BREAKING CHARACTER
You are an actor, stuck in character
Sonia Barrett
9/9/10
As we face challenges in our private realities, on our private stage, we are caught in the performance, the drama and intrigue of the experience. The actor now believes that he or she is the character, the role being played in the game . This is the dilemma that we all face. The characters we play are created from archetypes written into the script of this collective version of reality—we simply add uniqueness to these characters based on the stories we select to play out as our experience. Most of our characters are largely based on deficiencies. We are always in lack of something. This sets the stage for us to spend great effort seeking to fill a void. But in the process of filling that void a vast array of experiences are created to further support these deficiencies, leaving us most often with short-lived substitutions.
Breaking character is about removing oneself from the performance. This is the purpose of deep meditation, but you need not always be in deep meditation to achieve this experience, at least not in the standard manner of achieving deep meditation. To break character is to stop the theater of performances in your head. After all, your experiences are really happening in your head. You process everything in your head, you experience it all up there and your conclusions become the basis for the character you play, as you continue adding to it. An example of this would be questions that you may ask yourself about one person’s feelings towards you. In your head you begin to gather evidence from previous interactions, then before you know it you have created a story supporting your conclusion that this person doesn’t like you. What do you do with this assessment? You then create a series of conditions and signals to alert you to more of this coming your way. Suddenly this has developed into a handicap for you, limiting you from being more engaging, perhaps. As you become less engaging in your interaction with other or just in general your world has to adjust to accommodate your fears. This of course spills over into your entire reality. It becomes clear that you never break character. You never leave the stage because you are compelled to maintain the experience.
Experiencing our characters is so hypnotic that the thought of breaking character is unappealing. In breaking character we run the risk of change. We are typecast in our roles. It is challenging to switch characters. We have become the role. We believe that we are our poverty, our illnesses, our professions, our social status, our education, our spiritual identities, our success, our so-called failures, our human status; they are simply all characters traits. What are we if we are not that? We feel we must identify ourselves as something. To be undefined is a fearful position for most, for if you cannot be identified then do you really exist? What will people say?
When we break character by stepping away from the performance, we become centered. We are not this thing or that thing, and in this space of centeredness we can re-create the manner in which we would like to return to our play, our adventure. You can change the construct of the role you play. To see the manner in which you acquired this role is of great significance in removing yourself from the hamster-wheel of experiences. Consciously breaking character as needed allows you to simplify and resolve issues without the interference of the limitations of the character you have been playing. How was your character shaped? Is it from the traditions woven in your family’s character tree? Are you shaped from your bloodline’s character addictions? Have you inherited the character you now accept as who you are, is it final in your mind? Is your character woven from the shadows of the past? Have you convinced yourself that you are "just this way"? Have you confined yourself to a concept that you do not know how to change? What you think you are on the stage of life is only a character. To believe that this is who you are is simply part of the agreement in taking on your character. A great actor must make the part believable. This you have done so well that even you are convinced, and to convince you otherwise could be a dangerous feat to the one who attempts to do the convincing. However, there is no need to convince anyone that they are trapped in a character, for they must play out these roles. When we become tired of playing the same part repeatedly, only then are we ready to return on occasion to who we are beyond these roles. Our acknowledgment of this theatrical experience returns us to our creative space as writers of reality.
To recognize the dynamics involved in character building according to the script of this reality is to gain tremendous power over your material and mental manifestations. Ultimately this collective script has character evolution written into it, where one can experience mind over matter, a role quite opposite the limitations of mind interacting with matter, at least on a conscious level. The roles commonly played come equipped with boundaries allowing one to be blind to their existence. When we are ill we are in character. When I had an allergy attack I was in character, but when important projects arose I had to break character and put the sneezing on hold. However, once I was finished with the project, the sneezing returned! We have all experienced such moments. Falling in and out of love is part of the role we play. Disliking one another for reasons imagined or unimaginable is part of the role we play. We believe in all of our reasons for being what we are when we are performing. We believe in our financial dilemmas as we struggle, either with our riches or our deficits, while at opposite ends these characters are built of the same principle. One sees money as an end-all and another sees money as a means to soothe the many plaguing deficiencies experienced by the character, the role being played. Are both characters wealthy? Yes! They are wealthy in unseen possibilities and the power to shift their experiences. Our houses, our jobs, organizations we belong to, money, banking systems, businesses, cities, cultural expressions, relationships of all kinds—they are all props and background with a supporting cast for your performance. We have established amazing set designs according to the requirements of the character we are playing. Living in a shack or a mansion—it’s still all a set or stage with props. The true essence of who you are does not experience lack or deficiencies of any kind, but rather dives into vehicles such as this body to experience variety and possibilities. The mortgage or rent that your character might struggle to pay does not really exist but exists only as an emotional experience tied to conditions within your character’s role. We are experiencing the theater within the game. The game is about these grand performances. Each one of us is the star of our production. Your issues, imprints and programs are all tied to the character according to what the role calls for. Your character is your automated self!
