How does one celebrate the Day Of Our Remembrance?

First, the Day Of Our Remembrance is celebrated on April 1st of each year through a process called "passing through the door". Other steps in this process give one a reason to want to celebrate. The problem with any celebration where one has no real reason to celebrate is that mood altering substances (like alcohol) must be introduced as a means of creating a festive mood and atmosphere. Therefore, the Day Of Our Remembrance is the culminating or crowning event in a three-step process.

Each of the other two steps can be completed over a matter of days, weeks, or months depending on the need and desire of the individual. While officially, the holiday begins with the first day of sping, one might wish to begin on January 1st of that year or just one week prior to April 1st. Ideally, one should not begin this process before January 1st, unless one is celebrating banner years (every fourth or seventh year). This will be covered later.

Step One is called "unlocking the door". Again, it is up to the individual or any group of individuals who agree to undergo the same process to decide what this period of time will be. In unlocking the door, one seeks to discover all of the roadblocks and hindrances to one's personal development.

This can be done in any or all of the following ways:

1. One can pray, meditate, and/or reflect on the life one has lived thus far.

2. One can ask his/her friends to point out character flaws and bad habits. This request and the response to this request can either be given verbally or in writing.

3. One can seek the aid of a life coach, therapist, or trusted advisor.

4. One can buy a book that helps one facilitate this understanding.

5. One can compare his or her actions to those of a role model or someone who is honored and respected.

The idea here is to discover those things about one's self that present challenges to one's development and to create an action plan for correcting such behavior.

Step Two is to take the first action in creating real change. It is called opening the door, because one is opening the doorway to one's heart. Often we realize where the change is needed and we want to change, but find ourselves in a new place and time - the same as we have always been. Where such a situation exists, we must realize we passed through the door. We may have unlocked the door assuming it would open on its own or that somone would open it for us.

Well, you must open the door yourself. The door is not an external door, but the door to one's own heart. As you cannot force anyone to open their heart, no one can force you to open your heart. We have heard people say - "I have to get you to open your heart to me". True love is giving without the expectation of anything in return. In doing so, we are openin the doorway to our heart completely. Thus, we can accept all possibilities and new realities that await. Fear causes us to shut the door to our heart, because we believe that the heart is vulnerable. The heart, however, is invincible. It is fear that poisons and weakens the heart. The heart's invincibility is restored to the degree that we are willing to face our fears.

In opening the door, one is performing exercises that assist in the strengthening of the heart. These exercises are:

1. Apologizing to one's self for all the ways in which one has fallen short of one's own expectations for self. This can either be done by talking-it-out with self or in writing a letter to one's self.

2. Calling or writing those you've negatively affected to apologize about past and continued wrong-doing and hurt

3. Giving to those in need. Again, one is not seeking credit for this giving - only an expansion of the heart. One's heart has been closed to the degree that one fears one will lose time, money, energy, or face (prestige or image) in giving. This includes watering plants, feeding birds, and cleaning up in one's community.

4. Thanking those who have helped or encouraged you in any way, especially in the process of self-development.

5. Giving gifts as a means of appreciation for that which others have done for you and the meaning that they have added to your life.

6. Offering an admission or a witness of one's short-comings or appreciation of all that others have done for one in a group setting (private or public)

7. Offering a period of prayer, charity, or service (whether in private or in public) as penitence for one's short-comings or thanks-giving for one's many blessings

Step Three is 'passing through the door.' One chooses his or her own means of celebrating the completion of the process of "opening" and "unlocking" the door by now passing through the "Day Of Our Remembrance". On this day, one is re-membered or re-connected with one's true intention for self, which is being the best that one can possibly be. As a group, we are re-membered, for in opening ourselves to one another we have a better understanding and appreciation of one another.

One can celebrate passing through the door by:

1. Hosting a dinner, where others pass through your door to sit at the table for a meal. As host (or host family), you would share your process, what you discovered, how you've grown, and how you plan to continue to grow.

