Here and Now...What's Happening?

[ulli]

Did anyone mention spiders?
Or frogs??

20202

From a culinary standpoint, French frogs (and snails) are already extinct. This is not to say they are by any means extinct in the wild. But any you would get to eat would come from Rumania, Bulgaria or thereabouts.

You meant the French wilderness does a worse job of fattening culinary frogs than the wilderness of the Balkans?
Or do they raise them in frog farms there? Battery frogs....

Frozen frogs yes. Restaurants too probably, I think. It is amazing how many of them just shove something in the microwave these days and charge an arm and a leg.

Right, do away with money means bring your own frozen frog meat and we'll prepare it for you.
One cooked leg for 2 frozen arms and legs.
Like those second hand paperback shops here do with books.

[ulli]

Was listening to the Exopolitics Conference just now, the part where she talks about the Star Children born these days.
My grandchildren belong to this group, no doubt about it.

And suddenly I connected some dots....
I read somewhere during the eighties when I read every Bahai book I could find, something about a prophecy to this effect...that God would raise a new race of men...who would strike terror in the hearts of the rest....so I googled the few keywords I could remember and found it.

The World Order of Baha'u'llah, was the name of the book, author Shoghi Effendi.

Here is the paragraph, Shoghi Effendi quoting something attributed to Baha'u'llah, who was his great grandfather.

"Within the treasury of our wisdom there lies a knowledge, one word of which, if we chose to divulge it to mankind, would cause every human being to recognize the Manifestation of God and to acknowledge His omniscience, would enable every one to discover the secrets of all the sciences, and to attain so high a station as to find himself wholly independent of all past and future learning. Other knowledges We do as well possess, not a single letter of which We can disclose, nor do We find humanity able to hear even the barest reference to their meaning. Thus have We informed you of the knowledge of God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.” “The day is approaching when God will have, by an act of His Will, raised up a race of men the nature of which is inscrutable to all save God, the All-Powerful, the Self-Subsisting.
He will, ere long, out of the Bosom of Power draw forth the Hands of Ascendancy and Might—Hands who will arise to win victory for this Youth and who will purge mankind from the defilement of the outcast and the ungodly. These Hands will gird up their loins to champion the Faith of God, and will, in My name the self-subsistent, the mighty, subdue the peoples and kindreds of the earth. They will enter the cities and will inspire with fear the hearts of all their inhabitants. Such are the evidences of the might of God; how fearful, how vehement is His might

Ulli just yesterday i was listening to this video about The Star Visitors By Dr Richard Boylan, how coincidental of your mentioning. A Good listen here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcvvArnSZEM

I was following Dr. Boylan's forum for years, but quit when his predictions became too wild,
and when nothing, but nothing, materialized.
Strong suspicion that he become a victim of psi-ops.

[araucaria]

Did anyone mention spiders?
Or frogs??

20202

From a culinary standpoint, French frogs (and snails) are already extinct. This is not to say they are by any means extinct in the wild. But any you would get to eat would come from Rumania, Bulgaria or thereabouts.

You meant the French wilderness does a worse job of fattening culinary frogs than the wilderness of the Balkans?
Or do they raise them in frog farms there? Battery frogs....

Frozen frogs yes. Restaurants too probably, I think. It is amazing how many of them just shove something in the microwave these days and charge an arm and a leg.

Right, do away with money means bring your own frozen frog meat and we'll prepare it for you.
One cooked leg for 2 frozen arms and legs.
Like those second hand paperback shops here do with books.

Yeah, but you advised me to keep away from secondhand books remember :)

@whitefeather, thanks for that, will have a look; I must have been watching the other one along with Ulli, but I can't say I've met any of these kids.

[ulli]

http://iheartinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Breathe-in-Breathe-out-Throw-yourself-in-the-sea.jpg

...or walk on top of it.
So this image was another trigger of Bahai scripture memory.
although this might be an earlier one, as he often quoted Rumi and also the Q'ran


The story is told of a mystic knower, who went on a journey
with a learned grammarian as his companion.

They came to the shore of the Sea of Grandeur.
The knower straightway flung himself into the waves,
but the grammarian stood lost in his reasonings,
which were as words that are written on water.

The knower called out to him, “Why dost thou not follow?”
The grammarian answered, “O Brother, I dare not advance. I must needs go back again.”

Then the knower cried, “Forget what thou didst read in the books of Síbávayh and Qawlavayh,
of Ibn-i-Hajíb and Ibn-i-Málik, and cross the water.”

The death of self is needed here, not rhetoric:
Be nothing, then, and walk upon the waves.

Likewise is it written, “And be ye not like those who forget God,
and whom He hath therefore caused to forget their own selves.
These are the wicked doers."

[Calz]

I was following Dr. Boylan's forum for years, but quit when his predictions became too wild,
and when nothing, but nothing, materialized.
Strong suspicion that he become a victim of psi-ops.


I may have shared this before (some 10,000 pages ago ... seems like only yesterday).

I joined Boylan's email group after hearing him on coast to coast.

One of the "group pyschic projects" (don't remember exactly what he called them now) had to do with taking out the cabal capacity for chemtrails.

Well ... we had been getting chemtrails nearly every day for years and it *stopped* cold the very next day for about 6 weeks.

That was well out of the realms of chance so I expect that at some point there was some legitimacy to what he/they had going on.

After that nothing of signifcance occured and eventually I dropped off as well.

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Well, screw you. I remember.

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And who is this for? And remember what???

At least she didn't go ...

Um, Calz?

this time ... whew. :lol:

Perhaps I am off the hook???

[1inMany]

Perhaps I am off the hook???

Not a chance.

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[Calz]

Perhaps I am off the hook???

Not a chance.

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hrmmmph ...

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[1inMany]

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[WhiteFeather]

Was listening to the Exopolitics Conference just now, the part where she talks about the Star Children born these days.
My grandchildren belong to this group, no doubt about it.

And suddenly I connected some dots....
I read somewhere during the eighties when I read every Bahai book I could find, something about a prophecy to this effect...that God would raise a new race of men...who would strike terror in the hearts of the rest....so I googled the few keywords I could remember and found it.

The World Order of Baha'u'llah, was the name of the book, author Shoghi Effendi.

Here is the paragraph, Shoghi Effendi quoting something attributed to Baha'u'llah, who was his great grandfather.

"Within the treasury of our wisdom there lies a knowledge, one word of which, if we chose to divulge it to mankind, would cause every human being to recognize the Manifestation of God and to acknowledge His omniscience, would enable every one to discover the secrets of all the sciences, and to attain so high a station as to find himself wholly independent of all past and future learning. Other knowledges We do as well possess, not a single letter of which We can disclose, nor do We find humanity able to hear even the barest reference to their meaning. Thus have We informed you of the knowledge of God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.” “The day is approaching when God will have, by an act of His Will, raised up a race of men the nature of which is inscrutable to all save God, the All-Powerful, the Self-Subsisting.
He will, ere long, out of the Bosom of Power draw forth the Hands of Ascendancy and Might—Hands who will arise to win victory for this Youth and who will purge mankind from the defilement of the outcast and the ungodly. These Hands will gird up their loins to champion the Faith of God, and will, in My name the self-subsistent, the mighty, subdue the peoples and kindreds of the earth. They will enter the cities and will inspire with fear the hearts of all their inhabitants. Such are the evidences of the might of God; how fearful, how vehement is His might

Ulli just yesterday i was listening to this video about The Star Visitors By Dr Richard Boylan, how coincidental of your mentioning. A Good listen here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcvvArnSZEM

I was following Dr. Boylan's forum for years, but quit when his predictions became too wild,
and when nothing, but nothing, materialized.
Strong suspicion that he become a victim of psi-ops.

As with all these speakers and whistleblowers out there. The guidelines for me are simple.
Whatever resonates with myself.... i retain.
Whatever doesnt.... i simply discard.
Our Intuition is Key.

[ulli]

I was following Dr. Boylan's forum for years, but quit when his predictions became too wild,
and when nothing, but nothing, materialized.
Strong suspicion that he become a victim of psi-ops.


One of the "group pyschic projects" (don't remember exactly what he called them now) had to do with taking out the cabal capacity for chemtrails.

Well ... we had been getting chemtrails nearly every day for years and it *stopped* cold the very next day for about 6 weeks.

That was well out of the realms of chance so I expect that at some point there was some legitimacy to what he/they had going on.

After that nothing of signifcance occured and eventually I dropped off as well.


So you mean we were there, lurking side by side, and never met???

Boylan would never have allowed the use of funny gifs and cat pictures, not for one minute.
Major Pluto issues in his chart...the control freak and paranoia kind.

Anyway, he called those events JPEs, joint psychic exercises, and I know they worked.
And that's what I want the Villagers to do when we get sick. And we know that works, too.

If it weren't for Boylan's inspiration, I might never have started this thread.
I just feel that we are still in the early stages with all this, and the only way this can work properly is if conducted with people of supreme integrity.
And also people have to have reached a stage in life that alone this kind of thing is rather limited, and group efforts are exponentially greater than a bunch of scattered individuals who have no bonds between them.
It is tricky, because too far one end, and you have a cult movement, and too far the other way you are spread too thin.

Emotion is needed, as fuel. And that emotion is Love...Love...Love...between the members. Who still must remain detached.
Not easy, but it is possible, I have seen it work in Bahai communities when they were still small and free from infiltration.

[WhiteFeather]

"Who do you trust..when everyones a crook" Revolution Calling - Queensryche

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNdOsL4Xe7Q

[RunningDeer]

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/zoot.jpg

For those new to the Village, this is the video:


“How to let people know you love them, Zoot Zoot!,” by Amanda Gore (10 minutes)
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This is the book that Amanda Gore referenced: “Molecules Of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine,” by Candace B. Pert. Reviews (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=molecules+of+emotions) @ Amazon there's also hard copy and kindle edition & for iPad users there are book and audio editions and a free sample copy and audio.

Zoot, Zoot,
Paula :wave:

[Calz]

"Who do you trust..when everyones a crook" Revolution Calling - Queensryche

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNdOsL4Xe7Q

... don't get me started ... I *love* Queensryche!!!

[Calz]

So you mean we were there, lurking side by side, and never met???



:lol:

Well I signed up for the email dump ... never participated in a forum as such.

I may have read some of your posts (if you went beyond lurking).

Aside from a couple emails to Boylan (one of which asking for his permission to post something here on Avalon from him) I did nothing else.


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If it weren't for Boylan's inspiration, I might never have started this thread.


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[1inMany]

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[1inMany]

Okay. I'm done. I have to get my sh!t together.

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Too Late.

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Get the padded room ready, ya think?

[donk]

Here's what i thought was cutting edge music (about half a decade ago :p), someone who as she said "got good at feeling bad...", instead of just angsty whining, channeled her pain into something that helped her (the end of that quote is "...and that's why I'm still here").

Her talent was discovered and popularity exploded when her music was featured in the movie Juno (good flick, revived Jason Bateman's career too, I think). This song is one of my favorites, a good example of going beyond the angst while bringing awareness of a REAL tragedy (she goes: "please give me a break from all your complaining about who was mean to you and how your stepdad is a pain, I care I swear, but I just can't take it, not today, all I can think about is tsunamis and earthquakes"):

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[PurpleLama]

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[donk]

On the "cutting edge of angst" tip, this seems to have gotten lost in "that thread". I used it as an example of how important delivery is.

Punk has some of the most intelligent messages ever. Unfortunately, the passionate anger that comes with most of it doesn't translate into "approachable music", to me, anyway. This guy discovered Crass, whoever is responsible for the "lyrics" (I have a real hard time associating punk with "music", so I think of it more as poetry)...anyway Crass created some of the best transmissions of some of the most important messages in an incredible way....completely lost to anyone except those that could stomach the discordant "music" it was shouted over top of.

Jeffrey Lewis not only discovered it, he reinvented it into something beautiful, one of the most important albums to me, called 12 Crass Songs, this is one of the more interesting (I think they are all fantastic, especially "End Result"):

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[PurpleLama]

"without forty ounces of social skills
I'm just an ass
in the crack of humanity
I'm just a huge manatee"

[donk]

I love Adam Green (and Moldy Peaches too), but Kimya on her own, in "Remember That I Love You" and "Hidden Vagenda" (and all her albums, but those are my two favorites), were mind blowing to me...maybe double standard cuz she's a woman--but hey, whattya gonna do?

[PurpleLama]

There were a coupla Moldy Peaches albums floating around my group of friends about ten or so years back, I'm not so familiar with her stuff, but I like the ones I've heard. I didn't know her name, to realize that's who you're so crazy about. I don't watch many of the vids that get posted, living in no reception land.

[donk]

And for my final entry of cutting edge (circa 2005 ;)), I have to get out of the angst, I would post the title track from the album "Awake is the New Sleep", but I already have, at least once, so we'll go with this one....Ben Lee's (shout to you Aussies out there!) entire album brings a smile to my face and makes me upbeat every time here it:

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[eaglespirit]

Yep...it's a 'moldy peaches' day, thank you : )

[Richie Montgomery]

Yesterday I was asked this question in an email someone sent me, I answered as best as I could. I am no expert on this subject but this is how it unfolded for me, I hope this
can help others also that is why I am posting it here also.

The Question:

I am intrested in knowing how the universe talks to you. I have been on my own path and have recently identified the things it provides. I would like to learn to read the signs
around me and recognize when it talks. Thanks for your input. Peace to you friend.

My reply:

Ok first off thank you for the reply and to answer you I have to say that the answers the universe provide may be different for everyone because we all see things in this
world differently. For me it is paying attention to everything that happens directly to me not to other people and those things could have a relation to other people but the
sign was meant for me. Like one day I was walking down the road and randomly thinking about leaving the city where I live and as soon as that thought left my mind
I turned and saw a car with a flat tire and thought that's odd but then I turned around to continue walking and there was a man pressure washing the sidewalk and had
a huge cloud of mist right in my path and he just grinned at me and stopped so I could pass. That is when it suddenly occurred to me that my way out of the city would
be prevented, in fact it hit me like a ton of bricks. All the little things in life that we see all the time and never pay attention to really do have a meaning to us if we open
our eyes and ears to actually see what it may hold. A sudden random thought, a strange sight on the road, an odd cloud in the sky, something where it should not be.
All of these (I think) hold a direct meaning to us so we can relate to them in the future. I have many that I cannot figure out, I am not all knowing by any means.
But over the course of many consecutive little events in my life I have come to the conclusion that these things really do lead me in the direction the universe wants me to go.
So now I have a completely different view on what I think, what I see, and what I hear. Every movie I watch I study, no matter what the movie is about.
Every random conversation with a stranger I have, every conversation I hear from people walking down the street. It is all relevant to me either for that moment or a future moment.
I watch, I listen, I remember. I really try to listen to my heart and that is not as successful as I would always like but I can tell if I have done something wrong quickly because
I will dwell on that wrong choice for a long time. When I make the right choice it feels like a huge burden has been lifted. Like I was walking down the road and saw what I thought
was a homeless man begging for money and I just walked on by him because I had no paper cash on me and then it gnawed at my brain HARD and got worse the further
I walked that I should give him what I had in my pocket, well as it was, I turned around and walked the entire block back and talked to him. It turns out he was just an old man who need
a quarter to catch the bus, he wasn't homeless at all, and when I finally did what the universe wanted me to do in the first thought that I didn't listen to, it felt like I could almost fly!
To me this is how the universe communicates with me, and like I said it may be different for everyone. I say follow your very first thought on things as they occur and slowly things
might make more sense. I hope I have been able to help you a little in your cosmic journey and given you a bit of insight. If I can answer any more questions please feel free to ask.

--Richie Montgomery

[ulli]

Yesterday I was asked this question in an email someone sent me, I answered as best as I could. I am no expert on this subject but this is how it unfolded for me, I hope this
can help others also that is why I am posting it here also.

The Question:

I am intrested in knowing how the universe talks to you. I have been on my own path and have recently identified the things it provides. I would like to learn to read the signs
around me and recognize when it talks. Thanks for your input. Peace to you friend.

My reply:

Ok first off thank you for the reply and to answer you I have to say that the answers the universe provide may be different for everyone because we all see things in this
world differently. For me it is paying attention to everything that happens directly to me not to other people and those things could have a relation to other people but the
sign was meant for me. Like one day I was walking down the road and randomly thinking about leaving the city where I live and as soon as that thought left my mind
I turned and saw a car with a flat tire and thought that's odd but then I turned around to continue walking and there was a man pressure washing the sidewalk and had
a huge cloud of mist right in my path and he just grinned at me and stopped so I could pass. That is when it suddenly occurred to me that my way out of the city would
be prevented, in fact it hit me like a ton of bricks. All the little things in life that we see all the time and never pay attention to really do have a meaning to us if we open
our eyes and ears to actually see what it may hold. A sudden random thought, a strange sight on the road, an odd cloud in the sky, something where it should not be.
All of these (I think) hold a direct meaning to us so we can relate to them in the future. I have many that I cannot figure out, I am not all knowing by any means.
But over the course of many consecutive little events in my life I have come to the conclusion that these things really do lead me in the direction the universe wants me to go.
So now I have a completely different view on what I think, what I see, and what I hear. Every movie I watch I study, no matter what the movie is about.
....snip ....
--Richie Montgomery


Thank you so much, Richie. This is exactly what I believe-
how it all is, and always was, and always will be.
I don't always remember it, but try to. It helps to be surrounded by others who believe this too.
It's how many of the indigenous people of the world operate.
This teaching can also be found in mysticism, and Gnostic teachings.
I even discovered it in many psychological disciplines, too, such as Jung's work, or Gestalt therapy.
Also the path of the Nagual, and the work of the Fourth Way of Gurdjieff.

