Know Thyself - Welcome @ Kristo's blog

Know Thyself - Welcome @ Kristo's blog
David - I adore the community of saints / Gelukpa's

donderdag 28 november 2019

Madeleine Peyroux for Music & Memory (The Healing Power of Music)

Golden Light Sutra: English Recitation Chapters 1 to 7

Strong woman of today : Deborah. May we all support Her and Her current partner. (English / Dutch)



https://www.hln.be/showbizz/deborah-ostrega-getuigt-over-jarenlang-psychisch-partnergeweld-ik-kende-alleen-nog-maar-schaamte~aff5c21d/

More Bodhisattvic free video's. I hope that it helps others.

Wisdom of today.

https://www.lionsroar.com/the-bodhisattva/

I took the Bodhisattva vow in my early twenties. I still live according  to that vow. I forgive often, but I know that there is huge karma involved in hurting bodhisattva's. Karma might ripen slowly, but it surely does.

Kristof Gabriel


My second name Gabriel refers to the archangel Gabriel, a Messenger as well. Gabriel protects journalists, children and many others and will keep on doing this for sure.

Golden Light Sutra Chapters 1 to 7 English Spoken Audio Recording

Cobra Update: positive news / Cobra Update: Before the Dawn

https://prepareforchange.net/2019/11/26/cobra-update-before-the-dawn/

The United Nations 2030 Agenda decoded: It's a blueprint for the global enslavement of humanity under the boot of corporate masters. - by Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) This week, Michael Snyder published an important article entitled The 2030 Agenda: This Month The UN Launches A Blueprint For A New World Order With The Help Of The Pope.

That article references this UN "2030 Agenda" document that pushes a blueprint for so-called "sustainable development" around the world.

This document describes nothing less than a global government takeover of every nation across the planet. The "goals" of this document are nothing more than code words for a corporate-government fascist agenda that will imprison humanity in a devastating cycle of poverty while enriching the world's most powerful globalist corporations like Monsanto and DuPont.

In the interests of helping wake up humanity, I've decided to translate the 17 points of this 2030 agenda so that readers everywhere can understand what this document is really calling for. To perform this translation, you have to understand how globalists disguise their monopolistic agendas in "feel good" language.

Here's the point-by-point translation. Notice carefully that nowhere does this document state that "achieving human freedom" is one of its goals. Nor does it explain HOW these goals are to be achieved. As you'll see here, every single point in this UN agenda is to be achieved through centralized government control and totalitarian mandates that resemble communism.

Translation of the UN's "2030 Agenda blueprint for globalist government" (controlled by corporate interests)

Goal 1) End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Translation: Put everyone on government welfare, food stamps, housing subsidies and handouts that make them obedient slaves to global government. Never allow people upward mobility to help themselves. Instead, teach mass victimization and obedience to a government that provides monthly "allowance" money for basic essentials like food and medicine. Label it "ending poverty."

Goal 2) End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Translation: Invade the entire planet with GMOs and Monsanto's patented seeds while increasing the use of deadly herbicides under the false claim of "increased output" of food crops. Engineer genetically modified plants to boost specific vitamin chemicals while having no idea of the long-term consequences of genetic pollution or cross-species genetic experiments carried out openly in a fragile ecosystem.

Goal 3) Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Translation: Mandate 100+ vaccines for all children and adults at gunpoint, threatening parents with arrest and imprisonment if they refuse to cooperate. Push heavy medication use on children and teens while rolling out "screening" programs. Call mass medication "prevention" programs and claim they improve the health of citizens.

Goal 4) Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Translation: Push a false history and a dumbed-down education under "Common Core" education standards that produce obedient workers rather than independent thinkers. Never let people learn real history, or else they might realize they don't want to repeat it.

Goal 5) Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Translation: Criminalize Christianity, marginalize heterosexuality, demonize males and promote the LGBT agenda everywhere. The real goal is never "equality" but rather the marginalization and shaming of anyone who expresses any male characteristics whatsoever. The ultimate goal is to feminize society, creating widespread acceptance of "gentle obedience" along with the self-weakening ideas of communal property and "sharing" everything. Because only male energy has the strength to rise up against oppression and fight for human rights, the suppression of male energy is key to keeping the population in a state of eternal acquiescence.

