Empowered Spirit-Being People

The clearest picture I have thus far for one aspect of “how it all works,” is that spirit-being humans can become so connected and identified with their own pattern originations, when there is a spirit-being parting from their physical body organisms, they are still enmeshed and encoded with those same patterns So by not successfully extracting the essence of themselves, the spirit-bring quite possibly lives other lives within similar design matrixes. I also think there are spirit-beings who have consciously wanted to keep having similar experiences in other lives and locales.

In the later 1970s, while living in the Sierra Nevada mountain foothills in northern California, when I was in a crisis about my father‘s forthcoming passing on, I played a lot with different ways of thinking—and their results. On many occasions I would temporarily set aside my own identity and thought processes, and purposely energize another set of patterns with which to see and experience my environment. Then I would extract the essence of myself from my body organism, placing “Me” in back of my body, identifying with myself as the essence of Me that was the energy pattern originator. After that I would take a walk in the surrounding woods, seeing and experiencing the world through that different lens. When I came back home I would rejoin with my body, assume my usual identity and thought patterns, afterwards writing about the specific designs I had instigated and what had happened

From today‘s perspective, it was a great way to begin to really Liberate and untangle the various components of Me-as-a-wholistic-Being … and to experientially Understand the processes I naturally use to energize designs of all kinds.

Then in the early 1980s when Jim and I were taking a tour through history, Jim was convinced he had lived other lives in other times. From my point of view, I thought I certainly made natural energy connections with others in the past and present, from my emphases as Jacquie, but it didn‘t feel right for me to go beyond that. A few weeks ago a speculation arose to my conscious awareness: Does how some people in today‘s world think about living other historical lives, primarily apply to the experiment?

Over the years, my Understandings about how one‘s gender role as a cultural female or male can be a large entrapment in terms of one‘s identity and identifications as a spirit-veing human, has increased considerably. This includes the emotional tones that have become familiar experiences in one‘s Life. Also, I‘ve been increasingly aware that our official cultural agreements about the significance of objective/scientific reality, a type of logos that doesn‘t include a person‘s inner subjective aspects, can become a major entrapment.

Recently, during “Our” explorations of The Tree of Life, our body organism is very clear that in its natural state, the escalating emotional intensities in today‘s world are usually too much for it! When in their presence at televised sports events and many other entertainment venues, it tenses up to protect itself. And I have Realized that in the past, as a spirit-being human within a cultural context, I too thought I needed to set forth a lot of energy in order to be safe-enough and to even have a desirable place amidst it. Again, this is being said with great Appreciation for the experiential contrasts I have had as a participant in the cultural processes.

Today … the story that wholistically makes the most sense to Me is one where I imaginatively See a big spirit-being gathering of those who were choosing to collaborate and participate, in preparation for the experiment in separations from the basics—that would unfold for thousands of years. At the preliminary spirit-being meeting, various forthcoming participants were choosing various parts. During the process, I said I wanted to come into the whole experiment just once, near the end. I wanted to play a part where I showed how one could become culturally programmed, and then successfully disentangle oneself from one‘s patterns and body organism—returning home as a portion of unfettered divine Love and Oneness, while still amidst the natural world as a spirit-being human. (I especially enjoy this picture because it gives each of us spirit-being humans a more original horizontal playing field.)

A major Realization that has been becoming even clearer recently, is that as a spirit-being person, I‘ve been exploring divine Love all my Life, including how it has been culturally translated during the experiment. In the present, it‘s like I‘m back home as a portion of unfettered divine Love and Oneness, with all the digested experiences, Understandings, and their applications so far … along with a wonderful companion and fellow-traveler for the past 41-years—Jim.

I‘m also very clear that experiences from using current-day cultural individuality positions and perspectives are very different from experiences amidst the dimension of basic unfettered divine Love and Oneness, as an individualized portion of it all.

