2013 the Year of Focus

A very long Time ago, cycles were put in place by the Author of Everything which governed Time, & Space, & Change.  Electric currents rumbled in the Earth.  They moved Plates, they moved Continents, they shifted Seas.  Furthermore the Earth danced in cosmic rotation around the Sun, around the Stars and their Galaxies. Every Body of Heaven had its courses, its Gravity, and its Influence on every other Body around it.  A Grand Dance, it mesmerized the Humans, who entered into it, and every peer into Astrology, Astronomy, Alchemy or Geometry was only further Fuel into the Fire.

Now we have come to a great Pass, a great Juncture, which was long ago foretold by our more enlightened Sages.  By observing the patterns of Heaven, which are for Signs, and for Seasons, and which betray the Grand Design as nothing else, those Sages have pointed to December 2012 as a certain Turning-Point for Earth, for Humanity, & for our Conception of Time.

Long ago the Loud Voices on our Planet stopped believing in the teachings of Sages, stopped observing the Influence of the Stars or the Romance of the Moon, and now such exalted Prophecy and Expectation has become a mere curiosity of the wider culture.  But amongst that culture are a few true Believers, who understand that Things Happen for a Reason, for a Purpose, and that to some extent the Motion of the Universe may be interpreted by an observer.

I am one such Believer, and so I tell you: Think on the Hurricane that fell on the Full Moon.  Think of the Cleansing of the Atmosphere.  Understand that it was one week before the Election.  The Election in itself signifies nothing.  But it IS an expression of the intentions of our Nation.  Although the Man Elected may not live up to what people Wish for, the fact that they are Wishing is itself a Powerful Force.  And though even these Wishes may be misguided, or misplaced... Barack Obama will win the Election.  And Barack Obama is nothing, but the Energy Shift that will come when our Nation settles the Question and moves on with its Answer, on November 7th when we know for sure who the President is... that Moment will itself be a part of the Shift.

Ok, now focus.  There was a point in 2011 the Year of Change in which the World was acknowledged to have Changed.  On November 7th we reach the analogous point in 2012 the Year of Salvation, in which the World will be acknowledged to have been Saved by about Half the Nation.  And judged to be Damned by the Other Half.  The Saved Half are, of course, Right.  Believe the Righteous Judges.  Now, everyone FOCUS.

2013 will be the Year of Focus, in which a momentous amount of WORK to be done will be accomplished by the People.  Those who become uninvolved will be cut off.  They will fall out of sync with the Energy of the Planet.  2013 is a Year of Involvement.  2012 was the FAMILY YEAR.  2013 will be the COMMUNITY YEAR.  A WORLD SHIFT will become a WORLD EFFORT.  A Consciousness Shift becomes a CONSCIOUSNESS EFFORT.  This is how language will Change.  The New Meanings of both the World, and the Words, will co-transform.

It is Important, it is Necessary, that the Meanings of Words Change.  The Old Words will be stale.  Society will no longer care about the Mayan Calendar in January 2013.  It will be as forgotten as Y2K to those who do not experience it.  Only some will feel the Energy Download on December 23, 2012.  The Download has already begun for many, many people, and we are noticing it, and we are receiving it, we are implementing it.  We are feeling ourselves evolving, upgrading, transforming, learning.  People who are sitting it out?  Of course they will blink their Eyes the Next Morning and say "Nothing happened."  Nothing happened to them or to their World--- but mine Changed!  Mine was Saved!  2013 is the Year for Extending it Outward.  Building Your New Planet.

The Human Race is turning a Corner.  But we are going Different Ways.  The two different Evolutionary Tracks of Humanity that diverge here are now going to be engaged in a Race to fill their Next Centuries with the most advance toward their respective directions.  Dedicated action is now the mandatory requirement for every Member of the Species.  Timeless Positivity.  A satisfied Mind.  An imperviousness to temptation, sloth, drama, or avarice.

Greetings Earthlings!  You Now Have Shifted.  Now get to Work!
-KiJjiT

Full Hunter's Moon Blessings, on Hurricane Sandy 2012

It seems pretty unusual, given the events and circumstances of my life, that I should be here in the Eye of the Hurricane, precisely on Full Hunter's Moon, 2012.  There are many, I suppose, who don't notice these phenomenon.  But I think its significant when a Rainbow falls on New Moon and a Hurricane on the Full.  I know the traditions regarding Hunter's Moon, and I know what's been happening in my life, and 55,55,55,55,55... seemed to be an important sequence the other day, for SOME reason or another... and I do not believe in Coincidence.

