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    Who knew???






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    Quote Posted by songsfortheotherkind (here)
    ...a few years ago I wrote a pilot for a tv series where the four main characters were a Shifter, vampire, witch and dimensionally slidey Being that were hiding in plain sight by being four characters in a tv series that dealt with a witch, Shifter, vampire and dimensionally slidey Being hidden in plain sight in a tv series. The multidimensional nature of the situation gave me much amusement.

    This might just be the best thing I have ever seen, heard, felt or tasted. Thank you for one epic mind-tickle.


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    Here's a little not very secret about the Goth community- it's where a LOT of Otherkind hang out.
    Mad Hatter donning his Steampunk Goth Hat???

    If the mad hatter was wearing that outfit, I would joyfully bonk him. I love this pic.

    Fantastic Steampunk Costumes- getting individuals laid since 1792.

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    This might just be the best thing I have ever seen, heard, felt or tasted. Thank you for one epic mind-tickle.
    *grinning at you*

    Coming from quite possibly the most wonderfully slidiest mind I know that's pretty epic. And you're welcome! You know me-



    bringing on the mindf*uck is just one of the many services I provide. :D
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    Not sure if Bob will return to the Pub ... but there is a free birthday drink setting in his spot waiting for him just in case ...


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    Default On reconfiguring and the sui generis signal.

    This is adapted from something else I was writing privately and I realised I wanted to say it in public.

    The sui generis tells me at every moment that everything I need is already in my own blueprint, the one my Art and Essence has been engaging in the creation of moment by moment since the *I* that I Am sprang into Being: it's the intention and purpose that I carry here, the frequency signal encoded, mapped on my fingertips from five months gestation when the frequency downloaded into the avatar and sealed the connection. (As an aside, this is why many pregnancy losses happen at either 3 or 5 months gestation. it's not accidental.)

    I go beneath the noise to the *original blueprint*, the one carried within me, the energy *below* all the Monsanto codes and contracts. It's the only voice I truly need, the only guidance that is perfect for me because *I my Self* created it. I know my greatest purpose and intention, I know what it is that I wish to create, to bring into Being in this moment in time, the signal that I wish to bring into the space. It's not a new message, I just speak it differently.

    I'm a voice that expresses the sui generis- the sui generis that the Beings connected to the evolution Consciousness and signal have always looked for expression of, have tried to find words to voice, the 'splinter in the mind' is has always been is still utterly intact within every single one.

    It's not about taking on the sui generis of another Being, although communication and sharing of vision definitely can help if the language being spoken isn't pimping the virus: what truly changes everything for the individual is to experience expanding into trust towards Self. Expand into one's *own* original blueprint signal, see what comes up, release anything that isn't wholly Self, expand again, until you are soaking in every cell and molecule of your Being in your *own* signal.

    The Anun Jesus was indeed a beautiful, resonant and sui generis Being in his own true form, and *he* said this too- the kingdom you are looking for is within you already. This is why to me the histories don't matter anywhere near as much as the evolution Consciousness they demonstrate and carry, which is what I am creating uploads about: who did what to whom in what order is nowhere near as important as what the evolution signal was doing at the time and what it continues to do.

    This whole journey is about spiritual evolution and yet that description is clunky I know and I'm going to spend some time clarifying it, *and* nothing that happens in the living Multiverse is absent this underlying and interconnecting frequency. Nothing. . There IS nothing without this frequency because as soon as something becomes Conscious it is part of that frequency, which exists even within the sea of possibility and all that creates *that*.

    This that I'm saying is what undoes the distortions of the virus, all the thrashing around thinking that one has to 'work things out' when it's the opposite, it's simply about recognising if a signal has the Life in it or not. The Life will never support corruption- corruption and closed systems *ALWAYS* die. *Anything* that can no longer evolve will ALWAYS die. If something is dying, it is disconnected from the evolution signal in some way and the signal is reconfiguring what is dying so there is a better chance for evolution. If a signal is *truly* at the end of its ability to evolve, it passes away from the Life completely, the energy recycled back into the sea of possibility to emerge clean and full of possibility in a completely new form.

    This is why I find the notion of returning to source bizarre, because I wonder why the speaker is telling me that they are at the end of their ability to evolve and are choosing to dissolve all that they have been and return to being part of the energy signal that fuels the All, while being utterly unconscious and out of existence. Given this perspective, I find the constant talk of returning to source another expression of the virus death obsession/signal: it makes perfect sense to me that the virus *would* be pimping death in the guise of higher consciousness, for a variety of obvious reasons- and that is my personal, sui generis perspective on this, in a very tiny sliver of the frequency I'm referencing from. It's helpful to start thinking of frequency as a sliding scale, something that has possibilities and nuance within it rather than a 'this is a frog', 'this is a tree' label label label and losing the distinction of each *individual* tree, the relationship with that unique frog, the subtlety of signal.

