We are living in a mecca of change & reorder.
I feel this is just the beginning of many unpredictable events.
The understanding of being a global citizien, One World, One Family
is on the precipice of our collective reality.
There is a saying… Life Is Always Right.
There is an intelligence in light…in awareness.
It causes movement, change, & growth.
As we bring light without blame we can quickly navigate the day.

It is time for us to take leadership in our own hearts.
Each of us is so valuable to the whole.
In the west we commonly think, What Can I Do?

As a yogi I commend this attitude,
yet ask for something much deeper… the true core.
Who Am I?
Are you functioning from fear? From past conditioning? Your core issue trigger points?
If so… genuinely be aware of that.
It is OK, normal, relax, & forgive yourself & the human predicament.

Can you resonate the new paradigm?
Yes You Can!!!
It is a place of peace within.
It is a place of worth, of the highest value
Where the heart relaxes, opens, & sings.

It is time to live completely from the Soul.
This Golden Presence is Real.
In that we can come together
& meet every challenge on earth
creating solutions.

How do you know if you are living in your soul?
You feel
Unconditional Love Growing Stronger
Unconditional Forgiveness, Understanding, & Connectedness
Unconditional Creativity… Passion, Service,
& New Paradigm Play That Cannot Be Stopped!

In Love & Congratulations,

Shelley

Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama… A Universal Servant of Compassion
Our beloved friend & leader has recently undergone surgery in New Delhi, India.
May we take this time to send long life blessings to Dalai Lama.
May we also intend to live his service in our own lives.
The best way to love & support a leader is to become them.

Long Life Prayer

Choosing a New Paradigm in Politics

Deepak Chopra brings an illuminating insight into the election.

The campaign for the Presidency of the United States in 2008 seems to me to be filled with
subliminal themes and unconscious dimensions. These things are manifested in a number of
ways. First of all, the energy in this election appears to be at the top of the Democratic ticket and
at the bottom of the Republican ticket. For example, Senator Obama draws huge crowds,
deliversringing speeches and elicits both positive and negative energy. Senator Biden, his
running mate,is barely noticed and has been referred to as the “other candidate for the
vice-presidency.” Senator Biden gets media attention only when he does “Bidenesque” things like
suggesting that Hillary Clinton may be more qualified than he for the vice presidency, criticizing
his own campaign’s negative ad on John McCain’s age and saying that President Roosevelt
addressed the nation on television when the market crashed in 1929.

On the Republican ticket, however, Senator McCain and Governor Palin appear to be “joined at
the hip” in that John McCain no longer appears anywhere without her. Republican strategists
fear that McCain alone would not draw sufficient crowds and believe that Governor Palin is the
primary source of energy in his campaign. She draws both the most emotional support and the
most vehement criticism. One almost gets a sense that this is a race between Senator Obama
and Governor Palin.

Perhaps one reason for this is that Senator Obama and Governor Palin represent the next
generation while Senator McCain and Senator Biden have been involved in Washington’s national
debates for a quarter of a century. The democratic ticket puts youth and relative inexperience at
the top of its ticket while the Republicans, headed by the oldest person in the history of our
nation to run for this office for the first time, has put youth and relative inexperience at the
bottom of its ticket. Political energy does not normally come from the top of one ticket and from
the bottom of the other.

While thinking of this anomaly I received an article by Deepak Chopra, a doctor whose writings
about holistic medicine, thinking and living I greatly admire. Chopra approaches life from the
vantage point of an eastern spirituality that gives him a different perspective. In this particular
piece, he seemed to me to explain exactly what I was groping to understand.

Chopra suggested that Senator Obama and Governor Palin are pitted against each other in our
psyches, that inadvertently and without planning to do so the Republicans have chosen Obama’s
“shadow” to be their VP candidate. Chopra further argues that the campaign is not about issues
at all, but about the internal struggle in American souls as to our willingness to embrace a new
consciousness. Let me try to share his thinking.

Senator Obama, Chopra writes, triggers the shadow part of our psyche that wants to hide out of
sight, that part of ourselves that responds to fear, that counters our highest aspirations, our
virtues and our visions of a new humanity. Our “shadows” are afraid of change, leery of the
future, and apprehensive about those who are “different.” These emotions are seldom expressed
directly, but are wrapped inside expressions of anger, revenge and selfishness. Most of us,
Chopra says, are usually so ashamed of this shadow side of life that we do not want to admit
publicly that we harbor such feelings. While Senator Obama calls for us to reach for our higher
selves, Chopra continues, he is inadvertently, but simultaneously, stirring up these hidden and
unsavory responses. Clearly Senator Obama’s ethnicity, eliciting as it does the deep and latent
racism of the generations, is a part of that, but his call for change also serves to loosen these
shadows in us all. Senator Obama is different in other ways. Growing up as he did in Indonesia
and Hawaii, he is less provincial. By the time he was six, he had seen more of the world than
George Bush had when he entered the White House and more than Governor Palin has seen at
age 44. He is comfortable in this wider world and beckons the people of this nation to follow him
into a new world vision. He embraces a sense of human interdependence that tempers “the
rugged individualism” that is so much a part of the American psyche. So his candidacy may stir
up fears of boundary removal of which the populace is not even consciously aware.

