Axis of Equal

It's a twice-yearly, co-creative ceremony of self-declaration of Earth personhood. Why not join me in performing it no matter where you are on planet Earth!
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A GIFT FROM ORION:

Upon awakening unexpectedly at 4 AM on the morning of September 8, 2011, I went immediately outside my house to experience the night sky.
Orion was rising in the east and I took special note of it since I had not encountered it for quite some time. Upon returning indoors, I went to my computer and Googled Orion. From the list of sites that came up, I was instinctively drawn to a video by a Mexican couple named Rodrigo y Gabriela, who were playing a tune called "Orion".
As an amateur guitarist, I have since been deeply moved and inspired by their music.
I link my discovery of this couple and their music to the current 5 CABAN Moon cycle on The Lightning Path. FIVE, as radiant, accomplished creativity, combines with CABAN: synchronicity, timing, body knowing. Watch these two in action and see if you don't agree with me that they are very 5 CABAN!

Exploring Uranus

Uranus
Astroglyph for Uranus
As indicated in my introduction to The Lightning Path Timebeam, the 1986 Voyager 2 fly-by of planet Uranus occurred simultaneous to my initial revelation of The Lightning Path. I have never explored this connection in depth until now (August 2011). I intend to begin that exploration by first consolidating resources about Uranus and the Voyager 2 mission on this page. Your suggestions are welcomed. Please contact me here.
In Honor of Jose Arguelles

In this talk, Arguelles presents a comprehensive overview of his book "Earth Ascending", the book which first brought forth his unique synthesis of Mayan calendar, I Ching/ DNA/chakras etc. and which supported his initial organizing efforts for Harmonic Convergence.
The material presented here is not only pre-Harmonic Convergence, it is also pre-Internet and pre-Dreamspell (the innovative reworking of the traditional Mayan calendar conducted by Jose and wife Lloydine, after Harmonic Convergence.)
This is Arguelles at his finest and it is a must-see for anyone wishing to understand the breadth and depth of this visionary's life work, including his vision for PAN, the Planet Art Network.
Here is the direct link to the video on YouTube: http://youtu.be/CIDBZ8DOuGs
Also recently posted on YouTube is audio (in 2 parts) of a talk given by Jose and wife LLoydine on the previous day in Calgary. Here are direct links to that audio:
Part 1: http://youtu.be/uAVnCRjLrtQ
Part 2: http://youtu.be/cQGRVXYXP0w
More context information at http://www.dwayneedwardrourke.com/Pages/TIMEWAVE8607/page5/page5.html
In Lak'ech,
DER
Jose' Arguelles Passes.

José Argüelles (L) and Dwayne Rourke (R). Nakoda Lodge, June 14, 1986.
World-renowned author, artist, educator, Aquarian exemplar and friend Jose' Arguelles died on March 23, 2011 after a brief illness.
I consider Jose' to be one of my foremost teachers in this life. I pay homage to his evanescent spirit and to the voluminous legacy of spiritual knowledge he brought forth for all to share.
Before he departed he said to his apprentice, “I have done all that I could on this planet. I am being called to assist in the closing of the cycle from the Other Side.” Among his final wishes was that the Foundation for the Law of Time, the vehicle for his work and vision, be continued.
According to The Lightning Path, itself a novel use of the Mayan sacred calendar inspired by Jose's book Earth Ascending, he was born in the Temple of the Breath of Spirit.
Jose', may your blessed spirit infuse warriors of the heart throughout the planet and may that spirit further empower us in our united quest for peace and harmony.
Ho!
Dwayne Rourke
March 25, 2011.

December 2010 Lunar Eclipse
A total lunar eclipse, visible over North and South America, will occur on December 21, 2010.
This eclipse is a part of Lunar Saros 120 series, repeating every 18 years and 10 days, last occurring on June 15, 1992, and will next repeat on July 6, 2028. This series is winding down: The final total eclipse of this series was on May 14, 1938 and the final partial lunar eclipse will be on July 28, 2064.
In Love With The Mystery
Find out more at In Love with the Mystery.
Conscious Co-Creation Continues

The Conscious Co-Creation Continues: Celebrating the return of harmony between the feminine and masculine as we enter the Seventh Day About 5100 years ago, at the beginning of the Mayan Long Count (6th Wave or National Underworld) a polarity of consciousness was introduced that created a separation between the masculine and the feminine. The result has been a suppression of the intuitive and feminine aspects of the human mind and soul. The pain associated with this separation has created a long-standing conflict between men and women that has resulted in often unbalanced, twisted and distorted relationships between them. With the beginning (November 3, 2010, 1 Imix) of the Seventh day of the 8th wave, (Galactic Underworld) a polarity shift in consciousness will support humanity in the co-creation of a new, balanced and more harmonious, relationship between the masculine and feminine. For the two days November 6-7 women and men all over the world are invited to locally co-create processes and ceremonies designed to restore the sacred relationship between the feminine and masculine. The intention of these ceremonies is to co-create balance and mutual respect between the genders and the freedom for all individuals to embody any combined expression of the sacred feminine and masculine. In the first of these two days members of each of the two genders are encouraged to develop healing processes of its own, while in the second day processes and unifying ceremonies may be performed, which serve the mutual recognition, honoring and celebration of the divine feminine and masculine in all of us. Events are already being planned in several locations in the world for this shift in consciousness and the process has started to create a unified web presence for these.
Soul Circle Mandalas
Message from the Temple of the Breath of Spirit

