Before you vote, America...
An open letter to the citizens of the United States, on behalf of the
children of Earth.
Dear Mother and Father
I am the voice of the children of Earth. This is why I say =93Dear
Mother and Father=94... because in a sense, you are my parents. Our
lives have touched, even if we have never met. You've seen my photo,
do you remember? You've seen my hopeful face on the internet, you've
heard my innocent laughter on the television, you've read my inspiring
story in the newspaper. Yes, that was me, and this letter is just for
you.
In November you will be voting in your local elections. You will make
it known how you want your country to be governed. You will be
deciding your future and the future of America's children. But in your
heart, you also know that you are deciding the future of the world,
and all her children. You must know by now that America is very
powerful, she is like the heart of the world. She is the pulse of our
world's future... our hopes... our destiny.
Your decision will determine what kind of life I have. You are
choosing my future for me. Will you choose a SAFER future for me? Will
you choose a clean environment for me? Will you choose religious
liberty for me? Do you realize that I don't really care about the
political debates, the power struggles of candidates, the gender or
nationality of the world's leaders... What is im****tant to me is to
have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, a safe place to
sleep, enough healthy food, someone to love me and educate me, freedom
to explore myself and my world.
These are the basic things I need from you.
You must realize what your vote means to me =96 it means Liberty. It
means Peace. It means Love. This is not just an election, is it? This
is not just one vote. This is the turning point of history. In your
heart, you know it. That is why you are thinking it over carefully
this time. You sense that you are personally involved in one of the
greatest decisive moments in time. You are choosing the future of all
the countries of the world, not only America.
You are electing more than a leader - you are choosing a way of life.
You are deciding which voice will speak for you, which hand will sign
your principles into law, which heart will represent your heart.
Yes, dear Mother and Father, you are choosing a heart to represent
YOUR heart. Please be very careful now...
Who is the person you feel will be a great world leader, the BEST
leader? No... I'm not talking about the candidates on television... I
mean, think of people who have crossed your path in life who have
impressed you, people who have inspired you. Who stands out as a great
leader? Is it your uncle, who always comes up with a win-win plan? Is
it the guy who works at the mill, who speaks with a soft wisdom? There
are ordinary but upright citizens who reflect the qualities of a great
leader. THINK about this. .
The candidates you are choosing from, do you trust them to care for
me? To babysit me, to nurture me, to educate me, to uplift me? Have
you searched high and low, in every corner and under every rock, for
the best candidates? Are you satisfied with the selection of
candidates available to you? Are these people (the candidates and
their associates), are they the ones YOU have nominated, to entrust
them with your liberty, your welfare, to place them in positions of
responsibility in the most powerful nation on the planet?
You have the right to elect someone you trust. Make sure you have
plenty of decent candidates to choose from. They should all be so
decent that you have a hard time making your choice. They should be
loving, kind, soft-spoken, wise, experienced, intelligent,
understanding, patient, capable... JUST LIKE YOU. Or at least, just as
you want to be. Your candidate should be your hero, your role model,
your inspiration. He or she should stand higher than your highest
hopes for our world and walk with humility in the face of such great
responsibility.
So... are you satisfied with the selection of candidates on offer for
November 2008?
IF YOU ARE NOT, THEN PLEASE SPEAK UP. Don't sign anything on paper
until you are satisfied, until you have a good selection of peaceful,
loving hearts to choose from =96 people that you already trust. Even if
you have to im****t them from another country! Whatever you have to do,
make sure that you are properly represented. You have to get it right
this time. This election, right now, this year, in 2008, is a critical
moment for my future! Please don't wait for the next election. Get out
of your chair NOW and get involved, for your sake, and mine.
Oh, I understand how politics work in your world today. The top guys
with money, power and influence usually nominate the person who THEY
feel will be the best leader. Then they put money into this person's
bank account to pay for campaign trips and advertising and all that.
Then this person gets onto television and says how he or she will run
the country.
But this person is a stranger to you. You have never had them to your
house for a barbecue. You have never walked to the park with them, to
feel their soul, to see their eyes as they play with the children or
toss a frisbee for the dog. How do you know that this person you see
on television will truly be a good leader, will be a blessing for your
country and for the world?