(1) "One of Bohm's most startling assertions is that the tangible reality of our everyday lives is really a kind of illusion, like a holographic image. Underlying it is a deeper order of existence, a vast and more primary level of reality that gives birth to all the objects and appearances of our physical world in much the same way that a piece of holographic film gives birth to a hologram.
Bohm calls this deeper level of reality the implicate (which means enfolded or hidden) order, and he refers to our own level or existence as the explicate, or unfolded order. Put another way, electrons and all other particles are no more substantive or permanent than the form a geyser of water takes as it gushes out of a fountain. They are sustained by a constant influx from the implicate order, and when a particle appears to be destroyed, it is not lost. It has merely enfolded back into the deeper order from which it sprang.
"GH - The central point here is that our mind represents our senses (due to our evolution based on survival) rather than providing a true picture of reality. However, reason tells us that matter is clearly interconnected (e.g. the earth orbits the sun) and that there must be knowledge flowing into matter to explain how we can see things around us. This is correct, and explained by the Spherical In-Waves which form the 'particle' effect of matter at their Wave-Center."
"Sonia, that all sounds good, but I am here, struggling! I understand all kinds of struggle and I also understand that we have the power to leave the stage, to break character for but a moment in order to change the game, the play. If you never break character you will never be able to change your circumstances. Certain actions ensure that you are always in character and that you never leave the stage. There are those who want to continuously talk about how severe their situation is. They don’t really want solutions, and will generally shoot down any solutions presented to them. They see only obstacles to changing their situation—their attention span is short, and when attempting to break character they bring the character with them, and then complain that they can’t focus.
How do you know that you have brought your character with you? When you notice that you keep thinking about all of your external conditions when you sit to meditate or to focus, when you can’t stop thinking about your problems, when the dialog is relentless in your head—this is how you confirm that you have brought your character with you. STOP TAKING YOUR CHARACTER WITH YOU!!! STOP SAYING WHAT YOU CAN’T DO!!! (This of course is only being said to those who wish to experience moments without the running script.) Even if you are at work you have the power to leave the stage, break character, go to the restroom for a minute or two. You enter that bathroom stall with the realization that "I am only playing a character, this is not who I really am." Say this with conviction, then you go silent, nothing needs to be said, and all that is left is a feeling of creating something new. You can do this anywhere, at any time. To convince yourself that you must sit in the lotus position in silence in order to break character and connect inwards is simply another part of the character you play. You can leave the stage at any time and in any crowd. It allows you to be the observer, without thought, without judgment, without the echoing of your character. From this space you can move into experiencing yourself as a conscious creator. Here you have the opportunity to observe a different character, a different role that you will play when engaging on stage.
For some the idea that we are playing a role is jolting. For them to accept such concepts may provide a sense of invalidation of their existence, perhaps bringing a sense of insignificance to those things that they had placed importance on. "What will become of me?" Well, you will continue to exist, but perhaps taking on a new character submerged in confusion about who you are, or perhaps you will find the courage to see a wealth of possibilities in what can be experienced. Perhaps you will no longer feel trapped by the life you have been living based your old character. These characters allow us a rich array of experiences.
So whatever it is that you are experiencing at this time, remind yourself that whatever challenge lies before you is but a result of the components of the role or roles you have played. Don’t become lost in your head, for when you do you cannot see clearly, and you will only become more of the character you have been. Stop and take a break from the stage…it will all be there when you return, if you so choose. Break character and rewrite the script, not with old solutions from a worn-out role, but with fresh insight and a desire for change. Don’t spend time energizing what you don’t want, and if you don’t want solutions, don’t pretend that you do by complaining. When you are ready for change you will no longer complain, but you will simply begin to take character breaks; you will leave your role behind, along with the entire supporting cast. When you return to the stage you may find that all that had supported your production is slowly fading. Not to worry, no cause for alarm. If you have indeed reshaped your character, then so must everything around you be reshaped. Whatever you are dealing with, it’s temporary, unless you choose to create an illusion of permanence. Breaking character is your ticket to change, for you are not your character, but simply an actor in your own production.
(1) http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Physics-David-Bohm-Holographic-Universe.htm