Goal 6) Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Translation: Allow powerful corporations to seize control of the world's water supplies and charge monopoly prices to "build new water delivery infrastructure" that "ensures availability."

Goal 7) Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Translation: Penalize coal, gas and oil while pushing doomed-to-fail "green" energy subsidies to brain-dead startups headed by friends of the White House who all go bankrupt in five years or less. The green startups make for impressive speeches and media coverage, but because these companies are led by corrupt idiots rather than capable entrepreneurs, they always go broke. (And the media hopes you don't remember all the fanfare surrounding their original launch.)

Goal 8) Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Translation: Regulate small business out of existence with government-mandated minimum wages that bankrupt entire sectors of the economy. Force employers to meet hiring quotas of LGBT workers while mandating wage tiers under a centrally planned work economy dictated by the government. Destroy free market economics and deny permits and licenses to those companies that don't obey government dictates.

Goal 9) Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Translation: Put nations into extreme debt with the World Bank, spending debt money to hire corrupt American corporations to build large-scale infrastructure projects that trap developing nations in an endless spiral of debt. See the book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins to understand the details of how this scheme has been repeated countless times over the last several decades.

Goal 10) Reduce inequality within and among countries

Translation: Punish the rich, the entrepreneurs and the innovators, confiscating nearly all gains by those who choose to work and excel. Redistribute the confiscated wealth to the masses of non-working human parasites that feed off a productive economy while contributing nothing to it... all while screaming about "equality!"

Goal 11) Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Translation: Ban all gun ownership by private citizens, concentrating guns into the hands of obedient government enforcers who rule over an unarmed, enslaved class of impoverished workers. Criminalize living in most rural areas by instituting Hunger Games-style "protected areas" which the government will claim are owned by "the People" even though no people are allowed to live there. Force all humans into densely packed, tightly controlled cities where they are under 24/7 surveillance and subject to easy manipulation by government.

Goal 12) Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Translation: Begin levying punitive taxes on the consumption of fossil fuels and electricity, forcing people to live under conditions of worsening standards of living that increasingly resemble Third World conditions. Use social influence campaigns in TV, movies and social media to shame people who use gasoline, water or electricity, establishing a social construct of ninnies and tattlers who rat out their neighbors in exchange for food credit rewards.

Goal 13) Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Translation: Set energy consumption quotas on each human being and start punishing or even criminalizing "lifestyle decisions" that exceed energy usage limits set by governments. Institute total surveillance of individuals in order to track and calculate their energy consumption. Penalize private vehicle ownership and force the masses onto public transit, where TSA grunts and facial recognition cameras can monitor and record the movement of every person in society, like a scene ripped right out of Minority Report.

Goal 14) Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

Translation: Ban most ocean fishing, plunging the food supply into an extreme shortage and causing runaway food price inflation that puts even more people into economic desperation. Criminalize the operation of private fishing vessels and place all ocean fishing operations under the control of government central planning. Only allow favored corporations to conduct ocean fishing operations (and make this decision based entirely on which corporations give the most campaign contributions to corrupt lawmakers).

Goal 15) Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

Translation: Roll out Agenda 21 and force humans off the land and into controlled cities. Criminalize private land ownership, including ranches and agricultural tracts. Tightly control all agriculture through a corporate-corrupted government bureaucracy whose policies are determined almost entirely by Monsanto while being rubber-stamped by the USDA. Ban woodstoves, rainwater collection and home gardening in order to criminalize self-reliance and force total dependence on government.

Goal 16) Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Translation: Grant legal immunity to illegal aliens and "protected" minority groups, which will be free to engage in any illegal activity -- including openly calling for the mass murder of police officers -- because they are the new protected class in society. "Inclusive institutions" means granting favorable tax structures and government grants to corporations that hire LGBT workers or whatever groups are currently in favor with the central planners in government. Use the IRS and other federal agencies to selectively punish unfavorable groups with punitive audits and regulatory harassment, all while ignoring the criminal activities of favored corporations that are friends of the political elite.

Goal 17) Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

Translation: Enact global trade mandates that override national laws while granting unrestricted imperialism powers to companies like Monsanto, Dow Chemical, RJ Reynolds, Coca-Cola and Merck. Pass global trade pacts that bypass a nation's lawmakers and override intellectual property laws to make sure the world's most powerful corporations maintain total monopolies over drugs, seeds, chemicals and technology. Nullify national laws and demand total global obedience to trade agreements authored by powerful corporations and rubber-stamped by the UN.

