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 Post subject: THE SHADOW THAT HOVERS OVER AMERICA
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THE SHADOW THAT HOVERS OVER AMERICA

 
"The treasure to be sought within political life is trust.  Trust allows leaders to be effective.  Mistrust disrupts all efforts.  Extreme mistrust causes a schism between groups who hold different points of view so that they no longer, together, serve the common good, but become partisans for their own point of view in opposition to the rest."
 


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There is a shadow of darkness increasingly present within American public life. Its effect is cynicism and disillusionment and its means is separation from the deeper truth of the heart and soul that each inhabitant of this country carries.  This deeper truth holds a belief in possibility and in a positive future.  It believes in the unity of this nation and in the ideals upon which it was founded.  The shadow that hovers creates a loss of such belief.  In place of hope it institutes cynicism and despair.  In place of idealism it invites immersion in what it calls a 'practical reality' which claims to be both strategic and effective but which is, at the same time, detached from ideals and from a sense of moral uprightness.
 
Cynicism, disillusionment, frustration, and anger are the means that the shadow of darkness employs to create a false sense of empowerment.  It is false because it is based on the illusion that the superiority of power or might is the sole arbiter of how to eliminate fear and helplessness from our collective consciousness.  And so those who represent this position strive to embody within themselves the qualities of aggression, assertiveness, anger, and power.  They strive to communicate through their own personalities and character that they can be effective, can 'take charge,' and can make fear disappear.
 
Because of the desire to eliminate fear and reduce helplessness, many in this country have increasingly gravitated toward the expression of combativeness, assertiveness, and aggressiveness both in political language and in the personal qualities of political candidates, while at the same time ignoring the abandonment of ideals that may also be present - of civility, of respect, and of the honoring of the sacred office of those entrusted with governing.  In this way assertiveness and aggression has become, for  many, a substitute for high-mindedness, and contempt and ridicule a substitute for faithfulness to moral and social values.
 
Such cultivation of external manifestations of power demeans the nature of government both in its language and in its outcomes.  And just as there can be a desecration of that which the various world religions consider to be sacred and holy, there can also be a desecration of what the Founders of this country deemed to be sacred in the highest moral sense.  The desecration of the ideals of public office is on display now in the current presidential run-up to election, and it is necessary for all who wish for something other than this to hold fast to the understanding that the 'shadow' that has befallen this country is creating an emotional underpinning for the demise of ideals, for the demise of the belief in possibility, and for the demise of the notion that government can be trusted.  Without this belief and without this trust America founders into emotional anarchy, feeling that there is nothing holding fast at its center that can be relied upon.
 
Cynicism and disillusionment - these are the subtle weapons of darkness, weapons that we must meet with faith, hope, and trust in the possible.  Those who speak in words of attack, accusation, contempt, derision, or ridicule are not simply "speaking their mind' but are contributing to the loss of confidence in public office that can undermine not only the current presidential election but the future of this country as well.
 
In the presence of hovering darkness, we are now called to find within ourselves our own soul's faith and hope, beliefs and values that we are never without.   We are called to locate and to stand upon our own belief in a possible future that is based in love.  And we are called to remember that our ideals are part of the deepest truth that our hearts carry.  Only this can create the light that is needed at this time to counter the shadow of darkness that is infiltrating public life, and only this can sustain us as we await and strive to bring about the time when what is ideal can become real, and when what is most longed for can become what we see around us.

 
 
 
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 Post subject: The Antidote to Despair.
PostPosted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 1:50 pm 


The truth of light is the antidote to despair.


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Despair is like a current that pulls one into it.

In its presence hold fast to the light of your own Being,
even if you cannot feel it.



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 Post subject: One World Meditations: Making A Difference 1 Heart at a Time
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Each person has within themselves a capacity to become larger than their personal cares, worries, and concerns.

Each has the ability, based on their own Divine essence, to transform into a holy and sacred vessel of light, given the intention to do so, and given the reaching toward the deeper truth that dwells within the human heart.


In coming together in the light, and with our own intentions to bring light and healing to the Earth, we open ourselves to the one Source of healing that permeates all – to the divine Being of God. This Being is accessible to all, no matter what their religious or spiritual background, and no matter how much they know or do not know about meditative practice. For in receiving the blessings of Divine light, what is given to one who has meditated for years may be less than what is accessible to one who, with an innocent and open heart, seeks fervently to join the universe and its Divine wish to make of the Earth a sacred planet.

The human condition has led many to believe about themselves, things that make the self seem smaller and less consequential. The separation of spiritual reality from the reality of the physical has caused most of humanity to think primarily in terms of what it can do, what it can make, and what it can succeed or not succeed at. This is the world of appearances and of action. Yet, it is only a small portion of what the human being is capable of, for the vastness of the human heart and spirit have as yet untapped potential to reach to other realms and dimensions, and to know, without doubt, that all dimensions are one.

As we sit in the light, as we meditate and open to the light and love of divine Being and seek to bring this to the Earth, the smaller self can begin to let go.


Identification with the outer physical world can begin to diminish.

Instead, the self of the heart, the self of the spirit, can begin to take precedence. Here, what is most important is the cherishing of the heart's truths, the embracing of the love that the heart is capable of which the outer self may never have known, or known as fully before.

Often, human beings know less about their hearts and about their own capacity for love than the fullness that is actually the case. This is due to the historical immersed in physical reality and the shift in awareness that it brings. As physical reality moves into the background and the soul's bright light begins to shine more fully within consciousness, this greater capacity to love can become known, sometimes for the first time.

Expansion of the heart and of the spirit is possible as we sit together in light, for the soul rises within the embodied self to recognize other souls, and to know that it is together with these others in ways that are true and deep. These ways are often unfamiliar to the outer self. For this reason, unity of oneself with others may start out simply as a thought or as a wish, moving gently to become a perception of the body and a knowing of the deeper being. This occurs as the soul or spirit rises to infuse consciousness - to make of each individual identity something greater than it was before, and to make of our collective joining, something greater than the sum of our individual identities.

