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Russian Advocates Against Domestic Violence Branded ‘Enemies of the Family’

In December 2017, Margarita Gracheva’s husband brutally attacked her. She has since emerged as one of the most high-profile victims of Russia’s epidemic of domestic violence. (Pascal Dumont/CBC)

Warning: This story contains graphic details. There is an invocation for the elimination of domestic violence at end.

By Chris Brown, CBC News, February 25, 2020

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-domestic-violence-1.5437241

Given the savagery of what Margarita Gracheva’s husband did to her, you’d think Russian lawmakers would want to stop it from happening to other women.

Instead, attitudes toward legislating tougher laws on domestic violence remain stuck in another century.

Two years ago, Gracheva’s husband cut off both of her hands, leaving the 27-year-old mother of two mutilated for life.

“I still have pain. It hurts and aches, but you get used to it,” Gracheva told CBC News in her St. Petersburg home, flexing the fingers on her artificial hand, which is attached to her right arm at the wrist.

The black fingers and silver joints give the German-made device an almost skeletal look, but it is dexterous enough for Gracheva to grasp small objects — after some practice.

Her left hand, meanwhile, is wrapped in a bandage and also clearly far from normal, visibly scarred and only partially functioning. But at least it allows her to once again feel her children’s skin.

“I still have a problem [combing] hair,” she said. “But really, happiness is in the little things.”

Gracheva has emerged as one of the most high-profile victims of Russia’s epidemic of domestic violence, and has given a powerful voice to the frustrations felt by women’s advocates who have tried for years to get stronger domestic violence legislation passed.

“There is no law now — nothing exists,” Gracheva said. “There is only help if there are beatings or a dead body. I don’t know how many more tragic cases have to happen for that to change.”

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Indigenous Rights and Titles: Land and Water to Slavery

Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Carolyn Bennett and B.C. Indigenous Relations Minister Scott Fraser, Jonathan Hayward/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Pipeline Dispute: Ministers, Wet’suwet’en Chiefs Reach Proposed Agreement

The Canadian Press,
March 1, 2020

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/pipeline-rail-blockade-agreement

SMITHERS, B.C. — A Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief and senior government ministers say they have reached a proposed arrangement in a pipeline dispute that has prompted solidarity protests across Canada in recent weeks.

Federal Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and British Columbia Indigenous Relations Minister Scott Fraser would not give details on the proposal, saying it first has to be reviewed by the Wet’suwet’en people.

Fraser says that while the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline at the heart of the dispute is already approved and underway, the talks have helped develop a protocol to deal with such projects in the future.

Chief Woos, one of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary leaders, says the proposal represents an important milestone for everyone involved.

But he says the hereditary chiefs remain opposed to the pipeline in their traditional territory.

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Using Universal Law to Discover Sacred Purpose

The Scales of Justice: the Knowing of Balance, the Gratitude for Gender Equality Within/Without

THE SCALES OF JUSTICE, OF WORTH AND OF THE UNIVERSE, IN BALANCE

I’ve noticed these two words, ‘sacred’ and ‘purpose,’ are not contemplated much, even put in the same sentence, and in my practice as a reader, when I speak of sacred purpose I’m often asked by my clients, “How do I find it?”

On Heavenly Blessings Radio Show in 2013 through Linda Dillon, channel for the Council of Love, Sanat Kumara explained 13 Universal Laws, including the Law of Sacred Purpose. That’s when I began to open up to the possibility, the joyful discovery of sacred purpose.

To give an idea of what sacred purpose is, let me use myself as an example. Part of my sacred purpose, I’ve discovered, is building my website, Voice of Freedom.ca, where I write about how things work in the higher realms, and now, also video about them. It is my joy!

To sustain this website I ask for small monthly subscriptions. I Love the concept of subscriptions. They make sense to me — small amounts from many — a way to work together in community, the beautiful balance of give and receive.

For me to have to courage to ask for subscriptions from my readers, I’ve done much transmutation work with forgiveness of the old grids of judgement, anxiety, control, guilt and my issues of sorrow, shame, anger and fear I associate with making requests for money.

As I process, I find my sacred purpose expands; there is elimination of the lack of self-worth, and I’ve come to a place of trust and non-judgement, in gratitude for the experience.

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Creating Societies of Love, the Divine Feminine Rising

We humans are grappling with many issues on this planet.

In the lightworker community we call it the the building of Nova Earth, a new and different, conscious reality.

November 2011, in a personal reading with Archangel Michael through channel Linda Dillon, he told me we are here to translate “the values and the essence of Love, of freedom, of equality into community that is tangible and not restrictive, but supportive of the spirit, that is supportive of the Love, that is supportive of one another, that is supportive of balance and nurturing.”

