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    I have a had a BIG day today.
    Was in hospital to have kidney stone surgery... yet again! Some may remember it was only about 3 yrs ago that I had the same... sigh.
    All went well.. no glitches to speak of and I am back home a little sore and scattered from general anaesthetic (sp).
    I have quite compromised lung function (won't go into that) so I get very nervous about 'going under' as I get older.

    I had a few dear friends all offering to drive to hospital (50 miles away) which was very touching as I have no immediate family.
    Then I had my Avalon angel Marianne, and the Avalon healing circle holding me in their arms... I can barely describe how blessed I felt to receive that!!!
    I'm sitting here bawling my eyes out with gratitude and wonder at the magic of loving, human consciousness.

    Love to everyone

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    f u l l s c r e e n


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    After posting, I was recalling the time I was working on psychic self defense and discovering my empathic side. This morning I took a stroll in the there and then, and found the information. There is a community for empaths, run by Elise Lebeau, PhD. It might be called the Empath Community. Anyway, I see that she now has the copyright on the empath survival program, whereas years ago when I found this the author (whose name I cannot remember) still "owned" it.

    http://www.eliselebeau.com/empaths/e...rvival-program

    Here is what is contained in this program, which is free:

    Technique 1: Turning down the volume
    Technique 2: Moving through crowds
    Technique 3: Creating healthy boundaries with family and friends
    Technique 4: Holding your emotional space in a romantic relationship
    Technique 5: Grounding technique for empath Children
    Technique 6: Claiming your emotional space at work
    Technique 7: Feeling safe as an empath
    Bonus!: Grounding Techniques for empaths

    I thought I would share it for anyone interested since it is free. It has been a long time since I went through these, they have likely changed over time. And they are likely very basic. But I do recall they helped me tremendously at the time.

    ulli, I send prayers for those affected by the volcano.

    healing to you, markoid. I hear those are quite painful

    oh, and also, thank you all for helping me process and get ideas. You're the best

    Much Love,
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    A special thank you, violet. You have set into my lap exactly what I needed.

    Quote This reminds me of a girl I used to know. She would say - in her not too easy life - she felt like Pinocchio and she was very angry with the puppetmaker, but she never expressed the anger directly. She would just sit there at the table with a defeated look in her eyes and a helpless smile saying that.

    As opposed to another very angry with God girl, she just screamed at the skies: you bastard! And I would probably wonder how that worked technically. This was usually after or before a difficult exam at high school. She'd look up and scream at a fixed point in a cloud. And I was always careful not to advise her to trust in good things that come from above.
    Both of these girls sound like they were sitting in a place of helplessness. I know that place. There is an element of empowerment when one realizes one's thoughts have more influence on one's reality than is widely believed. At the same time, why shouldn't we look "up" at the sky (or the Divinity inside) and give thanks for the good things that come from above (God, Spirit, Universe)? For, surely, if good things exist, they have been offered by a Benevolence that is Intelligent. Where else would they come from?

    I don't know, Paula, if I have reached an internal place of balance with things. The inner pushes and pushes, pulls and pulls, to go farther and farther. More, more! Undoubtedly I have reached a place, or places, I could have never dreamed of. Literally. I could not have imagined the magical, mystical places I have reached.

    This morning, I am Here. And Now. Grateful for All I have been Gifted. And I am expressing this, thus so:

    We Rejoice in the Love and the Light and the Unity of the One Infinite Creator. We are Grateful for (and I am filling in the blank here...) I am truly thankful for the Steadfastness of the Benevolence. If that makes sense. Hopefully anyone who reads this will not mistake this for a ooshy gooshy shallow and imbalanced love and light message...

    Much Love,
    Life is a road we don't travel alone. But everyone's on their own journey home.

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    Quote Posted by markoid (here)
    I have a had a BIG day today.
    Was in hospital to have kidney stone surgery... yet again! Some may remember it was only about 3 yrs ago that I had the same... sigh.
    All went well.. no glitches to speak of and I am back home a little sore and scattered from general anaesthetic (sp).
    I have quite compromised lung function (won't go into that) so I get very nervous about 'going under' as I get older.

    I had a few dear friends all offering to drive to hospital (50 miles away) which was very touching as I have no immediate family.
    Then I had my Avalon angel Marianne, and the Avalon healing circle holding me in their arms... I can barely describe how blessed I felt to receive that!!!
    I'm sitting here bawling my eyes out with gratitude and wonder at the magic of loving, human consciousness.

    Love to everyone
    You dear Markoid are a loving human consciousness.....loving, healing thoughts.

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    Quote Posted by 1inMany (here)
    A special thank you, violet. You have set into my lap exactly what I needed.