No matter what experience you may have had or not had in meditation previously, for this moment you may wish to let it go and become new in your desire to receive and transmit love and light.

Become new in your desire to bless the Earth and all beings.

Become new in your heart.

Through this innocent but penetrating desire of the heart, all can happen. For it is the power of love whose Source is the essence of divine Being, that can transform all things and make all things new.

This is the foundation for the creation of a sacred planet. It is the foundation for building a new way of life upon the Earth.





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 Post subject: 10 to 1: Excessive Force
PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:12 am 


In order to keep the nation of the free safe, excessive force will be used upon its citizens.

Many will react with shock and bewilderment, others with denial, and others still, with outrage.




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The firing squad: Shocking moment at least TEN San Francisco cops use a volley of shots to kill lone black man armed with a knife
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... treet.html


San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, after watching the same video, said it appeared that “the person was not posing a direct threat and certainly did not have to be shot.”

"“It does not look like the officer who fired the fatal shots was in immediate danger of being killed,” the public defender said. He said it appeared the officer “can move back and at least order the person to the ground or use some other sort of defensive maneuver, rather than using a gun and shooting him point-blank.”

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Pol ... 671485.php


In countries where the police force is not armed, the officers are trained to dislodge a knife from a knife wielding suspect. My heart wept as I heard how many shots were fired into this one man, fired upon by five of the ten officers. The right to trial for criminal offences is granted unto all the citizens of the United States of America. May God help us all. Blessings.

Killed By Police 2015
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This Is How London Police Deal With A Knife-Wielding Suspect

In the U.S., the same incident had a very different outcome.

In both incidents, the suspect is holding a knife near police. But there's a glaring difference in the officers' reaction to the situation.

In the San Francisco video, far more officers respond and all of them are carrying guns, though officers later said they tried to subdue the suspect with beanbag guns before shooting him. In London, the two officers in the video carry stun guns.

In San Francisco, the suspect died in a hail of bullets. In London, the suspect was subdued.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lon ... 945fefcacd

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Remember the Righteous Zealot-like Frenzies in the Media in the 1990's Which Led to the 'Three Strikes Laws' - Sentencing "Enhancements" for the Poor and People of Color?

Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Shame of Three Strikes Laws
While Wall Street crooks walk, thousands sit in California prisons for life over crimes as trivial as stealing socks

"…Why did all of this happen? Some of this has its roots in a complex political calculation, in which the Democratic Party in the Clinton years made a Faustian bargain, deciding to abandon its old role as a defender of unions and the underprivileged, embrace more Wall Street-friendly deregulatory policies, and compete for the political center by pushing for more street cops, tougher sentences and the end of welfare – the same thing the Republicans were already doing. By the mid-Nineties, neither party was really representing, for lack of a better term, the fucked, struggling poor.
The end result of this political shift was an unprecedented explosion of the American prison population, from just more than a million people behind bars in the early Nineties to 2.2 million today. Less than five percent of the world's people live in the United States, but we are home to about 25 percent of the world's prisoners, a shocking number.

Another result was that instead of dealing with problems like poverty, drug abuse and mental illness, we increasingly just removed them all from view by putting them in jail. It's not an accident that so many of the most ridiculous Three Strikes cases are semicoherent homeless people or people with drug problems who came from broken homes."

"...Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and Snow White videos should probably do time if they have priors, especially serious priors. But the punishment has to fit the crime, and the standard has to be the same for everyone. If a homeless crack addict like Norman Williams is going to get time for stealing road flares, they should leave the top bunk in his cell open for the guy who laundered money for the Sinaloa drug cartel at HSBC.

"People get so hung up on the concept of innocence," says Mills. "But it's intellectually uninteresting. What does matter is how we treat the guilty, and that's where we still have work to do.""

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/ne ... 327?page=5


(CNN)Mario Woods, who was shot dead by San Francisco police, had more than 20 gunshot wounds, according to an autopsy report.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/11/us/sa ... index.html




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 Post subject: For All To See: Revelations of the Influences of Darkness
PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 6:18 pm 
For All To See: Revelations of the Influences of Darkness



"…Today is a new time, a time in which all that prevents brotherhood and love from happening will be made visible and will be rooted out from where it has lain hidden, silently exerting its influence on the consciousness of each individual who has departed from love."


"…It may seem that this cannot be so.  Yet, it is so.  It is the possibility for a new awakening of mankind’s ability to love, and a new awakening of the heart connected with the spirit that is taking place now and that will take place ever more strongly.  This is not personal love that creates the attachment of one to the other and the holding on to that attachment.  It is love that is all inclusive, that seeks to embrace all, that seeks to share with all. "


"...In the midst of this, a dark shadow is cast by forces that would prevent this awakening from happening, that would have the earth not be at peace, or free, or in the light.  Such forces of darkness operate to counteract the expansion that is presently taking place.  They have the capacity to create a great disturbance of that expansion through the promulgation of fear and doubt, and ultimately, through the manifestation of despair which creates a loss of trust that either God or light is real. 


"...The events manipulated by darkness that bring great suffering to people can happen and will happen as the expansion of light takes place ever more forcefully within the earth’s sphere, and it is up to each consciousness to know how to hold onto the truth of what is taking place.  It is up to each consciousness to feel the truth of love, to cherish it, to nurture it, and to remain faithful to it.  Darkness cannot exist in the presence of love.  It can only exist when love has been tossed aside or submerged in the presence of doubt or despair.  It can only exist when love is undermined within ourselves so that we no longer believe in it.  In the place of love, darkness has nowhere to stand."


"...The times ahead are times of great jubilation and celebration, but they are also times that will bring great suffering and hardship.  It is a matter of knowing that God is with all those who suffer and that the hardship can be gotten through by trusting love and by trusting God’s plan for the earth.  These two forms of trust will be strong enough to carry the heart in safety through the difficult times that lie ahead. "




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INFLUENCE OF DARKNESS ON THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF MAN
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 Post subject: Suffering, Service, Passageways, Hardships, and Hope
PostPosted: Fri Dec 04, 2015 6:29 pm 
Suffering, Service, Passageways, Hardships, and Hope



In the presence of the darker energies, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that a choice is possible with respect to how to hold things.  The choice for light and God can still be made in the presence of darkness, and though this choice may be obscured by thoughts and feelings that are instituted by the darker energies,  both heart and will can be activated to counteract this influence. Such activation can initiate a turning to God and a reaching out for right alignment with the Divine.

