I’m Over All That

by Shirley Maclaine

  This is why people like me write books about the questionings of our true selves, where we might have come from, if we are alone in the universe, and if we are living out the laws of cause and effect. What were the ancient civilizations that we might have lived among? Did we destroy ourselves then as we seem to be doing now? How can anyone who is awake not ask these questions? That is why we don’t have a sense of “I”-ness. The more “I”-ness we touch, the deeper is our sense of ease.

  Yes, I have enough money, which is, unfortunately, a requirement for “ease” these days. But such a state of ease has led me to deeper questions about our addiction to materialism and more money than we need. I remember John Paul Getty’s remark when he was asked if he had made enough money. He said, “Not yet.” He was the richest man in the world at the time, with a face that looked poverty-stricken.

  Why do we look for outside and external stimulation and acquisitions to make ourselves happy? A new car, a new dress, jewelry, etc. I feel it’s because we don’t feel we have enough on the inside. I remember a strange state of mind I got into while walking the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage. I was hurting all over from bleeding blisters, the cruel sun, the aches and pains of walking twenty miles a day. I tried to find the enlightened fulfillment inside, but I found that if I concentrated on the purse I wanted to buy at a very expensive store when I returned to Madrid, I felt better. I counted the inside pockets of the purse, I felt the soft leather, I imagined where I’d wear it. I was in that state for a few hours until I realized I was trying to find comfort in the external outside world while my trust and faith in my internal self went unexamined. From then on, I asked for help from my own internal higher self. The walk became easier and I found I was connecting to some past lives I had experienced in that part of the world, which I think was one of the reasons I decided to make the pilgrimage in the first place.

  We are now what we have been before, as well as what we will be. I began to understand more fully the emotional addiction I, and others, have for “things.” Simply put, material things are a replacement for the true self we haven’t yet touched within ourselves. The Buddhists speak of non-attachment, which is different than detachment. I was beginning to see the difference. Our attachment to so many things makes us forget why we are here and what we are supposed to be learning about ourselves.

  We are in a state of separation between spirit and matter, between our very souls and materialism. We are half-awake with our toys and technology. We don’t hear our souls crying to be recognized as part of creation so we will wake up. The world we have made and live in does not bear witness to the divine. It bears witness to our greed, our delusions of power, and to the righteousness of religion. We kill for the determination of our own religious power. We kill for the individual’s democratic right to plunder the Earth as we separate ourselves more and more from the Earth’s divinity. We live separate from our true selves.

  Will the cosmic alignment of 2012 force us magnetically to realign with why we are here? Will its effect on our consciousness bring about the enlightenment we don’t even realize is missing? Perhaps galactic nature itself will force us to wake up or die of the separation from ourselves.

  The ancients promised that the Earth as a living being would wake us to sing. Perhaps the alignment is how it will happen.

  I Am Not Over Good Vibrations

  The Mayan science is based on frequencies of vibrationary resonance. Our science is based on matter. Our scientists say that matter is the only provable reality. With the advances in our modern science though, our scientists are coming around to understanding what the Mayans meant when they claimed that all reality is constructed of different levels of vibrational frequency. Up to now, scientists have claimed reality could be detected by our senses. They are now bowing to the possibility that there may be other realities that we cannot discern through our senses, that there may be coexisting parallel realities going on.

  We, as human beings, are in resonance with our planet, as are the trees, nature, and animals. When these resonances are disturbed, so are we. We know our planet is a living, evolving organism. If we have created an imbalance through our depletion of natural resources and toxic pollution into our environment, then we must wake up to what that actually means. The 2012 alignment should take place with an Earth in balance, not an Earth out of balance.

  I believe that there are other beings of intelligence in the universe, waiting and observing how we will handle this 2012 alignment. These beings are of a more advanced vibrational frequency and are waiting to be acknowledged by humans so that they can help us wake up before it is too late. They are hoping for what they call a “galactic synchronization.” They know that 2012 is a major evolutionary shift. If we acknowledge them and work with them, we would all become part of a galactic civilization. The age of Universal Being Kind will begin.

  I do not believe there are “evil” aliens. Producers make a lot of money on screen and in television through such an idea though, because fear makes money. The “good” alien would challenge us to be better ourselves, and we are not up to that kind of challenge right now. We are obsessed with evil, fear, protection, and the entitlement of being looked after. Abdicating self-responsibility is our middle name. We want the government, the church, and our “system” to take care of us. We don’t have 50 states here in America, we have 51—the latest being the state of Denial.

  I am over being taken care of. I am going to take care of myself by asking questions and studying anything I can that is innovative and makes sense to me in this new world of alignment. According to some scientists, our brains have an unbounded talent for creativity, promising that we can become whatever we imagine. Each brain is already capable of a greater number of associations than the number of atoms in the universe! And there is strong evidence that the holographic (nonlinear) universe acts as an interconnected mind to which each human being has direct access. More and more people are developing their clairvoyance, telepathy, and remote viewing. The reality of humanity’s interconnected thought field is astonishing.