To repeat, as I See what‘s happening in our world-of-today, I think we‘re all close to the experiment‘s conclusion, where we each can directly apply what we‘ve learned in our Lives … now. And so, as a wholistic composite Being that includes our Body Organism, our choice is to continue applying what “we” have already learned, along with our further explorations and adventures in 2012 … amidst The Tree of Life.

With Best Wishes for the Highest Good, J

Money

During the past few months, while following the developments of cultural events, I have accumulated a fat file about “Money.“ This is a folder I didn‘t take to the basement recently from studies of the past, because it is so actively current—and globally volatile! Overall, I think the money picture is very entwined and complex!

Translating what I‘ve learned about the complementary nature of logos and mythos to money, I think in logical terms money is a factual medium for transactions: I give you so much money for what you are selling—goods and/or services—money that you can use as you choose. Then symbolically/mythologically-speaking, in addition to direct buying power, money can give a person potential prestige and esteem in other people‘s eyes.

Moreover, there is the very practical reality here in the United States and in other places around the world—that it is necessary to have enough money to support oneself as an individual and as a family. In the U.S. and elsewhere, people are saying, “We need and want jobs!” (hopefully jobs that pay enough). But again, I See all this within the context of a disintegrating spirit-being experiment—of separations from Oneness, from unfettered Love—and from the natural world itself, which has resulted in large-scale environmental problems.

Personally-speaking, in addition to our own endeavors, as only children Jim and I both inherited enough money when our parents passed on, to be able to live comfortable and modest lives, debt-free. But we too are part of the demise of “the experiment.” Even though Jim has a lot if experiential background in the area of finance, we have never been invested in the stock market. Instead, we have been putting our money into bank CDs, primarily because we wanted it to be as safe as possible, and for many years we both wanted to use the majority of our time and attention amongst other Life choices. Also, neither one of us wanted to put forth the efforts to achieve the life-style and the potential symbolic prestige that money can give one culturally.

For decades, we both have been mindful of who and what our money supports. In the present, our checking account and bank CDs are “all in” a regional bank, that wasn‘t involved with federal TARP funds. But, in many ways Jim and I are like other Americans today, people who live primarily on our social security checks for our monthly expenses.

How does all this relate with my integrated Being‘s explorations with The Tree of Life in 2012? That will be part of our forthcoming discoveries and adventures.......

All In

One day—after weeks of studying and being emersed in paganism and the various mystery religions around the Mediterranean, including many people‘s Understandings in those days about the importance of both logos (cultural logical thinking) and mythos (what‘s behind the scenes), and their complementary nature—all before Jesus‘ appearance … and then the subsequent developments of both “official” Christianity and Gnosticism—I drew a schematic picture for clarity. This had been a big study, amidst my multiple culmination processes of the past year, where I needed to stand back from the whole thing. It was four days before I blog-posted “The Tree of Life in 2012” on 1/1/12.

At the top of the page for my schematic depiction I started with Divine Love and Oneness—where each of us is an individualized portion of it (our Essential I). Then on the left side of the page I showed the eating of fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the biblical Garden of Eden story. Next, moving down the left side of the page came oppositional duality—good and evil, and on and on. After that, going further down the page, I showed the enormous interwoven complexity that has developed and evolved throughout the centuries from that first spirit-being collaborative emphasis of oppositional duality (along with other Troublemakers), to the present.

Moreover, by that time, four days before the heralded 2012 year began, I was already clear that it wasn‘t just oppositional duality that was one of the main problem-causers for we as the human species … it was duality itself! So near the top of my schematic picture, under Divine Love and Oneness—where each of us uses its attributes with our choices of patterns, I placed duality itself above oppositional dualism on the left side of the page.

What I believe now is that there is no fundamental duality … what there is basically are contrasts of time/space movements such as night and day, up and down, in and out— and interconnected relationships such as spirit and matter.

Then on the right hand side of the schematic picture I placed The Tree of Life—Oneness and unfettered divine Love—with basic characteristics such as easy/effortless; full health; transformation processes; joy; unified and integrated wholeness; safety; full potency; and full responsibility.

