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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[ Presence in all things]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[no  matter where you are no matter where you think you are no matter what you believe yourself to believe in matter in thought which is matter there is presence in all things the ever knowing You]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">no  matter</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">where you are</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">no matter where you think you are</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">no matter what you believe yourself to believe</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">in matter</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">in thought</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">which is matter</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">there is</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">presence</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">in</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">all things</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">the ever knowing</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">You</p>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[Kindness]</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 10:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The kindness that you seek in others can be found within yourself the kindness that you are afraid of receiving will wait until you are ready to receive it waiting close by like a fathful friend there is kindness everywhere if only you stop to see kindness is the source of community and of healing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center">The kindness that you seek in others</p>
<p align="center">can be found within yourself</p>
<p align="center">the kindness that you are afraid of receiving</p>
<p align="center">will wait until you are ready to receive it</p>
<p align="center">waiting close by like a fathful friend</p>
<p align="center">there is kindness everywhere</p>
<p align="center">if only you stop to see</p>
<p align="center">kindness is the source of community</p>
<p align="center">and of healing and understanding</p>
<p align="center">if you seek wisdom, knowledge, spirituuality</p>
<p align="center">first develop kindness</p>
<p align="center">and you will find all other things accrue naturally</p>
<p align="center">kindness needs nothing but itself</p>
<p align="center">and is everywhere waiting to shared</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[ Ever Since Heaven Made Cutbacks..]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 09:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Heaven made cutbacks on its budget the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have had to take public transport (it was mentioned at a policy meeting that they would lose the Public Relations impact) and gender issues have arisen so now they are known as the  Four Horsepeople of a Possible Near Extinction Event [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center">Ever since Heaven made cutbacks on its budget</p>
<p align="center">the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse</p>
<p align="center">have had to take public transport</p>
<p align="center">(it was mentioned at a policy meeting that they would lose the Public Relations impact)</p>
<p align="center">and gender issues have arisen so</p>
<p align="center">now they are known</p>
<p align="center">as the  Four Horsepeople</p>
<p align="center">of a Possible Near Extinction Event</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">Political Correctness</p>
<p align="center">was invented by the Devil</p>
<p align="center">who attends</p>
<p align="center">an anger management group</p>
<p align="center">for the dammned</p>
<p align="center">run by</p>
<p align="center">an angel that used to be a social worker</p>
<p align="center">and no one understands</p>
<p align="center">the strategy he has planned</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">a thousand proclaimers</p>
<p align="center">warn the people of things</p>
<p align="center">to come</p>
<p align="center">but do not look</p>
<p align="center">at the ancient teacher</p>
<p align="center">beneath their feet</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">I was asked once ,</p>
<p align="center">&#8216;what do you believe?&#8217;</p>
<p align="center">My reply was and is</p>
<p align="center">&#8216;I believe in the eternal that dwells in the human state,</p>
<p align="center">the movement of consciousness</p>
<p align="center">of clear light and slowness</p>
<p align="center">of the everchanging</p>
<p align="center">and the unspoken path</p>
<p align="center">that dwells in every being</p>
<p align="center">that lives in the ten worlds</p>
<p align="center">and beyond,</p>
<p align="center">in the simple</p>
<p align="center">and the profound&#8217;</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">having found my answers unacceptable</p>
<p align="center">confusion reigned</p>
<p align="center">its natural</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">Political Correctness</p>
