Australia's Standing Stones

Ever wanted to visit the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge, but just couldn't afford the hefty price tag?

Don't worry, there's no need to fly to Britain to experience the spiritual power of these megalithic giants. Simply head to Glen Innes, the Celtic capital of Australia, located just a short hour's drive from Armidale in the New England tablelands of New South Wales.

In Glen Innes, they take their Celtic roots seriously. And if you think they're kidding you'll find plenty of monoliths, obelisks, columns, pillars and slabs to prove it.

To honour of their Celtic heritage, the townsfolk built the southern hemisphere's first and only solar-aligned stone circle. Known as the Australian Standing Stones, the site comprises of 40 giant granite rocks, some of which weigh over 30 tonnes. Of these, a circle of 24, representing the 24 hours of the day, act as a clock, calendar and compass all in one — pretty impressive for a bunch of stones.

Modelled on the Ring of Brodgar in the Orkneys, the megalithic stones were superimposed with the Southern Cross, symbolising old and new worlds meeting. Since completion in 1992, the site has served as a cultural gathering place for all Celtic communities — Irish, Welsh, Cornish, Manx and Bretons.

Story by Kim Wildman http://travelaustralia.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=118282&site=265

May 2007 Divine Alignment

One of the greatest obstacles any of us faces in achieving transcendence and thus union with our Divinity is the various limited identities we have assumed.

The realm of limitation holds ENORMOUS POTENTIAL despite all appearances. Just look at the energy released from matter in an atomic fission reaction. Matter is a form of energy that is operating in the realm of structure which is also a form of limitation.

All limitations have this magnitude of kinetic potential within them, we just do not see it much of the time. So here is where we start, we affirm the spiritual potential within the realm of limitation as an article of faith if nothing else. If we have not firmly enough established this foundation, we will get stuck in that which we came to morph and to mold. As we establish this frequency within our being more profoundly and deeply, our eyes widen and our vision deepens. We start to get glimpses of what the larger flow of limitless life really is really like, we drink from its font and sup at its table more frequently.

Then, one day, we find ourselves dining with our own Divinity, the Divinity of All-Being, and we no longer have any questions to be answered, or things that need to be proven or done, or places to go. We just are, and we can simply be.

http://www.spiritheart.org/members/messages/07_05-08_divine_alignment.htm

Wormholes and parallel universes

Wormholes are warps in the fabric of space-time that connect one place to another. If you imagine the universe as a two-dimensional sheet, you can picture a wormhole as a "throat" connecting our sheet to another one. In this scenario, the other sheet could be a universe of its own, with its own stars, galaxies and planets.

Damour and Solodukhin studied what such a wormhole might look like, and were surprised to discover that it would mimic a black hole so well that it would be virtually impossible to tell the difference.

Matter would swirl around a wormhole in the same way as for a black hole, since both objects distort the space around them in the same way.

Another difference one might hope to exploit is that unlike black holes, wormholes have no event horizon. This means that things could go in a wormhole and come back out again. In fact, theorists say one variety of wormhole wraps back onto itself, so that it leads not to another universe, but back to its own entrance.

It seems the only way to decide the issue for sure with astronomical black holes is to make a daring plunge inside. That would be a dangerous gamble, because if it is a black hole, the incredibly strong gravitational field inside would tear apart every atom in your body. Even if it turns out to be a wormhole, the forces inside could still be deadly.

Assuming you could survive, and the wormhole was not symmetric, you might find yourself in another universe on the other side. Without further intervention, the wormhole would tend to suck you back in and carry you back to the opening in your universe.

So, the question is: are we living in a wormhole now and just unaware of it or can we by the very use of our mind or set of choices we make, move our lives through a wormhole into a slightly different reality?
Hm, is this the same woman who went to Paris last year? Nah! I crossed over into a wormhole and returned in a parallel universe laced with a new set of circumstances and possibilities and have become proficient at jumping between different realities depending on the choices I make and the fulness of life I lead.

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn11745-could-black-holes-be-portals-to-other-universes.html

New 'super-Earth' found in space

The new planet is not much bigger than the Earth

Astronomers have found the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, a world which could have water running on its surface.

The planet orbits the faint star Gliese 581, which is 20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra.

Scientists made the discovery using the Eso 3.6m Telescope in Chile.

They say the benign temperatures on the planet mean any water there could exist in liquid form, and this raises the chances it could also harbour life.

"We have estimated that the mean temperature of this 'super-Earth' lies between 0 and 40 degrees Celsius, and water would thus be liquid," explained Stephane Udry of the Geneva Observatory, lead author of the scientific paper reporting the result.

'Is there life anywhere else?' is a fundamental question we all ask Alison Boyle London Science Museum

"Moreover, its radius should be only 1.5 times the Earth's radius, and models predict that the planet should be either rocky - like our Earth - or covered with oceans."

Xavier Delfosse, a member of the team from Grenoble University, added: "Liquid water is critical to life as we know it."

