16 Things You Should Say Goodbye To In 2016

By:  Mark DeNicola

The new year is just around the corner and during these times we often begin thinking of ways we can adjust ourselves and our habits to grow and evolve in our lives. Whether you are the type to create resolutions, or you prefer to look back on the prior year and see how you can improve upon it, there are always things we can do to expand ourselves, and in many cases make our lives both easier and more fun.

Here is a list of 16 things that I personally feel we should all put an end to in 2016: (and yes I chose 16 things to specifically match the year 2016)

1. Running From Your Problems 

The Alliance That Is Taking Down The New World Order

Found on Stillness in the Storm

This article is a 'grab bag' of events and developments interpreted in a way that suggests an alliance is working to bring about freedom for humanity while at the same time stopping the nefarious group that as worked tirelessly to promulgate slavery. 

To be clear, this is not the only interpretation of events. We cannot speak with absolute certainty that Neil Keenan is the signatory of the Global Collateral Accounts, or that the BRICS alliance has the necessary logistical infrastructure to topple the Federal Reserve System, or that Putin is working for the freedom of the planet, or that Judge Anna's lawful call to arrest Congress and the President will be honored. All these things and more are possibilities that serve as tools to empower us as individuals to be the change in our own right.  

Remaining open minded is an essential skill to develop in these shifting times, but this must be balanced by a personal approach to research, contemplation and discernment. 

One thing is certain, however if we continue to remain a disorganized and fundamentally divided people, the Cabal will most likely win the day. As such, let us not bicker about things we equally are uncertain of, and instead, work together to discover the truth and align ourselves to it to further the reunification of humanity. 

In my view, the Cabal fear this more than anything else. They fear the day when all the people of the planet set aside their petty differences and cooperate towards a common goal of truth, freedom and prosperity. 

Related How the Cabal Maintains Their Power And What You Need To Do To Stop It - Un-Consent | Beyond BRICS: Exposing the Rats

Related Part 4: 20 More Signs That The Global Elite’s Ship Is About To Sink

Related Citizen's Mass Arrest of the Cabal - What You Need to Know | NOTICE – PUBLIC ORDER – April 3, 2015 issued by Judge Anna von Reitz

Related Snopes Fails to Debunk Judge's Call For US Marshals and FBI To Arrest Congress and The President

- Justin

Source - The Spirit Science

By Lance Schuttler

Quite a bold title to an article, huh? Maybe you clicked on this because you were interested and hopeful that there is indeed a positive alliance systematically taking down the banking cabal, or NWO, as some like to call them. Maybe you already know of this alliance or maybe you do not. One thing is certain though, whether you believe it or not, this alliance is very real… and is winning.

Esoteric Meaning Of Christmas And The Winter Solstice

By Gregg Prescott, M.S.

Editor, In5D.com

The origins of Christmas predate Christianity through the Pagan holiday called Saturnalia, which was a week-long of lawlessness from December 17th through December 25th that honored Saturn and included human sacrifice, intoxication, naked caroling and rape. During these seven days, there were no punishments for breaking any laws, according to Roman law.

In the year 4 A.D., Christianity adopted Saturnalia with the hopes that they could convert the Pagans into Christianity by promising that they could still celebrate Saturnalia as Christians. (Imagine how that would work out today). Because Saturnalia did not follow Christian principles, the Christian leaders designated the last day of Saturnalia as the birth date of Jesus.

“Because of the Pagan origins of Christmas, the Puritans banned this holiday and between 1659 and 1681, Christmas was illegal in Massachusetts.”

Does Our Understanding of Egyptology Need a Paradigm Shift – Video

Source: Adept Initiates

Sacred texts have revealed the path of the initiate to be one that is not easily followed, but can be rewarding beyond measure.

The greatest figures in history have achieved enlightenment through the self imposed path toward higher consciousness. What can we gleam from the riddles left for us by the ancient ones?

What long forgotten mysteries remain hidden in the misunderstood symbols of our planet’s greatest civilizations?

