Postural Integration

by EraOfLight

POSTURAL INTEGRATION - FROM A PRACTITIONER

Postural Integration (PI) is a comparatively recent addition to the ‘bodymind’ approaches to health, having been developed by Jack Painter in the USA in the sixties and early seventies. Its twin concerns are the effect that body structure has on physical health and how a person’s emotional stress can affect their posture. In this article I’d like to concentrate on what PI can do for purely physical ailments like bad backs, though of course the findings of psychosomatic medicine means the distinction between emotional and physical causation is often rather blurred. In a subsequent article I’ll look at what PI has to offer in combating emotional stress.
BALANCED POSTURE
The posture which allows human beings to stand erect with the minimum of effort, is one in which a plumbline dropped from the ear would pass through the centre of the shoulder, the hip joint, the knee and the ankle. In this balanced alignment each segment of the body rests on and is supported by the one below and the body’s weight is evenly distributed.

If you look at the two figures (Figure 1) you’ll immediately notice the difference in the position of their heads. In one it’s craned forward and also ‘stuck’ into the shoulders. In the other it’s upright and the neck has length. We all know someone who ‘leads with their head’ like this, who’s head is in front of their body, often resembling a chicken pecking. The average human head weighs around 15 lbs and should be supported by the bones and fascia of the shoulder girdle. If it isn’t, then it is the muscles of the upper back which must bear the strain. This they aren’t built to do and the burden soon begins to tell. Waste products, such as lactic acid and urea, begin to accumulate in the tissues, because the lymphatic system can’t discharge the extra toxins produced by the constant pull of the head. Unfortunately these wastes are gummy substances and they literally stick the individual muscle fibres together. Over time these knots build up and eventually the person begins to feel a dull ache and find they can’t turn their head the way they used to be able to do. (As an analogy, if you picture a rope which has had glue spilt on it, the rope no longer has the ‘give’ it used to have as all the strands are stuck together and it therefore no longer fulfills its function.)
At this point the person may either put it down to encroaching old age (maybe they’re 40) and decide to just put up with it, or to seek some treatment. Fobbed off by their GP, who has more life threatening ills to deal with and given a bottle of painkillers, they may seek a massage. This will certainly provide temporary relief. The masseur will work the muscles, loose, squeezing the waste products out of the tissues and into the bloodstream and lymph system and the person will feel better for a time, but the actual causation of the problem has not been addressed. In time the pressure exerted by that craned forward head will result in the same pattern of pain and restriction of movement being repeated.
FASCIA
The solution is to alter the position of the head. The individual no longer has the flexibility in their neck and shoulder muscles to simply pull their head back to where it was 20 years before. The muscles have thickened and become invaded by their fascial envelopes, which dry up and become immobile once a muscle has become chronically tense. Fascia, or connective tissue as it is also known, is the forgotten organ of the body. It starts just below the surface of the skin to form an inner covering for the entire body like the fine, white network under the skin of an orange. Fortunately fascia is very responsive to pressure. By the use of deep strokes it is possible to free the fascial layers and restore their blood supply and mobility and so in turn the mobility of the muscles they envelop. The nutrients carried by the blood, which had trouble penetrating the thickened muscles, can now feed the muscles properly and tone is restored to those muscles, along with the disappearance of the pain. Most importantly the head is now free to find its proper relationship to the shoulder girdle, in other words the underlying problem of the individual’s posture is solved.
Unfortunately it’s not quite as simple as that. Our bodies function as one unit. If one area is imbalanced or rotated another will attempt to compensate for it. Every movement has an equal and opposite reaction, so if one part is pulled back another comes forward. So we usually find when someone has their head riding forward of their shoulders, their pelvis will be pulled backwards to compensate. Correcting the position of the head will put pressure on the muscle attachments at the pelvis, but for the pelvis to come forward to its original position vis a vis the plumbline will mean freeing all the muscles which attach to it ie the abdominals and all the upper leg muscles.
The word pelvis means ‘basin’ in the original Latin and this gives us a key to one of its functions – to act as a ‘basin’ for the abdominal organs, to support and restrain them. Often men think they are putting on weight when they look down at their gut, when in fact what has happened is their pelvis has tilted back, causing their guts to ‘spill’ out; so it looks like it’s a weight problem when actually it’s a postural one. If you can re-position the pelvis the gut magically disappears.
GRAVITY
Now we don’t normally think about the fact that we all exist within a gravitational field, but as you are reading this, whether standing, sitting or lying down, gravity is trying to push you flat onto the floor and you are using energy to resist that pressure. There’s a wonderful Kurt Vonnegut story where the hero finds himself on a planet, where the gravity varies from day to day, the same way our weather varies each day here on Earth. So one morning you throwback the covers and find yourself floating up to the ceiling and the next day gravity is so heavy you can barely crawl through to the bathroom on all fours. Here on Earth we’re somewhere in between, but the amount of energy it takes us to remain upright can be minimized. What we do in PI is to look at a person’s posture from the front, from the back and from both sides, looking for the areas of greatest tension and also where their body is out of alignment with the notional plumbline. We also pay attention to the symmetry between the right and left sides of the body. The collar bones should be parallel to the ground and not pulled up by hunched shoulders and the spines of the pelvis should be at the same height – rarely seen if an individual has broken a leg at some stage.
