Lance Kurland

Seeing the many aspects of the Shift we are moving through requires us to stretch and open to new perspectives. At the same time we are witnesses to great social and personal transformations. When viewed in this way it is much easier to cling to the old ways to resolve conflicts and impediments to growth. Politics seem to be out pictures in some ways, of the personal dramas as we proceed through on our personal journeys.

It is painful and amusing how so much of what is presented in the corporate media is what supports the old paradigm of power and control. We see our own shadows as well as the desire to maintain the status quo. Almost any comment made by the political elite is a reflection of the fears of the tightly held old guard. When we hear of any comments to elicit fear we can almost always realize that these are projections of their own slipping hold on control. It is interesting that we have moved from “your either with us, or you are with the terrorists”, or your “unpatriotic”. Today it is “we” are fiscally irresponsible. These are the same people which have allowed the greatest transfer of wealth from the public to the corporate and military coffers. It is perfectly fine to give subsidies to corporations which have made the largest profits in world history (Exxon/Mobile), run our financial institutions into the ground (banking), and support a military that spends more money each year then the entire rest of the world combined. Yet we can invade other countries because 3000 people died on 9/11, but the 18,000 people who die each year because of our broken medical system is not worthy of financial consideration. These are not only political issues but Spiritual ones. Do we really care for each other and see us all as connected? Are we our brother’s keepers? How come almost everything we hear them say is a projection of their own inadequacies?  Is everything to be measured only on the basis of the bottom line? When did our country, the  world, and all of life become measured only in terms of financial gain or loss? Lastly why is taking care of our friends, neighbors, and co- workers not family values?

Last night a friend and teacher of mine made me aware again of the obligation we have to ourselves and communities. It is our responsibly to care for all of life. This resides on all levels of our being: personal, environmental, global, and political. Becoming more aware is a choice. A choice that informs all levels of our personal creation. Our desire to enhance all aspects of our life can be an obligation and tremendously rewarding. We also can get support for our choices. You are not alone in our growth and help is available on many levels.

It is said that when the student is ready the teacher appears, even more so when you have a passion to transform and elevate the planet. This aligns you with the Shift. As those who live in fear find mirrors who support their perspectives, when your intent and focus embraces change, like minded souls are attracted to you. They are there to aid you, mirror your heart, and inspire you to follow your Truth. Not only will you find friends become more aware by your interaction with them but your life will also transform to meet your new consciousness.

Allow your new song to express the very best of the gifts and talents you have to offer. There may be very challenging and dark days ahead as the world brings forth new political and monetary changes. It is wise to hold fast to your inner light and the love of those around you.

We are One

Lyrics and Music: Lance Kurland

We are Love, we are real… We are life, we can feel.

We can touch the stars, and play with Mars for fun… We are One.

We are soft, we are fine… We are points, we’re a line,

We can touch the sky, and if we try the Sun… We are One.

We needed you yesterday today we need you more…

The  one thing I know… of these feelings I am sure!

We are now, we were then… we’re beginning, we’re the end,

With a laugh we know, the journey has begun… We are One.

We all face challenges and pain in our lives. One great teacher proclaimed all life is suffering. I feel there is great joy in life yet the same nerve endings that allow us to feel pleasure can also cause pain. Pain exists not only physically but extends to all levels of our being. The passing of a friend or relative can cause emotional pain and many of us move through this shift will also experience Spiritual pain as the structures we have depended on and even our world view is shaken. This is sometimes referred to as the “dark night of the Soul”. This being one phase of growth on our journey to greater awareness.

It is common to consider surrender as being a failure. It is connected to loss and in a militaristic society there really are only 3 outcomes… victory, defeat, of surrender. These simplistic perspectives do not take into account the true nature of the situation. Sometimes the victory is at such a cost that you lose aspects of your character, or resources, that though you vanquish the foe, you have in fact lost. Not seeing the long term ramifications of the cost your battles. Likewise when you are defeated there is often a greater wisdom learned, a greater society to be built. We could uncover a recognition of false aspects and descriptions of our world that resolve conflict and result in greater wisdom and understanding. A major misconception has to do with surrender because culturally it is equated with failure.

