IT SEEMS INCREDIBLE THAT WE GET EXCITED ABOUT ELECTIONS. In America at this time we have entered what is described as "an election year" and all the nonsense surrounding politicians starts to infect everything and everyone. I consider myself fortunate in that I have chosen not to watch television for the last 26 years, but nevertheless, it seems that a weird fervor seems to be gripping this wonderful country. Are we really deluding ourselves in thinking that a politician concerns himself with anything but his own unconscious agendas, payback obligations and interests? Should we seriously consider voting for someone who's unconscious nature most closely matches our own?

Sometimes it is a good thing to take an objective view of the whole carry-on surrounding politicians. What is politics? And what makes a person become a politician? It is common knowledge that politics is a "dirty business," so what on earth is the fascination in giving a moment's credibility and support to a group of supposedly grown people "playing" in the dirt?

The word politics relates to the manipulation of power. One either knows oneself well enough to be able to manipulate power for the benefit of all, because that very manipulation comes from a place of inner truth, or, as is generally witnessed, the manipulation of political power is directed almost entirely from the supposed requirements of vested interests and maybe, just maybe, some of the voters.

Over time as our world returns to a state of physical, psychological and spiritual health, any lusting for power over others will evaporate. Anyone who wishes to exert influence over others because of their own personal misconceptions and shortcomings will find themselves being offered healing. In the meantime, let us all be very watchful that we espouse clarity in all things and move away from dogmas, ideologies, and proposals of vested interests that are not in the service of growing consciousness on this planet.

One of the greatest leaders that America produced was Abraham Lincoln, who guided his country through a hideous Civil War and many other seemingly impossible dilemmas. It is said that he was loved by many and also hated by many others, but it is probably true to say that he related to the world from a place of deep self-knowledge and a reliance on his own personal experience.

Abe Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Kentucky into a family of itinerant settlers. He was born into the rare Incarnation of Revolution which aspires to a lifetime of counterbalancing injustice in the world. People who are born with this incarnation are constantly seeking to find the solutions that will benefit those whom society has left behind or forgotten. An archetype of this particular incarnation would be the historical figure Robin Hood, who we are told would take from the rich to give to the poor. It is said of Lincoln that even though he was quite successful in holding office, it was only when the question of furthering slavery arose that he decided to run for president to oppose it. As a child and as a young man, he had personally known the enormous expense of energy in manual labor and had deliberately educated himself through a study of literature and scientific thoughts to allow himself to move away from backbreaking servitude and physical work as a way of life.

By design, Lincoln was a mental projector, with two definitions: the Channel 61-24, the mind that quests truthful realization and needs to differentiate between what is known, what can be learned, and what cannot be known; and the 63-4, the logical mindset relating to life as a series of problems that need to get fixed, that often spends its time finding solutions for problems that don't exist.

In general terms, Projectors need recognition from others for the qualities of guidance that they bring to any situation. The qualities that others would see in Lincoln, the projector, are those of someone who could resolve almost anything by mentally attuning to both sides of a situation, and finding near perfect and logical solution to the situation that would suit as many people as possible.

The defined centers
Out of nine centers in the body graph, Abe Lincoln has two of them defined, the Crown Center, the center of inspiration and the pressure to mentally resolve issues that confront us, and the Ajna center, the center of our mental awareness and thinking capacity. For anyone who has a defined mind, they are going to have to accept that their mind is always going to be thinking. Their brain is constrained to be in constant activity, constantly reviewing, sometimes sending the same thought pattern around and around in the mind until a temporal solution is reached. In some ways the mind knows that any solutions will be impermanent and at some point in the future will be replaced with other solutions.

Anyone with a defined mind will know the ongoing sense of frustration that no solutions coming from their mind ever bring lasting satisfaction. At best, a mental solution will bring some form of intermittent relief that is quickly followed by more cogitation and the nagging sense that perhaps the previous mental solution was not really correct. When I read a design for someone who has a defined mind, I always indicate to them that any lasting satisfaction they will derive in their life will come through experiencing their life from somewhere other than their mind! The whole of life is a journey from the mind to the heart to the Being, and recognizing the beauty and pitfalls of the mind is but the first step on this journey.

The open centers
In Abe's design, he is blessed with three open centers: the self center, our place of direction and connectedness and purpose; The heart center, our place of willfulness and personal volition, and the root center, our place of feeling connected into the earth plane through the sense that we belong here and can "make it" here. The open centers in any design have a special significance in that the person who has these open centers does not really have any personally lasting impression of what the centers are about. They can live out the nature of the centers perfectly, but they will always have a certain detachment in that part of their being. In essence, they are reflecting back to other people a viewing of how they relate in that part of their being.

