Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Calz]

@ ulli

Wow, Calz ... Chicago...major (painful) memories there.

Quite the sorted city history to be sure. Sorry to hear of your own memories.

It was almost amusing the tour guide seemed quite proud telling of the stories of some of the darker history (such as Al Capone laundered this or that to finance his empire etc from this or that building).

On the lighter side (hopefully there are still some images I can show) the kids had the "Blues Brothers" look going on with the hats and shades ...

[ulli]

Posted by Calz (here)

@ ulli

Wow, Calz ... Chicago...major (painful) memories there.

Quite the sorted city history to be sure. Sorry to hear of your own memories.

It was almost amusing the tour guide seemed quite proud telling of the stories of some of the darker history (such as Al Capone laundered this or that to finance his empire etc from this or that building).

On the lighter side (hopefully there are still some images I can show) the kids had the "Blues Brothers" look going on with the hats and shades ...

Another memory trigger...a pleasant one this time. Left the office one day to go to the movies to see the Blues Brothers...early eighties I think...it was in the middle of the afternoon...unheard-of event for me during my tycoon years...workaholics don't go to the movies.
With your kids at that precious age where they can play roles and dress any part...that must be fun. My son did all that. Now he is a father himself...a bit too strict for my liking...who would have thought he'd turn out to be this way when he was running around in punk gear and hair died in three different shades..

[Anchor]

Thanks all, I am pretty sure my headache subsided faster than expected. I am past the peak of it now I'll be fine tomorrow.

[astrid]

wow.. so much going on right now.. its like a roller coaster ride, evolution wise.
can barely keep up with the pace.

But very very important shifts these last few days.
i guess its only going to get faster and faster, and stronger.
Can't really elaborate more than that.

[Anchor]

It occurred to me that I ought to practice what I preach.

I spent some time meditating on why I got this cold. I don't get them generally and I had to go and have a chat with myself.

I don't know if you would be interested in my problems and this may be too long and TMI but you guy's did actually help me yesterday, it was quite amazing actually - I took nothing for my cold; but your kind healing intentions made a good difference and my headache was gone by the time I tried to get to sleep.

Backstory... On Friday night as I was packing the car ready to go off for the weekend, I was getting out the back (its a wagon) and my trousers got caught on the hitch and I fell out the back hard onto the concrete. My car is an off-roader and I have had the suspension slightly raised - it was a fair way down! Bruises, a little shaken and surprised. After about 10 mins got it all back together. It has been YEARS since anything like that happened. I don't mean to brag, but I have good balance and I hardly ever fall like that.

Next day got the cold.

Day after that asked for help

Now we are on today.

So what happened: (as told by a lecture my HS gave me in a meditative style Q&A)

1) I was already dealing with the cold that I had picked up from a co-worker during the week. No symptoms, body doing good job on it. The fall caused a chink in my defenses and my body was then able to express the cold/flu catalyst for my learning pleasure.

2) The fall was karmic. "I" asked for all this to happen because I needed reminding of a couple of things I have not been doing properly that needed me to be reminded. So duly told and I am writing it here to help affirm my intention to sort this out

a) Not getting enough sleep
b) Spending too much time on the internet and not enough on life
c) Not meditating enough
d) Trying to do everything by myself and not asking for help - I decided to start right away on that and asked for help on this forum - lol

3) At the same time, it happened that my body had some toxins that needed removal. The expectoration that happens with a cold is a good opportunity to get that done. It seems to have worked.

Anyway, I'm going to be spending a little less time online - get more sleep, be less distracted by the internet, and I am going to remember to ask for help more.

Bless you all in the light and in the love of the one infinite creator.

[lookbeyond]

Sounds like a good recipe for all of us Anchor

[ulli]

Posted by Anchor (here)
It occurred to me that I ought to practice what I preach.

I spent some time meditating on why I got this cold. I don't get them generally and I had to go and have a chat with myself.