Join Researcher/Explorer and host Anyextee in this revealing episode of Ancient Egypt Mystery Schools to unveil the Secret Teachings and Tradition of an Ancient Mystical Order and examine our whole understanding of Egyptology in a detail you do not want to miss.

Check out the second Episode of Season 1 – Ancient Egypt Mystery Schools

Found @ http://www.adeptinitiates.com/ancient-egypt-mystery-schools/does-our-understanding-of-egyptology-need-a-paradigm-shift-video/

Our Galaxy Awakens! | Evidence for Consciousness Shift - The Milky Way Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Is 10 Times More Active This Year

Source: Stillness in the Storm

The universe and all life in it seem to be organized via a process of entrainment or synchronization. From the very large to the very small, from the material to the metaphysical, all things are in motion, swirling and cycling waves of energy, condensed matter and thought.

Related Entrainment, Communication, Information and Evolution

The following article compiles scientific measurements of Sagittarius A*, the astronomical name given to the black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy.

A few items I found of note were the fact that x-ray emissions from the center of the galaxy have increased tenfold over the past year when compared to the previous 15 years of observation.

In the Reciprocal Systems (RS) model of the universe, as described by Dewey B Larson, material that has become energized beyond the speed of light emits radio emissions as it does so. When the material cools below the speed of light, then x-rays and gamma rays are produced [1]. Within the RS model, motion operating beyond the speed of light is in time-space, which is the metaphysical region of mind and consciousness.


What is suggested by this science is that the minds of living creatures are intimately associated with higher energetic activities of the cosmos. In RS theory, life is a two-fold product of material, below the speed of light motion, a body, and metaphysical, above the speed of light motion, a mind.

Judge Calls For US Marshals and FBI To Arrest Congress and The President

Source: The Mind Unleashed 

On November 28th, 2015, Alaska State Judge Anna von Reitz (Anna Maria Riezinger) addressed an open letter to all federal agents, including the FBI and US Marshals to arrest Congress, the President and the Secretary of the Treasury. She goes into incredible detail on the fraud that has been committed. Anyone who reads this is sure to learn at least something. Below is the text and you can open the original pdf here. This has been encouraged to be shared widely.

Anna Maria Riezinger (Anna Von Reitz)

November 28, 2015 Big Lake,

Alaska Dear Federal Agents:

Tibet’s Secret Temple: The Long-Hidden Tantric Murals of Lukhang Palace

By: Carey Dunne

source: hyperallergic.com

On an island in a pond behind the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet sits the Lukhang Temple, or “Temple to the Serpent Spirits,” a secret meditation space created by the Dalai Lama in the 17th century. For hundreds of years, this temple was closed to anyone but the Dalai Lama himself. Vibrant murals covered its walls, depicting yogis in impossible-looking poses, gurus and kings, crystals surrounded by rainbows, and the vagina that gave birth to the world. Used to initiate Dalai Lamas into yogic and tantric practices in the Dzogchen school of Tibetan Buddhism, very few got to see these murals.

Now, though, images of these long-hidden murals are accessible the world over, thanks to American photographer Thomas Laird, who in the spring of 1986 was the first to ever shoot inside this sacred chamber. A new exhibit at London’s Wellcome Collection, Tibet’s Secret Temple: Body, Mind and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism, puts life-size digital facsimiles of the Lukhang’s murals and their esoteric teachings on display. The temple itself was constructed as a three-dimensional mandala, a sacred geometrical shape representing the Buddhist universe, with three tiers represent the three dimensions of enlightenment — outer reality, inner experience, and a transcendent dimension beyond time and space.

Peer Reviewed Scientists Debunk Man Made Climate Change At Conference In Paris Called "Day of Examining the Data”

There is little doubt that current state of human civilization is out of balance with nature. Industrialization has wreaked untold havoc on the environment, destroying ecosystems as a matter of course, all in the name of profit and control.

The emission of carbon dioxide into the air has over the past 20 years has been all be criminalized by the priesthood of science. Advertisements indoctrinate the masses into the new age belief that humanity is polluting the environment to such an extent that it is catastrophically changing the climate. While pandemic pollution of the environment can't be ignored, the notion of man-made climate change is little more than a modern day myth, promulgated by a short-sighted scientific community and a despotic ruling elite. The recent Climate Change Conference in Paris sponsored by the United Nations, is receiving an enormous amount of media coverage, with talking heads on news outlets such as CNN and Fox news painting the picture that man-made climate change is an unquestionable reality. 

