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2/6/2013 10:42:34 PM

Archangel Metatron: Ascension and Transmutation Changes in the Physical Human Body – Part 1/2


Light Body 213There’s a very unusual message, allegedly from Archangel Metatron, going the rounds, with various attributions.

One says it’s from him through Caridaway, in late 1994. That’s available here for instance: Love is All There Is, no date, at http://www.antraeus.co.uk/karmaemotions.htm

Greg Giles printed it on Nov. 21, 2012, attributing it to Laurie Gilmore. http://tinyurl.com/b3y9fjh

On her own blog, Spiritual Connectedness, Laurie attributes it to herself, as of 1995. Seehttp://tinyurl.com/ahgo6r7

Perhaps “Caridaway” and Laurie are the same channeler.

Dave Schmidt brought it to my attention and it does indeed repay study.

Given that it was Metatron back in 1994/5, one needs to allow for many changes in the Divine Plan since then. For instance, the latest is that the Ascension process has been extended somewhat, by a matter of months, to allow more people to climb aboard. Ascension, which I thought to be sudden, has been revealed as being gradual – or at least progressing in stages.

But allowing for changes in the Plan, you may wish read over what Metatron said at that time. I was saying to Dave that the 12 stages seemed very reminiscent of the kinds of initiations that masters training for Ascension thousands of years ago discuss going through. Jesus in Levi’s Aquarian Gospel would be one example.

I cannot vouch for the accuracy of anything that’s said here. I usually stay very far away from posting anything with health or medical counsel because it can be so upsetting if the counsel turns out to be ill-advised. So this is way outside my field of presumptive expertise.

I suggest it only to get the creative juices going on the subject. Discernment is advised. Given that’s it’s long, we’ll divide it up into two day’s postings.


Message from Lord Metatron about Ascension and Transmutation Changes in the Physical Human Body

As channeled through Laurie Gilmore

http://spiritualconnectedness.wordpress.com/

I Am Metatron. I have been asked to serve by dictating information that will assist you in moving through the transitions that are ahead for the planet and all life on the planet during the ascension.

This planet, and all species of life on the planet are in the process of ascension. Ascension means that all first and second dimensional lifeforms will “move up” to third dimensional lifeforms. Humans, or third dimensional lifeforms, will graduate to either fourth dimensional worlds or fifth dimensional oneness depending on their level of evolution and their intent.

The ascension is occurring now as a step by step progression, and will continue one way or another, for that is the will of all. Normally, planets and the species of life incarnate on the planet are ascended via cataclysmic disasters that usher in a death-resurrection cycle.

In this cycle, as was demonstrated by Christ, disasters create planetary death. Because this is the way ascension usually occurs, it is known and understood very well at the level of the Universal Mind. That is why, since ancient times, there have been prophecies of terrible destruction to occur at end times.Light Body 3829

The Resurrection Cycle (Resurrection Dispensation) Now is the Ascension, (1) where all life begins anew, at a new level of consciousness in a Higher Dimensional World. This does not mean reincarnation, for that carries the concept of Karma with it, and before ascension can become a probability, all Karma must be cleared. It does not mean existence only as a spirit in celestial worlds, ascension is also physical.

As a process, it changes the physical body while merging the body and the spirit into one being. This being is a perfected being of light, in a physical body of light.
This ascension progression actually began thousands of years ago, with the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.

The story of Moses leading his people out of bondage is a metaphor for the ascension progression. The incarnation of Jesus was a major turning point for the process because as an Avatar, Jesus was capable of taking on the “sins” or Karma of all humans and transmuting that energy to light.

Because of his redemption, a gentle ascension became possible. This ascension, evolves through a series of steps, until a state as a light being becomes possible. The redemption of Christ was the beginning step of the Light Body progression. This first step took nearly two thousand years to complete.

Light Body was introduced as an experiment in 1988, only seven months after Harmonic Convergence.

It is an experiment because an ascension has never been attempted this way. This method, both a graduated increase of light within the physical bodies of all lifeforms and the planet and an increase in the vibratory level, has never been attempted before in ANY ascending universe.

