Living In My Own World

“Children of AIDS” Born with New DNA?

It’s happening: the evolution of our consciousness, our reality… the evolution of ourselves.

Most of you may have heard of Indigo Children… but did you know there are two more types that are being born?

It is official; the mind, the heart, and the body are evolving.

Here is an interesting interview I found:

Interview with Drunvalo Melchizedek
By Diane Cooper

Diane: So Drunvalo…who are these “Children of the New Dream” that you are so excited about?

Drunvalo: Well there are 3 different kinds of children emerging in the world today that I have been able to identify. The first are called the “Super Psychic Children of China”. The second are called the “Indigo Children” and the third are called the “Children of AIDS”.

The first one, the “Super Psychics of China”, we talked about in the Flower of Life seminars. If you remember, the first one was discovered in 1984 when a child was found who was psychic beyond belief. Researchers conducted every psychic test you could imagine and he was 100% correct every time. You could turn cards over in another room and that didn’t matter. He could perfectly know what was on the card.

So Omni magazine went to China and wrote an article on this discovery. They found one child and then another. When they went in 1984 they assumed it was a hoax so they did experiments like putting 100 kids in a room and taking a book and randomly pulling out a page. They would crumple it up and stick it under their arm. These kids could read every word on the page. They did test after test, and the response was flawless. The phenomena didn’t stop there. These kids are not just in China. They have spread all over the world. I personally have been talking to parents who ask me, “…what do we do.. I have a kid who knows everything?” I believe Lee Carroll is calling the children being born here in the U.S. “the Indigo Children”. I personally think the two groups are coming from the same source, however, I don’t know that for sure. There appears to be two separate groups, incredibly psychic and amazing.

It is the third group that I am most interested in - the Children of AIDS. About 10 or 11 years ago in the US, there was a baby born with AIDS. They tested him at birth and at 6 months and he tested positive for AIDS. They tested him a year later and he still tested positive. Then they didn’t test him again until he was 6, and what was amazing is that this test showed that he was completely AIDS free! In fact, there was no trace that he ever had AIDS or HIV whatsoever! More »

The Most Important Movie You Will Ever See

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view.

The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.

It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

Please, please, please put aside 20 minutes to watch this movie:

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Thank you.

Random Blog Post Causes Stir in Israeli Media

The other day I posted an article about the animal cruelty that took place on the premiere episode of “Survivor: Israel”.

The next day I was shocked and appalled that nowhere in the news headlines did anyone mention the abuse that took place on the show. Even animal rights groups seemed to have let it pass by quietly.

So in an effort to let out my frustration (and not necessarily receive a reply), I contacted Ynet, a major news website in Israel, with a link to my post. The letter read the following:

Hi,

I was wondering why this issue was completely ignored in the Israeli media:

(link to my original post)

Maybe you have some answers…

Thanks,

Shira

Within minutes I was contacted by a reporter from Ynet who asked to interview me about the issue and said that she would contact animal rights groups and Channel 10 (the channel that aired the show) for an official reaction.

Next thing I knew, this article was published on the homepage of Ynet, stating that the animal rights group “Anonymous” was filing a police complaint against Channel 10 and the article even linked to my original post!

Their article drew in over 150 comments, finally raising awareness to the mistreatment that had taken place on the show.

While some comments were negative as expected, I was pleasantly surprised to see how many people felt exactly the way I did about the issue and had supported the cause.

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My point is that sometimes we feel that we are only one person, and “how much of a difference can one person make…”

The answer, as I have just learned from my own personal experience, is that the change really does begin in each and every one of us, and that the least any of us can do… IS TRY.

What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid?

What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

OK…

So…uh…what exactly are you waiting for?

This isn’t a dress rehearsal…

Wake up!

Here’s the deal: What we can be, we MUST be.

Period.

There’s no getting around that one.

So, turn off your TV. Put down your drink. Get off the medication.

Quit numbing yourself. The pain’s not going away.

Not until you thinkarete.

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A Christmas Wish List for a Better World

With Christmas right around the corner, kids the world over have been hard at work making their wish lists for Santa. In this vodcast, John W. Whitehead shares his own Christmas wish list for a better world and suggestions for what you can do to make that dream come true.

Carnival of Inspiration and Motivation (Third Edition)

One of my posts, Dance Like Nobody Is Watching, was selected for the blog Carnival of Inspiration and Motivation.

This is my first time participating in such a carnival and from what I understand, it can be a very helpful tool to reach more readers and attract more traffic to my blog so I’m pretty excited.

Apparently the carnival was extremely successful and drew in about 110 posts. It just goes to show you how many bloggers out there are changing the world one post at a time!

So clear a few hours from your busy busy life, check out the participating blogs and get ready to be inspired!

Israeli Version of “Survivor” Premieres with Animal Cruelty

As I am writing this, the first episode of the Israeli version of the hit TV series “Survivor” is being aired on Israeli television (channel 10).