2. Making an announcement (especially groups and companies) about what the plans are for the coming year(s) in changing to better serve the community.

3. Quiet time spent in meditation or reflection

4. Any means of celebrating that does not negatively affect any other person(s).

IMPORTANT: Do that which honors the process and the Day for which we are celebrating. Avoid that which dishonors you and others. As a rule, this should not be a day of excessive driking, drug use, promiscuity, drunken revelry, or gambling as a means of 'going through the door on the right foot'.

If you find yourself drawn to lower frequency activities, it is likely because you never under-went the process of "unlocking" or "opening" the door properly. Thus, someone opened a 'basement door' to invite you into some lower frequency space. So, it is important that we take this process seriously. The incredible feeling of joy and elation at the success of having "passed through the DOOR" accompanies dedication to the process.

The True Year

From 2010 to 2012, our quest is to seek to get as many people as possible to celebrate this holiday. This holiday is a celebration of "us". There is no hidden motive behind it and no associative religious belief attached to it. It is a universal holiday for all of humanity. There are no "pagan" rituals associated with it. It is a "people's holiday". It is a celebration of ourselves, our personal process of ascension, and our right to choose that which is best for us.

Beginning with 2012, every four years is a "True Year" or "Year". Thus, each calendar year is now a "season", as it relates to the way we are reckoning time. Four of these seasons is a "True Year". With self-development and increased awareness come the benefits of advance in civilization and the fruits of better mental and physical health and longer life. Thus, it will not be long before our life expectency is four times what it is today. Where our life expectency was once 70 years, it will soon be 280 to 300 years.

As evidenced in our lifestyle, the vibration of our planet is speeding-up. Days are flying by and one begins to notice that the days feel shorter. So, in addition to counting our calendar year, we must begin to consider what a truly constitutes one year of life on our planet. Many of us want to achieve two or three major accomplishments in one life-time. And, today, education is increasingly becoming a life-time commitment. These are the subtle changes in time that are becoming more and more noticeable to the observer. Thus, the True Year is a means of representing time for one who desires an extension of days.

The True Years are 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022, 2026, 2030, etc.

The Great Year

2012 is our first Great Year. This year, 2012, we will begin counting every seven years as a "Great Year". As humans, we have a seven year cycle of development. Thus, after seven years, we witness a new expression of growth in each individual. Even beyond puberty, this growth continues well into adulthood.

This seven year development cycle will now be counted in two ways. One's individual Great Year will be seven years from the day one is born and every seven years thereafter. The collective great year will occur in 2012 and every seven years there-after. As an example, I was born in 1975. So, my individual great years would be 1975, 1982, 1989, 1996, 2003, and 2010. The collective Great Years will occur in 2012, 2019, 2026, 2033, 2040, and so on.

These are not arbitrary numbers. Thus, there is great significance in counting the Great Years and the way that this is being done. These significances will soon be realized by all.

While 2010 is an "Individual Great Year" for me, it is not the collective "Great Year". This introduces another concept called -

The Great Year Factor

The Great Year Factor is a measurement of the distance of a person's Individual Great Year from the Collective Great Year (2012, 2019, etc). So, the Great Year plus some number will give you a Great Year Factor. The Great Year Factor is calculated as follows:

What number, when added to the Collective Great Year, will give one his or her next Individual Great Year? For me, 2012 (+5) will give me my next Individual Great Year. Thus, my Great Year Factor is (+5).

The significance of these numbers will be covered at a later time.

The Relativity Factor

The Relativity Factor is a measure of one's Individual Great Year relative to the next Collective Great Year.

What number, when added to your Individual Great Year, will give you the next Collective Great Year? Collective Great Year? For me, 2010 (+2) will give me the next Collective Great Year. So, my relativity factor is (+2).

The significance of these numbers will be discussed later. However, anyone who knows the Science of Numbers and their universal meaning can calculate these significances now. The true universal significance behind numbers as symbols does is unchanging.