O!  THE CRYSTAL CITY! 

A Commentary on the 2004 Reconnections Conclave

By Daniel Jacob

On a recent Friday Morning, I sat at the end of a long pier, by Lake Crescent Lodge on the Olympic Penninsula, here in Washington.  It was a little after 6 am, and light was beginning to break over a small mountain that stands just across the lake.  A mist had settled over the water in the night, and it was quickly withdrawing to the West.......but there was still a ring of mist around the mountaintop, where three stars had appeared the night before. 

Do you remember the symbol that was used, in the movie "Stargate"..........to represent that strange planet where everyone went to do battle with the Sun God Ra?  It was a pyramid with 3 suns over it (in contrast to their symbol for Earth, which is a pyramid with one sun).  THAT is what this mountain reminded me of.  And surely, it was a sign from the Guides that "you ain't in Kansas anymore, Bud." 

During Conclave Week, I felt as though we all had been taken to another dimension.  For the most part, we lost track of all time and schedules..........except for a bell that called us to three vegetarian meals each day.  It was quite an experience for a carnivorous boy like me, and several of us vowed.......as we headed off to Hurricane Ridge on the excursion part of our journey, to hit the first McDonald's we could find.......and hit it we did! 

Reconnections Groups are all about expanding  diversity and allowingness as far as they can go.  If Metaphysical Powers and Contact were not such an integral part of the Reconnection Process, it would be hard to classify us as "New Age" Folk, in the classic sense.  And yet, we do LOVE the New Age, and we surely believe in it.  We simply refuse to classify ourselves as part of one tradition over another.  And I have every confidence that "cultism" would never be allowed to rear its ugly head here, either.  Trying to boss a bunch of Recon Folk around would be like trying to herd cats.  And we all hate Kool-Aid, so there you go............ :-) 

For a short while..........an idyllic time, it was.......we were granted a respite from any serious states of contention, so we could just BE with each other.  We let the magic of the mountains surround and enfold us, and off we went into 5D and Beyond.  Chehala shined at us across the canal, when we were doing Workshops and Processes, and the rest of those peaks beckoned us when we took to the road, and romped up the mountainside and through the forest. 

BUILDING A CRYSTAL FAMILY

The Conclave was a simulation, an exercise for what could be achieved when people begin to let go of obligations and attachments, and reach out to whomever or whatever seems to resonate, as we go upon our way.  Many of the individuals who showed up had made considerable sacrifices to be there.  One dear lady rode a train for 51 hours, each way.  None of the group had conscious control over who or what they would encounter during the week.  And it was all perfect, which was one of the primary lessons we covered in the first day's sharing. 

When I think of Crystal Families, I think of the little figurines of animals that were kept and nurtured by Laura Wingfield, one of the primary characters in Tennessee William's famous play, "The Glass Menagerie."  Her nickname in the story was "Blue Roses"........partially because she suffered from a disease called Pleurosis.  But more than that, she was named after something that was unusual, other-worldly, and quite unique.  Sounds like a Crystal City to me. 

There are those who might look upon Laura's Crystal Family as an escape.  And that's fair.  Everyone has his or her points of reference that are considered "real," while other aspects of consciousness are dismissed as "fantasy."  From a certain perspective, you might say that 3D reality is a form of "escape"......yes?   Don't we come here to this place in order to shake off power.......put up Veils in Consciousness.....and dance in limitation?  It is a GRAND GAME, regardless of the context of "fantasy" that is involved.    

(See "Imagination:  The Golden Key")
http://www.reconnections.net/dreaming.htm

In days to come, many of us absolutely MAY want to escape the unfolding energies that move through our 3D World.  I know those people in Florida and Jamiaca and the Cayman Islands probably do.  One member of our group had come to us from Orlando, and we were watching with interest for awhile, to see whether she would even make it.  Then, those winds from Hurricane Frances died down, and she jumped on that plane........leaving her husband and kids to mind the home fires without her.  It wasn't until we all reached HURRICANE RIDGE, on the last day of the Conclave that we learned that Hurricane "Jean" was coming onto the scene---with an initial prediction of hitting Orlando hard.  In retrospect, I do believe that Kassie was more use to them HERE, in the energy of this City, than she was being there, in the middle of the storm.  You'll see why a bit further into the article. 

WINDS OF CHANGE

Somewhere on this trip, I began giving the title of "Hurricane" to anything and anyone who whirled through a person's life, upsetting his or her applecart, and forcing everyone involved to re-evaluate their lives.   One member's mother is in the hospital, (apparently) dying of cancer.  We began calling her "Hurricane Mom."  Another member's ex-husband is kicking up a fuss over finances and personal space.  We call him "Hurricane Ex-Hubby." 

