FROM RAVEN'S NEST May 3, 2015

Litha

In observing the world over the last few weeks, we are seeing subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, events that are showing us that the old world is beginning to unravel from the inside out, and new foundations are being built in the new world. Higher frequencies are flooding the planet and showering everyone, everything and all life with increasingly stronger waves of light.

On a personal level . . . this intense light is pushing us to an intense primal level, where we are questioning everything including our purpose and even our very existence. We are seeing reality the way it really IS, rather than how we want it to be. The sugar coating we use to cover our issues is melting away. We are feeling raw and exposed with this new level of cosmic truth serum, and our self-esteem may seem like it is going down the toilet. We are feeling shoved to the edge of our very existence in a multitude of directions at once. It is hard to keep our center and our heads above water. We feel numb and tired with confusion and struggle. However, we know in our hearts that this is going somewhere, and this faith keeps us going. In truth, we are not as stuck as it feels.

We don’t like where our “well trained” minds are going either. Our minds are wavering back and forth from some brilliant visions to some pretty grim places. We might even think in extremes. We might be thinking “Have we awakened and ascended?”, or “Have we lost the battle, and the darkness is winning?” This emotional flip-flopping is actually true, as the last inflamed vestiges of duality are being flushed out leaving us feeling the illusion that the world is more polarized than ever. This is true because of three things: First, we are finally ready to see everything just as it is. Secondly, huge light pulses are clearing out all the mis-qualified energy, and we are simply becoming awake to old long-standing issues. Thirdly, we are experiencing some off-planet opposition to our ascension (I will share more about this below).

In these energies, it will become increasingly harder to anchor or control anything in our lives that is not in exact alignment with these pulses of higher frequency light. If we haven't let go and surrendered enough already, these waves of light are asking us to reach another level of surrender. It is a time in where we have no choice but to live moment by moment, with no future in front of us, and a past history that is fading fast. But we must keep trying, and keep moving. Nothing or no one will be left untouched as this dimension goes through the blender and is turned into cosmic compost. The creative universe is only excavating the purest form of light that we anchored here, and the rest will be tossed aside into the universal compost bin. Our only center point, in this volatile spinning world, is our faith in our truth that comes from our hearts knowing. We are being asked to be at peace as much as possible and to stand back and witness this incredible transformation.

Without Faith in the outcome, all of our meditation and positive energy projections from December 21, or any other time, are simply a waste. Faith is the key to anchoring the Age of Light in its purity and completeness.

Oddly, these times are of no surprise. The Elders have shared with me for years that the new world will emerge like a flower out of a compost heap. They just didn't tell us how we were going to do this emerging, or where that compost heap was coming from, or how this would affect us personally. The fact is that no one knows how this is going to pan out. I think we are starting to get the picture now. This truth can be brutal and liberating. This transformational process is morphing each and every one of us . . . starting at the very foundation of our old self and our relationship with the old 3D world.

On a planetary level . . . The illusions and lies that have been perpetuated in the world to control humanity and farm our energy are being flushed out. This is disturbing to those who think they are in control, and very liberating to those who have lived their lives outside the usual societal boundaries. The old world systems are beginning to dissolve under our feet. While old global illusions painfully die away, we are starting to receive new inspirational revelations. We are beginning to assimilate these new energies in our core.

Key activating transformers, whistle blowers, truth rebels, and system busters are now in place within ALL the systems of the Earth. They are placed in areas and are engaged in professions and trades where consciousness is out of sync and harmony with the higher frequencies of light. These brave ones will be huge triggers to shift and transform the self-serving world systems into a world that will be in service to humanity and the ONE. The world is becoming more transparent each day, and there is no place for anyone to hide anymore. Anything that is out of alignment with the purity and impeccability of the new world will simply . . . step by step . . . fall away.

Now the trick is to arrive unscathed, and bloom like an exquisite, rare lotus on top of the fertile compost heap. This is not new territory for our Spirit, but it is for our body. This is a “learn as you go” trial and error period we are living in. The fact is that we really don’t know what we are doing just yet, but we can find a gracious way to deal with our personal and world’s transformation.

Things that can help . . . Follow your heart in each moment. Keep life as simple as possible. Stay in the present. Live moment to moment. Go with the flow . . . that is if you can find it. smile emoticon Keep moving. Keep trying things out until you find the thing that works. Don't be attached to anything working the way you would have expected it to in the past. Do not take anything personally. Plans will be made, plans will fail, and plans will even morph into something else in a heartbeat. Much will transform to make beautiful compost for us to sprout in. Soon we will be living in the present moment . . . the NOW that we have all been asking for.

But the NOW isn’t what we hoped it would be either. We have envisioned that being in the present NOW would be a comfortable and peaceful place; but this is not necessarily true. We can feel anxious, depressed and at peace all at once in these bizarre times. God/Creator of all things, feels everything . . . all the time . . . without judgment or attachment. You know the saying . . . “Before enlightenment, we chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, we chop wood and carry water.” It is how we react to the NOW that matters, and not what the NOW contains.

