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    Here and now...back in my home, and can't sleep due to jet lag.
    It's only my third day back and already I'm missing my minimalist life in Barbados where everything is small and manageable.
    Here I have too much furniture, too many pictures, too much clutter, and none of it means much any longer.
    Getting older means a fuller house.
    I now wish I had that brick fire place of Purple Lama's so I can burn all the junk.

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    I dreamed of meeting Ulli at a beach front hotel, shortly before the hurricane arrived. Then another dream moving through a dark stream and numerous faces emerging from the here and now.

    Calliope is too far gone with the diabetes. We brought her back home, for now, but we will have to let her go very soon, lest she suffer long. I had prophesied a while back that she was prepared to harvest, that lotusblossom would become pregnant and that calliope would leave so she could return to us in human form. That was a year and a half ago when I first saw that ahead in the stream of time, and I saw the same a few times since, and now lb is pregnant and calliope is preparing her exit, as was fortold. Knowing surely makes it easier, although in the moment it doesn't seem that way.

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    Oh, that's fun. Good morning, ulli.

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    Purplelama my beloved cat Kato left this plane when I had become pregnant with my little one. He got leukaemia and there was nothing we could do for him. Thinking of Calliope. Congrats to you and lotusblossum.

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    Quote Posted by ulli (here)
    Here and now...back in my home, and can't sleep due to jet lag.
    It's only my third day back and already I'm missing my minimalist life in Barbados where everything is small and manageable.
    Here I have too much furniture, too many pictures, too much clutter, and none of it means much any longer.
    Getting older means a fuller house.
    I now wish I had that brick fire place of Purple Lama's so I can burn all the junk.
    This post really touched me. I am heading back to my tent in about two weeks and a life that makes more sense to me. Living in a community where the big stuff is held in common makes so much more sense to me. Living in my 3 story farmhouse with just my wife and her cats, paying property and school taxes for dysfunctional systems is an absurdity that is not lost on me. I know that getting that aspect of my life figured out is becoming increasingly important for my well being.

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    I dreamed of meeting Ulli at a beach front hotel, shortly before the hurricane arrived. Then another dream moving through a dark stream and numerous faces emerging from the here and now.

    Calliope is too far gone with the diabetes. We brought her back home, for now, but we will have to let her go very soon, lest she suffer long. I had prophesied a while back that she was prepared to harvest, that lotusblossom would become pregnant and that calliope would leave so she could return to us in human form. That was a year and a half ago when I first saw that ahead in the stream of time, and I saw the same a few times since, and now lb is pregnant and calliope is preparing her exit, as was fortold. Knowing surely makes it easier, although in the moment it doesn't seem that way.

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    Oh, that's fun. Good morning, ulli.

    Good morning to you, too. How nice that we are still here, now.
    It's really comforting to think that even in the dark vortex of a hurricane we can still see each other's faces.
    Pluto is a vortex, a funnel, the elevator shaft to other levels, the tunnel, the corridor, the birth canal,
    and when Pluto hits with a strong angle an elevator door opens and someone leaves while another arrives.
    2012 is a Pluto year as Pluto and Uranus form right angles, particularly in July.
    Uranus triggers what is overdue, with a sudden jerk moment...reality adjustment.
    Pluto, being the planet of destiny, then transports the goods (whatever they may be...spiritual as well as material)
    to the places of their true destination.

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    It is nice, I agree.

    The dream ties in with many others, several of which were related in freds' dreams of avalon thread.

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    This came through the back channel from a non-member:

    Quote Purplelama's cat has diabetes. My old cat almost died from it. I changed his food & within 24 hours he never took another insulin shot. The food could be the problem. Plz forward this to him. Natural Balance Chicken & Peas in a can. PLEASE let him know. I love them all on that thread.
    I am putting this here and now to thank the sender, and to say I have a case of this food arriving tomorrow. Also, to illustrate to our Villagers how we are touching the lives of many outside the confines of the membership of avalon. Thanks again.

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    The German government started an initiative called "Dialogue about Germany". Basically the citizens are encouraged to bring forward suggestions about how to improve things. The suggestions get thumbs up online and the initiators of the 10 most popular suggestions will be invited to a meeting with Mr. Merkel in September. Deadline for the vote is April 15th.

