Power of the Present

“The power of the present moment”

April 26, 2014 by angelicguides through Taryn Crimi

Today we would like to focus your attention upon the power that exists within the present moment. Surely many of you have been told that the present moment is all that ever really exists. However it is our intention to share with you why the now moment is so transformational yet it is so often allowed to slip away while you focus on future events and past regrets.

We have shared with you that time is an illusion. We often refer to all time as being concurrent or simultaneous as each moment is simply another perspective of the now moment. Much of your energy is wasted upon your focus of “future” or “past” events. We often say that if you feel worried you are focused on the future, if you are sad or remorseful you are focused on the past and if you are at peace you are fully present in the now moment. Certainly you do have the ability to feel negatively in the present moment however it is only in the now moment that you have the ability to shift your perspective.

Many of you have allowed much of your life to pass by without truly feeling the power that the now moment holds. It is where all of your creative power lies. Being present in the now moment allows you to accurately gauge how you are feeling, right now. What you feel right now is attracting more experiences similar to the vibration that you are choosing to maintain. Many allow the concerns of the future to rob them of the peace of mind they can hold in the now moment. We can assure you that the desires and the dreams that you have for your “future” will bring you no more peace of mind, no more happiness than you are able to secure in this now moment. Yet many look to the future and say “I will be happy when or I will be happy if”; however the happiness and peace of mind that you seek will continue to elude you if you continue to seek to find your happiness in what you have not manifested yet. We are not saying that you cannot have dreams and desires to work towards, what we are saying is that accomplishing those dreams and desires will not bring you more peace of mind and joy if you do not learn to stay present in the moment and enjoy the moment you are in.

You see, you will continue to push the dreams and desires into your future while you chase the “dangling carrot”. Why you ask, because you are not vibrating at the resonance required to attract those dreams and desires into your life. We can tell you that the feeling of gratitude is far more powerful in manifesting your dreams than any other emotion that you can summon. You see, so many are trying to manifest their dreams and desires by feeling the gratitude they “will” feel when they have it. Yet this is not actually how the manifestation process works. You manifest your dreams and desires by being grateful right now for all that you do have. Only then will you attract more to be grateful for.

Many of you have learned of the tremendous power your thoughts hold, and as a result many of you try to force yourselves to think positively as often as you possibly can remember to. To this we smile. Surely, a positive mind will attract positive experiences, what you focus on expands. However, it is not that you have to continually think of positive thoughts, but rather be joyful, grateful and at peace in this now moment that will bring to you more moments that will allow you to continue to feel joyful, grateful and at peace.

As you sit and ponder how your dreams and desires will manifest into your lives and how happy you will be when you achieve those dreams, you continue to keep them in your “future”. So often do we hear “If only my dreams came true today I could then be happy and at peace”. Let us share with you the key to manifesting your dreams; the more you enjoy the now moment the faster your dreams and desires will flow into your present now moment. When you learn to live in the present moment, synchronicity aligns with your being in every moment and you will wonder how you ever lived any other way. You see, contrary to what many believe, the obstacles on your path are not in your way; rather they are the way to manifesting your dreams and desires. They are part of the manifestation of your dreams. If they were not, they would not be there. The more you enjoy the path that you are on, the faster your dreams and desires will be able to manifest in your reality.

We would like for you to become present in this very moment, what do you feel right now? Do not think about what must get done in the next hour, day or week, we want you to think about this very moment. How do you feel? You will find that in this exact now moment you have the ability to be at peace, to feel joy, to choose happiness. The stress that many of you feel on a regular basis fades, when you zero in on this exact now moment, with no other thoughts, cares or concerns other than this exact moment. It is only when you allow yourself to start focusing on the future again that you find the fear, frustration, concern, stress, judgment and worry to reenter your mind. To constantly live in the future of “what’s to come” is a learned habit that many of you have formed, however each of you have the ability to retrain your mind to be present in the now moment much more often.

When you feel the rush of fear, worry and stress begin to flood your mind we ask that you direct your focus once again back to this present now moment. The worries that you hold are based on “if’s” and impending probabilities, yet they have not actually happened. Those manifestations are only what your logical mind fears “will” take place. The only way that you can prevent or solve those probable future concerns is being fully present in this now moment. We ask that you allow yourself the gift of peace that can only be felt in this now moment; it is where your creative power lies. You will direct your future now moments based on the thoughts, feelings, and emotions that you hold right now. Remember, fear and happiness are both choices, its up to you to decide which one you would like to feel right now.

So we remind you, be present, be in peace and enjoy this moment.

In love and light, we are your Angelic Guides

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The Event In Truth by Karen Doonan

The EVENT in TRUTH

By Karen Doonan at Truth Codes

March 4, 2014

Many of you may have questioned why I have been reticent to talk in depth about the EVENT, many channels have also touched upon the EVENT but with little depth and there is a solid reason for this. Many filter out that the reality that exists around you, through you and within you INTERACTS with you, through you and within you at all moments of all moments. In other words the old 3d earth created reality is not a “static” reality, it moves and shifts as ALL move and shift. You are TAUGHT within the old 3d earth created reality that you are born into the human race and that you are then affected by all that is ALREADY here, this is highly distorted for human life expands and shifts at all moments of all moments, for energy JUST IS and energy flows constantly at all moments of all moments.

The difference between the old 3d earth created reality and the New Earth is that the old 3d earth created reality has a LIMIT, it has a CEILING as it were, so you can have expansion but only to a certain frequency level, beyond this you are contained and suppressed and the way in which the teachings of the old 3d earth created reality are designed you are SELF POLICED at various points up until the very last edge of the bandwidth.

Many of you are now experiencing this “CEILING” and many of you may be in much anxiety for you can FEEL the push of the New Earth energies moving you HIGHER in frequency and vibration but you may be blind at a very human conscious waking mind level to where you are in fact “going”. In TRUTH you are EXPANDING, but you are expanding into a reality that you have been PREVENTED from ever experiencing at a human conscious waking mind level.

View yourself as within a bubble, this bubble is pretty strong, the bubble in this analogy you have been taught is the edge of the world, as you look to the sky and to the clouds you see the edge of said “bubble”. Everything within this bubble you are TAUGHT is safe, at all times you are TAUGHT to remain within the bubble and are taught that anything outwith this bubble is a danger to you.

