer my own perspective that things do not need to get a rough as they seem to be indicating, and that as individuals we have a greater ability to affect our collective destiny than they have suggested:
There is not much that one single person can do to mitigate humanity’s collective destiny.
I sense the Hathors smiling as they look over my shoulder as I write this, but I still have to say that from my perspective their track record at predicting the future is fair to middling.
Economic Collapse. The Hathors said two years ago that November 2007 was would be the most likely last window when a downturn in the US economy would happen. It is true that the value of the dollar against the Euro sank to new lows last month, but it is early December now, and the US economy is still clunking along. This continues to be a mystery to me because I have been waiting for our unsustainable global economy to collapse since the early 1990s. Now that we are past the window identified by the Hathors, my sense is that those who are slow to wake up to the way they are being manipulated and disempowered are being given more time to continue their gradual awakening process.
Geophysical Catastrophes. The Hathors are among many higher dimensional sources who state that Earth's dimensional shift creates substantial geophysical stresses that must be relieved. My research confirms this. However, my research also provides strong evidence that at a superconscious level (and increasingly at a conscious level) humanity is able to modify the location, timing and intensity of geophysical stress relief so as to minimize harm to living beings on the planet. The last three months has seen a huge increase in the number of major earthquakes (48 that were 6.1 and greater for an annual rate of 192--the historical record in a year was 173 in 1994), yet the large majority have been reported to cause little harm or damage (the worst was the earthquake in Peru in November that killed around 500 people). Exceptional extreme weather events continue, but actual loss of human life from these events has not been exceptional. In general, reports about the extreme events indicate that they have brought out the best in people and in so doing are contributing to humanity's overall movement toward relationships based on love rather than fear. I can offer one anecdotal example from the fires on southern California. My daughter-in-law, who was in San Diego during the fires told, me that horse lovers in the area spontaneously organized themselves to transport horses that were endangered by the fires to a safe place in the County fair grounds.
It is a Divine Dichotomy that there is truth to the Hathor's saying that there is not much that a single person can do to mitigate humanity's destiny. However, when we join with other people who have awakened and are awakening to their potentials as multidimensional beings, as I described at the beginning of this Newsletter, we are able to make a real difference. The tricky thing is that it will take a certain amount of stress to serve as the catalyst for many people to awaken. So when I respond to predictions of chaotic, difficult times by saying "Not in my timeline" I am not necessarily intending or asking for smooth sailing. In co-creating the No Soul Left Behind timeline I set my intention in service of the highest good of all while minimizing harm for the greatest number possible. So far it feels like we are on track.
Positive Signs That a Shift is Happening. The good news in the mainstream press remains a trickle, but it continues to trickle in. Here is a selection of headlines.
Most Ready for 'Green Sacrifices" (BBC News 11-5-07)--Most people are ready to make personal sacrifices to address climate change (even in the U.S. and China), according to a BBC poll of 22,000 people in 21 countries.
Call for U.S. to Re-Open UFO File (BBC News 11-13-07)--A group of former pilots and government officials has called on the US government to re-open an investigation into claims of UFO sightings. As Steven Greer, Director of the Disclosure Project pointed out in a recent press release (http://www.disclosureproject.org/PressReleaseNov132007-revised.htm), the need isn't so much for a new investigation, but for congressional hearings to make public the abundant evidence that is already available.
Bush Involved in CIA Leak Case (BBC News 11-21-07)--A former White House press secretary has said the US president was involved in misinforming the public over the leaking of a CIA agent's identify. Of course this is no news for those who don't depend on the mainstream press for their information. I still can't help but wonder how long it will take for the average American to pay attention to reports like this that make it to the mainstream press.
Rudd to Apologize to Aborigines (BBC News 11-26-07)--Australia's new government will issue a formal apology to Aborigines for the abuses they suffered in the past, prime minister-elect Kevin Rudd has promised. I see great energetic significance in a formal acknowledgement of the harm "civilized" nations have done to indigenous peoples. Australia is leading the way.
Cameroon Gorillas Returning Home (BBC News 11-30-07)--four rare gorillas are being flown from South Africa to Cameroon, five years after they were illegally smuggled to Taiping Zoo in Malaysia (they arrived safely the next day). Although this does little to change the status of the critically endangered Western Lowland gorillas in Africa, this has a great symbolic significance to my mind.
The Shift is happening. Hang in there.
Blessings, Love and Light,
Russell
Great Shift Update Newsletter #20
November 2007Dear Great Shifters,
Chapter 8, Understanding the Shift (III): Something Amazing is Happening on Planet Earth, is finished and available to donors to the Great Shift Foundation. It is the concluding chapter of the book and provides a synthesis of higher dimensional perspectives on the Great Shift. I am working on final revisions to the Appendices and then will go back and finish Chapters 1 through 5. Perhaps Spirit will allow me to do intensive work on the book this month so it can be completed before the end of the year.
Global Proliferation of INGOs and NGOs working for Social Change. A little known trend that I take to be a sign that the Great Shift is happening is the proliferation of organizations that do not involve the participation or representation of national governments. I remember my mother, Elise Boulding, a well-known sociologist and peacemaker speaking in the 1970s of the importance of Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) for creating a more peaceful world. Many alternative terms are used to describe these organizations: non-state actors (NSAs), independent sector, volunteer sector, civil society, grassroots organizations, transnational social movement organizations, private voluntary organizations, self-help organizations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization). INGOs (International NGOs) are an especially important category of these organizations because they transcend national boundaries and allow people to connect with other like-minded folks in diverse cultures. It's hard to find systematic statistics on the number of INGOs. The earliest estimate I have found is that there were about 4,000 INGOs in 1972-1973 and this had grown to 20,000 in 1986 (1986 Yearbook of the Union of International Organizations). By 2001 the number had grown to 40,000.