Total enslavement of the planet by 2030

As the UN document says, "We commit ourselves to working tirelessly for the full implementation of this Agenda by 2030."

If you read the full document and can read beyond the fluffery and public relations phrases, you'll quickly realize that this UN agenda is going to be forced upon all the citizens of the world through the invocation of government coercion. Nowhere does this document state that the rights of the individual will be protected. Nor does it even acknowledge the existence of human rights granted to individuals by the Creator. Even the so-called "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" utterly denies individuals the right to self defense, the right to medical choice and the right to parental control over their own children.

The UN is planning nothing less than a global government tyranny that enslaves all of humanity while calling the scheme "sustainable development" and "equality."


https://www.naturalnews.com/051058_2030_Agenda_United_Nations_global_enslavement.html

Flu vaccine contains 25,000 times more mercury than is legally allowed in drinking water.

https://www.naturalnews.com/045705_flu_vaccine_mercury_heavy_metals.html

Repost : 5G Solution Explained (holding those those who install 5G accountable). - Free advice by Dr. Gabriel Cousens

http://treeoflifecenterus.com/5g-solution-explained/

woensdag 27 november 2019

A healthy lifestyle is the best cure: Study reveals link between lifestyle choices and disease risk.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-11-26-study-link-between-lifestyle-choices-disease-risk.html


Note from K. Gabriel : I still smoke for one reason : I hurt myself only by doing it (a little self-sacrifice in order not to harm others), because I have to deal with difficulties along the Spiritual Path (difficult people who still oppose my goals in life). I will stop smoking when I feel that the time is right. I am already meditating on becoming less and less dependant on nicotine and it works. I smoke less and less and less. From chainsmoker heading with a calm faith in God towards total withdrawal from smoking one day.

Also recommended :

https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-11-16-it-takes-money-to-try-to-hold-big-pharma-accountable-chuck-norris-sues-11-drug-companies-for-poisoning-his-wife.html

https://www.naturalnews.com/051058_2030_Agenda_United_Nations_global_enslavement.html

https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-11-26-mattel-releases-gender-neutral-barbie-dolls.html 

https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-11-26-5g-devices-beam-weapons-with-weaponized-electronics.html

https://www.naturalnews.com/046471_SSRIs_love_antidepressants.html

Wisdom of today. Sadhana through work. (Sri Aurobindo / Integral Yoga)

Sadhana through Work 

The signs of the consecration of the vital in action are these among others: The feeling (not merely the idea or the aspiration) that all the life and the work are the Mother's and a strong joy of the vital nature in this consecration and surrender. A consequent calm content and disappearance of egoistic attachment to the work and its personal results, but at the same time a great joy in the work and in the use of the capacities for the divine purpose. The feeling that the Divine Force is working behind one's actions and leading at every moment. A persistent faith which no circumstance or event can break. If difficulties occur, they raise not mental doubts or an inert acquiescence, but the firm belief that, with sincere consecration, the Divine Shakti will remove the difficulties, and with this belief a greater turning to her and dependence on her for that purpose. When there is full faith and consecration, there comes also a receptivity to the Force which makes one do the right thing and take the right means and then circumstances adapt themselves and the result is visible. To arrive at this condition the important thing is a persistent aspiration, call and self-offering and a will to reject all in oneself or around that stands in the way. Difficulties there will always be at the beginning and for as long a time as is necessary for the change; but they are bound to disappear if they are met by a settled faith, will and patience.

Source : https://www.aurobindo.ru/workings/sa/23/0005_e.htm

Marriage is Not Union of Two Bodies || Swami Chidananda on Sanctity of Marriage

Way Out For Men & Women From The World of Sèx and Ego || Swami Sivananda on Brahmacharya

Voluntary Self-restraint is No Suppression || Swami Sivananda on Practice of Brahmacharya

Helpful Tips for Practice of Brahmacharya by Swami Sivananda

Are You Ready To Pay Full Price for Spiritual Life? - Jesus, Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Brahmananda

I did my invocations from a book by Kim Michaels last week. It works

To expose fake gurus. I am not talking about benevolent beings like Swami Nardanand and Gabriel Cousens. These are persons of supreme integrity.

https://www.gva.be/cnt/dmf20191127_04740872/netflix-documentaire-ontmaskert-goeroe-die-steenrijk-werd-van-bikram-yoga

Let this not be an attack on yoga in general and not be an attack on benevolent yoga-teachers worldwide.

