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  2. Dear Solarians:

    I had a meditation teacher, Betty Bethards, who was a well-known mystic, psychic, clairaudient, writer and meditation teacher in the Calif. Bay Area for 35 years. She had a foundation, the Inner Light Foundation (www.innerlight.org) , which is now operated by her husband, Charles, as she died in 2002. I had the honor of calling her a great personal friend before she died.
    Several of her books are still available on the website.

    I wanted to write some stuff here, because I think it is wonderful, useful information and I think Solari folks might find it useful too.

    Betty died 10 years ago but it has only been now, in 2012 that I have started to understand the full extent of her teachings. Catherine and Jon Rappoport and others featured on Solari (also Dr. Steven Greer of the Disclosure Project) have opened up whole new new worlds for me!

    Anyway: Betty Bethards spent a number of several-hour sessions with Dr. William Tiller of Stanford in the 1970s, because of her psychic and mystical gifts. Catherine interviewed Dr. Tiller in Nov. 2011 for the Solari Report.

    Betty taught an extraordinarily simple meditation technique (20 minutes) that I’ve done for 23 years. She told me that it was ‘an ancient Egyptian technique, and the easiest she had ever come across.’ I’ll put it at the bottom of this posting.

    She taught that through using meditation, also through dreams, and affirmations and visualizations, we have all the tools necessary to develop all our gifts, grow, see the truth behind the veils, learn and figure out all our problems and see what is
    going on. And all these tools are free!

    She taught a whole lot about our own energy fields, or auras. We are all swimming in a field of energy and we have our own energy field. But our energy fields can get depleted with stress, fatigue, lack of food, negative thinking, giving away our power, etc.

    We need to learn to build our own energy field. Our energy is known in Asia as “chi” or in India as “kundalini” or even in more ancient times and religious contexts, was synonymous with the “Holy Spirit.” (I think the Holy Spirit means something else these days).

    Meditation every 24 hours builds our energy fields over time…Betty taught: “Our energy is our most precious commodity. Meditation will change your life because it will change YOU.”

    Anyway, Betty had quite a sense of humor. She said things like: “People search to the top of the mountains for truth and go to the depths of the oceans, but God was pretty smart. He hid the truths inside each of us. It’s all within us.”

    She said, “Jesus was the most powerful teacher that ever came to Earth. But Buddha and Mohammed, they were no slouches.”

    One of the stories she frequently told was, “My father was so prejudiced. I think when he reincarnates, he’ll come back as a Black Jew and marry an Asian Gay.”

    She taught that we are all psychic, but we need to just center ourselves, tune into ourselves and develop our psychic abilities. Psychic abilities like precognition, feeling another’s feelings–all those things–are fun and interesting. But psychic ability in itself is really just a doorway into the higher, mystical self. The mystic is where the really good stuff is. That’s where we can really start creating wonderful worlds for ourselves. It’s how we break out of old patterns and come up with new stuff!

    To get to the mystical — and we can all develop our psychic AND our mystical gifts — we need to hear ourselves, tune into ourselves, and develop our intuitive gifts and our own truths. We can reprogram old feelings of being unloved and we can reprogram our imperfect childhoods… and get our own self-love going. We all need to love ourselves for our own uniqueness !

    Betty taught that “Love is the strongest force in the universe…and ultimately all these lower-vibration organizations will fail and love will prevail.”

    She taught that we have all incarnated at a very exciting time–a time of revealing — and that the earth’s energy is shifting and so much that has been hidden is being revealed.

    So, I’ve been reading the Solari Report for several months, but just weeks ago became a subscriber, so now I’m reading the past articles and interviews.

    I am amazed to read the articles around mind control, how we are programmed by ‘the powers’ to think and churn inside about certain topics. We are programmed to get riled up by “right vs. left,” and all this other stuff. I have sensed this is true, but I couldn’t articulate it very well to myself.

    I am understanding so much more clearly how so much of this junk, fed to us by the media, is just diversions to keep us occupied and redirected so we don’t notice what is really going on.

    I think it is incumbent upon us to “see what is going on” and wake up. Meditation has for a long time helped me in a variety of ways. It finally helped me to realize that certain “truths” don’t resonate with me anymore… and I began to seek out better sources of information and wake up.

    Here’s how to meditate — simple, easy, free! Do it for 20 minutes each day and it will change your life. Also, I don’t think meditation is that different than prayer. With meditation, though, I think I have learned to listen. (I think I talk too much when I pray!).

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    Here’s Betty’s 20-minute meditation technique.