How can you be sure that this person you are placing in a position of
so much power =96 and with him, all the powerful people who put money in
his/her bank account - how can you be sure they will be a blessing to
this world? How can you trust that they will be the ones to turn this
world around, to bring peace, to ensure a safe place for me to sleep,
to provide enough food for me, to protect my religious liberty?
Remember, you are not electing a leader, you are endorsing a HEART.
How can you know, without doubt, that this heart you see on the
television is capable of representing YOUR heart? Will this voice
speak with your voice, will this hand sign for your hand, this heart
truly represent your heart?
You can't see the future, nobody can. And you can't see into the heart
of the candidate. Politicians can be so smooth, so deceptive... don't
you agree? So how do we really KNOW? We can debate their campaign
speeches for hours but that's not a sure way to determine truth.
There's only ONE way to know for sure =96 and that is by using your own
heart. If you are a believer, you will understand what I am saying.
God's guidance comes through the heart. That inner knowing... the
quiet conviction we feel when the debate is over and we've had time to
reflect and we've had a cup of tea... then the heart whispers the
answer.
Your heart KNOWS. Please allow your heart to help you in making this
decision. If you have been using your head to think about this
election, I implore you to start using your heart. Please do this for
me, for all the children of the world. Do you know how to do this,
have you used your heart in decision-making? If you don't really know
how to use your heart, we will teach you.
There is a simple exercise for you to try, attached to the bottom of
my letter (Ask-your-heart Affirmation, below). It's really easy. In my
world (our future), we do it all the time =96 we make decisions with our
hearts.
In my future world, it is easier to listen to our hearts... life is
more peaceful for us. The wars have finally stopped. Our world is
governed by great leaders who have peaceful loving hearts. They are
sup****ted by a Council of Elders from each country. These Elders are
too old to be corrupted with money and too wise to be swayed by power.
They are carefully chosen by their communities after they have earned
the trust of their countrymen by long years of service. Only someone
who has been a blessing to the world is chosen as an Elder. This is a
great responsibility and they enjoy the respect of everyone, even
outside their own community. Our Elders hold the most authority, they
keep a watchful eye on the world leaders and make sure they do a good
job.
Each country is usually headed by four persons =96 an older man, an
older woman, a younger man, and a younger woman =96 representing the
various faiths in the nation. They always work and travel together in
great dignity and style, almost like your royalty. These are
dignified, intelligent, creative and compassionate people. Their
nomination isn't based on brilliant campaign speeches or ****ny
promises, but on their past contribution, their track record. They are
the healers, the entrepreneurs, the nation builders. The ones who are
nominated are mostly too busy to go on campaign trips, too busy doing
something positive for their country. So we call them at home in the
evening and say, =93Will you consider coming into government?=94 They say
yes to the nomination if they feel in their hearts that this is their
destiny. Then after being elected, the four appointed heads of
government start the country-wide trips, to get closer to the public.
Its a bit like a honeymoon :)
Our world leaders have integrity and insight. We trust them... they're
clearly not motivated by desires for wealth or power, but by loving
intentions for the upliftment of our world. This is a different breed
of leader to those of the past. The selfish powerful wealthy ones who
controlled world leaders in the past took early retirement. They could
see that the ordinary people weren't going to tolerate that anymore.
We discovered that some of them started wars in secret for selfish
reasons, and we put a stop to that. The extremists who resorted to
terrorism in frustration because nobody would listen to them... well,
the Councils of Elders gave them a forum to air their grievances. Then
the Councils formulated creative solutions for reform and presented
these suggestions to the leaders of the world. This worked out just
fine, because the radicals really just wanted to be heard and to feel
validated. After venting, they calmed down and agreed to give the
world leaders some time to change the situation. Everybody wants to
cooperate and with patience, we allow enough time for positive change.
We live in a cleaner world... it is truly beautiful. We have enough
food to eat. Each child has a more carefree existence, and we are
starting to explore our creativity, without the worries and
insecurities that limited children in the past. Our families have more
freedom to trade, to move around, to travel more. Its easier for us
because the world leaders trust each other. You see, they all took a
holiday together... they went to a big island and relaxed on the beach
and made peace with each other, they became friends and now they trust
each other. They are happy because they can see their countrymen are
more relaxed, and so everyone is more creative and the economies are
doing much better. Soon we won't have to work such long hours anymore,
we will have more free time to be with our families, to play and to
travel.
