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MaY the Familiarity of the Drum's Call You Home*~ MaY TheY call Upon You to Remember Who You ReallY Are*~ In the Name Of the Great Spirit YeshuA*~ MaY All Veils be Lifted!!*~ To the Power of 3*~ So Mote IT BE!!*~ ~~*~~ If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.... Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view.... Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly.... Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be.... I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.... I may be your spouse, your parent, your offsping, your friend, or your colleague... If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right -- for me... To put up with me is the first step to understanding me... Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness... And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and, far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences.... (Excerpted from Please Understand Me II by DavidKeirsey)~~*~~~*Atlantis At Our Feet*~~Uncovering America's Pyramid Builders~The grandest culture north of the Maya created a city of 20,000 people, built monuments rivaling Egypt's Great Pyramid, then vanished into oblivion by Karen Wright ~~*~~ When U.S. 40 reaches Collinsville, Illinois, the land is flat and open. Seedy storefronts line the highway: a pawnshop, a discount carpet warehouse, a taco joint, a bar. Only the Indian Mound Motel gives any hint that the road bisects something more than underdeveloped farmland. This is the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, a United Nations World Heritage Site on a par with the Great Wall of China, the Egyptian pyramids, and the Taj Mahal. The 4,000-acre complex preserves the remnants of the largest prehistoric settlement north of Mexico, a walled city that flourished on the floodplain of the Mississippi River 10 centuries ago. Covering an area more than five miles square, Cahokia dwarfs the ancient pueblos of New Mexico's Chaco Canyon and every other ruin left by the storied Anasazi of the American Southwest. Yet despite its size and importance, archaeologists still don't understand how this vast, lost culture began, how it ended, and what went on in between.Monks Mound, a monumental remnant of the lost Cahokian culture, is bigger at the base than the pyramid of Khufu, the largest in Egypt. When journalist Henry Marie Brackenridge happened upon the terraced earthwork in 1811, he proclaimed, "What a stupendous pile of earth!"A thousand years ago, no one could have missed Cahokia—a complex, sophisticated society with an urban center, satellite villages, and as many as 50,000 people in all. Thatched-roof houses lined the central plazas. Merchants swapped copper, mica, and seashells from as far away as the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. Thousands of cooking fires burned night and day. And between A.D. 1000 and 1300, Cahokians built more than 120 earthen mounds as landmarks, tombs, and ceremonial platforms. The largest of these monuments, now called Monks Mound, still dominates the site. It is a flat-topped pyramid of dirt that covers more than 14 acres and once supported a 5,000-square-foot temple. Monks Mound is bigger than any of the three great pyramids at Giza outside Cairo. "This is the third or fourth biggest pyramid in the world, in terms of volume," says archaeologist Tim Pauketat of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It towers 100 feet over a 40-acre plaza that was surrounded by lesser mounds and a two-mile-long stockade. The monument was the crowning achievement of a mound-building culture that began thousands of years earlier and was never duplicated on this continent.Why Cahokia crumbled and its people vanished is unknown. Malnutrition, overcrowding, a dwindling resource base, the raids of jealous trade partners—any or all of these reasons may have contributed to the city's demise. No one knows whether the populace cleared out all at once or dispersed gradually, but by A.D. 1300 Cahokia was a ghost town. By the time Europeans arrived in the Mississippi bottomland, the region was only sparsely settled, and none of the native residents could recount what had happened there centuries before. So far, archaeologists have uncovered no evidence of invasion, rampant disease, overpopulation, deforestation, or any of the other hallmarks of the decline and fall of civilization. Cahokia abounds in artifacts, but archaeologists have not yet made sense of them in a meaningful way. "It actually becomes quite scary," says John Kelly of Washington University in St. Louis. "After a while you begin to realize that you're dealing with rituals that had a great deal of meaning 800 years ago and that you're kind of clueless."Intellectual frustration is not the only reason for Cahokia's obscurity. Pauketat complains that the region is geographically challenged. It has the look and