The Metaphorical Aspect of what is happening on Planet Earth is so important to notice!  We are each holographic beings.  Whatever is going on with one of us is actually going on with ALL of us.  Scientists and poets alike will call this "The Butterfly Effect."  The flapping of tiny wings on one side of the globe can have a documented effect on what happens on the other side.  We just don't always notice the links that are there.  And yet, we CAN notice these metaphors, if we learn to think in a certain way.  The Reconnections call it SYMBOLOGICAL THINKING. 

Yesterday, under the powers of a full moon, I had to put my ailing 18 year old cat to sleep---a beloved and treasured member of our family.  He was a sweet, mellow yellow cat, and his name was Ziggy.   Want to see him? 

http://www.reconnections.net/ziggy.htm   

Today........in my life........ my cat is being recognized as "Hurricane Ziggy"  His passing has shaken my life, blown away some emotional debris, and forced me to rebuild my concept of "normal" one more time. 

Have I had greater traumas?  Oh my........yes.  Have others tasted more widespread devastation than a deceased cat?  Of course they have.  But for me, Ziggy's loss was my "Hurricane du Jour."   In doing this, we take a worldwide phenomenon, vividly portrayed on CNN, and I grounded and personalized it to my own life context.  The Guides teach that connecting with our world in this way creates a powerful medicine of the heart.........a medicine that is called COMPASSION. 

"Ask not for whom the bell tolls.  It tolls for THEE."  --John Donne. 

It's very easy to fall into a habit of categorizing traumas and changes, according to some external scale of disruption they produce.  Some disasters are considered HALLACIOUS, while others are simply nuisances or inconvenience.  In this way, a person can get in the habit of glossing over certain bits of angst and grief........because those "injuries" don't amount to much, according to the "Univeral Pain Scale."  I mean, who spends time weeping over a lost bracelet or a dead kitty, when there are people in the world who are dying of famine, suffering from rampant diseases, or being bombed out of their homes?     

We reason that "others have it worse than me, so I'd best just get over this, and move on."  Though there can be some utility to such a position, it has been my observation that folks rarely GET OVER things that are handled in this way.  Instead, they sweep them under the rug, by hiding pain in joints and muscles--or clenching their jaw when they sleep at night.   

Hurricanes and Wars are devastating.  No one can question that.  But more people collapse each day under the strain of those "mosquitoes of life" than they do from being attacked by the elephants.  When an elephant comes your way, at least you have the sense to get up and run.  But mosquitoes are tiny, insidious, and they drain of you life force........bit by bit.  (Or, should I say....bite by bite?)

In my opinion, the whole business boils down to perspective.  Are you ONE OF MANY, or are you MANY OF ONE?  When people hurt, do we hurt with them?   In most cases, NO.  We are protected by a Veil, and focused into a particular life context.  We hurt according to OUR plan, and OUR journey.  And yet........the Doctrine of Correspondence tells us that linkage of experience is happening on all levels.  My loss of a cat could be seen as CORRESPONDENT to another person's loss of a home.  The context of experience is different, but the losses connect.  We're not talking about quantity or value.  We're talking similar vibration. 

For more info on this doctrine, I invite you to visit this sector:  http://www.reconnections.net/correspondence.htm

It isn't unrealistic or weird to SHARE the griefs and pains of life with our world.  It's very spiritual.  At one point, modern psychology was all about "detaching with love," and letting others have their own experience.  Relgion, too, has long emphasized that we should "be in the world, but not of it."  All of that is turning around now.    Certain events, such as the death of Princess Diana and the 9-11 Tragedy are changing our internal needs as a planet.  Though it is certainly advisable to avoid being "co-dependent" with folks........we must not allow ourselves to create so much distance from each other that we run out of compassion.     

CHOOSING TO CARE

The transmission entitled "2004:  Families of the Heart" outlines a distinction that is now being made between "obligatory caring" and "conscious choice" in relationships.  A key passage in that message is as follows:

"The nuclear family continues to explode.  We do not mean to sound facetious here, but a little humor often serves to soften a blow.  We speak, of course, about your definition of "family" that derives itself from connection through marriage, bloodline, political or religious tradition, and ancestry.  

In truth, these elements do have power, and will continue to hold power.  But their value exists primarily within the implicate order that they have provided for your life in 3D.  You might think of them as givens or starting equations that make up the "rules" for your Grand Game.  As such, they have served you well.  But, by no means, were they meant to dictate your entire physical journey.  

For every implicate order there must also be a voluntary commitment to nourish and support it. 
Where there is no conscious choice, there is no genuine love.  There is only a sense of obligation and heaviness.  Though these qualities do provide a rudimentary sense of security and grounding, they often stand directly in the way of a person moving beyond his heritage into a whole new area of achievement and personal realization.   

It DOES take a village to raise a child.  And it does take a village to meet the emotional and sociological needs of those who live in society.  Humanity is getting to the place where you can no longer pretend otherwise. 

