I'm used to the KD Smites to have honey because it's all basically blue. And we don't have blue on our projector. For the yellow you see it's actually green. Our discreet shots won't look a little bit strange, but I think we can handle that. Now, I went first and we contacted, we contacted these a tonne ago. They asked about a talk, not about KD, but a talk about KD Future, which is a difficult thing to do for the future's glory. But I'll try nevertheless. Here's the agenda for the next 45-50 page. I will talk about the original girls of the KD project. Give a short history of the Unix desktop, where you'll just read the short history. Then I'll talk about the present. And when I talk about the present of KD, I will not talk about the current that we have today, but about the challenges that the project is facing today. In other words, the things we are working on today. That means immediate challenges and opportunities, strategic key focus areas, technical challenges, usability challenges, challenges from the programming frameworks perspective, social challenges for the project itself, and the sustainability of the project. Yeah, I think that's enough challenges. Then I will try to, if I still have time, to look ahead, what has changed and what does the future bring. There can be some kind of input, I think, too. I'm talking to most of your software engineers that I understand. But are there any people who have written, like, I think we need to face applications for the free desktop?  And that's, like, 15%. Thank you. So that's still a lot. The others, I mean, I assume you like GUI, and you're interested in GUI, that's why you're here tonight, this morning. So that's still a lot of potential. Let's start with the original goals. KDE was one of the first projects, I think, on the desktop that targeted both developers and users a lot. Because our goal was to fall in rank from the start. For the users, we wanted to provide a consistent user experience. For the developers, we wanted to give them a better development experience. Because what does that mean and how can you achieve both goals at the same time? If you just think about the users and you say, things should be consistent and easy and user friendly, you can set a lot of guidelines and say, an application should do this, this, this and that. And then you have to force those guidelines by forcing the developers to write the applications like that. And good luck. Free software developers that do voluntary work will not just do the things that this would tell them. So the idea we had was we would make it really easy for the developer to write standard compliant applications. And by that, might provide a developer framework where we would give the users a consistent experience. This development experience made the ultimate goal for a developer framework is to let developers focus on the real tasks of the software and not on the other stuff, not all the new stuff that you have to do. And what does that mean all the other stuff? Can it wait a little bit more? What is the other stuff that people have to do? If you go back a little time, I know that some of you have written applications for Linux like 10 years ago, like the OliKD people did. If you did that, writing an end user application and really showing the last mile to make it usable was painful. It was really painful. In the small print you see some examples. You had to write a configuration file parcel. You had to write an online file system. You had to write a couple of standard widgets because they were not all there. You had to invent a file dialogue, a print dialogue, your own code script driver because there was no way, no common way to be printing. You had to draw yourself standard widgets because there were a lot of them. You probably invented your build system and some kind of problem on end and end. In the end, when you wanted to write a small application, you would spend more time and more current and more energy doing stuff that you really didn't want to do. The result was that that stuff of course wasn't as good as it was. The second important part of the development experience is to share components with clients. Why is that important? It's important because it improves your components. If you write a component in your application, it's also useful for other kinds of applications. You give that to them. You make that available to those developers before they can use it. They will actually improve the component. They will give you feedback. It's a very rewarding thing. What's even better is that they will allow you to share their components. So it will improve your application. If you look at... We've been very successful in that approach. If you look at many of the smaller kind of applications, the amount of code that they are based on is a lot more than the amount of code that the application itself gives. So most of the functionality you put us more to come from shared components written by other people. The prime example is the... The K-developed ID on every of you has seen the presentation from our opening yesterday. It's a prime example of what you can achieve by putting components together at length or width. Can you actually see those screeners to lighten it on the desktop to start with what you can do to get into certain electronic systems? I didn't know a few years back that kind of desktop. That was how I started that university. That was what people use. So what can we see here? We have all the four elements of a modern desktop. We have... I'll start with the most important thing. We do have a clock. We still don't have a desktop. We have nifty background utilities that perform us about the CPU that... So when the system became slow, you would see on this graph that the system became slow. We have... That was an important application. XMAT is an active page viewer. Indirective page viewer. We have a great feature. If you look at the window down here, that is a rich text rendering. You see some of it, like X. It's bold. So it looks very nice. Actually, I don't think anybody ever used XMAT because it was faster to just type that. We have... I can... XIs. I don't know if you still remember that utility. The eyes would look at the position where the mouse person... So you move the mouse person, the eyes would move. The graphical editor. There's what we call XMAT. And some of you may laugh, but I've actually seen people use XMAT as programming with XMAT because that's what they found on the system. Until they found a little in XMAT. But the most important part of the test term was the terminal. So X windows in the way of the X window system was a way to go on many terminals. And we actually like the system a lot because we could have, well, SSE overlapping windows, lots of terminal multitasking. So it was perfect. I think most of us were pretty happy. Progress of course was unstoppable. A few years later, in 1996, there was XMAT in the test term. Probably a lot of people have met with that. So let's have a look at the innovations. We have a virtual desktop painter. I've been there. But the rest is to switch desktops. Now it's shaped. It's round. It used to be shaped window exception. We do have very important background image to start application from. You see an interesting bit of technology. The little X mode utility that showed in the CPU look is now embedded into the panel with an X repair window. So that was really cool. We have some reference applications. There's XV, which was the standard image viewer, and another image panel relation. It still has the best keep-on of any industry that is out there. So if you want to clone it, please do it now. And we have the web. Netscape. Standard web browser. I think this is Netscape. Probably 2.0 something. This is motif. That's an original screenshot from 1996 where somebody wants to show up in the cut for my desktop. You see that we're hiding the real meat here. You see that here's an extra. Here's an extra. This is where the work was actually happening. And if you look at those, you can see it. I'm fairly sure that IRC would just launch extra dash E. IRC, probably in the news thing, is probably extra dash E. I don't know. Alright. What is interesting about that desktop is in 1996, that many of the most used graphical applications XB and Netscape were not free time. And XB was shareware of our innovative prototypes. We did it at some point. I'm protected. It took the XB over like one year to reply. And he said, eventually thank you. We moved the unregistered from the top one. So it wasn't really business, but it was shareware. Netscape was closed source. They were using a tool that had run by them to distribute freely. And it was closed source. The commercial world that we, and many people in the Linux community or some people argue, we should go into the direction of becoming more like a real business. So that is the standard CD Desktop on Solaris. That is still kind of state-of-the-art. If you buy a modern Solaris workstation today with Solaris 9, that is what the cat can choose between another version. No. Or this one, I think, is still the default. If some of you have not had the chance to use the CD Desktop and play with it, if you see a sub-workstation do it, it's really an experience.  Let me explain why.  You have beautiful icons here, but when you actually vote them, you wouldn't get much. Let's make a step ahead. This is what we have today. Of course, my talk hasn't taken place. There's an office assistant to do know about it. This is the HD Desktop. It still has a lot of elements of the CD or of the previous Desktop, like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I'm sorry. You have the clock down there. I'm sorry for the colors, this is not my laptop. That's the projector. You have a clock down there. You still have a virtual Desktop switcher. You have a Desktop. You have icons on the Desktop. You have a file manager that looks on the first plan similar to CDE. But the real innovation why that is different than what we had before is what you have behind the icons. This here is not just a clock.  