Entrepreneur and activist Paul Hawken has written eloquently about what he calls "the largest social movement in all history" in the May/June 2007 issue of Orion magazine (http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/265/). During the past fifteen years, as Hawken traveled around the world giving lectures, he was impressed by the number of local organizations he encountered that were working toward ecological sustainability and social justice. His first estimate of the number of environmental, social justice and indigenous rights organizations was around 100,000. He now estimates that there are more than 1 million such organizations consisting of
tens of millions of ordinary and not-so-ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.
Positive Signs That a Shift is Happening. Korea continues to be the one bright spot in the geopolitical arena (BBC News headlines: Korean Leaders in Historic Talks (10/2/07), North Korea Agrees Nuclear Deadline (10/3/07), Korean Leaders Issue Peace Call (10/4/07). Here are a few more positive signs.
Summit Calls for Ministries and Departments of Peace in All Nations. The 3rd Global Summit for Ministries and Departments of Peace took place September 21-26 in Kisarazu and Tokyo, Japan. This extraordinary event began on the International Day of Peace and Global Ceasefire declared by the UN. It featured 21 country delegations, representing both civil society and parliamentarians, from all five continents, including Nepal, which became the second country after the Solomon Islands to form a Ministry of Peace, and Rwanda, a country that experienced genocide in 1994 (http://www.peoplesinitiativefordepartmentsofpeace.org/). On a personal note, my mother was on the U.S. Commission that led to the establishment of the United State Institute of Peace in 1986 (for more information about USIP see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Institute_of_Peace). The Commission held hearings all over the country, and I remember my mother saying that some of the strongest testimony in support of creating a Peace Academy came from the Army, Navy and Air Force War Colleges.
Jewish-Arab Circus (BBC News photo feature, first posted October 27, 2007). In northern Israel, Arab and Jewish children are finding common ground in an unusual way - at the only youth circus of its kind in the country. Based in the town of Carmiel, the Galilee Circus aims to bring the two communities together by teaching friendship and cooperation through the performing arts. There are 50 Arab and Jewish performers, from mainly Jewish Carmiel and Israeli Arab villages, who meet for classes twice a week in a community center gymnasium. Please view these photos and be inspired: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/07/middle_east_jewish_arab_circus/html/1.stm.
2007 Ozone Hole 'Smaller Than Usual' (Science Daily, 10/4/07)--The ozone hole over Antarctica has shrunk 30% compared to last year's record size. Scientists are not willing to predict that this is a trend, but this is certainly positive news (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071003100537.htm).
New Energy Sources and Inventions. If we had to depend on mainstream science and technology to get out of the mess we have made of our beautiful planet I would not see much hope for the future. The following link provides a good overview of the the types of technologies that will allow us to quickly wean ourselves from dependence on fossil fuels when the barriers to developing and using them crumble (this article also has a good analysis of why they have not become widely available): http://www.wanttoknow.info/newenergysources. As I was writing this newsletter I received notice of an award program offered by the Advanced Energy Research Organization (AERO) designed to bring legitimate inventors out of the wood works: http://www.aero2012.com/en/award.html. This website is also a good source of technical papers on this topic.
The Shift is happening. Hang in there.
Blessings, Love and Light,
Russell
Great Shift Update Newsletter #19
October 2007Dear Great Shifters,
Well, I am still here, feeling more chastened than sheepish (new readers might want to read last month's Newsletter for background). As far as I can tell the potential timeline split that could have created a catastrophic timeline did not occur, although I am personally aware of two occasions when it almost happened (which is why I feel more chastened than sheepish, but that's a story for another time). One indication that it did not happen is that the stalled final revisions to Chapter 8 of Preparing Ourselves for the Great Shift titled "Something Amazing is Happening on Planet Earth," are moving forward again. My sense is that completion of this chapter had to be delayed until the energies of the Eclipse window were resolved. Fortunately, no major revisions to the original chapter seem to be required.
An Assessment of the Recent Planetary Energetic Shifts. The last few months have seen huge energetic shifts on Earth, beginning with the Fire the Grid event in mid-July, followed by the twentieth anniversary of the Harmonic Convergence in mid-August, and concluding with the Eclipse Window from August 28 to September 11 (described in the last Newsletter). Influxes of energies of the sort that have never been experienced on Earth before continue to come in. The observations I share here come from personal experience, and anecdotal information arising from my connections with many Lightworkers. I also offer at the end of this section a few links to a few higher dimensional perspectives on the latest energetic shifts. The reports I am receiving from other Lightworkers is that they are all over the place in how they are feeling with the current planetary energies. Some are in bliss, but many are having a hard time physically, emotionally and financially (why so many are feeling especially stressed financially right now is a mystery to me). For those who are interested, I share my own recent experiences, which have not been easy, in Earth Energy Healing Network Newsletter #23.
