The message contained in this video gives me the permission to focus on developing my spiritual practice. It made me realise how much of my energy is going into 'fixing' what's off in the world and how I've been spread thin. Knowing what's to come is sad but it's also a great relief. I find peace in knowing that the destruction is not happening for destruction's sake but to make way for something better. 

What I have noticed through the last few years is that one of the things that binds this online community together is synchronicities. People here often connect with each others' thoughts in a completely non-linear fashion, in a sort of metaphysical way. Sometimes a word in a previous comment is enough so that the next in line can pick it up and react to it becasue it sounds meaningful to him/her.

Coincidences are always meaningful for an awakened person, that is why we call them synchronicities.

So here is my synchronicity for this video you just shared on the crop situation, Open. I am sharing now another dream from earlier this week. It was very simple: I went to the convenient store and when I got there I would see that the windows are all boarded up. I asked the owner why is that and she said: 'it is because there is nothing to sell anymore'. 

Also with reference to my previous comment in this thread above, I would like to emphasise a few things though, with love and respect for all participants. I will not defend or explain myself because of the intuitive messages I shared here. However, I don't want to turn this forum into a wall of predictions or 'scaremongering' either. These messages I shared are not 'concepts' .I do not want to convince anyone of its validity and I don't wait for it to happen. I share them because it felt right to do so and because I have received them in synchrony with what is being mentioned on this forum. In fact, as far as I experience, my life would be much 'easier' without these.  On a sidenote, what I also learnt recently that confronting such emotions and feelings arising from the current situation of our world can be an extremely overwhelming and long process but once we accepted (softened into) them it is also incredibly rewarding!   

with love to you all,
Márk

Hello everyone,

Having come back from a silent retreat and having settled for a couple of days, I’m now reading all the comments on the thread. Thank you all for expressing and for the constructive communications exchanged here. I would also like to take this opportunity to add to these conversations that in my view, invite us to open up more and more to what the Openhand community is about – for me: authenticity, curiosity, empathy and the willingness to connect with each other because we are all on the same boat no matter where we have come from, ‘who’ we are and what our experiences are - or our views.

So, I would like to start very briefly with the why I posted this article on Openhandweb and why I think its ‘groundbreaking’, ‘informative’ and ‘illustrating the inevitable’. I can see now that I could have unpacked my motivations for posting this article a lot more, so as to offer more perspective and clarity. I didn’t have enough time though and also assumed that this is an inquiry we are all invited to engage in, if we wish so. And of course, so we did. 

The article is ‘groundbreaking’ because these ‘alarming’ conversations about Climate Change do not normally reach wider audiences from mainstream media but are tucked away as being glossy, sensational happenings that are witnessed as  ‘just happening somewhere else’ and not really affecting ‘my’ life – of course until we perceive they do really affect our lives because all is interconnected. There were other related reasons, including the accumulation of scientific data, which are discussed here in this thread, so I wont go into these. I have a science background and of course I acknowledge there are issues with Science (its also still a narrative indeed), however the consensus is strong and reliable enough to at least respond to the invitation to ‘look closer’. In that sense it is also very informative, covering a wide spectrum of interrelated issues that we may not be aware of. And it does illustrate the inevitable if we don’t somehow respond to the calling to look closer.

I can also see and acknowledge that the alarming tone in the article can disempower people. It triggers the survival mechanism and it can ‘push’ certainly more vulnerable individuals to chaotic reactions and depressive modes. I can see how more sensitive individuals will be affected greatly. Also, if one over invests in these narratives, indeed one can loose ‘oneself’ and their own heartful wisdom.

The interesting observation is that everywhere I look in the world there is a degree of violence, a degree of ‘alarmness’. The foundation of this society contains fear. But fear  - to me – is one side of the coin; the other is Trust. Fear and Trust. To really feel the Fear is to re-discover Trust.  I also feel that no one is forcing our state of consciousness upon us and no one is making us act out of fear, blame and delusion. We will either relate from a conflicted mind state or from at least a less conflicted one, a more spacious, empathic space. In doing so, we can express our beliefs (expressing soul) from a place of love and rightness for the expression rather than from a place of blame towards the perceived ‘other’.

And of course, at the same time, I totally agree that statements/narratives like the article, which feel they push fear on people and even manipulate need to be approached/heard/read with awareness and discernment. In the Openhand community I believe, there is a lot of awareness and discernment and a willingness to look inside too. This thread is indeed a great illustration of this process. Narratives such as Climate Change are shared here as part of a wider context  - a spiritual context in particular - so that a sense of Trust, care and deep understanding is also mediated. What comes to mind is the Buddha’s teaching that says: ‘Life is Suffering’, which was taken by a lot of people to be nihilistic and depressive. But what the Buddha really talked about  - when you read further the texts – was that ‘There is suffering in Life’ and there is a cause and there is a way out of suffering. That was the wider context he offered. I feel we need that wider context to normalise and to be able to open up to ourselves and to what is real right now (in both the absolute and relative sense). Here on Openhand, this wider context: ‘The Paradigm Shift’ is offered and people who engage with the site or just visit can explore the whole picture.

Trust was brought up a lot in the thread very beautifully. For me, the inquiry is always this: How do we orient our beingenss towards trusting ourselves? I believe empowerment comes from trusting in the unfolding of our own experience every single moment, especially as we face crisis upon crisis in this world. And therefore, as we inevitably face ourselves every moment. The usefulness of a teacher here in our spiritual journey as it were  (as life is a spiritual journey) is paramount. One of the many things they can do is be mirrors, save us time and orient our being towards Presence (our true nature) intellectually and energetically. Of course, they can’t give us the Truth to what we already are. Only we can realise this. Only we can find Trust in this – in ourselves.