There are, basically, two levels of human relationship and interaction.  One of them arises from commonality of purpose and mutual physical need.  If two (or more) can live as cheaply as one-- you can bet that, during the year 2004, people will try it .  There will be a whole host of reasons that you will choose to dwell together.  Mostly, you will do thing because they work.  If they don't work, you will try something else.   As the energy rises on the planet, higher and higher, you will no longer have strength to perpetuate relationships and situations that don't work for you.    

The second level of human relationship has to do with Energy Alchemy.  Each transforming soul upon the planet now is a compilation being.  This means that you each carry essences and remnants of energy that span many lifetimes.  To us, your souls look like tapestries, made up of unique vibratory "patches," that are stitched together-- representing incarnations, talents, gifts, and "issues" that need to be worked through.  

More and more, people will find themselves magnetically pulled towards certain individuals, whose energy is required to complete their transformation.  These attractions do not always make sense, nor will they necessarily be utilitarian in nature.  But you will certainly feel the need, and many will choose to follow their energy into deeper contact with these individuals.  

Some of these dances may last a day, while others may continue for a week, a month, or even longer.  In many cases, the intensity of these transformational contacts will tend to blow the connection out within a short time.  When this happens, the dancers will return to their safe harbor relationships--to share the energy upgrades, as well as to process through all the feelings that come along with them.  

Soon, humanity will understand that "monogamy" or "long-term commitment" is not something that can be decided in advance. Neither does it have anything to do with sexual exclusivity.  Genuine "commitment" is a spontaneous perpetuation of comfort and peace that two (or more) individuals grow into, almost without knowing it is happening.               

Having freed yourselves from religious constraints and "till death do us part" promises, humans will recognize that all time is NOW, and all worthy connections and collaborations must have in-the-moment tonal resonance in order to do you any good.  You can't decide to do things just because you "should."  That no longer works.  In truth, it never did. 

The heart is no longer just a storehouse for sentiment and fond memory.  It has become a cauldron, wherein powerful mixtures of  Multiversal Mind and Personal Passion are blended and refined to produce the necessary transmutation that will enable you all to make the leap to 4D.  

Your "Families of the Heart" may bear no resemblance at all to the family line that brought you onto the planet.  In some cases, the cluster of people who "ring your chimes" may be as strange and mismatched as those alien creatures in the "Star Wars Bar," that was featured in the first version of that movie series.  So what?  What's important is: they work for you."

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TURNING WITHIN

And so, as I sat out at daybreak, there by Lake Crescent..........my soul began to chant.  And as I chanted, I felt something welling up inside my chest......a transcendence of joy and exhultation, concerning where all these Earth Changes are now taking us.

I chanted: 

O! The Crystal City, Chehala Selah! 

O!  The Crystal City!

City of Dreams

Bosom of Love and Hope!

Land of THE IMAGINE NATION."


I understand that another Conclave was happening in the Grand Tetons last weekend, and I was just informed that a new Crystal City is being constructed in The Rocky Mountains of Colorado as well.  If any of you have leapt forward to begin this powerful work, please let me know.  At some point, we may begin charting the flow of energy through these cities.  It isn't all that necessary, I suppose, but it IS fun..........fun to watch in 3D, what we are now creating in 5D and beyond.

Our ceremony, at Chehala, was an incredible thing.  One of our members lives in Southern England, about 80 miles from Glastonbury Tor.  Knowing that a cool, clear fountain of water flows near the 3D site of Chehala, she suggested that each person visit his or her local apothecary and get a small bottle---into which we could pour our local "water of life."  She invited us to add flowers, herbs, or other essences that make the water distinctive to us.  Kassie, our member from Orlando, Florida......actually set an empty bottle out in the rains from Hurricane Frances, to collect vibrations from that powerful expression from Source. 

And so we came...........each one bearing our "bottles of life."   Angel brought essence from the Chalice Well in Glastonbury.  Some brought spring water from Texas and others toted in bottled water from New York City.  Several came down from various parts of Canada, bearing their watery essence--what the Guides have oft referred to as "Liquid Crystal."  

We cleared the area, with smudging and incense, and artfully arranged foilage and candles.  It was something to behold!  Then, I stepped forward, and held out a big plastic pitcher and collected some fresh water from the well.   At the end of the ceremony, I added another batch---which was collected at Chehala on the day of the Venus Transit, last June.   Then, our Mistress of Ceremony..........Angel..........swished the water, first clockwise, and then counter-clockwise......and we each refilled our bottles with a compilation mixture of all the energies present. 