In the lives of all Saints, Prophets, and Healers there is always the recognition of surrender as a rite of passage into a deeper level of being. Not only does surrender enhance the transformation it signals a release of the old and receptivity to a new world. When we hold on so tightly to the old ways, or our past, there is no room to perceive ourselves and the world differently. Change is impeded and progress inhibited.

The Shift, by it’s very nature, is a massive change as we are witnessing and will continue to for the foreseeable future. We will watch the financial markets ebb, flow, and collapse. Our agricultural methods are harmful, ecologically unsustainable, and nutritionally bankrupt. As we see the medical systems of the US challenged so will the energy and associated industries grasp for redefinition and become decentralized as new emerging technologies and innovative approaches become apparent on the world stage. As without so within. Our inner changes will be a reflection of the outer transformations. Those screaming the loudest against the changes will be defining themselves, to a large extent, while calling attention to the how dangerous these changes will be. When in fact doing nothing or following the corrupt ongoing course are doing greater damage, and fear only insites the mind and heart doing nothing to further resolution.

Surrender is a key in that it opens up space for the new to express itself. In her landmark work “on Death and Dying”, Elizabeth Kubla-Ross gives 5 stages that we pass through when a dear one passes from our lives. The last is acceptance but before that comes surrender. Surrender is a conscious or unconscious release of a pre-ordained mindset of what should be. We build our world psychologically by our descriptions of it which are often incorrect and always incomplete. Life is much more vast than and internal or external description, and further negated if we accept that everything is connected. When we let go of these perceptions or are forced to by inner realization or external events, we allow something greater to emerge. Thus do miracles take place around us, and can we consciously create them.

One last consideration on your personal journey. Surrender is not giving up as much as accepting what is without condition. “Not my way Lord but Thy way”! Yet this can also be channeled by intent and focus. We may not know what that new job will look like, but the clearer we are on what we desire in our hearts the more aligned the manifestation. Love is the greatest creator in consciousness, it transcends all boundaries and creates perfect life if we surrender to “It’s” infinite capacity.

Usually I start or end with the lyrics of one of my songs. This month instead I want to invite my friends to a celebration. The largest celebration of it’s kind in the Southeast. It is the 8TH annual Organicfest on Sunday September 13TH in downtown Asheville, NC celebration everything organic. For more information check out www.organicfest.org. If you come by about 1:00PM you will see our Bug Parade and hear me play a few songs. You can check our my hub page on the organicfest.

You can also check out my new new hub page on Z’ism, my information of a Spiritual philosophy.

For aspiring songwriters check out songwriting made easy.

I know we are part of a larger global and planetary movement currently transforming our world. You may denigh it or be insensitive to it but it is going on nonetheless. It will go on with our help or without it. Yet our participation can further it’s progress for we are all connected and even our thoughts effect the world.

What is this shift? How can we make a difference?

It is clear that America is in transition. It can no longer be a lone world superpower, nor can we continue to measure power solely on economic of military terms. It is clear a new definition is emerging, and America can lead this movement of be at the effect of it.

Resources are dwindling worldwide and by whatever terms you measure prosperity unfettered consumption of natural resources and the resulting accumulation of waste cannot continue. Nor can we as a planet sustain the greenhouse gas emissions generated by a consumptive  linear lifestyle which is out of control. The acquisition of natural resources in third world countries by overthrowing legitimate forms of government and putting into power our proxies will no longer be hidden, and the viewing of these situations will come to light even further as these practices by large multinational corporations come to light.

Concurrently an expansion of the awareness of the interconnections world wide are becoming more apparent. Whether it be our effect on the environment or our effect on each other, communications are making this a smaller world indeed as government are having a harder time controlling the information to subjugate populations and allow pollution world wide. We are all effected, and we cannot send all the waste into space. The linear thinking of waste and conquest are empty when seen in light of the whole. You can hope for to be gathered up into heaven, but tomorrow you most likely will wake up in the world with the same problems and concerns you went to sleep with the night before. Doesn’t it make more sense to be caretakers with an attitude of the caretaker of this wondrous planet, then to be dreaming of being evacuated by a flaming chariot or alien spaceship?

