{"id":1825,"date":"2012-01-25T14:53:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T19:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karmafest.com\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2012-01-25T14:53:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T19:53:46","slug":"5dec11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmafest.com\/wp\/5dec11\/","title":{"rendered":"5Dec11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are difficult times for many.\u00a0 Of course there is the usual holiday stress and\/or blues, but this year may be different for a good many people.\u00a0 We are awakening and yet there is such a dichotomy still remaining in all we see around us that the contradiction doesn\u2019t feel very pleasant in our body\/mind\/spirit.\u00a0 We are coming into new understandings, as a people, but most are still invested in the old ways.\u00a0 Freedom?\u00a0 We can almost taste it: but it is not here.\u00a0 Peace?\u00a0 We can feel it in our hearts and in our circles, but as a general rule, in this world, we are not yet there.\u00a0 Love for all our brothers and our sisters?\u00a0 Someday, we can only pray.\u00a0 If you are someone who sees the changing times and are excited at the thought of ascension to higher consciousness, but are frustrated by the lack of understandings of these concepts when dealing with others while in your day to day world (at work, grocery shopping, driving down the street, even looking on facebook), please be strong.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 You are the first to believe, the first to \u201cget\u201d these concepts, which makes you the core of the movement.\u00a0 If you get dissuaded, how will the others be able to change?\u00a0 Please stay strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are difficult times for many.\u00a0 Of course there is the usual holiday stress and\/or blues, but this year may be different for a good many people.\u00a0 We are awakening and yet there is such a dichotomy still remaining in all we see around us that the contradiction doesn\u2019t feel very pleasant in our body\/mind\/spirit.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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