Having bought the rights to the show, it is so far a fair imitation of the original series, this one shot on the Caribbean Islands.

So far, survivors were split into groups and challenged to jump off a boat in the middle of ocean and get the game started.

What they were asked to do was swim to rafts filled with tools necessary for survival, grab as many as they can and swim back to their new individual boats.

So far so good.

What I didn’t see coming, however, was a couple of cages with live chickens amongst the items on the raft.

The participants of each group swam to and jumped on the cages trying to get a hold of them first, causing the chickens in the cage to panic. That was already a huge shock to me (because anyone who knows me knows how sensitive I am to animals) but if that wasn’t enough, the struggle over the cages caused them to open, the chickens fell into the water hysterically trying to swim and the contestants continued to fight over who gets the chickens!

The whole thing was just 30 seconds of chaos: people yelling, chickens panicking, feathers flying, water splashing…

At that point, I just burst into tears and ran out of the room leaving my husband in shock.

He knew how long I had been waiting to see the Israeli version, with all the promos and publicity the show has been having - but I couldnt help it! I just started crying in disbelief.

How is it possible, as we head towards the year 2008, that today’s society and media STILL allows this kind of mistreatment of animals!

And for what???? For rating????

I’m not proud of my reaction. I wish I could go on watching the show as if nothing happened (just like millions of Israelis are probably doing right now). I wish I didn’t take everything so hard and get so emotionally involved when I witness these kinds of injustices…

But I do. It’s just who I am. I have always been this way and I guess I always will be.

And so I continue in my personal (and sometimes emotionally exhausting) pursuit of a better world.

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

UPDATE: I just saw a promo for next week’s episode where survivors argue over whether to kill the chickens. Apparently the show is called “Survivor” based on whether or not the animals on the island make it out alive…

YET ANOTHER UPDATE: This post gets on Ynet and makes a difference?Click here to read all about it.

The Write Way to Advertise

I love it when bloggers get creative!

Part-Time Blogger came up with a cool new idea to advertise your blog on a new website that’s sort of like the Million Dollar Homepage but with a human touch:

The website is called WriteAdvert.com with the slogan ‘Its the Write Way to Advertise.’

The concept is simple: you write your advert down on paper, take a photo of it and email it to me to be approved & published. There are 100 125×125 pixel ads available on the homepage for each calender month. Advertising is Free for November and December, when the month expires all ads will be moved to the monthly archives and kept on the site.

Get out the paper and crayons and grab this creative opportunity to bring more traffic to your blog. I already sent in my ads for Living In My Own World and ChangePerPost (see if you can find them!) and I have to admit I had a whole lot of fun the 60 seconds it took me to create the two ads.. Made me feel like a kid again!

You Know You’re in Israel When Every Day is a High School Reunion

I cannot get over the fact how often Israelis run into people they knew from their childhood in the middle of the street.

Everywhere I look, people seem to be “catching up on old times” with people they grew up with, went to high school with, served the army with, etc…

And it always seems so natural!

Just the other day my husband ran into a friend of his and they automatically starting chatting about this and that, what they’re up to, what they’re doing, about keeping in touch and then each of them casually went their separate way.

After they parted my husband said to me nonchalantly, “That’s funny. I haven’t seen him since second grade…”

I guess as someone who grew up in New York, I will never fully be able to comprehend this.

Because regardless of the millions of people that seemed to cross my path at any given moment, the one thing I could always count on was remaining completely anonymous.

Collectively Changing the World One Post at a Time

I’ve been planning on doing something like this for a while, and finally - here it is!

Introducing the launch of a new site I started for bloggers and their readers called ChangePerPost.com.

What it’s about:

ChangePerPost gathers recent blog posts from bloggers around the world on topics that encourage personal, social, spiritual, environmental and global change - and offers a place where we can all spread our messages collectively.

Here’s the deal:

Millions of boggers out there are writing posts every day about important issues that affect our life, our planet and humanity itself.

I recently noticed many bloggers, including myself, who claim they are trying to make a difference in this world “one post at a time”, and yet they often wonder “how much of a difference can one blogger really make?”

Well the truth is that every blogger out there is making a difference, whether to an audience of thousands or to one random stranger who just happens to come upon their post just as he or she needs to hear it most.

This new website was born out of 3 main purposes for both bloggers and their readers:

• To help readers discover new and inspirational blogs out there and help them to get an overall view of all the latest published blog posts from around the world.
• To offer a place where bloggers can promote their blogs and posts in an environment more fit for these types of subjects and to help attract more traffic to their blogs.
• To open our eyes and raise our awareness to new ideas and information which have the power to change our lives and our world as we know it. In other words: To raise our global awareness and consciousness one post at a time.

Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something. And that, after all, is where the real magic lies.

