أجيال و أجيال

قلت لابنتي مالي أراك حزينة ليل نهار

قالت إليك عني أبتاه، إن هموم الشباب لا يفهمها الكبار

قلت نعم عقلي لن يفهمك لكن قلبي لا يشق له غبار

في حبك أنت و إخوتك كبارا و صغار

إن أضناك هم أغمضي عينيك و أرسليه إلي بصمت و بلا انتظار

أكفيك إياه و أحوله إلى سعادة، إن للحب لأسرار

لأنني أنا و أنت، و هو و هي، و كل إنسان، من نفخة العزيز الجبار

فهل تعجزنا هموم الدنيا التي تبدو عظيمة و هي بلا اعتبار ؟

اعلمي ابنتي أننا في هاذي الدنيا ليس لنا اختيار

سوى أن نحب و نعطي بلا مقابل أو انتظار

لأن الذي أعطيناه في الحقيقة هو نحن، إن أمعنا النظر و الإعتبار

أنظري إلى الهم و الحزن في القلب مهما علا و استطار

لا بد زائل كظلمة ليل، لا محالة يطردها النهار

إذن إضحكي أو إبك، بلا كبت و لا انفجار

لكن في أعماقك نفس مطمئنة، آمنة، مستكينة، متصلة بعالِم اﻷسرار

يقول لها "أدخلي جنتي" الآن و ليس آجلا، بل في هذه الدار

Day D : Happy New Love Era !

December 21st, 2012, 11:11 am in the clock of the site http://time.is

Here we are; at the much hyped, revered, commercialised, anticipated, and very often feared, the date of December 21st, 2012. This morning on the Internet, I caught, in the picture above, the exact moment of transition to the New Era at 11:11 am.

Any anniversary is almost an arbitrary moment we choose to celebrate some great event or simply a pleasant moment. The Long Count in the Mayan calendar ends exactly today at 11:11am. Many of us see in this date a symbolic date of the new Age of Humanity. An age of Love, Harmony and Awakening.

So, in this great symbolic day, I'd like to tell you "Happy New Era !" 

 

A cycle of 26000 years ends, another begin... Happy New Era !

Is has been proved that a world dominated by the mind, the ego leads us to all kind of calamities. So let's begin this new era by being more heart oriented, more loving, less calculating, more sharing, less hoarding, more feeling, less thinking, more gratitude, less complaint, more happiness, less sorrow, more play, less seriousness, more here and now, less there and tomorrow, more be, less become, more whole, less many...

Despite outwardly the World didn't change, but if  you trust your heart, you will know that the changes are tremendous. The light has definitely won and the age of darkness is behind us forever... When you celebrate your birthday it doesn't mean that you have gained a whole year during the day of celebration. The aging process lasted for one year and your celebrate at the climax. The same here, our collective and individual awakening has begun many years ago. Today is a day of celebration. But the process is not finished. It is still going on. For me, today it is the greatest day in my lifetime so far. If a greater day is to come, there will be no "me" to celebrate it, but the Universe will ...

D - 1 : One God, One Consciousness

Day D minus One

Today is The Day Before ...The Day Of Love, just one day away from the so much expected December 21st, 2012. In this beautiful day, instead of long discourses, I'd like to share with you what the number One is inspiring me, with some pictures and comments. Enjoy !

Muslims have this beautiful sentence stating the Oneness of God : "There Is No God But God", no matter how you name Him, Brahman, Yahweh, God, Allah, The Source, etc. So many names, so many symbols but the same Oneness 

Obelisk in Luxor (Egypt), Paris (France) and Washington (USA), the same form pointing to Sky, to Heaven ... to God

Unfolding Red Rose in my balcony. I took the left photo three days ago. The right one is a today December 20th, 2012.
Despite the relative cold weather in Casablanca, this red rose of spring is daring to unfold this December to share with us our celebration of Love, of God, the One. The Soil nourishing this rose is from the same Earth sustaining human bodies. The Life animating this rose is the same Consciousness flourishing in human beings. Ultimately, we are One.

D - 3 : three days and three stars

Photo Credit : The three stars in ORION Belt

Since we are three days before the iconic date of December 21st, 2012, I would like to share with you some thoughts and feelings about the  three stars constituting Orion Belt. Their alignment is somehow related to the near coming galactic alignment.

There is also an alignment of three planets, Saturn, Venus and Mercury, visible with naked eyes, early in the morning, this December 2012. You can check the end of this article for more information about this alignment.

So, for a few minutes, relax in your sitting, open your heart and let go with me in this little journey in the stars.

Orion, the Constellation of Many Alignments

The three stars of Orion Belt are located in the Constellation of Orion, a beautiful winter constellation. In our latitudes, this constellation is visible this December almost all the night. It rises about one hour after the sunset and sets before sunrise. The following picture summarizes some interesting facts about Orion Constellation this December 2012.

Near neighbors of Orion Constellation as seen in the sky this December 18th, 2012

Apart from the three stars of Orion Belt there are two other bright stars in this constellation : Betelgeuse, the red super giant star and Rigel, the blue super giant star. Both are among the ten brightest stars in the sky. Betelgeuse forms with Sirius (the brightest star in the sky) and Procyon an almost perfect equilateral triangle, The Winter Triangle. The three stars of Orion Belt are sometimes called The Three Sisters. If we look to the right of The Three Sisters we can see The Seven Sisters or The Pleiades Constellation. Not very far from The Pleaides, Planet Jupiter, the biggest planet in our solar system, is located, This December 2012 in the Taurus Constellation near the red star, Aldebaran.

Below Orion Belt there is the Great Nebula of Orion. Located at 1500 light-years, this nebula contents luminous gas and dusts with many new born stars.

There is also an interesting fact about Orion : it is located in the "Celestial Equator", an imaginary plane prolonging Earth's Equator to the infinite sky. And when the alignment with the galactic center will happens in three days, Orion constellation will be exactly at the opposite direction from the sun and the galactic center ! This is illustrated with the arrow in the picture above and with the schema below :

Celestial Alignment with the Galactic Center and Orion Constellation on December 21st, 2012

Some scholars saw in this alignment an astronomical sign known by ancient Egyptians who build the three main Pyramids in Giza at locations like the positions of the three stars of Orion Belt.

Orion, the spacecraft

A mockup of Orion Spacecraft being tested in the Atlantic Ocean

Nasa is working on a new spacecraft to explore Solar System with human crew. The goal is to return to Moon, then to an Asteroid before going to planet Mars. This new spaceship is called Orion. Ancient Egyptians called the Constellation Orion, Osiris, the Egyptian God of Dead and Afterlife. So naming Orion the new exploration program  is a good idea especially after the tragical accident of Columbia in 2003. 

Four Days Before Day of Love

Photo Credit : That's Love

Since we are four days before the iconic date of December 21st, 2012, I would like to share with you some thoughts and feelings about  a four letters word : LOVE. Why this word ? since it is the best word describing the era we are symbolically going to enter next Friday.
So, for a few minutes, relax in your sitting, open your heart and let go with me in this little journey of Love.

What is going to happen on December 21, 2012 at 11:11 am ?

Before talking about Love, let's answer this nagging question : "What is going to happen next Friday ?"

