Like Joan of Arc, I feel God's words pounding within my mind with the force of a tidal wave ... All of you, all of us, are feeling the very fabric of our consciousness being stretched ... It is time to awaken!
- Ravi Shyamalan, 2012 The Awakening
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Our people have long thought that the homecoming of all Earth's people will come when each of the four original peoples recognizes the gifts of others, as equally important to their own. This is happening.
- The Healer,2012 The Awakening
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Our world must change paths immediately. Our global problems are not economic ones, but problems of the spirit. No tinkering with the system will have the impact needed, unless we fundamentally change the way we view the world and our place in it.
-- Ravi Shyamalan, 2012 The Awakening
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s influence on Ravi is obvious from the below excerpt of her Oxford speech.
Visionaries have since employed those teachings of compassion in the real world on a massive scale, including most recently, Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They proved that this wisdom is not beyond us, but is in fact the most practical way to achieve worthy goals – redirecting economies to nurture their people, achieving revolution without wars, improving the lives of millions by shifting our consciousness.
-- Ravi Shyamalan, 2012 The Awakening
Hear King's most magnificent speech in the below video:
Fortunately, the Piscean Age has prepared us for . . . this great shift we will experience together - by ushering in lifting winds of wisdom from avatars and prophets . . . They planted the seeds of preparation for this new time:
- Ravi Shyamalan, 2012 The Awakening
From the Koran: Allah created nations and tribes that we might know one another, not that we might despise one another.
From the Torah: . . . never to turn aside the stranger, for it is like turning aside the most high God.
From the Bible: love thy neighbor as thyself.
The Buddha: Full of love for all things in the world; practicing virtue in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.
Hindu Psalm: A man obtains a proper rule of action by looking on his neighbor as himself.
Ravi Shyamalan was named after Ravi Shankar, the famed sitarist who played with the Beatles and was a lifelong influence for George Harrison.
Speaking on the spiritual value of their
east-west fusion of music . . .
Ravi's mother, who was a sitarist, had given Ravi her name in tribute to the man, after studying with him for many years. Ravi's mother had eventually played benefit concerts to end world hunger with Bono, Sting, and Bruce Springsteen, and many others.
The controversial Shankar Seva Samiti movement that ordained women Hindu priests, that Ravi's father spoke of when she was a child, actually did take place in the 1980's. And it did occur in Ravi's mother and father's hometown of Pune, India. *
Hindu girls learn to become priests in India,
a movement that began in Pune
What did the Hindu Priestess's chant read at Ravi's father's funeral mean?
Asat Ma Sadgamaya
Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya
Mrtyorma Amrtam Gamaya
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti
Translation:
Lead me from this waking illusion to the reality of life Lead me from darkness to light
Lead me from the impermanance and death of the body to the immortality and eternal life of the spirit.
- Brhadaranyaka Upanishad - L.iii.28
Oxford Union's Debate Club, where Ravi's adventure began, on January 22, 2009, invited Ms. Sherry Rehman (Pakistan's Minister for Information and Broadcasting) to address a forum at Oxford Union on the reasons behind the under-representation of women in politics. Her talk's title was, 'Where Are All The Women?' *
Besides Ravi, other pre-eminent speakers invited by the prestigious society at Oxford include, Benazir Bhutto, Mother Theresa, the Dalai Lama, Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu and Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth of England to name but a few. *
Princess Diana has angered government ministers after calling for an international ban on landmines . . .
- BBC News *
Johnny Cash, Ravi Shyamalan, and Bill Douglas (author of 2012: The Awakening) had one thing in common. They all experienced California's maximum security Folsom State Prison from the inside - and they were all changed by it. *
Our world is in the process of finding answers to our problems. We are deciding between feminine healing choices or masculine controlling ones. For example, over the last three decades our attempts to solve the problem of criminality focused on tough prison expansion solutions. This hard approach trumped the more feminine concepts of reform and healing to solve crime problems.
-- Ravi Shyamalan, 2012 The Awakening
Folsom Embodies California's Prison Blues
by Laura Sullivan, NPR, August 13, 2009
California spends as much money on corrections as its entire higher education system.
How Did Things Get So Bad? Experts agree that the problem started when Californians voted for a series of get-tough-on-crime laws in the 1980s. The state's prison population exploded immediately.