When I Saw the whole picture, it was clear that to continue with any more studies and Understandings about the past, such as I had been doing, was foolish. So I began to move more upstairs materials of books and folders from studies I‘d done over the years, to the basement. It was time to be even more wholistically aligned with the basics of divinity and the natural world, as I Understand them today. And of course by being more “all in” as a fully integrated composite Being this way, our body organism now has more of the opportunities it has wanted to have, to find out what it can Be, Become, and Do. And as a spirit-being human, who doesn‘t need to use cultural designs and ways of thinking so often, I can find out more of what I can Be, Become, and Do, too.

As I See it today, each of us as a spirit-being human has played our part and parts in the collaborative spirit-being duality experiment, and now it‘s rime to translate and apply what we‘ve learned. So no matter what ethnicity, background, or station in life a person has had and has achieved, in some ways it isn‘t really that relevant any longer. From my point of view, “the experiment” is about over and each of us has played the part or parts we individually chose originally. What does matter is what each of us does from now on—daily and moment-by-moment, with our experiences and what we‘ve learned … which actually can level the playing field a lot more in 2012.

With Best Wishes for the Highest Good, J.

The Tree of Life in 2012

Now that we as the human species have played out our cultural experiments for the past thousands of years—separating ourselves from other natural world species members, from our fellow humans, and from a direct relationship with the Oneness of divinity—with the experiential Understandings we have currently, I think each of us can individually and also collaboratively explore The Tree of Life.

To me, the Garden of Eden story in the Bible‘s Old Testament—Eve and Adam choosing to eat fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil—is a symbolic representation of the human species deciding to use oppositional dualism, etc.—and go forth with its separation experiments. And now, with the help of modern technology, we are all able to See the results that have played out in global physical terms over the centuries. I also think that “the experiment” was important and valuable.

What I Understand as an integrated, wholistic Being, is that “In the beginning is divine Love. Divine Love is the starting point. From it, forms are manifested in this reality system, and it connects all Life.” That is what I heard repeatedly one night from a very deep dimension of my Being, during dreams and associated awake moments. Then that same night, from a closer dimension to physicalness, I Realized that as individualized portions of divine Love—of Oneness—each of us uses its attributes to energize patterns and designs that become our personal contributions to the overall play, bringing about our share of connections and events.

I think that one of a myriad number of misinterpretations about Oneness in our culture today is to say that I am you and you are me. I think this doesn‘t account for the various levels and dimensions of each of us as wholistic Beings, nor does it give each of us the wholistic potency and responsibility for our individual choices, no matter what dimension we are in. Capabilities I have played with as the essence of myself are such that “I” can temporarily merge with another Being‘s focuses, either purposely or semi-automatically—but I am still fundamentally Me doing so—and then the connections naturally recede when one lives Life as a process and moves on.

As I experientially Understand it now, there are two major consciousness forms that are part of our human personhoods:

* One is our overall basic body consciousness, made up of the whole divinely and intelligently crafted body organism‘s natural processes amidst the basic natural world—all within a vast network of connections and probabilities.

* The second consciousness is that which each of us primarily identifies with and experiences. It includes our cultural gender trainings and some cultural designs of “how it all works.” And of course the contents of this consciousness can be changed and transformed with different perspectives and patterns.

In current-day terms, I think the two consciousness forms and their interactions are being expressed as the mind-body connection.

In later December 2011, the very day I word-processed a larger-picture story of events in my Life for the file folder, “New Songs, New Stories,” Jim composed the melody for his first musical composition. He had been hearing variations of it oftentimes inwardly, and he was finally ready to play it and put it down on paper in note form. When I heard it, as a wholistic Being I thought it was exquisite! So there we were on the same day, with a new story and a new song, from amidst a new framework!

Inwardly, I have been Seeing the symbolic picture I painted early in 2011, representing a potted and growing plant of safety and peace, as part of The Tree of Life, too. As I wrote earlier, I am now a Being who is comfortably energizing divine safety along with peace for myself and others—part of my contributions to the overall current-day spirit-human events. I‘ve Realized that I can truly create a personal core that is fluid and integrous, without needing protections. Yes, I am continuing to play my part as best I can, while also horizontally valuing others for their worldviews.