In the current situation of unrest in Canada, we’re seeing Indigenous matriarchal elders, along with many protesters, standing up for land rights, murdered and missing women, and our climate.

While they are not leading the country, their priorities are in alignment with a balanced society, where the disenfranchised and the land is cared for.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ahern, Iceland’s Prime Minister, Katrin Jakobsdottir, and Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon are promoting an agenda of well-being for their citizens.

The brief summary for the YouTube below says:

“In 2018, Scotland, Iceland and New Zealand established the network of Well-being Economy Governments to challenge the acceptance of GDP as the ultimate measure of a country’s success.

“In this visionary talk, First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon explains the far-reaching implications of a ‘well-being economy’ — which places factors like equal pay, childcare, mental health and access to green space at its heart — and shows how this new focus could help build resolve to confront global challenges.”

In October, 2019, Canada’s Jody Wilson-Raybould won her seat in Canadian Parliment, running on a platform of honesty and integrity.

That being said, we are beginning to see the Divine Feminine taking the helm.

Of the 195 countries in the world, there are currently 23 women leaders, according to Wikipedia:

Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany

Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland

Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh

Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, President of Croatia

Saara Kuugongelwa, Prime Minister of Namibia

Bidhya Devi Bhandari, President of Nepal

Aung San Suu Kyi, State Counsellor of Myanmar

Tsai Ing-wen, President of Taiwan

Kersti Kalijulaid, President of Estonia

Ana Brnabić, Prime Minister of Serbia

Halimah Yacob, President of Singapore

Jacinda Ahern, Prime Minister of New Zealand

Katrin Jakobsodóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland

Paula-Mae Weekes, President of Trinidad and Tobago

Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados

Sahle-Work Zewde, President of Ethiopia

Salome Zurabishvili, President of Georgia

Zuzana Čaputová, President of Slovakia

Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister of Denmark

Sophie Willmès, Prime Minister of Belgium

Jeanine Áńez, Acting President of Bolivia

Sanna Marin, Prime Minister of Finland

Time for our new and conscious reality to emerge, as Archangel Michael said it would.

THE SCALES OF JUSTICE, OF WORTH AND OF THE UNIVERSE, IN BALANCE

(Posted February 15, 2020)

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A Bigger Picture of the Pipeline Protests in Canada

THE SCALES OF JUSTICE, OF WORTH AND OF THE UNIVERSE, IN BALANCE

If we look to the Universal Law of Balance – As Within So Without – what do “the pipeline” issues in Canada represent metaphorically?

In the bigger picture without, the pipeline can represent the control and greed of the elite furthering their agenda, indiscriminately extracting Gaia’s natural resources.

So then I ask, why are our leaders still allowing this when we have proven renewable energy options? (Free energy, solar power, wind and water turbines. . . see info about what Norway is doing below.)

From my understandings in order for our “without” to change, we have need to change “within.”

It’s physics — as within, therefore without — scientifically proven, like attracts like.

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The Role of Gratitude in Sending Love, Healing, and Balance

THE SCALES OF JUSTICE, OF WORTH AND OF THE UNIVERSE, IN BALANCE

Often in our meditations, we are guided to send energy, Love, to situations that are not in Divine Alignment on Gaia, this beautiful planet.

In October, 2013, Sanat Kumara taught us the Universal Law of Karmic Dispensation (1), about the gift of forgiveness to our selves for not expressing and experiencing our selves as Divine.

Within this teaching he explained:

“Healing occurs at the speed of Love, which is exactly what we have taught consistently. It is instantaneous and immediate. The rate at which an individual chooses to incorporate it is particular to that person.

“You do not heal anyone. But you act as a vessel of healing by allowing the Source energy of Love, of the Cosmos, of the One, added with your Love to flow through you to that person. For some it is adequate and enough and accepted that it can be done simply by holding a hand or two fingers to the heart for that matter.

“For others they need more, shall we say, coaxing. So is it possible? It has always been possible. This is the way in which the Magdalena and Yeshua healed. It is the way that all what you think of as unusual or spectacular healers have worked, and it will become the norm.

“The more that you are in the unity/community consciousness the more this transmission takes place because, for example, if your neighbour or your child is out of sync you immediately feel it because the unity is out of frequency. Therefore you correct, you balance, and then you go forward. So this will become more and more commonplace.”

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LOVE for Valentine’s and Beyond. . .

With Valentine’s in a few days, and it being one of the only days dedicated to LOVE in the whole year according to the Council of Love, I wanted to share a simple practise I’ve been doing.

Engaging with the growth patterns of the 4th dimension — truly getting that everything is not as it seems here — residing in the magic, wonder, awe, and everyday hope for us Gaians, knowing anything is possible; that all lack and limitation is cancelled out.

This is what I’ve been doing:

Every time I eat I like to “share” my food with everyone who doesn’t have enough to eat.