<p align="center">is political control</p>
<p align="center">it is surveillance</p>
<p align="center">of the individual</p>
<p align="center">without the cameras</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">The time will come</p>
<p align="center">when even an atheist will be</p>
<p align="center">crucified for such a belief</p>
<p align="center">a hindu and a jain,</p>
<p align="center">a buddhist and a druze</p>
<p align="center">a christian and a communist</p>
<p align="center">will all be held in contempt</p>
<p align="center">of the state</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">it is said the devil is in the details</p>
<p align="center">he once told me that he is just misunderstood</p>
<p align="center">and god feels like that too</p>
<p align="center">well, i said both of you are just</p>
<p align="center">bit players in the drama of time</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">both of you concerned</p>
<p align="center">with political correctness</p>
<p align="center">but then both of you are related</p>
<p align="center">devil and god</p>
<p align="center">but both of you forget</p>
<p align="center">that life is not about the outcome</p>
<p align="center">but the attempt</p>
<p align="center">there is no fall or rise</p>
<p align="center">no sanctuary or prize</p>
<p align="center">the spirit is self realising</p>
<p align="center">and that is the</p>
<p align="center">only truth and deities, leaders</p>
<p align="center">and those who want control are terrified</p>
<p align="center">of that, of</p>
<p align="center">the story tellers and the poets</p>
<p align="center">the magic people and the inbetween walkers</p>
<p align="center">the mountain holders</p>
<p align="center">and stone collectors</p>
<p align="center">they do not conform</p>
<p align="center">to the supermarket stacking</p>
<p align="center">of political correctness</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">I have seen the face of war</p>
<p align="center">and know the haunting</p>
<p align="center">rush of meaning as it trickles with the blood</p>
<p align="center">in dying moments</p>
<p align="center">people see the truth</p>
<p align="center">of their own divine humanity</p>
<p align="center">and reject</p>
<p align="center">all constraints</p>
<p align="center">as they look</p>
<p align="center">into the clear light</p>
<p align="center">and go beyond the whisperings</p>
<p align="center">of gods or politicians</p>
<p align="center">to ride the note of a flute</p>
<p align="center">to their true home</p>
<p align="center">only to stay awhile before returning</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[Love is Within Us]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; ONE: &#160; Wisdom has a sadness of its own, pensive like a cello playing in a soft snow fall Compassion holds a knowingness that looks into all things with an unblinking eye Anger seeks to include everyone in its rage of ignorance and self-defeat, Greed seeks solace in having all it can to bury [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"> ONE:</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="justify"> <font color="#000080">Wisdom has a sadness of its own, pensive like a cello playing in a soft snow fall</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000080">Compassion holds a knowingness that looks into all things with an unblinking eye</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000080">Anger seeks to include everyone in its rage of ignorance and self-defeat,</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000080">Greed seeks solace in having all it can to bury the  oncoming fear</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000080">Lust craves a chance at halting mortality and believes in the tempoary as real</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000080">Illumination lights only what needs to be illuminated for the awakening of the Self happens in the dark</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000080">Loss and learning go together, and love and liberation are good friends.</font></p>
<p align="justify">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">TWO:</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="right"><font color="#800000">Love was within us before we came and went, love was in the first cosmic form</font><br />
<font color="#800000">and fell in the first rainfall, love was within us and will be when we forget that we once dwelt</font><br />
<font color="#800000">upon the Earth, love was within the first rising spark of Wisdom and the clear sight of Compassion</font><br />
<font color="#800000">and Love took the journey willingly into the dark matter and confusion of the temporal world in order</font><br />
<font color="#800000">to evolve back to its own recognition again.</font></p>
<p align="center"> THREE:</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font color="#000080">The human race is a pathway in which Love plies its course, </font><br />
<font color="#000080">a river that flows through time and space</font><br />
<font color="#000080">creating diversity and matter, consciousness and place, </font><br />
<font color="#000080">perception and awakening and the nature of living light</font><br />