The eye of the beholder is what needs sharpening, constantly
In every atom there is a sign of the continuing presence of God, and life has meaning,
if only one can perceive.
When I forget it, something from my unresolved self has created a veil.

By bringing the enemy close to home, as close as the self, (instead of blaming others)
there is a far greater chance to transmute that confusion and get back to clarity.

Creating wellness, beauty, happiness, laughter outside of ourselves
increases it's presence and makes a better world.
And as soon as a job is done, and beauty and perfection and justice
have been established out there, one can have another picnic in heaven with one's friends.
Until the next dust storm. Etc, etc.

[Calz]

"Who do you trust..when everyones a crook" Revolution Calling - Queensryche


There ... ya done it now ... ya got me started. http://www.pic4ever.com/images/pop.gif

Not my fault ... not my responsibility (unless you really really like it then of course I take full credit).

:humble:




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[ulli]

Well, I listened to bits of all the videos on this page. The was a time in my life when I could deeply relate to this music,
All of it. Now I'm too old. Or rather, I have moved past the emotional states that music like this gave me relief and healing for. Temporary healing. Call it 'angst', which, by the way, is the German word for fear.

Anyway, not trying to criticize at all, here. except I wasnt agreeing with the little cigarette lighting part in one of the videos; I would have thought that such glamorizing of an unnecessary habit is a bit passé in the 21st century.
All of life's epochs have their own special neediness and remedies.
But growth means change, and I want to find music that is lasting and has an effect on spirit, yet is not particularly tied to any culture, nor religion, nor tradition.

[ulli]

Ok, so Im posting a bit much today, but can't think of anything better to do.

I was looking for the famous quote from Gurdjieff, where he talks about objective art.
Googled 'objective art' and came across this rather long interpretation from Osho, who was a follower of Gurdjieff's.
Anyway, he quoted him a lot.
So here is his way of talking about objective art, and I thought it was rather good.
Skip it, if it's too long a read. But it deserves a page here at Avalon, especially in the raising of consciousness section, which after all, this Village is about, AFIC.




What is objective art?
Is creativity somehow related with meditation?

Osho:
Art can be divided into two parts. Ninety-nine percent of art is subjective art. Only one percent is objective art. The ninety-nine percent subjective art has no relationship with meditation. Only one percent objective art is based on meditation.

The subjective art means you are pouring your subjectivity onto the canvas, your dreams, your imaginations, your fantasies. It is a projection of your psychology. The same happens in poetry, in music, in all dimensions of creativity - you are not concerned with the person who is going to see your painting, not concerned what will happen to him when he looks at it; that is not your concern at all. Your art is simply a kind of vomiting. It will help you, just the way vomiting helps. It takes the nausea away, it makes you cleaner, makes you feel healthier. But you have not considered what is going to happen to the person who is going to see your vomit. He will become nauseous. He may start feeling sick.

Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will start feeling sick, dizzy, something going berserk in your mind. You cannot go on looking at Picasso's painting for long. You would like to get away, because the painting has not come from a silent being. It has come from a chaos. It is a byproduct of a nightmare. But ninety-nine percent of art belongs to that category.

Objective art is just the opposite. The man has nothing to throw out, he is utterly empty, absolutely clean. Out of this silence, out of this emptiness arises love, compassion. And out of this silence arises a possibility for creativity. This silence, this love, this compassion - these are the qualities of meditation.

Meditation brings you to your very center. And your center is not only your center, it is the center of the whole existence. Only on the periphery we are different. As we start moving toward the center, we are one. We are part of eternity, a tremendously luminous experience of ecstasy that is beyond words. Something that you can be... but very difficult to express it. But a great desire arises in you to share it, because all other people around you are groping for exactly such experiences. And you have it, you know the path.

And these people are searching everywhere except within themselves - where it is! You would like to shout in their ears. You would like to shake them and tell them, "Open your eyes! Where are you going? Wherever you go, you go away from yourself. Come back home, and come as deep into yourself as possible."

This desire to share becomes creativity. Somebody can dance. There have been mystics - for example, Jalaluddin Rumi - whose teaching was not in words, whose teaching was in dance. He will dance. His disciples will be sitting by his side, and he will tell them, "Anybody who feels like joining me can join. It is a question of feeling. If you don't feel like, it is up to you. You can simply sit and watch."

But when you see a man like Jalaluddin Rumi dancing, something dormant in you becomes active. In spite of yourself you find you have joined the dance. You are already dancing before you become aware that you have joined it.

Even this experience is of tremendous value, that you have been pulled like a magnetic force. It has not been your mind decision, you have not weighed for pro and for against, to join or not to join, no. Just the beauty of Rumi's dance, his spreading energy, has taken possession of you. You are being touched. This dance is objective art.

And if you can continue - and slowly you will become more and more unembarrassed, more and more capable - soon you will forget the whole world. A moment comes, the dancer disappears and only the dance remains.

There are in India statues, which you have just to sit silently and meditate upon. Just look at those statues. They have been made by meditators in such a way, in such a proportion, that just looking at the statue, the figure, the proportion, the beauty... Everything is very calculated to create a similar kind of state within you. And just sitting silently with a statue of Buddha or Mahavira, you will come across a strange feeling, which you cannot find in sitting by the side of any Western sculpture.

All Western sculpture is sexual. You see the Roman sculpture: beautiful, but something creates sexuality in you. It hits your sexual center. It does not give you an uplift. In the East the situation is totally different. Statutes are carved, but before a sculptor starts carving statues he learns meditation. Before he starts playing on the flute he learns meditation. Before he starts writing poetry he learns meditation. Meditation is absolute necessity for any art; then the art will be objective.

Then, just reading few lines of a haiku, a Japanese form of a small poem - only three lines, perhaps three words - if you silently read it, you will be surprised. It is far more explosive that any dynamite. It simply opens up doors in your being.

Basho's small haiku I have beside the pond near my house. I love it so much, I wanted it to be there. So every time, coming and going.... Basho is one of the persons I have loved. Nothing much in it: An ancient pond.... It is not an ordinary poetry. It is very pictorial. Just visualize: An ancient pond. A frog jumps in.... You almost see the ancient pond! You almost hear the frog, the sound of its jump: Plop.

And then everything is silent. The ancient pond is there, the frog has jumped in, the sound of his jumping in has created more silence than before. Just reading it is not like any other poetry that you go on reading - one poem, another poem... No, you just read it and sit silently. Visualize it. Close your eyes. See the ancient pond. See the frog. See it jumping in. See the ripples on the water. Hear the sound. And hear the silence that follows.

This is objective art.

Basho must have written it in a very meditative mood, sitting by the side of an ancient pond, watching a frog. And the frog jumps in. And suddenly Basho becomes aware of the miracle that sound is deepening the silence. The silence is more than it was before. This is objective art.

Unless you are a creator, you will never find real blissfulness. It is only by creating that you become part of the great creativity of the universe. But to be a creator, meditation is a basic necessity. Without it you can paint, but that painting has to be burned, it has not to be shown to others. It was good, it helped you unburden, but please, don't burden anybody else. Don't present it to your friends, they are not your enemies.

Objective art is meditative art, subjective art is mind art.

- from The Last Testament, Volume 3, #24
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[Calz]

Well, I listened to bits of all the videos on this page. The was a time in my life when I could deeply relate to this music,
All of it. Now I'm too old. Or rather, I have moved past the emotional states that music like this gave me relief and healing for. Temporary healing. Call it 'angst', which, by the way, is the German word for fear.

Anyway, not trying to criticize at all, here. except I wasnt agreeing with the little cigarette lighting part in one of the videos; I would have thought that such glamorizing of an unnecessary habit is a bit passé in the 21st century.
All of life's epochs have their own special neediness and remedies.
But growth means change, and I want to find music that is lasting and has an effect on spirit, yet is not particularly tied to any culture, nor religion, nor tradition.

Fair enough.

Not sure which you refer to ... but to want "lasting music effecting spirit not tied to culture, religion or tradition" ... I expect narrows it down dramatically.

Mine was last ... and live ... don't remember a lighted cigarette ...

... perhaps an anchor performance ...


http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/148/5/f/Finger_fire_by_shljivo.jpg

[ulli]

And here is a paragraph in Gurdjieff's own words. I'm not putting all of it, as that would be overload.
But for the musicians who come here this might be of interest....

"I will cite you one example only -- music. Objective music is all based on inner octaves. And it can obtain not only definite psychological results but definite physical results. There can be such music as would freeze water. There can be such music as would kill a man instantaneously. The Biblical legend of the destruction of the walls of Jericho by music is precisely a legend of objective music. Plain music, no matter of what kind, will not destroy walls, but objective music indeed can do so. And not only can it destroy but it can also build up. In the legend of Orpheus there are hints of objective music, for Orpheus used to impart knowledge by music. Snake charmers' music in the East is an approach to objective music, of course very primitive. Very often it is simply one note which is long drawn out, rising and falling only very little; but in this single note 'inner octaves' are going on all the time and melodies of 'inner octaves' which are inaudible to the ears but felt by the emotional center. And the snake hears this music or, more strictly speaking, he feels it, and he obeys it. The same music, only a little more complicated, and men would obey it."

[ulli]

Well, I listened to bits of all the videos on this page. The was a time in my life when I could deeply relate to this music,
All of it. Now I'm too old. Or rather, I have moved past the emotional states that music like this gave me relief and healing for. Temporary healing. Call it 'angst', which, by the way, is the German word for fear.

Anyway, not trying to criticize at all, here. except I wasnt agreeing with the little cigarette lighting part in one of the videos; I would have thought that such glamorizing of an unnecessary habit is a bit passé in the 21st century.
All of life's epochs have their own special neediness and remedies.
But growth means change, and I want to find music that is lasting and has an effect on spirit, yet is not particularly tied to any culture, nor religion, nor tradition.

Fair enough.

Not sure which you refer to ... but to want "lasting music effecting spirit not tied to culture, religion or tradition" ... I expect narrows it down dramitically.

Mine was last ... and live ... don't remember a lighted cigarette ...

... perhaps an anchor performance ...


http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/148/5/f/Finger_fire_by_shljivo.jpg

As I said...there is room for all. But the search for the highest, the best, the most sublime, needs to find expression, too.
The opposite end of those twin girls and their electronic harps, where the only frontiers that were breached were those of bad taste. (Yeah, I know, in the eyes of some that would be a subjective statement, probably.)

[donk]

OK...I lied one more....we actually need to SEE her, a great contrast to the twin blond eye candy (just saw your last post ulli....at least the image might resonate):



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This song is one of her more profound:

Since what they called "the beginning of man"
Blood has been shed for the rape of the land
They call it civilized, I call it crap
Our only hope is to look further back.

....

If we really want for this world to survive
We'll just take what we need to stay alive
It's a mistake to just take and not give
It's not true that we must murder to live

...and this verse speaks to "being safe":
And let your emotions be fuel to your flame
Being on fire will keep you awake
If somebody yells out "hey, stop, drop, and roll!"
Say "that might save my skin, but it won't save my soul.

[1inMany]

I just got the news that the 17 year old daughter of a coworker of Mike's is missing. She went to her boyfriend's house last night, about 15 houses away from home. Left the boyfriend's house, never made it home. They are working on an Amber Alert, if you know what that is.

My prayers are going out to Kevin and his family, please join me if you feel compelled...

Much Love,

[Calz]

Prayers heading her way.

What is it with the last few days ... full moon sure but that happens every month.

My oldest son (16) last night told my wife to "f off" during an exchange (I was not present).

Small potatoes to some but my son(s) have never ever been disrepectful like that before and it was quite a shock to my wife and later me upon hearing about it.

Sorry - meaningless compared to a disappearance ... simply an observation above what has transpired here on the forum.

[1inMany]

Okay, five minutes after I started sending prayers, and doing what I do, and you started doing what you do, she has been found and is okay. No details, but don't need any.

And, Calz, I agree. Same thing at my house (weirdness)...chaos all over the place, no joke!

Much Love,

[Calz]

Good news is ... good news :)

[RunningDeer]

"Life in balance is a Jenga thang."

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/Jenga.jpg

Positive reflections of a process in de-gunking and its beneficial effects.
In simple language?
Work in progress is progressing beautifully.

Breakthroughs.
I just love it when that happens.

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/Angels/IMG_2107.jpg

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Angels/fire_woman.JPG

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/Angels/IMG_2246.jpg

:wave:

[RunningDeer]

Hi WhiteFeather,

This video finally answered my question about starseed souls volunteering to incarnate into human form vs. genetic manipulation, hence offspring has “upgraded DNA”. It’s not either/or, it’s both. How'd I not know that? And yet, I DID know it.
Thanks, I’ll cross that off my list. :yu:

L,
P'er

UPDATE: @Ulie - "I was following Dr. Boylan's forum for years, but quit when his predictions became too wild, and when nothing, but nothing, materialized. Strong suspicion that he become a victim of psi-ops."

If I'm recalling correctly, Bill Ryan says the same thing. My concern with him was that he gathered lots of kids to test their abilities. I'd not want my child on that "To-Do-List."



Was listening to the Exopolitics Conference just now, the part where she talks about the Star Children born these days.
My grandchildren belong to this group, no doubt about it.

And suddenly I connected some dots....

Ulli just yesterday i was listening to this video about The Star Visitors By Dr Richard Boylan, how coincidental of your mentioning. A Good listen here.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcvvArnSZEM

[dan33]

Hugo is at home again. His medication is fluoxetine., An antidepressant (Luis knows what it is). He is much better.
Thank you all for your help. :)

but now there is a long walk.

[WhiteFeather]

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/zoot.jpg

For those new to the Village, this is the video:


“How to let people know you love them, Zoot Zoot!,” by Amanda Gore (10 minutes)
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This is the book that Amanda Gore referenced: “Molecules Of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine,” by Candace B. Pert. Reviews (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=molecules+of+emotions) @ Amazon there's also hard copy and kindle edition & for iPad users there are book and audio editions and a free sample copy and audio.

Zoot, Zoot,
Paula :wave:

Loved that Zoot Video Paula. Its all about forgiveness.....If I may interject this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncF6q3QeltU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncF6q3QeltU

[RunningDeer]

For all of you that are not tone deaf like myself, you may consider this to be outrageous. It's a have you heard about this? Dr. Wayne Dyer was the one to introduce this concept to me, from Dr. David Hawkins' work.


The Musical Levels of Consciousness
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Dr. David Hawkins’ material is based on levels of consciousness from 0-1000. All levels above 200 are constructive expressions of power rather than force. For muscle testing to work one must be 200 or above which a level of integrity.

I don’t agree with some of it. The one that I didn’t buy into was that women couldn’t reach levels of 1000 because their physical bodies couldn’t handle that much energy. Also, IMO, today, we are different because dare I say downloads/upgrades and sun enhanced. I stopped following him, but I understand his calibrations have changed. I didn't research it any further. My guess is for the reasons I mentioned.

This is a calibration tool through muscle testing, I learned from Dr. David Hawkins’ materials. These days, I go with the gut/heart/inner knowing, etc. The gentleman goes over at least 11 techniques. The first technique was the one I used.


Self Muscle Testing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiQseSkELQY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiQseSkELQY&feature=related

[RunningDeer]

Loved that Zoot Video Paula. Its all about forgiveness.....If I may interject this.

“The Heart Of The Matter with Lyrics” - Don Henley


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncF6q3QeltU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncF6q3QeltU

Grrr, I just lost my post. Shorten version: I love music, but I can’t hear words. So even though I’ve heard the song many times, it’s the first time I understood it. I love it! It touched deep places. I’ll add it tomorrow to the other thread.

Same with Moldy Peaches with lyrics. “Juno,” last song in the movie.


Moldy Peaches - "Anyone Else But You" w/ Lyrics
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L,
P'er :wave:

[Michelle Marie]

Hi! Avaloners!!

After leaving Oregon on a wing and a prayer, I miraculously made it to Colorado. It seemed quite a harsh landing and it was more than a little disorienting to know only one person in a brand new area.

ThAnks to the help of some very supportive Avvaloners, I survived the transition. I had zero income for a gap in time and I wasn't sure I could stay where I landed. Frightening.

Now I'm over the hump. I've made peace with my friend, and we actually have discovered some past life connections and we deeply care about one another. Also, I finally got my meager unemployment income flowing, and I can start catching up on my bare necessities like my phone bill.

I haven't been on the Internet much due to moving adjustments and limited accessibility. But I just wanted to check in and say hi and thanks again to the angels here on this forum. Immense blessings to all!!!!

Lots of love,
Michelle Marie

[Ernie Nemeth]

My head is filled with this tune today. I may have posted it before, sorry.

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On our worksite radio someone wrote "no boom allowed". I guess he doesn't like when one of us goes, "Oh! That's a good tune." And rushes to crank it up. hehe
For the longest time we thought they meant the radio station Boom FM. But no, it's the "BOOM" they don't like - the loud music.

[ulli]

Meeradas, do you remember this one?