Thank you.

K. Gabriel


You find helpful invocations to expose fake gurus and invocations to transform fear-based energies into love in this book :

https://www.amazon.com/How-You-Help-Change-World/dp/8793297068

This mantra has a wonderful protecting effect on the hearers. Recommended for everyone.

This mantra invokes the protection of many buddha's.
It works perfect when realising mistakes on the path.
Recommended for all.
May all sentient beings be released from suffering and rebirth in the lower realms of existence.

 

By reciting these prayers in verses Men, women, brahmins, and royals Who praise the conquerors with folded hands, Will remember their births in all lives. They will have bodies adorned with all limbs and senses, And be endowed with myriad merits and virtues. The lord of humans will always venerate them. Such will they be in each place of birth. Those into whose ears this confession enters, Have performed virtue in the presence of not just one buddha, Not two, nor four, nor five, nor ten, Nor in the presence of thousand buddhas have they performed virtue. ~ The King of Glorious Sutras called the. Exalted Sublime Golden Light.

Best Path Leading to Nirvana (Liberation) by Lord Buddha || Dhammapada 20 || Path to Wisdom

Yogic advice to live balanced, long and calm. Breathe well from the belly.


For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on Earth.  – Sanskrit Proverb

Breathing is as essential to your mental, emotional, and physical health and wellbeing as proper nutrition or quality sleep, and yet, it doesn’t get enough credit.  But just simply breathing is not enough. We’ve got to know how to breathe well.  We’ve got to re-train ourselves to breathe better.   

Breathing better can help increase stress resilience. (1) A high level of stress resilience means you’re more likely to bounce back and recover quicker from stressful and draining situations. 

See more at: https://www.calmwithyoga.com/pranayama-yogic-breathing-ujjayi-techniques/


Even in times of stress, there are always tips and tricks in yoga to manage stress.

A lesson from Pranayama (yogic breathing). Dangerous if you overdo it, but helpful if you need to do it, wether smoking consciously or just breathing consciously. It helps.


Read more : https://www.calmwithyoga.com/pranayama-yogic-breathing-ujjayi-techniques/

Recommended : Madeleine Peyroux on Radio KNKX.

Talking with KNKX's Abe Beeson, Peyroux recalled her teen years busking on the streets of Paris. She loves the City of Lights to this day, and her mother lives there still. Her passion for music comes directly from the artists she encountered there, "because I met street musicians, and I was allowed to become one," Peyroux told us. Paris celebrates "being an artist. People also don't have the same disdain for being a poor... in fact, being a poor artist is better. You're more respected in some ways."

Read all : https://www.knkx.org/post/her-own-nearly-madeleine-peyroux-performs-knkx


Note from Kristo(f) Gabriel : I am watching the DVD Something Grand with Madeleine's story and a life performance and video's. I watched some of it last night whilst reading a book by Dr Roy Michael Martina until I fell asleep after hours totally exhausted because I gave my heart and soul to it until my energy was at zero point. Keep in heart that I rarely eat most of the time. For months I lived at one meal a day or sometimes I ate nothing at all but survived thanks to yoga and meditation. Prana kept me going :-) Sometimes I reload my body with healthy vegan foods, or vegetarian (I still dare to eat fish, but I refuse meat). This is pure zen and yoga as well, folks! But practically. I am going to watch the documentary for a second time and then I intend to switch to the Blue Room DVD for a second watch. Daniel Pena thaught me through His work to keep a laser beam focus, so I give everything and keep going until I am so tired that I fall asleep usually early in the morning. After a few hours sleep I am back on track. I sleep behind my desk on the sofa so I can hear the meditation / hypnosis whilst sleeping. It goes straight into the subconscious so actually my mind gets trained 24/7. And it's fun! It goes naturally. At night I put on sleep meditations and hypnosis from You Tube by Michael Sealy. It all works for me to keep me on the High Performance Lifestyle :-)

I only have a broken guitar with only a few strings left on it (I should buy a new one) and an electrical piano but I can't stop myself playing along with the music, doing natural jazz soloing without knowing what I am doing. I just feel the music and let it come. That's what Madeleine's music gives me after years of being uninspired and bored of music (the reason why I eventually started to write books for a while). So thank you Madeleine for having a good effect on this distant supporter.