There are theories within the Universal Mind about how that process will work out, but at times the results have differed from the anticipated. In these cases revisions are made. As a foundation for the information I will give later, I must explain the Light Body progression to you.

You must understand this process first at a personal level. This personal level is how Light Body will affect you physically, emotionally and mentally. Then I will give information on how Light Body will affect the planet and how it will affect the structures of your society.

I consider the most important and exciting aspect of Light Body to be that this experiment transforms your physical shell into an appropriate vehicle to merge completely with your higher self, and happens concurrently with the physical process.

This merging is created by a series of descensions of spirit, which are timed by the amount of light you are holding within your cells. The amount of light held by the physical cells is keyed to the level of Light Body, and the higher the level, the less dense the body.

The more light you hold in your physical body, the greater the level of spirit you can contain within the body. Toward the end of the Light Body process, just proceeding the shift into ascension, you will merge completely with your Higher Self. The descensions of spirit are the mechanisms used to bring in, or turn on, the spiritual gifts of the ascended masters.

Light Body has twelve levels or steps, and as each step is completed the changes that have occurred physically must be integrated in all areas of the life and the spirit.

Light Body 2918Light Body is designed to bring up all your human issues as you progress, and each higher level brings up a deeper layer to the issues than the layer before it.

This is to assist you in becoming clear mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. As the issues emerge, you may allow Christ’s redemption to transmute it for you. There is a void space at the end of each Light Body level that we call ego death, and it may manifest as depression or a sense of nothingness.

This void is to be used as a rest stop before you continue your journey. This void is an energetic place where nothing exists, and you are able to build a new picture of yourself and your life before you move to the next step. The void is an integration chamber, or perhaps I could describe it as a cocoon, where you can rest and form the beautiful butterfly you are to become in your next step.

The first six steps of Light Body were structured for gradual change at all levels with regular spiritual awakenings interspersed with the physical, mental and emotional changes. From seventh level through tenth level Light Body the progress changes and is focused on one area of your experience at a time.

For example, in seventh level most of you experienced your first descension of spirit, and a noticeable spiritual awakening with it. You may have manifested clairvoyance, clairaudience, or a kinesthetic awareness of energy with the awakening. I am discussing this level in the past tense, because currently the planet is shifting into the beginning of ninth level.

It is a very painful experience to be at a lower vibratory rate than the planet you exist on, which is the case for those who are below eighth level. Because you are reading this article, I am certain you would be somewhere between the void of late eighth level, to eleventh level in the Light Body progression.

You would not have an interest in spiritually oriented literature if you were in the lower levels. Eighth level Light Body creates body changes in some extreme ways.

Physical symptoms similar to viral syndromes are very common. During this level, you may have noticed that you caught a cold once a month.

Other symptoms are headaches (behind the eyes) as the optic nerve pathways for light are turned on and the pineal gland becomes activated. You may have earaches, air pressure changes, itching inside the ears, as your hearing structures are rewired to decode light transmissions, and excessive perspiration or diarrhea as you drop density from the cells of your body.

One perspective on these changes is that you are adding a third physical strand to your D.N.A. For some, the body may resist the density drop because of the descensions of spirit. A symptom of that resistance is weight gain.

Human bodies have a tendency to try to cope with descensions by becoming bigger to contain the spiritual mass coming into it.The only effective way to stop the weight gain once it has started, is physical exercise.

I mean very hard exercise such as weight lifting, bicycling, running, or swimming. The exercise must be sufficient to begin building muscle mass. Creating muscle mass will protect your nervous system, for the energies coming in with each descension is much stronger than your nervous system is accustomed to.

Adipose tissue cannot protect the nervous system as muscle does by accepting the overflow from the nervous system. Adipose tissue will “fry” as these energies overflow, and the result is damage to the insulin receptors within the cells. This throws the metabolism out of balance, and the result is weight gain.

The muscle mass created by exercise will take the overload from the nervous system, and will convince the body consciousness that it is “big enough” to hold the spirit. You may begin to notice flashing colors on your inner screen, geometric equations moving through your mind, or hear a hum. This is the beginning of the translation facility, and will allow you to turn light code into cognitive understanding and comprehension.

