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2010 Intents

Tom's Thai Birthday

PROMAL GATHERING

WISDOM II

“Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her ...any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit." ~ from the sisterhood!

Pi's Visit

I had the bestest trip with Pi and Daniw. Hands down, this is the highlight of my year.

I am so happy. I don't usually recognize when happiness hits me, it's very rare when I find myself in the moment and know that this is state is happiness. But when it hits, I'm telling you it's better than e.

This trip for me is coming full circle. When I come true to all my promises and commitements. I promised Ria I will do the training, it went very well. It was so natural and I actually really had fun. Public speaking is something I should explore more.

I promise the BIND kids that Pi's gonna visit them, and Pi did! I am so proud and happy for my teacher, it's a known fact in the community that he is a bit kalat. Meaning he lose and leave stuff all the time, and he's always just flowing. I'm so glad that even if it cost them a bit of a money, they travelled all the way here to visit me and the kids.

This trip also shed new insight with my relationship with my padawan Leo. I was able to put myself in his shoes and vice versa. He must have felt abandoned when I just suddenly did not go home for weeks end, this is the abandonment I felt when Pi and the community failed to visit me for months end. And when Pi finally fullfills his promise, I find myself fullfilling my promise to Leo too.

I realized more than anything else, Pi is my friend and I am his friend. We've gone a long way, and this friendship is a keeper

Daniw is amazing. I love her.

I think i will be staying in Ma-I for a while, at least a year, I have a lot of things going here and if I leave the country too soon all the lightwork might go to waste. So yeah, methinks will be homin in Cebu for a year.

WISDOMS

LIGHTWORK

"Invite people to meditate with us. In this way we encourage more people to meditate regularly. This is what we call Light Work." - JahFe

BOYS

"A casual sexual relationship that is not heading in the direction of a romance takes up emotional space that would otherwise be filled by serious friendship and support. On the other hand, if you want to continue being his f*ck buddy, you can at least make it more satisfying for yourself by taking a more active role. Being a f*ck buddy means having a f*ck buddy - make sure you are getting the most out of this arrangement as long as it lasts" - Sexual Goddess

ENLIGHTENMENT

"Remember that an Enlightened person is also an ordinary person. We will always be an ordinary person. You can also be an Enlightened person. You are already an Enlightened person. We are sunbeams." JahFe

EVOLVER SPORE

"A rising grassroots movement now realizes we can no longer expect governments, corporations, or any outside authority to create the beautiful world we long to live in. We have to do it ourselves. This growing network of Evolvers, Burners, Bioneers, Transition Towners, and others are developing new cooperative networks ..." Sobey

GOLDEN AGE

"humans are naturally capable of transfiguration when we cultivate the seed within.. The fertile earth is our laboratory. together we all can create a symphony of Love and Peace as we usher in the coming golden age" :) ♥ Tom ♥

FEARS AND EMOTIONS

it is only important that you personally learn to conquer your innermost fearand learn to love when your fears for what they are and master your emotions. Then, and only then, would you truly be free,

RITUAL
“Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.” - Starhawk

IMPOSSIBLE
whoever said nothing is impossible, never tried slamming a revolving door....

SAVING THE WORLD

"people trying to save the world often have a hard time figuring out how to ... do it. "

My new space

Today

I ask that spirit walk with me this day

and that I have the courage to carry this truth within me in all that I do.

To fully stand in my own truth and power is to honor the spirit within

Help me today to re-member both who I am and who I am not.

Who I am is magnificent, yet to carry a facade of who I am not

only detracts from that magnificence.

To accept the truth of my own limitations,

clears the path to carrying my true power.

I know that holding my power is only possible

when I am not afraid of being vulnerable.

This day I will balance my ego

by checking it often and see my true motivations.

I accept the power that is rightfully mine

and will to use it to create Home on this side of the veil.

I ask that I may allow spirit to emanate from me

to all who choose to look upon me,

that I may be a perfect mirror

so that they may see the God within themselves

Help me to touch their hearts with my love

and allow them to re-member home and who they really are

as I re-member who I am.

As spirit walks with me this day

I remember to give thanks for the gift of spirit on my shoulder.

May I always use it to the highest good of all concerned.

I vow to enjoy this day to its fullest

and to laugh at every opportunity.

This day I will play the wonderful Game

and I will carry the vibrations of Home

in every move on the Gameboard.

This day I will Re-member.

WISDOMS

COMMUNITY

“We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been — a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free."