    You can record a 20-minute tape or CD of your favorite, relaxing music, or play ocean waves, or just sit in silence, if you like silence. If you want to sing along to the songs, that’s great — like the heartfelt singers such as Celine Dion or B. Streisand or somebody else who makes you feel good.

    1. Sit in a comfy chair where you can keep your back straight and feet flat on the floor. You’re aligning your spine and imagining a straight line from the center of the universe, up your feet, out the top of your head, to the top of the universe.
    2. Put your hands together in a loose grasp or prayer position.
    3. Take 3 long, slow deep breaths to deeply relax yourself.
    4. For the first 10 minutes, keep your hands together, sing along to the music. Or you can imagine a beautiful ocean or lake if you aren’t playing music.
    5. After 10 minutes, turn your hands over, rest each one, separated, gently on each thigh, with each palm up. Keep listening to the music or looking at your beautiful lake. Your back is straight and feet on the floor. If you feel like rocking forward and back or side to side, do it! Let the spirit move you, in other words. These last 10 minutes you are really recharging your batteries.

    6. At the end of the 20 minutes, say to yourself some affirmations, such as “the perfect career is manifesting in my life now” or “the perfect goals are manifesting in my life now.”

    Say each affirmation 3 times and really feel it…. Just mouthing the words doesn’t do it, you want to feel it. “Perfect health is manifesting in my life now.”

    If you have a difficult situation in your life that you don’t know how to solve, then “Divine love and divine guidance is manifesting in my life now.”

    7. At the end, visualize a ball of white light around yourself, above, extending out for a mile or so –with you in the middle. Then close each of your hands into a fist, and open your eyes when ready.

    You may only be able to do 10 minutes to start out..After you master 10 minutes, move to 15, then 20 or even 25, if you need the extra few minutes of energy.

    If you meditate when you first wake up, you can visualize a smooth-running day… If you meditate when you are about to go to sleep at night, you can review your day, figure out if you handled things the best way, and go out on high energy! You may have a better dream recall if you meditate before you go to sleep. Even a 3 am meditation is fine. Whatever works for you.

    Thanks – M.E.

  3. Dear Catherine and Solari Subscribers

    Rent Vs. Buy 1st Home in the S.F. Bay Area

    My wife and I are considering the purchase of our first home in the S.F. Bay area. We hope to find one along with a mortgage payment, taxes and insurance that will not exceed 25% of our monthly gross income and still leave about 12-15% of our budget free for discretionary spending or emergencies. I work as a skilled trades person (locksmith) and do not feel very concerned about loosing my job or finding work if I do.

    I am having a challenging time trying to discern if renting would still be a better option if economy tanks and unemployment goes up in 2013 like everyone expects.

    Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

    Mark

    1. Perhaps Mark, you have already checked on what is available near work at your price range. I’ve made the mistake before of letting the realtor tell me what I can afford. My wife and I value these much: location vs work, food source, taxing districts (layering on of taxing districts has occured in our area), likeable (we really like ours) neighbors and walk-ability. Construction impacts maintenance costs and our floor plan works well for the so called temporary guest that has stayed here going on five years now.

      Home is where your heart is,
      Brad

  4. On Saturday Dec. 1, was listening to the NPR broadcast of “This American Life.,” Also titled ‘450: So Crazy It Just Might Work.”

    The subject was a documentary maker, Gabriel Rhodes who is working on his documentary “The Cure,” (see links below). His film and the NPR story is about the collaborative research between a cancer researcher (John) and his former college orchestra teacher (Anthony). It starts out with very promising cancer collaboration and then these 2 end up disagreeing, not talking, Anthony can’t afford to work on this any more, frustrations… At first the research is great! The cancer cells are being destroyed with Royal Rife’s basic methods. Then their data is scrambled, charts don’t make sense and what they saw happening in the lab with their own eyes isn’t reflected in their data or their charts. It all makes sense. Then it doesn’t. What happened?

    I think these researchers got too close to good results and they were stopped by “unknown forces,” whomever they are… The NPR broadcast doesn’t handle it with this theory, of course… NPR basically just talks about how hard cancer research is… I’m curious if any of you have run into this story and what you think…

    broadcast originally dated Nov 11, 2011 — http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/450/so-crazy-it-just-might-work
    http://www.thecuredocumentary.com/

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  5. Blue Light? – see Disney 2012 movie John Carter – complete with shape shifting evil overlords

  6. The Lynette Louise interview seemed a sharp contrast to Rappaport’s recent SR about the diagnosis of autism being too loosely defined and suggested it may be a more or less fake diagnosis. Was this just two different guest’s points of view? – Or do I need to replay these SRs for my own clarification?