Now the Elders are aware that you wanted the world to shift in a flash of light. They also know that you might be feeling duped by spiritual teachings, followings and traditions. Remember these teachings served you well. The truth is that our Spirits could have leaped instantly. We have been ready to fly for a long time. But remember we are taking our physical bodies this time. All these spiritual teachings, followings and traditions prepared our Spirits. But nothing was in place to prepare our bodies for what we are facing now. After we accomplish this process, this wisdom will be our legacy for future generations. But for now, our bodies are still letting go of negative memory, outdated programming and history. This can be a painful and an unbelievably slow process from our Spirit's perspective. We might feel like two people in one: the one who is ready to leap (your heart), and the other that says “Now wait a minute . . . I don't know about this.” (your mind) We are going to do this yo-yo process for a while as our body gets continually inoculated with the new higher frequencies. We need to honor both sides of this process. Do not worry about your progress, as forward movement cannot be stopped at this point. Even though these last few months we have not been feeling much inspiration and passion, we are now starting to slowly move out of the lack luster blahs-ville of the first half of 2013.

So what is going on now, what is the hang up, and why are we not there yet already?

A well planned dimensional shift takes place on uncountable dimensional levels, and it needs to happen all at once. All dimensions below us, as well as those above us, need to ascend with impeccable synchronicity. One dimension must not jump ahead, or lag behind. All must rise up together as ONE. Apparently this is quite a difficult process to orchestrate. Even with our many trial runs and dress rehearsals over eons of time, this is a huge, universal undertaking to get all the uncountable layers of dimensions lined up to leap simultaneously.

Let us just say here, without any fear attached . . . (I even questioned heartily if I should write about this) that there has been some pretty turbulent, off-planet energies trying to block and stop our personal ascension process since 12/22/2012 (Expert dousers in several parts of the world are affirming this fact). We must have these off-planet energies really worried by now. They are trying to keep us lost in indecision and doubt. They are trying to block us from feeling what is right to do in each moment. Lately, we can be so undecided that we feel just plain frozen and numb. Some of us may feel so lost, and in such a dark place, that we might want to throw in the towel. Some people have left us already. Let us just say here that these lower vibrational energies will FAIL at this attempt to block us. These attempts are only making us clearer and stronger in the light. This will not work out so well for them in the long run. The Elders have said for years that we will be victorious. Even those who have left their bodies are now building bridges for us to cross. We all must not quit now, just as the mission is nearing completion. I know this is starting to sound like a broken record . . . but anything worth creating can take a lot of work to obtain in or out of a body.

When the doors between the dimensions began to open on December 22, 2012, some of these off-planet trouble makers, dark entities, etc… leaped ahead into the pristine upper dimensions going all the way to the 8th dimension. Their energy has contaminated and corrupted these higher dimensions, and have made them unfit for us to move into . . . just for now. It is vitally important to be patient. We want to make sure that we enter a pristine, clean and clear dimension to anchor a new world. We want this new cycle to grow into paradise that we have envisioned for decades.

Just like we have a plan to build paradise in this new cycle, these dark, off-planet beings have a counter plan. They have been working with the world’s powers, so when the shift happens, they would not lose control and domination over the new dimension. But they are losing control no matter how they try to stop it. Their efforts will be futile. Again, the Star Elders say this is not going so well for them, but they are giving it a good try just the same.

These vampire-like beings/energies are not the only beings out there in the universe. We too have divine super, light-powered extraterrestrial help as well. There are uncountable, supportive, off-planet divine councils of light that are right now working overtime to clean and clear the upper dimensions for us. They are also here to help build this new world. They will make themselves known to us when the time is right. This clean-up process could take as much as three to four years (this all depends on the masses taking positive action). At that point (2016), we will be 100% free and clear of the transformational energy of the dark rift in the Milky Way. When we come out the other side of the dark rift, we will feel like all this time was just a weird dream. We will also come out of the fog filled void and become clearer about what we need to create for our future.

This off-planet interference is why we feel like we have been living in limbo, yet, at the same time, we feel that time is whizzing past us so fast that it is disorienting. The intensity is like living in a pressure cooker without having any real outer evidence to why we are feeling this way. Our leap has been held back only for a short time. We were not able to move into this new world as originally planned (beginning around the dates of 12/22/2012). The Elders say that "our new house is a bit dirty". But this will be rectified quickly.

The good news is . . . there is a window of great opportunity with a tremendous acceleration of the light force on June 20 - 21, (Solstice) through June 23 (largest full moon of the year). Would you like to put that light of yours to work? If so, please share this message with your networks ASAP

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FROM RAVEN'S NEST Apr 30, 2015