"~Starhawk

Moon Lodging

The past few months I've been quite OC with my period (well I am learning now I'm quite OC with a lot of things, my boss calls me the most organize person he knows and my flat mate thinks I'm a neat freak!). Thing is I haven't had period in a while, a big part of it is because I stopped taking contraceptives last year Decemeber, plus I change my diet to raw.

Ever since I can remember, I usually have the blues a good one week before my period upto a few days after of my period. So that's a good ten days of being 'fucked up' and not knowing why the whole world is crumbling down around me. Started realizing a few years back that it's not me, that it's just hormones and ALL WOMEN go through it.

That is why nowadays I respect this time of my cycle. Back in the times of our ancients, women of the tribes will have menstrual huts where they could gather for days when they have their menses, no men! Inside the hut they would swap stories, eat sweets, pamper themselves and do rituals.

The past few months since my period started again around September, I've been cocooning myself at home a few days before and during my period. A time for introspection for me, looking back at what I have learned the past cycle and my intents and wishes for the next. Also a time of listening to my body and little rituals to celebrate my womanhood.

Here are some articles I found online about our ancients way of honoring women's cycle:

WOMEN'S MOON LODGE

http://www.moonsurfing.com/moonlodge.html

Our intention is for this virtual moon lodge to become a gathering place for women's voices concerning the cycles of their lives... a coming together for renewal and visioning.

The Moon Lodge is the place of women, where women gather during their menstrual time to be at-one with each other and the changes ocurring in their bodies. Long ago, during this special time of moon cycles, women were removed from duties of family and allowed to retreat to the Moon Lodge to enyoy the company of their Sisters.

Traditionally, the Moontime is the sacred time of woman when she is honored as a Mother of the Creative Force. During this time she is allowed to release the old energy her body has carried and prepare for reconnection to the Earth Mother's fertility that she will carry in the next Moon or month. Our Ancestors understood the importance of allowing each woman to have her Sacred Space during this time of reconnection, because women were the carriers of abundance and fertility.

As Grandmother Moon is the weaver of tides ( the water or blood of our Earth Mother) so a woman's cycles follow the rhythm of that weaving. When women live together in a common space, their bodies begin to regulate their menses and all will eventually have their Moontime concurrently. This natural rhythm is one of the bonds of Sisterhood.

Women honor their sacred path when they acknowledge the intuitive knowing inherent in their receptive nature. In trusting the cycles of their bodies and allowing the feelings to emerge within them, women have been Seers and Oracles for their tribes for centuries."

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Reclaiming Menstrual Power

continuation of an excerpt from "Mysteries of the Dark Moon" by Demetra George

"In order to reclaim their menstrual power and liberate their bodies from menstrual pain, women must follow the cycle of the disappearing dark moon and enter into a voluntary retreat during their sacred time of month. Irritability, discomfort, and pain are the ways in which women's bodies continues to protest the menstrual injustices inflicted by society. Women's instinctual bodies demand that they pay attention to honoring the menstrual mysteries. The instinctual pull of the dark moon phase is to deliberately withdraw from the demands of others and worldly expectations. This step takes awareness and effort in a society that is constructed in such a way to deny and invalidate women's special needs during their moon times.

However, if a woman can find a way to take some time to be alone, in the bathtub, in bed drifting or reading, taking a walk in nature, praying or mediating in a sanctuary, she can reconnect to the deepest source of her feminine nature and psychic life. The body's craving to draw inward into quiet and stillness is a movement toward accessing the wealth of inner creative energy that peaks at this time. Women have the opportunity to transform this psychic energy into a flow of creative inspiration. A woman's moon time does not have to be an experience of depletion. It is when a woman stifles and blocks her pulsing, fiery red currents that the would-be creative energy turns to pain and depression. In a space of voluntary withdrawal, a woman can naturally remember or discover the ways to channel her red menstrual energy for a more fulfilling and richer life.

In order to redeem the dark moon menstruation gift of the Dark Goddess, we need to change our attitudes. Educating ourselves about the true nature of menstruation and the subsequent historical layers of distortion and suppression concerning women's blood mysteries is a starting point. We can continue the process by gaining new information about the body's physiological processes. This can help us to resensitize our awareness of our cyclical fluctuations. This knowledge can also enable us to evaluate the advice of the medical profession concerning our discomfort. We can experiment with herbs, nutritional supplements, acupuncture, massage, and other alternative healing therapies to alleviate the stressful symptoms of our bleeding time.

We can pay attention to identifying our habitual negative attitudes toward menstruation, and this awareness can liberate us from perpetuating society's falsehoods. We can cut through our concepts of menstruation as something dirty and undesirable by touching, smelling, and tasting our menstrual blood. In these ways we can reestablish our connection to the healing and rejuvenative powers of a woman's red elixir.