I feel that we are face-to-face with our own mortality and the mortality of us as a species and of the Earth as we know it. – right now. We are facing our inevitable existential challenge.  I feel that such crises can catalyse change of consciousness. The question is what change this is? The most common reactions to the uncertainty of change – including the inevitability of death, climate change etc- is fear, blame and anger.  We have all been there! And we may still go there! And that’s fine, that’s the process. I feel that these feelings arise because we tend to merge with the narrative, we become the narrative and hence a contracted sense of selfhood. This leads to divisions, more blame, anger and fear rather than openness to communicate, look inside in truthfulness and earnest and come forth with more of an attitude of curiosity, discernment and empathy.  I will be direct and clear here and say that the communications in this thread have been heated yes – which to me is fantastic – but in no way blame thrusting. I don’t feel this. I feel the communications have been powerful, fiery, honest and explorative. I’m grateful for all the conversations that push our individual comfort zones to expand – mine included – and encourage us to connect with each other in earnest, authenticity and care.  So, lets keep exploring, in our own unique ways, life and death in every moment.

Wise Love

Open, I had the sense that frustration was likely because of all the expectation that was put on me. You maybe right it's also because I can't fully comprehend the impact that I have. I remember your story how you saw the reflections of your inner work in the 3D world in the work of Edward Snowden at that time.

Where I'm at I see judgements and expectation coming my way  even in abusive form because I expressed my truth. I had a huge tightness in my heart and doubt that am I becoming too spiritual,otherwordly,too excited,  too much for others. 'Taking the gloves off' in the other article makes me remember a dream that I has recently I which I'm riding my bike without grip on its  handle. Loosing grip on reality? Maybe I'm just gradually pulling off the control mechanism. Shows me how futile it is to keep on living pleasing others when  your simple truth can expose the judgments.

Megha, you said similar things as of open but in a different context. What you said about our situation in India makes me see the bigger picture and ask in my situation "So what about the other millions of people who were already under served. Are they not our people? " I also agree how it's about the question and not the answer. And holding the right question can open the inner doors.

Vimal

Thank you for this Open. As somebody who lives in India ,I can assure you ,I am bombarded with tragedy. If not floods one moment,it is abuse in shelter homes the next ,the beggars on the streets,pollution in the air. Living in India seems often like ground zero. And like you ,Vimal ,I'm not often sure with what I need to do. So ,for me ,the best way to figure out what to do ,is to sit with the question ,what best can I do in this situation. Often times the answer is nothing ,just sit with it. But eventually I will be shown a place I can donate ,or a protest or group to be part of. There are a couple of such groups in which and I do nothing and still feel deeply called to be there. The opposite is also true - I used to volunteer at a school two years ago. And then I felt a massive resistence to doing so . I just didn't like the vibe of the place even though most people say good work is being done there . 

For me ,whenever I really desire to do something in a situation ,I cast a query into the Universe and attempt to catch a wave of energy that will lead me to it. It often leads me into deep denseness and several layers I come up against in the process. As I feel through the layers and unlearn something ,often that energy waits patiently for me to '  get it '  . And when I do ,it can dance with me again . 

It's actually a lot of fun 😀. Burn out ( very common issue with intensive care ) i has to be in the past because all I am doing is trying to express this moment . Be present with this child. Feel into Now . And ,as the Universe continually reminds me ,I am only responsible for being in the Flow as far as possible . 

Thank you for these reflections 

Megha

Open wrote "My friend - your consciousness is what's called for. Shine the steady light"

I get this. The greatest thing I can do is to stay centred in my consciousness and honour and express my truth however challenging that may be. Right action can only flow from this space. I feel pulled by the expectation of people around and expectation of myself. When I look at FB I can see people rushing to offer help. But somehow it doesn't feel real to me. I'm not sure if it comes from a feeling of compassion or a feeling of sense of lack, that somehow I'm not good enough If I dont provide. That I maybe judged because of this. And there is a rebellion against this pressure which feels real. There is also a feeling of guilt and that I have to suffer too. I was feeling tightness all over the body all day today which got only cleared when I did some bodywork and some realizations flowed. I feel Im bigger than I allow myself to be. If people doesn't get my truth ,then so be it. But I'm not gonna do anything that I don't feel to. 

Thanks for the support guys. Truly appreciated. However it doesn't feel fair that I draw attention towards myself at this time as I'm one of those fortunate ones who is not affected. Thanks to the teachings I can only look at my distress as an opportunity to go inwards and inquire as to where I'm holding on.

Hi Vimal,

I just wanted to let you know that I'm thinking of you during this time of  hardship. Severe Weather Europe just shared the footage of the floods in Kerala - it is devastating.

My heartfelt sympathy to you and yours.

wishing you well,

Márk

Just wanted to let you know that I just received a news flash through Swedish media, reporting on the situation in Kerala. I know it doesn’t help you or the 150.000 people who have lost their homes, but I thought you might like to know that, at least here, we have been made aware and our hearts go out to you.

Love,

Anastasia

Yes I feel the love and support from here. I'm also using the opportunity to go into what I'm really feeling. Strangely I feel the presence of Gia. As if she is speaking more strongly now. I guess everyone feels her to a degree. I can see it in articles and pictures of how nature is striking back. But it certainly doesn't feels like she is striking back but more like she is taking measures to realign back. I wholeheartedly feel that I have the wherewithal to stay centred and surrender into my feelings whatever it may be. But physically I feel limited that I don't have the necessary leverage to take action that might be of any benefit to anybody. Maybe that's something I need to work with myself and accept. I also feel like I'm surrounded and constricted and not much space to breath. I know and feel it's time like these that truly tests our limit. It feels like a realignment is called for within myself too, how immediately I may change my narrative and I have some piece of information already to work with. So it feels liberating too. 

Thank you all - my heart mates, for this discussion.  This is the first time I've been able to feel into each person's truth and then see responses from other hearts!   Thank you to the ALL !!!

Hi everyone reading, 

I doubt if this is reported in international news or even national news for that matter. But there is incessant rain and massive floods happening all across the my state (kerala). Thousands of people are being displaced and roads and bridges are under water. Even though where I live has not been affected I feel anxious and uneasy that this is happening. From where I stand the shift looks entirely real and it feels absolutely pointless to continue living as if its not happening. What inspires me at this time is that people all across are uniting to deliver help to the needy. But I also see blame from those with vested interests. It feels meaningless for me to continue doing some of the things (my work for eg) as if it matters. It feels time and crucial for me to shed off some layers and come into more of who I really am.