One Trick For Higher Intelligence

It’s long been perceived that smarter people process information more quickly; however, such a theory has never been proven. Instead, scientists are now observing that people with higher IQs have the ability to weed out irrelevant data and focus on the key issues. They’re not necessarily thinking faster, just more efficiently.
A team of researchers conducted a simple visual exercise. Volunteers with IQ's from 80-140 were made to watch movies riddled with black and white bars flashing onscreen. The bars appeared in small, medium or large sizes. Onlookers had to quickly assess the bars’ direction. What the psychologist-led team found was that as IQ increased, the subjects tracked the smaller bars, and as IQ decreased, the subjects tended to monitor the larger bars but lose track of the smaller.
This is giving scientists a better explanation and understanding of intelligence. People who are less engaged with details in their visual environment but primarily picking up on the larger, more obvious stimuli will tend to have lower IQs and the appearance of slower processing. It’s only when you can allow larger details to fall into the background that you might home in on the small but crucial elements that make all the difference.
Imagine you’re in a classroom. There are noises and people all around you. On the other side of windows are trees, a sweet breeze fills the room, there are noisy colorful posters on the surrounding walls. Your points of focus need to be the teacher, and a textbook. They make up a much smaller ratio of the “stuff” in your space, but you’ll receive the most information in the class if you can tune out the larger details and tune in to one voice.
Likewise, when you’re at the coffee shop working. You might be missing the bigger activities of coffees being delivered, moms walking in with strollers, people talking, couples making out and the like, while you’re engrossed in the screen of your tiny little iPhone. So it is with strategics. To come up with unique solutions, you may need to put aside the glaring problems and find the tiny seed of opportunity that’ll grow into a fruitful enterprise. Perhaps the reason highly intelligent people can appear peculiar, and think quite differently than the rest, is because they’re literally seeing life and the world around them differently.
Concluding their report, the team wrote, “High-IQ individuals, although quick at perceiving small moving objects, exhibit disproportionately large impairments in perceiving motion as stimulus size increases.” Strangely, the smarter we are, the more impaired we may actually be in detecting what is considered irrelevant. It could be that this explains why so often we are brilliant in one thing, and totally clueless in another subject, which we've deemed unimportant; and why geniuses may be equally confused in one area of life as they are sharp in another. The report continues,” We conjecture that the ability to suppress irrelevant and rapidly process relevant information” finally helps to explain the cognitive differences among smarter folk.
Now the question is, can you expand your capacity to cut out excess and develop a laser sharp vision for the smaller, crucial details? Most experts say yes, absolutely. Practice everywhere you go and in everything you do by looking for the otherwise hidden gems amidst the noise. Doing brainteasers and mental exercises such as the games on Lumosity.com are proven to increase brain function and cognition. Don’t be distracted by the obvious. Go deeper not by seeing more, but by seeing what matters.

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WE ARE AMERICAN ROMA!
We are citizens, not your "outsiders.
Dr Raven Dolick M.s.D.
Apr. 29, 2015

In the U.S., we’re scattered: coming from a multitude of countries, speaking many dialects, practicing disparate traditions, and observing various levels of traditionalism. But few Americans realize that there are Roma living in their midst, or that we've been here since the beginning—three Roma are said to have accompanied Columbus on his second voyage to the New World. And we Roma count a number of high-profile figures in our ranks. Guitarist Django Reinhardt was Romani, and some theorize such disparate icons as Charlie Chaplin, Michael Caine, Elvis Presley, and even former President Bill Clinton come from Roma roots.

Undocumented by the U.S. Census, We the American Roma may keep our heritage under wraps, but when it does emerge, we faced discrimination from friends, landlords, waiters, classmates, strangers, cops, store clerks, and professors. Many of us were raised with warnings not to tell others of their ethnic identity, and so many of us in America do remain a hidden ingredient in America’s melting pot.

“WE American Roma come from many different sub-groups, so it is hard for us to organize when we may have little culturally in common,”

But in the past decade, a new crop of activists within our populace has emerged, and we’re forming advocacy organizations and school programs to aid our under-served communities, determined to set the record straight on our cultural identity. But each headline-making event or raid can set our work back but only makes us more vigilant as ethnic based Romani warriors for a judicially charged status.

Maria’s story is one of the most modern American hits and especially close to home for to me, she was seven years old when she and all Romani children her age and older were taken from their Brooklyn community by authorities of the State of New York and put into institutions and foster homes. It was 1955 and flooded my Roma community, and her parents--Roma who had escaped the Holocaust in Europe as also my Father--were accused of child abuse because of their itinerant lifestyle. It was a program she likens to the forced assimilation of Native Americans through government-run boarding schools. She lost her native Romani dialect, she says, after it was beaten out of her at Catholic institutions.

In the early 80s, while teaching women’s studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Ahern bumped into a woman crossing the street. “I think I’m your mother,” the woman said. She was right.

To fast forward to current, in 1985, Ahern launched her Roma-heritage organization, Lolo Diklo, which is now a roving educational museum based on Vashon, an island off Seattle. Not long after she settled there, a friend proposed she rent the cottage on her property. But the offer was rescinded just before Ahern was due to move in. The friend’s husband refused to “let a dirty gypsy on his property,” Ahern says she was told.

Since then, the islanders have come to know that derogatory remarks won’t fly with the now-retired cousin of mine and now 66-year-old Ahern, who gives anyone who uses the term “gypped” a talking to. “No one says anything insulting to me,” Ahern says. But the Maria incident was a reminder of the pervasive discrimination. “It’s as if people were gleeful finally they could prove gypsies could steal babies, when, in all the centuries of that stereotype, there's not one recorded proof it has happened once,” she says.

“Should you need to have a lighter skinned person vouch for you? Does that have to be the standard?” asks Kristin Raeesi, a 34-year-old Romani activist and grant writer at the University of Alaska. Though Raeesi has a dark complexion, her newborn son, with his blue eyes and light brown hair, and Raeesi’s younger sister, who sports light hair and bright green eyes, are proof of the diversity found in Roma populations and even within families. “The blond angel found must have been snatched by horrible dark people,” Raeesi says scathingly.

