Pandora's Planet

Most people try to put their best foot forward in their "undertakings and over doings."  It is pretty much human nature to do our best.  For some it's a deep personal preference, while for others the desire is deeply rooted in satisfying peers and maybe even glean a little approval.  Neither is right or wrong and probably most of us are some combination thereof.

So it is with Pandora's Planet and its journey to Paradise.  First, because of complexities surrounding the completion of Planet Concourse; the Paradise Challenge is forced to launch from a temporary albeit functional platform - and that platform still needs work - but should that delay the whole trip?  Certainly, according to the experts, it is a big faux pas to pre-launch a site--but is it ever really ready?  Truth of the matter is we're always changing, adding and editing.  Who decides what is ok to happen, whether it's beta, alpha or just plain not ready.  I submit...we're ready...because we're on the Journey to Paradise--now!

Imagine filling your tank with gas, starting the engine in preparation for a journey, however you never arrive, the result of running out of gas because of your obsession with rearranging luggage in the car.  You never reach your destination and the people on the other side really only wanted to see you?  In web speak; we do have a bit of leeway - were it required - since this is a social network of a site and NOT the site itself.  Although, that within itself has quickly become a gray area. So, our journey begins in a way we find oddly appropriate, without presumed perfection, and with a challenge to the cliché "it's not the destination but the journey that counts."   Seems a fairly reasonable challenge, since the destination is really what Pandora's Planet is all about.  And so it is...we begin our journey--jumbled up luggage, and all.

Paradise Waits For No One.  Paradise is Peace, Prosperity and Happiness but Not Perfection...yet!

….. Bottom Line...things will be moving around (you could be watching a movie and POOF it’s gone), added and edited over the next 24 hours.  Glad for any feedback, but you may want to wait until 12-12-12 to send OR NOT.

Is it me, or do you get the sense that for way too many people it has been a foregone conclusion that; there always has been pain and suffering, therefore there always will be pain and suffering?  Those sorts of little pesky unpleasant situations which find a staggering number of our fellow human beings - our sisters and brothers, physically, mentally, spiritually and socially impoverished - mere shells of subsistence, are simply a part of our culture that will always be here and will never go away?

However, through prisms of global economic instability, planetary changes and the “science yet unexplained” mysteries of the 2012 Mayan calendar, people are responding with heightened awareness’s and new senses of responsibility, both to the planet and one another. 

For centuries we’ve been bombarded by declarations that suggest humans, a so called advanced species has resigned itself to the inkling that peace is an ideological impossibility. Such expositions
cast a pall which foreshadows, overpowers and all but annihilates the valiant efforts of individuals and small groups. From the broadcastings of ancient prophets to present day promulgations from the highest leaders of the land we are continually subjected to the cries of men whom blazingly scoff at the notion that peace is in our grasp.  I even heard a telepreachers -- Jack Van Impe recently warn against getting rid of nuclear weapons yet in the next breath pray to Jesus for peace. What are your thoughts about that?

As such,  it is distinctly evident that any and all efforts, (including planet sustainability initiatives), that do not provide distinguishable activities that focus on the advancement of each person’s RIGHT to a sovereign peaceful existence will ALL WAYS fall short of the goal.

What will YOU do today to advance Peace?

In the Highest Vibration of Love

On the Hourly Countdown Now! Exciting!

By Violeta Villacorta

It is an exciting time! Many late and sleepless nights promoting the Cofán Project worldwide! We have hours to go and make this happen. I ask one last thing of you who are already a part of this Journey in the Amazon: Please spread the word and share the link with all your friends in these last hours of the drive, so we can get to 200+ Backers for this work with the Cofán. We Can Do it! You are All making this happen! Thank you! Grateful!
Love & Light

Today some will commemorate and reflect upon Ameilia Earhart. An independent thinker, courageous woman who was curiously handsome. Yes, I'd say a woman with such courage bares reflection on her birthday...besides she took a great photograph (even without photoshop). Happy Birthday Amelia! We've pasted one of our favorites....what's yours?

...and we are so blessed to have YOU as a member of our Pandora Family, Gioia!