This is not just a little icon that tells you you've got an email. If you click on it, you get a full-fledged group where and calibrating and organizing application. These here is a help system, a word processing application, a complete mail application, a complete web browser, and all those icons represent a totally free, standard-mined application that you can launch that didn't exist before. And the greatest feature of that Desktop is of course the little cane they did because when you open it, you have access to literally hundreds of applications for that framework. So that is where the real progress is. Always keep in mind that cane is a development framework not just a way to launch a free Desktop. Whether it's not ready or never be ready can never work. And they did that five years ago and they will probably do that in five years. But if you look from it from a broader perspective from the grand scheme of things we were just a few years ago working on today. If you would type today's free Desktop and you move it a few years back they would just totally run low people away. We have integrated Desktop like open-office. We have web clients. Not just one with several. We have Firefox and Conqueror free ones. We have Opera which is an emergency browser. We have collaboration software groupware stuff, content and evolution. We have a lot of things in the area of multimedia. Small brokers and detainment. If you want to teach kids to do useful stuff with computers rather than playing on their games there's a lot of software that you find on your Linux that can be used for that. But the most important thing is it's a superb development platform. In many ways it's a better platform to develop software for more than anything else. And sometimes it's looking what we have achieved that we are being the entire free Desktop community in the past years is pretty amazing by all the criticism that we sometimes gather and do ourselves. As late as in 1997 if you would demonstrate to an audience dragging something on a panel or between applications the audience would be amazed. Wow, that's cool. Today people are really annoyed that they cannot drag and drop to the internet. And that's cool. I think the main limit of a superb development platform is that I do that changes plot duty. I think that is the thing I'm working with the past couple of years. I think that is what I consider in the past years biggest contribution to the free Desktop and the limits of the community. I don't know if anybody here used to do a program with it. It's a single source cross-platform C++ that's a lot of words. And essentially it means you can write one program and compile the different platforms like the Linux, Microsoft Windows or MacOS 10 or embedded Linux with a native, fast native-looking feeling application. Qt is a lot more than just user interface classes. We cover IO, printing, networking, XML, SQL drivers, different databases. We have process handling. We have classes with threading. That's a couple of hundred classes with a sophisticated framework. I don't know if you've read the answer. Starting with version 4, that's the thing we're working on today, we will make it finally have it GPL across all platforms. You can write a GPL program and distribute under the GPL with GPLQ on all this mentioned platforms and with it Mac and embedded systems. Which I think is critical. For those not working with toolkits it's probably the same about pieces of software. A toolkit seems like a very simple thing. Like a few widgets, how hard can it be? So many programs start their own toolkits and I think they can be very much controlled by the first 20 people having their own toolkits at some point in time. But once you do it more deeply, the demo is always in detail and the toolkits become a more than more difficult task as time goes by because people's expectation is dramatically. To give you one key figure just in the upgrade from QT3 to QT4 I think we invested something like I have exact measurements but roughly maybe 60 to 70 man meters and one last number about QT If you're wondering about the commercially part of it we have currently around 5,000 customers some of those have been companies with hundreds of licenses and many different products and 70% of those companies say they worry target linux or they do target linux already. So there is, if you think about the success of linux or the free desktop desktop platform there is many also commercial applications written for it and coming to the platform. Now most of those things are not retail software so you must not be mistaken if you think there is software or there is maybe some doughy stuff very few things that you can get on linux there is a lot of other places where software is written that runs in linux that you never hear about so it is a pretty strong platform. So we have a lot of development going on lots of uses we can use a linux computer with a free desktop everything is relatively consistent it's the mission accomplished it's the free desktop basically finished all remains is a little bit of polishing in there of course that's a boring, rhetorical question in my view the journey just again in the past nine years we've developed from basically nothing to a usable desktop system in fact it's so usable it has so many features that many of you probably don't use it because it has too many features but numerous challenges in front of us which give us even more opportunities once you reach the line of the necessary features you have a foundation from where you can go on and innovate the free desktop is there but it's usable now we have the opportunity to use this feature to complete flexible framework and innovate and try new things if you have ideas and have people should interact with the computer I think you should use the computer you have two ways to do it you can make some research project play around with say some 3D interfaces new concepts of existing files etc and purely research prototype kind of a way that's fine, lots of people have been doing it and have been doing that for many years but those ideas into the mainstream is what it's hard for or you can choose to use KDE as a basis for this kind of work join the KDE project and innovate with this existing flexible framework that is there so I think we'll have exciting times in front of us if that's going to happen let me talk about the challenges that we have I mean the hospital KDE project this immediate challenge there's a lot of exciting stuff to do no matter what kind of engineer you are if you're like low level stuff, high level stuff if you're like middleware type of programming optimization type of program, what's happening there's a lot of things going on one of the important projects currently is debuts and how that is something we're going to integrate to KDE I don't know if you're familiar with debuts it's essentially a message from middleware very similar to KDE's D-Cup in many ways it's a D-Cup two kind of implementation we've been involved in that from the start the implementation was mostly done by source code factory I don't know if there are several young people and it has a chance of becoming a ubiquitously accepted middleware on the free desktop now why is that needed and why is that important we have seen what D-Cup has done to the KDE desktop when we introduced it in 1929 if you add the possibility that suddenly an application is not just a process but you have the possibility to talk to every other application at the moment this creates a dynamic that allows you to integrate components and applications in a very smart way the problem so far has been that this integration always started the border of the desktop world that means can the applications could talk now applications could talk separate applications could talk to that world so when we had C-bindings and tried to promote it we thought nobody really picked a D-Bus after a chance of becoming becoming that middleware by introducing D-Bus nothing will change the first event what happens the next year the year after is interesting because once you have a standard way for any application to talk to any other application to cooperate on a higher level you can start agreeing on interfaces for all sorts of things currently we would like to cooperate more with other people and they would like to cooperate more with us or another both desktop world the problem is how do you define the interfaces how do you make that happen in terms of technology D-Bus is that technology so I think you will see a lot of cooperation and integration of D-Bus and by the way that's not the first time the projects that do this we have a lot of free desktop standards that were written in in an effort sometimes more than any device sometimes more than one device but we did that together like XD&D XMPad or the extended window publishing so one challenge for 20 years to get more involved in free desktop in fact I think the whole that community should get more involved in free desktop challenge is to get more involved in expert work if you followed the desktop in the past years there was one stable thing that you can't touch that you can't change that you just have to live with and that you could rely on that was X and a lot of people in the community still have that mindset X is how X is and X is there XD&D is an open development process and everyone is invited to go there and some people start going there and innovating the project if you're interested in graphics and image manipulation and cool things have a look at the expert and this is where you can have a make a significant difference so getting involved in XD&D is a challenge for me we have to port from Q3 to Q4 and kind of reach back to the framework the last one is we can have we have the possibility to have KDE applications on Windows when Q2 comes to GPL on Windows and the question is are we going to do that and who is going to do that and what is the order is that something that you really want to work on here's some strategic key focus areas in the group where contact is applying code up is a server but again in the way of work there's a functional replacement to an exchange server the project has quite the mindset that group-wise and evolution has a vision of this path but if you're interested in group-wear checking out intensive features is definitely going to help software