Growing up in a Wyoming town of 600 people, Raeesi was instructed to hide her Romani background and claim a more “acceptable,” as she puts it, heritage. This lesson was solidified the only time she ever heard her culture mentioned in school, when a grade school teacher read Shel Silverstein’s poem, “The Gypsies Are Coming” to the class. It begins:

“The gypsies are coming, the old people say,
To buy little children and take them away.”

After that she kept her mouth shut. “When you don’t see yourself represented in the school and you don’t see yourself even in dominant society, TV shows, or movies—maybe one reference here or there and it was always something negative—you hide,” she remembers. Today, she is out of the closet. “I know it sounds corny but I feel like I’m OK with myself—finally—it’s only taken me 30-plus years to get there.”
As this sentiment is now shared widespread in my Chillicothie Familia.

Gypsy Sisters
Nettie, Laura, Mellie and Kayla from the TLC show “Gypsy Sisters.” (TLC)
In college, Raeesi took a Balkan music class at the University of Wyoming and spoke publicly about her heritage for the first time. But shortly into the term, an anthropologist guest lecturer called the Roma a dirty and culture-less people. Raeesi couldn’t contain herself. “Stop talking,” she yelled, standing up in front of the class, near tears, and berating the woman for using her standing to discriminate. “If I hadn't been in the class, people would have said, 'I guess they really are dirty,'” Raeesi says.

The clichés of gold-draped gypsies in caravans reading fortunes and swindling outsiders have dogged Roma since they arrived in Europe as refugees from India in the Middle Ages. Considered heretics for their practice of fortune telling and palm reading, we adopted a nomadic lifestyle to avoid persecution, and practiced trades they could take on the go. A thousand years later, millions of my Familia still live across Europe in shanty towns, often targeted by police, denied social services, and even segregated within schools. Though many no longer practice traditional occupations or travel nomadically, the stereotypes persist.
Although to duly note I still live in a vardo and perform all the traits of our music with belly dance and magic to show as a living museum how we relynon our own skills without government aid to have secure family.

A reputation of thievery and crime brings with it closer monitoring and sometimes direct targeting of Roma communities, even in this great U.S.A., where the profiling is not nearly as harsh as in Europe. The 2001 Police magazine article titled “Gypsies: Kings of Con” asserts that Gypsies “look upon the rest of society simply as their ‘prey’,” and “there is no sin in stealing if you are a Gypsy.” Five years later, a Los Angeles Times investigation revealed a group of 800 or so detectives across the U.S. who call themselves “The National Association of Bunco Investigators” and who specifically patrol neighborhoods for “Gypsy crime,” mainly described as scams and fraud.
Yes Gestapo as it is, this abuse from peace keepers still runs rampant in modern Roma history in America!

Even fast forwarding to more recent indications of white supremacy rule in America, I consider the case against Morgan Ahern.

Morgan Ahern during a demonstration in Vashon, near Seattle, Washington, in the Spring of 2011. (Morgan Ahern/Lolo Diklo)
Activists’ allegations about racial profiling are an issue of semantics, says Dennis Marlock, the designated "special investigator" with the Milwaukee Police Department, who created a stir with his book License To Steal: Traveling Con Artists: Their Games, Their Rules—Your Money.

The crimes are not inherent to Roma as a whole, Marlock says, but the work of a organized criminal group of Roma who call themselves Gypsies. He equates them to the Sicilian Mafia, a criminal group within the population of Sicilians to invoke fear and control. “It’s not law enforcement that created negative connotation. If we’re guilty of bringing that to the public, then I'm guilty,” he says.

He later addresses the Roma activists who have come out against him: “It's not me causing you problems, it’s your criminal element.”

He recalls calling a meeting when “American Gypsies were flooding in by the carload” to Milwaukee. “This is America, if you claim fortune telling as what you do, fine, but if you’re gonna be ripping [people] off ... you’re going to see a lot of me,” he told them, and then asked for volunteers who submitted to being fingerprinted and photographed. I know this personally as a supportive activist for my people their at the time!

Raeesi knows the stereotypes she’s up against each time her heritage comes up as well as I do.

“When you identify yourself, you may not be starting from zero—you’re starting back from zero. First of all, we all don’t live in wagons, we don’t all travel, we don’t all tell fortunes. Some do, but a lot of us have university and college educations.” I even as a Doctor of Metaphysics degree do both successfully because many even outside of Romanies have very developed psychic awareness's but we the Roma get labeled as con's when in true accuracy many "con's" have stolen and bastardized our traditional up bringing's and life styles for their financial gain.These aren't the stories people are used to.

And mainstream media and entertainment depictions offer little diversity. “Americans tend to have a fantasy view of 'Gypsies’ from popular culture that is both romantic and criminal,” says a Dr. Silverman, noting that the depictions have been on the rise since the '70s. Representations of Roma as promiscuous, untrustworthy, and uneducated on shows like TLC’s My Big, Fat American Gypsy Wedding, which has aired for the past two years, followed by Gypsy Sisters, and National Geographic’s American Gypsies in 2012, have infuriated activists as I and hundreds like Romani's.

The issue is the narrow segment chosen for mainstream representation. It’s something that would never fly with another minority group, she points out, noting that for any one negative depiction of others, many successful, educated public figures serve as counterweights. Not so for us Roma's. “For Romani people you have these reputations, but what is the counter?” “What would make people say, ‘They’re not all like that’?” Just like not all cops are killers and all blacks criminals also.