Vimal

Hello everyone,

So I’ve been following this thread and the debate going on, and I want to be honest about how it makes me feel. On one level, valuable and important points are being raised. Perspectives from both sides that are making me inquire into my own belief system. I’m grateful for this. On another level, it makes me feel uneasy. There is the feeling of a child watching mom and dad arguing, but not understanding why because she can’t see the full picture. She just knows that she may suddenly have to grow up very quickly, as the foundation she has come to rely on is shaking and may soon fall. There is an energy brewing under the surface, which feels charged to me. On a third level, this reflects what I see and feel on a global level right now. There is great restlessness and unease. Powerful, possibly volatile energy is bubbling everywhere under the surface, and I feel that soon we may all have to grow up very quickly and step into our full potential, whether we are ready or not.

Mark, I was moved by your sharing and it inspired me to share my experience as well, so here is my personal perspective of what’s going on: 

When I was a teenager I had a powerful and striking dream. The dream was in black and white, which was noteworthy because I always dream in colour. 

There was a war in my country which I was trying to flee from. I tried running and hiding but there was no safe place to be found. So I left my country and searched for safety in other countries, only to find the war was all over the world. Everywhere I looked, there was only poverty, terror, and grey misery to be found. It resembled an old movie about World War II. 

When I realised there was no place left to go on Earth, where this wasn’t happening, I gave up running and just walked out on an open street and stood there desolate, not knowing what to do. Suddenly, far off in the distance, right through the black and white reality I was in, I could see a bright red colour moving towards me. As it drew closer, I could see it was two white horses and a carriage, driven by a guru in bright red robes. In the carriage there were a handful of people and everyone was chanting ecstatically. The carriage stopped beside me and the guru invited me to join them. “Come with us to paradise!” she said. I stepped in, and as I sat down, the two white horses lifted from the ground and took us straight up to heaven. The End.

This dream obviously stuck with me, and to my surprise, two years later the movie Schindler’s list came out. A modern black and white film set in World War II, where the only element of colour is the bright red coat of a little girl that appears as a holocaust victim. Synchronicity...?

I always felt this was a prophetic dream, but I never saw further than the very obvious symbolism of my own personal ascension. I didn’t pay much attention to the war itself, at least not literally, because I never thought I would live through something like that. But this summer, I have felt something shift, on a global level, that makes me view the scenario in this dream, as a distinct possibility, metaphorically definitely and perhaps even literally.

I will explain why.

In my present life I’ve had two countries that have served as points of reference for me. Sweden, in the northernmost part of Europe, and Greece, in the southernmost part of Europe. Like a small scale North and South Pole, if you like. When I grew up, my life was divided between these countries. The cold and wet winters in Sweden vs the dry and hot summers in Greece. The certainty of this weather pattern has always served as a safety net for me, and many other sun thirsting Swedes, when the Swedish summer yet and again disappoints us with cold showers. We can always count on Greece to deliver. Or, can we?

I hadn’t been to Greece for a few years, but this year I really felt a pull to go. The weather in Sweden had been fabulous, for once. Two months of heat and constant sunshine (what?) but still Greece was pulling. So we bought last minute tickets, right into the flash floods...and the strangest feeling ever.... There we are, on holiday in Greece, late June, dining at a tavern called ‘Blue Sky’, (Yes, you’re sensing the irony), when suddenly the heavens open up and pour and pour and pour...For three days...

We weren’t badly affected, but on TV I watched significant childhood landmarks of mine, being swept away by the floods.

As I was sitting there, at Blue Sky, watching this torrential rainfall, l was struck by an eerie feeling. A few days ago, I was on my balcony in Sweden basking in Mediterranean heat, and now I was in Greece witnessing a very ‘unnatural’ natural disaster. At that moment, the world as I knew it, turned upside down. My North and my South Pole switched places, and I intuitively knew nothing would ever be the same again, not just for me, but probably for all of us. The order we have come to rely on had changed. 

My feeling was accompanied by the sound from the speakers, that kept playing sentimental Greek music, decorating the disaster with a strange beauty and grace. My mind went to a scene from the movie ‘Titanic’, where the ship’s musicians, with the utmost dignity, decide to keep playing the music even into their own death.

When I returned home, 80 wildfires were raging across the country. A common occurrence in Greece, but highly unusual in Sweden. Another direct shift. As hot and lovely as this summer has been for some of us up in the north, I haven’t been able to enjoy it. The effects have been detrimental to some, and if we have another summer like this next year, our water supplies will be in danger. It could all happen very quickly.

So, I’m sad. Really sad. Even though I feel this is what I’ve been waiting for all my life, that this is the reason why I’m really here, I still feel sad in the face of it. Open, you spoke of ‘tipping points’ earlier, and for me the tipping point was this summer, when my ‘world’ turned upside down. I have no idea what’s to come, I just know I need to be prepared to receive it if and when it does...

Thanks to all for listening and sharing  🙏🏻

Love,

Anastasia

Hi Margaret 

I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your courage, openness, and honesty.

Dear Eddie, 

I was especially moved by your post. Way to go brother!

Vimal 🙏

Hi Open,

I hear and understand what you're saying. 

It’s never been the actual message you are conveying that spiked my attention, but the way it’s been presented recently. So, it seems it wasn't a "debate" after all, but more like few monologues :-) But it’s ok and there is nothing more to add as I have expressed it all pretty much to the best of my ability. I feel the experience is complete and the lessons were learned well.

I do, of course, respect the fact that this is your website and you wish to focus on your concepts and nobody is forced to come here obviously :-)

With love and respect. 

Dear Mark!

It’s good to see you. The bit you shared about people having a message for others made me think that there is a strong tendency that exists in human groups to isolate some individuals and put them in a position of authority (due to their skills, talents, perceived connections with the Divine, even external beauty, etc.). As I was having my morning coffee today I wondered what would happen if we stopped doing that even for a moment, just to the best of our ability… how would it change our sense of empowerment and sovereignty? how would it affect our relationship with ourselves? And finally how would it change our connection with the Divine, God, Benevolence?

