The Manuscript of Survival – Part 340, channeled by Aisha North, August 9, 2013 at http://aishanorth.wordpress.com

The time is rolling by, and you are perhaps more than a little bit anxious as to what all of this energetic upgrading will result in. For some, it may feel like you are starting to fall apart at the seams, and you will tell yourself ”I simply cannot take this any longer”.

But for others, they will look around and think ”where are these heavy bouts of energy that the others seem to suffer from? I do not feel anything at all, am I in the wrong here, or have I been left out of everything?”. On both counts can we firmly say that all is indeed well, and you are not about to go to pieces, nor are you skipping any of the adjustments.

For again we must remind you that even if these storms rage in so many ways, the way you respond to them them will be very individual. Some of you will have exactly the same physical and mental symptoms that often accompany these energetic emissions, and so, you will find solace in the fact that you are not alone in feeling more or less ravaged by these storms. While for others, their journey will be one that may perceived as more singular, and as such, they will struggle for a whole other set of reasons than those who feel more under the weather than most at the moment.

But again we say all is as it is supposed to be, and even if your physical vehicle will be emitting more alarm signals at the moment and for a more prolonged period of time than usual, know that it is not about to give up on you. For you are build of strong stuff dear ones, and you are becoming stronger still by all that is literally going through your body, but we also know that this will indeed be small consolation to all those suffering badly now. Just remember, you are not under any risk of having any detrimental effect from these energies, far from it. Look upon these signals that your body is sending out as merely rumbles of irritation rather than signals of real distress.

As always, pay close attention to what your body is saying to you, for then and only then will you know that there is indeed a difference from what these energies will activate and what may come from any underlying weakness you might have. For what these energies will do, is to push your buttons in so many ways, and this pushing in itself is nothing to be worried about. It can be likened to a sort of irritation or perhaps a form of allergy, where your body’s defence mechanisms may go into overdrive at times in order to try to drive out these new vibrations it perceives as some sort of ”interlopers” to your system.

Remember, your body has been programmed to maintain status quo at all cost, and so, when these regular bombardments of energetic vibrations start to penetrate ever deeper into your system, all those watchdogs who have been given the task of making sure that nothing unknown should slip in under their guard will be prepared to sound the alarms.

And now, the alarm will be ringing louder and more frequent than ever. But this in itself is no cause for alarm, only for taking more care of yourself and allowing your body the rest it needs in order to be better able to acquiesce to this energetic change it is going through. So again we say breathe deeply, and know that this is indeed the very simple, but also the most effective way for staying afloat in this churning mass of energy that is buffeting you on all sides.

And to those of you wondering why your body is not sounding the alarm, do not be alarmed either. It is simply your energetic set up that is corresponding with these energies in a different way, and as such, you will be sailing through this period with more ease than others.

Archangel Michael: Your Personal Sacred Geometry, channeled by Natalie Glasson, August 7, 2013 at http://omna.org

Multi-coloured rainbows of light from the Angelic Kingdom pour into your being and surroundings creating pockets of joy, bliss and divinity to inspire the same to activate within your being. The Angelic Kingdom are extremely present at this time upon the Earth, our energies are assisting and supporting in building a new energetic fabric and foundation for the Earth and humanity but we are especially assisting in enthusing the consciousness of humanity with vibrations of truth from our souls.

If you are able to consciously link into our vibrations of truth transmitting into the general consciousness of humanity, you may find yourself being deeply inspired with vibrant information and new exciting insights allowing you to gaze upon yourself and reality with fresh eyes. Never before has so much wisdom from the Angelic Kingdom been shared so openly and poured into the consciousness of humanity.

The bond between the Earth and the inner planes, humanity and light beings is enhancing as separation and illusions pour away. Many of you are now able to receive our wisdom, understanding the truth and inspiration we are sharing, being able to transfer the knowledge you receive into action and experiences on the Earth. As this occurs more regularly, separation and illusions will give way to truth, inspiration and high vibrational consciousness equalling that of the Angelic Kingdom.