Blessings from Belgium. 

Kristo(f) Gabriel

Wisdom of today by K. Gabriel - Big Pharma is organised crime. NOT TO BE TRUSTED

Special thanks to David Icke.





We need to end a profit-driven health care industry. 
K. Gabriel

Michael Mosley : waarom vasten goed is : het voorkomt kanker en dementie. (Nederlandstalig / De Morgen)

https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/waarom-het-goed-is-om-te-vasten-je-wordt-niet-alleen-slanker-maar-voorkomt-ook-kanker-en-dementie~ba5c0045/

Guided Meditation for Inner Peace and Calm / Mindful Movement

Truth from the Noble Quran.

Whoever is an enemy to Allah and His angels and His messengers and Gabriel and Michael - then indeed, Allah is an enemy to the disbelievers.

Kristof Gabriel

Source : http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=2&verse=98

P.S. At the same time I advice people not to engage in terrorist activities.

Alexander De Croo: "We must find concrete solutions to guarantee basic humanitarian action and to ensure that anti-terror measures and sanctions are in accordance with the obligations of states under international humanitarian law. Our country wants to play a pioneering role in the Security Council in this regard. The essential fight against terrorism must under no circumstances undermine the rights of the most vulnerable nor international humanitarian law."

https://diplomatie.belgium.be/en/newsroom/news/2019/belgium_calls_protection_humanitarian_space_counterterrorism

https://diplomatie.belgium.be/en/policy/policy_areas/peace_and_security/terrorism/terrorism_and_human_rights

"Sexuality and Self-Control" - The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita Explained by Paramhansa Yogananda

New moon in Saggitarius : Dream Big.

http://in5d.com/new-moon-sagittarius-dream-big/

Wisdom of today.

dinsdag 26 november 2019

Contemplation and mindfulness of death. Tibetan wisdom

Live everyday as if death might strike upon you every hour. By being mindful of death, you loose fear and engage in spiritual and religious practice. Master Tsong Kha Pa taught this to His students.

What all these have in common of course is that they present the very real possibility that any of us, with proper training in the preliminary and main practices, can live a life with fearlessness with the skills and ability to control our own trajectory when we die.


https://www.shambhala.com/bardo-living-dying-ancient-india/

Speel de hoofdrol van je eigen leven | Michael in Carré

Dr Gabriel Cousens and Kristof Gabriel: Propaganda [September 12, 2019] - Global warming is NOT happening. Please wake up folks.

Belangrijke mededeling van Hart boven hard. (Nederlandstalig)

Ga mee voor vuurwerk!
 
Beste mens met een hart,
Was het je ook al opgevallen? Onze nieuwe investeringsregering heeft zo haar eigen manieren. Om meer mensen aan het werk te krijgen, zet ze kunstenaars op straat. Om iedereen te betrekken, haalt ze de schaaf over de sociale sector en het middenveld. Om inclusie te bevorderen, schrapt ze hele etnisch-culturele verenigingen. Haar klimaatplan bestaat uit nog meer miljoenen voor grote vervuilers als ExxonMobile. Oink?
 
S.O.S. Samenleving!
Ook Hart boven Hard heeft zijn manieren. We gaan deze weken alle protest ondersteunen en verbinden. Steek mee het vuurwerk aan, voor deze hele samenleving opbrandt. Spetteren doe je nooit alleen.
 
Hier onze drukke agenda vanaf nu
Vlaanderen beweegt en wij mee
Alles komt samen op 14 december!
Woensdag 27 november: Geef het middenveld uw stem
13u30-16u30, Vlaams Parlement

Hart boven Hard verzamelt met vele socio-culturele verenigingen aan het Vlaamse parlement, terwijl binnen het snel-snel gewijzigde decreet Sociaal-Cultureel Werk wordt gestemd. Dat dreigt etnisch-culturele verenigingen te schrappen en geeft Jambon zelf meer ruimte om de duim omhoog of omlaag te steken over het voortbestaan van 150 verenigingen, die samen 200.000 mensen engageren.