I don't know if you would be interested in my problems and this may be too long and TMI but you guy's did actually help me yesterday, it was quite amazing actually - I took nothing for my cold; but your kind healing intentions made a good difference and my headache was gone by the time I tried to get to sleep.

Backstory... On Friday night as I was packing the car ready to go off for the weekend, I was getting out the back (its a wagon) and my trousers got caught on the hitch and I fell out the back hard onto the concrete. My car is an off-roader and I have had the suspension slightly raised - it was a fair way down! Bruises, a little shaken and surprised. After about 10 mins got it all back together. It has been YEARS since anything like that happened. I don't mean to brag, but I have good balance and I hardly ever fall like that.

Next day got the cold.

Day after that asked for help

Now we are on today.

So what happened: (as told by a lecture my HS gave me in a meditative style Q&A)

1) I was already dealing with the cold that I had picked up from a co-worker during the week. No symptoms, body doing good job on it. The fall caused a chink in my defenses and my body was then able to express the cold/flu catalyst for my learning pleasure.

2) The fall was karmic. "I" asked for all this to happen because I needed reminding of a couple of things I have not been doing properly that needed me to be reminded. So duly told and I am writing it here to help affirm my intention to sort this out

a) Not getting enough sleep
b) Spending too much time on the internet and not enough on life
c) Not meditating enough
d) Trying to do everything by myself and not asking for help - I decided to start right away on that and asked for help on this forum - lol

3) At the same time, it happened that my body had some toxins that needed removal. The expectoration that happens with a cold is a good opportunity to get that done. It seems to have worked.

Anyway, I'm going to be spending a little less time online - get more sleep, be less distracted by the internet, and I am going to remember to ask for help more.

Bless you all in the light and in the love of the one infinite creator.

Great post there, Anchor. May your lesson serve thousands of souls.
Thank you so much for sharing and also for confirming yet again
that this Healer's Village can also heal the Healers.
Glad you are feeling better.

I want eaglespirit to make a swooping appearance now with one of his sky pictures...
LOVE...LOVE...LOVE...

[Belle]

Did someone mention Blues Brothers...and Chicago?

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0zyuc_2UVg

[astrid]

yeah i also had been getting the "nudge" to be online less ,
and i must say I'm feeling much better for it.
More focused and better clarity

[Paula]

"Looks like I may be heading to Michigan in the fall and possibly back to Peru...Urubamba, to help out with my Friends from Michigan home they are finishing-up in Peru.

Love, Love, Love!!! Eagle Spirit. We're with you in spirit. (Gosh, you already know that.) Enjoy the adventure...

Hearts,
WhiteCrowBlackDeer

Posted by eaglespirit (here)
Eagle Prayers sent for Jacob!

Hello Here and Nowers...caught up a bit here...beautiful sharings and ongoing upwardness : )

Presently have done repairs and weatherproofing on the Farm on the Sunset Hill for Kenny in CT and am staying there in a trailer for now.

Am doing work on my Nieces and Nephew-in-laws home and also prep work for the 2 car garage for my Sister and Brother-in-law...should have a permit next week for that work and away we goooo...will try to post pics of progress here.

Great to be visiting Family and re-connecting with all there Kids...I have 3 Sisters and 2 Brothers and Husbands and Wives and Nieces and Nephews all pretty much near by.

Looks like I may be heading to Michigan in the fall and possibly back to Peru...Urubamba, to help out with my Friends from Michigan home they are finishing-up in Peru.

Love, Love, Love!!!

[1inMany]

Good Morning!

Anchor, after what I share in this Village, do you really think that TMI? (really lol). Totally not, in my opinion. Glad you shared.

And so nice to have Eagle Spirit drop by, too

Major new happening this morning. I can open my wings, can you believe it? It feels like a dragging, swooshing kind of sensation, and I have to pull energy from way down deep to make it happen. I am also very, very hungry and a little tired. Wonder what I was doing during the night...

After a start like this, I am rather open to the universe today and wondering what the next week will hold.