There was a time when crazy London designers used this for their fashion shows:


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[Rocky_Shorz]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v4lfezIZRpI/UQZ0b6XmDsI/AAAAAAAAASQ/HwAE3qlvk8s/s1600/1.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vF1doROMv7g/UOat--XvIAI/AAAAAAAAAQM/KyME5EKcwwQ/s320/42.jpg

[PurpleLama]

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[modwiz]

LOL :bad::bad::bad::bad::bad::bad:

[Dennis Leahy]

{edit} It has come to my attention that this post may have been... inadvisable. So, I deleted it.

I'll keep a copy, but... I'm not sure if I could revise it enough without losing the intent (which was positive) and without diluting the gist of the information, so I'll just delete it.

Dennis

[astrid]

some people have way too much time on their hands..

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[1inMany]

What. A. Day.

Even when things come together, they can be quite a lot to digest.

Much Love,

All the things flooding back to me, one of them better be how to do the dishes...and the laundry...

[Flash]

I am so sick, chest cold, with fever and all. I did not have any MMS at home, ordered it but it will arrive in 3 days.

I am self employed and have to work tomorrow doing a presentation all day, I just do not know how I will go through it.

Ouf...

Reading Rakhyt and Carmody: way too complicated for me today. lol

[astrid]

Flash, can we help?

[Flash]

if you can great, this is either viral or microbial. Sour throat too, lots of coughing, fever. I have been sleeping it for 3 days, but now it has to go.

[RunningDeer]

Time for Power Zaps

Sending the Crew
Meeting up with Your own
if that is the wish
All in wait
to work with You

Wear these
http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Angels/Adidas_gold.JPG

And these
No, wait
Oh, wear them and
you get to keep them

Love,
Carrier Pigeon

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Angels/wings_light.GIF







I am so sick, chest cold, with fever and all. I did not have any MMS at home, ordered it but it will arrive in 3 days.

I am self employed and have to work tomorrow doing a presentation all day, I just do not know how I will go through it.

Ouf...

Reading Rakhyt and Carmody: way too complicated for me today. lol

[astrid]

Just got reminded why i like my cave so much, lol

[ulli]

Yukondiva needs some support, too. Came face to face with Costa Rican beaurocracy today, and got drained.
Not a pleasant experience. The first year here is definitely culture shock when it comes to matters of paper work.
So lets make a list, anyone else who wants their name added? Then we just ask the Almighty to deal favorably with them. Very effective, even if hundreds of names are on the list. No limit to the powers of healing and protection, but one must ask.

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Hey yo y'all! Just caught up on Avalon and realized I'd missed alot, but ain't that how it goes. I send my support to those requests above mentioned, and 1inMany, I'm glad your situation worked itself out.
Back in town after another weekend away from the intrawebs. Got to go kayaking and boating and eating crawfish on a bayou near the gulf. Great times spent with family. Made it to a Mardi Gras party where my cousin and his wife were voted King and Queen of their Krewe. Good times. Really good times.

At the moment, here and now, I can't complain. I could but I won't, ain't no reason to it, nothing to be accomplished by it. I sit in gratitude and thankfulness that I am breathing, and with this breath may others feel the same.

I leave you with this really great Mardi Gras song from the Indian masters themselves. Mighty cooty fiyo y'all:
498LZARXzN0

[RunningDeer]

Dearest Yukondiva,

Light surrounds and grounds
Blessed space
Peace prevails

Village Love

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Angels/blue_angel.JPG


Yukondiva needs some support, too. Came face to face with Costa Rican beaurocracy today, and got drained.
Not a pleasant experience. The first year here is definitely culture shock when it comes to matters of paper work.
So lets make a list, anyone else who wants their name added? Then we just ask the Almighty to deal favorably with them. Very effective, even if hundreds of names are on the list. No limit to the powers of healing and protection, but one must ask.

[astrid]

yukondiva onto it..

[Dennis Leahy]

My sister-in-law, Betsy, just underwent her third abdominal/GI surgery in the past 2 weeks. Keep those healing vibes a coming!

:~)

Dennis

[astrid]

busy day in the village

[RunningDeer]

Dearest Betsy,

Cool
vitality
blankets
the resting vessel

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Angels/cool_fire.JPG

From: messenger

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Angels/angel_falcon3.GIF



My sister-in-law, Betsy, just underwent her third abdominal/GI surgery in the past 2 weeks. Keep those healing vibes a coming!

:~)

Dennis

[modwiz]

Here is a link to an online tuner for 432Hz tuning.
http://www.seventhstring.com/tuner/tuner.html

Going down the page gives a link to download a zip file and run it locally.

This is a tuning fork for those who cannot interact with their computer. In both tuners there is a up/ down button to set the frequency for A.
http://www.seventhstring.com/tuningfork/tuningfork.html

[Dennis Leahy]

Here is a link to an online tuner for 432Hz tuning.
http://www.seventhstring.com/tuner/tuner.html

Going down the page gives a link to download a zip file and run it locally.That is a great online resource. And when you're out in the tent, a Snark (http://www.snarktuners.com/clip-on) comes in handy. I like the SN-2, from here (http://www.jaxmusicsupply.com/SearchResults.asp?Search=snark).

Dennis

[astrid]

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[modwiz]

Here is a link to an online tuner for 432Hz tuning.
http://www.seventhstring.com/tuner/tuner.html

Going down the page gives a link to download a zip file and run it locally.That is a great online resource. And when you're out in the tent, a Snark (http://www.snarktuners.com/clip-on) comes in handy. I like the SN-2, from here (http://www.jaxmusicsupply.com/SearchResults.asp?Search=snark).

Dennis

That is the one I use. I love it and it lets you choose your A setting. I have to reset it each use, but they make it easy. I only use 440 if I am playing along with a song in that tuning. I keep all my guitars at 432. My Les Paul is currently in a DADGAD tuning. Nice kind of Celtic feel and also the tuning Page uses in Kashmir and Black Mountain Side.
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[Dennis Leahy]

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That was the hardest I've laughed out loud in a while. Thanks, Astrid!

Dennis

[ulli]

Nonsensical post...deleted

Thanks for thanking me anyway, Calzie.

[Rocky_Shorz]

Yukondiva needs some support, too. Came face to face with Costa Rican beaurocracy today, and got drained.
Not a pleasant experience. The first year here is definitely culture shock when it comes to matters of paper work.
So lets make a list, anyone else who wants their name added? Then we just ask the Almighty to deal favorably with them. Very effective, even if hundreds of names are on the list. No limit to the powers of healing and protection, but one must ask.

Sign it King David from the lost city in Golden Valley for me Yukondiva

Let them know you have some good friends behind you...


should be fun watching their heads spinning on their shoulders... ;)

[RunningDeer]

A44oEcmDn1c
That was the hardest I've laughed out loud in a while. Thanks, Astrid!

Dennis

I'm wheezy from laughing so hard. That was only 2 hours, while many of us go for 24+. The unknown of how long adds to it. But, I have to say, kudos to them! They've shed light for many.

Tomorrow, I promise not to flood the thread. :wave:

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Here is a link to an online tuner for 432Hz tuning.
http://www.seventhstring.com/tuner/tuner.html

Going down the page gives a link to download a zip file and run it locally.

This is a tuning fork for those who cannot interact with their computer. In both tuners there is a up/ down button to set the frequency for A.
http://www.seventhstring.com/tuningfork/tuningfork.html

Thanks Modwiz! I am just now grasping the effect of this. I'm really not musically inclined, or better said, I am not mathematically inclined. So, Instead of playing a guitar in standard tuning at 440 Hz, I have just now tuned my guitar down to 432 Hz, though it is still in standard tuning. Is that, in terms I'm familiar with, a half-step, or a full-step down?

Thanks for the link.

[Calz]

Nonsensical post...deleted

Thanks for thanking me anyway, Calzie.

My thank you bot never sleeps :dirol:

[modwiz]

Here is a link to an online tuner for 432Hz tuning.
http://www.seventhstring.com/tuner/tuner.html

Going down the page gives a link to download a zip file and run it locally.

This is a tuning fork for those who cannot interact with their computer. In both tuners there is a up/ down button to set the frequency for A.
http://www.seventhstring.com/tuningfork/tuningfork.html

Thanks Modwiz! I am just now grasping the effect of this. I'm really not musically inclined, or better said, I am not mathematically inclined. So, Instead of playing a guitar in standard tuning at 440 Hz, I have just now tuned my guitar down to 432 Hz, though it is still in standard tuning. Is that, in terms I'm familiar with, a half-step, or a full-step down?

Thanks for the link.

Yes. With the tuner, you set what A is. You then just tune your strings. Based of your frequency choice the tuner will adjust and when you play a D string it will identify the note and inform if is is sharp or flat by a moving indicator at the bottom of the tuner. It is a great tool. When AID posted the 666 mote thing I was able to see it was a high E tuning bent into a sharper form of it. 550 needed less bending than 432. 432 is about 1/3 of a half step flatter than standard tuning. There is a value called cents in tuning/frequency made up of very small increments. There are 100 cents in a half step. That is the interval between MI and Fa. The interval between DO and RE is a whole step or 200 cents. 432 happens to be 32 cents below 440.

The tuning fork one will emit a tone to tune to. Again one chooses what frequency A is before tuning.

[ulli]

Forgot to mention...the new kitten is called Miss Susie.
Wants to sleep under my chin all the time, wrapped around my neck.
What will that do to my throat chakra?
Still eating five meals a day.

http://i1144.photobucket.com/albums/o491/orosivalleyjewelry/IMG_1136_zps8ce118ac.jpg

[modwiz]

Forgot to mention...the new kitten is called Miss Susie.
Wants to sleep under my chin all the time, wrapped around my neck.
What will that do to my throat chakra?
Still eating five meals a day.

http://i1144.photobucket.com/albums/o491/orosivalleyjewelry/IMG_1136_zps8ce118ac.jpg

If kitty purrs up a blue streak it will be really good for that chakra.
I like the way the kitty looks there. Cool ears.

[meeradas]

Looks a bit like ours (though you can't see the white on this pic... has the same sleeping habit.)

PS: There! Purple-blue streak

[meeradas]

too graphic - so, i deleted it.
[should someone want to risk it - It's there (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?30612-The-Heavy-Metal-Music-Thread&p=625121&viewfull=1#post625121) now]

[astrid]

Disclosure, possibly??

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OKies.. i can see there is already a thread on this.. never mind

It's from Greers up coming movie Sirus. If this indeed turns out to be
proven to be a real ET, like.. wow.

[1inMany]

Good Morning, All :)

Well, good for me, I remembered how to do the dishes. Thing is, it was actually like learning how to do them all over again. Now I can't decide what is more of a distraction, real life or...spirit life. Yeah, those words really don't do it, do they. It is/will be like everything else, I suspect. Big whoosh that consumes me and gets every ounce of my attention and then levels off a bit. If I weren't so intently concentrating on things, I think I do that as a coping mechanism for too many things going at once (maybe ADD?), Spirit wouldn't need to whoosh so strongly, lol. Really gets my attention, I'll tell ya that.

It's like a Great Pendulum. I'm at one end when something is revealed to me in such a way that it cannot be shoo-ed away - really gets my attention, which throws me to the other end. Eventually I will find my way back to the middle.

Key for me is to NOT forget what I just remembered. Integrate it, accept it with gratitude, and keep on swimming.

Much Love,

[Samsara]

Miss Suzie has that "ohhhh... I love you so much" look about her. Reminds me of a cat I had, Gazou. He was such a lover. Prrrrr...

Still hanging in there...

I've made a deal with myself that involves the Village, so I should let you know. Quitting ? ... I know the drill. I am passed embarassment, since I am allowed failures and they don't change a iota to who I am. Loyalty... that will get me. So.... whenever that little voice comes back and lures me into thinking that I can have just one, that I deserve it, blah, blah, blah... I will have to answer that I need to discuss the matter with the Village's council first. That ought to shut it up. Hope you are ok with that.

Smart cookie, I am...

:drag: I can has a virtual puff..

[ulli]

Miss Suzie has that "ohhhh... I love you so much" look about her. Reminds me of a cat I had, Gazou. He was such a lover. Prrrrr...

Still hanging in there...

I've made a deal with myself that involves the Village, so I should let you know. Quitting ? ... I know the drill. I am passed embarassment, since I am allowed failures and they don't change a iota to who I am. Loyalty... that will get me. So.... whenever that little voice comes back and lures me into thinking that I can have just one, that I deserve it, blah, blah, blah... I will have to answer that I need to discuss the matter with the Village's council first. That ought to shut it up. Hope you are ok with that.

Smart cookie, I am...

:drag: I can has a virtual puff..

For some it would never work, to have just one...
but in my case it helped build even more disgust. Disgust is a healthy thing if one wants to get rid of unhealthy habits.

Increased awareness, of what was actually going on there. I saw independent parts of my physiological reaction ....
The slight nausea, because by deciding to quit, some parts of my body had become obedient to that command, even though other parts were in rebellion....the various sensations as my blood vessels contracted, which increased blood pressure,
which was the main reason for the high...
But most of all the mere thought of inhaling the product of combustion....
Yuk.

[ulli]

Good Morning, All :)

Well, good for me, I remembered how to do the dishes. Thing is, it was actually like learning how to do them all over again. Now I can't decide what is more of a distraction, real life or...spirit life. Yeah, those words really don't do it, do they. It is/will be like everything else, I suspect. Big whoosh that consumes me and gets every ounce of my attention and then levels off a bit. If I weren't so intently concentrating on things, I think I do that as a coping mechanism for too many things going at once (maybe ADD?), Spirit wouldn't need to whoosh so strongly, lol. Really gets my attention, I'll tell ya that.

It's like a Great Pendulum. I'm at one end when something is revealed to me in such a way that it cannot be shoo-ed away - really gets my attention, which throws me to the other end. Eventually I will find my way back to the middle.

Key for me is to NOT forget what I just remembered. Integrate it, accept it with gratitude, and keep on swimming.

Much Love,

Ahhh, 1inMany has discovered the pendulum! Very useful thinking tool.
There is a U-turn at each end, and then there is that midpoint.
All three points are revealers. When at the outer limits, the intensity of experience can show that the given path is too extreme, too polarizing. Sensations are strong there, which is why excess is so addictive.
But at the midpoint one can see both ends, and that they lead nowhere.
Yet at the midpoint there is a delicate choice between seeing it as a place full of mediocrity, or full of potential.
Most people get bored there, which is why they rush between two extreme states. Hence bi-polarity.
Yet, if one pays attention when the pendulum reaches the mid-0point, which I also call point Zero, a window opens up and the whole of the universe starts to reveal itself with major downloads.
It's a bit of an art, to make that happen.

[ulli]

Looks a bit like ours (though you can't see the white on this pic... has the same sleeping habit.)

PS: There! Purple-blue streak

Wow, Meeradas, I'm sure I saw that purple blue streak a couple of times...
now it's a matter of catching it on camera.
So Miss Suzie has a twin soul out there....very cool.

[ulli]

Even watching only ten minutes of this excellent 50 minute documentary will give one quite an education.
About the mining of the mineral Coltan in the heart of Africa...the war zone between the Congolese and Rowandan border

http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/slavery/blood-coltan---theres-blood-in-your-phone.html

"The mobile (cell) phone is a remarkable piece of engineering. But look inside. There's blood in this machine. There's blood in this device because your mobile contains tiny electronic circuits, and they couldn't work without mineral called COLTAN. It's mined in the eastern Congo. There is blood here, the blood of Congolese who are dying in a terrible conflict.

The West's demand for Coltan, used in mobile phones and computers, is funding the killings in Congo. Under the close watch of rebel militias, children as young as ten work the mines hunting for this black gold.

'Blood Coltan' exposes the web of powerful interests protecting this blood trade. Meet the powerful warlords who enslave local population and the European businessmen who continue importing Coltan, in defiance of the UN."

[yukondiva]

[QUOTE=ulli;624984]

Sign it King David from the lost city in Golden Valley for me Yukondiva

Let them know you have some good friends behind you...


should be fun watching their heads spinning on their shoulders... ;)

The village has a calming effect, today better starting new challenge and w/o a ciggarette, oh last night I could have smoked a pack, self control seems strong so moving on to clearing all the uneccessary crap out of my life. This is my year I am claiming it as mine to be lived. Thanks for the healing thoughts I feel your strength.

[eaglespirit]

We are no longer on the 'fringe'...

the surreal has surpassed the real
...and is now what IS Here, Now!

Enjoy every new moment in front of you from within through eternity : )

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTRo5mAllfnNEb2-1QkZIDPEQWMbzExf5pFbBctpNgYHFgf7ob-

[1inMany]

Here and Now, I have got to find my happy place. Where did I put that....

I realize this is a big deal for you, Sweetheart, but being awakened by a text about how many people will be in this danged limo...and I don't know any of them...is a sure fire way to make me sick all day. It was 5:30, now it's 4:15? If somebody decides it will be noon, I'm out LOL.

And, I'm sorry, but this is so minor compared to what All there Is, that is just irks me to no end that my body gets upset by this.

What a whirlwind. Yes, that's the word, right there. It's a whirlwind. I'm going to find my Happy Place and Hang On!!!