In Dragontime, Luisa Francia suggests a wide spectrum of rituals, ceremonies, and allies to help women reclaim the power and magic of their menstrual blood and to better use their menstrual abilities. Keeping track of our menstrual cycles and the phases of the moon can tune us into the monthly rhythm of our physical and emotional energies as they are regulated by the lunar cycle. By learning techniques of relaxation and meditation, we can induce states of trance, prophecy, inspiration, creativity, dream recall, hypnotism, and visualization. These capabilities are the birthright of the subjective feminine nature that are realized in menstruation. Finally we can take the risk of breaking the sexual taboo around menstruation by educating our partners, and thereby open our relationships to the ecstatic and transformative sacred dimension of lovemaking."

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Masterminding with the Moon

Masterminding with the moon is a powerful way to start off any new lunar cycle. Here’s how…

Get a group together and agree to meet for 60 to 90 minutes once a week starting as close to New Moon time as possible.

Download the lunar journal for the month.

Open your mastermind gatherings by repeating the affirmation for the month (on page one of your journal).

Select a time keeper. Each person then spends 1- 3 minutes talking about what’s going on for them and what they want to focus their energy on and accomplish during this lunar cycle. After going around the group, each person formulates an intention that will help move them towards their goal. The group can help them narrow this down so it’saffirmative, concise and focused.

Each person in turn states their intention and the group takes a minute to hold the intention and feel and see the person having accomplished it. This way, the static, blockages, and “how’s” you might personally run in your mind are circumvented and you also have the expansive power of several people holding this for you and with you.

Each week you review your progress and formulate an intention in line with the energy of that particular phase. Whenever you write in your journal (at least one time during each 31/2 days that a phase lasts) revisit the feeling of accomplishment you’re holding for each person in your group.

I can tell you from personal experience that this is very powerful.

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Sunday Musings

I am realizing so much about myself by connecting with other people.

I was quite guilty about my moving here to Cebu.

Ok. make that VERY guilty. I felt that I was abondoning my lightwork :(

But I am feeling very good now, connecting with people again. Yesterday, this guy Sofie is seeing (his red head btw) was talking about it's importance to be social, that there just some social skills that you kinda lose when you stop connecting with people.

Pi was away 2-3 years from his comfort zones, maybe I feel guilty because I feel I should be away that long from the world again. But what I have to understand is my journey is different from my teacher...

I have to breakfree of that mindset.

I love Pi dearly, but I don't have to be like him.

In fact, I think that is one of the lessons I have to learn in this journey: be my own teacher..

Everything I'm doing is basically just following the footsteps of Pi.

I am realizing now how much I have emulated my teacher to a point that I wasn't listening to my own voice and visions.

And I think this is what he've been trying to teach me all along.

This is such a profound moment for me.

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So yeah I am back with the people. I miss the nature spirits for sure... Maybe tonight I'll go out and commune with the trees..

Darn, I'm really missing the trees and the earth on my feet :(

I really have to find my piece of Earth soon...

That or go to bigfoot everynight and stay in the beach..

A bit of an effort really but what can I do?

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This guy is turning out to be a surprise. What I thought would be one of my many love affairs is turning out to be cosmic.

What to do I do not know


.....


I'll go with the flow

Message from Lemuria

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: debi
Date: Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:23 AM
Subject: Re: Bohol
To: LJ

Hello LIberty
these times are really trying... to get to where we all need to be, the purity of our souls, we need to bring up all the toxins,
sometimes we need to experience all the toxins befor e they come up to release.

when you say you go to cebu city to binge, what do you binge upon?

i too long for community. my friend aly, who pi has met, and i plan to make community in palawan or bohol. i am very drawn to both places. but that s in the long term.

right now i am going back to china for two and a half years. it jsut happend, 11 11 11 WAS THE INTERView.

i feel these four children dont really understand their power, but in some ways are healing you, keeping you in the loop an dkeeping youo from descending to far into the murky world.