I feel there is a tremendous potential in each individual and loosening the need for a figure of authority, an external leader/messenger allows us to tap into it so much more! I feel we’re all equally important and just inspire one another all the time with our individual expressions. There is this wonderful interconnectedness that exists and with that I feel this sense of equality and shared experience. What follows, just for a moment at the time is the sense that even the individuality slowly blurs away and is nothing but a human concept.

Perhaps we don’t even dare to imagine that we, the regular folks having regular experience are our own and the true Messengers of the Divine! My heart opens wide when I feel into that J Oh, my goodness, think of the potential of that!

Margaret

Hi Open, Margaret (and all fellow Openhanders),

There is an interesting debate shaping up here which, for me at least somehow also reflects the greater processes that we can now witness globally. I've read somewhere that during a geomagnetic reversal, there is a transition phase with 3 or 4 north and south poles existing parallelly at the same time.  'As inside so outside': there is now a similar mutipolarity of opinions here on the forum. :)

Open, first and foremost, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks for Paradigm Shift, the new Openhand video. Especially for the energy it is radiating into the world. <3 I was reading your above article in the morning on my phone, travelling on the underground. Having gotten off the train, I saw an elderly lady falling off the escalator, only a few steps above me. (We helped her back on her feet, fortunately she got away with minor injuries). To me, it seemed very synchronistic with the part you wrote about 'feelings of dizziness, disconnection and ungroundedness'. 

Hi Margaret :),

I feel we are birds of a feather and the sharing the similarities and differences of our paths with each other has had an incredible uplifting effect on me! But I hope you know that very well.:)
I fully agree with you that awareness cannot be borrowed: being awakened means continuously questioning all our motivations, stories, conditionings, beliefs. Of course it also applies to teachings. This is very important. All our identities, be they spiritual or not, must be peeled off so that our innermost essence may shine through all that we say or do. All teachings are "like rafts that carry you to the other shore. The raft is needed, but the raft is not the other shore. " Of course I also agree that we have to avoid mimicking the teacher. In my particular case, even despite the enormous positive impact of his philosophy and energy on my life, I could not say that I always agree with every detail of Open's teachings - this is just not possible, at least not in my view.  

What I would like to say however to all reading this, that in my view, sometimes it does happen that one of us, just like Open in this particular case, has simply been given to deliver a certain message, and to do it basically at any price. Why I can fully understand this is very personal. I was only six when I shared the following 'message' with my 'audience' (family) that time, saying: "We shall be the last generation on Earth". Ever since, I have lived my life with the knowing that one day (not necessarily in the distant future) some sort of global closure will come to pass. (I also know I am not the only one feeling this). And before Open could even share his views on his scenario of a possible ending, I had seen a completely identical vision - in a meditation in Glastonbury back in 2014. At that time, I had no idea what this vision was all about. All I could see in that 'video' were the Earth and the Sun with the black space in the background, the two being in a very strange interaction with one another. It was when I got home, that in an afternoon, all of a sudden the ending scene of a movie started to play automatically on my computer. Only then could I understand what the vision was all about, 3:33 in the video here:

Can I be sure about the fulfillment of such "prophecies"? Of course not. Am I positive that it will come to pass? In my heart, most definitely. Consciously and subconsciously, this 'knowing' has been penetrating everything I do or say, since my childhood. As I also shared with Margaret in a correspondence a few months ago, earliear this year I had to relive the feelings of the demise of an entire planet. A several months long process of mourning, with waves of feelings strangely familiar somehow. "There is no way I am doing this for the first time!" - my first rection was. And as all grieving properly done, this one also brought some sort of relief eventually. 

So, this is my very personal perspective on the shape of the things to come.  

As for other aspects of the ongoing changes, I personally witness raging agression spreading like wildfire in the world (including but not limited to my home country) and a plethora of other synchronistic catastrophic events with increasing frequency pointing in the similar direction. Just think of the collapse of the Genoa bridge yesterday, at least the fifth similar event involving bridges in a few months time. Symbolic? It is up to each of us to decide. For me, it most definitely is.

with love to you all <3,
M. 
 

Dear Treebrother,

I love you too. There is always more that connects us, human beings, than divides, really!

:-) M.

I am sitting here with tears running down my cheeks. Tears of great joy as I feel able to be vulnerable here, to express myself as I am is beyond words. I LOVE all of you Fine Souls so much!!! It is late and I am tired so this will be short. Thank you Anatoly, M and all Openhanders for sharing this journey with me here. Thanks to Open for holding this space. Namaste, Brother.

Hi Anatoly,

In the part you quoted I wasn’t talking about the climate change, or any idea in particular. I was talking about us (me, you, people) insisting on sharing a concept, any concept and wanting to convince others.

As for your reflection on change I feel the same! My excitement springs straight from curiosity. To me the change is happening as this moment merges with the next. There is nothing to wait for. I feel I mostly lost interest in predictions. They seem silly as the future keeps changing with our current consciousness shifts. I see clusters of events as possibilities and us as setting trajectories with our consciousness to meet them. Therefore it would seem that what mostly matters is to be in alignment with the Soul in this moment and perhaps the next one that's emerging. And give my energy only to this very moment, not any other one. Just stay with what is happening now.

Good to be seen and I see you too, Anatoly.

With love

Margaret

Hi Margaret,

I don't really feel this coming through for me.  Maybe, it just me - not sure what other people are feeling.

At times you will feel resistance or tense silence coming your way, because
what you’re really saying to people is: “You are not enough, just as you
are… if you only realized what I realized, if you only knew what I know we
would all be better off, and I want that for you and for me.”

In fact, I feel the opposite.  There is sadness - yes and there is also some degree of excitement about coming changes. I don't know the exact changes and it doesn't matter to me.  I feel like the changes we are witnessing present the greatest opportunity for growth!  

And I am sure I would respect your viewpoint and accept you as you are!

