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		<title>Comment on Emerging from the Shadows: Science,Spirituality, and the Future by Timothy Connor</title>
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		<dc:creator>Timothy Connor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you so much for these powerful insights, Michael. It does truly appear that we are in an Aquarian ‘break-out phase.’

 We are so privileged to be living during this magnificent process of awakening. It is widespread, it is largely intuitive and each of us reading these pages is likely seeing it and experiencing it daily.

 ‘Scientism’ in all of its brittle material disguises is being exposed! The examples are outpouring. In medicine and psychotherapy, while we can still appreciate the contribution of ‘materia medica’ (a.k.a. pharmacology), we understand that it does not, and cannot, answer the breadth of health and wellness challenges we face. Millions upon millions now turn to ‘unscientific’ and ‘unproven’ (more often, unsanctioned) ‘alternative therapies,’ with enormous success.

 The abject failure of formal public school education, at least for large segments of the population, is now in common discourse. And the jack is not going back in the box! Private school enrollment is rapidly expanding. And millions of children are now homeschooled. All indications are these latter options are serving our children far better than the public indoctrination factories.

 The news media is also in the exposure cue, it’s rank materialistic worldview and overarching spewing forth of propaganda is increasingly observed and ridiculed. This is becoming so well documented and appreciated that it hardly needs specific defense, which means the news media will either transform into an organ of truth, or be eclipsed and disappear as alternative exponents of truth come forward.

 Institutional, dogmatically-based religion is in for reform as well. Yes, many continue to follow the strident voices of the profane who have successfully infiltrated positions of authority. But many others are not longer tolerating the debasement of their traditions, and are finding kinship in the global community of believers who know that their shared spirituality is not determined by specific beliefs so much as by the loving compassion felt and experienced in one another’s Presence.

 Humanity is receiving at present and with increasing intensity onrushing photon showers from the galactic center, and this phenomenon is causing us to accelerate in consciousness. Remarkably, this process appears to be encoded in the Mayan calendar; and almost as remarkably, the actual science behind this is now being confirmed by astronomers and nuclear physicists.

 Like other utterly stunning information such as the admittedly far more mundane, but fully documented 25 TRILLION dollar 2007 to 2010 secret expenditure of our Federal Reserve mandarins, the major media is very nearly completely silent on these matters. We of course remind ourselves of how grateful we must be for the global internet.

 All of this awakening is really an element of Gautama Buddha’s Bo Tree experience, his entry into nirvana, the state of the Presence, the Eternal Present. It is at least partly the realization that many practitioners now encounter: “I am waking up into a state of conscious awareness which, more and more, I am not ‘falling out of,’ as I have tended to do earlier on my Path.”

 All genuine spiritual practice plays into the Awakening, and people in every faith are experiencing this like never before. The photons of light and enlightenment are onrushing….

 I do not presume to understand the fullness of this process. I only know it is observable, verifiable and wonderful to behold in its varied manifestations. For me the whole blessed phenomenon takes a prominent place on the shelf of Holy Mystery.

 May our Eternal Father Mother bless, guide and keep us on this upward flight of Being. 