    A group called "We are the People" submitted the idea, to move the topic of free energy more into the focus of mainstream science etc.

    You neither have to be a German citizen nor register somewhere to give a thumbs up, so please go to this page, scroll down and give a thumbs up.

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    Quote Posted by PurpleLama (here)
    This came through the back channel from a non-member:

    Quote Purplelama's cat has diabetes. My old cat almost died from it. I changed his food & within 24 hours he never took another insulin shot. The food could be the problem. Plz forward this to him. Natural Balance Chicken & Peas in a can. PLEASE let him know. I love them all on that thread.
    I am putting this here and now to thank the sender, and to say I have a case of this food arriving tomorrow. Also, to illustrate to our Villagers how we are touching the lives of many outside the confines of the membership of avalon. Thanks again.

    I have suspected for the longest time that cats love novelty, when it comes to food.
    Yumminess has a way of uncurling DNA strands and causing inner healing energies to
    start blinking like Christmas tree lights.
    For the inner light codes to kick in every living thing needs a burst of excitement...
    that would be true for cats as well as humans and aliens.

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    Quote Posted by ulli (here)
    Quote Posted by PurpleLama (here)
    This came through the back channel from a non-member:

    Quote Purplelama's cat has diabetes. My old cat almost died from it. I changed his food & within 24 hours he never took another insulin shot. The food could be the problem. Plz forward this to him. Natural Balance Chicken & Peas in a can. PLEASE let him know. I love them all on that thread.
    I am putting this here and now to thank the sender, and to say I have a case of this food arriving tomorrow. Also, to illustrate to our Villagers how we are touching the lives of many outside the confines of the membership of avalon. Thanks again.

    I have suspected for the longest time that cats love novelty, when it comes to food.
    Yumminess has a way of uncurling DNA strands and causing inner healing energies to
    start blinking like Christmas tree lights.
    For the inner light codes to kick in every living thing needs a burst of excitement...
    that would be true for cats as well as humans and aliens.
    When one considers what it is that constitutes pet food, it is probably helpful to feed them something of quality as well.

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    Quote Posted by ulli (here)

    Good morning to you, too. How nice that we are still here, now.
    It's really comforting to think that even in the dark vortex of a hurricane we can still see each other's faces.
    Pluto is a vortex, a funnel, the elevator shaft to other levels, the tunnel, the corridor, the birth canal,
    and when Pluto hits with a strong angle an elevator door opens and someone leaves while another arrives.
    2012 is a Pluto year as Pluto and Uranus form right angles, particularly in July.
    Uranus triggers what is overdue, with a sudden jerk moment...reality adjustment.
    Pluto, being the planet of destiny, then transports the goods (whatever they may be...spiritual as well as material)
    to the places of their true destination.
    Uh-oh. July, huh? I'd better start looking to that. Time to stop backsliding -and get back on the ride.
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    Quote Posted by ulli (here)
    Here and now...back in my home, and can't sleep due to jet lag.
    It's only my third day back and already I'm missing my minimalist life in Barbados where everything is small and manageable.
    Here I have too much furniture, too many pictures, too much clutter, and none of it means much any longer.
    Getting older means a fuller house.
    I now wish I had that brick fire place of Purple Lama's so I can burn all the junk.
    Tied to the past in ways one no longer desires or has any emotion about.

    Praise be to that state, as it is one of the only markers that the rest have, to look at, to observe.... of how to get free - themselves.

    I have had a potent and debilitating virus over the past four days. It's finally clearing up. I've always been faulted for never asking for help, but always being willing to give to others, at any time.