While globalist leaders plotted to further their war on CO2 and human life at the UN conference, The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and The Heartland Institute, an esteemed panel of peer reviewed scientists met in Paris on December 7th to present evidence that the theory of man-made climate change is implausible and unsupported by the full body of evidence available. 

New Free Energy Device On The Market - "Steorn's Orbo Power Cell Products"

Free energy or over-unity devices have long been dismissed as pseudo-science by the priesthood of technology, which dictates what the truth is to the masses. But if even one invention is capable of producing more energy than it draws, it is a proof of concept and demonstrates the incompetence of the establishment. 

For the seasoned researcher, the realities of over-unity are well established. Nikola Tesla is probably the most well-known pioneer of free energy technology. 

Related What Is The Schumann Resonance? | The Science of: Tesla, Free Energy, "Storms of Life", Scalar or Standing Waves, Energetic Evolution & Interconnectedness

Related Science Conspiracy: Suppressed Free Energy Science

The following article discusses an over-unity device that is presently on the market and expects to ship its first units in the early months of 2016. It costs about $1200, and can only charge low-powered electronic devices, but it is a proof of concept nonetheless. According to thermodynamic 'laws' in physics, this device shouldn't work, but it does. 

University Observatory Films A Real UFO: This Is What Some Of Them Actually Look Like

By:  Arjun Walia

Take a look at the picture above (see the film footage from video below). What you’re looking at is an irrefutably legitimate photo of an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO). For those of you who are unaware, the existence of UFOs has already been officially verified in the ‘mainstream’ world, as dozens of governments have released thousands upon thousands of UFO related documents over the past few years. In the process, they have revealed a high level of interest from the military and defence intelligence agencies around the world in this topic.

For example, here is the latest batch of UFO files that were released by the United Kingdom. Here is a four page U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency/NSA report detailing one out of hundreds (if not thousands) of UFO encounters with military jets. In fact, these objects are not only visually confirmed by the pilots who scramble to get a closer look, they are also confirmed on both air and ground radar.

If you want to see some more examples and documents of what happens when the military tracks a UFO, you can read this article that we published last year on the subject.

“I’m skeptical about many things, including the notion that government always knows best, and that the people can’t be trusted with the truth. The time to pull the curtain back on this subject is long overdue. We have statements from the most credible sources – those in a position to know – about a fascinating phenomenon, the nature of which is yet to be determined.” John Podesta, former White House Chief of Staff for Bill Clinton, Barack Obama’s right hand man (councillor), and the current head of Hilary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Taken from Leslie Kean’s 2010 New York Times bestseller, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, And Government Officials Go On The Record, in which Podesta wrote the forward.

Ancient Mysteries and Symbolism of Self Initiation - Video

Source: Adept Initiates 

Explore the Ancient Mysteries and Symbolism of Self Initiation

Sacred texts have revealed the path of the initiate to be one that is not easily followed, but can be rewarding beyond measure.  

The greatest figures in history have achieved enlightenment through the self imposed path toward higher consciousness. What can we gleam from the riddles left for us by the ancient ones?  

What long forgotten mysteries remain hidden in the misunderstood symbols of our planet’s greatest civilizations?

Adept Initiate's host Anyextee & legendary Symbolist Author/Rogue Egyptologist John Anthony West in a explosive series premier of Ancient Egypt Mystery Schools investigate the Hidden truth and understanding of history in a detail you do not want to miss. 
Check out the first Episode of Season 1. 

Found @ http://www.adeptinitiates.com/ancient-egypt-mystery-schools/ancient-egypt-mystery-schools-ep01-a-dual-agenda-online-premiere-today/

Russia Breaks Huge Story: ISIS is Supported by the U.S. and Nato Allies, Detailed Evidence Of ISIS-Turkey Oil Trade

It's well known in awakening circles that the terrorist group known as ISIS or ISIL is an American financed and led organization. This was conclusively demonstrated in a recent full length investigation by David Wilcock which you can read here.