THE POINT OF CHOICE
by Julie http://lightomega.org/Ind/Pure/Point-of-Choice.html




Years ago, I would often complain to Beloved Julie of 'why' must the suffering I was enduring be so intense, so crippling, and so devastating, whilst others around me were seemingly leading 'normal;' lives, filled albeit with troubles and tribulations, yet with vigor, the ability manifest, and stability.

This afternoon Dear Readers another level of the 'why' came through to me and I would like to share the answer with you.

It has been coming forward in my consciousness that the experiences with suffering which I have endured have brought to me a wisdom which can only be accrued by experience, in my case, experiences which have been painful and longstanding. My experiences through the practicing of the principles of the Purification Process*, the direct Teachings of the Beloved, suffering, and the willingness to 'try' to trust in the presence of extreme darkness and despair, have taught me deep within to trust in the Light and, the truth that a way will be made, no matter how dark the experience as long as you choose to align with the Light, with Love, with the One.




"...In the presence of hardship seek truth and seek trust.  Truth will allow you to know the suffering you have carried.  It will allow you to know how hard things have actually been, whether mentally, emotionally or physically.  Out of this truth can come compassion for oneself, compassion built on love and on knowing how difficult it has been to get through.

Ongoing hardship can create discouragement.  Yet discouragement is not despair.  Discouragement wedded to truth, to compassion, and to trust becomes a prayer to the One for things to change.  It becomes a prayer to the One for trust in the goodness of life and in the possibility of feeling upheld and strengthened during whatever time of hardship remains. "


IN THE PRESENCE OF HARDSHIP
http://lightomega.org/Ind/Pure/In-the-P ... dship.html




At first my 'whys" to my Beloved Teacher were primarily focused on my pain. "Why was it so intense, why could I not do what I wanted, why could it not end there and then, and why was there agony, why was this path so solitary? Even, so, I want to assure you Dear Readers, no one forced me to go through the pain, or suffering I was experiencing nor did I wish it upon myself. I was in fact, being led - by a promise of Love which I continually forgot in the midst of the suffering, even though I was reassured a 1000+ times with great compassion and Teachings - through the darkness, towards the Light.

This wisdom my soul and my self garnered by the going through suffering, no matter how long the suffering has endured, towards the Light can never be erased from my consciousness. It's truth has been imprinted upon my heart. It is not a Pollyanna truth of "everything will be alright", pat-pat, on the back wisdom, it is a wisdom born out of intense suffering and the choice to keep trusting in the Light, to keep trusting in the principles of the Sacred, and to keep trusting in the power of Love no matter what. At times, the expressions of trust manifesting in my life Dear Readers will look and sound imperfect, yet the intention which anchors the trust not as a concept but as a knowing in my heart, is perfect in its purity. This intention is based in the purity of my hearts longing to trust in that which is good, that which is sacred, which can never be taken away, no matter what happens to me, for it is an essential aspect of my soul - the same goes for every embodied soul, no matter how it is denied or suppressed.

This aspect of my soul, was covered over by lifetimes of experiences which blocked this essential aspect of who I am from expressing it self in all circumstances, and as such, experiences of suffering were equated in my mind and heart with isolation, abandonment to the darkness, and despair. For me, I needed to go through the passages of suffering and pain which were manifesting in my life to regain that which had been lost. To redeem that which I had lost. I have come to realize that it has been the going through of the experiences themselves coupled with the guidance of Beloved Julie and the Teachings of the Purification Process which has revealed this truth and many others truths regarding my true self, my soul, and my purpose for existing.




"...When hope is contracted to the size of a laser-beam cutting through the darkness, it is, in this contraction, less visible, less tangible, and less able to show its effect as a force of light on the totality of its surroundings.  Nevertheless, the virtue of hope does not lie in its expansiveness but simply in its presence – simply in the fact that it is able to exist at all in the midst of circumstances that do not appear hopeful.  This quality of persistence, of endurance and determination, occurs because hope is a vital force whose source is in God, and it is the underlying knowledge of God’s goodness and God’s love that is ultimately the source of hope, no matter what one’s religious belief or spiritual persuasion."

THE PASSAGEWAY OF HOPE
http://lightomega.org/NL/2006-12-07.html



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One answer to my many 'why's' concerning my suffering came in the form of Teachings which informed me that my suffering was connected to something deeper than the experience of the suffering itself. It took a very, very long time for me in the densities my soul was serving in to come to believe the truth of this Teaching. I was then, and continue to this day, to serve in dimensional realms of utter despair, desolation, and horror and at times, it is incredibly difficult to remember that these experiences are just energies moving through me and my outer experiences of life. It is difficult at times to remember that the energies of darkness I encounter in service are illusionary, frequencies of consciousness which have been brought about by experiences of souls who believed themselves to be separate from Light and Love.

Going through various levels of suffering and at times, agony in service to the the Light is not a glamourous spiritual position, and it was even more painful for me when I went out to earn money as a sacred Iridiologist and herbalist, to be amongst spiritual adepts, readers, psychics, sages, mediums, crystal healers, religious peoples, and others who served the light in their own capacities. For I found along the way, that rather than being with me in my suffering, many spiritual and religious peoples would talk to me about how I wasn't really spiritual because if I was my life would be manifesting pots of monies, I would not be suffering, and I would be happy, glistening with bliss filled spiritual vibes and smiles. Gosh, I never did have an answer for any of these folks, and it was pretty difficult to move forward through my service work as I worked with the public at various health shows, fairs and gatherings, as those around me far too often, projected onto me that I was a failure for my lack of material wealth and constant suffering. Even so, I persisted forward, and born out of the experiences of suffering I endured was the truth of knowing 'hope as real'.