<font color="#000080">Love has made the chance for Life </font><br />
<font color="#000080">when it embraced itself openly with Light,</font></p>
<p align="center">
<font color="#000080">for Love and Life make Light and from that all things are:</font></p>
<p align="center">
<font color="#000080">for in Light, Consciousness takes form </font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#000080">shrouding Love&#8217;s constant breath </font><br />
<font color="#000080">and in that come  the two eternal seasons, mortal life and mortal death </font><br />
<font color="#000080">two great teachings of  Love and Light </font><br />
<font color="#000080">by which the Cosmos and Consciousness descend and create form</font><br />
<font color="#800000"> </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#800000"> </font></p>
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		<title>Mystery and Beauty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mystery, our life is full of mystery Beauty, our life is full of beauty the mystery brings us understanding the beauty brings us vision the mystery reminds us of the sanctity the beauty calls us to be whole the mystery is a prompt the beauty a reminder of how our humanity is a pathway to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center">Mystery,</p>
<p align="center">our life is full of mystery</p>
<p align="center">Beauty,</p>
<p align="center">our life is full of beauty</p>
<p align="center">the mystery brings us understanding</p>
<p align="center">the beauty brings us vision</p>
<p align="center">the mystery reminds us of the sanctity</p>
<p align="center">the beauty calls us to be whole</p>
<p align="center">the mystery is a prompt</p>
<p align="center">the beauty a reminder</p>
<p align="center">of how our humanity</p>
<p align="center">is a pathway</p>
<p align="center">to the divine</p>
<p align="center">in each</p>
<p align="center">of us</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">mystery and beauty</p>
<p align="center">voices within</p>
<p align="center">faces of</p>
<p align="center">compassion</p>
<p align="center">wisdom</p>
<p align="center">and</p>
<p align="center">humour</p>
<p align="center">and you</p>
<p align="center">can find</p>
<p align="center">a direct</p>
<p align="center">experience</p>
<p align="center">of them</p>
<p align="center">by knowing</p>
<p align="center">the laughter</p>
<p align="center">that dwells</p>
<p align="center">in the</p>
<p align="center">essence</p>
<p align="center">of</p>
<p align="center">everything</p>
<p align="center">you experience</p>
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		<title>Reflections through Human Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; 1 Take A Walk Across the Land Take a walk across the land, or down the street, extend your hands, feel the human pulse in all that is there step back do you feel fear? Take a walk across your life, or down the memories that make the landscapes in your mind, through the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"> 1</p>
<p align="center"><strong><em>Take  A Walk Across the Land</em> </strong></p>
<p align="center">Take a walk across the land,</p>
<p align="center">or down the street, extend your hands,</p>
<p align="center">feel the human pulse in all that is there</p>
<p align="center">step back do you feel fear?</p>
<p align="center">Take a walk across your life, or down the memories that make</p>
<p align="center"> the landscapes in your mind, through the crowded market place of emotions</p>
<p align="center">and through the long rememberings of the longing heart,</p>
<p align="center">extend you hands</p>
<p align="center"> ..feel the human pulse in all that is there&#8230;</p>
<p align="center"> do you feel love?</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><em>I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart, </em></p>
<p align="center"><em>the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light</em></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">2</p>
<p align="center"><strong><em>The Sound of a Single Note<br />
</em></strong></p>
<p align="center">Each of us remains too frightened in our daily lives,</p>
<p align="center">I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart,</p>
<p align="center">the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light</p>
<p align="center">there are harmonic rhapsodies in the faces of love and fear,</p>
<p align="center">call to them,</p>
<p align="center">like the Pied Piper of Hamlyn</p>
<p align="center"> or the Snake Charmer of Lucknapoor ,</p>
<p align="center">they will come scuttling to the tune,</p>
<p align="center">fear comes like a horde of rats</p>
<p align="center"> because fear is stronger in a crowd and more curious,</p>
<p align="center">love will come willingly for love is willing</p>
<p align="center">and not because the piper calls but that</p>
<p align="center"> love knows that piper in order to heard needs to be followed</p>
<p align="center">until the day that the piper casts the pipe away</p>
<p align="center">Love and fear harmonic interplay</p>
<p align="center">you can travel world on a single note</p>
<p align="center">from future to the past and</p>
<p align="center">the illusion of now</p>