With Love,

Anatoly

Hi Open,

You keep bringing up how the Openhand work was beneficial to me and I wonder if you feel I’m trying to undermine it here. Not at all! It was and still is groundbreaking for me. I could probably write a 10-page-long testimonial on how effective and opening the approach is. Hahaha! My hope is that there is no doubt about that J

I’m just not quite into the way you present your climate idea and the vacuum it creates around other takes and issues that we could be exploring. It feels narrow, like a tunnel and forceful (as opposed to powerful). But this is your website and you can do whatever suits you.

When you talk climate, there is no spaciousness in it, no room to wiggle. It sounds more like a fixed concept than an exploration. And there is no true possibility for a debate neither as you open a space for reflections only around your concept, only between A and B. I think the proselytizing stance can eventually make people mimic things, but I don’t think you can force their hearts.

At times you will feel resistance or tense silence coming your way, because what you’re really saying to people is: “You are not enough, just as you are… if you only realized what I realized, if you only knew what I know we would all be better off, and I want that for you and for me.”

All this made me think that perhaps what we can offer to others is to be available. Another gift would be to appreciate them as they are with what they think; and also trust the way they are/think is just right. That would be the fruit of this experience and this inquiry for me. <3

With love and gratitude

Margaret

Hi Treebrother,  

It feels like you are doing the best you can staying conscious of your lifestyle.  I know it is not easy but there is no one to blame here.  We are only responsible of what we are conscious of.  For me, It is a balancing act when it comes to consumption.  Does it serve for me to stand in the middle of the store, over analyzing whether i should buy that packaged golden tasty kiwi and being lost in the process?  What matters is awareness and action flows from it. It is a big one me and i am still working on it.  There is so much more to say on the subject. The bright side of it that it kicks of internal processes, tightness and even karma to work through!

Wishing you Well!

Anatoly 

No matter which way the climate goes my actions on a day to day basis are going to be the same and evolving. In my business I serve industries that consume energy in large amounts. Two of my customers are using the equivalent energy of 10 households each!! At both it is a constant balancing act to see if I can reduce their consumption of electricity and still get the job done. Would it be better if they closed their doors? Someone else would just take their market share and do it less responsibly. Then was anything gained? We are ALL creating our part in this breaking down of the biosphere. I Just do not for one second believe that it is all humans to blame. The percent we are responsible is not clear. I drive a small car that gets 30 mpg for my business. Most other service people drive vans or trucks. We heat with waste wood from a sawmill that would get dumped into a pile and set on fire if no one bought it. Could I do better? I ask myself this quite often. The best is the enemy of the good too. Namaste brother Open.

Dear Jennaya,

I like reading your posts here as I feel gentleness and depth in them (plus I know you as such person in real life). Life on a boat seems like an interesting experience bringing up consciousness around consumption and the livable space. Must be a strange contrast – the scarcity of the decks in comparison to the vastness of the ocean…. Do you fee them both? – the expansion of the surrounding water body and the contracting smallness of the cabins? I have never been on a boat!

Funny that you mention 6 months and how you began feeling something happening with the Earth. I have been feeling an increasing connection with the Earth over that very period of time. It is a good feeling, like we are compatible now.

The part of my post you quoted kind of flew from under my fingers and it strangely activated something in me too, especially the last sentence:

“So, who do you trust to deliver the truth about your reality? Do you feel assertions that are put out there in print with a nice photo are the truth? Do you trust the scientific body to deliver your truth? Who are the figures of authority whose truth you take on as your own? Where do you get disempowered? What is driving the very need for having your reality thoroughly explained? Can you hold some elements of your reality just as possibilities? These are such important questions because we usually grossly underestimate how much of our awareness is actually borrowed."

You had such interesting realizations around that and they made me ponder further. Especially around the terms we use sometimes without having deeper realization of what they mean. You mention the 5D shift and it’s a term we use here and in our conversations quite a bit. But what does it really truly mean to me? I just took this phrase off my language until I catch a deeper sense of it. So, thank you for sharing, Jennaya!

With love.

Margaret

Hi Open,

I hope Aspasia is having a nice quiet time at the retreat :-)

You said:

“But what is the truth? As you point out at the end, it's always a subjective perspective. And it becomes pointless then to say.... "this is the truth" or "that is not". Because everything in the phenomenal is relativistic in terms of the lens we each see through. So what is the point of exploring relativistic truth at all? I'd say because it creates a landscape through which we can self realise. And the more aligned the landscape is, the easier it becomes to feel the harmony of your soul through it. So we shift through continual iterations of rightness."

I like it how you said it. I’m with you on this.  So you would agree then, that the climate theory as you’re relaying it here in articles and posts is your individual perspective based on your personal experience and make-up? It is a perfect framework for inquiry for your particular journey…

… A long time ago a terrible mistake has been made and as a result of that many beings were led astray. It was a very difficult and complex situation and it resulted in lots of suffering. The Team that works with you (and possibly you too) feel responsible for what happened. To not over influence is so important, but not nearly as important as to trust the Benevolence to find her way through people’s hearts. The greatest empowerment you can give another is to trust them. Trust that others will find the right information at the right time and process exactly what they are ready to process. To over-influence could be to disclose something to which there is a resistance because then thee is a possibility of derailing others from their natural journey – this may be a shortcut too, and also one that may lead to complications.

I feel like saying this to you and and anybody who's reading: 

Once in a while there comes a time when we are called to access and express some very old experiences, feelings, somatic memories. They were longing for so long to come out from the shadowy realms of the unconscious. Now is that time. Grab a witness – may it be the starry sky, garden at dusk, or a stream. Allow your witness to be present as you are illuminating the darkness and welcoming the previously unseen or unwelcomed parts of you back into your heart. Open your body to sadness, perhaps even blame or self-abandonment and raw tender vulnerability. Whatever feelings arise, when allowed, will reveal a portal through which you can step back into yourself and be reminded yet again about the deep wisdom of a broken heart.

We all will be fine. We’ve been preparing for a long time, you know? Could you trust that? Would you trust us, Open?

With tons of love.

Margaret

Here is a different perspective on the current climate changes. Let me know what you think?

