It is time for the United States of America to fulfill her Divine Destiny. It is time for the original vision our Founding Fathers held for this great land to become a manifest reality. It is time for the inalienable rights and the sacred Truths declared in our original documents: The Constitution of the United States of America, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights to be implemented in the lives of ALL Americans.

AMERICA is an anagram for the I AM RACE. This country, the New World, was destined to model to the world the true meaning of Freedom and the Oneness of the Family of Humanity. The I AM RACE was to be a body of souls comprised of all races, all religions, all nationalities, all creeds and all persuasions living together in freedom, harmony, equality and prosperity. The original intent of our sacred documents was to provide a path we could follow that would ensure liberty, justice, prosperity and the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for every American. The original plan was that we would respect and honor our differences, while reveling in the intricacies of our various cultures, clothes, food, customs, music, styles, talents, skills and other diversities. Needless to say, we have lost our way. But it is not to late to change our course of direction, and the entire Company of Heaven is standing in readiness to assist us.

What if the purging of Hurricane Katrina is occurring in America to give all of us the opportunity to open our hearts and minds? What if this catastrophic event is the pain we needed to motivate us all to reach out to each other, to help us realize our Oneness and that we are all in this together? What if Katrina is designed to inspire us to heal the heartbreaking schisms, the separation and the polarization existing within the Family of Humanity abiding in this country?

The destiny of America is to model for the world the I AM RACE, the Family of Humanity, living, loving, working, succeeding and prospering together with equality, respect, integrity, honesty, freedom and reverence for ALL Life. If we cannot demonstrate this in our own country, how can we possibly teach democracy to anyone else?

For the past several weeks I have been getting the same message over and over from the Universe. The message simply stated is "Life as you know it, exists on a very fine line."

The events of the past week certainly have been a clear ongoing example of this with people's whole lives and families being totally uprooted and changed. It does not, however, take such a catastrophe to bring this message home. Any day, any one of us could have our life turned upside down for a short time or for a lifetime.

Does this mean we should each live in fear from moment to moment. No! What the Universe is trying to make clear with this message is that Creation - all Creation, exists for the moment and that we need to understand that. Harsh as it may sound to some, don't get too overly attached to any person, place or thing, but rather, try to stay in the moment and be GRATEFUL. Appreciate now, who and what is in your life, for in the next moment part or all of it may be replaced by something or someone else.

In the Jan/Feb 2005 issue of 1Spirit, I wrote an article, a "message" from the animal kingdom, which I hope brings some comfort now to the many people who's hearts are hurting in the wake of Hurricane Katrina's destruction. Click here to read this article.

The animals are trying to communicate with us in many ways and one of those is by reflecting, by being a mirror, to the current state of affairs in our culture regarding reverence for all of life. As in the wake of the Tsunami, where it was reported that many of the animals left the area before the unrelenting waters came, many people have written to me with stories of their dog's unusual behavior right before bad weather. In my personal experience, my dogs stop eating as much, and sleep more, right before a storm. (We live in Florida)

In the wild, dogs live in what we call "packs." Part of this pack behavior is to warn the rest of the group of danger. This is an innate quality of survival in the wild and clearly demonstrates the connection the animals have with the world they live in.

As far as the Earth changes, we all know they have been predicted by many seers for a long time. Grandfather Stalking Wolf (as told in Tom Brown's books Tom Brown, Jr.'s TRACKER SCHOOL, trackerschool.com) warned us that if we do not change our ways and start respecting the earth, that these changes would be upon us.

A Critical and Timely Message -- Recent events are a signpost that another step toward your evolution, empowerment and awakening has been taken. Because of this, it is time to share with you a message about the elements. With the recent floods in the USA, the tsunami waves in Asia, increased volcano and earthquake activity, and even increased terrorist attacks, it is time to understand your part in all of this, and what you can do about it as a co-creator. It is time for you to understand that everything happens for a reason. Everything is in a divine plan for perfection even though, outwardly, it might look otherwise. Everything has a cause. That cause is found in levels of consciousness.