The short answer : nothing

A bit longer answer would be this : we can't say that nothing will happen tomorrow or any coming day, since nobody can predict the future. Since Live is unpredictable. We can't either assert that nothing will happen since many events happy or unhappy happen everyday in every corner of the world. But if the question is about the prophecies predicting disasters which may end Life on planet Earth, the answer is clearly NO. There is no scientific evidence, religious indication or spiritual clue associating the date of December 21, 2012 with any disaster. So there is absolutely no reason to fear any catastrophe next Friday or any other day. 

But the french proverb says "Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu" (There is no smoke without fire). If there is anything to fear why all this mess in Internet ? Why am I talking about this date here ? Concerning Internet there is always ill persons who have interests in provoking fear and terror in innocent people. They have various agendas. Some are aiming to controlling human beings by propagating fear. Other have pecuniary goals : selling books, kits, shelters and many stuffs to "be prepared" for the doomsday. Of course this is all nonsense for me but marketing strategies for others.

Personally I love talking about this date of December 21st, 2012, since it symbolizes a beginning of a new cosmic era, an Era of Harmony and Love. The great cycle of 26000 years in the Mayan calendar ends this  day and another cycle starts. Many scientists, scholars, religious leaders and spiritual teachers agree that humanity has to make a clear choice now : If we continue in our current trend exhausting natural resources and killing each others, we are heading to our own extinction. If we choose to change our life paradigms from War to Peace and from Earth Destruction to Harmony with Nature, we will be able not only to survive as a species but to thrive and go forward in human evolution. And what is the key behind the new paradigm of "Peace and Harmony with Nature" ? It is LOVE. And this why I would like to talk about Love today.

What is Love ?

In the free dictionary, the love is defined as "1- A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person" and as "2- A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair". These are beautiful definitions approaching some manifestations of Love, but my preferred and own definition of Love is : "Love is the Feeling of Oneness" Let me  illustrate this definition by living situations. When you love a pet or a human being you like to hug and kiss it/him. Hugging is a try to merge physically with the beloved one. We can also notice that in sex, or "love making", there is also a desire to "penetrate" and to dissolve in the other person. So behind the physical manifestations of love, there is a strong feeling of oneness inducing an innocent, yet naive, desire to be physically one with the object of love. Hence my preferred definition of "Feeling of Oneness". 

The  Oneness feeling is the strong form of love : we lose our individuality and we merge in our beloved. We are dissolved and we form a single being with the beloved. But there is also a less strong feeling of Oneness : sometimes it is felt and expressed by words designating a part or an internal organ of our body : heart, liver, baby, etc. Heart is a common expression; what about liver ? in Moroccan language for example we can say "q'bitti" (my little liver) to express a love situation ! "Baby" is used with reference to a baby in mother's womb : it is an integral part of the mother's body.

So the first keyword in my definition is "Oneness", the second keyword is "Feeling". Love is not a concept in the mind, it is a feeling. Since it is not a concept we can't grasp it by defining it using words. The word "Oneness" in my definition of Love is not "Love", it is just an indication or an invitation to feel Love. So to have a little glimpse of love dear reader, close you eyes after reading the current sentence, and try to remember a situation when you met a beloved being after a while or the moment when you were going to leave your beloved; then try to relive the moment when you hugged her/him/it. In this moment, the time stops, your body is flood by an indescribable energy, tears come to your eyes, your body is shaken by vibrations and then it is followed by a deep stillness and a desire that this moment lasts for eternity. You had experienced Love.

The New Era of Love

In the Love's definition above, "Feeling of Oneness", it lacks the object of Love. I firstly defined Love as "Feeling of Oneness with a Being", then I removed "with a being" in my definition. Why ? Since it will restrict the scope of Love. The true Love has no borders, no object : it is an unconditional flowing Love towards anything, without distinction. Let's see this in more details.

The main objective of our journey in this planet is to learn "Love". In primary stages of our evolution we had to learn Love in easy situations : love of our family, parents, children, wives and husbands, etc. It is easy to love them since there is a concrete link with those persons facilitating the feeling of oneness : blood, physical similarity, etc. Then came the second stage of love : your neighbour, your city or country fellow, etc. Then came the ultimate Love expressed in Gospel and in Quran :

Matt. 5:44 But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you...

وَلَا تَسْتَوِي الْحَسَنَةُ وَلَا السَّيِّئَةُ ادْفَعْ بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ فَإِذَا الَّذِي بَيْنَكَ وَبَيْنَهُ عَدَاوَةٌ كَأَنَّهُ وَلِيٌّ حَمِيمٌ ﴿41:34﴾

(41:34) (O Prophet), good and evil are not equal. Repel (evil) with that which is good, and you will see that he, between whom and you there was enmity, shall become as if he were a bosom friend (of yours).

These words are not new but the humanity didn't really understand them. This Love of "the enemy" was understood and applied by a few minority but most of human being saw in this wise recommendation just a poetry they don't apply in their day to day life. 

This was the era we are going to leave : an era of hatred, wars and enmity towards Life. What does Love should mean in this dawn of the new era of humanity ? It should be a Love without any object. Loving your family is no more sufficient. Loving your country is no more good enough. Even loving your enemy is still below the expectations of the new Era. Our Love should be without any object, it should be an unconditional flowing Love. Hence my definition "Feeling of Oneness" without specifying any object of Love. Yes you could Love other human beings, animals, trees, Earth, etc, but all this Love is just a part of real Love : Unconditional flowing Love, which means a strong feeling of oneness with everything in the Universe. 

December 21st, Day of Love

I think humanity is now ripe for the new kind of Unconditional Love : a strong feeling of Oneness with everything. This feeling is a direct consequence of awareness. When we are fully aware, there is no borders between us and anything in the Universe, animate or inanimate. Even the so called enemies are just unconscious beings still trapped in the jail of their mind; but their true being is not separate from us. How could exists an enemy if we are feeling really a unity with everything ? Yes, for example, Hitler and other dictators are mad, cruel and unconscious human beings. But, do you think they would done what they did if there weren't millions of unconscious human beings supporting them ? and many others millions hating them ? All this madness of war and extermination of innocent people is the result of our own collective unconsciousness.  We can change this situation by being aware of our own madness and dissolve it. Then the separation from others will dissolve gradually and the more it dissolves the more the feeling of Oneness/Love will increase. In the new era of humanity we should not support any mischief deeds neither from our enemies nor from allies. The unconditional Love don't recognise any country, religion or any kind of separation. Any separation is against Oneness, hence against Love.

The global awareness among human beings is spreading these last years at unprecedented scale. So the new Era of Love and Harmony has already started but we will celebrate its dawn, symbolically, in four days, next Friday December 21, 2012.

Fragile, Precious, Infinite & Inexhaustible Life

The 5 kilometers wide asteroid named '4179 Toutatis"

Cosmic Close Shave

Phew, we dodged it ! Yesterday, 12/12/2012,  the Asteroid 4179 Toutatis  passed "near" the earth at "only" 7 millions kilometers. It is it's closest position to the Earth and it reached it, yesterday Wednesday, in the morning.

If this kind of Asteroid hits Earth, it is likely that the humanity will be wiped from this Planet. So, the prophets talking about a doomsday for this December 2012, were about to be right, but thanks God, Toutatis was 15 times the Earth-Moon distance away from us.

A radar image of Toutatis Asteroid, worthy of a Sci-Fi movie !