development is extremely important to KDE as probably the most advanced free IE especially if you consider C++ support eclipsed at that point in time can mention at all and of course there's Q4 as a software development tool to simplify the development process accessibility is a key focus area for all of the freedom community it's one for many reasons one reason of course is that it is important for people that depend and rely on assistive knowledge the second thing is accessibility is important because there is a way an area where we in the free desktop world can be a lot better than anything else that exists out there and with this support that accessibility gets in terms of government requirements this can actually be a major benefit for free software or the other way around if we don't do it we probably can easily get kicked out of all the context the last focus area is beyond hierarchy of data the desktop as a searchable web of context this is quoted from Tor that Scott Wheeler will give after my presentation in the other room this is about desktop search immediately we all are confused that it's a way to find information on the internet and it is to find information on the local hardware and that kind of change we do have a lot of ideas how this is going to change technical challenges the thing that annoys me the most is from the start of the time and you've seen that when I was booting first the scissor distribution was booting for almost two minutes and it also took a significant amount of time before it was starting and why is that? this is not because we are all programmers but because we program in kind of good style everything is very modern it's independent processes it's very dynamic which works and it's very nice and flexible but of course it doesn't depend on style of time it's very important because it's just getting longer multimedia framework is another way to challenge we have a free desktop it's not settled what we need who is using the computer who is using the desktop who is the target user and how should we address all those things this is some of my personal thoughts there are a lot of other words that are part of it it just shows that we have a lot of freedom there to innovate and find new things for example before the approach of a universal browser to find new things is the web browser and that is basically because the KIO slave architecture is very successful you can map anything to an IO slave the question is is that the right thing to do is to use your image manipulation program your image data your web browser or your file manager or your three collection things are actually distinct applications so there's lots of things going on we do suffer from a significant amount of feature and configuration both and too long the problem with this is very often you have discussions with other people saying this but nobody uses why can't we just remove it of every feature you have is a software is there for a reason because somebody requested it and somebody can't enough about the feature to implement it so it's very very difficult to remove, volunteer work that people have done because it's simply too much there is like an asset test when a GUI is too complex is when you notice that users normally use the toolbars or the menus but they only work with the context menu because that's the only thing that kind of narrows down the options that you have so one of the challenges you have is simplification of the users there are a couple of broken concepts in KETI that I think should be fixed one of the things that's my personal opinion is magic sidebars copper has a very advanced sidebar that does all sorts of things I haven't yet found a user who's actually using that so I'm still whenever I'm in the KDV logo I ask do you use the sidebar, always good so if you're using the sidebar come to me after the talk the other broken concept is something I feel guilty of it's copy from Microsoft Windows I implemented it not because I liked it but because there was no user request and lots of people asked for it that is the system trade the system trade is literally at the bottom but not so small like this and that's a standard setup I haven't configured anything and I have six icons already in there and the more software people install the more icons you get on Microsoft Windows it's pretty extreme most people that configure the computer like the graphics cover any network, anything they spend most of the time trying to fill around here with those little icons popping up in the windows and it's very hard to do with a laptop mouse you have this huge screen and you're basically filling in the third corner the third corner you have so it's just a broken concept and we have to do something about it challenges in the programming framework a focus on the second part we do have language bindings like today or yesterday there was a talk about KD programming with Python we do have Ruby bindings there's people there's people right after with Java bindings there has been a a project to chart and that was used with a portable laptop there's all sorts of layers but if you look at the result very few people write software in those higher level abstractions they all stick to stick to C++ it might be interesting to figure out why that is the quality of the bindings has promoted is it what is the reason for that and you can see something similar in the normal world even though C has been harder to use most people still go the C way instead of using any of the bindings for the application that you have to see and have as part of the distribution we do have some social challenges in any big project I think the project has become very big which requires some in fact this project leadership which currently works fine and self-organized but it's a little bit not transparent we heard that sometimes it would be difficult to enter the KDE community and understand how it works and want to talk to etc so in any project of a certain size you always have to ask yourself the question how do we make decisions and make sure that then we have some meritocracy the during the Wikipedia talk we talk about aristocracy and we have some elements of that but you don't want to have like warlords protecting that in the areas you want to still be open and transparent and some elements of democracy and a project I think that quickly what's next in the future so the computer changed what we did and what we should do this is just some performance and some reflections of what we'll probably face in the next couple of years if you look at the computers we had in 1996 the standard computers and the ones we have now in 2005 a couple of things changed significantly they said years went from average 33 gigahertz to like 3 gigahertz which is a factor of 90 we have 90 times the CPU I'm talking desktop computers we have average was back then I think 8 megabyte now the average is 512 maybe even more which is a factor of 64 at 64 times the red the most important growth was the hardest 100 megabyte in Rv6 now we have 100 gigabyte which is a factor by effect the network improved from like 38 kilobit to a megabit which is a factor by 26 but what is more important we have like the broadband networks that we have are like round the clock it's not under dialogue we have a network all the time the screen roughly 800, 600 to twice the resolution but not just twice the resolution it's also almost twice the dots per inch we have like 75 dpi like that today I know it's kind of like 135 and 140 and the uses of our software the uses of the free desktop easily went up from a few hundred to a hundred thousand maybe a few hundred thousand at least the factor of that and that means the wall changed drastically and one should think that these kind of changes especially if you change this one the flourish side have an impact on how we do computing so let's see what we've done with that in cynical view 90 times the CPU that means we do a bit more eye-catching for the rest of your life 64 megabytes 64 times the RAM and it allows us to do sluggy programming and not care anymore thousand times the hard test that's played a lot and 26 times the network and we need to cut the mp3 from somewhere so what do we do with the large screen we have a lot of fonts I think we're more likely to have consistent training and to address our big user base we just have more configuration options to make them all happen of course that is a cynical view but I still think it's quite remarkable how little changed how the computer changes so drastically realistically things are not quite as black we have 90 times the CPU and if you look at the modern investor there's a lot of background tasks and things going on that make use of the fast CPU I give you an example that we didn't have back then we do have spell checking everything you fill out a form in the web page you write a mail you write a little note everything is spell checking in background, very non-intrusive then the red line happens all the time you couldn't do that for 10 years you have water completion you never get tired in open office you can see how the work is completed program and editor we don't just do primitive syntax highlighting based on token we do class parts we parse the whole logic we compile it in the background and then the screen will be already in order to give you feedback can you tell us what's going on we have functionality like sewage while typing and we use a lot of CPUs stuff like scripting so I think we're doing quite well on the CPU side the network is probably the area where it's best we have thanks to the network web applications we read our e-mail we install and update our computer systems through the network boot through the network we also do things like can you tell us assistant does that that you don't install anything locally but at some parts of the documentation you would just access online and you would hide that when you use it it just tells some documentation comes online so it's not going to be installed that works fine because we have a fast network and we have it all the time and of course there's sq's in all type of systems but what should we do and what are the possibilities we have with 90 typeset we could do a lot more obviously