Jeanne Woodford was warden of San Quentin during the prison population boom. "The violence just went out of control," she remembers. "And then the programs started going away. I was there during an 18-month lockdown. It was just unbelievably horrific."
. . .
Voters increased parole sanctions and gave prison time to nonviolent drug offenders. They eliminated indeterminate sentencing, removing any leeway to let inmates out early for good behavior. Then came the "Three Strikes You're Out" law in 1994. Offenders who had committed even a minor third felony — like shoplifting — got life sentences.
In 2012 The Awakening, the Healer refers to the great web of life and the importance of recognizing humanity's relationship with it. There is some controversy over the letter Chief Seattle wrote to President Pierce, upon surrendering their lands. The below is one possible account of that letter. Whether accurate or not, our knowledge of the Native American relationship with the natural world is reflected in the words.
I do not think the measure of a civilization is how tall its buildings of concrete are,
But rather how well its people have learned to relate to their environment and fellow man.
~ Sun Bear of the Chippewa Tribe *
In 2012 The Awakening, the Healer cites the, little known by most Christians, Gnostic Gospels,
such as the Gospel of Mary and the Gospel of Judas *
History of the Gospel of Mary Magdelene - how it was recovered - and the issue of feminine recognition in the church *
Partial direct reading of
the Gospel of Mary Magdelene:
"Peter, I see you contending
against the woman, like the adversaries
. . . if the savior thought her worthy,
who are you indeed to reject her?" *
History of the Gospel of Judas, and how Judas's demonization may have affected modern history, the Holocaust, and more.
Why Jesus laughed at sacred rituals. Jesus's transcendental teachings.
- National Geographic *
In 2012 The Awakening, the Healer refers to the Life of St. Issa, a book that claims
that Jesus's lost years were spent studying and teaching among
Eastern Buddhist and Hindu transcendental masters. *
Interview with the maker of a fascinating documentary, entitled, Jesus in India
The creative cycle, or days of creation, are being completed. Humanity has reached its hand across the planet. Every area of the planet has been tamed, every resource has been found and tapped, and the planet sags from the weight of almost ten billion people and their relentless need for sustenance and energy. We have nothing more to explore or exploit . . .
My friends, the Aquarian Age of mankind is the time when all of humanity will awaken together as a collective mind, or we will fall - destroying ourselves through the illusion that we are not connected, and therefore will be enemies competing for the resources that will continue to dwindle . . .
- Ravi Shyamalan, 2012 The Awakening
The awakening continued to spread worldwide. The viewer-ship and readership of corporate media continued to slip as millions created decentralized media institutions to spread information that affected the lives of people worldwide. Individuals became researchers and reporters, as media became a participatory empowering act.
- 2012 The Awakening
All of the electrical needs of the US, and the power to drive 95% of their cars could have been supplied solely by clean, cheap solar and wind power long before now . . . Free energy equals chaos, and a threat to control. This was all public knowledge. BUT, people had been trained like Pavlov's dogs to only react when the sanctioned media told them truths - until now.
- Data Analyst, Mark Ratlig, 2012 The Awakening
"These two-spirit people have known the loneliness that you have experienced, Ravi."
- The Healer, 2012 The Awakening
There are three great oppressions: Government because it is based on materialistic values which don't include any spiritual values and doesn't look after people; Religion because it created a fear in people. Most religions built up a fear of God rather than building up a firm relation....Hollywood...gave us an awful image of one another -- all those negative things.
- Chief Leonard George, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, British Columbia
"My people saw two-spirit people as visionaries, capable of seeing the future."
- Chief Leonard George
Message from Chief Leonard George & his
two-spirit son, of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation
A Lakota perspective on the Medicine Wheel, presented by Don Warne of the Lakota (Sioux) Nation.
Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Nation word, meaning life out of balance
The Mayan calendar predicted that the coming alignment of the Earth, our Sun, and the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy would occur on December 21, 2012.
This event only occurs every 26,000 years.
Its interesting to contemplate how the Mayans hundreds of years ago could have known about the existance of a black hole in the center of our galaxy, let alone calculate this coming cosmic alignment centuries in advance. *
To learn more about the Mayan Calendar & Prophecies of 2012, see the site map in lower left hand corner of this page.
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