The grids around the planet constantly transmit messages to the life forms incarnate on the planet. These messages come through in a form called light packets, and are coded. I call it “light code”. This information must be “decoded” or converted to conscious thought, so you can understand it and use it in your life. These messages are designed to give instruction, and to explain what is occurring energetically at the higher dimensional frequencies.

If you are a sensitive who can hear the hum, a sharp tone, buzzing, please acknowledge this to your guides. They are trying to assist you to get the light code transmissions, but they cannot verify that you hear it unless you respond.

Your guides will try to assist you by turning up the volume and frequency of the audible light code until they see a response from you.

The light code as a hum can become very annoying and even physically uncomfortable. (2) If you are experiencing this symptom, “ask” your guides to turn down the volume and calibrate the frequency so it will not be irritating or debilitating for you.

These eighth level changes can take up to two years for a human. It has taken three years for the planet.

Ninth level is about integrating the spiritual changes from seventh level and the physical changes of eighth into your physical life. In ninth level, relationships are your focus, for it is through relationships that you test yourself and the changes that have been wrought within you.

You may find that any relationship based on control or manipulation becomes intolerable, and many relationships end during this phase. You may also find that your work in the world changes as you integrate your new identity. The void of ninth level Light Body can be very painful, for after so much focus on relationships, this void requires you to ultimately be alone with yourself.

After all, the relationship you have with yourself is the most important relationship you have, is it not? Ninth level ends (and sometimes begins) with fairly massive descensions, giving you yet another relationship to integrate as a part of your process.

At the beginning of tenth level, life feels new, and you may feel newly born and very tender. Tenth level is the beginning of the spiritual awakening that will lead to your mastery of the abilities that mark the spiritual masters and adepts. These abilities, or gifts of the spirit, will become stronger as you become energetically clearer.

In tenth level the focus will be on manifesting these spiritual gifts, and then integrating the gifts fully so they are usable in your physical, everyday life. Your greatest natural spiritual gift will be the first to manifest in tenth level, and your other gifts of the spirit will open later in a gradual way.

You will be required to live by your spiritual gifts. If you are clairvoyant, for example, you must make decisions by what you perceive clairvoyantly – not by what you perceive physically. Your clairvoyance will literally overtake your physical sight during tenth level. You may notice one day that you are very clearly seeing three curbs and sidewalks.

Deciding where to place your foot may be very confusing. You will be seeing the physical curb and sidewalk, the etheric curb and sidewalk, and the fourth dimensional curb and sidewalk. If you rely completely on your clairvoyance, not the physical sense of sight, you will know where to step. If you use the physical sense of sight you may trip a few times in a public place.

Eventually you will learn how to process this type of vision. The process of becoming clear is one of releasing stored energy from the emotional body and the mental body, and relocating that energy to the spiritual body where it becomes usable, through which miracles are created.

The only difference between an Avatar and an ordinary man is the location of the energy held within the energy bodies. An ordinary man has all his energy “locked-up” in stored emotions and memories in the emotional body, and beliefs, dogmas and thoughts in the mental body.

The ordinary man has a flat spiritual body, for there is no energy to spare from the demands of the emotions and thoughts. An avatar has clear emotional and mental bodies. All the energy held within an Avatar’s subtle bodies, is stored in the Spiritual Body.

For a Master, the energy associated with emotion flows into the emotional body from the spiritual body IN THE MOMENT, and is released to the spiritual body once the emotional stimulus has ended. The energy associated with a thought flows from the spiritual body to the mental body, and then is released to the spiritual body as the thought is completed.

This leaves an Avatar’s energy free, to use according to his will. The spiritual energy is available to an avatar because it is not consumed by thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and memories. This is the energetic structure each of you must create in your energy bodies, during tenth and eleventh level Light Body. This will allow each of you to perform miracles such as manifesting thought into physical reality.

