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"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …

Monday, February 1, 2010

Tigers Taking To Their Old Lives in Jungles Of Sumatra

Jakarta Globe, Ismira Lutfia, February 01, 2010

Conservationists believe the tigers are doing well in their new home.

More than a week after two Sumatran tigers were released back into the jungle, they are reported to be roaming within a four-kilometer radius from their release point in Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park in West Lampung.

Conservationist Tony Sumampau, who heads the tiger-rescue center at the park’s Tambling Wildlife Nature Conservation, told the Jakarta Globe on Sunday that the global positioning systems attached to their collars showed that both tigers — named Panti and Buyung — have traveled about two kilometers and are roaming between Sleman Lake and the coastal area close to the conservation base camp.

“They must have found that the area is abundant with deer, one of their favored prey,” Tony said, adding that conservation staff had found a deer carcass believed to have been eaten by one of the tigers.

“The tigers, however, are not roaming the jungle together, but they are within about a kilometer of each other,” Tony said.

When being released on Jan. 22, Panti was reluctant to leave her cage, which was opened by Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan. It was a few minutes before she stuck her head out, and then slowly emerged.

As if aware she was the spectacle of the day, Panti did not run straight into the jungle, but stood, roared, took a look around and then lingered around Buyung’s cage, which had not yet been opened. Then she suddenly turned and ran, disappearing in the bushes.

Unlike Panti, Buyung leaped straight out when his cage was opened and took off into the jungle on Panti’s trail.

Buyung and Panti, whose name is a shortened version of her species’ Latin name, Panthera tigris, have come a long way since they were captured by villagers in South Aceh in 2008.

They were then kept in cages for some time at the Aceh nature conservancy center before businessman Tommy Winata agreed to finance their costly rehabilitation process.

Buyung and Panti spent about 18 months in the two-hectare rescue center with two other tigers, honing their instincts and undergoing monthly check-ups before they were declared fit enough to survive in the jungle once again.

“Panti had a tumor in her mouth but that has been fixed now,” Tony said, adding that Buyung had been underweight for his size and age.

The two other tigers, Salma and Ucok, are not yet ready for a return to the jungle.

Salma is believed to be a man-eater so “she needs further rehabilitation so she doesn’t return to those ways,” Tony said, while Ucok, a male, has had a broken claw.

Kurnia Rauf, the head of the national park, told the Jakarta Globe that the protected jungle should be able to accommodate more tigers, saying an estimated 45 Sumatran tigers were living there now.

“[The park] fits the classification of having the right prey density per kilometer square to support a larger tiger population,” Kurnia said.

Other tigers living in the park must have sensed that they were about to have company. According to Taman Safari Indonesia staff, a tiger was seen at midnight near Buyung and Panti’s cages. The sighting of the tiger was supported by fresh prints the next morning on the beach about a kilometer from the cages.

The paw prints could have been from Agam or Pangeran, two tigers released from the rescue center in July 2008.

The day before their release, Panti and Buyung were sedated by a team of vets so two 7,000 euro ($9,706) GPS collars could be placed around their necks, allowing them to be tracked through the jungle for 200 days. They were then transported in cages by truck to the release point, about seven kilometers from the rescue center.

The GPS will also help the conservationists know whether the tigers interfere with the traditional human settlement at the Pangekahan enclave within the national park, where about 157 families live as they have for many generations.

“If they see a tiger entering their village, they’ve been asked to notify the forest officials,” Zulkifli said.


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Panti, a six-year-old Sumatran tiger, lying sedated in a cage before being released into the wild in southern Sumatra after an 18-month rehabilitation. (JG Photo/Afriadi Hikmal)

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