WE ARE BLESSED ON THE 4^TH OF JULY

Every human being in this world is charged with the duty of contributing towards making a “more perfect union”. To me, it’s the price of liberty, in society and in our hearts and minds. Yet, the beauty of our human spirit is that it's up to each of us to participate at any level we'd like—or not. From my perspective, we really don’t have the choice of WHEN anymore, simply HOW?

On this honored day to remember what Americans have accepted as their birthright, let me remind you of the opening to The U.S. Constitution and its amazing, self-renewing dream:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

 

Powerful?  Yes it is because it is a keen reminder that perfecting the “Union” is a hard, ongoing process. It doesn’t appear perfect. It never will. And it's up to us to stay engaged in that never-ending process of creating a better human spirit and therefore a better planet. So, on this Fourth of July, I ask you, my fellow spirits, to be thankful for all our freedoms, to be grateful to all who've sacrificed to get us here, and to remember that as the “Melting Pot of the World” we are all ONE!

I would like to introduce the crystal skulls and what they mean to me and how they have increased awareness to who I truly am.  I will begin with a small pink quartz skull I received. It was gifted to me from a friend. I have always had an interest in crystals but did not know anything about the crystal skulls.  My friend mentioned to me that she ordered a crystal skull. I asked her “what are crystal skulls?” She said she didn’t really have much information on them but that she felt a strong connection with them as she also felt with regular crystals. I immediately began some research on the crystal skulls. I found information from Joshua Shapiro. (who is now my life partner) I knew that there was something deep down inside of me that knew about these crystal skulls. I remember feeling a re-union.  It was not too long after that I received a pink quartz crystal skull from my friend. I was very excited to receive this crystal skull. I felt an expansion of my heart chakra the minute I saw it from a picture and then once it was in my hands it expanded even more. Then again, I felt a re-union of joy! I am able to telepathically talk and hear the crystal skulls but when I first received my pink quartz crystal skull I did not hear it. My friend received names for her crystal skulls but at the time I received mine, I did not. It was working with my heart chakra to open my sense of trust and expansion. Then one day as I was walking through a doomed sidewalk into the office the pink quartz crystal skull began to speak to me. I first thought, as I was holding it in my hand, who is talking to me? And I heard, “We the Guardians are speaking to you” I said out loud, “oh my gosh” is this your name? It answered, “yes, this is our name.” So the Guardian is androgynous (male and female).

 

I continued to spend my free time with the Guardian. I slept with it and meditated with it. I also felt lead to take the Guardian everywhere with me, including to my job. I began to receive messages and journal(ed) them. I later found out that the guardian consciousness was able to communicate with me through my crystal skull and this is how the name came to me. During this time I was also asking questions and one question was “why is the crystal in the shape of a human skull?” At the same time my friend gifted the Guardian to me she also gave me a book called Mystery of the Crystal Skulls revealed. A lot of information about the crystal skulls is in this book and it helped me. At the time that my friend gave me the book she had received the book from having a session with Joshua Shapiro. Joshua Shapiro continued to communicate with my friend through email and then we eventually all were able to meet together. Afterwards, I attended a session with Joshua Shapiro and his crystal skulls. The session was electrifying for me. I actually felt a lightening bolt go through me and it was an emotional experience for this was a re-union that I remembered from a past lifetime. After the session Joshua and I began to see one another and my journey in this lifetime began with the crystal skulls.

 

Now back to the questions I had asked “why is the crystal skull in the shape of a human skull?” which my answer was answered through learning more about the crystal skulls with my life partner Joshua Shapiro.  It turns a lot of people ask the same question when we travel and do our public talks.  But in order to answer the question it must be considered why is that we have a shape of our bone skull.  There is a relationship between the bones in our body that are of a vibration of frequency.  The reason the shape of the human bone skull was created in this form is that we can receive direct transmission of cosmic knowledge and information from the universe and after we receive this information it filters into our different levels of consciousness until all or part of this comes into our wakened consciousness. 