    My excuse is that I don't want to deflect energy away from a chicken.
    Last edited by Carmody; 10th April 2012 at 14:10.
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    Quote Posted by Carmody (here)
    Quote Posted by ulli (here)

    Good morning to you, too. How nice that we are still here, now.
    It's really comforting to think that even in the dark vortex of a hurricane we can still see each other's faces.
    Pluto is a vortex, a funnel, the elevator shaft to other levels, the tunnel, the corridor, the birth canal,
    and when Pluto hits with a strong angle an elevator door opens and someone leaves while another arrives.
    2012 is a Pluto year as Pluto and Uranus form right angles, particularly in July.
    Uranus triggers what is overdue, with a sudden jerk moment...reality adjustment.
    Pluto, being the planet of destiny, then transports the goods (whatever they may be...spiritual as well as material)
    to the places of their true destination.
    Uh-oh. July, huh? I'd better start looking to that. Time to stop backsliding -and get back on the ride.
    Actually, June and July.
    Uranus at 8 degree of Aries, and Pluto at 8 degrees of Capricorn.
    The angle is 90 degrees, 0 minutes on June 24th, 2012, at noon GMT, according to my ephemeris:

    6/24/12: Sun 3Cn22 Moon 0Vi09 Mercury 28Cn00 Venus 7Ge40. Mars 25Vi22 Jupiter 2Ge51 Saturn 22Li45. Uranus 8Ar23 Neptune 3Pi03. Pluto 8Cp23.
    People with a planet or Ascendant at 8 Capricorn, 8 Aries, 8 Libra, 8 Cancer... buckle up now.

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    Quote Posted by modwiz (here)
    Quote Posted by ulli (here)
    Here and now...back in my home, and can't sleep due to jet lag.
    It's only my third day back and already I'm missing my minimalist life in Barbados where everything is small and manageable.
    Here I have too much furniture, too many pictures, too much clutter, and none of it means much any longer.
    Getting older means a fuller house.
    I now wish I had that brick fire place of Purple Lama's so I can burn all the junk.
    This post really touched me. I am heading back to my tent in about two weeks and a life that makes more sense to me. Living in a community where the big stuff is held in common makes so much more sense to me. Living in my 3 story farmhouse with just my wife and her cats, paying property and school taxes for dysfunctional systems is an absurdity that is not lost on me. I know that getting that aspect of my life figured out is becoming increasingly important for my well being.
    Yes.. I love the point that in the end, we find that we need next to nothing. That anything outside of that is just an extension of our own entrapment of the self.

    I try to be sure that I can emotionally, at any time, throw a match in the house and walk away without shedding a tear. That all which I extend my awareness (as ownership and manipulation) into entraps me, it does not free me.
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    Quote Posted by ulli (here)
    Here and now...back in my home, and can't sleep due to jet lag.
    It's only my third day back and already I'm missing my minimalist life in Barbados where everything is small and manageable.
    Here I have too much furniture, too many pictures, too much clutter, and none of it means much any longer.
    Getting older means a fuller house.
    I now wish I had that brick fire place of Purple Lama's so I can burn all the junk.
    You might consider a "garage sale". We have one every spring, with the aim of eventually reducing our possessions to just what's necessary.

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    In the final analysis, it is interesting to note that seemingly...only the not free can teach the not free how to be free. Getting to that point of understanding is quite the trick.
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    Quote Posted by Carmody (here)
    Quote Posted by ulli (here)
    Here and now...back in my home, and can't sleep due to jet lag.
    It's only my third day back and already I'm missing my minimalist life in Barbados where everything is small and manageable.
    Here I have too much furniture, too many pictures, too much clutter, and none of it means much any longer.
    Getting older means a fuller house.
    I now wish I had that brick fire place of Purple Lama's so I can burn all the junk.
    Tied to the past in ways one no longer desires or has any emotion about.

    Praise be to that state, as it is one of the only markers that the rest have, to look at, to observe.... of how to get free - themselves.

    I have had a potent and debilitating virus over the past four days. It's finally clearing up. I've always been faulted for never asking for help, but always being willing to give to others, at any time.

    My excuse is that I don't want to deflect energy away from a chicken.
    And here we come to the most important of all important considerations.
    As a firm believer in the "as above, so below" theory you know full well what I'm talking about.
    But as with all absolute truths, there is always another, more absolute truth:
    To know, or not to know.
    KNOWING that Carmody has a flu virus, we can now send energy to chickens and cats while imagining it is going to Carmody.
    Everybody wins.
    The key here is communication.
    Be well Carmody. You should be feeling some strong blasts coming from your Village friends by now.