During meditation you can be of service to yourself and to humanity by calling upon the multi- coloured rainbows of light from the Angelic Kingdom to surround you completely, breathing this light deeply into all aspects and parts of your being.

Imagine or create a symbol of your own consciousness, you may sense that your consciousness extends from your soul but you may wish to include your mental body as an interpreter and transmitter of your consciousness. Imagine, sense or acknowledge the multi-coloured rainbows of light flowing into your soul consciousness, your mental body and mind.

Imagine the consciousness of humanity, you may visualise it as a cloud that hovers above all of humanity, flowing into their beings. As you breathe deeply, imagine that the multi-coloured rainbows of light are flowing into the consciousness of humanity, settling and drifting into their entire beings.

With each of these processes you are opening up to the energies of the Angelic Kingdom, say out loud, ‘I open myself as a divine receiver and channel of the multi-coloured rainbows of light of the Angelic Kingdom, connecting with and receiving the sacred truth, inspiration and high vibrational consciousness of the Angelic Kingdom. Support me in interpreting the wisdom and insights in the most perfect way to further assist my ascension process. Let it be so.’

The more that you connect into the energies of the Angelic Kingdom you will notice your own energy vibrations accelerating to equal the vibration and light frequency of the Angelic Kingdom.

Our purpose of anchoring light into your being and inspiring you to exist beyond separation and illusions is to encourage deep awakenings and activations within your being. Your entire being is already transforming in numerous exciting ways especially with the influence of the new energies now anchoring as you have consciously moved into a cycle of love and experience of the Creator’s vibrations.

Throughout the entire year of 2013 your vibrations are soaring but you are also undergoing a process of stabilising within your energies which is in preparation for magnificent activations to occur within your being which will transform you in many ways beyond recognition.

Your body and energies are akin to an alarm clock waiting to sound, once it is the perfect time and your alarm begins to sound deep activations within your being will occur. There can be over a thousand major activations and energetic shifts waiting to erupt from within your being, this will be your body, energy and soul adjusting itself to align as and with the divinity of the Creator.

It is possible that even your physical body will alter, the way that you eat, the functions and even the appearance of your body could alter drastically. Your perspectives may alter as your consciousness and mind link into all dimensions of the Creator’s universe; you will also be able to receive and transmute abundant volumes of light allowing you to exist as a power source. In many ways you are a species known as humanity which is developing into a new species upon the Earth that is significantly more at one with the Creator.

Due to the transitions that are and will occur especially at a physical level we remind you of letting go of attachments particularly to your reality, appearance, perspectives and desires. It is your soul that you can rely upon to offer you feelings of familiarity, security, protection and unconditional love.

All shifts and activations will come from within your being and will sometimes ripple through your chakras as powerful emanating light. With the presence of the Angelic multi-coloured rainbows of light and due to the divine timing of the Creator, a beautiful activation is occurring or can be invoked from within your being. The activation of your personal sacred geometry, this is the sacred geometry of your soul, akin to powerful symbols of light that ignite further awakening remembrance and illumination within your being. The sacred geometry flows through your chakras but especially your heart chakra.

The more that you can encourage and focus upon your chakras being cleansed, healed and illuminated in and by light, the easier it will be for your soul’s sacred geometry to flow through your chakras. It may be that only a few symbols flow forward, entering into your conscious being upon the Earth through a certain chakra that denotes and enthuses their energies and purpose. Each person’s experience may be different as the soul will bring forward, whether you are aware or not, sacred geometry symbols which will form almost as an imprint or structure within your chakras and auric field to aid the development of your divine purpose upon the Earth.

This process is extremely powerful as it is akin to a new map or directions being given to guide you forward upon your divine path. The symbols will also offer strength where and when it is needed, increasing your light quotient and energetic vibration. They will also awaken a new cycle in your spiritual growth that is greater aligned to your soul.

It is not required for you to be conscious of this activation process occurring within you but it is a breath-taking experience if you choose to be conscious with patience, inviting these powerful aspects and tools from your soul to unite with your entire being, thus creating a further merge of soul with all expressions of self. You can invoke this process to accelerate your spiritual ascension.