Much like animals in a field that has an electric fence around the field you only have to venture to the edge of the field, FEEL the jolt of electricity and you never have to move anywhere near the fence again. Much like the bubble, except the frequency of the energetic space that planet earth resides within has just expanded, so the bubble is being burst not only from the inside but from BEYOND.

Remember you are incarnate into a human vehicle, but you are not totally incarnate into your human vehicle, your SOUL resides OUT WITH your human vehicle and therefore OFF PLANET. This is filtered out by many in their human form, as the SOUL is not physically seen then the human logical mind assumes that the physical representation that you have taken upon and within this planet is all that there is.

The “ascension” process up until this moment has sought to align you fully with your SOUL, so that you are collecting and healing the fragments of SELF that have been scattered across the various karmic dimensional timelines and this strengthens you at a SOUL level, this then flows INTO and through your human vehicle as the LOVE that IS, in TRUTH you are balancing yourself both OFF and ON planet. So you are balancing and heightening your energy from BOTH SIDES of the BUBBLE in this analogy. This works to BURST THE BUBBLE of containment and many of you are reaching this frequency.

ALL is frequency and the removal of the “ceiling”, the bursting of the bubble if you will is PERSONAL and UNIQUE to each individual human vehicle alive upon and within this planet. This is why I have always stated that the EVENT is personal and why many have filtered this out, allowing the teachings to help them filter out the personal life that is lived upon and within this planet.

For how much you have aligned with your SOUL is personal to your SOUL mission and the reason for your incarnation upon and within this planet. NOT ALL HAVE THE SAME MISSION OR REASON to have incarnated upon and within this planet. This is contrary to much of the distorted spiritual teachings within the old 3d earth created reality that seek to teach that ALL ARE ONE but that ALL have the same mission. This is not TRUTH and is not supported in the New Earth.

At this moment upon and within planet earth you are asked to find BALANCE and to allow the flow of the LOVE that IS to gain in momentum and to flow FREELY through you, around you and within you and to allow the events that are placed in your waking reality and have been manifest by both YOU at a personal human conscious waking mind level and YOUr SOUL to show you TRUTH to new levels.

Life upon and within planet earth for the entire human race will now shift and expand and grow for the bubble as it bursts will allow a more intense and concentrated flow of the New Earth energies into and within the planets surface. View it as a giant bubble and the 7 billion human vehicles each personally piercing through to their New Earth realities. When “critical mass” is achieved then the entire bubble that is old 3d earth created reality will dissolve completely. This is a process that unfolds each moment to each moment and NO timescale can be placed on this as 7 billion human vehicles and therefore 7 billion SOULS are interacting with this at all moments of all moments.

At this moment you are asked to LET GO and allow the flow. From this ALL else flows, having TRUST and FAITH in this process will allow this to flow more smoothly, just because you cannot at a human physical waking mind level “see” beyond the bubble of the old 3d earth created reality does not negate what is beyond.

If you are driving a car you do not need to see the entire road spread out before you, you drive each stretch of the road, trusting the vehicle will get you to your destination by following the road as it illuminates. YOUr SOUL has a birds eye view of your journey, your human vehicle has a road level view. TRUST in your SOUL will see you navigate beyond where you have ever gone in this your human form upon this planet.

“LOVE is the answer, no matter the question”

Kx

Absent Limits

A wonderful reminder from our friend Sophia Love:

How will you spend it?

How many times must you read or hear or see something that validates your own knowing – before you trust your own truth? The ones that have come before you, those you’ve heard tell of, that have done the seemingly impossible – did not hold any greater power than you do right now.

The difference is that they believed. They did not come up to the moment and look around for some greater or wiser “other” to explain to them the process. They showed up and did what came naturally to them. They operated from their core truth. It was all they knew. It was enough.

The ideas embedded deeply in your subconscious around hierarchy, worship, fear and payment were planted there intentionally from the beginning. They come from training, not truth.

As the story of the origin of man is told, it sounds familiar. There may be a part of you questioning which chapters are true NOW. There have been so very many lies. But you know. It is held within you.

There is no place in which you are less. Throw out the word “only”. You are not merely a color or a gender or a name – you are a god. You hold no limitations.

Your life is not here to be spent, as if in exchange for something else, something better. It is meant to be lived. In all cases there is nothing better to trade it in for. There is right now, the focal point of creation, the moment where it all begins.

What will you do with this treasure? There is no greater gift than NOW. Enlightenment does not take you away from anything. It exposes what’s been there all along. You do not need to learn how to be what you are. Listen. You’ve carefully placed reminders all around you.

They show up in whispers and websites, neighbors and strangers. This is not a test and no studying is necessary. You cannot cheat. You wrote it and are taking it as a sort of game. You can play as long as you choose.

As we engage you’ll recognize and remember moves you’ve made before, many times. There are old favorites, signature strategies meant to supply specific emotional content. Now they’ve been exposed. You are free to choose the outcome of this round. The familiar pulls but you are aware now. You know a fruitless effort when you see one. No one has to tell you what doesn’t work.

The amazing part is here. It’s like nothing you’ve imagined and better. This is so because, as master craftsmen and women, you’ve held a picture of the exquisite always in your heart. It’s what you do. Many billion versions of perfection are creating this moment with full hearts and wide open eyes.

You were there at the beginning, eagerly nodding your head as you signed up for this experiment. Why? Not for pain or suffering or loss or debt, although you knew that was included. You signed up for right now. The realization and recognition of your eternal essence is beyond your wildest imaginings.

As our friend Bob Wright said so beautifully, “Look into each others eyes and see the angels that have been prophesied. It is you.”

You are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

In Lak'ech Ala K'in

~Sophia

Strangers Are Just Friends You Haven't Met Yet

In the video below, photographer Richard Renaldi proves that strangers are only friends you haven't met yet.

Regarding that, at one point in my life I realized that I'd never met an individual I didn't like. That is, what I noticed is that when you take a person out of their normal environment, the one where we're all actors on a stage, and converse with them one on one about subjects they enjoy, subjects that light up their heart, or about subjects that touch them deeply, especially if they are emotionally distraught, each and every individual is wonderful. No exceptions. It doesn't matter what the individual has done or not done, what religion they are, what color they are, what age they are, or what their beliefs are. Fundamentally we are all the same. Renaldi seems to have found the same to be true, that fundamentally we are all the same, with the same basic wants and desires - to feel good and enjoy life together.