<p align="center">extend your hands and feel the human pulse</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">3</p>
<p align="center"><strong><em>The Finder is Not the Knower </em></strong></p>
<p align="center">we are born to meander through the human pulse</p>
<p align="center">in search of meaning and the celebration of our Self</p>
<p align="center">If you seek to look for God or the answers to your life</p>
<p align="center">stop and feel the human pulse</p>
<p align="center">for all the names of God are found</p>
<p align="center">in the human  world in the beating heart and it essence</p>
<p align="center">if you seek to be comforted, the comfort that is</p>
<p align="center"> within is to be reflected in the creation of friendship</p>
<p align="center">if you seek for answers to your life then stop to know</p>
<p align="center">the way of how you love and why you do</p>
<p align="center"> then give it up and you</p>
<p align="center">will find the truth</p>
<p align="center">whatever you may search for will be found</p>
<p align="center">but on finding it then you must understand</p>
<p align="center">understanding is the discoverer and explorer too</p>
<p align="center">been the finder is not the knower</p>
<p align="center">You may find God, You may find Meaning</p>
<p align="center">You may find Love, You may find fame</p>
<p align="center">Finding is not the Knowing</p>
<p align="center">to know we must give up what we have found</p>
<p align="center">to understand we must give up meaning</p>
<p align="center">to have meaning we must give up all our prejudice</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><em>I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart, </em></p>
<p align="center"><em>the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light</em></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">4</p>
<p align="center"><em><strong>Unknown </strong></em></p>
<p align="center">In the world and in our heart there is the</p>
<p align="center">divine, unknown, we seek to find  a way to love</p>
<p align="center">which will lead to us been known.</p>
<p align="center">but all things return to the unknown</p>
<p align="center">and the emergent</p>
<p align="center">when you feel alone and lonely</p>
<p align="center">separate and unknown</p>
<p align="center">pause and offer up these states of being</p>
<p align="center">as imperfect prayers to the unknown</p>
<p align="center">and you will find that the</p>
<p align="center">Cosmos and its Descent</p>
<p align="center">will be falling within and up</p>
<p align="center">bathing you in the Unknown</p>
<p align="center">We are the Unknown</p>
<p align="center">the lonely and the content</p>
<p align="center">we are the journey and the last coin spent</p>
<p align="center">we are the meaning and dreaming</p>
<p align="center">and the reflections through human experience</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><em>I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart, </em></p>
<p align="center"><em>the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light</em></p>
<p align="center"> 5</p>
<p align="center"><strong><em> What We Have Now is Also This</em></strong></p>
<p align="center">All is offering and acceptance</p>
<p align="center">seeking its own delight</p>
<p align="center">all our bitterness is a call for this</p>
<p align="center">all our love and suffering too</p>
<p align="center">what we have now is also this</p>
<p align="center">what we seek is in the seeking</p>
<p align="center">we fall in love with ourselves</p>
<p align="center">this is what we seek</p>
<p align="center">what we have now in the essence of our being</p>
<p align="center">is what we had in the first impulse of our coming into being</p>
<p align="center">we are reflections through human experience</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><em>I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart, </em></p>
<p align="center"><em>the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light</em></p>
<p align="center"> 6</p>
<p align="center"><em><strong>With a Single Constant Breath Make Ourselves Again<br />
</strong></em></p>
<p align="center">Give up the patterns of your thoughts</p>
<p align="center">the past, wherefores and whys</p>
<p align="center">go beyond comparisons</p>
<p align="center">beyond truth and lies</p>
<p align="center">through the furnace of awakening</p>
<p align="center">through the glamour of illusion</p>
<p align="center">go beyond to</p>
<p align="center">the one unspoken word</p>
<p align="center">there is no this or that</p>
<p align="center">there is no us or them</p>
<p align="center">there is no good or bad</p>
<p align="center">for the Cosmos and its Descent</p>
<p align="center">only moves to find its way</p>
<p align="center">a sunset and sunrise</p>
<p align="center">a moonset and moonrise</p>
<p align="center">fleeting light on fleeting lives</p>
<p align="center">starlight, lovelight, carlights</p>
<p align="center">there is</p>
<p align="center">Awake and be kind to your heart</p>
<p align="center">look out around you</p>
<p align="center">to the mind field, that pattern which you call your life</p>
<p align="center">there the mind field is a vast skein of light</p>
<p align="center">harmonic interludes that create day, birth, night, death</p>