We well know about your Japanese scientist, Dr. Masaru Emoto, who has proven that when water is blessed, it reacts and changes its molecular structure into a more harmonious state. It is equally provable that negative energy could effect water also. YES? Because you now know this fact, it has opened a whole new dimension in your world. You can now direct the consciousness of water! But we want to tell you that it is much more than this.

In fact, the other forces of nature (fire, earth and air) will now all become more alive with consciousness just as the water has. These elements have always had consciousness, but now you can direct this potential. The more you are aware of this fact, the more alive the elements will become. The gateway in evolution to making the 4 elements directable conscious has been opened. This changes everything. What this means is that these natural elemental forces are now able to react to your consciousness. Negative energy or positive; It is up to you.

What we what to talk about is the projection of negative energy, as this is what's up on your planet right now. We want to show you what you can do about it. We want to show you why in the long run, this is a very good thing!

Example . . . Negative projections, sent from one person to another, can effect the receiving person in a negative way, since their body is made up with a great deal of water. But it can only effect them in areas that are vulnerable. Thus making the receiver aware of a physical, emotional or spiritual weakness. This gives the receiver a unique opportunity to heal that area of their life.

Once negative energy is sent out, it wants to find a place that feels like home. Like energy is attracted to like energy. The one who sent the negative energy in the first place has now compromised their energy field and is now vulnerable to attack. The more negative energy they dish out the more that will come back to them. So you do pay a heavy price for using negative energy. This creates a looping effect where negatives keep circumnavigating over and over. This is why some people can't seem to get out of the negative patterns they are in, since they keep attracting the same issue over and over until they become aware that they can shift it. This is evolution! This makes sense to you, yes?

"Your every thought, feeling, perception, spoken word, and performed action reverberates into the universe...." -- Swami Muktananda

Now what if one country directs negative energy to another country? What would happen? The receiving country would be effected in its geographically/energetically vulnerable locations by the universal law of attraction. Also, sensitive ones in those countries would be effected. Again . . . like energy attracts like energy.

I wish I could claim ownership of this concept, but I can not. I will tell you right at the beginning of this article that I first learned of this concept about three years ago from a wonderful teacher. Patricia Sun, who used to have a daily radio program on The Wisdom Channel. Every day, Patricia would talk about life, the world today, metaphysics, and why we are all here. I found her to have a wonderful, soft, soothing voice. Every time I listened to her program, I felt as if I was spending time with a wise “Ma.” She has that “Mother Earth” quality about her speaking.

One concept that Patricia talked about nearly every day was what she called “polarized thinking.” I am 51 years old and I can not remember a time when we were more polarized than we are now. Let me explain and see if you don’t see the same thing.

What is Polarized Thinking?

Polarized thinking is a way of thinking that immediately goes to the opposite of whatever is being presented. The most glaring example I can share is in the political arena. Ever since 1992 when Bill Clinton won the election we have been getting more and more polarized. If a Republican makes a statement, the Democrats immediately issue a counter statement. If a Democrat talks about a new social plan, the Republicans issue a counter statement. If a country or a leader that we don’t like says something, we rush in like air into a vacuum to say the opposite. If I talk about the benefits of eating a Vegan diet, someone almost always counters with something about certain body types needing to eat meat. an on and on and on.

If you ever saw the political news program “Cross Fire,” you know what I mean. It’s just a non-stop back and forth diatribe. Before I pulled the plug on digital cable service, I used to see a regular segment on CNN’s American Morning with “Kamber & May,” former Democrat and Republican strategists. Rarely was there any kind of meeting of the minds.

A few months ago I was in a group discussing the sad state of television programming. I mentioned that as a cable surfer, I’m appalled at the garbage I see being presented as “entertainment.” I must have hit a tender spot because someone in the group quickly shot back, “I completely disagree with that statement. When my kids were small we used to watch TV and then talk about what we saw.” (her kids are all adults now, so this had to be about 20 years ago).

It’s a funny thing because before I heard Patricia Sun talk about polarized thinking, I really wasn’t aware of it. Now I see and hear it almost everywhere. Polarized thinking has a quality of impatience about it. It’s like a snap judgment about an issue or an idea that almost totally dismisses what the other person is saying.