Aly also used to work alot with disaffected youth in the phillipoines, but right now she is too busy with her other job and her fammily.

when i get some spare time ill add you to skype and we can talk, i can send you some healng via skype, it will be powerful.

in the meantime, when you are in your solitary phase , find a spot in nature that calls to you, go deep into that spot, ask nature to show you your calling, to show you your deep soul.

there are much grand things about to happen.
thankyou for keeping the bohol vision alive. it is amagic place. liberty, were you born on bohol or anotehr island? i do feel the land areas in bohol is very deeply connected to your soul, however you havent been able to establish a deep connecteion iwth mother earth there yet. i can help you do that on skype and then you will feel much better.

much love, keep in touch, write any time,
love debbie

Lemuria
http://dipperstarlight.com/books.htm

Starcards
http://dipperstarlight.com/starcards.php

http://dipperstarlight.com/





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From: LJ
To: debi
Sent: Tue, 17 November, 2009 2:23:44 AM
Subject: Re: Bohol



Hi Debbie,

I have been re-reading your email since yesterday. It completely shook me when i read it at the first time, the last time I've felt this magic is when the Mother, through Marwin, one of our community brothers, asked me to head to Bohol.

Thank you for the healing, and the guidance. A lot of things are clear for me now, I was a bit lost in the path the past few months. I have a vision in my head of a youth space where kids and young people can gather, be free, where they can do art and rituals and magic, be connected to nature, glorify her again, a new earth space. Amongst the 17 kids, there are four boys I felt are special, I spoke to Pi about them too.

I feel that I have to say this, the past few months I've been lagging on my lightwork, I've been 'bingieng' between two extremes, the solitary of interior bohol to the ecstasy of Cebu City. I have been feeling a little lonely in Bohol, wishing I have people I can share the space with, When I get too the city I binge and I feel now the solution to stop this unhealthy lifestyle is to find my balance again before and be centered in both worlds.

Your email answered so many questions in my head ... to my mission, to the immediate choices I have to make now. And most of all, I'm really happy and beyond joy of making this connection. Thank you Debbie, I'll write you a longer email tomorrow.

Love Liberty


On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:24 PM, LJ wrote:


Thank you Pi and Debbie, this is email is completely overwhelming. Thank you to you both for the message and healing, thank you for guiding me.

I will write a longer email tonight, my skype is liberty.joy, please feel free to add me

<3 Liberty

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 6:12 AM, debi wrote:


Hi Pi! HI Liberty Joy!
perfect timing, as ive just surfaced from teh rollercoaster ride of being invited to apply for, interviewed and being offered, a teaching job in china.
im still totally overwhelmed by it, but have resurfaced after a few days to check mail here.

"physical distance' you mentioned pi.....aah.. nothing to worry about! most of my best friends ive never laid eyes on, lol, the spirit bonds we made in MU are lasting beyond any human comprehension.

LJ, i would like to offer you some healing from a multidimensional Golden Crsytal Cranium ( skull) which has recently been returned to me. she has extremely peaceful and healing energies, and takes you right back to your pristine codes. i also feel that if we are able to connect via skype with this ( do you have skype?) i will be able to connect to the children you are caring for with this majestic crystal being and send healing to them. whilst all the children are special i feel there are three or four who are "very special" and have huge tasks ahead of them, but have a lot of 3d unravellings to do, and need to be connected to their deep spiritual strength to get thru the murky 3d beginnings they have chosen for this incarnation. i just had a shiver run thru me, these are very very ancient special spirits who have come to join us inn this amazing transformational times.

Liberty, if you are healing the children, i am happy to be of continual service to heal you from the etheric wounds and grief you pick up working with them.

As for my connection to bohol, well , for me i belive it is energetically connected to our Dolphin Temple in MU.
you can read more about that or my dolphin connectiosn in the excerpts of my book as below.

i belive that energetically important nodes from auld Mu reMUrge again in the now, either in "the same landmass" ( that has arisen above the sea already, ie P.I. , H. I.,( phillipine islands, hawaii islands) and all the countrys of the pacific) or in "new" places which are the eneregetic resonance place for the new world.

so for me, and my friend Aly, we belive in rebuilding the dolphin temple, or to say building a new Mu Dolphin Temple, for the new world, and we belive Bohol is the place for it.

i'd love to hear more about your visions for the community over there.
i cant explain why but i know deep down that islands of the filipine archipelego and new ones to come up near thre are a deeply important place for me to build community in the new world.

i leave for china next january. ( gulp, so soon) and ill be totally busy settling into the new job. HOWEVER having work again will give me the finances to come over to the P> I> in my holidays. june/july defintely, maybe earlier, we shall see.

ok back to this merging community where you are liberty, i can sense this place undergrowing massive growth and change in teh near future. there are powerful spiritual guides watching over this place, land guardinas even, and some of these spiritual guardians are the ones who are also partially incarnate in some of the children you work with.
there will be an influx of deeply committed people.. i see people rushing around in joyouse building phase, out in the sun with mudbricks or such like, but it is all built in very deep sacred geometry, and suddenly it is a thriving healing center, and do you know it does feel to me as if children are teh focus. it is a place where in the future children will come from all over the world to experience deep spiritual healng.

this is so amazing!


well im speechless now ( LJ, when you get to know me, you wil know that i can rave on with the best of them!) so look forward to further communicatoin about this.