    Quote This reminds me of a girl I used to know. She would say - in her not too easy life - she felt like Pinocchio and she was very angry with the puppetmaker, but she never expressed the anger directly. She would just sit there at the table with a defeated look in her eyes and a helpless smile saying that.

    As opposed to another very angry with God girl, she just screamed at the skies: you bastard! And I would probably wonder how that worked technically. This was usually after or before a difficult exam at high school. She'd look up and scream at a fixed point in a cloud. And I was always careful not to advise her to trust in good things that come from above.
    Both of these girls sound like they were sitting in a place of helplessness. I know that place. There is an element of empowerment when one realizes one's thoughts have more influence on one's reality than is widely believed. At the same time, why shouldn't we look "up" at the sky (or the Divinity inside) and give thanks for the good things that come from above (God, Spirit, Universe)? For, surely, if good things exist, they have been offered by a Benevolence that is Intelligent. Where else would they come from?

    I don't know, Paula, if I have reached an internal place of balance with things. The inner pushes and pushes, pulls and pulls, to go farther and farther. More, more! Undoubtedly I have reached a place, or places, I could have never dreamed of. Literally. I could not have imagined the magical, mystical places I have reached.

    This morning, I am Here. And Now. Grateful for All I have been Gifted. And I am expressing this, thus so:

    We Rejoice in the Love and the Light and the Unity of the One Infinite Creator. We are Grateful for (and I am filling in the blank here...) I am truly thankful for the Steadfastness of the Benevolence. If that makes sense. Hopefully anyone who reads this will not mistake this for a ooshy gooshy shallow and imbalanced love and light message...

    Much Love,
    You are shining a great light, One.
    If consciousness manifests its focus as reality then it's only logical that those who have figured this out should dig deep inside themselves and come up with all the virtues they can muster.
    Because the alternative is just too unthinkable.
    The dark agenda beings are working overtime to get people to focus on their differences, their fragmentations, their survival instinct, their fears, the object of their fears, illness, scarcity.

    When we do a shift in our focus to solutions, to abundance, to Love Love Love, appreciation, compassion, tenderness, forgiveness, humility, gratitude, understanding, valor, strength, and to knowing that the highest agenda (everlasting, all-knowing Source) will always use everything, including darkness, to manifest a more perfected creation, then we can discover that such consciousness is the actual tube through which these high values come streaming into this world.
    I've been through hell recently, and there were quite a few terror moments as I "saw" in my inner world awful sights of suffering and dying animals, and nearly gave up the desire to live.
    But it passed. Here I am, one week later, in a calm and peaceful place of recovery, hope, renewed energies, and ready to make necklaces again. Since my main agenda is still to fight poverty I'm now giving out more work to young women. Plus teaching how to make jewelry. Creating communities, sharing knowledge, empowering the weak and timid, while careful to not to create dependencies on me, help people to focus on God, while letting go of superstitions and false traditions, this is what I do, and I wish others would pick up that ball as well, in their own neighborhood.
    It will be done.

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    Quote Posted by markoid (here)
    I have a had a BIG day today.
    Was in hospital to have kidney stone surgery... yet again! Some may remember it was only about 3 yrs ago that I had the same... sigh.
    All went well.. no glitches to speak of and I am back home a little sore and scattered from general anaesthetic (sp).
    I have quite compromised lung function (won't go into that) so I get very nervous about 'going under' as I get older.

    I had a few dear friends all offering to drive to hospital (50 miles away) which was very touching as I have no immediate family.
    Then I had my Avalon angel Marianne, and the Avalon healing circle holding me in their arms... I can barely describe how blessed I felt to receive that!!!
    I'm sitting here bawling my eyes out with gratitude and wonder at the magic of loving, human consciousness.

    Love to everyone
    Wow, Markoid, that is such a relief!! Look, how many of us are right now in healing and recovery mode.
    Tell your body to stop fabricating stones. I bet there is some simple diet solution that we just haven't discovered yet.
    Also sounds to me like you may have some Libra energies in your chart, like either you have planets in that sign itself, or a badly aspected Venus, as Venus is the ruler of Libra, or some malefic planets in the seventh house.

    Once we find our weak body spots we are halfway there. Geminis must never smoke, never inhale the product of combustion, as their sign produces delicate lungs. Same with Aquarians and the blood vessels, although one must never tell them that, or they smoke even more, as they like to do stuff to spite others. Well, up to a point, then they pull themselves together.
    Sorry, rambling here, while waiting for breakfast in bed......
    Don't disappear again, Markoid. And keep well.

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    We had some radio interviewers go to town this noon and check for Halloweenfever. Not all that much enthusiasm, being considered "more of an American thing" and "more for children".