So here is what I will tell You.  I believe this Storm is meaningful, I believe this Night is Important, and on Every Single Full Moon I always project intentions.  It is a time to hurl prayers into the Sky, to unfetter your Heart and let its Tongues Talk You into Heaven.  I bless Fire, I bless Earth, I bless Water, I bless Sky.  I ask for GRACE for AMERICA and I ask for LIFE from HEAVEN.

In this Time of Full Hunter's Moon I ask the God of the Universe to pour down LIFE from the HEAVENS and enrich our Soil, enrich this Earth, make its people STRONG and INTERDEPENDENT.  I am not grieved by the existence of corporations, of Governments, of politicians, of feeble Media and polluted Intellect.  I know these Vapors shall pass.  I am untroubled by Romney & Obama.  The Earth is a Stone, it rotates in Cosmic Precision.  It was Planned & Built for a Purpose: that Purpose is Moving According to Plan.  (M.A.P.s)

God Moves in All Storms.  Hurricane Sandy is a being of His Making.  The Storm itself is but a Signal of a Grander, Fuller Truth.  All Nature teaches us Something:  In every Natural Phenomenon there is Revelation.  He who has Eyes to See, Let Him See.

I bless my Church, the Garden, my Family, my Lady Lover & Her Family, I bless the Nation, the State, the Company I work for.  I bless my Friends, my Relatives, on both East Coast & West.  I bless my friends in Europe, in Asia, in Africa, in Australia, in South America.  I bless species that are near extinction.  I bless Forests that are being cut.  I resist pipelines and tankers and I speak blessing over my favorite non-profit, Greenpeace, I speak LIFE to the forces of OCCUPY and I speak HEALING to SYRIA.  These are my INTENTIONS.  My PRAYERS.  Master Shepherd said what I bind is bound, what I loose is loosed.  I loose prosperity and abundance over every struggling soul.

In Jesus Name, Amen.
-KiJjiT FoX

Summer 2013 is a Time you won't wanna miss.

Order of the Rainbow Cross

         

            Beautifying all the surfaces of Doors and Buildings at the Garden where I live, work, and learn about sustainable agriculture has been an ongoing project for a number of years.  I only came to reside in this magical Garden about five months ago, but there are aging murals of all types that testify to previous generations of Garden helpers who have been intimately involved in this place, and whose artistic souls have been touched as they have collaborated in some way or the other with the Life of the Garden.  There are colorful Dragons, Dragonflies, Rabbits, and Goats emblazoned in acrylics across tool sheds, stables, and the garage.  A giant Kokopelli also makes his home here, as well as a New Mexico Sun.  The Lady of the Garden, Sharon, has long envisioned this place as a haven for artists, and although I think of myself as more of a writer/poet/philosopher than any kind of visual Artist, it was important to her that I also contribute to the artistic expression of the place before the West Wind carries me elsewhere.  So she fixed me up with a box of paints and described her vision of a “Rainbow Cross” across the entrance to the horses’ tack room. 

            “It is the right project for you,” she said, “because you are both a Rainbow Warrior and a Jesus Freak.”

            Indeed I am.  These are two designations which I proudly wear.  So as I set to work painting her vision, I reflected deeply on what it means to be both a “Warrior of the Rainbow” and a “Warrior of the Cross.”

Warrior of the Rainbow

            For those who are unaware of the term “Rainbow Warrior” allow me to introduce its meaning.  Ostensibly “Rainbow Warrior” goes back to an 1854 speech by Chief Seattle, a leader among the Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest.  Chief Seattle foretold that a time would come when the Earth was sick and the animals were beginning to die.   He said that in this time “a new Tribe” would be born of “all colors and creeds,” whose mission would be to revive amongst the peoples of Earth a respect for the old ways of living in balance with the land.  He further said that these people’s faith would be “in actions, not words,” and that because of their influence on the wider culture Earth would “become green again.” Because these people would come from “all colors and creeds” they would be known collectively as the “Warriors of the Rainbow.”

            The Rainbow Warrior prophecy was not confined to just what Chief Seattle said, however.  It was an organic prophetic movement more than anything else, and it took root in various Tribes of the continent’s First Peoples.  In time, the devastations of the American environment did indeed begin to match those prophetic warnings, and some Natives became expectant for the “new Tribe” to appear.