The latest influx of energies seems to be precipitating a sorting-out process amongst Lightworkers as to which dimensional energies they will embody as the shift away from third-dimensional reality proceeds at what is likely to be an accelerated rate in the next ten to fifteen years. It is possible for high drama in interpersonal relationships to continue in the fourth dimension. What will not carry over from the third dimension is physically and emotionally abusive behavior. With the latest energetic shifts, it is possible for Lightworkers in large numbers to fully integrate fifth dimensional energies into their physical bodies. From my perspective this is not better than integrating fourth dimensional energies. It is more a matter of different than, and a little harder than, fully integrating fourth dimensional energies into the physical body, which most Lightworkers are able to do quite naturally. The main difference is that a much deeper clearing of the emotions of fear, anger, and ego attachment to one's work is required. It also requires an ability to interact lovingly with individuals who are caught up in third- and fourth-dimensional dramas without getting caught up the emotions that accompany the dramas. I find it interesting that I am seeing many Lightworkers (and I may end up being in this group, having recently reconnected with a consulting firm I worked with many years ago) returning to workplaces where they have to keep pretty quiet about their multidimensional understanding of reality. At the same time I am seeing increasing receptivity to such a multidimensional understanding when I have the courage to share it with audiences for whom I know I am pushing many beyond their comfort zone.
I honor all of you who are reading this, whatever energies you embody. Each of us has a role to play here on Earth. For those who prefer the fourth dimensional energies, enjoy the dramas of human experience. As you learn to play the roles without taking them too personally, you model and are able to teach others to not take them so personally as well, and that is when healing becomes easier. For those who are moving into fifth dimensional energies, you are moving into uncharted territory, where even those in higher dimensions have not trod. However, if you go so far out that you can't find your back, you will not be able to serve as guides for those who will eventually follow, which is all of humanity and those from many Star Nations. It becomes especially important for you to find ways to remain grounded in physical reality. I recommend the following recent messages from higher dimensional sources for those who feel called to be pathfinders: a message from Adama of Telos through Lauren Gorgo on September 22, 2007, a recent channeling through Story Waters (if you do not find the August 11, 2007 message titled You Are Ready on this page it may have been moved to some other location on the website)
Positive Signs That a Shift is Happening. I have to confess that it is still hard to find many indications in the mainstream press that the Shift is filtering down to the physical plane. The Worldwatch Institute has released its annual publication Vital Signs 2007-2008 and virtually all the major indicators for human and planetary health are grim. We humans have exceeded the carrying capacity of Earth to support our population for about 20 years. Here are a few positive headlines from that report:
Sustainable Communities Become More Popular--the Global Ecovillage Network reports that there are 375 ecovillages throughout the world.
Number of Violent Conflicts Steady--this rates as a positive headline to my mind. There has been a gradual decline in violent conflict globally since the 1990s.
Literacy Improves Worldwide--up from 75 percent in 1990 to 82 percent in 2000-2004.
Here are a few positive headlines from BBC Online News:
Child Mortality 'At Record Low' (September 13, 2007)--worldwide, the number of young children who died in 2006 dropped below 10 million for the first time. This was such an unexpected headline, I had to read it twice to make sure it said what I thought it said.
Bush Aide Says Warming Man-Made (September 14, 2007)--this is a pretty astounding headline given the Bush administration's historical stance on global warming.
Rwanda 'Most Improved' in Africa (September 25, 2007)--According to the Ibrahim Index, a composite of many factors analyzed by Harvard University academics, in the past five years Rwanda moved from 36th to 18th place in a ranking of best to worst governed countries in Africa.
Earth Changes Update. So far this year there have been four earthquakes with a magnitude 8.0 and greater (since 1973 the average has been about one a year, although there were also four earthquakes of this magnitude in the year 2000). Overall major global earthquake activity (6.1 and greater) seems to be up a bit this year, but in keeping with my hypothesis that human consciousness is now able to modify the location, and timing of earthquakes so as to minimize harm, death tolls have been modest (on the order of dozens to hundreds of people--I don't mean to sound callous by saying this--please see my definition of catastrophic death toll for context). I review data on global earthquake activity daily, and have lost count of the number of tsunami alerts that have not materialized. For example, on September 30 the New Zealand region's biggest earthquake since 1934 sparked an international tsunami alert; the earthquake caused only minor rises in the sea level near Tasmania and Bluff, Australia. In the meantime there have been swarms of small earthquakes on the west coast of the United States that have relieved stresses that might lead to really damaging earthquakes. The huge increase in moderate earthquakes in 2004, documented in ECGraph1, has continued with the number in this category exceeding 10,000/year since then.
Blessings, Love and Light,
Russell
Great Shift Update Newsletter #18 and EEH Newsletter #22
(August 29 to September, 11 2007)Dear Great Shifters and Earth Healers,
For the first time I am sending out a joint Newsletter to the Earth Energy Healing Network and Great Shift Update subscribers. The Lunar/Solar Eclipse Doorway from August 28 to September 11 feels to me to be an unusually important time period in the dimensional shift that Earth and humanity are experiencing. Spirit has brought two wonderful, intersecting, groups of people together through my two websites, and for the first time I am inviting all of you to join together with me to provide an energetic presence through a daily 20-minute meditation at 9:09 am EDT focusing on Mother Earth, ourselves (humanity) and all other beings on the planet asking simply that the energetic shifts during this time happen in as gentle a way as possible. For those who are not familiar with the procedure to connect with sessions that I do (these will be mostly done at Windgather Glade, but I will be in Boston from September 7 to 10) please follow this link: http://www.earthenergyhealing.org/EEHNetwork.htm#Schedule. I also encourage anyone who sets the intention to join these sessions to review the thoughts I have shared about the clarity and purity of our intentions: http://www.earthenergyhealing.org/EEHNetwork.htm#Intentions. Later in the newsletter I share some information from other sources about the significance of the Eclipse Doorway period.
