Iranian President Hassan Rowhani (AFP Photo)

Stephen: A new era for Iran as President Rouhani starts making changes…going public with his policy on no nuclear arms and no war and, as sage reports, giving political prisoners get their freedom.

Iran’s President on Nuclear Issue: ‘Problem Won’t Be from Our Side’

From RT.com – September 19, 2013

http://rt.com/news/iran-president-nuclear-program-049/

Iran’s new president has said his country will never attempt to develop nuclear weapons and that, two months after being elected, he has the stature to make a deal with Western leaders regarding Iran’s atomic program.

President Hassan Rouhani told NBC News on Wednesday that Iran has stated multiple times that “under no circumstances would we seek any weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, nor will we ever.”

“In its nuclear program this government enters with full power and has complete authority,” he said. “The problem won’t be from our side. We have sufficient political latitude to solve this problem.”

Since succeeding the polarizing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this summer, Rouhani indicated a reluctant willingness to meet and negotiate with US leaders. He told NBC that he traded letters with US President Obama in which the two discussed “some issues” after decades of political hostility between the two nations.

“From my point of view, the tone of the letter was positive and constructive,” Rouhani said of a congratulatory note from Washington after the election. “It could be subtle and tiny steps for a very important future. I believe the leaders in all countries could think in their national interest and they should not be under the influence of pressure groups. I hope to witness such an atmosphere in the future.”

Iran releases political prisoners (for more detail see separate story below)

Rouhani also ordered the release of Nasrin Sotoudeh, an Iranian human rights lawyer, and a number of other political prisoners on the eve of a visit to the United Nations. Sotoudeh was in the midst of a six-year prison sentence for allegedly endangering national security and misusing her duties as a lawyer. Obama specifically mentioned her case during his annual message to Iran in 2011, saying she had been jailed “for defending human rights.”

Several journalists were also freed, although dozens remain imprisoned for their roles in a 2009 anti-government protest.

“Psychologically, my condition is very good but my experience – with all the psychological pressure, the tense security atmosphere, and not have access to make phone calls – was very tough,” she told AFP following her release.

Whether the White House will be receptive to Rouhani’s gestures remains to be seen.

“We should hear him out but see what the actual deal is on the nuclear dossier and Iranian support on Syria. We will judge Iran on its actions, not just its words,” a diplomatic source told The Telegraph.

‘We consider war a weakness’

Rouhani was also questioned on his stance regarding a possible military strike against Syria, a close ally to Iran.

“We are not the government of Syria,” he told NBC. “We are one of the countries of this region which is asking for peace and stability and the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction in the entire region.”

Rouhani did not explicitly voice his support for Syrian President Bashar Assad. However, he did respond when asked whether he viewed Obama’s decision to back away from an air strike as a sign of weakness.

“We consider war a weakness,” he said. “Any government or administration that decides to wage a war, we consider a weakness. And any government that decides on peace, we look on it with respect to peace.”

From sage:

Nasrin Sotoudeh hugs get son on September 18, 2013, after being freed after three years in prison. (AFP Photo / Behrouz Mehri)

Iran Releases Political Prisoners, Including Sakharov Prize Winner Nasrin Sotoudeh

From RT.com – September 19, 2013

http://rt.com/news/iran-nasrin-released-jail-027/

Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been released two years into her six year prison sentence, according to her husband. At least ten more political prisoners have also been reportedly set free.

“It’s not a temporary release, it’s freedom. They put her in a car and dropped her off at the house,” Sotoudeh’s husband Reza Khandan told Reuters from the couple’s home in Tehran.

“We are all so happy from the depths of our hearts. But we are waiting for the last [political] prisoner to leave prison,”

Sotoudeh was arrested in 2010 and later convicted on charges of spreading propaganda and endangering state security. Her sentence was initially for eleven years, but was subsequently shortened to six on appeal.

50-year old Sotoudeh had defended prominent opposition politicians prior to her detention, as well as taking on numerous human rights cases in the Islamic theocracy. She served her term in Tehran’s Evin Prison, and was designated a prisoner of conscience by leading international advocacy groups.

Sotoudeh was awarded the prestigious Sakharov Prize for defending human rights last year.

Among other inmates unexpectedly released on Wednesday was former deputy foreign minister Mohsen Aminzade.

The reformist politician was a key figure in the failed Green Revolution following the presidential elections in 2009, and was jailed in a subsequent crackdown on the same charges as Sotoudeh.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who has replaced Mohamed Ahmadinejad as president after winning the election in June, promised to release political prisoners and to loosen social controls in the Islamic Republic during his election campaign.