LAND HEALING

Specialist Land Healing

Cleanse, heal and rebalance the Earth’s natural energy flow in your environment.
Where your home is built and the earth’s energies of that land can make a big difference to the balance and harmony in your home. monly known as geopathic stress.Geopathic stress does not directly cause illness, but scientific research shows that it lowers your immune system and therefore your ability to fight off virus and bacteria and affects good cellular production. If you are feeling constantly ill, drained or unsettled, your problems may be as a result of local geopathic stress and negative earth energies.
Indicators that your land/home may be affected:

Recurring mechanical and electrical breakdowns.
Frequent floods or water leaks.
Accident black spots both within the home and outside.
Dead or stunted gaps in hedges and avenues of trees.
Infertile fruit trees.
Piles of rubbish and vandalism.
Derelict areas.
Spirit presence.

Do you recognise any of the symptoms? If so, you could be living in a geopathic stressed area, and Enrich can help.
Our land is now also affected by all sorts of man-made geopathic stress that it never used to have to cope with, such as mobile telephone masts, pylons, power stations, mining shafts, railways, roads, quarries, tree felling, battlegrounds and generators. As little as 90 years ago the majority of the world was without electricity, now it is the norm for western society to have microwaves, televisions, DVDs, and computers, all emitting electromagnetic pollution. All of these energies penetrate the land and the walls and floors of buildings. This can affect you in many different ways.
As well as these factors, the Earth has natural causes of geopathic stress such as underground streams, cavities, mineral deposits, and shifts in the Earth’s templates, which can cause a disruption to the Earth's natural energy field.
The land we live and work on holds the patterns of all history that has gone before. When the Earth shifts and moves it can unfold any past event or trauma that may have previously occurred. The land can be affected by the energies that have been absorbed from people and events that have taken place over the centuries. The earth energies of the land where your home is built can have an impact on your life.

What's Permaculture

PREMACULTURE

Permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements andagricultural systems that mimic the relationships found in natural ecologies.Permaculture is sustainable land use design. This is based on ecological and biological principles, often using patterns that occur in nature to maximise effect and minimise work. Permaculture aims to create stable, productive systems that provide for human needs, harmoniously integrating the land with its inhabitants. The ecological processes of plants, animals, their nutrient cycles, climatic factors and weather cycles are all part of the picture. Inhabitants’ needs are provided for using proven technologies for food, energy, shelter and infrastructure. Elements in a system are viewed in relationship to other elements, where the outputs of one element become the inputs of another. Within a Permaculture system, work is minimised, “wastes” become resources, productivity and yields increase, and environments are restored. Permaculture principles can be applied to any environment, at any scale from dense urban settlements to individual homes, from farms to entire regions.

Zones:
Permaculture zones are a way of organizing design elements in a human environment on the basis of the frequency of human use and plant or animal needs.
Frequently manipulated or harvested elements of the design are located close to the house in zones one and two such as herbs for the kitchen.
Whereas chickens, for example, like to be close for their security but need to be kept at a safe distance to reduce noise, destruction of delicate plants such as herbs and vegetables and any risk of contamination. Less frequently used or manipulated elements, and elements that benefit from isolation (such as wild species) are farther away

Elements of design:

Permaculture principles draw heavily on the practical application of ecological theory to analyze the characteristics and potential relationships between design elements.
Each element of a design is carefully analyzed in terms of its needs, outputs, and properties. For example chickens need water, moderated microclimate and food, producing meat, eggs, and feathers as well as manure which can help break up hardsoil .
Design elements are then assembled in relation to one another so that the products of one element feed the needs of adjacent elements. Synergy between design elements is achieved while minimizing waste and the demand for human labor or energy. Exemplary permaculture designs evolve over time, and can become extremely complex mosaics of conventional and inventive cultural systems that produce a high density of food and materials with minimal input