for many standard tasks that we use as we do the desktop writing e-mail web browsing the computer has a lot of extra time we can do with multi-threaded stuff we can do a lot of things a lot of backup computation like indexing, looking at looking at hands, figuring out what we use what we want to do and prepare for the future rather than just want to save there's always a problem hard disk is the most remarkable for if you drop the mp3 collection we have four hard disks we basically have unlimited hard disk space unless you do video editing but for what you can create office hard documents even the e-mails we provide we have unlimited storage and still today we require the user to save documents and when you forget to save your documents you might have more to save properly or not and when you save your old versions obviously one of the biggest differences in terms of using a computer between a gig and ordinary people is that we use revision control systems everything I do is in something before the cvs as a version and we are used to that but we don't offer it to the normal user everybody has hard disks big enough that when you write phd-thesis and mass distributions whatever or even letters we can store all revisions for you easily enough space go back entirely right this time we also have a lot of space in order to do replication caching when being occasionally disconnected this is something we don't use a lot the question is if we think we have two years from now we will have insanely huge hard disks and sometimes no network but we will have network all the time except in places where we don't want network if we think that wireless network will be available for us wherever we are and we don't need to work with this replication caching technologies but maybe it will take longer for us to get there and it's interesting to use the recarters to take all the information caching but one thing that everybody talks about you really have a solution is the file system we think that the size it has to gain and the size it has to gain and the way you work with it it has to die the last slide a network 26 times the network that we had before and then wanted to do like in the 80s or early 90s today today works fine with an external machine you have possibilities that you didn't have before in order to use your network remotely wherever you are and at this point in time those technologies are not quite integrated into desktop in everyday usage and we could all have access to the sessions anywhere anywhere else and just go there and get access to our desktop and this is not how it is in computers we have twice the screen and what we did was a bit of fun and obviously the natural step what we should do is resolution and DPR in the middle of the board because we also have better devices, they have screens like that and on very small LCDs you get a very high number of dots I think up to almost up to 200 it's like paper so if you write applications that should work on a screen like this with 200 DPI's or on a screen like this with 140 DPI's you need to eventually get to better graphics resolution and DPR in the middle of the board in Q4 all the drawing what we'll do is totally third base and then finalize so we have a lot of possibilities to make that smooth really last slide I promise you 1,000 times at least the least of us that means we are moving from underground culture to main screen computers are no longer deep toys, computers are parts of everyday culture and the old days we made fun of like how we print our desktop computer and we knew like right now we wouldn't use that computer so it didn't matter but today DPR uses the computer and what's worth is eventually we will get better graphics too and the older you get and I'm not that old but I still can feel it myself the less you're interested in doing complicated things with the computer after you've stored that it's like 50 times you just want it to work out of the box so we have to think about we are more than me we are no longer just a soft culture best of resolution just began and if you think more about the difference between the desktop and the desktop that's the perfect time to turn on the KV project or any other free desktop project and the good thing about that sentence is it was true last year and we hope you also appreciate the next year thank you for your attention


I'm sure a whole lot of you looking at you if I can see you through the light have experience with university structures either you've studied for a number of years or you've been lecturers like myself I also teach or working on research projects like a lot of the people we've seen now and we get very used to the particular structures and divisions that we have in our universities for instance we tend in our universities to divide fields of study according to different ways of understanding or seeing or researching the world for instance we would have a faculty of science and then we would have a faculty of humanities as if they're not connected and we would have a faculty of arts if we're lucky and these we really start taking for granted and they separated out in various ways sometimes we know the separation is geographic my own institution has five campuses that are scattered over the city and it's quite hard sometimes to get from the one to the other but someone was angry at that but also sometimes when these faculties or these different ways of understanding of the world come together in one space we start really to feel the psychological and the territorial clashes between them the two projects that I'd like to show you today really challenge those divisions and I'd like us to look through them quickly the first project I want to introduce you to is called Josie Rhythm Analogs it's a project that I started a number of years ago with a good friend Teresa Collins and we started by filming spaces in Johannesburg using time lapse photography filming these spaces for cycles of 24 hours and what we ended up seeing was that all of these spaces that we thought we knew quite well had hidden rhythms and hidden cycles that unfold throughout the day I then took this project a little bit further now moving from film into a bit more of a scientific investigation and I found a way of generating graphs that actually show us exactly the amount of movement that is happening in these places over time so to read these graphs is in a way very simple the lighter areas represent a lot of movement and then the darker areas represent a calm moments or quiet times in the day and you can see here the relationship between the films and the graphs if we synchronize them absolutely there's a moment coming now there where the taxis in this taxi rank all enter the rank at it's three o'clock in the morning they've been waiting outside since two o'clock and that's you can see how that's represented on the graphs so we have data this data can also be put on a time grid and you can see here how at a certain time between seven in the morning and nine in the morning in that same taxi space there's a lot of activity and it has a certain pattern to it at this stage though what was happening with the project was that it was moving from film which is a very visual understanding to more and more cerebral scientific kind of understanding and it was important for us then to move it back maybe into an understanding more of the body or of sound for that purpose we involved three really interesting musicians who helped us to take this data graph really and interpret it as a graphic score so that the musicians then started reading this graph really as music we had a performance then where the musicians would read the graph which was displayed in front of them so that the audience could also read it and the films were displayed behind the musicians and the audience had this very rich experience analyzing the graphs with their heads feeling the music with their ears and minds and bodies and integrating this whole experience in a way that usually would be separated out alright the second project that I'd like to show you quickly is a project called Uncles and Angels again it's a project that kind of moves between these modes of scientific and technological investigation and the kind of socially critical art I collaborated with this project with the choreographer and performer Nelly Siwek Klaba who is also from South Africa and the project basically it's a critique of certain aspects of how patriarchal societies treat feminine sexuality in Africa and in the West this particular technology that we're using involves having her perform in front of the screen while at the same time the image of her is captured by a camera and sent back you can see the interaction gets quite violent at some time but it gets sent back to the back of the screen and then she interacts with these kind of live projections that are created at the time a key aspect of this technology was a discovery that I made with optics which allowed us to get around a certain problem and I'm not sure if we're going to see that problem now will we be able to? there we are this is a very specific problem that we have with video alright you can see that's called, thank you, that's called video loop feedback and to get around this problem because our camera is pointing directly at the screen I developed a very simple technological solution which allowed the camera instead of seeing what the audience sees on the screen there the camera literally sees that which is just a black screen behind Nelly Siwek which allows me to then feed the clean signal back into the performance both of these projects have a certain way of moving very fluidly between social critique, artistic expression empirical science, technological innovation without really ever getting stuck between them and I think going back to my own institution right now which is in African University and your institutions here I would also qualify as being African institutions I think we need to think about what are these divisions between these different ways of understanding the world head, body, sound and so on why are they there? and well we know why they're there we've inherited them from the West but luckily we are not the West and I think we can eventually imagine a slightly different way of doing things thank you


