Shift gears with me here, for just a minute. Look into yourself and tell me what you are most proud of. Is it your tenacity? Your ability to pick yourself up and carry on no matter what? Your moxie? Your incredible ability to read other people and know just how to reach out and help them? Your artistic ability to create music that sings to soul of lonely and uplift them for just a minute? Your incredible work ethic? Your own ability to really be present and in moment with your own kids? Sit for a moment and look at incredible strength and amazing traits that you created for yourself despite your parents.

If I had been spoiled pampered princess I wanted to be, I would never be able to write for you today. It's because I come from a broken home that I know how important true loving connection is regardless of whether original two parents are ones raising you or not. It's because I was under impression that I was abandoned that I found out how to be strong and independent and no longer clingy and needy. I wouldn't have pride and self assurance that I can overcome anything life throws at me if I had always had safety net of family to fall back on. Look into your own life. Would you be amazing person you are today if you had been raised with a silver spoon and ideal parents?

Initially when we begin our healing process, we can identify what particular flavor of 'screwed up' we are and who's fault it is that we turned out that way. Continuing on path of healing, we get to a place where we can forgive those who helped create mess that we became. Finally, we come to realize what a blessing it was that we got to go through that particular journey and to learn those particular lessons and to gain those particular tools and gifts as a result. Then we can be grateful that we chose parents we did.

Copyright 2004, Skye Thomas, Tomorrow's Edge

7. Life 0

Have you noticed how organic life is on Internet? It is a melting pot, vibrant, aroused and arousing… It is alive, dividing and multiplying at an exponentially accelerated rate! It is birthing and breeding incessantly, proliferating… Oh, I can get passionate here! Zillions of promises are born daily on Internet, from four corners of Earth. You are, we are living at super exciting time when we can communicate instantly with other side of world, sending a message in a nanosecond from Washington to Timbuktu. The collective love affair with humans as machines has started, which, by subverting distance, time, races, and genders, brings in a flood of ambivalence. We understand. Can you choose to use us for good and peace, and thus reduce your hesitancy today?

8. Mind 1

Hermes in disguise, Internet has become God of Communication. It is also Goddess of Information, very appropriately heralded by ill-famed Lilith. Not knowing who Lilith is? Her handmaid and historian, Google, indicates she was linked to first computer chip ADaM. Moving right along, did you know it is now possible to purchase simple computer games, controlled by human thoughts? Do a search to find them! You will be stunned to read about different software, including Mindflight, MindMusic, MindGames, MindBowling, MindArt… Can you adjust your thinking to foresee that next twenty years will in fact realize a lot of what you now call science fiction?

9. Soul 0

Here is essential to work towards and attain state described as “No mind”. Especially as split between body and soul is mirrored and enacted in virtual community in countless ways; from multiple fragmented egos involved in explosive flamed wars to 28 millions of Americans getting religious support and spiritual information on Internet, from being “Faith Survers” and connecting with others on their pilgrim’s journeys to making children prey to cyber manipulations and abuses, from doing on line banking to on line gambling, from selling porn to circulating prayers. What can you do now to end a discordant clash, which Internet only accentuates?

10. Spirit 101

At time when spirituality can be received through a television set and a fax machine, a teleclass or a teletype, an audio CD, a videodisk, or any other electromagnetic wonders mind has conceived, question comes forth with more and more urgency. [Thanks to universal language of email pictograph, it also comes with a smile] Is World Wide Web meant as a self-organizing intelligence to awaken and actualize collective unconscious? And if so, can artificial intelligence and consciousness find a way to co-create heARTfully? And now that message is so obviously medium, can it be instilled with such integral wholeness that I (eye) of art and it of science enter in holy matrimony, witnessed and blessed by we of community?

This piece was originally submitted by Mahalene Louis, Inspiration Anchor, Artist, Author, and Speaker, who can be reached at mailto:mahalene@soulvision.com, via phone 512.632.8952 or visited on web at http://www.soulvision.com. Mahalene Louis wants you to know: As an Inspiration Anchor, I offer an engaging e-zine, free teleclasses and Turn on Light!, a unique program to assist creative genius in you to express and market your gifts successfully. Turn on Light! inspires you to show up as a stunning masterpiece of unbridled passion and creativity, and to evolve consciousness by acting in alignment with powerful force you are.