"…The presence of hope brings to the heart a cushion for its pain.  Emerging from the soul’s knowledge that all is well and that all is held in God, it brings to pain the understanding that it is bearable, that goodness and love are possible despite the pain, and that one is, in the end, not alone. Hope challenges the belief that darkness would have us hold that we are, in the end, separate and alone, and that all that we can truly believe in is ourselves.  This is the challenge of darkness – to require of us that we hold fast to the knowledge that the illusion of aloneness is not true, and that the illusion that the world is governed by forces that are ultimately destructive and isolating is not real.  Hope, when maintained, challenges these beliefs and maintains a steady path toward what the heart most seeks, namely, its embeddedness in the abode of love that is its natural dwelling place."


"The presence of hope brings to the heart a cushion for its pain.  Emerging from the soul’s knowledge that all is well and that all is held in God, it brings to pain the understanding that it is bearable, that goodness and love are possible despite the pain, and that one is, in the end, not alone. Hope challenges the belief that darkness would have us hold that we are, in the end, separate and alone, and that all that we can truly believe in is ourselves.  This is the challenge of darkness – to require of us that we hold fast to the knowledge that the illusion of aloneness is not true, and that the illusion that the world is governed by forces that are ultimately destructive and isolating is not real.  Hope, when maintained, challenges these beliefs and maintains a steady path toward what the heart most seeks, namely, its embeddedness in the abode of love that is its natural dwelling place."


THE PASSAGEWAY OF HOPE

http://lightomega.org/NL/2006-12-07.html




It has taken me years Dear Readers, and with the advent of the Light, the timing for all who follow will be much less, to come to the awakening revelation that the suffering I was enduring was actually a passageway through the darkness in the presence of hope, which I could not see, feel, or at times believe in.

Through the coming to know of hope as real, as I endured and went through the passage ways which opened before me, often through multi dimensional realities of suffering, I have gained a wisdom, albeit young in its anchoring in my heart companioned with the consciousness of trust, which helps me to help others. A wisdom has been acquired, embodied in 'time', which was born out of Teachings of trust, compassion, and love. A wisdom of my heart and my mind which knows that there are ways through the darkest of times.





"...At such times as the forces of darkness are exerting a strong effect on the planetary sphere – through upsurges of violence and rage, through blatant disregard for human rights and for human life, through the justification and practice of cruelty and torture, through the normalization of deception and manipulation, through the replacement of truth by a veneer of half-truths and lies - at such times the vital force of hope continues to maintain its presence in its laser-like penetration of all that is unlike itself.  Indeed, though this presence may be unknown to the mind and emotions, it is always known to the deeper layers of the heart.  For in that deeper place one believes that life is ultimately worthwhile, and that even if one’s own life is filled with pain that is difficult to endure, that it is not life that is at fault, but one’s own capacity to endure that is limited.  In situations of great pain, the conscious self may not know or remember this, but the self connected with the soul always remembers. "


"This faith in life is the source of hope.  It gives meaning to everything that derives from it such as the value of love, of communication, of creativity, of planning for the future, of art, of music, and of every aspect of culture that descends from life itself in its most creative forms of expression.   It is for this reason that we must seek to honor life and not allow the vision of the darkness on both sides of the passageway to become all that we see as we move through the passage.  For this darkness is thick and seeks to eradicate all light that tries to enter it.  It strives to maintain its coherence so that nothing and no one can create an opening through which light can pass. Nevertheless, the laser-like beam of hope effectively creates an opening by its continuing presence, guaranteeing that the darkness can never be completely successful in separating the outer self from the soul, nor the deeper layers of the heart from what the conscious self can remember."


THE PASSAGEWAY OF HOPE
http://lightomega.org/NL/2006-12-07.html




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 Post subject: Pushing Each Other to the Edge of Reasoning and Love
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Pushing Each Other to the Edge of Reasoning and Love



"One of the primary principles of purification has to do with containment. To 'contain' means to hold back, to hold within, or to carry something within a vessel, enclosure, or organism. In relation to purification, what we contain are energies of darkness that we do not wish to go out into the world. We hold them within our bodies until they pass from our consciousness."

THE PRINCIPLE OF CONTAINMENT

by Julie
http://lightomega.org/Ind/Pure/Containment.html




I have been aware now for some weeks when I read of events effecting my planetary brothers and sisters, of how too many people in their rudeness, rush, anger, unconsciousness, aggressiveness, self-righteousness, unkindness, superiority, mean-spirited, violent and bigoted hatreds and behaviours, resentments and mental depravity are pushing each other to the brink of madness.

Killing has become a way to address disputes, wrong doings, and disruptive interactions by far too many people.

We the People, most especially, have become collectively responsible for, through our apathy and unwillingness to challenge the ruling paradigm, including the voting into power of politicians and leaders whose goals are dominion, unmitigated power and greed, death and destruction, more suffering to this planet and its peoples than any other nation on this planet. Now, as the years unfold, we are witnessing a reckoning on the wings of an awakening which no one could have ever dreamed of, manifesting in part as violent shootings, beatings, and death by electrocution - taserings. Whether it be the military through illegal and proxy wars, law enforcement upon the peoples or the people upon each other, there are few who live in the United States today who do not worry for their safety, and the lives of their family, friends, neighbors, and communities, a consciousness of fear and anxiety which we have foisted onto ourselves and peoples of other sovereign nations in the name of freedom, security, the desire for power, corruption, and greed.




To see with single vision is to see/feel/know physical reality as a specific manifestation of the larger spiritual reality that infuses it, creates it, and sustains it at all times.  It is to feel/see/know that there is a larger purpose that infuses each and every seemingly ordinary event, and that this larger purpose is not a mental purpose, but rather corresponds to a flow of energy on a higher dimensional level that is shaping life and bringing it into greater harmony with the higher realms of spirit.
 