Iranian overtures

But the gesture is also likely timed to coincide with Tehran’s drive to patch up its relations with the West, and troubled issues surrounding Iran’s expanding nuclear program.

In recent days Obama and Rouhani have exchanged letters, and the US leader said that his counterpart had “reached out” to him. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has ultimate authority in the country’s affairs, has also called for “heroic leniency” over the issue of nuclear weapons.

While Iran is unlikely to halt its nuclear program altogether – which it insists is not aimed at producing weapons – it may seek the lifting of international sanctions that have left Iran in isolation, and its economy under pressure.

Earlier this week an official Iranian Twitter feed stated that Rouhani will personally speak to UK foreign secretary William Hague during the upcoming UN assembly in New York.

On Wednesday, Iranian parliamentary Reza Hodjat-Shamami also told Russian media that Rouhani and Obama may have an “accidental” encounter on the sidelines at the UN.

If that were to happen, it would be the first time that a US and Iranian leader have faced each other directly since the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

In contrast, Rouhani’s predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made his international reputation with a series of strident speeches at the UN that were often followed by walk-outs from the US, Israeli and other Western delegations.

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David Wilcock: New Post Excerpt – We Are Building Up to Something Significant

Posted by Stephen Cook on September 19, 2013

Stephen: David has a new post. A couple of highlights follow… As David prefers we don’t run his posts in full, please head to his blog should you choose to read the rest.

By David Wilcock – Seotember 18, 2013

http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1151-dw-radio

We Are Building Up to Something Significant

Major geopolitical events are happening at an incredible speed. It is becoming increasingly obvious that we are building up to something very significant.

When you consider the possibility that classified technology exists that can boldly manipulate the weather, causing freak problems, the current chaos takes on an even deeper level of potential significance.

Yosemite wildfires. Boulder flash floods. Everything is too hot or too cold. There’s either too much water or nowhere near enough.

Some of this is definitely a natural effect. However, there is a real possibility that technologies exist that could be enhancing these problems as well. For now.

The whole negative-elite objective right now seems to be: “DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO DISTRACT THEM FROM THE NSA DISCLOSURES.”

Syria clearly appeared to be another desperate attempt to sway the headlines away from the ever-increasing NSA disclosures.

It did not work.

We have Had Enough

The public has finally had enough of sudden, knee-jerk responses to questionable atrocities — which, in turn, get us embroiled in long-term, unwinnable wars.

Wars generate very significant profits. The same “usual suspects” need these wars. It’s their number-one way to raise the money they desperately need to maintain control.

Military strikes kill innocent people. Lives are being lost as these geopolitical chess games play themselves out.

A gas attack is a horrible thing. So is having your body blown apart from an attack with explosives.

To respond to violence by instantly creating more violence, rather than pursuing peaceful means first, is the peak of insanity.

Thankfully, the public saw this as Iraq 2.0, which it was — and nobody bought into it.

Even the manipulated polls couldn’t get better than a 10-percent approval rating.

To keeping reading head here: http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1151-dw-radio

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David Wilcock: New Post Excerpt – We Are Building Up to Something Significant

Posted by Stephen Cook on September 19, 2013

Stephen: David has a new post. A couple of highlights follow… As David prefers we don’t run his posts in full, please head to his blog should you choose to read the rest.

By David Wilcock – Seotember 18, 2013

http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1151-dw-radio

We Are Building Up to Something Significant

Major geopolitical events are happening at an incredible speed. It is becoming increasingly obvious that we are building up to something very significant.

When you consider the possibility that classified technology exists that can boldly manipulate the weather, causing freak problems, the current chaos takes on an even deeper level of potential significance.

Yosemite wildfires. Boulder flash floods. Everything is too hot or too cold. There’s either too much water or nowhere near enough.

Some of this is definitely a natural effect. However, there is a real possibility that technologies exist that could be enhancing these problems as well. For now.

The whole negative-elite objective right now seems to be: “DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO DISTRACT THEM FROM THE NSA DISCLOSURES.”

Syria clearly appeared to be another desperate attempt to sway the headlines away from the ever-increasing NSA disclosures.

It did not work.

We have Had Enough

The public has finally had enough of sudden, knee-jerk responses to questionable atrocities — which, in turn, get us embroiled in long-term, unwinnable wars.

Wars generate very significant profits. The same “usual suspects” need these wars. It’s their number-one way to raise the money they desperately need to maintain control.

Military strikes kill innocent people. Lives are being lost as these geopolitical chess games play themselves out.

A gas attack is a horrible thing. So is having your body blown apart from an attack with explosives.