But let's avoid declaring victory to soon, this big stone make a tour around the sun every 4 years and it is listed among more than one thousand PHA (Potentially Hazadrdous Asteroids ) ! Which means, even if these asteroids are not of concern for the Earth now, they are closely watched, if they change their mind and come visit us ! Jupiter, the biggest planet in our solar system, likes to play sling with asteroids, modifying their orbits... So it is not excluded that Toutatis or another asteroid slams into Earth in the future. It would be not the first similar event we experience. 65 millions years ago, an asteroid hit the Earth eradicating Dinosaurs and 70% of flora and fauna from the Planet.

The Orbit of the Asteroid crossing Earth's orbit a 12/12/2012
and passing just at 7 million km from our Planet

Each time I think to cosmic hazards the Humanity, the Earth could encounter, coming from the Cosmos, I remember the following verse in the Quran :

أَوَلَمْ يَنْظُرُوا فِي مَلَكُوتِ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَمَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ مِنْ شَيْءٍ وَأَنْ عَسَى أَنْ يَكُونَ قَدِ اقْتَرَبَ أَجَلُهُمْ فَبِأَيِّ حَدِيثٍ بَعْدَهُ يُؤْمِنُونَ

Have they not observed the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and all that Allah has created and that their term of life might have drawn near After this warning from the Prophet, what will it be that will make them believe? (Sura 7, Verse 185)

Preciousness and Fragility of Life 

I have written this article not to induce fear in you or to add grist to the mill of doomsday prophets. No, at all. There is a shallow reason and a profound one. The superficial reason is to have fun, to feel good. Since we, human beings, like sometimes to feel a brief fear just to better enjoy our life. This is why there is horror or catastrophic movies. It is our dualistic mind functioning in all its splendor !

The profound reason is I'd like to stress the fact that Life is too precious. Too fragile. There is no warranty, no insurance policy at the cosmic level. A Life which has lasted for billions of years could be wiped in a few hours, months or years, that is to say, an eye blink for the Universe.

We can observe this at each level. For example, a seed can remain several weeks in the soil. Then after the rain season, the seed start sprouting. A little plant struggle to break the cocoon and finally emerges from mud, from the soil. With the help of the sun, the little plant grows and finally become a beautiful flower or a blade of grass. Then, suddenly, an unconscious man walked on with his big boots, or a sheep passes through the area; and the flower is gone.

The Life is so fragile, with no security. The more insecure it is, the more enjoyable and flowering it is. Freedom and aliveness have always the shadow of insecurity. This is  why man's mind is trying to eliminate this insecurity. By doing so, it is killing Life, it is killing Freedom.

Dear fellow human being, you probably chose to come to this planet knowing well that Life is insecure and without any warranty. But after growing in the body and in the mind, you have forgotten. Your identification with mind advises you to live in a beautiful prison with the illusion of security. You hoard for the future. You sacrifice the present moment, the family, the friends for a hypothetical future. But at the end, there is no real security, since there is death. So dying tomorrow, 30 or 70 years later doesn't change anything in the fact that Life is insecure. So why not enjoy Life every moment ? Why not forget all the future, throw out all the past ... And be present, here and now ? Every second we live in this planet is a precious and fragile moment. Don't waste it. Every moment is beautiful, even the moments of suffering ... You can always find something beautiful in Life, so enjoy it. Stop your mind, open your heart, be vulnerable to Life, don't struggle, go with the stream of Life. Then every moment  will become a blessing, a celebration, a deep prayer. What ever you do, do it with awareness, with presence, with love and gratitude. You are eating. Beautiful. Enjoy your eating. Be grateful. Be loving. And the lunch or the dinner will become a prayer, a pure happiness. Your are walking in the street. Enjoy your walking. Hear the beautiful sounds around you. See the marvelous diversity of colors and forms of human being passing in the street. Be aware of the beautiful clouds in the sky ... and your walk become an intense moment of prayer and blessing.  This is how to transform each simple doing into a beautiful being.

So an awakened human being doesn't really care if the asteroid  4179 Toutatis will hit Earth today or tomorrow.  He has chosen to experience this Life in this Planet with its implied insecurity. So he enjoys every moment and when the hour of saying goodbye comes, he enjoys this too; since he knows well that the adventure is not terminated. It will continue in other more and more exciting existences. The Life is not only Precious and Fragile, it is also Infinite and Inexhaustible. And we are Life.

Tramway Casablanca : Tarif / Fare / أثمنة

Ticket/Card Recto وجه البطاقة
10 voyages/travels/رحلات

Pour prendre le tramway de Casablanca, il faudrait choisir un type de carte et un tarif. Le tableau ci-dessous donne les choix possibles.

To take Casablanca's tram, you should choose a card type and a fare type. The table below gives the possible choices.

لركوب ترامواي الدار البيضاء يتعين اختيار نوع البطاقة و نوع التعرفة. الجدول أسفله يعرض أنواع الإختيارات المتوفرة

Ticket/Card Verso  ظهر البطاقة 

12-12-12, Day D-9

We are 9 days before the iconic date of December 21st, 2012. If we reverse the order of digits in the number 12, we obtain 21. Another indication of December 21st, 2012. So today is characterized by two numbers 12 and 9, both indicating the date of December 21st. Of course we can write an article about almost any number; but those two numbers are really magical.  You can check this interesting website about the date 12/12/12 . I liked especially the picture about the twelve-vortex array in a rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate. You can also check Wikipedia article about numbers 12 and 9. In this article I'd like to write about the date 12/12/12 from a Koranic perspective.

Surat #12 :  Yusuf

I've just inserted in Wikipedia article about number 12, this phrase : "In Quran, the Sura number 12 is Sura Yusuf (Joseph), and it is located in Juz'a (Arabic : الجزء) number 12. This Sura narrates the story of Prophet Yusuf and his 12 brothers." But what I didn't write in Wikipedia is the following : If we look at the verse 12 of this Sura, it says :

"Send him with us tomorrow to enjoy himself and play, and we shall take every care of him."أرسله معنا غدا يرتع و يلعب و إنا له لحافظون 

The brothers of Prophet Yusuf are telling to their father to let them take their little brother, Yusuf, with them; pretending that they will take care of him. Later in the Sura, we will know that it is a lie. After considering to kill Yusuf, they finally decided to abandon him in a deep well.

So the 12th verse of the 12th Sura in the 12th part of the Quran reports a LIE. Moreover, this Sura starts with this dramatic event, the abandonment of Yusuf in the well, but has a happy end : Yusuf and his brother will meet their father Jacob; who will forgive his other 11 sons.

Surat #9 : Attawba

The 9th Sura in Quran is Attawba. The word Attawba means "repentance" in Islam. The arabic word means also the "Return". The person who repents is a person who returns to God after distraction. Surat Attawaba is the only Surat in Quran not starting with "basmalah" (In the name of Allah most gracious most merciful) It couldn't start with this verse since all the beginning of the Surat is tough towards polytheists and disbelievers. The harsh tone of the Surat will persist until the last verses. At the end of the Surat, the tone become less harsh and more merciful. It announces the acceptance by Allah of the repentance of the three prophet's companions. And the two lasts verses are among the most beautiful verses in the Quran :

[There has certainly come to you a Messenger from among yourselves. Grievous to him is what you suffer; [he is] concerned over you and to the believers is kind and merciful. But if they turn away, [O Muhammad], say, "Sufficient for me is Allah ; there is no deity except Him. On Him I have relied, and He is the Lord of the Great Throne."]