Notice in the video that Renaldi doesn't just get strangers to stand together, he has them touch each other in some way. Touch is so important! It really does break down barriers. But I noticed something else in my dealings with people - we can touch people with our eyes. And that by doing so often we can break through enough barriers that even full on strangers will allow themselves to be touched physically. Even just a loving light touch on an arm does wonders. Try it!



Original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SELDTUaHRxQ

The Hopi Prophecy

A beautiful reminder from Brian Kelly. All signs are that we are well on the way to creating this as a new paradigm for Earth. We are powerful creators, let's make it so!

The Hopi Prophecy
October 22, 2013

This is the prophecy that Bob read aloud on the Collective Imagination show tonight. POWERFUL. BEAUTIFUL. REAL. EMBRACE IT. LIVE IT. BE IT BREATHE IT. THE TIME IS NOW. ~BK

Navajo / Hopi Prophecy of the Whirling Rainbow

There will come a day when people of all races, colors, and creeds will put aside their differences. They will come together in love, joining hands in unification, to heal the Earth and all Her children. They will move over the Earth like a great Whirling Rainbow, bringing peace, understanding and healing everywhere they go. Many creatures thought to be extinct or mythical will resurface at this time; the great trees that perished will return almost overnight. All living things will flourish, drawing sustenance from the breast of our Mother, the Earth.

The great spiritual Teachers who walked the Earth and taught the basics of the truths of the Whirling Rainbow Prophecy will return and walk amongst us once more, sharing their power and understanding with all. We will learn how to see and hear in a sacred manner. Men and women will be equals in the way Creator intended them to be; all children will be safe anywhere they want to go. Elders will be respected and valued for their contributions to life. Their wisdom will be sought out. The whole Human race will be called The People and there will be no more war, sickness or hunger forever.

Our Current Financial System - What's Really Going On?

Never in human history have so many been plundered by so few, and it's all accomplished through this... The Biggest Scam In The History Of Mankind.

The scam is our current global financial system. Below is a documentary video by Mike Maloney that helps explain the process. I've seen a number of presentations of this material, and I think Mike does a bang-up job of presenting it clearly.

Before I present the video, I want to make it clear that while I fully appreciate Mike and his crew for both taking on this difficult subject and their clear explanations of the basic premise of our current global financial system - fraudulent as it is - I disagree with their ultimate conclusion (which is not presented in this particular video), that we instead need a system backed by gold and silver.

Perhaps this comment from poster Clumper_Archives on the Hidden Secrets of Money, Episode 4 page, says it best:

Some highly credible references [in support of the assertions in the video] are: Edw Griffin (Creature From Jekyll Island), Bill Still (Secret of Oz & Jekyll Island)

One point to ALWAYS keep in mind: If we go back strictly to a gold standard, the old standard quote comes to mind, "He who has the gold, makes the rules..."

We have to come up with something better or the Elite will continue unfettered with their devious globalist plans.

This is my biggest complaint about this clip.

I agree. But even if some "Elite" don't continue to control (it is my belief that they cannot and eventually will not), it's an absolute fact that money separates, no matter whose hands it is in. As long as we have money we will be divided, there will be lack for some and abundance for others, there will still be haves and have nots. It's impossible for it to be otherwise. As we move out of Separation Consciousness and toward Unity Consciousness, monetary systems of any sort will not be needed.

No matter how much we want to believe that any "thing" - including gold and silver - hold ultimate value, they do not. I can't eat gold, it can't house me, it can't protect me from the elements, it can't keep me safe, it can't give me love, it can't experience and share the joy of life with me as people can and do. Aside from it's limited value when turned into adornments, gold is of no value to me at all. In other words, gold, silver, or any precious metals only have what value we each - as individuals - give to them.

Precious metals can be used in exchange for things that provide for my needs and wants, but since they separate, why not go directly to an exchange model that accepts the value in each and every human being? When we are all doing what brings us the greatest joy, without needing compensation of any sort because our needs are already met, it can be a wonderful experience. One that I personally am looking forward to experiencing on a global scale.

The way I see it, the thing of highest value is each and every human being (actually, any and every Being, but that's a whole 'nother topic :)). Not because of what an individual does, but because they are. So for me, BEings DOing, in whatever capacity is their greatest joy, is where the true value lies.

And if that weren't enough reason to abandon any sort of monetary system, consider that Gaia, our Earth, is a sentient being, no different in many ways than any of us. Her body, while not human, is the Earth itself - she houses all of us. Who are we, as beings, to take what she offers and horde it for ourselves? Can you imagine the organisms on your body fighting over their little territories on your skin? It's ludicrous when you think about it.

All that said, I realize that the concept of no monetary system at all is a hard row to hoe for many, if not most, people today. So I could see a temporary move from fiat currency to precious metals backed currency as an interim step. That said, I would love to see us zoom right past such a step!

Here's Mike:

No More Secrets: What's the Truth Behind 9/11?

For anyone who may not be aware of the questions that surround the atrocity(s) of 9/11, I add my voice to the current campaign to "Re-think 9/11."

The Official Re-think 9/11 Video

Did you know a third tower fell on 9/11?

That is the question millions of people are seeing on billboards, subways, buses, taxi stops and street posters this September. If you didn’t know a third tower fell on 9/11, that’s okay. It’s never too late to go back and reexamine the events that shape our world. ReThink911 encourages you to look at the evidence for yourself, and if you find the official account doesn’t add up, join us in calling for a new and independent investigation. If we educate one another and raise our voices as one, we can make it happen.

The architects and engineers looking into the event documented their findings in a full length video, free to watch via streaming video or available on DVD. For more information see rethink911 dot org or Architects & Engineers for 9/11 truth (ae911truth dot org).

Being Is The Value

Recently I've been in discussions with friends about a stand that I have taken in my life. That stand is: Being is the value.

By that I mean, gold isn't the value, paper money isn't the value; those are things we use to represent our value, a means of trading a portion of our value for something representing a portion of someone else's value. Property and possessions aren't the value; those are things we create and use, either from our own creative efforts, or by trading a portion of our value. Value is in our BEING. BEing is the value. YOU are the value. I am the value. This is true for each and every being incarnate as human. Each of us is the value. All 7 billion of us. Eternal Essence Embodied, Absent Limits.