<p align="center">and eternity</p>
<p align="center"><em>I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart, </em></p>
<p align="center"><em>the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light</em></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">when the world is at last, swept away ,we will gather up the dust</p>
<p align="center">and with a single constant breath</p>
<p align="center">make our selves again in the image of our being</p>
<p align="center">our creation will be</p>
<p align="center">reflections through human and divine experience</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What will You do when you can not put gas into your car?</p>
<p>What will You do when you can not buy your food at the supermarket?</p>
<p>What will you do if you can not find any water clean enough to drink?</p>
<p>What will you do when the lights go out?</p>
<p>What will you do if your software fails?</p>
<p>What will you do if all that you know suddenly falls apart?</p>
<p>What will you do?</p>
<p>What will you do when the rain fall burns your skin?</p>
<p>What will you do when the rain stops falling?</p>
<p>What will you do when the rain pours down day and night ?</p>
<p>What will you do when the last glacier evaporates?</p>
<p>What will you do when all the knowhow of all that you take for granted is meaningless and cannot save you?</p>
<p>What will you do?</p>
<p>Stand in the light of your own being and try not to be afraid, that is what you can do</p>
<p>When the Zoo gets raided for the meat in the cages what will you do?</p>
<p>When everyone around you is in despair what will you do?</p>
<p>Stand in the light of your being and try not to be afraid, that&#8217;s what you can do ..</p>
<p>Start now and learn how to know what to do,</p>
<p>Stand in the light of your being and try not to be afraid</p>
<p>Trust the cycle of spiritual unfoldment in the world</p>
<p>This is the sad time of the World versus the Earth, when  there needs to be no competition</p>
<p>When the Earth asks you, and that day will come, what did you do? What will your answer be?</p>
<p>The World has no answer and no question. That is why many do not know what to do.</p>
<p>There are two species of humanity, one dwells within The World</p>
<p>The other dwells with the Earth..the choice is , what will you do?</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[People often wonder&#8230; what is Karma? Karma is any intentional process, a thought, action, word or gesture or combination of all that is done with intent and focus. This the primary impulse of Karma. It does not matter whether the intent is positive or negative.  Because such activity creates many patterns that replicate themselves beyond [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People often wonder&#8230; what is Karma?</p>
<p>Karma is any intentional process, a thought, action, word or gesture or combination of all that is done with intent and focus. This the primary impulse of Karma. It does not matter whether the intent is positive or negative.  Because such activity creates many patterns that replicate themselves beyond measurement, we all are linked in a karmic fish net, that trawls the bottom of our unconscious karmic ocean.</p>
<p>If we wish to change patterns in our life, we need to understand what prompts our thoughts, actions, words and gestures, and what are the drives behind our intentions and focus. We can change karmic patterns by changing the nature of our intentions to the world, our inner world, outer world and to all people and other living creatures.</p>
<p>People often wonder &#8230;what  is Rebirth, thinking it the same as Reincarnation.</p>
<p>Rebirth is the process of suddenly been born as soon as you are dead without any understanding or control over the emotional, psychological and spiritual aspects of dying. If you lived a confused life and died with confusion, fear or any other overwhelming emotion that caused you to feel trapped,then it can be that you will be born immediately, as there are endless wombs waiting to be filled with life.</p>
<p>Rebirth is sudden and without understanding, it is a rush an endless flow and pattern. But you can rise out of that pattern by learning how to become conscious and more aware of your inner state so it does not sabotage your mental state as you die. This leads us to Reincarnation.</p>
<p>People often wonder&#8230; what Reincarnation is&#8230;</p>
<p>Reincarnation is the conscious application of mental , emotional and spiritual insight to yourself as you die, thus clearing away all the inner fears and projections that emanate around you as you die. You create a choice within you as to how you shall be, you enter into a dimension of choices. And when you know it is right, you have an element of choice over how, when and to whom you will be born.</p>
<p>In the death process if you enter into the state of clarity, you can redeem yourself, heal all your regrets, learn as to the whys and hows of your karmic legacy and inheritance and transform yourself.</p>
<p>Death is the great equalizer but in that you have choice and intention and focus.   Whatever you have done, you can heal in the process of death, and stay in the dimensions between the former life and the possibility of a new one, to enhance your inner evolution and well being.</p>
