The launch was fantastic - more than any expectation we might have had. We had 'old' Openhanders join us, and plenty of new ones. The room was packed to the rafters - we literally thought we might bring the ceiling down! The build up for us was in itself a real rollercoaster - the universe pushed us to the limit, with every ounce of commitment necessary from both myself and Trin. We thought we had the book produced and finished a couple of weeks prior to the launch - plenty of time to take a much needed holiday. So we headed off down to the coasts of Cornwall, camping for a week. It happened to be the same stretch of coast that Chris experienced his Gateway 2 realignment - with the moving kestrel story. And of course, what should be the first bird that we see there, hovering above the coastal cliffs? Yes, the kestrel in all his glory. So half way through the holiday, it kicked off some deep processes for me - plenty of astral travelling. It caused me to explore the whole nature of so-called 'Mother Nature' - things we kind of take for granted such as 'survival of the fittest', 'predator and prey', 'dog-eat-dog'. Is that actually natural? Gaia 'spoke' to me strongly; not in words but through signs and synchronicity - something to resonate deep in the core of you. I realised this 'survival of the fittest syndrome' was merely a facet of her karma - that she'd created this 'consensus reality' here on Earth as an exploration of the so-called 'raptor consciousness'. And I knew already that it wasn't an aspect of the 5th Dimensional New Paradigm. Then is dawned on me: Gaia doesn't need this anymore. And when she completes the Ascension, she no longer needs to come back. In other words, this reality here in the 3D will close down over time as her energies shift into the Higher Paradigm. And she even showed me how it is to be done, how it is being done right now, and when it's likely to be complete. But for now, I'll save those gems for the book! As I made these realisations, a dance took place between me and the kestrel through the rest of our holiday - popping up here and there, hovering overhead. It's a superlative creature, and I was deeply saddened to think such a being would not be in the Fifth Density - but then I also realised something very important: it's consciousness would ascend and take on a new form there. So with tears of joy, I waved goodby to my old friend. What it meant was, that when we returned, I had to redraft three chapters of the book (the latter ones), with less than a week to go to the launch! I managed somehow - with a lot of divine help - to do this in a day. But then came the unknown of submitting it to the publishers, getting the new proof approved through their media, updating the files, putting it through the print-house and dispatching it through the often unreliable British Post. We've been through some tight scrapes over the years in the Openhand Team and I can tell you this pushed us to the limit! But that's the point of such events. The universe is always going to test you on them; they're always an opportunity to confront any inner tightening and expand out. And just like the kestrel - that's what we did! So it was a great evening, and a great way to bring DIVINICUS into being. Open *OK*