We laten ons samen horen. Speld je HbH-button op en breng je HbH-vlag mee!
Meer info hier, deel het facebook-event.
Donderdag 28 november: Kunstenprotest aan het parlement 
10u00-12u30, van Brussel-Centraal -> Vlaams Parlement

De kunstenaars van State of the Arts trekken opnieuw naar het parlement, om binnen met culturele persoonlijkheden te gaan luisteren naar de begrotingsdiscussie in de Commissie Cultuur, terwijl buiten véél muziek gemaakt zal worden: investeer in cultuur en kunstenaars en de hele samenleving, in plaats van ze weg te knippen. Gele oordopjes voorzien!

Meer info hier.
Vrijdag 29 november: Global strike for climate 
13u30, Gent, Antwerpen, Brussel…

Geen hete winter zonder verdere strijd tegen de opwarming. Gaan ook onze politici nu eindelijk eens de handen uit de mouwen steken? Jongeren gaan vooruit voor onze toekomst. We steken hen een hart onder de riem, ook in jouw buurt.
December: Lokale Mensenmeetings Hart boven Hard 

Op onze lokale Mensenmeetings brengen we mensen uit alle velden samen om hun bekommernissen over de toestand te delen, en gezamenlijke plannen te maken voor hoe we ermee omgaan. Wie er al bij was, weet hoe wervend ze zijn. Hier alvast twee Mensenmeetings, er zullen er na nieuwjaar nog volgen, ook in jouw buurt!

Kempen: ma 2 december, 19u30, Zaal Sint-Pietershoek, Schoolstraat 1, Turnhout
Antwerpen: ma 9 december, 18u, Elcker-Ick, Brueghelstraat 33, Antwerpen
Week van 2 tot 8 december: VuurWerk 

Dag aan dag laat Vlaanderen zich deze week verenigd horen over de nieuwe begroting, van de sector gelijke kansen tot de zorg- en welzijnssector, van jeugd tot socio-cultureel. Onder de hashtag #vuurwerk delen we breed wat we allemaal doen voor de samenleving en waar we voor staan. Toon wat we in huis hebben!

Volg het allemaal hier
Donderdag 5 december: Knalmoment! 
15u00, Martelarenplein, Brussel

Als eerste apotheose van die VuurWerk-week stallen alle betrokken sectoren samen hun hele hebben en houden samen uit op het Martelarenplein vóór het kabinet Jambon. De VRT speelt gastheer voor cultuur en middenveld, met een gezamenlijke show-of van de kracht van openbare omroep, kunstorganisaties,  socio-culturele verenigingen, openbare diensten, jeugdwerk… Ook Hart boven Hard laat zich zien!

15u: opwarming op het plein: de samenleving in het klein op het Martelarenplein (binnenkort meer)
16u: VRT-show op het podium: ‘We laten de VRT niet los’
18u: de studenten van State of the Arts nemen ons mee de nacht in, elders in Brussel (binnenkort meer)
Zondag 8 december: Human Chain 
13u00-15u30, Brussel-Centraal

Als tweede apotheose binnen VuurWerk vormen we samen met Climate Express en de Klimaatcoalitie een feestelijke en vastberaden mensenketting aan de voordeur van onze politici: rond ons federaal parlement en koninklijk paleis. We slaan de handen in elkaar voor een meer menselijk ‘klimaat’. Nu onze beleidsmakers nog!

Versterk ons stukje van de keten. Samen met de kunsten neemt Hart boven Hard één van de 12 checkpoints voor zijn rekening, aan het pleintje bij BOZAR. We zien elkaar om 13u aan het Centraal Station, van daaruit starten we om de ketting te vormen.

Meer info over parcours hier.
Zaterdag 14 december: Samen-Strijd (Hart boven Hard-dag) 
11u00-16u00/18u00, Gent, KASK

Onze laatste Hart boven Hard-dag van het jaar wordt een speciale. Als viering van de bijzondere protesten van afgelopen weken brengen we ze allemaal samen: klimaat, middenveld, cultuur, De Lijn, VRT… Wat gebeurt er in andere velden? Wat delen we en hoe elkaar versterken? Samen springen we zoveel verder.