a message from Archangel Michael channeled by Ronna Herman

Beloved masters, what is it that you are most concerned with at this time? What is it that you cannot seem to overcome or find an answer that will explain the stressful situations that constantly plague you? For those of you who have been on the path of awareness for sometime, it seems as though you are at a dead end and no matter what you do or don’t do, you cannot get past the persistent obstacles that are creating so much dismay.We have emphasized many times that you are in the midst of an intense, very important transformational process. Many of you have moved into a cycle whereby your strongest core issues are rising to the surface so that, once and for all, you can neutralize the discordant energies/thought patterns that are causing such turmoil, so that they can be transmuted back into their original form: pure Light Substance. The path of ascension has many stages and initiations which can manifest as periods of intense study, growth and expanded awareness, followed by times of assimilation when it seems as though you have moved into a null zone of stagnation or back into chaos. The pulse and heartbeat of our Father/Mother God create cycles of varying degrees, and every living thing is attuned to rhythmic cycles of some kind or another. As you move into the formulation of each higher sub-dimensional environment, you will find that the cycles of experience and manifestation are speeded up considerably.More and more Soul groups are coming together on Earth at this time. Therefore, it is important you understand that a group of Souls will consist of people who are at various stages of en-Lighten-ment, and each person has gifts of varying degrees to contribute to the whole. Each group comes together for specific reasons. Some have been and are being reunited with close members of his/her Soul family in order to give and receive support. Many are brought together because of group missions they have assumed. Time and time again, while on your journey throughout the universe, you have answered a clarion call to unite with a greatly diversified group of Souls in order to assume an important mission at some future time and place. Some of you are fulfilling more than one important mission during this special time on Earth. For others, it is somewhat of a reward lifetime, whereby, seemingly novice initiates are being supported and assisted by the more advanced members and are given the benefit of the group’s wisdom and Love/Light. Be assured that those dear Souls have given the same service in the past, and at a Soul level they have already met the requirements of an initiate on the Path. Possibly, they need only a little nurturing, training and assistance in order to remember who they truly are. Some progress so swiftly that they are given a Divine Dispensation of Love/Light so that they may quickly step into their true roles as Self-masters, teachers and wayshowers.Some groups go quietly about spreading Love/Light and wisdom amongst their family, friends, neighborhood and local areas of influence. They spread and share their loving energy as they tranquilly go about living and being examples for others to emulate. While other groups become leaders and talented teachers and are destined to have a broader range of influence, possibly even worldwide. The more diverse a group is, the greater their potential influence on those around them will be, for they embody a well-rounded range of experience and wisdom to impart to others.Allow us to take you on a journey, as we give you a mind picture of what ascending humanity is experiencing at this time. Imagine that you are viewing a very different reality from our vantage point, as we observe the ascension process that is taking place on another planet. We of the higher realms have the ability to sense the feeling nature of the people, as well as see the vibrational patterns that their thoughts and actions convey. Colors are more vivid and each person’s auric field can be seen by all and is considered to be a normal attribute. However, the people did not understand the meaning of the auric field.Beloved masters, what is it that you are most concerned with at this time? What is it that you cannot seem to overcome or find an answer that will explain the stressful situations that constantly plague you? For those of you who have been on the path of awareness for sometime, it seems as though you are at a dead end and no matter what you do or don’t do, you cannot get past the persistent obstacles that are creating so much dismay.We have emphasized many times that you are in the midst of an intense, very important transformational process. Many of you have moved into a cycle whereby your strongest core issues are rising to the surface so that, once and for all, you can neutralize the discordant energies/thought patterns that are causing such turmoil, so that they can be transmuted back into their original form: pure Light Substance.
The path of ascension has many stages and initiations which can manifest as periods of intense study, growth and expanded awareness, followed by times of assimilation when it seems as though you have moved into a null zone of stagnation or back into chaos. The pulse and heartbeat of our Father/Mother God create cycles of varying degrees, and every living thing is attuned to rhythmic cycles of some kind or another. As you move into the formulation of each higher sub-dimensional environment, you will find that the cycles of experience and manifestation are speeded up considerably.More and more Soul groups are coming together on Earth at this time. Therefore, it is important you understand that a group of Souls will consist of people who are at various stages of en-Lighten-ment, and each person has gifts of varying degrees to contribute to the whole. Each group comes together for specific reasons. Some have been and are being reunited with close members of his/her Soul family in order to give and receive support. Many are brought together because of group missions they have assumed. Time and time again, while on your journey throughout the universe, you have answered a clarion call to unite with a greatly diversified group of Souls in order to assume an important mission at some future time and place. Some of you are fulfilling more than one important mission during this special time on Earth. For others, it is somewhat of a reward lifetime, whereby, seemingly novice initiates are being supported and assisted by the more advanced members and are given the benefit of the group’s wisdom and Love/Light. Be assured that those dear Souls have given the same service in the past, and at a Soul level they have already met the requirements of an initiate on the Path. Possibly, they need only a little nurturing, training and assistance in order to remember who they truly are. Some progress so swiftly that they are given a Divine Dispensation of Love/Light so that they may quickly step into their true roles as Self-masters, teachers and wayshowers.Some groups go quietly about spreading Love/Light and wisdom amongst their family, friends, neighborhood and local areas of influence. They spread and share their loving energy as they tranquilly go about living and being examples for others to emulate. While other groups become leaders and talented teachers and are destined to have a broader range of influence, possibly even worldwide. The more diverse a group is, the greater their potential influence on those around them will be, for they embody a well-rounded range of experience and wisdom to impart to others.