LIiberty Joy, please let me know if you have skype and if you dont, can you either download it or borrow a friends computer with it, as the instant connection with skype will allow the Golden One to send you her codes of peace.

Ill got to her now and start this transformation..... please keep scrolling down.. i ahve brought the Golden ONe hear now beside the computer and will assist her to imput codes and quiet into this email space.. please scroll down to the end....


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--,,,-,-..---.-.-.--.-..-..
13456789u0-=3456787890-456789

&

~ ___~___~~~~~~~........~~!!??/__)(*~~

ok in that energetic sequence the Golden One first "opened the door" to the manifestation of community in this space. she sends energetic resonance to call all teh people who will be directly involved with building phase to come at the right sequence allong the timelines.

she says watch out for a red-headed man who will be significant.

now she seals the gates and send the matrix up to heaven, she sends it to the star which is connected with this earth-star grid and someone up there has caught it.

all is well.

ok bye for now,
love debi

Lemuria
http://dipperstarlight.com/books.htm

Starcards
http://dipperstarlight.com/starcards.php

http://dipperstarlight.com/


--- On Fri, 13/11/09, pi mu wrote:


From: pi mu
Subject: Bohol
To: "wu wei" , "LJ"
Received: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 8:34 AM



Debi, our community sister who's been holding the fort in Bohol would now like to connect with you. I know that physical distance separates us, but we are all in the same spiritual room. She has been staying true to visions that came to us a year ago that there will be reason for doing community work in Bohol and setting up a base there. Her name is Liberty Joy and for many months, have been drawing from her inner strength to work with the rural children and healing the wounds of students who come to her for their early stages of light work. It hasn't always been easy, doing all of these at a young age, and she has needed to take a break from being constantly in the work, needing to go back to what she might be leaving too early to prevent a pattern of grief and denial of her wounded self to set in, which seems to direct her to balance her life out more between the spirit world and the physical.

I've been wanting to connect you two. It's only natural.

Love.
--
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www.innerdance.multiply.com
www.innerdance.wordpress.com
www.maianeye.blogspot.com
www.pi-kalimata.blogspot.com

My Galactic Birthday Decoded

Day Translation Utility Crystal Moon day 16
Year of the Red Electric Moon



kin 92: Yellow Magnetic Human
I Unify in order to Influence
Attracting Wisdom
I seal the Process of Free Will
With the Magnetic tone of Purpose
I am guided by my own power doubled

About Yellow Magnetic Human

13moon.com

11 intents this 11:11

1. Create Evolver Cebu Spore - "A rising grassroots movement now realizes we can no longer expect governments, corporations, or any outside authority to create the beautiful world we long to live in. We have to do it ourselves. This growing network of Evolvers, Burners, Bioneers, Transition Towners, and others are developing new cooperative networks ...that can help heal our planet while providing sustainable solutions to the disastrously unsustainable economic and political systems that disempower people, keeping them asleep."

2. Balance Cebu and Bohol - move to Cebu before the year ends but keep a space in Bohol (either in Panglao or Bilar) for periods of going inwards

3. Connect with like minded people, attract positive people I could walk this path of conscious evolution. Staying away from toxic negative people that brings me down.

4. Continue to excel on my bread and butter job, continued success for Ari and our company, and yeah a 200$ pay raise early next year would be lovely

5. Buy a piece of land in Bohol for organic farming and to build a camp for youth retreats

6. Continue to be healthy: 80% Raw food, once a week fasting day, an hour of biking a day, cut down on the ciggies, 3 glasses of wine a week max, one party a month max (preferably every two months but yeah who am I kidding?), prepare for my journey to the land of the spirits this December

7. Conscious travelling without moving: setting the right intents, doing it for rituals, divination and making meaningful connections

8. Make up my mind: stop flaking, stick to promises and commitments e.g. helping my padawan finish school at all costs, call my mom once a week, do that wine training at Amorita

9. Be forgiven by the Universe, my spiritual guides, archangels, etc for loving a man I am not supposed to love. Help me control my emotions and actions so that I can stick to a platonic friendship with him and transmute this passion and desire to a higher and transcendent connections. I want to get to know this person more, I want to bring out the best in him and he the best in me. At the same time keep my connection with Sobey, and hopefully he comes visit next year, I mean I got to meet him before 2012. At the same time, meet my 30ish year old vegetarian, long haired, dj, backpacker, I can meditate, do yoga and travel the world and outer space with

10. Create my music and dance my dance

11. Be honest at all times and at all cost. Be the living breathing manifestation of Love and Light, Liberty and Joy

Halloween @ The Mansion

Diwali Festival at The Coriander by Sheldon, Cebu

THE CORIANDER is celebrating DIWALI FESTIVAL tomorrow night, Oct 15th, Thursday, 7:30pm with a set dinner prepared by Singaporean/ Malay Chef Sheldon. I have yet to try the food but all my Hindi friends are raving about it, so it must be good! Vegetarian and non-vegetarian set to choose from.