With an open self center, Abe will have received advice all his life about who was right for him and what would be appropriate for him to do, but it would have been helpful for him to realize that whoever was around him at any given moment in time would completely influence what it was that came about in his life. It is said of him that in his whole time as President of the United States, he never took a single day off work. Constantly, secretaries and other people would come in and out of his office, he would be working with his military people, attuning to and reflecting back to them the nature of purpose and commitment that they brought with them. Right people with right agendas gave Abe the ability to use his openness and his finely tuned mind to direct issues easily and correctly. Wrong people with wrong agendas would soon find themselves dismissed.

For a man with an open heart center in his design, Abe would not find himself easily impressed, particularly with people holding too high of an opinion of themselves. It would be easy to imagine that someone holding the office of President of the United States might have an arrogant view of the world, but it is said of President Lincoln that the longer the Civil War ( which began within days of the commencement of his Presidency and ended some days before his death ) lasted, the more humble he became. People accused him of many transgressions, including being timid and ignorant, a dictator, shattered, dazed, utterly foolish, and a political coward, but often such views would only be a reflection of their own selves.

An open root center can set one apart from what is considered the "normal" way of relating to what are considered the "essentials" in life. The pure nature of the root center is based in the qualities of inner stillness and the celebration of life; many times this pure nature is missed and transformed into something resembling stressed obligations. In his lifetime, when Abe could detach himself from the sense of stress brought by others into his life, he would easily find the "essentials" in what ever confronted him. In a time of the Civil War, it would not necessarily be easy for him to find periods of peace and quiet, and it is said of him that during his time as President he aged very quickly.

The undefined centers
In his design, Abe has four undefined centers through which he directly interacted with others, mostly, applying an accrued wisdom from the centers and sometimes succumbing to the conditioning that he allowed others to impose on him.

The undefined Throat Center in Abe’s Design, contains a single unconsciously activated Gate, the 8, the Gate of contribution. Abe would often be heard to be offering a personal contribution in anything he said, however, since the Throat Center is undefined, it would be hard for him to follow up on what he was heard to say. There are often misunderstandings around those who have undefined Throats, in that they are usually addressing issues for the perspective they can offer to others, not for themselves. In the end, Abe’s audience would hear what they wanted to hear, regardless of how Abe might think he was expressing himself, and it is obvious in this time that what they would have had the opportunity to hear were the spoken contributions of a genius that have echoed through time.

An undefined Spleen Center can attune too all sorts of fears and survival issues confronting other people. It can also pick up and compel one to feel obliged to act on real or imagined fears. And undefined spleen center requires much laughter and lightness to keep healthy. In his design, Abe will have been constantly bombarded by fears and issues prevalent in the lives of everyone else. Provided he remained objective about these concerns, he would mostly have been able to see the issues as they really were. It is interesting to note, that his North Node destiny, (in the 28 gate), is in the line of treachery, indicating that in the later part of his life, he would often have had the sensation that many around him betrayed him.

And undefined sacral center can attune to the nature and right use of life force energy. It can also become overwhelmed by a feeling of the need to “do”...... no matter what it is, just to do. It is very easy for someone with an undefined sacral center to become overly identified with doing and being active through riding on the energy of others. In Abe's design, he is given access to the use of power and an intrinsic comprehension of planning how to use it. He was also destined to be aligned with a deep level of caring. Throughout his life, it would always be a tendency for him to overextend himself on behalf of others.

An undefined emotional center constantly attunes to the emotional environment surrounding it. It can become extremely sensitive to others’ emotional disturbances. One of the fascinating things to realize about Abraham Lincoln's design, and something that is not often related about him, is that he had a profound attunement with the animal kingdom. In design there are three transpecial Gates, the 22 and the 49 in the emotional center, and the 17 in the Ajna center. Abe has each of these three Gates activated in his design. He would always have felt a deep kinship with the animal world, and animals will have found a champion among humans in Abraham Lincoln. Many people will appreciate that humans can be sometimes overwhelming with their demands and neuroses, and animals seem to not only put up with these things but live through them honorably. Curiously, Abe will often have found that those who understood and appreciated him most in this world were four-legged.

In conclusion
In any time when we are trying to choose a leader who has the inner capacity and clear morality to be able to make right choices for his nation and his world, it would be good to reflect on the steadfast endurance of Abraham Lincoln. Few man have been called on to attune to and courageously hold the course for a country divided within itself.

In this particular moment in time, it is so clear that war and violence belong in our past not in our present and certainly not in our future. The world needs leaders who will do everything in their power to shake off a fearful, enslaved and violent past so that we can move assuredly into the age of 1000 years of Freedom, Peace and Abundance.