Much Love,

LordaMercy. 16 people? Okay, Mike and me, that makes 2. 14 people. I know 2, that's 12. I have met 3, doesn't count. 12 people. And one that I know carries some negative juju. Oh, this is peachy. In a small space...for an hour and a half...Cripey! Okay, I can start drinking at 5pm. Oh, me? If I do that, I will be gone by 5:30. Okay, if I take a sip every 10 minutes...the one glass would last...damn, that's a math word problem on an empty nervous stomach too early in the morning. Oh, wait...hell, if I'm going to be nervous in an enclosed space with alcohol for an hour and a half...I will have to talk to the driver about potty stops. (Yes, feel free to laugh because I know this is hysterical even though I'm serious.)

This is ridiculous.

GET A GRIP, 1!

[Chester]

A44oEcmDn1c
That was the hardest I've laughed out loud in a while. Thanks, Astrid!

Dennis

I'm wheezy from laughing so hard. That was only 2 hours, while many of us go for 24+. The unknown of how long adds to it. But, I have to say, kudos to them! They've shed light for many.

Tomorrow, I promise not to flood the thread. :wave:

Leave it to the Dutch to do something like this! haha... gotta love it!

I am fortunate to have many Dutch friends and I just learned Queen Bea is abdicating (after 33 years in fact) and so it will be King William who will be in charge of the Kingdom of the Netherlands soon.

[RunningDeer]

..Integrate it, accept it with gratitude...
Much Love,
Your comment triggered recall from last evening. Thank you, 1inMany.

I figured out when my whole body vibrates it’s upgrades, physical and/or metaphysical restructuring. It vibrates enough that the mattress absorbs right down to the springs that reverberate back. That part is subtle.

Waken out of a sleep, I’d reason is was a ten wheeler truck speeding by. Or, it felt like an earthquake. It hit me last evening what it was and to allow and hold gratitude. Which for me, is a welcome for more. With awareness it brings it to a different level so one can work with the energies. This type of restructuring is different from the sensations around skull downward while I’m awake.

I’d not be surprised that others are going through it too.


@ Ulie - I watch the vid but around the 25 minute mark where there was description of the rape of kids and old ones, I couldn't listen any longer. Too much for me. But, information that needs to come to light.

UPDATE: added one line to top piece for clarification: "With awareness it brings it to a different level so one can work with the energies."

[1inMany]

Aw, hell. 100 people. One HUNDRED people. One hundred PEOPLE. Okay, okay, okay. Breathe. 16 in the small enclosed space, that only leaves 84. Eighty four? EIGHTY FOUR? And it's at the Hilton? Oh. My. Freaking. Gosh. No, I know Mike and me. And two others, one with negative juju. Not important. That leaves only....no, I already figured those in the 84. A red carpet runway for pictures? In these shoes? If I take one sip every 5 minutes. No, then I won't be able to walk. If I take one sip every 15 minutes.

I'm Divine. I'm Divine. I'm Divine. I'm Divine. I'm Divine. I'm Divine.

http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/127081_o.gif

Hope I look that good when I fall on my a$$. Hahahahahhaa

[ulli]

Here and Now, I have got to find my happy place. Where did I put that....

I realize this is a big deal for you, Sweetheart, but being awakened by a text about how many people will be in this danged limo...and I don't know any of them...is a sure fire way to make me sick all day. It was 5:30, now it's 4:15? If somebody decides it will be noon, I'm out LOL.

And, I'm sorry, but this is so minor compared to what All there Is, that is just irks me to no end that my body gets upset by this.

What a whirlwind. Yes, that's the word, right there. It's a whirlwind. I'm going to find my Happy Place and Hang On!!!

Much Love,

LordaMercy. 16 people? Okay, Mike and me, that makes 2. 14 people. I know 2, that's 12. I have met 3, doesn't count. 12 people. And one that I know carries some negative juju. Oh, this is peachy. In a small space...for an hour and a half...Cripey! Okay, I can start drinking at 5pm. Oh, me? If I do that, I will be gone by 5:30. Okay, if I take a sip every 10 minutes...the one glass would last...damn, that's a math word problem on an empty nervous stomach too early in the morning. Oh, wait...hell, if I'm going to be nervous in an enclosed space with alcohol for an hour and a half...I will have to talk to the driver about potty stops. (Yes, feel free to laugh because I know this is hysterical even though I'm serious.)

This is ridiculous.

GET A GRIP, 1!

How about just closing a few channels?
And allow it to become a game, for your personal entertainment?

When I'm in a situation like that I go into obeservation* mode.
I let out my inner scientist, and think about what astrological sign someone might be. Or silly stuff, like where they got the dress they are wearing. Having been involved in the fashion business helps. Or why they picked that hairstyle?
I always wonder about the conversation someone like Joe Biden might have with his hair dresser.
The main thing is to stop worrying that they might be watching you.
It doesn't really matter, because all those brief moments will soon be forgotten and irrelevant.
The only stuff worth remembering is what was perceived during moments of heightened perception,
IOW, higher consciousness.

* best typo ever, so Im leaving it.
"Obese servation mode" is going straight into my personal dictionary....

[ulli]

..Integrate it, accept it with gratitude...
Much Love,
Your comment triggered recall from last evening. Thank you, 1inMany.

I figured out when my whole body vibrates it’s upgrades, physical and/or metaphysical restructuring. It vibrates enough that the mattress absorbs right down to the springs that reverberate back. That part is subtle.

Waken out of a sleep, I’d reason is was a ten wheeler trucker speeding by. It felt like an earthquake. It hit me last evening what it was and to allow and hold gratitude. Which for me, is a welcome for more. This type of restructuring is different from the sensations around skull downward while I’m awake.

I’d not be surprised that others are going through it too.


@ Ulie - I watch the vid but around the 25 minute mark where there was description of the rape of kids and old ones, I couldn't listen any longer. Too much for me. But, information that needs to come to light.

Thanks for the warning. I never got there....too many other distractions.
Having ADHD shields me, obviously.

[1inMany]

Problem solved. I'm putting on the big girl wings. Don't make me open these in the small space...

http://static.na.aiononline.com/powerbook/aion/11/68/3cdb7b46c8bf72c65728fee0.jpg

http://www.clker.com/cliparts/j/F/v/Y/a/2/face-grin-th.png

[donk]

I'm with you samsara, I gotta smoking habit to try AGAIN to not start up again. Beat the tabacco though...I figured that woulda been so much harder, pack a day FFS...show's you how big a one these I am:

http://www.gelaskins.com/images/artworkImages/max-800x800/274.jpg

[donk]

Problem is, I just can't get disgusted with it, so delicious and beautiful and tempting (and listening to this f***ing guy don't help):


yLuHE-82o40

[RunningDeer]

..Integrate it, accept it with gratitude...
Much Love,
Your comment triggered recall from last evening. Thank you, 1inMany.

I figured out when my whole body vibrates it’s upgrades, physical and/or metaphysical restructuring. It vibrates enough that the mattress absorbs right down to the springs that reverberate back. That part is subtle.

Waken out of a sleep, I’d reason is was a ten wheeler truck speeding by. Or, it felt like an earthquake. It hit me last evening what it was and to allow and hold gratitude. Which for me, is a welcome for more. With awareness it brings it to a different level so one can work with the energies. This type of restructuring is different from the sensations around skull downward while I’m awake.

I’d not be surprised that others are going through it too.


What other evidence do we have that we are changing as a species?

A synchronicity: I’m at the 14 minute mark...had to share. Downloads will be discussed coming up...

UPDATE: Only @ 26 minutes into it... I LOVE THIS VID! So affirming!


Mary Rodwell - The New Humans - Part 1
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[RunningDeer]

Problem is, I just can't get disgusted with it, so delicious and beautiful and tempting (and listening to this f***ing guy don't help):

http://www.pic4ever.com/images/computer3.gif Then don't...http://www.pic4ever.com/images/orjnfq.gif

Just sayin', Darling Donk. http://www.pic4ever.com/images/SEVeyesC08_th.gif

[meeradas]

just in case you haven't heard of AminoSweet (http://worldtruth.tv/aspartame-has-been-renamed-and-is-now-being-marketed-as-a-natural-sweetener/)yet

[araucaria]

1inMany, I was going to ask if your dishwashing skills had a remote (transatlantic) feature, but in a sense they obviously do because my lovely daughter has just done ours, which doesn't happen often :) Thank you!

[donk]

Then don't...

Just sayin',

yeah yeah yeah, I know ya can't quit one without quitting the other...in the beginning anyway.

[RunningDeer]

Then don't...

Just sayin',

yeah yeah yeah, I know ya can't quit one without quitting the other...in the beginning anyway.

Checking in with you, Big D. Did I push too hard? I sometimes I don't know where the line is between "Get out of my face will ya!" and "How about this POV?". Sorry, if it's the former.
I'll be more mindful. http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/smileys/wet-kiss-smiley.gif?1292867699

FYI: The intent was playful in nature.

[yukondiva]

This song expresses what I feel about the village.


S7S2BoliLpk

[Flash]

Mis day break. I am i am giving the présentation. Féver has stopped around 1am. Thanks to Those who helped. I Will Be back tonight. Difficult to write on an iPhone With auto correctif In french...

[donk]

Checking in with you, Big D. Did I push too hard? I sometimes I don't know where the line is between "Get out of my face will ya!" and "How about this POV?". Sorry, if it's the former.
I'll be more mindful.


Gimme a break...I came here for "eagle"-strength pushes...your sweetness is like nice kisses all over my cheeks, which I like just as much, and why i spend as much time in the village as anywhere else.

No...I always lament the need to replace the esteemed Mr. Marley from my life (even if only temporary). It's not so bad as I have a ton to listen to on my own, but he is a crowd pleaser, when music is called for in groups...it is hard to find anyone that appeals to everyone more than him...then you get some "soul shakedown party tonight" going, next thing you know the room starts smelling like Spicoli's van:


http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Fast-Times-At-Ridgemont-High-Spicoli-Van.jpg

"If I'm here, and you're here, doesn't it make it OUR time?"



Aloha Mr. Hand

[1inMany]

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Ain't Nobody Like Louis.

[donk]

Ain't Nobody Like Louis.

true...but you have to admit, like it or not, Bob appeals to more people than any jazz. I wish these guys had a chance to play with him:

kGWjkIm7JaU

[Lisab]

Just watched the Mary rodwell in the kitchen whilst preparing the family meal. Thanks paula x

[araucaria]

Ain't Nobody Like Louis. true...but you have to admit, like it or not, Bob appeals to more people than any jazz. I wish these guys had a chance to play with him:

kGWjkIm7JaU

Who cares about 'more people'? Art and music are not democratic like that. For your punishment, 2 mins of Miles Davis, and due to mitigating circumstances, in the company of Jeanne Moreau :)

Edit to add the link :)

saG7EELIfMM

[donk]

I was already listening to Miles!! (kind of blue)

This is what I was getting at though...I love their collobarations, check this one out:

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How sick would Louis (or Miles, or any horn?) be in that mix??

[donk]

Who cares about 'more people'?

And for that, I sentence you to listen to Bill Frissell's entire catalogue :p;):cool:

(start with Nashville, if you weren't already into him)

[eaglespirit]

...does anybody really know what time it is...?

[araucaria]

...does anybody really know what time it is...?

It's 2054, we're forty years ahead of you here :)

[meeradas]

...does anybody really know what time it is...?

AmtQXe6lonE

[araucaria]

Who cares about 'more people'?

And for that, I sentence you to listen to Bill Frissell's entire catalogue :p;):cool:

(start with Nashville, if you weren't already into him)

Sounds like a promise to live till I'm a hundred: only on my terms!

[eaglespirit]

...does anybody really know what time it is...?

It's 2054, we're forty years ahead of you here :)

Had a Healer/Reader tell me I had ten years left in late 2009...I asked 'silently' (how much more time I got here?) while She was speaking in another 'tongue' to me and laughing at the joy She was seeing in my future.

I've been outta here for over 34 years...
no wonder I'm feelin' so 'surreal' here and now on Mother Earth : ) : ) : )

Love, Love, Love, Araucaria : )

[araucaria]

...does anybody really know what time it is...?

It's 2054, we're forty years ahead of you here :)

Had a Healer/Reader tell me I had ten years left in late 2009...I asked 'silently' (how much more time I got here?) while She was speaking in another 'tongue' to me and laughing at the joy She was seeing in my future.

I've been outta here for over 34 years...
no wonder I'm feelin' so 'surreal' here and now on Mother Earth : ) : ) : )

Love, Love, Love, Araucaria : )

I saw somewhere on the net that for my date of birth I would live on and on. I'm not into palmistry, but my life line goes off in two parts right up to my wrist. Not a big issue, whenever :)

miles and miles

xDeZnWEUA_k

[eaglespirit]

I saw somewhere on the net that for my date of birth I would live on and on. I'm not into palmistry, but my life line goes off in two parts right up to my wrist. Not a big issue, whenever

Me either, Araucaria...She came up to me 'vibrating' and asked if She could do one (I guess it already started on autopilot when she approached me)...that was at Mount Hood in Oregon just before I went to ECETI Ranch to stay for the first time...James Gilliland was giving a talk and that is where I first met him. It was interesting throughout my travels ...I had this happen to me a number of times, Folks with their 'own unique etheric connections' just coming up to me and offering like that.

I was grateful...and oh were they tuned in to my future doings some how some way...beautiful experiences! : )

[1inMany]

Friendly warning to the whole state of Texas...M now has her driver's permit.

Was thinking about something like this...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41yvw3TgdKL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

teehee...

[donk]

UGH!!! Listening to Cathy O'Brein's freemanTV interview, talking about how the sacred herb is the ONLY "drug" she was strictly prohibited from in the black ops world, the ONLY one that OPENS neural pathways...to bad I am no good at moderation, I'm more like this:

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How's this for rationalization: I believe the universe has no problem with me puffing, instead is trying to force me to learn MODERATION :decision:

[RunningDeer]

Yip, yip, yippy! Obama gave me a $1 raise to the penny. No phone, just the $1 a month raise. Which probably means I'll have to pay it back by April 15, 2014. That’s if there’s still a US Treasury in 2014.

I do my own taxes. I fill out something like five or six stupid forms between Federal and State. One year, I was off by something like $1.37. Lots of steps to write out a check, fill out more forms and an envelope, make photo copies to cover my bleep, go to the post office to replace that last stamp used. And pay to send it registered mail...all to cover my bleep. It makes me Grrrr that billions are stolen from us.

@1inMany enjoy your evening! Eat before you go. (Faint prevention.)

For those that enjoyed Mary Rodwell, this is Part 2 of “The New Humans”. IMO: I include all of us because our bodies and auric fields, or however you define it, are changing too. It’s not just the newbies to Mother Earth.


VMpCEbIChDY

:wave:

[RunningDeer]

Swapping out for this picture because the other got lost in translation.
I think it was Araucaria that initally posted it.

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Notices/genius.JPG

[eaglespirit]

IMO:
I include all of us because our bodies and auric fields, or however you define it, are changing too. It’s not just the newbies to Mother Earth.


To go hand in hand and heart to heart with Paula's statement : )
...
Just did an IChing Reading:

Are most People on Mother Earth 'awakening' to the Spiritual Changes now occurring and how can We help?

Cast Hexagram:

57 - Fifty-Seven
Sun / The Penetrating Wind

Wind follows upon wind, wandering the earth, penetrating gently but persistently:
The Superior Person expands his influence by reaffirming his decisions and carrying out his promises.

Small, persistent, focused effort brings success.
Seek advice from someone you respect.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Gentle persuasion is the key in this instance.
Though the words are soft, their speaker must be firm, calm and confident.
Gentle words are worthless if spoken with trepidation.
Wordless influence by example is also effective in this situation.
All persuasion should be almost unfelt, yet consistent and persistent.
Ask for feedback from someone you know to be an effective persuader.

The bottom line:
Being A Heartfelt Selfless Spiritual Example : ) WoooHooooo!!!

[astrid]

Astrid needs a rest in the village,
i will be curled up on the big sofa for,
well a few days.

Little battle weary.

[WhiteFeather]

Here and Now. Evening Peeps.......IMO,,,,,,Im listening to the most under-rated band ever. The Moody Blues. Watch the first 8 minutes. A total trip. Our Classic Rock Band "White Room" hehehe i named it,,,,, just learned The Story In Your Eyes, gonna jam it out this Saturday night along with many classic rock tunes at a local bar here in Staten Island NY. If your local drop by. And Rad if your near as well, bring your Ibanez Bass with you. Your more than welcome to come up and play a few tunes.
http://www.joebroadways.com/

Peace



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRuMgs4b1qk

[RunningDeer]

Astrid needs a rest in the village,
i will be curled up on the big sofa for,
well a few days.

Little battle weary.


Astrid, sending in a Little One
To hang with you, All
XO

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Angels/Angel-52.JPG

[Flash]

A44oEcmDn1c

Oh my gosh, every single man going to have a child should do this. Absolutely hilarious. They would be much more helpful afterward and have more respect. Wow, one could not even hold for more than one hour. Two hours are rare in first pregnancies. It is more like 10. And they did not have between 20 and 30 pounds on their bellie over and above, nor their pelvic bones opening up.

Both my sister and I had babies at a later age and both we had tremendous respect for women and mothers afterward. Including for our own mom.

What is they had done it for 30 hours to end un in surgery with cesarian. This happens too.

[Flash]

I did my whole day up to 4h50 pm. Thanks everyone. I was caughing, sneezing, but no fever. They had been told the day before I had the flue, so they knew.