There is no action that is not relevant or important in this regard.  There is none that is 'trivial.'  Even slicing a loaf of bread, or entering a store, or greeting a neighbor can be the physical representation of an energetic event of some importance that is taking place on a higher plane.
 
This is the Principle of Unified Vision: That what appears to our senses as a physical reality that exists in and of itself is an illusion.  Physical reality exists, but only as part of a greater whole that has multi-dimensional aspects on the higher planes of spiritual vibration.  What this principle declares is that the meaning of any event or action cannot be determined by looking at it through physical senses connected to the brain.  For the information imparted to the brain is but one layer of a multidimensional envelope or matrix that is much more complex, much vaster, and much more intertwined with one's higher purpose than the brain can presently register.


IN THE PRESENCE OF HARDSHIP
http://lightomega.org/Ind/Pure/In-the-P ... dship.html




It seems pretty evident if you follow national and world events that we have pushed each other too far in our free will choice to align with energies that are in opposition to love, kindness, and respect. We can add to this toxic mix those embodied souls who can no longer handle what they are feeling within, and far too often, in the presence of the frequencies of light awakening within them, meant as a means of healing those painful feelings and thoughts, too many are instead, 'snapping', losing the plot, losing their minds, shutting down their hearts, and harming others as a way to lash out in the presence of feelings of great pain.

Yet this is the only the beginning of our collective reckoning/recognizing and awakening process. Becoming aware that there is a problem, that we have lost our way individually and collectively, is just the first step of the awakening process and the healing the affects of aligning ourselves within a culture of death and violence.

For once, the predominant groups of peoples who were at times, innocently unaware of the violence's (small and large) which we have perpetrated unto others, are now beginning to experience the horrors others have lived with, often as a byproduct of American politics, at times the self righteous religious beliefs of bigots and merchants of hatred, and unmitigated greed and the lust for control and power by corporations, Wall Street, and millionaires and billionaires who have through manipulation of the markets and banking systems, robbed most of the nation and this planet of resources, access to clean food and water, and safety from war, greed, lust for power and political-religious demagoguery.

We are awakening through collective suffering to the realities we have inflicted for years upon those who were 'not' us, by the actions of those very same peoples and their generations, now including those who thought they were insulated and separated from the suffering, in the suffering. The next step in the awakening process is to purify out of the psyche, the body, the heart, the mind, and the memories, all energies and consciousness' that are separated from Love. The frequencies of Light are the means by which all that has been hidden from the Light shall be revealed and in time, healed.




"We who live during this time are in the midst of an extraordinary process of growth and transformation - a change related to the earth's evolution into a new level of consciousness and being. This sacred transition, ordained at the beginning of time, will change life as we know it, and we are both witnesses to and participants in the transformative process.

In order to complete this transition, purification of the old is needed to root out, heal, and transform all that cannot hold the new, higher vibration of spiritual light now entering the earth's physical and energetic body."

"…In the case of the individual, purification often involves the upsurge into consciousness of formerly concealed negative emotions and thoughts that resided in a subconscious layer of the psyche and were, for the most part, inaccessible. Such emotions as anger, fear, sorrow, or grief that may have been deeply buried, now rise into awareness, often with no apparent external stimulus to cause them to do so."

"…With respect to the earth, the same process of purification holds true as for the individual. With the advent of greater light, there is an upsurge into collective awareness of energies that have previously been held within the physical and energy bodies of the earth.  This upsurge affects consciousness on many different levels - the emotional and mental, as well as the physical. The same release of energy that operates to create inner turbulence for an individual, also manifests through the earth's physical structure, giving rise to such things as unusual weather patterns, volcanic eruptions, atmospheric changes, and changes within the oceans."


GLOBAL PURIFICATION
by Julie
http://lightomega.org/Ind/Pure/Global-Purification.html




We as a nation collectively awakening to our own homegrown nightmares which gun control laws will never be able to stop. Whilst guns do indeed kill, it is those who are pulling the trigger, who cannot be 'controlled'.

Whether it be in the Middle East, Africa, Mexico, America, or any where else in the world, those who have been oppressed, bullied, marginalized, and radicalized, cannot be 'controlled'. And so for those individuals, a weapon will always be found. This is what we as Americans need to come to terms with. This violence we are witnessing, cannot be 'controlled'. Only a change of heart and a change of language, from a language of violent rhetoric to a language of love change change the circumstances we are in.

The energies associated with a consciousness of violence and mayhem cannot be 'controlled'. Darkness cannot be fought with darkness. Violence only begets more violence. It is only through acts of nobility, humility, grace, kindness, generosity without ulterior motives, and respect of each other that a way out can be forged for all.

Isil/Daesh, Boko Haram and other death cults cannot be 'controlled' or bombed out of existence either. Those amongst us who would kill others as a means of getting back at those who have tormented them, bullied them, alienated them, hurt, and/or killed those they love, will continue to kill in a culture of war and death and these individuals cannot be 'controlled'. Those who would seek through the media, politics, or religion to advocate for killing and bombing as a means to control that which they do not agree with, that which they are afraid of, and that which they feel threatens them, will only bring by their actions repetitive cycles of revenge and killing.

Planetarily, the higher frequencies coming into the planet are effecting and affecting some in such a way, that rather than heal what is being illuminated within themselves, forgive, or seek ways to bring reconciliation, peace, and prosperity, those very same individuals are instead choosing, to kill and bring suffering to as many people as possible. The energies being released within hearts and minds for the purposes of healing are for the most part, by many, being unconsciously acted out, creating danger and hazard more often than has ever occurred to any generation before.

We are witnessing more killings, more suicides, more desecration and destruction of the earths mantle (fracking), more rapes, child raping, incarcerations of children, mass incarceration of peoples of color, rage and steroid induced murders, destruction of forests and natural habitats, water ways, oceans and coral reefs.

Even still in the face of annihilation, and destruction too many choose to not face these realities and use their gifts to bring about change and healing, they choose instead to pettily push, shove, hurt, embarrass, attack self righteously, and destroy greedily for dollars and coin, that which feeds us, nourishes us and our children, and provides every human being with a home.