Western medicine is chemically not structurally oriented, so it deals with aches and pains by altering the bio-chemistry of the body via drugs – tranquilizers, painkillers, sleeping pills and so on, but it doesn’t look at the effect of posture on health.
BAD BACKS
The commonest complaint people consult me about is the ubiquitous ‘bad back’. Often when you examine the posture of someone complaining of recurrent back problems you’ll notice that their legs are very tense. They have what we call ‘locked knees’ – the calf and hamstring muscles are overstretched, while the muscles at the front of the leg are shortened and squashed. There is very little flexibility or ‘give’ at the knees. This in turn causes the pelvis to ‘tip’ as in figure 1 and strain gets transmitted to the lumbar vertebrae along with an exaggerated curvature of the spine. So it would be pointless only freeing up the lumbar muscles, although that would provide temporary relief, the calf and thigh muscles have to be worked loose too and the pelvis will have to be restored to the horizontal.
The main culprit in causing the pelvis to ‘tip’ is the psoas muscle. This is an absolutely crucial muscle to get functioning properly, as the abdominal and pelvic nerve plexi are embedded in its fascia. Tension in the psoas plays a significant role in lower back pain and sciatica and its shortening is a large factor in scoliosis. When it has good tone and moves freely it contributes significantly to optimum visceral functioning. (See Figure 3)
PI is therefore a method of deep, fascial manipulation aimed at releasing tense muscles and encouraging balance, relaxation and lengthening throughout the whole body. We use fingers, thumbs, knuckles and sometimes even elbows, to exert deep and specific pressure on tight areas in order to restore flexibility to the entire structure. It’s designed as a series of 10 sessions taken weekly and lasting about an hour each.
THE SEQUENCE
In the first session we work on the breathing structures – the ribcage and diaphragm as many of us are relatively poor breathers. One nurse I treated measured her vital capacity before the first session and after the 10th and found a colossal increase. She’d also, halfway through the sequence, taken up cycling the 7 miles to her work which obviously helped too. Frequently this is what happens, people find that extra bit of energy to go ahead and do things, like getting the bike out of the garage that they’ve been meaning to do for ages.
In another session we work the feet, ankles and knees; in a third the muscle attachments to the pelvis; a fourth covers the head and neck, a fifth the abdominal area and so on until the body has been given a thorough ‘overhaul’. All the muscles, from the top of the head right down to the toes, are worked on, starting with the superficial muscles and gradually working in to free up the deeper ones. Some people have likened it to a car getting its 40,000 mile service.
One of my first ever clients came to me because he’d suffered back pain on and off for 16 years. Since I finished the PI. sequence with him 14 years ago, he’s barely had a twinge and even drives to London from time to time.
ACCIDENTS
Few of us, by the time we reach adulthood, possess the kind of balanced, optimum posture which we aim at, for many reasons. Firstly there’s the long-term effects of accidents – breaking a leg, spraining an ankle, whiplash injuries after car crashes etc. When we break a leg, we tend to shift our weight onto the good leg while the break is healing. Since this takes a number of weeks, the weight shift often turns into a habit so that we end up with a slightly lopsided posture. This in turn puts strain on the lower back and there will also be an attempt to compensate for the weight being more on one leg, by pulling the trunk across in the other direction just to remain balanced (after a fashion).
Any kind of accident – a fall while ski-mg or out hill-walking or falling off your bike when you’re little, can cause various twists and rotations at different points in the body creating unnecessary pressure and long-term pain. Our medical system is very good at dealing with the local damage but seems to have little to say, or to offer, concerning long term effects. A recent in depth American study of whiplash injuries found that 40% of victims still suffered considerable pain two years later.
Hospital operations can leave soft-tissue problems, due to the buildup of scar tissue at the site of the incision. The fascia there becomes gnarled up like gristle and the nutrients flow round, not through the damaged tissue. Deep connective tissue work is very effective at breaking down the adhesions surrounding the injury site and allowing better blood supply to the organs.
YOUR BED
One of the questions I always ask clients is what kind of bed they sleep on. Your bed is probably the most important thing you ever buy since you spend one third of your life in it, yet because we’re unconscious for most of that time we often give it very little thought. If your bed is too soft, your back will sag into the mattress instead of being supported, creating strain on the surrounding muscles. This is going on for hours and is often the cause of people complaining “my back always hurts in the morning but it wears off after a bit once I’m up”. What happens is that once you move about, your muscles pump the blood round your body and you stretch your stiff, strained muscles out so the pain eases, but gradually the morning stiffness will get worse and it’ll take longer to “work it off”, if you don’t get the mattress your body requires. The only time I ever suffered a bad back was after spending one night sleeping on an appalling mattress when I was 23. Fortunately I’ve gone another 20 years without another twinge. Similarly a badly designed car seat, or just one which doesn’t suit your particular frame, will lead to stiffness and pain in time unless you get it adjusted.