Yes. I am grateful for a gentler timeline here in relative sense.  Gaia is such an inspiration for me, being able to hold this gentler timeline in face of all the interference and moving pieces. It is just beyond the intellectual level to comprehend it. 

I am feeling fine with the Shift looking at it as a blessing and challenge at the same time.  Of course, I don't know how I will feel when things will start to heat up but will deal with it when I get there.  The challenge ahead will require a great deal of balance between catalytic and empathic qualities depending on the situation.  Even OH community is not homogeneous which is great in activating spiritual identities as I felt myself number of times.  And I am grateful for that as well to Openhand community is this website!

Namaste

Anatoly

Hey Aspasia,

It took me a while to reply as I was traveling from the beautiful Hawaii back to the continent :-)

I’ll try to be brief.

So, here we are, the truth-seekers, driven to let go of illusions, working to reclaim and integrate parts of our soul, and seek the true expression of ourselves. Sometimes, mistakenly, we compromise the pursuit of that truth by allowing energies in, such as manipulation. That’s ok. It happens once in a while. However, when we repeatedly (and consciously) do so we give consent to more deception to undermine our integrity, which may eventually result in dulling one’s discernment. A heavy price to pay, in my opinion.

The article presented here to hundreds of visitors as “groundbreaking”, “informative” and “illustrating the inevitable” is definitely one of the deceptive materials posing as truth and evoking strong emotional reactions. These materials usually create trauma (they connect to preexisting apocalypse programming), distraction, energy drain, waste of time by getting people to go down a rabbit hole. They take you out of the present moment and make chunks of your energy unavailable to you in the NOW. They also spread like a wildfire! Hahaha!

How to recognize such materials? Each of us has our own ways of discerning. I usually ask myself these questions:

• Do I feel the intention behind what’s written?
• Are there any NLP manipulative tactics employed in the transmission?
• Is the information trying to impose a belief system by using emotional hooks? What is it doing to my energy?
• Can I fact check the contents?
• Is it important for me to get to the bottom of this (is there sufficient evidence to determine whether the assertion is T or F? is it worth it? and do I even need to determine its truthfulness)?

The “Uninhabitable Earth” article is such a wonderful classic example of misinformation (as I mentioned in my previous post). It raised tons of red flags for me just based on how the information was presented. I felt no need to fact check it because:

1) The climate sciences are full of contradicting theories (global warming vs. ice age, etc.) and with multitude variables there is simply no way to foretell the future.

2) The sensational tone in which the “facts” were presented eradicated the trust that I initially had because of the OH recommendation.

For those who still trust science: I found that the article had been reviewed by a panel of 17 scientists to validate its scientific accuracy. It was given a rating of minus 0.7 (scale 2 to -2) – falling under the category of low scientific credibility. To wit:

 

“The reviewers found that some statements in this complex article do misrepresent research on the topic, and some others lack the necessary context to be clearly understood by the reader. Many other explanations in the article are correct, but readers are likely left with an overall conclusion that is exaggerated compared to our best scientific understanding.”

Detailed analysis can be found here:

 

https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-explain-what-new-york…

 

Why am I “harping” on it? It is not about this particular piece of writing, it’s just one of many. It is to point out how we outsource our authority and get disempowered by allowing unexamined claims to become our stories. That is something worth pondering. What do I believe about this reality? Where do these beliefs come from? How do I know they’re true? Once that loosens up, there is more space for the new awareness to come in.

Aspasia, you say that we should be alarmed and tell the story. Absolutely, yes! But let us tell the true story. The truth can stand alone and doesn't require colourful fiction to be convincing. Perhaps in the future we could also discuss issues such as human trafficking, contemporary slavery, global genocide, 5G and other harmful technologies, etc. Climate is just one of many important topics, but surely most vague because of its divinational nature and the tremendous/contradicting body of work.    

You also wrote:

“Also, relying on ones own subjective experience can be very misleading, often ungrounded and lost into conspiracy theories.”

Isn’t the subjective experience ALL there really is?

Margaret

I understand that certain stories about Climate Change - or in general stories and narratives of any kind - may instigate fear and other emotions but calling them false in this case, I don think so. Also, relying on ones own subjective experience can be very misleading, often ungrounded and lost into conspiracy theories.

I find the author's response to similar accusations of being alarmist made from readers 'to the point'. All readers came forth using a particular story they believed in. We are story telling and creating creatures, nobody is exempt from this. I agree, lets look at the stories we all tell ourselves, then see them through, feel them through, so as more freedom to arise.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-h…

the response since has been extraordinary — both in volume (it is already the most-read article in New York Magazine’s history) and in kind. Within hours, the article spawned a fleet of commentary across newspapers, magazines, blogs, and Twitter, much of which came from climate scientists and the journalists who cover them.

Some of this conversation has been about the factual basis for various claims that appear in the article. To address those questions, and to give all readers more context for how the article was reported and what further reading is available, we are publishing here a version of the article filled with research annotations. They include quotations from scientists I spoke with throughout the reporting process; citations to scientific papers, articles, and books I drew from; additional research provided by my colleague Julia Mead; and context surrounding some of the more contested claims. Since the article was published, we have made four corrections and adjustments, which are noted in the annotations (as well as at the end of the original version). They are all minor, and none affects the central project of the story: to apply the best science we have today to the median and high-end “business-as-usual” warming projections produced by the U.N.’s “gold standard” Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

But the debate this article has kicked up is less about specific facts than the article’s overarching conceit. Is it helpful, or journalistically ethical, to explore the worst-case scenarios of climate change, however unlikely they are? How much should a writer contextualize scary possibilities with information about how probable those outcomes are, however speculative those probabilities may be? What are the risks of terrifying or depressing readers so much they disengage from the issue, and what should a journalist make of those risks?