Love all around,

[Paula]

"Kitty Plays Catch & One Other Surprise Talent"

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmV7G_Qu7po

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmV7G...e_gdata_player

[eaglespirit]

Posted by ulli;537316I
want eaglespirit to make a swooping appearance now with one of his sky pictures...
LOVE...LOVE...LOVE...

Love...Love...Love...back at Ya'All : ) : ) : )

[Carmody]

Taken from another thread, as the comment I wanted to make next, does not belong there:

Posted by Carmody (here)
All those things considered, I'm not dismissing the message of solar situations.

Deniability is a big thing in government circles.

There is more to human reality than a surface analysis can bring. Or... more than 'animal body parts of a complex duality being' doing the interpretation of the message.... can bring.

I'm largely up for anything that slaps humanity in the face, into some state of awareness of who and what they are. Different horses for different courses,and thus different messages for the 7 billion individuals who are incarnating on this planet.

If one has ever done any teaching, one of the fist things they learn in order to be effective for a group, is that the message cannot be repeated "ad nauseam" (repeat to point of nausea) in one way only, but that it must be transmitted ad nauseam in a million different ways, if necessary.

Considering the complexity of the message, it will need to be -and is being- repeated a million different ways in a million different places.

For example, even in the song 'Jesus built my Hotrod'.

From the John Huston film 'Wise Blood', Brad Dourif is quoted, in the song. And some other bits.

"I come a long way since I believed in anything."..... "I come from half way around the world...."

"Where you come from is gone. Where you thought you were going to weren't never there, and where you are... ain't no good unless you can get away from it!"

Basically be present in the here and now, for all else is.... impermanent. And in that moment, loose yourself (break the body's chain/hold of an anchor on the reality holding moment...and find it all.)

Whatever it takes to move humanity out of that lock of looking at the past ...forming itself based on physical directives... and relentlessly, ideologically, dogmatically... projecting that -into it's future.

It can be found everywhere, in the biggest things, in the smallest things. It is only a matter of perspective, which can cascade into understanding.

I mean, dang it, there ain't no barriers, no borders, no limits.. Even a metal head can 'get it'.


edit:
The below is the same thing as the song's lyrics and meaning. Whether one realizes such... from perspective found in the self.....is the deal.

Posted by another bob (here)

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
"Oh, so this is what it is."

"Who indeed could dare enjoy that which is devoid of bliss? He only could dare it who is All-Blissful. Who can become weak? He only can who is All-Powerful. Who could enter Ignorance? Only He who is omniscient could enter it. Ignorance is the play of knowledge, concealing itself in itself. Weakness is the play of power, blisslessness the play of bliss, the concealment of itself in itself. ‘I the Self reveal Self by Self in Self’ - liberated by this knowledge one enjoys the play."

~ Sri Aurobindo

Part of the point is that one can find a single answer..but it will only really be useful for the given self, it is very unlikely that any translation could ever be universal. Widespread and powerfully adopted, yes, but ....universal? Not likely, not by a long shot.

[4evrneo]

It's almost noon in Arizona, sitting in my office pretending to work. Listening to noise from shop worker. Wondering how hot it is outside, probably close to 110 degrees by now. Comtemplating the many questions I have to all of you, hmm, Being that its my 1st day as member on Avalon.....Noticed my senses of energy are high today. Getting hungry, what shall I have for lunch before I dive into quiestions...............

[Sierra]

The fire is still around 31,000 acres. The fire itself may not be threatening anyone right now, but the smoke makes it hard to breathe. The house has been shut up for a day or so. Here is a picture of the back yard...

The smoke flows down the Butte River canyon (what you can't see in the picture) in the morning, and flows back out in the evening.

Astrid, Purple Lama, Carmody, Modwiz, Village and all: Can we have some rain please? Thank you.

BCWD: McKnao played fetch!
Eaglespirit: So glad to hear from you!

