Why do you wear that stupid human suit?

You wake up each morning
and put on your disguise.
Step into your human skin,
and adjust your mask -
Gotta be like all those other guys.

Always mourning,
for this wasted life.
I just want to see you
Alone, in your selfless charade.
you don't have to endure this strife.

But you won't change
You just won't understand,
To you,
it's not a masquerade.
To you,
it's real.
To you,
you can really feel.

You think your eyes are open
when they're really stapled shut.
The chains,
the locks,
the ties upon your being
are so obvious
and yet you're so oblivious
that the ropes remain uncut.

When we channel, we think we are accepting the messages of higher spirits, angels or even god. SO many of our prophets have talked about spending 40 days and 40 nights in a desert, or closing themselves off from the world or going on so many soul searches and meditations so they can Channel the "higher" beings in the universe.. But in all actuality we are only channeling our inner selves.

I have been there. I have sought truth in it's deepest form and I have looked deep into the chasm within me, and eternal cavern going deeper and deeper into my soul, a place darkened by time and fear. I have seen through it as so many people before me have, and saw not some great Divine spirit lurking there, all I saw was myself. And I understood then that the spirit speaking to us from within us is not any form of deity or god, it is ourselves.

I saw god within me and let him speak through me and I understood that he is myself, and that I am him. And furthermore a came to understand the great truth that not only is god within each and every one of us, and does he speak through us and marvel at our actions, but that He is Us, and that We are Him.

Now it feels like we are channeling someone else, when we are channeling ourselves, for the simple reason that when channeling our true selves we get to see our true selves and our true faces. And our true selves and true faces are so beautiful that it will feel like we are channeling god himself.

Our true selves and true faces are so beautiful and so pure that we are scared to look at ourselves and will attempt to run away from ourselves at all costs and we’ll do whatever we can to hide it from the world.

But in all truth there is no hiding it- in our deeper inner selves we are good, beautiful and pure beings that wish to do amazing things for ourselves and for other people, and we must do what we can to return to these inner selves and bring them out to the surface to shine upon the world, for these inner selves are indeed God.

You see the last time it was pure was when you were born, only a few days old. The Light within us is most visible when we are young babies, as newborns we are as pure as we can get, untainted by the world, unbound by rules, undamaged by society and culture. In this state we can channel the light within us in it’s purest and deepest form possible. This is the very reason why newborn children seem to have a light around them, this is the pure innocence and purity that shines within all of us. We simply have learned to bury it within ourselves and cover it up with the darkness of our society.

This is innocence beyond anything we can imagine. In our true deeper selves we are more powerful and beautiful then any of us can imagine. This pure inner self knows best what is good, but it does not know what is evil. It alone knows what will make us happy and it does it's best to guide us to what we really want.

God is a child, God is innocent. God, Jesus, Buddha, Krishna and all the rest were children trying to understand this strange world, and they were all no different than any of us. Every sacred text and beautiful story simply tells the story of ourselves and the journey we all go through in our lives seeking meaning and happiness.

We are far more powerful than what we know ourselves to be, and when we understand something to be right for us we have amazing powers to put forth and create that which we know we need to do, this is the power of ourselves, this is the power of god, channeled within all of us, channeled from within our inner child. And while we all play games and pretend to be other people and wear masks all the time to hide the world from ourselves, we cannot stop the inner God from shining through, and in the coming revolution we are going to have to let out this light to shine on the world.

That is each and every one of our mission, to find that beautiful inner light within all of us, and make sure that we are able to let that light out and shine it on the whole world. It is more than just a mission, it is our sacred duty, as servants of God, as beings who may call ourselves god. for THOU ART GOD!

Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.

Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.

The people you see on Kiva's site are real individuals in need of funding - not marketing material. When you browse entrepreneurs' profiles on the site, choose someone to lend to, and then make a loan, you are helping a real person make great strides towards economic independence and improve life for themselves, their family, and their community. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates and track repayments. Then, when you get your loan money back, you can relend to someone else in need.

 

Kiva allows microfinance institutions around the world, called "Field Partners", to post profiles of qualified local entrepreneurs on its website, www.kiva.org. Lenders browse and choose an entrepreneur they wish to fund. Kiva aggregates loan capital from individual lenders and transfers it to the appropriate Field Partners to disburse to the entrepreneur chosen by the lender. As the entrepreneurs repay their loans, the Field Partners remit funds back to Kiva. As the loan is repaid, the Kiva lenders can withdraw their principal or re-loan it to another entrepreneur.

Lenders' funds are transferred to Kiva through PayPal, which does not collect its usual fees in this case. Kiva lenders do not receive any interest because Kiva is not registered with the US Government as a broker.

Kiva was founded in October 2005 by Matt Flannery and Jessica Jackley. The couple's initial interest in microfinance was inspired by a 2003 lecture given by Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus at Stanford Business School. Jackley worked at the school and invited Flannery to attend the presentation; this was the first time Flannery had heard of microfinance, but it served as a "call to action" for Jackley. Soon after, Jackley began working as a consultant for the nonprofit Village Enterprise Fund, which worked to help start small businesses in East Africa. While visiting Jackley in Africa, Flannery spent time with Jackley interviewing entrepreneurs about the problems they faced in starting ventures and found the lack of access to start-up capital was a common theme. After returning from Africa, they began developing their plan for a microfinance project that would grow into Kiva, which means "unity" in Swahili or "nice" in Finnish. Kiva is run by a team with experience in business, microfinance, and technology.

In my personal opinion, this is a positive step into a better global economy, fueling local initiatives and sponsoring small business opportunity that will help the developing nations far more than any donation fund. Having said that, it is my personal opinion that small time donations are better than charity. You have direct control over what your contribution does and where it goes, there is minimal politics involved, little bureaucracy, none of the disgusting stickiness of most non-profit organizations.

It is my prediction and hope that Kiva's economy grow from $80,000,000 to a couple billion dollars.

How can you help? Pull out a couple hundreds out of your pocket, I know you can spare it, and hand it over to a cause you find worthy on Kiva.com then wait for your small impact to make waves and come back a thousandfold!

This is the pure essence of equal energy exchange!