It's been a long road for me getting to the point of being able to accept this premise as the basis of my life. I have always believed in freedom. I live in a country - the US - that has always told me "this is a free country". I, like most of those living in this country, believed that. "I live in a free country". Which to me meant "I am free."

Trouble is, I didn't feel free. I looked around me at all the "rules", laws, and statutes that governed my life - and the penalties for not "obeying" - and I can tell you, I sure didn't "feel" free. So that has always been a dilemma for me. Am I free or am I not? Do I even have a right to be free? I'm not the only human on the planet. We all have to live and work together. What if everyone was free? What would that look like?

This issue was something that I could not resolve. I think I didn't want to accept the true and accurate response to the question "Am I really free?" because the answer was too difficult to bear. The answer, which I knew in my heart of hearts to be true is "NO", I definitely am NOT free. Followed immediately by "and there's nothing I can do about it."

In fact, some part of me felt like I didn't have a right to be free, because if I have a right to be free then everyone has a right to be free and that can only lead to .. chaos and anarchy. It made my head ache to think about it, so mostly I didn't think about it. Mostly I just lived my life trying to be as happy as I could be and "survive as best I could" inside the "rules" that appeared to govern me.

I say "appeared to govern me" because somewhere in the deepest part of me I knew that I was completely responsible for my plight. I didn't understand it and didn't have an answer for it, but I did know at some deep level that I'm responsible for all of my experiences whether I like those experiences or not.

But I couldn't make sense of it. Now I have. That's a huge shift for me. Like the proverbial "parting of the waves". The waters part, the sky opens up, and everything is crystal clear. I'll have more to say on this over time, but I'm not sure how I'll go about it. For now, as an opener, I'll share with you a response that I made to a friend of mine when she sent me the link to an article: "President [of Cyprus] announces guaranteed income for all citizens."

Most people would - as my friend did - read this article and become extremely excited about the prospects, about the humanity of it, about the compassion behind it. It had the opposite effect on me. While I wanted to be excited about it, and might have been only a few short weeks ago, now I could not.

I explained why in a message that I sent to my friend. Here is that response in it's entirety (modified slightly for clarity). It reiterates and explains further my stand that "BEing is the value" and will serve as an opening for me to discuss this stand in future postings.

My Response

Regarding "President [of Cyprus] announces guaranteed income for all citizens."

Interesting article, but it misses one key element for me personally to consider the action worthy - such a policy doesn't address the value of being.

Unless and until humanity accepts their own Being as the value, we will not have true freedom. Policy of that nature (in the article) is still control - "prove to us that you don't have the means to support yourself and we'll throw some paper money at you." Under that policy, power still remains with government, which IS NOT government of the people, it is a corporation owned and controlled by individuals for profit. And I might add, for profit at the expense of all the rest of us.

What he proposes in the article may be a stepping stone; it at least recognizes that all humans are worthy of having the basic needs of survival met. That is a start. So if it's implemented as an interim step I'm all for it, as it gives immediate relief to some individuals. If it's implemented as a solution, I cannot be, as it just perpetuates an already existing system of control.

The owning of government, of corporations, of organizations, of public schools and universities by individuals for their own profit at the expense of everyone else is, in my mind, a key. It's all control. And the truly disheartening fact, although it's also the true answer to the dilemma, is that we agreed to be treated that way. We have, albeit unknowingly and unwittingly, agreed to - and continue to agree to - their terms. But we can stop agreeing! My intent is that we all do that - stop agreeing to their terms and recreate our policies and systems fully aware and operating in the knowing that we are the value.

What is so hard to grasp in this enormous topic is that we have *already* been cashing in our value. It's our signature on that piece of paper from the bank (purported "loan") that creates the "money" that we are "given" to transact our business (typically the buying and selling of goods or services). "Paying it back" through debt is a misnomer. There's nothing to pay back; there is no debt. The money was created on our value. Any money, including interest, we give "the lender" is through our own free will and choice. We could consider our payments to be a service fee - a rather exorbitant one - for providing the system for us to cash in on our value. In other words, when signing a "loan" document we are essentially saying "You have provided a service to me by creating money based on my value. For that service I agree to pay you not only the amount you created from my value, but interest, and penalties and fees if I don't continue to meet your terms." Ask yourself this: If you consciously knew those were the terms you were agreeing to, would you ever - ever - agree to them?

Those controlling the global economy know the value of being - that's why they don't just "make up" money. They abide by Universal laws that most of us humans aren't even aware of, the most crucial Universal law governing this planet being "Free Will". They need the signature of a human being, the agreement of a human being, to create or "make up" money, and they've numerous intricate schemes to do so. In the case of "loans", we give them permission to create money by entering into a contract with them on their terms. As long as we continue to deny our value (and to deny ANY human being their value is to devalue us ALL) this system of human slavery will perpetuate itself, because we are agreeing to it.

Those who control the global economy tread a very careful line when they interact with us. They provide humanity (meaning the general population) with the illusion that we have no value. They do this in order to get our consent. The rest of us are so under the spell that we don't even think there *is* a sentient Universe outside of Earth, let alone any Universal agreements like Free Will.

But the fact is, we all agreed to Free Will Choice as the premise for this planet. So those that know the value of Being (our value) cannot, and will not, take anything from us that we do not give them. Through hundreds - actually multiple thousands - of years of working their plan, they have arrived at a point where we the people believe the lies they've told us. WE BELIEVE WE HAVE NO VALUE. They know the truth. They know that we do. It's ironic isn't it? Those at the very top of the pyramid of financial control know our value, but we do not.

That's where our power lies - in knowing our value. It's up to us - as a global consciousness - to "wake up" to the FACT that we are the value, and no longer allow others to trade on our value without our consent.

Maybe you are beginning to see how deeply rooted is our belief that we have no value. How deeply rooted is our belief that we have to "earn" the right to live as we please. We do not. We are sovereign beings, with the basic rights of beingness. We are inherently entitled to live however we choose. We have the right to be provided for intrinsically, as a part of our nature. We participate in this game of illusion by choice. Each entity born into this world has done so by choice. My point is that we can - and I assert that we came into this lifetime to do just that - retake control of our world by realizing the very simple fact that WE ARE THE VALUE, and choosing to live that way.