Set Diwali Menu @ P650/person

Starters

Vegetarian Samosas

Curried Potatoes & Veg wrapped in Fillo pastry

Coriander Smoked Tomato Soup

or

Parappu Rasam Soup

Entrée

Non-Vegetarian

Chicken Biryani

With Chicken Korma,

Coconut Pumpkin Keerai, Aloo Gobi , Sambhar, Raita & papppadam

or

with Chili Chicken

Coconut Pumpkin Keerai, Aloo Gobi , Sambhar, Raita & papppadam

Vegetarian

Saffron Cardamom Basma Rice

With Sambhar, Aloo Gobi, Masala Potatoes, Coconut Pumpkin Keerai, Chili Paneer, Raita, Pappadam

Dessert

Kulfi Gelato

Drink

Choice of:

Fresh Limau Juice

Or

Ice Tea

Or

Soft-drinks

I'm definitely here, hope to see you too. Feel free to text me at my mobile 0915 356 9588 so that i can give chef a heads up and reserve seats for you, or we can all go there together and save on gas! Can't wait to celebrate with all of you!

For Reservations please contact: 5111675 or 09069494000

THE CORIANDER

6th st., lot 5&6, San Antonio Village, Apas, Lahug

(the village behind Gaisano Country Mall, most cab drivers knows it or you can take a trike at the beack of Country Mall to bring you there)

Diwali is a significant event in Hinduism, popularly known as the "festival of lights", the most significant spiritual meaning is "the awareness of the inner light".

Just as we celebrate the birth of our physical being, Deepavali is the celebration of this inner light, in particular the knowing of which outshines all darkness (removes all obstacles and dispels all ignorance), awakening the individual to one's true nature, not as the body, but as the unchanging, infinite, immanent and transcendent reality. With the realization of the Atman comes universal compassion, love, and the awareness of the oneness of all things (higher knowledge). This brings Ananda (inner joy or peace).

Shine!

Sonalli

(felt like using my sanskrit name!)

Intent for October

- make a list on what I can do to really really help save the planet. no lip service but real solid action plans. Post it on Facebook, share it with friends and ask them to make their own list

Earth Dance Manila Sept 26 - 27

Dear Friends,

We invite you to be with us as we join 300+ locations in 60+ countries in the largest dance event in the world.

EARTHDANCE (Manila) 2009, a Global Festival for Peace

WHEN: Sept 26, 6pm onwards to 7am, Sept 27, 2009.

WHERE: open amphitheater grounds, LA MESA ECO PARK,

La Mesa Dam Compound, Greater Lagro, Quezon City.

DOWNLOAD MAP www.lamesaecopark.com/pdf/route%20map.pdf
On it’s second year in the Philippines, the highlight of the Earthdance event is The PRAYER FOR PEACE at 4:00 pm Pacific Time (7:00 am ManilaTime), a simultaneous link up when thousands in every event across the world synchronize and pray together; a profound and powerful moment that unifies our intentions for World Peace and healing.
EXPERIENCE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS AND MAKE A PROFOUND DIFFERENCE!

Synchronized with similar events across continental Europe, North & South America, Australia and Asia, Manila Earthdance brings together DJs, fire dancing, musicians, art installations, and other performances for a 13-hour festival dedicated to global peace.
*SEE e-FLYER BELOW and ATTACHED EVENT DETAILS

Earthdance is a nonprofit event which seeks to raise funds for and in honor of children. For 2009 the beneficiaries are: ECPAT Philippines, Cancer Warriors Foundation, and the Agta Foundation for indigenous children.

If you want to be a sponsor to this event, please contact us. We are open to individual pledges or donations of any kind or amount. Invite your family, friends and co-workers and benefit from a community of oneness in a night of dance/music peace festival. If you wish to sell food, art, crafts or products, causes, please let us know too. It will only cost you Php500 per table.

