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Wow, The Opening touched me hugely. I feel it, I felt it throughout the crazy lockdown times, that Opening happened then, it was hidden in plain sight. It continues, as Bayo so beautifully says, if we hold it in our vision, the Opening is always there. We can’t not see it, once we have stared into the abyss, and the bliss. Just wonderful. Thank you, thanks to all the contributors and visionaries, which is ALL of us.

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I've only watched the opening so far and I find it brilliant! It does justice to the feeling that I and many others have. I wonder... are we in a time where we feel it coming or has it already happened. It feels like the latter.

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I remember it, as it’s happening now. What an exquisite film. Thanks so much for sharing. And the summit looks wonderful, too.

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Feb 5·edited Feb 5

Watching The Opening brought to mind this Rumi poem (translated by Coleman Barks):

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.

Don’t go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want.

Don’t go back to sleep.

People are going back and forth across the doorsill

where the two worlds touch.

The door is round and open.

Don’t go back to sleep.

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Thank you Charles! "The Opening" film was BEAUTIFUL!!!! BEYOND beautiful!!!!

With all the ugliness happening in the world right now, it is a pleasure to focus on the beauty we do have and the power of imagination to create more.

To be able to have more beauty for ALL it is important to also confront, understand, and shatter suppression. And many are working towards this. If you haven't had time or taken the time to follow the Genocide court case with the ICJ, or the most recent follow up meeting of the United Nations Security Council, there is a link below to access some short videos of some of the most important updates:

https://decensored.news/china-south-africa-at-un-israel-gaza-genocide/

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Thanks, Sheila. It is good for Charles to have this kind of review after taking a few weeks off. He needs to know and appreciate that we are keeping up the cause on his behalf, and ours.

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"The Opening" is beautiful! Where I'm at, the opening comes and goes as a fissure in the ground. And there's so much to learn down there in the fertile darkness! My favorite part of the film was the credits. In addition to job titles like "professor" "architect" and "psychologist", there were "key turner," "rainmaker" and "ancestral alchemist." This gives me hope that there is work for me too in the world that is calling, even though I don't have language for it yet.

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"The opening comes and goes as a fissure in the ground".

50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. 51 And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth shook and the rocks were split. 52 The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to many. 54 Now the centurion, and those who were with him keeping guard over Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that were happening, became very frightened and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!” Matthew 27

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Charles - have you read the book 2150 AD by Thea Alexander? It's a fictional novel taken from Thea's ex husband Don about a utopian world of the future where everyone owns everything, and the most import goal in life is helping each other. It's out of print, but if you're interested I'll send you a link to the pdf. Love mike

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Yes, it did really happen, Jesus, the Son of God is that hole in the sky, through him you can know and be filled with the Spirit of God!

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The Return of Christ

25 “There will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves, 26 men fainting from fear and the expectation of the things which are coming upon the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 27 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” Luke 21

7 Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen. Revelation 1

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Tears of joy. We see it happening.

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Just finished watching The Opening. Very powerful. We’re all connected.

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Sounds really interesting! Looking forward to watching

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Charles I have honored your work since you became attached with JFK Jr. who was my wrongful death attorney in the wrongful death case I filed with Baum, Hedlund et. al. I love the way you laid our your set up, and I imagine you have people to help with that. I am asking if you can refer me to someone who can do the same for me. I have several of your books and they are always a refreshing read. Thank you Charles, Deborah Brooks. https://substack.com/@deborahbrooks/posts Shattered, The Journey not Wanted. Deborah@deborahbrooks.com, 949-285-1577

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Brilliant collective work and have shared with many. Would like to watch again before it ends this Sunday. Charles, My NAAS account has been closed and unable to resign in or choose plan today...this is the copy...are you going thru a revamp and I should sign up elsewhere? Are u on LOCALS? or another platform? A NEW AND ANCIENT STORY

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Good to hear from you, Charles! And there is also Julia Maryanska in a "Village of Lovers" producer's trio.

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Hi Charles,

I watched the provocative documentary, "The Opening", with an eye toward your remarks. You seem to convey that you were once an idealist and an optimist. Yet, with years of seeing the defeatist ideologies of the brutal power-brokers working in the world, you now admit to being a pessimist. That is the wrong attitude to take. There is a much larger motivation to captivate us all. Yes, we are in a war. But it has an outcome that is right and true. Just ask Philip what he thinks of today's scene. He will likely tell you that it is crap, and why should young people believe their elders. Does that make sense? Yet, he loves his dad, and that is the beautiful part. I felt a certain conflict between son and dad in your video on Philip, but it comes across all the more with your current sentiments about the world, and its supposed, "opening". You don't believe it for a minute. You claim pessimism, rather than idealism, and this is the current moment. Many others feel the same way.

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I went back to your first verbal remark, and it occurs at 4:32 in the video. You said words that would indicate that you once thought the world would wake up, and now you don't think so. So, why are you on this production?

Once upon a time there was an opening, and it was seen in every human birth on earth. Then, over a period of about three years, the opening was covered up and we each became a kind of closed universe. This is when Entropy began. This is also when the Son of God becomes the Son of Man, and human memory begins. Indeed, memory only begins at about the age of three. By then, we not only walk and run, but we also speak words in our language. These two functions are a remarkable achievement, and lead to a third. The human skull is open at the top when we are born, but in the first three years of life, based on these efforts to walk and speak, the bones at the top of the skull mesh and become united, and we begin to live in a closed universe. This is when we are "really" born on earth.

From this point on, it is all about the Reopening, which this video is really all about, but requires knowledge of what it truly means to be human. People cannot be stupefied in this endeavor, although it can be made a kind of provocation.

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6 So when the Disciples had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?” 7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority; 8 but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”

The Ascension

9 And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. 10 And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them. 11 They also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.” Acts of the Apostles 1

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