What I have to say now is making me feel very vulnerable. I have Lightworker friends who seem to start feeling uncomfortable when I place myself in a situation of vulnerability, perhaps because they have many memories of being hurt when feeling vulnerable as part of the karmic dance of 3D human experience. The vulnerability I am feeling comes from a place of strength which recognizes that there are opportunities for growth when one is willing to take risks. Yesterday I was given what felt like a choice as difficult as any I have been given since I said almost five years ago "I am ready, take me as far and as fast as you can." On very few occasions have I hesitated when given an new opportunity for growth. The choice I was given yesterday felt comparable to the time I was asked to make a commitment to playing the Game of Duality as "high" as it goes. In some ways the commitment to playing the Game of Duality to its completion was easier because I was pretty much clueless as to what I was getting myself into by making that commitment.
I have considered carefully the possible consequences of choice I was given yesterday. One possible outcome is that I will look very foolish to a lot of people (you, my dear readers). That actually is the best case scenario as far as I'm concerned. The worst case scenario is that this is the last you will hear from me. I shed some tears considering this scenario, but I cannot rule out this possibility with the choice I ended up making.
Many higher dimensional sources that I am reading indicate that many are in for a very bumpy ride between now and the end of the year. This is entirely consistent with my understanding of how the Great Shift is happening. Our economic, political, social and religious institutions need to be shaken up in order to be transformed, and the best information I have at this time is that the time is "soon." Nevertheless, many people continue to be tapping into the old catastrophic timelines and information came to me yesterday indicating that our friends in the Loyal Opposition, see the Eclipse Doorway as their last chance to divert a sizable segment of Earth's population into a timeline that manifests the fears of the conspiracy buffs.
This information posed me with a dilemma, given my commitment to the No Soul Left Behind program. If such a timeline split occurs, and the Russell in this physical incarnation on Earth has to make a choice, which one do I choose: the positive timeline of the Great Shift, which is already well-anchored from my perspective, or the timeline that I perceived in the early 1990's where a Great Dying of humans takes place? When that was my vision of the future, I prepared myself to carry love and joy through the monumental suffering of such a timeline. Yesterday it felt like I was being asked whether I was still willing to be a part of such a timeline. It is entirely possible that I do not need to make a choice, but it feels like I have to make the decision as if it were a choice. I am declaring now that if a timeline split occurs, and I have to make a choice, I will be going with those who have been expecting the the worst for the future.
In the meantime I invite you to join me during the daily 20-minute sessions at 9:09 am EDT through September 11. If you hear from me after then, it will be a sheepish Russell who greets you. If you don't hear from me after then, know that I am where I can be of greatest service to humanity and Mother Earth in the physical plane, and that I will always be available energetically to support you as the Great Shift unfolds.
Love, Russell
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION ON THE LUNAR/SOLAR ECLIPSE DOORWAY
August 27 Message from the Star Elders regarding the upcoming Lunar/Solar Eclipse doorway:
The lunar eclipse on August 28 and the following partial solar eclipse on September 11 is a very important doorway for humanity. In the last few months the light workers of the planet have seriously undermined the forces of darkness. Thank you very much for this. Because of this, it has created a huge shift in the construction of the mass consciousness of humanity. It has also created a great up-liftment in your spirit.
During this eclipse doorway everyone will have the opportunity to reboot an upgrade their entire being. You will be able to reboot an upgrade your body, your spirit, your soul, and your evolution. This is a very powerful time.
Rebooting your life is very much like rebooting your computer. When you upload a new computer program you have to turn off your computer and started up again so that the new program will work properly. That's exactly what's going to happen to all of you in this doorway. No one is exempt from this reboot. Once rebooted, the old programs systems and manifestations will no longer work properly. So if you're finding that certain areas of your life are not flowing or manifesting in the way they should, maybe this is the universe saying that it is an old virus ridden program, and it is time to delete it from your consciousness. Why would you want to keep it anyway?
From the June 21 solstice, to the Perseid meteor showers culminating on August 12, you have received, if you were aware of it or not, new programs in your consciousness. Now it is time to put them to work. If you are feeling the building pressure in your chest, almost to the point where you feel like you can't breathe, then you are already feeling this reboot.
We don't have to tell you this because you already know, but those old programs you've been running for many, many centuries were flawed. They had viruses that created fear, lack, anger, grief, shame, despair, poverty, war and all other atrocities against spirit and humanity. These faulty programs pushed you into corners in which your reactions were not coming from a place of light within you. It's time to forgive yourself and others for the perceived wrongful things you felt you had done, or have done to you. It's time to realize that living in a dualistic world is a great challenge. But you also must know that we see you as the brave courageous souls, the ones that dared to traverse the reality of extreme light and dark.
To ease the effects of this collective consciousness reboot, it would be greatly beneficial to you all to take some time each day to let go of the old you. Let go of the old world. Let go of your past, your wounds, your betrayals, your insecurities, and even your beliefs that you are somehow not a brilliant masterful being. Take time each day to remember who you truly are, not what you've been told by others, or what society would make of you. Remember if the Great Creator made you just the way you are, then it should be good enough for you… yes?