Breng iemand extra mee uit je nabije omgeving!
Hart boven Hard is rising again, en daar wil je bij zijn.

Om 16u kunnen de volhouders feedback geven op het kersverse HbH-subsidiedossier voor 2021-2025.

Meer info hier.
Donderdag 19 december: Hear My Voice
(wellicht) 19u00, Vlaams Parlement

Nog één keer om het af te leren: tijdens de plenaire stemming over de begroting staan wij buiten met zoveel mogelijk mensen en koren om de stemming te overstemmen. Massaal en ingetogen tegelijk voorzien we het parlementaire debat van een puur menselijke soundtrack, in steun van alle slachtoffers van deze botte besparingspolitiek. Waar anderen zich bedienen van halve waarheden en onbesuisde demonisering op Twitter, kiezen wij voor stemmige verbinding. Wil er iemand een abonnement op het parlement?

Beluister hier alvast wat we gaan zingen.
Koren, zangers en sympathisanten kunnen zich aanmelden op hearmyvoice19dec@gmail.com
Veel, he?
Zucht?
Nee, zegen!
Vlaanderen beweegt
Hart boven Hart kan het verbinden
It’s the only way

#Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha Mantra, Solves All Problems.

The Inner Temple of the Heart: Guided Meditation on Humility with Gabriel Gonsalves