I think a good perspective to use about Life is to see our human choices during “the experiment” as if we have been using just one radio station among many options, or tuning to just one television channel, among many other options. Both Jim and I have been and are wholistically exploring other stations and channels that are also connected to this basic reality system.

From my point of view The Tree of Life is a mythic symbol, an internal psychic energy form used by many groups of people throughout our shared human history … of course filled with different ingredients depending upon the time and place. I think a psychic and biological emphasis such as The Tree of Life can be a potent energy-filled centrality in today‘s world, that invisibly and inwardly flows, naturally connecting with like-minded energies.

And now, with our individual and collaborative emphases, Jim and I and our body organisms will be discovering how The Tree of Life manifests for each of us—and how we each inter-relate with it in 2012, when there will be more fresh New Songs and New Stories.

With Unfettered Divine Love, J.

Aligning and Harmonizing with “The Basics”

Even though Jim had been energizing designs of “New Songs, New Stories” and “A Completely Different Reality,” he also had other emphases in motion from earlier times—especially golf achievements and more basic understandings of Western music. Then last month (later August), after he had achieved a fairly consistent level of skillfulness on the golf course, he experienced a physical situation that involved both of us.

Rather than going into the details of what happened using cultural thought patterns, I‘m choosing to write about it from within the reality I am amidst now and my perspectives from there. What I See is that Jim‘s body—as an integrous, intelligent energy form amidst the basics of divinity overall and the basics of the natural world—brought forth a wisely chosen event in which Jim was somewhat disabled for a while. And during that time, we both often sought divine guidance in terms of how to think about what was happening, and what to do and not-do. Being together this way, we each cherished some of the richest days we have ever experienced as a dyad.

One result of Jim‘s reflections is that he decided to withdraw all his attention from golf and sports in general—as a participant, spectator, or Witness. He concluded that to go any further with increasing his golf skill level would require more than he wanted to put into the process … he thought that if he wanted to play the game sometime in the future he would be able to feel good about his abilities and performance. In other words he interpreted his body telling him, “Enough is enough.“

Since sports and athletic prowess had been huge significances throughout Jim‘s Life, starting in his growing-up home and their family‘s involvement with the community, his purposeful withdrawal from all aspects of competition shifted his whole psyche—with dramatic consequences from the start. He also removed the complexities of cultural designs he had used around being a separate individual.

All of these developments further magnified my Understandings about the uniqueness of each of us, and the various components of an individual‘s psychic structure. I could clearly See that while I had been intent on aligning all parts of my Being a steady step at a time into and within A Completely Different Reality, Jim had had a mixture of realities in motion. And his physical disablement obviously provided the motivation for him to make some big changes!

During the process I became even clearer about the part I Am playing as a wholistic, Liberated Being including an intelligent-wise body organism, with various and flexible connections to divinity and with my personal God that is a portion of overall divinity.

At one point I was guided to imaginatively take the top portion of my previous “Beyond Sticky Webs” dream/vision—where each of us is an integrated, wholistic, illuminated Self, who is now freed from all the entrapments of cultural obligations and responsibilities and from our own personal patterns—and to mentally fill the whole picture frame with it. What I experientially Understood is that “more is less,” that is, the larger Self I Am in a basic sense, the less “individual” I Am in ways I had learned for a cultural identity. Playing my part now as a spirit-being human is to encourage others to step into their own basic grandeur in Oneness terms.

Starting with my writings in early 1999, I have been describing an expanding progression of Me and my identity, where now I know myself to Be an integral part of divinity and the Earth system, like a significant dot amongst thousands of other significant dots, where there are potential flexible and moving energy connections with other individuals, both with physical bodies and without them. I know that all of my writings have been collaborations with other aspects of Oneness, where I have played my part as an Essential I/ spirit-being and body organism in this time/space reality as an individualized portion of Oneness. Along with my evolving identity, my Understanding of personal power has also evolved.