‘Archangel Michael and the Angels of Ascension, I call upon you to surround and bathe me in your multi-coloured rainbows of light, support and protect me as I move through this most beautiful and enlightening stage of my ascension process. Assist the light of the Angelic Kingdom to move through my chakras creating a process of cleansing, healing and purification. I connect deeply into my soul and invite my soul with divine timing to transmit its most appropriate sacred geometry symbols or patterns through the most appropriate chakra or chakras within my being.

Assist and support me in being conscious of this deep awakening process occurring within me, so that I may be able to view, sense and acknowledge the sacred geometry of my soul, understanding its meaning and purpose to aid my ascension process and my purpose at this time on the Earth. I allow the activation of my soul’s sacred geometry to begin and unfold within my being. Let it be so.’

You may find that you are able to draw the sacred geometry of your soul, furthering the process of conscious awareness of yourself and soul. It is also likely that one of the symbols that comes forth is a symbol of physical body renewal, transformation and divine alteration which will assist in what I spoke of at the beginning of this communication.

With joyous support from the Angelic Kingdom
Archangel Michael

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Behind the discussion I had earlier (1) lies an even more difficult situation to manage that has to do with feelings that often trigger action.

There are certain feelings that are troublesome to us which become triggers to action. And the action is usually designed to get us out of the feeling state or revenge ourselves on those whom we feel “made” us feel in an unpleasant way.

Werner Erhard used to call these feelings “unwanted conditions.” They’re what’re being discussed when it’s said that we seek pleasure and avoid pain. Our bias is that these feelings are to be avoided or escaped from when upon us.

This way of being with unwanted feelings is usually ironclad, unquestioned, automatic.

Where is the leverage point in this situation? Is there something we’re missing here?

Must we automatically escape from unpleasant feelings? Must we automatically lash out at another when we feel these ways? What are we (what am I) not seeing?

Is this situation a tightly-tangled ball of string or is there some way to tease the strands out and undo the knots?

By the time we realize the situation is upon us, that situation has become a two-step process. The first step is feeling in ways that are unpleasant and objectionable to us. And the second step is how we react to the situation, what we say or do to ourselves and others.

Theoretically the maneouvering room could lie with either of those two steps.

I notice that simply separating the two steps and approaching them separately provides me with my first bit of manoeuvering room. But let me look further.

(1) Dealing with the Unpleasant or Objectionable Feelings

I’m experiencing a modicum of resentment at this moment out of feeling attacked by another. Let me look at what resentment feels like.

I feel anger at a level below the surface of my awareness. The fact that it’s slightly below awareness, on the back burner so to speak, is why I call it resentment rather than anger.

What’s problematic about that resentment/anger? There’s a social component. A voice inside me says I should not feel angry. So I am going against what I believe is the ideal behavior for myself and in society and that induces me to think “I have a problem.”

But do I have a problem? Or do I just have anger? I see right away that questioning whether anger is a problem has induced that anger to lift slightly.

The anger continues to lift as time proceeds and what I take away from that is that the anger itself was perhaps not the problem but that the self-judgement I added to it may have been the actual problem.

The anger has now reached a point where it’s simply there but barely noticeable. I’m beginning to forget why I originally felt anger or who may have been involved. It’s fading back into the sea of forgetfulness.

I’m further convinced that the self-judgement that the anger was a problem is what may have made the situation problematic.

(2) Dealing with How I React to the Situation

Because the anger lifted as a result of managing my self-judgement, I feel no need to react to the situation so the second step of the process automatically receded and dissolved when the first step was handled.

In fact I feel “restored to Self,” as Werner would say, and feel no further need to look at the second step.

What I’m left with, as a testable hypothesis for future experiments, is that adding self-judgment to the way I feel, if the way I feel is seen to be negative, problematic or anti-social, is what causes the feeling to pass from being simply what is to being an “unwanted condition.”

If I simply accept the feeling as a feeling and don’t add self-judgment to it, it arises and passes away without me needing to do very much about it, perhaps apart from simply observing it.