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Hello everybody welcome back to esoteric Atlanta and welcome to part 20 of the return of the Divine Sophia This is our last chapter our last recording of this reading. I have thoroughly enjoyed it Please leave me your thoughts down in the comment section below next week We will be starting the woman with the alabaster jar So I will put a link to this video down below now before we get started I am having some issues with my equipment today, of course I'm recording this during mercury retrograde. It will be released after mercury retrograde So I'm just gonna quickly ask that Michael and Gabriel and any of these beings of the highest lights that are here for our highest Good, I asked that you come in right now and Protect this recording Protect the equipment Make sure that everything that I say what I need to say what you would like for me to say to help all of humanity Please keep us safe and only if there are any nefarious beings here that are trying to disrupt This teaching for any reason by messing with the equipment. I asked that you escort them out I do not consent to them being here They cannot use any of my weaknesses or my wounds as a loophole to come in they have no Right to be here in the space and I do not give consent. So I ask that you remove them immediately With that being said we are gonna be starting on page 432 of my book today Which is chapter 23 the final chapter now also before we get into the reading we are This is the week of the beginning of the 60-day shadow work challenge If you have not gotten a template and you would like to participate even though the challenge started on Saturday You can still email me at shadow work challenge at gmail.com and I will send you the template It's never too late to start. Okay, so let's go ahead and get started on this final chapter chapter 23 a return to the circle Great one who became heaven Thou dist assume power thou distur thou has filled all places with thy beauty The whole earth lies beneath thee thou has taken possession of it Thou enclose at the earth and all things in thy arms Henry Frankfurt kingship and the gods June 21st the summer solstice I awoke in the first glimmers of gray dawn and went out to meet the sunrise Throwing a blanket over my shoulders I made my way out into the backyard and set cross like it in the medicine circle that I had built only a few months before of All eight high holy dates The summer solstice was the longest day of the year and the one that most celebrated the victory of light I Had brought cornmeal and tobacco to offer Mother Earth two of the substances most sacred to the native peoples as I poured the soft golden corn mill onto the ground in prayer I laced it with a sacred herb of tobacco an herb known for bringing stillness and focus I Realized that they were both the color of the Sun These offerings were not only for Isis the original corn maiden who had long ago brought us bounty But for all the great solar gods and goddesses who had given their lives to service and share their wisdom through the ages with humanity I will say it's interesting. There is a form of of plant medicine that deals with tobacco There is tobacco therapy and isn't it interesting how the controllers Kind of ruined that or inverted that with nicotine, right? So all this plant medicine all this stuff again the darkness can't create anything only the light can and what the darkness does It is it seals from the light or a mimics the light and inverts the light Okay, so it's interesting something we all need to remember as we go forward instead of having a vigilante attitude Where we're going to destroy anything we perceive to be bad. We have to understand that at first it was good And heal it instead of destroy it because the path of Lucifer is a path of destruction The path of God is a path of healing Five minutes later the light began to break across the horizon Dear Lord, I pray accept this corn melt and tobacco as a tribute to your bounty Know that I your daughter honor you and every expression that you have Help us as human beings to find balance in our world once again To find the good and sacred in all people animals and life The sun rose through the trees slowly sending its soft fingers of light across the grass and I found myself thinking about how The symbol for the sun and for illumination has been the first catalyst That introduced me to the mysteries and to the presences of the goddess in the world It had come to me so many years ago in that dream Not only did the circle with a dot at the center represent Illumination it was the cosmic part from which the entire universe sprang If this one symbol had led to so many amazing discoveries I knew that in time the other symbols inscribed upon that wall would unfold their magic to me If you're not sure what she's referring to please go back and listen to the first part of this the chapter one She talks about this I closed my eyes and placed my hands over my heart feeling the light play across my eyelids Suddenly the birds broke into song As if the entire world had just awakened Heaven and earth yin and yang This was the eternal dance of compliments in perfect union And here I was between the worlds at dawn All around me the earth seemed to be lit with the inner radiance And I realized that although I was just a tiny dot on this magnificent planet Bade by the sun. I was part of the infinite intelligence of the universe I could experience the joy and sorrow beauty and hope of living here on this glorious planet My heart was overflowing I found myself reflecting on all that I had learned in the past few months About the hidden history of our planet and the ancient balanced societies that have lived in partnership without war or oppression Would we ever be able to return to this state of grace again? With those who were in power across the world dedicated to fear And dominance greed and power ever allow that vision to be known by others I didn't know but I did know that if human beings had once lived in harmony. We were capable of doing it again Our generation and the ones that followed us had a chance To find this balance again a path that yashua and mandolin had called the way of the chalice The chalice was the union of the male and female energies depicted in the phallic stem in the crescent cup It implied our ability to allow ourselves to be filled with the living nectar of god's Exquisite love and to become a vessel of this light Later this union of the two would accumulate in the middle path Which was inscribed into the petals of the floor to this making a path of integration and fullness My mind went back to the passage. I had read about the transformation of the world written by Manly p hall who again was a freemason and as I said every time you read from him We have to understand Yes, freemasonry is satanic. We know that well, you don't know that as a freemason until you get to 33rd level but again Darkness can't create anything. It can only still from the light and invert So let's see what they have to say because even though we don't want to invert the light We need to understand where the original teachings come from It is predestined that a golden age shall come again that men shall live together in love and understanding And the earth shall become once more a garden of surpassing beauty as it was in the beginning In that time there shall be great institutions for research and records The arts and crafts shall flourish But unlike preceding generations this era should not pass away For the god of it shall be beauty And where beauty in its various aspect rules of people That people shall remain as permanent eternity When we love the beautiful as we now love the dollar we shall have a great enduring civilization When we adore the god of harmony as we once worshiped the god of vengeance We shall know the inner mystery of life When we create with symmetry preserve with integrity and release with joy then only are we good Never until we have become one with the good can we be happy for happiness is the realization of the internal beauty That joyously goes forth to mingle itself with the beauty that dwells in space Could we now begin to envision a world without war or bloodshed We have been programmed to believe in conflict for so long The first step was letting people know that it was possible And there was another way of life beyond the one the world was mirrored in now I also knew that there were many financial powers that sought to prevent this kind of peaceful world from coming to be In both secular and religious circles They had been born and bred on conflict duality and separation and their religions had taught them that everything else was the work of the devil But the world was finally changing slowly but surely The dualistic energies of the age of Pisces were starting to pass away And in this new age anything was possible How would life change if people really started to honor the divine mother and the divine father once again? How would we change if women had the same rights as men and refused to be suppressed? If we valued intuition creativity love and mercy as much as we now valued possessions money power and control How would our world change if we truly lived as if we were all connected treating others as if they were an extension of ourselves That was the golden rule wasn't it How would life change if we made decisions regarding our fuel supplies that honored the earth? What if we started honoring the animals Instead of slaughtering them for profit or sport Would we be able to hear them speak telepathically as native cultures claimed we once had How would life change if we began to take the time to tune into nature? Listening to the intelligence of the waters the whispering of the trees and the spirit of the cosmos carried on the winds Would we come back into harmony with the spirit of god within? I hoped so I reflected on how history had been rewritten again and again by the victors in a political war of the mind Trapping us between the threat of a punishing god and the shadows of a boogeyman named satan I realized that we have long been engaged in a war of