I hope, in the annotations and commentary below, I have added some context. But I also believe very firmly in the set of propositions that animated the project from the start: that the public does not appreciate the scale of climate risk; that this is in part because we have not spent enough time contemplating the scarier half of the distribution curve of possibilities, especially its brutal long tail, or the risks beyond sea-level rise; that there is journalistic and public-interest value in spreading the news from the scientific community, no matter how unnerving it may be; and that, when it comes to the challenge of climate change, public complacency is a far, far bigger problem than widespread fatalism — that many, many more people are not scared enough than are already “too scared.” In fact, I don’t even understand what “too scared” would mean. The science says climate change threatens nearly every aspect of human life on this planet, and that inaction will hasten the problems. In that context, I don’t think it’s a slur to call an article, or its writer, alarmist. I’ll accept that characterization. We should be alarmed.

Wise Love

I read the quoted here "Uninhabitable Earth" article in NY Mag and it made me think about the narratives we're taking on. Also, an interesting topic has been brought up here, namely: what stories are we telling ourselves? Where are all these stories coming from?

There is a multitude of false narratives constantly broadcasted (some with intervals for a better “believability” effect, so they feel like they’re hidden from the public). The large body of those messages seem to be creating a certain cohesive reality as well as compliance in people. The tactics employed to entrench some of those narratives are similar to bio-warfare as they create chaos and trauma in people’s nervous systems (please do not take me at my word, feel it yourself, if you wish). These stories entrench themselves, form belief systems that are then propagated by individuals. So, who do you trust to deliver the truth about your reality? Do you feel assertions that are put out there in print with a nice photo are the truth? Do you trust the scientific body to deliver your truth? Who are the figures of authority whose truth you take on as your own? Where do you get disempowered? What is driving the very need for having your reality thoroughly explained? Can you hold some elements of your reality just as possibilities? These are such important questions because we usually grossly underestimate how much of our awareness is actually borrowed.

The name of the game is consciousness, so it is of importance what we are perpetuating with your attention and what are we inciting in others. Is it conscious? Do you feel the necessity of convincing others of your truth? Why? What belief systems are you emotionally invested into? It is an awesome exploration that may shed light at the wounds or blind spots we all are carrying.

Getting back to the mind control topic: The article quoted here earlier is to me a great example of mind control in action (in fact, it is a really awesome example because it attempts to incite fear around the 3 main pillars of apocalypse programming, such as fear of war, cataclysm and plague). It is an old program (I call it a program because it acts like a software in your nervous system) mainly perpetuated by religions and cults over millennia. As you take a closer look, this particular article attempts to engage the limbic system, it has a certain rhythm that induces a semi-hypnotic state, it’s riddled with slippery slope fallacies, lacks broader context, contains exaggerations of factors (the bit on Syrian war) that lead the reader to the inevitable conclusion that is presented over and over and over again (by repetition your brain gets to internalize a message bypassing the prefrontal cortex). That’s your alarmist programming in a pure form. Further, it breathlessly goes over dramatic arguments without the smallest break to think. That’s because you are not supposed to think! It’s not meant to explain anything, it just puts it out to you in the most digestible form – via the limbic system language of fight-or-flight.

So, what happens when you take on this kind of belief system, you meditate on it, you tell your friends? You embody it. I’m not advocating denial or the “stay positive” stance. But if you fear a cataclysm, why not going straight to the fear of death without taking on the whole belief system? We are on an individual journey, which to me is more of a destructive process. There is often a temptation to replace one belief system with another, more woke one, so you may feel like progressing, but in fact this may be just another iteration of the same, safe, false reality (been there, done that). But, hey, there is wisdom and a potential lesson in that too and who is to say you shouldn’t have that experience! 

Margaret

Yesterday I was sitting on the  beach at Lake Balaton and was visited by a family of swans. They were clearly communicating a lot of messages to me, but you just provided further possible explanations as to what the appearance of these animal spirits was all about, Open. I am grateful for this/awesome synchronicity! :)/ 

«But even this isn't the end of the story - it's really just the beginning. There's then the continual exploration and expression of this (enlightened) state - the embodiment of it through life's myriad of experiences. And really, there is nothing else going on. If you contemplate deeply the Universe and where it emerged from, you realise this is simply what the Universe itself is naturally doing. You realise that everything prior to this state was simply illusion, and this is where life takes off (at least, what I can say, is that this is what happened for me way back down the path).»

I am totally with you Open `till here.

Before when I felt I had a role in society now all that is transparent/ impermeable.

 Before I felt like one fysical me and one spirit me devided in a crazy game

After Vipassana in 2011 the concionuss process began for me. 

I think I understand when you describe the 50/50 attention/awareness. 

To me it seems more like the awareness expands, in every way.

When in the beginning I felt I had to observe in, and out, NOW feel like entangeled with everything (time, body, energy) where everything gets more intensive. Nothing goes in loops any more and all new experienses are new.

Sometimes when it expands fast I tend to get migraine or fever so that my body takes rest to keep up. 

The energy that comes with conciosness is something I am currently working with. I am amazed of the power that comes with a wake concious awarness and I have alot to learn from this expanding reality I live in.

A man in India told me with no words that I do not have to understand everything. It helps me to stay awake 🙏❤️

Edit to add 

Nature provides 🙏

If I am where I am supposed to be, I feel all flows through me. It is like a stream of constant flow where the communication lies in vibration on different frequenses. 

I feel humans and nature on these frequenses like a spider on its web. This is why I wont live in the city any more. 

The flow confirms and informs. 

If my body is not clean and lean the flow gets tangeled up. Same with ego-thoughts that cuts the flow.

Within the flow is everything. Within us 🙏❤️

Hey all!

The explanation Aspasia gave in the video of the hooking in has been of tremendous help to me as well as your talking about the channeling aspect of knowledge exchange Open.

I can definitely say I've had a lot of experiences in this life, but just knowing and or finding clues as to what is happening is so helpful its not funny.

I try not to shut down, or shut out the world at large when I don't understand sometimes things that happen. Yet if I did not do this, I'm not sure the answers would come to me and apparently I forgot to bring my manual of all things spiritual when I was born, so those moments of oh God I'm a deer caught in the headlights please send help tend to make me want to just run not walk in fifty different directions until I find the answer that at the very least feels sufficient for me!

