Monday, Dec. 26, 2005 IT IS DIFFICULT to imagine an event that kills 300,000 people in a couple of hours, but that's what happened a year ago Dec. 26. Potentially, it is impossible to consider; all you can really contemplate is an individual or a family. We have seen many interviews of people who lost everyone and wondered why they survived. From watching these interviews carefully, it seems easier for the children to handle this kind of change than for the adults. Yet so much instantaneous death is a shock to the planet's emotional body, no matter where on the planet you are. From people whose psychic gifts extend to these levels, I've heard reports ranging from descriptions of the stunned chaos of those who did not know they had even lost their lives (apparently a common situation), and therefore did not know where they were; to a description of a mass exodus of souls the night before, in preparation, where people were basically present overnight in body only before being swept away by the wave. Many, many lightworkers gave weeks or months of their time helping lost spirits orient and guiding them toward the light. I am aware that many were working around the clock, even as they slept, helping direct those who were disembodied, as well as move the energy and help the planetary body heal. Perhaps there will be a time when their stories will be told. The transition in consciousness that the tsunamis began was one of awareness that we are experiencing climate change. This is, ongoing, a rare and deeply meaningful dawning of planetary consciousness. While it's not exactly possible in normal scientific terms to ascribe an earthquake and the resulting tsunami to climate, my own feeling is that the melting ice caps were involved, as well as offshore oil drilling near Tasmania that set off a tectonic knock-effect in the days before the Banda Ache quake. And at the time, many commented on the intensity of the cataclysm and its intuitive connection to the amount of energy going into war and destruction on the globe right now. This connection was also made over and over again to the series of hurricanes last autumn, which wiped out towns, villages and communities, and lifted a major American city nearly off the map. After New Orleans was flooded, the unusually powerful cyclones continued pounding Mexico and Central America through the autumn. These events made the point even more vivid: something is indeed changing. The question is what you call it, and whether you think these are the same Earth changes that Edgar Cayce was talking about in his readings in the 1st half the 20th century. Regardless, it's now accepted public perception that, at the least, climate change is responsible for the current physical changes on the planet. Whether this is scientifically true or not, at the same time, the polar ice caps are indeed melting, which will continue to disrupt coastlines as well as the Gulf Stream current in the north Atlantic that keeps England and western Europe warm -- as well as corresponding currents in the Pacific. It is my feeling that human activity is part of what is causing climate change; after learning about gamma ray bursts from the Galactic Core, solar flares and other events that increase radiation to the planet, I am beginning to sense that there is a cosmic component. But whatever energy is coming from outside the sphere of Earth, we are certainly doing our part to help trap it here as heat and chaos. And it is still humans who are responsible for what happens on our planet, and historically, it has been very difficult for us to have any control or even assert an opinion in the affairs of kings and tyrants. This is, after all, why they are kings and tyrants. But what is new is our growing ability to work on the energetic levels. People have done this for a long time, in the form of prayer or meditation, but something meaningful seems to be raising the awareness that we need to use these powers now in a conscious and intentional way specifically for the sake of facilitating global transition. We have the ability to shift the vibration of the planet, to help cultivate protection, to engage with angelic entities in service of the light, and to exert significant influence on Gaia herself. We have the channels open to influence the leaders who have falsely claimed control of her destiny. This is influence we can assert every day and which is intimately involved in our personal growth and happiness. The personal is indeed political.