If that possibility can be embraced and entertained as true, it might explain the enormous
enthusiasm that Governor Palin is now eliciting. No rational person could judge her as ready
now to step into the Oval Office, which Senator McCain announced was his first priority in
choosing a vice president. Her attempts to turn 16 months as governor of the smallest state
population-wise in the nation into “vast executive experience” and to make the fact that she can
see Russia from Alaska into a foreign policy credential are laughably inept, revealing primarily
how hard the spin doctors have to work to make her credible. The McCain campaign’s attempt to
shield her from the press expresses their very real fear that she does not have an adequate
comprehension of the great issues and her ineptitude in dealing with them might become
apparent. Her trip to the United Nations for a photo op with Henry Kissinger and Prime Minister
Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan to enhance her foreign policy credentials was little more than inept
public relations. The Governor appears to be a very bright person and, given time and exposure,
might well become qualified for the Oval Office, but she is not there now. Yet despite these
serious weaknesses and the field day the late night comedians have with her gaffes, her
candidacy remains electric and her popularity steady. This suggests that her appeal just might be
a subliminal or subconscious one.

Deepak Chopra analyzed her acceptance speech and lifted out these elements that shaped his
thesis. Sarah Palin stands for small town values and a denial of America’s global role in favor of a
return to local parochialism. She even seeks to make her ignorance of world affairs a virtue and
thus she removes the need to repair America’s image abroad. Her view of family values walls out
those who might make a claim for social justice. Hers is a tribal mentality that means she
can define those who do not matter as strangers and aliens. Her stand on guns and abortion
repudiates the suggestion that one can or must negotiate with those with whom one disagrees.
Her patriotism never has to engage the fact that the war in Iraq was not only wrong, but it has
failed to meet any of the stated objectives. Her understanding of “reform” means not just
clearing out corruption and excessive spending but, like President Bush so obviously
demonstrates, is to be used to banish those who don’t fit her ideology. Her attempt to purge
Wasilla’s library of all its Harry Potter titles and Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, among many
other books, reveals a need not to engage ideas that might challenge her personal beliefs.
Her negativity to evolution is an expression of a fear of any thought that might not fit her world
view. Chopra lists these things as the data to support his thesis.

If Chopra’s analysis is accurate, it would certainly account for the locations of the energy of this
campaign. Senator Obama’s call is to an unknown future. His vision is of a transformed world in
wherein change injects into the future for many. She gives a rallying point to those who want to
resist change by freezing the status quo. With her they can pretend that the whole world is like
the Alaskan wilderness or, in an earlier time, the American West, where might makes right and
where the individual always wins out over both the corporate needs and the elements.

Chopra suggests then that this campaign will be decided not on the issues, but at the level of our
psychic unconscious. The real battle between Obama and Palin, he contends, is the battle
between hope and fear, between tomorrow and yesterday. This nation will either leap into a new
consciousness or retreat into the old verities. Only three times in American history that I can
count did this nation have the courage to leap boldly into the unknown, or into a new
consciousness. There must always be a compelling need for change. The first time was when
the Revolutionary War propelled us into a new world of self-determination, enabling this nation
to be built. The second time was when the issue of slavery was engaged and with the election of
Abraham Lincoln brought about both secession and the bloodiest war in our history before the
new vision of what this nation is could be embraced. The third came with the Great Depression,
in which American capitalism was redefined. The opposition to the changes wrought by Franklin
D. Roosevelt’s election were resisted so thoroughly by the established power structure
represented by the Supreme Court, which overturned and ruled unconstitutional every initiative
of his first term, that it took the weight of an aroused electorate to return Roosevelt to the White
House four times before this revolution was complete.

What does this analysis mean for this election?
It means that the economic crisis we are now undergoing will probably be the determiner of who is elected.
If the uncertainty and failures of the past that brought us to this present scary place of failing financial institutions
and gyrating stock markets is sufficient to make us gamble with a leap into an unknown future,
Senator Obama and his call for change will be victorious.
If the fear of change and what it means for the future is sufficient to make us prefer to hide in the past,
then the McCain-Palin ticket will be elected.

Politics is the great and final barometer of the psyche of a nation.
Such a strange and irrational game it is that we Americans play every four years.

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