BOOTHS will be available for green movement & causes, culture, arts, crafts, healthy food & drinks, workshops, organics, natural wellness, workshops, body work…
AUCTION BOOTH For anyone who wants to unload art, CDs, books and clothes for a cause

RECYCLEABLE MATERIALS DEPOT (for donation to Echostore’s Refill Reuse Recycle Campaign and the Recycled Art Department, Creative Space Center for Integrated Learning)
glossy magazines • soda can ring pull tabs • plastic containers • scratch paper (one side used) • cereal boxes • medicine droppers • buttons • old calendars • eggshells • spools • cereal and shoe boxes • plastics • glass bottles

Give peace a dance!

Come one, come all. See you there!

THE EARTHDANCE MANILA TEAM

www.earthdance.org

For those interested to set up a booth, contact:

LJ Pineda • cosmicgypsygirl@gmail.com • 09153569588

Rosanna Escudero • airsigns@pldtdslt.net • 09189413388

Nesting

So i am back at home :)

I arrived Bohol yesterday morning, worked for a few hours and bought supplies in Tagbilaran then head to BIND.

God it feels great to be home.

Couchrusfing is fun but there is no place like home!

I will be nesting in Bohol for a good two weeks, then on the first of Oct I will be heading to Cebu for the film screening and Lee's bday.

I plan to make the most of this nesting period, my intents are:

1) Cleanse. God know how much toxic I ingested in the city, intentional and unintentional. So this two weeks I am planning on going 90% raw, mostly fruits and coconuts.

2) lose 3 kilos. I hit the 53kl mark this week, got to go back to my 50kl weight. Though I agree with my mom that I look too sickly at 50kl and I kinda like the bit of breast I gain when I'm on 53, I guess it's nice to have a buffer just in case I eat and drink in the city again.

2) cut down on my ciggies 3-5 a day next week, and down 2-3 the following week.

3) go back to my yoga and meditation practice

4) reconnect and dance with the kids (but ill need 5 days on own first to rest before anything else)

5) learn music mixing

6) sell my cds guitar on ebay (so that I can buy a mixer)

7) make a binddreamcatchers.multiply.com

8) help Earthdance remotely/ online

9) Be cheerful.

10) Live in the moment. Here and Now. Gaze at the sun and be with the trees.

The Journey Back

On return, the hero must resolve the Two Worlds – divine and human; known and unknown; yin and yang. The key to understanding the myth is that the two kingdoms are actually one. The unknown is a forgotten dimension of the world we already know. To explore that dimension is the whole deed of the hero. By crossing this final threshold, the hero recognizes that the apparent separation in reality does not exist – and he becomes the ‘Master of Two Worlds.’ - Campbell's, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

I feel that I am coming close to the end of this journey.

It was almost a year ago when I decided to leave the comforts of the familiar and move to Palawan. It's probably one of the biggest choice I will ever make in my life. It was a choice between moving back to the city after filmschool, falling into the same old patterns, re-living the same highs and lows, ... or leaping to the unkown, the dark abyss of my inner self to be exact.

It was not an easy choice but what the heck, I always choose the path I haven't tried before. If I move to the city, I would know know what's in store for me. But Palawan.... the call of adventure/ sprits was too strong to resist, and boy am I glad I heeded that call.

In Palawan, I learned to live simply. I lived in a hut with like minded people with the very basic amenities -no hot shower, hell not even running water! We planted most of our food, I learned to open coconuts and live on coconut water for weeks. I did my own laundry, made our own fire, build our own dining tables, learned to bike. We have no television nor cooking stove, but we have a huge fridge, hundreds of books, three computers and a fast internet connected (the last two does not really speaks of simple living but I need it for my online job!)

There is something very healing about being isolated and living close to nature. When your inner demon comes knocking at your door, you have no choice but to let her in, house her for a night or two, till the two of you sort out your issues. Finally she leaves or have enough of you and you pray she doesn't come back knocking anytime soon.

Try doing that in the city where countless distractions are within arms reach. The slightest fear wells up, you open the television and order McDonalds. If that's not enough to fill up the emptiness within, you go out and party with friends. You fill great for a while, feel connected, until you wake up (or try to sleep) perpetually alone with a hangover and a crash.

A turning point in Palawan was when suddenly as I was biking home, one of my dear brother started channelling the Mother with specific instructions that I am to journey to Bohol. I felt like this kind of thing just happened in the movies, but what the heck, how do you say No to the Mother!? So a few weeks later I found myself in the hills of Bohol.

