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From: Madeline G-B [mgb@astro-cycles.com] Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 6:45 PM Subject: Good Timing Update: The Direction We Want to Go Hello Everyone, After returning from vacation, I want to send some thoughts on where we go from here. You've had several days to process this tragedy, and although that is a very short time, you can see the effects it has already had on both the economy and the plans of the government. Below my contact info are two pieces of info that I am passing on. One is from Caroline Myss and suggests what was done during WWII in Britain, to help prevent their country from being conquered. It is a simple, but powerful idea that could help the U.S. and other countries in this time of crisis. The second one is piece written by an author who lived in Afghanistan some years ago and now lives in the USA. These comments are very insightful and important at this time.
THE DIRECTION WE WANT TO GO: Remember that whenever we have situations of decreased transportation or communications, we are in effect shutting down the economy. Our global world is based on trade, and that means travel, transporation and communications must be fully functioning for our world economy to do the same. If fear wins the day, the economy will continue to decline even more. We can choose whether fear or peace wins by choosing our thoughts carefully and monitoring our feelings. Remember that no matter what we are feeling, we are always choosing our future. Be conscious of what you are feeling! Second of all, whenever you want something, be it money, peace, safety, a new job, or whatever, the best way to get it is to start thanking the Universe, Spirit, God/Goddess (or whatever word you use) for having ALREADY provided it. FEEL as though you ALREADY have it. This is what triggers the timeline where this will happen. (See Gregg Braden's book, The Isaiah Effect for more info.) To do this effectively, you need to be in high energy first before you start thanking the Universe. Start by thinking about a situation, event, or person, where you felt very happy, excited, or joyful. When you are in THAT energy, then start thanking the Universe for providing a safe, peaceful world in which to live, where everyone's needs are met. Visualize what this means: being able to travel safely, live our daily lives joyfully, and meet the needs of all in this world. See, hear, taste and feel what this would be like. Do this for a minimum of 68 seconds per day, if not all at once, then in segments of at least 17 seconds each. Practically speaking, it is difficult to forget the rage and anger that has been dumped on us in the recent events. (This is one reason to take the free teleclasses by Richard Ross to heal this, which I sent in a previous email.) Astrologically, there is much that suggests war, retaliation, and much more loss of life in the coming fall. More on this later. Right now we must put our higher consciousness into action. If we are to win the peace, there is much more to do than retaliate. The danger to our future is real and only we can decide which future we want to create. I invite you to focus your attention on ways we can get through this that will create more peace downstream. Visualize our leaders choosing those methods and actions when you thank the Universe for having already provided peace and safety. We don't want the criminals to escape justice. But neither do we want any more terrorism. Let's find a way to end it forever. Below are the comments from Carolyn Myss and the Afghanistan-American writer. I hope you will pass them along to others. You may also forward my comments as long as you include my name, contact info and the copyright. In peace and hope, |
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"I realize as I write this that I am communicating with you as if we are at war, but according to what I am hearing on the news and the language being used by our leaders, we ARE at war. I am going to share a story with you as a closing thought. During World War II, a psychic named Tudor Pole was an adviser to Winston Churchill. (Turning to psychics and astrologers as well as others skilled at alchemical arts has never been an uncommon practice among world leaders.) Tudor suggested to Churchill that he urge the British people to hold Britain in their thoughts every evening at 9:00 P.M. for one minute. This became known as the "silent minute." Whether this collective effort helped protect Britain from invasion will never be known. All we know is that the island was never conquered. And incidentally, after the war, papers were found in Nazi records noting that Britain had a "secret weapon" connected to Big Ben, but they were never able to identify the nature of that weapon. So, shall we meet each evening at 9 o'clock?
God Bless You All
Caroline"
An Afghan-American Speaks
By Tamim Ansary
| "You can't bomb us back into the Stone Age. We're already there. But you can start a new world war, and that's exactly what Osama bin Laden wants." |
And I thought about the issues being raised especially hard because I am from Afghanistan, and even though I've lived in the United States for 35 years I've never lost track of what's going on there. So I want to tell anyone who will listen how it all looks from where I'm standing.
I speak as one who hates the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. There is no doubt in my mind that these people were responsible for the atrocity in New York. I agree that something must be done about those monsters.
But the Taliban and bin Laden are not Afghanistan. They're not even the government of Afghanistan. The Taliban are a cult of ignorant psychotics who took over Afghanistan in 1997. Bin Laden is a political criminal with a plan. When you think Taliban, think Nazis. When you think bin Laden, think Hitler. And when you think "the people of Afghanistan" think "the Jews in the concentration camps." It's not only that the Afghan people had nothing to do with this atrocity. They were the first victims of the perpetrators. They would exult if someone would come in there, take out the Taliban and clear out the rats' nest of international thugs holed up in their country.
Some say, why don't the Afghans rise up and overthrow the Taliban? The answer is, they're starved, exhausted, hurt, incapacitated, suffering. A few years ago, the United Nations estimated that there are 500,000 disabled orphans in Afghanistan -- a country with no economy, no food. There are millions of widows. And the Taliban has been burying the widows alive in mass graves. The soil is littered with land mines, the farms were all destroyed by the Soviets. These are a few of the reasons why the Afghan people have not overthrown the Taliban.
We come now to the question of bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age. Trouble is, that's been done. The Soviets took care of it already. Make the Afghans suffer? They're already suffering. Level their houses? Done. Turn their schools into piles of rubble? Done. Eradicate their hospitals? Done. Destroy their infrastructure? Cut them off from medicine and healthcare? Too late. Someone already did all that.
New bombs would only stir the rubble of earlier bombs. Would they at least get the Taliban? Not likely. In today's Afghanistan, only the Taliban eat, only they have the means to move around. They'd slip away and hide. Maybe the bombs would get some of those disabled orphans; they don't move too fast, they don't even have wheelchairs.
But flying over Kabul and dropping bombs wouldn't really be a strike against the criminals who did this horrific thing. Actually it would only be making common cause with the Taliban -- by raping once again the people they've been raping all this time.
So what else is there? What can be done, then? Let me now speak with true fear and trembling. The only way to get Bin Laden is to go in there with ground troops. When people speak of "having the belly to do what needs to be done" they're thinking in terms of having the belly to kill as many as needed. Having the belly to overcome any moral qualms about killing innocent people. Let's pull our heads out of the sand.
What's actually on the table is Americans dying. And not just because some Americans would die fighting their way through Afghanistan to Bin Laden's hideout. It's much bigger than that, folks. Because to get any troops to Afghanistan, we'd have to go through Pakistan. Would they let us? Not likely.
The conquest of Pakistan would have to be first. Will other Muslim nations just stand by? You see where I'm going. We're flirting with a world war between Islam and the West.
And guess what: That's bin Laden's program. That's exactly what he wants. That's why he did this. Read his speeches and statements. It's all right there. He really believes Islam would beat the West. It might seem ridiculous, but he figures if he can polarize the world into Islam and the West, he's got a billion soldiers. If the West wreaks a holocaust in those lands, that's a billion people with nothing left to lose; that's even better from Bin Laden's point of view.
He's probably wrong -- in the end the West would win, whatever that would mean -- but the war would last for years and millions would die, not just theirs but ours.
Who has the belly for that? Bin Laden does. Anyone else?
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Tamim Ansary is a writer in San Francisco, and the son of a former Afghani politician.