The funniest thing is that half of them were nurses, male and female, and the other half were psychologists, 29 altogether. The nurses would come at break to offer me water, tylenol, throat analgesics, tell me what they saw (your face is changing color, prevent by taking a tylenol, body temperature is changing), etc. I am going back tomorrow morning. I just hope I did not contaminate anyone, which is doubtful. My brain was a bit spacy, I am usually sharper, and I had to sit more, I usually walk around much more. Well, this is life.

Thanks again very much, with fever I could never have done it.



Donk: if I say I am filled with an awful lot of pity everytime I see your dog avatar, are you going to change it???

[Guest]

...does anybody really know what time it is...?

No time, like the present time:p

20212

Walking around a local coastal town, had one of those surprise seer encounters about late 2009. I had walked into a small philosophical library hidden from the street in one of the villages. There was an innocuous looking elderly man (looked like a human Yoda) with clear blue eye standing next to some newer copies of Seth and Bartholomew. Standing thinking, are they still printing Seth and Bartholomew material? He watched me for quite some time then said my name is Michael and asked if he could help me find something or was I looking for something. I replied that I was just killing some time and then I was going inland after traffic to the Indian Store.... We stood there for about hour. He told me I was going to meet a group of people and that they were from all over the world. We would come together and we were going to help a lot of people on earth. He said it looks like they are trying to save the earth and you all will be a part of it. You will be with them for a long time.

So of course, I asked where am I going to meet all of these people? The internet?? I'm not much of an internet person and I don't socialize much. I really don't see how this will happen. He just smiled at me. He also said some things about my mentor who had passed over the summer. One of the good ones has passed on he said, you were close to her and when the time is right she will be around along with some other spirits to assist you, but that things would be weird for me for a while and even feel & be dark at times.... He got quiet.... and I thought weirder than they already are? lol. Then he said, "the world isn't going to end when they say it is, you still have time." Later on I went back to the store and it was all boarded up, like it had never been there.


Love


Nora

[Flash]

Checking in with you, Big D. Did I push too hard? I sometimes I don't know where the line is between "Get out of my face will ya!" and "How about this POV?". Sorry, if it's the former.
I'll be more mindful.


Gimme a break...I came here for "eagle"-strength pushes...your sweetness is like nice kisses all over my cheeks, which I like just as much, and why i spend as much time in the village as anywhere else.

No...I always lament the need to replace the esteemed Mr. Marley from my life (even if only temporary). It's not so bad as I have a ton to listen to on my own, but he is a crowd pleaser, when music is called for in groups...it is hard to find anyone that appeals to everyone more than him...then you get some "soul shakedown party tonight" going, next thing you know the room starts smelling like Spicoli's van:


http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Fast-Times-At-Ridgemont-High-Spicoli-Van.jpg

"If I'm here, and you're here, doesn't it make it OUR time?"



Aloha Mr. Hand

They truly look like my neighbours, my today's neighbours. Truly.

[astrid]

Oh cool.. a friend of mine has a new movie out.

"Filmmaker Jonas Elrod says we are all on a spiritual path, whether we know it or not. Years ago, he experienced his own spiritual breakdown—and breakthrough. It turned his world upside down and made him see everything in a different light. Now, Jonas is setting out to hear other people's stories on In Deep Shift with Jonas Elrod. On February 3, join Jonas as he travels to Arizona to meet Brian Mancini, an Army veteran battling post-traumatic stress disorder. Learn more about his journey to heal physically, mentally and emotionally in the trailer below.

In Deep Shift with Jonas Elrod airs Sunday, February 3, at 12 p.m. ET/PT on OWN."


http://www.oprah.com/own-supersoulsunday/blogs/First-Look-In-Deep-Shift-with-Jonas-Elrod (http://www.oprah.com/own-supersoulsunday/blogs/First-Look-In-Deep-Shift-with-Jonas-Elrod)

[Flash]

Wow Nora, real cool.

[astrid]

The time?

Now is the time.

[RunningDeer]

Dearest Flash,

Little Cherub
Wants to be
By your side
Tonight and tomorrow
If that's okay with You


http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Angels/angel_falcon3.GIF
messenger pigeon

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Angels/baby_angel_zpseb4f2785.JPG


I did my whole day up to 4h50 pm. Thanks everyone. I was caughing, sneezing, but no fever. They had been told the day before I had the flue, so they knew.

The funniest thing is that half of them were nurses, male and female, and the other half were psychologists, 29 altogether. The nurses would come at break to offer me water, tylenol, throat analgesics, tell me what they saw (your face is changing color, prevent by taking a tylenol, body temperature is changing), etc. I am going back tomorrow morning. I just hope I did not contaminate anyone, which is doubtful. My brain was a bit spacy, I am usually sharper, and I had to sit more, I usually walk around much more. Well, this is life.

Thanks again very much, with fever I could never have done it.



Donk: if I say I am filled with an awful lot of pity everytime I see your dog avatar, are you going to change it???

[WhiteFeather]

Oh cool.. a friend of mine has a new movie out.

"Filmmaker Jonas Elrod says we are all on a spiritual path, whether we know it or not. Years ago, he experienced his own spiritual breakdown—and breakthrough. It turned his world upside down and made him see everything in a different light. Now, Jonas is setting out to hear other people's stories on In Deep Shift with Jonas Elrod. On February 3, join Jonas as he travels to Arizona to meet Brian Mancini, an Army veteran battling post-traumatic stress disorder. Learn more about his journey to heal physically, mentally and emotionally in the trailer below.

In Deep Shift with Jonas Elrod airs Sunday, February 3, at 12 p.m. ET/PT on OWN."


http://www.oprah.com/own-supersoulsunday/blogs/First-Look-In-Deep-Shift-with-Jonas-Elrod (http://www.oprah.com/own-supersoulsunday/blogs/First-Look-In-Deep-Shift-with-Jonas-Elrod)

Sounds like what alot of us went through
......world turned upside down when we woke up and had this spiritual awakening..... If thats what we want to call it!

..IMO.....i dont think i could ever go back up the rabbit hole ever again. Its pretty cool down here. Much to learn.....

[donk]

Donk: if I say I am filled with an awful lot of pity everytime I see your dog avatar, are you going to change it???

Heh...would you like me to? I found the pic and got excited...but am almost tired of it already, doesn't really "fit". It is meant as a warning: "beware plastic punkins!!"

You gotta watch "Fast Times at Ridgemont High". Well, don't "gotta", it may not translate well. Or amuse most Avalonians as it does me. Was one of (if not the) first Sean Penn flick.

Great story Nora, thanks

[gooty64]

I Love this Number!;)

4ivUOnnstpg

[Carmody]

And here is a paragraph in Gurdjieff's own words. I'm not putting all of it, as that would be overload.
But for the musicians who come here this might be of interest....

"I will cite you one example only -- music. Objective music is all based on inner octaves. And it can obtain not only definite psychological results but definite physical results. There can be such music as would freeze water. There can be such music as would kill a man instantaneously. The Biblical legend of the destruction of the walls of Jericho by music is precisely a legend of objective music. Plain music, no matter of what kind, will not destroy walls, but objective music indeed can do so. And not only can it destroy but it can also build up. In the legend of Orpheus there are hints of objective music, for Orpheus used to impart knowledge by music. Snake charmers' music in the East is an approach to objective music, of course very primitive. Very often it is simply one note which is long drawn out, rising and falling only very little; but in this single note 'inner octaves' are going on all the time and melodies of 'inner octaves' which are inaudible to the ears but felt by the emotional center. And the snake hears this music or, more strictly speaking, he feels it, and he obeys it. The same music, only a little more complicated, and men would obey it."

The local flock of turkeys were in the front yard yesterday.

A siren began to wail and started to come closer.

The turkeys began to run in circles, together... and pecked at each other.

When the siren stopped, they went back to their normal behavior.

[Flash]

The Turkeys just copied human behavior. They are usually much smarter when human are not around :p

[eaglespirit]

The time?

Now is the time.

Here and Now IS the Time : )

Hi Astrid, Good to See You...thought I'd join in on the night shift : )

[modwiz]

The Turkeys just copied human behavior. They are usually much smarter when human are not around :p

Not only do I like your answer, but think it is the truth.

[Carmody]

A44oEcmDn1c
That was the hardest I've laughed out loud in a while. Thanks, Astrid!

Dennis

I'm wheezy from laughing so hard. That was only 2 hours, while many of us go for 24+. The unknown of how long adds to it. But, I have to say, kudos to them! They've shed light for many.

Tomorrow, I promise not to flood the thread. :wave:

My sister did 27 hours, and it ended with a C-section.

[eaglespirit]

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?30405-Here-and-Now...What-s-Happening&p=625604&viewfull=1#post625604

Lovin' It Nora...Thanks For Sharing : )

Onward and Upward and Beyond, Timeless!

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=20212&d=1359507766

[Flash]

A44oEcmDn1c
That was the hardest I've laughed out loud in a while. Thanks, Astrid!

Dennis

I'm wheezy from laughing so hard. That was only 2 hours, while many of us go for 24+. The unknown of how long adds to it. But, I have to say, kudos to them! They've shed light for many.

Tomorrow, I promise not to flood the thread. :wave:

My sister did 27 hours, and it ended with a C-section.

yes me too, 30 hours and C section. No wonder my daughter is dysphasic.

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

The time?

Now is the time.

Here and Now IS the Time : )

Hi Astrid, Good to See You...thought I'd join in on the night shift : )

Que hora son mi corazon? Ahora!

myq3vGhwh-4

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

I really dig Manu Chao. I first heard of them in Deutschland. The album, Clandestino, is really great, if you haven't heard it, and you like that type of music. I've been thinking about Paula's thread of recent, and this song of Manu Chao's sums up my thoughts on the matter, though this might be the wrong thread to post it on:

H2W4wglPW2c

[Flash]

I really like latin music. Good memories and the rythm exquisito.

Gracias Playdo. Hay tiempo que no escuche musica latina. Soy del desaparecido siglo. lol It puts someone with a flue back on her feet.

[ulli]

It's been a while since I had one of these spam my mailbox.


http://i.imgur.com/jShA8dL.jpg

[RunningDeer]

A44oEcmDn1c
That was the hardest I've laughed out loud in a while. Thanks, Astrid!

Dennis

I'm wheezy from laughing so hard. That was only 2 hours, while many of us go for 24+. The unknown of how long adds to it. But, I have to say, kudos to them! They've shed light for many.

Tomorrow, I promise not to flood the thread. :wave:

My sister did 27 hours, and it ended with a C-section.

Oh, man...I just lost my post again.
Shorten version: Ow, ow. Ouch! 27+C+recuperation and rest with an infant. Oxymoron comes to mind.
I went the 24+ with complications.

[ulli]

Combining two favorite Here and Now topics in one
Guitar Cat.

http://i.imgur.com/VopoXtE.jpg?2

[astrid]

Interesting..

http://phys.org/news/2013-01-flies-world-embrace-vegetarianism.html

"Microbe-eating flies from at least three different locations around the world recently have evolved into herbivores, feeding on some of the most toxic plants on Earth. Fly detectives and UA evolutionary biologists Noah Whiteman and Richard Lapoint are trying to find out what genetic pathways led the flies to such a major change of lifestyle. For millennia, they buzzed through the woods, contentedly munching yeasts off the surfaces of leaves, bracken and rotting duff on the forest floor. But now, flies in the family Drosophilidae, whose disparate members dwell in areas all across the planet, have evolved into all-out vegetarians with a wicked diet of plants that are deadly to most other organisms. What, University of Arizona scientists would like to know, has caused these flies, yeast-feeders for nearly 80 million years, to independently go cold turkey with respect to their formerly meaty diets?"


Very telling, IMO.

[donk]

If you get a chance and a second, send some light my way...got real dark here all of a sudden. Summy REALLY doesn't like it. V stirs in her sleep.

I even feel a lil' something but hopefully not enough to keep me up. Just a little calm, maybe? It's a restless energy to me,

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

If you get a chance and a second, send some light my way...got real dark here all of a sudden. Summy REALLY doesn't like it. V stirs in her sleep.

I even feel a lil' something but hopefully not enough to keep me up. Just a little calm, maybe? It's a restless energy to me,

You are loved and looked after by a force greater than anything. Reside in that thought and be comforted. If you seek greater protection, call upon the Archangels by using the Lesser Banishing Ritual.

[astrid]

Yes its getting darker and denser, its like a shadow that is casting over us,
working on getting to the bottom of this.

[Jeffrey]

Yes its getting darker and denser, its like a shadow that is casting over us,
working on getting to the bottom of this.

Not to be dramatic, but it does feel ominous around here (the forum in general, or at least the five or so threads I've been between).

Then again, I've never thought that I was really "sensitive to energies" so-to-speak.

:noidea:

[Lisab]

Has a solar flare hit? My hearts hammering in my chest and I feel anxious. Thankfully these days it wears off quickly. I seem to integrate the energies a lot easier than I used to. I'm off to work. Have a great here and now, whatever your timeline.

[araucaria]

Yes its getting darker and denser, its like a shadow that is casting over us,
working on getting to the bottom of this.

Not to be dramatic, but it does feel ominous around here (the forum in general, or at least the five or so threads I've been between).

Then again, I've never thought that I was really "sensitive to energies" so-to-speak.

:noidea:

Hi Vivek, you want to hang about this thread, that should put things in a little perspective :)

[araucaria]

On the subject of labour pains, I have no, even vicarious, experience since my wife had two scheduled C-sections first thing on Monday mornings. The two births occurred at exactly 10:10 and both were registered exactly 48 hours later, so that was my first experience of clock synchronicities.

We saw a cutting-edge (ouch!) obstetrician from the get-go because my wife is very petite and also because my mum died from complications after having my brother when I was very small. My wife had epidurals, I sat in on the operations behind her head, and being an empath, I didn’t feel a thing :)

As I recall, there were preparatory sessions for dealing with the pain, and the dads were encouraged to attend, not to deal with the pain but to help the sufferer, i.e. second the midwife rather than be a second patient; but we never went, knowing in advance that such skills were not going to be needed. So that ‘double Dutch’ act is doubly foreign to me :)

I am sorry to hear of all you ladies’ difficult birthing experiences. I would have expected someone to be explaining reduced pain delivery techniques (eg. my sister-in-law gave birth underwater). It is an interesting subject to be sure if we see what we are going through as a kind of global birthing experience.

[Guest]

I think someone left a gate open.
I've had very little sleep since last Thursday and I'm feeling really overwhelmed.

Prayers of Love and Protection for everyone.



Love


Nora

[meeradas]

Remaining unaffected.

[ulli]

On the subject of labour pains, I have no, even vicarious, experience since my wife had two scheduled C-sections first thing on Monday mornings. The two births occurred at exactly 10:10 and both were registered exactly 48 hours later, so that was my first experience of clock synchronicities.

We saw a cutting-edge (ouch!) obstetrician from the get-go because my wife is very petite and also because my mum died from complications after having my brother when I was very small. My wife had epidurals, I sat in on the operations behind her head, and being an empath, I didn’t feel a thing :)

As I recall, there were preparatory sessions for dealing with the pain, and the dads were encouraged to attend, not to deal with the pain but to help the sufferer, i.e. second the midwife rather than be a second patient; but we never went, knowing in advance that such skills were not going to be needed. So that ‘double Dutch’ act is doubly foreign to me :)

I am sorry to hear of all you ladies’ difficult birthing experiences. I would have expected someone to be explaining reduced pain delivery techniques (eg. my sister-in-law gave birth underwater). It is an interesting subject to be sure if we see what we are going through as a kind of global birthing experience.

I gave birth in the West London Hospital at Hammersmith, which that year (1979) had won an award for best maternity ward in England. I concluded that the award was for most efficient torture. If I had to sit in a restaurant on a chair with a 2inch piece of foam, after an hour I would have to get up and look for somewhere a bit less hard. Here they had me for 16 hours on a 2" foam mattress never suggesting if I might be more comfortable on my side.
Anyway, apart from the usual trauma, and having to walk around with twenty switches* (meant stitches )since I ripped open before the doctor could use the scalpel, I needed treatment for a damaged coccyx for months afterwards.
I decided there and then never to have another child. Everyone told me I would soon forget, but I didn't. My memory loss has to do with different issues.

[meeradas]

Switches, 20 of 'em, Ulli?

[i certainly don't get it]

[Ernie Nemeth]

What is going on? I woke up late, well the power went off twice last night, and my every bone aches - especially my chest. Cannot determine a source for my ills. I did have a filling put in yesterday and I thought he used a bit too much novacane as the side of my face from jaw to eyeball was frozen for hours.
The weather is also doing summersaults in the last week, temps from -25 to (today) + 15 (celsius). And we've had every type of weather phenomena too: rain, snow, sleet, thunderstorms, tornado warnings and high winds.

I'm going back to bed...maybe a few more hours of sleep will help.
This is not normal for me, I usually have some warning of any oncoming sickness.

If I was stronger I'd send out some positive vibes for others but today I will have to focus on myself.


retracting the last statement, this is the perfect time to send out those vibes as I am never that weak, and positive intentions help on all levels

[astrid]

Guys and Gals, a call out for some help please..

I just found out about this...

From Max Igan

"Unfortunately, my 19 year old son Daniel is amongst those who have been devastated by this past weeks flooding in the Australian town of Bundaberg.