The lack of diversity in pop culture portrayals can have real-world consequences. When TLC’s show first aired, Glenda Bailey-Mershon, a North Carolina Romani writer who tutors young Romani students, says they told her they were widely harassed. “That is a factor in young people not wanting to go to school,” she says. The entertainment industry may say depictions are harmless, but she says, as I agree, they don’t understand what power they hold. “Remembering that American TV is broadcast all over the world—and this show began in Great Britain—in places where our people have more problems, it can be the difference between getting beaten up and even losing your life.”

When 39-year-old author Oksana Marafioti first heard about the upcoming TLC show, she was excited enough about the opportunity to change mainstream perceptions that she auditioned. Meeting producers in Los Angeles, Marafioti, who used to work as a cinematographer in the movie business, told them she and her Romani peers were college educated. “They were like, ‘Yeah, but do you have gypsy weddings or get togethers where people wear traditional clothes or play violins?’”

Growing up California, my sister Marafioti had similar misconceptions about her culture. Her parents had been part of a traveling multi-generational variety show in the Soviet Union, but her father, more inclined to play Jimi Hendrix than traditional Romani music, ended up bringing the family to America and very likened to my Father and his coming to America as a circus performer after the Nazi uprisings settled. My parents didn't want to always be careful—they wanted to forget who they were and live how they wanted. My sister Marafioti's familia arrived in Hollywood when she was 15, and she found that being Gypsy made her cool. Kids would say things like, “I thought you guys all lived in caravans,” and not knowing much about her heritage, she believed it. “I was almost living the stereotype and thinking it was the truth because that’s what I was hearing.”

Negating those stereotypes is why, Marafioti says, she chose being Romani as the subject of her 2012 book, American Gypsy: A Memoir . It was a nerve-wracking undertaking for someone who rarely revealed her ethnicity beforehand, but she hoped to just change one mind into thinking, “Well look, they’re just like everyone else,” Marafioti says. “I want for people to understand behind the word Gypsy there’s an actual human being and there’s a diversity in human life.”

Her effort is apparently contagious. When she recently told her oldest son to be careful about letting people know his Romani roots, the 14-year-old struck back: “He says, ‘No, Mom, this is who I am, this is what I’m going to say.' He’s very convinced that he deserves to be able to be what he wants to be,” she says, bemused and then pauses. “Maybe he’s too young and just doesn't understand.”

Some of Marafioti’s fears came true. In 2012, when she was on tour for her memoir in California, a couple began to follow her. At two or three of her readings, she says, they heckled her. They believed, she says, that she belonged to “a subhuman category” and that “we’re prone to criminal activity, early pregnancy, and a lack of education is due to our inability to learn properly.” Not long after, Marafioti had another follower: a man who sent her threatening notes. “Gypsies must die,” she said he wrote in one.

People in the U.S.A. are actually not thinking of us like we’re human beings, and when you consider someone less than you, you can justify anything. And to be part of a freedom societal government as our's is this is very disturbing as a human race for all. The aggressors and the abused.

And yet again...... At a recent cocktail party, a woman stuck out her hand and asked Glenda Bailey-Mershon if she would read her fortune. For Bailey-Mershon, who grew up in Appalachia as a descendant of Romani slaves brought to America in the 1700s, her light hair and complexion didn't raise many eyebrows. But for anyone curious enough to ask, she cited a mixed Native American ancestry as I too do from my rezervatipn raised Cherokee mother. Today, the 64-year-old writer takes any opportunity to answer questions about the Roma.

Over the past two decades, Roma activism has been on the rise. At the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton designated Roma Heritage Month even but she also provided no evolution to any programs except schooling, but of course political challenges from modern Romani activists as I had her to at the minimal "Take Notice"!

Women especially have been claiming leadership roles. Bailey-Mershon and Raeesi are founding members of the Foundation for Roma Education and Equality (FREE), a new organization that plans to form a free school program, both online and in physical locations, for Romani teens looking to get their GED. It will tie in classes on history and culture, and maybe even a language program. Many Rom's I am elder too in America have never been taught our own history and excited to be a participant in the program. They're also advocating for Roma inclusion in Holocaust remembrance programs, where they're often ignored, even though the Nazis exterminated an estimated half a million European Roma. Yes, again an attack on the Rom's even today as a sub-species on the earth not entitled to truth and recognition.

FREE has completed a three-student test program which began in January 2012, and plans to launch another version next fall in the neighborhood of FREE’s president, Sonya Jasaroska, who lives in a tight-knit community of more than 300 Macedonian Roma in the Bronx that formed in the early '70's.

It wasn't until a 2002 trip back to Macedonia that Jasaroska, now 37, delved into activism for Roma rights. Her family sat down at a restaurant, and though it was completely empty, the waiter refused to serve them. “This table’s reserved,” he told them of every table in the establishment. “I don’t need your Gypsy money,” he said. When Jasaroska put up a fight, he offered to move them into a back room. “I said, fuck you, fuck your restaurant, you can go to hell, I’m not giving you a cent.” After other racist incidents, she decided to stay in the Roma area of town where it felt more comfortable.

Back stepping to 1978 when my Familia's now dismantled traveling circus visit a Denny;s restaurant in Knoxville TN we were told they simply ran out of food and were told to go to McDonald's as we were still in our performing regalia watching the whites glutton down full plates of hot food.