Recently, Russia held a ground breaking press conference presenting even more evidence ISIL is being funded by oil production in Turkey and else where. Further, that military forces in countries presently fighting ISIL have said that they could defeat the terrorist group if it were not for the support of the US and it's allies. In other words, the biggest hurdle to defeating ISIL is the US.

This is a damning indictment for the false war on terror propagandized in western media. It's even being reported covertly by some mainstream outlets such as News Week:

Russia’s defense ministry on Wednesday accused Turkish President Tayyip Recep Erdogan and his family of being involved in the Islamic State militant group’s (ISIS) illegal oil trade, as the war of words between Moscow and Ankara continues over Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane near the Syrian border in November. 

“The main consumer of this oil stolen from its legitimate owners, Syria and Iraq, is Turkey,” Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov told journalists in Moscow, AFP news agency reported. “According to available information, the highest level of the political leadership of the country, President Erdogan and his family, are involved in this criminal business.” - News Week

This is a huge development which needs to go viral so as to help awaken those duped into thinking the war on terror is a legitimate effort.

Is Consciousness The Bridge Between Science & Religion?

By:  Peter Russell

Science and religion often seem poles apart–and in many ways they are. But I believe the two can, and will eventually be, united; and their meeting point will be human consciousness.

That we are conscious beings is the most obvious fact of our existence. Indeed, all we ever know are the thoughts, images, and feelings arising in our consciousness. Yet as far as Western science is concerned, there is nothing more difficult to explain. Why should the complex processing of information in the brain lead to an inner personal experience? Why doesn’t it all go on in the dark, without any awareness? Why do we have any inner life at all?

This paradox–the undeniable existence of human consciousness set against the absence of any satisfactory scientific account for it–suggests there may be something amiss with the current scientific worldview. Most scientists assume that consciousness emerges in some way or other from insentient matter. But if this assumption is getting us nowhere, perhaps we should consider an alternative worldview–one found in many metaphysical and spiritual traditions. There, consciousness is held to be an essential component of the cosmos, as fundamental as space, time, and matter.

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6 Unsolved Mysteries in History that Baffle Mainstream Scholars

source: www.AdeptInitiates.com

The history of mankind has been full of surprises, impossible achievements, and anomalous features that have left a mark on our civilization. While there are many things that history has helped us understand, there are some things that no one, not even mainstream historians have been able to fully understand. History has proven to be far more surprising than what many people believe.
Here below we have 6 of History’s greatest mysteries that continue to baffle mainstream scholars.

The Piri Reis Map and the maps that predate it

There are a number of archeological discoveries that question our past, this is the case of the map which was found in 1929, during the restoration of the Topkapi palace in Istanbul Turkey, which describes in high detail the geography of the American Continent with such a precision that it looks as if it was put together with the aid of aerial photography. However, the map was made at a time when mainstream history tells us there were no flying vehicles on Earth and mankind’s technology was very limited. The map composed by Ottoman admiral Piri Ibn Haji Muhiddin Memmed, aka Piri Reis is in fact part of maritime navigation collection called Bahriye which is basically composed by 210 partial maps, dated around 1513 and 1528. The perfection and details displayed on the map have been the subject of debate for years among scholars who cannot understand nor explain how this map even exists. Today, numerous enigmas remain about the Piri Reis map, especially in regards of Latin America and the Southern regions of our planet.
This Turkish Admiral did not only draw the outline of the nearly unexplored South American region, detailing rivers, mountains and lakes that were believed to be unknown at that time in history, but he managed to accurately depict the geography of Antarctica, a continent that wasn’t officially investigated until the twentieth century… The only thing we can conclude is that, somehow, someone knew how our planet looked like thousands of years ago from the air… and the Turkish Admiral managed to obtain this information and create the most enigmatic map we have discovered to date, a map that challenges history as never before.