To respond to violence by instantly creating more violence, rather than pursuing peaceful means first, is the peak of insanity.

Thankfully, the public saw this as Iraq 2.0, which it was — and nobody bought into it.

Even the manipulated polls couldn’t get better than a 10-percent approval rating.

To keeping reading head here: http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1151-dw-radio

Thank you Luis. I love reading David Wilcock's information!

David is right on the nail to what is going on.

Love and big hugs.

Barb :)

Step Up in Consciousness, September 2013 – Part 4/4

Posted by Steve Beckow on September 20, 2013

Blossom Goodchild

(Continued from Part 3.)

I’m reposting an (expanded) series from early August about an “event” expected to happen on the Fall Equinox (Sept. 22, 2013). It isn’t Ascension itself. But it is a rise in consciousness.

There’s no telling ahead of time whether we’ll experience that increase in our surface consciousness. On other occasions, though we’ve gone through an increase, it either occurred deep inside us or else rose to consciousness only later.

So I do caution us against raising our expectations sky high and then being disappointed if things don’t occur as we expect them.

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A fourth discussion of the coming “event” came from Blossom’s White Cloud on An Hour with an Angel, during the time that Linda was away. He said that the event was coming and it was for everybody. But that how it affected people would be different.

White Cloud: I spoke yesterday as well of ‘the Event’ that many speak of; and many thought it was to be after December last year. But I am saying to you, this Event has not gone away. This Event will be taking place. And it is a showering of love that will descend, if you like, upon your planet in a way that has not been done before. But that Event can take place, for simple terms, depending upon the happiness of those souls on Earth. …

Steve Beckow: I just want to check whether this Event that you’re referring to, when you talk about it, are you talking about for the whole world, and by that I mean only the people who choose it, or are you just talking about lightworkers?

WC: No, I am talking about everything, in the sense it is not just for lightworkers. Why would it be so? With all respect, there is no judgment. Everybody is equal. This Event, I would say to you, is for not just your Mother Earth and the people upon it, but it is for galaxies and universes. Because everything is One, as you know. So it cannot not affect just a few! It has to affect the All. I am saying, it is beyond universal. It is an event that every living aspect of life is involved in. Because as you know, an action of one has to affect another.

And therefore the effect that this Event shall have will affect everything, but regarding souls on Earth, for instance, and, well, I would say everything else as well, it is depending on the vibration that that living aspect of something resonates upon. Because the energy that will be coming through has to be at degrees to suit everything that is alive. If somebody is incredibly evolved, and aware and awake with their soul, they will get, if you like, a less diluted version of that energy, whereas somebody who is still asleep, it would have to filter into their being in a much more diluted fashion, so as not to literally kill them! (1)

He told us that the intensity of the energy will be adjusted for each individual.

WC: The intensity of that energy will be adjusted naturally to every living thing. You know that an energy came in on December 21st of last year, and it is affecting many. But nonetheless that energy is there in a more subtle sense to each soul. Whereas this will be, I would simply say, far less subtle. (2)

He suggested that the evolution of the soul must have reached a certain level for it to be dimensionally present at this event.

WC: Please understand, that before you came, you knew that you would be in the privileged position of being present at this event. Therefore, the preparation of the soul\Self for that event must have reached a certain level, if you like, of the Self and the whole of the individual selves, if I may put it that way. (3)

He said that “this influx of divine energy to boost the whole project shall be coming from the divine Source. Where else, if you like, can it come from?” He compared the impact of the event to a booster rocket.

WC: I showed to Blossom as I said that that it is like the boost of a rocket being launched, that, when this Event happens, it will have an immense impact. There will not be one living soul or animal or insect or creature or plant, anything that is alive that will not be affected by it. They will not sleep through it or carry on watching the television. It will affect all.

I have just put across, inside Blossom’s eyes, golden white light, because there is no other way we can possibly describe to you what is to take place until it actually does. (4)

White Cloud has told us that the experience of each person will differ so there is no way to predict how any one individual will experience the event. But that having been said, it represents another milestone in our march towards Ascension, which will follow the event sometime in the new year.

Footnotes

(1) “White Cloud: A Showering of Love Upon Your Planet Is Close,” channeled by Blossom Goodchild, July 29, 2013, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/07/white-cloud-a-showering-of-love-upon-your-planet-is-close/.”White Cloud: A Showering of Love Upon Your Planet Is Close,” channeled by Blossom Goodchild, July 29, 2013, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/07/white-cloud-a-showering-of-love-upon-your-planet-is-close/.