Jim has Realized that what he is really enthused about energizing for his Life in the present is to express basic divinity overall and especially musically—uncomplicated Divine Love, Divine Trust, Oneness, and Joy. From there one thing led to another, where together we went through a delightful co-creative process online of connecting with distributors of crystal bowls in the U.S. Southwest, buying a set of 12 that were harmoniously tuned with each other. At the start we decided we would both use them for healing/healthing activities; additionally, Jim would use them for some of his forthcoming musical compositions, and I would personally use them to explore and have fun. Jim also purchased an E minor wooden flute.

Crystals have been meaningful in Jim and my Lives in the past. In the early 1980s when we lived in the Sierra mountain foothills of northern CA, our delightful cat, Minute, would frequently go to the top of the back of the couch, bat the crystals that we had hung in south-facing windows there, and then jump down to chase the dancing sunbeams around the room. In our Lives today, we have the same two crystals hung in south-facing windows, and twice a year they dance on the ceiling and walls of the large expanse called “the great room.” And when I was seeking for a core symbol of my psychic structure, where I no longer needed any protections, what inwardly emerged was a beautiful, large fluid crystal to replace any of the steel core that remained, which I had given myself during difficult years with my father in my middle teens. Then recently Jim was able to achieve some healing and healthing when he immersed himself in Steven Halpern‘s “Crystal Suite” CD, which my body had also loved for many years.

For most of a couple of days last month Jim lay on a chaise lounge on our covered deck amidst the natural world here on Harmony Hill, using his CD player with earphones to wash his body and himself with gorgeous classical music that we have in our music collection. I think it definitely helped him!

At one point I mentally associated to 1975 when we left the accelerating world of money-making and money-spending in southern California, and we turned in another direction, taking our Lives into our own hands when we moved to the Sierra foothills in northern California. In some ways this change of direction we are making in 2011 is similar because portions of our Lives will certainly be different. We will still live in the same home and locale with this directional shift, but our experiences will be emerging from different emphases.

During this large-scale reconstruction, one day during meditation I experienced an internal energy structure collapsing, which I could both inwardly feel and See, where the energies were being freed to move on. One association with some of the collapsing structure was to the emphasis I made in my early 20s: I emphatically stated that when I got to the end of my life, I wanted to be able to look back and have no regrets. Well, after the completion of Jim and my first collaborative script together on our 40th wedding anniversary last October 30th and I looked back as a wholistic Being, I felt I had satisfactorily and successfully completed that story.

I also intuitively knew that part of the collapsing inner structure came from last October 30th on our 40th wedding anniversary, when Jim and I completed our first collaborative script with one another and started a fresh adventure the next day. At the time we dissolved all of our previous design connections. For me this meant no longer Being immersed in the River of Love, either individually or as a dyad … and so I really opened things up as I had been divinely guided to do for years. One result has been that how I would describe my Life currently is that the river of love—which I believe connects us all and is the Source of Life—is able to flow freely throughout all levels and layers of my Being. I don‘t have to go anywhere or do anything. I don‘t have to Be immersed in it as I was before—it just is, it is a basic. It can now flow freely and unencumbered.

Since starting our New Adventure last October 31st (2010), I even more clearly Saw how some of Jim and my personal designs had obviously conflicted with each other, and we had both done the best we could to be as harmonious as possible with one another. But what finally dawned on me was that with those conflicting energies, we just made it worse by trying to be harmonious because that put each of us freshly and automatically into energy connections with the other one. So what I did was to take all my energies back from those types of patterns with their connections, and instead set forth a design that if from my individual choices there was a natural connection with Jim and others with their choices, all well and good, If not, in energy terms we would miss one another. Result? It has played out beautifully for both of us!