(To be continued tomorrow)

Footnotes

(1) Ascension was once called the “Resurrection Dispensation,” as here: “Know that the great Resurrection Dispensation is now in full effect for the Planet Earth and all upon her. All who choose will rise up with the Earth into the Higher Dimensions.” (“A Message from Maitreya and Buddha,” April 1, 2009, through Marlene Swetlishoff, at http://www.therainbowscribe.com/.)

It was also once called “the Rapture,” as Archangel Michael testifies to:

AAM: Now when the word, … and this is a word that is highly charged, that people talk about …the “rapture.” Well I assure you, dear friend, that when you ascend, you will feel a sense of rapture! Now, because that is a highly charged word, I would say, “you will feel the bliss.” So we will not call it the “rapture.” But that is what it is.

S: I thought that might be the case, that it is a rapture.

AAM: But the word has become politicized. (“Archangel Michel: Creating a World of Peace,” Sept. 15, 2011, at http://stevebeckow.com/2011/09/archangel-michael-creating-a-world-of-peace/.)

(2) The hum that we hear, I consider, taking Paramahansa Yogananda’s lead, to be the music of the spheres, the sound of the cosmic motor, the Mother’s Aum or universal creative vibration. It isn’t tennitis.


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2/6/2013 10:43:41 PM

Yeshua and the Company of Heaven: You Are The ‘Love Carriers’

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Yeshua and the Company of Heaven: You Are The ‘Love Carriers’

As channeled through Fran Zepeda – Feburary 4, 2013

http://www.franhealing.com/Current-Channelled-Message.html

Greetings, dear ones. By now many of you are grasping the Truth that the wonders of the Universe are at your fingertips and that the illusion that once seemed real is crumbling into dust through those same fingers. It is that easy, dear ones, as you choose to see and experience everything from your new 5th dimensional perspective, and even higher for some.

Behold the changes that are already subtly etched on your psyche and becoming more indelibly encrypted as you orient yourself only through your Heart and your new perspective gained by the recent energy influxes.

We of the Company of Heaven express our heartfelt thanks to all of you who have persevered through these confusing times, through these deepening clearings and subsequent rebuilding and establishing of new clarity and perspective

Taking steps now onto that newly-laid ground is proving to be very heartening for many of you as you discover new truths and insights as a result of your new expansion.

Take some time now to integrate and get used to your new footing into the ever-changing and ever-heightening New Earth at your fingertips, dear ones. Get used to the new altitude and solidify your footing there so you never need to revisit your old world.

The path is opening and expanding before you, revealing a myriad of possibilities now that you are accepting your existence in this new frequency and vibration. The more you accept it and don’t resist it, the more clear and crystalline everything becomes in your wake

You are the trail-blazers and the more you adjust to the brighter light, the easier others behind you can adjust and accept and see very clearly what is being laid out as the new norm of existence

You are no doubt discovering a plethora of new feelings and perspectives and insights as you make your way on this new path laid open by the energies of the last few months. Nothing is the same unless you want it to be. But why would you, dear ones?

Begin to weave these new golden threads, that were formed recently, into the life you know you deserve, into the life that is being revealed to you by accepting and anchoring the basic Truth of your Divine nature. Mingle among your fellow Light Beings of Creator and revel in your new-found perspective

Take heart in your decision to exist only in your Heart from now on and to explore the many possibilities that you can create from just being there all the time. Let nothing else beckon you. Settle in and endure now, dear ones, and be with us always in your hearts and thoughts. Allow us to show you what you have always known, and then tap more of your essential Truth residing within your Heart and Soul of Divine Love.

You are the ‘Love Carriers’, complete and replete in your mission to illuminate and create what is all about purity of existence. What you hold now at your fingertips can only be described as miraculous and wondrous and only as big and expansive as you make it

So replenish yourself minute by minute with the Unconditional Divine Love from Creator and thus allow that to be your building materials for your new world in the making. Stand fast and true to your new tools of the trade composed of ever-glistening golden hues of Unconditional Love and Integrity and Balance and Wholeness.

These new tools are finding their way forward in the reflection of Creator that you are increasingly allowing to be your guide as you uncover your roots in that very same Source.