    But

    Did you know it was a European celebration that crossed the sea and now came back to Europe? Talking about things that come back to Europe, making advancements in my Berber study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1199377/. This is (for me) a new link, will put the Phoenician link on hold for later comparison.

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    Quote Posted by markoid (here)
    I had a few dear friends all offering to drive to hospital (50 miles away) which was very touching as I have no immediate family.
    Then I had my Avalon angel Marianne, and the Avalon healing circle holding me in their arms... I can barely describe how blessed I felt to receive that!!!
    I’m sitting here bawling my eyes out with gratitude and wonder at the magic of loving, human consciousness.
    Your post touched me deeply, Markoid. Love sent. Continued health. <3




    Quote Posted by 1inMany (here)
    I don't know, Paula, if I have reached an internal place of balance with things. The inner pushes and pushes, pulls and pulls, to go farther and farther. More, more! Undoubtedly I have reached a place, or places, I could have never dreamed of. Literally. I could not have imagined the magical, mystical places I have reached.
    When I “check in” and get the “Yup, life’s golden,” that’s balance enough for me. Otherwise, my mind goes all twirly and squirrely.

    I’m balanced when I can let something “just be”. I’ve lightened up on that perfection meme of yesteryear. Damn, it was monstrous!

    I still catch myself grabbing a mallet to bong out, “better, better, more, more, faster, faster”. Shaking my head and smiling now.


    Yipes! It's almost 1:00 pm and I'm still in breakfast mode. I missed the sunny skies and now sky's filled with dark clouds. Hoodie sweatshirt and vest for my walk. Pigeons and seagulls waiting for what looks to be a late lunch.

    RunningDeer <3
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    Happy Halloween!

    I remember when Skippy and I worked together on the NASA Voyager 6 Project. Carl Sagan was found of us.
    We finally get that the YELLOW song by Tony Christie, was oficially inserted on the Travelling Gold Record aboard the Vogayer 6.



    From 1:23




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    Quote Posted by dan33 (here)
    Happy Halloween!

    I remember when Skippy and I worked together on the NASA Voyager 6 Project. Carl Sagan was found of us.
    We finally get that the YELLOW song by Tony Christie, was oficially inserted on the Travelling Gold Record aboard the Vogayer 6.
    That's true, but then Carl went Googleplex and now we are stuck with AI's and spiders everywhere messing up in different timelines. How do we ever get to Amarillo?

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    GOOGOLPLEX IT'S A CLASSIC.

    Thanks Skippy.

    It is a way to explain the madness.

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    For goodness, watch where you’re going! You are about to fall into an abyss.

    "The bad news is that you will fall through thin air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is that there’s no ground ... A warrior is not like a samurai who is looking for a job. You are not trying to be hired by anybody, not even by yourself. The idea of a warrior is based on a sense of fundamental fearlessness. There is no reason why you should be a coward. It's as simple as that. You are not being a warrior because a state of war exists in your country. We are not trying to win against the egohood people. We are not trying to fight with them. You are being a warrior because you ARE a warrior. If someone asks you, "Are you twenty-one years old?" you say, "Yes, I am." They don't ask you WHY you are twenty-one years old or how you have done this. You would have no answer for that. You are just twenty-one. Warriorship is a basic sense of unshakeability. It's a sense of immovability and self-existing dignity rather than that you are trying to fight with something else." From Chogyam Trungpa, "Meditation: The Way of the Buddha," Talk Four, Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, July 1 1974.

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    Quote Posted by ulli (here)
    Quote Posted by 1inMany (here)
    A special thank you, violet. You have set into my lap exactly what I needed.

    Quote This reminds me of a girl I used to know. She would say - in her not too easy life - she felt like Pinocchio and she was very angry with the puppetmaker, but she never expressed the anger directly. She would just sit there at the table with a defeated look in her eyes and a helpless smile saying that.

    As opposed to another very angry with God girl, she just screamed at the skies: you bastard! And I would probably wonder how that worked technically. This was usually after or before a difficult exam at high school. She'd look up and scream at a fixed point in a cloud. And I was always careful not to advise her to trust in good things that come from above.
    Both of these girls sound like they were sitting in a place of helplessness. I know that place. There is an element of empowerment when one realizes one's thoughts have more influence on one's reality than is widely believed. At the same time, why shouldn't we look "up" at the sky (or the Divinity inside) and give thanks for the good things that come from above (God, Spirit, Universe)? For, surely, if good things exist, they have been offered by a Benevolence that is Intelligent. Where else would they come from?

    I don't know, Paula, if I have reached an internal place of balance with things. The inner pushes and pushes, pulls and pulls, to go farther and farther. More, more! Undoubtedly I have reached a place, or places, I could have never dreamed of. Literally. I could not have imagined the magical, mystical places I have reached.