[Jenci]

Posted by 4evrneo (here)
It's almost noon in Arizona, sitting in my office pretending to work. Listening to noise from shop worker. Wondering how hot it is outside, probably close to 110 degrees by now. Comtemplating the many questions I have to all of you, hmm, Being that its my 1st day as member on Avalon.....Noticed my senses of energy are high today. Getting hungry, what shall I have for lunch before I dive into quiestions...............

Welcome to Avalon

[Jenci]

Posted by Sierra (here)
The fire is still around 31,000 acres. The fire itself may not be threatening anyone right now, but the smoke makes it hard to breathe. The house has been shut up for a day or so. Here is a picture of the back yard...

The smoke flows down the Butte River canyon (what you can't see in the picture) in the morning, and flows back out in the evening.

Astrid, Purple Lama, Carmody, Modwiz, Village and all: Can we have some rain please? Thank you.

BCWD: McKnao played fetch!
Eaglespirit: So glad to hear from you!

It's good to hear that no one is in danger, Sierra.....but that smoke does look uncomfortable !

Jeanette

[Flash]

Luck

The way I feel today


The best one is the bank thiefs minute 1:36 imho

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsmkLvDShnQ

As for the retreat, I am in the second week of silence, although this week is less restrictive for silence, very few people remained.

Last week ended up with me realising how taken I am by everyday events. Last Saturday I was just starting to come down and have a bit of capacity for meditation.

I do feel much better though. Wholesome food, nice quiet people, one with oneself, even my shoulders are lower.

I realised full of stuff, after my spree of humour about the silent hunchback peo-ple and my spree of laughing.

One of these realisations is the balance between tension and void, creating reality (I mean personal and may be overall). Without the tension, I doubt reality would exist in 3D. The fine thread one has to walk in between tension and relaxation, fullness and emptiness, to become aware.

Another realisation is how much we are in our heads, I am full of head thoughts but also much more experienced meditation practitioners were beating me flat for the head stuff, I could not believe how caught up we are in the head in general.

The other realisation is that it is very difficult for many to apply heart energies (including me of course). To let the heart guide and use the head/brain as a tool for the practical application or the directed vision following the heart/love inner/outer projections.

The other thing was fears erasing trust, between human, in everyday life, and mostly fear of intimate hearted giving/receiving. I realised that I had very little trust in life to bring the necessary for my and my family everyday life and therefore, created a harsh reality of survival.

Still need a few weeks of silence. Still need digging - this never stops anyhow.

I had real bad back and shoulder pains accompanied by the whole nervous system reaction from head to toes. Very painful for a few days. I do not know if it was a soft bed, sitting too much for meditation on more or less good seating or the effect of meditation.
Now I feel better.

People were all sweet all around once they look at you and you look at them (head up from hunching) lol.

Overall, I did enjoy the experience and will keep doing it.

Forgot to tell: I read a whole book on Krishnamurti by Radha Rajagopal Sloss, the little girl he has help to raise from birth, who considered him as a father, as her own father (in fact he was living in a treesome relationship his whole life, a very different private life, but the little girl did not suffer from it). It was on the real, everyday Krishna. I was amazed at how all the idiosyncracies he had, the ego that was not under control and the lies he could make. He often did not apply what he was teaching.

I still like to read his teachings but, the lesson here was: I am the guru of myself and I live my own truth as much as I can. Probalby as he did, no more, no less.

The second thing is that master may have idiosyncracies but I think must have some coherence between the thinking, the heart, the lips and the behavior. Othewise I have a real trust problem.

[benevolentcrow]

I have ventured away from the Hear and Now and get the feeling from other threads that there is a certain amount of disappointment that nothing catastrophic, or life changing has happen. Be it EMP, ETs... the list is endless. Do we really need to be on the verge of something happening. That anticipation, the excitement, are we really wanting to say he/she was right? Impending doom is not where I want to focus my energies!

Back to the Hear and Now, a good place to be!

I for one am grateful that so far I can live my life in a somewhat peaceful existence. I choose to take one day at a time.