"…Purification is both individual and global.  Though it is an inner process, its effects can be seen in outer life as well, especially in the area of relationships - between people, within communities, among nations, and in relation to the Earth itself.  It is not a process based on one religious or spiritual orientation, but rather belongs to all spiritual orientations. "
 

Individual Purification - How to Recognize Its Presence
http://lightomega.org/Ind/Pure/Individu ... sence.html




It Is Time To Bring What You Have Hidden Out Into The Light.

It is the Light which is bringing out of hiding, those thoughts, behaviours, emotions, and ways of interacting with each other which are not aligned with the frequencies of love. It is the higher frequencies of Light, which is the means by which that which we have hidden in our hearts and minds is coming forth for our individual and global healing. It is the higher frequencies of Light, which is awakening and revealing to individuals and communities, that which has unconsciously motivated them, which is opposed to love, peace, and harmony.

Feelings are being stirred up within which are bringing up with them resentments, hatreds, biases, lusts, greed, despair, depressions, anxieties, and a host of other negatively based thoughts and memories, which have until now, been secreted away in peoples hearts and psyches. Suppression and oppression which were once the fail safe mechanisms of control of the masses and individuals no longer wield the power to stop individuals who have lost impulse control.

Unfortunately for those without a conscious path of Teachings and practices which could help them to recognize, contain, and heal that which coming up to be healed in the presence of the higher frequencies of Light, most are just unconsciously acting out the negative energies coming up and moving through them.




The point of balance creates an ability of the heart to embrace all of life, both the suffering and the hope, while feeling the Love that holds it all.

THE POINT OF BALANCE - HEALING FOR THE HEART
http://lightomega.org/NL/20071123-the-P ... lance.html



"...The point of balance can be found by feeling it all, by embracing it all, and by holding it all in God's love.  It is this love that assures the heart that no matter what is going on in the world, there is a Divine purpose which holds it in love that will bring out of every disaster, a forward movement of progress and hope, both for individuals and for mankind. The point of balance creates an ability to hold this conviction in the presence of pain and suffering, even while feeling the heart's deepest compassion.

The same is true of the point of balance as it relates to one's own inner life.  To be open to both the promise of the future and the pain of the present - to the limitations and losses brought about by conditions over which one had no control, while at the same time believing in the goodness of life and of love, this is the place upon which God's love stands and can be found.

For the heart of God suffers with all who suffer; it mourns with all who mourn.  It does not stand apart from any who go without, since there is not one who is not part of God's heart.  At the same time, this divine Heart understands the inner necessity of certain kinds of experience, and so views all in terms of overcoming past limitations and departures from truth, while creating new possibilities for the future.

Such a perspective is especially important today as we view things in terms of individual and global purification. 

There are inner and outer events which are now occurring that are part of the release of long-held energies that must be released in order that the light can expand upon the earth.  The suffering resulting from the purification process is not intentional, but is a by-product of having to endure what has always been a hidden feature of human consciousness, now coming into awareness so that it can be let go of."

THE POINT OF BALANCE - HEALING FOR THE HEART
http://lightomega.org/NL/20071123-the-P ... lance.html




Witnessing and Consciously Holding the Suffering

You may have noticed if you have read previous postings Dear Readers that I frequently post examples of people and groups acting out the energies opposite to the frequencies of Love and Light. I do so for numerous reasons, all of which have to do with healing. I will share with you two of those reasons:

First, I post the photos and stories as a means for the community as a whole, to hold suffering in their hearts until a way is made for justice and a change in consciousness which currently allows for the behaviours witnessed.

Secondly, it is a reminder for those who are in denial, who are deeply separated from the sufferings of others as a result of hearts which are hardened and dry that in this state of hardheartedness, they too are in danger of losing their humanity, what is left of their compassion and empathy just as those in the photos illustrating alignment, whether individual or in groups, with the energies of darkness and opposition.

Yes, the postings of those who have aligned with the energies of darkness may be exaggerated examples to most Dear Readers, yet for me, they are hallmarks - points in time, warning signs that another portal into realms of previously unknown suffering and loss of humanity has been breached. The photos of suffering are warnings that we are heading collectively into even greater and more unimaginable realms of individual and collective suffering and cruelty unless we individually and collectively check ourselves and check for each other, and begin to change our hearts.




"...The Earth is presently moving into greater resonance with the higher frequencies of spiritual light.  The kind of growth that God has in mind for mankind as well as for all living creatures is, indeed, the flowering of the spirit - the unfoldment of the petals of the soul which allows an individual to both become more themselves, and at the same time to carry more of God's light, love, and truth. This blossoming will simultaneously create an experience of inner healing, and also ensure that "all can be fed."  For peace and the fulfillment of the needs of all depend upon the immersion of each embodied soul in a sacred reality that includes all others.  No longer can one spiritual life be separate from another.  In the truth that is arriving, all will view themselves as One.

It is because purification allows one to embody the healing through the transformative power of light, that the world can ultimately be nourished and healed.

Without the embodiment on a physical level, planetary healing would just be an idea, not a means to bring the world from darkness to light. With embodiment, all things become possible. "


GOALS OF PURIFICATION
I.  The Flowering of Spirit
http://lightomega.org/Ind/Pure/Goals.html




Collectively, we have been awakening to the fact with each passing year that something has fundamentally changed in our collective consciousness, what I am identifying as a "recognizing or a reckoning" which is upon us, it is here, in the United States. What shall we choose to do? Take stock of ourselves individually and collectively, and change our ways of living which indulge following and teaching the principles of greed, wealth, power, cruelty, selfishness, hatefulness, and hardheartedness? Or shall we individually and collectively choose instead to begin to find the paths to reconciliation, healing, and hope until we remember the truth of who we are and live that truth?

Or do we collectively, as a nation, and a planet, need to suffer some more?

Is that where we are heading? Do we need to watch others endure more suffering until the suffering comes into our lives before we seek to change?