            In 1971, a group of activists came together in British Columbia to protest the U.S.’s nuclear testing off the coast of Amchitka Island.  Their plan was to put themselves in harm’s way, peacefully occupying the detonation zone and thereby disrupting plans to go through with the test.  This noble yet risky move was the birth of the organization known as Greenpeace, and at its birth, Greenpeace was honored by a Tribe of Native Americans known as the Kwakiutl.  On the third day of their voyage, the crew of Greenpeace’s very first ship The Phyllis Cormack was invited ashore by members of the Kwakiutl tribe for a blessing and a declaration of support for Greenpeace’s mission.  In that blessing ceremony the Kwakiutl tribe awarded Greenpeace with the seal of one of their totem creatures, the Orca, which represented harmony with Nature, and which was itself an early indication of Greenpeace’s wider role as a major part of the fulfillment of the Rainbow Warrior prophecy.  One of Greenpeace’s founding members, Bob Hunter, had very synchronistically also been given a copy of a book called “The Warriors of the Rainbow” earlier that year. 

(crew of the Phyllis Cormack in 1971)

(The Orca Crest given to Greenpeace by the Kwakiutl tribe)

            Ironically I had never heard of the Rainbow Warrior prophecy at all, in any context, until August 2011, when I went to work for Greenpeace in San Diego, California.  I found myself working for this organization as the result of a powerful spiritual journey of my own that had begun in April 2010 and taken me across the continent in search of my Totem.  Not only had I found my Totem, the Fox, but I had discovered a throbbing ache in my heart to live in San Diego and to do something meaningful for the cause of environmentalism.  When I came to Greenpeace, I discovered to my incredible delight that nearly everyone else employed there shared this same spiritual sense of “cosmic appointment” and destiny.  Many had moved from far away, said goodbye to everyone they knew, and unexplainably found themselves here, amongst people whom they felt they had been searching for their whole life. 

A co-activist was the first to tell me about the Rainbow Warrior prophecy.  When I heard about it, it made a lot of things come together in my mind.  I understood why I had been drawn there, and I also remembered having written something in my own journals that now proved prophetic:  “The battle between Good and Evil is a battle between the No-Color Army of Darkness and the Seven-Color Army of Light.  As a Fox, I fight for the side of Red!”  Already, without knowing of the Rainbow Warrior prophecy, I had been able to spiritually see that my side of the Cosmic Battle was aligned with some serious “Rainbow Energy.”

As a Christian, I considered what the Rainbow meant to my faith.  The Rainbow was a symbol that God gave to Noah which said, “I will never again destroy the Earth.”  For that reason it was even more cemented in my mind that Greenpeace, which seeks to save the Earth from destruction, was a rightful exponent of the Rainbow’s truest meaning. 

My involvement in the “Rainbow Warrior Tribe” grew to be larger than even my involvement in Greenpeace, however.  For family reasons I left Greenpeace in December 2011 and returned to the East Coast.  It was a disappointing removal from the family I had made in Greenpeace, itself, but I continued to feel as though I was still gripped by the prophetic destiny of what it meant to be a Rainbow Warrior.  And sure enough, in March 2012 I encountered a woman who was also living out the fulfillment of Chief Seattle’s words.  Her name was Sharon and she had a Garden where she practiced a form of agriculture known as biodynamics, which sees the Farm as a single Organism, and which teaches that in caring for one piece of ground in the proper way we are energetically and spiritually helping to heal the entire Earth.  Sharon herself, in her 60s, had traveled in the “hippie” circles of the 1960s and ‘70s prior to settling down on her own piece of Eden, had encountered Native American spirituality, and had not only read the book “The Warriors of the Rainbow” at about the same time that Bob Hunter had been reading it, but had even put it to work in her own life by being one of the pioneers of the homesteading/back to the land/sustainable agriculture/slow food movements.  As I slowly surrendered to the idea of being back on the East Coast for a time, I drew much closer to Sharon and discovered that she had a lot she could teach me about truly caring for the Earth.  In the practice of biodynamics and in my own meditative approach to working in her Gardens, I felt that I was doing more than physical eyes could actually see towards healing the Planet.

