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Second Creation SECOND CREATION planetary renewal magazine blue electric storm season 3 - Episode 2 of 4 2C is: • a freely downloadable online magazine produced quarterly as an ongoing investigation into galactic culture • a voice for the emerging noosphere (planetary consciousness) in the years leading up to and beyond December 21st 2012. • an open conduit and place of exchange for ideas, art and experience The Editorial Team have been brought together by synchronicity and a common interest in the 13 Moon dreamspell calendar and related phenomena. The production of 2C uses fluid management to organise roles and contributions. Currently the main contributors are: Mattriks 4 Monkey - Jonathan 12 Monkey - Nicko 6 Night Even 12 Serpent - Sandie 2 Moon - Edward 10 Warrior Kiri*Sta Planetary Star Printed Copies A compenium of the four episodes of the year is produced in time for the day out of time. Copies of the printed versions can be ordered from www.mhmart.org. Submissions We’re open to receive your articles, interviews, reviews, artwork, dreams, letters and inspirations. If you have submitted something and it hasn’t made it in to an episode, we still have it and will continue to consider it for future episodes. We’re interested in your responses to the themes, as well as more general submissions. The next four episodes are as follows: Living the Vision: Prayer, Dream and Intuition Home; Where the Hearth Is Portraits of the Self as Art; Fashion, Form and Expression Cultural Codes; Science Fiction, Fantasy and Future. Please email to: [email protected]. Next Episode... The next episode is the third of four in this Blue Electric Storm spin, entitled ‘Living the Vision: Prayer, Dream and Intuition.’ Magazine: www.2ndcreation.org Community: www.tortuga.com Foundation: www.LawOfTime.org 2 3 INSIDE... 4-5 Planetary Renewal: Arts to Survive 28- YIKES! & Thrive Editorial by Mattriks 32 by Carolyn Howell 6-8 Sprung from Great Depths- John 33- Creative Power: Taming the Forces Seed Interview by Even Dawn 34 - Excerpt from CHC 10- Rainbow Nation without Borders by José Argüelles & Stephanie South 11 by Kiri Sta* 34- RINRI Report - Law of Time & the World Economic Crisis 12- The Noogenic Report - 35 by José Argüelles 16 Your NooKey Account & The Kin Freeman on the Land Registry by Edward Brungardt 36- 37 by Sonique A. Senshun 18- Interwoven - Koa Windsong 38- Art For & By Kids & Kin 20 Interview by Even Dawn 39 by Kids & Kin 21 Rainbow Spirit Carving 40- The Story of Jake the Spider & poem by Hamish Wilson 41 by Stu McConville 22- How to Survive 2012 - Excerpt 42- Treasure Time Island 24 from OUT THERE 43 by Even Dawn by Alexandra Manzi Fe 44- Six Galactic Spins 25- Seeds: Our Future Food Security 49 by Eden Sky 26 by Sandie Hernandez A Mostly True Account - Excerpt Middle Eastern Food & Preserving 50- 26- from australian.again by Sandie Hernandez 51 27 by J-Shua Cover Art Gaia - Watercolour by Carey Thompson Gaia is the name originally given to the Greek goddess of the earth. More recently it has been used to name our living planet herself. The planet is a very complex being with countless interdependent systems creating a delicate balance just as in our own bodies. Looking within, we can see how we as humans are microcosms of larger beings, such as planets and even beyond to solar systems and even galaxies. In fact, the entire universe is alive and conscious, and it is only our veiling egos that have prevented our collective psyche from realizing this simple fact. It is very important for us to come to this awareness in order to exist in a state of deep reverence for our mother planet that sustains and nourishes us. We must move towards a planetriarchal society in which all actions are respectful of this oneness and discontinue acts sourced from a general lack of interconnected awareness. www.galactivation.com 2 3 Moora Moora - a 2C Field Trip Planetary Renewal: Arts to Survive & Thrive by Mattriks - Blue Self-Existing Monkey ‘Stop believing lies - and the first lie is what you Of course, this picture is complexified, as we discovered are - you are not a biological machine, you are in our hidden powers episode, by the fact that those beings in the fear spectrum who have been running the resources, not an advanced piece of slime that’s evolved, you don’t seem to be planning to redress the balance, and in fact are an infinite being, that has the right to choose seem to be in the process of staging a planetary take-over to have life and to live abundantly for thousands bid of epic proportions. In an ultimate sense, we all survive. of years, and have contact with advanced Enough of us have had our glimpses of a bigger picture that civilizations, and to survive and to thrive.’ involves universal oneness as an eternal truth, to understand that the duality of to be or not to be is ultimately illusion. The above quote, from a recent Project Camelot interview Does this make it any easier to watch the staging of war and with Bill Deagle, jumped out because of the ‘survive and suffering and diabolical earth changes? Maybe not, but we thrive’ phrase that echoes the title of this episode. Public wouldn’t be here if we didn’t have the ability to positively response to Deagle’s presentation illustrates the depth of effect the outcome. feeling around the issue of survival and what is happening or may happen in the When we talk about near future to the human species. Whether survival we evoke or not you agree with what Deagle has the depths of human to say, it must be acknowledged that a emotion, and a whole lot of the things he is talking about do gamut of programs seem to appropriately expose the current and subprograms that ‘zeitgeist’, or spirit of the times. Any one have been kicking who has seen the movie of the same name around in our DNA will be no doubt closely following the since God knows how current world events with a close eye, and long. In the model of doing their best to maintain a sane and the human presented positive disposition through it all. We have by the chakra system, evoked the word ‘survive’ in our episode the base chakra is theme, given it some vigor by rhyming it where we find these with ‘thrive’, and spun it in the direction themes. Money, job, of the positive by choosing to focus on security, family and ‘planetary renewal’. home all take root in this fundamental It has felt important to talk about survival, flowering of our and get down to the real bassline of how nature. In the chinese things are happening at present. When medical system of the we have a look around our planet, we organ-meridians, some see a very mixed range of emotions and base chakra correlation experiences. On one end of the scale, we have thousands of can be found in the kidneys. The kidneys, paired with the people dying every day because their basic human right to bladder, represent foundational elements of the human food, water and shelter isn’t being met, ie no survival, while being, corresponding to the element water, and the emotion on the other end we have a small minority of the population fear, both primordial substances. The kidneys store the jing, in control of most of the planets resources. It may be said the prenatal or ancestral chi that is handed down to us from that both ends of the scale are predominantly in a state of our parents, and our parent’s parents, and so on. Similarly, fear, albeit for different reasons. Somewhere among this an archetype that holds space for the survival aspects of spectrum we find groups of beings who do have enough to creation can be found in the Mayan roll call of Daykeepers, survive, who are using this as the basis to thrive and explore as Chiccan, or Serpent, representing survival, life force and progressively deeper states of Love. instinct. In fact this episodes theme was initiated by our resident crystal serpent Even DawN, over a spin ago. 4 5 This episodes Noospheric quarter is coded by codon number We are blessed to have Valum Votan make another 28, Time of Bursting – Cosmic Awareness Transcends contribution to 2C, from the recently published ‘Cosmic Space, and corresponded to the Gregorian dates 25th History Chronicles’, along with an article called ‘Law of Oct 23rd January. In late October, events were unfolding Time and the World Economic Crisis – The View from 2012’ that many analysts have been talking about for some time. that was published on lawoftime.org. Also exploring these The phrase, ‘global financial crisis’, entered the common issues about the global financial situation, and about how vernacular, and the whole world waited with bated breath we can regain personal power, is regular contributor Edward to see how the ‘crisis’ would play out. What it all means, Planetary Warrior, and first time contributor Sonique A. and whether Obama is a good guy or the next installment Senshun. Eden Sky, of 13Moon.com, submits her timely of a new world order, remains to be seen. However it rolls, piece about how we have (now less than) six galactic spins it’s certainly been illuminating to have a deeper look into before the end of this cycle of creation, and 2C co-founder issues of survival, and how these issues of how we get our Jonathan Shaw offers up some humorous insight from his base needs met have become so intertwined with the story days in England playing in the band ‘IFly’.
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