Some occupations notoriously put your posture at risk. Dentists, side-bending over their patients, suffer from problems in the mid- thoracic area, while architects, hunched over their drawing-boards for hours at a time, get chronically sore backs. It’s almost de-regeur in the profession. Any kind of repetitious behaviour will have detrimental effects on our bodies. One of the most extreme cases was the Welsh darts player who had to retire, because he was literally wearing away the vertebrae of his neck, through the continuous action of throwing darts at a board hundreds of times every day for years on end.
FASHION
Fashion can be a major culprit from the sheer daftness of platform shoes to the more socially acceptable, but equally bad from a postural point of view, high heels. Most footwear is mass produced for fashion ie to make a buck, not with the human body in mind. Wearing a heel pitches your body weight forward so you have to pullback in your trunk to remain upright. Usually the woman will compensate too much and the head will then get pushed forward to maintain balance. So you get a zig-zag pattern of tension which causes strain at two places in particular – the lumbar spine and the base of the neck. Many times I have had women consult me about neck pains whose root cause we traced to their footwear.
Women also often suffer neck, shoulder and arm pains from lugging around handbags or shoulder bags which are much too heavy. They’ll hitch them over one shoulder and then have to tense the muscles of the upper arm and the shoulder girdle to stop the bag slipping off their shoulder. In addition the weight of the bag exerts a constant pull on the vertebrae of the neck, which in time will begin to get pulled out causing nerve pains down the arm. Meanwhile as this is all developing, the rest of the woman’s body has been accommodating to the strain and adjusting itself as best it can.
When I was 15 the school doctors were paying their annual visit. This doctor took one look at me and said;”do you always carry your schoolbag in your right hand?”. “Yes”; I replied in amazement, thinking she must be psychic.”How do you know”; I asked? “You’re like this”; she answered and mimicked my posture by sagging her right shoulder. When I got home that night I checked in the mirror and sure enough my right shoulder was noticeably lower than my left. That’s a test you can do for yourself. Another interesting test to do in pairs is to run your finger down the line of your friend’s vertebrae. Your finger should move down in a straight line, but with most people there will be various detours to left and right as you run down from neck to pelvis.
EXERCISE
Surprisingly perhaps many exercise programmes produce body imbalance. For example I’ve worked with men who’ve lifted weights for years. They think they’re fit and they are strong, but often they’re pretty muscle bound and lack any real flexibility. I much prefer people doing something like yoga where there’s an emphasis on lengthening the muscles.
‘Ballet dancer’s knee’ is endemic amongst professional dancers due to the excessive strain put on their legs during training, particularly the constant aversion of the feet. Naturally one’s feet should be in parallel and track straight ahead.
The craze for marathon running of the 1980’s is showing up now as pain in the ankles, knees and hips for many ex- marathoners due partly to poor footwear. Pounding along for mile upon mile on concrete pavements, jars the entire body and will eventually cause joint inflammation unless cushioned by good running shoes. Also many of the marathon runners would have made good sprinters or milers – that’s what their bodies were built for, but instead everyone decided to run 26 miles regardless of the kind of body and metabolism they had.
Your body can also become imbalanced due to copying your parents. When we’re young we ape our elders. I once saw some film of a man who’d been badly injured in a car crash so that he was left hirpling when he walked, dragging his right leg. His 7 year old son, who’d nothing wrong with his body, walked like Dad, hirpling along dragging his right leg. That’s an extreme example, but next time we are yelling at the kids to ‘stand up straight’ perhaps we should take a look at our own posture in a mirror and see where they maybe got it from.
The Scots are notorious for the ‘no neck’ posture where the head is hauled down into the shoulders, which are themselves hunched up, usually to keep the cold out. Forty years of this leaves the whole area a gummed up mass where the person no longer has any flexibility.
BENEFITS
PI can help restore fallen arches or flat feet. Connected to archless feet are thick ankles and shins. Any abnormally thickened part is the outward sign of lack of muscle movement. When leg muscles do not expand and contract, fluid (lymph and interstitial fluid) collects through the pull of gravity, and the result is a characteristically patternless lower leg. Through manipulation, these errant muscles can be organized to work together again.
I’ve even seen improvements in vision through PI. The traditional view is that bad eyesight is bad luck and it’ll get worse. In fact when the head is set comfortably on the neck and shoulders the muscles of the eye are relaxed. If however the neck is arched forward with the head tilted back, the eyes, when looking straight ahead, are actually tilted downward in relation to the skull. This puts strain on the eye muscles, distorts the shape of the eye and thereby causes problems with vision. Releasing the tension from those muscles and re- positioning them, removes the cause of the strain and improved vision can result.
Finally the question everyone asks, “Does it last?”. The answer is; “it depends what you then do with your body”. I always remember the client who lit a fag while he was getting dressed after a session. If you’re determined to return to your old ways then PI will work temporarily only. Unless you invest some time in looking after yourself by, for example taking up swimming or dancing (I often recommend a course of the Alexander Technique, Tai Chi or Pilates to follow on from PI), and also investing in a decent bed or running shoes or whatever it is you need, then your old aches and pains will in time return.
Generally people report feeling more energetic, more open, looser, and more aware of their bodies, more positive and to react more spontaneously to things after PI. The scientific research has found more efficient use of the muscles, conserved energy and a tendency for motor control to shift towards the more reflexive spinal centres. Often also you are slightly taller, simply through being more upright.