This is my world. You have created it for me. Well... to come back
into the present moment =96 you are creating it right now. You are
choosing which way the world will turn now =96 to a better future, or
worse.... But if you ask me, it can't really get any worse, can it?
Not now, not with so much love in your heart for me.
I know you love me. I know you want a peaceful future for me. You can
do it =96 believe in your self! Just understand that you are not
electing a political representative... you are electing a HEART
representative. Please choose the right heart to represent your heart.
Choose with your HEART.
We've sent something from the future for you. It is an easy exercise
for you to try. Before you vote in November, please try it out. (Ask-
your-heart Affirmation, below) It will help you to use your heart in
making this choice. In our future world, we use this kind of thing all
the time to make loving peaceful decisions.
Thank you for loving me. I love you too. I trust you.
WE trust you. From China, from Iran, from Alaska, from Tibet, from
Uganda, from Mexico, from Russia... we trust you.
Take care,
Your loving children.
(For more insight into social and governmental alternatives, see the
QUOTES at the bottom of the post.)
http://before-you-vote.blogspot.com/
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Ask-your-heart Affirmation
There are three methods used by humans in making a decision =96 deciding
with the body, deciding with the mind, and deciding with the heart.
Making a decision with the body means allowing our emotions to make
the decision for us. This is done either in fearfulness (anxiety,
worry, etc), or emotional desire. Survival decisions are made with the
body and this is a very useful way to make a decision, but it does not
employ the intellect.
When we employ intellect, we are making decisions with the mind. We
use logic and reasoning to evaluate and form a conclusion. This is a
more evolved way of making decisions. Yet the thinking mind is still
influenced by fear, desire, and sometimes, by our state of health.
The most authentic and empowering way to make a decision is to ask
your heart. We're not talking about the physical heart muscle, but
rather the heart center where the emotions and the mind meet, in the
middle of the human system. In using our hearts, we give heed both to
our emotions and to our logical reasoning, but we bring them together
in a balanced way that provides more clarity and insight. Here we can
rediscover our 'gut feelings' and intuitive first instincts, and
receive positive affirmation from a higher source of knowing.
There is divine guidance scripted in the heart center. This
reassurance, this loving guidance comes from somewhere above our
fallible human thoughts, and affirm our inner intuition which lies
masked somewhere beneath our fearful emotions. It is the quiet
conviction, the surprising solution, the simple but all-embracing
answer that has been dormant within, awaiting your delightful
discovery of it.
To access this inner guidance-affirmation, it is necessary to invite
peacefulness into the heart. Only when the heart is peaceful, can it
reflect authentic answers. The following exercise is a simple way to
become more peaceful and relaxed, and ask your heart for affirmation.
1. Breathe deeply for a few minutes. Allow yourself to become calm and
relaxed. Pull your thoughts into this moment. Your thoughts have been
extended into the past and future. Withdraw them from the timeline,
into the present moment. Gently draw your thoughts out of the past,
and out of the future, into your now-moment.
2. Now we will bring in the emotions, too. Come into your body...
bring your focus into your body... out of your environment, into your
body. Feel your body =96 is there discomfort, is there pain, is there
sadness? Feel these messages from the body. Now bring your focus into
your heart center. Pull your emotions into the heart center.
3. You are centered in the present moment. Right here, right now, you
are aware of everything you are. Here is your safety, your home, your
peacefulness. It is yours if you want it. ASK for it. Invite
peacefulness to flow into your heart center. FEEL this peacefulness
wash into your heart. It feels like a warm soft wave of love, because
it IS love. Love and peace are one and the same thing. You will feel a
relief, you breathe a sigh.
4. Now ask your questions, hold them still for a few minutes. Allow
the answers to unfold. The answers are ready for you. They are waiting
to be discovered. You can always find them here in the peacefulness.
These answers may come quickly or slowly, they may come later in the
day, or tomorrow. Perhaps your heart has another more urgent message
for you. Just stay peaceful and allow the message to open up. Wait for
the affirmation. It will come as a FEELING, an inner desire.
