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Katrice Balmer

Good Morning John and here is a response to your last posting. I have been attempting to stay "awake" as you say but these days there are so many times when I would rather simply crawl into a cave and sit in silence that it does tend to prove challenging. It is a scary prospect as you point out, that one being, with the flick of a switch could annihilate millions of us. And on the other end of it all, each one of us can consciously affect great change by simply opening up to the ONENESS within and change millions through our divine connectedness. Interesting thought don't you agree.

And on another note, I too have just recently started blogging and while I know that many are reading it, there are very few comments that come through. I started to blog as a way to stay connected as I am currenty travelling and had thought these others would respond. But it appears that you and I are simply to be sharing from our hearts and Souls with no expectations. And THAT is one of our hugest lessons. Giving without expecting anything in return. It's a biggy for those of us who are here to enlighten others. We have to be able to share and have that be enough.

Blessings to you Dear Soul and keep up the good work.

John Renesch

Hi Katrice!

Thanks for the post and your kind words.

Staying awake is the adult thing to do, it seems to me. Teenagers have the luxury of regressing to being children and pretending they aren't responsible...but adults must accept responsibility or else stay emotionally arrested for the rest of their lives. Many do this. Many of us are doing this!

If any of us dare to call ourselves leaders for a better world we must remain awake and demonstrate maturity for our fellows.

It may not be easy but it is required if we are ever going to change the direction we are headed in.

Thanks again for your inspiration.

Nynke Rinzema

Hi John, it has been a while since we last 'met', virtually that is. Nice that you're blogging! I was thinking reading your thoughts:
"what an exciting, sustainable, peaceful and compassionate future we could have if we stayed awake all the time.", there is a very good reason, don't you think to not be awake all the time. I like to look at our world from this perspecive: nothing happens for no reason.
Maybe living on earth isn't about creating heaven (whatever that may be) but about dealing with and learning from whatever living heavenly prevents. Dealing with that tension might be the highest goal of menkind. Constant awakening would stop that process...

John Renesch

Nynke,

You pose an interesting hypothesis. Living in this age of paradox I like to think that everything is God's will on some level but I cannot fathom it is part of our human destiny that we go through life asleep. If "dealing with that tension" is the highest goal I would prefer to do so consciously rather than unconsciously.

Gigi Loving

There is certainly nothing wrong with awakeness, as long as it is heart-connected and open to new thoughts and ideas. I do find, however, that many so-called 'enlightened' people around here are themselves, in a bunker of sorts. They Don't Know and they Don't Wanna Know on many levels. Whatever information goes against their left wing, blood-for-oil, evil-Bush-and-Cheney ideology gets thrown out in favor of what? "enlightenment"? There can BE nothing of the sort without a Willingness to see what we don't want to see, hear what we don't want to hear, and DISCERN truth from fiction. Being a conservative thinker around the Bay Area I come into contact every day with those who are for Free Speech as long as I am in agreement. Dear John, I am one who desperately HOPES there remain many who still have that "storm the machine gun nest" kind of courage, lest our future be in the hands of enlightened weenies who enslave us all. Thank you for reading. My website is www.gigiloving.com. Yours sincerely, Gigi

John Renesch

Gigi, I hear your wrath which is getting all too frequent for my tastes in our society in recent years - both from the left and the right. We are polarizing ourselves with cherished opinions and there's no let up in sight.

My personal choice is to refrain from listening, reading, forwarding emails, giving any of my attention to name-calling, sarcasm, disrespectful rhetoric from either side.

As far as I can see, the only way to restore civility and move forward to a healthier citzenry, nation, world is to engage each other in respectful dialogue and cease the belittling, mean-spirited and demeaning "opinionism" that is running through our country like a pandemic...and it will most certainly have devasting results if left unchecked.

For me, it takes far more courage to ask someone with an opposing view to engage in a meaningful dialogue about our differences than to spout off ideology I subscribe to while completely invalidating the other view.

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