He believes the planet may now become a very important target for future space missions dedicated to the search for extra-terrestrial life.

These missions will put telescopes in space that can discern the tell-tale light "signatures" that might be associated with biological processes.

The observatories would seek to identify trace atmospheric gases such as methane, and even markers for chlorophyll, the pigment in Earth plants that plays a critical role in photosynthesis.

'Indirect' detection

The exoplanet - as astronomers call planets around a star other than the Sun - is the smallest yet found, and has been given the designation Gliese 581 c.

It completes a full orbit of its parent star in just 13 days.

EXOPLANET GLIESE 581 C Mass: Five times Earth's mass Orbit: 13 days Temperature: 0C - 40C Distance: 20.5 light years Constellation: Libra

Indeed, it is 14 times closer to its star than the Earth is to our Sun.

However, given that the host star is smaller and colder than the Sun - and thus less luminous - the planet nevertheless lies in the "habitable zone", the region around a star where water could be liquid.

Gliese 581 c was identified at the European Southern Observatory (Eso) facility at La Silla in the Atacama Desert.

To make their discovery, researchers used a very sensitive instrument that can measure tiny changes in the velocity of a star as it experiences the gravitational tug of a nearby planet.

Astronomers are stuck with such indirect methods of detection because current telescope technology struggles to image very distant and faint objects - especially when they orbit close to the glare of a star.

The Gliese 581 system has now yielded three planets: the new super-Earth, a 15 Earth-mass planet (Gliese 581 b) orbiting even closer to the parent star, and an eight Earth-mass planet that lies further out (Gliese 581 d).

Gliese 581 is much cooler and dimmer than our own Sun

The latest discovery has created tremendous excitement among scientists.

Of the more than 200 exoplanets so far discovered, a great many are Jupiter-like gas giants that experience blazing temperatures because they orbit close in to much hotter stars.

The Gliese 581 super-Earth is in what scientists also sometimes call the "Goldilocks Zone", where temperatures "are just right" for life to have a chance to exist.

Commenting on the discovery, Alison Boyle, the curator of astronomy at London's Science Museum, said: "Of all the planets we've found around other stars, this is the one that looks as though it might have the right ingredients for life.

"It's 20 light-years away and so we won't be going there anytime soon, but with new kinds of propulsion technology that could change in the future. And obviously we'll be training some powerful telescopes on it to see what we can see," she told BBC News.

"'Is there life anywhere else?' is a fundamental question we all ask."

Professor Glenn White at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is helping to develop the European Space Agency's Darwin mission, which will scan the nearby Universe, looking for signs of life on Earth-like planets. He said: "This is an important step in the search for true Earth-like exoplanets.

"As the methods become more and more refined, astronomers are narrowing in on the ultimate goal - the detection of a true Earth-like planet elsewhere.

"Obviously this newly discovered planet and its companions in the Gliese 581 system will become prominent targets for missions like Esa's Darwin and Nasa's Terrestrial planet Finder when they fly in about a decade."

The discovery is reported in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6589157.stm

Life

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take
but
by the moments that take our breath away.......

Attention on intention

What you put your attention on grows stronger in your life.

When you are presented with anything, give attention to the
ideas, the principles and the concepts which resonate with
you and which will serve you in improving your life. Put
them into practice. Learn from your own experience.

When you give attention to the good in your life,
you will create more good.
When you discover the gifts in every
moment, in every situation, in every person you meet,
your life will be filled with gifts.

This includes when you hear people criticizing, berating
or finding fault with something or someone dear to you.
You have a choice. You can focus on how wrong they are.
You can put your attention on the negative things they
are saying. Or you can ask yourself: How can I use this
information to gain greater clarity?

Where is the gift in this?

Venus conjunct

Venus conjunct with the moon
Hmmm, what does that mean?
Well, it means that Venus is above the tiny slither of the moon and when I looked earlier on it wasn't quite conjunct and later both disappeared behind the hills so I didn't see at all, but, even though I didn't see, the energy that has started to move in my life has turned me in to a new direction.
On this day and just before the following happened:
New job, setting me up for beginning my "big" project in Sydney, clearing the air with an old aquaintance, setting myself up for completion of a project that I no longer have ANY interest in, enjoying some time and a chat with a friend, working on an online project and bringing it one step closer to manifesting, having my "farming" needs sorted out so I don't need to do anything more in that area for a while anyway and that which has outgrown it's use floudering energetically.
Wow! pretty spectacular!

Now to the question that I was going to write about originally. Here t'is:

If you could have just one wish and one wish only and you knew without a shadow of a doubt that it would come true, what would you choose???

My answer:

I would say to the Universe that I connect with the alignment and the fulfilment of the highest path that I can take for my soul's greatest and richest blossoming whilst incarnate in this perfected body, while having ALL my physical and emotional needs met continuously while living in a totally and abundantly joyous life.

What would you choose to ask for????
You may leave your request here.....