My tentative conclusion is that judging myself is the step taken that turns what is into a problem. Releasing my judgment of myself and the situation may be all that’s needed to lift the persistence of the feeling and prevent an “unwanted” feeling from becoming a “problem.”

Footnotes

(1) “Coaching Has Been a Lifesaver,” at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/08/coaching-has-been-a-lifesaver/.

Video: Interview with “Original” NSA Whisteblower Russell Tice – as Obama Touts NSA Reforms

Posted by Stephen Cook on August 10, 2013

Thanks to Monty

This interview may be a month old (it was recorded in early July) but it’s still relevant today.

It features Russell Tice, former intelligence analyst and original NSA whistleblower in conversation with Russia Today’s Abby Martin. The two discuss how the recent NSA scandal is only scratching the surface of a massive surveillance apparatus, citing specific targets the he saw spying orders for both former senators Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Meanwhile, in latest news… President Obama is to work with Congress to reform NSA’s FISA Court and the Patriot Act

President Obama Touts NSA Surveillance Reforms to Quell Growing Unease Over Programs

By Paul Lewis and Spencer Ackerman in Washington, The Guardian – August 9, 2013

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/09/obama-nsa-surveillance-reforms-press-conference

Barack Obama announced the first public review of US surveillance programs since 9/11 on Friday, in what amounts to the president’s first concession that the mounting public concern in response to disclosures by whistleblower Edward Snowden justifies reform.

After weeks in which the Obama and senior intelligence officials have insisted that the privacy of US citizens was sufficiently protected, the president announced a series of measures aimed at containing the controversy prompted by the Guardian’s revelations.

At a White House press conference – his first full question-and-answer session in three months – Obama said that revelations about the National Security Agency’s activities had led Americans to question their trust in government and damaged the country’s reputation abroad. But he made it clear that the programs themselves would remain in place.

Announcing that a panel of independent figures would “review our entire intelligence and communications technologies”, reporting before the end of the year, Obama said: “We need new thinking for a new era.”

In an apparent reference to the series of disclosures by the Guardian over the last two months, the president said the “drip by drip” cascade of stories based on documents provided by Snowden had “changed the environment” and impacted public perceptions.

“It is not enough for me as president to have confidence in these programs. The American people need to have confidence in them as well,” he said.

Obama began his press conference by announcing what he described as “four specific steps” designed to reassure the public and improve the US’s reputation abroad. The proposals included a commitment to work with Congress to “pursue appropriate reforms” to Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which has been used to authorise the bulk collection of millions of US phone records.

He said he would work with legislators to revamp the secretive foreign intelligence surveillance (Fisa) court, which grants the NSA legal authorization for its mass collection, to make it more adverserial. Obama conceded the court worked on the basis of biased proceedings which “only hear one side of the story” and “may tilt it too far in favour of security, may not pay enough attention to liberty”.

Obama’s suggestion that “privacy advocates” would be introduced to some Fisa court proceedings was not unexpected. Three senators, Richard Blumenthal, Mark Udall and Ron Wyden, last week introduced a bill to create such an advocate – a proposal that appears to have wide support.

Nothing Obama announced is likely to materially alter the NSA’s ongoing mass collection of phone data and surveillance of internet communications in the short term. Neither did the president exhibit much appetite for significantly altering the surveillance capabilities of the US intelligence community, saying at one point the aim might be to “jigger slightly” the balance between the intelligence and “the incremental encroachment on privacy”.

But the announcement, made shortly before the president departed for his vacation, represents a significant climbdown for the White House, which for two months has maintained that it has struck the right balance between privacy and security.

Democratic senator Ron Wyden, a leading critic of the NSA’s bulk surveillance powers in the Senate, welcomed Obama’s proposals, but called for greater detail. “Notably absent from President Obama’s speech was any mention of closing the backdoor searches loophole that potentially allows for the warrantless searches of Americans’ phone calls and emails under section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,” Wyden said.