In the present regarding the purchase of the 12 harmonized crystal bowls, I could See that there was a convergence taking place of some of Jim and my past-present personal interests—mine in primal processes, the basics of divinity and the basics of the natural world; and Jim‘s immersions into the depths of music and their harmonics. We both think that sound and vibrations are a basic of this system and primal to our body organisms. So we are clearing our round slate coffee table that sits in front of the curved couch and a comfortable distance from the fireplace, and we will be placing the bowls on it when they arrive, as a welcome addition to our living room area. It seems that finally Jim and I are both at a place individually where we can naturally harmonize even more wholistically with each other now.

More connections to the past were also emerging to my conscious awareness. Twelve plus years ago Jim experienced a crises of the spirit we wrote about in our book, God‘s River of Love. In the snapshot “Jim‘s Odyssey” he talked about not being able to correlate what he knew about himself as a spirit-being in an uncultured environment with how to translate that harmoniously into his Jim Life. And in “Caught Between the Worlds” he said things were better, but he was still caught between the worlds of the basic spirit-being dimension and the current-day cultural time/space reality.

With the purchase of the crystal bowls and his choices to remove all competition and cultural separations from his Life, Jim has felt like he has finally achieved what he had been seeking all his Jim-Life … and the other day he told me while we were making our lunches, “I can finally say I Love my Life now!” He also says he has completely stripped himself of cultural designs with which he learned to be strong, and now he needs to build his strength (and identity) afresh as the essence of himself.

For months I‘ve been in a Culmination Time, being open to what emerges from my past emphases, studies, and inputs from elsewhere. Jim has recently suggested that I complete my student role. I smiled when I heard him because I‘ve thought of myself as a student most of my Life, currently speculating that possibly I should emphasize and put even more weight into explorer and adventurer designs in this Completely Different Reality. It seems that the inner voice that stated it needed a vacation last spring has also provided energy input for our personal and dyadic choices now.

In the present/future I‘m very interested in more explorations with the feedback loop—from Selector/Chooser, Energy Originator, Witness, Experiencer, and Evaluator positions—in relationship with others, in invisible and visible terms.

One day during this directional change process, with tears in my eyes I thought back to that afternoon in 1975 on the beach in Tobago when tears were flowing then as I told Jim I was homesick, sick about our country and what was happening to it, as I was engulfed with the realization it was the land of my birth … I loved it and its people. I said I had to go back and somehow play my part, to do what I could, whatever that meant. At the time, Jim said he too had to go back and figure out how to create a different Life. My evaluation at this time is that we have both achieved those goals—and we‘ve each had a lot to do to get here!

Then from more recent times, out of a dream event in mid 2006 I Lovingly and slowly painted a mixed media picture of a new home Jim and I bought that has complemented and coexisted as an imaginary one to the physical home we live in now. The unfurnished imaginary home was/is amidst a natural world environment where really big dreams can be realized. For five years now this picture has sat on an easel atop the dresser in our bedroom. Again I feel that multiple emphases from the past have been emerging and intermingling in the present.

One of Jim‘s visions and follow-throughs in physical terms is manifesting in our front yard today, where the fruit trees we planted have matured and we are daily eating fabulous peaches in our morning fruit compote, while more peaches are ripening on another tree … and pears, pear-apples, and apples are also ripening. Last month the Cox Orange Pippin apples Jim picked were delicious. He is frequently exclaiming, “We are going to have a lot of fruit this year!”

And so I close for now with Namasté and Unfettered Love from both of us, J.

The Land of Our Births, September 2011

Sometime last spring when I was half way through the DVD series around Frenchman Alexis de Touqueville‘s observations about the U.S. during his visit here in 1831 and 1832, from which he later wrote Democracy in America, I heard an inner voice I Trust say, “I need a vacation.” The warmer season was approaching, and so I began to methodically shut down what I had in motion, neatly stacking up materials I thought I would return to in the later fall or winter. Then one day Jim came into my personal room during this process, observing that he thought it would be good for me to get some of those piles out of my daily environment, and he would be happy to help me take them downstairs to the file cabinet he had moved there when he brought an electronic piano into his personal room. He added that he‘d be happy to bring materials back up if I wanted them later in the year. Since I agreed with his suggestions, downstairs they went.