Symbolic meaning of Surat 9 and 12

Both Surat start with unhappy and dramatic situations or events  but at the end, happiness, joy and mercy are predominant. This is how I see our situation these days. Earth is now a planet of sorrow. But the coming date of December 21st, 2012, which symbolizes a shift of human and earth consciousness, will certainly bring a new era of joy and happiness. An era of Peace, Light and Love.

The Sylph

Paradise Bird by Aomori

In these blessed and beautiful days, this fairy tale is my gift for you, dear reader. Many cultures are celebrating holidays this late November, early December. Muslims have just celebrated the beginning of Hijri Calendar culminating with the Day of Ashura, November 24th, 2012. Jews are starting the celebration of Hanukkah, the festival of Light, yesterday December 8th, 2012. The same day, the Buddhists are celebrating the Boddhi Day, the Day of Enlightenment. And of course Christmas is coming soon... But before December 25th and St. Sylvester's Day, there is the end of the great cycle of Mayan calendar, some December 21st ... And I would love that you read this tale before this mythical date. So, enjoy reading my modest holiday gift for you !

Foreword

My name is Sami. In my time-line, today is December 9th, 2014 and I'm celebrating my 37th birthday. I'm now living in the new Earth, far more beautiful than any paradise a human being had ever dreamed about before... But I'm not going to talk about this new Earth, since you will soon experience and live it. I have just made a leap, back in the time, of two years to post this story in this blog, this December 9th, 2012, in your time-line. This narrative may looks like a fairy tale, but it is really what happened to me; this unforgettable day of December 21th, 2012. You may believe it or not, it is not so important. But I have a great message for you, dear fellow human : what you will experience these coming weeks, late of December 2012, is too wonderful to be conceptualized by your current mind. Yet the vibrations of your heart will soon overwhelm your mind and "push" it into the next level of consciousness. In this vibration level, you will see, experience, the True Life, the Beauty and Majesty of this World.

Fabulous Awakening

I awoke this morning with a strange feeling of peace and stillness. Seldom I sleep without any dream. But this night, it was a dreamless, peaceful, deep relaxing night. Usually I don't use any alarm clock, I wake up spontaneously about one hour before sunrise. That to say about 6:00 am in December. I don't open my eyes immediately, but I enjoy the feeling of the transition between the sleep and the awaken states. I feel in my heart a deep gratitude for this new day, given to me by God, to continue my journey in this planet. I also listen to the sounds surrounding me. The peaceful breathing of my wife beside me, the sound of the tramway passing next to my building, the rustling of my balcony's plants in the morning breeze, etc. I experience this meditation, this listening, while lying in my bed, eyes closed and without any thought. Not a single ripple disturbs the calm lake of my consciousness. But this morning, an unaccustomed deep silence enveloped the room where I woke up. No single sound was heard. Then the first thought of the day came to my mind : "We are The December 21st, 2012 !". In my ordinary state, this thought would raise a lot of others thoughts, emotions and perhaps fear or anxiety. But not this morning. I was too peaceful, too still to be seduced by this thought. I looked aloof at this idea brushing my mind and trying to get my attention, but I remained relaxed, gently centered on my being. So the thought faded on its own and I continued feeling my body, hearing the unusual deep silence surrounding me. I also felt an aliveness and weightlessness in all my body. I enjoyed this feeling for several minutes before, finally, I decided to slowly open my eyes. I knew later that my eyes are opening on the birth of the new World ...

What I saw the moment I opened my eyes this morning is, till now, two years later, very vivid in my memory as if it happened just yesterday. The room was enveloped in the darkness, not a single beam of light filtered from the large window. This darkness with the deep silence enhance more the feeling of stillness and peace. But despite the total darkness, I could see distinctly all the furniture in the room as if I were in the daylight ! It is difficult for me to explain this paradox : a total darkness with a day-like sight ! I could see everything in the minute detail. The objects seems to have their own inner source of light ... their colors were glowing with a beautiful and rich soft light, just illuminating themselves. For example, the reddish-brown color of the commode had now a multitude of beautiful shading and glowing colors, I hadn't seen before. I slowly looked to my wife sleeping like a child beside me. Not only I could see every detail in her lovely face, but her head were surrounded by an aura sparkling with beautiful colors shading from orange to yellow. I knew that every living being is surrounded by an aura, but I never have been capable of seeing it. I had seen photos or pictures of auras but experiencing a real aura is simply marvelous. All the head of my wife was surrounded by this aura, so it was not a circle but a spherical haze of light twinkling with throngs of multicolored beams of light sparkling up to 20 cm above the head. Then, I noticed that my own body was also surrounded by an "auric field", a kind of glowing light of a few centimeters over my skin. I couldn't see with my eyes the larger aura around my head but I felt that I had a beautiful one like my wife. All these surprises didn't affect my calm and stillness. I continued to experience the feeling of silence and ... love. Yes, the air seemed to be charged with love. I can't explain that, but a deep feeling of oneness with everything was pervading all my being. I felt as if there is no real boundary between my body and the rest of the world. It was a continuous of life vibrations, soft, beautiful and so silent ...

Condensation of Energy

Then I felt a living presence in the room; other than my wife. I raise my eyes, and I saw, suspended in the air, a beautiful little "light" being. The creature of light, almost transparent, was about 130 cm tall. It hovered there, in front of me, about 40 cm above the ground. The intelligence was reflected in its smiling face and the goodness was emanating from its entire light being. Its head was surrounded by a huge and beautiful golden aura. Its hair, which was long and silky, golden-blond in color, fell to its shoulders and framed a face that was perfectly oval in shape. Under its blue-mauve eyes and long curled lashes, its nose was well-proportioned and slightly flat at the bottom, which accentuated a perfect mouth.(1) It was not dressed by any kind of garment, but the skin was transparent. Under the skin there were no organs but a kind of little light bubbles circulating through the body. I don't why at this moment the word "Prana" entered my mind. Could these small bubbles materialize the "Life Fluid", called "Prana" by some ancient cultures ? The arms and legs were analogue to human being ones. The light creature had no genital organs and no body hair. It floated in the air, but had no wings. The gravity seemed to have no effect on it. The divine being, with a large smile, transmitted to me telepathically this phrase : "Hi Sami, how are you feeling ?". Surprisingly, I was not shocked by this vision. The feeling of Love pervading my whole being was stronger than any other emotion. I answered by the same way, mentally, "Thank you. I am fine. Who are you beautiful being ?" The smile on the face of this light creature become larger and the answer came in my mind : "I am what your legends call a Sylph, created from pure air". After a little silence, The Sylph continued. "I see that you are a little puzzled, I will give you more precisions, not by words, but I will "send" it to you and you will understand ..." Instantly, I saw clearly in my Mind the scientific explanation of the origin of The Sylph and all those marvelous creatures populating our legends and fairy tales. I will try to put this knowledge into words; as simple as I can.