The ground floor unit he was renting has been totally flooded, as high as about a foot into the 1st floor unit above him, and his unit has been completely underwater for the last 3 days and is still completely submerged. He is currently keeping a close eye on water levels in the hope of gaining access to his unit before any looters arrive as there are typically many bands of looters taking advantage of the situation. When the floods hit, my son managed to escape the waters with his laptop, his monitor, 3 books and 2 changes of clothes but has lost everything else in the floods. He is 20 years old, has been there for around 18 months now and this was his first home away from his parents. He has lost all his clothes, 2 computers, his guitar and amp, all his furniture, literally hundreds of books and collectors edition of various types, his car, all his personal effects... everything he owns, except what he could carry... including his accomodation.

My son Daniel has Aspergers syndrome, he feels very secure in the familiarity of his surroundings and he has lost that now. Essentially, he has lost everything he knew to be his life. He is being very strong but I feel the anguish in his voice, though perhaps I feel it so much more because he is my son... If you have ever felt a desire to donate to the crowhouse or to help anyone less fortunate than yourself, then I ask you to please consider offering a contribution to my son in this time of need. It would truly mean a great deal to me. The email address for his paypal is Iganrowe (at) hotmail.com

If you are able to help in anyway, I offer you my most humble and most sincere thanks from the very bottom of my heart.

In Lak'ech

max Igan '

THanks all.. even your thoughts and prayers..

For those that don't know Max's work.. here is his latest show, part 1

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[ulli]

Switches, 20 of 'em, Ulli?

[i certainly don't get it]

Meant stitches, and probably less than twenty, but it felt like a roll of barbed wire between my legs.

[Samsara]

Round and round, and round and round, we all went in my dreams last night. As if the story of Avalon was going on in front of me. Same people, different faces, different times. Trials and errors, love and hate, war and peace. And the question was, What is it gonna be this time, uh?

I'm staying away from those threads from now on. Too big a banquet there..... nom, nom, nom.

Weird weather going on. Who said life was boring ? hehehehe...

bk6q0zxa4xQ

[1inMany]

Switches, 20 of 'em, Ulli?

[i certainly don't get it]

Meant stitches, and probably less than twenty, but it felt like a roll of barbed wire between my legs.

LOL! I hear you. 24 hours of labor, and a "fear" of needles, no epidural on that one. And the dipsh!t doctor just watched me, apparently, rip and tear. I was so naive. After the birth, I saw a needle coming at me in an area where no needle had any business. Inquiring, ever so gently and quietly as one might expect in this situation, something probably rather like wtf do you think you are doing with that needle?! It was to "deaden" the nerves. Oh, sure, you want to do that after the birth? When you are releasing a watermelon through a straw, actually that would be the best time to have done that, as I don't think I would have felt it having been stretched to the point of ripping open. And a needle and thread approach after that? I kept asking, how many stitches are you planning, here? or Are you going to be done soon? I rather thought at the time I would like to reverse the end of the needle...

Funny, crs but I remember that. Second and third births, I got over the fear of the epidural reeeeeeeally fast.

Oh, how I would do things differently. Birth in water, turned on the side, hell I would probably even go for what they did in my mom's day. In her day, they put the mother completely out and when she woke up she had this nice, clean, sweet bundle of joy.

Okay, I wouldn't really do that, but if I only knew then what I know now....

[araucaria]

Switches, 20 of 'em, Ulli?

[i certainly don't get it]

Meant stitches, and probably less than twenty, but it felt like a roll of barbed wire between my legs.

Not your 'best typo' then Ulli, but this is no switch-hunt :)

More excruciating cases coming out I see. Understandable when you think - and we seldom do - that childbirth still kills about half a million a year.

[araucaria]

..IMO.....i dont think i could ever go back up the rabbit hole ever again. Its pretty cool down here. Much to learn.....

Sorry Whitefeather, I may still be heading down, but the overall aim is definitely to get outta here to where the grass is greener :)

[eaglespirit]

Active Cleansing

Selfless Intention

Accelerated Realization

'Upvibration'

Here and Now in Your Theatre in Front of You, For All!

Powerful Heart-full YOU : )

http://kauilapele.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/111011_1124_view_from_mauna_loa_dscf0666_50.jpg

[1inMany]

Switches, 20 of 'em, Ulli?

[i certainly don't get it]

Meant stitches, and probably less than twenty, but it felt like a roll of barbed wire between my legs.

Not your 'best typo' then Ulli, but this is no switch-hunt :)

More excruciating cases coming out I see. Understandable when you think - and we seldom do - that childbirth still kills about half a million a year.

Yeah, I couldn't help myself. I saw the childbirth topic and swore to myself, I'm not even going there. How yucky for the men in the Village...icky. Who wants to hear about childbirth stories? But, ya know, then I purged hahahahaha.

I promise, Here and Now, to try not to tell another childbirth story. Promise.

:)

[araucaria]

Switches, 20 of 'em, Ulli?

[i certainly don't get it]

Meant stitches, and probably less than twenty, but it felt like a roll of barbed wire between my legs.

Not your 'best typo' then Ulli, but this is no switch-hunt :)

More excruciating cases coming out I see. Understandable when you think - and we seldom do - that childbirth still kills about half a million a year.

Yeah, I couldn't help myself. I saw the childbirth topic and swore to myself, I'm not even going there. How yucky for the men in the Village...icky. Who wants to hear about childbirth stories? But, ya know, then I purged hahahahaha.

I promise, Here and Now, to try not to tell another childbirth story. Promise.

:)

On the contrary, I thought childbirth was all about no going back, you gotta push all the way. When you can't help yourself and it all comes out anyway, that sounds good no? :)

PS: I can be philosophical about the yuck. I remember having an interesting conversation with Lord Sid about Socratic maieutics, i.e. philosophical midwifery

[yukondiva]

Yes its getting darker and denser, its like a shadow that is casting over us,
working on getting to the bottom of this.

Not to be dramatic, but it does feel ominous around here (the forum in general, or at least the five or so threads I've been between).

Then again, I've never thought that I was really "sensitive to energies" so-to-speak.

:noidea:

Hi Vivek, you want to hang about this thread, that should put things in a little perspective :)

O.K two nights ago I was really overwhelmed, I felt attacked. However today I feel like a diffrent person, so now I am sending everyone positive loving healing thoughts, and this too shall pass, talk to a friend keep yourself busy take a walk get a massage.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. KG

[sheme]

Interesting..

http://phys.org/news/2013-01-flies-world-embrace-vegetarianism.html

"Microbe-eating flies from at least three different locations around the world recently have evolved into herbivores, feeding on some of the most toxic plants on Earth. Fly detectives and UA evolutionary biologists Noah Whiteman and Richard Lapoint are trying to find out what genetic pathways led the flies to such a major change of lifestyle. For millennia, they buzzed through the woods, contentedly munching yeasts off the surfaces of leaves, bracken and rotting duff on the forest floor. But now, flies in the family Drosophilidae, whose disparate members dwell in areas all across the planet, have evolved into all-out vegetarians with a wicked diet of plants that are deadly to most other organisms. What, University of Arizona scientists would like to know, has caused these flies, yeast-feeders for nearly 80 million years, to independently go cold turkey with respect to their formerly meaty diets?"


Very telling, IMO.

This is good news -the DNA changes have begun- poisonous plants will be incompatible with Earths new vibration -so either they will be vectored away by this fly or they are changing and the poison is becoming palatable , All lower vibrating organisms will change with our mother Earth or leave. be happy and look for the good in all things.:biggrin:

[RunningDeer]

Today is a
Villager 'fill in the blank day'
Allow it to wash over You

I received Serenity

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/Fantasy%20Fun/IMG_1078.jpg

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Angels/message.GIF

[Calz]

Today is a Villager 'fill in the blank day'




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[ulli]

I always thought life was about three basic activities....affirming, denying, reconciling.
But there are more, like ranting, obscuring, clarifying, unveiling, and not to forget, hammering.
So what happened to that thread The Daily Hammer?

[donk]

Thanks y'all, I feel invigorated, fell right to sleep thinking of you.

I gotta confess, I am with meerdas, was not directly effected...but I am sensitive to those in around me in the 3D reality.

V slept well for a change, I am not good at communicating with Sum to figure out how his dreams...he is master of the here & now anyway, so I'm sure he's just living & loving attention from mommy (and the big@ss ham she cooked last night)...I just hate hearing his little squeals and gasps when the critters in the house eff with him...so THANKS AGAIN!!

[Calz]

I always thought life was about three basic activities....affirming, denying, reconciling.
But there are more, like ranting, obscuring, clarifying, unveiling, and not to forget, hammering.
So what happened to that thread The Daily Hammer?

... don't forget breathing??? :juggle:

[donk]

But there are more, like ranting, obscuring, clarifying, unveiling, and not to forget, hammering.


Don't those fit in one (or more) of your 3 categories?

...personally, I have enough hammers in my life, I come here for other, more delicate and precise tools :juggle:

[sheme]

Round and round, and round and round, we all went in my dreams last night. As if the story of Avalon was going on in front of me. Same people, different faces, different times. Trials and errors, love and hate, war and peace. And the question was, What is it gonna be this time, uh?

I'm staying away from those threads from now on. Too big a banquet there..... nom, nom, nom.

Weird weather going on. Who said life was boring ? hehehehe...

bk6q0zxa4xQ This is so beautiful, I will keep it on file for those times when the vibration is low to raise me up and cleanse my heart " The jewel in the lotus".-

[araucaria]

I always thought life was about three basic activities....affirming, denying, reconciling.
But there are more, like ranting, obscuring, clarifying, unveiling, and not to forget, hammering.
So what happened to that thread The Daily Hammer?

Well Ulli, someone bumped it today.

But it is another thread I have just been reading. You have my moral support and my thanks, but beyond that I am not getting involved.

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Switches, 20 of 'em, Ulli?

[i certainly don't get it]

Meant stitches, and probably less than twenty, but it felt like a roll of barbed wire between my legs.

Not your 'best typo' then Ulli, but this is no switch-hunt :)

More excruciating cases coming out I see. Understandable when you think - and we seldom do - that childbirth still kills about half a million a year.

Yeah, I couldn't help myself. I saw the childbirth topic and swore to myself, I'm not even going there. How yucky for the men in the Village...icky. Who wants to hear about childbirth stories? But, ya know, then I purged hahahahaha.

I promise, Here and Now, to try not to tell another childbirth story. Promise.

:)

On the contrary, I thought childbirth was all about no going back, you gotta push all the way. When you can't help yourself and it all comes out anyway, that sounds good no? :)

PS: I can be philosophical about the yuck. I remember having an interesting conversation with Lord Sid about Socratic maieutics, i.e. philosophical midwifery

Hey 1InMany, I'm certainly not bothered by birth stories. My wife is a Birth Doula and would like to become a Midwife one day, so each and every day I am inundated with birth experiences and knowledge, adn to be honest, I think birth is the single most intriguing aspect of life. It's fascinating, and often, during business situations or polite conversations, I find myself taking part in discussions with women telling their birth stories, and I actually have information and experience to contribute to the discussion because I have been so exposed to birth experiences. The men silently slink away when the topic comes up, but I really enjoy it. Bizarre, huh?

My wife had an unmedicated homebirth in our house. It was the most amazing thing I've ever witnessed. I have the utmost respect and awe for my wife. Anyway, I am very happy and content, however, that I will never have to give birth. Thank Gawd!

Araucaria, the word maieutics is knew to me. Thanks, I'm looking that one up now!

[Calz]

I always thought life was about three basic activities....affirming, denying, reconciling.
But there are more, like ranting, obscuring, clarifying, unveiling, and not to forget, hammering.
So what happened to that thread The Daily Hammer?

Well Ulli, someone bumped it today.

But it is another thread I have just been reading. You have my moral support and my thanks, but beyond that I am not getting involved.


Perhaps someday I will learn your wisdom ... fools jump in :doh:

Next time I will *not* have 5 planets in Libra ... and I want to be a dolphin on an ocean planet!!!


http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/ab141/witchygirldobie/dolphin-moon-water-night.jpg

[ulli]

I always thought life was about three basic activities....affirming, denying, reconciling.
But there are more, like ranting, obscuring, clarifying, unveiling, and not to forget, hammering.
So what happened to that thread The Daily Hammer?

Well Ulli, someone bumped it today.

But it is another thread I have just been reading. You have my moral support and my thanks, but beyond that I am not getting involved.

Actually, I feel the less people participate in that thread the better.
Maybe threads like that serve little purpose.
Thanks for your support.
I have also decided to call it a day, as life here is calling me...
hubby has the day off work.

[RunningDeer]

PS: I can be philosophical about the yuck. I remember having an interesting conversation with Lord Sid about Socratic maieutics, i.e. philosophical midwifery

Araucaria, the word maieutics is knew to me. Thanks, I'm looking that one up now!
I've got my dictionary close by when I read some of Araucaria's posts. http://serve.mysmiley.net/cool/cool0012.gif (http://www.mysmiley.net)

maieutic |mäˈyo͞otik|
adjective
of or denoting the Socratic mode of inquiry, which aims to bring a person's latent ideas into clear consciousness.

pluralnoun (maieutics) [ treated as sing. ]
the maieutic method.

ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Greek maieutikos, from maieuesthai ‘act as a midwife,’ from maia ‘midwife.’

Araucaria is a crossword puzzle giant. http://www.pic4ever.com/images/za4.gif

[araucaria]

I always thought life was about three basic activities....affirming, denying, reconciling.
But there are more, like ranting, obscuring, clarifying, unveiling, and not to forget, hammering.
So what happened to that thread The Daily Hammer?

Well Ulli, someone bumped it today.

But it is another thread I have just been reading. You have my moral support and my thanks, but beyond that I am not getting involved.


Perhaps someday I will learn your wisdom ... fools jump in :doh:

Next time I will *not* have 5 planets in Libra ... and I want to be a dolphin on an ocean planet!!!


http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/ab141/witchygirldobie/dolphin-moon-water-night.jpg

I'm wondering which one of the five I haven't got :confused:

[Calz]

I'm wondering which one of the five I haven't got :confused:

Which ever ... it's a killer ...


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[Richie Montgomery]

As you may know I am an artist and sell my art online. I recently went to a coffee shop down the road that was having a "Food for Free" day where you get what you want for a donation. I thought this would be a great idea to do with my art, since I don't sell much anyway I have nothing to lose right? Well as it seems I lowered my prices to a $1 profit since I cannot actually give them away on the site to see what happens and I have sold one, which is great but the idea has been evolving in my head to create a bartering based website for my art and anyone else who might want to join in. Although my website creating skills are not up to this task, I still think it would be a great idea so that someone could get a great piece of art even if they had no money. It would really make a person think about how they would value that art if you took money out of the equation or the "Set" price of it. Donation only based art sales? I love the idea, here is a link to the ongoing conversation, please read it and let me know what you guys think of this whole idea? http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=1033034&targetid=1038927#1038927

http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=1033034&targetid=1038927#1038927

[donk]

Heh...V's teen daughter is dating a dude who's dad played with Alice Cooper (and was in a band called U.F.O.) and lives in our area (grew up here).

We'll see how much longer that lasts: Today's drama is texts daddy found, fun fun fun. We'll see it pans out, if it is up to them, she'll be shipped to a convent or strapped with a chastity belt. Kids these days...I'd feel bad for her if this wasn't this like the 4th "sexting" incident, how dumb you gotta be to have daddy find "inappropriate" electronic tracks more than once...JEEZ.

I was so blessed to have two boys, that I didn't push my luck and got snipped immediately...but alas, the universe (ok, ok, I'm sure I on some level ATTRACTED it) saw fit to bring in three girls, the oldest already homecoming girl as a freshman. Gonna be an interesting decade or so...luckily my opinions on these matters are not welcome :rolleyes:

[Carmody]

Yes its getting darker and denser, its like a shadow that is casting over us,
working on getting to the bottom of this.

I've been spending a considerable amount of energy, attention, and time sussing out this new and fast approaching HMD technology. In specific, the Oculus Rift.

Let me illustrate the importance of this issue. Watch this video (below the podcast, is the video proper) watch, or listen (to the podcast) from about 34 minutes in. This will illustrate the sheep (Freudian and appropriate, I meant to type 'sheer') potency of this emergent technology application. You will have an approximate 30 minute response and interplay between three people, to chew on, with regard to gaining perspective. This should make people sit up and look at this emergent 'moment':

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/8/3853914/the-vergecast-after-hours-ces-tuesday


A quote:

"The Oculus Rift changed my life. No, seriously. My childhood (at least the formative years) was spent reading novels like Neuromancer and Snow Crash, and poring over stories about a future promised by Mondo 2000 and Wired. Virtual reality has long been the ultimate promise of technology — the magic mandala, a doorway to the infinite. But the thing is: it never happened. We got touchscreens, motion sensors, the tablet revolution, body-hacking… but we never got our cyberdecks. Until now. The Oculus Rift actually delivers on the promise, and then some. It’s really, really amazing. Truly and honestly a revelation, a trip, a rabbit hole. And I’m going in. Forever. Goodbye universe. Hello universe."

one person does not take it all that seriously, as a reality substitute. The second, the guy on the right (bald) has a middle position, but still strongly favoring. the guy on the left, with beard and glasses (who made the quote above) is the one who is totally ga-ga over it.