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Round UFO Seen Hovering Over Indian Prime Minister’s Residence – “Details Cannot Be Revealed”

by EraOfLight

“Multiple government agencies were pressed into action,” a statement made by an Indian correspondent to CNN a few days ago  According to the Hindustan Times, “special commissioner of police and Delhi police chief spokesperson Depends Pathak confirmed the sighting but said details of the incident cannot be revealed.
“The sighting was reported but nothing threatening was found. More details cannot be shared keeping security reasons in mind,” Pathak added. This was also reported across multiple mainstream outlets.
This follows the release of footage from the Pentagon, and a massive wake up call article written in the New York Times,  as well as a big article on the topic by Christopher Mellon in the Washington Post, he served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. He is a private equity investor and an adviser to the To the Stars Academy for Arts and Science.
To the Stars Academy are the ones who released the Pentagon UFO videos a couple of months ago.
It’s important to remember that these are establishment mouthpieces, and they have all but lost the people’s trust in covering events in an accurate and unbias manner. Documents, along with award-winning mainstream media journalists have made this quite obvious, and there are multiple examples that seem to be happening all the time, like the recent coverage in Syria, for example. The real portrayers of fake news seem to be the ones who created that title in the first place…
Why has the establishment, or a fraction of it, chosen to release this information? All they’ve done with information is use it to deceive the masses for ulterior motives, those motives include, for example, the ‘war on terror’ as well as the ‘war on drugs.’ Now the UFO/ET topic is too big to hide, so they are choosing to control the disclosure narrative to essentially protect themselves and their cover-up.
What’s Next For Disclosure?
The UFO topic is becoming quite strange, because never before in history have we seen this type of mainstream media coverage. It’s hard to think that it’s not being used for reasons to “heighten” national security interests, perhaps a reason to justify space? After all, Donald Trump is now talking about creating a military space force, despite the fact that multiple high ranking military whistle-blowers, as well as the biggest military computer hack of all time that went mainstream in 2010, uncovers enough evidence to support the idea that space has already, quite possibly, been militarized.
Are they planning a false flag alien invasion? Or is a faction within the Deep State really trying to let the world know that something is going on here? Is this a process of slow disclosure to prepare us for the inevitable? Extraterrestrial contact.
If one thing is for certain, our plant is quite something…We don’t live in a world of transparency, the majority of people on the planet do not even want to think about the world, and what’s going on. The term “ignorance is bliss” is understandable, but one should not project any type of hate towards any type of activism…
It’s going to be interesting to see where the mainstream is going to take this. Unfortunately, much of the mainstream coverage and release seem to justify a “threat narrative.” Regardless of the fact that contained within the millions of pages of UFO-related documents, that have been released by multiple governments worldwide, many instances do mention “evasive” manoeuvres. Former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Helyer once said, “Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead, we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after.”
Perhaps that’s true, perhaps multiple races, some with good intentions and some with malevolent intent have visited us? This would line up with much of the testimony and research regarding a reptilian influence on Earth. Perhaps, as astronaut Storey Musgrave said at a UFO conference, there are trillions of races out there, “and they’re doing star travel.”  You can see a quick clip here, along with two other astronauts.
Just imagine the implications of such a truth? “there is another way, whether it’s wormholes or warping space, there’s got to be a way to generate energy so that you can pull it out of the vacuum, and the fact that they’re here shows us that they found a way.”  Jack Kasher, Ph.D, a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Nebraska.
“Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, ETs, etc. . . . They are visiting Earth NOW; this is not a matter of conjecture or wishful thinking.”
– Theodore C. Loder III, Phd, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire
There are hundreds of statements from people like the above mentioned, to complement the documents and military whistle-blowers.
Do We Really Know What’s Going On?
Can we really say we know what is going on? To a degree, yes. We know that we’ve been lied to for decades regarding the existence of strange aerial objects that defy our understanding and belief. There is also a great deal of evidence to suggest some are extraterrestrial. There is also a great deal of evidence suggesting human governments are in contact with ET beings.
This information leaves no aspect of humanity untouched. The biggest thing we can do for disclosure right now is to continue to look at ourselves. We need to look at what we are allowing to happen on our planet right now via a controlling cabal/elite and come to terms with this reality.
We can change the human experience any-time we want, but what is going to take? So far, we’ve seen activism shift many problems. There are a lot of people out there doing a lot of good, but we still have major issues that need to be sorted out. What the global citizenry truly wants, is peace. That peace begins within each of us as Change Starts Within.
It’s time to start questioning our opinions, perspectives, beliefs in our systems today and ask why we choose to support them. It’s time to find out what stops us from having peace within ourselves within our own emotional turmoil we have in our lives. These shifts, in fact, effect collective consciousness and begin opening the door for others to change too.
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are moulded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.”
– Edward Bernays (“the father of public relations”), Propaganda, 1928 (note that Bernays’ book, Propaganda, begins with the above quote).
It’s time for Earth to experience a new paradigm, and even though we fear stepping out of our comfort zone, we must.