Since then, many of us have been using this water to annoint our chakras, and those of special friends and clients.  Normally.........it is the custom at Chehala for everyone to flash the mountain with our bare chests.  (We don't flash each other, just the mountain!)   For some reason, we missed following through on this ritual.  I trust that God/Goddess of brassieres will not look too negatively on this ommission!  :-)        

It was a grand and glorious time.  I won't elaborate much more on each event.  You'll have to come to a Conclave to see all the goodies that come forth.  But I will say that I have been greatly inspired (and commissioned) to sustain Chehala, and its inhabitants and charges..........so that we will continue to see powerful surges of energy going to and from that grand generator crystal, mounted up there.  There will be many pictures to follow............when all our photographers get me the disks. 

My special thanks to my dear, special companion Nina........to has been along with me on many journeys.  Without her help and assistance, this superb event would have never have happened.  And also........I am so grateful for those who have upheld us in prayer and meditation.  Your presence was definitely felt and much appreciated!  

Love and Oneness,

Daniel Jacob

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From BUILDING THE CRYSTAL CITY, Pt. 2
(www.reconnections.net/crystal_city.htm )


IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME!
 
Each of us is a multidimensional being.  We each have an infinity number of "soul fragments" that can be sent out to populate and inhabit the cities of all those who invite us to come.  This is also true of historic figures, music and movie stars, cultural icons, avatars, wizards, and ETs!  We can invite them all............and, if we have faith............(which is the mortar that is used to bind togther the pieces in our Crystal City).........we will begin to feel their presence with us.  And we will also become willing to believe that a powerful aspect of SELF is now sitting within and enjoying the grandeur of that city. 
 
Pipe dreams?  Foolishness?  Oh well, allright..............as you speak it, so shall it be done unto you.  We might all be surprised at how many "pipe dreams" have been turned into physical matter, and stand tall in our nation's landscape.  Everything that is anything begins in the Crystal City.  The city of ORIGINS..............our very own ZION, if you will. 
 
The last HUMAN CITY.........because it is formed and fashion out of that which makes us most human........our sense of DESIRE.  Out of desire comes design.  The two are infinitely linked together.  To have design but no desire is to pay homage to a lifeless God.  To have desire but no design is to bury our faith before we ever give it life. 
 
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for..........the evidence of things not seen."   Hebrews 1:1 
 
This verse says.........even for Fundamentalist Christians to hear:   "If there are people who choose to believe in a thing, their very belief in it is PROOF that it exists."   This one idea is a foundation stone for the Multiverse. 
 
J. R. R. Tolkein was a lover of languages.   He loved linguistics above all other things.  He was fascinated by it.  In his book "Silmarillion," published after his death, by his son Christopher...........we were told that Tolkein created two complete Elven languages...........built them from scratch, from the bottom up.........and he loved those languages.  The entire "Ring Trilogy"...and the whole of Middle Earth was created by Tolkein so that there would be a place where these languages could be spoken. 
 
Today, all over the Internet, and in cities around the world........those two languages, Quenya and Sindarin, are being taught and spoken by people of all generations.  Tolkein's "vision" has become a reality.  The languages.......and everything else they imply.....the Elvish power and dignity......the whole kittenkaboodle........is coming to life. 
 
IF WE BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME. 
 
What is it that you LOVE?   I asked you this in the "Becoming Magical" discussions, and no one really answered.  Have we become so jaded by our "3D Mindset".......that we dare not look inward, to discover what it is that we really want.........what it is that we long for? 
 
We don't serve 3D.  These dimensions are here to SERVE US.  They make things VIVID, so we can see and examine them.  After that, things can be filed away..........in a lesser density space.............until we need it once again.  Els asked me:  "What good is all this, in regards to our 3D life?"   My answer has to be:   "The Crystal City is the very heart of our creation process........which is manifest every day, moment by moment........in 3D.  And 3D is our report card, not our blueprint.  The blueprint starts elsewhere. 
 
Our Crystal City is built...............100% of it...........on what we want, on what we love.   It is built upon personal, experiential truth............concerning the desire behind our design. 
 
I told our Office Manager yesterday that I believe that the core of all therapy............all meditation.........all spiritual seeking.......is to get a clear grasp on what each of us WANTS.  The personal history is nice.  But so what?  Now what?   The catharsis in therapy is good (and dramatic!)........but then it's done, it's out.  So what?  Now what?  
 
We're so downloaded, every day.........by what others think we SHOULD HAVE...........or what we SHOULD DO..............the things that are "best for us".   But what is it that we want?   What would we long to possess, or to do, or to be.........if we could have anything that we want?   It takes a long time to build up enough rapport with a person, in order to have them TRUST YOU ENOUGH to listen to their dream, to the thing that they want most of all.  Perhaps this is why you didn't answer me. 
 
And so........what say you?   Where would you like your Crystal City to be built?  What would you name it?  And where, on your Street of Dreams would you care to live?   If you can't see it, you can't be it.    

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