By the year 2008 you will have completely crossed the bridge and have begun acclimatizing to the New World. It is a much higher altitude/frequency than you are used to. It will take some adjusting. This is what you might call the shift to the ages. You have pushed the evolution envelope by your strong will, tenacity and strong intense spiritual focus, by an entire four years from our predicted shift dates in 2012. So we don't want to hear you thinking to yourself that you are less than a lighted master. You're the first human beings in a dualistic 3-D reality that has been able to push the envelope, and to push the envelope by four entire years is still astonishing to us.
Be open to the fact that what lies ahead of you in the very near future is wildly astonishing, beautiful, wonderful, peaceful, and harmonious, and a place you remember deep inside as home. Why will it be this way you ask? Because you not only wanted this new reality, and believed it was possible, but are now beginning to act as if this amazing new future is already here. When you do act as if, you quit being an initiate, and step into the role of the living master. We are always with you. (Special mailing of the Center of the Sun Newsletter; to sign up for this newsletter use this link: http://www.kachina.net/~alunajoy/joinnewsletter.html).
Valerie Donner in her August 27 Straight from the Heart Newsletter identifies September 9 as an especially significant date within the lunar/solar eclipse doorway (numerologists translate 9-9-2007 to 9-9-9 (2+7), and this date also the 36th week of the year (3+6 = 9) and the 252nd day (2+5+2 =9). I'm not really all that much into numerology myself, but many higher dimensional sources that I respect place significance in the Divine mathematics of numbers, so I pay attention when dates are identified as significant numerologically. In the practice of numerology, the number 9 is the number of completion. Valerie concludes by saying:So 9-9-9 will be a very powerful day. It will be the turning point for humanity and this planet. The 9-vibration is about letting go, about transformation and about starting a new cycle. Humanity will let go of duality, of three-dimensional thinking and embrace unconditional love and detached compassion, which are fourth and fifth dimensional qualities. Straight from the Heart Newsletter (http://www.thegroundcrew.com/updates/vdonner/2007/082707_print.htm)Great Shift Update Newsletter #17
August 2007 (posted July 24)Dear Great Shifters,
I'm sending this Newsletter out a little early because I will be traveling from July 24 to August 18 during which I do not expect to have easy access to email. As noted below, this family vacation time will also be a time of reflection and reassessment as I consider the direction of my Great Shift work. I am still learning the ropes with the service I am using to send out these Newsletter by email. Subscribers who are set up to received text-only messages should find the Newsletter more readable now (let me know if that isn't the case). In that format, you will need to copy links from the Newsletter into you web browser rather than click on them.
Positive Signs that the Shift is Happening (2): In July huge energetic shifts happened on Earth with July 7 (7-7-07) seeing a big influx of energies followed by Fire the Grid on July 17, which I have a sense was an event of comparable significance to the Harmonic Convergence in August 1987. My main interest now is in seeing evidence of these changes filtering down to the third dimensional level. Although I can't say that peace is breaking out all over, there do seem to be some positive moves in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The following link describes some marvelous work that Byron Katie has done in that area: www.byronkatie.com/2007/07/an_email_from_orly_in_israel.htm. This is the kind of healing work, which doesn't get reported in the mainstream press, that will support real breakthroughs when they happen.
I don't pay much attention to the mainstream media because it continues to be so distorted. However, I do receive by email the daily headlines in the New York Times. I was struck by the following headlines, because they were so unexpected based on previous reports on North Korea:
North Koreans Say They've Shut Nuclear Reactor. The North Korean claim, synchronized with a shipment of fuel oil from South Korea, marked the first step toward reversing a confrontation with the U.S (New York Times, Sunday, July 15, 2007).
U.N. Confirms N. Korea Reactor Shut. U.N. inspectors have confirmed that North Korea has shut down its sole functioning nuclear reactor, its first step toward halting production of nuclear weapons (New York Times, Monday, July 16, 2007).
The final item I would like to share is purely anecdotal, and comes from an American friend who has lived in Paris for many years. He tells me that in recent years progressive, Green Party activists have managed to gain enough political power in the city of Paris to transform it from a place of grid-locked car traffic that made local bus transport very slow to a bicycle-friendly city where buses run efficiently and cars are not quite the nuisance they used to be.
Crossroads: Spirit has led me on a merry chase during the researching, writing, and editing of the Preparing Ourselves for the Great Shift. As a scientist who was used to doing things in a logical, orderly sequence, I had to get used to the nonlinear way in which the manuscript evolved. It had so many starts and stops that several times I wondered if it would ever be completed. Even when the first draft was completed the merry chase continued with numerous delays and detours in the final editing. From the start I had a sense that I was to publish it myself, and my earlier experience with a small press I had established seemed to have been preparation for this work. Launching of the Great Shift Foundation seemed to be another major step in the process. However, it is now clear that the relatively modest traffic that the website receives (around 2000 visitors a month) would have to increase a hundred-fold for the Foundation to be financially viable. There are ways to do this and I have a pretty good understanding of what is required. The Board of the Foundation has wisely asked me to consider the implications of such a huge increase in visitors to the website and whether I, a person who has always worked out at home with no office support staff, am ready and willing to deal with such a change. I'm not sure. While traveling from July 24 to August 18, a trip which will include camping in the Black Hills, Colorado Rockies and travel in the Pacific Northwest, I will be considering a number of options, including seeking an established publisher to bring out the book, and looking for work in my old fields of technical expertise.