At the meeting Sunday [my friends and myself] someone asked something like (I'm paraphrasing) "what if some dude just sits around watching TV and doing nothing else, does he have a right to be provided for?" The answer to me is obvious - of course he does. Ultimately he is me having a different experience. It's not my right to judge what he does or why he does it, as long as it doesn't harm my person or my property, or infringe on my own freedoms. I may not agree with his choices, but those are his choices.

What I might do is ask "what has happened to this spark of Creator that the only way he feels happy and free is to "check out" in front of the TV?" I think the answer to that is pretty clear: he doesn't feel free, he doesn't feel the value of his being. And my assertion is that when he does "wake up" to the intrinsic value of his own being, he will be inspired to something other than drawing into his shell in front of the TV. Spirit by nature isn't slothful. We are Creator Beings! It's our level of stress, of hopelessness, of feeling devalued, that is at the root of our non-action. We're just f*ing TIRED! - physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

I don't believe that any of us - in this incarnation on this planet - know what true freedom is. We have to search our memory banks for lives outside of third density to arrive at any semblance of understanding of what true freedom is. I believe that THAT is why so many of us are so unhappy, even when things appear to be going well in our lives. We know in the deepest recesses of our being what true freedom is, and there's going to be an energetic mismatch until we discover how to be free inside the physical body as well as outside it.

Veronica - Be The Difference

I always enjoy the messages from Veronica through April and Allen Crawford. Perhaps it's because the messages are so short but still powerful in their essence. I tend to be very long-winded in my writing, so succinct is something I appreciate.

I'm including here the basic message, and along with that, the question/answer following it. The question touches me personally in a deep way - I too am one who can be easily overcome emotionally by expressions of love and beauty. Those around me have come to accept that about me, but we none of us understand it. Veronica offers some insight into that.

Enjoy!

A New Message From VERONICA
August 27, 2013

Be The Difference

Often while walking through a life, there can be defining moments that help your consciousness expand. Personal moments such as these, may be difficult to overcome. Recognizing that it is important to stay focused and that doing so can help ease the pressure one feels.

If one also looks around them clearly, there are defining moments with the planet as well. Your presence on this sphere blends energetically with the earth, to assist evolution for a world consciousness that needs to expand.

Hand in hand, the awareness of both, brings about a soothing energy that will help calm will help calm the chaotic energy for the planet as it moves through its experience.

Always remind yourself that focusing on positiveness and healing creates an atmosphere of nurturing that all physical living beings need to continue.

Be in harmony with the physical whenever you can. We know that some of you feel misplaced in such a thick environment. Reach deep within your heart to find the strength to connect regardless. Perhaps it is why you came here.

Perhaps your soul volunteered to be of assistance.

Be the strong soulful energy that you are.

Attempt to focus upon the larger picture. You may be surprised at just how much your energy is contributing.

Unite with your soul, your planet, and others.

Be the difference.

You can."

- VERONICA


DEAR VERONICA QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Dear VERONICA,

I have been wondering about my emotions. I cry very easily for a variety of reasons, but usually it is because something is beautiful. For example: powerful music, forgiveness, applause in a large audience, creative genius, etc.

Why do I get choked up so easily? I wish I could feel the energy flow through me instead of overwhelming me.

Thank you for all of the wisdom you have given me!

Cheryl


Dear Cheryl,

Emotion, and its ability to propel the form through life is a great gift in the physical.

You have a very high vibration that has difficulty monitoring this energy called emotion. This is why it feels so overwhelming.

Perhaps instead of attempting to clarify it, use its force to create something while you walk through life.

At the end of the day, everything is energy and emotion is a very true representation of that. Allow it to flow. Sooner or later you will grasp it in your heart to use it for aligning those around you.


- VERONICA

"Today" - a message from Veronica

A wonderfully uplifting and vital message from Veronica, through April and Allen Crawford at Inner Whispers

August, 2012

Today Is The Day

Today, why not stand still in silence for a moment and listen to the pulse of your soul?

Today, why not speak your truth without fear of how it is received?

Today, step forward and include your linear participation in your soul's progress.

Today, why not become more active in your soul intentions instead of settling for linear costumes?

Today is the moment you truly reside in. It is an opportunity to express yourself with pure honesty. A moment to color your perceptions with the clarity of the old soul you are becoming.

Often in the linear, one becomes lost in all the dramas, costumes, and props, while forgetting the true intentions of why they have arrived.

This moment needs joy. This day will blossom with the intention of joy. The awareness of all that is possible with clear thought should be continuously tucked within one's heart.

The linear experience was meant to be fulfilling, while allowing the dense experience to fortify one's spirit.

Glean as much knowledge and experience as you can. Embrace the day, becoming one with the vivid experience of the current moment.

Today, be one with our soul. Today, realize your potential and live it. Do not allow others to rob you of the awareness of your potential.

It is your gift... your life, your opportunity to be more.

Yes it is difficult to embrace all of this. Attempt every day to do so. Do not give up. Be the person you aspire to be.

Use all the experiences good and bad to achieve this.

Today is the day.

-VERONICA

HopeGirl's Message: How To Fix The World

If you aren't aware of it yet, there's a new documentary video out called "Fix the World Documentary". It's over 3 hours long and therefore posted in 3 parts. The video was created by HopeGirl and a team of volunteers who want to see what we all want to see - a world of freedom, joy, peace and abundance for all.

It's going to be quite a process getting from where we are to where we want to be, and HopeGirl and her crew are a part of that process. It's not a professionally done video so don't expect it to be, but the message it bears is current and important.

Sadly, but not surprisingly, some factions still operating in our world would prefer that such information not be made available publicly, and those factions are shutting down the videos as posted to public sites such as YouTube and Vimeo.

In light of that, the website Golden Age of Gaia, and others that I'm not aware of or privy to, are hosting the video on their private sites. I was able to download the videos while they were posted, you may be able to as well.

Here's a short introduction to why the "Fix the World" documentary was made and why it is such an important part of getting the word out that we're creating a new world:



Since the three videos are being removed from YouTube and Vimeo nearly as fast as they are posted, giving URLs is hopeless. What I can do is give you links to where you can find the videos on private sites, and where to find more information.