On Intimacy By Gabriel Cousens

Gabriel Cousens
Intimacy takes us into the mystery of life. It is not about safety or security. Intimacy is about the alchemical process of transformation. It takes us to the frontiers of human existence and brings us face-to-face with our angels and demons. It may activate our deepest thought forms: our issues with our family of origin; our personal patterns; our ability to express and receive love. Intimacy can activate the very essence of what spiritual life is about.
The sacred relationship is our journey into the unknown. Opening up to the risk of intimacy is part of the evolution of human consciousness. We are challenged to maintain and grow within a live, turned-on connection, and to free ourselves from old patterns of pain. In the process, we also need to create space for the other to exist and to grow.
In intimacy, our role is to help the other reach their full depth as a human being. This is very different from the typical kind of relationship in which we try to tame the other person into our idea of who he or she should be for us.
At a high level of intimacy, we support each other to become the most expanded expressions of that which we are meant to be – the fully expressed female and male. We, as partners, have the choice and ability to give space to the other to become their full, authentic self. In its most expanded form, intimacy is an alchemical process of transformation. It invokes the presence of the Divine. We call this the alchemical merging into the One.
Finding balance
In intimacy, we have two essences that must be balanced. The female essence, which can be in a male or a female person, is the rainbow radiance of who we are – the full flow and dance of love. It wants to shine, to be seen, and needs to be recognized and to be known.
The male essence, which can also be in a male or a female person, is to journey into the unknown with a total focus on oneness, dissolving into the Nothing. The female essence is the flower and the joy of fullness. It is everything that changes: light, colors, sound, feeling, and flow – the flow of the universe. The male essence is the part that never changes. It is the witness.
When the male and female essences get together, there is a merging of light and consciousness. This alchemical energy is the essence of real, deep merging with God.
Now, let's talk about communication. The female essence needs one thing: to know it's loved. If the male essence does not communicate to the female that she is loved, things don't work so well. What the male essence needs is to know that it is succeeding and not failing.
This difference in needs causes the male and female essences to communicate on different levels. All communication – in relationship, in lovemaking, and in everyday life – can hold these messages. This is what we call meta-communication.
By understanding these essences, we can give and receive in a way that uplifts the other person and allows space for them to be their full, authentic self. In order for this to be possible, however, both people have to be operating from the same level of intention, or awareness.
Levels of relationship
There are levels of relationship along the spectrum of undifferentiated to differentiated. The level-one relationship is the least differentiated and, therefore, co-dependent. It is like a business deal, in which getting ego needs taken care of is the primary goal.
In terms of male and female, it has to do with raw sexuality. In this kind of relationship, the female essence uses its sexuality to attract the male. That is what we see today in the marketplace, with the overtly sexual way women dress and so forth. The male essence attracts at level one by power and fame, which is what attracts the level-one female essence – looking to be made whole by the male.
In a level-two relationship, people are working hard on their boundaries and have an equality. It is a separate, but equal, relationship, like when two people have separate bank accounts, and a way of relating as professionals. Both are equal, yet both are in some sense denying their sexual essence.
The male denies his essence as a spiritual journeyer. The female denies her radiance and walks around in her business suit, but isn't comfortable with that as her essence. When we are equal, everything is the same. At level two, the biggest struggle is to maintain boundaries and equality. Essence polarity is often lost.
The third level of relationship is where we explore alchemical merging into God. Here, the goal is supporting each other, with both male and female essences giving their holy gift. The third-level female essence gives her holy gift not to attract a man, but simply to be the radiance of the Divine. Her gift is to inspire everyone to be that radiance. The third-level man sees a beautiful woman, or a beautiful horse, or beautiful nature, and he is inspired to give his gift of focused spirituality. She inspires him, and he inspires her. That is the essence; it transcends who we are.
To which level do you aspire?
Level one is about ego and level two is about equal partnership, but at level three we go beyond boundaries. We feel from the heart, without limitations. God is the complete center of life. We are not living out of habits or following robotic preferences. We are being lived by love, and that is what the deepest relationship is all about. We go beyond the egocentric, ethnocentric, into the mystical experience of the One in all things.
At level one, the focus is on our own self interest. At level two, we talk about cooperation, what is fair. We strive for vigorous independence, and are afraid to love too much because we might lose ourselves. But at level three a community of trust begins to unfold – everyone is being lived by something larger than themselves. The essential question becomes "How can love and light shine most fully through me?"
When we give up our personal preferences, it is for the sake of a deeper being – to be the expression of God. Level three is where we use sexuality to liberate love and open ourselves to the Divine.
At level three of relationship, life expresses the deepest level of love. We go beyond our personal boundaries (level one), and our partner's boundaries (level two), to what would most serve our partner and the world (level three). It is important to remember that people actually operate in all three stages, but are predominately centered in one. This means that we revisit our goals and challenges as we grow toward the ideal.
At level three, the feminine is seeking the fullness of love, whereas at level one that need may have been filled by food, chocolate, shopping, etc. The masculine essence, at level three, seeks liberation, death, meditation, and emptiness. At level one male essence, with ejaculation, a kind of emptiness is created. At level three, we are placing more focus on non-ejaculatory sex. This creates a kind of multi-level orgasm, for both men and women, in which we merge into each other as one.
Unity of consciousness
The essence of sacred relationship and sex in the level-three context is the unity of consciousness. It is experienced as an alchemical merging.
The female essence is looking for a male who can feel her depth – the depth of presence and intention. The most important thing to her is for the male to be present. The male essence is looking for a range of female energetics. Because the male is into the One, he is looking for balance with the rich range offered by the female. The male offers his focused presence, and the female offers the full range of her female essence.
This is the merging of heaven with earth of Chinese metaphor. At the level where sex between the male and female essences liberates the gifting of love, there blossoms the ability in a relationship to perceive the inner beauty of the other. It allows us to celebrate the divine essence of the other. This level of intimacy opens both male and female to seeing the divine in all of creation.
When a fully expressed couple make love, they are invoking the Divine. In this way, when you are making love, it is making love with the whole universe – with breath and with your whole being. Inhaling sends love downwards and deep within. When you exhale, you send love out to the whole universe.
Fully expressed love-making is not only for your sexual pleasure or for the merging of two people, you make love to become a healed unit. You are healing the whole universe as you heal the male/female split. Your union is healing your personal self and healing the Universal Self. As two aspects of the divine, you are healing at microcosmic levels that, in turn, heal at the macrocosmic level. You are invoking all the power of God, and in that way, your sexuality becomes a spiritual path.

Note: Gabriel Cousens, M.D., is a holistic medical doctor, licensed psychiatrist, family therapist, and licensed homeopathic physician. He is known worldwide as an empowered spiritual teacher and the leading medical authority on vegan live-food nutrition. To see his website, click here. For his bestselling books, click here. The above is an edited excerpt from his essay titled "Eros and Intimacy." The essay is one of a compilation of essays from the enlightening book, The Marriage of Sex & Spirit, edited by Geralyn Gendreau.