Then I crafted and painted the clay pot of safety and peace I talked about earlier, that is now thumb-tacked on the door to my personal room—and in my imagination it‘s growing! After that I went through all my art materials to update myself on what I have, deciding (again at Jim‘s suggestion) to get a lovely wooden, portable tabletop easel. My first picture using it was of a chickadee, a tribute to an indigenous spirit-being male I greatly admire. The painting style I‘m currently using has many aspects of what I‘ve interpreted in my studies over the years of Japanese and Chinese visual expressions, which come from their Zen, other Buddhist, and Taoist belief structures.

A big emphasis for these past few months during my “vacation” has been to Go Direct, repeatedly given as divine guidance. This has meant to use my invisible inner Choice Selector from a position of Oneness and merge with what I want to Understand.

Moving to the immediate present. After I recently reread my website manuscript Within the River of Love, Translations and Applications, and then the subsequent blogs, I Realized I had already interwoven many perspectives about “The Land of Our Births.” Central to my perspectives is that We the People of the United States of America have now taken the energy designs and patterns that were set forth from the beginning of our nation and have played them out to their logical conclusions. From my point of view, that‘s what the spirit-being experiment for the past thousands of years has been all about, and what our United States of America experiment within the larger experiment has been all about. And now each of us as an individual has the opportunity to stand back in his or her Life, deciding and choosing which I, which matrix, which wavelength—and then effectively implementing their decisions. Will we choose, individually and together, to craft A New American Dream?

We the People

While immersed in The Teaching Company‘s CD series, “Touqueville and the American Experiment” about democracy in the United States, I carefully read the recent series of three articles in the New York Times by Ian Urbina about the extraction of natural gas called “hydrofracking.” Within them, there was a highlighting of that process and procedure in Pennsylvania, a state where both my daughter and granddaughter live … and my expanding awarenesses struck close to the bone. I also listened carefully to Diane Rehm‘s NPR discussion on 3/1/11 about the first New York Times‘ article on this subject, concluding that to my mind the Health of the people in Pennsylvania goes far beyond limited conversations about free enterprise and Constitutional rights.

The following are my cullings from the three New York Times “hydrofracking” articles and what I heard on Diane Rehm‘s NPR program:

Setting the stage to start with. Some environmentalists say using natural gas will help slow climate change because it burns more cleanly than coal or oil; lawmakers hail the gas as a source of jobs; and it‘s said to be a way to wean the U.S. from its dependency on other countries for oil.

Now to the processes of the relatively new drilling method called “hydrofracking.” Huge amounts of water, mixed with sand and potent chemicals, are injected at high pressures underground to break up rock formations and release the gas. I read that one well can produce over a million gallons of wastewater that is often laced with highly corrosive salts, carcinogens like benzene, and naturally occurring radioactive elements like radium from underground—which combine with the original elements in the hydrofracking process itself.

From thousands of internal documents—many of which were never reported—a picture emerges that the dangers to the environment and health are greater than previously understood. It‘s a complex story of wastewater from the hydrofracking process sometimes being hauled to sewage plants not designed to treat it, and then discharged into rivers that supply drinking water. Radioactivity is said to be at levels higher than previously known. Federal and state regulators are allowing most sewage treatment plants that accept drilling waste to not test for radioactivity.

I read further that many E.P.A. scientists are alarmed, warning that drilling waste is a threat to drinking water in PA. And I add, this situation appears to be statewide.

Currently, there are said to be roughly 71,000 active gas wells in PA and thousands more are planned, while regulations have not kept pace with the natural gas industry‘s expansion of production and drilling. Since federal and state regulations are complex, I urge people to read the three articles themselves for more clarity. As I understand it, the natural gas industry overall has exemptions from federal environmental laws that regulate most other heavy industries, laws that were written to protect air and drinking water from radioactive and hazardous chemicals. (Adding another piece to the picture, in terms of what state and federal regulations there are and may be, with governments needing to trim budgets, it doesn‘t seem there will be many inspectors or regulators to do the job.)