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The 9D Arcturian Council: Third Dimensional Struggles

by EraOfLight

“Greetings. We are the Arcturian  Council. We are pleased to connect with all of you.
We are making a tremendous amount of progress in receiving that which you are offering to us and translating it into something that we can use to help all of you. We are channeling you just as much as some of you are channeling us, because what is channeling if not receiving a transmission and translating it into something useful.
Now, we are discovering that the human collective wants more assistance with the everyday experiences that you have, rather than the metaphysical experiences that you want to have. You are asking for help in rising above that which you are living so that you can live better lives in the here and now.
And we can understand that and relate to what you are going through with the day-to-day struggles that you experience, but we also want you to know that there is so much more for you and we can help to get you to the higher frequency experiences. We can help you bring in more of your fifth dimensional abilities. We can help you usher in the shift in precisely the way that you want to experience it.
The struggles of day-to-day living on planet Earth are what you can help each other with, and we recommend that you look to other humans for help, because we also see that there are more and more of you every day who want to be of service. If we could match you up with the ones who are asking for help, we would, but those who are asking for help need to ask those of you who are wanting to be of service. That’s part of their journey.
We can and will do whatever is in our power to bring the helpers together with those who want to be helped, and we will also continue to be available to any of you who wants more of a metaphysical boost. We are helping you expand your consciousness. We are helping you upgrade your physical bodies. We are doing what we can to assist you in accessing those fifth dimensional abilities.
And right here, right now, we are hoping that this message facilitates more of you reaching out to one another for help with your physical lives and physical needs and concerns. When you get those met, you can reach for something more.
We are the Arcturian Council, and we have enjoyed connecting with you.”


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Archangel Raphael: Practive Seeing, Hearing and Feeling With Your Heart

by EraOfLight

I come  to remove blockages, worries, and fears that stand in front of your further expansion.
Greetings dearest ones! I AM AA Raphael. I am your brother, Universal physician, and healer to you and all, in service to the Mother, in service to everyone that is calling on me.
It is with great pleasure that I am coming here to address thee, to infuse you with my emerald green, with my love and healing energy. It is with great honor that I come to remove blockages, worries, and fears that stand in front of your further expansion.
It is my desire and promise to thee, it is my purpose to make this time of accommodation and acquainting with your magnificent ascendant selves more pleasurable, swifter, and more graceful for you all.
In the world that you are living in now, a world that has been conditioned to have you and all of humanity take the most arduous path, to work hard in order to survive, and coerced you into giving your power away in so many subtle ways, it is difficult to stay in the higher vibration of the ascendant self at all times.
Dear ones, realize that you have always [had] the choice to refuse to participate in the old paradigm of living in limitation and lack. Realize that your task at this time is to understand the tricky and covert ways of some of these challenges that are luring you to take the outdated paths of frustration and dead ends.
Yes, it requires constant awareness and sharp discrimination to see the challenges, to discern the truth from the twisted false constructs that sometimes appear to be true. Practice seeing, hearing, and feeling with your hearts dear ones! Then, trust the knowing and follow the sweet and quiet voice of your soul that tells you where to go.
Whenever you are not feeling quite sure, sit in silence, go deeper and deeper into your soul, and be patient! Just allow the answers to come to thee. Trust the process, for the answers always come to you. Be grateful and acknowledge each and every one of the clues that are meant to guide you and direct you on your missions and paths. Celebrate and enjoy every forward step you take and understand that you all are moving on and along your path at the speed and pace determined by your higher selves, and according to your divine plans. Make it fun and pleasant, make it joyful and uplifting for your master selves and for everyone else in your soul family!
This why I am here, dear brothers and sisters, this is why I want to remind you that you are doing a fabulous and extraordinary job! Let me remove any doubts or fears that you might have. Let me bring that knowing and certitude to thee and know that you are in the perfect place and exactly where you need to be at this time.
Know that you are cherished and loved, always! Stay with my love and peace!
Farewell.
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Shedding Outdated Skin: Building the Bridge from Man to Overman

by EraOfLight

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche
If you would be alive –if you would choose to live an examined life, a fulfilled life, a self-actualized life, a life well-lived– then don’t fearfully choose the safe road, what Jung called “The Road of Death.”Choose instead the courage to face the trials and tribulations of an adventurous road, a road full of danger and risk.
On the bridge from Man to Overman, there is no place for half-assed lifestyles and herd instincts. There’s no place for fear-based perspectives and cowardly excuses. There’s no place for play-it-safers and goodie-two-shoes clinging to comfort and light. The bridge is too narrow for narrow-mindedness. It’s too shadowy for those who have not reconciled their own shadows. It’s too full of dark nights for anyone who hasn’t experienced a Dark Night of the Soul. It’s too painfully real for those who have not overcome the Matrix and embraced the Desert of the Real.
The bridge is only for courageous self-actualizers and heroic self-overcomers. If your intent is not self-actualization and self-overcoming, then simply get out of the way. Don’t block those with a full heart just because your heart is empty. Better yet: fill your heart with courage. Join the ranks of healthy progressive evolution. “I teach you the Overman,” writes Nietzsche. “Man is something that should be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?”
Taking the leap of courage:

“Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.” ~Niels Bohr
Can you feel the constriction of your comfort zone? Like a heavy life-jacket weighing you down? Like a too-safe straight-jacket keeping you out of harms way?
Can you feel the warm glow of contentedness quietly stagnating you? Causing you to feel like you’ve made it somehow? Can you feel the secure pressure of the status quo keeping you in line? Causing you to blindly accept, to myopically believe that you’ve somehow got it all figured out?
Taking a leap of courage is daring yourself to escape these feelings. It’s encouraging yourself to step outside your comfort zone. It’s having the audacity to think rather than believe, to take things into consideration rather than rely on conviction. It’s inspiring yourself to be heroic despite fear.
Look, I get it. Inside the comfort zone everything is safe and warm, solved and unriddled. But there’s also no adventure there. There’s no risk. There’s no challenge. There is everything in there to help you heal, it’s a great place to lick your wounds, but there’s nothing there to help you grow.
Healthy growth, the kind of growth that builds resilience and robustness, can only be achieved outside the comfort zone. There’s got to be risk. Like Nietzsche said, “Man is a rope, tied between beast and Overman – a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous shuddering and stopping.”
Inside the comfort zone there’s placation, pacification and pity. There’s everything that keeps us appeased and satisfied. There’s God with his shiny promises and glossy platitudes keeping us pampered and coddled and giving us that warm fuzzy feeling. But there’s no growth. There’s no questions. There’s no humor. There’s no furthering of evolution.
Outside of the comfort zone God is dead. Or, at least, God is a garden. A vast and vital garden filled with the compost of every man-made God to ever have existed, rotting like deified fertilizer for the future fertilization of ever-improved and ever-updated Gods.
Alas, the bridge from Man to Overman can only be built outside our comfort zones. Building the bridge is building adventure. It’s building something to grow into. It’s rebuilding God. It’s building a path into godhood and creative evolution. Indeed, we stand upon the corpse of God in order to self-actualize our place as Gods in the making.
Building the bridge out of the bones of God (and Giants):

“We are all Mothers of God, for God is always needing to be reborn.” ~Meister Eckhart
The bridge is a symbol for revivification, a creative renaissance, a spiritual rebirth, an existential resurgence. The bridge is a path, but it’s also a crossroads –a snarling juxtaposition. It’s built out of the outdated bones of God toward the updated end of creative evolution. It’s fixed into place with existential glue. It’s sturdier than any bridge ever created, but it’s surrounded by an angry abyss, and it’s never completed.
We are all architects of this bridge to some extent. Some of us are aware of it, but most of us are not. Most of us are cluttered and stuck in stopgap ideologies. We’re clustered and bottlenecked before the crossroads. Unable to self-actualize. Unable to self-overcome. Unable to see how everything is connected to everything else. Like pre-enlightened Rumis, we’re incapable of seeing that the door to our prison is wide open. And always has been.
Building the bridge from Man to Overman is proactively engaging and leveraging open-mindedness through self-actualization and self-overcoming. It’s inflicting awareness. It’s launching existential flares. It’s highlighting creative evolution through courageous interdependence.
The bones of God are sturdy and steadfast. Solid ground upon which to keep moving, ever-forward, ever-overcoming, ever-evolving. It takes the Newtonian notion of “standing on the shoulders of giants” to the next level. It’s Meta-perceptual. We stand on the bones of God in order to see further than God did. In order to perpetually propel human imagination and ingenuity. In order to grow and keep growing, despite creature comforts, herd instincts, and psychosocial hang-ups.
Building the bridge begins with each of us taking personal responsibility for our contribution to human evolution. Indeed. We all carry the bones of God. Self-overcoming is taking the reins of our life into our own hands, and proactively going about improving upon who we were yesterday. It’s a personalized Fibonacci sequence (self-improvement) striving toward Phi (enlightenment), where our own development is predicated upon an individualized progressive evolution that will ultimately contribute to the evolution of the species.
If you meet Nietzsche on the bridge, kill him:

“If you meet The Buddha on the road, kill him.” ~Linji
As Zen master Shunryu Suzuki wrote in Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, “Kill the Buddha if the Buddha exists somewhere else. Kill the Buddha, because you should resume your own Buddha nature.” Similarly, we should kill our notion of self-mastery in order to continue improving our mastery. Think of it as a kind of recycled mastery, where we recycle the mastery of yesterday into the remastered mastery of today.
This applies to the concept of deification itself. So as not to get stuck in a particular state of growth, it is vital that we “kill” the notion that we have “arrived.” That our evolution is somehow “complete.” That there is nothing further to grow into, nothing to question, nothing to overcome. For there will always be something to grow into, to question, and to overcome. There will always be a vast infinity toward which our limited finitude must strive. Indeed. The bridge from Man to Overman is built ever-finitely into the infinite future.
Killing Buddha (God) on the road and killing Nietzsche (Godhood) on the bridge is vital to keep creative evolution in perspective, so as not to get hung-up on any particular notion of Truth. The bridge from Man to Overman is filled with the outdated bones of dead Gods and the burnt-out husks of outdated truths. As James Russel Lowell said, “Time makes ancient good uncouth.”
Those who are proactively and courageously building the bridge understand that Truth is a fickle beast. Almost as fickle a beast as human fallibility. It’s for both reasons that those who are building the bridge consistently recycle their own mastery.
At the end of the day, the bridge from Man to Overman is a process of self-actualization and self-overcoming. It’s the collective personification of creative evolution. We build the bridge to provide a flexible and malleable path toward godhood. We keep building, destroying and rebuilding so that past growth adds to, without subtracting from, the healthy and progressive evolution of the species. We stand and face the Abyss, honoring each other… “Overmaste: the (r)evolutionary potential in me honors the (r)evolutionary potential in you.”