I took a break from working in Sharon’s Gardens during the first week of July 2012 to sniff out yet one more component of what it meant to be a “Rainbow Warrior.”  I attended what is known as the “Rainbow Gathering,” which has been held every year since 1972 on National Forest Land within the United States.  I first heard about the “Rainbow Gathering” from a nomadic friend of mine named Abby who attended the Gathering in 2011.  She described it to me as a place for free-thinkers, environmentalists, travelers, hippies, misfits, and punks.  She described it as a place where complete strangers became family, where everyone lived together communally, where money was not allowed, and where spirituality took center stage.  Of course, it was also a place for nudity and the use of entheogens – which facts drew negative media attention and a large police presence.  But when I attended the Gathering in Tennessee in July 2012, I found that the cops truly didn’t understand the spirit of why we had all gathered.  Yes, the atmosphere was permissive, and free, but no one upset their neighbors.  Everyone got along peacefully and real connections were easily formed with like-minded people.  We lived as organic humans, with no government or currency to disturb us.  Most of us stayed involved in meditation and prayers for peace the entire time.  My activities at the Gathering included cooking for large groups of people, attending Tribal Circle where great things were discussed (such as, for example, whether or not the Tribe would endorse the Occupy Movement, and we did), wandering from camp to camp to find meditation circles and philosophical discussions to engage in, and dancing my legs off to the never-ending beat of the tribal drums.  There were laughing children and running dogs, and in general it was just an atmosphere of perfect peace and freedom, where people demonstrated that they were moral enough to care for themselves and live in community without the overbearing presence of rules or laws.  Although I have heard some describe the Rainbow Gathering as an “anarchist” gathering, the negative connotations that come with that word were at least not seen by me.  It was exactly like living in an Indian Tribe, even down to the way we all congregated when we heard the bugles sounded, and we honored our elders in the Tribe and heard their proclamations on how we should live peacefully in these evil Times.

(An image from a Rainbow Gathering)

I believe that we are indeed living in the time of the Rainbow Warriors.  I believe that just as Eastern Spirituality hit the “first wave” of the hippie movement in the 1960s, we are now experiencing a “second wave” of the hippie movement and that this time Native American spirituality is directing the course.  I wholeheartedly believe that the practices of this “Rainbow Warrior Tribe” are the “return to the old ways” that Chief Seattle spoke about.  I believe that young people who seek out their Totems, who have experiences living communally, and who experiment with various forms of prayer and meditation, are discovering the keys which will lead us to a World that is green again.

Warrior of the Cross

            I am keenly aware that the term “Christian” is nearly hopelessly mis-defined in our day and age.  It means so many things to so many people, and so few of those things reflect the original purpose and mission of Christ.  The response of many people especially within my Generation, when presented with the Christian Gospel in its churchified, dogmatic, intolerant, exclusivist or fanatical versions, is to turn up their noses at it and, in many cases, proclaim themselves “atheists.”  I find this incredibly sad, because to me there is nothing more uplifting or liberating in all the World than the message of Jesus Christ.  I continue to believe -- as true Christians have in all ages -- that Jesus Christ is the hope of the World.  I strongly want to embody this belief and make Believers out of Skeptics.  I want to be even more strongly a “Warrior of the Cross” than I am a Warrior of the Rainbow.  However, to do so in this climate of false teaching and misrepresentation of Christ on the part of Christians, means that I must define my terms.

            The first thing that people need to understand about Christianity is that before the establishment of the “Catholic Church” in A.D. 313 through the Council of Nicea, calling yourself a “Christian” meant nothing more than the fact that you were drawn to the personage of Jesus Christ.  Everything about what that actually meant to you was up for definition.  There was an organic Unity between Christians and an overwhelming Diversity of belief.  It is my belief that this Unity within Diversity should have been preserved.  Not one of us has the full answer of what Jesus Christ meant to the World; we are every one of us called to “work out our own salvations with fear and trembling” and to become “living epistles” by fellowshipping with Christ on our own terms.  As each of us walk with Christ we will be granted Truth – the Bible actually says that the Holy Spirit will guide us into all Truth – and if we speak these Truths to one another we will increase one another’s faith.  The Church is there to encourage us in this walk, not so much to tell us everything we should believe.  Will there be false impressions received along with the True Word?  Absolutely.  But Jesus cautioned against removing “the wheat from the tares” too early.  Not one of us can say with absolute certainty that all the matters of faith are decided and that there is no room for a fresh perspective: the counsel of Gamaliel, as recorded in Acts 5:38-39, should be the Christian attitude towards any new teaching.  “If this is the work of men, it will come to naught: but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.”  The First Christians did not have a leather-bound Bible complete with 66 books, and did not share the faith of many in our modern denominations that a “church council” could decide what was Scripture for them and what was not.  For them, living in the Spirit was the standard, trying the spirits was the method… and miracles followed.