In PA, some well operators are selling their wastes to communities that spread it on roads for de-icing in winter and dust suppression in summer. Then when ice melts or rain falls, the waste can run off roads and end up in the drinking supply.

Gas has seeped into underground drinking water supplies in at least five states, including PA; and air pollution caused by natural gas is said to be a growing threat, too.

Some dangers of this toxic wastewater are its potential to contaminate drinking water and/or enter the food chain through fish or farming. As I understand it, once radium enters a person‘s body by eating, drinking, or breathing, it can cause cancer and other health problems. Adding to that, what about the mix of toxic chemicals people are also being exposed to and possibly ingesting?

More of my background. In the early 1960s, while reading books by Henry David Thoreau and many other writers, I extensively studied “freedom” and its various applications, concluding at the time that the way freedom is used by some people gets into license (freedom to do as one wishes in excessive ways); and that an individual‘s American Constitutional rights need to be limited when their use harmfully affects another person. That way of thinking still makes sense to me.

So, even though cash-strapped property owners in today‘s reality have the lawful right to sell or lease their underground mineral resources, if their personal actions adversely affect the Health of others, have these landowners abused their Constitutional personal rights? I think they have. In addition to U.S. Constitutional laws, there seems to me to be Common Sense perspectives that go beyond more narrow definitions of “rights.”

And what about businesses and business people who are primarily focused upon the security of their jobs and company profits, in an era where some people are energizing, “Greed is good”? As I‘ve been digesting the recent New York Times articles, I think there has been and is a lot of narrow self-interests, including distortion of the facts, threats, and in some cases downright lying taking place.

In my blog posting of “Enough is Enough” on 11/6/10, I gave myself room to personally expand without being held back by ongoing round-robin cultural events. And now, even though I Am in A Completely Different Reality, I Am also a mother, grandmother—and U.S. citizen. Somehow an internal tipping point took place for me as a wholistic Being, when amidst the context of all the dynamic global events that are happening, I read the three New York Times hydrofracking articles. I was alarmed! … and decided to productively use my emotional energies to write this essay, post it as a blog, and let it all go.

In addition to Seeing my daughter and granddaughter as spirit-being humans with their own agendas, I passionately care about the well-being and health of my family, including my American family! And from my point of view, many spirit-being humans in today‘s matrixes, who I believe are also basically part of a dimension of divine Oneness, are energizing limited and selfish-centered patterns that are harmful to others. Yes, as I stated earlier, this current-day hydrofracking reality—called this century‘s Gold Rush by some—is close to the bone.

To my way of thinking, it‘s a matter of power, personal power. I think a major significance of Facebook and the uprisings in the Middle East, North Africa, and protests here in the United States, is an emerging declaration of I Am Important, and I Am demanding to have a voice in my Life!

But currently here in the U.S., large amounts of money are being used by individuals and groups for the purpose of capturing people‘s minds and votes. So how free are people really when they are being deluged with sophisticated advertising techniques and propaganda? Who can one trust in this increasingly busy world?

Of course we need sources for the energy we use here in the United States for our industrial system and Lives. Yes, we are dependent on Middle East and other countries for large portions of our needed energy supplies. But does this also mean that hydrofracking for natural gas here in the U.S. is the answer ? I don‘t think so. From my point of view that‘s a manipulative, short-sighted solution to some very complex global and national situations.

I believe We the People of the United States now need to have quite basic, intelligent, and comprehensive conversations, that include both Constitutional rights and our individual responsibilities for others too.

Even though I certainly respect each of us spirit-being humans in terms of freedom of choice and playing our parts as individual portions of Oneness, I‘m also obviously dismayed about how some are currently using their personal points of power. Instead, I think each of us has wondrous individual potentials we can now choose to use, when We the People individually and collectively say, “Enough is enough of playing a part and parts in our trouble-making spirit-being experiment”—and instead choose to become what we are individually and collectively capable of Being.

Here‘s to widespread Liberation! J.