Today Jasaroska, who said she once “hid and hated” her heritage, is eager to tell people about her background if they ask as I do commit also. “I wait for them to make a stereotypical comment and then I school them,” she says. And it rarely fails: “They say, ‘Are you a fortune teller? Are you a musician? Do you steal kids?’” Then she explains the role of discrimination in how these stereotypes came to be. She hopes speaking out will give the kids in her community a sense of pride she never had growing up. “We’re still learning the ropes,” Jasaroska says and as we Rom's take a stronger lead mistakes will be made for the advancement of future minds and unity. “When you’re not educated and don’t know what your options are, you’re going to sit back and be quiet.”

Now the population of educated Roma is bigger than ever, and we’re ready to speak up when cases like Maria’s make the news. It’s time that the TRUE Roma make a fuss and speak for ourselves in truth and education instead of what anthropologist say of us who have no REAL knowledge of our closely guarded lifestyle. “This is the land of the free, home of the brave, where you have equality, and if we keep quiet as Americans and Roma, then shame on us.”

FROM RAVEN'S NEST Apr 29, 2015

The Cycle of Nature

"In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat: there is only movement. The winter struggles to reign supreme, but, in the end, is obliged to accept spring’s victory, which brings with it flowers and happiness. The summer would like to make its warm days last forever, because it believes that warmth is good for the earth, but, finally, it has to accept the arrival of autumn, which will allow the earth to rest. The gazelle eats the grass and is devoured by the lion. It isn't a matter of who is the strongest, but God’s way of showing us the cycle of death and resurrection.

And within that cycle there are neither winners nor losers, there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it is free, able to accept difficult times and not be deceived by moments of glory. Both will pass. One will succeed the other. And the cycle will continue until we liberate ourselves from the flesh and find the Divine Energy.

Therefore, when the fighter is in the ring – whether by his own choice or because unfathomable destiny has placed him there – may his spirit be filled with joy at the prospect of the fight ahead. If he holds on to his dignity and his honor then, even if he loses the fight, he will never be defeated, because his soul will remain intact. And he will blame no one for what is happening to him. Ever since he fell in love for the first time and was rejected, he has known that this did not put "paid" to his ability to love. What is true in love is also true in war.”

There are no separations my dear ones. And all are under the cosmic scheme. No beginning No end. No good No bad. Just the cyclic rhythm of our great mother and her Nature!

FROM RAVEN'S NEST Apr 28, 2015

The Essence of the Soul is that its true identity is Spirit.

The soul is an articulated extension of the Spirit’s game of creation.

It exists for the purpose of the exponential magnification of energy.

It is thus both “real” and “unreal”.

Soul is relative. Spirit is absolute.

Ultimately soul does not exist. It is only the vehicle of the experience of separation from the Divine.

Soul itself is an illusion, a device for the play of creation.

The awareness of Spirit “falls asleep” in order to create the soul.

Thus the soul can be understood as a dream projection of Spirit.

The soul forgets it true identity as Spirit as it enters the dream.

The soul then takes on the experience of not knowing Spirit from which it is emanated.

The soul takes on the appearance of “evolving” while in fact it is only remembering, or awakening to the knowledge of its true identity.

When a soul has “evolved” to the point of full awakening its consciousness of itself has simply become complete in its awareness of knowing that it has always been Spirit.

It knows who it has always been.

Soul has remembered its truth: that it is energetically identical to Spirit.

When soul returns to Spirit the two merge into the Oneness that they have always been and the energy of creativity that the soul has generated as it played out its illusion of separation is given to Spirit as gift.

The Truth is that the soul was always energetically identical to Spirit.

That is what was forgotten.

The forgetting is what illusion is.

This is why all mystical teachings say we live in illusion.

The Forgetting is this: an impossible split appeared to occur in order to manifest the illusion of separation.

This forgetting is also called ignorance.

Ignorance is not just “not knowing”.

Ignorance is thinking you know when you do not.

Ignorance is ‘knowing’ that which is erroneous, and believing it is truth.

The ego mind is simply the ignorance of the awareness that soul is forever made in the image of the Divine.

Ego mind is the illusion which creates the birth of soul as separate from Spirit, and defines it as “not Spirit”.

By definition of the very nature of creation

Soul must be a perfect reflection of Spirit.

Spirit can only create in the image of itself.

It can only be an illusion, a dream, a state of forgetting, when the soul no longer seems to reflect the perfection of its original creation.

The ego mind takes possession of the soul’s energy like an invading alien.

The ego mind itself is the illusion that blocks the soul from realizing its true identity.

Ego mind is a state of dense contraction of energy, which is necessary to block the soul’s remembering that it is Spirit.

Thus we call “soul “ego when It is the state of forgetting.

Soul as ego is A contraction of energy and is most accurately described as a state of fear. Thus ego mind is always fear mind. Ego and fear are the same.

Separation creates fear, and fear creates the separation.

That which is LIGHT believes itself to be “not light”.

This fear creates contraction and energy falls in on itself.

Light falling in on itself that appears to be a black hole.

It looks as though it is a darkness that consumes everything.

It looks like the antithesis of Light.

This is the origin of duality.

This is the appearance of separation into “light and “dark”.

This is what the ego mind does to the soul:

The ego mind creates a belief of Anti-spirit within the energy field of the soul.

Anti-Spirit seduces the soul through ego mind into the belief that it is alienated from Spirit.