Be Love, Be the Divine, Be the Glow of Creator as you embark on your continued journey steeped in the higher realms and firmly grounded into New Earth. May the Peace that comes with that be your eternal companion and guide, never wavering in your purpose to spread it unequivocally and irrevocably and firmly as you continue to forge your way. We are eternally by your side in this endeavor.

All of our love is yours,

Your loving brother Yeshua, with the Company of Heaven

As Channeled Through Fran Zepeda. Permission is given to copy and distribute this material, provided the content is copied in its entirety and unaltered, is distributed freely, and this notice and links are included.
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2/6/2013 10:44:43 PM

More UK Senior Banker Resignations

John Hourican is expected to leave the bank at the end of the month, with a successor to be announced in due course Photo: Getty Images

John Hourican is expected to leave the bank at the end of the month, with a successor to be announced in due course Photo: Getty Images

More UK Senior Banker Resignations

Stephen: There seems to be a flurry of activity among the big banks, in the UK at least, as senior key players continue to leave the upper ‘echelons’ of banking as bankers’ big bonuses continue to be disputed and/or waived (or are they simply being withheld?).

Here are just three departure and bonus-related stories. It’s the comments posted by readers of these stories that tell the real story. To read these, click through via the links at the very end of this post.

Story 1: Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Investment Chief to Resign and Waive £4m Bonus

By Helia Ebrahimi, and Harry Wilson, The Telegraph, UK – February 6, 2013

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9851327/RBS-investment-chief-John-Hourican-to-resign-and-waive-4m-bonus.html

The head of Royal Bank of Scotland’s investment banking arm is set to give up a bonus pot worth £4m as he resigns from the lender over its involvement in Libor-rigging.

John Hourican, chief executive of markets and international banking, will leave the bank with the minimum pay-off to which he is entitled – a year’s basic salary of £700,000 – as he becomes the most senior executive at the taxpayer-backed lender to leave his job in the wake of the rate-rigging scandal.

Mr Hourican’s departure is expected to be announced to RBS staff as the bank publishes details of a settlement of around £400m over accusations it manipulated key global borrowing rates between 2005 and 2010. It is not known whether the bank will admit any liability.

The Irish banker is expected to forgo share awards worth £4m as part of a series of moves by the bank intended to defuse public anger, that will also see about £250m deducted from RBS’s bonus pool.

Friends of Mr Hourican expressed anger at his departure, pointing out that he was not in charge of the investment banking business for much of the time Libor-rigging was going on.

“George Osborne has played the part of a school room bully which will hurt the taxpayer in the end,” said one source at the bank. He added: “John slaved every day for this company. He is taking the fall. But he will leave with his head held high.”

Mr Hourican is expected to leave the bank at the end of the month, with a successor to be announced in due course. However, his division has been targeted for further shrinkage, despite already being more than halved in size.

Chief executive Stephen Hester and chairman Sir Philip Hampton are expected to hold a meeting on Wednesday afternoon to discuss the scandal. Mr Hester has already said he will not be taking a bonus himself for 2012 in the wake of last year’s IT disaster that saw some customers lose access to their money for several weeks.

In an email to staff on Tuesday night, Mr Hester apologised for the speculation surrounding the Libor settlement announcement, and said he and Sir Philip would not be “ducking the difficult questions”. He added: “We will also ensure that wrongdoers have been punished.”

RBS’s expected admission that it was involved in Libor-rigging will make it the second British bank to settle with the US and UK authorities after Barclays paid £290m in fines last June. HSBC and Lloyds Banking Group are also being investigated as part of the probe.

Officials from the Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the US, as well as the Financial Services Authority in London have been investigating RBS, along with more than a dozen other major financial institutions as part of a global into the conspiracy to manipulate rates for profit.

The Serious Fraud Office last year arrested three individuals over their alleged involvement in Libor-rigging, including Tom Hayes, a former trader for UBS and Citigroup. The SFO has said it hopes to bring criminal charges against those found to be involved in rate manipulation.

One source close to the investigation said that Wednesday’s settlement would include details of what are thought to be highly embarrassing emails sent by RBS staff implicated in the scandal.