T Connor</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you so much for these powerful insights, Michael. It does truly appear that we are in an Aquarian ‘break-out phase.’</p>
<p> We are so privileged to be living during this magnificent process of awakening. It is widespread, it is largely intuitive and each of us reading these pages is likely seeing it and experiencing it daily.</p>
<p> ‘Scientism’ in all of its brittle material disguises is being exposed! The examples are outpouring. In medicine and psychotherapy, while we can still appreciate the contribution of ‘materia medica’ (a.k.a. pharmacology), we understand that it does not, and cannot, answer the breadth of health and wellness challenges we face. Millions upon millions now turn to ‘unscientific’ and ‘unproven’ (more often, unsanctioned) ‘alternative therapies,’ with enormous success.</p>
<p> The abject failure of formal public school education, at least for large segments of the population, is now in common discourse. And the jack is not going back in the box! Private school enrollment is rapidly expanding. And millions of children are now homeschooled. All indications are these latter options are serving our children far better than the public indoctrination factories.</p>
<p> The news media is also in the exposure cue, it’s rank materialistic worldview and overarching spewing forth of propaganda is increasingly observed and ridiculed. This is becoming so well documented and appreciated that it hardly needs specific defense, which means the news media will either transform into an organ of truth, or be eclipsed and disappear as alternative exponents of truth come forward.</p>
<p> Institutional, dogmatically-based religion is in for reform as well. Yes, many continue to follow the strident voices of the profane who have successfully infiltrated positions of authority. But many others are not longer tolerating the debasement of their traditions, and are finding kinship in the global community of believers who know that their shared spirituality is not determined by specific beliefs so much as by the loving compassion felt and experienced in one another’s Presence.</p>
<p> Humanity is receiving at present and with increasing intensity onrushing photon showers from the galactic center, and this phenomenon is causing us to accelerate in consciousness. Remarkably, this process appears to be encoded in the Mayan calendar; and almost as remarkably, the actual science behind this is now being confirmed by astronomers and nuclear physicists.</p>
<p> Like other utterly stunning information such as the admittedly far more mundane, but fully documented 25 TRILLION dollar 2007 to 2010 secret expenditure of our Federal Reserve mandarins, the major media is very nearly completely silent on these matters. We of course remind ourselves of how grateful we must be for the global internet.</p>
<p> All of this awakening is really an element of Gautama Buddha’s Bo Tree experience, his entry into nirvana, the state of the Presence, the Eternal Present. It is at least partly the realization that many practitioners now encounter: “I am waking up into a state of conscious awareness which, more and more, I am not ‘falling out of,’ as I have tended to do earlier on my Path.”</p>
<p> All genuine spiritual practice plays into the Awakening, and people in every faith are experiencing this like never before. The photons of light and enlightenment are onrushing….</p>
<p> I do not presume to understand the fullness of this process. I only know it is observable, verifiable and wonderful to behold in its varied manifestations. For me the whole blessed phenomenon takes a prominent place on the shelf of Holy Mystery.</p>
<p> May our Eternal Father Mother bless, guide and keep us on this upward flight of Being. </p>
<p>T Connor</p>
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		<title>Comment on Friendship and the Spiritual Life by NK</title>
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		<dc:creator>NK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ahh, another timely article from the buddha...thank you MM!!!
...our friendships are definitely a crucible (an opportunity) that can require of us our authenticity, our real-ness, and our willing-ness to care and share and take a chance with one-another in lovingkindness... it also asks of us the mystery of earning and deserving trust and the willing-ness to flee any tendency to the cynical or suspicious human nature that has been betrayed in the past by the imperfect of human nature but also needs the increase in Love and trust in the Divine...the surrendering of judgement unto God and the abiding discernment and longsuffering of a daily renewed compassion...
...so... i see strengthening one pathway strengthening the flow of the other, vertical and horizontal and circular... all en-compassing like the Rose... and bringing to life Peace and Hope....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ahh, another timely article from the buddha&#8230;thank you MM!!!<br />
&#8230;our friendships are definitely a crucible (an opportunity) that can require of us our authenticity, our real-ness, and our willing-ness to care and share and take a chance with one-another in lovingkindness&#8230; it also asks of us the mystery of earning and deserving trust and the willing-ness to flee any tendency to the cynical or suspicious human nature that has been betrayed in the past by the imperfect of human nature but also needs the increase in Love and trust in the Divine&#8230;the surrendering of judgement unto God and the abiding discernment and longsuffering of a daily renewed compassion&#8230;<br />
&#8230;so&#8230; i see strengthening one pathway strengthening the flow of the other, vertical and horizontal and circular&#8230; all en-compassing like the Rose&#8230; and bringing to life Peace and Hope&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Mahatmas and Ascended Masters by Kacie Girvin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kacie Girvin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hehe cool ! I really like this site :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hehe cool ! I really like this site <img src='http://www.worldwideashram.org/worldwideashram/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Comment on Mahatmas and Ascended Masters by MMc</title>
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		<dc:creator>MMc</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This was a great and well reasoned article.  What has really struck me, is how easily Mark and Elizabeth Prophet are dismissed without  investigating their body of work.  What did they teach that attracted a world wide following? The same holds true for Agni Yoga and the I AM movement.  I believe that in these teachings there is a great continuity and expansion of the original purposes of theosophy. They are worthy of investigation for sure.