The senator was referring to a disclosure in the Guardian based on a top-secret document which indicates the NSA has a secret backdoor into its databases under a legal authority enabling it to search for US citizens’ email and phone calls without a warrant.

The document, published on Friday three hours before Obama’s announcement, contrasts with assurances that president and senior intelligence officials have previously given that the privacy of US citizens is protected from dragnet surveillance programs targeted at foreigners. “I believe that this provision requires significant reforms as well and I will continue to fight to close that loophole,” Wyden said.

Obama acknowledged that Snowden’s disclosures had triggered a public debate, but insisted the whistleblower was “not a patriot” and claimed that the reforms might have been implemented if the leaks had not happened. “There is no doubt that Mr Snowden’s leaks triggered a much more rapid and passionate response than would have been the case if I had simply appointed this review board, if I had sat down with Congress [and] worked this thing through,” he said.

Throughout his press conference, Obama said there was no evidence that the intelligence agencies had “abused” their powers, insisting he was instead addressing a problem of public perceptions.

“If you are outside of the intelligence community, if you are the ordinary person, and you start to see a bunch of headlines saying ‘US, Big Brother, looking down on you, collecting telephone records, etc’, well, understandably people would be concerned,” he said. “I would be too, if I wasn’t inside the government.”

Jameel Jaffer, the deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, took issue with the president’s stance. “The intelligence agencies say you can’t point to instances of abused authority,” he said. “The fact that the government is collecting all this information is itself a form of abuse. But even if you take their narrow definition of abuse, we don’t have the information to evaluate that. It’s all secret.”

The chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee, Dianne Feinstein, who has defended the NSA, said the review announced by the president would be the “primary order of business” for the committee after the summer.

Like Obama, she framed the review as a measure that would address public sensibilities rather than in any way rein back NSA surveillance. “To the extent possible, I hope these hearings will better delineate the purpose and scope of these programs and increase the public’s confidence in their effectiveness,” she said.

In his remarks, Obama said the White House was having to respond to a “changed environment” where disclosures being released “drip by drip, you know, one a week, to kind of maximise attention, and see if they can catch us on some imprecision on something”.

He said: “In light of that, it makes sense to go ahead, lay out what exactly we are doing, have a discussion with Congress, have a discussion with industry, which is also impacted by this, have a discussion with civil libertarians, and see if we can do this better.”

By Ben Protess and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, The New York Times – August 9, 2013

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Government authorities are planning to arrest two former JPMorgan Chase employees suspected of masking the size of a multibillion-dollar trading loss, a dramatic turn in a case that tarnished the reputation of the nation’s biggest bank and spotlighted the perils of Wall Street risk-taking.

The former employees, who worked in London, could be arrested in the coming days, according to people briefed on the matter. The action, the people said, would involve criminal fraud charges.

The employees — Javier Martin-Artajo, a manager who oversaw the trading strategy, and Julien Grout, a low-level trader in London — could ultimately be extradited under an agreement with British authorities. Yet the people briefed on the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, cautioned that it is unclear whether British authorities will be able to locate the men, who are natives of other European countries.

Representatives for the F.B.I. and the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan declined to comment, as did a spokesman for JPMorgan. A lawyer for Mr. Martin-Artajo did not respond to an e-mail. A lawyer for Mr. Grout could not be located.

The plan to arrest the traders hints at an aggressive new stance from the government, which has come under fire for prosecuting only a few Wall Street employees tied to the 2008 financial crisis. Taking aim at employees of a Wall Street giant like JPMorgan, even when they fall below the executive ranks, could send a warning shot across the financial industry.

The losses at the heart of the JPMorgan case stemmed from outsize wagers made by the traders at the bank’s chief investment office in London. The traders used derivatives — complex financial contracts whose value is typically tied to an asset like corporate bonds — to bet on the health of large corporations like American Airlines.

Those trades soured last year, racking up steep losses for the bank. JPMorgan, which initially disclosed the problem last May, has since announced that the losses reached more than $6 billion.