Last month, senior Barclays executives, including investment banking chief Rich Ricci and finance director Chris Lucas, were identified on a “shortlist” of 25 names by regulators looking at Libor manipulation. The bankers names were released after a London court turned down an attempt by some of the individuals to remain anonymous in case being brought against Barclays. The judge in the case said: “The cat is out of the bag. It wouldn’t take a rocket scientist to work out who they are.”

Business Secretary Vince Cable will claim on Wednesday that any hopes of a privatisation of RBS “now looks a distant dream, unless at an unacceptable loss”. He will urge the Chancellor to consider more radical measures to get the bank off the Government’s hands. Mr Cable believes the Government should launch a giveaway of RBS securities that would allow voters to share in the upside of the bank’s share price above a pre-defined floor price.

 Jim O'Neill came up with the BRIC acronym in 2001 Photo: Clara Molden

Jim O’Neill came up with the BRIC acronym in 2001 Photo: Clara Molden

Story 2: Goldman Sachs Asset Management Chairman Jim O’Neill to Retire

By Philip Aldrick, The Telegraph, UK – February 5, 2013

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9851211/Goldman-Sachs-asset-management-chairman-Jim-ONeill-to-retire.html

Jim O’Neill, the Goldman Sachs economist who came up with the BRIC acronym in 2001 and foresaw the growth of the emerging markets, is retiring from the Wall Street bank later this year.

In a personal statement, chief executive Lloyd Blankfein and president Gary Cohn said he had made the decision after “nearly 20 years of outstanding service”. The announcement came as a surprise and no mention was made of his future plans.

Mr O’Neill, 55, is best known for coining the term BRIC in 2001 to describe how the emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China would challenge the West’s economic dominance. It was a foresight that Mr Blankfein and Mr Cohn described as a “revolutionary economic trend”.

“Jim’s BRIC thesis has challenged conventional thinking about emerging markets and, as a result, has had a significant economic and social impact,” they added.

The son of a postman, he grew up in Gatley in Manchester before studying geography and economics at Sheffield University. After brief stints at Swiss Bank and Bank of America, he joined Goldman in 1995 as a partner. There, he rose to the very top, becoming its chief economist before being made chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) three years ago – a role created specifically for Mr O’Neill.

A die-hard Manchester United fan, he tried to put together a consortium of fellow supporters to take over the club in 2010. The “Red Knights” bid ultimately failed, but it catapulted him into the general public’s consciousness. Last year, he was talked about as a potential candidate to take over as Governor of the Bank of England.

More recently, he has emerged as an optimist about the economic outlook, writing last month about the “reasons for the world economy to be cheerful in 2013”. However, he has been critical of UK policy, saying in January that the contraction in GDP in the last quarter of 2012 showed that “policy has been on the wrong path”.

He is not expected to be replaced as chairman of the investment bank’s asset management arm, which will continue to be led by co-heads Tim O’Neil and Eric Lane.

Mr Blankfein and Mr Cohn said that, at GSAM, he had “strengthened our research discipline and enhanced communication among investment professionals across asset classes”. They added: “We wish Jim and his family all the best in the years ahead.”

Allison Carnwath

Allison Carnwath

Story 3: Barclays’ Former Pay Chief Alison Carnwath Argued Against Bob Diamond Bonus

By James Moore, The Independent – January 30, 2013

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/barclays-former-pay-chief-alison-carnwath-argued-against-bob-diamond-bonus-8473773.html

Barclays former pay chief today said she had called for no bonus to be paid to the beleaguered bank’s previous chief executive Bob Diamond and described some bankers’ pay as “obscene”.

Alison Carnwath told the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards that she was ultimately over-ruled by the remainder of the board, which followed the recommendation of former chairman Marcus Agius to pay Mr Diamond his millions in 2011.

She described herself as “amazed” at Mr Agius’ view that Mr Diamond deserved a bonus for a year in which Mr Diamond himself had described performance as “unacceptable”.

Both Mr Agius and Mr Diamond quit their jobs in the wake of the Libor interest rate fixing scandal that cost Barclays £290m in fines to regulators on both sides of the Atlantic.