            I believe that Christianity was originally not meant to be a religion, but a revolution.  Jesus came to the Jews first, and the Jews had their own religion.  When Jews became Christians, they did not stop being Jews.  They continued to observe the traditions of their faith, including going to the Temple or, after its destruction in A.D. 70, the synagogue.  They continued to observe Jewish dietary customs and other cultural norms that non-Jewish Christians did not observe.  This became a prickly issue during Christianity’s first century: a group known as the “Judaizers” were Jewish Christians who wanted the non-Jewish Christians to begin behaving more Jewishly.  The Apostles, however, spoke out against this notion and proclaimed the liberty of Christ.  The message of Christianity was not that we needed a new religion or a new code of ethics or behaviors: the message of Christianity was that what the World had longed for when its religions had been formed was now complete in the coming of Christ.

            Significantly, when the Apostle Paul preached to Greeks in the city of Athens, atop Mars Hill surrounded by all their gods, he did not quote Hebrew Scriptures to them.  He quoted Greek philosophers and poets.  Jesus was the “New Testament” not only of the Jewish Old Testament, but also of the Greek “Old Testament.”  Paul did not seek to reform the culture of the Greeks anymore than he had sought to reform the culture of the Jews.  Jesus was not about cultures but about individuals.  Jesus was a “fulfillment” of the laws that had governed man.  He was not the destruction of those laws.

            I believe in a Universal Jesus.  I believe that Jesus fulfilled the prophecies of the Hebrews but He also fulfilled the prophecies of the Native Americans.  Accordingly, I believe that Jesus has a role to fill even in the Rainbow Warrior prophecy: I believe He is a fulfillment to that, too.  I believe that the customs of the Native Americans are as appropriate to Native American Christians as the customs of the Jews are appropriate to Jewish Christians.  The stories of Quetzalcoatl, for example, I believe can be seen to foreshadow the message of Christ.  Modern Christians have repeated the error of the “Judaizers” when they have tried to convert members of other religions away from their own cultural understandings of the World.  Before we can talk about what Jesus signifies, we must get this clear: Jesus built His Church on nothing more than the declaration that He was the Son of God. 

            So now that I have (hopefully) stripped away all the Christian legalism which masquerades as the Gospel of Christ, what is it that I mean by the term “Warrior of the Cross”?

            Principally, I believe that Jesus came to set Mankind free.

Set Free

           

What the Bible essentially teaches is that God placed Man in a Garden, a beautiful Utopian nudist Paradise with talking Animals and an intelligent Natural World to interact with, one where everything was lush and pure, clean and organic, unpolluted, spotless, holy, wonderful.  It was a place of pure Delights, and they had only to respect it by following this Sevenfold Mandate:

1.      Be Fruitful!

2.      Multiply!

3.      Replenish the Earth!

4.      Subdue it! (See every corner of it!)

5.      Have Responsibility for the Fish of the Sea!

6.      Have Responsibility for the Birds of the Air!

7.      Have Responsibility for the Beasts of the Earth!

And then He added that they must not take the Fruit from every Tree.  One

alone should be conserved: it was not for Man, it was Holy and Off-Limits.  It was the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  Taking that one first thing that was not ours did indeed make us aware of our own lusts and desires.  Just as in Buddhism, in Christianity the fact that we desire to obtain and have things, or control situations, or people, is itself the source of our suffering.  We suffer because of our many wants and dependencies.  We are disconnected from Nature due to this handicap.  For example we wear clothing when no other member of the Animal Kingdom seems to require it.  The lilies of the Field do not toil or spin and yet they have no want.  Our Society burdens us with a thousand considerations that Animals never had, and indeed that Adam and Eve never had.  There are Laws to obey, Cultural Mores, Taboos: in the Garden there was only the instruction not to eat of One Tree.

            When Man ventured first from his Garden existence into a World where Nature no longer consented to give its selfish Child such pleasures, Man lost his way.  He forgot how to live in the World.  Alone from Nature and Nature’s God, alone with his wants, God left Man to figure it out.  Moses, the Lawgiver, provided the Hebrews a Way, for a Time.  And in other lands and places other Lawgivers were also inspired at this Time to give instructions on how to live in the World.  And people followed these Laws, and Governments were formed, and Religions were formed, and yet Man still had no ability to Live Righteously in the World.

            The solution to the problem from the get-go was for Man to live in simple obedience to the Way of his Species, as every other creature does.  A Fox does not disobey his genetic instructions.  A Fox does exactly what Foxes are born to do, namely, hunting fields and meadows, providing for his kits and his vixen, never taking more than his fill.  The Way of Man’s species is to Be Fruitful, Multiply, Replenish, Subdue, Have Responsibility.  This is really what is required of us.  Nature’s Law is the only Law we originally had to follow.