The Earth like other similar planets in the Galaxy, periodically, at the beginning of some cosmic cycles, receives a huge amount of Love Energy from the Galaxy, especially from what we call "Black Hole", in the kernel of the Milky Way, our home galaxy. This tremendous Energy is aimed to make some evolution leap in the DNA of the inhabitants of the target planet. This colossal Energy filling the space of the Earth "condensed" at some points with many beautiful and special kind of Life. Like the air when it is charged with steam, in the coolness of the morning, some dewdrops appear on the leaves or on the blades of grass. The same thing happens with Love Energy, it creates some "coolness" producing the creation of Sylphs, Mermaids, Gnomes and other light creatures. But what distinguishes these living beings from the permanent inhabitants of the planets is their inner constitution. This condensation of Love Energy creates a special state of matter, what physicists call Bose-Einstein Condensate, or BEC. This special state of matter is "pure" in the meaning that it has a simple quantum, yet macroscopic, state of energy. In other words, our bodies of human being have very complex quantum states of Love Energy, in the other hand, the fairy tale creatures are made of simple states of the same energy. Also, like dewdrops, these beautiful beings are short living. Like dewdrops gracefully disappear with the ascent of the sun in the sky, these beautiful creatures are gone when Love Energy takes another configuration.

Dance of Energy

The Sylph told me telepathically "Sami, will you please meet me down stairs, in the street" and it disappeared passing through the wall of my room ! I dressed quickly and take a look to my wife. She was peaceful in a deep asleep. There was no sign of any coming awakening. I printed a light kiss on her lips, got out of the room then I headed towards the flat's door. A few seconds later, I was in the street where The Sylph was waiting for me. The darkness was still total, there wasn't ever the slightest beam of sun's rays from the east, where the sun was in theory about to rise in less than one hour. This time, instead of telepathy, The Sylph talked to me in Moroccan Arabic, my mother tongue : "How are you feeling now, Sami ?". I was about to answer its question when my eyes caught the environment in the street around me ... and I stayed open-mouthed ! The Sylph burst into laughter. It laughed so heartily that I recover a little from my astonishment and painted an shameful smile on my face. Usually at this time of the day, there are cars in the street and some people going to their jobs or coming from the Mosque after doing the first prayer of the day. Instead of that, the street was full of magical creatures, standing, walking or floating in the air ! Some looked like The Sylph I already met. Others, were real mermaids; but are swimming in the air ! Their pretty body, half-woman half-fish was so light that it could float in the air and they were elegantly swimming across the street. In the corner of the street, near the tramway station, a group of Gnomes were laughing and talking to each other in a language unfamiliar to me, but very harmonious; like a beautiful music. There were also human beings like me, but they were strangers for me. I felt that they were coming from distant planets in the galaxy. Some are very big sized, almost three meters tall and others are "normal sized". But all those beings were beautifully framed with a marvelous golden aura. Theirs faces were glowing with beauty and nobility. When a group of those giants passed by me and The Sylph, they addressed to us a large smile. Not knowing how to greet them and not daring touching their divine body, I just closed my eyes and joined my hands in a deep namaste, charged with all my love and blessing. When I opened my eyes, one of them touched slightly my shoulder with his hand. I felt immediately a beautiful fluid traversing my whole being and a feeling of well-being followed.(2) I thanked him telepathically and he continued his walk with his friends talking in their melodious tongue. I also "knew" that this group of giants were coming from a planet called Thiaooba, in a system located in the beautiful constellation of Pleiades.

The magnetic fluid induced in me by the giant E.T., helped me to gather courage and relaunch an already stopped mind. I eventually answered the question of The Sylph. "Yes, I am fine, thank you. But why are those visitors from other planets here ? Where are my fellow citizen gone ? and why the sun is not yet arising ?" The smile of The Sylph became larger, then it answered in Arabic : "Don't worry, you will understand every thing soon. I will transmit all the answers the same way I did before, directly and instantly in your mind. But before that, I'd like to introduce to you a being you met one night ..." At this moment, a blue-mauve horse with a large tail of peacock appeared in front of me. I immediately recognized the horse I saw one night in a vivid dream. I never forget this beautiful animal. It was so real for me even in a dream. I could communicate telepathically with him and, in the dream, I rode his back for a long time in a beautiful mountainous landscape. Sometimes we were on the ground and sometimes we flew in the air without any wings. The gravity simply disappeared for us in this wonderful dream. When I saw the peacock-horse near The Sylph, tears come to my eyes and I started hugging and kissing the horse as if I had met a beloved after a long absence. I could hardly believe that I was really with this lovely horse. I caressed his hair, looked deep into his eyes ... The horse shared his joy with me by jumping and neighing with his melodious voice.

Birth of New Earth

The Sylph transmitted me the answers of my questions instantly and we departed for a journey around the World. I rode my horse in the air and The Sylph "flying" beside me. The Sylph explained me in its instant "transmission" that the Earth has entered temporarily in an upper dimension. In this dimension, there is no sun. In fact, Earth and all inhabitants disappeared from the solar system for three stellar days. I understood why many channels and mediums predicted 3 days of darkness... During this period of ascension of the earth to the upper dimension, most of people and animals will be unconscious, in a state sleep-alike, but more peaceful and dreamless. They will join their "higher selves" or "the heaven" for a little rest, while their bodies will receive a kind of "surgery" of their DNA. The Universe is preparing The New Humanity for The New Earth. In the Evolutionary Biology, scientists had coined the word "saltation" to designate a leap in the evolution of a species from one generation to another one. A new saltation in the human being DNA was in progress during those three days following the December 21th, 2012. After that, people will wake up without noticing any change in their clocks and calendars. But the change in DNA will be noted by the biologists sequencing the human genome. This remind me the suspension of a virtual machine in a modern computer. All the applications running on a virtual machine are suspended for a more or less long time; then resumed. For those applications, the time has stopped, but not for the "host system", where the virtual machine is running. The environment can be radically changed, but only noticed afterwards, when the virtual machine is resumed.

During this period of three days not all people were unconscious. Some human beings, who were enough spiritually advanced, could withstand the huge amounts of Love Energy surging on Earth. Those were fully conscious during these three days. They were needed by the Universe to channel the Love Energy to their fellow in various regions and cultures of the World. Those few chosen are not great or known personalities in the World. Some of them are indeed famous, some great teachers are among them. But most of them are very humble and utterly anonymous in the world. Their Love is huge but their personalities/egos are almost nil. Their Soul is infinite but their knowledge/power is almost non-existent. Dear reader, you may think that those few chosen people were intended to do hard work and suffer to channel Love Energy to the new Earth and its inhabitants ! No at all ! They were present only to celebrate the birth of The New Earth. They were not supposed to do anything. Their only presence was sufficient. Not doing, not thinking. Just being. And celebrating. To share this celebration many human beings from other planets were invited by the Universe to visit Earth at this exact period to share their love, wisdom, joy and celebration with earthlings. During those memorable three days, there was not a single thought, not a single ripple in the surface of the Earth global consciousness. This stillness reached the depths of the Galaxy.

During our journey across the Earth, The Sylph, the Peacock-Horse and I we saw oceans and continents being scanned by a powerful laser beam. Sometimes the earth's crust cracked, a mountain shook, or a huge typhoon arose in the ocean and a few seconds later the calm got back. In the sky I noticed two bright "red suns" in the dark and starless sky. The Sylph explained me that these were two spacecrafts coming from a very advanced civilization in the galaxy. Those spacecrafts were producing the laser beams I saw earlier. One of the spaceships was fixing the damage doing by man to the Environment, cleaning the oceans, rivers and the air, repopulating the forests, seas and continents with flora and fauna, etc. The second spaceship were destroying and wiping the weapons such as atomic bombs, missiles and nuclear plants which are difficult to clean out in the current development of human technology. I understood then the meaning of the prophecy of two suns in the sky ...