Why Communes Fail

Why Communes Fail

Most alternative lifestyle communities fall into the trap of becoming "cottage industries". But grass roots capitalism is hardly a viable alternative to the real problem of greed. "Successful" cottage industries are still heading in the same direction as the multinationals. The fact that you subscribe to other ideals is not unique. Colonel Sanders, for example, once had a policy of giving leftover food to the needy; but Kentucky Fried Chicken was still a multinational at heart, and cottage industries are still materialistic at heart. Their products may not be computers and automobiles, but selling knick-knacks, dealing in drugs, or even starting a health food restaurant doesn't really weed out the root of all evil.
People who try to set up a business for the purpose of using the money to support some other ideal, still end up worrying, arguing, and finally splitting up over the operation of the business. If you want the business to succeed, you should recruit people for whom the success of the business is the most important goal. (McDonald's can tell you that!) But if you want to resist greed, then you must recruit people for whom the war against greed is the most important objective.
Most people seeking an alternative to the rat race are fiercely independent. We have to be, to even begin to challenge the overwhelming pressures of mainstream society. But if we are going to succeed in offering society a lasting sample of something better, we must learn to co-operate with people of like mind. We must learn to listen, and learn to follow.
In every community, everyone has an opinion. But not everyone has the answers. A good leader will learn to recognise truth regardless of what source it comes from; and he/she will alter his/her own opinions when they do not conform with the truth.
But don't fall for the myth that everyone is equally equipped to teach the rest of the group how things should be done. Experience must be respected and listened to.
If a goal has been established for a community, then everyone must be expected to subscribe to that goal. Some form of authority must be recognised, even if it is the authority of popular opinion (i.e. "majority rules"). The group must have the courage to discipline those who are disruptive, or who behave contrary to the purpose of the community.
The very word "community" suggest that people in it have some "common unity". If people cannot submit to the goals and practices of the community, then they have already expelled themselves from it.
We need to see the community as a business, with us as its joint owners. If we don't "produce", we'll fail. What we are producing is not material, but it still requires time, concentration, and energy to make it work. Whether we are working to educate people on noble values or just working to build loving relationships, we need to be ever conscious of what we are doing and why we are doing it. Many communities fail because people are too lazy to discipline their thoughts, speech, and actions in such a way as to produce the kind of "vibes" that they claim to believe in.
When people finally have their act together and are working diligently in unity with one another, the final hurdle they must clear is impatience.
Radical activists of all sorts suffer from burnout because they had high hopes that were not realised as quickly or as dramatically as they had first expected. Unless your community has a limitless supply of aspiring hopefuls to replace disillusioned burnouts, it is wise to seriously caution everyone in the community against expecting too much too soon. And every effort must be made to recognise and savour the tiniest indications that the community is having some effect on the world around it.

the change is coming

theses trees standing bare remind us of mans rape of the land!

mayumi's paintings

the santuary and the enchanted forest painted by mayumi

Our palm Beach Cottage garden

The cabin and the mini granny flat

constructed.

Mayumi attending to the organic garden.

Nature space warpdrive

Going Air

While living in Japan I had a great

time motor crossing .

Lift off!!

Mangrove

The Mt Face

Jungle bunggle

Morning flow

Cat branch

Uki gatekeeper

critters

spirits in the creek

Labour

Flow

with a gentle flow

we drift into the light

winding here winding there

all experiances we are aware.