We are all in this together and together, we can make a difference.

Check out ChangePerPost.com now!

I Won the Domain Name Contest!

Last week I blogged about the exclusive expired domain name list giveaway hosted by DNXpert.com.

Next thing I knew, I received a mail telling me I’m one of the 5 lucky winners! Woohoo!

As promised I received a list of 200 awesome (most of them, anyway) and available domain names as well as a $10 deposit to my paypal account so I can make the first purchase free.

Ironically, I received this mail on the same day that I found myself involved in some very exhausting conversations with my family, passionately trying to explain to them my dream of making money from home, from blogging, from writing, from the internet.. from doing the things I love - only to get blank stares (”you mean you’re not gonna work your butt off from some stuffy office doing something you hate? But that’s life!” - paraphrased, of course.)

But I stuck with my story and my passion, and little did I know that a new online money-making opportunity was just sitting in my inbox waiting for me to come home. That’s the law of attraction right there.

So thanks to DNXpert for the list (I got my hands on quite a few of those domains :)) and thanks for keeping the “dream” alive!

I guess the only question left for a first time domainer is: Now what?

Some of the domains I might use for new personal sites but the others are just aching to be bought… If anyone out there has any tips or suggested places to sell them, let me know?

Thanks!

Yoko Ono Lennon: Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace (Video)

Published yesterday on ImaginePeace.com

December 8, 2007

I miss you, John. 27 years later, I still wish I could turn back the clock to the Summer of 1980. I remember everything - sharing our morning coffee, walking in the park together on a beautiful day, and seeing your hand stretched to mine - holding it, reassuring me that I shouldn’t worry about anything because our life was good.

I had no idea that life was about to teach me the toughest lesson of all. I learned the intense pain of losing a loved one suddenly, without warning, and without having the time for a final hug and the chance to say, “I love you,” for the last time. The pain and shock of that sudden loss is with me every moment of every day. When I touched John’s side of our bed on the night of December 8th, 1980, I realized that it was still warm. That moment has haunted me for the past 27 years - and will stay with me forever.

Even harder for me is watching what was taken away from our beautiful boy, Sean.
He lives in silent anger over not having his Dad, whom he loved so much, around to share his life with. I know we are not alone. Our pain is one shared by many other families who are suffering as the victims of senseless violence. This pain has to stop.

Let’s not waste the lives of those we have lost. Let’s, together, make the world a place of love and joy and not a place of fear and anger. This day of John’s passing has become more and more important for so many people around the world as the day to remember his message of Peace and Love and to do what each of us can to work on healing this planet we cherish.

Let’s: Think Peace, Act Peace, and Spread Peace. John worked for it all his life.
He said, “there’s no problem, only solutions.” Remember, we are all together.
We can do it, we must. I love you!

Yoko Ono Lennon

In honor of John Lennon and his important message to our world, please take a few minutes to view this video below.

The people in this video are YOU. They are a part of us and we are a part of them. We were fighting for our rights, we were inspired to make a change and we were passionate about doing what we could to spread the message of love.

If we could do it then, we could do it now…

And there has never been a more important time in human history to remember this.

“Think Peace, Act Peace, and Spread Peace.”

A Vision of Students Today

Michael Wesch’s thought-provoking video produced with 200 student collaborators explores student’s today, their classrooms, their experiences and the gap between the technology in the classroom and the technology in their lives. Marshall McLuhan pointed out this same gap 40 years ago. These words could have easily been written about many of today’s classrooms.

“Today’s child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns, subjects, and schedules.”
-Marshall McLuhan, 1967

What’s the Worst That Could Happen: A Global Warming Decision

Global warming: Panicked activists think it’s the worse think to ever happen to humanity… hardening skeptics claim its a hoax… and everyone inbetween simply thinks to themselves: “What’s the worst that could happen?”

But then along comes a 38-year-old science teacher and father of two, and asks 2.5 million YouTube viewers the folllowing question:

What if I told you I think I’ve found an argument that makes that whole bitter question of whether it’s really happening or not, moot? An argument where we don’t need to know whether it’s true or not in order to still decide what to do or not do. An argument that leads to a conclusion that even the most hardened skeptic and the most panicked activist both can agree on?

So what’s the worst that could happen? Well, that depends on which column you choose… (check out this video below)

What the World Would be Like if More People Walked Barefoot

Today my husband and I were walking home from a concert and my feet were really hurting from my shoes. Next thing I knew I was walking down the streets of Tel Aviv barefoot.

All I can say is: What a relief! I couldn’t believe how good and natural it felt. I honestly felt like I was connecting with the Earth, like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders. What was even more astonishing was that every person who walked by didn’t seem to give it a second glance. It seemed so natural, both to me and to the people who noticed, that it made me wonder: Why don’t more people walk around barefoot? And what would the world be like if we did? More »