  Some of the new children being born are evidencing advanced mental and emotional capabilities that will probably be commonplace in all of humanity. I believe there will be widespread acceptance of spiritual intelligence which will include the recognition of past lives. I believe we will finally recognize nonphysical beings: angels and other celestial intelligences that are not embodied. In every culture on Earth there are stories of unusual experiences and enlightening contacts with beings that weren’t physical.

  Perhaps the 2012 alignment will lead us to a universal spirituality where deception and fear are no longer necessary. Perhaps our brand of manipulative politics will be replaced with a spiritual politics where every business will be environmentally and socially responsible. As Albert Einstein once said, “You can’t solve a problem from the same level of consciousness that created the problem.”

  Our consciousness is the problem.

  I Am Not Over Caring About Time

  Because I am an impatient person, and because I’m usually ten years ahead of the curve on many things, I have made a study of time in an effort to have more patience.

  So far, Terry has been my most profound teacher where consciousness and time are concerned. She doesn’t just relate to time in terms of when it’s time to eat or go out. She has a sensitive calculator that is attached to her consciousness about other people’s feelings. Once on a plane trip across country, she sat next to a woman with her paw on the woman’s heart for five hours. At arrival, the woman told me that her daughter was dying and she was in a terrible state of depression. She said the energy from Terry’s paw helped her.

  I’m beginning to feel the “time of nature” now. I guess it takes ageing to do that. Living in New Mexico has helped to make me more patient. When I make an appointment for 2:00 on Tuesday, I’m learning not to get too upset when the person I’ve hired shows up at 2:00 on Thursday instead. They are “on time,” they say. T
here is a general deterioration in work ethic when time is money and mañana the rule of the day.

  But sometimes when I’m involved in a project with other people and the sun is shining and the fish are jumping, I can’t blame them for going fishing instead. There doesn’t seem to be an acceleration of time or activity or much of anything in New Mexico.

  Elsewhere is another story. People (particularly young people) are talking so fast, words tumbling over words, that they are impossible to understand. I am a stickler for enunciation, and I’ll just stop them midsentence and tell them to go take some lessons in elocution and come back to tell me their story when they’ve learned how to care about whether they are being understood. The minds of people are going so fast their mouths can’t keep up. This is a real problem with flight attendants on airplanes, assistants who answer phones for businesspeople, and machines that give you directions.

  So I definitely feel the effect that the acceleration of time is having on human life. Terry keeps me grounded to the time of nature. I will take time to listen to the rustle of the leaves because her ears are perked up. Surrendering to her rhythm when we walk has helped me not to stumble. Watching her watch a bird in a tree has become hypnotic for me. She doesn’t move a muscle, seems to even stop breathing. She becomes one with the bird and the tree and the moment. It is a moment of stop-time bliss.

  But when I am stressed, I will stack items in my arms and fingers so I won’t have to make another trip to another room. Of course I drop whatever it is and usually forget what I was so concerned about anyway. If I had to be patient and wait for a life or death verdict on something, I wouldn’t know how to handle it. God, give me patience and please do it now!

  So time is a subject that has raised my curiosity since I was young. I will attempt to simplify what I’ve read, and hope it is understandable. I’m not sure it is even to me.

  I understand holographic time because of an out-of-body experience I had. I was in a boat on a river. You could say I was moving along a river of time. I knew what time it was immediately in front of me and immediately behind me, but as I was leaving my body I saw a far greater distance behind the boat on the river and a far greater distance up ahead. What time would that make each distance I was viewing? It was relative. I realized that all time was happening at once. If I had stayed on the boat the distance behind me would have been in the past. But viewing the scene from above I saw that I was seeing the past in the present. So, as Einstein promised, time is not linear. It is relative, which, as he says, means it doesn’t really exist. We invented it so we could feel secure in what we call the present. Because of that experience I understand how our perception of time is relative. When it comes to my understanding space-time, it was more complicated.

  When I relax and feel into time I realize that different times of the day and night have different qualities. It’s as though time has various personalities. These various time qualities govern how we behave. Sunrise time affects us differently than midnight time. It’s not just a question of the physical position of the sun and moon. It’s also a question of when they are in space and that then becomes space-time. Every object in space-time is affected by the energy it encounters. So, since time doesn’t stand still, neither does space. So no experience of space-time is the same as what went before. Therefore, boredom is impossible if a living being feels into the changing qualities of space-time.

  To me, that is why live theater is so exciting and unnerving. It’s never the same, not only because each audience is different, but because the space-time in which we perform is different. That is probably why so many people have stage fright. They can’t rely on what they think they already know. I’m always fascinated when I perform live that it feels so entirely different every “time.”

  We live performers always wish we could capture what exquisite communication went on the night before. But that’s impossible because everything in the personality quality of space-time is different, even an hour later. So I have come to understand that the Great Cosmic Clock in the sky is moving. Time moves and the clock moves. The changes in the quality of time concerns how we living beings are influenced. All of it is changing.