I've had a few terrifying spiritual happenstances over the years and as much as I hate to put on my what is this, have you not met me face on, it just seems to have to be done in order for me to at the very least understand the why's hows who's and whatnot's of life.

Sometimes I feel like God and the universe were having a heck of a joke when the dream came to me to find this site. Seems most of you are very enlightened and here I am still getting nauseous on the swingsets of life and running amok in a field of flowers or turning left instead of right when I see the incoming people signs! But, trudging ahead I go with all my vast plethora of moments at hand and I wholeheartedly agree. The end is definitely nigh. Even I don't want to or cant be deluded by this fact.

So thank you, thank you all so much for the information and knowledge given here! Oh and that song is definitely a good one!

Wyndè

Well done Open & Aspasia & everyone who contributed to that movie . Its not easy to explain how all those intricate aspects of the Intervention works + how to work with them  - so i take my hat off to the Whole Team to have managed to put it all together . On my own level , i can see , sense , feel how it impacts people , every day , everywhere & how it tries to bring me to an old version of myself .  I rarely meet anyone who feels less impacted . It has subtly invited me to take distance with former friends & Family members since last year - it was necessary to clear many energetic boundaries with accurate awareness . Today , a woman that i sometimes  cross ( she works for a social organisation nearby ) told me openly that most people she is dealing with  every week  btend to be more neglecting than before on a behavior level - which i immediately acknowledged openly . She is the only radiant being i crossed today among many i crossed .She must know a way to stay aligned with her Soul without living the impact as much as others , thats clear .  Often , i ask myself , why is it that so many out there look / feel to be so unhappy / ungrateful / stressed up / impatient / in a hurry / in a lack of overall awareness ?  while " Having " so much materialistically and not living in a country or a region where catastrophic events take place right now . Well , the rootcauses are so well described in the Paradigm Shift movie & how to work with that ( On top of karma / personal subconscious baggages ) . I have regularly offered to people to work with their issues ( painting clients often talk about their lives to me + some of their issues ) but many dont want or resit some Support to help them out ...well , what i sense is that Opposing consciousness infuse subtly more resistance energy for them to hook on a bit longer . Not an issue for me as i am very flexible & understanding of those complexe energetic dynamics . 

I took time to watch it - by parts until now and will watch the last part when it feels right this week . 

Sending loads of support & gratitude for having learned so much about this very delicate subject of our invisible reality & True History . It provided me and for many Openhanders across the planet the clear evidences & proofs that something Huge is going on for a long time . Even in very sacred places that i was drown to (South India , South West of Usa , Uk , France ) i came to understand that the Intervention has constantly been disrupting their energetic fields . That said , i have also always been connected as well to a Higher Benevolent Team of beings working at unraveling that intervention & showing me how it works ...as to drop all judgments of why , how much , how painful , how crazy it is . 

Much soft love , Jean Bluehopi

except for the Ego.

It is like you say Open. It is through self awarness one can find the thruth. The only thruth 🙏❤️

Hi Open,

I'm looking forward to watching your new film. Just awaiting the right moment. Yes, your videos and articles are usually activating, beyond the words and thoughts they contain. All the best and thank you and all involved for putting it out there. 

With gratitude.

Margaret

I was a little surprised by my initial reaction to the Shift video. I was feeling some tension around how it would spike and what it might “ask of me.”   But the timing is perfect and I am left with a feeling of reverence - it is an honor to be here. My warrior spirit grins and salutes the One in you.

Paul

While watching the documentary, several times I have a sense of what could be described as soul infusion and that was wonderful!  Thank you Open and Openhand team for the message!  I am grateful that have found Openhand at exactly the right time and challenging time.

With Love,

Anatoly

Sorry Rebecca I do not see it through your eyes. For if it was not for talking about what is going on I would not be in the state of present's most of the time in the now as you put it. Without talking to a friend who is a member of Openhand that introduced me to the site, I would have gone on like I was for most of my 50 plus years thinking I was an outcast. Look at my friend as water, the site as the light and the different perspectives as the shadows or dark. I have all the seeds that I will ever need to get to where it is that I am heading in this life. By talking to my friend it watered the seeds and the seeds begin to sprout, In turn this brought up inquiry, which led me to the site which shed light on the sprouts, which help them grow. And the different perspectives were the shade and the dark that these seeded sprouts needed to grow as well. 

You say; {To share the light, Be like Jesus, it is the only way. Be an example. Talking about it does not help}. How did Jesus, Buddha or Muhammad get their message out. They had to talk about it. Which was like Open pointed out [a perspective]. So it is up to the seeker to choose the path he will take. Knowing that change is only one step or one thought away. 

Being in this form we have lost the ability to communicate with out words. Some of us .lol.  So for now we share by our words, written or spoken and our action or non-action.

Much Love

Charlie

Telling people does not work. People have to experience to be able to understand, and understanding it all, is not a goal. Experience is knowing. We all have our own thruth that comes from our experiences.

To share the light, Be like Jesus, it is the only way. Be an example. Talking about it does not help.

Self awareness comes with learning from mistakes, from lifechanging experience and can be praticed through yoga, meditation and breathing.

Awarness and empathy for Gaia and all living beings evolves naturally when we are present.

Expanding of collective conciousness is happening NOW and it changes everything. 

Being a good example by being present with each other is what we all can do to make everybody experience this magic time NOW 🙏❤️

I am blessed enough to be a facilitator of light in this amazing shift to a higher frequency global conciousness so this is an amazing remind to constantly move yo higher vibrations. Your movie is going to be a groundbreaking introduction and explanation to all souls both beginning on their journey and far down the line. Thank you to all who helped put the movie together. And thanks to you Open for bringing this amazing shift to a easy to digest movie, that will bring those questiong their perfect beingness, into a place where they can make sense of all that is happening around them. Looking forward to more of your work in the future. And Thanks to all beings both 3D and beyond, that are part of the openhand crew. You are all doing amazing work!!

What a beautiful gift to awake to this morning. The new documentary is amazing. With such an understanding of all that is. Thank you to the whole that helped made this possible. I will forever share this Divine Message to infinity and beyond.

Much Love and Gratitude

Charlie