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We’re poised for a lot of big changes, some challenging, in the upcoming years. Many “prepper” websites focus on securing your wealth (which is why “precious metals” such as gold are a hot item right now), stockpiling food and supplies, and getting off the grid, but they don’t tell you how to handle the coming crises emotionally. Kundalini yoga teacher Siri-Gian Khalsa talks about how to prepare spirituality for the incoming “Aquarian Age” in this article from her newsletter:

Security in the Aquarian Age?
Siri-Gian Khalsa

When my mom’s cancer doctor told her that there was no more they could do for her and suggested that now was the time that she should be under the care of Hospice, Mom had only one question.

She wasn’t afraid of dying, but she was discombobulated because she was having a hard time wrapping her mind around the concept of actually moving on, dying, transition, etc. She didn’t have a context or framework that could pull all the loose ends together in her mind. She knew well what was happening, but conceptually she couldn’t “make it all fit.” Her flower gardens had been her cathedral, so her views weren’t religion-oriented.

We take context for granted.

That is the social and conceptual framework for the operation of our daily life. It is a collection of habits and learned assumptions that we depend on to facilitate our daily functioning in every area. For instance: Normally I get ready for the day without giving much thought to the process. But when I travel, my habitual context is disrupted. I have to stop and look for my toothbrush; then I have to ponder what to do next–”Oh, take my vitamins,” then search for them. I am out of synch with my normal habits that I have grown dependent on to facilitate my everyday life. That dependable structure is what gives continuity and security to my mind.

Now, consider this. What if the majority of our habitual context changed in a very short period of time? What if supplies of fuel, electricity and electronic communications were browned out; the company you work for folded or downsized–surely affecting your money supply; trucking slowed down so there weren’t adequate goods and food in the stores; the actual money supply and ability to exchange it got disrupted; weather patterns such as hurricanes, drought, flooding and so on increased, causing more havoc than usual, with the ability of other locations being less able to assist; and so on?

What if the effectiveness of banks, insurance, schools, hospitals, etc. were weakened? What if our ideas of what we needed to be happy and secure went up in smoke? We have already experienced these things to some extent.

Without our normal social and cultural interconnecting context, what could we rely on? What would offer us security? Would we be entirely lost without this habitual social structure? What would happen to the population’s personal and group psyche if that dependable security dissipated? What would their/our rational and emotional condition be? Imagine that, please. How about confusion, panic, despair, and so on? Didn’t Yogi Bhajan mention something about this possibility?

So, my Dears. In this time of transformation, our pure Guides–Yogi Bhajan, all the Gurus, Baba Siri Chand, et al are working to help us graciously switch to our new Conscious Context before we get jolted out of the old one. And as we do that, we can lead others into that new security-giving Context as well. That’s what Yogi Bhajan meant when he said that we are all Teachers!

Now the New or Aquarian Context is based entirely in listening directly to the guidance of our own very down-to-Earth, totally wise and present Soul.

Our Soul is our “sharing” of the great overall Consciousness that actually runs the whole show! It KNOWS what is happening at every minute and everywhere, and seeks to hook us up at every moment for our own best welfare! No, this is not imagination or hype. This is the honest-to-goodness Reality. Lots of us have found great success with it. The trick is:

1. Listen closely to Soul all the time.

2. Discern the difference among the voices of Soul, emotions, ego, etc.

3. Have the great courage to follow Soul at every minute, even though your rational mind can’t grasp the purpose or outcome from the beginning. This is a “treasure hunt” as you are being given clues one step at a time.

One caution–you must listen to Soul to give you guidance, and not have your ego try to dictate to your Soul what it wants. Very important distinction that is not made in The Secret.

When we develop a habit of operating this way, the whole context of our security changes.

We put Soul in charge and we follow It. Certainly all of our illusions about what is real, what works, and our true security change immensely. Following the old habitual context that is broken doesn’t work. Operating with this Conscious Context and direction of Soul connects us to people at the heart level; provides goods, opportunities, and all the elements of prosperity–including material and mental security. It does it in ways we could never have conceived from our old, everyday, ego-oriented, habitual level.

It puts together “synchronicities,” “miracles” big and small out of nowhere when we have the courage to break down our fears and limits to be able to actually follow that “small, still voice” of our intuition. Soul has the instant BIG PICTURE, so why not choose to jump on board?

Back to my Mom. When we were talking to Mom’s Hospice nurse, I asked her something about “when Mom leaves town.” The next day, Mom told me that was just the context she needed–”she was leaving town!” Then a couple weeks later, on Christmas day, she asked the family, “Why are you giving me all these presents? I already have my bags packed!” That night she had a stroke and a few days later, she traveled Home.

A reliable, encompassing conceptual framework or mental context that pulls all the pieces together facilitates the security and operation of our life. Switching from relying on current cultural habits and expectations of the mind, tradition and institutions to give us security and support, to relying fully on Soul to be in charge of everything is the great transition to the Aquarian Age.

I like to call it the Culture of the Soul.