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    Quote Posted by another bob (here)
    Quote Posted by ulli (here)
    Here and now...back in my home, and can't sleep due to jet lag.
    It's only my third day back and already I'm missing my minimalist life in Barbados where everything is small and manageable.
    Here I have too much furniture, too many pictures, too much clutter, and none of it means much any longer.
    Getting older means a fuller house.
    I now wish I had that brick fire place of Purple Lama's so I can burn all the junk.
    You might consider a "garage sale". We have one every spring, with the aim of eventually reducing our possessions to just what's necessary.
    Thanks for the suggestion. Where I live it's more complicated than that.
    This is the third world...and more so...the Outback. Think Jurassic Park with high speed Internet.
    Nobody has cash here even for a garage sale.
    Very, very poor people all around. So it's give, give, give, or wait to have it stolen.
    I have just stuffed a sack full of clothes..
    to be given to a key family in the village who will happily pick through it and then distribute the rest.

    If I were to live in the US or Canada I would do a garage sale in a flash.
    But I have a lot of art, real water colors, oils, no prints, unless signed limited edition stuff.
    Also books, including a 1973 Funk and Wagnall leather-bound encyclopedia which could only be useful as a prop to make an antique library more attractive.
    They sell them by the yard, at max $80 for all 23 volumes. Maybe could sell them if I lived in the US.
    Selling something like that from Costa Rica means the shipping would cost more than I can afford or am willing to pay.
    Firewood it is.

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    Quote Posted by Carmody (here)
    Quote Posted by modwiz (here)
    Quote Posted by ulli (here)
    Here and now...back in my home, and can't sleep due to jet lag.
    It's only my third day back and already I'm missing my minimalist life in Barbados where everything is small and manageable.
    Here I have too much furniture, too many pictures, too much clutter, and none of it means much any longer.
    Getting older means a fuller house.
    I now wish I had that brick fire place of Purple Lama's so I can burn all the junk.
    This post really touched me. I am heading back to my tent in about two weeks and a life that makes more sense to me. Living in a community where the big stuff is held in common makes so much more sense to me. Living in my 3 story farmhouse with just my wife and her cats, paying property and school taxes for dysfunctional systems is an absurdity that is not lost on me. I know that getting that aspect of my life figured out is becoming increasingly important for my well being.
    Yes.. I love the point that in the end, we find that we need next to nothing. That anything outside of that is just an extension of our own entrapment of the self.

    I try to be sure that I can emotionally, at any time, throw a match in the house and walk away without shedding a tear. That all which I extend my awareness (as ownership and manipulation) into entraps me, it does not free me.
    It is exactly this point you made there which makes you my (current) role model.

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    Default Re: Here and Now...What's Happening?

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    Here and now...back in my home, and can't sleep due to jet lag.
    It's only my third day back and already I'm missing my minimalist life in Barbados where everything is small and manageable.
    Here I have too much furniture, too many pictures, too much clutter, and none of it means much any longer.
    Getting older means a fuller house.
    I now wish I had that brick fire place of Purple Lama's so I can burn all the junk.
    You might consider a "garage sale". We have one every spring, with the aim of eventually reducing our possessions to just what's necessary.
    Thanks for the suggestion. Where I live it's more complicated than that.
    This is the third world...and more so...the Outback. Think Jurassic Park with high speed Internet.
    Nobody has cash here even for a garage sale.
    Very, very poor people all around. So it's give, give, give, or wait to have it stolen.
    I have just stuffed a sack full of clothes..
    to be given to a key family in the village who will happily pick through it and then distribute the rest.

    If I were to live in the US or Canada I would do a garage sale in a flash.
    But I have a lot of art, real water colors, oils, no prints, unless signed limited edition stuff.
    Also books, including a 1973 Funk and Wagnall leather-bound encyclopedia which could only be useful as a prop to make an antique library more attractive.
    They sell them by the yard, at max $80 for all 23 volumes. Maybe could sell them if I lived in the US.
    Selling something like that from Costa Rica means the shipping would cost more than I can afford or am willing to pay.
    Firewood it is.
    Ah, I see.

    There's been several times in my life where I have literally just given everything away, but it seems that more just comes back, unbidden.

    Btw, I once contemplated moving to Costa Rica, but settled instead for the Sierra Nevadas. In any case, perhaps there is a museum in San Jose that would accept donations?

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