During our journey across the world, The Sylph introduces me to many wonderful beings. Some of them were like me, earthlings, others were from various planets and some others were like it, pure creatures of Light. We all enjoy the three celebration days. We sang and danced peacefully. Once the three days were over, all the visitors from other planets went back to their homes and the light beings disappeared like dewdrops in the sun. When the moment of separation with my friend The Sylph arrived, I couldn't hold back my tears. I asked it if I could see it later. It told me that it will loss its light body in few hours. But unlike we, human beings, the light beings don't cross the river of oblivion before incarnating in another body. So it will remember me and I could meet it later, either as a another light being or as an animal. And if it is an animal it would be a horse or a dolphin. Since this day, whenever I come across a horse or a dolphin, I look deep in his eyes searching the soul of my friend The Sylph.

Birth of the New Humanity

December 24th for me, December 21th in the earth calendars, I was a little sad but I forgot my sadness when my family, my friends and all the human beings woke up. Their eyes are now peaceful, their heart pervaded by a silence and stillness never experienced before. They saw the new world with amazing and childish eyes. The joy and happiness were everywhere. During the few weeks following the December 21th, 2012, all the old monetary, financial, economical and political systems made by the old mind collapsed like a house of cards. Lot of people lost their jobs, the money lost its value ... but who cared ? The humans were too still, too self contented to be disturbed by such events. Instead of money, people try now to exchange their goods and services. In the beginning it was a real chaos; but everybody laughed at this chaos instead of being angry. We made jokes about the chaos and every one love hearing the last one. We really laughed heartily. Gradually things were getting better. New ideas were found to share commodities at the scale of the planet, without monetary system, without greed, without pollution and without waste.

After December 21th, 2012 and the awakening of humanity, military and political leaders were at lost. Most of them were becoming enlightened and understood the stupidity of their former job. Others, less spiritually advanced, were now a minority. Moreover without their weapons and without fanatic and mad people pushing them, they calmed down and try living without hurting other human beings. The job of soldier, politician and sensational journalist disappeared forever. Many other jobs remained but changed radically. For example, schools and teachers, businesses and their bosses had nothing to do with their previous activities.

Let me point out that awakening which followed the three days of December 21th, 2012 was not uniform. Globally the human consciousness increases. Human DNA changed to allow human beings access higher vibrations levels. But no one were forced to walk in his spiritual path faster than its own pace. Since the number of persons who were spiritually advanced were larger than the less spiritually advanced, the entire Earth toggled in the "Light Side of the Force" to borrow an image from Star Wars movie.

Christmas Eve celebrated on December 24th 2012, was the most wonderful and happy holiday ever celebrated so far on the Earth. Our friends from the distant planet, made their two spacecrafts shining two white laser beams, simulating two "white stars" in the sky near Pleiades constellation; each brighter than Venus. All the people in the world saw this phenomenon and recalled them the "Star of Bethlehem". But now, our celebration is double : the birth of the New Earth and the New Humanity. The two "stars" lasted in the sky during one month and disappeared. They were guiding humanity to the Cosmos. They invited us to join the galactic humanity in their celebration of Life. Now the humanity is spiritually ripe to explore the Galaxy and spread Love in the Universe. Certainly the human technology is still rudimentary, but now with its spiritual awakening, it is easier to overcome the old limitations of human technologies. The gravitational well of Earth will be soon overstepped using the anti-gravity vortex near Earth Poles. It will be easier to transport tons of equipments in orbit around the earth using little energy. Anti-matter engines combined with the fallout of the new Theory Of Everything will offer to humanity superluminal travels. Visiting a stellar system located one thousand parsecs from our solar system will be a little trip in the outskirt of our sun.

Epilogue

My story ends here. It may appear unbelievable or too good to be true, but it is the truth. What you will experience in coming weeks is far more beautiful than any narrative, any good prophecy. All prophecies of doomsday occurring a December 21st, 2012 are simply a misunderstanding. The three days of darkness are really days of light. The two suns in the sky, planet X or Nibiru are misinterpretation of friendly spacecrafts. All the destructions felt by some channels are meant to construct a better world, more friendly towards Nature.

I don't know, dear reader, if you will be conscious or not during coming 21st, 22nd and 23rd of December 2012. But in each case, be peaceful and grateful to God for his blessing and Love. The New Earth and New Humanity are in progress and have reached the Point of No Return. Peace and Love will win forever. Wars and suffering will disappear forever.

From your golden future,
Sami,
Casablanca, December 9th, 2014

Notes

(1) The description of The Sylph in the paragraph "Fabulous Awakening" is inspired and sometimes literally borrowed from the description of Thao in the beautiful book "Thiaooba Prophecy" by Michel Desmarquet.
(2) Ibid. See Latoli gift.

The Wisdom of the Triangle

The Wisdom of the Triangle leads to the Circle

1- Introduction

Usually the symbol of Wisdom and Perfection is not the Triangle but the Circle, since the latter is a perfect geometrical shape. In the other hand, Life is imperfect, but its imperfection is perfect, as Osho used to say ! So the perfect Circle does not exist in Life and a simpler shape such as the Triangle could be a mean to approach the Circle by an iterative process. Hence the title of this article.  

Firstly, I will start by recalling briefly a historical mathematical problem, "Squaring the Circle". Then, I will use the analogy of the transcendental number PI (π) to introduce the transcendence of all dualities in life : right/wrong,  beautiful/ugly, happy/sad, etc. This transcendence is the ultimate Wisdom.

Since my goal is not to write a philosophical article but to share spiritual experience, I'll show how we could progress in our spiritual life by transcending the dualities we experience in everyday life. The "Wisdom of the Triangle" can therefore be a powerful tool to attain the state of meditation or no-mind in day to day activities.

2- The Problem of Squaring the Circle

The expression "Squaring the Circle" means trying to do an impossible action. The source of this idiom comes from ancient geometers who challenge anyone to "Construct a square with the same area as a given circle by using only a finite number of steps with compass and straightedge". Since the area of a square is SxS  (S=side of the square) and the area of a circle is PIxRxR (R=radius of circle); solving the above problem means that PI is a rational number, that is a fraction of two integers (SxS/RxR). But PI is not rational. It is not even an algebraic number. It is transcendental. To put it in simple words, an algebraic number can be precisely defined using algebraic (simple) equations. But a transcendental number is a "wild" number which can't be confined in any simple equation. We can't neither calculate its value precisely even using the most powerful computers. We can only calculate approximates and finite values of it. The ancient mathematicians failed to prove the transcendence of PI and the "Squaring Circle" remains an unsolved problem until the 19th century when ultimately it had been proved that PI is transcendental. So it is useless to try to solve the problem of "Squaring the Circle". There is no solution for it.

The figure below shows a simple method to calculate an approximate value of PI by paving the area of the circle using many little triangles. We  can then calculate the sum of the areas of the triangles, divide the result by the square of the radius of the circle and then obtain an approximate value of PI. The greater is the number of triangles, the better is the approximation of PI and the nearer we approach the perfect circle.

From Triangle to Circle.
The sum of areas of the little triangles in step 3 is almost equal to the area of the circle.
We can refine the approximation of the circle by increasing the number of triangles.