It is interesting to note that 'addictive personality syndrome' regarding intoxicants and stimulants, has the capacity to affect approximately 1/3rd of the human population. This is your tie in, here. Fundamentals in human systems of life and incarnation.

The guy on the left has the potential to possibly be, the total coke head, the guy in the middle may not get anything out of coke at all, and the guy on the right, could get something..but still walk away from it. thus, the three interviewed represent the masses and their potential response to this emergent VR reality hardware.

We're talking about something that will be replacing your monitor and TV in a few years (maybe 4 years), for a fairly large percentage of avid computer users and progressives in that area. That monitors and computers will DEFINITELY be replaced by VR immersion in a few short years, when it comes to being effective at the top of any job or enterprise that involves the use of computers. Period. Full stop.

When you combine it as an emergent gadget, a technology fun ride, a gaming toy, simulation toy and then as an essential tool to be at the top of the given technological game on all fronts, in business, politics, company operations and so on...I suspect that adoption and integration of this hardware and life environment will be fast. Very fast.

I've been involved with and work at the cutting edge of similar introductions of such situations for quite some time. As either analysis of the flowing and developing minutiae and the complex flow and patterns of such and also within the introduction of such things. I know how this sort of phenomenon works. I know what I'm looking at.

This is tied to astrology and the finding of 'Neptune's Trip', as what Neptune is connected to, with regard to astrology.

Neptune in it's Native sign or vibrational shaping and mode of 'Pisces'. What would Neptune bring, this time around? this appears to be a large part of Neptune's trip.

From my reading on this, it is an interesting pairing. That the young man involved appears to have a background in military labs of a connected nature..at the same time the drive seems to be about open source and introduction and development outside of what corporate restrictions might bring. This, if the corporations get ahold of it first and stall development to their desired areas and ways, timing, applications... and so on. That their attempt is to introduce VR but in a 'power to the people' kind of way. That their attempt is seemingly toward an open world of a 'wild west' of a steam roll over and past any attempts to control or guide this emergent moment. Hackers, they be.

[donk]

Thanks carmody, saving for later...but why this:


from about 34 minutes in.

Are the first 34 mins not worth watching?

[Carmody]

Thanks carmody, saving for later...but why this:


from about 34 minutes in.

Are the first 34 mins not worth watching?

the Oculus Rift discussion begins at the 34-35 minute mark. If one wants to get a better feel for the three people involved-before watching the second half of the show, then by all means, watch the first 34 minutes. It is an 'end of day' technology report from the CES show that was held in January of 2013, on the ending of the second day of the 4 day show.

This is the low quiet whistle of a freight train (pre-echo), off in the darkened distance. something that few people pay attention to. But freight trains do eventually arrive on the scene, and they are quite big and unstoppable when in their direct presence and integration.

[astrid]

Oh God no.

http://www.livescience.com/26651-iran-launches-monkey-into-space-report.html

[Carmody]

Oh God no.

http://www.livescience.com/26651-iran-launches-monkey-into-space-report.html

See. even Iran can get a monkey into space.

How much is our space progress being blocked and slowed down?

Interesting that in English it is:

"The space capsule, called Pishgam, which means "pioneer" in Farsi..."


....could be interpreted as 'Phishgame', or fishing expedition, or the reeling in.

[araucaria]

As you may know I am an artist and sell my art online. I recently went to a coffee shop down the road that was having a "Food for Free" day where you get what you want for a donation. I thought this would be a great idea to do with my art, since I don't sell much anyway I have nothing to lose right? Well as it seems I lowered my prices to a $1 profit since I cannot actually give them away on the site to see what happens and I have sold one, which is great but the idea has been evolving in my head to create a bartering based website for my art and anyone else who might want to join in. Although my website creating skills are not up to this task, I still think it would be a great idea so that someone could get a great piece of art even if they had no money. It would really make a person think about how they would value that art if you took money out of the equation or the "Set" price of it. Donation only based art sales? I love the idea, here is a link to the ongoing conversation, please read it and let me know what you guys think of this whole idea? http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=1033034&targetid=1038927#1038927

http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=1033034&targetid=1038927#1038927

Hi Richie, I've read through the comments on that thread - lots of astute money-based reactions. The paradox that higher prices attract more customers is at the basis of the inflationary system we have suffered from for so long that we can no longer cope. You are right to want to step out of that box. The artist is no higher or lower than anyone else and earns his daily bread like everyone else.

Take house prices. Every time someone moves they need to recoup their real estate agent's and other fees, leading to in-built inflation in house prices. If you want to earn money for jam, become a real estate agent. Here in France, they now make more money as promoters of new developments than by reselling existing homes, which are lying empty because they cannot compete. This is crazy and has got to stop.

More specifically, the art market, which is a contradiction in terms, is completely driven by economic, and necessarily inflationary considerations. If you pull money out of the equation and examine what is left, the result would be as game-changing as a financial collapse that left the actual wealth producers unscathed. We would get back to art as one manifestation of the universal creative process.

We need to take artists off their pedestals and realize that we are all artists, which for many would mean releasing creative gifts that are currently not being expressed. Only then, when your customer is also an artist, will you be able to barter with them.

To get from here to there, there are a few milestones still to be put in place.

Meanwhile, I wish you all the best in the transition from here to there.

[araucaria]

My first introduction to VR was in the strangely beautiful novel by Adolfo Bioy Casares, ‘The Invention of Morel’.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invention_of_Morel


The story has been filmed by the artist David Lamelas, with the inevitable loss of the distancing and explanatory ability of the writing


http://www.luxonline.org.uk/articles/more_to_the_picture%281%29.html

There is a filming process, which is fatal to the actors, followed by an automatic playback triggered by the tide. Then there is an audience of one, who gradually discovers what is going on, rather miraculously finds a record button, and makes a new version with himself a protagonist, but knowing that he himself will die for it.

[astrid]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s480x480/550007_523250987705715_1195775485_n.jpg

duck soup, anyone?

[araucaria]

Oh God no.

http://www.livescience.com/26651-iran-launches-monkey-into-space-report.html

See. even Iran can get a monkey into space.

How much is our space progress being blocked and slowed down?

Interesting that in English it is:

"The space capsule, called Pishgam, which means "pioneer" in Farsi..."


....could be interpreted as 'Phishgame', or fishing expedition, or the reeling in.

Or the reeling in of the fisherman by his prey. In Moby Dick, Ahab's personal boatman is the stowaway Fedallah, a Parsee..

[astrid]

That VR thing is frightening.. rift alright.

Say goodbye to relationships when that thing takes off..

[astrid]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s480x480/295395_10152452322650344_291745600_n.jpg

[eaglespirit]

This is the low quiet whistle of a freight train (pre-echo), off in the darkened distance. something that few people pay attention to. But freight trains do eventually arrive on the scene, and they are quite big and unstoppable when in their direct presence and integration.

Call me crazy, Carmody and All Here and Now in the Village...but I am sensing the Oculus Rift to be a marrying of the "Spiritual and Scientific" to a degree that has the probability and possibility to enlighten the User in a more or less Shamanic Electronic way...bringing this whole game arena to a Higher Place beyond imagining...blowing away the "controlled" world that is mingled in all of this, if it does in fact take hold in a hacker/open source way...and I feel it just will happen that way as the shift becomes what IS in front of us , stronger and stronger each day!

[Guest]

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/8/3853914/the-vergecast-after-hours-ces-tuesday


When I clicked on the link above, the page came up and about 10 secs later the screen froze. Then a horizontal wave line went through the screen and the pages I had open all closed in succession. I checked my computer's system and everything was fine.

I went back to the link, into the page and clicked the video and it crashed -twice.

So I looked up Oculus Rift on Wiki (I'm not a gamer -never have been), but I am interested in the "Shading" over aspect of the software.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_shader#Pixel_shaders

I was out late into the wee hours driving around in the desert last night. A couple of things... the sky went completely black -no stars. The sky was a little cloudy here and there left over from the recent storm, but the high winds were breaking them up. Then from the sky black energy funneled down in a sloppy smokey geometric pattern and very large creature stepped down and headed West.

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They already have games out that are compatible with the Oculus Rift and looks like they have a kit out using a cell phone where one can create their own virtual reality.

This is a list of compatible games, which are planned or confirmed for release. Where the games have already been released, the dates relate to release of Rift support.
Title Status Enabled By Features Development Stage Game Engine Release Date (for VR) Genre Notes

ZED Absolution Planned[41] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-AutoFU-20-41) In Game
Alpha Unknown Unknown Arcade Shooter
Wishful Lie Planned[40] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-AutoFU-19-40) In Game
Alpha Unknown Unknown First Person Horror

Unnamed Game by Xiphos Studios (http://www.xiphosstudios.com/announcing-virtual-reality-rpg/) Planned[39] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-39) Game Engine 3D/FOV/Warp/Tracking Pre-Alpha Unreal Engine 3 TBD First Person RPG

Team Fortress 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Fortress_2) Confirmed?[38] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-TF2-38) In Game 3D/FOV/Warp/Tracking Demonstration at GDC Source Engine GDC, March 2013 Multiplayer FPS

Strike Suit Zero (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_Suit_Zero) Confirmed [36] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-36) Unknown 3D/FOV Pre-Alpha Xed January 2013 Space Flight Combat

Star Citizen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Citizen) Confirmed[35] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-AutoFU-18-35) In Game 3D/FOV/Warp/Tracking Pre-Alpha CryEngine 3— est. Nov 2014 Space Simulation

Sinful Robot Confirmed [37] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-37)
Porn, First Person Simulator
Routine (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Routine_%28video_game%29&action=edit&redlink=1) Planned[34] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-AutoFU-17-34) Game Engine Unknown Alpha Unreal Engine 3 Q1 2013

Receiver (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Receiver_%28video_game%29&action=edit&redlink=1) Planned[33] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-AutoFU-16-33) Game Engine Unknown * Alpha Unity 3.5 TBD FPS Pending support in Unity Engine Rawbots Planned[32] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-AutoFU-15-32) Game Engine Unknown Alpha Unknown TBD

Project Cars Planned[31] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-31) In-Game Unknown Beta Madness TBD Racing
Positron Planned Game Engine Unknown Alpha Unknown TBD

Outerra Tech Demo Planned Game Engine 3D/FOV/Warp/Tracking Alpha Outerra December 2012

Montas Planned[30] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-AutoFU-14-30) In Game 3D/FOV/Warp/Tracking Alpha Unknown


Montague's Mount Planned[29] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-AutoFU-13-29) In Game
Alpha Unknown TBD First Person Adventure

Miner Wars 2081 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner_Wars_2081) Confimed[28] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-AutoFU-12-28) In Game Unknown Ready Vrage Dec 2012

Minecraft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft) Planned[21] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-autogenerated4-21) In Game Unknown Alpha Unknown TBD

Kairo (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kairo_%28video_game%29&action=edit&redlink=1) Planned[25] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-autogenerated3-25) In Game
Alpha
post-launch First Person Puzzle

Hawken (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawken_%28video_game%29) Confirmed[26] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-AutoFU-11-26) In Game 3D/FOV/Warp/Tracking Ready Unreal Engine 3 TBD [27] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-27) FPS, Mech

FRACT OSC Planned[25] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-autogenerated3-25) In Game
Alpha Unknown First Person Music Puzzle

Dream (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dream_%28video_game%29&action=edit&redlink=1) Planned[24] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-AutoFU-10-24) In Game Unknown Alpha Unreal Engine 3 Q2/2013 First Person Adventure

Doom 4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_4) Planned[23] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-AutoFU-9-23) In Game 3D/FOV/Warp/Tracking Alpha iD Tech 5 TBD FPS, Horror

Doom 3: BFG Edition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_3#Doom_3:_BFG_Edition) Confirmed[22] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-AutoFU-8-22) In Game 3D/FOV/Warp/Tracking Ready iD Tech 4 10/16/2012 FPS, Horror
0x10c (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c) Planned[21] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-autogenerated4-21) In Game
Pre-Alpha



Certain titles will also be playable on the Rift via the Vireio Perception driver.[42] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-42) Games currently with full or partial Vireio Perception support:
Left 4 Dead, Half-Life 2, Portal 2, Skyrim, Mirror's Edge, AaaaAAAAA!!!!!!!!, Unreal Tournament 3, Dear Esther and DiRT 2.
Related projects

While working as a designer at the University of Southern California (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Southern_California) Institute for Creative Technologies, the brains behind the Oculus Rift, Palmer Luckey, worked on the FOV2GO project, an inexpensive kit consisting of a simple housing and optics to allow someone to put together a cheap HMD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-mounted_display) using a mobile phone as the display device.[43] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-uscinteractive-43)[44] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-uscmxr-44)[45] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-uscmxrpeople-45) The FOV2GO project is now available as a template allowing anyone to build the unit themselves.[46] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-AutoFU-21-46)
A team from the University of Southern California (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Southern_California) is working on creating a fully immersive virtual reality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality) experience called "Project Holodeck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodeck)", which will utilize four Kinect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect) sensors as well as the Oculus Rift HMD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-mounted_display) to give the user the impression of being inside of a complete virtual world.[47] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-AutoFU-22-47)[48] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#cite_note-AutoFU-23-48)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift


Love


Nora

[1inMany]

So....if I want to say "Stop!" or at least "Slow Down Already!" to the Universe, which words would be the wisest choice....

Hmmmmm.

[eaglespirit]

So....if I want to say "Stop!" or at least "Slow Down Already!" to the Universe, which words would be the wisest choice....

Hmmmmm.

Take a 'quiet and peaceful' walk in the country around Your home, 1inMany : )

[WhiteFeather]

Evening Village. Here and Now..... Im Sailing to this song. I can do this with music. It warms my vibes. Oh The Canvas can do miracles...just you wait and see. Care to join me on my sailing consciousness expedition. All you have to do is turn up the volume and close your eyes.
I love the ocean.

Peace.......We are all from 1 tribe. ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7khQNR7s1Ho

[PurpleLama]

Astrid gets :first:

[astrid]

ND715cP7xdM

EQ1HKCYJM5U

[WhiteFeather]

"Iran sends a monkey into Space"
Well IMO....They should of sent this monkey into space first. So as To test the proverbial waters. We wouldnt want to endanger an innocent conscious monkey would we? Much thanks to National Geographic for providing the enclosed image below of this unconscious entity. Boy George he is clueless.

http://2media.nowpublic.net/images//b1/72/b17216c1b896cea96478eb03ea5e7ae3.jpg

[yukondiva]

Today as I drank my coffee, I was surrounded by white butterflies, so I thought I would share this with the group:
According to some ancient eastern traditions, the universe is cyclical and so is life on Earth. Each cycle that the planet goes through, a new consciousness is born, as life is always evolving.The human consciousness belongs to the physical world – it is said to be the result of millions of years of evolution from minerals to plants, from plants to animal, and from animals to humans. The journey of the consciousness aims at the reunion with the Source, also called God in theological symbolism. This means that at each new cycle, the consciousness is closer to the divine.The butterfly represents the next step in the human evolution – the transcendence of the physical world. This is when humans, having achieved a higher level of purification of the soul, will become heavenly creatures.So, the transformation of the caterpillar into a butterfly symbolizes the human beings abandoning the lower passions that make them attached to the ground and finally merging with their true divine nature.

And that my friends is how I feel like a butterfly emerging

[WhiteFeather]

ND715cP7xdM

EQ1HKCYJM5U

That was hilarious Astrid. The beatles and the owls were indeed a trip. Loved the Chimp Alien Narrate too.

[sheme]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS37SNYjg8w I sent this to my son the other day as he challenged my right to think my thoughts !

[ulli]

Today was not easy, not at all.
I did my best with what I considered a 'damned if you do- damned if you don't' situation.
But with everyone's help it became a win-win.
Let's hope it stays that way.
No more 'I win-you lose' stuff.
Everyone a winner.
A new dawn.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/uk/images/indepth/dawn-mist-top.jpg

[astrid]

For me?

what i do??

[ulli]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS37SNYjg8w I sent this to my son the other day as he challenged my right to think my thoughts !

Thank you thank you thank you.
I'm only now learning all about sticking with the kittens.

[PurpleLama]

What you do.

:wizard:

[ulli]

For me?

what i do??

You are fabulous!

http://i.imgur.com/Jk5TqOa.gif?1

[1inMany]

So....if I want to say "Stop!" or at least "Slow Down Already!" to the Universe, which words would be the wisest choice....

Hmmmmm.

Nope. I would never want to slow or stop it. So the verbage is...

We Rejoice in the Love and the Light and the Unity of the One Infinite Creator.

We are Grateful for Its Energy and Its Peace.

Yup.

and, well, also taking a walk around in the trees and pasture-yard sure doesn't hurt :)

[yukondiva]

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Ok i cannot access this and id b kinda freaked too any hackers out there that can surf unseen?

[RunningDeer]

You are one Rockin' Woman, Ulie! 100th Monkey effect. I have a good feelings about it.