  7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUMMd6R7mOk The smooth blend of The Sons of the Pioneers on two of their classics: Cool Water & Tumbling Tumbleweeds.

    WATER Of PLACE: Gaining perspective from our home the edge of source.

    Early in the Solari Report Series, Catherine Austin Fitts urged subscribers to secure quality food and water.
    I’ve been thinking about water for our PLACE a lot since then. My perspective about water has changed quite a bit over the years.

    As a child being raised in the Southwest, I swam in our pool despite desert tumble weeds blowing just behind our fence.
    Once a week the utility would open a valve in our yard and several inches of water depth quenched thirsty grass, bushes, trees and our pomegranate tree.

    That was 45 years ago. Moving from the Southwest to a bit east of the Mississippi River is like moving to constant humidity and much rain when you are a kid. The toads are slimy, not like the horned toads of the southwest. It takes some getting used several days of rain at a time in the Southeast. I could put a long john boat in many ponds and a few reservoirs and fish all I could stand.

    Each summer while growing up, I canoed, swam and floated on an intertube or raft on a river fork in eastern Oklahoma. Those summer days in Oklahoma allowed for swimming in the “creek” unless rains muddied and swelled up the ebbs and flows into swift currents for a few days.

    During college my economics professor went to Arizona on sabbatical to study water. He said in 20 years that water would be like gasoline. Today, spring rains ensure enough canoeing water in the spring and kayaking at least into early summer. I met my wife in the rainy southeast. In fact we both lived less than a mile from and on the high side of the Mississippi river. The mighty Mississippi is amazing. With the spring floods, tug boats pushing barges, the Mississippi Queen, the Corps. of Engineers management, and movies like Huck Finn, it’s hard to imagine a lack of water.

    My wife and I moved our family to central Texas in the mid 1990’s without a thought about ground water. We were glad for lower humidity. We found ourselves living in a town where the hill country, black land prairie and grasslands of the Edwards plateau meet. After we arrived we noticed harder and shorter rains. Flash flooding is more prevalent here. Rainfall averages closer to three inches monthly than over four inches. Sometimes there is no rain for a month. Now, after seventeen years and a few droughts, future water access is a hot topic. My abundant water perspective is gone.

    I am ever digesting tidbits of information about the edges of my water sources and impacts to my place water. We have lived on well water and city water. There are plenty of access and regulatory issues to learn and keep up with both well and piped water.

    To understand the water of place, I seek to understand the forces and players affecting our water. I’ve learned a few things this year I’d like to share.

    Well water requires a knowledge about well mechanics and ground water hydrology. It’s a good idea to keep pipe, connections and a hand pump ready for a long term power or pump equipment outage. Getting to know a local aquifer board member helps. Talking with neighbors that have been in place the longest provides deeper insight. We had a very dry and hot period during the summer of 2011 with 90 days at or above 100 degrees. Drought severity limits are the norm here now. We had our toilets replaced during a utility incentive to install low flow toilets. I may take one of the permaculture courses to gain a better perspective on how to transition our land toward the newer dryer climate. I will also plan a dry water garden for where rain water rushes off our property to the lower next door neighbor. Maybe I can direct more water to sink in and support our trees.
    We live in town now so water is piped from a city water utility. They have a long term contract with the Lower Colorado River District. The water utility is supposed to have water for 50 years by contract. I don’t have full faith in contracts any more. Attending to everything that lies from our home to the water source edge is a responsibility for my family and community safety. If the utility were to flip to a private corporation, our situation could change drastically. As it is, water rates are up over 10% this year.

    Learning about the local ordinances, local water companies and districts that are stake holders of water sourcing is a must for a basic understanding. Texas has a state water board and plenty of state legislated regulation. I’m convinced that often university expertise in Texas leans toward the needs of the energy industry and water sellers.

    Knowing an expert source is perhaps a best practice and I hope to find a trustworth Texas water expert in 2013. Various regions of the United States have multiple states in their water region sourcing. It can take some study just to define the boundaries of place we want to focus on. Add uncertainty and complexity of weather and airosol spraying to the mix and it’s easy to be overwhelmed with information.The quality of water is affected by place but quality is a whole other topic to integrate as is waste water.

    I look forward to learning more about water from other subscribers.

    Nothing quenches thirst like cool clean water.

    Brad

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