feel of a place "like Buffalo, except warmer," he says. Cahokia doesn't exactly lure others away from more exotic digs in Turkey, Mexico, or Peru, he says. "That's the problem with this site." Another reason for its lack of popularity is the ordinary, perishable building materials used by the residents. "Cahokians are discounted because they built with dirt—dirt and wood, things they valued," says Pauketat. "I get tired of hearing people say, 'We have civilization and you guys don't.' "Meanwhile, developers see Cahokia as ripe for expansion; strip malls and subdivisions threaten on every side. "It's developing faster than we can survey," Pauketat says. "We don't know what we're losing out there." Although a good portion of the central city is now protected, archaeologists are discovering related sites throughout a six-county region on both sides of the nearby Mississippi—an area 3,600 miles square. Indeed, digs are under way in such unlikely places as a railroad yard eight miles west in East St. Louis, where a new bridge is scheduled. "If you want to find out the archaeology of an area," says Brad Koldehoff of the Illinois Department of Transportation's archaeology team, "build a road through it."~source article~http://discovermagazine.com/2004/feb/uncovering-amer icas-pyramid-builders•-Universal Laws-•*1. The Law of Divine Oneness:The Law of Divine Oneness helps us to understand that we live in a world where everything is connected to everything else. Everything we do, say, think and believe affects others and the universe around us.*2. The Law of Vibration:This Universal Law states that everything in the Universe moves, vibrates, and travels in circular patterns. The same principles of vibration in the physical world apply to our thoughts, feelings, desires, and wills in the Etheric world. Each sound, thing, and even thought has its own vibrational frequency, unique unto itself.*3. The Law of Action:The Law of Action must be applied in order for us to manifest things on earth. Therefore, we must engage in actions that support our thoughts, dreams, emotions and words.*4. The Law of Correspondence:This Universal Law states that the principles or laws of physics that explain the physical world – energy, Light, vibration, and motion – have their corresponding principles in the etheric or universe. “As above, so below.”*5. The Law of Cause and Effect:This Universal Law states that nothing happens by chance or outside the Universal Laws. Every action has a reaction or consequence and we “reap what we have sown.”*6. The Law of Compensation:This Universal Law is the Law of Cause and Effect applied to blessings and abundance that are provided for us. The visible effects of our deeds are given to us in gifts, money, inheritances, friendships, and blessings.*7. The Law of Attraction:This Universal Law demonstrates how we create the things, events, and people that come into our lives. Our thoughts, feelings, words, and actions produce energies which, in turn, attract like energies. Negative energies attract negative energies and positive energies attract positive energies.*8. The Law of Perpetual Transmutation of Energy:This Universal Law states that all persons have within them the power to change the conditions in their lives. Higher vibrations consume and transform lower ones; thus, each of us can change the energies in our lives by understanding the Universal Laws and applying the principles in such a way as to effect change.*9. The Law of Relativity:This Universal Law states that each person will receive a series of problems (Tests of Initiation) for the purpose of strengthening the Light within. We must consider each of these tests to be a challenge and remain connected to our hearts when proceeding to solve the problems. This law also teaches us to compare our problems to others’ problems and put everything into its proper perspective. No matter how bad we perceive our situation to be, there is always someone who is in a worse position. It is all relative.*10. The Law of Polarity:This Universal Law states that everything is on a continuum and has an opposite. We can suppress and transform undesirable thoughts by concentrating on the opposite pole. It is the law of mental vibrations.*11. The Law of Rhythm:This Universal Law states that everything vibrates and moves to certain rhythms. These rhythms establish seasons, cycles, stages of development, and patterns. Each cycle reflects the regularity of God’s universe. Masters know how to rise above negative parts of a cycle by never getting too excited or allowing negative things to penetrate their consciousness.*12. The Law of Gender:This Universal Law states that everything has its masculine (yang) and feminine (yin) principles, and that these are the basis for all creation. The spiritual Initiate must balance the masculine and feminine energies within herself or himself to become a Master and a true co-creator with God. *