From Open Diary by Kris

I believe we all have our good days and our bad days. Days were you feel everything is working for you and days were you kind of lose your hope. Yesterday was one of those bad days for me. Not that I lost my hope, but ... ok actually I did just that, at least that is how it felt.

But on the inside I knew there is something to it. Everything has a reason for me. As one of my favourite inspirational teacher's says: "Contrast helps you to focus." Contrast, meaning, those so called bad days, and actually calling them bad wouldn't be the right term at all, are in your life to help you. I know that sounds crazy. You probably wonder how can something bad happening, can be to my benefit? It is all about the shift in perception. Another good term to describe that would be the famous silver lining. We are so practised to go towards what feels good, and push away from what feels uncomfortable, but have you ever stopped and thought if those uncomfortable, sad feeling are there for a reason? have you ever considered that they are there to help you see something more clearly and get more focused on what you want? Probably not, but..

I could not be happier that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage nationwide this past Friday, but I’m sitting here wondering: what do we have to give up as we win this victory?

Let’s think about this scenario right now.

It’s 2015, the legalization of same-sex marriage should have happened many years ago. It’s what the majority of citizens want and the government has been working on getting it passed in all states. Why is it that this happened on Friday, and so suddenly? Could it be to distract us from something else?

Don’t get me wrong, I danced, I cheered and I celebrated all day at this victory. Please do not confuse this article to mean that I am not incredibly happy about the legalization of same-sex marriage, because I am. But I am also wondering if anything else is happening, below the surface.

What if this is yet another way for those in power to keep us ignorant and uninvolved?

This much is clear: there’s more going on behind the scenes than what is immediately apparent. Perhaps, amongst our celebration, something bigger is going down.

We have a sensationalist culture: We adore the obscene. We gawk at visuals. We’re addicted to visceral reactions. We love the next news story; the triumph, the drama, and even the despair.

Zen Gardner, Guest
Waking Times

There’s been something of a lull in truly major developments of late, despite all the garish noise and typical bravado of global figureheads and their complicit media and a few events here and there. Sure, there are skirmishes worldwide and economies continue to crumble as governments continue their draconian crackdowns, but the urgency of many regarding our ongoing situation is apparently suspended in some sort of strange holding pattern.

While it’s encouraging that the awakening is keeping TPTB’s machinations at bay and forcing them to change directions and tactics, I find it nonetheless a bit foreboding.  It’s clearly not a time to let our guards down.

The indicators that this September and October hold some interesting confluences is nothing to ignore. The signs are very clear and it’s obvious they’re up to no good.