    This morning, I am Here. And Now. Grateful for All I have been Gifted. And I am expressing this, thus so:

    We Rejoice in the Love and the Light and the Unity of the One Infinite Creator. We are Grateful for (and I am filling in the blank here...) I am truly thankful for the Steadfastness of the Benevolence. If that makes sense. Hopefully anyone who reads this will not mistake this for a ooshy gooshy shallow and imbalanced love and light message...

    Much Love,
    You are shining a great light, One.
    If consciousness manifests its focus as reality then it's only logical that those who have figured this out should dig deep inside themselves and come up with all the virtues they can muster.
    Because the alternative is just too unthinkable.
    The dark agenda beings are working overtime to get people to focus on their differences, their fragmentations, their survival instinct, their fears, the object of their fears, illness, scarcity.

    When we do a shift in our focus to solutions, to abundance, to Love Love Love, appreciation, compassion, tenderness, forgiveness, humility, gratitude, understanding, valor, strength, and to knowing that the highest agenda (everlasting, all-knowing Source) will always use everything, including darkness, to manifest a more perfected creation, then we can discover that such consciousness is the actual tube through which these high values come streaming into this world.
    I've been through hell recently, and there were quite a few terror moments as I "saw" in my inner world awful sights of suffering and dying animals, and nearly gave up the desire to live.
    But it passed. Here I am, one week later, in a calm and peaceful place of recovery, hope, renewed energies, and ready to make necklaces again. Since my main agenda is still to fight poverty I'm now giving out more work to young women. Plus teaching how to make jewelry. Creating communities, sharing knowledge, empowering the weak and timid, while careful to not to create dependencies on me, help people to focus on God, while letting go of superstitions and false traditions, this is what I do, and I wish others would pick up that ball as well, in their own neighborhood.
    It will be done.
    ...and so it is

    Altruistic Acceleration Creating OUR New World of LOVE!!!

    ...all else falls by the wayside and is flushed elsewhere
    for lessons of lessons upon lessons!

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    Evey year, there is a gathering of luthiers in north central Minnesota, hosted by my incredible friends Grant and Christy. Handmade musical instruments are passed around, many songs are played, and a few beers disappear. Every year, someone (or two) new people show up and dazzle us all with their musicality. This past year, my buddy - and new Project Avalon member - Joe Sustaire (that I finally got to meet in person!) was one, and this young guy, Adam Bjoraker was another.

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    Seems the word is out where I park my car when I walk. It’s been a couple days where the pigeons and gulls meet up with me as I finish off my walk. I’ve already passed out their lunch boxes on the other side. Now, they’re coming around for seconds.

    Fortunately, I carry a back-up mason jar of bird seed. And the younger gulls don’t mind it. The old gulls grab up the crust and end slices of my Ezekiel sprouted bread. Truth be told, it’s too expensive to share the whole loaf. I can’t make myself feed them “batter whipped ‘Sunbeam’” bread. As it is they survive on McD’s fries and once in a while I find whole hot dogs and rotting hunks of raw hamburg in the parking lot. And then there’s the big hunks of Italian bread and day old rolls that only serves to encourage fights and competition. I’ve learned the art of ripping it apart with my sneakers.

    With all the stuff that goes on in everyones’ lives, here I am posting about pigeons, gulls and one of the best parts of my day.

    They see me coming and fly over head, we cross the street together. They caw-caw, and coo-coo to announce that Seed Lady’s here. I feel them in my auric field. It makes me giggle and duck a little. And I wonder if they see the field from afar because some chaperone me across the parking lot.

    If Cesar Millan, the Dog Whisperer were around, he’d instruct that I’m the pack leader, and they get out of my way. You see, I’ve noticed that I moon walk (not the Michael Jackson one) the last 50’ or so to the grassy strip which is our family dinner table.

    From start to finish, it’s not that long, but that joy is carried all the way home.




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    Quote Posted by RunningDeer (here)
    With all the stuff that goes on in everyones’ lives, here I am posting about pigeons, gulls and one of the best parts of my day.
    And I thank you for that.
    Life is a road we don't travel alone. But everyone's on their own journey home.

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    With all the stuff that goes on in everyones’ lives, here I am posting about pigeons, gulls and one of the best parts of my day.

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    I NEED these stories/anecdotes/incidents of everyday life (with or without a metaphysical twist) to define sanity. Thank you, Paula!

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    Well, looking at my descendants, I have decided there must really be superhero genes in here somewhere (I hope these pictures don't turn out huge...) Guess who picked out the Batgirl costume....

    Attachment 27840 Attachment 27841

    (D didn't look especially happy in this picture, so I asked him why he wasn't smiling. Um, duh, Batman doesn't smile. Hmmph.)

    Much BatLove,
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