The shift taking place is one of awareness or consciousness. It’s effects will be political, environmental, and economic. We can participate in the change, be  bystanders, or resist it wanting to return to the current hostile and wasteful attitudes which may be comfortable and familiar. We have the choice to embrace change at any time, it’s wholly optional to a degree. As resources dwindle and wars may need to be fought to uphold an unsustainable standard of living, you may have to sacrifice you son, daughters, and environment to try to maintain your current American standard of living. You may also have no choice if we continue to allow a corporate oligarchy to have the rights of an individual in our current legal system. To the degree the people recognize the situation and accept change and growth, the faster the transformation or “Shift” can arise.

The critical mass may arise in 2012, or sooner, or later. It is totally in out hands and hearts. My next messages will be the bases of what this “Shift” may look like. How we can participate in it, and what it’s results may look like 10 or 25 years from now.

Than You Are

Music and Lyrics: Lance Kurland

Have you had one of those days, when nothing seems to go your way,

More layoffs at the office, your friends have hit the street,

Your wife’s gotten another job, just to make ends meet.

The shift can take place, taking you far,

You’re so much greater than what you think you are!

Do you remember your dreams, can you make them real?

Do you wake each morning, with excitement you can feel?

Do you know what’s behind all the words that are said,

When you act in the world from your heart and not your head!

And the shift can take place, taking you far,

You’re so much greater than what you think you are!

Sometimes you have to believe, and take a chance one more time,

Sometimes you have to trust those feelings deep inside,

Because the things most worth embracing, are the things you cannot see,

Those changing tides in life… that set you free.

Is there something you’ve forgotten, something we both could share,

Discover a hidden talent, expressed beyond your fear.

We could make this country strong and live our lives in joy,

If we had a common purpose and a plan we can employ.

Come take a stand, just lend your hand,

In the end, we’ll call you friend,

And the change will become so clear to you,

You’ll find again that passion true… it’s all that’s left to do!

Come on board we’ll make it happen, together change our lives,

We’ll make a better world, not one just merely to survive,

When we work together, then together we’ll be strong,

We’ll leave behind a legacy our children carry on.

And the shift can take place, taking you far,

You’re so much greater than what you think you are!

You’re so much greater, discover what you are!

Yes it has been quite a while since I posted and yet much has changed even in these few months. More people and friends are unemployed and under insured. A great movement in Africa and Iran of a Spiritual and revolutionary nature ( aren’t they always? ). A health care debate raging across America perhaps redefining the liberties we enjoy, and those enjoyed by the rest of the world. The economic forcaste creating more gloom and the American dream fading into the past of a fallen empire.

With all these changes there is still the hope of an underlying transformation and a call for each of us as individuals to live our understanding and embrace our Spiritual Destinies. There is a Calling to those who by whatever means have found a refuge of sorts inwardly to manifest wisdom in action. As pressures of the physical transform the inner perceptions and realizations. There is great pain, but for many the awakening of a strenth which is equal to the times and confronting the challenges being faced.

Some say we are living at the end of time or religiously “The End Times”. Some point to the Mayan calender and await 2012 as the prophesized end. This is not my truth and though friends may come from above they have always been here among us. The ending of an age is but the beginning of the next cycle and is exactly why many of us are here. To recognize who we are and help give birth to the changing times each in our own way, with our unique wisdom.

It is clear to me the one’s we are waiting for is us, we need only to create a clear intent to make the short time we have a testament to our understanding. Live our Truth daily to whatever extent we can. To show Love and kindness for these are the stands that tie us together and make us strong.

Our future is yet to be written, but when it is what will it say about you, about me, and about the world we are leaving the future.

Thank you all for stopping here for a brief time and I hope this empowers your journey.

A journey of 1000 steps start with one step… another step… and suddenly you’re HERE!