For me, it was as if I finally saw the pink elephant in the room. Now I can’t miss it and I see it everywhere. One of the skills that was covered when I was in life coaching training at Coach University was the “art of listening.” Being a powerful listener sounds simple, but is a real challenge in mental focus.

A Typical Conversation

"If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step One, Step Two, Step Three - you only know one thing ... it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly." --Joseph Campbell

The universe is an amazing thing. It always gives you what you need, when you need it. Not when we "think" we need it, but when the Higher Being knows in its infinite wisdom what to provide in the appropriate time. This quote literally fell into my lap one day just when I was faced with a coaching client who was in a position of being unhappy with their current path in life, and were in the midst of self-discovery and awakening.

And so many of us are that time right now of awakening - discovering that jobs are non-satisfactory, relationships aren't working in the same fashion as they used to, and taking the plunge into discovering just what is it that gets us going in the morning with smiles on our faces. It's all about charting our life course. We then search for THE purpose, or the ONE person, or THE thing we were meant to do in our life. We try and follow other people’s footsteps as if we were at the mercy of somebody else’s magic wand of creation. We even tend to look at our lives as something of fate—where someone else decided our path for us and we are victims to that path.

Well, here's my belief. We are on this Earth with a blueprint of unlimited potential—and how we choose to manifest that potential is ours to do while we are here. However, the catch is that we will never be able to see the manifested path in front of us clear as crystal. Why? Because we create it as we go along. We manifest our course through our own individual thoughts, words and actions minute by minute.

It's like building a house. As the architect, you have to know your end results—in a sense. You want to build a house. But what kind of house do you want to create? Well as you ponder all your possibilities, primarily based on your dreams, desires, passions, wants, you begin to outline what kind of house you want to your specifications - large, small, kitchen with an island, laundry room, a specific number of rooms, etc. And then the architect begins to construct exactly what is put forward. Voila! A blueprint gets created. Then the building of it occurs, fleshing it out on the inside i.e. painting, decorating and finally – enjoying your creation!

Our life course is exactly like building the house. We are actually both the architect and the builder of our path of life. We create what you want, all along the way, and constantly. And if we get to a point where we wonder how did we get 'stuck' in this awful job, or bad relationship, etc. etc. the reality is that we had a hand in the way that course ending up looking like. I asked someone the other day who was unhappy with their current financial and work situation to pin down what it was specifically that made them want to get out bed in the morning, happy and full of joy. She said without skipping a beat, "Garage sales—I’ll do anything for a garage sale. That would always get me out of bed, even at 5:30 a.m." That seed of an idea, stemming out of pure happiness within her heart, led her to launch a great and profitable internet business merely two months later, selling fine jewelry and antiques that she found at garage sales. In the process, this person became aware that her path was in her hands and creating it as she went along was in her power. And she found it inside of herself. So in short, figuring out how to chart the course and every minute aspect of it rests within you.

No, not the kind of tired from needing sleep or having a health problem. I’m talking about the tiredness that comes from the ever-increasing energy shifts of today. The world is receiving many “downloads” of new energy now, from ascended masters and other realized ones who are assisting humanity, and Earth, to ascend into lighter, faster, higher experience. They can last from one day to a week or more, and they affect everything.

All of these new energies are quickening agents; they speed up the frequencies of mental, emotional and physical levels, from the realm of spirit. The physical, being slowest and most dense, often has to struggle to catch up with the other levels. But I’ve noticed that the mind often gets knocked off its usual track as well, making it hard to think or speak.

I’ve noticed three different types of energies; perhaps you’ve experienced others as well.

First is a general uplifting for the entire planet. These are usually the least powerful.

Second, if you live near a powerful spiritual vortex, like Mt. Shasta or the Grand Tetons, you’ve probably placed yourself as a “transceiver,” one who receives the new energies and helps them be transmitted to the world. The ascended masters who dwell in such vortices send out great waves of blessing and upliftment. These often knock your socks off.

Last, if you personally are going through great shifts, which most of us are in our enlightenment path, you get your very own inner earthquakes of new energies. Here there may be something to discover which helps the shift take place more quickly and easily, such as what particular area of psyche is being shifted.