the heart's minds and spirits of humankind An invisible prison designed to keep us in an endless loop of materialism fear and self doubt All created to prevent us from discovering the divine potential that lies within our very hearts yet now Here on the cusp of the age of aquarius an air whose symbol Is the outpouring of heavenly wisdom from the stars hope was beginning to rise Perhaps this time the dream of a more loving society might become a reality That I found myself reflecting on all those brave men and women who had given their lives throughout the centuries To keep the dream of equality alive for us today Those who had sacrificed everything so that this hidden knowledge of a more balanced wisdom might not be obliterated The Gnostics cathars cobblest may well not masons healers knights timblars Herbalist druid science philosophers mystic artists many had withstood the tortures of the past So that today we might awaken from the amnesia and break the chains of belief that have kept us in bondage for so long Today on the day of the greatest light. I saluted their courage their heart and their sacrifice And I will say about the masons though. I do believe the masons started off as a good organization and then it got it got Corrupted and and people came in and switched it around and changed it up and inverted it just like the knights timblars same thing so you know When I finished my meditation, the sun was at the top of the trees I stood up stretching and then went inside to shower and dress I packed my car with blankets food and a sleeping bag First Shasta had invited any of us who wished to do so to spend the night in the growth I pulled up in front of her house in the early afternoon and made my way down the garden With the other women who were just setting up their tents around the garden's perimeter Then the group assembled near Mary's garden to eat a meal of tuna hummus and pita bread Around us the trees seemed to shimmer with radiance and the afternoon sunlight touched every leaf as if it were holy When we had finished eating Shasta began to speak Today you will be offering your first ceremony to divine mother But before we began I want to hear what has happened in your life since we last met How has the goddess began working in your life? Meg began relating a story about how Lakshmiish the lady of generosity had opened up funding for a children's project in Washington creating abundance for hungry children across the nation Alex told us how the goddess Diana had inspired her to join a softball team in her office And now she was thinking about enrolling in a qigong class Donna reported that after choosing to meet her the harvest goddess She had suddenly been inspired to buy some living herbs at the supermarket Now she had a collection of rosemary lavender lemon balm oregano basil growing in pots on her patio She had intended to use the plants for cooking, but now she was thinking of creating herbal salt baths Wow I marveled The goddess certainly has been hard at work Claudia spoke next She had chosen time at the celestial dragon and she had no idea how to relate to her Shasta told her that many people believe time at had actually been a large planet Located where the asteroid belt is now It had been destroyed by an even larger planet changing its destiny forever Time at Shasta explained is about completely restructuring your life Claudia nodded thoughtfully I had known claudia for years and she had a successful career already as a makeup artist in hollywood and atlanta Although she was fabulous at her craft her heart longed for something more with more meaning I've been thinking about studying astrology. She said an attentive voice Am I even become a professional astrologer? We all started laughing Of course A goddess of the heavens perfect When I shared my story about ishtar and the romantic relationship that would have certainly left me drained of energy The circle became silent Shasta waited until I finished to share her insight Sometimes the lesson is not about making the same mistake. She explained but about choosing a more empowering path The goddess and her stories Live on in every one of us men and women alike We are all heroes and heroines of her legacy What she has done we have also done The paths we travel now she has traveled before So because the divine mother has been there before us she can help us make wiser decisions When all the women have finished sharing Shasta began her lesson for the day Over the past few months as we have moved from winter into spring You have heard many stories about the descent of the god or goddess into the underworld and their return to the light While these may be myths or legend The tale they tell is true We are all aspects of the great mother living in the world of light and shadows Like the legend of sleeping beauty. We are slumbering in ignorance and like her we can also awake Today is one of the eight high holy days where the crack between the worlds becomes thinner And you have a chance to travel between the worlds While the summer solstice celebrates the illumination of the great solar wards We must also remember to honor the divine feminine for the goddess is also solar Just as some gods are also lunar solar goddess lunar gods Even emerald looks surprised I never thought outside of this classic stereotype that the male was solar while the female was lunar as I looked across the Circle I could see the same of the other men were equal women were equally as surprised She contends you In egypt both hosannu and thoth were linked to the moon Thoth chose the moon because he discovered its effect on the human Mineral plants and animal kingdom and the young god kasano ruled the changing cycles of mortal time And that's right. We've been reading the emerald tablets and thought is associated with the moon The aponic energy just as predominantly females are the intuition the emotional side of life I had no idea The egyptians clearly knew that everyone contained both polarities Shasta went on Within the goddess path some of the most ancient female deities are solar including shekmet the goddess of healing and war emiratsu the goddess of the sun and vast the goddess of joy But the rarest of all the gods and goddesses are those who are both lunar and solar like isis These are the ones who have into integrated both polarities to achieve mastery The most famous of these divine pairs in the ancient world were isis and osiris While the teachers of our ages were yashua and magdalene She looked around the circle to see if they were falling isis and osiris were said to have been twins in the celestial room Of metaphor for their true identities as divine mother and father of all It sounded like some incarnation of reijel and ariel to me Osiris is solar and isis is lunar But osiris can also be lunar while isis can be solar. They are perfectly balanced pair When isis is partnered with nethys her dark sister who rolls the unconscious realms She is expansive outwardly flowing solar aspect of the female by nethys is the receptive reflective aspect of the lunar And when you compare isis and osiris to nethys and set as couples Isis and osiris are the female and male expressions of light while nethys and set are the male and female aspects of darker or more Hidden realms hence why the darkness the dark the dark cults the the controllers worship sets They want us to think osiris is bad, but they actually worship set okay Sway is super important that we educate ourselves and not just take people's word for it But are constantly researching for ourselves too. So we're never duped again Shasta continued her narrative when we begin to speak about the yin and yang We are really speaking about the balance that leads to mastery I have not told you yet the true tale of isis and osiris and how they helped to save humanity after the great blood But today seems like a perfect time Several of the women shifted as if getting ready for a story of shasta began After the great blood the world was in chaos People were starving. So cannibalism was rampant Isis and osiris decided to help and since i osiris was a musician He gathered people together with music and fed them But he also brought seeds and planting tools and taught them skills for growing their own food as well as the spiritual principles of enlightenment Because of this he was called the green god or the god of regeneration This is why he is painted green in the temples Meanwhile isis was left to bring order to egypt She reestablished temples to god ended cannibalism instituted marriage Created the first sailing ships, invited the first loom and taught the arts of agriculture to her people once again Together they established mahat the cosmic law by which all pharaohs of egypt were except expected to rule Mahat is a goddess. She is also the symbol for the principle of cosmic truth Meanwhile set osiris's half-brother was given southern egypt to rule But he was jealous of osiris and decided that he wanted isis for himself So he tricked osiris into lying down inside a golden coffin and sealed it and threw it into the Nile stealing osiris's land for himself Isis was grief-stricken and fled the palace where she knew that this would mean for egypt The only chance she had was to save her husband. So along with her nephew anubis. She set out to find him After a long search, she finally located his coffin in Bibleis where it had been hidden in a huge uh, temeric tree and had grown up around it The tree had been cut down by the king of bibleis for one of his temples and through a long and complicated process Isis eventually fried his coffin from the tree and took it back to egypt through magic She temporarily brought isosiris back to life and pregnant herself with the seed and then she left to find help But while she was gone set found his brother's body and cut him into 14 pieces Yikes, that sounded grisly Shasta went on Knowing what the piece knowing that the piece of the kingdom was at stake isis gathered up the pieces of her husband's body and bound The parts back together creating the first funerary rights in egypt However, the only piece of the body that isis could not find wasis phallus Chessa looked around the circle. What is the deeper meaning of the