  When I was in Peru doing Out on a Limb, the Peruvian shamans told me that a new species of Homo sapiens was about to appear. They called the new humans “homo luminous.” They told me that the forerunners of homo luminous were already among us. A new human was emerging, one that would possess qualities that we do not now have. That is because the qualities of space-time have not been as advanced before. They said our spiritual existence is a unique combination of free will and predestination. We each came in with a destiny, but free will can pull us out of alignment with that destiny. That is why it is so necessary to be in touch with our true selves. The true self is totally in touch with the movements of space-time and never fixed in either time or space.

  From the ancient Egyptians to the Incas and Mayans, the Tibetans and the Hebrew kabbalists, they understood the secrets of the alchemy of time. In our modern times of stress and technology, we are diverting ourselves from these understandings. Therefore, we are out of sync with nature, time, and even our own destinies. The alchemists of Egypt and medieval Europe knew that time moved in great elongated cycles and that each part of each cycle had a precise quality. Those qualities shaped and reformed the world. When the cycles of time change, so do the events on Earth.

  The sacred scientists and alchemists of our past used their perceptions of space-time to predict the future. Nostradamus somehow understood the mysterious process of space-time. He saw the different qualities of space-time in relation to the personalities of the people. And all of the mystics knew that their processes were tied to the precession of the equinoxes. They understood that the stars in the night sky were not fixed. Creating the zodiac system to assist them in their measurements of time, they used the twelve zodiac signs as a giant clock. They realized that it took 2,160 years to move through each sign of the zodiac, and it took nearly 26,000 years for the equinoxes to move through all twelve signs. The creation of the Great Year of 26,000 years gave them a clock that allowed them to measure time.

  Then they came to understand that each of the signs (or places on the clock) appeared to bring forth changes in the quality of life here on Earth. The changes on Earth reflected the quality of each sign. And each 2,160 years, the quality of time changed.

  So as I look at what I learned, I realize that we are coming to the end of the space-time that has been involved in the great 26,000-year cycle. The changes in the qualities of time cannot be held at bay. We are coming to the end of time as we knew it to be. We are in 2012 starting a new cycle of consciousness.

  I feel it every day. For example, even as I write this I feel I am coming down with a cold or the flu. I increased my vitamins, I drink a lot of water, and I rest. But last night I had a dream about the intricacies of how to further avoid the real onset of the flu. I realized I had had the exact same dream a year ago when flu season came around. In the dream I remembered every detail of how to avoid getting really sick. I never got the flu the year before, and I knew I wouldn’t this year as long as I remembered the dream. What struck me, though, was that my brain had memory of the year-before dream stored. That meant that everything we think or experience is stored somewhere. It was the first time I realized what the Akashic Records meant.

  Will We Ever Get Over the Akashic Records?

  The universe itself has memory. It records and remembers everything that ever happened and is equipped with a dimension of consciousness that stores these memories, a dimension that is sometimes called the Akashic Records. Akasha is a Sanskrit word meaning “primarily substance, that out of which all things are formed.” It is the crystallization of spirit. It is so sensitive that the slightest vibration anywhere in the universe (any thought or action) registers an indelible impression upon it. In modern terms it is the Book of Life.

  Since each of us has a soul and a vibrational frequency, our t
houghts and actions are equipped to be recorded in the Akashic Records, and those records can be accessed any time if we know how. Past-life therapy sessions enable us to access our Akashic Records. But the privacy of the Akashic Records of others is protected by veils of separation so they can’t be used for any reason. When an adept or spiritual master has reached the level of universal trust, it is possible to read the records of others. A psychic is allowed to read the Akashic Records of a client because the energy and frequency of the client permits it. When we open the Akashic Records for our own perusal, we enter a mind state of universal oneness with the Divine.

  I have felt this state when I do my past life therapy sessions. I’m never judgmental of myself or anyone else who has figured in my past when I touch the Records. I’m in a divine illumination which enables me to understand more clearly what my life has been about. My purpose becomes clear as has the road to understanding it. When I’m touching that divine knowledge, I am in a universal state of consciousness. I’ve found that the knowledge of who I am and who I have been is given to me at a manageable rate. It may be overwhelming at first, but is then met with a sense of relief. “Oh, that is what that was all about.”

  I’m told by the Dalai Lama that the Records are governed and protected by a group of nonphysical light beings called the Lords of the Records. When we access them, we are able to see the events and lessons of past incarnations. So the Akashic Records are the soul-level blueprint and the catalogue of experiences of an individual soul as it becomes aware of his or her spiritual journey through time.

  The damage done by the Christian churches in eliminating the knowledge of the primary experience of a soul’s journey through time is immeasurable. When we realize we have lived before and will live again, it instills in us a sense of cosmic justice that makes us responsible for our actions. When we believe that when we die there is no more, it gives us permission to express the worst in ourselves with no understanding of responsibility for our actions. It took Einstein and other scientists to prove that energy returns to its source. What one puts out, one gets back. Thus the laws of karma are obvious in scientific circles. Science understands and has proven that no energy ever dies—it just changes form.