Wonderful, Amazing Speach

Commencement Address to the Class of 2009\nUniversity of Portland, May 3rd, 2009\nPaul Hawken\n\nWhen I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if I could give a simple short talk that was direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering, startling, and graceful. Boy, no pressure there.\n\nBut let’s begin with the startling part. Hey, Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation but not onepeer-reviewed paper published in the lastt thirty years can refute that statement. \n\nBasically, the earth needs a new operating system, you are the programmers, and we need it within a few decades.\n\nThis planet came with a set of operating instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water, soil, or air, and don’t let the earth get overcrowded, and don’t touch the thermostat have been broken. Buckminster Fuller said that spaceship earth was so ingeniously designed that no one has a clue that we are on one, flying through the universe at a million miles per hour, with no need for seatbelts, lots of room in coach, and really good food but all that is changing.  Continue reading

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Hearing Truth From Spirit

Two nights ago we enjoyed our dear friend Joan Ocean’s meditation evening.  I always have such amazing meditations with her group, which is wonderful because we sit outside on her land around a fire and focus our communications on the higher realms and beings of Light from Ascended Masters, to Angels to benevolent ETs who radiate only with love.  Being out in nature, under the stars, is such a beautiful way to connect.\r\n\r\nThis particular meditation took me to a space where I was surrounded by Light Beings could not recognize which ones they presented themselves as luminecent pulsating lights very beautiful and gentle. \r\n\r\nI felt I was melting into the oneness in an exquisite surrender to Spirit and then heard these words:\r\nYou are a singularity of universal thought\r\nYou are a projection of Source consciousness\r\nYou are Source incarnate\r\n\r\nI have heard these kinds of things before from spiritual teachers and in books, etc. but this time, I felt that I really got it.  I could sense the truth of these words that are meant not just for me but for all.  I truly felt myself moving into the oneness of All That Is in a way I have not been able to feel before.  It was pure bliss.\r\n\r\nMy husband, Doug, and I are Phase Two Players we are practicing the principles, lately,  from Robert Scheinfeld’s book, Breaking Loose from the Money Game    a philosphy that is much more than about money but about the fact that we are extensions from the Divine and that we really do create our reality.\r\n\r\nThrough over forty years of spiritual search and seeking the highest truth, I believe I have finally come to the realization and knowing that all of us truly are extensions of the Source of consciousness and have the power, when we really get that, to express the reality that we desire.  At least I am focusing on this more and more in my exploration of life and its meaning.\r\n\r\n

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Symbol:  A Projection of Source Consciousness

Symbol: A Projection of Source Consciousness

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Dolphins, Orbs and Photograghic Phenomena

My daughter and family at entrance to Lava Tube at Volcano

My daughter and family at entrance to Lava Tube at Volcano

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My grandson's first swim with dolphins
My grandson’s first swim with dolphins

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My daugher and grandson with orbs and dolphins

My daugher and grandson with orbs and dolphins

\r\n\r\nMy daughter and family just left yesterday and what a time we had with the dolphins!  See the amazing photographic phenomena we caught on film.  The one with the balls of light is of my little five year old grandson, Ethan this was his first time swimming with dolphins what joy!  I believe that Spirit is now emerging through the veil between our third dimensional world and the higher dimensions in order to show us that we are not alone.  No one knows what these balls of light represent and I choose to believe they are angelic energy manifesting in film.  Amazing.\r\n\r\nThe other one in the water is of my daughter, Katie, and her oldest son (13) Adam on their second swim with the dolphins.  I believe these are orbs.  Orbs are another photographic phenomena which are showing up more and more.  Our friend, Joan Ocean, is part of a very interesting documentary about orbs and their meaning called Orbs:  The Veil is Lifing please google to find.\r\n\r\nThe third photograph is of the family at the entrance to the Thurston Lava Tube at Kilauea, the most active volcano on earth.  The lava tube is created by a river of lava which has hardened at the surface, creating a cave which is left when the lava finishes its flow.  These tubes or caves have amazing energies and being inside of one feels as though we are in the womb of mother earth.  Goddess Pele resides at the volcano and this photo seems to be a representation of her powerful, firey energy!\r\n

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