If Palawan was isolated, our space in Bohol is interior x 3. The nearest ATM is an hour and a half bus ride away, at 7pm everyone is inside their house, 9pm all lights are out and you'd hear nothing but the the crickets and the frogs . When I first moved to my hut, it was devoid of the most basic of amenities. For a good two weeks, I have to bike to the nearby college at 3am in the morning to use the toilet!

If in Palawan, I was an apprentice, in Bohol I found myself a teacher to 15 college kids. Meeting them the first time, it all dawned on me why I was asked to move there. I saw in their eyes the same eagerness I had when I was 19 listening to my teacher talking about the cosmos and oneness. Finally, I had a coven I could meditate and dance with, do rituals and magic. I probably learned from them more than they learned from me. As Yoda puts it, the minute I stopped learning from my students is the minute I stopped teaching.

For instance, this kids made me appreciate and be grateful for all the things my folks did for me. Ask any of them what their goals in life and they would unanimously answer 'to help their parents, to get a good job so they can support their family'. Most of them hold part time jobs so that they can support themselves to school. It made me appreciate all the efforts my parents did for me, and my last trip home I made sure I told my Mom and Dad that.

But after six months of staying in Bohol - with a little side trips to Cebu and Manila every few months or so, I started feeling alone. Though I am surrounded by my Padawans, lately I would often wish that I have some people to share my space with (if he's a long hair vegetarian backpacker, thats a plus!) . The rest of my group is busy doing lightwork in their respective spaces, and Bohol is my space, my tribe.

At first I would fight this desires. My intent for this journey is to fight all my addictions - from substances, relationships, material things, and even food. I figure if I am able to fight all this worldy wants, then I will ascend. Everyday is a battle field for me - am I going to light this cigarette? Am I going to text my ex? Am I going to eat or fast? And whenever I succumb to my weakness, I felt terrible and miserable.

But what I really didn't like about myself was I started getting too attached to this image of 'goodness' that I started to judge people and try to enforce MY TRUTH to others. I was being EGOistic about it. There was a period when I didn't want to associate myself with people who eat meat. Last christmas when I went home, I locked myself in the room because I couldn't take the sight of my family feasting on meat. A few months back, I met someone in Cebu and told him I would only go out with him if he meditates and fast and eat raw food. The guy did that and he starts to get really sick and scrawny, to my guilt and worry of his family and friends!

I wasn't liking what I am turning out and it was getting pretty lonely too. So last August, I packed my backpack, hop on a ferry to Cebu with the intent of succumbing to this desires I was figthing for months end. I will consciously going to fall back to earth, and boy did I fall.

I partied like there was no tomorrow. I ate cooked food, smoke, drunk rum, beer, rum and beer, drinks in a shooter glass I don't know the name of and don't want to know. I would take whatever was laid in front of me and did things I cannot write here. I embraced my dark side, embraced my inner Sith with the intent of balancing the darkness and lightness within me.

It's been a month now and I still am out here, outside my special place, floating around the toxicity and craziness of Manila. Last weekend I ate fish. Today I woke up with a hangover. Last weekend I went on a shopping spree. Last night I was missing someone, asking myself the rethoric question I have been asking for years 'why can't he love me the way I love him'. I haven't done yoga in five days, nor meditated nor dance. I am afraid that I'm losing my inner voice and vision. I am human again.

Funny that at the end of my journey, I am finding myself where I began. Funny that after all those months of cleansing and detoxing I am back falling in the same old patterns. But if there is one thing that this journey has thought me it's that everything happens for a reason and everything is always perfect. Everything is meant to be. Always.

And now its dawning on me why I have to fall into this patterns again. I have to truly embrace the darkness within me and only then can I truly welcome my enlightened self. Life is a pendulum, the higher you swing to the right, the higher you swing to the left. And at the end of the day, dark and light, right and left - it doesn't matter. It's the same side of the coin. It's just an experience you choose as you journey back to the source. No duality. No judgement. Heaven and Earth. The Jedi and the Sith. The Angel and the Fallen. Yin and Yang. Divine and Human.. it's all One

Also, maybe our purpose just boils down to finding our own truth. Finding the path that works for us, for really we are the center of our own universe. If one finds happiness in teaching kids and eating raw food, then fine, don't force it down other people's throat. If one find happiness in donning a mini skirt and boots partying on weekends, that's fine as long as you are not hurting anyone in the process. If one finds happiness in both worlds, that's fine too. Find your own truth, find your own purpose, you have a whole lifetime to look for it!

I am realizing that I have a long way to go. I think my next journey is all about balancing my inner world and the world I share with the rest. Bohol will always be my home, it's my center as I travel around the world. For I am realizing I'm still quite enjoying this world. As the poem goes, With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Part I The Call to Adventure