5. Trust your feelings and desires now. They are the right feelings.
Do they surprise you? Yes, you are still feeling the same inner
desires. Those dreamy loving desires. Yes, they were right. You didn't
trust them because you were afraid. Do you feel fear now? No :) You
are peaceful. Yet you still feel desires for the future. You feel
hopes and dreams. Of course you do. They were implanted in your heart
to guide you. Give thanks :)
The affirmations discovered in the heart are often a surprise. We may
suddenly get an inner feeling about something completely unrelated to
the question we were asking. Or we feel affirmation for our initial
spontaneous feelings. With practice, we learn to rely on the fact that
our heart-feelings can be trusted when they unfold in peacefulness. We
learn to trust our desires as being an outflowing of our own
intuition, and divine guidance.
Often we are surprised to discover that divine guidance contradicts
our logical reasoning. Where we reason =93I am supposed to do this
because it seems proper=94, these are our fallible human thoughts, made
up of our childhood schooling, the culture and traditions we absorbed
in our young life and the sense of duty we feel toward society, toward
family and loved ones. But sometimes we find them contradicted by the
heart. That's due to divine guidance which comes from somewhere above
our short-sighted thoughts, from a higher source of all-knowing. With
practice, we learn to trust this guidance, since it always leads to
the highest blessing and most beneficial outcome.
As this exercise is repeated, it becomes easier and more familiar. In
times of stress, asking for the peacefulness to flow into you is an
immediate relief from anxiety and fearfulness. It is quite a discovery
=96 peacefulness on tap =96 always available, always effective.
=A92008 Simone Cox - All rights reserved.
Excerpt from the book 'God, I can't hear You!'
http://God-I-cant-hear-You.blogspot.com/
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More about Peacefulness
=93Peace in the world must begin first within the heart and purpose and
mind of the individual=85 As individuals change themselves and their
interactions with one another, eventually the world cannot help but
follow.=94 -- Edgar Cayce
Dear Friend
Much is said about world peace, but in practice, this process of
becoming peaceful begins in every human heart. I call this Personal
Peacefulness.
Peacefulness sounds like a simple concept, easy to achieve. We simply
choose it, right? Well, yes, but sometimes humans need a demonstration
of how exactly to FEEL peaceful. Isn't that sad, that we have
forgotten how to feel peaceful?
In my book, 'God, I can't hear You!' I describe a detailed exercise
called the Peacefulness Practice. But if you follow the simple Ask-
your-heart Affirmation exercise, you have the basic method right
here... deep breathing, pulling out of the past and out of the future,
and into the present moment... then invite peacefulness into your
heart.
This is just the beginning of our discovery of peacefulness. Personal
peacefulness unfolds for us in five ways. The first, as described in
the Ask-your-heart exercise above, is when we invite peacefulness into
our hearts, and allow it to empower our heart's affirmation-guidance
system.
The second way that peacefulness unfolds is as a feedback system. As
we start to use peacefulness to empower our heart's affirmation-
guidance system, we become familiar with the sensation - how
peacefulness feels =96 and then it also becomes a feedback system to
affirm accurate intuition. It works like this: in your daily life, as
you are going about your business, you often find yourself evaluating
the pros and cons of your day-to-day decisions. Now that you have
started using your heart (centered by peacefulness) to make decisions,
your heart will begin to send instant feedback whenever you are on the
right track. So you may find yourself wa****ng the dishes in the
evening, quietly pondering a decision in your life, and your heart
waits until you discover just the right thought, the right intuition,
and uses a wave of peacefulness to get your attention and say =93That's
it! Now you're on the right track!=94 Since you are already familiar
with the sensation of peacefulness, it is easily recognizable. It only
takes a few weeks to become comfortable with this method and learn to
trust it.