Jose Arguelles at the 2012 Tipping Point Cancun
photo by Bob Challenger
Closing Of The Cycle
The Last Days and What Is To Be Done
by Jose Arguelles
“How come all I see
Is the child of God in misery?”
(Song lyric heard in a hotel restaurant in Chennai, India
Message of the Time:
Let the wall fall into the moat
The civilization is in ruin
Use no force to correct things
But persevere in silence
The evil way is on the ascent
But it has no foundation
Within yourself the signs of tomorrow are ripened
When we look at our world today in the middle of the year 2010, we see something that more and more resembles the beginning of Roland Emmerich’s 2012. Devastating earthquakes, floods, an unprecedented oil spill – the hemorrhaging of the Earth – and volcanoes. Besides the Iceland eruption, on May 29 it seems three other volcanoes went off: One in Guatemala, one in Ecuador and one in the area of the North Mariana islands. Note that the Mariana volcano – an underwater eruption – is very close to the deepest underwater trench in the world, the Mariana trench. Deep water volcano, Earth’s response to BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig that blew up just about the time the Iceland volcano first went off. Choreography courtesy the divine plan!
The human experiment – for it was never anything more than that - is now out of control. If the cycle is truly ending on 21 December 2012, and something is going to happen, then what is left to be done? No one yet has stepped forward to say, “game over!” So all that is left to be done is to change our consciousness.
As we see from the riots in Greece and Bangkok, not to mention the Israeli response to the effort to get aid to Gaza, while demonstrating the frustration of the people, as always, those who hold the power, the guns and the bombs, wield and often brutally maintain the power. Retreat to the inner realms and cultivate the highest consciousness. This is the essence of the message of the time.
This is a grand drama that is playing out now. What we are seeing is the exhaustion of materialism, what the Club of Rome defined in 1973 as the Limits of Growth. I was recently on an investigative visit to East Africa (Kenya) and South India. For a counterpoint to the misery that was everywhere evident, as I was traveling through different parts of these two countries, I took time to watch CNN, Al-Jazeera or BBC in the hotels so I could follow the oil spill and witness the European union voting a trillion dollar bail out for the Euro and some failing economies. It made me wonder: Where is the trillion dollars to give every human being on Earth a roof that doesn’t leak, an actual sanitary toilet, clean drinking water and real food on the table? No, it was quite evident that the species has failed in taking care of its own and in its capacity to save its environment. What people need to understand is that 21/12/2012 is actually humanity’s deadline, and right now it would rather send a man to Mars then deal head-on with what it has created on its home planet.
So the message of the time, it should be emphasized, is not just to change but to transform your consciousness into a supermental force. The route of material evolution is over. Now we can return to the mainstream of cosmic consciousness.
Consciousness and not life and form is the essential evolutionary principle of the cosmos. As the great Indian thinker Sri Aurobindo wrote concerning this premise:
“In this vision of things the universe will reveal itself in its unity and totality as a manifestation of a single being, nature as its power of manifestation, evolution as its process of gradual manifestation in matter.”(“Supermind in Evolution”)
The power of the mind created the machine and the artificial time that governs our lives. Returned to itself, the power of the mind can ultimately heal all things. The power of a hundred thousand minds synchronized as a single planetary consciousness focused on a single point could alter the evolution of our mind and spirit irrevocably while providing us with the knowledge, insight and telepathic skills to turn our crisis into the second creation.
Such a supermental event of consciousness by 2012 is possible. It is the solution augured by the message of the time. We would then also know, that we are not alone. Cosmic civilization throughout the universe, we will find out, had been waiting for us to come upon this solution. We will hear the cry resounding across the Earth: “Welcome Home!” And we will know: Yes, we are home. A new time and a new day will dawn.
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JOSE ARGUELLES is the person who first introduced the date December 21, 2012 into mass consciousness with The Mayan Factor. The initiator of the Harmonic Convergence global peace meditation of 1987, Arguelles is also the founder of the annual Whole Earth Festival (1970) in California, and one of the originators of the Earth Day concept.
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Jose will be a presenter at the upcoming 2012 TIPPING POINT - The Prophets Conference Vancouver 23-25 July 2010
Free Poster: Lunar Year = Temple.

I have just now uploaded a free, dowloadable version of this poster. Here's the link. Enjoy!
New Moon Entry Into The Temple of Death
I could not help but note that this volcanic eruption occurred simultaneous to the New Moon.
Credit: REUTERS/Olafur Eggertsson
More information and photos here.
URANUS MAN
The image consolidates many conceptual elements of The Lightning Path and shows a distinct resonance with an image given to me by Jill Banting at our recent Full Moon council. Thank you Jill. I love synchronicities like this!
Dwayne



13 CAUAC Historical resonance.

Welcome to the Lightning Path Blog.
Last night, the Full Moon of 13 CAUAC saw a dozen of us gather together here at The Twisted Chimney for yet another pot-luck followed by sacred council. We have been meeting regularly in this way at the New and Full Moons. If you are in the region, please consider joining us for these meetings. Our next gathering will be here on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 as we celebrate completion of the current lunar year with a special closing ceremony for cycle 13 CAUAC on The Lightning Path.
This morning I came across a new video interview with historian Carolyn Baker who speaks eloquently about what she calls the sacred demise. The interview picks up on much of what we spoke about last evening. Here's the interview. Enjoy.
Dwayne