Blessings, Love and Light, Russell
Great Shift Update Newsletter #16
July 2007Dear Great Shifters,
With this Newsletter I am reporting major changes that have taken place with the Great Shift website. It is now the website of the Great Shift Foundation, which I trust will grow to have the capacity to financially support the work of many Lightworkers around the planet. The Foundation has a wonderful Board of Directors who have challenged me to think outside of the box I created, which made me think that the final revisions of my book Preparing Ourselves for the Great Shift needed to be completed before it could be made available to people. The website is now set up to receive online donations via credit/debit cards and PayPal and all donors will receive advance copies of the final Chapters of the book via the Internet, if they so wish. The first installment is ready to go and subsequent final chapters will be sent out as fast as final revisions and editing allow (Make a Donation).
A Personal Shift: One of the reasons final revisions to the book have proceeded slowly is that Spirit has been placing more emphasis on my higher dimensional work in support of the Great Shift (if you would like to know more about this, you can visit my Earth Energy Healing website). In June I experienced a completion, of sorts, in the process that began in November of 2002 when I said "I'm ready, take me as far and as fast as you can." I am now feeling a renewed focus on what I like to call the No Soul Left Behind Program, which requires me to ground myself more thoroughly in material reality. I am working more in the garden and around Windgather homestead. I say a bit more about these personal changes in the July Earth Energy Healing Newsletter.
The upshot of all this is that it feels like I am turning toward more of a focus on the human side of the Great Shift. To this end, there will be a new regular feature that will focus on signs that the huge, positive, energetic shifts that many higher dimensional see happening on Earth are actually filtering down into third dimensional reality.
Positive Signs that the Shift is Happening: My father had an aphorism: "Whatever exists is possible!" When we have examples of the human capacity to live in loving community with each other and in harmony with Mother Earth, we are given glimpses of the New Earth. Below I offer links that provide information about three very different, but positive examples of human communities. Explore these websites and be inspired:
--Gaviotas, Columbia: www.friendsofgaviotas.org.
--Curitiba, Brazil: www.curitiba-brazil.com.
--Damanhur, Italy: www.damanhur.info.
It's still hard to see much positive happening in the Middle East but here is a link to a video with young Israelis and Palestinians saying that it is time for peace: http://assets.onevoicemovement.org/video/wef/wtd_wef_flash.html. They are the ones who will lead the way.
Earth Changes Update: With the shift in focus of the Newsletter to emphasize positive signs of the Great Shift filtering down into third dimensional aspects of human behavior, I will be probably be saying less about Earth changes in future Newsletters. However, I feel I should follow up on my report in the May Newsletter that that major earthquake activity was way up through to the end of April. May and June were relatively quite months in terms of major earthquakes so the projected total number of earthquakes based on the first half of this year is about the same as the previous few years.
Blessings, Love and Light, Russell
Great Shift/Earth Changes Update Newsletter #15
May 2007Dear friends,
The energies of the planet are shifting so rapidly now, Spirit has had me working on about a half dozen projects in addition to the Great Shift book. Final revisions and editing are proceeding, and I have given up setting target dates for when it will be available. I will let you know when. In the meantime there are interesting things to report in terms of Earth changes.
Earth Changes Update: Volcanic activity in 2006 continued at the record high set in 2005 of 68 volcanoes, as the fifty-year trend continues upwards with the addition of one new volcano every 5.6 years. In 2006 the number of major earthquakes greater than 6.1 was down slightly as measured by the USGS NEIC global database (121 vs 139 in 2005) and the University of Edinburgh database (98 vs 104 in 2005--I exclude aftershocks in this count). What is really interesting though is that major earthquake activity(>6.1) is way up so far this year. As of the end of April the projected annual rate of major earthquakes using the USGS database is 155--the only other year of record that exceeded this amount was in 1995 with 176 big quakes. Even more striking is that April had the largest number of earthquakes in a month since I have been tracking this closely--23, for an annual rate of 276 major earthquakes! The high level of seismic activity hasn't received much press, because fatalities so far this year have scarcely exceeded 100 people. These data trends continue to be consistent with my hypothesis that human consciousness is now able to modify the location, and timing of earthquakes so as to minimize harm.
Please note also that I have added a new section to the links page to websites that cover Frontier Science and Science and Spirit
Blessings, Love and Light, Russell
Great Shift/Earth Changes Update Newsletter #14
January 2007Dear friends,
Those of you who received my Earth Energy Healing Newsletter know that I am going on "vacation" January and February for a more personal spiritual focus. The one outward thing I am not cutting back on is finishing the Great Shift book. This website will also get a new look as The Great Shift Foundation website, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting all aspects of the Great Shift. I can't promise when, but the next Newsletter you receive will be to announce how to order Preparing Ourselves for the Great Shift, Volume I: A Guide to Cosmic and Global Aspects of the Coming Dimensional Shift in Human Consciousness. Until then...
Blessings, Love and Light, Russell
Great Shift/Earth Changes Update Newsletter #13
December 2006Dear friends,
The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men. Spirit has me juggling a half dozen projects right now, and the Great Shift book spent most of the month up in the air. I did make good progress on Chapter 8 and I have included an excerpt below. However, it looks like my January 1 publication target date was optimistic. I promise that subscribers to this Newsletter will know as soon as it becomes available.