When I pause and feel the energy, and with my imagination heart feel and see everyone lifted up into sacred space with food and in the flow of Love, everything lightens up.

Inviting everyone to join with me

seeing we are all fed, no one is hungry,

remembering Who We Are, Gaian community.

Every day is Love Day,

as Suzanne Maresca says.

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Discovery of Sacred Purpose

Hi, I’m Kathleen, owner of this website, Voice of Freedom, and also one of the editors of the Golden Age of Gaia. I wanted to share a little, in the video below, about my websites and discovery of sacred purpose, what I’ve been drawn to do in my spare time.

Before a few years ago I’d never have dreamed I’d become a volunteer helping women in recovery from addiction, mostly drug and alcohol addiction, but starting in 2018, after several years dedicated to meditation, I began driving once a week to spend time at a therapeutic community, John Volken Academy, about an hour from where I live.

At first I said I could teach the women to sew, and then I said I could organize haircuts and clothes – used, and then one weekend I was invited to a sweat lodge ceremony and an art show put on by Indigenous Elder.

Aveda Hair Salon, Vancouver

Wise Woman Alannah Atley’s Art Show

In the van on the way home from one of these outings I was asked if I could organize a visit to some horses, and maybe go to the theatre.

“Of course,” I said, and that led to me finding Wisteria Acres and Krista Brown’s therapeutic horses, and then reaching out for donated tickets to go to Theatre Under the Stars in Stanley Park.

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Standing Up to Corruption Within/Without

Illustration by Kagan McLeod

Last spring, 2019, Canada’s then Minister of Justice, Attorney General, and Liberal party member, Jody Wilson-Raybould, stood up to corruption in Canadian politics.

Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, and other senior officials attempted to pressure her to allow an engineering firm to take a new legal pathway to avoid criminal prosecution.

Later in August, our ethics commissioner ruled that Trudeau had broken the conflict-of-interest code, but Jody had already been fired from the Liberal Party.

In that same summer she became an Independent, and handily won a seat in parliament in our fall federal election, running on a platform of honesty and integrity.

Are we in a stage of our Ascension where we can see outward successes, such as this, because of the inner work we collectively are doing?

As we stand up to the corruption within, the self-judgements, guilt and control, anxiety and hatred, also our anger, fear, sorrow and shame, will we begin to see our external reality reflect this?

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In her new book, Radical Compassion, Tara Brach speaks of emotional balance within here on SoundCloud — a way to live in the Now — not in fear of the future or sorrow from the past.

A highlight of her recent 10 Day Challenge with daily meditations, was her description of the “blame-game,” how when we fail to see our own triggers we’re actually lacking compassion for self, as well as for others.

She gave the example of a dog that lunges, teeth bared, when a friendly pat is extended, but upon realizing that the dog’s leg is in a trap, instantly we feel empathy, compassion.

How many of us have projected our angers and fears because we feel trapped?

With greater compassion, empathy for our human condition, Tara beautifully illustrated we can more easily find peace within, and without.

Sending Love daily to our fellow brothers and sisters, whether it’s for a personal reason or on a bigger scale, such as to the fires in Australia, issues in the Middle East, or the drug wars in Mexico and opioid crisis, we are helping create balance on Earth.

Reflecting the compassion of higher realms,

we are creating our Heaven to Earth,

as above, so below,

as within, so without.

THE SCALES OF JUSTICE, OF WORTH AND OF THE UNIVERSE, IN BALANCE

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In Addiction Recovery, a Matter of the Mind

“A hallmark of any person I’ve ever treated with addiction is that they’re very rarely in the Now. They’re either regretting the past and all their mistakes and really ruminating on that and dreading that, or they’re dreading the future, or just wanting a fix,” Witkiewitz says. “So what we’re doing is actually training them to be in the moment again, and to be OK with the stress.”

By Katelyn Newman, US News, January 29, 2020

https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2020-01-29/mindfulness-grows-as-treatment-for-addiction?src=usn_thereport

Joe Fox’s drug of choice is alcohol. And while he says he’s previously tried programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous to help him stop drinking, the 37-year-old Atlanta resident says it wasn’t until he tried a treatment option tied to the psychological practice of mindfulness that he was able to put the bottle down.

“Mindfulness was for me … for lack of a better term, the ticket to putting this behind me,” says Fox, who celebrated one year of sobriety on Jan. 7.

After a month of detoxifying and living in rehabilitation housing, Fox says he spent two months receiving outpatient services at Centered Recovery in the Atlanta area, spending weekday mornings at the treatment center and participating in its meditation class on Saturdays.

“It was the meditation I learned there that really got me sort of past anything I could be taught in a classroom,” says Fox, who continues to meditate daily.

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