Do we need to watch others act out their pain and even the energies of sadism in the taking of lives in wars and mass murders, taking with them as many as they can, leaving the rest to suffer psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually for the rest of their lives, as if it were some form of entertainment or a virtual game until a similar suffering comes into our lives?

We can choose another way which is not the path of violence. We can choose to use the language of love in our everyday actions and speech. We can choose to find ways to live in harmony and peace with each other.




In this time of revelation, buried pains of the past may come to awareness once again,
asking for compassion and deeper healing.


Seeds of Light - Julie - Light Omega
https://twitter.com/JulieLightOmega




I am here with you.

I want you to know that I am not attached to who is or who is not reading what I post. Well, except for my Beloved Teacher, whose guidance and Teachings are precious and treasured. For what I am here to do on this forum of One Earth Awakening truthfully at this time, has more to do with anchoring energies of Light and Love (albeit imperfectly), and making a way for those who seek the Light than it has to do with numbers of clicks or viewings. When I write, or when I visit this forum throughout the day, I am in effect, consciously building a place for the energies of Light to be anchored as well as anchoring my love and light through my actions. I am, one word and one moment at a time, building a place where the energies of Love and Light are available and accessible for all who would seek a way that is not the way of violence, hatred, and fear.

I do not need the validation of views for I have no doubt that I am doing what I am called to do, sharing from my heart, the experiences, the Teachings I follow, and the wisdom's I have gained, posting when I am guided to. For I write to anchor a consciousness of Love in the presence of darkness. Whether someone is aware of my doing so or not, the effect of the energies on all is the same. Just as violence connects us in consciousness, so to, and even more powerfully so, do the energies of love connect us, whether we are consciously aware of these energies or not. Love is the spiritual matrix, the quantum goo if you will, which connects us all. Yes, I also write for those who come and read in the present and I am grateful for your readership and I am grateful for your presence on this forum. Even still, I am also writing for those who will come in the future, to let you know that I am with you, even now as you read my words, I am with you in my heart, before you even knew I existed, I was with you.

I am Dear Readers, through the actions I take on this forum, making a way, now and in the darkest of times to unfold, a way which is meant to help you to remember the truth of who you are, through my free will choice to align with the energies of Light and Love.

Before you even know I existed, before you ever read these or any of my words, I was aware of you Dear Readers. For we all are from the same Divine Spark, we are all from the same Source and in my connection to the Divine, I cannot be separated from you. It is my love for the Divine, the One, the Beloved, the Earth, and my love for humanity which inspires me to write, to share my journey, to share what I have learned, to to share my journey of awakening with you Dear Readers.

We are all connected. We are all from the One Heart. We are all One Planetary Family. We are all meant to share in the blessings of the One Light, the One Love, which is manifesting within everything and everyone to heal us all.

with love,
Johanna




The life of the soul is a life of meaning.  It imbues each gesture, thought, and deed with the full integrity of being that comes from conscious connection with the Source of life.  It infuses all responsiveness to life with the love that is part of this connection.  Though the life of the soul may be covered over, doubted, or misperceived, it remains as the center of life and truth that resides within each human being.

The eternal quality of the soul can become known to the embodied self, but not before a passageway is created between the personal self and its higher aspects.  This passageway permits the opening to a deeper level of knowing, feeling, and sensing than has been possible before, based on the thought process of the conscious mind.  Though the mind as we know it has been important throughout history in assisting the process of evolution to move forward, today, at the point of maximum expression of the rational, it now retreats into a secondary place in relation to defining reality.  It does not do this of its own accord, however, but rather because a new energy that seeks balance begins to infuse the body and awareness – an energy that brings forth new perceptions based on the intuitive and the sacred, rather than on the rational. Now, the soul steps forward into the growing light of spiritual awareness, and what may have made little or no sense to the rational mind, begins to awaken memory, truth, and recognition within the deeper self.


SOUL AWARENESS - THE LIFE OF THE SOUL
http://lightomega.org/Ind/Soul-Awareness.html




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 Post subject: Light Omega Twitter: A New Propensity Towards Love
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Violence and the propensity toward violence has steeped America's history.

Now love must take its place.


https://twitter.com/JulieLightOmega






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 Post subject: In This Time: The Promise Not To Lose Hope
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In This Time



Violence in America is changing our perception of reality, both in our expectations of what might come to us from abroad as a measure of anti-American feeling and what might come to us from within our own borders.


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A threshold has been crossed within this country that is altering the picture of reality as we know it, bringing into the consciousness of many who held it only as a possibility before, the idea of America as a 'violent nation.' No longer are the acts of mass killings considered to be occasional, produced by those afflicted by mental instability, but rather the atmosphere of fear and the presence of lowered expectations regarding the continuity of a peaceful time, a time without violence, is growing.


The expectation of peace is not only disappearing because of acts of extreme and random violence against those who are not menacing or threatening in any way, but also because of increased awareness of white against black brutality which is the legacy of racial prejudice within this country whose roots lay deep within our culture. It is the combination of acts of mass violence, whether domestically or internationally initiated, plus the revelation of horrific acts of brutality by America's own officials in positions of power, that is changing the picture of what America is and what America is capable of.


Added to this is the increasing awareness, based on however vague a perception of life in other countries, that America, in its frequent mass shootings, exceeds this type of violence by far of any other developed or undeveloped nation. As a result, our sense of reality and of national identity is beginning to change so that the anticipation grows that new evidence of violence will continue to emerge.


In this time of revelation, what is desperately needed and presently lacking is an image of a way through to the other side of this. What is desperately needed is hope. And yet hope must come from a collective change of heart that reaches through the confusion of why all of this is happening to the knowledge of how to counteract it. This can only be done by a collective movement that must emerge that will allow the motivation of peace and unity to become stronger and the culture of power and retaliation as a measure of 'justice' to diminish.



Violence in America is changing our perception of reality, both in our expectations of what might come to us from abroad as a measure of anti-American feeling and what might come to us from within our own borders as yet another reflection of the ways in which we are not yet our brothers' and sisters' keepers.