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White Winged Collective Consciousness of the Nine: The Diamond Wave Process (Critical Mass Solstice for New Earth Treaty)

by EraOfLight

As wave after wave of plasmic light filters onto your planet and into your bodies, merging with the crystallised aspects of itself, the crystals programmed to hold and reflect the plasmic light that are buried within the terra firma of your planet and the crystals within your DNA structure and pineal gland, are activated into their fullest potential within the current Earth-Gaia-Eartha grid.
Memories within the planetary grids regarding previous ascension timelines regarding planets you know as ‘in your past’ or to those holding multidimensional awareness ‘alternate Earths’ have recently been through a huge clearing, so much so that you have collectively ‘jumped timelines’ if you will.
The energy wave that washed over the crystalline structures upon your planet built in it’s crescendo on the 31st May into 1st June 2018. This particular crystalline plasmic wave, holding a ‘rainbow gemstone’ patterning if you will, holds the codes for that which you may know as ‘cosmic ascension’ or ‘diamond ascension’.
Whilst this level of ascension does not take place for the collective at the point, the codes are awakened and online. For this very reason we may call this recent wave and series of waves peaking at your solstice point on 21st June as the ‘Diamond Waves’, for within the plasmic light, the crystalline structure, these waves hold the diamond code.
Once the diamond code is in place within the crystalline structures on a planetary and bodymind level, you have the actual configuration that is the silicon based molecular DNA structure at the point we call the fifth strand. There are a smaller group of starseeds holding the template for 7th strand reconstruction.
So we are looking at the fifth dimensional Gaia as ‘New Earth’ and 7th dimensional Eartha as ‘New Earth’. Harmonic templates of reality anchored upon your planet as you reach critical mass for the diamond ascension codes through the diamond waves – May 31st/June 1st – peaking and troughing until the highest point of the diamond wave process which is your solstice point.
The gemstone frequency codes are held within these waves so you are holding onto and accessing the akashic memory grids within the rainbow gemstone grids, specifically blue sapphire, ruby and emerald.
It is not just the plasmic rays coming in from the galactic core that create the diamond wave process at this time, it is the work that you, the starseeds have done, to clear your own personal grid fields as you have worked upon that which we call the shadow and you have integrated, cleared and balanced. Critical mass for this clearing was reached around 31st May 2018 upon your planet and this opened the floodgates for planetary grid clearing.
The ascension experiences in your past involving the ‘misuse’ of crystal technology creating what you may know as ‘nuclear energy’ and the timelines that were created within these past/alternate Earths held trauma memories within an Armageddon/mass crucifixion template for thousands and thousands of your Earth years. It is this particular code that has been high-jacked and utilised for reincarnational trapping systems and other control structures upon third density Earth.
Due to the awareness of the starseed’s mission and the indigo revolution, involving the huge undertaking that is master gridwork and warrior Excalibur templates – the personal clearing has reached critical mass, creating the planetary clearing at an exponential level.
This clearing is thus mirrored fractally downwards into personal grid clearing and upwards into galactic grid clearing for this particular code/template we speak of.
This is a breaking of inner systems holding hi-jacked memory codes of the Armageddon template, locking you into the energetic field of the dark magicians of Atlantis.
Now, the work the starseeds have done have changed the timeline and it is the Atlantean priesthood who uphold the ‘law of one’ that you are connected to within your memory fields. Correct, aligned and positively polarised rainbow gemstone codes, link you through crystalline time capsules and crystal skull technology to the Aurora matrix that is the aware starseeded consciousness.
This consciousness and the galactic core are one and unified and this is the trigger to the outpouring of the plasmic waves we are calling the diamond wave process.
During the diamond wave process much takes place. Gone are the heavy chains of nuclear creation through misuse of wave fields and crystal structure, the huge wave of relief and release allows the rainbow gemstone treaty to be made if you will, replacing the old agreements on ultradimensional levels with a new treaty as the starseeds jump to a new timeline.
This filters down into the third dimensional reality as honourable agreements are made. The leaders of your world hold one on the front line who, masked as the fool, masked as the distorted one, masked as the idiotic one, the confused one, the childish imp who delights in riddle and holds his hands above his head in delight at his own mistakes that he does not understand, is unmasked at this time. The divine veil is parted as the mask of the fool is removed.
Those with eyes to see have always seen and those who believed the mask was real shall stand in shock and surprise as the fool is really the wise man, the idiotic one is the clever one, the confused one is he who holds clarity and the childish imp is the independent man of indigo strength with a team of warriors of light behind him.
The starseeds, the ones with eyes to see, who have been honouring this incarnation with their light, stand watch as the new treaty for Earth is signed and you, as Humanity on Earth, are given tickets to Gaia and Eartha and the ability to take hiatus or holiday upon any planet of choice within the stream of Jewell planets that are so closely linked with Earth, Gaia, Eartha.
As the new treaty is signed under the influential seal of the diamond light, the starseeds ‘receive their wings’ as it were. At this time-point it is more accurate to say they create their wings for they are the true wingmakers within reality, the angels on Earth. Those who have for many years made wings shall receive yet a new pair of wings and yet continue to make more wings as the DNA configurations that is ‘fifth strand into seventh’ strand powers up and fans out like wings and wings they indeed are, for with them you shall fly.
These wingmakers are known also as codebreakers, for they break the code, they crack the code and complete the cosmic crossword puzzle with accuracy of the highest degree.
These are those who decode the metaphor and discover the metaphoric fractal layers that stretch deep into the caverns of Agatha and far into castle cloud structures in the sky, presenting as the rainbow gemstone orbs held in the highest esteem by the metatronic pulse and the rainbow serpent that is Quetzalcoatl.
Yes the wingmakers, the codebreakers read the code, create the metaphor and deliver activation upon activation through these fractal gemstone creations. These are then downloaded in abundance to the starseed souls en masse.
Starseeds you now have an astral team if you will, you are united. Indeed there is more uniting to do but you have reached a critical mass within your unity at this juncture. What does this mean dear starseeds? It means you weave the dream together, as one, as the divine princess Aurora and her Twin Flame Archangel Michael, the Guinevere and Arthur of the heavens that hold high the sword of truth that is Excalibur.
The codebreakers decode the metaphor, weave the dream and activate others as they activate self. The memories return at this time within such expansion, it is as we say ‘quite a cosmic ride’ as you move through the Diamond wave process that takes you into your solstice point.
Galactic memory clearing, dismantling of Armageddon/crucifixion template, receiving of rainbow gemstone memory codes, opening of Atlantean time capsules and the reading of the thirteen crystal skulls as you sign a new ultradimensional treaty and jump to a new timeline for Earth. We call this timeline the Ascension timeline and now, more that ever before, the Ascension timeline is absolute in it’s trajectory for you.
Codebreakers, enjoy the activations of the breaking of the code….
Wingmakers enjoy your wings…..
Starseeds you are on track, the rainbow bridge is now fixed for you and you may freely rejoice at your solstice point. Your ceremonies, your glee, your dancing and your joy seals the deal as it were.
 It is done.
We are the White Winged Collective Consciousness of the Nine.
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Lord Melchizadek: The Spirit of God