HopeGirl and Her Team Present How To Fix The World at Golden Age of Gaia

HopeGirl's Blog

Fix the World Project

Before I leave this topic I feel I need to add my own disagreement with how some of the material in the videos is presented. There's a bit of drama and judgement to some of the segments that I personally wish weren't included. For example, I don't make judgements about how much money people have or what they do with it, those are decisions we each make. My abundance doesn't detract from your abundance; your abundance doesn't detract from my abundance. There's plenty enough for all when we fully accept our own power as creators and stop buying into the lies and deception that have been running this world.

I want to see all of us thriving in our own ways, according to how we desire to live, without anyone needing to do without or suffer. So while I don't necessarily agree with everything shown in the videos, those differences don't detract from the message. It's a timely message and one I hope will help bring about the changes we all desperately seek.

With Thanks and Appreciation to the Whistleblowers

The Guardian, in its recent story about NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, shows that Snowden is even more fascinating than the material that he has exposed. That is, for those of us who were already aware of what's been going on so we're not so surprised by this news, while fully appreciating that it is finally being exposed.

Although Snowden refused anonymity

... he repeatedly insisted that he wants to avoid the media spotlight. "I don't want public attention because I don't want the story to be about me. I want it to be about what the US government is doing."

Why did he come forward, at great potential risk to himself and his family?

"Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world," he says. "I realised that I was part of something that was doing far more harm than good."

"The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to"

"There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and gotten very rich."

Despite these fears, he remained hopeful his outing will not divert attention from the substance of his disclosures.

"I really want the focus to be on these documents and the debate which I hope this will trigger among citizens around the globe about what kind of world we want to live in."

He added: "My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them."

What an amazing young man. We are fortunate to have human beings like Edward Snowden in the right places, willing to take the right risks to bring this information forward. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Snowden, Bradley Manning, and the many other known and unknown people both present and past who are and have been working to bring about a world based on truth, honesty, cooperation, and integrity.

Hilarion's Message - Get Close To Nature

Hilarion through Marlene Swetlishoff
June 9-17, 2013

Beloved Ones,

Through these next few weeks more of your natural and innate abilities and gifts will become more clarified within you. Your intuitive gifts are coming into greater focus and awareness within you and a greater feeling of oneness and unity with others and all the wonders of the earth will pervade your consciousness. There will also continue to be more moments of confusion and mental fogginess as your brain and body systems are recalibrated and aligned to your highest potentials and greatest good. All that you have focused your energy upon that is aligned to your individual and collective good will begin to manifest for you in wonderful ways.

Those who have done the spiritual work of clearing, refining and purifying their bodies, minds and feelings are aware that there is a feeling of something great and wonderful about to happen. This is in anticipation of the movement of the heavens into greater alignment with galactic center in the cosmic scheme of things and that this will open up a whole new realm of potential within humanity and the collective consciousness. All is in constant movement and transformation on the etheric levels but takes more time to be manifest upon the earth plane and within you.

If you have not already, begin to spend more time outdoors out in the sunshine for at least 20 minutes each day just gazing up at the sun in silence and reverence. The sun is the life giver of energies and further knowledge for all who are ready. Bask in its glow and warmth and connect to the trees, plants, birds and other creatures within your environment. Notice how much more connected you are to all that is around you and that communication is taking place between you. You will notice that there is a sense of family and oneness in your encounters with the birds and animals. You notice they are friendly and more trusting than before.

Be sure to ground yourselves deep into the crystalline diamond heart of the earth by visualizing a cord of light from your root chakra going deep into the center of the earth, anchoring within the diamond there and then flowing back up your spinal column up into your crown chakra and all the way up to the great central sun’s diamond at galactic center so that there is a flow of energy that occurs within you. You are the cosmic conduits who are here to help the earth expand her light within her core to become the beautiful star that is her radiant destiny.

The wonders that are waiting to be discovered stand poignant and ready for humanity to connect with. The elemental kingdom is joyfully in service to all of creation, helping to bring form to that which is envisioned by the beautiful co-creators of the new earth reality, the magnificent beings of light which each of you are. Get focused, beautiful ones, and hold your vision!

Until next week…

I AM Hilarion

*Note from Marlene...I just came across this article in synchronicity and thought to post the link to it here: http://charbelmaklouf.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/nasa-confirms-super-human-abilities-gained-through-sungazing/

©2013 Marlene Swetlishoff/Tsu-tana (Soo-tam-ah) Keeper of the Symphonies of Grace

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Survivor: The Game of Life on Planet Earth

If you've followed this blog for awhile you'll know that I'm pretty enamored with the idea of looking at life as a game. Since our immediate response to seeing something as a game is "fun!", and given that life is rife with upset, anger, loss, lack, despicable behavior, lies, deceit - many things that are anything but fun - it's a bit of a stretch for many of us to even consider the notion that life might be a game. To that I would respond - that's because we're in it.

Inside and Outside the Game

When we're in a game, it doesn't feel like a game, does it? When we're fully engaged in playing a game it feels very very real. When we're fully engaged in a game, the actions we take and the emotions we feel are indistinguishable from any other area of our life. It's only when we step outside the game - have a timeout, go to the sidelines, sit on the bench for awhile, go to the locker room, have a meeting with our fellow players and/or coaches - that we can get enough perspective, hopefully, to evaluate and observe that when we are on the court we are truly participating in a game.

From an "outside the game" perspective we are able to see how best to move forward when we get back into the game. From that perspective, the one outside actual game play, we can listen to the guidance of our coaches, the ones observing the overall progress of the game. With their direction at hand we decide for ourselves whether to keep our course in the game or modify our behavior to better suit our role - our goal - in the game.

In fact, during these "time outs" we don't question that we're standing outside the game to evaluate our progress and consider modifying our behavior / game play, we accept it as a required and necessary part of the game. There's an "inside the game" and an "outside the game." Obvious.

So too with life, there are "outside the game" places we can be. Only in life, that's not so obvious. In many cases it's not even apparent.

Nevertheless, just like typical games, in life we have designated time-outs. Sleep time is one of them. Death is an even bigger one. Sleep might be equated, in video games, like logging off for awhile, or in boxing like sitting in our corner between rounds. Death might equate in video games to deleting our current character, birth to creating a new character; we're playing the same game, only in a different role. In sports games, death might equate to the end of the season, where we go away from the game completely for an extended period. Birth might equate to sports like coming back for a new season in a completely new position, or in the same position modified and amended by what we learned in the previous season.