Ms Carnwath, who was chairman of Barclays remuneration committee until last summer when she resigned for personal reasons, also said she felt Mr Diamond “over-paid” colleagues in his investment bank in a misguided attempt to secure their loyalty.

“Bod Diamond had always enjoyed a generous package. I really believe he thought he found loyalty in people around him by paying them very well, in my view, more than he needed,” she told members of the Commission.

Ms Carnwath, herself a former investment banker, also rounded on what she saw as a “culture of entitlement” that has emerged in banking. “This has resulted in the fear of losing good people, obscene levels of award in a minority of cases and excessive reward in many cases for the investment banking community.”

Mr Diamond was awarded a £2.7m annual bonus for 2011 despite the bank missing his own targets although that is only one part of his package which has been put at close to £20m for that year.

More then a third of shareholders voted against the company’s remuneration report and more than a fifth voted against Ms Carnwath’s re-election, as she carried the can for the payment.

But it subsequently emerged that she alone had objected to Mr Diamond’s deal.

She publicly confirmed that before the Commission, in an unusual display of candour by a non executive director. Such people only rarely put their heads above the parapet despite their role in overseeing executives on behalf of shareholders.

Explaining the decision to pay Mr Diamond, Ms Carnwath said: “It is my belief that a lot of people felt that Mr Diamond needed to have this bonus, it was important to him… He needed recognition in this sort of way”.

She said Mr Diamond had proved himself to be “very talented” at building up Barclays’ profitable investment banking business but “we were talking about a bonus for his role as CEO going forward. It was his first year as ceo and I just didn’t think it was appropriate”.

Ms Carnwath said she felt there were some Barclays directors who were “sympathetic to my point of view” but said that they “generally went with the chairman (Mr Agius).”

She still serves as a director of a number of companies including property giant Land Securities, which she chairs.

Committee members later rounded on Sir John Sunderland, the current chair of Barclays remuneration committee, who insisted that Mr Diamond had deserved to be paid something.

And they questioned whether the bank could truly say it had reformed its culture, and the message that might be sent out if Mr Diamond’s successor Antony Jenkins were to be paid a seven figure bonus.

He could be due that despite being in the top job for only a matter months.

Earlier former chancellor Lord Lawson had some sharp exchanges with Carol Arrowsmith, who advises on boardroom pay for Deloitte, the City consultant.

They came after he described remuneration consultants as a profession that “make prostitutes thoroughly respectable”.

To read each newspaper’s readers’ comments head here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9851327/RBS-investment-chief-John-Hourican-to-resign-and-waive-4m-bonus.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9851211/Goldman-Sachs-asset-management-chairman-Jim-ONeill-to-retire.html


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/barclays-former-pay-chief-alison-carnwath-argued-against-bob-diamond-bonus-8473773.html


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2/7/2013 11:02:16 AM
From Wes Annac's personal blog:

And Endless Life of Endless Positivity

[07 Feb 2013]

360 smallRight about now, I’m reaching a place of realizing that everything, in every moment, is alright. Perhaps some of you could find it strange that it has taken me this long to reach such a point and I would say that it hasn’t; rather, I’ve been realizing more and more every day that everything is great and that neither I nor we have anything to worry or be concerned about.

One of the main reasons this is so is because we’re undergoing a temporary and finite human existence. We are spiritual beings who are now dipping into realms far beyond what humanity would expect to be possible and as we realize the brimming higher realms waiting to be accessed by us, we will be able to look at everything that happens in our Lives in an increasingly-understanding Light.

We will begin to realize that events manifesting in our Lives are not meant to bring us down, put us in fear or apprehension or lower our vibrations in any way. For most of us, this is not what we were taught as children. We were taught that if we stepped out of line or misbehaved, we had a just punishment coming to us and personally, I can remember the anxious and anxiety-ridden feeling of waiting to be “punished”.

As adults, we are seeing that we now have the power to carve our own paths and Create our own destiny, as our ability to do so was perceived to have been assumed by the parents and guardian figures who were trying to pave a good path for us and teach us basic laws for us to Live by in this world.