Ego mind convinces the soul that its true identity is the ego mind of fear.

“Not spirit” then becomes the origin of the belief that duality is reality.

Instead of All Good, there becomes the belief in good and evil.

This belief creates the alienation from the Oneness with the Divine.

All polarities then emerge and multiply and are the constraints that create the illusory substance of the dream.

They are limitations and so throw off energy which fuel the continued unfolding of manifest creation.

The souls restrained energy of its total Beingness is used to manufacture time and space.

Time and space then become the “music” through which the dance of illusion can flow.

A soul remembering its true nature as Spirit, and releasing itself from the power of the ego mind that possesses it is what is meant by the term AWAKENING.

It might also be said that a soul again becomes CONSCIOUS.

It reclaims CONSCIOUSNESS of what it has always been.

Soul becomes fully conscious that it is SPIRIT.

All is always held within DIVINE CONSCIOUSNESS.

Even the dream of the illusion of separation takes place within the wholeness of Consciousness

CONSCIOUSNESS is the mirror which holds all the images of separation.

The images upon a mirror may change, but the mirror is always intact.

Thus the images of separation flow and change upon that which is constant and changeless.

Those who know they are Lords of the Dance are the Awakened Ones, or the Awakened One, for ultimately there is only One creating the Dance.

The Dance, the energy of the Dance, and the Creator of the Dance are the same.

When a soul is Awakened into its identity as SPIRIT All are seen as One And are known to be the same.

In that knowing the energy is no longer seen as being extended through the continuum of the dance.

Energy exists in a state of wholeness, and all time rests within the energy of Consciousness.

Within the awareness of the wholeness of all things time ceases to exist and the Dance is experienced as an orgasmic explosion of ever present magnificence.

It is no longer a dance though time and space.

It is the infinite present that encompasses all time and space.

Ultimately, we realize that we do not evolve.

The very concept of evolution is part of the illusion of dark and light, of less and more.

That which is created in perfection cannot become “more perfect”.

We only Remember and Awaken.

TO REMEMBER IS TO AWAKEN.

TO AWAKEN IS TO REMEMBER.

FROM RAVENS NEST Apr 27, 2015

The Fifth Element

The legendary Fifth Element holds the key to the answer to one of today’s top mysteries in the worlds of physics and cosmology. Scientists estimate that 84% of the matter in the universe is composed of invisible dark matter, but they have no idea what it is. With a short venture into the world of metaphysics, you are about to find out the answer!

In ancient Greece, all material things were said to be composed of a mixture of the four elements of earth, fire, water and air. There was also said to be a more subtle, fifth element. This was called the quintessence (literally, “fifth element”), implying its very delicate or refined state of existence.
For many centuries, philosophers considered that all matter consisted of combinations of the basic elements in the Greek tradition. In the early 1500s, Philip von Hohenheim boldly renamed himself Paracelsus, meaning “beyond the medical pioneer Celsus” and came out with a counter-proposal. He declared that, instead of the old elements, all things consist of the subtle essences of elements that he called salt, sulfur and mercury. However, this only served to confuse the situation further as both theories did little to identify the basic chemicals that combine to form the enormous variety of compounds that are found in nature.

Next, fast-forward to the Age of Enlightenment. In the late 1600s, the early scientist Robert Boyle published The Sceptical Chemist, rejecting both schools of thought in favor of the then-novel idea that materials are composed of a variety of basic chemicals which, unlike compounds, cannot be further reduced by chemical operations. This demystified chemistry, laid the basis for its development as a science, and made possible the development of the table of elements that we use in chemistry today.
As the science of chemistry developed and accumulated physical knowledge, however, it became focused entirely on physical materials and ignored the old idea of anything more subtle.

The fifth element has been given various names in traditional Eastern thought and practices – such as prana, chi, qi, and mana – but it can be better understood by calling it vital life energy or etheric energy. From a physics perspective, the most concise term is etheric energy, which implies a more subtle energy than electric energy.

When electric and magnetic energies combine in complementary motion, they produce physical light as well as the building blocks of physical matter. Your body is composed of electromagnetic energy. Etheric energy is actually more common in the universe than electric energy. Its manifestation, etheric matter, forms most of the matter in the universe. Cosmologists know that it exists, even though they can’t see it (hence the term, dark matter), because of its gravitational effects on physical matter in the cosmos.
“Dark” energy and “dark” matter are roughly five times more prolific than their physical counterparts, so their influence in the cosmos is quite marked. The gravitational effect is a result of the fact that both energies – physical electric energy and the more subtle etheric energy – share a common interaction with magnetic energy. The magnetic energy component is provided by the ever-present fabric of space, which I term the God Field.
By using the term the God field, we can reduce a common form of confusion that exists today. The God field was traditionally called the aether and, although that sounds a lot like etheric energy, the two are quite different.
The God field is the fabric of space. It is a subtle, fluid, magnetic energy which fills all space. It is intensified within and around matter, where its attractive nature produces the force of gravity.