Once you get the hang of it, you find that it’s fun and totally productive to live on Soul’s miracles! They are much more REAL and fruitful than the everyday constructs that we have been relying on and mistaking as reality!

Why not make this your year of switching over to Aquarian Reality? Have fun living from Soul!

Lots of Love,

Siri-Gian Kaur

To easily print out this article, please go to www.SoulAnswer.com/culture_of_the_soul.html

Copyright Siri-Gian Khalsa, www.SoulAnswer.com, 2010

There’s this technology that claims to predict the future based on what human beings are discussing on the Internet. The Web Bot Project claims to have predicted events such as 9/11 and the BP Oil Spill, and this past week was supposed to be a big week for something realllly bad to go down. Nothing of note really happened, unless you consider a mysterious missile-like “launch” being seen off the Southern California coast as an act of war that we’re not being told about. (The somewhat official report is that this was an optical illusion caused by an airplane contrail…so if this was indeed a real missile, we’ll probably never know.)

The “window” of bad stuff has been extended to November 18, so maybe there will still be something big to hit…but so far, the predicted cataclysm has not occurred. No major collapse of the dollar, no World War III starting, nothing. The Web Bot folks had also predicted a massive massacre of people killed because of the BP Oil Spill (millions!) and that didn’t happen either. It seems the Web Bot did pick up something in relation to the oil spill, but the severity was over-hyped in the interpretation of the data.

I like to read the Prophecies bulletin boards, where people post their predictions. Some folks do seem to have an uncanny ability to pick up on things in the future. However, not all predictions come true, at least in the time frame predicted. Some folks have been warning for a while that a big massive earthquake will hit California in the next few days. The “next few days” have been happening for a month (or more)…and still nothing.

I’m not writing this to suggest these people are totally wrong or off their rocker. More, that I’m seeing a pattern. One is that there are a lot of “sensitives” who are having extreme symptoms and anxieties coming up lately. Two is that there seems to be a sense of “waiting” for something to happen or a shoe to drop.

Sensitives take on many forms. I personally believe we are all intuitive, but some are more gifted than others, and some have developed their abilities more than others.

Earthquake sensitives pick up on pending earthquakes through physical symptoms such as dizziness, “ear tones” (high pitched ringing in one or both ears), and sometimes nausea. The idea is that they are picking up on electromagnetic shifts in the earth.

Empaths are people who pick up on emotional energies. I am an empath. The day before 9/11, I suddenly got very upset and started freaking out, thinking that I was losing my mind and needed to go see a shrink (even though I had no intention or interest or need for one the day before). I was anxious, upset and scared for no reason. When 9/11 hit the next morning, I finally understood the context for my strong emotions.

Other people pick up information in visions or dreams. I have personally seen the future in dreams, including recurring nightmares about running from a tsunami a week before the 2004 tsunami hit, and dreaming about the ferry that crashed into the Staten Island Pier some years ago a few days before it happened. That said, most of my dreams are not predictive of the future. Psychic dreams that portend major news events have only happened a few times in my life. The rest of them are either subconscious gobbledy-gook, or dreams that predict more mundane things, such as hearing from someone you haven’t heard from in a while.

Of course, some people experience all of the above, or a combination, such as dreams and physical symptoms – though people usually lean towards one intuitive strength over another.

The problem with predicting anything based on feelings, dreams, and physical symptoms is that it is hard to distinguish sometimes what is coming from our own personal fears and what is a “message” or a warning.

Thus, given that the level of general anxiety and fear seems to be rising in the world…due to global economic meltdown and 2012 coming up…I feel there are a number of factors at play here:

1. I do think some bads thing are going to happen. I can’t say when. But on the one hand, while I do expect some horrible and shocking things to occur, I just don’t feel the world is going to end or civilization is going to completely collapse any time soon.

2. I wonder if some of the predictions and feelings of something really bad happening “any day now” are simply people picking up on all the anxiety everyone has right now. People are unemployed and the holidays are stressful.

We’re also seeing the end of an era, as the “old” stuff (i.e., financial systems, government structures) is starting to disintegrate. We will go through some hard times as we transition from the old forms of government and monetary systems to newer and hopefully better ones.

Transition times are scary and tough. It can be easy to fall prey to fear and worry that the world is ending. This can lead to taking data – whether it’s the computer data of a Web Bot program, or data that is coming from your unconscious mind – and interpreting it as the worst case scenario.

I think we need to step back, calm down, take a deep breath, and try not to panic as things accelerate with the transition we’re all going through.

That said, I do believe that people are intuitive, and if a lot of people suddenly at once start feeling something is “going down,” it’s not necessarily a bad idea to try to be prepared. And heck, in the case of living in California, if you don’t have an earthquake kit already, you should probably have one anyway just in case. It’s simply the smart thing to do.

As for what I am picking up right now…while I don’t feel any major cataclysmic event is going to happen in the next few days…I do sense a “gathering” of forces. Like a storm is brewing. But it’s not a storm that hits quickly and hard and leaves. It’s more of the kind of weather pattern that stays around and lingers…sometimes for as long as a season. I think we are in for some rainy days ahead.

Now is a good time to get an umbrella.