story? We all looked at one another stunned. I had no idea I was still shocked at the idea that someone would dismember such a compassionate being Susan cleared her throat uncomfortably and donna crossed her legs After a minute when it was clear that none of us knew how to even begin to decode the story Shasta spoke Each of us are just like isis Searching for the scattered pieces of ourself and trying to put them back together But the only thing that can bend us is the healing power of love It is through the heart that we are made whole Ah He suddenly got it As a goddess whose heart beat in time with the divine mother's isis had the power To bring the scattered pieces of osiris's body back together and raise him from the dead He symbolized the christ within and she symbolized the redeeming qualities of love that can unite and revive us After a minute donna said but what does the phallus represent? Shasta looked around the circle any ideas? I could have under understood the story more easily I thought if it was the heart that was missing, but what did the phallus represent? I wondered The phallus is the regenerating principle of life itself when we find it We shall awaken osiris and bring him back to life I was trying to put the symbols together in my mind the scattered parts of osiris were like the assortments Of archetypes that live within us They are the many selves that we have left scattered throughout time Not only in this life, but in our past incarnations Only by remembering healing and uniting those lost aspects of who we are can we awaken the christ that lives within And the only thing that had the power to do this was love In a very literal sense the phallus is the one part of a man's body that creates new life and like the spine The phallic symbol has long been connected to the tree of life So while love is the power that unites and heals us We must then find our way to unite ourselves with the mystical power of the tree of life a symbol of the way of the return to the source Who we are Those egyptian sages were certainly clever weren't they? Yeah, they were atlantic They're us They had created symbols that had encoded myth and legend that would unfurl their wisdom to us every day If we could only decipher the symbols true significance. So once again the obelisk you guys that's the spine It is nothing to do with the literal penis of osiris If you still believe that and you're still falling for that shit Then you're falling for just another convolt cabal controlled scion Right the last thing that the controllers want us to do is to wake up and realize the truth The allegory of the christened one Who is divided from himself and can only be healed by the power of the divine feminine is not about Only about us as individuals Shasta continued It is also about our fragmented societies that life scattered like broken bodies in our past We have forgotten that the trail of our own history And to be healed we must remember the pieces of the journey that have brought us here so that we can feel the past Change the present and create a positive future Then we can come back into union with the cosmos, but only love can make us whole Shasta look around the circle. I was just surprised to see tears on the cheeks of some of the women, but I knew how they felt We had been lost for so long in the one Underworld the possibility that we would someday awaken as a peaceful planet was almost beyond imagining The place where healing appears is at the heart Shasta explained It is a place where all judgment fades all polarities unite Silently she placed her hands over a heart after a few moments. We joined her feeling ourselves come truly present in the moment Then she rose to her feet and the group rose with her Shasta picked up a rattle and passed the basket of gourd rattles around the circle Slowly we each chose one I closed my eyes and took a breath feeling my heart swell within me with the radiance of the moment Then Shasta began to speak We all come from the goddess and to her we shall return Like a drop of rain flowing to the ocean. We all began to dance making a long Circularly path through the entire garden at every alcove we stopped and one of the women would offer a ceremony to the goddess She had chosen some sang songs some danced others used symbols or prayers As the many faces of the mother moved into our hearts I realized that each of us were being introduced to each of the goddesses And that some of them were speaking silently in the power and the beauty of the rituals When we had finally finished we found ourselves standing inside the medicine circle at the base of the garden as the sun was going down Shasta had laid a pile of wood and fire pit at the center of the wheel Now she reached down and lit the logs letting the gold and red flames lick up into the darkening blue sky The wood popped and crackled releasing its light force to offer us light in light For a long time no one spoke Everything we needed was in this moment Finally little meg cleared her throat and began to chat My light to your light sister and friend bless now the children from beginning to end Sarah looked over at her and picked up man's meg's chant He'll now our sorrow our sadness and pain and help us return to your wisdom again Sharon looked over with a smile on her face Awaken our hearts and remind us to give And we may embody the power to live Emerald lifted her head and said proudly Rekindle the wisdom that lies in our heart and banish the darkness that keeps us apart Claudia picked up the chant Give us this strength and the power to love that we may join earth with the heavens above Suddenly the words rose in my mind unbinded as if we were all listening to the same unbroken song In moments bold and currents deep Let us awaken those whose sleep Alex followed The time has come and the people yearn For love and healing And peace to return Donna finished the spontaneous chat awaken the mother let peace come to earth for those We are those who bring the world to rebirth When the mantra had completed itself We stood in fullness of the silence their arms laced over one and other shoulders the firelight licked our faces and we were complete That night as I lay sleeping beneath the stars. I had a great vision Whether it was a vision or a prophecy I cannot say but I was staring at the surface of a still blue pond In a moment before the first drop of water fell and the heartbeat of the world began Like an echo rippling out across a smooth circle of fluid waters This drop spread out to create everything Then I heard a chime through the silence rippling through the universe with the timber of a thousand tibetan chants The voices began odiana odiana odiana over and over again from this sound Float atoms tones harmonies and galaxies all of it I was caught up in the power of its resonant link to the creation itself through the sound I felt arielle enter my consciousness and speak I stretched out my inner senses to greet her But this aspect of the great mother felt far more ancient than she ever had Arielle is that you you feel like a wise old grandma there you're different now An ancient present filled my mind and I realized that this was the presence behind the world the first cause The one the egyptian had called The power behind the divine mother and father The silence was so deep within me and there were no words for it And I realized then that the beings I knew as arielle and brijal were the first emanations of this immensity But this aspect was far older The one who existed before anything else the world and the silence itself Odiana I whispered the great mother of all the one behind the many Yes, it is I the voice answered a hum and a song all at once Suddenly I found myself traveling through the deep star filled the velvety riches of the heavens around me It was warm and comforting like the mother's womb not cold and empty Then I realized that I was actually floating in a great dark ocean in the Universes of luminous light so reflected above me and below me. I had been to this place once before and I felt infinitely safe You are the grandmother of all I whispered aren't you that I am In this place there were no longer any questions or answers Here it was all simply being It was as if my consciousness existed everywhere and everything I was man and I was woman I was the animals and I was the plants. I was the plants and I was the stars I was all of it and where I perceived myself as separate was only a matter of where I stood in that vast rotation of the wheel All that we do to others we also do to ourselves. I thought now I truly understood We were all of it Tears of gratitude trickle down my face. I serve you mother each and every aspect of you I whispered The darkness was alive with luminous light We know you do child Then I began to pray I prayed for guidance for power for wisdom. I prayed for humor and endurance I prayed to hold her presence within my own And in some small way to be able to embody her ageless wisdom Then another image appeared in my inner sight of a blue forest lake frozen in winter wrapped in the dark night A colorless world beside the lake nestled a village of half frozen people asleep in their homes Beneath the moon purple shadows crossed the white blankets of snow the frost of the cold night air everywhere Why was she showing me this? I wondered what did it mean? She whispered through the stillness of the frozen night awaken my child awaken I realized in this village these people this world they had been asleep for centuries As I watched she blew her warm breath across the lake ever so slowly the lake began to fall What did this mean? Great mother who are these people and why are they half frozen? Why are you showing me this? The answer came back. I stir the fires of consciousness now in humanity.  