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/Fantasy%20Fun/IMG_1086.jpg


Today was not easy, not at all.
I did my best with what I considered a 'damned if you do- damned if you don't' situation.
But with everyone's help it became a win-win.
Let's hope it stays that way.
No more 'I win-you lose' stuff.
Everyone a winner.
A new dawn.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/uk/images/indepth/dawn-mist-top.jpg

[thunder24]

I owned a novelty shop right out of college....

we made t-shirts....

i had one i always wore to the bars... " 100th monkey"

[RunningDeer]

"Ulie and Astrid"

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/cartoon%20and%20silly/images-2.jpghttp://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Cartoons_Silly/images-4.JPGhttp://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Cartoons_Silly/images-3.JPG

[1inMany]

Like I haven't waded through enough crap in the last 5 days, tomorrow I have a fun little chore ahead. I get to square off with the Man. Not the Man of the 13 bloodlines, not the Man of the Corporate World, the Man of Education. Greedy and dishonest. Just like the sign says, don't be looking for any exceptions to any rules. Blick. Just plain blick.

I will be wrapping myself, my children, and all our villagers in my wings tonight. I am envisioning the kind of win-win you had today, Ulli. And, yes, may it last.

Much Love,

[WhiteFeather]

Today as I drank my coffee, I was surrounded by white butterflies, so I thought I would share this with the group:
According to some ancient eastern traditions, the universe is cyclical and so is life on Earth. Each cycle that the planet goes through, a new consciousness is born, as life is always evolving.The human consciousness belongs to the physical world – it is said to be the result of millions of years of evolution from minerals to plants, from plants to animal, and from animals to humans. The journey of the consciousness aims at the reunion with the Source, also called God in theological symbolism. This means that at each new cycle, the consciousness is closer to the divine.The butterfly represents the next step in the human evolution – the transcendence of the physical world. This is when humans, having achieved a higher level of purification of the soul, will become heavenly creatures.So, the transformation of the caterpillar into a butterfly symbolizes the human beings abandoning the lower passions that make them attached to the ground and finally merging with their true divine nature.

And that my friends is how I feel like a butterfly emerging

The color white is the highest ranking color that was worn by the Essenes when they reached spiritual mastery. Wearing this color signified mastery of spirituality and enlightenment. In her book " Jesus and The Essenes" by Dolores Cannon, it is mentioned i believe in the beginning chapters. Christ learned alot from the scriptures of The Essenes. As Christ also wore white. Yes we are like the butterfly in many ways with respect to our spiritual growth. Thanks for sharing this post. I enjoyed the verbage.

Peace......

W.f.

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[Playdo of Ataraxas]

So....if I want to say "Stop!" or at least "Slow Down Already!" to the Universe, which words would be the wisest choice....

Hmmmmm.

I would recommend the German imperative. It works. "Pass auf!" or "Hor auf!".

However, the wisest choice might be, "geh weiter!"

Just let that thang roll on and go with it........

[ulli]

Today as I drank my coffee, I was surrounded by white butterflies, so I thought I would share this with the group:
According to some ancient eastern traditions, the universe is cyclical and so is life on Earth. Each cycle that the planet goes through, a new consciousness is born, as life is always evolving.The human consciousness belongs to the physical world – it is said to be the result of millions of years of evolution from minerals to plants, from plants to animal, and from animals to humans. The journey of the consciousness aims at the reunion with the Source, also called God in theological symbolism. This means that at each new cycle, the consciousness is closer to the divine.The butterfly represents the next step in the human evolution – the transcendence of the physical world. This is when humans, having achieved a higher level of purification of the soul, will become heavenly creatures.So, the transformation of the caterpillar into a butterfly symbolizes the human beings abandoning the lower passions that make them attached to the ground and finally merging with their true divine nature.

And that my friends is how I feel like a butterfly emerging

The color white is the highest ranking color that was worn by the Essenes when they reached spiritual mastery. Wearing this color signified mastery of spirituality and enlightenment. In her book " Jesus and The Essenes" by Dolores Cannon, it is mentioned i believe in the beginning chapters. Christ learned alot from the scriptures of The Essenes. As Christ also wore white. Yes we are like the butterfly in many ways with respect to our spiritual growth. Thanks for sharing this post. I enjoyed the verbage.

Peace......

W.f.



This is where it gets interesting.

Yukondiva probably is not aware yet that the one of the greatest experts on the Essenes teachings spent his last days and was buried in Orosi, less than 1/2 mile from where she lives.
Thanks for bringing up the Essenes, Whitefeather. I see a connection happening here.

From this site: http://www.thenazareneway.com/essene_commumtions_with_the_infinite.htm

"Nevertheless, I and all who treasure his books are luckier than most who lose a loved one. We have his works, the magnificent outpouring of one of the greatest minds of this century, and perhaps of all time. His books will always be with us, and in his books, he lives.

And we must do our part to practice what is in this book, not only read and admire its beauty. He could not have given us a more cherished parting gift than the knowledge and esoteric wisdom hidden in these Communions with the Holy Streams of Life, Sound, and Light. Behind their seeming simplicity lies an unknown realm of Truth and Reality that Home for which every Essene Wayfarer longs. We have a sacred duty to follow the Path which he so faithfully followed all of his long, long life.

-NORMA NILSSON BORDEAUX SZEKELY

Orosi, Costa Rica, September, 1979.

[astrid]

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Lets see if Tom has some insights, lol

[RunningDeer]

You go, Momma!
Show him your pair
Yin/Yang him in the balance and flow.

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Like I haven't waded through enough crap in the last 5 days, tomorrow I have a fun little chore ahead. I get to square off with the Man. Not the Man of the 13 bloodlines, not the Man of the Corporate World, the Man of Education. Greedy and dishonest. Just like the sign says, don't be looking for any exceptions to any rules. Blick. Just plain blick.

I will be wrapping myself, my children, and all our villagers in my wings tonight. I am envisioning the kind of win-win you had today, Ulli. And, yes, may it last.

Much Love,

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Listening to a live soundboard of John Coltrane, 4/2/65, at the Half Note Club in NYC, the song Afro Blue. This youtube video is from March or May '65, which is pretty close to the April SB I'm listening to. Coltrane, you set my soul afire!

iSkISSjuLGU

[astrid]

Speaking of Max.. a few pages back, heres a new show he just did.

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BTW.. this is a REALLY good listen!

[astrid]

Wow, I'm totally in lala land today, just remembered i have an appointment, like now.

I totally forgot, that's what being out of the body for long stretches of time does.

Laters people

[Carmody]

This is the low quiet whistle of a freight train (pre-echo), off in the darkened distance. something that few people pay attention to. But freight trains do eventually arrive on the scene, and they are quite big and unstoppable when in their direct presence and integration.

Call me crazy, Carmody and All Here and Now in the Village...but I am sensing the Oculus Rift to be a marrying of the "Spiritual and Scientific" to a degree that has the probability and possibility to enlighten the User in a more or less Shamanic Electronic way...bringing this whole game arena to a Higher Place beyond imagining...blowing away the "controlled" world that is mingled in all of this, if it does in fact take hold in a hacker/open source way...and I feel it just will happen that way as the shift becomes what IS in front of us , stronger and stronger each day!

Yes, I think it is a split in both directions. a majors shift, schism, and a change. A Rift. In the eye of I.

I've been a gamer since 1982 or so, so I'm in on this. I have one of the dev kits on order.

That it can take people to the pits of full immersion of fear and nightmares... or it can take people to the understanding of how to get OUT of their body, on all the other 'good' levels.

It is an introduction to the subject and reality of 'separation' and 'difference'. And so on.

It is a tool. what one does with it, is the deal.

That the duality will be made real, and obvious, in the minds and lives of all who have one or use one, or a similar device.

The concept and execution will not be 100% accurate but it will bring humanity to the table (of discussion) on this subject, which is critical.

[Carmody]

This is the low quiet whistle of a freight train (pre-echo), off in the darkened distance. something that few people pay attention to. But freight trains do eventually arrive on the scene, and they are quite big and unstoppable when in their direct presence and integration.

Call me crazy, Carmody and All Here and Now in the Village...but I am sensing the Oculus Rift to be a marrying of the "Spiritual and Scientific" to a degree that has the probability and possibility to enlighten the User in a more or less Shamanic Electronic way...bringing this whole game arena to a Higher Place beyond imagining...blowing away the "controlled" world that is mingled in all of this, if it does in fact take hold in a hacker/open source way...and I feel it just will happen that way as the shift becomes what IS in front of us , stronger and stronger each day!

Yes, I think it is a split in both directions. a majors shift, schism, and a change. A Rift. In the eye of I.

I've been a gamer since 1982 or so, so I'm in on this. I have one of the dev kits on order.

That it can take people to the pits of full immersion of fear and nightmares... or it can take people to the understanding of how to get OUT of their body, on all the other 'good' levels.

It is an introduction to the subject and reality of 'separation' and 'difference'. And so on.

It is a tool. what one does with it, is the deal.

That the duality will be made real, and obvious, in the minds and lives of all who have one or use one, or a similar device.

The concept and execution will not be 100% accurate but it will bring humanity to the table (of discussion) on this subject, which is critical.

this device will be on the Jimmy Fallon show, tonight. That one twitter quote is:

This is bull**** #wakeupsheeple #illuminati

[yukondiva]

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Ok i cannot access this and id b kinda freaked too any hackers out there that can surf unseen?

What is weird about this was it was a survey on health.

[astrid]

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EXTREME..Entire Australian towns submerged under FOUR FEET of sea foam
after floods

[astrid]

mHTZiJAPLOE


"Writer & Philosopher Daniel Pinchbeck describes the imminent shift in consciousness that is transforming our world."

[araucaria]

How's this for a shifter

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/jan/30/build-bionic-man

[araucaria]

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Ok i cannot access this and id b kinda freaked too any hackers out there that can surf unseen?

What is weird about this was it was a survey on health.

Anyone promising me money gets binned pretty damn quick. Some days I've been promised half a million twice on the same day. But just ten dollars?? Sounds like they are going in the opposite direction to the art market.

[eaglespirit]

Living The Connections...
BEing the Love...
The Village Vibrates
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[Realeyes]

I have just watched this beautiful music video, it has stunning visuals and warmed my heart and spirit. Just wanted to share this. Enjoy!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsgP8LkEopM&feature=youtu.be

[astrid]

Hey check this out

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s480x480/484694_329080057208966_698427299_n.jpg

It's a treehouse in Sweden with reflective walls
Amazing.

[RunningDeer]

For the You that You are, Ulie.

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Angels/goldenframe_angel.JPG

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Angels/message.GIF

[donk]

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[1inMany]

The air is crisp. The sky is such a beautiful blue. The fog is in my head, but I am focusing on light. It's Okay. Borrowing from PL, don't panic.

A new character showed up in my play this morning. This time I know it's Me. These characters I (apparently) create are one way for me to know that I am not alone. To tell you the truth, it is a little odd to know that I am creating a character that comes into my space. Like, this morning a woman in a white robe appeared to me, at the same time she appeared to me, she is me. She has a white robe on, white hood over her head, and she is looking forward with me rather than looking at me. And she said to me, "I'm here. I'm with you." And at once I was a bit shaken by the presence but also knew it was just Me. What is really, really weird, as if this whole thing is not weird, is that I know her. She is the lady I remember being at some time. It seems it is the past, I see a little video. But it also seems to be right now, simultaneous. I know I have been her, I remember being her, but maybe I am actually being her right now...just...somewhere else.

I'll stop now. Haha.

Much Love,

[ulli]

The air is crisp. The sky is such a beautiful blue. The fog is in my head, but I am focusing on light. It's Okay. Borrowing from PL, don't panic.

A new character showed up in my play this morning. This time I know it's Me. These characters I (apparently) create are one way for me to know that I am not alone. To tell you the truth, it is a little odd to know that I am creating a character that comes into my space. Like, this morning a woman in a white robe appeared to me, at the same time she appeared to me, she is me. She has a white robe on, white hood over her head, and she is looking forward with me rather than looking at me. And she said to me, "I'm here. I'm with you." And at once I was a bit shaken by the presence but also knew it was just Me. What is really, really weird, as if this whole thing is not weird, is that I know her. She is the lady I remember being at some time. It seems it is the past, I see a little video. But it also seems to be right now, simultaneous. I know I have been her, I remember being her, but maybe I am actually being her right now...just...somewhere else.

I'll stop now. Haha.

Much Love,

She is you...the higher you, unconstrained by the physical.
The angel you. The future and past you. The real you.
You transcended the 4 th with all the mess and went to the 5 th level,
where everything is more serene.
Recharge and get back to ground level, and tell them all to start behaving or else.
Develop some authority, you'll see they will thank you for it real soon.

[ulli]

For the You that You are, Ulie.

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Angels/goldenframe_angel.JPG

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Angels/message.GIF

Only now saw this. Came in handy. I realized something new yesterday....just as I have problems reading long posts (I'm trying, though) so some others have a hard time reading my short posts. Must have something to do with brain wiring.
Like, short posts contain zero message.
Yet when I send a short posts I had a million thoughts and then started to boil down the soup into a deep essence.
Some of you have realized that my short posts are like time release capsules. They are not channeled they are me.
The me that I am. Created by me, after absorbing lots of soups and boiling them down.
I'm a minimalist. Pictures say even more, when in proper context.

[Rocky_Shorz]

I posted this up in the new thread but want to share it here in the village also, shouldn't be hidden because it is an understanding many should "know"

thanks Bill, I was just thinking it was time we could move forward with what is going on around us, glad to see you already started it.

I know many of you saw when I wrote when you step to the next level of awakening many times you wish you could turn back, but it isn't possible, once you know, it is because your spirit felt you were ready.

My dreams are filled with battles against what I first experienced in the house so many years ago in the cleansing, but that is different than what we are experiencing here. Being attacked in the Garage a few days back by incredibly strong Spirits made me jump, but they were ripped from their bodies and captured for me to examine and speak with... I'm a tough cookie.

You are all lit up now, a beacon for spirits, there are some who try to invade your body to live through you and it can cause illness. People living near graveyards are far more prone than those in remote virgin lands...

the questions is, why now? We have passed the Mayan Calendar date and many were waiting for the enlightenment, many of you now see where I was almost 15 years ago. It is a battle first to understand, then know why you are the one to be experiencing it, couldn't someone else have been chosen instead?

Women seem to be far more exposed emotionally to these attacks, but remember a women's strength is in submission, in drawing down the energy and letting it be cleansed. I tried to give an example in different cases in the recent threads of how I have learned to deal with it.

when someone is angry, give them a hug, when someone hurts you, give them a hug...

many are bullheaded, we have our Cliche of Click here, where they feel the best way to hurt others is refusing to acknowledge them.

if you look through the thread of where I was trying to help everyone, look how many times I was thanked by Eagles friends...

doesn't bother me a bit, but I want all of you to understand now more than ever is a time for us to stand together, not to run and hide.

when I explained the battle, many don't understand we were traveling together in our dreams, we gathered together in our dreams, this wasn't random, it is some of our strongest players, we stood together and nothing could harm us. now I call this a training, because the Dreamwalking I have been doing for years protecting those around us, you are all now doing.

I no longer need to protect any of Eagle's friends, because she is doing the same thing, but when you open your eyes, you must release it, the battle is done.

I consider my subconscious as my Spirit. along for the ride in this waking world, but battling demons in the night.

finding how to find your center when chaos is happening all around you is important with everything that is happening. all it takes is one breath.

It's too late for reading books on shielding, I can tell you more in a moment of psychic thought than you can learn from any author wanna be warrior.

let me explain what I tried yesterday at the store, I was standing in line, wating for my turn, and there was a woman going off at everything, on and on and on, absolutely miserable but not understanding why, it was flowing into me, I felt a buildup of the negative energy so I did the same thing I did to the Sats, I gathered the negative energy, crushed it into a tiny little ball and launched it at her head... Like energy repels, so a bullet of negative energy bounced what ever was bothering her away, I felt her sigh the moment the pain was gone, and she suddenly became bubbly and happy. joking with everyone behind her... try it next time and see if it also works for you...

you have been chosen by being drawn here in the first place, not consciously, but subconsciously, this is the battle, this is why we are here.

now, as I said to earth angels now that you have eyes and can see, don't be afraid of the shadows, she has the spirit of a relative that has come to help.

when you see your kids going ballistic, jump in, say Timeout, followed by group hug...

remember the confusion, you are being taunted to anger, but holding your cool and giving love instead freaks out the being so it runs...

try it the next time you will be absolutely amazed of the difference.

don't be losing a spouse over this, they are looking for love from yuou now more than ever.

don't point blank someone that the devil made you do it, that is playing into their hands.

the secret of this "test" is giving no recognition, except to your perceptions...

[Rocky_Shorz]

now everyone let's try this on a leader that doesn't matter, John McCain, the old goat has huge open wounds and they walk into him like an open door in Vegas.

he doesn't have a clue who or what is controlling him, yet it really doesn't matter, as long as we do...

just hearing his name gathered enough of the energy for you to try it...

the size of a pin head...

then launch...

tell me if you don't instantly feel better...

your pain releases with the energy...

you are taking one negative attacker crushing him up like a Ben and Jerry's carton and throwing it out... ;)

[misfit312]

Hi everyone! I was just wondering does anyone have advice on what to do with pets while meditating?

I was started doing chakra meditation about 1 1/2 months ago but stopped after 3 weeks because my dog goes crazy! Every time I start to get really relaxed and and feel like things are happening, my dog just starts barking and barking like someone knocked on my door and makes me *poof* back to reality .I'm not the type who can put her outside for long periods of time besides she just barks to be let in..

Any advice would be helpful thanks..