Earth Changes Update: It's been a while since I identified a catastrophe of the month. This month it is Sunspot 927. On November 28 Mitch Battros (www.earthchangestv.com) issued a warning about Sunspot 927, a very unusual one which "could spell disaster" in the next 5 to 10 days (December 3 to 8). On November 29 he reported that the ring seemed to be breaking up, reducing the possibility of a "nasty" solar flare and CME (coronal mass ejection). On November 30 a moderate geomagnetic storm was reported and was predicted to cause extreme weather and increased volcanic and earthquake activity. My thesis, suggesting that human consciousness can modify such events so as to minimize harm, would appear to have been starting to take effect on November 29. Since I am posting this before the indicated time frame for a disaster (December 3 to 8), we shall see if I end up having to eat my words. Speaking of earthquake activity, November had 14 major earthquakes greater than 6.1, the largest number in a month since the mid 1990s, with no catastrophic harm as far as I have seen in the press. We are making a difference.
Excerpt from Chapter 8 (Subject to further editing)
8.1 The Eyes of the Cosmos Are Upon Us
As I began to piece together my own understanding of the Great Shift in human consciousness I became increasingly awed and astonished by the perspective the many higher dimensional sources are offering concerning its nature and significance. Something amazing is happening on planet Earth, and individuated consciousnesses throughout the cosmos are focusing their attention on this blue orb in space and its inhabitants. To realize what a stretch it was for me to come to this understanding you have to realize how differently geologists look at things than most people. As a geologist, when I became discouraged with the state of the world, I used to shift gears to a billion-year cosmic perspective that saw what was happening on Earth as insignificant in the larger scheme of things. The notion that the human species represented the apex of the evolutionary process struck me as arrogant.
When I began encountering information from higher dimensional sources suggesting that what is happening on Earth today has cosmic significance and we humans are central to the process, my initial reaction was to look for signs of ego-filtration in the channeled material. I did not find the ego-filtration I thought I would find, and as I encountered more and more higher dimensional sources saying so, my methodology required me to conclude that something special is happening on planet Earth. Just as Mother Mary gave birth to the Christ-child in a humble stable, Mother Earth, located in a back-water arm of the Milky Galaxy, which itself has nothing special to distinguish itself from billions of other galaxies, is giving birth to something new and wonderful in the Cosmos.
Drunvalo Melchizedek reports that it became apparent within the first three years of the Sirian Experiment of 1972 (discussed in Section 7.4.2) that something very unusual was beginning to happen on Earth, something that no one anywhere in the galaxy had ever seen or expected.
As this strange phenomenon began, people from all parts of the galaxy became very interested in us. Before this time we were just another speck in the worlds of light. As the experiment continued, even other galaxies began to watch us. And on dimensional levels, all of life shifted it attention to our humble little planet. We became a superstar in the universe--and everyone knew but us! (Melchizedek, 2000:426).
In the rest of this section I will let the higher dimensional sources speak for themselves on this theme, with a minimum of commentary on my part. Djwhal Khul is an Ascended Master who has spoken through many individuals. Speaking through Janet McClure a few years before the 1987 Harmonic Convergence he said:
In a very special sense, the cosmos watches our efforts. The Earth is a small, dark planet of relative unimportance compared to the totality of creation, but it is watched carefully to see how we utilize some very special gifts given to us by the Creator, some very special energies that are being spun down for our use. The Creator is doing some "experimentation"...to see how evolution can be speeded up. Djwhal Khul (1983-1984) McClure (1996:307-308).
The Pleiadians are higher dimensional extraterrestrials who have been long involved in the human experience on Earth. Speaking through Barbara Marciniak in the early 1990s, they support Djwhal Khul's statement:
Your Earth is presently moving very rapidly toward playing a major part in a tremendously cosmic universal drama. When a planetary sphere, a planetary home, is sponsoring or hosting events of such magnitude, many come from far and wide to participate. This is not a small event, but an integral part of a very gigantic plan that is set about to move energies in very different packages throughout the Universe and galaxy. The Pleiadians (Marciniak, 1991:169).
As does the HDB Zoosh:
Your time is a pivotal time for the change, not only of your dimension but of your whole universe (Zoosh/Robert Shapiro, Shining The Light III, May 26, 1995:164).
The angelic energy called Kryon, channeled through Lee Carroll, reinforces this further, and gives us a glimpse of the respect that is given to the souls of many diverse origins who have chosen to participate in the Earth experiment:
Because of your work the direction of the actions of the universe will be altered. Entire worlds will now have a plan that has substance...There will come at time, when you travel the universe, when all who meet you along the road will stop and stare in awe at your colors, and will recognize your celebrity. They will ask you what it was like to participate in the experiment of Earth! Like massive badges and awards, your colors will tell the story of the group of warriors who did so much for so many! The legends of your work will be universally known, and the word Earth will mean so much more than just a planet. Kryon III (1995:18-19).
The HDB Ortan agrees, although his language is less effusive:
We have come to a time upon the earth plane where your planet has become of great interest. The changes that are occurring for your planet, the ascension of your planet, the evolution of your planet and all those who ride upon it, is an important move, if you like, within the divine plan, if you wish to call it that. Ortan (de Alberdi, 2000:116)
The angelic energy that identifies itself as The Group, speaking through Steve Rother, also sees something unusual happening on Earth:
And here you are changing All That Is, for all eyes in the universe are upon you this day as you now move the game of free choice to the next level. (The Group/Steve Rother, Sedona Journal of Emergence September 2004:43).