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		<title>AChristopher Hansard:[Bliss and Boredom]</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bliss and Boredom, silence and noise, calm and rush, silence and noise, clamour and quietude, dark and light, to have and not to have, these are the questions that are asked deep within our everyday selves and we are not normally conscious of the asking. Until, one, some or all of them come rushing out [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bliss and Boredom, silence and noise,</p>
<p>calm and rush, silence and noise, clamour and quietude, dark and light,</p>
<p>to have and not to have,</p>
<p>these are the questions that are asked deep within our everyday selves and we are not normally conscious of the asking. Until, one, some or all of them come rushing out in a surprise guerilla assault of our fragile sense of self. These fuel most people&#8217;s search for meaning, comfort and stability.</p>
<p>But they are heat waves that come from the energy our everyday mind when it tries to make sense of our lives, selves and the world.</p>
<p>To move beyond becoming influenced by the rise and fall of all of these, we need to understand that we can let go of trying to make sense of it, and allow the natural sense to make sense of us.</p>
<p>Yes, we need to let go of the searching when fueled by all of these things that I have listed and allow the natural sense within us to show us that there is no search.</p>
<p>Because  you are the  journey and the destination and you have already arrived, it is just, that at some point in your journey through Life, you forgot. Its like meeting someone from years ago, and you can&#8217;t quite place their face or name, but you know that you know them from somewhere.</p>
<p>The natural sense within can show you that beneath the thrum of all of these experiences that I mentioned earlier is a great simplicity, and it is constant and yet as you experience it, it is renewed and so are you.</p>
<p>There will be no more bliss or boredom, but contentment and a knowing of the great laugh that resounds in the universe, and you will taste joy in everything and everyone.</p>
<p>Beyond Bliss, beyond boredom, you will find yourself and like a long lost lover rush to embrace yourself in the experience of the ever constant divine.</p>
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		<title>AChristopher Hansard:[Power]</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Power is often confused with force, and force is regarded as strength, and in many worldly situations that is true and appropriate when needed. However, true power in all its forms stems from the relationship a person has with their inner power, and the greatest power is the knowing of when to act, when to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Power is often confused with force, and force is regarded as strength, and in many worldly situations that is true and appropriate when needed.</p>
<p>However, true power in all its forms  stems from the relationship a person has with their inner power, and the greatest power is the knowing of when to act, when to not, to be aware of the time of things, for all things have their own time.</p>
<p>The greatest power comes from living in accord with your authentic emotional and spiritual state which can not be defined by anyone other than you and the eternal Self that takes on the material identity that you regard as your personality, day by day. Power comes not from things but from being.</p>
<p>When power is applied it not longer becomes power but another quality of action and intent.</p>
<p>You are potentially more powerful than any man made force or natural cycle or cosmic event or body, you are the summation of a thousand million universes, countless aeons of conscious journeying through many life forms, you are the great navigator and commander of  the most profound power of all..the continuity of Consciousness  which is the energy that all power is derived from.</p>
<p>Power takes on a conscious form when applied that is why as your inner self grows and matures it becomes powerful, not in ego or desire but in accordance with the cycle of things, there are many on this planet who have power but are not mature, their power comes from the intent of despair and ego, fear and the desire for safety from their inner knowledge that their power will fade thus bringing the fear of mortality.</p>
<p>This relationship to power comes from the fear of change and the misunderstanding of who we are as human beings in the natural and universal world.</p>
<p>We are immensely powerful, we are learning to be immensely responsible, but we can come to that by awakening the immense compassion that lies within us. If one person in the millions on this planet was truly compassionate but for a moment, all us would change our relationship to power and no one would seek it for artificial means.</p>
<p>The power that all people, all beings respond to and understand wordlessly is the frequency of love , in this material world it is the greatest and most enduring of all forms of power. Is is the one we as individuals and as a species run from but it is the hidden impulse in our evolution.</p>
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