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"Will the Dark Still Be My Friend, if I Let the Light In?"

I wander all night in my vision,
Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping,
Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers,
Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory,
Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping.
How solemn they look there, stretch'd and still,
How quiet they breathe, the little children in their cradles.
The wretched features of ennuyes, the white features of corpses,
The gash'd bodies on battle-fields, the insane in their
strong-door'd rooms, the sacred idiots, the new-born emerging
from gates, and the dying emerging from gates,
The night pervades them and infolds them.

The married couple sleep calmly in their bed, he with his palm on
the hip of the wife, and she with her palm on the hip of the husband,
The sisters sleep lovingly side by side in their bed,
The men sleep lovingly side by side in theirs,
And the mother sleeps with her little child carefully wrapt.
The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep,
The prisoner sleeps well in the prison, the runaway son sleeps,
The murderer that is to be hung next day, how does he sleep?
And the murder'd person, how does he sleep?
The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
And the male that loves unrequited sleeps,
The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps,
And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep.

Now I pierce the darkness, new beings appear,
The earth recedes from me into the night,
I saw that it was beautiful....
and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful
I go from bedside to bedside, I sleep close with the other sleepers
each in turn,

I dream in my dream all the dreams of the other dreamers,
And I become the other dreamers.
I am a dance--play up there! the fit is whirling me fast!
I am the ever-laughing--it is new moon and twilight,
I see the hiding of douceurs, I see nimble ghosts whichever way look,
Cache and cache again deep in the ground and sea, and where it is
neither ground nor sea.

~Walt Whitman, "The Sleepers"

The practice of "Personal Alchemy" comes from lessons learned from my original Host Guide for The Reconnections, Belteshazzar---who, at other levels of vibration, is a Master Magician (Magus), Alchemist, and Master of the Mental Realm. King Nebuchadnezzar gave his name as a nickname to the prophet Daniel, in the Bible, because of the young man's keen ability to interpret dreams.   In fact, during his days of Alchemical practice, "Belt" managed to perfect his own version of psychotherapy, through the purposeful insertion and manipulation of healing dreams within his client's psyche.   Remember the movie "Total Recall," with Arnold Schwartzenegger?   Folks, it's all true! Or, how about Tom Cruise in "Vanilla Sky?" Remember him running around that building, yelling "Tech Support!?" Belteshazzar knows just what he means.

In days of old, the practice of Alchemy was tolerated by the Aristocracy and the Christian Church only because it was labeled and promoted as a science, and a means for converting base metals into gold. This, however, was just a cover.   Few citizens, save for the Alchemists themselves, understood the deeper implications of the art.   At it's core, Alchemy is the process of human transformation.   It starts within, and then expands itself outwardly.

Much has been spoken about "the philosopher's stone" in recent days. Even Harry Potter is getting into the act.   As far as the Reconnections are concerned, this simple substance is made up of the perfect hybridization of "this and that," "dark and light," "male and female," and all other polarized substances.   At the outer edge of experience exists all the extremes of life.   These are the elements that are corrosive in their nature, or devoted to entrapment and servitude. The figure of the Merkaba is a powerful example of what the center of each transforming individual looks like. The arrows pointing up and out stand for the outer edges of experience, the high light and low dark (to adopt the usual assignment of space to these essences).   In the center of the vehicle, there is a place of joining, a space that is neither up nor down, neither dark nor light. This is the place of Reconnection.   When this vehicle is in motion, the energy pitch and vibratory resonance of the individual traveler is greatly increased, and the Alchemical fires burn clear and bright.

"What's Next?"

The more intense this planet's energies become, the more our minds and hearts are stirred to dream about what comes next.   And I'm not just speaking about Earthly agendas either. I'm talking about a realm of existence we call "Meta"........the Great Beyond. How does what's going on there impact what's happening here? One answer to that question might be: "Meta" simply IS. And our expanding knowledge of that fact becomes a springboard for the Imagination.....an impetus for us to keep moving through whatever muck and mire we encounter along the way, so we can eventually arrive at that Next Level of Our Collective Being.

Long before we arrive at "Meta," we begin opening gateways of awareness so Meta can come and visit US. You might think of them as BILLBOARDS, advertising what's up ahead. Or salt, placed on a horse's tongue, so he will drink long and deep when he arrives at an oasis.

Perfect Love is neither defined nor sustained by the OBJECT of its embodiment. Yet it is not without definition, as some might theorize. We each know Perfect Love when we see it. Sometimes our vision of it comes from within, and sometimes it seems to come from without. An experience of it lingers for a moment, and then it's gone.  That's the nature of Perfect Love, as it intersects with 3D.

In our Recon Discussion Forum one day, I compared Perfect Love to a butterfly, flitting around the garden of a person's life. First, it lands here. Then, it lands there. We follow it with our eyes, blessing whatever location it chooses to grace with its presence.

Somewhere inside us, we KNOW this butterfly will go where it wants, when it wants......yet that knowledge doesn't stop us from grabbing a net, and running after it just the same. If we do manage to catch it, frame it, mount it upon some wall.......the remembrance of its beauty might linger awhile, but the SOURCE of its beauty quickly moves on, leaving only a relic to be dusted and preserved against the erosion of time and element. This is why it is called a MOMENTO........the embodiment of a moment, pressed and sealed for all time.

"A Husband is a what's left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted."
~Helen Rowland.

A woman once asked The Reconnections why she was choosing to remain here in 3D, when her heart so desperately wanted to go home. They told her that "home" is something we all carry within us, wherever we go. Sometimes, we have to create an experience of LEAVING HOME before we realize what truly comforted and refreshed us when we were there.

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From THE RECONNECTIONS.......

"Each of the phases of development, through which you are now passing, is designed to highlight and explore a different way in which you are connected to All That Is.  Your increased interest in Conscious Creation, for example, has taught you about the INITIATIVE aspect of yourself . Through use of Magic, Sorcery, Affirmation, and Visualization, you have come to accept yourself as a creator of your personal reality. You have learned to *own your power*--- finally understanding that absolutely nothing happens by accident. As the saying goes: "There are no victims. There are only volunteers."

Now it is time to talk a bit about the RESPONSIVE aspect of being human. You are not merely the creator in your universe. You are also the creation as well. And this is quite a mystery, is it not? On one hand, you are like an expectant child---sitting in front of your Christmas tree and surrounded by mountains of presents. Your eyes glimmer with anticipation and joy, as you open each one. Then, as the unfoldment continues, you are gradually made aware of the fact that it was YOU who created each present in the first place, and it was YOU who wrapped them and put them under the tree.

We are speaking here about the many LEVELS of human consciousness.   They are defined centers of awareness, existing within the same being, functioning in a very compartmentalized way. The purpose of Reconnection is to provide doors and windows for those compartments. Your goal here is NOT to remove the separation from your universe and throw away the structure. Rather, it is to educate yourself about how your universe works even while you still remain a part of it."