Finally, Archangel Michael, through Ronna Herman, speaks of more than our universe, but of the omniverse being affected by what is happening here:
Now, however, during this unique time of tremendous evolutionary expansion and the culmination of a great cosmic cycle, wondrous beings of light from throughout the omniverse have come forth to observe and take part in the birthing of the next cycle of creation. (Archangel Michael/Ronna Herman, "Creating Your Own Sphere of Light", Sedona Journal of Emergence, August, 2004:32).
Before you get too puffed up by all the attention we are receiving, I would like to interject my geologist's perspective again. The sources I have cited above represent individuated consciousnesses which have a special interest in the creative opportunities of the evolutionary soul path. There are realities and galaxies and universes where there is no evolutionary process, where consciousness is perfectly happy to remain exactly where it is. According to Zoosh only about 1 percent of the total "mass" of All That Is consists of evolutionary beings (Zoosh/Shapiro, Shining The Light III, July 19 & 23, 1995:274).
So here we have another Divine Dichotomy. Something special is happening on planet Earth and is receiving the focused attention of evolutionary beings throughout the cosmos. On the other hand, we aren't even on the radar screen for 99% of All That Is.
Blessings, Love and Light, Russell
Great Shift/Earth Changes Update Newsletter #12
November 2006Dear friends,
I'm working on the last chapter of the Great Shift book and scrambling to learn internet marketing techniques and how to use Adobe Acrobat so as to have the eBook ready by my target date of January 1, 2007. I am also in the process of creating The Great Shift Foundation, which will receive proceeds from sale of the book. Starting next month I will probably start the process of turning this website into the website for the Foundation.
I would welcome blurbs from any of you who have read what I have written so far and liked it, to post on the sales webpage for the book. Email me at: jrb47@bluemarble.net. Of course I welcome critical comments as well--they help me keep on my toes, but please understand that I probably won't post them on the sales page.
Earth Changes Update: October was one of the most seismically active months so far this year (only May had more major earthquakes 6.1 and greater) and is notable in that many of the major earthquakes happened on or near land (Hawaii, Phillipines, Chile, Peru, Japan and Indonesia) yet few, if any, deaths have been reported. We are making a difference! In my latest Earth Energy Healing Newsletter I briefly report on an experience indicating that more and more are consciously entering into this work.
Excerpt from Chapter 7. Below is an excerpt from Chapter 7 that discusses another interesting explanation for why volcanic and earthquake activity are causing less harm than they might otherwise. This comes at the end of the section that discusses evidence that Earth is already well into the dimensional shift:
I will conclude this section with another perspective from [the higher dimensional Being] Zoosh on how the timeline and dimensional shift is working:
As I've said, these Earth changes are happening massively at 3.0 dimension right now as we speak….For instance, I'm thinking of a volcano right now that is erupting at 3.0 dimension in downtown Portalegre, Brazil. (Zoosh/Shapiro, Shining The Light IV, May 23, 1996:260).
Zoosh goes on to say that the volcano was erupting full bore right in the middle of town and that some individuals in Portalegre occasionally smelled sulfur for no particular reason. In one instance an instrument that can register gases showed an unusual rise in sulfur content of the air, which was interpreted as an anomaly because there was no scientific explanation for it.
I admit that this sounds pretty far out, but I've actually run across a report in the mainstream press of inexplicable events that can be explained as geophysical dimensional "bleed through" similar to that described by Zoosh in Brazil. In an article titled "Mystery Underground Vibrations Around the US," dated April 25, 2006, Alex Roth, staff writer with the San-Diego Union-Tribune, reports that residents of San Diego experienced physical manifestations of an earthquake on April 4, 2006 which was not recorded on seismographs or attributable to sonic booms from aircraft. Even the UFO community had not reports of unusual activity at the time. While researching the story, Roth identified similar inexplicable incidents in Maine, Alabama, Mississippi, and North Carolina within the prior four months.
Blessings, Love and Light, Russell
Great Shift/Earth Changes Update Newsletter #11
October 2006Dear friends,
Writing of the remaining chapters of the Great Shift book is proceeding well, and I have set a target date of January 1, 2007 for publication as an eBook with a printed version to be available at a later date. For those who are interested, there is an article on easing the most common symptoms of spiritual awakening (headaches and fatigue) in my latest Earth Energy Healing Newsletter.
Blessings, Love and Light, Russell
Great Shift/Earth Changes Update Newsletter #10
September 2006Dear friends,
When Spirit brought writing of the Great Shift book to a halt in March, just one-and-a-half chapters short of finishing Volume I, several Lightworker friends suggested that part of the reason was that there was new information that I needed before it could be finished. For several months now I have had the sense that I had the information I was missing earlier this year, and I am happy to announce that Spirit has moved finishing and publishing Volume I to the top of my "to do" list with the notation "ASAP." In order to concentrate on writing, I am discontinuing the Earth Changes Update portion of this Newsletter. I will use this space to report progress in writing. I plan to post a draft of Chapter 7 on the website when it is finished, but I want to forewarn readers that you will need to purchase the book to read the last chapter. I have lived primarily on savings for three years now, and will need to receive some financial return for the time I have invested in this project.
Blessings, Love and Light, Russell
Great Shift/Earth Changes Update Newsletter #9
August 2006Dear friends,
Things have been heating up literally and metaphorically. Minneapolis, Minnesota, where one of our sons lives, has been sweltering in temperatures of 100-degree Fahrenheit (38-degrees C) while we in southern Indiana, 600 miles (1000 km) south, swelter in 90-degree temperatures. Tempers and concomitant violence are flaring in the Middle East, which has been a major focus of my Earth energy healing work lately (see the