In time, peacefulness becomes a handy decision-making tool, but as
with all skills, mastering it requires some effort on your part. But
the good news is this - there is a wonderful, amazing and pleasing
reward for making the effort! It becomes our benchmark. It becomes the
standard for every decision. This is the third way that personal
peacefulness unfolds for us. To use peacefulness as a benchmark is
very simple and effective. The method is this =96 once you have made a
decision, check back into your heart and feel if the peacefulness is
still there. If you feel peaceful about a decision, then you are
assured that your conclusion was the right one and you can proceed...
and you will also feel an excitement about moving into action. If you
are not feeling peacefulness in your heart, then there is some error -
you have not reached the mark and need to go back and do the exercise
again. Don't worry if this is the case... there is possibly a stubborn
fear or past pain that requires recognition before it will step aside
and allow you to move ahead.
The fourth way that personal peacefulness unfolds for us, is that it
begins to harmonize and heal the emotional and physical body. Your
body cells become diseased when they are not AT EASE, they are not in
perfect peace. Peacefulness seeps through the physical body system
when we begin Peacefulness Practice, and begins to heal the
distortions and disruptions our health suffered while we were so
uncomfortable within ourselves. We begin to carry peacefulness inside
us as a form of inner strength and wellness, and as use our heart to
harmonize emotions and thoughts, our emotions stabilize and our
thoughts find balance. Emotion is tempered by Empathy. Logic is
enhanced by Love. This harmony between emotion and logic finds its
seat in the heart center. It is this inner harmony, harvested from
peacefulness, that heals the physical body.
The fifth way that way that personal peacefulness unfolds for us, is
in the outflowing of peacefulness from our heart to other hearts.
Remember that peacefulness was initially INVITED into the heart. We
don't generate it, it flows into us from a higher Source. This
peacefulness that flows into us, can essentially be called Love. That
is because Peace and Love are born from the same Source... they are
made from the same substance. Always know this: Peace =3D Love.
Once we feel the benefit of peacefulness, there comes a private moment
when we make a silent unconscious covenant with the Source to allow it
to flow through us to others. This is a natural outcome of our inner
healing. When we begin to carry peacefulness inside us, it cannot help
but radiate out of us, like a warm glow. In that moment, we become a
healer, and start adding to the healing of our world. It is an
unconscious thing... we don't have to try anything special... Just to
be ourselves, but better Selves, more authentic Selves, is trying
enough. Others around us feel this, they sense that we are different
somehow. Children and animals move closer to sit with us, as they can
quickly sense that we are a peaceful and loving person. This is how
peacefulness (love) will spread throughout the world, until our world
becomes stabilized and harmonized by it, just as our physical bodies
became harmonized by it. This is the healing miracle of Love, the
transformational power of Peace. It is the destiny of our world, and
the birthright of every human.
Please claim your right to live peacefully in a peaceful world. Please
claim this right for our children. Thank you. I trust this article has
been useful to you. Feel free to distribute it but please don't change
or delete anything.
Thank you
Simone Cox
Author's recommendation: There is a piece of music that helped me a
great deal in reducing anxiety and cultivating a peacefulness practice
in my life. It is called =93Be still thy soul=94 and can be downloaded
from the following webpage:
http://www.firethegrid.com/pol/downloads-pol.htm
=A92008 Simone Cox - All rights reserved.
Excerpt from the book 'God, I can't hear You!'
http://god-i-cant-hear-you.blogspot.com/2008/04/more-about-peacefulness.html=
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QUOTE: MAN'S CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIAL GROWTH
"Social growth cannot be secured by legislation, and moral growth is
not had by improved administration."
"Man cannot cause growth, but he can supply favorable conditions."
"Man's sole contribution to growth is the mobilization of the total
powers of his personality -- living faith."
-- Religion in Human Experience, Paper 100, The Urantia Book.
http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper100.html
QUOTE: FAMILY LIFE ON ANOTHER PLANET
"The home life of this people has greatly improved during the last
century. Attendance of parents, both fathers and mothers, at the
parental schools of child culture is compulsory. Even the
agriculturists who reside in small country settlements carry on this
work by correspondence, going to the near-by centers for oral
instruction once in ten days--every two weeks, for they maintain a
five-day week.
The average number of children in each family is five, and they are
under the full control of their parents .... It is considered a great
honor for any family to be awarded the guardian****p of a full orphan.
Competitive examinations are held among parents, and the orphan is
awarded to the home of those displaying the best parental
qualifications."
-- Government on a neighboring planet, Paper 72, The Urantia Book.
http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper72.html
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