    The heteronomy has presented the unique expressions of the Life signal as an homogenous group of same things; this makes utter utter sense when one considers what the primary purpose and intention of the heteronomy is- which has in part the service aspect of being a mirror, and in part has the aspect of being the carrier of the constriction and control signal.

    Now I have to go work on expanding these ideas out ...
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    Default Echoes of the issue of choice.



    Cross posted from this thread here- http://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ebooting-focus

    the point at 4:40 made me laugh- because he was asking 'what is the discontinuity?' and instantly my mind answered 'the sea of possibility'. Which he describes as a quantum soup which requires consciousness (choice) to activate.

    *laughing* I've never gotten into Deepak's stuff before, so I've not heard these discussions before. It delights me that, although my language is different, the path my sui generis is leading me along are the same.

    It's *all* Art we're creating. Quantum level Art. Creation Art. Playing 'what if?'. Which is precisely why I am nowhere near as interested in the histories as I am the evolution Consciousness lessons that are embedded there. It's embedded everywhere.

    So cool.

    Update: Oh, oh! 6:06 to about 6:40! Bliss, bliss, to this little Otherkind expression!
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    Default I see you there, dearest woman-

    I am letting you know that I am aware I am neglecting you disgustingly and I am sorry about that. I miss you and at the same time, the sui generis is racing me down wormholes and pathways that I am immersing my Self in.

    It's not a lack of interest, love or care that does it, it's my passion for this path, the writing, the deep exploration.



    I am bedazzled by worlds and called to explore the Songs- I want you to know that I haven't forgotten you at all, in any way.
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    Default Only in what works.

    I'm interested in what works. What really works to transform the foundations of ALL the corruptions, distortions, lies, manipulations and other stuff that goes on around us, that the majority claim they want to change.

    Do they really? Or is it just nothing more than comfortable rhetoric that they tell themselves like a nice bedtime story to lull themselves back into numbness and wilful blindness?

    The *language* is a carrier of the signal; where we give our energy we get more energy in response. So if we're spending a portion of our time focusing on what we don't like, and what we don't want, feeding it with our energy and attention, why be surprised when it flows back to us? I *get* this equation and I simply do not see the usefulness or point in the endeavour because all the bitching and moaning over eons has never, EVER changed anything. Not one thing.

    It is utterly possible that I am engaged in a fruitless exercise in which only a handful of individuals will ever understand the language that I'm calling in. And in the scheme of things, this may turn out to be completely f*ucking pointless, futile, it didn't change a thing, well wasn't that a waste of time-

    to me, personally, as a sui generis Being, no, no it was not.

    I freely admit I sometimes don't know what the correct thing to do with regards the immediate situation with a Being is: I know what my intuition tells me and I know that the other individual has a very different perspective and expects me to behave from that perspective- only my sui generis won't let me. The hardest thing for me to do- or at least, one of the hardest- is to risk being rejected by someone I care about because I don't behave the way they think I should, or I don't think the way they do.

    I know individuals say all the time "if they're going to be like that then they don't really care about you anyway" *and* I have yet to discover a combination where a) there's a deep and passionate connection and b) where that sort of behaviour isn't part of the deal. I struggle with the disapproval and disconnect; I find the experience of it really gut wrenching and painful, when I'm holding onto my free will and integrity and I'm being told it's crap, I'm deluded or out of integrity or whatever.

    I've been wondering about how that is: what is in me that makes me so vulnerable to having my integrity questioned or maligned, or being called a coward, or pathetic, or having my character viewed along those lines? When I look at it I recognise that there's a part of me that experiences my caring about someone to be tied into either disinterest or a contract being pushed towards me that says 'you care about me, you have to accept my crap behaviour'. I know that I hesitate to decline that because inside I feel that this is the only kind of deal that I'm going to be offered, that it's all I'm worth, ultimately.

    I'm starting to kick that idea right in the balls. I'm getting a lot more comfortable with 'look, you don't like me, fine. You think I suck? Ok. You are entitled to your opinion, absolutely, and I'm entitled to decline to hang around and listen to you telling me how wrong I am and what exactly I*need* to do to get a clue, or be ok, or whatever.'

    If anyone *needs* me to be their idea of the right kind of me, a particular way of being something other than what I am, then that's going to go pear shaped. It's when they start to insist that my acceptance of who they are and my willingness to be around their behaviour in the moment have to be the same or else there's a problem, that's when I start to pull back. I can accept someone feels a certain way and needs to express things, I just don't need it to be *me* that's the receptacle for that if what they're expressing causes me exhaustion or discomfort. I'm not here to prove anything to anyone, including how much I can take of anything at all: I'm me, and if anyone wants to co-create with me it will *be* a co-creation, not a 'you have to take everything I say and do and like it' kind of deal.