            God wished to rescue Man from his too many Laws, and return him to the simpler Way.  Everyone was looking for the Way, so He sent Jesus.  Jesus was a simple, loving, meek and happy soul, with deep wisdom, but with deep Love and deep appreciation for others.  He showed through His Words, Teachings, and Miracles how to live, and he commissioned disciples, and those disciples began to live in community and slowly spread through the World.  Jesus and his disciples lived “Above the Law, yet Under Grace.”

            The phrase “Above the Law, yet Under Grace” relates to the way God dealt with Man’s too many Laws.  God could have simply used Jesus to overthrow the Law, to revolt against Society, to take Man backward through his 4000 years of “civilization” up to that point and back to square one, in Nature, in the Garden.  But He did not.  Instead, He had mercy on the Law and on the things that Man had created.  He did not overthrow the Law but he “fulfilled it.”  He allowed it to run its Natural course, and be satisfied, and cease to roar against the Accused.  Jesus did two things: 1.) He made an atoning Sacrifice which forever ended the claims of the Law on us that we are “sinners,” and 2.) He taught us by His Character what it would mean to be Above the Law.  He showed kindness, gentleness, compassion…. He was so much softer than His times.  He said He was the Living Water, the Universal Solvent.  And when His followers transition or shift their mindsets to the mind of Christ which is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, patience, understanding, kindness, tenderness, meekness… when they do that they make the Law and the Government irrelevant.  Living according to Our Original Human Natures, which are restored to us in the Example and Fellowship of Christ, are so peaceable that no government need ever tell them what to do.  The Law was made for sinful man, but Jesus makes us no longer sinful.  A follower of Christ will always do what is truly right no matter what the context, and he does not need your “rules.”  We are returned to the Garden experience, the Animal Estate, the Way things were Before, and Always.  Flowers have not ceased to Believe or to dote every moment on the Life Force that they every moment, feel.  Oh, it is blissful to be a Flower!  It can also be that blissful to be a Man, if we will, like the Flowers, simply follow the Law of Our Species.  We will need no other Law when our hearts are properly absorbed in the Worship of the Source of Love, Joy, Peace, Longsuffering… and all the Fruits of the Spirit.  We can be trusted to behave ourselves… We are again good.

Order of the Rainbow Cross

            One can see that being a Christian who is also a Rainbow Warrior brings much advantage.  I believe the idea that we can be “Above the Law” is unique to Christianity.  This philosophy provides the key to how we can successfully transition back to our original human lifestyle, of living organically and without government or law, in accord with Nature.  By inner transformation we transform society itself.  We make it slowly irrelevant.  We allow it to break against us, we judge the Law itself, it goes extinct.  The state withers away.

            Perhaps these are hopelessly Utopian ideals, but I believe the ideals are pure.  And so when I think of the Rainbow Warrior prophecy and reflect that it includes “all creeds,” and I weigh my own Christian creed within it, I smile to myself, because I believe I am following the Original Revolutionary of Non-Violence, Jesus Christ, who sought to return us to the Garden Experience.  Through whose Eyes I see Life on Earth not as a sentence in hell as a subject of worldly tyrants, but as an opportunity for blessing as I reign in the Kingdom of God – a redeemed Eden, myself a renewed Adam – a “king and a priest” of my God.

            I reject the World-ending rubbish recited by apocalyptic fanatical Christians who do not understand the spirit behind their own faith.  I believe I am meant to show by my good life “a gentleness born of wisdom” which seeks to honor the Edenic mandate and “replenish the Earth.”  If it is the mission of Rainbow Warriors to heal the Earth, I throw in my lot with those Warriors, all the more so because I serve the ultimate Healer.  His Energy unleashed in my life may indeed be dedicated to this noble end of liberating the Planet from human fallenness.  I am a citizen of the New Earth that is already yearning to be born, a place where Lions and Lambs will lie down together and all the kingdoms of Earth have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ.

            And so I coin the phrase “Order of the Rainbow Cross” to invite anyone else to also use, who agrees that the followers of Jesus may be the Saviors of all things Green and Growing.

            A calling, a mission, a lifestyle – to seek and save that which is lost.

Welcome to the Shift!

Dear Friends,

            You’ve heard all about the Shift.  But are you experiencing it?  Many of us are.

            The Shift is not a religious term, though it is a spiritual one, and it does involve Belief.  But the Shift is not a doctrine or a dogma, and challenges no religious tradition’s values.  It is simply, not a religious concept, and religious people should not feel threatened by it.  The Shift is more of a scientific happening, a literal change that our Species and in fact, our World, is detectibly going through.