The Shroud of Turin

Magi Light Body

Source: Adept Initiates

All around the globe we have many different ancient Religions. One striking similarity arises, they all apex at a possible next phase of human evolution called the Light Body. Alchemy’s ultimate goal is to transform our body into gold or another expression into light. But with this also comes the warning in Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike that as beautiful as it is Lucifer himself takes the same form. Initiates will find here an unbiased approach the good the bad and the ugly of the Light Body.
Looking back into the early origins of this phenomenon we find accounts recorded by a remote sect of Magi known as Zurvanism. From the Circle of Iranian Studies we read that the Kingdom or Realm of Light “was ruled by the Father of Greatness identified with ZURVAN in the history of the Great Persian Empire. They say our universe was created by this Light Being as it offered sacrifice and then doubted if it would work. These two actions were KEY to the Spawning of our universe akin to the holographic evolution model. Then came the Amesha Spenta or the great six “divine sparks” that act as caretakers to ensure all creations made of light continue in order.



Monks in Tibet call it the Rainbow Body and it’s achieved through the complete wisdom called Rigpa.  This consists of three virtues a theme that reoccurs in many Magi related text we will cover in the future.

The Woman & The Dragon…

Source: Adept Initiates
Let me start off by saying I’m not a religious person I’ve never been into politics, and religion is just a body of government which governs your spiritual body. I am very Spiritual. I believe that there is one God and one too many religions, which separates us from each other and divides humanity as a whole. The people who promise you admittance into the gates of heaven, are the one’s here who are bringing you hell. Every war that has been fought millions of innocent lives lost in the name of “God”. I guess that’s why they make you wait for death to get what they are selling you, does reincarnation qualify for a refund? There’s one destination we are all headed to, but the path you take must be your own, to each his own, no right or wrong. Don’t follow any outside directions be guided by your intuition. Its for certain we will all get lost along the way but you must first be lost to be found. In the end all roads will lead to one. I want you to remember One. You are one with him, you are him, you must build a church inside you to find him within. He’s not far away or separate from you. We are his children but religion divorced us and now our spirituality is living in a broken home. For you are me, and I am you. When you look at thy neighbor see the face of God, when you are passing a stranger be reminded that he is not. Feel for him as if he was your own flesh and blood. Just as you are gods flesh and blood. That’s what Jesus meant when he said he was the son of God. Read this following verse carefully.

John 14:7-10 [7] If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.“ [8] Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” [9] Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, `Show us the Father’? [10] Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.

The Seshu-Hor

Source: Adept Initiates

“The Seshu-Hor”

We are told by academic scholars that Khemitian (Egyptian) civilization began around 3,000 BCE and before that there were primitive neolithic settlements that suddenly developed within a few hundred years into this great culture. This “dynastic” civilization was already at some sort of height during the “old kingdom”(2,700-2,200 BCE). In fact, nothing produced after that period was of greater or equal grandeur. There are many examples of this devolution from the “old kingdom” on forward and the further back in history you go, the higher the wisdom and capability appear to be. In the documentary film Magical Egypt, John Anthony West (Rogue Egyptologist and Symbolist) explains,
“It is generally accepted that in Egypt, all of the sciences, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, the hieroglyphics and religious systems were all in place by the old kingdom times with no indication or little indication of a period of development.”

Perhaps this “dynastic” civilization didn’t appear out of nowhere around 3,000 BCE but was part of a legacy that goes back tens of thousands of years. The “dynastic” Egyptians themselves had documented these earlier periods of their history in detail. Examples of these records would be “Manetho’s Kings List”, the “Palermo Stone” and the “Turin Papyrus.”

Know Your Yoga: An Introduction to the Yogic Science

A comprehensive guide to get started with all things yoga. Sadhguru’s articles clarify exactly what yoga is and what it’s not, give us an introduction to many awe-inspiring yogis, and present us with tips to get the best out of our yoga practice.

What Yoga Is & What It’s Not

What is Yoga?
Sadhguru describes what the word ‘yoga’ means and does not mean.

7 Myths about Yoga – Busted!
There is a lot of “yoga” happening in the world today that has very little to do with what yoga really is. Several myths about this ancient practice have long been masquerading as facts. It’s time we demystify yoga, in Sadhguru’s very own words.