3- From Transcendental Numbers to Spiritual Transcendence

Why the circle is the symbol of perfection, of wisdom ?  Here are some reasons :

• The Circle has no edge. Its shape is smooth without any angle. It can't "hurt". So the Sage.
• The Circle has no preferred direction. It is neutral; at equal distance from anything. So the Sage.
• The Circle has an unmoving center. The periphery can rotate, can be disturbed, but the center remains untouched. The Sage is also centered in his being. He is not touched by all what happens in the world. He remains a witness. A storm can raise huge waves on the surface of the ocean. But deep in the ocean, the stillness is not disturbed.
• During centuries mathematicians didn't accept the transcendence of PI trying to confine it in a simple equation. Finally the transcendence of PI is established and the "perfection" chased is definitely abandoned. So is Life. So is Wisdom. Life is not perfect since it is not dead. It is a perpetual evolution. It is not simply defined and we are done with it. No, Life is transcendental, has no beginning, no end. It is a perpetual celebration, a continuous creation, an infinite improvement.

4- What is the "Wisdom of the Triangle" ?

The world, as it is perceived by an ordinary human being, is full of dualities or contradictions. The mind can't perceive a thing if there is no contrary of it. Example of dualities : I/you, beauty/ugliness, happiness/unhappiness, wealth/poverty, positive/negative, female/male, etc. In the other hand, an enlightened person had transcended all these dualities.

But an enlightened man is almost a "perfect" circle. What about a simple spiritual seeker like me and you ? Here comes the "Wisdom of the Triangle". It is difficult to transcend all the dualities together. But we can proceed step by step. We can consider for example one duality : happiness/unhappiness. What does it mean to transcend this duality ? it means to go beyond ? what is beyond ? It is Peace ! So we can symbolize this by the following triangle :

To be in Peace is to go beyond Happiness and Unhappiness.
Source : Eckhart Tolle, "The Power of Now".

So a duality consist of two poles/ends of a segment. To transcend this duality is not to choose any pole, but to go beyond. Going beyond is to be in the state where the two ends merge in the third apex of the triangle. This is the what I mean by the "Wisdom of the Triangle". But the idea of triangle as symbol of transcendence is not mine. It is originated from Osho discourses.

Beware, to be effective, the transcendence should not be in the mind, but it must be existential. You should feel and live this transcendence. Otherwise there is no transformation, no progress in the spiritual path. Without existential experience of transcendence, we are just stuffing our mind and enhancing our ego. 

The beauty of the "Wisdom of the Triangle" is that by repeating the process of existential transcendence for each duality, the circle of our consciousness will be more and more perfect; and one day, suddenly, we are enlightened, fully aware ...

5- Practical use of the "Wisdom of the Triangle"

In this paragraph we will  enumerate some dualities and how we can go beyond them using the "Wisdom of the Triangle". 

5.1- Beyond Happiness/Unhappiness : Peace

Life can't be always "Un Long Fleuve Tranquille" (Long Quiet River). It always challenges us. Every challenge is intended to teach us something to let us grow spiritually. So we should try to find out what is the lesson behind each unhappy situation. For example, an unhappy situation can make us angry. So the lesson is probably to let us experience anger with awareness. We are are not supposed to suppress the anger or to express it while being unaware, but to be fully aware of the anger. If we succeed, it is beautiful; we will grow spiritually. If we fail, it is beautiful too. The Life will challenge us again in a similar situation until we learn the lesson. So in each situation we have transcended the unhappiness. In the case of success we grow. In the case of failure there is no guilt, no sadness : This is Peace.

Life can challenge us with happiness too. What is the challenge in this case ? we shouldn't cling to the the situation of happiness. We can enjoy it but not cling to it. Since we know that every situation should pass. Happy or unhappy, no situation is eternal. So we enjoy the moment present and if the happiness ends, we let it go without clinging, without suffering, with total acceptance : This is Peace.

So Peace is really beyond happiness and unhappiness. By accepting the unhappiness and not clinging to happiness we attain the eternal Peace. Here and Now. Situations of happiness or unhappiness can come and go. They are like ripples on the periphery of our circle and we are rooted and centered in our central being, in peace ...

5.2- Beyond I/You : Oneness

The mind divides and the first division is between I and the Other. Next divisions are : my family and the neighbours, my city/other cities, my country/the world, my religion/other religions, human being/nature, etc. So the root of all divisions, wars, environmental problems, are originated from the first division I/You. In fact the other is not really separated from me. If we go deep inside ourselves the borders disappear. We are the same Life expressing itself in different forms. We are all divine beings at various stages of consciousness. We, human beings, and other forms of life on Earth are not really separated. We are all divine beings at various stages of our evolution. 

So it is really ridiculous to be identified for example with a country, with a religion and consider oneself different from the other. Our birth nationality or birth religion is just an "accident" or perhaps a "choice" to learn something for our spiritual growth. So it should not be a serious matter. I can claim my nationality or my country if I want to enrich the other not to be separate from him. Really the difference of colors, religions and nationalities is a beautiful thing like the richness of flowers of many colors and shapes. Diversity of human beings make this world more beautiful, more exciting, more rich. But to transform this opportunity of complementarity into separation and even conflicts is totally stupid. 

In conclusion, to go beyond I and You is to feel and live the oneness with other human beings and with Nature. This transcendence is a must these days since the stupid mind of human beings is leading us towards destruction of our Planet. We must transcend this duality I/You and experience the Oneness if we want to continue our existence on this Earth. Otherwise we will die with an already dying planet ...

5.3- Beyond I/Myself : Wholeness

Almost all human being on Earth are mad. Since almost of them are identified with their mind. But the mind is not whole. The mind is fragmentary. So the identification with mind leads to schizophrenia. The I, the subject, is different from myself, the object. So we start judging ourselves , feeling sorry for ourselves, being proud of ourselves, not loving ourselves or hating ourselves, etc. When we transcend this duality, we are no more split, we are whole. 

When I am whole, I accept myself as I am. When the identification with mind occur, we start apply our knowledge, religion, society rules, etc to judge ourselves. But all our knowledge is fragmentary, contaminated by society illness, historical madness, etc. It is not the role of my mind to judge myself or to let me feel guilty. Its role is to be my servant not my master. I should hear my body, feel my being and align myself with Nature, not with the madness or illness of the mind. The society uses many mechanisms to make us slaves and serve its own agenda. One of these ugliest methods is to filling our mind with knowledge and moral concepts aiming to make us feel guilty whenever we listen to our heart and go in directions not allowed by the society. So let be whole and not judge ourselves nor feel guilty. Let accept what we are, how we are. We have not created ourselves and the Creator has certainly a purpose behind each of our traits. Life challenges us with outer situations and with inner situations too. We go beyond outer situations with Peace and go beyond inner situations with Wholeness and Acceptance. To be proud of oneself is the other end of feeling guilty : it is an illness too. There is nothing to be proud of or to feel guilty for. Let's go beyond and be whole.

6- Conclusion

In the last paragraph I presented some dualities and showed how to transcend them. But there is so many contradictions, so many dualities.  As said above, all our limited mind perceptions are dualities. And all these dualities should be transcended to be fully aware, fully alive and liberated from the slavery of the mind and the society. So it is up to each of us to meditate on all the dualities in his life and see how to go beyond them. The teaching of some spiritual teachers can be helpful; but the great teacher is our own heart. Let our body relax, our mind stop and listen to our heart, to the inner voice inside our being. If we are puzzled by some duality and don't know how to transcend it, let's not think about it. Thinking is always out of our knowledge, out of our past, so out of ill societies. Instead let's ask our heart, be patient, and listen to our inner voice. One day we will understand spontaneously how to go beyond the duality. After that, we can think about it and share it, using words, with other seekers on the path returning to God, our Ultimate Source.