Now, we are seeing that we have the power to Create, do and experience what we wish to and for me personally, the strong awakening that has accelerated exponentially since the 21st and the beginning of this year is helping me to realize that fear, pain and apprehension are aspects of the past.

Even aspects of my Life I’d dare not tread previously are opening up for me now as I realize that I am treading a path of dignity, honor, respect and most important of all – Light. I am treading a path of the highest and purest Light and so are you, but we have to realize it is so and we have to use the tools of awareness now available to us, to tread our paths with the purest intent.

We can flourish in this time now. Some of us are not; some are depleted, tired and wishing to take a few turns off of the Earth ride for a while and recuperate and at times, I’m a part of that crowd. At other times, I’m a part of the crowd of flourishing, awakening souls who are finding personal revolutions within themselves as we collectively begin to find the realization that negativity of any kind will no longer be a part of our experience.

Another thing I’ve noticed about negativity fading is that I’m now able to understand every negative situation still manifesting, in a much clearer light than I did before.

I can see when my feeding of negativity garners negativity for me and I can see that when I allow myself to be dragged down and feel the resulting heavy feelings, it’s not because of the external circumstances I have allowed to bring me down and convince me to feel as a victim. It’s because the part of my ego that has thrived on negativity, depression, stress and anxiety knows no other emotion, feeling or way of being and it is latching itself onto me in a last-ditch attempt to reinforce its feedings.

This is similar to what’s happening on the world stage with the cabals. Whose left of them are fighting endlessly to maintain their grip and influence on a world that has clearly found the Light and is ready to move into the new paradigm. They are finding themselves unable to maintain such a grip and, much like our egos at this time, are finding themselves less and less in the spotlight as again, we are moving on from them and their influence as a planet.

Their influence has been fed by scary stories and disinformation pieces claiming they were about to do this or that and while raising awareness is crucial, the fear and melodrama surrounding the cabals that can be found on certain alternative news websites has only enforced the very energies they have wanted us to feed. I’ve noticed as well that this is the aim of those who are paid to spread negativity on the internet. (1)

I used to think that those who I’ve called “disinformation commenters” were solely fulfilling a specific agenda of shaping and influencing public opinion and while what’s left of them will attempt to do so, their main goal is to spread and feed negativity; to cause infighting amongst members of various websites and to bring down and twist up the positivity that is meant to be expressed at this time.

Though it may sound strange, those souls are actually assisting us in our growth by playing the roles of catalysts, representing in many cases, the “other side” of the beliefs of whomever they would fight with.

I do not wish to feed even their influence by putting them in the spotlight; I only wish to point out that the jobs of various people who are paid to post onto forums and websites strongly involve fighting and causing negativity and separation. I point this out to return to the fact that those very energies are no longer being fed and expressed in the collective consciousness in the manners they once were, because of the potent individual and collective awakenings taking place at this time.

No soul except ourselves can influence our opinions or emotions now, and while there are still those some would consider unawakened who are allowing themselves to be shaped and molded according to the image of another, the rising vibrations and the awareness that comes with such vibrations is garnering full consciousness and understanding in humanity and along with it, the endless positivity and happiness that has always been ours to experience is unlocked once again.

Can you imagine how great things will be when we find we’ve all individually unlocked the never-ending happiness, joy and bliss of the higher realms? Truly, nothing will inhibit us in rebuilding our world and seeing to it that our surface reflects the vibrations and emotions we’re beginning to re-access and run with.

If you have not yet found this positivity and wholeness, you are strongly encouraged to do so! Even beyond all of the spiritual material that can be absorbed or the various perspectives of matters we can receive, the essential element of retaining a state of positivity is what will always bring you back to those good feelings and emotions we all enjoy so much.

Wes Annac – Energized with positivity and wanting to pass it along.

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Footnotes:

(1)-Again, it is probably best not to expend our energy worrying about actions being funded by the cabals such as this, but for those who would like to know a little bit more about the active campaign to spread negativity, infighting and shape public opinion, here are a couple of links to confessionals of people who’ve been paid to do so.

“I was a Paid Internet Shill” at:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread826545/pg1


“I was a Paid Internet Troll” at:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread738780/pg1

"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)

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