After more than a year of gathering evidence about the losses, federal prosecutors and the F.B.I. in Manhattan have concluded that the two employees understated the value of their trades to hide the problem from executives in New York. Poring over internal e-mails and phone recordings that shine a light on how the employees valued the trades, authorities came to believe that Mr. Martin-Artajo directed Mr. Grout to falsify internal records.

Those actions, JPMorgan told authorities, caused the bank to lowball the losses. Last July, the bank restated its first-quarter 2012 earnings downward by $459 million, conceding errors in the valuations.

The charges hinge on the cooperation of another JPMorgan trader, Bruno Iksil, nicknamed the London Whale because of his role in the unusually large bet. Despite initially personifying the trade — the blowup is referred to colloquially as “the London Whale” — some investigators concluded that he was unfairly blamed.

After giving multiple interviews to authorities, first at a meeting in Brussels and then New York, Mr. Iksil secured a cooperation agreement from the government. It is unclear, however, whether he will face separate charges.

While authorities are not pursuing charges against JPMorgan’s top executives, according to the people briefed on the matter, the bank is nonetheless bracing for civil charges from regulators. The Securities and Exchange Commission, which is expected to cite the bank for lax controls that allowed the traders to undervalue the bets, could strike a settlement with the bank as soon as this fall.

The Financial Conduct Authority, a British regulator, also plans to fine the bank in the coming months, one person said.

In an unusually aggressive move, the S.E.C. is seeking to extract an admission of wrongdoing from the nation’s biggest bank. If JPMorgan concedes to that demand, such an admission would reverse a longtime practice at the S.E.C., which has allowed defendants for decades to “neither admit nor deny wrongdoing.” The people briefed on the case added that the agency had not threatened to file civil charges against JPMorgan executives.

As the criminal case progresses, the government could face challenges in the courtroom. For one, Wall Street cases are unusually difficult to prove to jurors who must grapple with financial jargon.

That hurdle is particularly high in this case, which centers on the vagaries of rules that even seasoned Wall Street employees struggle to interpret. Under the rules, traders are granted some leeway to value their trades on derivatives contracts because actual prices may not be readily available, presenting a challenge to prosecutors who must prove that employees intentionally cloaked losses.

Even though JPMorgan itself is not the target of criminal scrutiny, the case casts an unwelcome spotlight on the bank. The case could highlight the way the traders breached the bank’s own risk limits to make their bets — suggesting that JPMorgan, once hailed for its risk management, had porous controls.

The case also comes at a time when JPMorgan, which recently reported record quarterly profits, is already grappling with an array of regulatory woes. The bank faces inquiries from at least eight federal agencies, a state regulator and two European nations. Adding to its headaches over the trading losses, authorities are investigating the bank in connection with its financial crisis-era mortgage business. The bank, for example, recently disclosed that federal prosecutors in California are investigating whether it sold troubled mortgage securities to investors before the crisis. Regulators are also examining flaws in the bank’s debt collection practices.

The investigation into the trading losses stems from early 2012. As their bet worsened, JPMorgan has said, the traders started to underestimate the losses.

Since announcing the losses, the bank has overhauled its controls and ousted the employees involved in the bet. The bank’s chief executive, Jamie Dimon, has apologized for the breakdown.

The bank also commissioned an internal investigation into the trades, ultimately turning over its findings to federal authorities and a Senate subcommittee examining the losses.

An ensuing subcommittee report concluded that Mr. Martin-Artajo’s team of traders stopped recording the value of their bet in a “middle range,” shifting to some of the most generous possible figures.

In one recorded phone call referred to in the report, the London Whale, Mr. Iksil, told a colleague that the bank’s estimated losses were “getting idiotic.” Mr. Iksil added that “I can’t keep this going” and that he did not know where his boss in London “wants to stop.”

Reflecting concerns about the estimates, Mr. Grout kept a spreadsheet that tracked the difference between his valuations and the midpoint. The documents, according to the subcommittee’s report, showed that his valuations underestimated the losses by more than $400 million.

Mr. Grout, the subcommittee said, told Mr. Iksil in a recorded conversation, “I am not marking at mids as per a previous conversation.”