Amazing sky early December 2012

Sky as seen from Casablanca,  December 2nd, 2012.
Picture generated by the free software "Stellarium"

Casablanca, December 1st, 2012 at 02:30 am, I was awakened by a tremendous thunderclap. Then a torrential rain followed. From my balcony I stared to the sky filled with reddish clouds. I'm not sure if it was really reddish or that was my imagination. Then I returned to my bedroom, meditating while hearing the sound of rain; before returning to sleep. I must admit that I felt some fear; since as far as I can remember, I never heard such a violent thunder... Each time I feel a strong emotion, I take this opportunity to meditate and explore my inner space... How the emotion looks like in the feeling, in the body ? what are the thoughts associated with it ? etc. Emotions can be waves to ride and go deep in our inner world ...

24 hours later, the landscape of the night sky changed radically. Before going to sleep I look to the sky. It was peaceful. Some tiny white clouds but no wind, no rain in the horizon. I woke up at about 5am. Some minutes later I was on the rooftop of my building contemplating the starry sky. This article is about this beautiful journey in the early morning sky of this December the 2nd, 2012.

1- The brightest objects in the sky

Stars and planets magnitudes.
A green background indicates that the object
was visible today in the sky

The astronomers measure the brightness of celestial objects (stars, planets, etc.) by a unit called magnitude. The table beside shows the magnitude of the brightest objects in the sky. The lower the value, the brightest the object. A star of magnitude 1 is 2,5 brighter than a star of magnitude 2. With naked eyes,  we can see up to magnitude 6.

In the table below against I marked with a green background the stars and planets which were visible in the sky this night. Not less than 3 planets were visible this night : Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. The brightest star in the sky, Sirius, was also visible. Among the 20 most visible objects in the sky, 11 was visible this night ! 

So in this early December 2012, you can enjoy the sighting of many, many beautiful objects in the sky ... if the there is not to many clouds, of course ! Before looking to the sky, you can prepare your sighting using a planetarium software. You can enter your geographical location and the date and time of observation and the software will show you what the sky would looks like. There are a lot of good free software offering this feature. For example Stellarium is a very good and powerful planetarium software. There is also a simple but useful online software : Neave Planetarium. All these software are very helpful, especially for gazing the planets which are always changing their positions in the sky. So, first learn to locate the stars, then locate the planets in their apparent position near the stars.

2- Star and planets gazing

When I looked to the sky in the direction of the east, I saw a landscape like the following picture :

A picture captured from the on-line planetarium software : http://neave.com/planetarium/

2.1- Venus

Near the horizon, Venus was very bright. Nobody can miss it. When the daylight comes and all the stars disappear, Venus remains in the sky until the last moments before the sunrise. Venus is a very beautiful object easy to see in the sky. With a little telescope I used also to admire Venus phases ! Yes, Venus has phases like the moon, but we can't see them with naked eyes.

2.2- Saturn 

Saturn with its rings and satellites at it could be

sighted in a telescope, this December 2012

The second biggest planet in Solar System, Saturn, was also visible this night. But since it is far from the Earth than Venus, the latter is almost 50 times more luminous than the former. We can see Saturn as a little star just above Venus in the east. With a small telescope we can see the beautiful rings of Saturn as in the following picture captured from Stellarium software.

2.3- Spica and Arcturus

Above Saturn to the right I saw Spica, the brilliant star in Virgo constellation. In fact, Spica is a double stars orbiting around each other every 4 days. Above and to the left of Saturn there was Arcturus a giant red star. Its diameter is 25 times sun's one

The sky towards the west offered me a very beautiful sight. Despite the presence of the moon, a large number of bright stars were visible this night as indicated in the picture below :

Picture captured from on-line software Neave Planetarium

2.4- Orion and Canis Major constellations

Just below the moon, the brightest star in the sky, Sirius, is shining in "Canis Major" constellation. And in the west of Canis Major there is Orion Constellation, which is my favourite constellation in the sky. It contents a large number of bright stars : Betelegeuse, the giant star with a red color, Rigel the bluish star and the three aligned stars, Orion's belt. Just below those three stars there is a "nebula", a kind of cloud of young stars just being born ...

2.4- Jupiter, Aldebaran and the pleiades

Jupiter and its four satellites 

as they can be sighted today 

using a little telescope.

Picture captured using 

Stellarium free software

Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system and the brightest celestial object after Venus. With a little telescope I used to see Jupiter
and its sattelites as shown in the picture against.

Below Jupiter there is "Aldebaran" which is an unmistakable red star. There are also 6 or 7 little stars forming a beautiful tiny constellation called "Pleiades". It is among the most beautiful objects to be sighted in the sky.

3- Star gazing as a prayer

In the previous paragraphs I've presented some information about stars and planets we can see during this December 2012, early in the morning. The presentation is some how "cold". The stars and planets are just "objects" in the sky with size, magnitude, color, etc. But if we stay at this level, we will miss the whole mystery of the sky. So let's be aware of this mind pitfall. He can say to us : "OK, this is the planet or the star X or Y. What is the next object to see ?". If after a star sighting we just name it and we move on to the next object, then we have missed a real opportunity of a beautiful prayer. A star or planet in the sky is not just "an object", it is a true being pulsating with Live. If after making acquaintance with the star or the planet, after recognising its name, seeing its color, the shape of its constellation, etc,  we stop our mind and we see this celestial being with loving eyes and opening heart. Then we will surely feel the energy emanating from this star or planet. Even if we close our eyes and let our being be showered by the energy emanating from this celestial object, we can feel it deep in our heart. Personally, whenever I stare to the sky with loving heart, the tears come to my eyes and I feel something touching my heart... For every lover of the sky, star and planet gazing is a true deep prayer.

Post Scriptum

December 3rd, 2012, for the second consecutive night, the sky was exceptionally clear with almost no clouds. Today, I was able to see a fourth planet in the sky : Mercury. If you are living in Casablanca and if you are, for example returning from the first prayer in the mosque about 6:15 am, you can look to the sky in the direction of the east (where the sun will rise about 1 hour later). Then you can see a very bright star. In fact, this is planet Venus. Just above Venus, a less bright "star" which is the planet Saturn. Below Venus, almost aligned with Venus and Saturn, there is a bright object near the horizon : this is Mercury, the nearest planet to the sun in our solar system. You can't miss this beautiful trio, aligned and bright in the sky, just above the east horizon ! (see picture below).

In our solar system, there is 9 planets (the ninth, Pluto is no more considered as a planet by astronomers, but there is a "destroyed" ninth planet : Asteroids Belt).  Jupiter and Saturn are two giant planets having satellites of the dimension of the Earth. Venus and Mercury are the nearest planets to the sun. With naked eyes, we can see Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury and Mars. All the other planets can't be seen without using a telescope. So in this early December 2012, one to two hours before sunrise we can enjoy sighting four among five planets visible with naked eyes. So it is really a great and exceptional occasion. Don't miss it !

So, enjoy your sighting ... and don't forget to open your heart, relax your body and let the prayer happens when you stare to these beautiful celestial beings ...

The three planets as seen above the east horizon this early December 2012.
The fourth planet, Jupiter, not seen in this picture, is in the west.
Picture captured from Stellarium software