MMc</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This was a great and well reasoned article.  What has really struck me, is how easily Mark and Elizabeth Prophet are dismissed without  investigating their body of work.  What did they teach that attracted a world wide following? The same holds true for Agni Yoga and the I AM movement.  I believe that in these teachings there is a great continuity and expansion of the original purposes of theosophy. They are worthy of investigation for sure.</p>
<p>MMc</p>
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		<title>Comment on Some Thoughts On Aquarian Community by Timothy</title>
		<link>http://www.worldwideashram.org/worldwideashram/2012/01/some-thoughts-on-aquarian-community/comment-page-1/#comment-983</link>
		<dc:creator>Timothy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks, Michael. Your thoughts here help me to realize that among our most important roles is to continue the work of self-actualization. As each of us expands our network of spiritual contacts, which results in the heart-to-heart recognition of kindred souls, and is mutually empowering, we widen the rushing Zeitgeist river. 
On a related point, I find that at the high school where I am teaching, increasing numbers of just &#039;ordinary&#039; teenagers talk about making, and take action to make, a positive difference in the larger society. Many of them are choosing not to idle away at the trough of what passes for entertainment in the dominant culture. They see through veils (deliberately or ignorantly) hung to divert and enervate them; it&#039;s gratifying! I&#039;m quite convinced this is not an isolated phenomenon but is rather broadly characteristic of young lightbearers in Western society.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, Michael. Your thoughts here help me to realize that among our most important roles is to continue the work of self-actualization. As each of us expands our network of spiritual contacts, which results in the heart-to-heart recognition of kindred souls, and is mutually empowering, we widen the rushing Zeitgeist river.<br />
On a related point, I find that at the high school where I am teaching, increasing numbers of just &#8216;ordinary&#8217; teenagers talk about making, and take action to make, a positive difference in the larger society. Many of them are choosing not to idle away at the trough of what passes for entertainment in the dominant culture. They see through veils (deliberately or ignorantly) hung to divert and enervate them; it&#8217;s gratifying! I&#8217;m quite convinced this is not an isolated phenomenon but is rather broadly characteristic of young lightbearers in Western society.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Mahatmas and Ascended Masters by NAK</title>
		<link>http://www.worldwideashram.org/worldwideashram/2012/01/mahatmas-and-ascended-masters/comment-page-1/#comment-982</link>
		<dc:creator>NAK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank You Govert Schuller for a well written response. Along with PK&#039;s response I think these should prove helpful for
many of our Theosophist friends who have not yet become comfortable with the concept of &quot;Ascended Masters&quot; being intimately one and same with true guiding &quot;Mahatmas&quot; furthering the Divine Cause.... I also like your website of Alpheus_updates....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank You Govert Schuller for a well written response. Along with PK&#8217;s response I think these should prove helpful for<br />
many of our Theosophist friends who have not yet become comfortable with the concept of &#8220;Ascended Masters&#8221; being intimately one and same with true guiding &#8220;Mahatmas&#8221; furthering the Divine Cause&#8230;. I also like your website of Alpheus_updates&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Some Thoughts On Aquarian Community by NAK</title>
		<link>http://www.worldwideashram.org/worldwideashram/2012/01/some-thoughts-on-aquarian-community/comment-page-1/#comment-981</link>
		<dc:creator>NAK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow! What a great and eloquent article about Hope for community, fun for community, daring-do for community, authenticity for community.... this should open up some 
&#039;respectful&#039; spontaneity and get things hopping out of the
old-moulde of &#039;everything&#039; from the top down..... the lid&#039;s off the jar.....!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow! What a great and eloquent article about Hope for community, fun for community, daring-do for community, authenticity for community&#8230;. this should open up some<br />
&#8216;respectful&#8217; spontaneity and get things hopping out of the<br />
old-moulde of &#8216;everything&#8217; from the top down&#8230;.. the lid&#8217;s off the jar&#8230;..!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Some Thoughts On Aquarian Community by Shirley</title>
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		<dc:creator>Shirley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Michael,
   Thank you, this is wonderful and very inspiring!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Michael,<br />
   Thank you, this is wonderful and very inspiring!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Some Thoughts On Aquarian Community by Glen T</title>
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		<dc:creator>Glen T</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great Article! Clarity, purpose, ethics and inspiration, thanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great Article! Clarity, purpose, ethics and inspiration, thanks.</p>
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		<title>Comment on A Story of the Spirit of American Culture and Art by Editor</title>
		<link>http://www.worldwideashram.org/worldwideashram/2011/11/a-story-of-the-spirit-of-american-culture-and-art/comment-page-1/#comment-942</link>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Jeremiah, 
Native innocence and innate honor shining- your description is perfect. Also, our site just opened up on Facebook so join us there as well.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Jeremiah,<br />
Native innocence and innate honor shining- your description is perfect. Also, our site just opened up on Facebook so join us there as well.</p>
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