Etheric energy, or vital life energy, is the primary energy of the universe. Electric energy is, by comparison, a secondary, more physical energy. Electric energy interacts with the magnetic fabric of space to form physical light and physical matter. Etheric energy interacts with the magnetic fabric of space to form etheric light and etheric matter.
Etheric energy is a subtle, primary life energy, while electric energy is a physical, secondary energy. Both energies interact with the magnetic fabric of space, producing etheric matter and physical matter.
The great advantage with knowing about etheric energy is that this vital life-giving energy holds the key to vibrant wellness. Vital life energy or etheric energy is present in all effective healing systems. In acupuncture, it is the “qi” energy that is enhanced or balanced in its flow along acupuncture meridians. It is the healing energy transmitted in distant healing. It is the same healing energy that is passed to the recipient in Reiki or Polarity Therapy.

Vital life energy is the essence within sacred healing oils. It is the energy that flows into a person as they practice Qigong. It is the life energy in organic foods, in water exposed to sunlight, and in the oxygen that we breathe.
Without vital life energy, we would not physically exist. With additional vital life energy, miraculous healings can occur.

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FROM RAVEN'S NEST Apr 26,2015

Effectively Healing Chakra's
Apr 26,2015

Did you know that the chakras are your body's energy system? Each of your chakras is a swirling vortex of energy, and they are tied to the various organs and systems of your body.

When you are experiencing illness or disease, it may be because your chakras are "blocked" or that the energy within them is not flowing or moving well.
Western medicine does not promote or understand energy healing for the most part, but the fact of the matter is that you have the power to heal yourself, which is easier than you think.
Memories are also genetically coded into each chakra, so you can also use the chakras to balance and heal emotional traumas and issues.

Most medical professionals do not acknowledge this kind of self-healing ability, but that doesn't mean it is not valid.

If you were able to sense the energetic movements within each chakra, you would notice that in times of illness or distress, your energy is most likely blocked or not flowing efficiently.
The fact of the matter is that every thought and experience you have ever had is filtered through your chakras, and there are some schools of thought that infer that harmful emotions and emotional traumas can eventually lead to illness and disease.
The truth is that even one single blockage in your energetic body could be causing a myriad of symptoms in your health and in your life.

Let's look at some common health problems that could be helped, if not cured, by unblocking the emotional energy within your chakras.

The chakras resonate, spin and keep your body healthy. They are each associated with an energy system within your body. Clearing and balancing these energies can even help you heal physical symptoms.
The root chakra, which is located at the base of the spine, functions as sort of a pilot light in the body. When your root chakra is blocked in some way, you may feel nervous or anxious, simply because you are not "grounded."
This chakra can also cause constipation, tumors, stomach gas and even pimples! The health of your blood, your immune system, your bones, joints and your spine depend on the healthy flow of energy from this important chakra.
The root chakra is typically red, but it can be any color that seems right to you.

The sacral chakra, which is the second chakra, is located below the belly button, and its color is orange. It is associated with your sexuality and your sexual organs, and it can also cause health problems, such as uterine fibroids and even severe back pain.
The next time you experience back pain or sexual problems, you might be better off balancing your sacral chakra before you try any other healing methods.

The third chakra, which is ruled by the color yellow, is located in your naval area, above the second chakra. It is often called the power chakra or the solar plexus chakra. It is connected to the stomach, the liver, the small intestine, as well as the pancreas.
The adrenal glands and the pancreas, which create important hormones that help the body convert food into energy, are tied to this chakra.
If you suffer from a lack of self-esteem, feel weighed down emotionally and/or physically, have eating disorders or bowel issues, such as Crohn's disease or diverticulosis, you may have a blockage in this important chakra.

How about the all-important heart chakra? The heart chakra lies at the heart, and it is represented most often by the color green.
If you have a blockage in this chakra, you may experience health issues, such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, asthma, high cholesterol or even breast cancer.
Clearing the energy in this chakra can work miracles in your health and in your relationships.

The fifth chakra, ruled by the color blue, is located at the throat. This chakra, often called the throat chakra, rules communication.
If you have trouble clearing your throat, trouble swallowing or experience thyroid problems or problems with the jaw or neck, clearing this chakra may be beneficial.

The sixth chakra, called the third-eye or brow chakra, is located above the eyebrows in the center of the forehead. It is represented by the color indigo.
If you have blockages in this chakra, you may experience poor focus or poor intuition. This chakra also rules diseases such as ALS and MS or multiple sclerosis.

Last, but certainly not least, is the crown chakra, located at the top of the head. Its color is white or violet, and it is connected to the pineal gland and the central nervous system.
If you often feel dizzy or depressed, you may benefit from cleansing your crown chakra.

There are many ways to clear the chakras to elicit healing, but the easiest way is to envision each chakra as a spinning vortex of energy. If you imagined a clock face out on your body, you would envision each chakra spinning clockwise.
To clear your chakras, simply picture each chakra spinning freely until the color is clear and bright in your mind. You can also envision a beautiful white light coming down from above like a shower of light, clearing each chakra.
Begin with the root chakra and the color red and then move to the sacral chakra and envision the color orange spinning and turning.
Proceed with the solar plexus chakra until its color, which is yellow, is spinning freely. Continue with the heart chakra imagining a beautiful soft green spinning away any emotional debris.
Proceed up to the throat chakra envisioning the color blue, and then move to the brow chakra envisioning the color indigo.
Finish with the crown chakra imagining the color violet or white cleansing and healing your entire energetic system.

This is just a few of the highlights about the chakra system. The truth is that you can use the energy within your own amazing body to seek optimal health. Something that the medical profession doesn't want you to know. Well, now you know!