(2) Loc. cit.

(3) Loc. cit.

(4) loc. cit.

Jesus: Your Ability to Understand and Learn is Limitless. Channelled by John Smallman. September 20, 2013. http://wp.me/p1B8dY-gz

John’s reading of today’s post can be found here: http://johnsmallman2.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/2013-09-20-jesus-audio-blog-for-friday-sept-20th.mp3

As humanity waits expectantly for an event of great significance – an event that the collective senses is about to happen without having any idea what it might be, or even if anything is about to happen – intensify your intent for the collective to open itself, its massive heart, to the Divine field of Love that surrounds and embraces you.

It is always with you, offering you infinite Love and acceptance, and all you have to do is to open your hearts and accept the offer. Many of you have already done so and as a result the collective is feeling increasingly tempted to move fully into Love, thereby abandoning all that is not in harmony with It.

Because of the energies of darkness that still remain many of you are still experiencing doubts and anxieties about the reality of the New Age, but rest assured that it is already fully and irrevocably established; it is just up to you, all of humanity, with boundless assistance from all in the spiritual realms, to open into awareness of it. You want it. You are truly burned out from the constant negativity and disharmony of the illusion. You are ready and increasingly willing to awaken.

The lives that you have all been living have been a preparation and a cleansing to lead you forwards in your spiritual evolution – an evolution that has always been Divinely intended and which was instigated at the moment of your apparent separation from your Divine and ever-loving Source. You are and always have been one with your Source, and nothing can ever change that Divine and harmonious relationship of the Creator with His creations.

The reason that it appears to you that you are separated from that infinite Source of Goodness is that at the moment you chose to separate yourselves from that Source you effectively shut down your awareness of It. The separation, unreal as it was, was only momentary, but you are still experiencing it because you have chosen to be unaware of Reality.

Most of you find that concept at least paradoxical and at worst totally unacceptable, because you do not want to believe that you were capable of making such a disastrous choice. It makes absolutely no sense to your severely limited human intellects upon which you rely far too heavily for insight and even intuition. Intuition is of the spirit; it is Divine guidance which is constantly available to you, but your egos fear it and do their best to distort the guidance that it offers so that you will disregard and discount it.

Some of you have had mystical experiences, near-death experiences, or moments of pellucidity in which it has become abundantly clear to you, without the slightest room for doubt of any kind, that you are Divine and Eternal Beings, infinitely loved by God.

That knowing is permanent and unforgettable, and those who have experiences like that lose all fear and anxiety about physical death, and some of them attempt to explain or describe it to others so that all may benefit. However, on the whole, people prefer to believe in the limits that their bodies seem to impose on them, fearing the unknown and unlimited possibilities that removal of those limits would encourage.

Nevertheless, over the last three or four centuries of the present human era, an ever-increasing number of you have been refusing to accept the limits that your cultures, societies, churches, or sciences have each in their own ways developed, encouraged, and then attempted to impose on their members.

During that time there has been an enormous expansion of knowledge worldwide, which initially appeared as though it would lead to complete clarification and understanding of the Universe, but in the last two or three decades it has become apparent that the knowledge available is infinite, and that your ability to understand and learn is also limitless. In fact, your physical vehicles – your bodies – were designed for limitless evolution, and the actual capacities and capabilities of your large brains have hardly been tapped at all.

The future is truly boundless, and as your knowledge base continues to grow exponentially the creative possibilities with which all are born will be far more fully recognized and encouraged to develop in the ways that are best suited to each individual’s needs. In very recent years it has been found that children with autism have amazing gifts to offer when they are not twisted, manipulated, and forced to fit into severely restricted academic curricula that are totally at odds with their true needs. Some enlightened ones among you have been doing amazing pioneering work in areas like these, and you are greatly honored for the Light that you are bringing to bear on what had previously seemed to be hopeless situations.

To awaken will be an amazing and an exhilarating experience, and it will not be temporary because it is your destination – the point in evolution towards which you are being guided by your own inner knowing, your intuition, by information and events that occur in your daily life, and by your spiritual guides and mentors who are with you at all times to assist you in this wondrous process. Call on them for help or guidance in any situation and they will respond.

Do meditate regularly, and when you want spiritual guidance go to your quiet inner space so that you can “hear” what is offered. Your success is inevitable, but you can delay if you should choose to do so. Some of you may feel unready, nervous about leaving behind the familiar, however unhappy or unsatisfactory it may be, so ask for help in overcoming that sense or feeling so that your fears or anxieties fall away, allowing you to awaken. You most certainly will never regret it!

Your loving brother, Jesus.