    Sui generis says 'my experience is mine and I look for other signals that embrace this without the need to question the validity of my experience'. I wish to focus on things that don't involve validating my experience by the stamp of approval by someone outside my Self.

    I'm exploring the themes. It will unfold.
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    Did Alekhan just retire from Avalon?

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    *sad* It would appear so. This really sucks, I loved his beautiful posts and mind.
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    Quote Posted by Alekahn (here)
    Blessed be all.
    Courage for the journey ahead.
    Pura Vida!
    I really really don't want you to leave.

    I hope peace and beauty follow you wherever you go.
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    I tell you now, you sneak out on me here in this energetic outland and I'll hunt you down and set you on fire.



    *sideways eyed smile*
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    I was looking for a Monty Python clip and I stumbled on something called the Life of Brian Debate, 1979.

    Evidently, it appeared on British TV in that year, and was a 'debate' over the meaning and message of the film Life of Brian.

    It involved two Christian scholars on one side and two members of Monty Python, John Cleese and Michael Palin, on the other.

    If anyone has about an hour to kill and wants a little taste of 1979 reactionary logic then consider this a great little time capsule.

    I found it really interesting to listen to the then 'Christian' perspective on the movie.

    It's also pretty funny in parts. Cleese is sharp and insightful and honest and comes off really well. No surprises there.



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    Sync.

    Part of that debate was included on the George Harrison documentary, originally shown on HBO(?), that I rented from netflix and watched in part II last night.

    I never knew that George funded that movie, because 'he wanted to see it', after the original financiers read the screen-play and said Hail No!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_P..._Life_of_Brian

    Quote The film would not have been made without former Beatle and Python fan George Harrison, who set up Handmade Films to help fund it at a cost of £3 million (a move later described by Eric Idle as the "world's most expensive cinema ticket"). Harrison put up the money for it as he "wanted to see the movie". The original backers, EMI Films, had been scared off at the last minute by the subject matter, particularly Bernard Delfont.[7] As a result, the very last words in the film are: "I said to him, 'Bernie, they'll never make their money back on this one'", teasing Delfont for his lack of faith in the project. Terry Gilliam later said, "They pulled out on the Thursday. The crew was supposed to be leaving on the Saturday. Disastrous. It was because they read the script... finally."[10] As a reward for his help, Harrison appears in a cameo appearance as Mr. Papadopoulos, "owner of the Mount", who briefly shakes hands with Brian in a crowd scene. His one word of dialogue (a cheery Scouse, but out-of-place-in-Judea, "ullo") had to be dubbed in later.
    George was always my energetic connection to Beatles music. Also introduced me to Sitar and Ravi Shankar, whose music accompanied me on some major consciousness excursions by candle light back in my college days.
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    Thank you Curt,

    I saw that interview many years ago, and was impressed even back then. I am still impressed at how Cleese keeps his relative cool. He is a super-hero in my book. As is Palin.

    Those awful men they are talking to are not a good representation of the heteronomy however ... they are ridiculous and dreadful. It was exactly that sort of accent and demeanour that I saw the tail end of at school in this country. Here, Public school means the expensive kind, where distorted men with an unhealthy interest in children hold sway. I know the term 'public school' means something different in the States. Those monstrous sh!ts had a kind of place back than. I hope they don't now. Oh, I'm not implying anything sinister about the two men arguing against the Pythons in the clip ... I don't know them. I'm only referring to their tone as regards their religion.

    Part of my unfolding was to see those creatures for what they truly are. Look at Cleese ... look at his face. He does. He's one of my heroes.

    That was not a waste of an hour. Cheers, Curt.
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    Wow, that's never happened before ... I post a song and it mysteriously doesn't exist on Youtube as soon as I want to link to it. This can't be a black helicopter situation ... what's going on? Aaargh!
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    I've always preferred British humor to any other, and BBS has always been about the only TV I will watch.
    Monty Python is pure genius.
    I also loved the BBC series Being Human, the one I'm pretty sure Songs was talking about in # post 3538 where she wrote:
    Quote a few years ago I wrote a pilot for a tv series where the four main characters were a Shifter, vampire, witch and dimensionally slidey Being that were hiding in plain sight by being four characters in a tv series that dealt with a witch, Shifter, vampire and dimensionally slidey Being hiding in plain sight in a tv series. The multidimensional nature of the situation gave me much amusement.
    Though I haven't watched the whole series yet, the dark and subtle humor is very funny so far.
    If anyone has Netflix, you can watch Being Human streaming on your computer.
    Also the American version, though I don't really recommend that one.
    Graphic violence such as vampiric feasting can only be balanced out by brilliant, subtle dark humor, in my experience.
    If you wrote the pilot for Being Human, Songs, thank you!
    Here are some clips:

    George, the geeky character in eye glasses, is really funny as the werewolf.
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