A Brief History of Yoga

The Magi, Apiru, The God Like People of Apollo

The MYSTICS known as the ”Magi, Chaldean’s and Druids” the ”Hyperborean Hebrew / Atlantean Israelite” (”CELTS-GERMANICS”) Significance of ”Edinburgh, Scotland” as the TRUE and REAL ”City of Jerusalem”. /// /// They were also known as the ”Apiru = Hebrew” the ”God Like People of Apollo” ie the Hyperboreans. Ap- means Apollo and Iru- means Hebrew ”The Hyperborean / Hebrew God Like People of Apollo” the Atlanteans of the ”Kingdom of Hyperborea” the ”12 Olympian Tribes of Gods”. Apollo would Later be Replaced by Yahweh by the CHURCH in fact it was Christianity that Replaced Apollo the SUN GOD with that of Yahweh later on. The Greek God Apollo had Strawberry Blonde Hair and was a Hyperborean from the FAR-NORTH and Belonged to a Group of Ancestors who would be the Forefathers of the. ”Germanic Norse Scandinavian Vikings and Celtic Gaelic People of Ancient Celts” and that his Territory covered much of ”GREAT BRITAIN and SCANDINAVIA” and the ”Magi, Chaldean’s and Druids” the ”Hyperborean Hebrew / Atlantean Israelite” (”CELTS-GERMANICS”) (”THE REAL HEBREWS”).

Who Are The Magi?

The True Reason behind the 40-Hour Work Week and Why We Are Economic Slaves

By: EV

Economic slavery, or wage slavery, refers to one’s total and immediate dependence on wages to survive. Although people throughout history have had to work to get by, we now live in a culture where we are led to believe we have economic freedom, when unbeknownst to most citizens, we are in fact bound in servitude. We automatically accept a 40-hour workweek with meager hourly pay as normal, even though many work overtime and still struggle to survive. There are also those who make enough to live comfortably but are unable to request less hours—you either work 40 hours a week, or you don’t get to work at all. We submit when told what to wear, when we have to arrive and depart, when we’re allowed to eat, and even when we’re allowed to use the restroom. How is it we have come to allow this?

The 40-hour-work week came about during the Industrial Revolution in Britain when at one point workers were putting in 10 to 16 hour days and began to protest. Working situations for Americans began to worsen as well, and by 1836, labor movement publications were also calling for a 40-hour workweek. Citizens in both situations were so overworked, an eight-hour day was easily accepted. This system is unnecessary now, if it ever was, but we still accept it due to the effects of our capitalist society.

There are many contributing factors that have led to our current economic system and continued acceptance of the 40-hour workweek, three major factors being consumerism, inflation, and debt. First, it’s important to understand exactly what inflation is, how it works, and how it leads to debt.

How the Elite Deal With Sparks of Revolt

By:  Bill Blunden

“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half”

—Jay Gould

Metanoia Films has released a new documentary, Plutocracy: Divide et Impera (Divide and Rule). It’s the first entry of a multi-part series directed by filmmaker Scott Noble. The movie assembles a rich historical mosaic which examines the constitutional roots of democratic elitism in the United States, the subsequent emergence of the labor movement during industrialization, and the various schemes employed by private capital to sabotage popular mobilization.Plutocracy is available online and can be viewed free of charge. Your author, who helped to edit the script, would deem the film time well spent.

To grasp the movie’s salience viewers need look no further than a trial currently unfolding in West Virginia where federal prosecutors have indicted coal entrepreneur Don Blankenship of both violating numerous safety regulations and conspiring to hide said violations. Back in 2010 an underground explosion killed twenty nine miners working for Blankenship. It’s the worst mining disaster in more than four decades.

Those familiar with the history of the American labor movement will tell you that this sort of tragedy is hardly an isolated incident. For example in December of 1907 an explosion in a West Virginia coal mine owned by the Fairmount Corporation killed over 360 workers. Indeed, during the first fifty years of the coal industry accident rates in the United States were so high that more workers were crippled and killed than in any battle of the American Civil War.