 

This brings us to quartz crystal skulls.  There is a resonance that whenever we hold a piece of quartz that energy is transferred to every part of our body because there are bones everywhere getting back to the shape we have received intuitively that this shape was decided upon by a higher intelligence that is involved and guides in our spiritual evolution for humanity.  So if a person creates a crystal skull that approximates the shape of a human bone skull what do you think might happen?  Crystal skulls have the ability to duplicate the same functionality as the human bone skull.  Therefore, a crystal skull can be used as a receptacle of incredible knowledge and information possible created by ancient civilizations. Additional we (Joshua Shapiro and I) have found by working with our own crystal skulls that they are living beings on to themselves as they telepathically communicate with us everyday. In conclusion the reason why the crystal skulls are special and important to humanity is that their shape and material from which they are made allows us to have direct contact with dimensional beings of a higher intelligence who can now assist in this time of transformation to create a world of peace and brought me to who and what I truly am and about in my soul purpose in this lifetime.

I would love to answer any questions about the crystal skulls if you reasonate with them. Thank you! ~Katrina Head 

 

Congratulations to our Participant Support Director, Sister and Friend, Stephanie Charette (AutumnRose) for a smooth delivery of her newest bundle of joy, William Joseph Charette.  She’s amazing!  You would think we run a sweat shop or something over here because in less than two hours after we got the news, she was responding to business emails we’d written earlier in the day.

Stephanie was working yesterday morning, and the next thing we knew, we get an email - FROM HER, that the 6 lb 1 oz William was here and both mother and baby were fine.  When we inquired how did this happen so quickly, she said, “he came so fast!  I was working at 8:30 in the hospital at 11!  He was ready!”

Stephanie said previously that she would send us an email and be working the following day after he came…I don’t think any of us believed her for a moment, but she  proves time and time again that she is a woman of integrity and always tries to hold true to her word.  But WOW Stef.  Our advice to you is to “take the day off.”  Hopefully she is resting well.  See ya next week Stef

In the Highest Vibration of Love

The PanPanTeam

She is a great-great-grandmother with so many relatives even she has lost count. Needless to say, we are all devastated, but putting on our bravest faces. Mama weighs about 87 pounds now. Always a small woman in stature, she now seems as fragile as a fine porcelain doll. Her wavy curly hair thinning from the stress of the treatments, and being forced to constantly lie down, to rest they say. When the matriarch of a family goes slowly, creeping day-by-day towards death, how they do so can be the most important lesson they teach the generations they will leave behind. How to die with your head held high.

 Born on a farm to mother who was formerly a slave and a Native American father my great-grandmother is a woman of quiet strength. Her word is law in our family; there are no appeals once she has spoken. With good reason, she prefaces her words with wisdom and love that is as contagious as it is convincing. She does not speak lightly, especially when it comes to matters of the heart. And for Mama, everything is a matter of the heart. Over homemade slices of syrupy sweet pineapple upside down cake one is convinced to bear their soul. After tears and laughter, hugs and smiles you walk away feeling like a new person. All the wiser from your time spent around Mama’s kitchen table.

A divorce can be devastating; a divorce with a child involved is heartbreaking. There came a time in my divorce that I broke into what felt like tiny fragments of sharp glass, each piece making it painful to continue to move through life. As the word spread through our tight knit family that my marriage was over and my child’s fate hung in the air, Mama did not call me, not right away. She waited patiently while everyone else offered their advice and opinions. As I said, she does not speak lightly. When she did call me from her kitchen table hundreds of miles away she did not waste time. As it happened, Mama had called at the exact moment that I was crawling across my living room floor vexed with tears and heartbreaking pain. She had called to save me.

The words my great-grandmother spoke to me that day carry me through my life. She spoke of pride and sacrifice. She spoke of the power of women, the power of one woman, and the strength it takes to be a mother. Mama reminded me of our legacy, and as she sat at her kitchen table and me at mine, she reminded me that I am from women who have conquered the seemingly impossible. That tradition is not what the world makes it, but we make it and pass on. Mama reminded me that there are many ways to be a mother, many ways to love. Most of all she reminded me to keep my head held high. Because though I may feel like it, it was not my time to die, but to grow to the next part of my life. So live, because when it is my time to die, a woman should do so with her head held high.