            If you are experiencing this Shift, here is what it feels like: a renewed sense of Wonder, a profound Joy in Life, coming suddenly and unexplainably from a sense of Destiny and also, very significantly, Generational Oneness.  You feel as though you are waking up and noticing things connecting global events to your Life.  You feel as though you are capable of changing the World, even with small actions.  You begin trying, and where you had failed many times before, you begin succeeding.  The Law of Attraction works for you with Lightning swiftness.  You are feeling a growing desire to be outdoors, to pay attention to the weather, to conservation, to your food, to your body, to your relationships.  You are either reconsidering your life path or you have some remarkable new idea to improve it, go further than you had imagined.  This is what the Shift feels like, and why those of us who are experiencing it are so stoked about it.

            What the Shift is doing for the Planet and the Species is restoring a set of skills to promote a Balance of Life which enables Humans to survive.  A time will most certainly come where Humans will need to have a different skill set than the ones they currently have in order to continue to evolve.  Those who do not acquire the skill set will succumb to natural selection.  It is a grave thing to speak of such things when we are the species involved.   But evolution is indeed like this, and only the adaptable move on.  The Shift is an actual downloading to our minds, collectively and individually, of a new perspective, which motivates us and inspires us, and literally mentors us and helps us to evolve.  What is the Shift?  It certainly seems to be behaving exactly as though it were a piece of software from on high, from some benevolent Being or Beings who are wiser than we are, and know what is coming.  It certainly seems exactly to travel through our memes and genes and screens, through the Natural World, and through the impossibly personal and chance encounters with our friends and with the significant events of our lives, and to try to grab us and level us up.

            Who in your Life has been challenging you?  That person or those people are the ones helping you Shift.  Those who are teaching you new skills or extending you invitations, people who dare you to take risks, people who ask you for your opinion on something philosophical at a party… all these people are shifting you, are daring you to be your best you.  These are the people you want around you.  If you are not open to the Shift you should find these types of people, at this time in your life, and do the things they say.  You mustn’t put up conditions or fuss about if its hard or if its not what you’re used to.  Learn!  And learn quick.  Learn quick as you can, and lean into this Shift, to maximize it.

Something Different

Hey S.D.!  This one's just for you!

You'll be seeing me again soon.   The Green East has taught me a lot.  My own estranged Heart has taught me even more.  But your FoX will return!  

I need the waves of Mother Pacific, I need the smells of Oceany-Beach.  I need the comfort of Jenner & Kiona, and so many Adventures still to come.

I will head back for Love & Peace, and I hope I see YOU there.

If you ever need to collapse into a heap, and be worshipped, I'm your Worshipper.  Do not be afraid.  Its all still here for you.  BUT...

There are Times when you can walk between Two Places.  There are Places where you can walk between Two Times.  Sometimes, a Space-Portal and a Time-Portal Conjunct.  And when that happens you will almost certainly Trip right through.

I stood once at the edge of my Universe.  I made a door into Somebody Else's.  But the Door came in at the wrong spot... Space & Time are tricksy... and she could not grant me access.  I peered so exhaustedly at the Closed Door.  It made me very sad to not be let in.  For I had come to the edge of my Universe.  And things back there.... I shuddered.  It was a very long way back.

Nevertheless what could be done?  There was nothing.  I walked away, I let her go.  You won't always land where you expect.  Willoughby & Gimmelfred's Guide to Astral Projection.  Oh, I hope someday to come to the Right Door... the Rew Door, the Trew Door, the Dea Door.  (These are Secret Things.  You either know these things or you don't.  But, if you don't, and you see me at the Beach, I can teach you.  That's what I'm coming for!)   But by that Time the Doors could lead to completely different Places... A different Universe, a different Face.  S.D. means San Diego, it also means Something Different.    These Shiftings are tricksy, nevertheless you'll get the hang of it.  And go through.  And find what you find.

"This Time Ahead of You there are no pivotal Dates, there is only the Moment.  Act in the Now," says Father Fane.

Rest & Enjoy... maybe look for Garfield... or as Lightning Heart says

"play another rhythm, pick another partner,

retune your instrument, rewrite every line."

And don't forget there is a Battle to Win.

-KiJjiT

I kissed a Jerusalem Artichoke flower, and she giggled

Last night I drank a bottle of Wine, for in the Wine there is Solace, and Solace, Mother Everything, is what I needed last night.