by EraOfLight

The human body is flesh and bone, but the human spirit is the essence of the person as an ethereal body. The spirit is of essence just as God’s light is essence and there is no separation between them. When one’s body dies, the spirit returns to the light and becomes part of that light as if it had never left. In life, if one loses connection to the light, the possibility of returning to the light in death is never diminished; it will still occur just as certainly as night following day.

The fallacies believed by the human mind mean that disconnection from God, the Creator’s love becomes almost as certain as your return to it upon death. The illusions of the physical world block the subconscious mind’s ability to remain faithful and connected, meaning that the person begins to believe a raft of un-truths about one’s spirituality and Divine right as a ray of God’s light. The travesty of injustices upon human lives on Earth cannot be undone or released from the human spirit, unless one is consciously aware of one’s infinite connection to Source; in the energy of the Creator instant healings and manifestation are a right of all beings on Earth, not a privilege of a chosen few. Those who have such knowledge, or seek the assistance of someone who does, are now lifting the ties that bind them to past events and lives on Earth that have left enormous traumatic imprints on their soul memories which have caused damage to their spiritual connection and belief. The more that people can release emotional baggage and return to the love and light of the Creator as a rite of passage through self-belief and empowerment, the less chance they will fall into the trap of allowing the illusions of drama on Earth to entrap their spirit and soul in darkness and despair.
There is no hope if one cannot believe it to be so. The amount of negativity generated by people who believe that the work of terrorists is bringing the world to its knees is a challenge to those who are working feverishly to stay above the drama and to raise the vibrations of the world around them to the Fifth Dimension. If one’s spirit carries the scars of the past it is much more difficult to believe that love is all and that they are one with God and thus God incarnate. The power to maintain belief and connection rests upon one’s ability to shrug off the ghosts of the past and to see the Earth and its inhabitants as the Creator does; as perfect in every way because each living being is an individual and unique and loved unconditionally, despite any laws that one breaks or number of mistakes one makes.

The love of the Creator is in every object, living thing and being in the universe and the joy of Creation is the foundation upon which the spirit thrives. If one cannot feel that they are a co-creator and thus in charge of their own lives and realities they have lost their power and ability to forge change. A broken or downtrodden spirit will not be able to find the light of creation inside of themselves and will consequently look outside of themselves for fulfilment. This can become a never-ending cycle of self-sabotage as, unable to give themselves the love that their spirit craves (as the love you give yourself is also the love of the Creator), they become desperate to fill the void through drugs, alcohol, crime, narcissism and even violence. These people will never be happy and will, in turn, create unhappiness in the lives of others unless they can address the issues that are weighing them down and that have damaged their spiritual connection.
The journey of life continues through death and through incarnation after incarnation. Each lifetime brings a new physical body and a new set of experiences to navigate through, but your spiritual essence remains the same. The memories of each lifetime help to shape the lifetime that you are currently living, and the shape of your experiences will depend of the amount of trauma you have managed to release or that you still carry within your soul.
The message to remember, dear ones, is that, through life and beyond it your connection to the Creator will never be lost. You are never separate and never alone. In finding connection many look to religion and that is as it may be. However, connection to the light and love of Creation is within every rock, plant, insect, animal and being, human or otherwise, in the Universe and there is no attachment to any religion or boundary required, as the love and light of the Creator is within every creation and is unconditional.
Look no further for God than yourselves, dear hearts. You are a Divine spoke of the Divine wheel and the light and love of God is within you. Connect to yourself and go within. When you can do that, His light will shine out to the world and no amount of hatred, violence or act of terrorism can withstand the vibration of unconditional love that is of the highest order and the nectar of the human spirit.

I Am Lord Melchizadek.
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