Of course all of this assumes that we already accept that we are more than our body, more than our mind, more than our emotions. If one doesn't accept that, then any attempt to draw an analogy to life as a game will fall on deaf ears. Anyone not ready to see that there is an "outside the game" isn't ready to step out of the game.

But they will be. At some point, every individual on the planet will realize their power as a Creator and be ready to view the game from outside the game, and to bring more and more of that perspective into the game. As the new game progresses, more and more will play the game as it is now being designed, and the memory of that old game will fall further and further away.

For those continuing to be unwilling to see the new game, their life will end and they'll continue to play this kind of game somewhere else. That might sound cruel, but it's not. It's always a soul's choice what game they will play. The freedom of a soul to choose is absolute. What is also absolute is that the old game on Earth is over, and at some point all will be fully engaged in the new game, or they won't be here.

The Game Show "Survivor"

The reason I mention all this is that it occurs to me that the reality TV show "Survivor" is a very accurate portrayal of exactly where we're at in our evolution as a species right now.

In the reality TV show/game, "Survivor", the phrase "Outwit, Outplay, Outlast" is the theme. In this game, anything goes. If you aren't aware of the show, the object is to be the last man or woman standing. To survive. Here's how it works: Some number of players, generally around 20, are taken to a remote location on the globe, typically a small island, for what they hope will be 39 days. They arrive with only the most meager of tools and necessities for survival (to whit, themselves, water, basic tools, and some rice and beans). They are initially assigned to teams. The teams must band together to make shelter, make fire, find food, and generally just survive.

Every few days the teams are pitted against each other in contests called "challenges" to earn rewards like tools, food, or advantages in the game. After some of these contests the losing team is required to go to "Tribal Council" where they must vote one member of their team off the island. For that player the game is over, they cannot win it.

About halfway through the game, players voted out no longer leave the island but stick around to become the Jury. The last three players not voted out after 39 days become the only players with a chance to win. The Jury members vote on those final three players to decide who will actually win. The reward for winning is a pre-tax million dollars, so there's some incentive (along with personal goals) for players to play full out and win.

Over the course of the game alliances are made and broken; the game becomes less about teamwork and more about getting one's self to the end of the game. The point of the game, the ultimate goal, is to be the last person in the game, the "Sole Survivor". Players do their level best to win. Typically that involves getting rid of the strongest competition, the ones more likely to be able to survive to the end, more likely to be voted as winner than you, so that you can win. And do that while also holding onto the strong players long enough to tap them for their survival skills and their ability to help the team win challenges. And also garner enough respect - or few enough enemies - to be voted the winner should you end up as one of the final three.

Anything Goes

In Survivor, anything goes. Lie, cheat, steal, withhold, deceive; make friends, form alliances, work together; strategize, play hard, fend for oneself yet cooperate with others. Decide in each and every moment if some word or action will both get you what you want in the moment, and help you achieve the final goal of winning the game. Loyalty is paper thin and fleeting. One might say that if you really believe someone - anyone - is putting your best interests above their own, then you're totally deceiving yourself. The honest contestants openly admit that they'll do or say whatever it takes to be the last person standing: to win.

But that's the goal! It's a game! The goal is to win! Everyone participating is doing so of their own free will and choice, knowing full well what the rules are. In that light, whatever happens is whatever happens.

Along the way, every player experiences being liked and being appreciated. They also experience being lied to, sometimes blatantly and obviously, sometimes quietly and not so obviously. Since these are human beings we're talking about, with very human emotions, there's a lot of drama.

Some of the most exciting moves the game - for the players and the audience - are made without the awareness of one of the players affected. These are called, appropriately enough, "blind sides." This is where a player is led to believe that they are beloved by some number of their fellow players yet in truth are being targeted to be voted off. Being blindsided can cut one's ego to shreds. It's a rare individual that, when blindsided, doesn't feel the emotional pain of having been lied to by people they considered their friend.

Survivor and Us

What intrigues me about this particular reality show is how closely it resembles what our life has been all about here on Earth. We have joined into a game where our very survival is at stake. We need each other to help us survive, but our survival is so critical, so personal, that we can, and will, help each other only so much. It's rare in life that we will we sacrifice ourselves. In the reality game Survivor, those who sacrifice themselves (its rare but it happens there too) are considered weak, stupid, gullible, and pretty much laughed off the show. Not so different in real life, eh?

To me, one of the most beautiful parts of this game/show called "Survivor" is when one of the players who is voted off, especially when they've been blindsided, has the foresight to realize that they have been playing a game. They have lost yes, but they aren't bitter about it. They have the grace to be able to say "I lost. You bested me! Good on you!" rather than the typical "I liked/loved you, I trusted you, how could you do that to me?!"

That attitude of acceptance and even honor for their fellow player has been rare on the show, but interestingly enough, over the last few seasons has become more common. Isn't that what's happening with all of us on Earth right now? Aren't some of us waking up to the game, realizing that those who hurt us have been playing a game and so have we; realizing that the game is over and it's time to just say "You bested me! Good on you!" and then laugh - TOGETHER - about what fun times we had, even though in the moment many of those experiences felt awful and horrid and painful.

Game Over

The good news here, is that "Survivor", while it has been how the game on Earth has been played, is no longer the game we're playing. That's what "the Shift" is. That's what awakening is. That's what ascension is. It isn't going off to some nirvana somewhere, it's realizing - right here right now, right where we are - that we're playing a different game. Realizing that the game of Survivor here on Earth is over. Done. Completed. We're at the wrap party now.

It's appropriate at a wrap party / cast party to congratulate each other on a job well done. To realize that we've all been playing roles. By agreement. To realize that if we've been hurt it's because at a soul level we wanted to experience that hurt. We wanted to know what it feels like, wanted to know what we'd do when confronted with those feelings. How would we respond? What actions would we take? What would we take from that experience? If we determined to play the perpetrator, how deeply into the role would we fall? Would we get caught up in it and fall deeper and deeper into the role, or would we realize what was happening and discover compassion? or? or? or?

Now we know. We have - each and every one of us alive today has - a rich background of other lives (be they human lives or lives as some other physical species). We know what it's like to be the victim. Been there, done that. We know what it's like to be the perpetrator. Been there, done that. We know what it's like to be deceived, to be humiliated, to be physically abused, to be emotionally abused, to be used, tossed aside, not appreciated, not loved, to be hurt in every possible way. But we also know what it's like to be honored, to be appreciated, to be loved, to experience creativity and joy and freedom and peace and .. love. We know this because we've experienced it, all of it, in all its richness and glory and in all of its upset and anguish.