In this time, the most important promise is the one that we make to our own hearts and from our own hearts, the promise not to lose hope, the promise that the good within all and the love within all can surmount the cloud of darkness that is now most potently descending upon this nation.








Please share this Newsletter.



IN THIS TIME
(Following the San Bernadino shootings - 12-3-15)
http://lightomega.org/NL/20151204-In-This-Time.html




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THE CHOICE FOR CONSCIOUSNESS

by Julie



The choice to become more conscious is one that is with us now.  It is a choice to live a sacred life, one that respects existence as a gift and does not take it for granted. Such a choice also recognizes the great power for shaping life that comes to those who choose wisely, with knowledge of their motives and with deliberate attention to the meaning of their choices.



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Choices can be made with varying degrees of clarity, and whether deep or shallow, they have great power to shape our futures. Choices can be impulsive, thoughtless, childish, rational, illogical, sober, deliberate, meditative, or inspired. The choices that most shape our lives are the ones that emerge from the deepest strata of our being - from the depths of our soul and from the place of joining of our soul with God.

Our planet at the present time, on the collective level as well as the personal, knows little regarding how to choose with God and not separate from God. It knows little regarding the concept of universal Intention or divine Will which is the wisdom of the Universe. That there is such Intention and such wisdom to attune to could bring change and new hope to our everyday lives. Yet, it is still far away from us on the practical level, and requires the spiritual unfoldment of the next stage of our development to bring this realization into full awareness. Through this realization, we will discover that we are souls created with a singular and unique purpose in the overall scheme of things. When we discover this, we will be eager to pursue the exploration of our unique purpose in order to participate in a more active way in the shaping of our destiny.

Our life-choices now are far from this. For the most part they are based on the ego - on the need for security, power, approval, safety. Such choices correspond to the level of consciousness we presently live at. Believing ourselves to be separate from the life of the Universe which is God's life, and separate from each other, we make choices that correspond to the small territory we have carved out for ourselves on the earth. We make choices to protect, enlarge, or fortify this territory without concern for the larger picture of which we are a part.




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Fundamental to the future shift in our way of choosing and making decisions is the understanding that the larger reality to which we belong is truly real. Just as the Copernican revolution brought to the consciousness of the planet the knowledge that we were not the center of the physical universe but rather part of a much vaster whole, so, too, does there need to be a new parallel revolution in our understanding of the spiritual universe. This universe is one we live and move in, all the while thinking we are alone. We are affected by it at all times, even while we feel that we are running our own lives. We also affect it at all times, even while we do not know that it exists.

The universe to which our spiritual selves belong is as vast as the physical universe which forms the body or container of the spiritual, and yet we are unconscious regarding this greater reality, thinking that what is real is only what we can see and touch and measure. As mankind moves to the next level of its development, however, such thinking will give way to the certainty that life is much vaster and more interconnected than we ever thought possible. We will also perceive that our individual lives are more important and more interconnected than we ever thought possible.

This kind of thinking, to whatever degree it takes place, can give rise to a new level of responsibility in each of us for choosing consciously - for making choices that take into account the sacred reality of which we are a part. It can give rise to a thought process that takes into account the link between the individual and the greater life of God to which we belong. Attunement to this greater life brings into play the wisdom and intelligence of the Universe to guide us as we move through our lives. Choices made in the presence of such attunement seek to serve the highest good of all, knowing that the good of the individual and the good of the whole are inextricably linked. Believing this, we will seek to go deeper into the truth of our decision-making, trying to find the point of attunement, the harmony of interests that is the link between our self and God's life around and within us.

Right now, this thinking seems foreign to most of us. It seems dream-like, impractical, perhaps impossible to achieve. This is because we live on a three-dimensional plane in a multi-dimensional universe, believing ourselves to have command of all of reality. In order to change our thinking, we must have the direct experience of the vaster reality that we belong to. We must know it is there, we must perceive it, before we can really know how to bring our consciousness into fuller accord with it.




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Even now, however, as we await this larger shift, our choices can become broader in their motivational base so that we move beyond the practical and more superficial reasons for making decisions, to the level of meaning in all that we do. This is the intermediate step between where we are and where we are going as a civilization. We have the opportunity in the present to take more seriously the meaning of everything we undertake, to make decision-making a more profound and sacred event just as life is a profound and sacred event. This is something we can do right now. We can let go of the right to be indifferent and unconscious, to be asleep in the midst of our lives, and decide to value our lives more - to value the meaning of our lives more.


By giving meaning to our decision-making, by weighing it in terms of whether it corresponds to the deeper truths of who we are, we move in the direction of deepening our consciousness and of learning to lead a sacred life. Such a life has rewards which accrue to those who choose responsibility over self-abandonment.

The rewards of depth, of creativity, of commitment, of sense of purpose, of joy in self-expression, of gratitude for being able to contribute to the welfare of others. All of these rewards can be summarized in one word - 'love'. It is love that brings joy to our souls as a result of knowing that our life has made a difference to others in the largest sense that we are capable of. Our choosing consciousness is a choice for love and a choice for sacredness. It is one that we can make now, at this moment of standing at the brink of a new era and a way of being in life.







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 Post subject: Prayers for the Suffering: Flooding in Great Britain
PostPosted: Mon Dec 07, 2015 9:38 am 

Prayers for those who have been flooded out of their homes, for their struggles and losses. Prayers of upliftment and strength for those who have lost everything they own. Prayers for those who have now been flooded more than once.

Prayers from my heart for all who are suffering.


Blessings.
Johanna

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Storm Desmond: army aids rescue effort as communities struggle after floods
Flooding started on Saturday as Storm Desmond brought more than a month’s worth of rain in 24 hours.



Storm Desmond - in pictures

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gall ... n-pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... ter-floods

Storm Eva: Cumbria Could See Christmas Floods
The festive period could turn into a nightmare for some as heavy rain threatens to hit the North over Christmas.

http://news.sky.com/story/1611097/storm ... mas-floods

Floods of biblical proportions leave cities, towns and villages under water
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... -yorkshire

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