Is this what is coming into my world? I am it is What manner of prophecy is this I whispered it's about the resurrection of the spirits The resurrection of the spirit. What did she mean? Meaning no disrespect I said but that sounds rather christian to me Behold the vision and tell me what you see she answered I looked again and saw a gray Dusky dawn over a sleepy village The village was nestled at the foot of some mountains around it and around it a circular lake It looked a lot like the Swiss Alps, but it could have been anywhere Over everything even the people there was a layer of frost The great mother leaned over the picture breathing her warm sweet breath over the lake as if slowly falling it And what is happening to the people? She asked me I could see that the ice was just beginning to melt from their bodies like embers rekindling from the ruins of the gray ashes Even though none of them could move yet. It was only a matter of time until they were free I told her what I saw When you blow your breath upon the mother they seem to glow from within deep inside their hearts It is their spirits. I am awakening she said They're coming back to life Then it hit me Like sleeping beauty the world has been frozen in its spiritual evolution for a very long time Now We are beginning to wake up This is the real meaning of the word resurrection my daughter for they have been dead inside for centuries What killed them I whispered wondering what could have put them into this state ignorance deceit Materialism their own pain Is this a metaphor for the world she smiled you could say that For over an hour I lay beneath the stars moving back and forth between the ocean and the infinite cosmos And this image of our planetary awakening. I reflected on odion and the grandmother's spirit beyond time She was most certainly the goddesses the hindus called aditi the first cause The progeny de nexterous who unfolds creation within her womb the transcendent source of all things the supreme Empress she who manifest all the missions out of the fraction of a fraction of her majesty Then I felt the sweet energies of ariel enter my consciousness bringing the most sublime kind of love The hush of her presence filled me and her words rose unabided in my mind All things are born of her She have 10,000 names and 10,000 faces the eternal law She is the earth and the heavens the small and the large and the mother at the heart of forgiveness Nothing lives but for her presence She contains the three flames of the sacred heart. She is the undivided heart from whence we spring into whom we shall return Tears welled up in my eyes and prayers fell from my lips divine ones in our reckless youth and arrogance We have forgotten you just as a child forgets its parents while playing in the streets Distracted by the circus. We have forgotten you're like the eternal protectors that you are you see us watch us and allow us to stumble Loving us through all of our errors Rigel's deep presence then filled my heart and I spoke in gratitude to all three of them You are eternal watchers to all of your days And if we but realize that we would know that you have created everything for our benefit The heavens the planet the fields and forests the plants and animals even our own bodies You are here in the garden and there in the temple. You are out in the streets and safe in the cottages Beloveds, you are inside of us and outside of us if we could only let our blindness go Ariel's voice was like music Many have argued that there is only one god my daughter while others have said there are many Do you not yet see that there is only one the one behind the many watching waiting for you to awaken? Yes, all the gods and goddesses are one and just as Rigel and I have created the universe through our separation and union This dance of polarity that seeks the oneness is the two of us finding one another again and again In all the worlds of space and time a circle appeared in my mind and split in two I knew what this vision was It was the creator who longed for companionship of being the one and the only It did the only thing possible It split itself in two so that it could be hold itself for the first time From this beginning where the two great powers were born and they recombined to create the limitless light of the illuminated daughter and son Ariel spoke The one that is in all things created the angels the humans the gods and goddesses yay It even created us so that it would have companions Since you are made in its image. How can you not see the divine exist in all things? For what is your love for one another but an echo of the great one's love for you? And when you enter the eyes of the beloved you enter the gates of heaven Love is always the key to the door even in the heart of god itself When I and my beloved are one I dwell in a center of all being A vision of the universe swept through me living laughing loving being born and dying all parts of the endless cycle of forgetting and remembering Who we are losing our way and finding ourselves again I saw the entwining of lovers the birth of babies the death of the old and the birth of the new I saw time in an endless spiral moving upward and downward in Successing waves of consciousness and the eternal dance of Brahma Shiva and Vishnu The breathing in and the earth the breathing out of the mountains the rocks being pushed up into the sky And the lava flowing out oceans replacing continents people Perishing and being born again like atoms in a vast water of the cosmic sea We go beneath the waves to explore the bottom then resurface to fill the sun once again Yet above and below the waves life is everywhere and each dimension holds its treasures Behind it all the ancient one watches the great spirit of everywhere The great spirit of everything Then my guide's voices spoke together From the point of light within the mind of god From the point of love within the heart of god From the center where the will of god is known I knew this was the great invocation used by mystic orders of the past I picked up my pen and began to write down the words as they came through And the beginning was the one without limits without judgment without separation The one without name the mystery behind the wisdom The place before space eternity before time prime creator The essence the beginning and ending the circle without the end the eternal mother Bodhiana took over Her voice a deep timber then or al's echoing inside me like something deep that I have forgotten All things are contained within me And all worlds are but an echo of myself I am the seed of your true nature Even as the acorn contains the insulin energy of the mighty oak Within you is the power of 10,000 suns And there is nothing you cannot be if you will only tap into your true self I am there with them Waiting for you to call If you are willing to listen I will answer I am the sound beneath silence The I am that I am I finally understood those words There was no other beyond that presence I closed my eyes and listened to the words moving through my heart Ariel was speaking And then the creator breathed the sound that ushered from her was deep wind Yay, rather than the sprinkling of a vortex She moved within herself a generator of energy and motion curiosity and love Like a shattering of a million billion stained glass windows Like the beating of a trillion angels wings not yet born in thoughts like the roaring of the waters of creation She she burst forth into the first mirroring of herself The one facing one Eternal twins eternal mirrors Ariel Rijal Isis and Osiris Magdalene and Yashua Eternal love meaning absolute truth Odiana's voice took over And who are these ones that we speak about? The father and mother of all Ariel love beyond measure love beyond question Absolute unconditional forgiving love before there was anything to forgive Love that leads back to wholeness The doorway to completion The fabric upon which creation is built Eternal Mary the cosmic ocean Sophia unfolding like a rose whose love spun and into being Rijal a song rose unbited in my heart lord of creation Ancient of days universal maker Here's a song in your praise Odiana's voice went on The winged one who spans all universes Who holds creation in his gaze? The one who came into being from a very the very thought of love the longing of love the companion of love The reflection of eternal truth the husband of beauty the eagle the falcon the eternal father I saw his great wings moving as the tips of his feathers reached out To set the first elements into motion Fanning fires the first light the currents of first air Sculpting the first elements of earth Drawing the first waters of nectar from the well springs of the eternal chalice All of these he drew from the mother as his great winged spirals sweat the universe into motion The outward yang drawn from the inward yen of our being In my mind the two circles join now overlapping at the center They created the divine portal The pattern of light that encompassed power in love Honoring all of whom we are in the majesty of truth The one who looks into the mirror and sees itself awakening through the heart of the divine union I only hope That the time was coming when others would remember this truth And that with the great remembering We would collectively find the courage to create a great new world


Affairs Officer in Region 3 and today I'm taking one, two, three kids to work here in Chicago, Illinois. And my hats off to all my other colleagues who are at home with kids and still on the job just like me. I'm a supervisor in the NRC Region 3 office and I brought my kid to work today in Wheaton, Illinois. I'm Alicia Bone and I'm the communications lead for the NRC's transformation efforts. And I'm Jason Page. I'm a project manager in our office. And we brought our son to work today in Garry Park, Maryland. Taylor and I'm a senior executive here at the NRC and today I brought my children to work with me in Rockville, Maryland. Hello. I'm team LaGothlin, an enforcement specialist at the NRC's Region 1 office and I took my kids to work today in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. My name is Sandra Mendes. I'm the Region 2 allegations coordinator for the NRC and today I brought my children to work here in Potter Springs, Georgia.


Do you realize, my friend, that in every generation God is dropping mantles to the earth? In every generation, God is giving assignments to a people. In every generation, God is looking for servants whom he can use to expand the dominion of his kingdom. Are you walking closely enough with Jesus to be near and catch that mantle? Or are you allowing that mantle to fall to the ground?