We have, each and every one of us down to the least, experienced all that we came into this particular game to experience. We're done. Game Over. Whether we players are alive in a physical body currently, or in our natural form of spirit currently, this particular game is over. It's time to realize that the costume is just a costume, that the props are just props. It's time to move outside the emotions of the game, to begin to congratulate each other on being one who participated in this game and milked it for all it was worth. Congratulate each other on getting down and getting dirty, on being the good guy and the bad guy, the rich guy and the poor guy, the abuser and the abused; on doing it all. It's time now to fully realize that that game is over. The new game is under way.

End Game

There are some things that are common to all games. There's always a way to keep score, whether it's a team score or a personal score (karma). There are always breaks designed in (sleep, meditation, death, conscious awareness). There are always others to consult for advice and guidance (coaches, teachers, experts). And there is always - always - an end to a game. Even Boardwalk, a game that can seem to go on and on forever, eventually comes to an end. At some point, win lose or draw, at some point it is declared "this game is over."

So this game - the game of Survivor Planet Earth, Third Density - like absolutely every game we've ever played, was designed to have an end. As I noted earlier, no game that we have ever played doesn't come to an end at some point. There's always an end. We are at that end. Actually we've passed the end, but not everyone is aware of that or in agreement with it. Yet.

We had a goal, and that goal was to survive to the end, and then to realize that we did so that a new game could be started. Well .. we did it! Yay us! We are, as a species, as a race, "Sole Survivor" of this game. We don't have to die off, become annihilated, end the species, to begin the new game. Instead we are taking our game pieces and most of our props with us into the new game.

That was our highest intent at the start of this game - to survive intact as a species. To not kill ourselves off during the game or in the process of ending the game. We accomplished our highest objective. Did we have help? Of course we did! That doesn't make the victory any less sweet.

Because this game wasn't a loss, it wasn't even a draw, it was a win. Old game - won. New game - on. And the best news? The new game cannot be won or lost, the new game simply is. We might say that it's a game of "What will we create now, together? in joy and in love?"

And since it is a new game, we can decide what our new game piece will look like, what its attributes will be, what the new props will be, what the new Earth will be. In partnership with Gaia, in partnership with our Galactic brothers and sisters, in partnership with our friends, family, and partners, those in spirit and those in physicality, including the Elohim and other master designers of this Universe, we are recreating everything on our beloved planet to fit inside a new ruleset.

Is it going to be a lot of work, building a new earth on the same game board, starting with the same props and game game pieces? You bet it is. But its going to be the best kind of work - creative, fun, joyful, exciting work. Work we do together, as a team, in cooperation, with respect and appreciation for one another, and out of joy. It will be like nothing we - as a human race - have ever before experienced. A new game! Yay! Time to get excited! Time to be excited!

What Sometimes Happens At End Game

Sometimes when the end of a game is declared, some number of players don't want to stop playing. Maybe they're having a great time, maybe they feel they haven't achieved their goal, maybe they're still feeling the emotions of being in the game and aren't ready to give it up. Maybe, by their definition, they don't feel that they've won and they want to keep on playing until they do. So for whatever reason, some number of players will find that they simply are not ready to give up playing yet, even though the game has ended. For these players it is and will continue to be disconcerting to them still being on the court, still trying to carry on, while the vast majority of players have left, when the vast majority are no longer playing their game.

That's the position of many people on Earth right now. The old game has ended, a new game has begun, and yet there are a great number of human beings still trying to play the old game. In most cases they don't realize there is a new game. It's disconcerting to them and to us. They are attempting to play by rules long ago established for the old game - lack, competition, deceit, deception, power over, anger, abuse, dog-eat-dog, whatever it takes, win at any cost.

The New Game

The rest of us are into a new game now. A game that takes as its base a rule set of cooperation, integrity, honesty, compassion, understanding, acceptance, freedom, beauty, joy, and love. Can you even begin to imagine the kind of world we can build based on those concepts rather than the other ones?

It begins with us.

Its our role, those of us aware that this is a new game, to play by the new rule set so that others may come to realize too, that the old game is over.

We don't do that by telling people how to be, by telling them what they're doing wrong, by being resentful of the wrongs they've committed - or continue to commit - against us. Nor do we do it by allowing them to continue to treat us in old ways, according to the old rule set.

We do it by being the new rule set. By realizing that we've experienced horror and ugliness and lack and deception because we wanted to, because we could not experience those things in our natural state of ease, grace and harmony. We do it by not blaming any one for our circumstances; by taking full and complete responsibility for our lives and our experiences. We do it by being respectful of others, but no longer allowing them to treat us in ways that we don't wish to be treated, doing things to us that we no longer wish to have done.

We do it by realizing that we are in a new role. "Oh, I see you are still playing 'Survivor.' So no matter how despicable you try to be, I cannot be - I will not be - upset with you, because I understand that you simply aren't aware of what I'm aware of. But know that I will not continue to play that game with you."

"You still think we're all playing that old game, and so you behave as if we are. I know that we are not, so I behave differently. As I continue to behave differently you will discover your Self as I have discovered my Self and then we will both be playing the new game. I can hardly wait!"

It begins with us taking a stand to participate fully in the new game, leaving the old game behind. Saying to ourselves "I'm no longer willing to play that game with you. I'm playing a different game now. I'm going to keep playing my game, which includes appreciating you, honoring you, unconditionally loving you, until you are ready to play the new game too, even if I have to do that without you in my physical life. I will do that for you, even if you are not aware that I am and cannot appreciate that I am, until you wake up too. Until you are ready to take off the old uniform, get off the old court, give up the old rule set, and join me here in the new game. When you are ready to do that, we can play with each other again. Differently. This time with appreciation and love, and in joy."

It begins with us noticing, in any given moment, in any given experience, which game are we playing. Are we playing the new game or the old? being the new ruleset or the old? Are we simply surviving or moving into thriving? It's our choice, it always is.

And you know what? When we stop to look around we realize that there are a lot of us already playing, and we're having the time of our lives. This is an "all comers" game, no one left out. But it does have a new ruleset. We invite anyone and everyone to join us, no matter what role they played in the old game. All they have to do is give up the old ruleset. And they, like us, can do that any time they like.