ANALISIS DE LA REALIDAD NACIONAL ENERGETICA

After talking to Tim Whild, I am perturbed somewhat by my vulnerability. I feel, at this moment, strange and disoriented. This feeling, I think it’s a deep emotional response. I’m inclined to describe it as ‘cellular’ - it feels so not of my body, yet completely my body. I am remembering now waking up in the early morning, suddenly, with light flashes, like looking at a neon sign, white yellow edged against an electric blue background, and words in my ears “these are codes”. I need to look up how universal consciousness works, or perhaps the Durkheimian what was it, divine effervescence? Was it Durkheim? Or perhaps Turner’s comunitas. I am really wondering why I am feeling and experiencing all these ‘symptoms’, ‘ascension symptoms’ when I don’t actually think I am a Starseed.

When I set out on this journey, I would have told you that whilst I experience some of the feelings and energetic shifts that Starseeds describe, I do not believe in the validity of being a Star-born soul. I think the Skype chat with Tim has reawakened a feeling of light/love inside of me. It’s weird. I feel an unconditional admiration and respect, and it’s as if he had a light which has sparked my own light, and it’s burning right now, I can feel a real sensation in the centre of my chest. After we had finished, I went back to my Skype page to turn it off and the time was 11.22. I first noticed however, that his time was 2.22.

APPENDIX 1: Research Questionnaire

My name is Tanya Volentras. Thanks for being a participant in my social anthropology master’s research thesis: I really appreciate this! From the outset I want to say - feel free to be as expressive as you like or not. If there are questions that you don’t want to answer, that’s ok. I want this to be a free- flowing exercise that remains true to how you view the world and I hope you feel my implicit trust in your Truth.

I used to have a 2-hour community radio program called Expressions. I interviewed all sorts of people from different walks of life, usually recording at their home or at a lovely outdoors café. I featured artists and musicians as well, and played music that the interviewee liked but also tried to find other songs that were non-commercial to add to the story. I interviewed a Sudanese man about his childhood (there were many Sudanese refugees in Alice), a shaman, tattooed lesbian Pagans, a Catholic nun who when she turned 56 converted to the Baha’i Faith, a wild and beautiful lady who trekked over 3,000 k/m across the desert pulling three camels who then later went to Kenya to join a camel train library service/Aids clinic, to name but a few.

Every week I was blessed to talk to these interesting and incredible people with rich and diverse lives. The main aim was that they were able to express their worldview; my blurb was ‘who you are, why you are, where you are’. I hoped that there could be no possibility of judgement because this was a simple statement of Being, and that my listeners and I could travel along this person’s journey, get some insight into how an ‘other’ views the world.

In this same way, I hope that you can just Be and know that I respect where you are at, wherever that may be. ☺

Ideally, I would love you to write a lot, so I can be sure to get a strong sense of what you mean. However, please just write what you feel happy about, ignore questions that don’t apply, and add anything you think I might have missed out. If you would prefer a Skype session, can you please write to me and we’ll make arrangements for the best meeting time.

I am hoping to understand more about ‘Cosmics and Starseeds’ ☺. What is the Ascension? How do we know about the Ascension? Why do you believe in the Ascension paradigm – what are the influencing factors motivating belief in the Ascension? These are some of the questions I am trying to answer. I want to understand the why of the Ascension, the how of the Ascension and the where to? I feel this belief system is growing, largely due to the internet, and I would like to examine how and if the net is helping the process along.

For myself, I think I am part cosmic, mostly green, part hippy, part suburban too (at the moment) it must be admitted, very much a Samoan and all that entails, in Love with Nature in every form –

including people, but especially trees and the Ocean. I do not fully understand the Ascension, but can see showings of ascension-like happenings in many different layers of expression and understanding. If I do refer to your answers in the thesis, I will give you pseudonyms and thought lovely cosmic names would work well ☺ - most of you already have these, but I’ll still change your names to protect your identity. If you like, you can choose your own name. I will treat your answers with the utmost confidentiality.

Also, anyone who wants to read the final thesis, or the sections that apply to the questionnaire, I am happy and willing of course to share - in fact, ethically and following anthropological protocols I am also obligated to ☺.

If you’re interested, you can look up the NZ Anthropology code of ethics here- http://asaanz.science.org.nz/codeofethics.html.

If anyone has questions, please write to me via email: [email protected] Or we can Skype if you like – I am under ‘Tanya Research’ on Skype.

Can you please indicate in the questionnaire if you consent to me contacting you?

Some of your answers will no doubt open up new thoughts and impressions and I might like to explore your answers more deeply with you?

Thanks once again.

I am glad to be connecting with you and extremely appreciative of your contribution. Official Massey University Guideline

This project has been evaluated by peer review and judged to be low risk. Consequently, it has not been reviewed by one of the University's Human Ethics Committees. The researcher named in this document is responsible for the ethical conduct of this research.

If you have any concerns about the conduct of this research that you want to raise with someone other than the researcher, please contact Dr Brian Finch, Director (Research Ethics),

email [email protected].

QUESTIONNAIRE:

Name: Please choose your name for this research thesis – otherwise you can leave it to me.

Gender: I am interested to see what differences and similarities (if any) there are between the answers from female and male respondents.

Age in earth years:

Region(s) of residence: I only would like to know the region or if you prefer, country where you are living, not specific addresses.