And as the Wine took me, I began to wander about the dark Garden.  Of course no shoes were on my feet, one walks a very different way when they are shut up inside two shoes.

As I wandered, and there was no Moon, I was drawn to the lovely head of a Jerusalem Artichoke flower.  She was lovely, shy, and sacred.  I approached so slow, with a smile like no other.  And I began to speak my words of affection.

For a moment I let this Jerusalem Artichoke flower be the only soul on the Planet.  It was She Alone that I loved.  I caressed Her.  The way she bobbed about on her stem showed that She was in awe, reverent, humbled to be noticed uniquely amidst so many other heads and flowers!  And then I told Her that I loved Her, and I kissed Her.  And I swear, she giggled!  I heard it clearly!  So I smiled again, and told her it wasn't just because I was drunk, and promised I'd remember Her in the morning, and re-visit.  And this Morning, I did indeed.  The very first thing I did was go straight back to that exact flower head and say Good Morning.  She was sleepy, but she awoke, and she saw me, and she was blessed.

Last night I drank a bottle of Wine, for in the Wine there is Solace, and Solace, Mother Everything, is what I needed last night.

And as the Wine took me, I wandered into the dark Pasture.  I looked up at the Stars and I threw my Arms up for God.  And suddenly my bare feet became aware of a Heat in the Earth, and a Heartbeat, and a Rhythm, and the Soil became Skin, and She swayed beneath me.  I knew & I felt that we were spinning through Space.  I knew & I felt that there are Spirits watching from beyond, from Everywhere, representing every Interest.  There are Spirits that wish us Peace, there are Spirits that wish us Death. 

And as I stood on the living Skin of the Earth I looked up into the Cosmos and I REBUKED that dark Energy which seeks to zap Love from our Hearts.  I said, "Love is Ours!  Love Belongs Here!  Love is God and We are Love!  Love is the Earth itself, it is what keeps us Alive and keeps us  growing.  And you cannot have Love!  You cannot take it from us. Always, Love remains.  And you will fail if you attempt to take it."

And my Words had great authority and the demons heard and trembled. 

In the Wine there is Solace, as in your Precious Blood.

Let my every sip be a communion, as my every Word, a blessing.  And everything I feel, just a Lesson.  Just a new Place to Begin.

-KiJjiT

The Sun

I am convinced that its a mistake to begin describing God to small children by saying He's Invisible.
It is very hard at times to believe in something Invisible.
And in our times, the number of people who disbelieve in God is alarming, and growing.
And so I propose that we do as did the Ancients, and compare God to the Sun.

A fundamentalist will likely recoil, for fear of the sin of idolatry.  We do not worship the Sun or the Sun God, but it is in fact helpful to think of God as one thinks of the Sun.  Consider:

His Mercies are New Every Morning (Lamentations 3:22-23)
Our God is a consuming Fire (Deuteronomy 4:24)

The Sun is always right over my shoulder as I work in this Garden called Earth.  And even at Night, He is usually reflected by the adoring Mirror called the Moon.  There are Dark Nights and New Moons, to be sure, but in general the Sun is a sign of God's constancy, for he makes it to shine "upon the evil and the good" alike (Matthew 5:45).

The birth of the Sun is December 25, as in quite literally after the Winter Solstice the Sun ceases its seasonal migration and hovers in relatively the same spot until the 25th, when it begins again to climb toward the zenith of the Sky.

The Sun is directly related to every single Life form on this Planet.   Without it there could be no Light, no Heat, no Vegetation, no Photosynthesis.

Consider the similarity between the words Sun and Son.  If God Himself planned Human Language (and I allege that He did) then this similarity has to be significant.

We all rotate around the Sun.  We cannot escape its gravity.  We cannot envision its Death without also envisioning our own.  We are intimately linked.
"In Him we live and move and have our Being." (Acts 17:28)

The God of Scripture is described as so great and glorious that flesh cannot stand in his presence.(1 Corinthians 1:29)  Moses himself feared to look upon God because of the exceeding great brightness of His visage and glory.  Were an astronaut to approach the Sun, they would be consumed and incinerated by that holy heat.

The Sun, if nothing else, is a symbol that all things depend upon One Thing, and that One Thing is far off, but connected to everything, and unapproachable yet eternally beneficient.

In Nature there are abundant signs if we will but see.  Y.E.S.  Yes Eyes See!

"It burns like a mighty fire, it rises like a mighty flame.  Lord my greatest desire is to be sealed in Love by your Name." - Darrell Evans